Milford chronicle., 1929-05-03
MILFORD, FRIDAY, MAY 8. 1872
MAY-MONTH OF BEAUTY


Now comes May, one of the pref
test and most pleasant months Of
the year. Winter has gone, the
sudden showers of April are past
the heat of summer has not YET
come and vegetation prepares to
spread with lavish hand its beauty
all about us.
The origin of the name Of most
months is easy to trace. Not so
May. 1t is generally agreed that it
was named for Maia, the Roman
goddess of spring, but there is also
theory that May is the abbreviated
form of Majores and that the month
was so called because it was held
sacred to older men as June was
dedicated to juniores or younger
men.
Originally, May was the third
month, but it became fifth when the
Romans placed January and Febru-
ary at the beginning of the year.
1t always has had 81 days. Its spec
ial flower is the hawthorn and its
gem the emerald.
Since earliest times the first of
May has been marked by outdoor
festivities and children have danced
about a Maypole for hundreds Of
years.
Today many schools have May
day festivals in which gay costumes,
pretty flowers and dancing complete
a most colorful picture. May is
marked by few important historical
anniversaries, compared to other
months, and few holidays.
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MANY PEOPLE will not be able
to understand the point Of view of
Marian Talley, famous opera star,
who recently announced that she
was going to give up the operate
career in which she has had such
brilliant triumphs, and that she
would go back to the west and buy
a farm and carry it on.
Many girls in simple circumstan-
ces are dreaming of some public
career like Miss Talley's, and would
wear themselves out in the effort
for such success if there was any
chance for them. But not many
opera stars quit the cheering au-
diences, the glitter of stage life, to
return to simple tasks with the
COWS and the cornfields.
Yet according to the talk of the
philosophers, we ought all Of us to
enjoy these simple tasks and sur
roundings. They would say that
success in any artistic profession
calls for physical and nervous
strain that breaks down many peo-
pie. They would feel that people
would live longer and find calmer
happiness amid scenes of simplicity
i'll some modest home, with activity
in the tasks of daily life. There
would be more satisfaction in the
world for a lot of folks, if they
could learn how to be content in
plain surroundings, and find pleas
ure in simple kinds of work and
simple diversions.
People obtain the greatest happi- |
ness from doing the things that in
terest them most and which they do |
particularly well. Perhaps Miss
TalIey will conclude after few
years, that she would find more
satisfaction in developing her Won
derful gift as singer, and perfect
ing herself in the operate art. But
if developing a fine dairy farm real
l9 interests her more, she shows
good Judgment and will find greater
to work along the line
of this ambition, even if it does not
produce the same big money re-
wards that she can so easily gain
from her opera singing.
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ALIENS who make a start on the
process of naturalization after next
J. Iy 1, will have to pay SIS more I
hr that privilege, and it will cost
s20 after that date, if their entry .
INTO the country was properly re-
;crded. If not so recorded, it will
cost them $40. Citizenship in this 8
grand country should be worth +
much more than $50, or even $40, to
my alien living in Delaware. For
hat small amount, they get the pro-
ection of the most powerful coun- !.
~ in the world wherever they go.
they get the chance to exercise the
anne right of suffrage as is given :
o the native born, in determining
ow this country shall be run. Thus
took and a voting privilege in the
,orld's greatest organization are Of
cred to all comers for an amazing =
= small price. e
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THE LOVER who can't ask his Il
weetheart to marry him, will not
robably get her, and so the busi-
sss concern that won't ask the pub a
C to buy its goods through adVer- o
sing, is not likely to win any large c.
are of trade. fl