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The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
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Few women can serve style and
comfort at the same time.
Love IL blind---otherwise few leap
year girls would propose.
Men who dodge bill collectors
seldom develop into tar dodgers.
Most druggists can furnish a sub.
stitute on something just ~ good
Sometimes II IL q mans coward
Ice that keeps him from getting in
bad.
II is n hopeless case when q girl
begins TO eat onions three times q
day.
/. Ever stop to think OF the amount
OF time, yaq Tss.e. IN i,siksos .is,h,
W y s--f-a -; e ~ ,I.s ).
:. = = ~ rr-S' 81 s,e.sS..
Ask any nl.n 10 desrrtbe Ms iaeai
and it's doughnuts TO Nudge that Ne
will paint q word picture, Of him
self.
A widow usually marries again
just to satisfy herself that No. 2
will prove as unsatisfactory as No.
I did.
When man isn't capable OF
earning living the only thing left
for him to do Is get q political job
or break into Jail.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
BLAINE's REWARD.

When James @. Blaine was young lawyer he
was once asked TO defend a tramp accused OF
stealing watch. Convinced OF the tramp's in
nocence. Mr.. Blaine pleaded with such conyin.
cling energy and eloquence that the court was in
tears: even the tramp wept and the jury almost
Immediately returned the verdict Not guilty"
Then the tramp drew himself up and. with
intense) gratitude, said.
"Sir never hestd so grand plea have
no money With which to reward you but
drawing package from his ragged clothes
here's that watch. Take n. and welcome"
ladies Home Journal
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Boosting is bad form. Moreover,
IL 10 q confession Of weakness.
1nis ~ o point many people over
hook. When they meet . bragsins.
bosstfui man. they aSs ~ 10 put
him down - eonceisea, and there
fore 10 lessen their esteem for him.
IN this they are justified. But II
also n tmportaps 20 recognize that
boasting Is mors than o mere
symptom Of cpnceit.
That bitter old philosopher Of
pessimtsm, Arthur Scbopsnhsuer
usually saw life through Q darkened
glass. Some things however. he
saw With exceeding cisArress. What
he said many years ago about boast
ing win bear repetition today;
ITO AFFECT . quality, and to plume
yourself upon II, Is inst 80 confess
that you have not got n.
Whether II is courage, OF learn
ing. or intellect. or wit, OF success
with women. or riches, or social
position. or whatever else IL may
be that q man boast OF, you, may
conclude by his boastins about 1t
that that Is precisely the direction
In which be is rather weak.
For II . man really possesses
any faculty TO the full. II viii not
occur TO him 10 make a great show
of affecting H. He is quite content
to know that he has u.
That Is the application Of the
Spanish proverbs cisttcriSs boot
means a nail gone
Bearing THE in mind ~ Il ayplses
TO other people. n 10 prudent 10
her, 4 in mind 90 n applies 10 our.
selves,
To aid IN that selskp0v1edSe 10
indispensable 20 success IN life, vt
us ASK ourselves n there IL aay.
thing abcut which We are incifned
10 be boasfful
Assuming that there h. Iet us
probe q little deeper and ask Our
selves why Ne boast about that
particular thing
Always We shan And that our
Boosting 10 rooted in subconscious
reeCGnificn that the accemplish-
meuf q which We boast n Of IN In
Sericr sort: thst II either n not .
real accomplishment st III, or II
less creditsbis than we wish to have
II seem
Sometimes. also. We shall nnd
that We boast about II simply be-
cause Il II the one thing we have
done in which we can feel any de
gree Of pride.
Our boastfulness. that IL to say,
under any and all circumstance
represents an attempt TO deceive
others into sppraisins us too high.
Also II represents an attempt to
deceive ourselves into thinking that
VIC are bigger men than we actual
ly are.
No man OF real achievement IL n
braggart.
II. then, we md ourselves In any
respect belonging to the boastful
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
The Wink.
All the laws OF physiology and

All the laws Of physiology and
psychology manifest themselves In
the fraction Of . moment II takes
to wink the eye. A fortune has
been saved ~ enc man catching the
furtive wink OF another al a critical
moment. and q girl has lost or made
a home for life with II.
The wink is all things TO all men.
II may be honest or dishonest:
leading or misleading; comic or
tragic: ardent or insoient. and Il
can take the place Of suggestive
smile or frown IN q fraction OF the
time. The wink 10 often used az q
danger signal. II puts Q stop to
needless garnility. In the eloquent
eye II may denote kindness. Elk
altation, ssotism, vanity. pride and
delight are al expressed In that
curious closing or snappin; Of the
Tide.
OF such importance u tho wink
that II might almost be regarded
~ . part Of . person's armor with
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
Ship In Sea Of Pumice

A steamship which recently made
the port OF San Francisco. reports
having sailed In a sea OF pumice.
near Sydney. New South Wales.
about January 8. Apparently the
material had been cast up by a sub
marine volcanic outbreak. and
chunks ranging in size from that
OF marble to q plug hat were
thrown on deck by the waves. The
vessel was several hours In passing
through the affected region.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
AIRCRAFT AND DISTANCE.

=. w. Manchester. an English aeronauticaI ex-
pert. says: ANY machine built expressly for
long distance raiding will be essentially reIa-
lively slow machine. since speed means engine
weight; II must he, comparatively speaking. q
relatively poor climber for the same reason.
Again. n can not afford TO carry shield or armor.
gun armament
All these facts mean that, as the distance TO
be raided becomes greater. defense will become
more and more easy and point TO the conclu-
sion that In actual warfare the maximum dist
snce that can be effectively rsided by aeroplane
will be Tar less than the theoretical maximum"
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
A Poem a Day

DADY.
Where sis you come from. baby
Out OF the everywhere into the here.
wAsr, s,s s:s you get those eyes so
Out Of the sky as came through.
What makes the light In them
Some OF the starry spikes left In.
Whore did you get that little tear,
found II waiting when Got here.
what make: your forehead so smooth
A soft hand stroked II ~ went by.
what makes your cheek like . warm
saw sOmsthins bstter than any one
wh.nSss, , that 'Ar''-sornsrsa smile Of
Three angels gave me at once klss.
Sgs 4: . .ss ss' s:.,y s.:
where s. S,S you set those Arms and
Love S %ss: itself into bonds ana
Feet where did you come you darling
thingst
From the same box ~ the chsrubs'
wings
How did they all just come 10 be
yous
God thousht about me. ana 10 I
grew.
But how did you come to us. you
deAry
God thought about you. and 10 i am
here.
George Macdonald tisfs-isoO.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

type. there are two things we ought
to -
The first. and iess important. Is
to begin ar once to overcome the
bad and foolish habit OF Boosting.
The second. and more urgent. Is
TO increase our exertions to accom-
piish things that will make Boosting
no longer either desirable or neces-
sary TO ~.
II we do not thus bestir ourselves.
IL we fail to profit from knowledge
OF the real significance OF boasting.
then we shall remain boastful TO
the end OF our days, and shall Ike
wise remain inferior men.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Water is made Of two kinds OF gas.
one called hydrogen and one called
oxygen. II water could be magniied
until it's parts appeared as large as
grains OF sand. We could see how the
atoms of hydrogen and oxygen hitch
themselves together. For reasons
which no man can find out. two
atoms Of hydrogen will unite with
one atom OF oxygen. Together they
make q molecuie OF water. Molecule
means little mass. II takes millions
Of these molecules to make one drop
OF water.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Eugene Lyman Fisk in the American
Journal Of Public Health.
Air.
Ventilate every room you occupy.
Wear light, loose and porous
clothes.
Sleep out II you can.
Breathe deeply.
Food.
Avoid overeating and overweight.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

To the Editor OF The rimes--Is
water a simple and undivided liquid,
Or 10 IL made OF many dinerent
thinEsg I never went TO school and
I've always done a lot OF thinking
but l do not know how To ind out
what water r. made OF
OLD MAN
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
: oRlAL PACE

But war Is a terrible THING.
Great Britain will not feel called upon
to sanction the shipment Of the milk be-
cause when country is AT WAR it must
count life LIFE.
Besides the trenches are filled with
babies. only they are grown up ones.
War-a terrible war of determination
must take account that the babies OF
today will be the soldiers of tomorrow,
and that the time of the killing must not
have consideration.
That's hard reckoning, but it's WAR.
No soldier on the side of the Allies
has anything against any German sol
dier's baby
The fact is, he has nothing against any
German soldier. either.
But he realizes that what is expected
of him is to kill every German soldier
that he sees.
And in their counsels, the big and wise
men on the side of the Allies viii realize
that it is waste to kill or the field and
spare at home.
Great Britain's reply to us. should we
intercede in behalf of German babies, is
very likely to be that the time for a
thought of German babies and milk for
them, and the saving Of them. was be
fore the neutrality of Belgium was vio-
lated.
Germany's reply to US would be, very
likely, should we intercede in behalf Of
babies on the side of the Allies, that Ger
many is fighting for its own life and not
for the lives of Allies
| Having had kicks from both sides since
the war started, The Times is convinced
that it has established its neutrality.
What we are going to say with regard
IA .six .Rattsr of milk for babies VIII bf
...,s -. .ntAtiy, 4 sn;a- -.
a newspaper that has gone to many pains
to keep neutral
Surely we have nothing against Ger
man babies. Or Hungarian babies, or
Polish babies, or English. OF French or
Russian babiex
We me for every baby, everywhere.
We me for every mother. evsrywhere-
We me for every soldier IN the war,
but being Tor these soldiers does not
mem that they win be spared the part Of
|sGldla1.
Being fw mothers does not mean that
those who hsys sons in the war and
babies II their az1ns viii b spared the
part a. n,0then-.
Being for wxS babies does mot mean
fhst ~ en- ssve them from the part Of
war bahieA
II Is the DUTY of these war babies to
die.
II they are German babies. Il IL their
duty to Germany. to die. the same a. it
would be their duty to Great Britain If
they were British babies
Germany, Hungary and Poland have
enlisted the babies, to die-to famish,
choke and die for Germany. Hungary
and Poland
This is WAR
And that is the part of the babies in
war.
That is the part Of the babies in the
countries that were drunk on militarism
and which are having such an awful time
SOLDERING up.
That is the part OF babies in countries
that PREPARE for WAR.
That is their service to the rulers Of
their countries.
That is their service to jingoes who
support preparedness.
That is the part Of the babies Of moth
ers when fathers are at war;
Poor, gallant little milk-hungry SOB
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
From Another Point Of VieU
By c. T. S.

The man who takes Villa will be her
aided hero. But our idea of hero is
the man who took his picture.
Dear Old Erin,
Distant isle,
Yet near
In hearts the while.
Gallant roldiers
IN tho fray,
Fight fGr England
patFiciss day.
Liyca go offer.
Hearts 10 bleed
Prom tho island
Never freed.
Nov he reaSon
We can write.
England needed
Them to light.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

two words''1ive
naturally" the
following are a.
most IN aturaI
rules" as nearly
natural a. can be
given In this un-
natural age. They
are offered by DR..
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
ENTIRELY TOO MANY.

Too many congressman seem TO think thai
pork barrels furnish adequate means OF fortIfi.
cation.--Chicago News
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

The revolution gees ON in Mexico de-
spite the fact it is st. Patrick's day. The
only freshman Mexico claims as a patron
saint is that fellow Con Carne.
George Drumm and Edmund Drumm
are charged with jumping hotel bill in
Ohio. Couple of beats.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
The Keep Well Column
HEALTH RULES.

The rules of health are very sim
pie They can Be summed up ia
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Charles r. Brush invented the arc
light.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

PotooNo.
Keep the body free of waste mat
ter.
Do. not allow pofsons and infec.
tons to enter the body.
Keep tho teeth, gums and tongue
clean
Battle frequently and regularly.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Eat sparinsiy Of meat and eggs.
Eat some hard. some bulky, some
raw foods.
Eat SLOWLY.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

-. win education and with
ID e Nn2e1 = Vigorous and Cost
- lEe p = country at peace
we cnUGvntiCn a babies TO give
S go = eqnz1 chance for fife and
1 - lnrpiness II the years be-
e an1e hzs beea .trne Of the cpun-
S p 49, M the countries where
@ ~ thsgasnds Of babies face
- ~ Ink Of nourishment.
6ns hEre ne better of, however,
~ o Ink It lesst) for the very
- lhat ~ BOAST NEITHER THE
7H5THRMYUFTHEWURLDNOR
ItsGEST NAVY OF THE
U - hetter a here flor the
- lnt) because our aim has
~ ~ yere, uiiile The countries now
h1ye been PREPARING for
u - having come, they are re-
Id tliat with an their PREPARING
bpdIding dreadnsnghts most to
fels while building guns to shoot
& md to snuff out the most lives
t< md TO work the greatest de-
wherever the shells hit; while
W 1ctpplanes and dirigibles to drop
- and while inventing dew
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17

Infancy and childhood 10 the time
TO lay good foundation for adult
health.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
:, neaA >s xfJOMc
~ 49, 80. = A. ~ .~sAAY ~ -

H.. ApoNoToN BRUCE
The Detroit times., 1916-03-17
Activity.

Activity.
Work, play. rest and sleep In mod
GRAFTON.
Stand. ST and walk erect.
Keep contented.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15
RHEUMATISM
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15
FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS
Want S432 a Day

Plumbers of Norwalk have served demands for an increase in wages amounting to 50 cents day and ef- fective June 1. The likelihood is that the plumbers will receive the in crease The plumbers received an increase in June, 1914, and their present rate of pay is $3.82 a day The new rate will be $4.32. This IS with the provision of time half for overtime and double time for Sun- days and holidays.
 Stalled by Snow
 The drifts on the outlying roads of the town made it impossible for the R. F. D. carriers leaving Bethel to cover their routes entirely, Friday On route "A the carrier was unable to cover any part, on 24 1-2 only the west side of the route was covered and on 25 a small section only was coV- cred.
 Due to Electricity
 John Mansfield, 35 years old, single, of Shelton, did not die of natural causes in the factory of the B1umen- thai company. Shelton, as reported after he fell dead to the factory floor, but he was electrocuted by l96 volts of electricity that entered his body through the forefinger of his right hand Coroner Pnelan finds that 196 volts of electricity, one-third of the voltage considered by scientists necessary to prove fatal to a man in normal health, caused Mansfield's death. This is said to be the lowest voltage known to cause electrocuton. In Stamford about a year ago, BIO volts caused the death of a man. It is inferred that Mansfield may have been in poor physical condition. He weighed two hundred pounds. Mans field was working as a steamfitter's helper at the time OF h1s death. He was holding a portable electric lamp in his hand, that was to be lighted to, throw light under heating tanks. Mansfie1d's boss was about seventy five feet away. He turned on the cleo tricity. Mansfield dropped to the floor dead, the moment the electricity had been turned on. Coroner Phe- 1an's investigation brought out the fact that the bulb did not fit tightly into the socket. There was space be- tween the bulb and the pocket of the holder Into this crevice Mansfield's forefinger slipped and he was cleo trocuted. The primary current was 23O volts, Coroner Phelan 1earned,l but the voltage was distributed among lights so that there were exactly 196 volts in the lamp that Mansfield held.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15
PROLOGUE.

T got my copy in the hos- pitals and camps of France and England '' says Adele Bleneau (Mrs. Walter Horton Schoellkopf of Buffalo). the author of "Ihe Nurses Story. In the relation of delightful romance there are introduced thrilling incidents of the great war in Europe. It Is plain, that the author has been on the battlefield, right close to the firing line.
 She started for Europe at the outbreak of hostilities. After telling of the rush of soldiers from England and France she grips the reader with her intimacy of the con- ditions as they exist Tn the great European conaagration.
 Her descriptions of the6 field hospitals. of the wounded sol- diers of the different warning countries as they are brought in. of exciting motor rides from one battlefield to another, all go to hold the interest throughout The author had influential friends in the armies abroad who helped her gather the material for her story,
 IS no exaggeration to state that no novel of the war yet written gives better idea of actual conditions at the front than .The Nurses Story
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15

tngly never tired of hearing my 'tCa- jun" stories, as the peasant tales of Louisiana are called, and laughed at my little anecdotes of how Jean Bap- tiste would say: ''Voisin, you see my SOW, push him home slow for me. yes 5
 On other days we read French or German. He found constant amuse- ment in my south German accent, for that was the kind mademoiseue had taught me.
 Dr. Curtis wife and family were not until his convalescence notified of his operation. But a sister-a gaunt, se- were looking but kindly woman-had come a few days after his illness. However, we had seen very little of her, as she had taken on herself the task of hurriedly converting the blacks to higher state of civilization
 Dr. Curtis had not been curious as to who or what we were, but his sister was the type that knows the geneal- ogy Of all the people in her particular circle and soon evinced a desire to add to her knowledge the history of the whole country round about, beginning, of course, with ourselves. She had asked often rather yelled questions as to how we, especially father, happened to be living in such an out of the way place. Evidently not being satisfied with the replies, she said quite frankly to him one day:
 H'Dr. Bleneau, how is it that find a man of your superior attainments buried alive in place like this ?''
 Father hesitated a moment and then, suddenly remembering an urgent en- gagement, smilingly excused himself, saying that madenoiseIle, who had been not only his governess and mine, but was a distant relative as well, would gladly tell her the family his tory. MademoiseIle, like many older persons, lived largely in the past and was delighted to relive 1t all again. I had never heard her begin, as it were, from the beginning, so settled myself to listen with almost as great eager ness as did Miss Curtis. Mademoiselle began:
 "Dr. BIeneau's father was an officer in the army of Napoleon III. He en- tered the service against the wishes of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-15

his entire family, who were the stanch- est of royalists. By way of explana- ton and to give it circulation, his other told her dearest friend, in con- fdence, of course, that the w1les and smiles of a woman were the cause of his tdisloyaIty'
 ''The woman was one of the lovely laidtes in waiting of the thrice lovely Empress Eugenie herself, and for her the young officer sacrificed family, po- sition and friends. He fought bril- liantly on many fields and received due honor and promotion, but when the war was over and the emperor's cause lost he found himself with little else than the devotion of the woman for whom he had sacrificed so much. But he always felt this devotion ann pie reward, and well he might she unused, considering the happiness of their after lives. They were married at Onca, and he took up with charac- teristic energy the study of medicine at L'Ecole de Medicine, in Paris. His family, refusing to be reconciled to his marriage, led them to come to Louisi- ana. The young wife had brought him an unusually large dot for those days, a0Os dS CAcy OOLA AOfSO LAS CO0AxIIJp H came about that they bought this plan tat1on.
 "Ths young people were happy here but not even their absorbing affection could entirely safeguard their paradise from sorrow, for their first two chi1- dren died soon after birth, and when g third was expected our Dr. Bleneau's father, whether from sentiment or a superstitious dread of third loss, de termined that the next child should be born at home. for France to them was still home.
 'It was there, in the Tonne district that their son was born. A year later we came back to Louisiana, When the boy was old enough fer school he was sent to France, where he proved