New Britain herald., 1927-05-21
1.-THE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

I to real estate developments. . ping
 pong photograph of some unknown
 youngster with q badge on his chest.
 Seven programs from . nearby theater. One lone theater check
 for seat K-23 for November 16.
 1925. A ball of red string. Six Christmas seals. A defunct fountain
 pen. A tangle of red ribbon, evi- dently taken from Yuletide gifts for saving until next year."
 A card entitled From Mother to Joe." A fountain pen filler with the rubber squeexer gone. A box of thumb tacka. A snapshot of white house with an unknown lady stand- ing on the porch. Two insurance premium receipts dated July 13. 1922. and May {, 1s2t, respective ly. A clipping of a recipe on mak- ing tapioca pudding. An empty en- velope addressed to us with the column of figures amounting to $23.OS on its back. A Third Liberty Loah button.
 A piece of yellow crayon. A miniature calendar of the year 1906. A gold tipped cigarette minus most of the tobacco. Three red poker chips, one cracked along the edge. A clipping of joke which. if 1t had sounded humorous at .te time it was clipped, had certainly lost flavor with age. A briar pipe with . broken bit. More string wound around . small stick. Two postage stamps of French currency. A Canadian dime. A small piece of quartz. A clipping of an advertise ment of which only the words Send No Money" legible.
 A folded note on ruled paper with the words in pencil "Of course ] do you shouldn't believe all you hear. Annie" scrawled on it. A pressed wad of what was evidently once a rose bud. A length of picture wire. An envelope of cigar bands. relics of a day when they were used to adorn plates. A railroad ticket to wallingford. A 100000 mark note.
 A paper cigar which opened into fan. A curl of blonde hair the color of strained honey. A snap shot of us on a pony-wonder where the folks borrowed the animal: A store list with the words Sugar If can get" on it-wartime days.
 A large folder photograph of an aunt who lived in Philadelphia and liked cats-gone now. poor soul. A report card from the local high school showing a profusion of red ink marks. A hand tinted picture of an Indian maid. accomplished by either very inexperienced hand or a master of the ultra-modern school.
 The sought after receipt.
 The building department deserves to be sustained in its contention that permits should not be allowed for the erection of lunch carts. The department has taken a stand against them for the best interests of the city.
 There are two serious objections to this type of structure-they are unsightly and encourage the con- gregating of undesirable characters in the late hours of the night. Visitors are not impressed when their observing eyes are greeted by numerous lunch carts. which have a tendency to cheapen a neighborhood in which they do business from an architectural as we'll as moral stand point. It cannot be said that prop erty in their immediate vicinity be- comes more valuable. The contrary Is true. They give touch of western mining camp atmosphere which is not wanted in a city striv- ing to improve.
 New Britain is we'll supplied with restaurants Of permanent nature where food may be obtained just as cheaply. They represent heavy financial investments on which the city realizes large sum annually through taxation of properties in which they are located. More lunch carts are not needed.
 This is no musical country so far as the natives are concerned. The original Anglo-Saxons who settled 1t an dtheir descendants to- day as 8 rule know nothing about the finer points of music. When- ever you see a really musical per- son. one having that sixth sense which denotes the appreciation of the highest things in the art of tone, you will find that he Is Of German. Scandinavian, French, Italian or Jewish blood. Compare the apparent ease with which peo- pie. of this blood take to music, how they master its intricacies without half trying. with the strug- gles usually necessary by persons of Anglo-Saxon descent"
 Thus spoke musical lecturer the other day. We have seen and