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New Britain herald., 1922-12-26
WEATHER REPORT
Wednesday Will Be Cloudy With
 Probable Rain or snow

For Connecticut: Cloudy tonight; Wednesday cloudy, probably snow or rain and colder; moderate to fresh shifting winds. ,.
 Conditions; A trough of low pres sure extending from Texas northeast ward to northern Maire Is causing un- settled weather but not much precipi- tation east of the Rocky mountains, The pressure is thigh over Georgia and Minnesota. The temperature continues mild. in the northern dis 'tricts but isfalling in the upper Mis- sissippi valley.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity: Unsettled weather and not much change in temperature.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-26
MUTUAL AID OFFICERS.

Ike T. Hills was elected president at recent meeting of the Mutual Aid society of the Traut & Hine. Mfg. Go. Thomas Walker was named vice. president, w. H. Willoughby secre- tary, and H. l.. Brown treasurer. During the past year $S50 was paid out for sickness, and there is a bal ance of $500 in the treasury.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-26
SCIENTISTS TO MEET.

Cambridge, Dec. 26,-Members Of the American association for the ad- vance of science registered today for the opening of it's annual meeting to- night. Dr. F. H. Moore of the Uni versity of Chicago. retiring president will be the chief speaker at the first general session.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-26
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

Mir. and Mrs. Albert F. Hall of Stanley street announce the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Jane Emeline Hall, to Frederick Haines of Bristol. MT. Haines is the son of Mrs. Robert c. Haines, formerly of Buffalo, N. Y.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-26

jen's club and then fought both policemen, Some one telephoned to the station and Detectives Ward, Hanan and Fitzgerald went to the scene of the battle in patrol wagon and Rnekonen was finally arrested.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-26

Vedic hymns of India were prob ably sung or repeated for 1000 years before they were committed to writing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
TIRE,s HEAVY TOLL.

The frequency of fires recently
which must have been noted by the
entire population of the city should
arouse increased interest in the sub
ject of fire prevention. There should
be possible some way to reduce the
number of fires. The insurance bus.-
ness has taken a squirt but insurance
does not stop fires.
The National Board of Fire Under
writer's tells the public that an analy-
sis of fire losses in the United States
for the five years ended with 1920
amounted to $1,33S,17S.142. This to-
tai is compiled from loss reports and
the board suggests that, to reach the
actual loss, rs per cent should be add
ed "as a conservative estimate of the
damage wrought by unreported fires
and those in uninsured property" This
addition would bring the total to
S1.s72.722,s77.
We are then told that if this amount
had been used constructively it would
have built 334.54O dwellings costing
an average of $1,000 each. thus sup
plying homes for population exceed
ing the total of Connecticut, Nevada
and Wyoming.
After giving these figures the board
analyses these to some extent and
finds that the hazard known as
matches smoking" caused the great
est damage whereas. in the five years
preceding, carelessly used electricity
took first place. In the figures under
consideration understanding caused
a loss of $9O.O0O.oOO in round num-
bers with \electricity in second place,
with 100000 and the grouping
known as stoves, furnaces, boilers
and their pipes" in third place with a
loss of $6S.OOo.OO0..
There follow many suggestions.
warnings and the like against the va
rious dangers and the people are even
urged to return to the lightning-rod
to which our grandfathers were par
tial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
llfILE BERNY'S NOTE BOOK

Pop came home this AFTERNOON and
hung up his hat and coat saying, Con-
CALCULATIONS, everybody.
Wy, watts the matter, wat are you
congradulating US on? sed ma.
Wy, on the fack that I'm home agen
after hole days absents, duzzent the
very thawt that there's a man in the
brighter and more cheerful immeedit-
ly? sed pop.
o yes, maybe you're rite, that gives
me a ideer, there's something I wunt
you to do before suppir, sed ma.
Well, dident ixackly meen to put
enything in your he'd of a practical
nature, but wat is it? sed pop.
The hot waiter spikkit in the kitchin
is acting very strange, sed ma.
Ill give it a little tawlxing to, Benny,
run up and bring me the gas plyers,
sed pop. WITCH I started to do, and
ma sed, And after you get throo with
the spikkit wish you would do some
thing to the setting room door to make
it stop skreeking.
Well Ill see if have time, III see,
sed pop.
And the windo in our room works
hard half the time and the other half
it don't Werk at ALL and the vacuum
cleener is having one of its off days,
and by that time suppir awt to be
reddy, sed ma.
By that time brekfist awt to be
reddy, I think Ill take a little wawk
before suppir, I feel the need of lit
I, pop, can 1 go with you? and pop
sed, Come on.
Wich we did, getting back jest in
time to keep ma from being mad on
account of suppir having bin reddy
for about minnits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
observation-disclosures

Q. What part of the developed water
A. The Geological Survey says that 40
per cent of the developed water power is
in this country. Water wheels having a
capacity of a,243,0oo horsepower are estah-
q. What does the name February mean?
A. February, the month Of expiation,
was so named from the word "februa"
place on the fifteenth of the month or from
the word "februareH, meaning to expiate
or purify
Q. On which syllable are words in Es-
peranto accented; B. s. "
A In the plan followed in building
words in Esperanto the accent was placed
always on the syllable next to the last.
@. How does it happen that some of the
common house cockroaches are white:
E G.
A. The department of agriculture says
sionally. They are freaks of nature Just
as albinos are freaks in the human race.
fAny reader can get the answer to any
questions by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, d. c. This
offer applies strictly 10 information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal. medi-
cal and financial matters 1t does not at
undertake exhaustive research on any CUB
jeet. Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two cents in stamps fer return
postage All replies are sent direct to the
-inouirer.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk


One thing about the happy heart
is that it feeds upon the food which,
within its own walls, it manufactures.
And then it opens its doors-and
bids the world come in.
The happy heart can never be poor
because happiness is richer than
any other kind of wealth.
Happy hearts are always found in
the bodies of workers and helpers.
For work and service are the food on
which the heart lives.
There are no nights of sleeplessness
to those who are happy in heart.
Dreams to such are as honey to the
flower, and as the warm, open fire
after the outer cold.
and miles-in reality, it never stops
travelling.
Do you want a happy heart? It is
easy to get. Just try to make some
one else happy
And then that someone will loan
out his happy heart, until a great
COMPANY of happy hearts dance under
No one knows contentment like the
one with a happy heart.
How golden are the days, how rich
in experience every hour in which the
happy heart beatsi
You can earn the simple joy of the
happiest child, plus the finest strength
of the greatest of the earth, if you
will just keep your heart happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

lecture. Who will be the next Phlla~
delphia husband to fall in front OF q
smoking revolver held in the gooo
right hand of his wife?
Or, do the women shoot with the
left hand? We fancy not. but all we
know to a certainty is that their
craftsmanship is improving. Former
ly it was only occasionally that an en-
ragged woman punctured a fat hus-
band. Now she seldom misses a thin
one.
SHOULD you find occasion to adj
dress the intelligensia' again." writes
solid Ivory" do you suppose your
intelligent compositor could be pre-
vailed upon to restore the t which he
has playIully pilfered? Little lar
cenies of the kind are apt to annoy
the intelligentsia."
We refer to the matter because We
wish to exempt the compositor and
the proofreader from fault in the mat
ter. They merely accepted our spelling
of the word and, as not infrequently
happens, it was wrong.
We doubt. however, that it is within
the power of the column to annoy the
intelligentsia. Just between ourselves,
we don't believe they read it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

on Grants staff. General Morgan.
II will ask you,' said Grant,
as the only real American In the
room, to draft this paper Morgan
was a full-blooded Indian belonging
to the Iroquois tribe of New York.
Thus it was that an Indian Joined the
hands of the North and South after
more than four years of bloody strife"
There We q large number of In
dams who enlisted in both. the Union
and Confederate armies. At the pres
ent time there is a post of the Grand
Army of the Republic on the Menom-
inee reservation in Wisconsin, COM
posed entirely of Indian veterans of
the Civil war. Many of them wear
decorations of honor for bravery in
battle.
The Indians now are scattered in 80
of the 48 states, and are comprised
in 1S9 tribes. They number about
100000, and their numbers are ac-
tually increasing. according to the In
dian bureau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

The United States is spending over
100000 in cash every day in pay
lnents to disabled ex-service men and
their dependents, according to Colonel
Forbes. director of the Veterans bu-
reau. Colonel Forbes states that the
United States government will spend
over S51O,OO0,OOo for soldier reliee
during the current year of 1922 and
points out that this sum is greater
than the entire expenses of all depart
nents of the United States govern
ment in any year prior to 1897. The
trouble seems to be that there are sew
eral million service men who are not
getting any of that money. But all
will be cared for in time. Meanwhile
dollars steadily are growing more val
liable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
JUST FOLKS
WINTER.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.


1t seems so dead out there today.
The snow lies deep about the place;
The ground wherein the children play
Has lost its touch of charm andtgrace.
What was a garden, now is bare,
The rose stalks flutter to and fro,
There is no hint that life is there
Beneath the drifted ice and snow.
The sparrovvs tSzitter in the tree.
But otherwise no sound is heard,
Where used to ring the minstrelsy
OF many a golden throated bird.
I gaze across this barren waste
OF beauty held in winters clutch,
I note the lines of sorrow traced
By desolation's cruel touch.
Suppose" unto myself. 1 say.
This garden bleak and cold and bare,
Were doomed forever thus to stay
And never rose should blossom there 2
But all this ugliness must pass
And ice and snow must vanish soon,
Spring shall awake the sIumbering grass
The roses shnll return in June.
So with this faith thru life Ia 20.
Meeting my care as winters sting,
Knowing that all the ice and snow
Must vanish with the birth Of sTFing-
Copyright, 1922, BY Edgar a Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
Dorothy Dir 7aIks
BE DOROTHY DIX
ToEld's highest Paid Woman VErIhns

The Ethics of the Powder Puff.
Is the. woman who powders her
nose, and touches up her hair, and
dabs bit of color on her checks. dis
honest?
Mrs. Evangeline Booth. the national
commander of the salvation Army,
says that she is. She declares that
the woman who uses makeup is a
cheat, and she AYERS that many di-
vorces are caused by the fact that willy
ladies have deceived their husbands
into thinking them better looking
oh, piffIe. Before you can cheat n
person, you must bamboozle a person
make him believe something true
that is false, and the very babes in
their cradles in these days cut their
TEEN. on rouge pots and lip sticks.
Certainly. sthere isn't a boy child of
even ordinary intelligence who is not
conversant with all the -paraphernalia
or mothers and sisters toilet tables
and who isn't perfectly familiar with
the fact that the female of the species
puts on, and takes off its complexion
at will. e.
Certainly no woman is foolish
enough to think that she is deceiving
any other woman as to the exact
is she optimistic enough to hone that
there is any man SO blind and stupid
as not to penetrate her charming dis
guise.
Nor do women make the slightest
effort to hide the fact that they pur-
chase much of their good looks at the
drug store. The powder puff and the
lip stick are as indispensable a part
of the average woman's toilet as the
handkerchief. They are as Familiarity
used, and it is so common a sight to
see women in the street car, in res
taurants, in all storts of public places
repairing the damages. that the stress
of the day has made in their beauty
that no one notices it any more. 1t
has become commonplace custom.
How, then, any man can be so fooled
as to the real amount of his wife's
good looks as to feel that he is en-
titled to a divorce on the ground that
ne was taken in by false appearances,
passes comprehension Certainly n
lover must be far gone in infatuatien.
indeed, if he cannot detect the flavor
of grease paint in kisses, and if he
never wonders why the color in his
beloved's cheeks never waivers, nor
why her hair is so much curlier upon
one occasion than upon another.
AS a matter of fact, it is impossible
for any woman to camouflage beauty
SO successfully that it defies detection.
1t simply can't be done. As to wo-
mans moral right to openly flout fate.
and to make herself beautiful tho
ugly, that's another question.
There are stern moralists. like Mrs.
Booth, who contend that woman should
remain as homely as nature made her.
and that it is a sin to calsomine Il
shiny nose or to put a CLINT into ear
roty hair, or to touch up drab cheek
with color, and that the woman who
does these things is more or less of a
hussy.
But why? Surely there is no in
trinsic virtue in ugliness. Certainly
there is not so much beauty in the
world that we can afford to dispense
with any of il. and, therefore, it seems
to me that it is a sacred duty for each
of us to make ourselves as easy upon
the eyes of our fellow creatures as
we can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

But English and American are the
same" protested the guest.
mot at ALL" replied the man. ''If
an Englishman should come up now
should talk like this: oh, L say.
what extraordinary shocking weather
were havingi 1 dare say there'll be
bit of it ahead! But when you came
up I was just getting ready to say:
For the love O. Mike! Some day, amt
it? Guess this is the second flood, all
right"
WAS Mr.. Grabcoin in his office
when you calIed2"
NO, he must have been playing
golf"
Are you sure about that"
Reasonably sure. The office force
seemed to think he wouldn't be back
soon. Most of the clerks had their
feet up on their desks and three
stnographers were glued to tele-
phones"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

There is nothing, declares Herbert
Hoover, that is so recoverable u lnss
to the nation as idle shops and idle
men. Today we have both. There is
nothing that viii so quickly start the
springs Of business and employment.
as an immediate resumption of con-
struction and equipment of the rail-
ways. There is nothing that will en-
able the railways so quickly to resume
construction and purchase of equip
ment as an adjustment of rates to the
conditions of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

Even il shoes made in a Massachu-
sets factory are worn out in the
streets of the town where the factory
is located, still they represent interna-
tioual trade, declares Dwight w. Nor
row, in discussing the inseparability
Of our foreign and domestic business.
The shoes he had in mind" says the
Nations Business, were made from
hides imported from Argentina, were
heeled with rubber imported from the
tropics, were sewed with fibers and
lined with cloth and dyes and tanned
with chemicals brought from the four
corners of the earth. Imported ma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

because it was the first time in my life
that had not received SO much as a
lace-paper heart. And-and did
want to go to the dance. Tom"
wen go, dear, as soon as you tell
me you'll marry me and be my own
girl" Tom insisted.
It's late, so better tell you now,
Tom," she said.
Copyright, 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

There may be two honest opinions
regarding the wisdom of passing a DO
nus bill, says Henry Clews in his
Financial Review, but there can GER
tanly be but one among right minded
people with respect to taxing sales of
bonds and stocks, and that is against
it, especially when it is taken into
consideration that the owners of Sc
curities already provide a very large
proportion of the governments reve-
Hues derived from income taxes. 1t
was almost inevitable, he says fur
Their, that before the discussion ended
legislators who were DESTROYS of
avoiding the criticism of their rural
constituents should propose to find
the money they need by means of a
tax on stock and bond transactions.
and this accordingly is the latest sug-
gestion put forward by bonus advo-
Gates. His reasons for taking this
view are set forth as follows: amy
such proposal would, of course, be not
only an illegitimate discrimination
against one element in the popula-
tfon-the owners of securities-but
would burden investors who have al
ready suffered very heavily during
the past few years. 1t would, be-
sides. as in all such cases, react di-
rectly upon employment and pros
perity by making it harder for those
who are obliged to apply to the in
vestment market for funds to get
what they need; and in addition would
interfere seriously with government
financing. Besides it would fail in
its own object as business would be
dwarfed to such an extent it would
prove non-revenue producing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

teria1s were used because they could
be bought more cheaply than ma
terials produced at home" Yet it
is this sort of trade that the high
tariff men seek to wipe out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15
Dinner Stories

'I speak four languages" proudly
boosted the door man of a hotel in
Rome to an American guest. Yes,
four-Italian, French, English and
American"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

There is continuing agitation in ia
vor OF depriving municipal securities
Of the tax-exempt privilege on the
ground that they cause investors to
withhold their money from industrial
enterprises. But investors would take
more kindly to industrial investments
il they could have assurance that the
government would keep its fingers
out Of the business and would not
take away a large share of the profits
in the form Of taxes. The government
is responsible for the popularity of
municipal bonds as an investment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

When a bonus has been provided by
congress for those who served. their
country in the Great War will there
be provision for the "doIlar-a-year''
Fn,a1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

When we asked, the other day,
about the tinfoil we were not engaged
in a personal quest. We saved no
tinfoil. 1t merely occurred to US that
you might want to know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

And that opens up another en-
trancing field of speculation and con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

Belated dramatic NOTE; 1.-THE Bat"
has moved on to Wilmington. While
it lasted it was the best crime in town.
My dear. it made the Philadelphia
Ladies' Association of Killers look like
bunch of amateurs giving a show in
the town hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

And that, we shall add, closes the
discussion of farm economies for the
time being. Already we have too long
neglected literature and the other arts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-15

Certain readers of the column seem
to believe Monday mornings effusion
was one of the trick stunts of the
regular columnist. IT. we did not
make it perfectly clear in advance we
wish to do SO now. Mondays column
was written by Mrs. John b. Roberts
We do not know Mrs. Roberts; we
never saw her. We haven't the re-
hottest idea who she is. But we'd love
to meet her. She has that indefin-
able thing called personality" and a
most delicious sense of proportion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-08
English Chancellor
May Repay Visit of
Chief Justice Taft
Lord Birkenhead Plans With.
i'm Six Months to Make
His Second Trip to the
United States if Possible

LONDON, July (By The Associated
s).-Viscount Birkenhead, the
Lord Chancellor, may visit the United
States in the near future. During the
war Viscount Birkenhead, then
Frederick E. Smith, the British Attor-
ney General, made a trip to America.
1t is said that the Lord Chancellor's
visit would be mostly in the nature
Of private sightseeing trip, but also
would be reciprocation of the present
visit of Chief Justice Taft to Great
Britain. While England has q Lord
Chief Justice, the Office resembles that
of Mr.. Taft only in name, the Lord
Chancellor being the nearest British
equivalent to the american Office of
chief justice.
At the dinner given in the Middle
Temple, Ambassador Harvey reminded
Viscount Birkenhead, who was seated
at his side, that international courtesy
would seem to require his giving the
American bench and bar an opportunity
to repay the kindness shown Mr.. Taft
by visiting the United States.
The Lord Chancellor received Mr..
Harvey's suggestion fayorably, and has
since indicated that he is considering
making the visit within the next six
months, provided the pressure of his
official duties permits him to leave
England.
ABERDEEN, Scotland, July Z (By