The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-02

He still has the habit, find. Yes. after long and trying day at the shop or on the road or m the office, home looks good to father. It's grand to lay away real dinner put on his slippers
 light his pipe and doze over the paper , TOT , while This Is all so pleasant for him that ne
 can't see how mother can want to tear OH to tnc
 thcater somewhere of an afternoon or even ing when she might enjoy her ease at nome Trouble with the old man is he so seldom puts himself In the hired girls place. If he mad to De responsible for his department ana pc tnere in person to do the work or see that 1t is done | l 6S hours a week, mother has to. he wouidn
 wonder why mother likes to get out somewhere now and then
 One of the cheapest and most satisfactory ways in which guy can keep the girl friend content ed with her job and her low pay, is to take her out to dinner at least twice each week. She gets
 a great kick out of this little diversion. Besides it lets her out of the dreary dishwashing and | cooking business for the evening. suspect this latter part is the principal element A man ought to try his hand at washing and wpng the dishes, if not at actual cooking, q cou- pie times week, just to jolly the dear girl along
 For the first ten or fifteen times you can tell her with real nthusiasm how much fun you think It is to do this sort of thing. After that, somehow. you can't put much enthusiasm into it. But any | how you've learned something and from now on
 your own job bad as it is will seem little less bore. What is more you won't feel that it is so | cxtravagant taking the girl friend out to dinner One fellow know and he is not Scotch fig
 ures he save money by taking the wife out three | times week. Her three dinners set him back. with incidentals, around $9 a week. But owing to the fact that she is away three times n week sh. keeps less naid, thus netting the boss d weekly saving of six dollars
 It Is good scheme Then besides, if d fellow | can wanEe the thing that maids wage is
 saved there is the additional benefit to the wife's health and happiness in the doing of something that she otherwise would leave to the maid ThiS keeps her from dwelling too much her symp- toms and undoubtedly saves many fee which would otherwise go to some doctor or specialist QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS X-ray Tcchniciais was interested in your article where you said all X-ray doctors are quacks. (Mrs D. Mcti.) AnSWer--I have never said or intimated such n thing. Cant Surime how you got such Inn pression So far know there more quacks using X-rays than there are in any other kind of practice.
 oil Heaters Am right in my impression that you do not
 approve of oil burners for heating houses? think I saw some allusiOn to 1t In your column but our dealer assures me that these burners are all right from the health viewpoint. (W II. J.) Answcr-So do l. Perhaps your impression on 1 gave thoughtessly. At any rate the use of oil as furnace fuel is quite healthfu the use Of coal, gas or other fuel In heating the home COc<r <rOaclics COckrOachcS and ants infcst kitchen the past few weeks. We have tried many things without relief. Please give us your advice. (S. F. A., M D.
 Answer-Incose a stamped envelope bearing your address and I'll tell you how to recapture the kitchen, Doctor.
 Hospitals for Mental Disease Have you ever known of any one recovering
 from insanity SO he could return home from the asylum and resume his former occupation? GA. R)
 Answer-Yes, not one but good many From 20 to 40 per cent of the patients admitted to hos pitals for the Insane and return to their homes. People should visit these hospitals more, and see how different they from the "asy-
 lums' of popular tradition.