Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-26
.xBY THE WAYS

What good news this is The Village
Improvement society has written to
the managers of the Central Vermont
railroad, offering to cooperate with
the railroad in Identifying the charm
ing little waterfall near the local de-
pot, and suggesting that platform be
built over the stone wall ruin at the
right, on which flowers and palms may
be grown, and that climbing vines be
planted at the base of the walls so
that they may soon be transformed in
to bower of bright green. All this is in
direct line with the Reformer's oft re-
peated plea that the natural beauty of
the spot be not disgraced and made an
eye-sore as at present. We hope the
plan will be carried through without a
hitch. 1t ought to be. Nothing can
be suggested that would SO surely add
attractiveness to this beautiful town,
and especially would visitors be i'm
pressed on moment of arrival. Let this
good work go ahead right away, and
then to complete all, establish rigid
penalty for the vandals who still per-
sist in making the pretty brook their
public dumping ground. A conviction
or two would fetch these thoughtless,
short-sighted folks to their senses.
X
Speaking of the pretty brook and its
daily defamation, it was sight Mon
day morning to see an Italian lad whirl
down the sidewalk, perched on load
of garbage of all kinds which more
than filled his express cart, tipping
along, down grade, clearing the walk
of pedestrians and leaving a trail of
CT, ha. hA1 a nf Of
his trip When he came back up the
street, putting with the exertion, an in
qusitor asked, "Where did you dump
that rubbish?" He replied naively,
why, off the bridge into the brook.
Where did you SUPPOSED"
And to lovers of nature the brook
this week has been truly bewitching
spectacle. What music in its roar.
The cloud of mist rising over the old
stone ruin reminding one of Niagara,
and the torrent pouring over the edge
so placid and smooth, only to be
dashed to spray fragments in mo-
ment No wonder the young man,
aged 9, gazing enraptured, hanging to
the rail, getting his first glimpse of it
all, said: ''Isn't it wonderful! 1t
makes me feel solemn, and dizzy, too"
This is the coolest third week in
June known in New England the past
80 years. Here we are nearly up to the
glorious Fourth, all nature in chill,
heavy blankets and open fires neces
sity and the whole thing, atmospher
ically, resembling the breaking up of
a hard winter. Farmers have predict |
ed frosts several times this week but
thus far we have escaped that calam |
ity. Water is so cold that fish won't |
bite, the icemen are wondering where |
they are at and praying for swelter,
and fields and garden patches are thirst
ing for the sun. Two weeks of this ar
will suffice for the present. |
Our prayer for rain has been answered, |
Now we petition for that |
familiar reading of month ago, ''fair
and warmer.
Is it too early, or utterly useless, to
notify the small boy that toy pistols |
have no place in his possession? Will |
be take the hint here or later from the
surgeons with their keen knives?
Has he heard of lockjaw? Will his |
parents or some KIND nelghDor tell
him of Its agony and end? Every July |
9TH the newspapers are full of the small |
boy and the toy pistol. Let us hope !
that Brattleboro may escape such I'M
happy happenings.
The stars were brilliant last mid
night and the sun shines this morning.
Thank heaven.