Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-16
as YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.

some stray LaavcS From Reporters Note Book.
 Not very long ago sign was placed
 in lot on Mill street. forbidding all
 respassing on the grounds under the
 penalty of the law. Two or three boys
 Tn that neighborhood did not like the
 way that the sign read. So they
 scratched the letter out of the word notice. Now the "No ice trespassing
 on these grounds" etc.
 Some time ago, says a medical jour- nal, we had correspondence in our columns as to the color at birth of the infants of negro parents, both sides eX- pressing their opinion with considera-
 ble conviction. It appears that ill a
 recent contribution to the Revue En- eyclopedique, a German physician, who has spent several years in African Togoland, states that in the equatorial regions the children are born of the same color as European infants. After two or three months the skin turns to lilac color Ten days later it be- comes of light chestnut shade, and it is only at the end of three or four months that the skin becomes com pletely black.
 MT Wolf von Schierbrand, who trans lated Emperor Williams speeches for the Hampers, tells many amusing incl dents showing how Americans are viewed abroad. He was stopping over night at one of the leading hotels i'll Cologne, on his way to Paris, few years ago, when the owner of the hotel, an intelligent woman, engaged him in conversation about America, Mir Won Schierbrand being an American citizen. q wonder why we never have any real Americans at our hotel" she said. We've had a lot of them, summer after summer, but only white or black A ones, and not many of the latter. But we never had any red ones. Gan you tell me why? always understood the .fred ones were the only real Americans, and the others only immigrants"
 So many assaults have occurred on the public streets of Waterbury during the past few weeks 1t would seem that the time had come when the male DOT ton of the community should get to- gether and organize themselves into bodies something similar to the knights of old, real knight errants, not i'm aginary Don Quiaotes, but men of char acter and resolution, prepared to risk their lives if necessary in defense Of the right of women to walk the streets at seasonable hours with some sense of security. If such things as have come to public notice the present week are allowed to pass as ordinary of lenses they are sure to be repeated, and no one can tell who will be the next victim. The police cannot be ev- anywhere at the same time, and in any case, 1t is the bounden duty of every good citizen to do all in his power for the maintenance of law and order, and especially for the proper protection of womankind. There is good deal of this business going on in different parts of the town and the women themselves should lend hand in put ting a stop to it. Many of them are too tinnid about coming forward to complain of blackguards who insult them. but it looks now as if they will soon find it necessary to be a little l more brave or leave themselves a prey | to every "duffer" who feels like mak- ! l ing them objects of attack.
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 The woman who grows flowers pri- marily for her own pleasure ''builds 1 better than she knows" Her labor l bears fruit which is enjoyed by those | outside her own household. Her fow- CTS are sermons which ''he who runs may read,'' and the gospel of the beau i tiful spreads from her little garden, 2 though she may hardly be conscious Of it. Therefore every woman who grows 1owers-and what is true of the | 2 woman is true of every man and ev- " child who does the same-helps l I the community in which she lives to l ] better appreciation of what beauty l 2 which is part of the best life, by put l ! ting before it these silent preachers of | 2 the gospel of the beautiful. Let no one | who grows flowers think for a moment l that what she does will not afford as | much pleasure to others as it does to | herself. Such beauty cannot be hid | 8den under bushel. or in ones own | little garden. Its light will shine, and | Passers-by will see 1t, and be glad be- tause of it. Let us all be missionaries | Kin this broad field of labor and have a l #Hower garden. I would like to get | the children interested in flower grow 1 ing, for I know what afe friends flowers are. They are always to be l trusted. Boys and girls, have a little l garden of Jour own this year. Grow in it flowers for your friends, for the | siek, for the church, and for those who | cannot have a garden. The garden | @ftself will afford you vast amount of l pleasure, but the pleasure you find in sharing 1t with others will be beyond computation. A blessing shared is q CbIessing doubled