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Star Reporter
The following is a quotation, the origin of which is unknown to us -- otherwise we would gladly give credit where it is due. Someone sent it to us in the mail. It will be appreciated by all readers who have passed their thirty-fifth birthdays -- and by some others.
How to Guess Your Age
It seems that they are building staircases steeper than they used to. The risers are higher, or there are more of them, or something. Maybe this is because it's so much farther today from the first floor to the second, but I've noticed it is getting harder to make two stairs at a time. Nowadays it's all I can do to make one at a time.
Another thing I've noticed is the small print they're using lately. Newspapers are getting farther and farther away when I hold them, and I have to squint to make them out. The other day I had to back half-way out of a telephone booth in order to read the number on the coin box. It is obviously ridiculous to suggest that a person my age needs glasses, but the only other way I can find out what's going on is to have somebody read aloud to me, and that's not too satisfactory either, because people speak in such low voices these days that I can't hear them very well.
Everything is farther now. It's twice the distance from my house to the station, and they've added a fair-sized hill that I never noticed before. The trains leave sooner, too. I've given up running for them becasue they start faster now when I try to catch them.
A lot of other things are different lately. Barbers no longer hold up a mirror behind me when they've finished so that I can see the back of my head. My wife has been taking care of the tickets lately when we go to the theater. They don't put the same material into clothes any more, either. I've noticed that my suits have a tendency to shrink, especially around the waist or in the seat of the pants, and the laces on shoes nowadays are much harder to reach.
Even the weather is changing. It's getting colder in winter, and the summers are hotter than they used to be. Snow is heavier when I try to shovel it, and I have to put on rubbers whenever I go out because the rain today is wetter than the rain we used to get. Drafts are more severe, too. It must be the new way they build windows.
People are changing, too. For one thing they're younger than they used to be when I was their age. I went back recently to an alumni reunion at the college I graduated from in 1943 -- that is, 1933 -- I mean 1923; and I was shocked to see the mere tots they're admitting as students these days. The average age of the freshman class couldn't have been more than seven. They seem to be more polite than in my time, though. Several undergraduates called me "Sir," and one of them asked if he could help me across the street.
On the other hand, people my own age are so much older than I am. I realize that my generation is approaching middle age, but there is no excuse for my classmates tottering into a state of advanced senility. I ran into my old roommate in the bar, and he'd changed so much that he didn't recognize me.
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Bethany Notes
The Ladies Aid of the First Church of Christ held a dessert card party at the home of Mrs. Joseph D. McNutt on Hatfield Hill Road on Wednesday. More than forty ladies joined in making up tables for the play and prizes were awarded for each table. Mrs. Melvin Messer and Mrs. Paul Madsen were in charge of the arrangements.
The Four Leaf Clover Club will meet on Thursday, March 1, at the home of Kathryn Cartmell on Litchfield Turnpike. The group is busy sewing on exhibits to be entered in the 4-H Dress Review in May.
Aletha Doolittle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Doolittle, spend last weekend in Boston as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Campbell. While there she attended the reunion of the 1950 Summer Session of the Cape Cod School of the Theatre.
The executive committee of the Eight O'clock Club held a meeting on Monday evening to make arrangements for a St. Patrick's Day card party to be held on March 17. The place for the party will be announced later. The committee in charge of making the arrangements for the affair includes Mrs. Herbert Wrozina, Mrs. Harry Austin, Mrs. Richard Bachelor, Mrs. Everett Whitlock, Mrs. Walter Beletsky, Mrs. Russell Winter, and Mrs. Grant Durley.
Last Monday evening about forty friends representing the Bethany Grange, the Christ Church Ladies' Guild, and the Bowling Club gave a shower at the Bethany Town Hall for Mrs. Ralph Downs. Arrangements for the party were made by Mrs. Harry Johnson, Mrs. Warren Downs, Mrs. Arthur Simpson, Mrs. Henry Jehan, and Mrs. Hubert Carlson. The Hall was tastefully decorated with orange and yellow streamers and daffodils and iris. The guests presented Mrs. Downs with many lovely gifts and enjoyed delicious refreshments prepared by the committee.
The Community School is closed for the Wahington's birthday holiday and will reopen on Monday, February 26.
The Teenagers will have a Recreation Night at the Community School this evening. The officers will meet soon to make plans for a dnace to be held at the school on March 10.
The upper grades of the Community School saw the first of a series of three movies about 4-H work on Tuesday. This series is arranged by Mr. Warren Brockett, County Agent for 4-H Club work.
Mr. and Mrs. Yorke Allen, Jr., and their children recently spent the weekend in Bethany with Mrs. Allen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Sizer.
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Bethany Notes
Mrs. G. Fannie Kirchhof, formerly of Bethany, is recovering from an operation in the New Haven Hospital. Mrs. Kirchhof is the mother-in-law of Raymond G. Short, of Bethmour Road.
Bethany Post No. 9990, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a social meeting, with movies and refreshments, at the Bethany Town Hall this evening, beginning at 8:00 o'clock. Plans for the forthcoming dance will be discussed. All overseas veterans are welcome.
Orange Notes
A private funeral service was held on Tuesday afternoon for Robert B. Longstaff, who died on February 17. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Eames Longstaff, and one daughter, Norma M. Longstaff.
Miss Elizabeth Mae Dunn of Orange was among the 19 students admitted to the honor roll at Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C. the world's only college for the deaf.
Seymour Notes
Final plans are bing made for the presentation of the annual minstrel show of the Seymour Grange P. of H. The minstrel will be presented at the Clark Memorial auditorium, March 15 and 16. A rehearsal of the entire cast was held Tuesday night in the Grange Hall, Great Hill. Mrs. Rhea Pope is the director.
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Coming Events --
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March 5
S -- Schools reopen.
March 6
W -- Fashion Show, W. Club.
March 7
B -- Well-Child Conference, Dental Clinic, Clark Memorial Library.
March 8
B -- 4-H Party, Community School, 7:00 P.M.
S -- Talent Show.
March 9
S -- Sophomore Spring Swing, High School.
March 10
B -- Teenage Dance, Community School.
March 11
O -- Johnson Symphony, Center School.
March 15
S -- Grange Minstrel Show, Clark Memorial Auditorium.
March 16
S -- Grange Minstrel Show, Clark Memorial Auditorium.
March 17
B -- Eight O'Clock Club, card party.
April 12
W -- "Wormwood Manor," W. Club.
April 13
B -- "Aunt Susie Shoots the Works," Town Hall.
W -- "Wormwood Manor," W. Club.
April 14
B -- "Aunt Susie Shoots the Works," Town Hall.
W -- Wormwood Manor," W. Club.
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