Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves from Q Reporters
 Note Book.
 The average educated man gets a salary of $1,0O0 year. He works forty years. making total of $40,- GOO in lifetime. The average day laborer gets S1.50 day zoo days in a year, or $45O in year. In forty years he earns $18,000. The difference, or $22,00O equals the value of an education. To acquire this earning capacity requires twelve years at school of 180 days each, or 2, ,160, and it is found that each day at school is worth little more than $10 to the pupil.
 The snap matches are causing many Jump around the town. Last even ing a man went about five feet in the air when a package of the matches was set off under his feet. For a moment he thought he was next to perambulating volcano. There is plenty of fun with the matches. but the joker should use a little judg- ment in setting them off. During the week a package of them was placed underneath horses feet when no one but a woman was in the carriage. Not just the right place to put them. sss
 It is amusing to be in New Haven on the day of the annual ball game between Yale and Harvard. It seems strange the manner in which the old graduates, men of all ranks and pro- fessions, will forget thefr work for the day and once more become boys. Men, many of them middle-aged, danc- ing around the field like a number of grammar school boys ana apparently they enjoy the relaxation from their daily routine. On Tuesday, dressed in their fantastic and ludicrous cos tunes, they seemed to have the tlme of their lives. It is refreshing spec tacle and the As You Like It man would be pleased to see more of it. The news that European has been | noticed in Jamaica wearing white as mourning for a relative Iost in the re- | cent catastrophe recalls the fact that | that color was originally employed in | many countries in indicate reverence | for the dead. In fact, the custom ob- tained in Europe as late as the reign of Charles VIII of France, and in Italy too, 1t fingered, enough for women only, the men wearing brown. In Ethiopia the white soon changed to gray. and in Egypt 10 yellow. China, however, employs 1t to this day. Cher colors have their vogue blue, for instance, which even now is used in Turkey, Armenia and Syria. The latter signifies the heavenly re- gion-white stands for purity; gray and brown typify our mother earth, and black, most repellanr of mourn | ing colors. would seem to suggest an eternity of night
 A teacher in the Sunday school of the First Congregational church was | asked q question the other day by d bright boy that set her to thinking whether she really is as old looking as he took her to be. The children and their teachers were holding the 215th annual outing of the Sunday school and during the day one of the young sters inquired of his teacher if she was present at the first annual out out. and where it was held. also the number of boys and girls in attend ance and what were their names. Of course none of the questions were answered, but just the same 1t set the teacher to thinking how time files and what strange questions come to the mind of the average small boy. great many changes have taken place in Waterbury md the world over in 215 years. Where was that picnic held and what kind of games did the tots indulge in?
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