Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-23
HEARD IN PASSING.

News of the death of Lydia | Thompson recalls those famous British Blondes" who dazzled the show going public years ago, There are men to-day with smooth heads who sat in the front row when they | were not bald headed. Bridgeport | Post. The expense accounts of candi- ! dates in the recent election, filed with the state secretary go to show that politics Is a costly game. The money spent in this way if diverted into other and worther channels, might do quite little more good, d,- | Norwich Record,
 The auto is continuing it's work and pedestrians are now being found by the wayside and picked up by tro- | ley car crews in certain sections of | the state. All such affairs will only make the incoming legislature more anxious to get at the automobillsts. Middletown Press.
 A Quincy, Mass, boy of IA started out on September 10 to see the world. He has already seen more than he wanted to and is now very glad to be back under the paternal roof where he is sure of three square meals day and a dry place to sleep After all there is no place like home
 New London Day.
 The girls of the senior class of the Springfield high school have taken action on the style of dress to be worn at graduation. They have de- cided that the same simple white gown shall be worn at all three ex- ercises of graduation. Such sane, sensible decision as this ought to be adopted by the pupils of every school in the country.-Meriden Record.
 The refusal of thirty white stu dents at the veterinary college in Grand Rapids, Mich, to remain in the same room with two colored stu dents, shows once more that race pre- iudice is not a sectional thing in this country. If white boys and black ones cannot learn to be horse doctors in the same town and school, why should white men and black men be allowed to drive horses in the same town?-Hartford Times.
 One man, MT Robertson, expended $33,000 in an effort to be elected governor of Connecticut; another, MT Lilley, expended S23,000 for the same purpose. The salary of the of- flee is but $4,000. Is it worth the price? Can it be made worth the cost? Is the honor worth such large sums? But more important still, is it good policy to allow expenditures which place the office beyond the reach of all save the very wealthy? Bridgeport Farmer.
 The politicians are becoming more reconciled to the candidacy of Elihu Root for the New York senatorship and while there was never any seri- ous doubt of his election after he had declared himself it is now becoming more assured every day. Timothy Woodruff, who had aspirations in that line is now quietly nursing a boom for the cabinet, but those on the inside say. that he hasn't any more chance of success in that direc- tion than he had in his hunt for Platt's place. New Workers are more inclined to regard Woodruff in the light of dude than statesman.- New Britain Herald.
 Inasmuch as George L. Lilley, by his sworn statement, spent only $23,- 375 to win an election as governor he is no longer open to the charge of having bought the gubernatorial chair, for his opponent confessed to having spent $10,000 more than MT Lilley did That is, the office did not go to the highest bidder. The amount that each candidate spent out of his own pocketbook was about the same, namely, S23,375, few dollars one way or the other being of no account when so large figure is taken into the reckoning. The whole business would be amusing if it weren't so sgusting.-Ansonia Sentinel.