The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-31
Puts Out the F ake Submarine Stories They Wore Emery a Hundred Years Ago He Wanted Her to Be Unhappy-Main- taining the Family Cat-American Men Cleanest, Lady Astor : Says.

Not one submarine is missing. Who put out the story that four were missing? The country ought to know. Some of the papers received news to the effect that submarines had sunk at their docks or while in transit. These stories were untrue. Tn every case they seemed to refer to the boats tui1t in Bridgeport by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company. Who started these stories? South America is about to place an order for underwater boats. There is a strong probability that these yarns are put out with expectation that they will find their way to South America Competition like this is entirely un-American. Persons guilty of 1t ought to suffer the sharp est penalties that can be employed.
 Former Mayor Henry Lee rescues from the dust of time a. copy of the "Connecticut Courier" printed in Bridgeport one hundred years ago. It is interesting publication, about the size of one page of The Times. containing many interesting items. Women, were even as now. In the advertising columns appears the item headed, "Adieu."
 "But when time has divested thee of those gaudy trappings with which at my expense thou has invest ed myself. and restored thee to the threadbare station from which mis- taken confidence rescued you-then may reflection, like the gnawing of that worm which never-dies, render thy existence doub1y frksome by con- trasting thy wretchedness and want with thy opulence and ease forever" After which the gentleman concludes: ''Au persons are warned from trust ing by wife Eliza on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date. (Sfgned Bostwick Hurd."
 Miss Mathflde Mccormack, baby grand-daughter of John D. Rocke- feller, sailed yesterday. perhaps to wer Max Oser. Swiss livery stable owner, whom she will lift from a threadbare station. It is certain that if they separate. she will never wish to render his existence doubly irk some, nor to contrast his wretched- ness and want, with his former opu- fence and ease It is usually men who desire to do that sort of thing, to those whom they have loved
 Rev. Thomas Irwin Is not permitted to occupy the pulpit of the Presby- terian church Last summer he performed wedding ceremony In a. bathing suit; marrying persons in bathing suits. while they stood in a, pool of water. Tn all things a cer- tain amount of decorum is to be maintained While there is no par ticular harm in a bathing pool mar riage, it outrages unnecessarily the opinions of others. Of such rnarrt- ages for such people something good may be said. There is a certain chance that the parties will be drowned. calamity which in this case did not intervene.
 A clause in the will of Barbara Webendorfer,Y Yonkers, provides for the maintenance of the family cat as lons as 1t shall live. The sister. who is to take care of the cat gets half the residuary estate. What family has not had at some time pet which be. came habit, and for which ii made sacrifices! The woman in thi, case merely carried the habit a bi further, just as some carry othe, habits a bit further than the aver. age of mankind.
 Lady Astor, speaking in London says that American men are the cIev crest in tn eworld. They are tn, only men, she says, who truly advo cate the single standard of moral ity. Mrs. Astor gives the glory t. the American woman. She says O the European women that they de grade women by accepting the doubl standard Those who have visite European countries since the war vii