Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-12
AS YOU LIKE IF.
Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

T Note Book. l In war times an ounce of quinine in | the south cost $1,7OO and the most
 ordinary brown sugar was sold for $10
 a pound. Ordinary adamantine can-
 dies were sold for $10 pound. Break fast, in a restaurant, was ordinarily I $10. In April sugar went up to 5000
 barrel and articles of wearing ap- I parel sold, coats at $350, trousers at
 $10O and boots at S250. Butter was
 $15 pound. Potatoes went for $2
 a quart. Tomatoes of the size of Q
 walnut sold for $20 dozen. Chick
 ems varied from $35 to $50 a pair.
 The prices on the bill of fare of the
 Richmond restaurant in January, 1864,
 were: Soup, $1.5O; bread and butter,
 $1.5O; roast beef, a plate, $3; boiled
 eggs, $2; ham and eggs, $3.5O; ock
 fish, plate, $5; fried oysters, plate,
 $5; raw oysters, $3; fresh milk,
 glass, $2; coffee, cup, $3; tea, cup,
 $e!
 The As You Like It man while
 conversing with. a physician of the
 city the other day, heard of an incl
 dent which happened last week in
 the north end of the city which will
 undoubtedly cause one little miss to
 avoid cigar clippers for some time
 to come. The little lady, who was
 not more than 4, entered store with
 a playmate one year her senior While looking around their eyes fell
 upon the cigar clipper. The elder girl apparently knew something
 about it for, it seems, she induced the other little tot to place her finger
 in the hole where the cigar goes.
 No sooner had the finger been placed
 there than the clipper was pushed I and the top of the child's finger was almost taken off. No need to mem tion the uproar that occurred in the store. Suffice to say that a doctor
 was called and the child's finger dressed.
 Mime Marconi, the mother of the famous inventor, is most charming woman, who has had life filled with
 romance. She was born Annie Jami- son. daughter of Andrew Jamison. of
 Daphne Castle and Fairfield, Ennis corthy, county Wexford, Ireland. She
 was a brilliant beauty, with mar velous soprano voice, which she de- cided to train for grand opera against the wishes of her family. She ran away to Italy to study music. She met Signor Marconi, an Italian bank CT, of Bologna, and fell deeply in love with him. The marriage took place at once, thereby depriving the world of queen of song. Mime. Mar i conf spends a great deal of her time in Ireland now, for not only has she her own relatives, but she is espec- ially fond of her sons wife, who was | Beatrice O'Brien, sister of Lord h. chiquin.
 The As You Like It man can read fly imagine what a giggle the follow ing incident, said to have happened | Tn the foyer of theater in Hartford | recently, after the performance of Fifty minutes from Broadway" must have caused. It was while the audience was filing out that youth full parsonage with bundle of songs under his arm shouted the hits of the show, "Ain't It Awful "Harri- gan" and "The Men Who Fight the Flames" Some one stopped to pur- chase copy, and while the boy was making change he gave his vocal or gans a rest. A lady in theater attire stopped a moment in front of the mirror to arrange her hair which had been slightly ruffled while coming out. Just as she was fixing 1t the song boy had finished his sale and once more looking for buyers, start ed off. "Ain't It Awful" The wo- man thought that the remark was made for her benefit and giving the boy a look that must have made him tremble, greatly embarrassed she went her way.
 Looks as though the voting ma chimes had come to stay. Although the As You Like It man realizes that many miss the ballots, the machines on Monday proved conclusively they should be permanent in this city, Perhaps there were a few who longed for the pastors in order that they might derive pleasure from pasting the man for whom they did not wish to vote, but the number was not large. Moreover, they had a chance to pull the little lever down with a snap, but perhaps they did not like this so we'll. But the voters should be glad that those pesky, sticky, dis agreeable tohandle pastors have gone. May they never return. The ma chimes will tend to have men vote as their conscience dictates and there1l be no placing the ticket which you want voted in the hands of the man whose vote you think you control. The machines worked we'll, especial ly so when 1t is considered that it was the first trial. Two years from now the voters should know so much about the machines that the voters will be cast almost twice as rapidly as on Monday. i
 The following item reminds the As