The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-14

Mathilde Mccormick does not intend to marry Max Oser, her elderly Swiss riding master f1ance, this year. If not this year, never. A year hence the young woman will be older and wiser, her budding doubts regarding marriage between May and De- cember will be extended and con- firmed.
 Real life is stranger than ffc- ton. Don Quixote. one of the great characters of fiction, went about the world tirting windmills. He wasn't much injured. A gal lant swordfsh with a nose three feet long tried to sink the beam trawler Ellis H. in New York bottom The fish made furious attacks on the hull. In one sav- age assault, it showed its own face in and broke its backbone. Mans superior intelligence en- ables him to know when to stop fighting. and sometimes when not to begin fighting. As a naked handed fighter, man is outclassed by swordfsh. cats. tigers and many other creatures.
 fVnhnOn iS fn be the second largest of recorded catastrophes. One hundred thou sand lives were destroyed by wind and wave in this section of South eastern China At Pompeii only few thousand people were killed, when Mont Pe1ee exploded not more than thirty thousand died. The earthquakes and eruptions of 1908 killed one hundred and fifteen thousand, the largest re- corded catastrophe of modern times
 There is a legend of lost continent, usually called the lost Atlantis. Nobody knows how many lives were wiped out in this catastrophe, which may have been the greatest The universe Is full of worlds which sometimes crash It is probable that, meas ured against disasters, what may have occurred in the universe, the occurrence of Swatow is not relatively vast.
 What matters to men are tf,e afflfctions which they suffer. The afflictions of other intellfgences on other planets do not interest them. Imagination does not com prehend distant disasters. How much sorrow in America, over the disaster of Swatow, we say "t is too bad'' in a perfunctory way. and that ends it.
 Sunday notates another lengthy aist of the dead and wounded in road accidents. In Danielson, Marjorie Upham, 19, married, Is killed In sidecar of her husbands motorcycle. In New London, Mrs William S. Robinson, wife of a noted artist, is suffering with a fractured skull. Milford hos pital is sustained by those injur- ed iii accidents on the Post road. Reckless driving kills more Americans than war kills in Ire land.
 A meteor fell north of Winne- mucca, Nevada. shaking frame housing and awakening the peo- pie Once such a visitation natural. The people after recov- ering from the shock of the ex- plosion turned over and went to sleep again. Meteors are less dangerous in mundane society than wood alcohol.
 Collins offers peace to De Va lera, as a memorial to Griffith, the statesman whose mind fash toned the Irish Free State. It is little likely this offer will be ac- cepted. The Irish contest IS now shot through and through with Bolshevism, and men who fight to upset the establish order. The offer is timely, and the world will hope for its success.
 Other shortages appear in the accounts of Tax Collector How ard s. Smith, sometime missing. The disclosures seem to demand 4 an inquiry into the whole matter of tax abatements. The price of machine government is high 1n- stead of exhausting energy in mere denunciation. sign the pe- tftions for a new charter. Make a new start, with new plant and equipment.
 Thomas Barry did not respond when his name was called in City court today. Thomas had been arrested for an illicit exhiIaratfon founded on bootleg. He died in the night, poisoned by the stuff he drank. The charge in such