The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-02
Big Potato Crop Is Good News - Good Drill Helps When School House Burns This Grandmother Rears Own Husband -Heralds Needed for Police Commits siOners Villa a Conservative.

is a bumper crop of potatoes; everybody must eat 48 pounds more year to use up 433,000,- 900 bushels. In Wisconsin, state famous for potatoes and So- cialists, the tubers are selling for 30 cents a 100 pounds. Not very encouraging for the Socialists, who succeed best when potatoes are scarce.
 
 Mrs. Amelia Bradford, teacher in a high school at Bath Beach, N. Y, has an acute sense of smell. Her nose detected smoke the other day, the principal of the school rang the bells for fire drill and the rooms were emptied in one minute. A good nose, good fire escapes and presence of mind were useful in this case. Good drill is help when the emergency comes.
 George Eye and his grand mother eloped from Calais, Me, to Canada and were married last week. The lady is 63, the bride groom, IS. She brought him up from a pup" so to speak. He was leaving home and she thought the best way to keep him in the house was to marry him. This bit of enterprise had a bad ending because the lady is mar ried already. What is the men tai calibre of these people?
 
 Princess Hermine of Reuss, with heart full of joy and mind full of exu1tation because she is going to marry a man who was once an Enperior, says: 'T know I love the Kaiser The Kaiser says that his last wife begged him to marry again. The gentleman Is notoriously hard to live with. The Princess will know better how much she loves him after they have been keeping house for a little while. A petu- Iant, irritable man locked up in his own grounds may prove neither comfortable or comfort ing.
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 John D. Rockefeller, who is staying in a sanitarium, decides to stay one week longer. Wealth does not keep a man from being sick. It is fashionable to say that sick men who have money are sick from overwork; more likely from indiscretions of one sort and another such as late hours, improper diet and others that might be mentioned.
 Overwork of the mind doesn't usually kill. Few exercise the mind in any great degree. The trouble often consists in trying to work a mind that is not used to work. No reference here to MT. Rockefeller who does more than the normal amount of mental work. The point is that mental. work tends to make men healthy: tends to make them live O long time. The brain ds the dynamo that keeps the body going.
 
 In the good old days the king came down the road in 8 process sion headed by hera1ds blowing trumpets, with an escort of men at arms and other marks of dig nifty. Police Commissioners who demand recognition like royalty ought to do something of the sort. It isn't practical to have procession, but if a police com missioner wants suitable atten- tion he may put a big sign on his automobile reading "I am a po- lice commissioner; salute me or face a drumhead court martial" It could be arranged for some minor official of the department to drive through ahead Of a com nissioner's car so that all the busy traffic officers might be drawn up at attention when the commissioner passed.
 
 Mrs. David Lloyd George thinks she may run for the House of Commons. Under the English system she might do it nicely. Over there you pick out a district where you are sure to win. Mrs. Lloyd George could run in a1- most any district in England: she would count one and more when the next Parliament Is organ
 The distinguished editor, Ar thur Brisbane, taking the Welles- ley girls who smoke cigarettes for his text, says that women have no right to poison their blood