Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-25
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.

@~SS@~e ButterniIk as a remedial agent can not be praised too highly. The lactlo Acid, the sour of the buttermilk, at tacks and dissolves every sort or earthly deposit in the blood vessels Thus 1t keeps the veins and arteries so supple and free running there can be no clogging up; hence, no deposit of irritating calcarous matter around the joints, nor of poisonous waste Tn the muscle It is the stifenlng and narrowing of the blood vessels which bring on senile decay. Buttermilk IS likely to postpone it ten or twenty years, if freely drunk. A quart day should be the minimum, the maximum according to taste and opportunity. Inasmuch as gouty, difficulties arise from sluggish excretion, buttermilk is a blessing to gouty subjects. It gent Iy stimulates all the excretories-liver skin and kidneys. 1t also tonSb; the stomach and furnishes 1t the material from which to make rich, red, healthy blood. If any one has a creaky joint or a swollen and aching one, he should drink all the buttermilk he can relish whenever and wherever he can, but it should be fresh churned and whole some.
 
 Among the entertaining characters from out of town who attended the annual meeting of the Connecticut Veteran Masons' association in Water bury this week, probably none had a ] wider acquaintance here than the Rev "A. N. Lewis of Montpelier, Vt, for merly principal of the Waterbury High school. Mir Lewis is a capital ! story teller and related some reminis- cences of incidents which occurred in Waterbury years ago that brought some of the boys back to their school days and made them feel that they were living their lives over again. One of the minister's stories had reference 2 to Father Judd and slip of a pig When the Masons had their quarters in Hotchkiss hall Father Judd looked out for their property, and on one oc- casion some sort of an entertainment was being held in the hall which de- handed the presence of a live pig. Some of the jokers conceived the idea of having little fun with Brother Judd about the pig and to give him scare the little pOrlxer was shut up in closet which MT Judd had occa sion to open every evening. The scheme worked like a charm. As soon as Brother Judd opened the door the pig made wild dash for liberty with Judd in hot pursuit The place was thronged with people, none of whom knew what was up and when they saw the man and the pig rolling over each other some of them came near going through the windows. The pig was finally captured and returned to it's prison, but not before it had made NF1er1a vI,@I< Knocked down dozen or more per sons.
 Speaking of the giving of gifts. wedding and otherwise, the writer of Social Notes'' in the Hartford Times among other things says: As for giv- ing presents Of paintings-in Punch's classic, and never to be improved phrase don't. When Van Dyke Brown was married. some misguided persons decided to give him pictures. They said he was such a true artist that he would like nothing better Now, Van Dyke Brown, like every oth- CT painter, has innumerable unsold works; he has portfolios full of sketches; he has lovely bits of oil and wiater-color given him by his brothers Of the brush. and some are signed by do 44ShlnCB. HI l1l0 COuFSG OI O1S studies in Europe he has picked up a carload of curios for his studio If fhere Is one thing the Van Dyke Brown home will abound in it is orna- ment- Nevertheless. he received a terrible oil-painting in a red plush frame, and an atroc1ous water-color in white molding, picked out with cop per and green. "If could only trade them for a hair mattress or a brace ot Eaucepansp' he groans. No, do not trust yourself to pick out a painting for another person, and if you wish to give a vase Or a bit Of china, let il be a standard ware-Grueby, Rock wood, or Tiffany glass; B Dedham plate or bowl; one of the soft, misty gray and blue Copenhagen jars, s Dresden cup dotted with nosegays, o1 a bit of real Seyres. If your frienC Is collector or a humorist, yor might risk one of those amusing blue Epode pigs or cats. If you yourself are q connoisseur, you may pick ou an exquisite Chinese or Japanese piece. If not, you are in danger ot getting something that will offend 4 k1.oipod nruo