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Evening star., 1925-06-21

if ii was to break itself still further
they wouldn't be no more market for
our stuff abroad than there is toe
nails on an eel. Such being the case
about half of the factories in the
country would have to shut down
some of the cotton that was raised
would have to be burned up or given
away, the oil business would go on the
hummer. You gotta remember, little
orchid, that this country raises and
makes about twice as much as it car
get away with on its own. and we'd
be in one fix if we couldn't peddle the
stuff in Europe; and you can't peddle
nothing with profit 10 bozo that
amt got a bean"
Il hadn't thought of that says
the wife
That makes you the great Ameri
can public" ! assures her. .'or that
part of the great American public that
the politicians can hurrah into believ,
ing that Europe is gonna pay us some
day
wWHY," asks the misses. don't
w they write the debt off the
books if they amt no chance of col
lecting?"
There's a good reason" / tells her
1T is that the wise boys in this coun
try like to have the debt hanging over
Europe's head
''Why?' inquiries the frau.
Because" l explains, ''as long AS
those babies owe us and we keep re
minding them regularly, they is not
SO likely to talk back fresh to US
when we pulls something they don't
like. You can stand an awful lot of
rough talk from the lad that Won pwe
a lot of money to. That debt is also a
great ace in the hole for Uncle
Sammie in the peace conference
stunt. It's grand sand bag to use
when everything else fails
Go on urges Kate. 1T looks like
Evening star., 1925-06-21
An Invisible Coat.

MANY amphibious birds and ami
NA mails. when swimming under
water, appear to be enveloped in a
silvery veil. 1t is because minute
bubbles cling TO the feathers or hair.
TO the human eye. which looks at the
creatures from above, the silvery
sheen makes the bird or cnimal con-
spicuous: but a naturalist. who has
gwen much study 10 the matter, con-
Cludes that ~hen viewed from below
the surface of the water, or, in other
words. as fish would see it, the
film of bubbles helps to conceal the
swimmer. BY sinking a box at the
edge of a pond and inserting a pane
of glass below the water-line the nat
uralist discovered that the film OF
bubbles acts as a mirror that reflects
the colors of objects past which the
swimmer is moving. Silvery-sided
fish, when resting in natural posi-
tion. show no sheen at all, for the
bright surface takes The tint of the
surrounding water. The investigator
is now studying the appearance of
trout flies as the fish sees them, and
has already made discoveries that will
probably lead to considerable modific:,-
,ions In the shape and color OF artS.
fetal lures.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.


i" HIS is the time of the year
when-f what the poets tell us
Is true-a young mans fancy
i lightly turns to thoughts OF
household economics. 1t is pc
riod during which any properly con-
sututed young man makes at least
one proposal of marriage. If he
keeps on persistently making these
proposals they are apt to end sooner
or later in marriage itself
At any rate, every young person
ought to know how proposals of mar
riage are made. and few hints upon
the point at this time of year are
surely not out of place.
How Our Great -Grandfathers Did II.
WE begin first of all with the way
w in which our great -gra andfathers
made their approaches to our great
gra ndmothers.
In those days they preferred to
make their proposals in writing. A
young man when he found himself
hopelessly smitten retired to his room
with a big bottle of ink and a quill
pen and put together an epistle such
as this:
Miss Malvinia woolifeather,
Woolifeather Grange.
Featherdale on the Blink,
HantS.
Respected Madam:
The opportunities which I have
of late enjoyed of observing the
graces of your person and the cul-
tivation of your mind have filled
me with feelings which / can bet
ter intrust to restraints of epis-
tolary correspondence than confide
to the hazard of an oral declara-
ton.
1 desire, my dear Miss Wooli-
feather. to offer myself as a suitor
for your hand and TO lay myself,
my affection and estate upside
down at your feet. Should you bid
me rise. ! shall deem myself the
happiest of mortals. But should yon
not do SO. | need only say that l
should remain prone until well
come demise should terminate an
existence henceforth without aim
Evening star., 1925-06-21

The current, but when the story was
printed Joe was where newspaper de-
liverieS is very uncertain. And
while good many of us was no
doubt envious at all them love let
ters the gals was writing to Gerald
Chapman still and all I personly
would rather have the postman hand
me a dozen gas bills through my
own front door than a 1000 mash
notes between the iron bars of a
Connecticut death cell.
No / don't believe crime news
makes others so and do like wise,
but / do think they should ought to
be Il censorship for newspapers
which would bar out news that GER
tainly does incite people to not only
crimes of all kinds. but to divorce,
revolution. sedition, wife desertlon.
anarchy and all around nashing Of
Evening star., 1925-06-21
BY SAM HELLMAN.

n" ROM all this paper talk.
remarks the frau, 1T looks
like we amt gonna get back
i any of that money that
we loaned the alleys
And that's not ALL"
tells her. Besides the 10 or Is bill
lion them babies owes US we'll prob
ably spend several hundred million
besides on experts and committees and
the such, finding out why were not
going to get paid in spite of the fact
that we know that we amt
why won't they pay u.s." demands
the wife.
For the same reason" | explains
that l amt got you all cluttered up
with matched pearls. They haven't
got the ducats."
They seem TO have EN- retorts
the misses, for running off rows with
the Riffs over in Africa and such kind
of week end parties
Maybe" l admits. but you gotta
remember that they has got to so on
keeping house. even if they does owe
us jag of jag; and keeping house
over in Europe calls for two or three
wars per annum to make the help
happy A guy that's used to having
ham and eggs for breakfast every
morning can't be expected to quit eat
dollars from the last poker game, cal.
he?"
He can anyways" comes back
Kate, "cut down on the portion
He can" l agrees. but he won't.
Those lads across the drink have been
doing things the same way since Hick
was a pup, and you can't expect 'em
10 change their habits overnight on
the account of being in the red with
rich uncle. Anyways. nobody down
in Washington expects Europe TO pay.
And that ain't all, They knew that
they never were gonna be paid when
they made the loans"
You're wrong snaps the wife. Il
read all the time where Senators sand
other big men down at the Capital
Europe pay"
Them lads" says j. remind me
Of guy out in Wyoming once that
promised if he was elected garbage
Evening star., 1925-06-21

all of whom are warmly in favor
of my suit and permit me TO
press il.
Allow me. with the liveliest
feeling of affection. appreciation.
esteem, reverence, to sign myself
and to remain. yours. my dear Miss
Malvinia. humbly, hopefully, but
tremblingly.
JOHN PEACHDOWN. .
The Quylers Inn,
On the Blink.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
How it Happens in Real Life.

He came into the park and right
away he saw her sitting there or
a bench. He knew. of course, that she
was waiting for him and she knew
that he had come there to meet her.
But all he said WAS. We'll. Liz and
said. It's been pretty warm all day"
and she said. 1t certainly has"
He said. DO you want to walk
piece" and she answered, Il don
care"
They strolIed a little way together.
The sinking sun may have been light
ing up the west. there may have been
just one star poised in the evening
sky like FREELY, and there may have
come to him the faint call of just one
thrush, but if these things were go
ing on he didn't remark on it. All he
said was, Il saw a cop arrest a fellow
for speeding on d motor cycle this
afternoon"
And she said. Those motor cycle
fellers are too fresh.
There was a silence and then he
said. Liz, l was thinking the other
night after = got home that now that
/ got my increase of salary if you'd
care to marry me we could do it.
And she said, Well, I guess I'm
agreeable if you are. Sam"
They walked on little farther in
silence and then he stopped and half
turned toward her. and with his eyes
looking right in the girls face ne said.
thoughtfully
1T beats all what lot of cigar
butts get thrown away in the park,
don't it,"
Copyright 1925
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Three Ways to Propose
The Method Differs Modern Chiefly
Unusual Languag Which S Employed
s Chiefly Notable for

I His voice he turned toward her
was taut tie-Iine. You don't
love me-" he hoarsed, thick with
agony.
She had angled into a seat and sat
sensing rather than seeing him.
For time she silenced. Then pre-
sently, as he still stood and enveioped
her:
Don't" she thinned, her voice
fining to a thread.
Answer me-" he gloomed. still
| gazing into-andthrough her.
She halfheard. half-didn't.hear him.
Night was falling about them as
| molten afterglow of iridescent saf-
! from shot with incandescent carmine
| lit up the waters of the Hudson till
| they giowed like electrified uranium.
For a while they both sat silent
| looming.
1T had to be- she glumped.
why, why?' he blimped. why
| should it have had to have been or
| tmore hopefully even to be? Surely
you don't mean because of money!"
She shuddered into herself.
| The thing seemed to sting her lit
hadn't really
Money" she almost but not quite
| snarled. You might have spared me
| that
/ He sank down and grassed
And after they had sat thus for
another half hour grassing and growl-
ing and angling and sensing one an
other. it turned out that all that he
was trying to say was to ask il she
would marry him.
And she said Yes"
And now contrast with this sort Of
thing the way in which proposal Of
marriage gets made among ordinary.
inarticulate mortals
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Wood in Newsnapers.

IT takes a block Of wood inches
high. 3 inches wide and inches
long. TO supply the pulp in a 24-page
newspaper. 4 cord of wood it is es-
timated. informs $500 persons of the
days news.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

or meaning. ] need ardly say
that before inditing this letter J
have obtained the full approval of
your father and have also con-
suited your mother and your aunts.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
HOW THEY DO 1T IN FICTION

RUT now contrast with this beau
" tiful document the way in which
the proposal of marriage is made in
up-to-date fiction.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

leather will save the wear and tear o
having to show il 50 often.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

A S ANNA NIAUS. the well known
~ fiction writer once Sublicly
"A declared, "A rose by any
4 \ name is just about the same
Evening star., 1925-06-21

I"ROM all this paper talk.
l. remarks the frau, 1T looks
like we amt gonna get back
L any of that money that
we loa ned the alleVS'
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
LESSON DRAWN FROM BRISTOL HOIDUP

The wild west" holdup of q bakery wagon in Bristol by youths may have been in the nature Of a prsnk, or at least may have started that way, but one cannot help asking. what makes some Of our youth act that way?
 distinguished observer the other day laid youthful lawlessness entire lv unon the threshold of thought 1oas narents 1ho fail in doing their full duty in bringing up their ott- snrirg There seems to be much weight 10 the conclusion. The old ho,iaf that morality and upright ness begins in the home must stlli hold good, The parent who sees h,S vounester come home with flowers stolen from the garden of a neigh lor and condones the act IS un"i'- ,inglv helping to build up criminal character, the parent who adopts the they can take care of them selves" attitude toward children may live 10 visit them behind prison tars the parent who lets them' after they have approached man bood and womanhood. go ioyriding late in the evening and asks no ouestIons is paving the highway or bitter regret.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
COMBINING TWO BOARDS
 IN CITY

The suggestion 10 combine the public amusements commission with the park commission has much to commend 1t. The former functions for only three months of the year. or during the summer, when the playgrounds are open. During the remaining nine months the equip n1ent used in playgrounds is under the control of board that is prac- tlcally out of existence, The public amusements commission has no place under its control in which to store its material during the dor nant nine months and the park board takes care of most of it.
 The playgrounds of the city are really parks under another name: in fact, one of them. Willow Brook, Is actually a part of a park and is not now under the control of the amusements commission.
 Some cities regarded as progress siye have combined their park and amusement boards. A larger park board than is now the case in New Britain probably would be neces- sary, and. as in the case of other cities, a sub committee of the full board would probably handle play ground matters to best advantage.
 Such merger would tend to cen- tralize the park situation In the city the committee in charge re- ceiving the suggestions of compe- tent body, yet being in direct touch with playground problems.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04

ed it with blood, Pyramus on his arrival hastily concluded that Thisbe had been devoured and so killed himself, and Thisbe, r.turning, inn molated herself on his corpse.
 Q. What is referred to when one speaks of the Black Assize'?
 A. This is a popular name Com- memorative of an extraordinary episode of jail fever which broke out at Oxford. England, at the close of the assizes July 5. l577. Con- temporary accounts describe it as having originated in the court house immediately after a sentence to lose his ears was passed on Richard Jencks, bookbinder accused Of sedition. It was popularly interpre- ted as a divine judgment on the cruelty of the sentence. but the phenomenon is satisfactorily ex- plalned by the pestilential atmo- sphere of the adjoining jail, then and long afterwards, a seat of mis- cry and disease. From the 9th of July to the 12th of August, 510 per sons are said to have died in Oxford and the neighborhood of this ter rible malady, among whom were the chief officials, most of the jury and many members of the university. Women, poor people, physicians, vis- itors and children are said to have escaped the infection,
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04

lowing his conviction for the mur- der Of a drug clerk during a holdup, were not at a loss to pin a new mental disease upon their client. In hearing before the judge to de- termlne scott's mental condition, he was designated as suffering from "cell shock"
 To suffer from shell shock as 4 result of having participated in the World War Is bad enough, but this cell shock" must be worse. Prob ably every prisoner who Is thrown into a cell can be said to suffer from 1t in varying degrees. At least, 1t must be a shock 10 any Individual nowadays to be thrown into a cell after having committed crime. Ac- cording 10 the statistics Of criminals who are never caught it Is quite un- usual for criminals nowadays 10 be forced to undergo this kind of shock,
 AS for the victims of the cell shocked. they frequently are beyond being shocked by anything. The worst that can happen to them re- mains a post mortem examination.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
Observation On The Weather

Washington, Aug. 4.-Forecast for Southern New England. ,Increas- ing cloudiness tonight, probably fol- lowed by showers Wednesday. NoI much change in temperature. Gen. erally favorable winds becoming moderate easterly.
 Forecast for Eastern New York Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednes- day; probably showers Wednesday in south portion; little change in temperature; gentle variable winde becoming moderate easterly.
 Conditions; The area of high pressure that Is producing fair weather in this section of the coun- try is advancing eastward over northern New England. Pressure is relatively low over the Plains states from the Canadian border to Texas. Scattered showers and thunder storms were reported from several places in the interior, the southern states, the Ohio valley and Northern New England. Tem- peratures remain practically the same as yesterday morning. Con- ditions favor for this vicinity fair weather followed by increasing cloudiness.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
MASSACHUSETTS RIOTS TOO FREQUENT

The riot at Westwood. Mass, resulting in injury to a dozen per sons, was not the first of the kind In Massachusetts as recent news re- ports ahundantly prove. Indeed Massachusetts Is acquiring rather unenyiable record as state where mohs quite easily congregate and create ructions of kind needing the attention Of numerous physi, clans.
 What Is difficult to understand in these Massachusetts uprisings has to do with the reluctance of the state police to be near the scene of such gatherings before the mob spirit gains headway and does damage. They get there quick enough after the riots are over; but 1t would be considerably more to the point to prevent such outbreaks rather than merely quell them this irrespective of the rights or wrong of Kan as- semblage. Law and order ought to have an even chance with lawless- ness and disorder.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
ROCKWELL POND AND
 POLLUTION

The state of the water in Rock well pond, Bristol - that verify is something 10 ponder over,
 As everybody by this time knows, Rockwell pond is a bathing spot that is more frequented than any within a radius of 20 miles. Time was when to get to Bristol was much more difficult than it is to- day, when numerous New Britain autoists make the trip with as little regard to the distance ss if they were motoring to the other end of the town. The number of New Brit ainites who go bathing in Rockwell pond quite regularly is considerable.
 But when 8 pond becomes the bathtub of thousands of people, one naturally cannot expect as delight ful water as is the case at a shore beach provided the latter is far enough removed from the sewage disposal districts of the oities along the coast.
 The story regarding the Rockwell lagoon in the Herald yesterday at least suggested that it might not be entirely free from pollution. How much pollution is possible before the water becomes a danger is a question for the doctors. We have seen thousands of people bathing in the pond and haven't heard of any body suffering from polluted waters, although that is no guarantee that if hasn't occurred. It would seem. moreover that on a hot day a good many people are inclined to risk pollution rather than do without plunge.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
BUILDING BARNS WITH NE,W BRITAIN TOOLS

Good news from the northwest IS that there is 30 percent increase in crops there this year thus slV- ing the hard pressed farmers B chance 10 recoup their losses ot the past few years, All lines of business depending upon rural trade report increases, and this prosperity natur- ally trickles down to the mass o1 industrial producers in the cities.
 New Britain is just as vitaily at- fected by this rural prosperity in the northwest. or any other section of the country, as any other Ne" England city and great deal more than most of them, as goods lhade in this city arc sold throughout the country in large volume.
 Many a new barn will be built in the northwest this year with toois made right in New Britain,
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
NEEDLESS MURDER BY \ NEEDLESS CRIMINAL

Rarely has there been holdup by one person with such unneces- sary cruel results as that perpetrated in Denver, as reported in yester- days paper, Here was desperado who, folled by woman's scream, began shooting indiscriminately at the occupants of an automobile, killing three of them. while another IS in g critical condition.
 Yet if the worthless fellow is caught there doubtless will be plenty of well-meaning persons in Colorado who will spring to his de- fense by claiming he never had a chance" 10 grow up differently. wasting sympathy upon the dcs- perado while forgetting his victims.
 That IS one reason why criminal justice in this country makes such little hcadway.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
SPRINGFIELD S RECORD
 AND NEW YORk'S

spnnEfeFd vas onr of the cities with more than 1o@ooo population which had no automobile deaths at all during tne ,ast four ~,cts, ac- cor1ins 10 rhe |, E Commerce de- partmcnt statts'ics issued yesterday. A visit 10 Springfield will al least yield 3 possible reason why. The downtown section of no city is nor" plen'ttully surFned nth traffic po- tcemen, and thoy do not qnlt th.ir duties at ? III. either.
 The records s1y.n tor 57 Amert- can cities hy 'he Commer~e depart ment vas nc' greatly cneoura ging, the total ot tstillues the past four weeks hIns 4Is, 2 docrease ot one compared with th= tour previous weeks; and 10 cap 're clmax was New YorEs recorL e'u sol auto deaths sine the frst of inc year. If this wholesale annihilstion of life continues thore will scarcely he any oth,r recourse than drastic measures htfer'a deemed inad>is- able.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
25 Fears Ago Today

Local Republicans are watching the Wisconsin convention, which will be held tomorrow It is said the Congressman Robert M. LaFollette will receive the gubornatoriaI nomi- nation.
 There will be gamo of baseball at Electric field Saturday afternoon between a team from the Y. VI. c. A. and the team explained hv Will liam Roche The makeup of The as sociation nine will bu as follows: Hayes c; Delaney, p; Groncr. lh; r. Williams, 2h klett, 3h: Bromley. ss: M, Rhodes, If; Doh"rtv, Of; Ban- croft, If,
 W. P. Felt is spending a week cruis- ing on the sound,
 James and Miss Antoinetta Sher- ard of Lake street are at Fishers s Island
 Al Gardeen and Patrick Ncnon- ough, who have been working on a steam filters job at the Stanley Works, lett today for Brooklyn, X. I.
 The scenery at the Eusswin Iy- ceum is being rcpaintel m prepara- ton for the c6ming season. when many fine attractions will be brought here.
 Jacob Abelson of Winthrop street complained to the police th1t hs chickens had got into q uoichbor's S yard and been stoned. two Of them being killed. He told that if he lvpt his fowl at home they would be more numerous,
 A committee Of strikers rom Col umbia Brewing Co. were in town to- day drumming up opposition to Col umbia beer
 Charles Smart and Patrick Gun ming complained to tho police last night that they were roughly uscd ly gang on North street
 The German societies have uamcd their committees for their rart in the dedication of the soldics' mon- ument. They are as follows: Turner society. George Vessels. Charles Kuper. Paul Stoeckel. Louis Lrhr. Charles Hipp. Rudolph GattIng and Jacob Walter: Gerstaecker Lodge, | I. o. O. F.. William Lang, Gustav Kraemer, and A. 4. Beher"nit: German Benevolent society. Jacob Baumgartner. Theodore Wagl i, and Andrew Guenthcr; Coacor'lia society. Charles Hepp, Falentie B"nz, and Adolrh Huebner; St. pot,r's society. Joseph Schillini, Arthur Eoiz, and William Schmidt.
 Registrars of Voters Scheng and Dorsey have begun canvassing for the November presidential P -rtiou, The town election in October will be from the old lest
New Britain herald., 1925-08-04
Mormon Museum Draws
 Crowds of Tourists

Salt Lake City, Aug, 4 P}-Mum- mics of ancient southern Utah cliff dwellers, weapons. agricultural i'm pements and other relics. declared by some archeologists to. be among the finest specimens in existence, are housed in the small museum of the Mormon church, located on Temple block here. The museum, visited annually by thousands of tourists, also contains many relics of Mormon pioneer days such as spinning wheels and household im- plements.
 What Is declared to be the first house built in Utah - 1t Is nearly 100 years old -- stands just outside the main museum building.