New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1924, Page 6

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Entrance | Grand Central, 42nd Street. | Los Angeles, Cal.; Arcade Statiom, | THEATER LICENSE FEES It is to be hoped that the license committee of the common council will | not increase theater license fees, The | only object gained would be an added | income to the city or one or'two hun- | dred dollars at the expense of nearly | everyone attends the movies once in | ganizations, is helping tremendously. | e e | bloomers.” Just think of that. “Autumn,” would recdvc_ en-} and Bloomers,” is the promising lltle,] INSZS 3 T THE 0BSERVER— thusiastic reception, any summer eve- ning in Walnut Hill park although few t might know that they were works of men of New Britain % There is a happy medium, con- stantly ‘growing more worthy., The radio as well as our own musical or- AFTER MAY DAY May Ddy is two-days along her |'lonely journey into the past that is dead, while few noted her coming, her | short stay in the hurried rush of the ! hours that are ours, and her drop- ping silently away. To most of us she was only May 1, a reminder of things ! unattended to; a reminder of things to be done—the beginning of another month of endeavor to crowd into the days more minutes of productive ac- tion; a time to plant a greater num- ber of seeds which would bear tangl- ble fruit to be taken ‘o the market | place and sold. We can not change the forget such anniversaries as the day which ushers in the sunshine and warms into | new order which makes us | life the slumbering soul of man in his ho{y numbed by winter's cold and | dreariness. | But if we can not nor would not | change that new order which persist- | ent progress has brought to pass, wcl may at least figd little eddies in l.he! fast-flowing current in which we are | forced to pause through sheer weari- | ness, and in those silent moments we may renew our appreciation of that sunshine of life which urges us on and | without which we would become the . dull, uninspired slaves to the work of | * were and the editorial begins by stating that “A live issue of the day has come to a heated state at the University of | Michigan. Prograss and reaction have | split upon the bloomer, The students belonging to the gentler sex,” and we are rather glad that 'phrase has breathed its “have adopted They thirty years ago. “Not for flippant curiosity,” the paper do they “but’ as an evidengg of culture, and the old ladies who keep boarding houses in Ann Arbor have declared that they will not serve hash to a girl clad.in trousers.” Awful! But last, wearin® 'em back explains, wear them. wasn't it only a few months ago that ! the wife of a well-known automobile manufacturer refused to have words with a group of girl campers because they were clad in some such nether garments? Then the editorial goes on: The outcome of this struggle between the new and the old scems to be only a matter of en- durance. It is, as it stands, a question of bloomers versus bread. There is good.reason to believe that the bloomers will win. If a girl in trousers can’t get bread at a boarding house she can go to a_ confectioner's and eat cake, “The cold, hard fact seems to be that all the efforts of reactionists to check the spread of the bloom- er will be futile, The wise board- ing - house keeper in a 'varsity town will hereafter accept, with- out question, the fin-de-siecle girl, her sister and her cousins and her. pants.” Things have bettered ,a while, at least. The loss to the peo- | the material world with no thought of | days. The newspapers do not call the ple would necessarily be in pntronh-j ing places of entertainment which | would have to curtail expenses, pos-| sibly by presenting less worthy pic-| tures for their amusement, | The theaters of a city are assets | a breath of remogse that the sentiment | of substituting “pants” ‘for the spiritual, the divine, | And so May Day passes with no prettily Secorated may-pole Before us, white-clad children playing about it. But the memories remain to bring just | bloomer girls anything as awful as fin-de-siecle,”” and there 1s no popu- ar “Pinafore™ song, with . its line about “her cousins and her sisters and her aunts,” to suggest the humor nts™ of the city. They furnish the chief of those hours hes slipped from our | though many might like to perform means of enjoyment. for the people | 8rasp and in their place has come a | the operation, But it does one’s heart who can not afford to go out of town hard, practical sense of .the tragedy &00d to find that the elevated railroad often, or whose work prevents their|of ~an unproductive hour. - Kewer dangers which, apparently, “men- doing so in time to attend evening en- | tertainments, if they so desired. At-| tractive theaters, where the best pic- tures. are. shown and where effort is made to consult the wishes and con- | venience of the people, shou)d be en- | couraged rather than the reverse. For & great muititude of the people here the movie is the day's “life saver.” ‘Were the question whether or not it should be made more difficult for we“ managers of our theaters to give good | entertainment to be put to a vote of the people, the overwhelming reply would be that such move should not be made. | Of course members of the common | council do not expect passes to the | theaters any more than they wouldi expect free gifts from any other busi- | ness which they have it in their power | . 1o ald or injure. The reason for sug- | gesting an increase is gnly an echo of the general desire to bring into the city treasury every cent possible, But, the members of the common counci would be the last persons to do some- i thing that would tend to drive out of | business men who are furnishing amusement for the peéople who cer- | tainly desery® such recreation after the hard day's work most of them | put in. . | The Herald has far too much re-i spect for the intelligence of the mem- bers of the ordinance committee and | the common council and finally the | mayor, to believe that they will take | such action that would be a square blow between the eyes of the people’s ehlef source of amusement through | most of the year in this city, POPULAR MUSICAL TASTE By a peculiar coincidenee the mat- ter of populay musical taste was dis- cussed in this city the other evening almost simultancously with the ecom- ing of the news over the telegraph wire that the radio was improving that taste. A local speaker emphasized the op- | portunity given by the band conclrts in this city In the summer to present better music to the people, just as Prof. P. W. Dykema of the University of Wisconsin school of misic was say- ing: Radio has made its way into every little town and hamlet in the country and Into thousands of homes. With increasing interest in this modern discovery, the public is coming to appreciate better music because of the varied programs broadcast by radio sta- tions. Every station has its radio numbers, Musical programs broadcast generally are sclected with a view to giving the publie several different types of musical ections. This has led the pub- e to appreciate and want great- er variety of music. that of This musician dectared also “Largely through the radio jazz music has become more res influence fined, complex and harmonious, ¢ * * Thete is no need for a substitute for Jazz music because it is losing its bar- | barous shrill characteristics which it first possessed.” The people who hear our band con- eerts and enjoy them want some of the popular airs with are familiar. But they would soon appre- #late 100, many of the begt master- shown by the fact that they they vaundeville which they aud enthusiastically when are played or sung on the slage as many bits of opera often are presented by vaudeville musiclans. And such ballads as Theron Hart's “Asbes of Rowes,” or Arthur G.Kim- | gives the further dreams come to make us see through the drugery of work the goal born of them. The task before us presses to be disposed of to make room for lhc.’ next, equally as monotonous, equally as uninspiring. The whisper of the soul is silenced;by-the clamor of rea- son and we labor on remembering, only f the thing that must be done; forget- | ting the days of dreams which inspired | our first deeds that were worth while. But the sunshine, the reawakening of life’s brightness which comes with May Day does not die when the day passes, and we may look back to that hour even though she wus forgottén fith her sisters of sentiment, in the haste of the modern world, And we | may feel that remembrance of her will come again and again all through the long year until the time when dreams become deeds and ‘each day will have { its leavening of love, BACK IN 189, A gengrous-hearted gentleman, looking for mno favors, dropped into the Herald editorfal rooms the other day and left a copy of the “New York Morning Journal” of date, April 11, 1895, Interesting? It contains so many inspirations for thought, some bringing a smile, others suggesting satisfaction with today and hope for | the future that the newspaper nearly 20 years old will be kept for constant | reminder and refreshment. ‘ The four leading headlines on the front page read: “Luigi's Wild Woo- | ipg; It Won for Him the Love of Beautiful ilda Frost;* “Hoodooed by | a Song;” “A Pitiful Ending;” “Rosie in Cupid’s Bonds.” There, if you please, are separate - headings over distinct storles—not, as & cursory | reading might indicate a serial story, thus—“Luigi's Wild Wooing Won for Him the Love of Beautiful Tilda Frost who had been Hoodooed by a Song Before Rosie’s Pitiful Ending in Cupid’'s Bonds.” The newspaper reminds its readérs that Easter is coming as well as the Journal's Real Estate number, and that Oscar Wilde is acceptable whatever he may be as a man and that his books will not be taken from the New York libraries “no matter what Newark may do.” On the front page is a woolcut of a man in s apparently dangling with a platform in front of an almost prehistoric engine, while a in Jong, flaring skirts looks on registering horror. “The ‘L’ OWns An- other Vietim,” is the caption, Looking at the editorial page we find the announcement that the Morning Journal has the largest local circuia- tion of any paper published in New York city, and the unblushing admis- sion that it has “lLargest German circulation in America.” Here we find, too, that “McKinley said nothing about protection to wooden nutmegs while in Connpeticut: that the Japan- ese have seifed an English steamer. “Enigland may begin to think about civilizing Japan yet.” Pasing over the thought suggested by the picture on the front page; with its caption about the elevatediroad naving claimed another victim, name- Iy that since ways have been found to prevent ‘deaths from the elevated and the subway, during these (wenty-five years, 80 a way may be found fo re- I dents, we come to an editorial which, with a few changes might have been written yesterday. Read tHat editorial of 29 years ago, and think; “Board information whiskers Jady o the number of automobiie mec- | in making specches for ace no longer, and that the '95 flap- pers in bloomers are blooming today in beautiful maturity. That's the hope | for the future found in the press of thirty years ago. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN The new-rich of the next generation may call it their boot-legacy, Cynicism 1s the bad taste in your mouth after you have gulped life too recklessly. . . The politicians are having a hard | fonger turncth | time, Soft soap. no away wrath, Modernizing religion to kecp pace with civillzation will mean leaving out most of the “dont’s, Every town has a few who delight charity and nevor sce the collection plate, Sambo has his little troubles, but he doesn’t spend 10 per cent of his | income for permanent waves, The reason the pioneers were hardy | was because they couldn't sit on a cushioned seat and howl for service. Make-up will hide an ugyy skin, but apparently there is nothing you can do about a giggle. The funny part is that Barnum got one-a-minute idea . before “pre-war stufl” was invented. McGraw's men can‘t play golf, so now at last they have somcthing in common with the ‘great majority. Why should congress modify the dry laws? Apparently there are ad- jectives enough to modify them now. Your fellow diners say bright things, even without cocktails, but they don't seem w0 darned bright, 1f a man who stands in with Big tusiness can’t get a political follow- ing, it may be €ither suspicion or envy. The story that katydids make that noise with their hind legs scems much more reasonable affer you observe Jjnzz musicians in action 1t is no lenger considered a risque story if he leaves her in the last chap- ter and goes back to his wife. A free country is one in which you ean hate 4 man of another faith, even if you don't practice your own religion Jokes about sophisticated times probably seem a Jot funnier 1o those who haven't a twelve-year-old daughter, these Spring housecleaning isn't a sucerss unless the furniture can S0 rear- ranged ad to trip friend husband three times the first might Correct this sentenee: “Now that it's out” sald he, “1 won't build another fire this spring whatever the weather doed” More than 50 per cent of the tour visit the firet-class hotels ol Switzeriand are Am ists who since those . ob THE INQUISITIVE REPORTER Our Inquisitive Reporter yesterday ed -this question of four people em to you that the study vertebrate palenntology affects to _uny pronounced degree, in the light of | ustro-physicul phenomena, the es- |tablished " periodicity appertaining by nd large to nationally observed holi- days Mrs. Thomas Townsénd, housewify | “Probably you're right, but I think indirect lighting is much more artistic for the small home.” Tommy Briggs, messenger | “Better make it a night lett | Ninety cents for fifty word: | Dwight Hilleyr, merchant | just how you feel. Had the same trou- {ble with my flvst: car. so traded it off | for a motoreycle. Red Wilson, waiter: * a third degree, Bo, I'll hav trict attorney do it. Get me if T want | : the dis- | The inconsistency of womankind is exemplificd by the society girl, who starts in when she comes out. | OUR OWN BOOK REVUE DEPT. Courtship of Miles Standish | Miles Standish gets this Alden feller, | And says: “I stutter, Kid—you tell ter. King Lear He gives his daughters his estate, ;Tho daughters give him—what? The J gate, Cat-Nipp! Miss Catt—"She dresses to kil Miss Nipp-—"Yes, the bills are put- | ting her hushband in the grave.,” i —=Margaret Shoyer. | Appreciation She was at the symphony concert, . The music was of Tschaikowsky, | Never before had she heard such exquisite tones, A musician of great renown watch- ed her as she ligtened to the music, It was at the last note of the Pi torale from “Manifred” that | aced” back in '95 is considered a men- clutched at her bosom, gazed around | with shrieked | shrilly, | "A true artist!” breathed the musi- }vlml as he bent over her, frantic eyes, and “Good Heavens!” she cxclaimed as she opened her eyes, 1 forgot to turn the fire out under the beans before I left home.” Patience Trask. THE BARNYARD orge 8, Chappell A Hen's intelligence seems small, | As If she had no brains at all; But that's the way that hens made; They're often they're lald! Said the Hen to the Duck: never get in my eggsclusive set.” | Batd the Duck: “Your chances too are dim of ever being in the swim,” Definition Religion: Faith that there is_one who (rules our lives, Marriage: Knowledge that there is 'one who rules our lives. resight She listened as he talked, “I am rieh,” he said. “If you mar- | ry me, my money, my motor, cars, my | yaent, my houses, everything will be yours,” BITS By are cracked the day “You'll rocial I ine!” she exclaimed delightedly. Then her bhrow clouded, “But what will you do?” she asked. | -1, Crities Pegay: "Dob says he likes me be- cause I'm the pieture of health.,” | Alice: “Ycs, he always has been | erazy about anything hand-painted.” | ~Ernest Boyd. roduction ¥, Mitehell (Copyright, 1924, | Forbidden.) ;laulhmghmun He—"T can remember when girls used to take long walks to enjoy the country.” Yon't they now ?”. 0, they take them to show off their knickers.” ~+Harry B. Stiliman, Plainville Mr, Black—"The lot the Willlams bought is 200 feet deep.” Tommy- that deep enough for a well, Dad?" ~~Jane Bloom, New Britain. Little Johnny had fallen down stairs and the following conversation took place, Mrs, God punished being naughty, Johnny."” | “But what did 1 ever do to God, you for 8, W. Goldstein, New Britain, The Vun Shop s & national insti- onducted by newspapers of ountr Contributions from s are original, safficient e pald for at rates vary- from $1.00 to $10.00. Write on #ide of the paper only and send your contributions to the “Fun Shop Bditor.” care of the Merald, who win 1 ard them to New York an ted manuscripts will not be returned The Hersld editor will chooke what he considers te be the three best ntributions subraitied fn tisis dis- h week and will $1.00 thelr use on Saturday eve- They will be semt to head- and will also stand & being accepled In the ne- Fun @hop. [ — —— VIEW NIAGARA FALLS Juffalo, May S.—Anton Lang. the Christus of the Oberammergan Pas- sion Play, with his wife and the tweo plagers who represent Peter and Judas in the play, arrived last night from the New Hampslhire moumtains where they had been resting. They said they were here to see the Niagara Falls tution e, resders, Inventors Basy Tio De Janeiro—A burst of inven- tive genine in this conntry has resuit- ed in 216,170 applications for patents and has enriched the onal coffers by 82,026,186, The commissioner of patents has agked for 100 extra excm- liners, ——Howard Dietz. | she | Makes Random | | ! | At a meeting of a prominent mu- ! sical organization this week criticism wds made that bands which provide concerts for the public during the [summor devote the greater part of their program to popular music. In | the opinion of the writer, the criti~ | cism, while correct, was without jus- | | tification, | ' When the public strolls to Walnut | Hill park for the purpose of hearing concert it is in search of relaxation. | The majority who compose the audi- ence have been at work i the fac- | tories all day earning their ®read by | the sweat of their brow. They want {to get away from life as it is and | enjoy life as they would like it to be. .They want music that stirs the feet. In a word, they want jazz and it is |safe to say that a concert program icomposed of the classics would not | lattract half the crowd that can be found at the park on a warm sum- | mer evening while the band is play- ing. Classical music, like classical any- | thing, is for the few rather than the many. The general run of mankind cannot appreciate a great musical | composition,. a great work of litera-| |ture, a great picture. Tt does appre- | ciate anything on its level, and mod- | (ern music has brought most people |to the same common level. Grandpa | may long for the old square dances | | but when the band strikes up “Mama |Lioves Papa” he can't make his feet {behave any better than his 16-year- | old grandchild. It is doubtful whether any band | | here,could render a program of clas- | sical music as it should be rendered. | Classical music requires constant |study and practice. Bandsmen in New Britain cannot devote the time necessary to these requirements. Fur- | thermore, if they could, they would !prohubly find their efforts were not appreciated because the public wants popula? music and will have no other for a steady diet, Caviar and pate {de foi gras are all right in their | places, but the average man wants { roast beef and potatoes for every day food. An occasional program of | elassical music which will be attend- ed by people who like it will suf- fice for the present generation, . “« Speaking of music, Father went up to the garret this week to look gver | his golf clubs and remained there so long that Motner went looking for him. As she approached the top step | she heard a strange nolse and stopped. I"ather was whistiing, For fully a " half hour Mother listened to a strange | concert consisting of a few old time | favorites which included “Comrades,” “I'll Whistle’ and Wait for Katie, | “Kiss the Little Ones for Me,” “Lit- {tle Fisher Maiden,” “Little Anne | .‘Rnonv Little Buttercup,” “The | Man Who Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo,” “My™Sweet Jessie,” *0ld Folks At Home," “Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-Ta- Ray, “Watchman, What of the | Night?" and “Douglas, Tender and | True.” Tather had found a stack of [sheet music which was quite the rage before the Spanish-American war and had forgotten all about his golf clubs. | .o | o the average person a reporter is la wondertul combination of public service and general convenience. Any | person who wants to take up a collec. ption, hold a banquet, ghve a home talent show, sell a horse, conduct a revival service or run a foot race, looks around for a reporter, And because of this, or sometimes in spite of it, the reporter loves his ob. It probably is no exaggeration |to say that a genuine newspaperman who is not in love with his profession is something almost inconceivable, the thrill of the unexpected, the daily |adventure, the mixing with people on |a common level, all form part of the |soul of a reporter and he could not |five and be happy without it. | But there is another side to the | question. To the average person a reporter is a person, usually a man, {who goes to work some time about the middie of the forenoon after | everyone else has been laboring for !several hours, walks around having a | good time with hie friends, plays a game of billlards here, a gamd of {pinochle or poker somewhere else, | has his lunch at the country club or the best hotel in the city as the guest | of the president of the bank, spends | the afternoon playing golf and then | Iustling back to his desk where he | | #its with his feet on the mahogany, smoking 50 cont cigars and waiting | | for soméone to ecome in and invite him out to a banquet. | To the person who imagines thusiy, |the reporter is always a single man, e has no wife, no family, not even a sweetheart, In faet he has no home to which he can or ever wounld care {1p go, he knows nothing whatever |about home cooking, he never sleeps and his time is worth nothing to him except the pleasure of an opportunity to turn the grindstone for the axes of | his friends. “Here 18 a ticket to our banquet, | Saturday night,” says a man who en- ters the editorial office just as the cub | reporter is devoting the busiest part | of the ddy to telling funny stories to the “Hello Girt" on the switchboard. “We're going to give you this whole ticket, all at once, and in réturn we want a big write-up,” and he smiles benevolently as he contemplates the pleasure of the cub reporter in getting | another chance to work all night for nothing and donate about $60 worth of free advertising in return for a night he thought he would. like to stay home and see if his ‘wife still re- membered how to- cook And thus it goes. An organization gives a home talent play and the pa- | per devotes one or two small Wwrite- Not much but equal in adver- | tising rates to about 310a Then the organization, to show its appreciation | votes the reporter one cent ticket, and again for this he is expocted to | devote an evening reviewing the show and to “eome across” the next day with g write-up worth about $30 at | [the prevailing rates per line. | I in either case, the reporter gave ‘g writecup equal in “alue to the cost | On the City and Its People | “free 7" ticket to & banquet just the | Observations \ ticket he is simply paying ‘the ex- penses of a reporter who is asked to contribute free of charge his time to the cause. A write-ub to the value of his ticket would entitle him to eight lines, The man with the 75 cent ticket under the same policy would get less than three lines. And in either case the reporter could cover all the rews the affair is worth and still be free to spend the.evening with his The old time circus press agent, wild as his yarns were, unbelievabie as his highly colored descriptions of the “Wild Man From Borneo,” cte., were, was a most popular figure in the editorial office, because he carried, not one ticket fot one reporter to ‘vork, but a whole pocketful of tickets whereby everybody from the Inanag- ing editor to the printer's devil went, took his family, Mbought peanuts, drank pink lemonade, fed the ele- phants and bhad a good time. And the circus lost nothing thereby. There are two sides tp the service theocy. s e s What more wonderful gift has God given man than nature and in what better way can man preserve the beauties of- that nature than by set- ting aside unused acres, planting grass, flowers, shrubbery and trees and mak- ing parks. > Each city has.its wander spots cen- tered in its parks but to the Ob- server, as he strolls through our own ‘Walnut Hill Park in the early morn- ing or when twilight begins & 1. there is hone more wonderful. All varieties of song birds find a stillness—with their sweet warblings. The grass seems to grow greener, the flowers blossom more quickly and everything in general responds more quickly to Mother Nature's call than clsewhere, A walk through the park in the morning is as a tonic to the sleepy worker as he passes through, It gives him more strength to meet the prob- lems of the day. Then when toil is over, restfulness awaits. him, The children find unlimited pleas- ure there, They romp in “the’ grass, play ball, or anything their childish learts may wish and all away from the huystle and bustie of-the busy city and out of harm's way. Mothers, tired of the many bur- dens of housework, take a few hours rest and with the bables sleeping com- fortably in the shade of the trees, delve into a favorite book or maga- zine. The business man, brow furrowed by the problem of the day, drives up to the summit of the highest hill and gazes dawn into the peacefulvalley, Instantly, as if by magic, the burden of care is lifted from his shoulders and he comes down feeling like a new man and is ready to indulge in the pleasures and happiness awaiting him, There is something for everyona but comparatively few take advantage of this gift of Mother Nature. An hour in the park, spent in meditation or reading, is of far more value to the average person than all the medicine in the world, body and & comfort for the soul. DY In its zest to bring larger revenue to the city treasury, the license com- mittee of the common council pro- poses to recommend an increase in the license fees charged theaters. A hearing will be held within a fow days and theater owners are expectod 1o at- ténd and explain their objectinns, ‘While the Observer has not dis. owner—and does not hold a pass en- titling him to admission {0 any theater ~he is of the opinion that it would be unjust to place an additional bur« den on their shoulders, The original purpose of licensing theater owners must have been to gain control over a situation which would have grave possibilities if it were not checked, It is right and propsr to assess the fly-by-night producer who comes to town and opens his show in a vacant store and offers en ment of a questionable character, is also right and proper to exact » fee from carnival promoters whose puises are enriched with local moncy und who have no real interest in the city 'EVERETT TRUE (== AND 1 WAS UNDER THE ANAE FOR TWO HOURS AND A HALK SAY, SMITHE, AS 1 RECALL (T, You Hap Youp OPERATION {of the ticket, and then the paper sent the organization a bi!l for the réport- | er's time, what a terriblg howl would 20 o The man who offers one $3 banguet ticket world get no eredit in publicity 1hé next day becavse with ome §3 g i haven there and break the morning | It is a rest for the | | cussed the subject with any theater | other than the profits they carry away with them. But it seems unfair ‘o ask responsible theater owners who Lave permanent addresses and who expect to remain here to,pay any fee at all. The men now in contrel of the thea- ter industry in New \Britain are citi- zens of good character who oifer clean entertainemnt and whose fami- lies are being brought wup in New Britain, They have made a per nent investment in New Britain real o tate on which they pay taxes a.d-l New Britain’s future. - They observe the laws of the city and state with ré- spect to the manner in which _hair playhouses are conducted. The thod. ter situation is controlled and the oli- ject of passing an ordinance has been achieved. g It is said that theaters have suffe-ad financially for the past few moonths because of the smallpox scare, 1f this is true, no effort should be made to increase the theater license fee ae this time, if eve Observations on “v The Weather Washingtgn, May 3.—Weather out- look for the week beginning Monday: North and middle Atlantic states: Generally fair but with a probability of showers Wednesday or Thursday, normal temperature, Forecast for Southern New Eng- land: = Showers. late tonight and Sunday; moderate temperaturé; moderate southerly winds. Forecast for eastern New York: Increasing cloudiness followed by showers tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer in northeast portion tonight; moderate southerly winds. Tor Connecticut: Showers late tonight and Sunday; moderate tem- perature; moderate southerly winds, Conditions: A disturbance central this morning over Wisconsin is caus- ing unsettled showers weather in the upper Mississippi valley and the Lake region, It will pass out the Bt. Lawrence valley tonight or Sun- day and Connecticut will be on the outhern edge of it Pleasant weather prevails along the Atlantie and Gulf coasts and between the Rockies and the Mississippi river. The temperature is rising slowly in the central and eastern districts. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair followed by light local = showers and not much change in temperature, SHSL4884505806088800888809 25 Years Ago Today (Taken trom Herald of that date) « Hateh has sold the Universa- list church property on Court strat to the People’s church soclety, ! Burton Morey's name has been men- tioned iw connection with the captaing cy of Company K but Mr, Morey states that he is not a candidate and has had quite enough of the National Guard, ‘Those back of the move to have the Stanley Works incorporated ap- peared in_the capitol in Hartford yesterday. The report of the city treasurer for the year ending March 31 shows that the recelpts have been $154,119.84, A balance of $134.01 is in the Ltreasyy. As an evidence of how u.nuy'fi 3 youthful fancy turns to thoughts of love in this city this spring, ‘it is an- nounced that there are four young men in one factory who are making their wedding arrangements, The house unanimously voted today to appropriate $25,000 towards the local high school. HITS THE “SAWDUST TRAIL" Yuma, Ariz, May 3.-—Tripping gaily down the “sawdust trail,” at the state’'s quarantine station here yesterday, Madame Galll Cutei, opera singer en route from California to Phoenix for a concert engagement, hummed a song of praise for Ari- zona's strict precautionary regulations, as she subjected herself to the dis- infection and inspection process im- posed on all rail passengers coming into the state from California. “Everything must be done to prevent spread of the foot and mouth dis- case,” she declared. Six languages ‘will be used at an international congress of philosophy in Naples, Italy, this year, BY CONDO STHETIC You SeE€, TwEY FOUND A LES|ion WELL, IT WON'T BE A SUCCESST TILL You @& BACK AND HAVE THEM CUT SOMETHING OUT, OR PUT SOMEBTHING IN To KEEP vou RRoM BORING PEOPLE WITH THE PETAILY '