New Britain herald., 1928-01-28

tThoa hat shown the be5a It High aehool
 lTbeu'rt there with the brAiny stuff. Whan t copass fe wtanAng heuers. When t canes to thtn9n that count. yhou d1inkA h deep draughts of knowledge
 Whiae they're sipntng at the feunt. Little Gariie, thou'rt wonder And our hat ta eff to thes. Theu canst Atck wicked eyebrow, Thou eanst vanp us with thy knee All the world can parrot 'haDper" And It ali thlne efforts smile But as- tor scholastic houors, lGirlie, thou wtn'st by mile.
 Them. ~ Mr. Einstein might say in discussing hts theory Of relativtty. h our sentiments.
 Al . mere male. the writer felt properly subdued when he read in the Herald last Thursday an an- nouncsmsnt of the honor pupils at New Britain High school The male chest, which h won't to project with the inflatton of sex superiority. tm- medaately assumed . concave posi- tion. The hat, which has always cir
 cumcraniumed at delicately ad-
 justed angle, capae down over the ears. The feet which have carried
 M elasttcally in puHsult of many.
 many buses mornings because we
 would insist on having another dice of cinnamon toast and naarmaladc.
 seemed unable 10 withstand the ab-
 normal weight Of the body and car ried us sltnkin1ly through. back
 yards to our domicile long after the
 shades Of night had made objects lipdisttnYuiahabie An tnferiority complex sank iA fangs into our
 spirit.
 Out of eight pupils who won gen.
 eral tonors for three years at Hleh
 school, there were only three male
 representatives. Not such bad
 showing, one might say, but when the things that are said to 2 dis paragement Of the modern girl are coAside.ed. there doesn't seem much left for the male to boast about.
 But the worst h yet to come.
 Scanning the list of special honors,
 1t was discovered that the girls far ! outnumbered the boys. Names which revealed their owners as being mem
 bers of the sex that scoffs were as tnfrequent as raisins In commercial raisin bread. In every branch of
 knowledge, except those taught at
 the trade school. girls proved them
 selves superior. It was a crushing . blow to the self -glortfied male. Let's see about these gtrls. They lswing easily along the sidewalk and
 chatter like magpies, seemingly without a care in the world. They Y dance late at night, according to
 OUT spies, and their response to the : breakfast bell is lethareic. Appar' v entity they do everything excep'
 study hard and what is the result - The question z repeated: What s' I tho result? In q few words. the re-
 suit is that they carry off the ma D jority of honors in scholastic Q achievement. And plunk. goes an' " other pet belief nourished by ths g males. the belief that since the ftrs d sunrise up to and including the pres 2 cnt day, man twhisper the wort 6 softfy) is the peer of the numas y race. 2 Come in. euthanasia, don't stol - to knock.
 The Observer is of the opinion U and 1t is possible two or three otne ' New Britain people are too. tha ' Walnut Hill park would becom l' much more popular if the dr1ve a' were kept in better shape. ,, Of course. winter M upon us an .g the park h not frequented by man 7. people seeking relief from the heal ~' but still a large number Of automo
 bile owners use the drives In pro ,e ceedine from West Main street t Ia some other section of the city, c B. ,vice versa. The driveways are nc
 i'm such . condition as to warrar F. a we point with pride" speech. ss There arc guliies. ruts. bump ,e holes, hills, dales, valleys an 70 crevices and 1t ts impossible to q V cape all or nearly all ot them. A 'u ,automobilist gets . rather roue
 ride If he drives through the par In If there was snow on the grouu as and there was no chance to repe
 the roads, that would be somethtr
 else aeain. But the weather ha
 been comparatively mild and 1nar
 people still Nko to drive through Il !. park. The new memorial has . ! ltracted many to tho top ot the h1 | land there is still an excellent vie fof the surrounding country from tt highest point.
 i The roads, as we have poantt ' out before, are practically as impo
 tant as other streets. es far as col
 dt.ion goes. They afford convenie
 short cuts to the western and soutl ;, western parts of the town and the 4 is no doubt that traffic problem \ would be relieved to some extent , a good paving job were done. Twenty-Five years ago:
 Brown derbies commanded ! spect.
 } Women wore high shoes and se !! eral other things not highly popul now.
 I Mustaches were measured width. breath and thickness. II Kaiser Bill was quite boy. \ The youngsters believed in sar Claus.
 Political inclinations divid families and split up homes. 1 Dances began at p. I'll. and CT
 ed four hours later.
 Strawberry festivals were du
 the rage. in season of course.