Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-14
AS YOU LIxs IT.
Some Stray Leaves from . Reporters
 Note Book.

surprised to learn during the week that the demand for tickets for the
 Yale-Harvard game was larger from this city than from any other in the state-New Haven, of course, except ed. Waterbury has number of young men going to the New Haven university and also has Q number of graduates, consequently 1t is not sur prising that the big football games incite 80 much enthusiasm in this city.
 It seems strange to the AS You Like It Man that men, who apparent ly have everything they wish, should care to dabble in politics. But they do, and often they are not able to purchase with money the article which they want in the political market, and often they are. At times the money Is legitimately expended, but just as many times 1t Is the dol lars that is the main factor in the election. Many men declare they would never enter politics if they had the money of MT So-and-So, but if their places were reversed, they would perhaps do just the things which they thought they would not do.
 Mayor Speer of Denver was talking the other day about a pair of political tricksters. ''They gave themselves away" he said. Don't tricksters al- ways give themselves away? It re- minds me of the two men who want ed to sell their corpses for dissection. These two men, miserably clad, called on the dean of a medical college in New York. We are both on the verge of starvation, sir,' the spokes- man said. We are we'll on in years and it is clear that we haven't much longer to live. Would you care 10 purchase our bodies for your dissect- ing room?' The dean hesitated. It Is an odd proposition he muttered. But 1t is occasionally done,' said the spokesman in an eager. voice. We'll said the dean, we might arrange It. What price do you ask?' Over in Philadelphia said the spokesman. the gave us $40.'"
 The As You Like It Man thinks the new hotel recently opened in this town should become popular if for no other reason than the fact that employees are not allowed to take tips. The practice of having to give tip for things which one has already paid for is abominable and the sooner stopped the better. It is an utter impossibility to procure any service whatsoever in the ordinary hotel without showing the waiter some- thing that looks like coin. More over some of the tip seekers are so persistent they are almost pest. When they receive the tip some of them bow to the floor as though they were saluting some crowned prince. It is all rot. It has become such nuisance that the men of wealth are ceasing to tip. What is true of ho- tells is also true in barber shops and other places where tips are sought. The man working there in most cases receive as much wages as the aver age workman and there is no reason why the price of shave should ad- vance about 66 Ia per cent because 1t is we'll done sz
 It is evident to the As You Like It Man more and more every day that men returning from work in trolley cars are becoming reluctant in re- gard to giving up their seats to wom en. This is especially so where the woman is young or even middle aged. And although 1t does not seem jus, right to see woman standing in a crowded car, still something should be done to impress it upon them to take an earlier car. There is no ex- cuse for woman who has been shopping all the afternoon to crowd onto factory extra, or any car where the majority of passengers are men returning from work. There Is no doubt men do not like to gaze at women hanging on to straps in trolley car. but the ones who keep their seats are of the opinion that they are not open to criticism when they know the women could have had plenty of room had they taken an earlier car The As You Like It Man. knows a few women who will not take seats when they go home about in the evening and do not seem bit disturbed because they clutch strap. There would be very little strap hanging by either men or women if enough cars were sent out
 
 At last the prose writings of. John Keegan have been printed in book form and those who know him only his poetical effusions such as Pinch and Coach O'Leary,". "The Holly and Ivy Girl" ''The May Queen" and few other efforts which have appeared quite frequently in the newspapers and magazines in this country, will have an opportun- ity to become more familiar with this great Irish genius,. who probably had a keener sympathy for the peas antry of his native country than any other writer of his day and time. The son of parents of somewhat limited means he was in position to see the real suffering to which the common people were reduced and not being able to. remove the cause he apparent ly abandoned all hope of gaining any thing by way of petition and aimed to muster his countrymen into one solid phalanx ready to act in concert for the common veal at the shortest possible warning. Keegan was born in the town of Shannahoe, Ireland. and some of his best poems and es- says were composed in small room nf hie fathers pottapp HiQ hand