New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1927, Page 5

./ ODERN GHILDREN FIND LIFE EASY Youth of Yesterday Forced to Greate Own Diversions Mention in the vacation notes in ihe newspapers of the fact that Mr and Mrs. So-and-So and chil- | dren” are vacationing at this or that resort in the mountains or at the shore is so frequent in the sum- mer period cach year that the fact has come to be accepted and ex- cted. It carnot fail, however, to call to the minds of many men and women who were children a decade g would have consid- qa Ives fortunate in the xXireme to have been allowed to 2 a week or two away from joying the cooling breezes and® disporting themselves in the nanner of present doy youngsters, In New Britain 20 or 30 ig0. the families whose mode of liv- ing included an annual tsip to a ication place were few and far be- on, True, there were some who vot only enjoyed the pleasures and luxurics of the seaside and moun- tains, but owned summer homes where they spent two or three months, and their children conse- quently did not know the discom- forts of the city on a hot day in mid-summer. The majority of fam- ilics, however, had children who knew full well how the home town looked and felt from January to January. Those children are prob- ably now the parents of youngsters who are familiar with the locale of many resor's in Connteticut and “lsewhere and have considerable to in the family council at which the selection of the vacation place is made. The children of the 20-year-ago period, that is, the many who knew uf the seashores and mountains only through photographs, did not per- @it tine to drag, however, from June to September, and it is possible that iheir vacation fup was as whol nd beneficial as that of the “kids" of today, albeit it was imuch less expensive. Much of the <port of thos the progress of the times produced other amusements changud the conditions surrounding the bringing up of the rising gen- <ration. To hegin with, every child of the so-callad middle class went barefoot irom the day school “got let out” to the day it opened, with the excep- tion of an hour on Sunday, when religious services demanded the wearing of the Sunds “best” clothes, including shoes. And how those shoes hurt for that hour Sun- day morning. Like the man who asked 10 be hit on the head because it felt so good when the pain stopped, the youngsters in 1900 and thereabouts could not reach soop. enough after church to yank off the stiff, shiny leather fixtures of torture. Not cveryone wore shoes on Sunday, either, for the black and blue stons bruises and the cuts in the big toe often would not permit of anylhing near them and so many a foot went uncovered Sunday well as weels days, Thers was always a ball game in the forenoon, vither in some fellov.’s yard or ou the street, and not eve player had a glove, cither. In fact, the fellow who had a glove often went without it because he felt more sure of always having it if he kept it home and out of sight. A length of wood, a barrel stave, or stick mother used for *poundin the wash clothes often served as a bat and if 1ccords were kept t would probably show just as many home runs ere made and cqually as many wiLdows broken as there yre nowadays even though the lively ball that the big leaguers talk about had not been thought of. In the aftcrnoon, the “gang” the daily swim. Sometimes went to Tuther's, other times to Stockholm's or “Nine Koot hut they went without fail. And they went by foot, every inch of the way No life show them the fancy strokes, they had their fun and enjoyed it. Towels? The warm sun answered the purpose. Bathing suits? Well, the ole swimmin’ hole was back in the woods, you and anyway there was nobody hut fellows ahout. Trequently, when kad a team in the hi and had they see, me, making the Field along Plainville Road waiting cutside for a foul Whoever retyieved the ball was s mitted to the game and the was to he in the the umpir d play. Once in a vhile, ot se, it would be neces- ary to wait until an inning or two had been played cspecially if the zang oniside was unusually large hut rule most of the bunch would he inside before game The only prek at the ose “kids” Fad was on the day i excursion to Savin Rock Lighthouse Point. The mutual association of a factory, or a frz ternal organization gave the exeur- sions, und wkat a treat they were. Adults’ tickets sold for 75 cents or 1 dollar. and children’s (irk-‘l’s for a0 eents. Fifty cents to some young- sters today might buy their candy for a few days, but 1o the boys and girls a decade ago, 50 cents meant {he price of an excursion ticket, and then, too, there was the matter ot pop corn, peanuts, soda pop, flying horses and other necessities of the lay to be paid for. dollar bill at least was necessary and if ever any- one obtained more veal pleasure and enjoyment through the expenditure of one greenback than did those voungsters the fact has escaped re ord, rip to Ilectric as a or id days is unknown now, | Tome | i t lof exiles who prote: avers near them, nobody to vet | bleachers hefore | rush for ihe swings and the flying horses; the first drink of soda water at five cents a glass; the bag of peanuts, and the tasty lunch at noon, carried by mother in a neat shoe-box. The youngsters were im- patient with mother for the time she took packing the sandwiches in the box in the morning, but she never found it necessary to throw anything away after the feast on | | the rough pine tables beneath the | shade trees in the grove. Dusk, and the long ride home, with the new | pails and shovels, and the bright colored souvenir whips, while the | | sand in the shoes scemed to assume | the proportions of a desert as cach step along Railroad Arcade became | harder to take and Morpheus only a | | foot behind. The autemobile, the children's | camps made possible by various or- | ganizations, the Dbaseball leagues, | the public parks and playgrornds | ! have all contributed to the improve- | ment in conditions among the chil- | dren of New Britain, according to well wishers who, through experi- | ence, are qualified to comment. One | well known official was heard to | | say recently that he was glad the hoys and girls of his childhood had | done without the recreational privi- | leges of those of today, if for mno other reason than that the men who are able and willing to assist in pro- | viding for this generation along | | these lines are fully conscious and appreciative of the great joy they | bring to the children because they themselves went without it. i WARHASNOTMADE DEMOCRACY SAFE, | Speaker Says It Has Bred Crop ‘ of Dictators Williamstown, Mass., July 30 (A— | Instead of making the world safe for | democracy the World War fertilized | the political field for a crop of dic- [ tators, Professor Henry R. Spencer lof Ohio State University told fellow | conferees at the first general confer- ence of the institute of politics yes- | terday. Citing Poland, | Russia as exampl | which parliamentary goverment is lon the decline, Professor Spencer qualified his assertion that the war ared the way for dictators by ng that “neither the war nor re- | construction primarily produced dic- tatorships. although both episodes {exposed and aggravated anti-demo- | | cratic elements.” | This, he said, was demonstrated | by the alignment of neutral and van- quished and victorious | powers with dictatorial t | “However,” Professor Spenc said, “it is to dictatorship’s eredit i!hu( in some cs s energetic unity I has facilitated the attainment of fi- nancial sanity, monetary steadiness, Spain and | of nations in | business recove Here is the e | tion of the adoratien Mussolini ived from the American bus- {incss man to whom siness s | sacrosanet.” Professor view of the ) which Mussolini, with a disciplined body of lawless followers proved himself a pusillanimous premier who hieved dictatorship through a legal in form but revo- bu ketched fiasco through lutionary in The voice of Italian citizenship has been muffled in the pre !tlie ballot and by public spee safd. “Yet” he continued, Ttalians accept the situation, growing and significant but the accept , by | n, e “the there group non- is a political 99, per cent dicta- torship gladly. They are gettifig the Iresult of encrgetic government free from the dificult responsibilities of self-government Russia, Professor Spencer said, i ! marking time politically, with her proudly flaunted dictatorship, she no worse and hardly better off than before the revolution, from Ithe viewpoint of constitutional gov- | |ernment.” | Pilsudski’s rule in Poland, va1 fessor Spencer said. does not in- volve powers or prestige that would embarass him, “He will rather mas- ter it, minister of war and if meed be premier and hence the appearance of fitting into constitutional mechanism become ve the New Mountain RangeIs | Located Up in Siberia Leningrad, July 30. (P—Discovery of a new range of mountains near Tazoxsikaya Culf in northwest Siher- a, is reported in a letter from B. N. Gorodkoff, noted botanist who act out on Polar expedition last March. Gorod the off followad the course of Turuckan and Taza rivers to the mouth of the latter. He reports the eXistence of a range of moun- | tains hitherto unknown, covered vigh dense virgin cedar and pine forests. Sables, ermines, foxes and Iynx are reported o be there in | abundance | STARS IN HAWAI SWIM ! Honolulu, July 30. (A—Among American swimmers who will comi- pete with Japancse and Australian | ars in the men's national outdoor championships here in August will be some of the greatest aquatic per- formers of the United States. Entrants include Johnny We | muller of the Tllinois Athlctic Club, Walter Spence of Broolklyn, Pete des Jardens of Miami, Walter Laufer of Cincinnati, Harry Glancy of Philadelphia, Clarence Ro; the New York Athletic club, Fissler of the Metropol | New York. READ THE HERALD CLASSIFIED | | ground |date plumbing laws. i ence in NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, JULY 50, 1927, The train ride down; the wild | Emmanuel Gospel There will be two services each Sun ’ i T0 ADAN THOMPSON He Owned First Bathtub Used in United States ordinary person, a ber is mevely a plumber, a trades- man in back of whose craft there is no history worthy of chronicling —but Plumbing Inspector Peterson has delved into its past and has found an interesting back- to the industry that now does a business of one hundred mil- lion dollars a ycar. Peterson is the supervisor of all work done by his fellow tradesmen, a position he won after 3 To the cate of modernized work and up-to- From his study he of plumbing histol |the following interesting account of the evolution of the bathtub. Tie bathtub was first used 1u America Decembe . 1842, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, by one Adam Thompson. Thompson had seen to Kurope where he met Lord John Russell, who, a dozen 3 pefore, had invented a bathtub. English were as slow in taking to the tub as the knights of old had been in taking to the bath. Thompson and Russell met, the lat- ter was the only man in England reputed to be taking a bath every day. ‘Thompson tried the tub and then came home improvements. He had a Cincinnati cabir mak- er build a tub of mahogany, seven | Ifeet long by four feet wide, and |ywoiorhury, When fin- | i it eet lead. nearly a ton. ne it with 1i lished it weigned pipe carried water from the back- | ¢%p {vard pump to a tank in the attic. Two pipes reached from to the tub. Ome of these cold water; the other coiled down the chimney, heating water as it coiled. I'hompson was so pleased with the | took two baths the first | Christmas | were | Four braver | tester. tub t staged h his friends privileged to use it. |than the rest took advantage of the | chance—and nothing serious hap- pened to them. |far and wide to | fangled contraptio Soon news- and agitators struck out the practice of using the tub. predicted rheumatism, in- see the “new | Doctor: /flammation of the lungs and numer- ous other ailments that only the Goctors could pronounce. | The city of Philadelphia, “cradle of liberty,” witnessed an attempt to |put a ban on bathing between No- {vember and March, but it failed. * | Virginia took a slap at bathing by | placing a tax of $30 a year on every |tub brought into the state. The | neighboring city of Hartford, Provi- jdence and Wilmington, Del, in- {creased the water rates in homes |where there were tubs. “Soak 'em oak 'em in and out of the tub.” seemed to be the motto. Boston ade bathing unlawful excepting lupon medical adyice. Bathing pre- . |scriptions! i S |tard Fillmore succeeded to idency upon the death of Zach- Taylor, he ordered a bathtub |installed in the white house and lit remained in use for 35 yea In 1860 some of the more progres- sive hotels in New | vertised a bathtub. When Thompson brought about ! the tub in the house, it made nec- sssary a system of carrying water into the house and waste out of the house and gradually the system of plumbing as it now is known, was fevolved. | Inspector Peterson 1s not willing to accept responsibility for the au- thenticity of the foregoing. but these are the plumbing facts that have Leen recorded in history, passed on by the official for what they are ! worth. CHILD OF 12 GOOD COMPANY :Noled Writer Prefers This to Woman of 20 W York, July 30. (P—Ed Howe, journalist and author, prefers a vounz child of 12 to any woman over 20. He explains his pre the August 1 of Pi Rev in which he ap- pr his danghter, Mateel Howe Farnham, and her $10,000 prize- winning novel, “Rebellion.” “A girl of twelve hasn’t found the men out; a woman of sixteen is beginning to, and T blush when 1 think of what women of 20 and he- vond think of us; most of it fs true, “I have not do not know what it is about, but am willing to wager it does not contain the admiration for at least one man she displayed at 12, No doubt its comments on my sex will be just and accurate. “We men were very women in the old days, and T re- jolee they have achleved victory over us, but somehow T long for the trust, the love, this bright wo- man had for me when she was 12.” torfal harsh with L, July 30, nee's favorite music hall artist, SOAP MAKERS BOW plum- | Olaf A. | nearl 0 | vears as a plumber, and many years | 5¢ek to test of outstanding service as an advo- |mon? has taken | When | Walk-Ove English | xew Haven, to make | the tank | carried | ° People came from | when Vice-president Mil- | the | York city ad-| read ‘Rebellion” 1| NOW YOU ASK ONE BIBLE QUIZ 1—Why was Jonah thrown over- board by the sailors? 2—How long was Jonah belly of the great fish? | 3—What than bear to Saul? 4—How did FEhud deliver the Israclites from the oppressions of | Eglon, king of the Moabites? 5—Where and by whom | Jesus baptized? 6—How did the Jesus after his baptism? 7—How did the Queen of Sheba the wisdom of Solo- in tie 2vil tempt | $—Way did Solomon give King | Hiram of Tyre twenty cities? 9—Who led the children { Isracl against the Canaanites | the death of Joshua? | | List of Patents Issued | To Connecticut People Patents issued by the U. S. pat- | ent office July 2d, 1927, to Conne {ticut inventors. ((List compiled weckly from the official Gazette by the office of Harold G. Manning, hoe store, 211 Main | street, New Britain.) | Andrew J. Carmichael, New Ha- cen, assignor to the Greist Mfg. Co. Portable lamp base. DeReamer, Bridgeport, Slectric Co. Ro- after | Frank C. | assignor to General tary switch. Martin Dwyer and R. J. Rivet making machine. Maxwell §. Hart and L. E. Page, | New Britaln, assignors to the Hart tehinson Co. Toilet inclosure. r for flatirons, James A. Lawton, Medicament carrier. | Julius H. Lehman, wiper. Herman P. Olcott, Training apparatus. Frank Pucillo, Bridgeport. Bristol. Gl Wallingford. Coil Alfred A. Rees, New Haven. Game apparatus. | signor to Underwood Typewriter Co., . Y. N. Y. Typewriting machine. John W. Swan, Stamford. Mani- fold. | Lincoln Thompson, Naugatuck, |and J. B. Marshall, Westport, as- | signors to the Bristol Co., Water- | bury. Electrical pick-up device for | phonograph records. Gustave E. Villaret, Leonia, N. J., assignor to Scovill Mfg. Co., Water- bury. Bracket back for lighting fix- tures. Herman H. Wolter, Meriden, as- signor to the Miller Co. Lamp. Trade-Marks Registered G. W. Bradley's Sons, Weston, to Willard S. Adams, doing business as | cossor. Edge tools. The Groton Chemical Co., Groton. | Thinners for paints and varnishes. | Schueler-Stamford, Inc., Stamford. | Bottled ginger ale. Whistle Bottling So.. chester. Beverages sold | drinks. Trade-Mark Applicants | Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Hartford. Phenolic condinsation | compounds. East Port- as soft | The Hatch & Bailey Co. South Norwalk. Builders products! | The J. M. Ney Co., Hartford. Gold | alolys for dental purposes. (2 regis- trations) Steele and Johnson Mfg. Co., Wa- terbury. Dish washers. AVIATRIX GARRIES " HER VANITY BAG 'But Prefers Her Engine to 1 Shopping | l New York, July 30. (P—If Frau- | lein Th:a Rashe, the 27 year old German the long hop across the Atlantic relatlonship did Jona- | was | of | Boyle, | Anna J. Larson, Naugatuck. Hold- | Middletown. | Jesse A. B. Smith, Stamford, as-| G. W. Bradley's Sons, Westport, suc- | | Union Service | The union service of the First | Congregational, ~South Congrega- | | tional, Trinity M. E., and First Bap- | Tuesday, | tist churches will be held at 10:45 | Thursday, o'clock tomorrow morning at the = Trinity Methodist church. Rev, | Second Advent | William H. Alderson, the p:(!\‘lOF,J “unday school at 10 a. m. Sunday will speak on “The Galilean Ac- | morning service with sermon by the cent.” | pastor at 11 o'clock, subj 1 “Wre: |ing the Scriptur Evening serv- First Lutheran ice with sermon 7:15/ % . m: be held at grounds at Other ser the Plainville camp 0 o'clock Sunday. ces for the week are: p. m,, class meeting; . m.. prayer service. at Sunday, 10:15 a. m., prayer; 10:45 a. m., preaching by Rev. C. I Os- terhout, subject: “For Me to Live is Christ.” At 12:15 p. m., Bible school; 3 p. m., -open air service at Walnut Hill park; 6 p. m., Young People’s meeting; 7 p. m., Mr. Os- terhout will preach on “The Open Door.” Monday, 7 p. m., trustees’ meeting; $ p. m., monthly official board meeting. Wednesday, 3 p. m., prayer in each respective home; 7:45 p. m. cotlage meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lopol, 49 Pearl court. Thursday, 7:45 p. m., midweek prayer service. St Swedish service at 10:30 a. m., |Thursday, 7:30 p. m., praise service. scrmon by the pastor, Rev, Dr. Abel | | A. Ahlquist. No Sunday school un- [ til the Sunday after Labor.day. | St. John's (German) Tatheran Sunday, §:30 a. m.. English serv- m., Sunday school; | German service. Tups- | Dt lies' Aid | will meet, 2:30 p. | |9:45 m. Wednesday m., the Women's Missionary socicty | | meeting at § o'clock. will meet. | S As the pastor will take his vaca-| . Matthew’s Lutheran tion, the services and Sunday school | | wilt next ust 7, Rev | | Christian Science rvice at 11 ject: “Love.” Sunday Sunday a. society he omittes but uthbury and Sungd Service in English at 8 a. m., in man, with holy communion, at | {10:45 a. m. Confessional service at a m. fon circle meets | Wednesday with Mrs. Jahn, | Stanley Memorial | Sunday, 2:45 a. m., morning wor- |ship and church school. Tuesday | 8 p. m., meeting of the Young Peco- [ ple's society. p at 10:45 o'clock. sermon by During the month of August there C. J. Fredeen on the topie will be no services in this church on | “Uplifted E The church choir Sunday. Services will be resumed | will render music under the direc- |the first Sunday in September {tion of Raymond Helsing. Com- 9:45 a. m. {munion service will he held in the levening at 7:30 o'clock. Midwerk servic held every Thursday night lat 745 o'clock | = | Flim (Swedish) Baptist Sunday. 10:30 . m.. sermon by the | pastor. Thursday, 8 p. m., prayer service, | Sunday. Aug- P. Clemen of will conduct the services ¢ school on August 14 i Swedish Bethany Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. No Sunday school will he held during | {the month of August or the first of September. Morning at Trinity Methodist Rev. W. H. Alderson will be the | speaker at the union summer service to be held in Trinity Methodist | | ehurch tomorrow morning at 10:45 | o'clock. The subject of his sermon | “The Galilean Accent.” Mrs. Ruth Goodrich Horton, soprano, will |sing “Blessed Are the Meek” by Ward Stephens and “The Prayer Perfect” by Stenson. costal meeting at 11 a. m. Young | Mr. Alderson will also be the |People's meeting at 7 p. m E\an-]‘ speaker at the afternoon service to | gelistic meeting at 7:30 p. m. ! |is Full Gospel Assembly Sunday school at 10 a. m. Pente- | | | Mfg. Co., | | U ‘I 3 j Insulated- l Ventilated “air queen” takes off for | ocean it is more than likely that a | vanity case will go with her. “Aviation needn't keep a woman trom powdering her nose,” she says. | When she is not wearing the grease- proof flecce lined jeans which she | prefers for flylng she likes to “doil up” as well as any woman. When she and her little red plane are separated nobody would know to look at her that she prefers air- planes to beauty parlors and would rather tinked with an engine than shop. She and dr powders her nose as often ses her light curly hob as carefully as lots of her feminine sisters who never set foot inside an airplane. “The worst of flying from a beau- ty standpoint.” she says, “is that the wind burns and chaps my skin. T simply can’t cover up all the tan, and T've quit trylng.” Thea's skin is well bronzed, there are little marks across her She white teeth, which are al- howing in a cheery grin. | terian Church Mark’s Eplscopal Sunday, July 31. Seventh after Trinity. Holy com- 7:30 a. m. Morning pray- sermon by the rector, Services Sunday miunion, and m er 11 Protestant Churches See Membership Fall Philadelphia. July 30 (P—An “alarming” falling off in church membership in - Protestant com- munions at the rate of 500,000 a year is noted in the report of the continuation committee to the inter- church conference made public y terday by the offices of the Pr in the of America The lowered moral tone “and its benumbing influence upon spirit- ual life of Christianity” that resulted from the world war, the practice of churches in “pruning’ men in failing to retore members who stray from the flock and the frequent migrations of families from one community to another are found the basic causes of the membership losses. IVICES AT ST. MARK'S St. Mark's Episcopal church during the month of August, Rev. George D. Wilcox, rector of Grace church, Stafford Springs, will be in charge of the services on Sunday, August 7 and 14. Rev. John H. Rosebaugh of Hartford will be in charge of the services on Sunday, August 21 and 28, and September 4. SE At United States | ‘their mem- | berships, the “negligence” of clergy- | | . ) You @n Broll Without oo IT HOLDS THE HEAT IT SAVES THE GAS Call and learn how rcasonably you can secure one of t}lcsc ranges Gas ConneBions Free Time Ta_yment.r New Britain Gas Co. and | There was no shopping for the “air | queen” while she was in Paris. She {spent all her time finishing up the !ing and talking with famous avia- tors assembled In | ot Commander Byrd sometimes wears a riding hahit of | on the America. black and white calfskin when rhe rides in the Bois de Boulogne. It includes breeches of ealfskin, laced quite high a* the sides, and a shért iacket with a rolled collar. { Records show that at tHe marriage ‘of a German prince in 1561, pails of wine and 1600 barrels of beer were consumed. arrangements for her American fly- | Paris in honor | and his crew | 3600 | day at 7:30 and 11 a. m. Film Explosion Case Brings $15,000 Verdict Boston, July 30 UP—A jury in the Suffolk County Civil Court last night returned a verdict of $15,000 for the plaintiff in a suit brought by Mis: Madeline Guinean of Boston agains the Famous Players-Lasky Film cor- poration, as the result of the explo sion of a quantity of film in a Bos ton elevated car in January, 1925 The suit is one of 80 filed by per. sons claiming injury and damage from the explosion. The aggregate damages claimed is approximateiy $1,000,000. John 8. Bowditch, who was carry- ing the film when it cAught fire and exploded in a Park street subway car, was named as a defendant, at was the Boston Eilevated railway The jury held that the film corpora tion was responsible. Nearly 9,000 sets of twins are born every year in England and Wales, GOD AND THE GROCERYMAN The new novel by Hareold Bell . Wright in which