Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-17
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Dr James A. Garfield, librarian of Columbian university, tells the follow ing story: "A friend of mine, Dr Kob- erts, had coloret maid who was very popular among her friends. One day someone called her up at the doctors phone, and the following conversation ensued: T~ -.-s Whitey Yes, sub Miss Lily White, what works at Dr Roberts's?' Yes, suh.' Well, Miss White, want to ask you a, ques- ton, very important question, what l ain't had courage to ask you before. I want to ask you if you'll marry me?'' Marry you? Cose I'll marry yon! What makes you think I wouldn't marry you? Who is dis gen'man, any wayy'
 No man can praise an article to as good advantage as one wtos4 has a commercial interest fin 1t. There is nothing new in this, but the thing was brought home so, forcibly to repre- sentative of this paper yesterday he cannot help calling attention to it. That's a nice looking machine" re- marked q pleasant-faced, elderly man. to. the reporter, who was taking 1n' the Standard sewing machine on ex- hibition in the show window of Reid X Hughes The reporter replied in the affirmative, whereupOn. the 1Hce looking gentleman leaned forward and in an aside assured him that he had heard a great deal about the nler- It's of that machine and thought 1t must be superior to anything in the market. "Is that so?" inquired the re porter as he turned to leave, but before he got away the man let the cat out of the bag by stating that he was the maker of the machine and was giving demonstrations on it in the basement of the Reid & Hughes Co and invited the scribe in to see what it is capable of doing,
 The census takers and the census takers may put the population of Wa terbury at anything they please, but the thinking element of the community has its own opinion regarding this question. There are people who arc positive that the present population of Waterbury is not less than 65,OO0 souls, and these same parties claim that it will exceed 75,O00 in 1910. "You wait until you see the census for 1910,' said a close observer of such things to Democrat reporter. "and you'll be very much surprised, especial ly with reference to the increase in outside districts, particularly that re- zion known as Brooklyn and Town Plot. When chat information is made public there will be people over in Brooklyn who will want to build a monument to John Henderson, and those who are putting obstacles in his way will feel like taking to the woods of their own accord, if the people don't bury them long before that" What ever way things turn out ill Brooklyn it is certain that the agitation stirred up by the Improvement society can't but prove beneficial in more ways than one. If they get nothing more for the present than the extension of Liberty street they will be amply repaid for all their labor.
 Bernard Shaw, in the Boston Tran script, writes in raptires over Ellen Terry. He thinks every celebrated man of the last quarter of the n1ne. reenth century has been in love with her: he confesses that he. himself, 'is one of her unsuccessful admirers, and that her art is the least interesting thing about her She has actually ere ated her own beauty, for her pictures as a girl hardly show a single feature of the wonderful woman who appeared again in 1875 and took London by storm after she had turned her back on the stage for seven years. That much used word only can be used lit orally in regard to Ellen Terry. If Shakespeare had met Irving on tho street he would have recognized in him immediately a distinguished type of the family of artists; if he had met Ellen Terry he would have stared at her like at new and irresistibly charming type of woman. Sargent's picture of her as Lady Macbeth will stand out among all the pictures of distinguished women as one who bears no semblance to anybody else. Ellen Terry and Irving both had won derfuHy beautiful and interesting faces, but faces like Irving's the world has seen for centuries, of its priests. Ttx. oto<ocp,ar fts nrinees and it's