Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-09
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.


 If the Talma club minstrel perform Rnce was to be given next week, one Of the jokes sprung the other night would probably be missing. The pun to which reference is made is the one about the man who applied for posi- tion on the police force, but was told that he couldn't have such a position for he was not smart enough. But we will place you on the detective force,n said the comedian. After he quick and fine work which the local de- tectives did in capturing the burglars who stole $12O00 from a Danbury residence, the Talma comedian owes an apology to Lieutenant Dodds ana his able assistants.
 One of the least pleased men in the city on Tuesday afternoon was Jean Jacques, Mir Jacques had succeeded after much work and great expense III engaging Sousa and his famous band to give a matinee performance at Po1 theater on Tuesday afternoon. When the genial theatrical man saw the at tendance at the concert he was sorry, indeed. that he had gone to any trou- ble to bring such star attraction 10 this city. There was only small au- dience to hear the renowned bandmaS- ter and his premier band. Mr-Jacques was disgusted. He incidentally. re- marked: s.I will be walking down tAe street and some person will stop me and ask me why I don't bring some good attractions here. Wouidn It make you mad when you think or IL!
 "I spent one summer With mission ary friends in Utah." said woman, IIvh been built by a Mormon of the elder day It was an eight room house in little village and it was exactly square, with four rooms on each floor and four staircases. We were told that the Mormon who built It had four wives, and that each wife wanted an upstairs room and q down stairs room and a flight of stairs for the use of herself and her children. The lower rooms did not communicate with each other and neither did the upper ones till we had doors cut through for the sake of convenience. The Mormons I met, both men and women, all assured me that plural wives live together in perfect peace and harmony, but whenever think of the four staircases in that house l can't help wondering if the patriarch WHO DullL IuC uOuS0 Af1NC LAOu- bles of his own"
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 The man who knows Japan was speaking the other evening of its pro- verbs. we all know" he said, 'the proverb about more haste, less speed, but the Japs put in: If in hurry, go round.' We say, very crudely, that accidents will happen in the best reg ulated families but the Japanese, with a view to making the phrase more picturesque say" Even mon key sometimes falls from a tree" The saying about edged tools and cut fingers, the people of the Flowery Kingdom vary thus: If one plays with tigers one is likely to have troub- Ie while our toil and water won't mix they know as you can't rivet a nail in custard' Where you say out of evil good may come,' they say the lotus springs from the mud Mrs. Partington's attempt is in Japan .scattering fog with a fam building bridges to the clouds or dipping up the ocean with she'll And when the person making such an attempt .has failed the Japanese say that, after all, thine own heart makes the world ''