The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-03

Mr. and Mrs Norman E. Kunde of 30 Putnam Street have decided to chrsten their daughter of April 26 Norman Jean Harry Mara isn't doing much kicking these days The popular Oakvie lad who clothes clothes should be worn is still mpng from recent accident in which his right foot was lacerated. Clarence Dckerman of Wnsted father of Mrs Wendell va of this city, reached his 18th birthday Thursday and on the same day and his wife celebrated their 5lst wedding anniversary Presently he IS associated with his 'on, Donald in the grocery business in Winsted \ Mary Cartocet of the Summer Street Cartocetis
 Department t' A l of @ the Waterbury Manufacturing
 Company where she works rendered her greenback
 shower at Tim Moynhans Hitchcock Lake eatery
 where Mary and merriment reigned all evening. The
 event in honor of Mary's coming marriage to
 Alfred Bartoni of South Street which will be an event
 of May IT at Our Lady of Lourdes Church Making the
 shower the success 1t were Josephine Altman,
 Josephine Barsini, Ida Gushing, Peggy Dwyer Evelyn
 Durocher Tess Jacobs, Gerte Kelly, Louise LeBlanc
 Deata Lucian Evelyn Nolan Eileen Shea Anne Stada-
 Illus, Doris Tucker and Mary Sweeney
 The Kentucky Thoroughbred :. No better time to reprint this classic of Col Daniel E. osulivan could be found than today which marks the 67th running of the Kentucky Derby Here tis He is of royal lineage No through his veins The fire of the dessert sun is in his eyes, It's warmth is in his heart the speed of Arabian winds Is in his feet His courage heritage of the ages It was struck at white heat from the anvil Of daring and sacrifice for in the tent of his master he learned love and loyalty and in tribal conflict he shared the dangers and the glory of battle. Cross the thoroughbred on colder breed and he will fill all the currents of its slug gish nature with ambition The magic of his blood will 
 crest lend usre to It's coat and give shape and swfness to It's limbs. Kings and queens not royalty bred They often perpetuate the mental and physical defects of their degenerate orbears But the thoroughbred is tried in the furnace of contest and If he fails he is cast aside. No quarter Is shown he must win his right to found family If he is beaten he Is doomed to gnoble tasks If he proves coward the paddock the course and the stud will know him more Only the fittest and the eetest survive The history of centuries Is searched to find flaw in the ancestry of the thoroughbred What record did they inscrbe the parchment where the kings and queens of the turf ennobed and eshrned? Did they weaken at any part of the journey? Could they go the route? Did they finch from the steel? Did they welcome the whip? Did they struggle on when the very breath of their bodies failed? Did they fight out in those last few determined strides where victory beck and alures and where the stark spectre of defeat waits for It's victims? From the palm trees shade and the hot sands of the deset the thoroughbred was trans planted to Kentucky and found sanctuary in the Blue grass He fields fertile those that fair Ruth geaned in alien lands Its sweet verdue carpet woven out the texture of blue skes and the greening robe natures breast awaited his coming. It embraced his weary feet, filled his nostrs with fragrance fed him when he hungered, refreshed him with It's deWs, and when he grew weary took him to its undulatng bosom Tn this favored realm of sunshine and shadow he was cheered by its warmth, sheltered by It's shade and en- compassed by It's beauty The Bluegrass fashioned by the Master playground for royalty and 1t is meet and proper that the kings and queens of the turf should possess this favored land.