New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1914, Page 6

§ g al- simiiar fing espec!al that he has anksgiving and those it will' ex- t want to see ¥ tme and es- ople are on- that it is rea- that William C. fin behalf of the ‘will be heard and the appeal from fet with a generous ay be people who janother may not be harity organizaton ep an eye out lest enerous hand of puld be no one for- v deserving case i day after would GE STATES. f says that while en states voting fan suffrage, the pok upon the re- ftory. And most ervers offer con- “than condolence, Fo states won, mak- 1 of twelve equal- With hinety-one elec- fa clear and perman- n the states lost the B only begun to fight. en-who are now working em the rising suffrags r, the returns tell a dif- To quote Mrs. Arther . their national president, ffrage is doomed, and it is that the backbone of the ent is broken when six—at this —of the states in which the on was submitted turned it by big majorities. And, it is d, Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota, h Dakota, and Nebraska, which e decided to remain content with made government, are larger j[d more important commonwealths an Montana and Nevada. Yet the ning of Nevada with its 80,000 jpulaton gives especial satisfaction b the Woman’s Journal because Ne- ada is wholly surrounded by suffrage es. It was the one black spot femaining in the solid block of white in the suffrage map. And as for the tes not carried, the suffrage editor notes that in Ohio, Nebraska, and South Dakota, the affirmative lshowed a marked gain over the Jlast time the question was submitted, while the women ought to be encour- aged by the large vote in the states where the q}aesuon Was. submitted for the first time. The vote in Nebraska, the Lincoln Star admits, was suffic- lently close to justify the friends of suffrage in the hope that another Lrial may bring different results. The lcampaign in South Dakota, thinks lhe Aberdeen American, has. estab- lished a broader foundation upon which future efforts toward the pos- ession of the ballot will be founded. In North Dakota, the BismarcK Tri- bune opines that the issue has been disposed of decisively and should not bé resurrected again for several fears while the editor of the Fargo Sourier-News writes that the suffrage nagers did not expect the amend- k. vote { cism because of the €en the man- cal opinions of fton Frothingham, | ermit of New York, ‘certainly was a demo- tame to make his will, ‘was read in the probate frday it was found to con- provision: Mary Mack, e, is bequeathed the right to her present quarters as long jhe can agree with the widow, have ¥ use of the kitchen furniture, the ght to go out the front or back door, he use of twenty-five feet of garden, the right to have company and the right to take a bath in the family bathtub whenever she likes. The provision which may jeopardize Mary's chances of pros- perity is whether she can live with the widow, and not knowing the good lady it is impossible to estimate the size of the - task she has on hand. Some have found it a very difficult problem and, judging from the terms of the will, it is a fair assumption that the privileges mentioned in the only { will were denied previous to the rev- erened gentleman's demise, and when he was abonut to depart from this world he attempted to do something which perhaps he was unable to ac- complish during his life. But we may be judging him and the widow harsn- ly, as has sometimes been done in other:cases, but it can be said with truth that Mary Mack will have some authority in the house in question if she can live with the widow. It will be up to her to keep on the right side of that good soul. To be able to go in and out the front door and to use the family bathtub at will are rights not to be sneezed at, not to speak of the little garden in the rear where she can raise vegetables and reduce the high cost of living. If she can get ‘along with the widow, Mary: may be- come autocratic herself and then may want to make a few rules for the government of the household her- self, Such things have happened. CRITICISING CORONERS. The New York coroners are now being made the subject of much criti- laxity of their methods when they are called upon to pass upon sudden deaths. It is claimed that their inquiry is only of a superficial character and that it has been the means of concealing many murders. This is a serious accusa- tion and what is especially bad about it is that there does not seem to be any denials of it. Physicians simply report cases as they find them and the coroner appears to take no fur- ther pains but gives a certificate of death and that ends it. There is no doubt but that there is a great deal of similiar efficiency in otaer places as well as in New York, and that as a result the observing person takes it for granted that the laxity will continue and they too be- come lax and the system becomes ab- solutely "dangerous. This laxity can only be carried on through the care- lessness of the authorities, who should make it their business to look into such matters and see that the full duty of the coroners is performed. It is surprising such inefficiency is allowed to continue under Mayor Mitchel, who is making an honest ef- fort to give New York a business administration and who has some very competent lieutenants in the city service. They all need surveillance or some scheme of reporting by which it may be determined at a glance whether the work is being done prop- erly and according to law or not. ‘When there are no checks and bal- ances, inefficlency is bound to creep in 'and once it gams a foothold it 1s difficult to root it out without retiring an official, who, if he had been punched up once in a while, might have given better service. FACTS AND FANCIE married woman a wedding, and while she -Bridgeport D'ja ever see a who didn't ery at then 1wish the couple joy wag blowing her nose? Telegram. ‘When it is disclosed that 13,000 lives have been lost on grade crossings in the past three years, it is no wonder that determined efforts are being made for their abolition.—Norwich Bulletin. Coal and wood cost enough o that it is not unreasonable for customers to complain if it is delivered in rainy or snowy weather in open carts. Wood particularly, should be protected, since it 1s seldom dry enough for immediate use when it leaves the dealers yard.— Waterbury Republican. For a generation or more Rhode Island has had the honor of furnish- ing Thanksgiving turkeys for the ‘White House, but this year the raiser of presidential turkeys {s dead, and a | er opportunity for P berhaps, unless amb mpshire rises to the oc- PThe war has brought the knitting eedle out of the attic and bids fair to occasion the restoration of what was, in this country. almost a forgot- ten art. All over the land women are beginning to ply the needles in be- half of the soldiers in winter trench- es of Burope. In a few 'weeks, no doubt, the sight of a knitting women will be quite as common as it has been rare for many years.—New London Tiay The hunters in Massachusetts are not getting as many deer as they ex- pected. Fither the animals are not as plentiful as was supposed or they have been driven into the - deep wood, or the cold weather is effecting the hunters. One -frightened deer fled across the state line into Connecticut and was followed by the hunter and killed, who was arrested and fined for violating the sanctuary.—Waterbury American. Philadelphia is waking up 4o the fact that rats are an expensive luxury, hesides being spreaders of vermin and disease germs. According,to a bulletin of semi-official character, the des- truction of merchandise in that city alone by rats amounts to at least $10,- 000 a day. A rat station has therefore been established by the city at which bounties are paid for the animale whether brought in dead or alive and the Department of Health has installed a special patrol to carry away the rats brought in. It probably will not be a great while before the presence of rats and of certain other animal and insect pests in anv up-to-date - city will be considered a serious reflection upon municipal housekeeping. Bridgeport Standard. E TImpromptu War Minister. (Philadelphia’ Public Tedger.) About 1744 Great Britain was at war with Spain and France. Among the American colonies Pennsylvania was the only one that was absolutely defenseless. The Quaker assembly refused to pass a militia law, and there was no reason why the enemies of the mother country could not sail up the Deleware, land a force and devastate the commonwealth. Benjamin Franklin was just com- ing into public life. He had changed the old night-watchman system into a regulated police force, formed a vol- unteer fire brigade, founded a public library and established the Philo- sophical society. He was determined that Pennsylvania should no longer be defenseless—the doctrine of non- resistance to the contrary notwith- standing. After publishing a pamph- let, entitled “Plain Truth,” he called a meeting of thc younger citizens of Philadelphia, harranged them on the impending obliteration of the city by the Spainards and French, called for volunteers and then and there raised a régiment of 1,200 men. Within a very brief period adjacent places contributed their quoto, and Pennsy!- vania, had an organized, drilled and accoutered miltia 10,000 strong:. ‘When it came to providing artillery, Franklin’s ingenuity again sufficed. By means of a lottery, enough mon- ey was raised to construct fortifica- tions and purchase cannon, some from Boston and some from England. These were deemed insufficient Franklin headed a committee to wait upon Gov. Clinton and borrow ad- ditional guns. Clinton refused to lend, but the same night at dinner he so softened by degrees under the influ- ences of Madeira that with each bumper he offered Pennsylvania the | loan of more and more artillery, until his proffer reached eighteen mountecd cannon, which duly arrrived in this city. That was 170 years ago. Ten thonus- and men, supported by artillery, was not considered more than adequate for the defense of the sparsely popu- lated commonwealth. Man for man, by hardiness and resourcefulness, the rank and file must have been much above the level of the paid soldiery of Europe, as the subsequent revol- utionary war amply demonstrated. A Yes and a No. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Every time the question of capital punishment becomes an issue in a state the old controversy arises as to whether killing a murderer tends to deter others from committing murder. Opinions have always dif- fered. They are likely to continue to differ indefinitely. In at least two states the question came before the voters at the election this month. Oregon, according to complete but unofficial returns, abol- ished capital punishment by a narrow margin. Arizona defeated a similar proposal, allowing the present plan of hanging murderers to remain. The Arizona case had a certain | tragic element because some dozen | convicted murderers were in the pen- jtentiary awaiting the popular ver- dict as to whether the law should exact their lives or demand some more civilized reparation for the wrongs they had committed. Thus the voters had opportunity to consid- er the question in the concrete, with a dozen cowering creatures before them to give point to their theoriz- ing. Tt is not to be doubted that Arizona’s decision to cling to capital punishment was -deliberate. _ That state at least believes that the terror of the death scene is still desirable as an influence to preserve the sacred- ness of law. This is one of the questions which seems never permanently settled. Most states insist on taking a life for a life. Some have abolished the death penalty and later restored it. P-ople are groping in the dark with n6 ample experience anywhere to guide them. As desirable as its gen- eral abolition seems to very v i the information obtainable thgre appears to be no obser mpvement of popular sentiment that direction. / in SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914. WN T4LK. T HE question of abolish- ing the two tax- ing districts which formed a part of the consolidation scheme eight years ago is to be taken up by the committee on Te- vision to be appointed by Mayor Quigley. It is a good thing to do, and although it will not be the first time for the matter to be considered it may now stand a better chance for adoption than before. It was difficult to select a plan of consolidation that weould meet with the approval of the voters. It was first planned to take in the water department, and to have but one taxing district and to change the ward lines but there was such strong objections to all these things that all were abandoned and the char- ter, with the amendments since ap- rroved, was adopted. The assessors used to be 1 favor of the one district plan and presumably are today, and on ore occasion Chairman Burckhardt appeared before a committee on re- vision and urged the abolishment of the present arrangement and the sub- siitution of the one district. The late F. L. Hungerfofrd opposed it on the ground that it would be inequitable and because the assessors were com- pelled under the law to assess prop- erty according to its market value and te do that under the conditions then existing would work an injustice to the outside property owners. What- ever may have been the soundness of that contention then there is no reason for it now. If a fire was to break out in the first district at pres- ent the department would be able to ke a quick response and if water was handy could render the same service it does in the second district ard vet no property owner in the former section pays for the privilege. That is unfair on the face of it and the system should not continue any longer than is absolutely necessary. It would be desirable to have the fact that certain property was not im- ‘| proved taken into consideration when levving the assessment and there would be no violation of the law in doing so. The tendency would be to enlarge the grand list and there can hardly be any opposition to that for the reason that the larger it is the better it would be for New Britain. The assessors would see that there was no injustice done the outside prop- erty owners and the change would give “he city a better working system. The people on the outskirts claim, with much emphasis, that they now pay all they should and say they should not be asked to pay any more, If Ernest W. Christ let any one in on his intention to resign from the common council Wednesday evening they kept the fact ‘pretty close to themselves, for the reading of the document caused great surprise. Hec has been a good member, fair and just; he differed from others at times Lut he unquestionably felt that he was dcing the right thing. He sought all on every matter that came before the council and when he had it well in hand he was ready to discuss it intelligently and always did so. Mr. Christ was cne of the star debaters of the Y. M. C. A. and he carried all the skill he acquired there to the common coun- cil and was always at ease when he was upon his feet discussing a city problem. It is not going to be an easy matter to fill his shoes. They will be filled, however, as those of O, F. Cur- tis and B. N. Humphrey were filled. There is no one indispensible now- adays, not even the highest in the land. The sentiment in the council is that Councilman Marwick will suc- cced Mr. Christ as alderman and as president pro tem. He is a sensible member and can discuss a question with commendable clegrness whenever he is pleased to participate in debate. The members like him and they all re- gard him as sound in opinions and excellent in judgment. He is very attentive to his duties and this is a strong point in his favor. Councilman Parker is popularly supposed to be- come the successor of Alderman Spit- tler, resigned, and this will place him in the eligible list for president pro tem, if he cares to make a contest for ic. Mr. Lawyer has often been spoken of as a candidate for this honor but he seems to have always been pitted against the most popular member of the council. Aldermen Jester, Ker- win and Shine are in the eligible list though the two latter are practically barred by reason of the fact that they are in the minority. Still there have been cases where democrats have been honored by a republican council. The rivalry, however, for president pro tem is not so strong as to cause any breaks from the republican side. Whoever is nominated by the republi- cans as Mr. Christ's successor will be given the full republican vote and if the democrats desire to show a real friendly spirit they will join in mak- ing the vote unanimous. It is not al- ways necessa nor desirable for the council to be split partywise when positions are to be filled. The council acted wisely at Wednes- day evening’'s meeting in refusing to permit a four foot sidewalk to be substituted ' for a five foot one which had been recommended by the boara of public works. Some of the mem- bers showed a disposition to be leni- ent about the matter, which was com- mendable from the standpoint of the property owners, but hardly so from the standpoint of the city when con- sidered in all its ramifications. In the early days of the city four foot walks were permissible and they were wide enough at the time. The coun- cil, however, never dreamed of the New Britain of today and as a result wherever there are any narrow walks still remaining they are wholly inade- quate for the traffic, and in some cases at least five foot walks have been ordered laid in their places. In a city like New Britain, where so many people work in the factories, the walks need to be wide so as to ex- pedite travel during those hours when people are going to and from the shops and their homes. Some will remember the agitation in favor of the flag walk on the south side 0[‘\\(\" of the water board to say he i) gpeak. IM,\'rth street between High and Cur- | would rather die tiss streets. The railroad company objected because it would cross the tracks in front of the Malleable Iron Works and would run parallel with distance. The old street committee, before whom the hearing was held in the mayor’s office, which was then lo- cated in the Hotel Russwin, was in- clined to hold the same opinion; but those who favored the walk, and there were some who did not even live in that locality, presented the argument that the walk on the north side of the street was too narrow for the traffic when the people were go- ing to and from the factories gutteérs. It took some time, even, for this argument to prevail, though it dia finally and the walk was laid and no accidents have occurred since as a result. All sidewalks should be adequate so that pedestrians may have no difficulty in passing to and from their homes and places of busi- ness. Narrow walks have no place in the city at present, not even on the outskirts, because the sparsely popu- lated section of today may be built up in a year or two and wider walks will be in demand. New Britain has outgrown narrow streets and narrow walks and they can never have a place here again. The council acted wisely in taking a stand against them. It was desirable that it be done. The week just closed has proven conclusively that New Britain needs a morgue, to which the bodies of per- sons found dead from whatever cause, unless it be in their own homes, may be taken, claimed by friends and turned over to undertakers. Just now there is no system at all. If a body is found on a street it has to lie there until the medical examiner passes on it and permits its removal, after which there is further delay in obtaining the services of an under- taker, the remains in the meantime being left to the gaze of the passersby and the crowd of curious people who never fail to gather at such places. Previous to the coming of the hos- pital it was not uncommon to bring injured people to the police station, because there was no other place, and some of the feeling thus aroused helped to strengthen the movement for a hospital. We are still behind on some things and the lack of a morgue is one of them. There may be some qliestion as to where suitable provision could be made for such a necessary. adjunct to a municipality, but that is became no one has been interested in it. If some person or committee was authorized by the proper authorities to make inquiry for a suitable location it would be done and probably done quickly. Cases continue to multiply which show that a morgue is absolutely necessary in New Britain and there were some this week. There are frequently some sad features about such cases and they are made doubly so when the bodies are left to lie where they have been found and the city has no place to which they may be taken until identi- filed and claimed. Whatever loca< tion which may be selected now would, of course, only be temporary, because the city will have a new po- lice building in the near future in which suitable provision can be made if desired for such cases. That build- ing, however, may not come as soon as some think or expect and in the meantime something should be done. It is not to the city’s credit that dead bodies should be left on the roadside because there is no place to which they can be taken until claimed. The expense that would be attached to providing a morgue would not be large and there is absolutely no rea- son why it should not be provided while there are many why ft should. There is much speculation as to what effect the Chamber of Commerce is going to have on the city govern- ment. A discussion has already been started in reference to some local regulations, good in their way, and also in behalf of home rule legisla- tion, to which Mr. Klett made numer- ous references during the recent campaign and to which he sald he would give his support. If the Cham- ber of Commerce succeeds in estab- lishing a feeling here which will per- mit of a discussion of city regulations and laws without reference to poli- tics it will be worth all the effort that has been put into the movement with- out considering anything else. There is to be a civic bureau attached to the chamber and its organization is now under way. Great things are ex- pected . from this branch and it surely will be in a position to make a favor- able response. There has already been a reference made to hotels, which have occupied the public mind for a long time, This time the ques- tion appears to come up in a new color. Mr. Moore, the organizer, says that he has found tae local hotels pretty good and he made it pretty plain that if New Britain Brit- ain people will support them they will improve. That feature has never been brought up before and now that it has it gives the peopte a new idea of an old subjéct. That revives the matter of civic pride to which refer- "ence has often been made. We all seem to be a little shy on that, but now that there will be an organized movement to look after such matters they may show some strength. The discussions of the Chamber of Com- merce will furnish instruction for us all and out of it will undoubtedly de- velop some Improvements which will benefit the city in many ways. Tt will take time, but the work will alway be in the right direction. That is worth something. We Must Have Water. (Hartford Post.) The water board s unquestionably wise in its decision to go ahead with plans to take water from Farming- ton river if it is necessary, The board this source of supply, just as every citizen hopes so. but it might as well be recognized that it is far from im- possible that an emergency ray arise which will make it imperative. 1t is all very well for any mem- the tracks for another portion of the ; | city allows the water pressure to get and | many were often pushed off into the | hopes it will not be necessary to use | | delivered the address. of thirst drink Farmington river course he wouldn't. and a great many people would than to water. of Very likely he not ! have to drink Farmington river wa- | | ter. They would be able to secure the various bottled waters which are available. There are, however, thou- sands who are without means to buy mineral water and they must have a supply from some source. Something must be considered be- sides drinking water also. If the too low it invites a fire peril. Half | the city might be wiped out if the water board took no precautions for an increased water supply. Obviously there is no real recourse | but for the water board to go ahead with precautionary measures, even though knowing full well that it will probably be spared using them at the last minute, for the citizens would be intolerant of excuse if they awoke some morning to find themselves without water to drink. | As to where the additional supply of water is to be secured the water board will be wiser to accept the ver- | dict of its engincer than to listen to the objections of any newspape: editor who prefers his off-hand lay opinion to that of an expert. Timid Neutrality. (New Republic.) How is it possible to create the be- ginnings of international order out of the nations of this world? Not out af a world of pacifists, not out of a world of Quakers, but out of | this world, which contains only a small minority of pacifists and Qua- | kers. For it is peace on earth that men need, not peace in heaven, and unless you build from the brutalities of earth, you step out into empty | space. The first question that arises is the maintenance of treaties. We have seen them violated not only in Belgium but in Manchuria and China. We have seen The Hague conventions, to which our signature is attached, torn up and thrown to the winds. Un- defended towns have been bombarded, exorbitant levies made, hostages taken. We have hot even protested. We have watched the paper structure of good will collapse. And yet when a man like Roosevelt insists that we must create no more valueless paper, | he is denounced as an American Bern- | hardi and the twin of the kaicer. On this same score the New Republic will, no doubt, be accused as a mili- tarist organ, hostile to the good faith of the world. If we range ourselves | with Roosevelt on this question, it is because we believe that treaties will never acquire sanctity until nations are ready ta seal them with their blood. England may not have been tao scrup- ulous.about treaties in the past, but today she stands irrevocably commit. ted. If she makes treaties now they may mean something, and that is on incalculable advance for the human race. So with us. It is our bus-! iness ta make no treaties which we are not ready to maintain with all our | resources, for every scrap of paper is like a forged check an assault on our credit in the world. We must not permit ourselves to fall into the plight of Germany, where our word is distrusted by the nations. For | there can be no morality of nations S0 long as promises are idly givern and idly broken. So long as tha condition prevails, distrust and sus. picion will rack the world, and be- hind a facade of delusive promises the nations will continue to arm. So when Colonel Roosevelt says that our neutrality does not carry with it | the obligation to be silent when our | own Hague conventions are destroyed, he is taking an active step towards | ultimate peace. Had we protested against the assault on international | morality when Belgium was invaded, our faith in public law would have been made somewhat real. For un- | less some one some time is ready to take scme chance for the sake of in- ternationalism, it will remain what it is today, an object of derision to ag- gressive naticns. City Items | The I. 0. O. D. was entertained | last evening at the home of Mrs. Wil- | liam Pfieffer, 357 Arch street. | The followers of Miriam will have a private dance December 26 at Le | Witt’s hall. Lynch's orchestra will furnish the music. ! A special meeting of the Y. M. T.| & B. society will be held at 2:30 to- | morrow afternoon to consider the purchase of property adjoining the society’s building on Lafayette street. ' “Thinking Black in America,” was the subject of the meeting of the Women's Missionary society of the | Baptist church in the church parlors | yvesterday afternoon. Mrs. E. G., Litch was in charge and Mrs. 1. | R. Wightman led the devotional ser- vice. i . Miss Ellen Johnson of street and Miss Agnes Johnson Vine street, have sailed for on the steamer “United States.” | Mr. and Mrs. Willlam L. Banner of | 225 Curtiss street quietly celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary at their | b home on Monday evening, November 16, 1914. Sunday, Rev. G. C. Hill will preach, at the South Congregational church. His topic will be “Science of the ! Times,” being the development of the | * address given on the evening of Peace | Sunday. The third regular monthly of the Membership club will be h November 24 at the Y. M. C. A, ginning with supper at 6:30. Jennings, the instructor in salesmanship course, - will give . short talk on “Selling Membership.” |a the Swedish last night. of Hartford Tonight Rev. C. E. Carlson of Bristol will speak and Professor J. A. Hultman of Worcester, | Mase., the popular singer, will render solos. Sunday afternoon both Rev. Mr. Palmgren and Rev. Mr. Carlson An additional speaker I | | i t meeting eld be- Mr. the al ¥ The annual mission at Bethany church opened Rev. Gerhard Palmgren Curtiss | at the Sunday services will be Rev. A of | M. Sweden | three meetings Sunday offering football tickets for of five boards won Hiram W. REV. | HEALTH TALKS COLDS, More people probably suffer | from common colds than from uny other single ailment. Health sta- ¥ tistics give no hint of the prevai- ence and importance of these mi- nor affections because deaths from colds perse are nil and sta- statistics of colds are Imperfect and difficult to collect | Could the total of suffer- ing, inconv complications and economic loss resulting from common colds be obtained, it would at once promote these i fections from . the rank of triviul to that of serious diseases. A | common cold is an infection of the lining of the nose, throat and ! large bronchial tubes due to a germ or germs. Therefore, a common cold is infectious and is really conveyed from one to . another. Comumon colds but the complications of pneu- monia, ete., are serious. A cold or succession of colds may depress the vitality and hasten the prog- ress of diseuses lying dormant. g As already stated, colds are df to bacteria, or germs, and are n due to exposure to drafts, suddel changes of temperature and chil ling of the body. These popula: beliefs are but the predisposing causes and will not produce a cold unless there are present the infec- | tious germs, ! Colds are contracted from other persons having colds, just as diph- theria is contracted from diphthe- | ria. The draft that one blames for his cold is usually the transient |’ chilliness beginning a cold which makes him feel the cold air at that | time. Were he not already infected | with a cold the so-called draft | would not be felt. Artic explor- | ers are certainly exposed to all the | conditions ordinarily supposed to | produce colds, yet they do not suf- fer from this ailment until they return to civilization and become infected by contact with their fel- lowmen. Common proof of the contagiousness of cold is found in the frequent witnessing of colds going through whole families. And this is usually observed in houses that are not ventilated in winter 80 well as in summer. A young child suffering from a common cold or a very mild sore, throat should be carefully watched The first sympton of measles and whooping cough is generally a cold in the head. The mild sore throat may be diphtheria, ' If your child has a cold or sore throat, do not send him to school. By so do- ing, you are endangering ‘he health and lives of other children. Better for one child to lose a day or two from school than to expose probably hundreds of other child- ren to the danger of infection. The contagiousness and severity of tolds very greatly in different epidemics, depending upon the na- ture of the Lacteria and other fac- tors. While colds are one of tho most common afflictions, most people do not consider it worth while to take ordinary precaution against them. Nor do they exhib- it te least compunction as to how they spread them about. Colds are conveyed in the secretions of the nose and throat, yet how prong is the sufferer to cough or sneeze in the fack of the innocent by- stander,or to usc the common drinking cup, thus unwittingly passing his affliction on. Winter months witness the larg- er number of colds, which fact’is due in part to our overheated and | oft times poorly ventilated houses, and to lack of sufficient care on the part of the victim, who has not at sometime or other been in the room of a person with “only 4 cold” and been subjected to his abuse by his coughing into the air instead of into a handkerchief, or by his waving in the air preceed- ing its use, an already overworkel handkerchief, thereby spreading | myriads of germs to further harm. Guard against a by avoiding the predisposing causes, viz: dust, drafts, sudden changes in temperature, exposure to cold and wet, overwork, insuffi- | cient rest, improper food and | coddling yourself in overwarmed rooms, all of which tend to lower the resisting power of the body. Avoid exposing yourself to a vic- tim’s cough or sneeze. Indeed, shun the room of a cold patient, unless it is well ventilated. Avoid | coming within a quarter of a m of the absurd wave of U hand- kerchief previous to its use. Fear of fresh air is one of the most fre- quent causes of “catching cold.” sum nienc are never fatal do “fresh cold” Gidart of Yale. There will be SPECULATOR FINED, New Haven, Nov. 21.—Carlos Gree- v, who claimed he was from Brook- yn, N. Y., was fined $10 and costs n the city court today, charged witn sale, con- rary to a city ordinance. A city de- ective sald that Greeley offered him wo tickets for $26 and he had one | other ticket to sell ‘CHESS MATCH DRAW. New Haven, Nov. 21.—The Yale and + Harvard chess teams played to a draw by each, in their nnual chess match begun last night nd concluded today. HILLC::EST CHURCH UNIVERSALIST 427 WEST MAIN STREET Services Sunday evening, 7:30. Smith will preach. ALL WELCOME, A. DILLINGHAM, Bridgeport, Coaa. Rev, F Supt.