Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-12
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.


 Note Book.
 Here is a bit of good advice which he As You Like It man desires to pass llong: You cannot talk well unless you think. Many persons talk and .hatter from morning to night and say nothing worth remembering. If you wish to be a good talker you must have something to say. Train your Ielf to be able to talk about some th,ng better than gossip or the trivial news of the day. Form a habit of reading and thinking about what you read. Be able to discuss the motives of char Acters in history or in novel. Form judgments and opinions of your own and be able to give reasons for your opinions. Have the good sense to dis cuss or argue points without being self-assertive or too vehement. Bright talk is stimulated by good-tempered argument. Read, study, think, if you want to talk well. am sure you do not wish to be shallow superficial, un- interesting, dull. Be able to talk about subjects and events as we'll as about people. When you talk of people try to speak of their good qualities or deeds.
 
 The As You Like It man. like many other persons who attend Jacques theater, has been annoyed on more than one occasion by young ladies who persist in gossiping and giggling through the different acts These better. They are not children. App %Hnb<~ S-ol H. acts and they mar the enjoyment of those who are fond of vaudeville sketches. A stinging rebuke to two such ladies was administered one af- ternoon this week The ladies in ques- tton had been gabbing away and jolly ing with some man behind them dur Ing several acts. Their actions were decidedly displeasing and annoying to the people around them. Looks filled with scorn and contempt were cast upon them, but did not feaze them. Finally, man past the prime of life, turned around and looking his tor mentors squarely in. the face, said: There are some persons who are only Tit to attend cattle shows To present such pretty little sketch like this be- fore them is to cast pearls among
 
 ance from the young ladies. They were rather silent during the remain ing acts.
 Sometimes modest appearing af- ra1r turns out to be bigger card in the way of an advertisement than an army of musicians operating upon va rfous kinds of Instruments. It is evil f1o+ 41,- of Reid & Hughes will say so after. all the people that stopped to read the fol- lowing letter which appears in their show window:
 Private.
 Executive Mansion.
 Washington, March 13, 1864 'Hon Michael Hahn: 4sMy Dear Sir: congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first free state governor Of Louisf- ana. Now you. are about to have a convention which. among other things, will probably define the elective fran chfse. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the col ored people may not be let in, as for instance. the very Intelligent. and espe- cfally those who have fought gallantly Tn our ranks. They would, probably, help In some trying time to come to keen the jewe1 of lfherty within the family of freedom: But this is only a suggestion, pot to the public, but to you alone. Yours truly,
 "A. LTNCOLN'' The letter was read by a large num- Der Of people today. Many admired the handwriting and thought it a pity that $he youth of to-day is not taught that style, while others were ''strnck'' with the strong, but simple, method of expression