Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-23
As YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From . Reporter's
 Note Book.

l Some Stray Leaves From . Reporter's Note Book.
 The Danbury Business Mems as. sociation. more than 200 strong, has just issued 12-page booklet adyer- Using the advantages of that city, for the establishment of manufactur- ing industries and It's desirability as a place of residence. This booklet figures to bring the desired results; in fact, 1t may well serve as a model for other cities, Waterbury included. whose business men have sufficient enterprise and foresight to do such advertising. The publicity commit
 tee, w. K. Dobbs, advertising agent: 1:
 B. M. Buckley, town clerk; and Will ]. Ham H. Davis, newspaper reporter, Is responsible for the work.
 Now we have the vacation time.
 and while most of the teachers will
 hie to the mountains and the sea-
 shore resorts. the great army of chill
 dren will have to content themselves
 in and around the old haunts. Some
 day when somebody possessed of
 great wealth decides to take the
 youth of the city on an outing dur
 ing the summer months the children
 of the poor as we'll as those of the
 we'll to do will be right in it. When
 one stops to consider that youngsters
 have no where to go except on the
 public streets for the next ten weeks, he begins to think that, after all,
 there is a whole lot of merit in the
 contention that the city should have
 children's play grounds in every
 school district.
 After reading that President
 Roosevelt has been given $25, ,00O for
 travelling expenses one wonders what
 he is going to do with 1t after read
 ing such bits of news as the follow
 ing: Every summer the president is showered with inducements to spend
 his vacation at this resort or that. He is offered free cottages, free ac- commodations in the finest suites of the finest hotels. free use of club houses, yachts or fishing boats, here and there. if he will only come! It might be added: You are needed in o,l business, and we need the mon- cyl" President Mckinley gave Bluff Point, Lake Champlain, great boom in visiting there in 1897. As soon as he got ses- tablished at the resort, rail- road announced special excursions at cut rates and people fiocked there to see him and incidentally get acquainted with the place.
 Now that the school days of a number of young men and young women are at an end, here is bit of advice which should not go un- needed. Young people should be en- couraged to read aloud frequently There is no loyelier accomplishment. Not the declamatory style of reading which professional elocutionists ac- quire. and which. because 1t is in tended for public use, has degree of exaggeration in both its tones and its action, but the quiet, sweet sym pathetic and intelligent rendering of q book into the living speech is what we should seek for. A girl frequently spends a great deal of time over studies which will do her very littlc good in her future life. The art of reading we'll and acceptably would enable her to grace any circle of friends; 1t would assist her to bright en the household; 1t would perhaps cause her to be as eyes tosthe. blind I and as an angel of relief in the room of the invalid.
 Dr Douglas Hyde who was heard with pleasure in this city several months ago, has gone back to Ire land. Before leaving. among other things, he said: offer thousand thanks to the archbishops, to the bishops, and to all the clergy for so readily understanding the meaning of my story and for heartily helping me as they have done; and 1t is not to the Irish alone that I am grateful, but to the Americans themselves also. l There Is a great likeness between ! the two nations, and I have found ! that the people of Ireland have left ! their own mark on the mind and character and spirit of the Ameri- cans. There are few places where there Is not a drop or two of the blood of the Gael to be found the people. would sooner have the good will of this country | than anything else in the struggle which we have set on foot to bring back the language and music and customs of Ireland. and if We are loyal and faithful to ourselves we shall get that from them.
 Army officers of nearly every grade are still urging their friends in con Eress to restore the canteen to the regular army. presenting figures to show that there has been a tremend- ,us increase in the drunkenness of the army since the canteen plan was abolished upon the petition of the w. [. T. U and similar organizations. Lieutenant General s. R. M. Young, retired. in an article just published in some of the leading papers of the eading papers of the country. says hat the cause of temperance Is being lurt by depriving the soldier of the fight and comparatively unintoxicat- ng drinks of the canteen. as he i'm resorts to the lowest sort of lives and saloon for his drinks. bring ng the uniform of the army into dis race by his debaucheries. General ', Ioung declares that If the soldiers ould obtain beer in their army posts : hey would not care about the saloons. Re says he has known all the saloons round ap army post to be put out of , business by the decent conduct of the rmy canteen by officers in charge. ,
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 Good Thfrg