The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-07

When Miss Olivia M. P. Stone heard the verdict of the jury she threw kisses right and left. She intended to kiss her lawyer. but a reporter stepped into his place. quite ;nadver- tantly, and she kissed him. The gentlemen did not kiss her back. They may have been restrained by propriety, or perhaps by fear. The last man who kissed the lady is dead. He refused to marry her, and she killed him, as a lesson to unduly gal lant gentlemen to keep thei= prom ises. The lesson should be widely noted, for juries nowadays habitual- Iy set the lady free
 
 The perils of the love nest people increase faster than their joys. The Mann act is terrifying. but not mrre so than so-called society journals, which write up' the facts, and give the persons concerned an opportunity to pay something tok eep the story out. U. S. Dis: jet Attorneys are in vestigating some of these blackmail~ ing periodicals. whose editors need a term in jail.
 Every day thers is something new in the news. Those who run stills are usually removed by the drinks they brew, which killed surely Lut with a certain deHberation. James Cohsano. a New York man, out of work and thirsty, operated a still in his home. It was mere five gal lon affair. but when it exploded it killed Consano's three year old son, and seriously burned the rest of the family. Hell has more thar one loca- ton.
 High school runs three shifts. like a busy factory. Public demands a seat for every cI.iId. Seat for every child demands new school. New school costs money. Money on hand will turn factory into High schoc! That's seldom done, you know. Public wants million dollar school for which there's no money. Children might be sent to night school, or city
 
 million. Neither would be popular oh, for a land in which people can have just what they want. without having to pay for itl
 
 Blanton is a congressman fro n Texas. Garner. also from Texas. calls him ga common. ordinary liar" There is some error. Congressmen are uncommon. even in Washington. They are scarce. that Is to say rare. and not usual, or ordinary. HoS!c, therefore requires, at least that Garner should designate Blaptoa as an extraordinary" liar.
 
 Sammy .Rzeszewski. boy champion chess players of the world. took fifty minutes to beat three of the best chess players in Congress. They were pretty easy said the child. Those intelligence tests employed so freely on the army might b. used on congress. Congressman have not the chess intelligence of the best ju- venile chess minds Youth Is the Lope of the world. There may some day be congressman who play chess as we'll as Sammy do.s. but there will be some hoy who will play better. The ancient ancestors Of the co1grass- men could, not have pInved chess St all.
 
 Madame GalH-Curcis gets top Of column, page 1, today. Her jewels were carried of by two girls. The property was worth s45,0oo and 1t had been left in a cafe rest room. The jewels of stage women have sup ported several generations of press agents. by getting stolen. This story may be true. So many women do carry their jewels about with them, to the amazement of most men.
 Semenorf. the Cossack leader who struck terror to the hearts of the Bol- sheviki, as q large scale. killer, is arrested in New York, charged with the conversion of millions of prop erty. owned by an American trading company. The bond Is s25.ooo, not found up to last night. An American jail Is better place than a Lenin prison, or Trotsky firing squad.
 CORNELL INVITES STANFORD. Stanford University Cal April T.