Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-28
AS YOU LIKE IT
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 Note Book


 It is refreshing to note that there is at least one member of the city boards possessed of sufficient moral courage to step in to the arena and defend the mayor from the taunts of men who ap- pear anxious to find fault with him at this time, evidently with a view 10 sQuaring up old sores rather than Ill the Interest of the public good. Let the tilt go on. The public Wouldnt ask better sport than seeing another run-in between 'tPlunk" and Charley. They locked horns before, and while some thought 'sPlunk" demolished
 Charley. many looked at it the other
 way and believed that Charley didn't
 leave 'Plunk" a leg to stand on.
 Teachers often take too little care in
 explaining certain parts of lesson to their pupils, and as a result they are
 sometimes placed in an embarrassing < position by some question asked by z pupil in regard to the explanation. The As You Like It man heard of 8 case Of this kind which occurred in one of the
 local schools short time ago. The class was studying about a certain king and a certain princess. The
 teacher started to explain a portion or the lesson and in the course of the ex- pIanation said that the king had no in
 fiuence whatsoever, but the princess
 had considerable influence, in fact,
 about three times as much as the king.
 All the pupils accepted the explanation
 with the exception of one boy, who
 raised his hand and inquired how could
 the princess have had any influence
 when she had three times as much as
 AH, lrA I~A T,nG nA
 three times nothing was nothing. After
 a little coughing and little hesitation
 the teacher explained that she should
 have said that the king had little in
 huence.
 A local clergyman will not, In all
 probability, treat the members of that
 class of humanity commonly called the rhobo" in the same manner as has been his custom in the past, owing to an ex- perience which he had with one of
 them during the past week. Each week the clergyman in question is paid friendly visit or two by several of |. those persons who would prefer not to work, but would rather live by what
 ever they may receive from charitably
 disposed people. The clergyman is of ' rather generous nature, but at the same time he likes to receive a little
 return for his generosity. Consequent
 Iy when he received friendly call from tramp a day or two ago he gave
 him a little work in beating mats.
 After the work was done he invited
 his visitor in to dinner, and after the
 several courses had been enjoyed, gave
 him two cigars and before he departed
 gave him dollar also. The tramp was profuse in his thanks. for it is sell E dom that he is so we'll paid for so little
 work. About half an hour after his
 visitor had departed the clergyman
 thought that he would like to have a
 smoke and went in search of his box
 of cigars. but the search was unsuc-
 cessful. The cigars could not be found,
 for the box had been taken away by
 the tramp.
 Talking about why many sewing
 girls do not marry, an exchange says:
 s'Take the dressmaker, for example, l who goes out sewing by the day. She arrives at her place of work at 8 ! o'clock in the morning, is conducted to T the sewing room, where she cuts, fits and sews the whole day long, perhaps having her meals served in solitary style, or possibly eating with the fam Hy. SHc IS uOC 1lke1y to meet any fairy prince under such circumstances; in fact, but little notice is taken of her. She does her work, receives her pay, and goes home. The girl who sews in a shop is not much more likely to meet with marriageable men than the one who sews in homes. In fact, they do not go hunting husbands, and men do not hunt them because they do not usu- ally know of them. Yet these women are generally modest, refined and do mestic, and would fill the mission of wife and home keeper in most com mendable manner. Probably some of them would not marry if the oppor- tunity came. On the other hand, many of them doubtless would if the right
 man came their way There is some truth in this, but it also contains much which is very wide of the mark No one, perhaps, would care to doubt the Statement that dressmakers do not
 make business of hunting after men +-what class of girls do? but the man who says that the fellows do not keep a close eye after the dressmakers, and that the sewing girl does not come in contact with marriageable men, is very much mistaken.