Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-07
AS YOU LIKE IF.
Some Stray Leaves from a Reporter's
 Note Book.

the schools the past day or two. We
 hope those in charge of these drills
 will not neglect the work. It would
 be too bad to have anything happen
 in this city like that which cost near.
 ly 200 lives at Collirwood
 | There was not stir in the police
 station with the exception at inter
 vals when Sergeant Pagan, who was
 behind the desk, would rattle the
 paper which he was reading. About
 II o'clock, it was Tuesday evening
 a man on whom 1t was evident for.
 tune had not been recently smiling
 entered the door. Il am after a
 nights lodging" he said to the ser. geant, who was immediately all at, tention. Nights lodging" said Sergeant Pagan; "are you not work.
 ing during the day?" Work" said the fellow; T have been looking
 around the past couple of days for
 work, but you might as we'll be
 looking for the grace of God at a
 gathering of lawyers" Pagan gave
 him the lodging all right. ..-
 
 A number of salaried men in the factories of this city has, so it is said, been cut during the past week.
 The lack of work has caused the men above to go right down the line with the cutter and numerous are the salaried men who have had con- rfoi Tn hox not been given the opportunity of renewing them. The As You Like It man was told during the past week that the factories of Water ssury have more salaried men than any other city of equal size in the country. When the factories were rushing and there was plenty of work for the salaried workmen, ev- erythfng was serene, but when times are dull retrenchment is the watch word, consequently some of the sal aried men are affected. The worst feature about it is that when busi- ness is booming again the salaries are likely to remain just where they are now.
 Good nature is one of the best as- sets a woman can have. A good na- tured woman is always welcome, even when she is rather slow witted, and woman of the opposite class is to be dreaded and summed, because whatever brightness she possesses is of the personal and cutting kind. Many a woman, brilliant and enter taining, is feared quite as much as she is admired because even her clos est friends are not safe from her wit and satire. Many a social engagement is broken on account of such women. Good nature, like other desirable at tributes, can be cultivated. One can be educated to accept little annoyances with complacency. The victory over one disagreeable thing gives strength to meet the next two, and when the philosophy that teaches one to remedy ills when a remedy is possible and accept the incurable ones with forti- tude and good nature. is learned, life is comparatively smooth.
 Here are a few brief rules for spell ing: Final silent is omitted before a suffix beginning with vowel IS ride, riding. But in the endings ce and ge, the is retained before suffixes begin ming with a, O, and Il; as, service, ser viceable. There are a few exceptions, as, dyeing, shoeing, singeing. Final is usually retained before a suffix be- with q consonant; us, white, whlteness. There are a few excep- tions, as, wholly, truly and judgment. and words accented on the last syllable ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel, as run ming, forgetting. Words ending fin a double consonant usually retain 1t on adding a suffix, as fell, felling. Words ending fin a double consonant usually retain it fin adding a prefix, as, fare well. Final y preceded by a conson- ant Is usually changed to 1 before all | suffixes except those beginning with 1, IS, happy, happiness, carry, carrying. Final y preceded by a vowel is usual | y retained before suffix as, journey, 
 The oceans occupy three-fourths of he surface of the earth. A mile down he sea, the water has a pressure of ton to every square inch. If box feet deep was filled with sea water, which was then allowed to evaporate, here would be 2 inches of salt left in he bottom of the box. Taking the veraer depth of the ocean to be three nileS Mere would he q layer of salt 10 feet thick covering the bottom, n case all the water should evspor- te. In many places. especially in he far north. the water freezes from he bottom upward. Waves are de- eptive things. To look at them, one rould gather the impression that the Thole water travelled. This, however, } not so. The water stays in the anne place, but the motion goes on. n great storms waves are sometimes Q feet high, and their crests travel fly miles an hour. The base of a ave (the distance from valley to alleyl is usually considered as be- lg fifteen times the height of the ave. Therefore a wave 25 feet high 'ould have a base extending 315 feet. he force of waves breaking on the lore is seventeen tons to the square Dot.