Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-31
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A certain man who was not of the cultured classes had made fortune in the wholesale grocery business and was persuaded to furnish the capital to start magazine He went to big book-printing office to arrange some of the details and put in bad half-hour because of his ignorance of the tech nicalities of his new enterprise. The printer soon dropped such talk as that about names of type and the methods of printing and asked: Now, what would you have in the magazine X short story or two, I suppose, and q serial--" 'All the cereals, he broke in. There's nothing pays like adver- tislng. Good rates to the big advertts- ing people will boom the thing. We want the breakfast foods, soaps. cof- fees and the whole thing"
 Tomorrow will be the first day of January 1905. The Old Farmers Al nlanac says to look out fora day or two of extreme cold weather about, this time. The sun will rise at 7:14 and set at 4:22, making the length oi the day hours and 8 minutes. There is yet time for the good resolution man to do considerable thinking and acting On this point the Old Farmers says: stSolne people begin the new year by making good resolutions. Perhaps it is better to begin 1t with work, good; honest work that will benefit ourselves and others The As You Like 1t Man hopes the readers of this column will act on the advice of the above quota tion, and wishes them all happy and prosperous new year.
 One newspaper man says laziness is a fatal vice and proposes the following cure for 1t. When you find yourself leaning i'll the direction of a leather cushioned chair or an air filled settee look out. The fellow who is always hunting for a nice place to sit down will have no place to rest his weary end in a short while. It makes one sick to walk into some places and see able bodied men trying to do business with all their energies bent on getting the soft side of chair. When man gets the "sit-down" disease before he is 90 it is all up with him. Laziness is fatal. You can cure almost any other kind of vice. A drunkHrd may brace up, a man may get rid of hot tenn per. a wild boy may settle down, but a lazy man is a hopeless proposition, Get some one to give you swift kick every time you feel yourself gravitat- ing towards the cushion. Nip the thing in the bud. If you are an employer. don't keep a sanitarium for the cure of the malady. Let somebody else, do the nursing. Give the lazy man his walking ticket That will do him more good than all the preaching you can put into his head and there is more money in it for you.
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 Once in a while a smart business man gets fooled in his stock and when this happens there is sure to be trouble among his customers. During the Chrlstmas trade a dealer bought a certain number of native turkeys, as he supposed, and sold them under that guarantee to people who were very glad to get that at the price asked. Everything went along all right until Christmas eve when woman called at the mans place of business and wanted to know. if, Indiana was part of Connecticut. The clerk didn't know what she meant and referred the lady to the boss, who appeared as much puzzled over the question Us the clerk did. Finally the woman handed the gentleman SID or paper on Wnlcn was written the following: 'This turkey was reared in Indiana, and mother sold it with several others for nine cents a pound. After looking 1t over the dealer inquired where she got the note and was informed that in cleaning the bird she found it stuffed down in it's neck, and colt:luded that it was put there by somebody in the employ of the original owner There was no bad feeling about the transac- tion, because the turkey was worth the money, anyway, but the question the dealer and his customer have been graphing with ever since is, was the piece of paper thrust into the gobbler's neck out of cussedness by some local joker or was 1t genuine. The whole saler declares that the birds never were outside New England, but the evidence is pretty strong against him and it is quite likely that he will have q row with the agent over the matteg the next time he comes along.
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