The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-12
UNCONSIDERED fRIFLES

UNCONSlDERtD lRlfLtS
Some Facts, Serious and Frivolous, Of
Interest to the People of Montpelier
and Vicinity.
Funny, isn't it?" he remarked
Most every Montpelier girl that
gets married picks a husband from
out of town, and most every Mont
pelier boy goes away to find a wife.
They don't select their mates from
the companions they have known
from childhood. We raise plenty of
good and good looking boys and
some little love passages-betwee
some little love passages between
girls here and there seem to be
them as they are growing up. 1
know that some of these friend
ships continue, too. 1t isn't a case
where familiarity breeds contempt
and | can't understand it,
In early days, when facilities for
travel, communication and inter
course were limited there were fire.
quent marriages between members
of neighboring families, and it was no
uncommon thing to find half the
population of some towns related in
some way to the other half. There
was time when about 60 percent
of the population of Waitsfield were
Joslyns either by name or family
descent or connection.
Would it not be good thing to
raise the dam at the mouth of the
North Branch, that some water
might be retained, enough to cover
the river bed better in the hot sum-
mer and in time of drouth? If the
sewage that comes down that
stream can be kept covered with
water or even if there is water
enough to keep it moist, it may be
offensive to sight and smell but it
will not be dangerous. When this
refuse matter runs out onto the
rocks and the dry sides of the river
bed, dries up and becomes pulver-
lied into dust which blows through
a hundred windows, there is dan
ger that it may carry serious infec-
ton. There are sewers that just
reach beyond the river wall and
which for several months in the
year discharge their contents where
they may dry up in the manner
mentioned, instead of being washed
off down stream.
Our entire sewer system, if in
deed we can be said to have a sys-
TEN, must be revised and rebuilt be-
fore many years, 1t has grown up
in a haphazard, private manner,
drains and public sewers side by
side or connecting with each other,
without following any general plan,
put in to provide for special and
temporary needs, inadequate today
for the service expected of them. The
construction of the sewer system
is pressing matter of public health
that must have consideration.
| One of the reasons why the HUI
name Society is getting along so
well is that there are so few Occa-
sions in the city for the exercise of
| its activities. On one of the fire es-
capes of the High School building a
robin has built its nest and is now
patiently brooding on the delicate
blue eggs. The students never use
that escape now In fire drills. The
bird sits there, within three feet of
a window, undisturbed by any noise
there may be in the school ROOM
and does not fly away when a dozen
oys didn't spank her, because
to watch her. A little girl opened
the window the other day and reach
ed out to handle the eggs, frighten-
ing the prospective mother from the
nest. She won't do it again. The
boys didn't speak To her, because
she was a girl. But she has learned
their opinion of any one who would
wantonly disturb nesting bird, and
if she had been a boy she would
have been thoroughly padded OF
tossed in a blanket
With such humane sentiments an
imating the younger, growing gen
GRAFTON, it is easy to understand why
the Humane Society has secured a
large membership. This is the sec
ond year a robin has nested on one
of the fire escapes, and the children
about the rooms are more interest
ed in the dull colored, bright look.
ing bird out doors on her nest thar
in any of the canaries hanging IL
cages inside the school room. | only
fear that when the young robins arr
Matched they may be killed will
kindness, for every child in schoo
will want to feed them angle worms
and it always seemed to me that the
widely gaping bill of a young robil
would take in more food than it.
stomach could properly care Tor. We
if yon ever watched a. pair of robins
feeding their young, you will agre,
, that a man eating the same weigh
in proportion to his size would con
sumo a 800 pound hog vita AL III,
trimmings in day.
One of the commendable purpose!
of the Woman's Club is to beauty