The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-23
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY


 In the quaint little village of West hampton, in Hampshire county, Mass, Sylvester Judd was born a century England literatf the centenary of this once famous author will pass unnotic7 ed. Judas literary reputation rests principally on the work. Margaret, a Tale of the Real and Idea4,'' of which Lowell. in his Table for Critics" wrote:
 The first Yankee book
 With the soul of Down East in it, and
 things farther East,
 As far as the threshold of morning
 source, and proof that Sylvester Judd has been too soon forgotten.
 Sylvester Judd was born on July 23, 1913, and graduated at Yale College in 1886. He embraced the Unitar- ian creed and entered the divinity school at Cambridge in 1887, complet- ing his theological studies in 1840, and was ordained as pastor of the East parish in Augusta, Me, in that year.
 In 1S43, he began to write ftMarga- ret" and 1t was published by a Bos- ton house two years later. This work won almost immediate recognition, and gave the clergyman place among the foremost writers of the day. In 1850 he published ssPhiIo, an Evangel- iad,' a didactic poem in blank verse, and this was followed by a romance entitled Richard Edney," but both ef- forts were somewhat disappointing in compa rison with his previous work.
 At the time of his death, which oc-3 cured in Augusta in 1858, the rever-3 end author had just completed 9, dra- matic poem in five acts, The White Hills, an American Tragedy" based A i ffe of Sylvester Judd'' was published by Mrs. Arethusa Hall in 1854.
 This is Independence Day. in Tur- key, the fifth anniversary of the Young Turks revolution of July 23, ernment was proclaimed. In view of recent events, the MosIems are not likely tol celebrate the day with any vast amount of enthusiasm.
 The first anniversary of the ''new liberty" July 23, 1909, was widely celebrated by the dos1ems. and there was a great military review in Con- stantinople. On the second anniver- sary 1t was announced that ssparlia- mentarys rule in Turkey after two years of severe test has proved highly successful Despite this optimistic attitude, the Young Turks faced many problems-the discontent of the Greeks and Bu1gars in Macedonia. a. revolt in Albania, another of the Arabs of the Hauran. and the anni-l mostly of the Greeks. The third cele- bration of Undergraduates Day. was marred by a second terrible fire in Stamboul, and found even the Turkish Moslems discontented with the new regime On that day Turkey had not a friend in Europe, and a. few months later Italy declared war and annexed TripoH The fourth anniversary D. anti-Turkish sentiment, and in Octo- Der came the declaration of war. The army of the Young Turks, so formid- able on paper, crumb1ed and fled be- fore the Christian soldiers of the holy war and to-day, after five years of stricted to a narrow corner of Eu- rope. and the .sgiaodrs'' are fighting among themselves over the division Of the spells.
 The first women to wear the bloom CT costume in public were those who attended a t'bloomer ball' held at Lowell, Mass, sixty-two years ago to- night. The so-called common sense'1 garb for the fair sex was invented by Mrs Amelia Bloomer, who at that time was noted as a temperate adVo- cate and as the editor of The Lily" temperance journal published at Sen eca Falls, N. '. The ttbloomer ball'' attracted wide attention all over America and Europe, and the costume was taken up by women in various cit les in the United States, Canada and England. The dress was ridicu1ed out of existence. When the bicycle craze affItcted the world and set everybody awheel, the bloomer costume was re- vived, and for g time enjoyed some popularity with the fair cyclists. In it's latest form, called Turkish trou- sers,'' the costume is now enjoying a Vogue in Paris, and 1t is predicted by some fashion authorities that within a year all the ladies will be wearing sem.