The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-21

anu are man and wife respectively. They live in the same house; she gets the meals and does the house. work and he takes care of the out side work and pays the bills. They have lived this way for 23 years, most of them happy years. After all this comfortable exist ence Philip. without saying a word about it. up and kissed his wife She got into the flivver and drove right down to Hart ford and put in a petition for a divorce alleging into1e-able cruel ty. This is a queer world. Most ladies would bring the action up on the ground that for 23 years they had not been kissed.
 
 In Glastonbury four sheep were killed by a dog. believed to be afflicted with rabies. The rabies doesn't follow. Dogs kill sheep on general principles. Connecti- cut pays a large price for it's dogs. The hills of Connecticut are well adapted to sheep rais- ing. Dogs kill too many sheep. The state Is short just so much mutton. Some day dogs will either disappear, go on leash or become animals who will watch sheep, instead of killing them.
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 Rev. Dr. G. Olgtlvy, President of Trinity College, says that out of 2J6 students in his school only one in every Is wants to fill the pulpit. He planes parents for lack of minister's; better blame the congregations, which pay small salaries. Ministers must live like other men. The pay of the minister Is not always attrac- tive. Raise the pay adequately and men will respond to the call.
 Attorney Clarence R. Hall, who lives in Fairfield, is chosen secre- tary of the Charter Revision Com mittee, which is to give Bridge port an instrument which will enable the government to be car ried on in a modern way. Objec- tion is made that Attorney Hall doesn't live in Bridgeport. One wonders whether the trade of men and women who live in the towns is acceptable to May not the Chinese Wall effect get too much en- phasis. This is one country of which Fairfield is a part. Ex- pert service by a Fairfield man who earns his living in Bridge port. ought to equal just ordinary service by somebody who may live just on the edge of some city boundary.
 
 The National Association op- posed to the Prohibition amend 1ment seems to be against a third political party organization to bring back light wines and beer. That would be the quickest way to find out how many friends can be counted for light wines and beer. Just now the "weIs" are fretting out their lives in a net work of political intrigue which gets them nowhere and gives them nothing.
 
 A Greenwich Village Company of 50 dancing girls, who dance in bare legs and short skirts, went up to Sing Sing to perform before the prisoners Warden Lawes said they could not It is up to somebody to explain why men have to commit a crime and get themselves locked up in order Bridgeport people pay perfectly pod money to go to the show. Nstead of getting art and musi Ntoo often they are treated to a spectacle of red knees, scraggy bodies and shapes that would be much more satis- flying in nice. long. thick, wooIen blankets.
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 This column expresses no op- position to art in the nude. The human form is sometimes beauti- ful. The human form, as it is too frequently presented on the stage, is not beautiful and ought not to be presented. Only beauty can justify nudity m art. The blessed clothes con- zeal some awful sights.