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ble antlers. but the room is really used as a catch-all for all the sports things - racquets, golf clubs, skis. ping-pOng table, etc. Anyway. Tracey brought out the box of anagrams. and we were all having q pretty good time when. at half-past eight, the butler announced MT Dexter Sprague'!'
 Your tone makes me wish I'd been there," Dundee acknowledged. What happened?"
 back Tracey always is?" Penny asked, grinning. Well, you should have seen him and heard him as he dismissed poor Whitson - the but Ter = as if he were giving him mo- tice. instead of letting him off for the night! And the icy dignity with which he greeted poor Sprague-"
 Poor Sprague?" Dundee echoed.
 Well, after all, Sprague had been received by all the crowd be- fore Nita's death." Penny retorted. T think it was rather natural for him to think he'd still be welcome. He began to apologize for his unin- vited presence, saying he had felt lonesome and depressed and had just jumped into taxi and come along, hoping to find the Mileses in. Flora tried to act the lady hostess, but Peter got up from his bridge table and said in tones that were even icier than Tracy's: will you excuse me, Flora? And will you take my place, Drake? Pm going into the library. I don't en- joy the society of murderers.'
 Good Lord!" Dundee calculated, shocked but admiring. Did Sprague make a quick exit?"
 Not just then" Penny said mys- teriously. "Of course everyone was simply stunned. but sprague re- torted cheerfully. Neither do I, Dunlap!' Peter stalked on into the living room on his way to the library. Johnny took his place at the bridge table. and Tracey, at an urgent signal from Flora. offered his seat at the other table to Sprague. as if he were making way for a leper. Poor Polly had to be Sprague's partner. Flora. as if she were terrified at what might hap pen you know how frightfully tense and nervous she is made an excuse to run upstairs for look at Betty"
 And something terrible did hap pen." Dundee guessed. You're looking positively ghoulish. Out with it."
 After about half an hour of playing without pivoting." Penny went on imperturbably. Hugo bid three spades, Karen raised him - in a trembling voice - to five spades, Hugo, of course, went to a little slam. and Dexter Sprague. if you can believe me, said: Better not leave the table. Karen. A little slam bid in spades has been known to be fatal to the dummy.' "No!" Dundee was genuinely shocked, but before he could say more the telephone rang. Sander son at last. Hello! Chicago? :? Oh. hello, Captain Strawn. :. What's that? Oh. my Lord! Where did you say the body is?"
 To Be COntinucd)
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YOUR CHILDREN wNiIpRbeytRa,1v
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"l should think that family of Mrs Smiths would go crazy She nags at those poor children from morning to night"
 How many mothers have said this, never stopping to think that they themselves may not have escaped the poison.
 It Is so easy to nag. We all do it occasionally. It comes of responsibil- ity, or rather from an exaggerated idea of responsibility. The habit of correction grows and we become naggers before we know it.
 It is customary to think of nagging as scolding in some form Or other, but this is only fraction of the whole picture. Indirect forms of 1t are more irritating to our families than the direct explosion.
 We do not think we are wearing the nerves of the children to a fringe when we keep reminding them over and over of unimportant things. or of things they would do anyway without reminding, but 1 know that nothing breeds resentment in small breasts half so fact as this very course.
 An Ovcr-ZcalOus Mother
 For instance, Johnny has had his lunch. It is time to start to school. He goes to the stairs.
 Be sure to wash your hands and brush you hair." calls his mother.
 'Aw, I was just goin' to-" retorts Johnny. Darn it all, I don't have to be told everything" he grumbles to himself. II wish Nom would leave me alone"
 His mother, however, has fallen into a habit that she cannot break. When he was little he had to be told daily of the midday ablutions, but with the routine fairly established it was time to break off. Perhaps he will forget occasionally, but what is a little unused hair to peace of spir- it?
 Multiply this episode by the hun- dred little things day he does and who can blame him if his dispOsi- tion turns sour?
 Here's Common Fault
 Another form of nagging is to trip the children up by ferreting out the things they have forgotten to do or have done wrong. We overlook the dozen things they have remembered to do. the good things they have ac- complished and ick out one little for lorn flaw. Then we bounce.
 Johnny, did you take that book over to Mrs Brown?"
 We know very well that he did not, but what a kick we get out of watching him squirm.
 When we repeat certain things au- tomatically day after day until they are threadbare, the children listen automatically. In fact they don't hear us at all. Too many commands, too many reminders, too many ques- tions all come under the same head.
 Tactful suggestion. or an occasion al downright plain talk that means business are entirely different things. It is the constant dropping that wears away the soul.
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"I don't know. We'll look" Mrs Merryman came in and she and Harry joined in the search for the key.
 'I don't think it's here. I didn't really think it was," Harry said in make sure"
 Do you think you lost it some place last night?" Mrs Merrymdn asked. Hasn't the bank q dup,i- cate?'
 Harry shook his head. "No, mine was the only one. Every box has two keys, and it takes both of them to open it, for they're different. The bank holds one and the depositor the other. I had mine yesterday morn ing. It's disappeared between now and then. I know. for l was in the bank, getting out some papers,
 "Ahe you sure you didn't leave it there at tho timer" Sue asked. Its easy enough to do. Why not run in and ask?
 The relief on Harry's face was un- nistakable. "Of all the dumbbell.'. I never thought of that. Of course that's what l did. I just missed the tbing and jumped at conclusions. You're getting brighter every day, Sue"
 He went away whistling.
 "Of what was he so afraid?" Mrs Merryman asked Sue when Harry had gone. ''He seemed to think that maybe someone was tam- pering with his box. I wonder who."
 Somebody after a receipted Dill or some business documents, I sup pose" Sue answered carelessly. Just because we're involved in such d sCrape doesn't mean that we're be- ing accused of anything else. And nobody believes that Dad is guilty. You know that! Especially not Harry. He and his father put up the money for bail.'
 Meantime Corrinne had answered the telephone call which had inter- rupted her aimless musings the night after she had explained the ring episode to Harry It was Harry who had called, and he had aske d her to search for his key. He held the phone while she summoned the maids and looked. But it wasn't any place.
 You mean you can't find it, Corrinne had gasped. But why did you want it?"
 II had to get into my box. May be I'll find it at your home. I'll go right over and look"
 "Oh, ;'ope you do. And I'll look some more," she said.
 She went upstairs and felt around the edges of the rug. A shadow seemed 60 follow her, sinister gray one that disappeared when she looked for if hut was there inst tho same.
 She pushed the bed aside and moved the telephone table. It tilted and something fell on the floor. It was the key.
 Corrinne called her house quickly, but Harry had been there and gone. She called the bank. caught Harry. and told him to wait. that she was bringing the key. Then she raced into town.
 But the shadow raced with her.
 NEXT: A startling discovery. (Cnnvrirbt 1Q91 NISA Corvico Tp,N
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Heads list for Santa!
 The bolero is dear to the heart of every little girl. And this one dou- bles it's chic because of it's smartly flared skirt snug hips and belted waistline.
 It's very gay in scarlet red wool jersey with white pique collar.
 Again for this facinating model, navy blue wool crepe wit.i white pin dots is smart The self-fabric collar is pped in red grosgrain ribbon which is also used for a bow tie.
 Brown covert cloth is another ideal suggestion with huge brown ball button trim.
 Tweed-like cottons, linen, pique and >cotton broadcloth are lovely tubba ble fabrics for this model.
 Style No. 997 is designed for small folk of 6, s 10 and 12 years
 Size 8 requires 2-12 yards 35-inch With IA yard 35-inch contrasting.
 We suggest that when you send for your pattern, you order a copy of our large Winter Fashion Maga = zine. It should be in every home for of course every woman wants to look her best without great expense, and this book points the way. It also contains excellent Xmas sug- gestions.
 Price of book 10 cents. Price of Pattern IS cents in stamps or coin (coin is preferred). !. Wrap coin carefully.
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Karen not suspecting that she was going to have to play. Then came Johnny Drake alone. with the news that Carolyn was in bed and very miserable with a summer cold. Polly walked over from her house, which is on the next hill to the right. you know. She said Give had decided to work late at the office, and had promised to call for her about II, to take her home"
 What about Janet Raymond? Was she left out?" Dundee asked.
 "I told you it wasn't a planned Flora did telephone her, and she said she didn't feel like coming. She's been moping about like sick cat ever since Nita's death. We all knew she was idiotically in love with Dexter Sprague. and it must have been an awful blow to her to hear you read aloud that note Nita received from Sprague."
 "So I noticed" Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girls face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all of it's implications.
 Well" Penny continued, Tracey suggested bridge, and at first Karen flatly refused to play, but Hugo finally persuaded her. |. Karen would do absolutely any thing for that ridiculous old hus- band of hers! I simply can't under stand it how she can be in love with him. I mean!"
 q thought you liked Judge Mar shall," Dundee laughed.
 "Oh, I do in way. . But fancy a young girl like Karen be- ing in love with him! We'll, any way, we all went out to the side porch. which is kept in readi- ness all summer for bridge. Iron and with oilcloth pouches for the cards and score pads, so there's never any bother about scurrying things in on account of rain. It's a roofed, tone-floored porch, right outside the living room, and under it are the garages, so it's high and cool, with a grand view of Mirror Lake in the foreground down be- low. and of the city in the dis tance."
 She sighed, and Dundee knew that she was thinking of her own lost home in Brentwood - the Colo feed to her fathers disastrous Primrose Meadows venture. Then she went on: "I don't know why am telling you all this, except that the setting was so pleasant that we should have had a much better time than we did"
 You're an artful minx. Penny!" Dundee chuckled. You're working up suspense for the entrance of the villain!"
 "Then let me do it justice" Penny retorted. Lois and Peter. Ralph and I made up one table for bridge. and Tracey, Polly, Judge Marshall and Karen the other. Flora said she didn't want to play. keep an eye on Betty. although she Lydia. who. Flora says. is proving And Johnny Drake asked her to tween trips to the nursery. Johnny has Q perfect pash for anagrams. and is a WOW at 'em. So Tracey got the box of anagrams out of the
 "The trophy room?" Dundee re- peated. amused.
 That's what Tracey calls it," Penny explained impatiently. "be- cause he has a couple of golf cups and Flora has an immense silver atrocity which testifies to the fact that she was the "lady tennis cham pion' of the state for one year There are also some mounted fish and some deer heads with incredi-
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By VIM. k. MCKINNEY American Bridge League


 We have received so many re- quests for information regarding progressive contract laws, that we are printing a brief summary of this code for the information of our readers.
 It is played just the same as progressive auction except that contract values are used. Tallies ed a. each table. and in addition a score pad with scoring schedule should be placed at each table The players at each table appoint one of their number to keep score
 A Deal Passed Out
 Should deal be passed out that is, should all four players pass at their first opportunity to declare the deal passes to the left and the scorer gives both sides zero on the score pad for that deal.
 Scoring Game
 Ir progressive contract it is necessary to bid and make game The game bonus is 300 points if declarer's side is not vulnerable, and 500 points if declarer's side is vulnerable.
 Bonus for Winners
 In auction a bonus of 100 points was given to the side for winning a round or for progressing. As the values in contract are much greater than in auction, this bonus IS 250 points in contract. In case of tie of both pairs at a table. each side received 125 points and the points and the cards are cut to sec who shall progress.
 Vulnerable Features In rubber contract. if a side wins a game it becomes vulnerable. Until a side wins game it is not vulner- able. But as a round in progressive contract consists of only four deals the vulnerable features have to be arbitrarily set.
 The individual or committee in charge shall determine which of the following laws shall be en- forced regarding vulnerability. In the absence of a ruling (a) shall be used
 (a) All hands shall be played and all scores shall be entered as if neither side were vulnerable.' The game premium shall be 300 points.
 (b) All hands shall be played if both sides were vulnerable. The and all scores shall be entered as game premium shall be 500 points.
 (c) The first and second deal of each round shall be played and all scores shall be entered as if neither side were vulnerable. The game pre- mium shall be 300 points. The third and fourth deal shall be played and all scores entered as if both sides were vulnerable. The game pre- mium shall be 800 points.
 (d) The first deal of each round shall be played and all scores en- tered as if neither side were vulner- able. The second and third deal of each round shall be played and all scores shall be entered as if the deal CTS side were vulnerable and the other side invulnerable. The fourth deal of each round shall be played and all scores shall be entered as II bothl sides were vulnerable. Copyright. 1880, NEA Service, Incl
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Grace Baptist
 Church Meeting
List of Officers Elected to
 Serve for Year l93l

The following is a list of officers of Grace Baptist church: Church deacon. R. A. Mckinney,
 c. C.. Cross, Squire Norwood Will
 liam Hardy, Samuel Jones and
 Jacob James; trustees, E. A. McKin- ney, Joseph Copeland, David Wright Charles Roscoe and Thom- as Johnson.
 w. G. Prince was elected clerk of the church and James w. Goodson is the assistant; church ti>easurers building fund, R. A. McKinnel; cur rem fund. James w. Goodson; mis- sion fund, C. c. Cross: organist Mrs. Viola Biggs; auditor, Squire Norwood; sexton. Thomas Clapp; ] ushers, Charles Roscoe, T. McLain. IC: Wyrick. Nathan Conner. F.. Thompson and Thomas Moore. Sunday school officers-Superin- tendent, Mrs. Viola Biggs: assistant superintendent, Miss Gertrude Me- Kinney; secretary. Miss Alcea Me
 Kinney; treasurer. Charles Roscoe; organist. Mrs. Helen Names. Officers of the B. Y. P. U.- President and treasurer, Thomas
 Clapp: secretary, Miss Addie Sum- Ter. and organist, Miss Martha Reed.
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Latin Prize Exam
 Saturday March 17
The Margaret Croft Prize $50 and Dr DOnO=
 vans $25

The annual prize examination for the Margaret Croft and Dr Michael C. Donovan Latin prizes will be spon- sored March IF at 9 o'clock in Room 0 at Crosby high school.
 This examination is open only to Latin students who have maintained an average of S5 in Latin during their sophomore. junior and senior years. The Croft prize is $50 and the Donovan $25. James Grafton, Crosby vice. principal, will be the ex- aminer.
 The examination will be based on:
 I. Virgil-Aeneid books l, II, and 500 lines of book III.
 II. Cicero-Catiline 1, III, W, and "Pre Archia".
 III. Latin prose.
 IV-Questions on prosedy, life of Virgil and mythology.
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The gifts were to be boxed in white, wrapped in white, tied in white so ran the invitation-and the guests were to dress In gray or white. Most of them chose white.
 On arrival each guest handed in her package. She receievd a tag with a number. A duplicate of this was attached to the box. Then the auctioneer began to ask for bids. Each member was asked to keep her own number deep secret. She was given number only that she might be prevented from bidding on her own package. The bidding was done with large or elephant size white buttons.
 The squeals which greeted the opening of the packages were heard half way down the block. For re- treatments they had oyster stew with white crackers served in white bowls. The sandwiches were white bread with white meat of chicken, the cake was freshly grated COCOA nut cake. and-believe it or not, the beverage was hot white matted milk.
 The hostess might have served other soups. Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper, enclosing stamped, self-nddrcssed envelope, asking for her lcaflet on "SavOry SOups."
 Copyright, 1881. Publishers Syndi-
 cata)
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Jack hadn't been gone very long when Harry came, a worried quicker on his usually good-hatured face.
 Good morning. Harry" Sue call ed, more lightly than she had spok- en for days. Somehow. the world was so much more cheerful with Jack in charge Come in and sit down. We're having an early lunch.
 II can't stay for lunch," Harry answered. But I wonder if I left a key here last night. The one to my safety deposit box is missing and l wanted to get in.'
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NANCY PAGE
Everything is White at the
 White Elephant Party
By Florence La Ganke.

Nancy received a letter in the mail which had the outlines Of an elephant drawn in the upper left hand corner. She opened 1t with expectation and curiosity. Inside was an invitation to q white ele- phant party.
 The card was a soft gray, about the color of an elephants hide and the invitation itself was penned in white ink.
 The members of the Nancy Page club were to bring their white ele- phant which had caused them the most worry or concern for the past five yearS
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DAILY MENU

Breakfast-Orange juice, cereal. cream rice waffles, syrup, milk, coffee.
 Luncheon-Baked dried lima beans with tomatoes, hearts of eel cry. raisin bread. milk, tea.
 Dinner-Baked beef's liver. baked. potatoes, creamed onions. shredded leaf lettuce and cottage cheese sal ad. gingerbreatd with whipped cream, milk, coffee.
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OWNS OLD DUTCH BIBLE.

Bath, N. "A 350-year old Bible, printed Tn Dutch, is owned by Mrs Andrew Teacherman, who acquired r. from her father, John DeVoist. The latter brought it to America from Holland, where it had been in the possession of his family.
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That meant that most of the members would bring some gift they had received as a wedding present or a wedding anniversary gift. And since most of the members had not known each other at the time of their weddings 1t meant that the unwelcome and unwanted elephant which they each one brought would not by any chance be q gift re- ceived originally from some other member of the club. Nancy saw the canny and tactful hand of her hostess in putting the date back as far as she did.
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WORE OUT HIS AIDES.

Central City Ia-January 1 Dud ley Epperson. 6S. mail carrier here. retired at the end of 28 years. He figured out that l.e had walked 309.- 935 miles. had worn out 60 horses ard seven automobiles.
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DIRIGIBLE TO RUN AIR MEET.

DIRIGIBLE TO RUN AIR MEET.
 Miami. Fla--A new instrument m motor traffic regulation will be put in use here during the Third Annuol meet. when a diri Eible controls the movement of more than 10000 automobiles over an area 35 miles square adjacent 10, the landing field.
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ness meeting, games, story telling and "eats' made up the program.
 The Zi Theta Pi club are journey ing by bus to Springfield today where their basketball team will compete with the squad of the Trinity Epis- copal church of Springfield tonight. Nearly 20 members of the club are expected to go.
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Manchester. Ia.-A suit for di- vorce has been filed here by Hila A. Clark. She is totally blind. So is her husband, John M. Clark, a fur niture dealer. The pair were mar ried in 1917 and both were blind at that time.
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Hot Water Gingerbread

One cup molasses. 1-2 cup boiling water. 1-2 cups flour, l teaspoon soda, 1-2 teaspoons ginger. 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1-2 teaspoon salt. IA cup melted butter.
 Add water and molasses. Add so- da. Mix and sift four, ginger, cina- mon and salt. Add to first mixture with melted butter. Beat well for one. minute and turn into an oiled and floured shallow pan. Bake 25 minutes in a moderate oven.
 Chicken fat tried out and clarified makes an excellent fat for allspice cakes and cookies. At this time of year fowl is apt to be quite fat. but if the fat is used in place of other shortening for baking, waste is avoided.
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Send your money and order to Pattern Department, Waterbury Democrat. Waterbury, Conn.
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Y. M. c. A. NOTES


 The "Y" Not club has announced it's plans to hold party in the west lobby of the Central Y. M. c. A. on February 2. Other club activities planned by the Y-Nots for the near future include a bowling match with the Emanons. the date of which has not yet been set.
 The new officers of the Viking Comrade club elected this week for the coming year are: President. M. stanton Fowler. who replaces Harry R. Lange; vice. president. Arthur F. Nordling. who succeeds Clarence An drews; secretary, Robert Lys"tt. who replaces M. Stanton Folwer: treas urere. Gordon R. Whitaker, re-elect- ed. The new president entertained the club at his home. After the busi-
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The Nomads are now meeting reg ularly on Thursday evening. Their speaker this week was Herbert $. Smith. general secretary of the Wa terbury Y. M. c. A. who spoke on Young Mems Club Work".
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crate oven for 20 minutes. Serve very hot.
 Gingerbread can be baked in a sheet and cut In squares for serving or baked in individual upcakes. For rather festive dessert and when fat is otherwise lacking from the menu, a wedge-shaped piece can be cut from the top of each cupcakc, the cake filled with whipped cream and the top replaced.
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY


 In the murder of JUANITA SELIM, there are six suspects, all guests at her bridge party: JUDGE MARSHALL, owner of the gun and siIenccr with which she was shot {; JOHN DRAKE, FLORA MILES, who says she was in Nita's closet at the time of the murder, reading a note; CLINE HAMMOND and POL. LY BEALE, who say they were in the solarium together, and JANET RAYMOND.
 LYDIA CARR, Nita's maid and heir; DEXTER SPRAGUE and RALPH HAMMOND are practically cleared. DUNDEE'S theory is that Ntta, seeing in . group picture someone she recognized. came down to blackmai1 them, accounting for the $1O,OOO she received since her arrival, and he warns Spraguc. whom he thinks she summoned to l'eIp her, not to go on with the scheme.
 Nita's will and the fact that she had Spraguc cOntrive bell near her bed. ringing in Lydia's room, show she feared death. CAPTAIN STRAWN thinks that Nita was killed by New York gunman. Dun- dec thinks that the murderer will return, to look for papers. which Nfta had burned. intending to drop the scheme fin order to marry Ham, mOnd. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY