Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-21
AS you LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
Note Book.

4You would be surprised to know the
number of people who carry their
money in their mouths said "a clerk In
one of the large dry goods houses the
other day. And the persons VINO
make a habit Of using their mouths
for purses are not always the poor and
the ignorant and foreigners" he con-
tinued. sbut many Of them are well
dressed and apparently Respectable
Nothing is so disgusting as to nave a
woman put her hand in her mouth
and take out several pieces OF coin
and then drop them, wet and sticky
and germ bearing, into your hand.
fail to understand how persons can pc
SO far lacking in breeding or GOOD
taste or respect for others as to take
germ bearing money from tnelr
mouths and offer it to you. One DAY
a woman tried to do 1t on me. Sne
received the goods and then she TOOK
the money from her mouth and start
ed to place it in my hand. | made
her drop it on the counter, then l got
a piece of cloth, picked up eacn com
separately, and wiped 1T carefully. All
the time the woman stood there Warcn-
ing. 1t is unnecessary to say that
the woman never offered me any more
money from her mouth"
49,
The proposition brought forward at
the convention of Episcopalians at
Los Angeles to drop the name Prot
estant Episcopal church and start off
by calling the institution the Amer1-
can Catholic church has occasioned
some comment in this part of the
country, although very little has been
said on the subject in the papers cit
Is coming" said a Waterbury Episco-
palian, 'but we'll have to wait few
years longer, and perhaps by that
time one name will do for all Catho-
lies. We have been moving in that
direction for over quarter of cen
fury, but the ancient body never
changes a peg and If we are to have
a reunion / suppose we shall be
obliged to tramp back to the spot we
started from I don't see why we
should kneel at different affairs. We
are all aiming at the same end and /
don't think there is enough difference
In our plans at this time to keep us
apart much longer. But it requires a
great deal Of educational work to get
the masses to move with the more in
tellectual elements and besides other
than spiritual interests are involved
and if the union comes, and have
been expecting it for many years,
state and probably national legislation
will be needed to heal up matters re-
garding public records" If all Epis-
copalians view the matter in this
light the day is not far distant when
Roman Catholics and EpiScopalians
will be enjoying love feast, and If
the Catholics stick to their post, some
thing which they are very likely to do,
they will notN have to make any con-
cessions to bring about this joIlifica-
ton meeting. All they will have to
do is simply hold out the olive branch
and inform their good neighbors that
they are still doing business at the old
stand and that the prodigals are well
come back to the Masters household.
The Master Builders association
was very particular to keep the opin-
ions expressed at the meeting Tuesday
night from the public, and while it
succeeded to a certain extent enough
leaked out to convey pretty good
idea of what was said. More than one
contractor admitted that there would
be no need of unions were it not for
the meanness of some employers of
labor and expressed the hope that
after the association had declared
open shops nothing would be done by
any member of the Master Builders
association which would leave the or
ganization open TO charge of wishing
to See return to the conditions we
had before the un:ons. The men who
called attention to this phase of vhe
subject knew what they were talking
about. Until very recently the under
strappers, not the Employers, were the
most tyrannical fellows in the world
and often turned hands out without a
moments notice to satisfy some whim
or petty spite that probably had no
connections whatever with the work
shop. 1t was ill treatment on the part
of unprincipalled foremen and not
small wages that prompted a whole
lot of Waterbury people to go into I'M
ions. Some Of the hands We're actual
ly robbed by being pushed from pillar
to post, while favored ones got the
best of everything. If the bosses
wife or thirty first cousin came along
he or she, as the case happened to be,
had to be provided with a job and
good one at that and as a result some
body's head had to go into the basket
The aggrieyed ones had no redress
because the officials were too busy at
the offices to bother with such things
With such tactics as these carried on
to some extent in all the factories, was
it any wonder that the working people
fell easy victims to the agents of So
cieties that assured them if they got
together they would be heard at the
office and the understrapper would be
muzzled.