New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY', DECEMBER 15, 1015, BRITAIN HERALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. (Sunday excepted).at 4:15 p. m. g ‘Building, 67 Church St TUMPANY. the Post Office at New Britain jecond Class Mall Matter. ly carriors to any part of the ity ts & Week, 65 Cents a Month. for paper to be sent by mall in advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a year. profitable advertising medium in Circulation books and press always open to advertisors. will be found on salé at Hota- s Stand, 42nd St. and Broad ew York City; Board Walk, ¢ City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ce neEEs Rooms [RISTMAS OFFERINGS. of the yesr vast sums of mgney going letters laden with monetary the folks in the old country, loving sons and daughters e come to the United States ca to seek their fortune and e made good. It has ever Those who remained oD er side, the fathers anil the uncles and cousins and hve always fared well at the s hands of those who hold And especially ime of the year, with the las holidays approaching, has P so. Uncle Sam’s on the big steamers have car- lions and millions of dollars. hough this money was going he country never perhaps to ho one was sorry to see it go,— en if he had the power would th a restraining hand and have at this time these shores. mail another Christma its he sleighbells are ringing, the h are happy, and everything is uned up for the great event. nce the last Christmas, many things have happened in the old world and many new con- have been imposed on the who dwell in this land, the t among the neutral nations the saddest of these new affairs there will- not be a great of money from the United this year to the folk abroad. tle mother sitting in her old- ed trundle nest will not hea: jher boy in America this yeev Lord. There will be no faut is on for her on Christmas Day. No ! or money order to help lighten rden in life, to give her the of purchasing those things that mothers are so fond of getting. will be an empty purse in the instead. Except for the do- s that are sent over by = the lican Red Cross and which will stributed among the needy, the ers and fathers who are sitting e firesides while some of their lare fighting in the trenches ard s are earning their livlihood in ica will spend a scant Christmas. no matter how much the Ameri- Red Cross takes care of them, the ittle letter from across the seas ng the signature of their loved sould carry more joy than all the in the world. But that letter ot arrive this year for the simple bn that the Post Office autho of the United States cannot antee that it will reach its des- ion. And because that guarantee ot be given the mothers and ers in that far off land must go lain without word from their boy while prosperity hangs high over land no one is yet in a position *to ter wages upon the waters. No one hia want to send savings home and e them intercepted on the way, lbably sent to the bottom of the lan because a diabolical U-boat e out of the offing and celebrated holidays by ramming the carrier hbmer. Nor yet would they take hance on sending the money when v consider that the belligerent gov- hments are liable to seize the ship t carries it and hold the entire go in some port awaiting action ; m a prize court. Thus will the ristmas remittances be cut down. ere will be losing all around. Th k who were wont to get thei bristmas presents in _this fashion lose, and Uncle Sam will lose in enues because the Post Office loses this monoy. timates at the wan has cost the postal ser- ce twenty-one millions alread hat will be lost before the year er cannot be estimated. e opportunity to carr e Postmaster General THE SNOW. This is a slight reminder of a real ld fashioned New England snow torm, a touch of by-gone days when he blizzards raged in all their fury; ‘hen the milkmen wont rve their product in through the the snow was were to wcond story windows, ko high: when the family remained ooped up for a week or two, unable o get out of the house. he days when father used to slide out he second story window so he could o to work. It was then they used to | Those were |one side to the other. the days when the sleighing was lovely and the goose honked high. All this, of course, before the advent of the automobile,- which leads us to remark that if the olden days..in- trude their snow-storms upon us we will be ecrying, with TRichard - IIL, “A Horse! A Horse!” And we'll give c¢ur kingdom for a horse, provid- ing_he has a sleigh hitched to l"in; with jingling, Jjingling, tingling, tingtling bells. Those were WHAT THE PRESIDENT MISSES. When worse comes: to ‘worst and an’ American citizen has no'gne lefs ipon whom to vent his wrdth the Président of the United States always offers a very converient target. No matter who You are, what you do, how you do it, or where you belong, there is | this possibility. The butcher, the | baker, the candlestick maker, and every artisan in the land can “take a crack” at the President. That is what he is there for, to be criticised. ‘What boots it that he is a specialist; that he is one of the greatest students of economics’in the country; that he is a historian; that he is a scholar; that he knows more about certain condi- tiohs than any one else; what matters knows more than he, There is always someone lying in ambush ready to lambast him. That is one of the joys Of course, it could not be done in any other country in the world, and that is probably what makes it such a won- derful pastime. The same men who stand up and decry every act the Pres- ident performs would be, were they in England and criticised the King, ruth- lessly thrown in. the bastile questions asked. Were a man in Ber- lin to say things about the Kaiser that he would not even hesitate throwing at the President of the United States he might suffer the ignominy of being beheaded. But that is neither here nor there. Whatever is said about the President goes. Whether it pertains to his private life or his public acts. ‘We are all at liberty to call him what we will, to stamp him down as a rene- gade, an ingrate, a despoiler, a traitor, anything, everything. It is easy to say the President has sold out to Ger- many, to ‘England, to any foreign na- tion. It is very easy to find fault with his policies. And yet, in the final | analysis, the President of the United States was put there because the peo- ple of the United,States wanted him, and, having ascended to the chair, he is not readily going to do anything that will be detrimental to the nation. He has the country’s interests at heart Jjust as much as any man on the street corner, probably more so, because it is the business of the President to take care of the United States. . That is all he has to do, to attend to the affairs of the nation. He is even getting paid And, while the ribbon clerks are doling out their allotment of mer- chandise, the President of the United States is taking care of more serious business. But, it stands to reason that he cannot know as much about the country as the fellow who stands {around on the street corner every {afternoon and night after work. Be- cause it is on the street corner that all the wisdom gathered. There you find the fountain-head of all knowl- edge. It is too bad the President can- not get around more and hear things. He would be very much edified. And then, too, he would know how to per- form the functions of his office. and no for it. Get a girl. Get a horse. Get a sleigh. And then in the soft mellow glow of the moonlight, drive out the country. But when you do so, be careful of the drifts. Because, while this is the season of the sleigh, with its merry tinkling bells, it also the time pneumonia and other kindred sicknesses are abroad in the land. So, if you are not careful where you drive you may up-set the sleigh. And, when you tumble out in the crisp, fluify you stand a chance of contracting a good- fly cold. And a cold venience, at when you decide to indulge in this wonder- ful winter speort, sleighing, be care- ful where you drive. Watch your step. COMMUNICATED. Origin of the Phrase “Brother Jona- than” as applied to the Yankee, liditor of the Herald. i -Will you tell in is when snow, always means incon- least. Therefore, me why the signate a Yankee? ANB T In the of 1776 General Washington was badly in need of am- munition. He called a council officers, were offered. “We must consult Brother Jonathan” said the general, meaning his excellency, Jonathan Trumbull, the elder governor of the State of Connecticut. This done, the 'difficulty was removed, And cver afterward the sct phrase of the coun- try was ‘“‘consult Brother o the appellation affixed winter Jonathan, Later than’ was to, any man who tunnels at the street crossings so | came from America, it really meant who were brave | @ man of ideas, from | as John Bull is used in England, It is now used just that? « There is always someone who | of being. a citizen of the United States. | e “Brother Jonathan” is used to | of | but no practical suggestions | “Brother Jona- | ; Log of the Oscar 2. | Dec. 13, 1915. 15t tu\Tillman. ] Have just received the following “No one pays any more | attention,to me. What shall I do?" | Sent back’'the following: “Unearth a German munitions plot.” The news- papers like it.” ; from Bryal Have-put McClire and sLindsey on a breag and water diet in the shl's i il Understand the}p}!lm have hard | wvork ‘maneuveriiie ~wilkt ward $ v Helm siys a teffific breéze iy comi fromy ' the mlw\mgxm; | Jotr iittte journey is a plot to help A land. < 4 At the rate this old tub is sailing, we will be lucky if we get into the trenches by Christmas. Christiania almost ahoy. And the little Fords, etc. FACTS AND FANCIES. The Boy Scouts are doing well. One if Mayor of this great city.—Brooklyn Standard Union. | i e | The difference between diplomacy | bused on backbone and diplomacy based on jawbone is very striking.— New York Sun. In dealing with the Allies it seems to be Germany’s business to do the fighting and Austria’s to make the concessions.—Binghamton Press. Have you discovered the name of any man in public or semi-public life which does not appear on that} Nebraska ballot?—Berkshire Eagle. Owing to the growing reluctance of | the public to come in and lose any more money, Wall street seems less optimistic about the business future. —Hudson Republican, Dr. Pease, leader of the Anti-Smoke movement, quit the Ford peace party «l the dock, probably because he learned that the armies use smokeless | powder.—Syracuse Post-Standard. Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg talks like the baseball manager whose team has a slight lead at the end of the fifth inning and rests his hope for victory tpon the heavy-hanging clouds.—New York Herald. . Syracuse approves of Billy Sunday, partly, as it is carefully explained, because his presence has such a strong tendency to brighten the Mon- day issues of the morning papers Rochester Post-Expr Bryan petulantly says no one has “forbidden him to speak to congress- men as yet.” But isn’t it about time that congressmen came to their senses and denied this meddler the right to speak for them ?—Philadelphia Led- ger. Apparently authoritative reports | from Washington seem to prove that the growing realization of the close interdependence of dyestuff and high explosive manufacturers will play a very important part in the develop- ment of plans by Congress to stimu- late the upbuilding of a domestic avestuff industry and for adequate Drotection of the same.—Textile World Journal. Congresses of other years will be 1o a certain extent bound by the acts of this one, because this. one is giving direction and character to a policy which will be the policy of the nation, not of a congress. Therefore the need | for most earnest, intelligent, unpar- tisan and statesmanly effort to insure that the defense plan shall be the Tight plan, and only the right plan.— New York Pr The directors -* the port of Boston are doing well in calling the attention of the western grain shippers to the fact that there is no congestion at the greal. Massachusetts shipping port. The grain elevators of Boston are only one-third filled at present, and there is plenty of room for many hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat. Let New York have a monopoly of the shipment of arms and ammunition if it will, but by sending the grain through Boston the western shippers will avoid delay and ave money.—Springfield Union, HOME Something Well Worth Reading This Time of the Year. Upon number of re- s for the publication of a little essay, “Heme Town,” which appeared in the Kansas City Star some time ago, the Herald takes pleasure in running this refreshing bit once again. It is s follows At receipt of a “Home Town is around the bend on the road to Yesterday. It is mel- | | lowed by memories and painted with sunshine. Among the inhabitants | are the fat boy called “skinny.” pig- tailed sweethearts who turn up their noses .and run away, the preacher who asks after the health of every member of the family by name, the school teacher, the gang and grand- | ma, and the dog. Roses bloom there in gardens behind the fence palings along the street. Iolk walk lei- and speak to each other in The church bells of a Sun- day morn call yvouth and innocence to come and sit in a square pew with a door to it and eat peppermint drops and doze and sleep on the edge of a starched collar 1t has a “deepo” to which 2o small boys to watch the trains roll un ndly and snort and pass on. It usually summer there, although there are blustering | days when the sleigh-bells jangle— «chink! chink! chink!”—and the | $3.00 pair. sleighs pass with incredible. swiftness the small boys standing on the ex- tended runners in the rear and rid- McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST . BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” No Matter How Little You Buy We | Will Cash Your Christmas Check. | FURS FOR - . CHRISTMAS . % crwpreN's sETS. 3 S198 £0 $5.08. SEPARATE MUFFS AND SCARFS. - FOR WOMEN. Priced $3.98 upward. FUR' SETS EXTRA VALUES. Priced $7.50 upward. DAINTY HOLIDAY APRONS. 25¢, 49¢, 76c, 98c each. DAINTY UNDERMUSLINS. In Xmas Boxes, make acceptable gifts. BOUDOIR CAPS. 25c, 49¢c, 98c each. SILK HOSIERY. That one delights to receive for Christmas, “Onyx” Silk Sox for Men. All colors, 25¢ 50c pair. CHILDREN’S SILK STOCKINGS 50c pair. BOOT SILK HOSE FOR WOMEN. 25¢, 50c¢, pair, all colors. “McCULLUM” SILK HOSE. For Women at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 | pair. The kind that women know are | reliable and right in every respect. HANDKERCHIEFS. Bigger values, Greater assortments ! then ever before for Men, Women and Children. GLOVES FOR CHRISTMAS. If in doubt as to size when pur- chasing gloves for Xmas, tley can be exthanged after Christmas. Women’s Kid Gloves, $1.00 $1.50 to Washable Cap Gloves, $1.00, $1.29, $1.50 pair. Men’s Lined and Unlined Gloves, 50c to $1.50 pair. Golf Gloves, Mittens of all kinds. HOLIDAY STATIONERY. 10c to $1.50 box. Large selection of French Ivory, Jewelry novelties, Coin Holders, Van- ities, Mesh bags, Silk bags, Beaded bags, Shell goods, perfumes, toilet | preparations Christmas and New | Year cards. If its Umbrellas look to this store. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET ing off to glory. The season for doughnuts and marbles and pumpkin | pie and kites and Christmas cookies ! and hoop-rolling and Hallowe’en and ! Valentine day and raisin bred and shinny are religiously observed. ‘“Yes Home Town is around the bend on the road to Yesterday. It is well and favorably known to most of those who live in cities and apart- | ments. Home Town is a wonderful heartache.” A Morning of the Long Ago. (Capper's Weekly.) Buck Kilby says the Kansas Meth- odist preacher who goes out and husks a hundred bushels of corn a day for fun has the most pronounced sense of humor of anyone he ever knew. And that conjures up this picture. A crispy, cold early morning in No- vember. The stars are beginning to fade out of the sky. Two horses at- tached to a farm wagon, the box equipped with sideboards and “throw” board, headed, in the half darkness, in the direction of the field. Long rows of corn dried out by ‘he heat of the sun and shredded by the wind standing * spook-like on the horizon, each ear rimed with the hoar frost | of autumn. A sleepy boy with tired joints descends from the wagon to the ground. His hands are sore and cracked in a hundred places. Where the skin has held together it is al- most worn through. His nails are broken and jasged, a few of the wider and deeper cracks staunched with shoemaker’s wax melted in before an open fire the night before. Hec takes hold of the first ear reluctantly, and his sore and stiffened fingers al- most refuse to do his bidding. The | the front. B. C. PORTER SONS MAHOGANY GIFT FURNITURE A visit to our Mahogany Room will effectually solve your “What Shall 1 Give” question. Dainty Tip Tables, Sewing Cabinets, Rush Seat an ’ and a host of others.- We specialize in correct reproductions. SEWING STANDS The ‘Washington” and $13.75. celebrated design — NEST OF TABLES Useful in Specially priced at $14.95. MUFFIN STANDS Our leader in solid Mahosg- any at $4. Others $5.50 and $8.00, SUGGESTED BELO COLONIAL WALL Beautifully with leaf. base, $23.00. figured Heavy fully proportioned, “Martha $11.00 dozens of ways. 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Dec. tentment characterized the Cham- pagne country, where now the lines of the French and German trenches wind like scars through the heart of its high plains,” begins a statement issued today by the National Geogra- phic society which describes and lo- cates this old land division mentioned continuously in press despatches from “Its peasant proprietors were weil-to-do before the war; its touch of the coarse, sharpedgad husl sends cold shivers up and down his skin. He notices, as he yanks the first car from its jacket. that he has left a drop of hlood on the husk. On the next husk, there are two or three drops: of blood. In ten minutes his tortured hands are numb and stiff with cold. But pres- ently he warms up and forgets his maimed hands in the thought that | he must husk and crib his fifty or sixty bushels by night. The sun comes up and in an hour or two he is working more easily and with much greater speed. His hands have stopped bleeding, but for every ear he tosses into the wagon box he pays a toll in physical suffering. And then another: Dusk in the | same field. He is finishing his sec- | ond load. The end of the fleld is cities, while small, were well-built and prosperous, and cases of poverty were seldom to be met with within its area. Its farms, under intense culti- vation, yielded more than the rich holdings in the famous black-earth belt of Russia and the wine made from its grapes was known wherever west- ern civilization had found its way. “The Champagne is an old-time provincial division of France, and is included within the present depart- ments of Marne, Haute-Marne, Seine- et-Marne, Aube, Ardennes, Aisne and Yonne. The trenches pass through Flanders, the Arteis, Picardie, and, then, enter the Champagne, where are located some of the most impori- ant battlefields on the western front. Rheims is the heart of the region and the German lines are just beyond this city- The old province was about 180 ten rods away. The corn is piling | up against the “throw” board. He | husks the last ear in the row and | climbing upon the wagon drives to | the crib half a mile away. As soon | as he scoops the load into the crib, | unhitches. waters, unharnesses and feeds the hoss, he is through for the day and goes gaily in to supper con- scious that he has nothing more to do until four o'clock the next morning. It’s a great life and most any humor- ist can get a lot of fun out of it. miles long by 150 miles broad, and, after the 10th century, it was ruled by its own counts who were vassals of the French kings. Its capital was Troyes. It was united by marriage to the French crown, and was incorpor- ted with the kingdom in 1361. Liege and Lpxemburg bound province on the north; Lorraine bounds it on the east; Burgundy, on the south; and Picardie and Isle de France, on the west. Thus fighting reported from the Champagne takes the | rlace somewhere between Soisson, on the west, and the forest of Argonne, on the east. The country is hilly on the north and east while high plains form its center. It is throughout this re- gion that the present German lines cut deepest into France- “On the hills and undulating ficlds of northern and central Champagne, in the shallow soils, are grown the grapes from which France's world- famed wines are made, the aristocra- il | crease in births by boy bables as well { as an increase in the number of mar- It is reported that certain commyn- ities in Great Britan show an in- riagess This shows that Great Brit- | ain is already spontaneously repairing the ravages of war upon population. The conditicn is probably true of all the warring countries. When the next census is taken it will perhaps show: that the population of Europe is |e1. depleted than might be expected. It has always been claimed that more boy babies are born during war in which there is great loss of male life, but the claim has never been proved. - The birth rates of Europe af- ter this war may furnish the necessary evidence, since registration 1is mnow general, cy among all the wines of earth. Pro- duction in this part of France is rica and varied, but it is upon the success of the grape harvests that the good | and bad years largely depend. A bad | grape year is felt by all the peopie of | the province, while a good grape year | brings prosperity to all. The wine product is sent to every country in the world, and its export is large enough | to represent an important item in the nation’s foreign trade. Rheims and Epernay are the import centers of champagne manufacture, and miles of racks of this product are stored in la- byrinthian galleries cut through the low chalk hills in their neighborhoods. | A trip through these underground avenues, broken here and there by lit- tle lighted rooms where small groups of workmen bottled or cut the wines, was a regular feature on the tourist’s program, whose route through France ran this way.” War and Population. (Bridgeport Farmer.) The birth rate, is a product of three factors, the marriage rate, the birth rate per family, and the mortality among children under five years. Some countries have a low mar- riage rate and a high birth rate. In some countries infant life is bet- ter protected than in others, It seeme reasonable to suppose that for a time marriages will be expedited by the marriage of young people at an earlier age and that extra effort will be made to protect infant life. The cost of war in human life is thus not an impairment of the future pop= ulation so much as a destruction © the living. CAN'T PLAY “GIRL” OFTEN- Yale Faculty Bans Female Tny ators After One Year. Haven (Conn.) Dispatch Ne York Herald.) The Yale faculty has put a bam o an undergraduate playing female part in the productions of the Yale dr matic associations for a greater perio than one college term. Whether or not the Yale studen who in the past have appeared . skirts and petticoats have become %0 effeminate to suit the faculty ecanno be learned, but the ruling, which hi been posted, will be lived up to, cording to Dr. Frederick 8. Jone dean of the academic departmeng “It doesn’t make a man of a low who ig all the time playing we en’s parts in shows,” said Dr. Jo “A man who takes the part of a man is doubtless the one most fitted the part.,” (New