Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-10
As YoU y,llI lKl Il n!.
Some Stray Leaves from . Rsportsr's
 Note Book.

Note Book.
 The As You Like It Man is. of the
 opinion that during the past few
 years baseball was only, in It's infancy in view of the interest the people
 throughout the country took In the
 season just closing. It surely is de-
 serving of the name national sport.
 Although the Chicago Detroit world
 series will incite unbounded enthusi-
 asm in those two cities and will be
 watched closely by the people of the
 east and west, yet the New York Na-
 tionnl-C Cleveland American series is
 also likely to be witnessed by many
 thousands of fans and may create
 more interest here in the east than
 the world series.
 Editing a newspaper is nice
 thing. If we publish jokes people say
 we are rattle brained. If we don't
 we are fossils. If we publish original
 matter they say we don't give them enough selections. If we give them selections they say we are too lazy to
 write. If we don't so to church we are heathens. If. we so we are hypo- critics. If we remain in the office we ought to go out and hustle. If we go out, then we are not tending to busi- ness. If we wear old clothes they laugh at us. If we wear good clothes they say we have a pull. Just as likely as not some one will say we stole this from an exchange. So we did.
 The teachers in the Kindergarten room had been explaining something to the children, but wishing they should know more about 1t told them to ask their mothers about 1t when they went home. She wanted them to acquire the habit of asking ques- tions and believed they could learn much from their parents in that way. The next morning when the class was together again the teacher immedi- ately wanted to know If they had re- membered to ask their mothers for anything, when they went home the afternoon before. Several of them raised their hands. Well, Johnnie" said the teacher who was confident that John would be able to explain what his mother had told him, "what did you ask your mother for?" T asked her for big piece of bread and asked her to put on lot of mo- lasses."
 It is hard to convince the taxpay- CTS of most cities that politics does not enter into almost every act of municipality. The politicians have a finger in the pie so often that the or dinary man Is of suspicious nature whenever he sees a deal made by the city. Ofttimes his suspicious are but he hits the nail on the head occasionally, consequently he gets the impression that the office holders are getting something if they do just as the people expect them. In New Britain during the past week I met a patrolman and asked him how were the hotels of the town. He said they were not what they should be in view of the size of the town. He went on to- tell how the city was much handicapped in the hotel line since the Russwin became the prop erty of the city Tt was the best hotel in town and it is badly missed" he declared. But in the mind of the patrolman the city was foolish to buy such place as the Russwin for a city hall. Tt was all politics. They could have secured a fine piece of property and erected magnificent building for the money the Russwin will cost them before 1t is finished. But the stockholders of the Russwin to get it of their hands and the city was easy. They will never be able to make half way decent city hall out of it and"-just then I | had to hurry to catch car and the | last sentence of the patrolman was ost to me. Wonder if his sentiments expressed the feeling of the majority | of the New Britain people?