The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-21
The OnLOOker


 J. McGinley of New York, director oi ! the Knights of Columbus educational system, comprising 135 night schools throughout the country, states that tutors in K-C motor-mechanic courses, the most popular of the 3 technical courses gwen free by the K. of c. to former service men an at nominal cost to civilians, repor that fun at the expense of the For, is now unfashionable. ''No new Fora joke has been invented for a year, McGinley states, "K-C tutors repor and they keep track of students witt cisms as phenomena of reaction tuition. Either the jokesmiths are strike or folks have tired of autolno tive humOr."
 Twenty-Five thousand veterans al taking courses in K-C auto-mechan ics schools this year.
 Mrs. E.-I trust that when you sa, your prayers at night you ask Gods blessing on the peace conference a Washington.
 Jack = Yes, Mamma, but all tho same I hope Santa Claus will brin. me a set of tin soldiers for Christ mas.
 When Mrs. Daisy Vanscoy, mother of an Omaha World War veteran told little Warren Pershing she didn't
  dier'' while General Pisrshing made a brief stop there yesterday enroute to spend Christmas holidays with rela- | tives at Lincoln. General Pershing turned to her and said: | Madam, want my boy to grow | up so that if his country needs him he will be willing to fight for it. We all want to create friendly relations with peoples of all countries, but if war comes we must accept the chal- 1enge.''
 Mrs. .Vanscoy I'emarke that she hoped war was going to be made | imp ossibBe'', and the general told het not to run away with that notion Changes are happening rapidly in our midst. First they changed the hooch laws Then they changed the League of Nations. Just before that somebody changed the map. And l then again somebody changed the railroad rates; and the next thing you 1 of Beaver board.
 1 Somebody changed the gas rates, the United Illuminating company will change the lighting rates, and yester- day a sweet young thing clerking in the 5 and 10 changed a five dollar bill and gave the On1oof1er back the trolley fares and the price of but ter and eggs took a balloon ride. but the unexpected has come to pass somAbody has changed dog days
  | ing-or the dogs area n1idwinter session of nipitis.
 In @ week no less than five indig- | nant customers have applied at the l Emergency hospital for treatment, all l caused because some harmless look l ing cat chaser has mistaken a shape | ly or otherwise ankle for animated | dog biscuit.
 The latest "wictim' was Harry J. Thomas. 12Ss Howard avenue, and 85 years Of age. He was treated by Dr. F. J. Walsh, an the injury eau terdzed. The dog was released with l out bond.
 l A seven year old hound sunk seven teeth Ento the leg Of seven year old Antonio Dominick of TT Grand street | at seven o'clock this morning. It was a. grand little bite. Dr. B. J. Coyle ] looked dt over seven times and did hi~ duty. There was no change noted in either the boys or dogs condition immediately following the catastro- phe.
 A whole choir seems to burst forth l into music along Chambers street these pre-Yu1etide evenings as the workers are rushing along home ward bound.
 There is a volume of song support ed by an organ accompaniment. At | first 1t seems as if some singing band had taken possession of the street No one would imagine for moment
 
 sponsible for all this music.
 But the crowd. pausing for a brief second, discovers that this is the case. Drawn up to the curb Is a street organ which the owner is op- erating with one hand. With the other hand he holds a megaphone through which he sings. Not having a third hand the singer-player cannot acciept the tribute of passersby while the concert Is in progress but this concert, like all such affairs has its intermisston when the orchestra be- comes for the time the business l nanager.-N. Y. Sun. l CCONTRIBUTED.)
 There was a young man from the
 West,
 l Who loved a young lady with Zest; l So hard did he press her To make her say, "Yes, sfr,' | That he broke three cigars in his vest There was Q. young lady of Cork. Whose Pa made C fortune in pork; l He bought for his daughter A tutor who taught her To balance green peas on her fork. l