Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-02
AS YOU LIKE IT.
ssr. Sire, Leave. from 2 a..o-,s..
 Note Hook.


 How times have changed :. It was not many years ago when drummer, with a good or bad article. could drop into a store and with game of talk easily persuade the proprietor to make A trial of his goods But now if you notice those glib takers who have everything learned to TT and who dish out the language just like ma x chine seldom make 2 sale. They q throw the same game in every store # and inc owners. as rule. are wise TO fl,em right away. It s all right to be clever talker. but Co not have one jttle sueech which you pour out 1t every stopping place. Give the buyer . chance. be a good liitener, and now and then speak a few words for your own ~ article. Your sals will increase considerably.
 An interesting story is going the rouuds about a well kDwn contractor rrho resides in the southeastern section of the city: One day lat week his tel enhone rang. and altholgh it was not Customary for him to aiswer calls, ne took un the receiver Hello, came over inc wire. "Testag the wire would you please lenda little help :! KindIv take the receiyr. go to the right as far as the cord Yill allow ana say. hello" The man al as was tola. !, ssNow the same on le ieft siae. Again he compiled. Ow stand dl- rectlv back of the 'phde." By tnis lime he was getting tire Now come ss close to the 'phoneas possible sAre you there 2? "Yef The joker +han hung up the receive and left the costraetor holding the Te fully nve ,ninntes before he "got rise The contractor says he has suspicious os the originator and i'll make IL warm for him.
 story comes from |, composing room of Troy paper tt a certain onerator. not so very loI ago, got a take which consisted of SrogFam TOT church Sunday service. Among the rvmhers there was one. solo. which hs could nSt decipher. Inn endeavoI 10 cave time he called thettention of j tba nroofreader to the mar in about I, tba same space as the recitrant solt " would occupy. In fact, asked the nroofreader. whose name, the way wss Fred. to guess at it. But Fred's ouessing faculty that nls was noi working right, and ne ran 70 houct anything wrong. As for operator he forgot about it, and thtsxt morn ing there appeared in the Ter very interesting program nuinp It reao thus. "Mr Thomas Impewill sing .Gness At It, Fred" Thaly one who did not see the ludicn part of tha incident was the tor, who thought there were enougfddles ir hfs naper without insertlngme more in church programs.
 Again the colleges a' prep schools are about to open,d from now on will furnish much E in the sporting line until the close f June Tt is more than likely. sin0 much has been said the past sum in re gard to corruption in athfetinat the sscrIties will refuse to allanyone "a comneie on the field, aga whom there Is the slightest evident pro fessionalism. AS It IS WShoWI many fellows prominent in Pllege cirele make their living de the summer playing with semtIssiagl - al teams. of course this par Ax ers who are charged with pr'
 jam is all right. but it will ?
 ate that evil of giving the ?
 s,,onr and a little on the sid
 rolIing themselves in this or
 iege The larger instituu
 asnotters" each year looking
 terial in the prep" and even
 schools that looks promisal
 course If the young man
 athlete and has not the pr
 college education it may pc
 give him his tuition. put .
 practice of it Is a very serious
 and the colleges will find 1t
 long.