The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-17
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 Someone has written to The On locker 'I read with interest your articles yesterday on Marshal Foch, and I was very pleased with them, Having met the Marshal duning his visit to America, I felt right at home with the great soldier, Thank you glad you read the co1unn.
 
 Mexico has already done what H. Ford, well known manufacturer, wants United States to do She has not actually turned her ships over to a foundry. to make them into trac- tors and blows and automobiles, but she has now started a fine fleet of commercial ships, utilizing many of
 
 The fortunes of the. world are halne," shouts Edmond Dantes, the nero Of Dumas Monte Cristo. En- fers Henry Ford, majestically spread ing his mantle over his Ford and says, ''The navies of the wond are mlne! It will probably mean an- other great novel by a rejuvenated AIexandre Dumas at least for such a climax is at least masterfuI and worthy of great story.
 
 Francis Bacon wrote 5s essays. He became famous, and is stiM widely read by people of culture. Doubt less he wrote hundreds of papers which have perished long before this. and shortly after they were penned' too If school boys thought that over when they read about Bacon in yesterdays Times, industry might be on the increase in local school work.
 To be a little dear, says an ex- change, some girls think they must De a little bare. It's awful how these modern punsters wila work isn't it? f ct some of our more modern func- t1ons and movies seem to prove the truth Of the writer's humor, don't you think so?
 A poor fellow up in New Haven is oelng mourned by his friends as the result of falling into the bottom of a cider vat he and two others were cleaning. The fumes were too rnuch for him and he was overcome. w arning- be careful when cleaning your cider vat. or any other that may De used for making beverages. a Thomas Wilkins of Logan street a week ago Sunday, and then again last Sunday, picked enough raspberries rom very choice lot of bushes. to make a pie. He doesn't secure enoush Tor the neighbors to enjoy a piece but those in Thomas house hold are very proud of the weekly raspberry pie. The OnIooker hasn't had any yet, but one of the neighgors lest1ned that it looked pretty good to the bushes grow.
 *~% Americas favorite vegetable for the past two years has been the tomato IT reu, lu1cy and luscious, according to StatlStlcs recently emanating from Washington, and a Bridgeport Iady who knows all there is to be known aoout tomato culture brought one of Ine brightest speciments of the to- nato family into The Times office the other day which was just one day off one or her vines.
  Mayor Atwater was blessed by the patients at St. Vinvent's hospitaI re- cetiy when he sent several wonderful bouquets to the institution to be pIac- ed in the rooms. It's a bit of thoueht ruIness that always brings cheer and and it doesn't have to be done with a barbecue, either. There are many others who think pretty well of the new mayor, too.
 . . There is some truth in the state nent of Helen P. Mccormick, assist | mt district attorney of Brooklyn, that country girls, warned of the dangers and pitfalls they are to meet in the ,lty, go wrong, and by some strange | he paths which they have been told | o avoid, while the unsuspecting girl | S invariably 'tsaved.'' But does that answer the great question, "why girls cave home ?'' | . Today is Veterans Day That is. | Sivil War veterans, will celebrate to- lay, as seen in another column We mustn't forget the old vets, even hough many of their sons and grand tons are vets of a later and bloodier l var. The thinning ranks of the older zeterans, often likened to the twi- | 1ght and the shadows, are becoming linn year by year, and real Americans | must never forget to pay them honor | md tribute, as in years past.