Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-01
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Some Stray Leaves from . Reporter'a
 Note Book.


 Here Is pointer for former Demo- crat newsb0ys, many of whom are now filling responsible positions with honor: About fifty old-time news boys of Boston who have engaged in other lines of business have formed the Old Newsboys Social and Athlc- tic club. Old-time experiences of the street and echoes of the times when as boys the men who formed the club called the daily news from Boston's corners made an evening most enjoy able.
 Most of the local m0tormen have recovered from the "nine-hour scare'' given them some days ago, when they were ordered to run their cars when the limit called for by city or dinance. Some of the motormen drive down North Main street as if their lives depended on getting to the center in the quickest time possible. And then strange to relate. very often they Hay up' at the center for five of ten minutes. Superintendent Beach should get after these fast drivers once more and insist on their keeping within the law.
 Perhaps some day restrictive tar iff will be imposed on imported words. From Russia. which gave us 'pogrom, now comes Oblompfdom; to describe physical, moral and intellectual slOth carried to an extreme. The sufferer is called on to move to new house feels as if the burden of the world were on his shoulders: if the crop fail he laments, but cannot take the trou- ble to go and look after his farm; if he must write a letter the merest trile, even comma misplaced, is enough te make him give up the task. He passes his life in the house dog ing on his bed or in an armchair be- moaning" This is apparently un- cinarlasls or the ravages of the lazy worm in Russia.
 The crusade against unsightly bill. boards and the defacement of the ap- pearance of city and country Is being carried on in the east with renewed vigor. Recently in Chicago, under 8 courts ruling all the billboar1s con structed on the roofs of buildings on all sides of the city hall square have been removed. This order includes even the boards on the roof of one of the oldest theaters in the city. The Transcript expresses the sentiment of the Hub regarding billboard advertis- ing in these emphatic words: Those who are initiated know that bill boards do not advertise except igno- rant people; that they are a graft i'm posed upon sellers by the wiles of the advertising agents and paid for by the public, and that they destroy the landscape, to which the people of this country and every people have a right that is inalienable."
 Fatigue lowers all the faculties of the body. writes Dr Luther H. Gu lick. The effect on the other part of a man are just as important. It puts chasm between seeing and acting it wakes . break somehow between the messages that come fin to the brain from the outside word and the mes- sages that go out. It destroys will power. In every direction 1t de creases efficiency, forcing the per- sOnality down to a lower level. Fa- tigue is a destructive agent like sick ness and death. It is condition which in the nature of things we can not avoid; but it Is important for us to know what 1t means and how to deal with 1t if we want to keep out of costly blunders. When we are tired out we are not ourselves. A part of us has temporarily gone out of existence. What remains Is some thing which belongs to more primi tive state of civilization.