Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-01
AS YoU LIKE n.
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves from q Reporters
| Note Book.
IL the firemen of the city had
some way Of bringing the safety
commissioners, the aldermen and the
| finance commissioners to a fire like
that OF this morning, they would
| have very little difficulty in procur-
ing a raise in pay when they asked
for it. The fire ladies deserve
every cent of money they receive.
| Tomorrow Is Candlemas day, the
day on which the ground hog shines.
According to the old saying If he
can come out of his hole in the
ground tomorrow and see his
shadow, six more weeks of strenuous
| weather we will have. But If the
day is cloudy and the sun obscure
SO as to prevent the animal from
seeing his shadow, that means the
worst Of the winter has passed.
Judging from the manner in which
1t was showing this morning, poor
old "groundie" will be showed COM
pletely in tomorrow.
The AS You Like 1t man is at a
loss to understand why some people
want boxing exhibitions held in this
city when at the present time there
are at least two polo games a week
and any number of basketball con-
tests. 1t seems as though the most
rabid sport could get all the amuse-
ment he needs to keep his constitu-
ton in order attending some or all
of these. In polo the rounds go fif-
teen minutes, while the pugs can
last only three minutes without stop
ping TO take rest. Well, every
one to his taste, as the woman said
when she kissed the cow"
Reading is to the mind what food
Is to the stomach. And just as over
eating causes indigestion, so mental
indigestion is caused by too much
reading. No food is nourishing until
1t is assimilated. You must give to
your brain the same chance to digest
that you give to your stomach. The
proper way to digest a book-pro-
vided the book is worth reading at
all--is first to hurry through it, to
get a survey of it in its entirety, and
then go over it again, slowly, medi-
tating over every striking passage.
Some great teacher of mankind-I
think. it was st Augustine-says that
we should read as birds drink; look
ing up toward heaven with every
sip. The meaning of which obvious
ly is that we should try to get the
most mental and spiritual good out
of each point before passing on to
the next.
One of the stories told by the Rev
DR. Conrad of Boston at the banquet
of the Business Mems association of
this city Monday evening to illustrate
the means by which some men wish
to acquire money, even at the ex-
pense of their friends, was the fol-
lowing. The business man and his
friend were sitting in the lobby of
the hotel when the former said:
you will have TO come down to the
grounds tomorrow and see the big
hog ] have on exhibition there; it Is
a tremendous size and l would like
20 have you see it," The friend re-
piled he would be pleased to accom-
pany him to the exhibition grounds
on the following day. So late next
MOI ring the two started for the
grounds. When they were short
distance from where the hog was on
exhibition the business man said to
his friend: by the way, | forgot to
tell you that it costs so cents to see
the hog" The friend said "All
right" and brought a SO cent piece
from his trousers pocket. He then
turned around and started back to-
ward the hotel. Where are you
going?" asked the man of business;
this is the way to the tent" Eyes.
| know" replied the friend, "but
am going back to the hotel" Don't |
you care to see the hog?" came next. |
NO, / don't think so; am we'll sat
Isfied already: I have seen one of |
the biggest hogs / care to for SO |
cents" There's number of hog
exhibitors In our own little city.