The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-24
The OnZOOker

The Lilioms and 1ow-brows. to say nothang of the other extreme, many hard-headed, comm on sense, self made Business men, look down upon the so-considered feminine virtues of Taste Judgment Ga virile, man like word) is the thing to have. Yet Taste is the very hyper-essence of Judgment.
 The Roman legions which swept the world and penetrated wild Bri- tain, and the military tribunes who | led them, may be considered. by the most pugnacious prototype of mod ern commercial conflict, men. Men I of the march. not likely to dream | Of pictures of Hebe on the walls of their tents or purple floors beneath their feet. Yet these soldiers were familiar with the beauties of art. | their homes were carved with wood nymphs and naiads, their floors were l laid with moasics of fauns and flow 1 CTS.
 And where the Roman legions went they took their culture and their taste we'll their laws. On | carried through the most distant 1 campaign, sacks of colored tiles. | Where they camped they laid out | their mosaic floors covered with pie
 
 have been dug up from ruined Ro- man villas in every country pene- | trated by the Roman legionaries. They are proof today that Taste | can go hand in hand with the stern realities of war, the hard demands of necessity, the confiux and conflict of commercialism.
 Whatever your vocation see that AvOCatiOnS the cultivation of Taste. The ap- preciatfon of beauty is no weakness. The arts are forces the world can never ignore. No man is whole man who has lost or never gained the power to worship beauty.
 F'lattery is varntsh which only gives superficial glow.
 Of all the gifts
 Which Nature can give you, You'l find her richest dover
 Is the mind to find Your happiness In the things Within your power.
 Because the Future is untrustwor- thy is no reason for not building for it. All the more reason for putting something into it that can be relied | upon. (N. Y. Commercially
 Coins weighing fifteen pounds were found in the pockets and lin- ing of the clothing of Solon R. Han | dy, 92 years old, by attendants in the | hospital where the aged man was treated after having been struck by a taxicab last night.
 The money, in nickels, dimes, | quarters and half dollars as well as few foreign pieces amounted to $184. It was divided into numer- | ous little parcels wrapped in pa per which were concealed in his coat, vest, shirt and trousers, and | also in his shoes. He had on two hats and under these two stocking caps, and in each piece of headgear coins were found.
 Handy said that he lived in the RoXbury district and that he was born in London, England He said he was a peddler of safety pins.
 Maple trees in Fred Martins front yard have yielded sugar sap at in tervals all winter. upsetting the old time theory that March is the only . month for maple sugar production.
 When Martin treated his neigh bors at Highgate. Vt. to a sugar-off party in November, they enjoyed the novelty but did not marvel greatly, , because alternate freezing and thaw- ing weather is not unusual at that time of the year. But when he i fresh run sap on January five, and again on February 2.'he set a pre- ( cedent for this community and the sugar making country round about. 7
 It has been a cold winter in Yer ( m ont but mild weather that came ] sap to flow.