New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 6

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Thi protection egains: fraud In newepaper distribution figw ¢ to both national and local advertisers. 14 1s on seale dally o New Hotaling's Ne nd, Times Schuitz's Newsstands, Entrance 2nd Btreet. ‘The H York at Square; Grand Central, —Ten years from now Babe Ruth may be charged with “throwing” a World Series game in 1926, the one in which he made three home runs, The we hear more of Santa Claus than - the birth of Jesus Christ, for Santa —It's a hard time mul titude of amateur Clauses. They are up late tonight up early in the mornix and will ticipate in the fun. —If Tyrus Cobb and “Dutch’” T.conard should happen to meet each | other on the street there would be another baseball story of “spontan- ous origin.” —Governor Brews told the New England New York that New Engl mains the “generating station but happily this ter Maine for Amerjcan ideals does not include the Ku Klux Kian | membership in his native state —Prohibition have tried to dry up New York's “night life.” This task gives considerable employment to prohibition but the places the town as a whole actually and sentimentally. agents again agents ail to stay dry and remains we the the —According to Springfield real estate board, ‘rage of apartment vacancies throughout the country are five per vent of number of apartments. This make the grand total impressive, years ago the percentage of vacant apartments was “minus naught.” a Several —Will Rogers has become mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif.,, but citizens ‘with complaints will find it difficult to find the mayor. He is the only mayor in the United States who definitely considers himself a jo!ir.‘ —Rogers Hornsby says the only prominent baseball official who did ot congratulate him team’s winning of the world series was Samucl Breadon, owner of the Cardinal bascball club. St. baseball fans will do the congrat- ulating next year by remaining aw from Boss Breadon’s ball park upon his Louis —The Municipal Christmas colored monument money to ercct, but fortunately no- body in city hall came the claim that here and the lights around the cost the a little city forward with was a chance to exercise economy and the | vay wi the tree and —The railr of the long travel business, th ads seem 1o get near 1y all stance holiday Dileg offering but slight conmpetition What a difference it if would (hristmas the like equator. came in south time, it does of the ngress at last | buy the Cape Cod ca off the hands of the moters, The canal once pected to do wonders for of Boston, but all it Boston wag ex the did was to do bank - ad hee vonders to the owners' counts, Tt the canal g proposition nobo thought of selling it tc ment for patriotic reasons. truck mari —Not a mall robbed since the egan tecting them, with orders to g first and Which is more proof that n dits are cowards any of them acc a little courage some day, the marines keep the situation we in hand, incidentally few jobs for the county coroner s pro- investigate afterwards ail ban at heart. 1 lent work watch provi —Tha Springfield waxes dolorois there has never heen of an obi prepared In in its olfice which was not finaily | gage! in i Insuree | the | auiomo- | s R e Sk el released, although sometimes it took ten years before the occasion arose to use it. When a newspaper prepares an obituary of a prominent | man it does not necessarily mean | the gentleman is going to die: newspaper superstition, in fact { it that these articles sometimes in- {luence the patient to get well. At] | times the obituary writer himself is | he first to die. Yes, writing these hings is hazardous. There scems to | | be a mixture of fate, ind bad | luck which the superstitious sailors | on the staft of a newspaper heartily | dislike to be identified with. SEWERAGE ESTIMATLS DOUBLE IN COST Last June, when Mayor Weld had a conference with Sanford H. Wad- Engineer William R.| e water board, | | | has | hams and | Copeland of t he e s announced 2 for and preliminary dis- improved would cost £500,000." Now the Wadhams, survey sewage posal would be made, the estimate | was that the city “approximately we di testimony tor of the cost We thought work the over, upon Mr., the state competent dire board, that | water will amount to cither worse than cost are off we we were, or the o sewage disposal increases the fur- ther one methods adopted. It is a cost that investigates the to he cannot he avoid c The city is faced with this expenditure and possible way to tune up with a song | neavy there is no of ccon about There ch t matter. it. is no cconomy tn such a up against hall it,” as in the city the cit sewage disposal sysiem of | for a getting in only has been inadequate long time. orse. The city is fortunate one thing, that it has officials who wre willing to face the music and do | about it wrdiess of | fiddler. Mayor | something res the price charged by the The modus Weld has b Jrom the sewer fund $7000 operandi of ought good preliminar | results. was appropriated to finance A sur- vey, which is not yet completed, but so to warrant the issu- That sufficiently ance of a first report. was printed yeste local | committee conslsting of William H. Judd, Thure Bengston and City En- gineer D. Wil supplemented by a rday by Joseph an and | | which w: ment ate- | Wadhams him- was of Director report by Th portance nd self. vital im- every citizen, was con- | ft the were | cise a and 1 im- | pointed, | pression those concerned en- | titled to the congratulations of fel- | | 10w citizens. We now similar to the 37 acres already own- | ed the city, 110 | acres in the future, the plant would cost of $1,700,- know that sand beds, | by would require | | have a capitaliz 000, and the annual charges be $160,000. | costly undertaking than either | would | This would be a more cf" | the others to be described .'\n‘l: | would also result \ { maintenance cost | | Imhoft tanks, a modern type of | | sewerage qisposal, would require | only 15 acres of | 81,275,000, | nually to maintain, of maintenance is especially to taken note o The sludge would require ecight of land, would cost the least of any of the systems proposed—only $900,- | 35,000 annu- in the highest land, would cost a require $100,000 an- cost be The low activated system acres merely 000—Dbut would take $1 | ally for maintenance. The latter is clearly a drawback, for a sewerage built least system is not for a short time but for at 25 years—or ought to be. In years the cost of maintain- ing Tmhoff tanks would amount to | ased on $100,000 a year and assuming the carrying would that the | would cost charges lessen not the in time, During activated sludge $3.275,0 It then ne period syst m re- tired before the activated ably more than the tanks to n ain- ain, as from the start re wou $300,000 less i it thne | to carry, so that greater prog nance costs is due to the 1 from garages ha fy the AND NOW wi THE DAY OF ENJOY DAYS making others glad, par- | |is | Christmas tree, ticularly the children, God bless them. And in making others glad we feel that way ourselves. There may be one’or two of the Scrooge persons in town, but they are so in- significant they cannot be located with the unaided eye. Christmas means little to any us unless it centers around making children happy; not nccessarily our own children, for some of s may not possess any, but children of others, the tottlers who would have of a dreary Christmas indeed were it not for the help of more fortunate Opportunitics to play | Santa individuals. th abounded on every hand, and it 15 unostentatious have at the days of days tomorrow that done his duty. as certain as t due every man and woman has At folk gathering of the the family the nunierous cvery young whether around or children's parties sponsored by vari- ous organizations, the elders enjoy themselves quite as thoroughly as the children, and this by merely ob- serving the anties of the innocents. it is how the oldsters get their | joys—by noting of guile | eatest Christmas how the young, innocent and firm believer in the beneficent | mysterles of Santa Claus, accept | everything from his workshop with | | such shouts of joy as only the days | | of cnildhood yield. There are carpers who tell us that | 1l ing; that the holiday has heen meaning devoted largely to har- spirit of Christmas is degenera “com- mercialized,” pre-holiday clivities arc ter and sale—or without bar- t When there is nothing else fo a thing one can always | to the commercialized, when in reality say about have recourse charge It is| the aid of commerce is merely invoked for our convenience, to assist chtaining the most joy-produc gifts in the shortest possible time. Were we left to our own a the toys and gif be deed, although ility to provide s we need it would a meager Yuletide in- the day no doubt fashion. get it the | could be enjoyed in some ap, would to child makes no difference whether toys are made in a factory and sold | over the counter, the main consid- | cration being that it is a toy, pos Our children, of it—for may! less out a sessing the innate power to radiate unbridled joy. Avaunt with the com- 1t would be | mercialism allegation. a poor Christmas, indeed, one remi- s of mankind, niscent of the cave day of without the efficient aid this commercialism. The meaning of {he day remaing regardless of everything else cannot be It is voted to the anniversary of the hirth of Christ the Saviour, and the very name of the day well that fact. The religious aspect of the holiday cannot under the play of Santa, story of the mythical toy-maker'ap: peals only to children whose minds have not been sufficiently developed to realize that such a personage is an impossibility. It is fun to tell them the story and watch their awe- stru Just about the time when the child hegins to doubt whether the toy-maker actually crawls down chimneys, the North Pole deer, he is mentally able to encom- pass the great ful story of the Christ His advent has meant to the ohscured. advertis be submerged for the | reactions or behind rein- | comes trom er and more meaning- child and | what world, We are prepared, our minds of all reflections kind not in keeping with the | glorious benefits of Christmas Tt ultra- The world may wag unsteadily in spots, | the have therefore, {o disabus: of a is time for ultra-optism, satisfaction, a ultra-happines heart of man may cause to feel dismayed, tragedy may stalk ere and there, misery lays her heavy hand upon the unsuspecting: but this is no time for sombre re- The holiday is for rose- the for flections, gls and earth looks like a paradise. Once more youth and cheerful- ness combine to reign heneficently— da of oldsters, That Ve for all the wo nd tal loes not count for on this n the spirit, g us, even e young in is one of the com- atic Lother incide: For age d and that | expense. gl ; to realize during the v Christmastid millions of children throughout th vorld are the unutierahlc feeling es once felt when “of not do otherwise than back the hands of time. NEW ENGLAND TOWNS SAVE INDUSTRIES nd communities, vi etaining their in- ned Otis compa with grat ¥ plants nville, N those to he for rather than moved npany recent- pany r - Al in th south came into move- mpany, one favor- | ts details to th the ¢ be made gh in press the board of directors pos- sibility that the plants ma to pay | 5 re they are L will b dependent upon their textile indus- | chased. | | the cagle: thave referred onl | be try, is averted, at least for the pres- ent. Tt may be that the company will under the co- operative the munici- palities to remain in New England definitely. If this should eventuate it will be a glowing example of what can be done to salvage indus- tries which are tottering in the face of southern competition. This com- petition is felt most scriously in the textile and southerners have boast that in 20 years all the nation’s textile mills will be in the south, near the source of raw materfal supply. If the Ware and Greenville plans, however, prove successful this southern supposition may be entirely dissipated. do well enough system with indu made the PADLOCKING NIGHT CLUBS The sum of $8000 was spent i gather dence aga York clubs which were padlocked the oth- by prohibition agents to the New i | night er day; and so thoroughly was the ob done that of the have wended their way to Connecti- the | some agents cut farms to “recuperate” from effects of the bad liquor they pur- cxpensive If these “exclusive and night cannot deal in a bet- | ter grade of liquor, considering the | charged clientele | 1 to, the have the effect that does bs' in prices and the cater prohibition drive | of clarifying attention. being get i for his money than in a New | night ¢lub; proprietors of no | ises “make ! | may a situation needs Nowhere a human les Yor other amusement enterp money” quite as rapidly, copsider- ing the investment. It is a holdup | game in more ways than one. | Then Chester P. Mills, prohibition | director for to re- | that N York cannot be dried up that way. This Wi is respect the city, arises mark it is his opinion W is a common sense remark. is needed to dry up New York | for the 1Sth amendment | by every man, woman and child in | the city. Padlocking docs actly stimulate not ex- | such respect. FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLE No country is any better than its sorriest judges. Treedom: popular monopoly of white rac A In flush flu these ti you about as often got as “I care not who males the coun try's laws if I can pick the juries. Beonomy, Federal style: Postpone mending the leak in the roof. |1 Let's hope the winter will bring | forth a dance middle-aged folk can | do without wheezing. You can learn to he dignified, but a solemn ass is just born that way = | “We shall mount up in the air as Still, the prophecy may | to Europe. h(4 alike, any all men talk and dressed as they might, there would'nt howl for ity Amoricanism: Passing laws 1o make oneself be good; breaking the | laws with a clear conscience. The agreement, Mr, Coolidge, was | to scrap part of the Navy, not to let all of it die of dry rot: will have The next generation | There'll ! some exercise for its wits. be the Muscle Shoals question. Suggestion to Chicago and envir- ons: Another good dev is | a railway ticket | ice rals cant’ think ow a temperamental fountain pen know you have on your does Monkeys seize new thi and Guickly evolution awful! 75 quickly Tt as los: Ar Here's the rub. 1cen for the farmer clse a pain everyhody But why did New Jersey blue- enforcers thinl porters were followmg o occupation? gainful” Rogers at | TFuture culprit where W is Mayor: “But, Mr. M law is so funny T thought meant for a jok vor, t Correct this sentence “but frock forty T still Jike pyright 19 Prince William of Sweden Plans to Visit America Rochester, N, Y b 24 (A ‘ William of Swedon second King Gustav V, will 1 tone of American citivs carly year, will spend el 17, nd 19 in Rocek it was an- today Prince son of who make next ruary 18 royu 1 hy ttish Rt prince will address the Con- tory on African hunting ex edition on one night during his stay. will he ‘onsistory. Masons. [ vadly 1 | Dear M. all communicat Shop Editor, care of Britain Herald. and s 10 Fun | the New | istmas Eve Brings T Welcome Change, Folks Nobby stockings? All year through We have em, haven't You? It knobby stockings Santa fills, They're the Kind that wake thrills! seen the Poor Papa! Kindly Judge: “Now, nt you to talk to me just as you uld to your own father. ‘laming Youth: “Awright, vo big SUfFY T gotta have ten bucks fonight Do I get it, or do we have my hoy, I v Mother R, CHRISTMAS EVE Iy the Editor Christmas is great, put I really be- lieve Tincst of all is Christmas Eve Chiistmas Eve, with its wild elation, Its hectle hurry and preparation. ‘s the Christn out with care, must stand in t foot of the stair; I'a gets the hammer to fix the stand And make the tree stand ind grand, And if his work The things he say rprised Then out of boxe The tinsel bal s tree, picked hall, at the is criticized : you'd he . wrapped in wool, and things we pull And cverybody tries to help Till Ta lets out an awful yelp And says, “Will you kids get to bed Defore T go clean off my head!” And honest, if he He'd fall right off the old step-lad- der! So we sneak off and lie awake Till it seems as though the MUST break, we drift drowsy ear Strange sounds outside our door we hiear, crackle of tread, There's somebo the bed; day But away, though with The paper, a muffled moving around | I'd like to peek, but T can’t, some: how, T 'spose I'm going to sleep, now.... then— right And s morning! Christmas And all the waiting d And there arc your here are mine, it's time to get arly nine! ¥s are past, presents and ‘cause it's And up s is great, but I real- ly believe, Finest of all. is Christmas Eve! Astrologist: “Under were you bhorn?" Halsted: “I don't remember, but believe it said ‘Hospital. —George . Blumenthal what sign LUC THING Dear The Mr. Judell sidewalk was slippery, and | my feet skidded. I put out my arm | to save mysell, and rammed my hand smack against a fire alarm box and, involuntarily, I turned in a false alarm. There was nothing to do but stick out. T had turned my ankle so couldn't walk, much Jes a minute - the apparatus wring down the street, They past me, and for the T noticed th issuing out of the mansion of liam Merrill, the town’s millionaire. A few minutes later, Old man Merill himself took me to the os- pit he said: “come around to my house, Il have something for vou.” Hot Kismet! That was MY lucky day! ~Earl . Judell: I had had a terrible evening. sister having @ hen party home, and T had to clear out ) T went {o my sweetie's house, and o put on a quarrel. She fold me to £t out and stay out until T showed some signs of getting ahead in the world T went to the club, and found they having ladies’ nicht. So 1 went movie, and it was T hiand seen hefore, lesy 1 decided to office and loaf there. At 16 p.m. the boss ea “That's the kind of spirit T to see,” he said. “My hoy, 1 like young man take an interest in his work. Therc'il be a $10 raise in your next envelope! T ask you! THAT was my lucky ¢ it run. In came t¢ right Pratt My was at were scovered In g0 10 to a one tion, e in! like to s [ T . AHCERTON ey “The Private 1 { Santa UP THE LINE! Discovered in THE FUN SHOP Joke Factory) friend made a (As fortune in straight | got much madder | “Youwll be out by Chistmas,” | —THE 0B Here's to the boys at the post of- fice! Toiling day and’ night, they ac- complish a task which would make the aver: man’s job look like a Sunday outing with free lunch. ‘While the layman is sauntering around the storeg seeking presents for his friends, the post office force is up to its ears in hard labor, mak- in ; mountains of first class mail and parcels melt away with the magic touch of skill. Every hour they face a new avalanche of Christmas cards, Iletters and packages but undaunted v keep plugging away, distribut- |ing gifts to all points of the com- pass and absorbing the broadsides | irom every train pulling into the I The boys at the post office are the | point of contact between us and everybody clse. If it were not for their grit and never-say-die spirit, the majority of the great American public would receive their gifts a week Jate. But the mail men work- g inside the federal building and the parcel post headquarters and the gray clad army of peace and good will which goes around ringing doorbells and delivering Christmas don't know the meaning greetings, of the word quit. stamp with which they are familiar, they stick to their job until it is done. | In spite of their efforts, they are not appreciated. People realiz vaguely that someone must move | the mail but they fail to think of the | hustlers at the post office as human | individuals—they are just another in the glgantic machinery for which Uncle Sam furnishes the power. | 0, the cog to the boys at May they have a 1d a happy New | Year—holidays which they have 1l earned. May their turkey Be roasted to a golden brown, with delicions gravy that pleases the eve | as well as the palate} may their | wifts be®*abundant and . may they sleep without nightmares of mail | riding up and down their beds. again, her post office. merry Christma While the movement started re- cenfly to solidify the pension sys tems in the police and fire depart- ments is worthy of commendation, it is well for those concerned in it | to bear in mind’ that changes of a | radical nature should be acted on | only after very mature theught and the most careful consideration in- dicate their desirability, as frequent amendments, however adequate, are very likely fo give the impression that the beginning was not properly founded. Whatever the provisions of the pension systems, they will not be | universally satisfactory. In all mat- | ters concerning large hodies of men, it is very easy to find fault, especial- Iy when such matters are of a muni- cipal nature. This has been the his tory of city affairs and nothing has | happened or is apt to happen to | change the attitude of those affected | or concerned. The procedure should | be, then, to work out a system offer- | ing the greatest good for the great- cst number, and adopt it and en- | force it, or else discontinue it and | rorget it. | Policemen and firemen have good | jobs or poor ones, according to the [ iewpoint. Some men would not wofk in either department under | any circumstances and others spend | years trying for appointments. To | the first named, the blue uniforms i | and brass buttons and all they mean are decidedly unwanted, while to those who now crave or have work- | ed for places in the ranks, fire | and police service represents the | highest pinnacle of aspiration. In all | probability, some of the men in | both departments often wish they | had remained in the places they I gccupied before they entered the | city's employ. yet many others cer- nly do not regret the change they made and will always enjoy their work and strive for advancement. Now as to pensions. It is agreed that it is advisable fo have those who will benefit on retirement. con- tribute to the fund from their earn- ings. Bxpert pension systems profess (hat {his arrangement is the very life blood of the plan, and without i, the maximum smoothness of its | working can not be aftalned. The question of the age for retirement, {he amount to be paid to bene- | ficiarics and the method of pay- ment, together with. the number of Leneficiaries to be included, are the vital questions, and constitute points about which the greatest amount of debate in all probability will arise. 1t is a proven fact that some men who., in their 30°s and 40's professed o he looking forward to the day when their service shall entitle them to retirement with pensions, become startled when mention of retire- Western Union.” “Telegrapher Yo. California minister.” —J. T. Weisbard ‘e other FUN . (As handled by Contributors) — They Do They were sanding on the veran- dah of a French hotel. “While T was in America,” said the one, “I got a tip on stocks and made a lot of money “How did you get the tip?” “Why, I was standing on a rail- way station and I heard one Ameri- can tell another.” “Oh, 1 sce. American Tel and Tel.” . E. Fuery SHOP Par.” . o's your old N A Good Organization Dennis: “Oi hear thot the police- men ov Wall Shtreet are gettin' to- | gether an’ formin’ a union, O'Neill: “Yis, an’ it must be a | good thing.” Dennis: “What 1 . | s yo think | sa | O'Neill: *“Me broker told me to put all ov me money in AMALGA- | MATED COPPER. | —Irene Dornadie nta Claus won't measure this night’s work by miles, but by feet! (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction | Forbidden) Like the postage | SERVER— Makes Random Observatidns On the City and Its People | ment becomes serfous. They sudden- ly learn that they cannot afford to stop work. It is simply impossible |for them to live on one-half their earnings, and they worry fully as much over the possibility of being | retired as they formerly did about | problems that struck them as the most vital they had ever encounter- ed. Admittedly, there are cases in which the heads of families honest- Iy feel they cannot retire on half pay in justice to themselves and their dependents, but it is just as true that the professed danger of discomfort of a scrious nature as a result of retirement is imaginary in other cases. Some men, outside as well as in the police and fire depart- ments, insist that when the end | comes, it must find them in the harness. They really belleve they could not live if thelr customary em- ployment was taken from them. The question of the usefulness or |lack thereof, of police and fitemen | when they reach the age of three | score and more will not be discussed here. It has been argued time and | again and there is no reason to ex- | pect a decrease in the amount. of pro and con talk. Whether or not any Individual or body of officials should have the power to compel a faithful servant to step down and out and accept a pension at a cer- tain age or on the anniversary of his appointment after a stated pe- riod of service, likewise is debate- able. Pension systems are desirable, They have existed fn New Britain for a number of years and it is hoped that whatever revisions are decided on this year will work for their improvement. “There ain't no Santa Claus! | That expresses the attitude of the [ after year the diminution of old-fashioned Christmas spirit has been noted and bewailed, but the loss this December seems to be greater than usual. accepted opinion is that this is due to the commercializing of Christ- mas, but we are inclined to attri- Lute it to the development of the American people along both finan- cial and intellectual lines. Once Americans had to scrape to- | gether their pennies to buy a few pathetic trinkets to give away; now they can afford better things every day in the year than they formerly could at Christmastide. Christmas is now only the 25th of December, just another of 365 "gimme” days in the year. And not only have we become rich, but we have been disillusioned so that, as a natlon, we no longer belicve in Santa Claus. He has gone the way of fairles, patriotism, brownies, chivalry, and such senti- mental bunk. There is no longer any kick in dreaming of the time when your fabled ship will come in; there is more satistaction in the more tangible thought of dragging | ing him 1ill he pays back the dollar he borrowed. Take the average five-year-old American boy. Twenty years ago you could have agked him if Santa Claus was coming to his house and he would have shouted affirmative- ly, his eyes shining at the prospect. Go out on the strect tonight and ask him who s coming to his house; whhout batting an eye he will come back, “Our bootlegger.” He used to write to the North Pole for a drum, a toy horse, a pair of skates, and a couple of games; now he hits the old man for a miniature kit of burglar's tools or a rifle range with wooden cops for targets. And his sister no longer writes for dolls; she just tells moth- er to slip her some more rouge and a couple of shorter dresses, Young couples used to be very circumspect in thefr presents, a book and a hox of candy being about as far as they dared go. Now the hoy friend and a little woman crash through with a couple of pocket and garter flasks, Even among long-married people the times have changed. Whereas they used to swap a clothes-wring- er and a reading lamp, now the husband hands his wife a check for the least amount he dares, while she thinks she s going the limit when she serves him a turkey din- ner. People used {o pray for a white CHristmas. Now they want the snow to melt so that they can get the old hus out of the garage. The old December 25th greeting was “Merry Christmas!” Now it's “Blanket blank weather we're having lately!"” Exchange of gifts between friends and relatives used to be universal, and many a generous family bank- rupted jtself with generosity, Now greeting cards suffice, and it is the practice to hold up sending these as |long as possible to see whether or [ not your prospective correspondents are sending you any. There is only one feature of the old-fashioned Christmas left. It is | just as costly as éver, | Being a believer of the movement “Be a Pal to Your Boy” which means that once or twice a year we must get out and play football with Junior to the detriment of our glasses and the inauguration of a lame back, we thought we would aid him in turning out a real master- piece to Santa Claus. We got a picce of paper and a pen‘and togk the following letter with the following | interruptions, v “Dear Santa Claus: I have been a good boy and—" “How about the broken cellar window and the time you ran away when Mother told You to stay home and the time you played football in your best suit and how about—" “—and I wish you would bring me some nice things and not the measly things you brought last year—" “Whaddaya mean, ‘the measly things you brought last year?' I think Santa Claus was preity good to vou considering what a bad boy you'd heen and the way Florida real now—"" and a pair of skates and an line like I seen in the movies—" “Now wait a minute, wait a min- ute. Don't expect Santa Claus to general public this Christmas. Year | the | | antin The generally | Smith up the back alley and beat- | | estate acted. Let me tell you right | automobile that really burns gaso- | X bring you everything that you've seen in the movies. I've told your mother not to let you go to the movies too much but I suppose she knows best and I am only the person that earns the money, and—" “—and set of electric cars like I seen in the window down town that goes through tunnels and has lights and switches and everything and ‘Not so fast, walt a minute. What came after the skates beside the automobile—we’ll leave that ou “What for? T guess Santa Claus can gimme an automobile if he wants to. What are you going to leave that out for, Pa? Huh, Pa? What are you going to leave that out for, Pa? Huh?" “Never mind now, Junior. Daddy knows best and just leave everything to him and Santa Claus will bring something to you.” “I wannanautomobile what burns gasoline. What are you going to leave that out for Pa? Huh, Pa? Huh?” “Now, Junior, if you're not going to be a good boy and do what Daddy says there won't be any letter to Santa Claus at all.” “I wannanautomobile what bhurns gasoline. I wannanautomobile what burns gasoline like I seen in the movie “AND T SAY YOU CAN'T HAVE IT! I guess that settles that, young man. Now, what eise do you want except skates?” ki nnanauomobile what burns gasoline like T seen in the—-"" “I think you'd better go up to bed now. I never have L LS naughty boy in my life. I don’t think there will be any letter to Santa Claus at all this year.” Exit Junior weeping sume the evening strange sensc ind we re paper with a guill and wishing that Santa Claus had heen drowned when all e had was a moustache, 25 Years Ago Today There was' general lin the town this was learned that consternation morning when it there was @ caso of the smalypox on Broad street. It was reported by Dr. M. JI. Cohelan, and the patient was promptly quar- d by Dr. R. M. Clark. The source of the diseasc is a mystery. A mecting of the town and ity Fealth officers, selectmen, and po= | lice chier was held this afternoon with the liealth board, and all steps are being taken to prevent the spread of the smallpox. Chiet Rawlings is having special tele- phione installed outside the houss for usé of the officer in charge, only. The factery where the pa tient's father works is being fum gated. C. T. Andrew’s grille room in the Preston building was broken into last night for the seventh time. ‘When Chief Rawlings investigated this morning he found that about $30 worth of jewelry had been stol en from the show case. The econ- tinued series of Main strect burg- larfes is alarming the merch and extra precautions to prevent on- trance are being taken. George Woram, the denti become associated with 1 in Hartford. The A. O. N. Whist club met evening with Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln street, were won by Mrs. William Mc! X 3. Williams and Miss ‘Whiteley. The High school regular basl ball team scored another v yesterday afternoon, defcating M dletown high by 37-20. City Clerk Thompson and Engincer Oldershaw have a a manner of preserving the shect maps. The maps are placed in book and left so that they can added to or detracted from at time. 18 % s, City nged a any Observation On The Weather Washington, Dec. 24—Forccast for Southern New England: Prob- ably rain tonight and Saturday, warmer tonight; colder in western Massachusetts on Saturday; fresh to strong southweet, shifting to west { and northwest winds. Eastern New York: Probably rain tonight and Saturday; rising tem- perature in east and extrcme north portion tonight; colder Saturday: fresh, possibly strong soutliwest shifting to northwest winds, Conditions: A disturbance con- tral over upper Michigan is causing cloudy and rainy weather with mild temperature in the lake region. The front edge of the rain area is as far cast as the western portion of New York and Pennsylvania. 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