Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-31
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soue Stray Leaves from . Reporters
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show: An Atchis0n man recently re- fused . proposal of marriake. T like you" he said to the girl but you have too many friends. There would be too many ct our wedding, for you would be afraid not to in- vite them all, and your many friends wouldn't be satisfied unless they made fools of us by playing some kind of crazy pranks on us when We started on our wedding journey. You have so, many friends that we would get all kinds of wedding pres ents that We don't want, and would be kept poor in future to pay back when the donors got married. You are nice, and like you, but what am looking for in a wife Is a woman who is friendless.
 The laws In Massachusetts in re- gard to driving an automobile reck- lessly through the streets seems to be almost as stringent as those Of the bay state relating to other. of lenses. Six months in the house of correction was given young man there Monday for driving his ma chine recklessly. Thirty days more were added because he was drunk
 when he did It. He did not kill
 anybody, and SO far as Is reported
 he did not even run into anyone.
 Accordingly it looks as though reck- less motorists might actually be sent to prison for term of years If he injured a man, woman or child in Massachusetts. If he should kill
 someone he. might even be sentenced
 to death. Motor maniacs will hard ly regard this prospect with appro- val. 's
 Any young woman who is of the
 opinion that thought reading Is fine
 amusement and suggests 1t while
 spending the evening with some of
 her friends should profit by the ex- | perlence of an attractive young wo-
 man as related by Lady Winston R.
 Churchill. She insisted on making
 comedy youth who was reading l peacefully in corner join in the
 game. Having duly blindfolded him
 she lead him to the middle of the
 room and made various passes with
 her hands, saying, Don't resist any
 thought which comes into your head
 do exactly what you feel like doing
 I am willing you" Without mo
 ment's hesitation the young man
 threw his arms around the lady and
 embraced her before the whole com. ] pany. To her cries and indignant l remonstrances he merely replied
 You told me to do what felt like
 doing, so I did"
 Most of us are acquainted with the I person who asks obvious questions
 the sort of a man who stops you 1T the middle of headlong rush ant
 asks you if you are in hurry. NJ
 D. Is one of these pests, and during l walk abroad the other morning { he paused in astonishment outsid,
 friends house. Before 1t stood
 three huge moving vans, the lawl
 was almost covered with articles O furniture of various sorts-picture l wardrobes and china. And ther'
 was his old friend B., begrimed
 weary and ill-tempered, directing op
 erations in his shirt sleeves. 'Wha BIZ exclaimed MT E., "are you nov ing?" "Not at all--not at all
 snapped B, with elaborate sarcasm
 I'm taking my furniture, out for ride!" Mir E. is the kind of maj who, when approaching a persol that Is lying down asks, Are vol asleep and expects an answer il
 the affirmative.
 Talk, everlasting talk, from tn played out candidates. The moto car has reyolutionized campaigning
 It enables local committees to al range for as many meetings in day as used to be possible in a wee
 (this applies to large cities). Blu the majority of those who make u the crowds don't want to listen [ ,, the few remarks, covering ol ground, that are made as a matte of course. What they want is t ,, see the man whom they are aske , to support. Even fieeting glanc gives certain satisfaction to tn !. voter. because 1t brings him into sort of personal relation with polit i. cal greatness. But many of ou ' conservating citizens think the pres idential contest is too much of 1, footrace and the candidates are It ' auired to do too much puffing. Som critics say 1t is only question C : a few years more when the cand !, dates will not move out of thei 2 state during campaign.
 a Some of the stories told by tn campaigners here during the pas e week seem. to highly please the aut k fence even though they were ia from tho issues of the campaign Judge Cannon of Iowa who spoke 2 r the democrat rally Tuesday evenin i. told of witnessing the opera Faust o at a theater in Dublin one evenini n The company was small but amb d tious, while the theater where th Y opera was booked was none tc f large. The stage carpenter, of icours 2 he was an ,Irishman, imagined thi n Mephistopheles was very slim maj q He made the trap door accordingl l. But shortly before the opera was d start the actor who was to play tf f devil became Ill. and the only or d left to enact the role was bur V heavyweight tragedian. He said s would do his best. Everything wei n smoothly until 1t came time ft IF Marguerite to ascend to heaven an n Mick" to descend to the -regiol . below. Marguerite went up all rigl !. hut tbo devil got stuck in the trs