The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-26

| and posters, and that is Q point gain red, and the foremost scenario editors l. are holding out a. helping hand~-tto the earnest writers, so freeIance writ CTS should not become discouraged. EDITORIAL NOTES + There is general feeling among the medicine companies that a presi- dent who won't take their remedies deerVes to suffer from bad cold.
 It is hoped that those people who are going to lend money to Huerta will not feel that the risk is so great that they must charge him more than 200 per cent per annum. Some of the Washington depart ments are installing dictographs. It is not supposed they will catch any thing very discriminating. unless some F clerk should happen to sleep audibly. Fear of the poisoned needles is ex- pressed by the girls in many places. Also they seem to be afraid of needle and thread.
 It is proving very hard to get en- <listments for the army, in spite of the confident predictions made in some quarters that an open season on Mexi- cans is going to be declared before long.
 Warnings are sent out about in flammab1e Yu1etide decorations, in spite of the popular Impression that if you are well covered with insur- ance, fires don't cost any one any thing.
 It is time to take heroic measures iS 91-1Jo 1onV
 Now here comes Secretary Houston, and says the seed distribution is use less although many Congressmen will testify that wherever they SOW the seeds a voter springs up.
 The cost of eggs would be reduced j if more people would keep chickens, but the growing roosters would prob ably wake up the neighbors at a. m.
 As large amounts of meat are being imported without asking permission of the meat packers, it is feared that there will be another advance in price
 Some people are kicking because the government has to pay for grapefruit knives for the senators. Surely they don't expect the senators to suck the fruit.
 ExPresident Taft has been dieting, and he now looks quite peaked with only 270 pounds.
 The holiday shopper can't tell who jostIed her, but she can always get even by stepping on some one else's toes
 Some people expect their Christmas presents to be satisfactory, when they are of such a nature that they can not be passed along to any one else next year,
 Now that the Mona Lisa picture has been recovered, one more item is added to the job of seeing Europe. :,
 The downfall of Mrs. Ella Flag Young shows what a dangerous thing it is to run the schools on a business like basis.
 In spite of the obligations assumed when President Wilson took the oath of office, he has let the White House mint patch run out.
 It is strange that the Mexican gen. erals will wear those broad brimmed hats, when it makes them look as if they sometimes worked farming.
 
 There's mighty little satisfaction in ent, as it makes it necessary for you to raise the ante another year.
 Splitting up. the corporations under the antitrust, law is all right, but it is hoped they don't make one company own the railroad locomotives and an other the cars.
 
 The editors who are demanding inn mediate war with Mexico are willing to shed their last drop of ink in Uncle Sam's defence.
 There is a movement in the large cities to make the streets safer for pedestrians. The first. thing to do is to persuade people not to go out doors.
 Of course it is unfortunate when long hat feathers are stuck into other peoples faces, but attention has to be attracted in some way to your stylish millinery.
 Fear is expressed lest fuel oil sup plies give out. The public might be able to stand the stoppage of the in dustrfes, but it would be awful if the automobile gasoline supplies were ex- hausted.
 It seems to be fashionable for the modern girl to conceal her ears, but if this is due to a feeling of modesty it is not observable in other directions.
 WHERE TIT HURTS.
 The failure to declare a dividend on the New Haven stock this month hurts not only private individuals but many public institutions as well, colleges and hospitals and various charitable foundations, whose endowment has been placed in securities which were considered t'giIt-edged."