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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26
On Newport Exeur.;on..

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Browning and
their daughters, Misses Lillian and
Jessie Browning of Plain Hill took the
trip to Newport Thursday on the City
of Lowell.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Unclaimed letters advertised at the
Taftville postoffice for the week ending
Aug. IS. are addressed as follows:
Monsieur Albert Beauregard. Mrs Mil
vina Blanchard. Mrs. Henry Geer
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Miss Rose Timmons has returne,
home after spending several weeks
with friends in New York city.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Morton Webster has returned to
Tolland after visiting his sister, Mrs
William Miller of West Town street
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mrs P. H Either and family hav.
returned home after spending severa
days at Pleasure Beach
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Notes,

A large part of the Ponemah mill
remained closed on Friday.
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GREENEvILLE NEWS.

Six hours after high water 1t IL low
tide. which Is followed by food tidA
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

The Taftville baseball team will
meet the Centrals of Norwich on the
Providence street grounds this (Sat-
urdayl afternoon.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Miss c. c. Bachelor of East Town
street left Friday for an outing of a
week or two on the Maine coast.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26
TAFTVlLLE
Benefit Baseball Game for JOSEPH
Observation-Disclosures Letters-Notes.

The Taftville and Dayyille basehsl,
teams will play a game on the Provi-
dence street grounds on Sept for
the benefit Of Joseph L.azinsk, who
was injured in TIE game between thess
two teams last week
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Abraham kalaf and two sisters
Lydia and Jennie Kalaf, are enjoying
a ten days automobile trip to New
York.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Miss Marion Howard of Central ave-
nue. is visiting relatives in Lowell
Mass.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Miss Mary Fregeau and Mrs. Archi
bald Blanchard left on Friday for q
three days stay in Providence an6
Fall River.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mr.. Martin and family have move,
from Putnam to Providence street.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Misses Ruth and Rena Mitchell OF
Gardner lake are visiting their cousin
Erie Skinner of Pecks Corner.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

addition built on his house on Norwich
avenue.
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Mrs. J. j. Donovan, Mrs NJ. J. Shea
and Mrs. Swanton of Greeneville spent
Thursday with friends in willimantic
and South Coventry.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Misses Nora and Mary Murphy are
spending several days with relatives
in Baltic.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mrs. William Burdick of Huntington
avenue left Friday for a visit with
friends near Providence.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26
THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Today.
For New England Showers Satur
day; Sunday fair moderate variable
winds
Predictions from the New York Her
aid: On Saturday partly cloudy and
possibly clearing weather will prevail,
with slight changes of temperature.
and light to fresh variable winds, prob
ably preceded by rain on the coasts,
and on Sunday fair weather. with
slightly higher temperature.
Observations in Norwich.
The following records, reported from
Sevin's pharmacy, show the changes
in temperature and the barometric
changes Friday:
Their. Bar.
a. m-..-- 60 so-1s
Il m. % oo.!
6 D. M. bz ou.lz
Highest 81, lowest 60.
Comparisons.
Predictions for Friday: Fair; cooler:
northerly winds.
Fridays weather: Cloudy. with oc-
casional shower; cooler; wind north
east.
Sun. Moon and TideA
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Grimes of Wauwecue
hill are spending week at Cosy beach
near New Haven.
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Mrs. Roswell Brown has returned
after spending q week with her par.
entS at Ashwillett
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Miss Viola Woodwork has been
spending few days this week with
relatives in Willimantic.
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NORWICH TOWN

Timely Topics About Town-Automo-
bile Party to Rocky Point-News Of
the Travellers.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Miss Katherine DAILY is spending tn
week with friends In New London.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

President Taft is in Beverly for his
summer vacation.
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BORN

ARNOLD-In Yantic. Aug "a. a daugh-
ter &c Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Arnold of
Tomfret, Conn.
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Louis wonderlich is having a large
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Notes.

James Murphy is spending several
days with friends in New York.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. George Powers are
moving from West Town street to East
Lyme.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Mrs. NJ. J. Woodwork is ill at her
home on West Town street.
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WHEN you want to put your BUSH
ness before the public. there II NO me-
dunn better than through the aAvertis-
ing columns of The Bulletin. 80
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

sun. Moo. and I'Ide.
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lImely Topics About ToWn-Autono-
bile Party to Rocky Point-News Of
the Travellers.
Mrs. NJ. J. Woodwork is ill at her
home on West Town street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Powers are
moving from West Town street to East
Lyme.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grimes of Wauwecus
hill are spending week at Cosy beach
near New Haven.
Mrs. Roswell Browp has returned,
after spending q week with her par
ents at Ashwillett
Miss Viola Woodworth has been
spending a few days this week with
relatives in Willimantic. -
Mrs. William Burdick of Huntington
avenue left Friday for a visit with
friends near Providence.
Misses Ruth and Rena Mitchell of
Gardner lake are visiting their cousin,
Erie Skinner of Pecks Corner.
Miss c. c. Bachelor of East Town
street left Friday for an outing of a
week or two on the Maine coast.
Morton Webster has returned to
Holland after visiting his sister, Mrs.
Mrs. Michael Burns and her family
of West Town street were at Gardner
Lake early in the week for q brief
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
THE STAGE DOORKEEPER

to get interested. So last night !
crept up by the electrician and saw
the turn. Say, when Warblitz got
under the spotlight 1 let out a gasp
like all the rest of the boobs.
Instead of a battered old hulk, kid,
here was a peach. the real cling
variety served with cream. Pretty?
Wow!
"Of course, Warblitz came through
with the Cradle and Asleep in the
Deep and The Two Grenadiers' and
all the rest of the old favorites.
Maybe the voice wasn't so ALFRED
good, but everybody wanted to rub
Ter. Why. WarblItz has got Lillian
Russell and Julian Eltinge lookin' like
cheap theatrical posters after a hard
rain"
Don't Tell a Soul
Yes, 1 heard Warblitz myself"
said the stage-struck youth, and It
struck me that the voice was more
masculine than any 1 have ever
heard"
Yep" said the S. D. K, 1T ought
to. Did you see that fine lookin' guy
that went out a few minutes ago?
That's Warblitz; he's Just gone out to
get shaved"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

hush. Sue sed. nevir herd a rttsl
boy tawk so mutch in awl my life.
o Is that so, sed.
Yes, that's so, sed Sue.
o is that so. sed, bekaus II you
say enything like that to Sue enuff
times she gets mad and chasiz you wich
Is fun. bekaus beetng a gerl she cant
run werth a sent and she couIdent
katch you II she ran awl day and
mite and awl the neckst day.
Puffs and Things
My sister also shows how funny she
Is by putting puffs and things on her
he'd, aIltho she has so mutch hare wich
Is reely growing from her he'd that she
Good be a radvertizemint for a hare
kompiny If she wanted to.
If had as mutch hare as wat you've
got, l sed to her, Id take sum of in
sted Of putting moar on. Enyhow,
sed, If you think 1t looks bewtiful, II
don't, weather you think it does or not,
bekaus awl those puffs, locks Jest
like pepurmnit handy, and If 1 was Mr.
Tomkins Id be wanting to take bite
out of them awl the time. I sed.
dry up, sed Sue, wich Is not very
nice langwidge for a gerl to uze.
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

I'VE sure did make 'em blink last
night" said the stage doorkeeper with
a chuckle. When our industrious
little press agent billed 'Warblitz. the
Hungarian Basso,' we all sort Of
erinned and looked for another frost.
You know them female bassos usually
give the play-goin' public a pain, and
I confess that 1t don't give me any
pleasant minutes to see a hard faced
female get up in a bareback gown
and sing Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep without sighting the bottom
notes.
Hard To Look At
Most Of them are such hard faced
females that I have to close my eyes
TO look at them, and as long as
they're singin' bass you might as we'll
have a man doln' the vocal stunt for
all the good 1t does you.
D. The thing that struck me as funny
was that they didn't run any pictures
sof Warblitz with the advance notices
So l says to myself here's where an
other old battle ak puts 1t over until
they give her the hook But after
the press agent had come through
here four times a day and told me
that Warblitz was the goods I began
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
ACCORDING TO SAMMY

Gerls Is funny. Littel gerls are not so
funny, bekaus I no a little gerl and shes
no funnyier than enyboddy else. II
shes as funny, but the older they get the
funnyier they get and the madder they
get when you tell them how funny they
are.
My sister Sue is 20 yeers old, but
wont tell enyboddy. Mr.. Tomkins is
Sues fellow, and wen hes in the par
ler and enybody says enything about
how/old Sue is, evryboddy laffs. but no
boldly tells him shes 20 yeers old. wich
she is If / was Mr.. Tomkins I'd get
mad and say, Well, II you wont tell me
how old you are 1 no othir gerls that
willard go hoam.
No Discrase
wy don't you want Mr.. Tomkins to
no yure % yeers old. 1 sed toiSue, its nc
discrase, Is t..
I shood say not. she sed. but none of
the gerls tells thare ages, so wy shood 1.
II the othir gerls jumped in the fire.
wood you? sed. wich is wat she ses
to me wen 1 say I do sumthing be-
Klaus the othir boys do 1t. I'm yeers
old. l sed. and I don't care who nos
II. Mr.. Tomkins or enybody else, and
if they don't like 1t they no wat they
can do. I sed.
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

the foe proved to be an enemy and
he failed to fire.
Halt, who goes thereT
Again the clarion query smote the
stiffness of the bivouac. And often.
when the stiffness Of the bivouac is
smitten, there is danger in the air.
Halt, who goes thereT"
For the last time the sentence is
used to help fill up space in the story.
Still, there Is no relief in sight. Not
the glimmering of a climax filters
through the perspiring and down.
trodden authors ordinarily capable
brain as the end of his allotted space
looms into view.
- Merciful heavens! Is the soldier to
be left shrieking his command to
halt until the end of time? Is there
an idea in the world with pity in its
cold breast? But a line Is left!
Ah-ah-
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
sKE HOLDS IT UP TO THE
Girl Who Window Gazes
He Hadn't the Heart
To Can That Guy

walked up to q rejecting surface and
inv estigated to see that her petticoat
was not cultivating a train or her
hat vas not doing a sidestep, 1t would
be- a sane and ingenious use of plate
glass meant for another purpose. But
these human peafow1s.-the window gaz-
ers-glance surreptitiously. They sneak
peep at themselves and imagine that
they are not observed.
It's laughable, and it's disgusting
If there were needed any new proof
of the supremacy to which vanity
can attain, 1t would be afforded by
the ridiculous contrast that the win
dow gazer affords. She is so serene
IN her belief that no one seesI Yet
every three feet-at every new win
dow indeed-she is showing of her
vanity to an interested public.
Positively lmbecilic
Men settle their ties in front of the
gum glasses in the stations. Then,
they stop. But q girl window gazer
never seems able to settle anything
in any glass and she keeps on look
ing. =
It's such a silly exhibition of a
girls weak point It's so unsweetly
childish! It's positively imbecilic.
The short-sightedness of seeing only
the image in the window and being
entirely blind to the verdict of vanity
that Is being passed upon her is an
evidence OF the vacancy and giddiness
of the mind of the window gazer She
is a walking advertisement bigger
and more gaudy than any OF the gilt
letters that obstruct her view of her
self, Of the sappy-headedness to which
vanity can bring her. devotees. And
a man with open eyes knows that she
would be so busy feeding her own
vanity that sue would have no time
to feed hin-or hist
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

ten minutes away from noon today the
fiossiest little peach that ever went
with cream blew into the shop. And
oh, sugar! she drifted right over to
me, leaned half way over the counter
and smiled.
Was I tickled? Ask me not. Aside
from the personal satisfaction of hav-
ing a high-grade sale of merchandise
grinning an inch away from my nose.
there was the effect on Juliet to be
considered. And believe me, Juliet was
taking it all in from her desk
Would you mind minding this pack
age for me until 1 return?' the prize
winner CAROLS Would 1 mind mindinR
it7 AY. cut it out!
Then she faded, and in 1--WE minutes
two full-grown cops were trying to con-
vince me that I ought to go to the sta
ton house with them. The package
was stolen, swiped, pinched, purloinedI
don't know whether I'm out of the
woods yet or not, but Juliet II still
laughing.
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Pass Not These
Classics By
CHILD LOGIC

A little girl for some days nao oo-
served a thick carpet Of straw covering
the street to deaden the noise for sick
lady In the house opposite.
When the danger had passed and men
were removing the straw, she went to
her mother and asked:
Mother, what was the matter over
at Mrs. Smith's?'
God sent Mrs. Smith a new BABY,
answered her mother.
The child went to the wlnooW ana
stood watching again. Finally sne
turned and said:
They pack babies awfully carerui'
don't they?"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Loretta's Looking Glass

herself. And she finds it so agreeable
that she walks for blocks casting
side glances, at her moving image.
Psyche crept up on pink knees,
thoughtless Of prIckers, to gaze at
herself in natures mirror-a clear
pool These window gazers are her
lineal descendants. There being no
pools around, they have been obliged
to make use of the show windows.
If girl frankly and fearlessly
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

trim eyeshes become long and curling and
other odd jobs around the figure
out of anybody in wen'y-seven
It's Up to the Girl
So if girl loses man this o science accodn the
the beauty doctors figure she has ony
disposition to blame O always has been
for the blondes and when the young the
about the gores of Greek and dps
is Roman and she hasn't dimple to
her her and beauty doctors
waitin'
Sonow know, Belle When the right fellow aissg
ideal grlish
ing And don't coincide with particular STYLE invite him
around next Wednesday,
In the meantime drop DOCTOR
couple Of dmp punctued nose screwed on and
then when he the bell
day, ought to have him your mercy
But after ALL Belle think I'd hesitate sevral
let myself be 1emodeed for If girls wise she'll
than beauty when she soes
the that said thing beauty joy didn't
have to live with IT,
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Snappers Fresh From
The Sea of Fun
TWO WAS ENOuGH

Hogan was playing nurse to the
twins on the front porch. The twins
were annoyed because each wanted ex-
elusive possession Of a solitary kitten,
and they were yelling.
A neighbor paused at the gate.
well. Hogan" he asked, what would
you take for them children of yourn p
Hogan shifted in his chair All the
money in the wurruld couldn't buy
thim," he declared. But" he added,
Il wouldn't give tin cints apiece for
any more like thim."
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
lust Like a Man

You are very comfortable, wifey
dear?"
. Yes, love"
THE cushions are easy and softT'
Yes, darling"
You don't feel any jolts7"
mo, sweetest"
"And there is no draft on my lamb?"
"No, my ownest own"
Then change seats with me"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Would Hang Him

Juggins-Who was 1t that said IL he
could make the songs of the people he
wouldn't care who made the laws?
Muggins-Don't know. But il he's the
chap who's making the songs of the
people nowadays I'd just like to have
the making Of the laws a little while!
That's all!
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
ENGLISH JOKE FOR TODAY

Look here. my lad, We don't like our
youngsters in this business to look too
sporting. Your trousers are too tight"
These? Why, they, are a, makeup
of two OF mothers old skirts. The
Pink I'm
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
WHEN NOAH WAS A BOY

His mother used to go batty over the
summer amusement resorts. His dad
couldn't stand the expense, so he rigged
up shoot the chutes" affair In the
back yard. Ma climbed up on the
wheeled trucks and tried 1t once. She
splintered her ulnar bone badly. and
now she's cured. Never no more,v
says ma
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

wasn't killed every time he five minutes late.
She's always hunch he said that something going to
when danger
and she keeps calling the office have I'm safe
all the fellers teach lesson
And the end of the broken hearts and home
wrecked, although the wife blame we'll the
Another recently who
stirred the police of the the of perfectly
because she had intuition when she them that they
the who had attempted rob her house II knew she
said that would feel the these and
dd'-ony it happened that they the wrong
Sort of Second Sight
might other where backed
belief the sight
had led trouble Undoubtedly
reckoned with but it seldom big as her imagination
We all of those love, aren't we
all kinds of horrors when husband little
late fancy that something intangible will of danger
the false intuition
while the real from deep within
put down.
Remember too, that there never who wasn't
times late and usually when he's perfectly sound healthy
there that made lighter by gloomy
of its and there couldn't
eliminate this bridges of tragedy before
she developed of humor well her Intuition"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Age Lends Attachment

Patty" said grandma, II think 1t
about time you stopped playing with
boys. Little girls ought not to care
to play with boys, when they're as
large as you"
"Oh, that's all right, grandma. Why,
the bigger we get the better we like
'em"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Stubbed

.Pop, wasn't the man who held the
world UP on his shoulders named Map?
mo, son, Atlas"
"Well.. amt that the same thing"
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Our Grocery Clerk
Says He Was Stung

Oh, thought had Juliet going to-
day. and all through a streak Of luck
that I might have known was too good
to be true.
I started out to tell you that about
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
NJ AMIE TELLS BELLE
The Beauty Doctors Are
Great Institutions, But
BOUGHT BEAUTY is RISKY

these days of incubators, smokeless powder and
gen'ral enlightenment, Belle, if a woman's homely
it's her fault and shows she don't read the
advertisements
l was readin beauty doctors ad in the paper
las night, and honest, Belle, If nature hadn't "a
been such good friend O mine, I'd "a made note
Of his address and dropped in to get an estimate
the first time l in the neighborhood. That's
how attractive the ad read.
1t said the doctor could remove anything from
harelip to a bad conscience, change classic
nose to the latest retrousse style by a painless
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
A Fish Tale

First Fisherman - That Fellow must
have been kidding me.
Second Fisherman-What fellow!
First Fisherman-The one VINO toiu
me that the fish in this stream DIT 80
greedily that you had TO go oehlnd
tree to bait the hook
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Like a Woman

"Drat the cat"
What's the matter, girl?"
The cat went to sleep on my new
hat and I wore her downtown without
noticing her."
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Who Goes There?
Or, Aid! Assistance!
Halt. who goes there7"

The sentry raised his shoulder to
knew he the fatal consequences If
The Washington times., 1911-06-14
Drawn for The Washington Times.

@F course, the dry goods man and
~ the jewelry man keep the win
dows of their stores filled with
the goods and gauds that allure the
feminine eye. With an art and craft
fulness they pin their diamond pea
cock feather brooches on the back
ground of regal royal purple. And the
dowager gazes. Crnningly breadths
of shadowy chiffon, made for the rev.
elation Of youths roundnesses, are
draped over q wax-faced figure and
topped inconsequentially with daisy
trimmed hat And the ingenue stands
breathless at the vision of herself in
serted where the papier-mache lady
is now esta blished. No wonder the
women and girls window-gaze!
The Inherent Woman Savage
And the love of pretty things. the
revel in the delicacies of their max
ing, the orgy Of joy in the thought OF
going decorated with the art triumph
the inherent woman savage who loves
to be lovely to lure-the birds and the
bees, of course-all mix and mingle
In the ecstasy of window-gazing.
But why should a pretty girl-ol
even a homely one-gaze into the
plate-glass window of a real estate
office?
Looking for the broker, you say
Not at all. Ne thinks that. too. just
for one brief, pleasant second. Ht
settles his tie and assumes a killing
smile. But the fair face beyond the
glass never shows a hint of con-
sciousness. much less of apprecia-
tion.
And she looks in the cigar store
window where the wares for sale
block up all view of the Interior and
the men. She can hardly be inter.
ested in boxes of well-arranged
cigars. What then?
She Is staring simply and solely al
The Washington times., 1911-06-14

)MANS intuition has so long been a pet phrase
the world over that to suggest that sometimes it
iconoclastic, yet within the news of the past few
days there have been two amusing, yet in some
senses tragic, cases that point to the almost
fanatical belief that the average wife and mother
has in her premonitions.
One, and the humor Of 1t almost hides the
really tragic side, is the of young wife who
home for two days" without sending her word,
charge to which the in question brought the