New Britain herald., 1928-02-04
1.-THE OBSERVER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City ano lts ReopIe

surprising answer. Apparently some vague fear Of tragedy turks iE
 the back of every womAn's mind and
 leads to the precaution of pretty and
 unsoiled underthings. For. 'Suppos.
 ing anything should happen.
 wouldn't want the doctor to find
 me etc, etc."
 The endurance record for ar
 American author and the conttnuoln
 performance mark for . serial are
 held by Adele Garrison In her mar.
 ried life serial. Revelations Of | Wife" which k published in more than . hundred and fifty news.
 papers, including The Herald. Approximately three million wordi and four thousand chapters of thil story of married life have been written by Adele Garrison to date The story has run in ten differen, phases, each a complete novel Revelations of a Wife" began in August, 1915.
 At first, tho atory ran four in- stalments a week but later was in- creased to six and has never been interrupted. It's two central charac- ters. Dicky Graham. temperamental artist and his wife. Madge. who tells the story have held the center of the stago for over twelve years.
 Other married life serials with succeeding phases have been discon- tinued or limited to one chapter a week. Revelations of . Wife" alone stays on. the hardy perennial of married life serials still more in de- mand than ever.
 The intense interest taken in this story by its readers has been ahown frequently when editors, thinking . change would be desirable, have dis continued Revelations" Tn. in. sistent demands of loyal fans" caus- cd Revelations" to quickly re- appear.
 Women's clubs have taken 1t as . textbook for the discussion Of mar ried life problems. Men in all walks of life-lawyers. doctors, workers and even newspaper men-send Miss Garrison their testimonials. But the most loyal readers are women rich and poor - names weli-known and country women on lonely farms.
 The wife of a Chicago multi millionaire recently wrote Miss Gar rison that ahe had not missed an in- stalment since its beginning.
 From Maine a woman wrote: "The characters are so real to me that l feel as if I had known them always as if they were real people in the same room with me-"
 And so. Revelations of a Wife, continues-the longest and most widely published of all serials in book or newspaper form.
 If you think remark. story or a situation is funny. laugh: if you don't think it Is. don't laugh!
 Sounds like silly advice. we'll ad- it sounds silliest to those who need 1t most. Just look about you. Take mental notes of your business and social acquaint- ances and of those who happen to sit near you at the theater, q game or dinner. Is there anything more goat-grabbing than the individual who continually bursts into long, loud, monotonous and we'll measured guffaws, at the least provocation :? There isn't the slightest trace of mirth. He merely gives vent to his animal instinct and emits loud and noises to the discomfort of all about him. Perhaps he thinks he is selling the public on the idea that he is possessed of a wonderful sense of humor. It may be that he wishes to fiatter the speaker by 1t appear that his sayings and his stories are uproariously funny. or it may be that laughing specimen Is somewhat of a drydock himself and is laying in a stock of goodwill to be available when he sounds off with his line of chatter. In any event he's wrong.
 If he could only see himself as others do, it wouldn't take him long to realize that he appears to be in the class with those who have no sense of humor and laugh always lest they allow a really funny thing 10 pass without registering. When a speaker knows there will be a cere- monious "haw- haw- -haw-haw" after each remark he is likely to put our friend in the nit-wit class and wish he would shut up before he makes everyone else lose their sense of humor. If he is worried about the reaction to his own stories, he can rest assured there will be a laugh, but it won't be laugh with hinG instead 1t will be ono at him.
 The disadvantages under which operate after c fall of snow are so well known that to re- cite them would be a mere waste of paper, ink, and time. But their existence is so generally noticed that the hurrying motorist usually over looks entirely the benefits which accrue from the presence of snow upon the ground. He may even be inclined to argue with us that there are none, 50 we will catalog a few.
 The snow allows you to say. II skidded," when you are bawled out for trespassing on the crosswalk while the red light is flashing.
 The snow can be blamed for the cratic path of your car if you are going home under too heavy load of alcoholic beverages.
 The snow will allow you to make the acquaintance of desirable flap pers whose chainless cars become stuck in drifts.
 The snow is far less crackly than gravel and will so deaden the sound