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New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Girls Have Runaway Germ.
Philadelphia Record.)

The old burlesque answer to the question "Why girls leave home' which was Because they cannot take it with them,' has been superseded by a more reasonable solution, that of blood pressure. Dr. Max Baff, former fellow in psychology in Clark college Worcester, after deep scientific investi- gation, declares that the runaway germ" is due to high blood pressure and 1t is much more prominent in womanhood.
 T have found," said Dr. Baff, that since Eve ate the apple there has been a growing instinct among the fair sex to run away. If conventions, fear of publicity and such things did not deter the women, they would roam more than the men. There is some thing in the blood of the female that makes her restless, and some girls can no more help running away than they can help getting married when the right man comes along''
 Dr. Baff also declares that many married women are just as prone to run away as are girls, but he adds that they feed the runaway germ which is in their blood by roaming around the stores for hours without buying or travelling about for suffrage or some other cause"
 Dr. Baff used a sphygmometer in his experiments, which covered two years, with members of both sexes of all ages as subjects.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

Washington, D. C., May 23.-Raven- ma, the scene of a recent lombard ment by Austrian aircraft is the sub- ject of today's war geography bulle- tin, issued by the National Geographic society from its Washington head quarters, which says:
 "Forty miles east of Bologna, seV enty miles south of Venice, and a hun dred miles southwest of the Austrian naval base at POla, lies the ancient Italian city of Ravenna, which, with the possible exception of Rome, pos sesses more magnificent examples of ecclesiastical architecture of the Byz- antine period than any other city in the world.
 "In art, in literature and in historic significance Ravenna is treasure trove for student and traveller. Its be- ginning is attributed to the Thessali- ans, but there is more tradition than fact in the accounts of the region over which it held sway until it came under the jurisdiction of Rome nearly 200 years before the Christian era. It was here that Julius Ceasar was accus- toned to come for his conferences with friends and political advisers from Rome during his ten years cam paign in Gau1.
 "The importance of the port which strongly resem bled Venice in it's early days, but which is now six miles from the Adriatic, dates from the time when Augustus Caesar designated it as the naval base of the upper sea- it's har- Dor being able to accommodate 250 ships at time. At that period the marshy plain which now surrounds the town at the confluence of the Montone and Romeo rivers, was little more than a vast silt bed. The houses were built on piles, and at high tide the sea formed numerous lagoons, the salt water so effectively removing the danger of malaria that the city soon acquired a reputation as a health re- sort, to which the gladiators of Rome were sent for training.
 "Ravenna's golden age came not with the Augustan era, however, but while the great Roman empires doom was being sealed. Honorius and his remarkable sister Galla Placidia, be- coming alarmed at the steady advance of the barbarian forces from the north, transferred their court from the Eter- nal city to the Adiatic port which re- mained the seat of government for Italy not only during the few remain
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Italian 11easuye-1Y0pe
 Ecclesiastical AYcHlfecfn7e

ing years of the western empire, but throughout the ascendancy of the Greek emperors. Here the Byzantin1 . viceroys or EXarchs for the peninsulas made their headquarters until the advent of the Lombards in the eightI-, century.
 Many of the most fascinating epi- sodes of history are associated with the name of Ravenna, such, for ex- ample, as the tragic story of Odoacer who wrested the realm of Italy from Orestes in 476 and then waged bitter war against Theodoric the Ostrogoth for many years, finally being shut up in RaVenna where he Withstood siege of three years. At length Odoac- CT capitulated with the understanding that he and Theodoric should divide the kingdom equally between them. To celebrate the compact O magnificent banquet was spread in a famous laurel grove, and here while the two rulers feasted the Ostrogoth with his own hand slew his royal rival.
 During the famous battle of Ra- venna in 1512 the picturesque Gaston de Folk completely routed the Span iards under Cardona, but threw away his own life in the excitement of vic- LOTys It was III IDlS Ddlll6 IldL kSt Captain Fabian, emulating the exploit of the legendary Swiss hero Winkel- reid, seeing that his men could not break through the wall of Spanish spears, raised his long pike high over his head and brought it down cross wise with crushing force upon the op- posing arms, thus sacrificing his own life but making small gap in the en- emy's line through which his own men rushed. =
 Two names which shine in the gar land of Ravenna's renown are those of Italy's greatest poet and one of the four great epic writers of civilization Dante, and Lord Byron. It was in Ravenna that the founder of the mod ern Italian language died in 1921, and here his body is treasured in an urn, beneath a square-domed tomb. Byrop during his Italian sojourn, lived in this city for two years, being attracted not merely by the famous Pineto (pinewoods) five miles to the south, but by the charms of the Countess Guiccoli. Nor should it be forgotten that in the adjacent marshes Anita, the heroic wife of the Italian llberator Garibaldi, died of fatigue during her flight from the French in 1849."
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

joker. which was inserted behind the closed doors of the Conference Com mittee is contained in one little para graph that provides for the appoint ment of Judge Advocates in the re- organized army, and which reads as
 follows: Provided further, That of
 the vacancies created in the Judge
 Advocates Department by this act,
 of Major, shall be filled by the ap-
 pointment of a person from civil life,
 not less than forty-f1ve nor more than
 fifty years of age, who shall have been for ten years a. Judge of the Supreme
 Court of the Philippine Islands, shall
 have served for two years as Captain in the regular or volunteer army, and shall be proficient in the Spanish lan- guage and laws"
 Admittedly this joker was inserted at the instance of Representative James Hay, Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, for the purpose of giving office to a friend of his, the only living human being who can come up to such qualifications as outlined in the bill. This man is Judge Adam c. Carson of the Su- preme Court of the Philippine Islands, who is now in this country on leave of absence and whose home is in Vir- ginia in the Congressional District of MT. Hay. The Judge fills the bill to the letter, having served as an officer in the Philippine army which took up the work left off by the regular army in the suppression of the Aguinaldo insurrection. He also speaks Spanish fuently. All of which goes to show how a little ''joker' can be fixed up to suit some particular whim of any Congressman who is on the 'inside'. It can be readily seen that there is great room for such an office as that in the aforegoing. Here is a good chance for some bright, in- dustrious American boy to win favor from an over "jokerized" country
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Daylight-Saving PlaI,s.
(New York Press. )

The adoption by several countries of the scheme for saving daylight through manipulation of the clock hands in spring and autumn illus trates how war necessities are bring ing social and political readjustm ents that under peace conditions would have been slow or impossible.
 For a generation there has been wide academic discussion of pushing the clock hands forward an hour in the spring and setting them back again in the autumn, so as to keep the working hours of the day within the daylight sector in winter and to bring the hours of both work and recreation into the longer daylight arc of the summer.
 It was urged that this would effect a large economy in fuel for making artificial light; would be better for people, through making them live more in natural and less under arti- ficial light; would increase efficiency. this there has been some very cogent reasoning as to the diff
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

would under similar circumstances
 The entire nation is wondering just what all this demonstration means for Colonel Roosevelt, when by every rule of politics the Colonel should hew to his own lines and leave the Republi- can party alone. And Dear old Bill Taft He has said nothing to date. But if he ever gets started, he could say a lot of things, things that might upset the entire arrangement of the ColonePs admirers who are trying to thrust the high priest of Americanism into the ring, hat, coat, vest and trousers, all in a heap. We feel sorry for Professor Bingham if his friend, Dear old Bill Taft" ever gives a lec- ture on the present political situation.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
TO SERGEANT CHICKEN
Who, in Describing a Battle With MeXiCanS Said: ''Him Damn
 Fine Fight

Who, In Describing Battle With
 Mexicans Said: ''tIim Damn
 Fine Fight Sergeant, greatly I'm distressed To have read some observations Stated to have been expressed By you while discussing rations, Of your fight the day before Him damn fine,' you said; no more Sergeant, I'm disposed to look
 With some verbal toleration At the liberties you took
 When you made your observation; Only, sergeant, "him" is wrong, And-well, "damn' is rather strong But I really can't forgive
 That, referring to a battle, You should use an adjective
 That the pacifists should rattle, 'F'ine,'' dear sergeant; Me, oh n.y. That you thus should qualify! And the crowning fault of all Is that you should fall to land
 things To arise and meet the call
 When the chance came to expand
 things! Four words, sergeant, merely four, Instead of several columns more! Maurice Morris in the New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
"DEAR OLD BILL TAFT"

It was our own Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, who told the Col
 onel yesterday while the Roosevelt Republican Committee was holding forth at Oyster Bay why the nation wanted T. R. back in the saddle. The professor in his chosen line of archae- ology has been wont to spend much time in the old countries of the world; but because of the manner in which Americans are despised and made the targets of humiliation he has abandoned his foreign explorations
 So, after reading the ColonePs speeches on Americanism the pro- lessor could see no other way out but to join forces with the celebrated citizen of Oyster Bay Now under stand. The professor is al ardent ad- miTer of William Howard Taft. whilom occupant of the White House and now dispenser of legal knowledge at the professors college in New Haven. Notwithstanding all this, Professor Bingham sidled up to the Colonel and told that gallant old war rior that William Howard Taft held no charms for him, that he had sur rendered, bag and baggage, to the Rooeveltians and he could no longer resist giving the Colonel his support. Taft" the Professor told the Colonel, q had to come out for you.' There. The whole show is over. The Pro- lessor is an alternate to the National Convention and carries much weight.
 It is presumed that by this time Professor Bingham has arrived back at Yale. His trip to Oyster Bay was made with the few men selected to convey to Colonel Roosevelt the official notice that the Republicans of thirty states had determined he should be the partys regular candidate, this over and above the fact that Justice Hughes ran away with him in the Oregon primaries just previous to this visit. So having fulfilled his part of the en- gagement, of announcing the gladsome news to the Colonel, Professor Bing- ham probably went back to teach his classes, giving up politics for the moment. And, by some fate, he might have chanced across his genial fellow professor, dear old Bill Taft" walk ing across the campus If so, what would be the thoughts likely to run through the mind of the archaeolo- gist? Were some psychologist near by and given a chance to study the sturdy little politician professors behavior, he might have something interesting to record in his notebook. Such thoughts might and then again they might not, run somewhat as follows: Why did I desert dear old Bill Taft?' Surely I must have something of the heroic in my makeup, to go all the way from New Haven to Oyster Bay in search of the leader of the Repub- lican party when the recognized leader of that party lives right here in the Elm City. I am afraid I made faux pas. Dear old Bill Taft" He is good-natured, and he may forgive me But what will he think of Colonel Roosevelt who has blazenly con- fscated the leadership of the Repub- lican party when no one knows whether the Colonel is Republican or Progressive, or what he ls' po- htically? Dear old Bill Taft, l trust ne will not feel this too deeply" And so the Professor will ramble on, if we get the psychology of it alright. And he will do no more than other men
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
IF THE BOYS WOULD.

Pw Britain is blessed by nature an abundance of trees and foli- In turn, there are great gather of birds in this vicinity, attracted by the wealth of home making Rrial. In the early morning hours
 ncessant chatter of many feather red throats gives evidence of the s |y families of birds. Yet there : hot as many song birds around as Is of these wonderful little beings 5d like to have. And so as we T on the threshold of a belated zner it may be we'll to contemplate manner or means of enticing singers to our midst. In Troy, York, the boys of the grammar bls have set about making bird les, cozy, little, attractive apart Is for the birds. And these are sd in the trees where families of might move in and have rent The result is already manifest.
 Singers of many tribes have ar
 are making their places of |e, prepared to spend the summer.
 same thing can be done in New
 in if the boys only get around
 Each boy, instead of spending
 afternoon in the futile pursuit &asing cats or bounding dogs,
 beset himself to the task of pre-
 B a neat little bird house, to be i in some convenient tree near &me, and thus serve an invita- Ho the birds to come and be his
 bors. We offer this suggestion
 hat it is worth. The parents of | 2who are inclined to run the |
 might get their offspring inter- l Fin the project by furnishing the Er, the nails, the tools and the
 necessary to carry on such work
 long run the city would be the #, the boys would be better off -aving devoted their time and K to humane pastime, and Judge [
 Ps duties in the juvenile court | N be considerably lessened.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Curious COndenSations. Pittsburgh Dispatch.)

The first steel pens were sold for about ten cents each.
 One-fourth of the worlds lead sup ply is from Great Britain.
 The geographical origin of wheat is mystery, lost in the dim past.
 The largest meteorite known to have fallen to earth weighed 437 pounds.
 The Czar of Russia has an income of $50 a minute.
 The annual increase for telegraph and telephone business is more than 10000 tons of copper.
 Hamburg has an experimental plant that obtains power from the ebb and flow of North Sea tides.
 The total product of the farms of the United States has amounted to more than that of all the gold mines in the world during the last six centuries.
 Ireland has S4,869 land holders having plants not exceeding an acre, 61,73O who hold more than one acre and not more than five acres; 153,- 299 under fifteen and 136,05S not ex- ceeding thirty.
 The college of mines at the univer sity of Washington is to cooperate with the department of chemical en- gineering to determine the efficiency of wood tar and oils in Notation work. The experiments will correlate the work of the chemists in the investiga- ton of wood products and the miners in the use of the Notation process.
 An ingenious substitute for a photograph needle was discovered re- gently by some sailors in the United States Naval station at Guantanamo bay, Cuba, says contributor to Pop ular Mechanics. A group of the sea- men had ordered a talking machine from the United States. When it arrived they found that while num- Der of records had been sent the needles had been overlooked. They were bemoaning their plight when a sailor climbed on deck carrying number of electric light bulbs. Out of curiosity he started the phono- graph and pressed the tip of one of the bulbs against the record. The sound of a popular song rang out clearly The machine was operated for days in this way.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
To Pronounce Mexican Names.

(From an EXchange.) Villa-VEE-yah , Zacatecas-Zac-ah Yeas. Tamaulipas-Tayh ayh-mo-LEE-pas Queretaro-Kay-R RET -a-roh. Jalisco-Hah-LEES- Guanajuato- Gwah- h-nah- -HWAH-to Q Oaxaca-Wah-H -HAH-kah. Texicoco-Tes-CO-co Tampico-Tam-P -PEE-co. Hildalgo-Ee-DAH San Luis Potosi-Sahn-Loo- FEES  Coahuila-Co-a-WE Aguasalientes - All H-gwas- -cah-leh- EN-tess. Guerrero-Gher-RA TIaxcala-Tlas-KAH -lah. Tuxpam-TOOS-pam Chihuahua-Chee-W -WAH-wha Tehuantepec- Tay-WAIIN- N-tay-pcc.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
PIPING IN THE "JOKERS".

Ey male resident of the United who has reached the voting bs at some time or other in his looked around for a soft berth employ of the federal govern This is a natural outcome of |articular form of government. |H these persons get discouraged l r search for a particular posi- ld eventually take up some form Ifu1 work. There is one posi- however, not yet created by fss but which should be given a Ipn the list, and, if this is ever ! 1t should be the ambition of patriotic American boy to make 5ation for securing this "job". 1 }osition, for want of better we will call "The Office of Con- nal Searcher for Jokers in Leg e Bills. Lest there be some S people who are not wholly fa- with the term joker" as a gn the Congressional lexicon, we a to explain. A joker is some which on the surface appears to A thing and when subjected to Ny is found to be quite another aOr, joker is a fake; a disguise; 4uerade. It is a wolf in lambs |Ag. It is just the opposite of @ appears to be. Thus it is seen |a joker in legislative bill or Zion is something which it's
 E are not particularly anxious Re brought to light; but which Erefully steer past any publicity, Hereby fool a busy public. We Suggest, in view of the numer- E1ers sent through past Con- that "The Office of Con- hal Searcher for Jokers in Leg Bills be hereby established, @at a competent man, with a & corps of assistants under him, Fed in Washington to ferret out e legislative monstrosities.
 oer to give an example of the Pkers are slipped into Con- slal resolutions, we take the Army Reorganization Bill
 has just come tbro,,ab tho
 oI the Joint Conference Com
 of the Senate and the uo,,.a Ire two jokers already found in # Il; but too late to kill rr
 & e has something to do With or < a Congressional investiga+io,.
 e awards of medals of honor
 t attempt to discredit the war # of Major Gen. Leonard Wood # medal received for work done #nection with the pursuit of Emo. We pass that by, how End get to the real joker, which
 lr the more interesting. This
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
. Fashions Set by Soldiers.
(The Baltimore Sum-

Alexander the Great is said to be responsible for men shaving their ia ces When his phalanx swept into Asia the boards of his soldiers were found to be a source of danger to themselves. In hand-to-hand en- counters with the enemy the latter were found to possess too great an advantage in being able to grasp the beard. As a matter of military neces- sity Alexander ordered all his fight irg men to shave. Today in the trenches of Europe soldiers are per- mitting their boards to grow as a pro- lection against cold-again a neces- sity of war-and doubtless the wear ing of boards will be very generally revived in consequence.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
WHEN MIR. BRANDEIS SINS.
Guilty of Conduct UnbecOming Lawyer in Refusing Fees.
 (Spring ngfield Repu ublican.O

Mrs. Florence Kelley, one of the most respected social workers in America, well known as the founder of the consumers league, makes a contribution of interest to the Bran Ge1s case in a letter to the Survey, from which the following is ex- tracted:
 Joseph H. Choate was invited in 1907 by the attornev-general of Oregon to join in defending the Oregon ten-hour law for women in a case then pending before the su-
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Why Not Taft2
Milwaukee Leader.)

If the republican party is looking for a jurist for president, why doesn't it turn to Taft instead of Hughes? Taft has been tried. Everyone knows where he stands and there is no mys- tery as to where he is likely to stand on any given question.
 It is true that Taft fell by the wayside four years ago, but that was when Roosevelt was popular. Now it is doubtful if Roosevelt could carry enough voters with him as a pro- gressive candidate to affect in any ma terial degree the fortunes of the re- publican candidate.
 Alongside of Justice Hughes, Judge Taft is a whirlwind. AS a candidate he has run with Hughes and outdis- tanced him. In 1908 Tafts plurality in New York was 202,602 and Hughes 69,462.
 Is the republican party headed for the doldrums?
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
Dear Featrix Barefacts.

l am eighteen years old next week and for two years have been keeping company with George Brown. He seems to be very nice. Last night he kissed me and asked me to become Mrs. Brown. What is your advice? =.
 Josephine Pogliatchinerenslen.
 By all means, change your name.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

It must be remembered that "Pitch- fork Ben" Tillman has been for some of the Senate Naval Committee, so when he defines "an adequate navy there is reason to write the definition in the book of books
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

The policy of American prepared ness as formulated by MT. Root is for patriotic Americans of all parties, and no party has the monopoly of it. Who has stated the broad doctrine of preparedness better than it was stated on February IS, 1916, by Elihu Root? Certainly not Theodore Roosevelt.- New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

The battle for Dead Mans Hill rages with great violence. When it is all over the name must be changed to the plural.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

The necessity is moro for trained men in an army than for the numer- ical strength of an army.-Syracuse Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Can it be possible that Texas is en- vious of Georgia's unsavory lynching record ?-Rochester Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

It appears that a number of our battleships are not in a state of re- pairedn dness.-BrOOklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

bred at the Post Office at New Britain
 las Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

ed daily Sunday excepted) at 4:15 D. m.. at Herald Building, ST Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

Billy Sunday is to begin his cam paign in New York city on January 1 and a committee appointed by the mayor is looking up a site for tab ernacle to seat 10000 persons. Some New Workers who remember the Elijah" Dowie fiasco of a few years ago may still believe that Rev. Dr. Billy will meet his match. If so, they are likely to be disappointed Billy is resistible.-Springf1el Republi- can.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

We have in this country quite a lot who say it is not worth defending, but not one of them ever moy es to any other country-Buffalo Enouirer