New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 6

e New Britain Herald : ; accidents, s such persons fraquently | v Facts and Fancies changes DY ROBEKT QUILLEN have figured te s 1 are good | Importunt ellminate the HERALD P IBHING € PANY r might | of aceld it the source as on the | iRhways or through education one who prove | tetail required should he cannot 1t &L to drive in every X shuplos At words boy!" are \ knowledg 4 to gain a llcense whoe wear urd not made. can hest reason for - 1 the harder militonalre, | kagiving wus that are at. e s Lias them | Bristol's poy is 10y chi v Ire apy he net gain of schor dosd exs was 1 Bristol an hour —THE 0B On the City In the opinion of many citizeas with whom the Observer. has talked, tha board of fire commissioners carry thelr authority too far when they fine an offfcer two or more days' pay for making an error in , [reading the tape which indlcates the needn't | 10cation of a fire alarm box. The bring | error should not be overlooked, 1t That water — T don't want {t! Not |18 true, and an officer should ba I'm not a ‘little man'! Oh! On:" | reprimanded but to take two dayw' Battling Bohby R. E. Alexander a little man and take It right down = you won't taste v thing!” Mom, T tell will taste, By Now ¢ HAW It too! I'm all Y right - o oo Makes Random Obs.ervations ng its d it ¥ lag and | “Now don't agaln— you'll get ing for don't care - 1 Ow, ow! I told Nore— You twisted it! I don't want it!" | “Now, Mother, not a word — he bit! you spit { = Or w you' Yown in New Haven, where | hat you're ody 15 always stirring up a rumpus b ¢ tell y v that T can't! as Leen discovered t e fire ¥ ons, that the exits are da White and that the situation is grave building is said . You'ra going to take this right down — now, And nh more you!' “Aw, Pop, T tell I'm not slek— I'm jus' — fus’ = weak! I don't want to! Mother-r-r! He ow! T can't now!! its kind in the st R vs much hott ger can nonsense out of make doesn't STATL \LARM competit e hit me! Ow! ow! ishments wi — can't swaller | Mother, if hands, hold his nose — and we'll end this!" “Ow-wow! Ugh anw! La' me be! T don't want a kiss! Go 'way! I hope it makes me sick! You wait 'n' see — next time I'll Kick:" you'll hold his rs, have been se al democr from feminln were d Pft-pfift! Waa-a- ALTO ACCIDENTS DECRT AS) IN CONNECTICUT yos Frie “How did you manage to face Miss Golden's father so fear- Happy suitor: "I practiced time by cashing checks where I wasn't known.” faving Money Pell: “Dear, a bill came po ans ar have more th ! tor in for oday for that bookcase you 5 \ Mr, Pell: “What? That's too much money! 1 won't pay it! Send it back, and teturn all the bor- books." —Mrs. rowed A % Beabiicy Self-Possessed “Gracious, Helen, how ex- posed you in that dress!" Flapper (modestly): “But, Auntie, I'm no eripple. —E. that the horse Prince of Wales I8 1nd the thrown. rrses and Reverses | Fngaged Couples It used to be they'd walk to church In fair or stormy weather; But now they go to barber shops And have hair cuts together ~Ruth Barnett. . . Aunt rome- cloth, J. Kiefer. alr grows = 1t s ridden reporte by {he e power he man up you daughter, lent., tempta- rare at b o . So He Couid Stick to Facts Of all sad words of tongue or pen R ! You yet will hear the worst, nicely For soon in barber shops, oh men, They'll shont: “The ladles first!" —Ernest B, Mincey. " .. Abandon Hope 8hould some famous aviator To the public A0 far eater As to publish his adventures— (0f sort that no one cen- onl) be the proper caper n sure 25 Yéaruc. Ago Today | om Paper of That Date t} ci Qbservations On The Weather None Whatever “What is the dif evening gown L be- a Nel on tng sui No prenc and difference.” Alex Klein, material Lucky F fellow's Jscape chuckle over domestic 1 was the one who H From Our Children's Garden of Curses a lreaking-out on her A tha doctor had pre- n which she asked sister, Elizabeth, aged Herrman CATHERING » CITY ahe was rubbing her ba vy, Mary raid: “For Mike, use discret the four-year old re- I'in using a rag.” isther Neufer _Jangle Counter y had a fail; 1 recal lam, FURNISH SHOW AT} ta burglary tak break ther Holford cars we meet; had a seat. —Beth Ullman RACING AMAZON row first of gloric Yo at nish s oppo How By swar I3 NO RACE TO POLI ons The I spent an b Here and W a adq ers suppose 1 8 r fa you fo! Sugg Fun Shop. that out | look- arm's | their work. || along rtunities to r dwindling bank ac- e in uf Fun Shop I pay out of his pocket for making a mistake which anyone fs lable to make {s rubbing it in with sandpa- per. The majority of New Britain fire- men give the hest that's in them 1o They are consclentious [and intelligent, a high class force of | real men. Some of them, no doubt, | have earned eriticlsm from their su. periors but on the whole they are a hard-hitting erowd of which the city [ may justly feel proud. If one of | them falls by the wayside, he should | not expect to escape tensure or A ‘pvnuu,\' in proportion to his fault. | But it is picayune to fine a man for a trivial mistake like failure to | read the tape properly. Tt would suftielent to bring the offender be- fore the discipline ecommittee, and impress upon him the displeasure of the board. It is likely that he would exercise greater caution in the fu- ture and would not be gullty of a | repetition of his error. | Penalties meted out by the firo board have frequently been incon- | sistent. Heavy punishment has re- | sulted from minor infractions of the | rules while in other cases where of- fonse has meritod drastic measures, the penalty has heen light. The board seems to lack a consistent policy in this respect with the result that there have been whispers &f favoritism or. to put it mildly, ab- sence of sound judgment | “ . According to government reports more than 50 wmiilion dollars is #pent annually by the women of the | United States for cosmetics, Among | the discoveries made by archae- ologlsts when delving into the | buried eitlcs of four thousand and five thousand years ago were rouge hoxes, boxes for paint for the eyes | and fars containing for o skin The main difference than and now is that the of beautifying is today a more eomplicated labor, writes Mary Trene Copinger in The Raltimore | Sun. There are rouges and creams for every purpose possible, | firm that specializes In the task of painting our own modern lilles, makes more than 80 “prepark- tions.” This firm is only one of many - the number probably go- ing fnto the hundreds — whose output may be bought in the mod- ern city, Of course Venus herselt never acknowledged that her complexion | came out of a jar, and there is no doubt that if some catty goddenses ! J1ad met her one day when she was looking wnusually fit and re- | marked: “My dear, you're perfectyl | wonderful, tell me have you dis- covercrd a new rouge or heauty elay?" the Goddess of Beanty would have fixed her with a stony stare and replied: '"Why, darling, you know T never e anything but a little talc after {the bath. Of courss lite's hard for | & mirl who hasn't that sort of & complexion, but—" However, 80 ‘tis said, the nymph | Oenone, who happened to he & friend of young Parls, had around one morning before Venus | got her hair out of curl papers she had a lot of information about the goddesa’s beauty secrets, which she turned over to him. As every one knows, Paris passed the information to Helen of Troy who put them into practice. Another report that Ve was aids is the Phoon Leshian fully ferried her was glven a unguents between process which indicates not above articial effec that when pilot, euccess- Olympus he rious package. This package contained a substance that changed his hitherto’ cagge | and ugly face to something quite | beautiful. Tn fact, he was &0 lovely that Sappho fell in love with him. e event indicates that Venus used aty clay. Many articles indicating that the art of beautifying was one foillowed in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen were found in his tomb and pre- vious to this time exploring partics had dug up evidence that when the preacher of old deplored that “all i vanity” he know whereof he spoke to a 1o my than 60 years ago an ex- rty unearthed the toilet Theban lady four thou- vears dead and gone, In this c were hottles for ecented oils 14 unguents, red and white paint for her face, black powder, called koh of antimony, which h eve with a bodkin en- More oring and an oia e. made 0 ntribution shonld be at least 150 words shorter.” Contributor tion h E this con But as only 150 words. or: “You guessed Platitudes Du Jour (Hot off the Griil) ow, you can never get you want one, ar don't want one, you em awa r believe it when you keep 1 wai when can't No R “Yes, e eats too “Why, T can remember when & dollar was & big price for a table i ‘Nowadays, looking “It's without gry t T in over-tip- pi . ryone much.” i little is cooked see the strangest there care how it's we you on't as B er 1 go hu at dinner ‘Why, before 7’ —Chries G an t or fou One | been | SERVER—| and Its People ot e e In addition, there was evidence that these anclent Egyptian belles | stained tholr fingers and palms of thelr hands with henna, Today the manicured girl always daba a bit of rose paste on her nalle to finish the effect. There are different standards of beauty in different parts of the world and during the different eras, In India, for Instance, a Sanskrit writer of two thougand years ago describes a preparafon for a wed- ding, one feature of which was staining the feet of the bride, Then there was the Mussulman ‘nf anclent times. The bridegroom | of ancient days gave a very com- plete vanity case to his bride, con- taining, among other things, a box for betel nut for chewing so that lier teeth would be nice and dark, a bottle to sprinkle attar of rose a box for holding *meesee,” which was a powder of gall nuts and vitrol, also for blackening the teeth, and one for “soor"” to blacken | the eyelids and for ‘“kajul" to blacken the eyelashes, There wera also combs glassos, which In its entirety was something on the vanity case which the modern mald dangles as she trips lightly down the strect today. The Assyrians were a luxurious | and beauty-loving people, and both | | men and women were addicted to ! an elaborate use of cosmetics. Ac- | | cording to history, the last mon- arch, by name Rardanapolis, “dressed and painted Itke his women," and it is due to this van- ity that he met his death. One of his generals visiting him found him penciling his eyebrows and stabbed him, One of the ancient belles, puted to be a great beauty who practiced painting and powdering | of her time, was Amytes, the wife | of Nebachadnezzar. In her day the Babylonian beauties used satilium, a | preparation similar to kohl, ap- | plied to the lids and oorners of the | eye to make them brilliant; red | and white paint for their faces and | pumice stone, used to rub the skin to make it soft. Then they | ready for a stroll through | hanging gardens of Ba i | Ezypt's sophisticated queen, @leo- patra, was another who belongs in | the gallery of cosmetic experts, | The Greek and Roman women of | twenty-five hundred years ago were among those who made the trade |In cosmetics brisk. e Greek women painted their faces with | white 1ead and colored cheeks and I1ps with vermillion. The color was applied with the finger or small | brush, Kohl was also used by the | Grecian dames for their eyebrows. . and | | re- the It there is a man or woman in the audience who is not thankful he |18 an American he should make tracks for distant lands before next Thanksgiving Da This is America, the land of op- portunity. The door is always open to thore who have enough vigor to walk in. Tn no other land can a/l | man acquire material prosperity so {auickly. In no other land fs terial prosperity 8o lavishly ani | widely dispensed. In spite of our | political system, which is as full of | | faults as a Swiss cheese 18 full of | I holew, the greater part of our mil- lions of inhabitants are well fed, well {clothed and well sheltered. Ameri- !ca seems to get ahead regardiess of | | conditions. Even during a husiness depression we are better off financially than the peoples of many other countries during a boom period. Only in rarve ! instances does a case of starvation Lnr‘rnr and that is frequently due to A falae sense of pride which keeps a peraon from asking for help. The trouble us all we're getting randed to on rling { platter rimmed with diamonds, and if one af t dfamonds happens ‘o lack brilliancy we atand up on our {Mind fect and bray. We have had so many good things In life that we think the sky ought to be fllumin- ated with We lack cou.- age to go ahout our dally when they are hard. Tt is som uch casler to grunt and fume and blame government or *h system which prevents us from rid- 1in plush Hned limousines, rey we expend in was put into getting America would be 99 of the worid Europe anl ma- with fs that world 18 silver us a ste [ rainhows. taske conditions on the ing arou T¢ half the ene finding fault the fob done rest respect that 1 990,867 Asla would be run breathless trying to catch up., We hoast of our su- periority but quit when it comes down to real hard work, the kinil that made America what it is, Thanksgiving of 1024 has passed. But it 1sn't too late to get down on your knees and say: ‘“Lord, I'm thankful you made me an Ameri- can.” Then prove it by rolling 4n your sloaves, getting down to brass kacks and vowing to stop yelling he- fore you're hurt, . 1t'a nice to have the Sunday difi ner fall out of the sky. 80 B. Butchuko of Linden stredt can testify, One day this week a wild ducl apparently seeking companionship. ¢ down from the clouds and alighted in Mr, Butchuko's chicken coop, Tt made an effort to pal up with the residents of the coop and seemed to like its new home. But of mortals it was shy. Whenever any person approached the coop the duck sought refuge in the alr. As soon as the coast was clear again, it returned to the chickens. Several attempts were made to capture the visitor but it proved too wary, outwitting everyone who @p- proached. TBut Nemesis was on its trail and in the duel between man's brain and bird's ‘instinct the former won (The curtain will descend for one minute to denote the death of the duck.) When dressed and prepared for the oven the duck welghed four pounds. Tt will grace the Butchuko family table tomorrow for the piece de resistance of a Sunday dinner, TURPENTINE AND RESIN INDUSTRY GROWING Increase During Past Year Is Re. ported As Fully Fifty Per Cont Washington, Nov. 28.—~The tur pentine and rosin industry had a per eent increase in the value of its output in the last two years, the census hureau reported today. The total output was valued at $38,718,- 745 for the crop year 1023-24, whieh ended h 31, compared with $24.5 ) for 1921-22. Production of turpentine and rosin by distilla- tlon . processes showed a large fn- , | crease, wae with The total turpentine output 28,781,944 gallons, compared 4,820, an increase of 20 per nt, and the rosin output 1 harrels of 500 pounds, com- pared with 1,690,971 barrels/an in. crease of 17.7 per cent. The value of the turpentine output was $25,- 326,702 an increase of 8$6.4 per cent in the two vears and the value of rosin $12,392,043, an increase of 21.8 per cent, Stocks of turpentine on March 81, were larger than last year while stocks of rosin were smaller. Tur- pentine stocks aggregated 1 galions, conrpared with 3,552,768 on the same date a year ago, and rosin stocks totalled 1,011,748 barrels, compared with 1, Caruso their This The remains of Enrico soon will be transferred to permanent resting place. tomb 18 being prepared now in the great tenor's home chapel in the Cimetero del Planto in Naples The lowest sum earned by any one mewmber of a famous co-opera- i dance orchestra of New York scason was 316,000, ad of {} sands of the shore each point, an irregular, fine line of residu This stays until a larger 1 and obliterates the old mark 8o with knowledge. Every advance in information no hitman mind, but it renders the old o cient theories were re On tt discovery the The trpuble with evolution is that it has not ige to a further point, but it h ad hefore to the scrap heap. be towar are disc no ad override old tdeus Across the st Workmen are busy | and removing the | bricks and mortar | going to put up a new ing cannot be put up without re New wine must be put into new of the old ones. But there ar 4 theories concery h nanity 1 There is a definite Every step t} Wells says that the is that we f he and 1 forwar 1 they bricks mr taking th i planks. and planks building, 1 d i away 1 ing t still as t Ivan e ik star ere nt is one ur t stand ke 1y n | politica, we m Wit Progr me y stand stil pu Copyright, 1924, by The McC t ss there ey were once ju ippose of a superior sort still urg: DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL] Beachmarks and Progress By DR. FRANK CRANE wave leaves a mark at its h e and sand ore powerful wave extends beyond nd makes a new, »t only makes a new record for the one useless. When Galileo made his legated to the shelf. on?y pushed human as relegated much of the Knowledge 1 future without stepping upon overed anew often are in conflict to are tearing down an old building apart and knocking off the mortar t as busy In haul They are But the new n putting them in place moving the old botties. This invol many peop es the throwing € e attached to who are And there is just as strong an instinct is to go on in science which goes on from fact but a point in our journey forward rdo! refusal to go on. science, in reMgion and In our in our hand and progrese We ntinually making arrange- Arking back to the old things, but are t ow e sin is th In foot ure Newspaper Syndicate.