The Newtown bee., 1906-09-14

Charles Lamb calls the old familiar
faces He says: All, all are gone, the
old familiar faces Not 'all' here,
though as was inevitable many, many
are. AS l look around me l see old
familiar faces in goOdly number, that
recall kind words and kind deeds, that
have made, and are making, Bridge
water the town Of which we all have
the right to be honestly proud, and
that warrant US in this it's jubilee in
HOPEFULLY FACING ITS FUTURE, CON-
FIDENT THAT 1T WILL BE WORTHY
OF ITS PAST.
And in speaking of changes, which
is the law of all life, am reminded of
the words Of one Of the professors of
Yale college spoken to one of the grad
uating classes some 10 years ago. He
was giving graduating class in law
some advice relative to their future
duties and had occasion to speak of
the changes that had taken place in
the practice of the law since his own
admission to the bar,-and observed
that elOquence and rhetoric and the
embellishments of language were for
merly more in vogue than at the pres
ent time, and that the prime need in
the lawyer of to-day was tine ability to
state plainly and concisely the facts of
his case and the law applicable thereto,
without the unnecessary embelliSh-
mentS of hOwery language. 1t was
about the time that one of our West
ern states had presented to the World s
Fair at Chicago the solid silver life
size statue of Ada Rehan, which was
placed over the entrance to the Ad-
ministration building as the statue of
Justice, which you Will remember was
blindfolded and wrapped in drapery,
holding aloft the balance scales AS
illustrating the changes in the practice
OF law to which this professor had
alluded, he had this to say, When
the Roman advocates appeared before
the Greeks had blindfolded and swath-
ed in drapery, they captivated her
senses by the flowers of rhetoric
and the music of their voices. But
when Chicago selects and Montana
approves Ada Rehan, the model wom-
an of the world, to symbolic Justice
they are only catching the spirit of
the age. When they remove the band
age of her eyes that she may see and
judge for herself and abbreviate- her
drapery that she may have greater
freedom. The one was Roman god
deSs, the other an American reality;
the one was fiction of the fancy, the
other, we'll nigh naked fact
l thank you for your attention, and
IT'S MORE THAN MERE CONVENTION
ALITY OF SPEECH
when l say that 1 am glad to have
been with you here to-day"
Hon Henry S. Mygatt, president of
the First National bank, New Milford,
and president of New Milford's Bi-
Centennial committee, was next in
troduced. He made an exceedingly
felicitous little address.
Mr Mygatt spoke as fOllOWS:i
Mr. President, neighbors and friends:
1t is great privilege and pleasure to
be present on this memorable anniver-
sary, the celebration of your Semi-Cen-
tennfal, and l thank you for the invi-
tation. When l was requested,a "a short
time since, to be present and say few
words, appreciated the honor very
highly, but accepted with much hesi-
tation, realizing my limitations and
lack OF ability TO take part in such
presence as this. Since that time,
like lightning stroke, a heavy calam-
lty has fallen upon me, in the death of
a near and dear friend and close busi-
ness associate, and the sorrow and in
creased responsibilities which it has
brought has rendered it impossible for
me to make any adequate preparations
for an address. know, therefore, you