New Britain herald., 1916-06-10

clothing store in Troy, N. Y, Arthur Baker, who is a travelling salesman for a necktie concern, tells us he saw this sign: '"These pants wil look better on your legs than on our hands,
 We had asked Catherine Finnegan the famous soprano to speak for us at our reunion. Here is her answer:- Dear Friends:--I should love to come to the reunion and meet all our classmates again, but please don't ask me to speak. I had much rather sing my latest song hit, John, can l re- (Kiniry) fuse you?''
 Our class beauty, Gladys Thomas, has become a second Gaby Deslys. We expect soon to hear that she has married title. However, she prom ised to attend the reunion. Our lawyers, Ginsburg and Pihl, have attained great fame. Pihl writes that one day after a case, he ana Ginsburg, who happened to be the other lawyer, were discussing the mer- it's of their respective towns. Why" said Ginsburg, "our fire department is so good that the other day when it was called out it went so fast, it couldn't stop till it was mile beyond the place." That" responded Pihl, lis nothing compared with ours. The OluSE Qdy d SIeeplGJdCh, WOEhlilS On q steeple slipped and would have fallen to a horrible death, had not someone called the fire department which came in time to spread a blanket and catch him." All we can say is, Some liars" 1 Ali Olson is now owner of a chain of l drug stores. One day he was asked 1 by a friend Have you ever made a serious mistake while putting up pre- 1 scriptions?" "Only once," said Olson. 'I charged a man thirty cents instead 1 of $1.5O." Gladys Stevens and Edith Smith 1 have recently returned from trip to , Japan and are now giving lectures up- l on The Life and Customs of the Ja- ! panese." Gladys lectures and Edith ] illustrates them in costume, dancing 1 and singing.
 When I received your letter I l packed my bag and started for the 7, first train.' (This is from Fat i Brackett.) Just as 1 arrived at the station the train was pulling out. I
 pursued it and after running quite
 distance I quit and came back. On
 returning a porter stepped up to me
 and inquired, Miss your train, sir"
 NO, my friend" I replied earnestly, 1 T was just chasing it out of the yards. You oughtn't to allow it around here. Don't you see the tracks | it left?"
 Helen Liegey has become a moving picture actress and makes a great hit, 1 especially in western pictures. Tom 1 Hawksworth is a director in the same
 studio. In the Host Paradise" he
 was called a spark from the factory
 furnace," and is still sparkling"
 During the year 1925 Lucy Moore helped take the census. While in l Kensington she came to the house of ! Lima Krah, who was rather reticent
 in telling how young she was Have
 you found the ages of the Misses ! Hilles, who live next door?" she
 asked. "Why, yes" said Lucy. Well,
 I am as old as they are" replied Lima.
 So Lucy wrote in her book "As old as
 the Hilles.''
 Ellen Berquist and Marion Camp bell own a music store. Ellen demon-
 strates the classical, while Marion 1 tends to the ragtime music.
 Eva Cook writes, Be sure to have
 the fellows there" That's just like
 her. You know not long ago, she went
 sailing with a young man, and after a time the wind died down. The young man said, Whistle for wind" | But Eva replied archly, oh, no, there's
 no telling what you would do when I 1 have my lips all puckered up." "I
 won't do anything he promised.
 "Oh, then I won't whistle" replied
 Eva.
 "We are in Idaho campaigning for
 woman suffrage" writes Esther Ap-
 pell and Gertrude Schectman. We
 wish them luck.
 Our assistant manager of the
 Senior show Margaret Cowlishaw, is now writing plays. The reporters are
 continually bothering her, so the other
 day when asked about her new play l she told them, "Yes, the play is to have four acts and three intermissions. I have just completed the intermis- 1 sions."
 Among the successful fruit growers of Florida are Mabel Vergason and Margaret Burns. They used part of their names for a trade mark. sun burns"
 Another man to be prominent in business is sam" Johnson. Here is a story he tells on himself. A short time ago he telephoned to his wife and said, T shan't be home to dinner to- night. I am detained by business" Very we'll" replied his wife, T SUD- pose business is business but will you tell me something?" Why, certainly, my dear" said Johnson What is it?" How can you concentrate your mind on business with the orchestra play ing Gems from High Jinks." said his wife.
 Moral for tired" business mem Be careful and shut the door of the telephone booth when detained on business"
 a Flora Hyneck writes a column in