New Britain herald., 1918-01-19

never even knew in what section of the city they were before.
 This is surely the age Tn which woman is coming into her own if she ever does. And they are beginning young too, for today the we'll known factory office boy, famed in comic section and Horatio AIger yarn, is rapidly being supplanted by the gentler type of office girl. No longer does the irate boss, following a hard night, bawl out in stentorian tones: Hey boyt" Instead he kindly re- quests: Young lady, won't you please--'' visit to the several fac tory offices about the city shows that as a, matter of fact the office girl is taking the place of the office boy in many instances and while the girl is taking the place of the office boy in many instances While the office girls are not expected to travel throughout the factory delivering messages and doing other such jobs, they are nevertheless detailed to the more genteel tasks of the former of fee boys. They care for the mail, they sort the incoming letters, they answer phone calls, they run errands about the offices and make themselves gen. era.lly useful. A high official Of the Stanley Works, where a, number of office girls are employed, explains that the labor shortage is responsible for this change. He says that with the scarcity of labor there are so many more factory jobs open to the younger boys that they prefer working there to taking the old time office boy jobs, especially since they are able to earn more money.
 As yet however, the cigarette snok- ing, dime novel reading, freckled faced, red headed, snail-like walking W. U. messenger boy has not been re- placed by one of the fair sex.
 Some 25 New Britainites, interested in republican politics, are planning to attend the Mckinley association ban quet in Waterbury at the Hotel Elton on the evening of January 29. The principal speakers will be Governor Holcomb and United States Senator Warren G. Harding and 1t is the last named speaker who attracks the at tention of local men. Mentioned as a
  tor Harding who delivered the i'm passioned patriotic speech at the local republican outing at Lake Compounce last summer.
 Almost every letter received from New Britain boys across the seas contain words and phrases of war vernacular. By this time the meaning of these words is generally under stood and they are becoming accepted as proper-in war time. The deriva- tion of the war terms however, is in teresting. "Boche' is an abbreviation of ttcaboche", meaning a hobnail, with a hard rough and square head. It was applied long ago on account of corresponding mental qualities of the Teutons. The big German cannon are called "Berthas," after the name of the eldest daughter of Krupp, the great munitions manufacturer of Germany. When "big stuff is re- ferred to in a letter it means large German shells. "Crumps'' is the term applied to high explosive shells and the big shells that give forth dense black smoke are called Jack John sons" When 8 man dies in the trenches the vernacular calls it as having "clicked it. or "gone west" A rather coarse reference to a falles comrade is made by the Allied soldiers as "pushing up the daises"
 Such are the explanations sent to