New Britain herald., 1921-10-29

"They are after the big men, aren't slAy?''
 T guess you'd better talk to Mir.
 Acorn"
 Pretty soon 1t will be up to Wash
 ington and they'll be after President Harding and Wilson and Mayor Quig-
 ley and MT Curtis and all the big guys, won't they2"
 But The Wanderer had fled. Nothing Excitable Here.
 The average woman is said to be high strung and excitab1e. Not 50 with a woman on Main street. She had on a wide hat, Q mere man
 would say "of the cartwheel type"
 There was a stiff breeze blowing. It got under the hat and said hat
 sailed nicely along on top of the breeze. It struck the street on edge and rolled like hoop. The owner? She walked along all unconcerned and paid no attention whatever to the
 elusive headgear. Finally the hal fell over on the flat side and stopped rolling. The woman strolled leisure ly ito the street and picked it up in her own good time, placed 1t back
 on her head after brushing it off, and proceeded unconcerned on her journey.
 A Tumbling Block. A street corner social meeting was in session outside the Y. M. c. A. Several young men were engaged in discussion of affairs of mutual in terest. They worried about nothing. the world was theirs, others could as- sun1e responsibilities: But a window washer overhead, accidentally changed the atmosphere. He inadvertently | let drop a small piece of two by four'' It struck directly in the cen ter of the bunch, but the crowd had
 scattered The meeting is postponed | indefinitely.
 The Last Chance. A wit once said that if there were only three women in the world and
 two of them got together they would i talk about the third. Another wit
 subsequently denied this and said they would talk about a man. The Wan derer makes no comment. The con versation took place in the Young Women's Christian association cafe , teria. Truly a more fitting place could not be found. Six young wom- 1 en, none of them of the school girl age anymore, but far, far, from be- ling eligible candidates for the shelf,
 were discussing matrimonial prob- Items. Little snatches of the conver-
 sation trick1ed through the keyhole | or up the chimney, or possibly the custard pie talked. Anyhow, The Wan derer heard this rather philosophical statement, t1f you're 25, you're slip
 ping; after 30 you're gone.' How He Fools the Jitneys. Provoked because the Arch street jitney line does not seem to make any effort to put in another bus to retain it's schedule when bus breaks down, a man living near the end of Arch street has devised scheme for saving time and fooling the jitneys. He stood on Arch street for 15 min utes last Sunday morning waiting for
 a bus, only to learn, after he was too late for. church that they were
 running 20 minute schedule. The next morning he walked to work with | out seeing a bus and learned again II that a breakdown of one car had cut \ out the intermediate run.
 II The next day he selected the street Il which divides the route he travels \ directly in halves. When he gets to \ Arch street if there is no bus in sight he does not stop but starts Il ahead at brisk pace.
 I If the jitney overtakes him before i he gets to the dividing line, he ! boards it. If he strikes the halfway Il point before the jitneys, he figures he lean walk the rest of the distance in
 the same time he could ride and he
 continues walking. So far the score
 stands about to 3 in his favor.
 Now He's Methodist.
 A newcomer in the city attended recent feed" at the Methodist church. He had had perverted ideas 1 of church suppers from tales of rub ber oysters. etc.. and went there pre- I pared for the worst. Since comins ! away he swears by the Methodist ! Ichurch He believes they preach the | right kind of religion. Their theory l he says is the same as the Irish { woman's reply when asked how she | managed to control her husband 1 Sure" she said. "Oi jist fayde the ! baste." And that's what they did to