Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-08

popuiatlOn or some fa1rly-Sized towns amount to numerically. During the last quarter, according to commission reports, 1,264 lost children were picked up by the police. Of these, 152 were found in Brooklyn, Queens and
 niesmond, and LIP in Manhattan and tho Bronx. Of the total only IA had to be- sent to the children's sOcie- ties, their parents or guardians not having appeared to claim them.
 Some of the physicians and others accuse the newspapers of cowardise regarding the dog question, but 1t is
 hard to see how anybody can take that view of the situation, for 1t is seldom that all the papers agree on one subject as they do on this. All the papers can do is call attention to the evil of having rabid dogs running at large and suggest the remedy and they have done this so often that some of the dog men think they are getting paid for 1t. The subject will be up to the aldermen Monday night and If they cannot save the people from the CUTS then everybody who thinks 1t isn't safe to live here might just as well pick up his traps and skip.
 The tendency to shipshodiness that marks the era of hustle" Is respOn- sible for the decadence of several ac- complishments that all earlier genera tons considered essential to gen. tlewoman. Our grandmothers took great pride in their exquisite needle work, in their skill in making deli clous cakes, pastry or dessert. and above all, in their ability to do up" the best table damask. old family laces or the baby's christening robe. Nowadays, being ''speeders' in all the business of life. we reveal in mid year white sales for fine handiwork, patronize the delicatessen and caterer for our company cooking and have our soiled clothes railroaded through by the tens of thousand a day ill the steam laundries. Fortunately, within the last few days, coming back into favor with old mahogany and other Colonial relics. we are reverting 10 the useful arts once more, aud the twentieth-century girl, by way of rounding out her education, Is being taught to sew and cook. While their accomplishment of fine laundering has not yet reached the proportions of fad. 1t Is something every girl and woman should acquire in these days, when good laundresses are hard to find, it is well for every woman to be prepared for the emergency that is bound to arise sooner or later. "Rut" some one says, "why distress our selves that the older laundresses--es- pecially the old negro one. whose washes were always so snow white and wrinkleless, without the use of acids or bleaching powders-are now training their daughters to equal pro- ficiently. There is always the steam laundry"
 Several Washington correspond ents were recently discussing the probable republican nominee for the presidency, when one asked: what be- comes of our vice-presidents i? A genius for figures, who was present gave the following as the result of his studies along that line: Eight vice-presidents became S''pre4itie four. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt were elected president by the people, Roosevelt having first served more than three years as the successor of his chief who had been assassinated. John Tyler served one month and became president on the death of president Harrison; Willard Fillmore served year and four months before he succeeded on the death of Taylor; Andrew Johnson just one month and eleven days from the time he took the oath of office as vice-president became president by the death of Mir Lincoln; Chester A. Arthur served six months and suc- ceeded General Garfield, and Mir Roosevelt was called to the place of chief magistrate. about six months after he began serving as vice presi- dent. Six vice presidents died dur ing their term of oflce. namely: George Clinton, after serving seven years and one month: Elbridge Ger ry, one year and nine months, Will liam R. King. one month and four teen days; Henry Wilson two years and eight months; Thomas A. Hem dricks, eight months; Garrett A. 'Ho- bart, two years and eight months. Mir King really never took his seat. He was in Cuba. seeking a restora- ton of his health. and the oath of ofiice was administered to him in Havana. He died in that city few weeks later. John Adams. George Clinton, Daniel D. Tomkins. and John c. Calhoun were the only persons to be elected vice president for second term. Adams and Tomkins served out the full eight years. Clinton dieG during his second term and John c. Calhoun resigned about two months before the expiration of his second term. Calhoun was the only person that has resigned the ofiice.