The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-14
The OaLOOker

| The football game brought to the | Stratfield dining room. yesterday, a
 public. This spectacle. common | enough in European eating ploces, | creates a. sense of uneasiness in Amer | jean observers. and the women who penalty that usually attaches to in | noVation. The toilette of lips and face be-
 comes. yearly less a function for the the | joy of The Onlooker. Lip rouge and
 powder puff were as freely applied in public, where the football diners met,
 as formerly veils and violets were l
 l Times change. The game no l longer fills restaurants as it used to do. Barber shops Of the better class, which formerly counted on big day,
 are more idle than on ordinary days | The liquor is gone. said one sad ton sorial master. The excitement is gone
 and everybody tries to save. l
 The hur1y burly, naaddening rush of an Xmas shopping crowd, the anxiety | of a nlayoralty candidate the eve be- | fore election, a regiment five minutes | before the zero 9hour. or any other | tense situation was not to be com pared with the desire of many prom | inent citizens of Bridgeport to secure | tickets for the Yale-Princeton con- | test. It is even known that one prom inent Bridgeport business man said, "Oh, damn it all, lost three million getting these tickets" proudly exhib- | iting two pieces of red, white and blue | cardboard to his friends |
 Well, that drive for tickets Is over. Now comes the Earvard-Ya1 then | the Army-Nayy, and it's ended for | another while.
 A keen observer stated that in all | the years he had been watching foot | ball crowds, and attending the b1g 1 games. he had never seen more democratic gathering than that which met at the Yale Bowl Saturday.
 
 l The hens are in the column again. But, this time not real live ones. The Bantams of Charleston, s. C., whose l fame is spreading throughout the land, has just made arrangements to 1 play the Peabody, Mass, High school | football team.
 Mayor Wilson stated Saturday. in | the presence of local newspapermen, | that Saturdays meeting with the | Fire Commissioners was not his last | official act. With the space of time | from Saturday noon till Monday noon, | the former mayor was planning to pc
 
 | of long duration.
 The late John O'Rourke, who died ! in Rockfort, H., Friday last. was 1 known as one of the greatest follow | CTS of baseball in this section. Until ] a year ago he resided in Bridgeport,
 and was familiarly known by the so- l briquet of Pop" As a, newspaper man he endeared himself to his asso- ! ciates in the journalistic field. It ! is said that he never missed an | Eastern league contest while he was | able to attend.
 l The new city clerk was welcomed 1 by the former clerk, J. A. Robinson, i this morning, and the latter has as
 sured MT. Dunnigan of his willing
 ness to instruct him in the routine of
 the office. Now if all the retiring | gentlemen act so nicely. the Demo-
 cratic invaders induction will be
 Girls at Barnard College refuse to l disarn1- Wellesley. Radcliffe and
 reading. the dis-arming might have various aspects. but they refuse to | give up archery, and l guess all the premiers and statesmen in the world | wouldn't blame them either. The colleges of the East have con- | ferred a Doctor of Laws on Foch-
 What we really need is the practical ! 1 freely given by our colleges. There | is no assurance that the Marecha1 | will introduce laws and our practices | in his home town, at least let us hope | he doesn't do it the way they do it
 in Boston.
 Three years ago they sang in chor- have received nothing" but such a | valiant crowd of boys will not so
 without vindication. It will come. if | they are patient.
 A wounded soldier. an infrm gen. 1 eral. greeted four disabled soldiers
 after the burial of the inconnq in l son, valorous leader of the boys
 whom he greeted, and who were | wounded fighting under the flag that | Wilson and his army so proudly | A California county claims to have | s65. 100000 worth of chicken pro- | ly agitated. Does the county con- l tain the natroious movie colony, or is
 1t referring actually to its extensive barnyaards?
 Some men WILL deceive their 1 wives. there seems no way out of 1 it. Why, one man we know said he ! could get but one ticket for the big I | York friend who sent him four. and
 his wife went to the game. which is | easily understood by most married 1 men.
 1 The German mark Is but a scrap of l paper today, being worth less than a i trading stamp, or tobacco certificate. ] Do you recall the time when Germany | was laughing at other we'll known
 scraps of paper? o tempora, O moresl | WONfEN'S FEET GETTING
 | SMALLER EVERY YEAR? Los Angeles, Nov. 54.-Women's feet are getting smaller every year, | according to Southern California Iner- ] chants who sell shoes and they l ought to know.
 A Santa Barbara dealer sponsored 1 the first announcement of this inter esting revelation. Los Angeles shoe 1 fz ha'a fofo+