The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-06
WITH BROWN. AND POUT.

WITH BROWN. AND POUT. You have heard of the person, no doubt.
 Who the day before Christmas starts out
 With leap and bound
 And hustIes around
 70 come home with a frown and a pout-
 EDUCATION NOTES.
 Huerta seems likely to execute the imprisoned deputies, but this is mere Iy the Mexican method of ordering bills to the third reading. Mrs. Pankhurst made $2O,OOO on her American tour. This will provide some lovely set pieces of fireworks.
 There having been only 14 deaths from football this year, some means will have to be devised to stop the feminization of the game.
 Gov. Cole BIease of South Carolina pardoned 100 convicts for Thanksgiv- ing, but he has not yet offered any re- ward to criminals for breaking the law
 In spite of the high prices being paid for all kinds of agricultural pro duce. there are still millions of young men willing to work for $2 a day pro vided they can wear white cuffs and a billed shirt.
 The Corn Club boys are raising a hundred bushels to the acre, but the old farmers feel that this is all wrong as4 their grandfathers didn't do any such thing.
 If any one is looking for a good quiet place where he can rest up and sleep. he should go to the New York Stock Exchange.
 President Huerta brandishes his sword vehemently, but there is g. growing conviction that it is made of paper covered with gilt tinseL
 The Pennsylvania railroad is con ducting a campaign against the wear ing of tight skirts by women, as lead ing to accidents, but it has not so far tried to stop the stars in their orbits. The Hague conference has been postponed for a year or two, but this is not because the judges of the court of arbitration are complaining about overwork.
 Soccer football has been played considerably the past fall, but it won't arouse much popular enthusiasm un- til there are more accidents.
 Owing to the persistence of i'm provident persons in eating luxuries like eggs, many housewives are join ing the boycott of hen-fruit.
 It is possible that a tactfu1 hint to your best girl would avert the pos sibility of receiving a necktie for Christmas.
 Contrary to the expectations of the newspapers. MT. and Mrs. sayre did not call in the reporters for a daily audience.
 The abolition of mass plays cut out some of the football accidents. but it is still possible to break a fellow s spine by a well directed tackle.
 Although nothing important has happened recently in Mexico the Washington correspondents have been earning their pay by producing some sensational dispatches daily.
 It was fortunate for those oil res ervoirs down in Mexico, that Mrs. Pankhurst decided that that country did not need illumination at this time.
 From the length of the program at Washington, it looks as if the Con- gressmen would have to get up this winter at the unearth1y hour of 10 a. m.
 Owing to the high cost of moving lawns at the many scattered govern uent posts, an increase in the army appropriation of O,OOO,OOO is asked for.
 The French widow is faithful after death as shown by some interesting marriage and divorce statistics in -aris just published. Of 2, 525 widows only twenty-five married again and ~<ese after twenty years while of B. SO5 widowers SIS married again within a year. A student of these statistics is mean enough to hint that black is very becoming.-Waterbu American Famous Princeton football star is