New Britain herald., 1914-04-24
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Last weeks fire in a rooming house in New York city, which cost the lives of eleven persons is found to have started in pile of inflammable rub bish in the basement. How many Bridgeport cellars are there in which similar heaps of papers and other rubbish might easily cause a similar blaze.-Bridgeport Standard.
 One of New York's preachers re- gently advocated the opening of suf- frage headquarters in New York and other cities in the interests of mat rimony. Make matrimonial bureaus out of them, was the sub- substance of his proposition. ''The average woman doesn't want vote she wants husband," the preach CT said.-Waterbury Republican.
 A distinguished British physician is confident that most persons could live to be a century old, if they would sed- ulously observe eighteen rules, most of them simple ones, which he sets down. It would be more important to know what they are if the import ance of living a century were better established. Anyhow, it makes no diff ference. For the mischief that makes short lives is generally done before twenty-five, and it is only after that that the average person begins to care for long life.-New Haven Reg ister.
 The problem of getting out the votes on election day is one with which each and every community is bothered, is no secret. Rare is the city. town or borough which does not at each election lament the lack of interest which is revealed by the great number of stay at homes. Just how to overcome 1t is question which has not been successfully solved though many methods have been adopted for causing a recogni- tion of the fact that each and every elector should make the most of his privilege and that every vote counts.-Norwich Bulletin.
 Savin Rock has for a quarter of a century grown steadily in public favor as a place of healthful pleasure and recreation On pleasant Sundays many thousands who work in shops and are otherwise so employed that
  found health and pleasure at the Rock" It is now reported to have been determined that the Rock shall be closed tight on Sunday-that the flying horses shall not f1y-that there shall be no ball playing.-no moving pictures-no place for the common people to play.-New Haven T1mes-Leader.
 Some weird arithmetic is computed every spring by peope who are trying to convince themselves that they can afford a motor car. Many a man has excluded cost of storage and care from his estimates, on the theory that he tan do his own work on the machine. After he acquires the car, he con- cludes that he did not buy 1t merely for the pleasure of manipulating oil cans. The car runs down, and a. costly break results. Then he figures that he is saving money by having his machine carefully kept up at the garage. Thus he exceeds the original amount he felt he could afford to in- vest.-Bridgeport Farmer
 Granting that woman is fully the intellectual equal of man, for the sake of argument that she is being kept out of her rights in not being allowed to vote, that she would prove as we'll qualified as the male human to hold public office and that the real brains of the universe are centered in the equal suffrage movement, it may still be permitted to suggest that the pres ent crisis in the affairs of the nation might perhaps as we'll be left in the hands of the sex that so far has had a monopoly of the experience as well as the work of running things and which have to shed all the blood that is shed, be it much or little.-New London Day.