New Britain herald., 1924-01-12
1.-THE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

or from someone who happens to
 know. Take the little chorus girl
 with the rouged cheeks and pretty
 painted lips. One would picture her
 reading the latest snappiest stories
 she can find with not serious
 thought in her mind. True, this lit-
 tie girl may be bookworm, but the
 stories she loves are the good clean
 narratives of outside life, filled with
 flowers and good wholesome love.
 Then there is the stenographer. She
 may chew gum and use bit of her
 employers time to make up" but
 what does she do with her spare time? Does she hurry home, snatch
 a bite to eat and rush out to the
 movies to see the favorite sheik of the screen? No, she purchases a good magazine, full of illustrations on methods of beautifying the home and other things a girl should know. She spends the evening boring over the pages and then trying to make some of the articles pictured thereon.
 Then comes the little factory girl. All day long she tolls hard and her pretty white hands are soiled. Some- times she becomes discouraged and is so glad to get out in the open again. Out into the country she walks and If it be summer, she plucks the wild flowers by the wayside and presses them to her bosom because she loves them and loves the big outdoors. In the winter she takes out her skates and spends the evening gliding around some pond. Good beautiful exercise is her hobby.
 The tired business man. What does he do in his spare time? He is a poultry fancier and his every mo- ment of leisure is devoted to taking care of his prize chicks and showing them off to his friends.
 The soda clerk. So neat and oh how polished. He is the ideal of all the girls in the neighborhood. How they admire him and envy the girl who gets smile from him. Does he spend his time admiring himself or taking the girls out? He does not. He reads the sporting page and then hies off to the prize fight and what a thrill he gets when his favorite wins by knockout.
 And so it is the case in all sta- tions in life. Don't think you can tell a persons hobby by his station in life or position--because you never can tell.
 Although the chance of Herbert E. Erwin of winning the nomination for he postmastership were considered slim a week or two ago, 1t is now said that he has the support of suf- fcient number of republican leaders .o put him across the threshold of .he federal building on West Main street,
 Mir. Erwin wasn't conceded a ,hance a few days ago. It was | claimed that there was enough in- | iuence hostile to his selection to put | him definitely out of the running. But l .he Observer has been told that the [. has changed and that MT. | Erwins influential friends in high | places are strong enough to insist on | his nomination, if his civil service | rating is high enough.
 Another interesting story is goine i lround. It is rumored that sever, ,ther prominent citizens intended (. He applications for the plum but their names because of their {, for Richard Covert, expect ng that he would be a candidate. Be- ause of their friendship for him they lecided not to enter n contest. They earned with surprise, after the time init for filing applications had ex- tired, that Dicks name was not in- luded. Some of them are inclined o be--er-what's that word the boy vho brings the paper uses?---oh, yes -peeved, believing that their chance n the scramble was as good as the ext fellows.
 In the good old days the gentle art f making cider brandy fiourishcd in The farmers took ad- antage of Natures gifts and dis Illed for themselves beverage which rould make two stalks of corn grow There one grew before-in their im-