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New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

naturally, the other women are all doing the same thing. No wonder we fined them congcnial compan3
 We are hearing good lectures, beau tlful music. breathing pure air. We stop our worrying, and feel like new creatures. We feel sure each year that the uplift will last long after we get home-but it doesn't. The house is dusty, the refrigerator is musty, our clothes are all mussy, the red ants have found the lard, and the black ants are in the jelly. And We slump! Our neighbOrs run in for d minute, and we start in telling mem how tired VIC are-and all apout the ants. We needn't resent It IT our neighbors tells us what love- " people live Tn the summer cottages where she goes for her outing TOT We turn right around and tell her the same kind of story. What a pity u IS that neighborhoods can't be transplanted to pleasant places all together for their summer outings just to see how lovely home folk can be when they relax and yet rested up a bit! It would be a good ume to get acquainted all over agaln, and really know the folk who i've near us Maybe we cant )e kno, and courteous and altogether charm1ng all the year round. May oe we put on trcse things with our vacation clothes, but my! Wouldnt t It De fine if we could hold out the rest of the year? It won't hurt us Io try it for, after all. when SICK ness and sorrow come to us, 1t the faithful home folk, the all-theyear- round neighborhoods, to whom we turn for help and comfort.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
A Slight on IrOntOn. O.
(Ohin State JOurnal.l

It is announced that Julia Marlowe Will retire from the stage. The loss of star will darken the drama very much. Here is an actress who hon. ~Snd the stage, who never made 1t play to the pit, but always to the intelligence and culture of the peo- pie. There are many editorials and dispatches announcing the retirment of Julia Marlowe, all of which refer to her residence in Ohio; but they all seem to omit reference to her residence at IrOnton. Even her more pretentious biographers omit that. They refer to her residence as Ports mouth and Cincinnati, but leave Iron- ton out. This is not treating Ironton right, for that city is entitled to some slight mcnion on the scroll of this great woman's fame.
 The writer remembers her we'll Her home was on the same street with his office, and only a block away and he saw her nearly every day playing in front of her fathers cob ping shop-a happy-hearted girl at tractive in face, form and motion in those early days. She went with her father and mother from Ironton to Portsmouth, and soon after to Cin- cinnati; and the next time we saw her was when she came to Ironton with a Pinafore company and played
 Little Buttercup." The performance vas given in old union hall, which was filled to greet the delightful girl Julla MarlOwe is her stage name; hef family name was BrOugh, as near as we can remember after 50 years nave gone by. But VIC do think that few women in the world are entitled to more praise than Fanny Brough.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

down Bridgeport is a gold field for the time being.
 If the goose that is laying the gol- den egg, is not killed off too soon Bridgeport will make record never before approached in the history or labor in this country. Her sister c'- ties throughout the state join in mop ing that the era of prosperity throu5n Il which she is now moving will not pass too soon from it's early dawn to ''io blackness of the night. Wha' Bridgeport must in some measure act through the entire state ol coii- necticut and we are for this srali" "i'' state, first last and all the 'inie
 fervent prayer then that tue "">0 of prosperity may roll hlgh all" 'o'7'
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

Hence the crowds that watch base ball and football and the crowds that play tennis and golf. s
 In one club in Bridgeport there are upward of 400 adult players Of golf and at least 200 tennis players. When all the other clubs and non- club members are added in, the total of golf and tennis players in this city will be brought to a figure exceeding the average attendance at pasepall games In Bridgeport in the palmlest days of the baseball craze.
 Here We submit is a condition that seriously damages the claim of base ball to De the national game. It IS natlonal entertainment-- the peo- DIG Watch 1t, but they do not play It. GolI ana tennis, on the other hand, are hatlonal pastimes; they are played not watched. In addition to a pleasure just as stimulating as the eHcl11neht of baseball, they furnish thelr adherents with priceless outdoor eHerclse, While baseball keeps it's ad- herentS sitting on a bench, watching others exercise
 Never before in the history of this nation did golf and tennis have the number of enthusiasts enrolled in the ranks today-and the number is steadily sWellingi especially IS the addition of golf links and tennis courts to the public park systems open the inviting possibilities of the games to those not having access to clubs or private grounds
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
Summer NeiGhbOrs More Likable
Indianapolis News.)

We were with them four weeks of every summer for 10 years those dear, delightful, kind. courteous folk, and how we did enjoy neighboring with such people! We found our selves wishing we could locate in a town where we could have such neigh bors all the time. They were so different from the neighbors in our home town-the all-the-year- round ncighbors, who have peculiar ities, and even some disa greeable ways. For the 10 years we had wondered why we cOuld't have such fine, interesting neighbors at home, and then, all of Q. sudden a though hit us right between the eyes-maybe we weren't good all-the-year- round neighbors ourselves. We had known our summer neighbors for four weeks out of each year, and, coming to count it up, it wasn't very long, com pared with the stay-at-home weeks of IS years with home neighbors
 Small wonder that we had found out all the faults and failings of the home town folks! We had known them so long and so intimately. Our summer neighbors like ourselves, al- ways relax from the trying, work-a- day part of life, and are on their best behavior. Almost anybody can be good for four weeks. While we are away from home we wear a freshly combed head of hair, a smile, and pretty clothes, even of mornings. At home we wear doubtful looking breakfast cap, a frown, and a cov- erall apron. Away from home we are bright, vivacious witty, always putting our best foot forward, and,
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
NOT A FANCY sHOVELER.

They were shoveling coal doWh a chute into the basement or oliuA Il stree+ establishment today and so ont ware their labors and so rigorous +be;r endeavors that the din and ,.c,zet of the sliding fuel could be ,o,rd ten city blocks away. Hot aS was the day people in nearby apart
 a,+ houses were forced to shut down their windows and close the doors to keep out the noise. 1t sounded like the batter of myriad brickbats on a tin roof. We became interested and walked over to where tne two handsome shovelers were pitching coal to their hearts delight.
 You are some shoveler," we re- marked to the man in command.
 Some shoveler is right" he came back in the vernacular, stopping for the moment to rest upon his trusty weapon.
 "What kind of a shoveler is your partner?" we continued, to get a line on the situation.
 "Oh,' replied the boss. "he is not what you would call a fancy shOveler; put he is a d-m good shoveler."
 And we second the motion.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
Dr. Cook Exploring Again.
(Torrington Register.)

Dr. Frederick A. Cook is reported to have passed through Manila lately on his way to India, with the intention of proceeding to the Himalayas and climbing Mt. Everest, the highest
 peak in the world. pr. Cook may be remembered as the man who climbed
 Cor didn't climb) Mount Mckinley, the apex of North America; also as the explorer who discovered Cor didn't discovery the North Pole. He wrote books about both exploits which are classified as exploration or TO- mancc, according to the way you look at them.
 It is only fair to say that in recent years Dr. Cook has succeeded in con- V:ncing a large number of Americans that he really did reach the Pole, and a still larger number that he sincerely believed he reached 1t, whether he did or not. The Mount Everest quest will reopen tho old controversy about inc climbing of Mount Mckinley, though it will probably never be set tied definitely. pr. Cook seems de- termned that no suspicion shall at tach to his latest enterprise As he outlined his plans long before leaving America, he intends to have with him witnesses whose word will be unuues- tionable. He looks to the climbing of Mount Everest to justify him before the world as a brave explorer and an honest man. He deliberately chose what he considers the hardest feat of exploration yet unaccomplished.
 The Duke of the Abruzzi, now ad- nciral of the Italian navy, ascended Mount Everest to the dizzy height of 25,O0O feet, but the peak towers a mile above that mark. It is doubtful whether any human being can scale its precipices and glacia walls or live in the rarefed air of its summit. If Dr. Cook makes the attempt, and never returns, he will have made amends for any deception he may have practised in the past
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
GOH and Tennis vS. Baseball
Bridgeport Telegram.)

A contemporary recently drew com Iarison between baseball as a snort and golf, tennis, and all other sports concluding that baseball is the na- tonal pastimc. While there can be 70 dissent from that conclusion in the vense that baseball is tho national pro- fess1onal pastimc, there can be a very decided difference of opinion regard ing the claims of the diamond in ther respects.
 The attendance Of 47.OOO at tbo opening of a new bali park in Boston was cited as evidence of the vitality of the game. Would golf draw such crowd, We are asked, or tennis No, but football would draw bip- ger crowd, and if crowds are the evidence, then football, not baseball is the national game; all the more so because it is amateur and not pro- fessiOnal
 But We do not go upon this reason lng-that attendance must decide the national game. We must bar out both baseball and football so far as the evidence of mere crowds is con- cerned. We submit that the national game more truly is not the game that the nation watches, but the game that the nation plays. Base ball and football are spectacular games meant to be watched. Golf and tennis are games that do not afford much of a spectacle, but to furnish real enjoyment must be played
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
Harry Castlemon"
(New Haven Register)

Tn Buffalo last Sunday there died a man whose pen name was familiar and is still familiar to millions of readers. Harry Castlcmon," author of Frank on the Mississippi" and a hundred other tales which delighted the leisure hours of boyhood for years. We venture to scy that there isn't a reader who can't remember "Houseboat Poys" and as for Rod ney the Partiscan was favor- it Christmas gift in the eighties
 And then The Sportsmans' Club" series-in which were contained all adventures boys of healthy mind had ever dreamed of and which were tee forcrunncrs of the Boy Scout" books of today The heroes of those tooks could be anything from making fire by rubbing two sticks together to tracking panther from the broken twigs on the bushes. After reading of the exploits Of the heroes many boy has started out to hunt Indians and buffalo in the woodlot, and tried in vain to kindle a fire with the two sticks Any Boy Scout can do that trick nowadays, but the method wasn't defined with eXactitude in the books of those daNs-suCh as The American Boys Handy Book" for in- stance, but that didn't deter any boy from trying.
 Harry Castlemon" gained the ma terial for his stories while travelling on the prairies after tho war so his information was first hand, and he knew whereof he wrote Since tho time the Frank books were pub- lishcd the styles in heroes and hero ines of boyish romancca has changed. No more do We have the moral tackled on so conspiCuously, or the sage ad- vice ladled out by the paragraDh but the boys of thirty years ago could skip all that and hustle through 10 the real meat of the story. An old friend of boyhood has gone. with Charles Austin Fosdick. Harry Castlemon."
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

says: During the last seven months Fair Play has in its editorials policy, treated all belligerents justly and thereby rendered great service to the millions of forcign-born citi- zens of this country, especially of German and Austro-H Hungarian or igin. Fair Play has fought for the rights of the latter and for truth, always maintaining an American at- titude and showing true American spirit" Perhaps the German ann bassador is a good judge of what constitutes true American spirit" And~perhaps he isn't. 1t will occur to most citizens, and certainly to most editors, that there isn't much American spirit" about any publi- cation that will accept money from any foreign government on the faco of the earth.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
BRIDGEPORT AND THE FUTURE.

Had the United States Commission on Industrial Relations lived long enough,-it died natural death last Monday,-and had the members of that Commission journeyed to Bridgeport in this state, and made a study of conditions there, they would have found a cause for social unrest far different from any they men, tion in the numerous reports being made public this week. And the main cause of the social unrest, if strikes can be labeled thus, paradoxical as : it may seem, is Prosperity. Not pow erty; prosperity. And a prosperity never before dreamed of by laboring men in this section of the country, nor by the men who hire and fire labor. And because of this great turn of affairs there is no peace in Bridgeport today; there is war; but it is a joyous war, a laughing, hilar- ious, promising war for the working men engaged in it. And it is liable
 
 eign orders stop coming in, when Eu- rope has recovered from it's madness. and when there are no more muni- tions of war demanded.
 And at the end of the source of all this prosperity what is going to hap pen? Is Bridgeport, seething, boil ing, flourishing Bridgeport, going to fall back into the rut of old, the toil- ing, plodding, struggling Bridgeport of few years ago? Or is Bridgeport going to reach out still further and become the greatest city in the state of Connecticut, the largest producer of metallic goods in New England the most active manufacturing center in the United States of America :? Those are questions that will auto matically answer themselves in the not far distant future, questions which Bridgeport must consider se- riously And the entire State of Con- 1 necticut is anxious that the prosperi- | ty of it's hustling sister city go on. The men, women, boys and girls who are parading through the streets of Bridgeport these joyous days and thrilling nights With exuberant spir- it's singing and shouting for better conditions, shorter hours and more pay, may be building up great city of the future; they may be tearing down the very foundations of a thriving town. For they can easily overshoot their mark, and the pros 1 perity that is theirs today may go l dwindling away over night and leave those who remain behind them with the oh oice of working on lower wages or getting out into pastures new.
 Or if there should be a great rush of labor to the scene of prosperity in Bridgeport there would be curtail- ment of the workers joy, for their hour of triumph was made possible l because of the law of supply and de- mand. There are not enough skilled laborers to go around in Bridgeport today. Those who are in possession | of such skill are welcomed in any shop in Bridgeport. As conse- ouence the laborers are playing the employers against each other, and the laborers are winning, hands
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
The Longest Straight Streets in tho
 World,
(Simeon Strunsky in Harpers Mag
 azine)

(Simeon Strunsky in Harper's Mag
 azine)
 In the world as known to Baede- ker there are only two streets that can compare with Fifth avenue, and these are both on Manhattan Island. From it's souce in the asphalt bot toms of Washington to where it loses itself in the coalmiddens of the liar lem river at 143rd street, the avenue runs course of almost exactly seven miles. 1t runs true to the North Star, without a turn, with only q single pause, grimly bent on it's bus mess in a way calculated to make the dOwager metropolises of Europe lift their eyebrows and say, How American!' If rivals are Eighth ave- nue, a half-mile to the west, which may be some nine hundred feet lonc CT; and, still farther west, Tenth, CT Amsterdam, avenue, the titan of all urban highways, nine miles up hill and down as determined in the prim eval blueprint shaped by the city fathers some time about the year 1900. All three streets have char acter as well as length, but Fifth avenue alone has significance.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
REQUEST

sweet, but to the point, |paragraph message from Government to the gov the United States. And hiled with much satisfac- |ple over whom the clouds been lowering since the
 on American lives. For, Rnee, the German com-
 means that Kaiser Will lot want an open breach buntry and that he will |g in his power to avoid
 y This is the first ray
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

l. Teen is a suffix denoting AND TEN: added to the numerals from three to nine to form those from thirteen to nineteen inclusive. Thus, fourteen means four and ten. ?. When used as a termination of numerals the suffix "ty'' means ten. The numeral itself designates how six times.
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New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
TEN, TWEN., THIRT.

To the Editor of the Hera ald:-
 Sir: Will you kindly publish the answers to the following questions:
 What is the meaning of the syllable "teen" on the numbers from thirteen to nineteen?
 What is the meaning of the syllable "ty" on such numbers as twenty and thirty, etc? R. $. New Britain, Aug. '23, 1915.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

Conditions in Haiti offer some solace to the politician and office seeker who is confronted with troubles in our own country. The man who was offered the presidency of Haiti the other day ran until he almost died from eX- haustion. Buffalo News.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
FACTS AND RANCHES.

An actress out west was married thirty minutes after receiving a pro- posal One time when the matrimony wagon ran faster than the divorce nlill.-Buffalo Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

Thirty-two thousand paid admis- sions at game in Boston: Detroit pays $15, 5,009 for the release of Pitcher James. What more is needed to show that baseball is losing its grip?- Philadelphia Ledger.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
WITH YOU WOODROW
 WILSON.

WILSON.
 Htting tribute from the Ehe nation to President t is paid in the resolution [esterday by the Governors |in Boston, expressing their to follow his lead in any may take regarding the crisis. These men but Eminent of the people they pVernors of the several alths of this nation &nder to you an expression fidence and support in this IF deep international con- 1.-the resolution, land to of their readiness to fol- adership in all matters may deem best to pro- |onor and maintain the welfare of the nation and ,eople.''
 words, the Governors say: ith You Woodrow Wilson," the popular sentiment of American in this hour S with the portents of ondent of the Washington gently sent by that paper canvass of western states, rpose of sounding the he political situation pre- the campaign of 1916. ktensive visit through all west of the Mississippi he with the predominant idea ines had been completely turing the present acute d that every man who mself a real American
 behind Woodrow Wilson. Democrats, Progressives Lionists. The only devia- is sentiment was found in nd Milwaukee, where a ts and ultra -pro-German were on the other side
 against the President. Fe not so many of these asst they are not as great As some are willing to be- ninating. these then it said that the vast
 the American people Woodrow Wilson. And bf the nation are will their case in his hands; pw he will deal honestly estion that may come
 He is a great man, a. easures up with any who 6 office. And best of all politician, in the sense we to know the term. He gh every move he makes ought of how it will act his chances for reelection. -ow Wilson has been e than any other president Ns of Lincoln and after
 such trouble and turmoil lon that have been his, it e surprising if he should
 aside the toga of public turn to the quiet and kate life. But then the ople may not want him to urse and, if they demand bn, Woodrow Wilson is ed and broad enough to
 personal desires for the 1T and good of the nation. of the reasons the name ilson has become such an
 among the people Of lay. His personal desires bns have never yet en- the welfare of the nation
 They never will. Some has made, to be sure. He
 But for the most part ilson can be trusted. with the nation and if left tc
 be we'll. That is why
 Are With You Woodrow
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

A mob is never able to conceal it's identity completely. If the governor of Georgia wants to find Leo Franks s murderers, he can do so without much trouble, we guess.-R ochester Herald.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

Villa rattles along about the "na- tional decorum" of Mexico in the same easy strain as Carranza in discussing the Sovereign people," There will be national decorum in Mexico when the people assert their sovereignty and chase out Villa, Carranza and all the other military chiefs. .''-Roches- ter Post Express.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

If Switzerland should poin in the war Europe might as we'll make it unanimous. The Alpine republic is said to feel strong resentment over all legged interference with Swiss trade by the Allies and so to contemplate talk ing sides with the Germans. But what neutral country is there which hasn't some just grievance against one side or the other ?-Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

The German propaganda in the United States has become a political conspiracy against the governm ent and people of the United States. Doc uments in possession of the World clearly prove that there is no oth CT word for it. When a foreign govern ment conducts on American soil q propaganda against the president Of the United States, against the admin istration against the congress, against American industry and American la Dor, against the national integrity it. self-a propaganda that jeopardizes American relations with other coun tries and might in certain eventuali- ties imperil the safety of the country the federal authorities can hardly remain ndifferent.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

Why should a graduate of the Ma val Academy write to Secretary Dan- iels recommending that the authori- ties encourage pugilistic meetings be- tween the cadets when honor must be satisfied? Do they neey any encour- agement, or any rules to be formulated by the superintendent necessary? The cadets at both West Point and Annapolis always resort to fisticuffs to settle those disputes that are not arbitrable. AS to the authori- ties, they look the other way.-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-25

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New Britain herald., 1915-08-25
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