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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11

Mrs. Clement Lynch of Oakville was hostess at a bridge recently at which time the engagement of Miss Mildred Frances Vensel, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Mortimer c. Vensel of avenue, to Frederick Harrison Book, son of MT. and Mrs. Charles R. Book, Sr., of Clematis avenue, was announced. The we'd ding will take place early in Sep- and gold. with the announcements tember. The color scheme for the decorations was carried out in blue of the engagement attached to streamers which radiated from centerpiece in the same colors. Those in attendance were: Mrs. Mortimer C. Vensel, Mrs. Charles R. Book, Sr., Mrs. Charles R. Book, Jr., Mrs. Edward F. Lynch, Miss Eileen Shan ahan, Miss Eleanor c. Lynch. Miss Mildred Vensel, Miss Doris Vensel, Mrs. Harold Beaulac, Mrs. Edward T. Lezotte of Bridgeport, Mrs. AL fred Lonergan and Mrs. Hugh Mon ahan of New York city.
 Mrs William Baer and her son, William of Wood street are in Bal timore. Md. where they will spend the summer with Mrs Baer's mother.
 Miss Madelyn Brouette of Water town is spending a week with Mir and Mrs Donald Macdonald of Pittsfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11

Charles Graham of Bank street and Chester McDermott of South Leonard street left recently for a two months trip to the Pacific coast. They will spend some time in Portland, Oregon, and will also visit in California.
 MT. and Mrs. David Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Henry s. Canby, Mrs. G. B. Adams and Miss Ruth Adams of New Haven are spending the sum- mer at Cornwall.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles P. Durfee and family of First avenue are spending the summer at Madison.
 Melvin Freeman, son of MT and Mrs Benjamin Freeman of Clinton street, returned yesterday from Troy, N. Y. where he has completed his freshan year at Rensselaer, Polytech- nic institute.
 Mrs Charles M. Brooks of Conis- ton avenue is spending two weeks at Quonoctontaug Beach, R. I.
 Mrs Hary C. Terrell was hostess at bridge party at her home Thurs day evening. Her guests were MT and Mrs Miller Dayton, MT and Mrs Peter German, MT and Mrs Harry Logan and Harry Terrell.
 Miss Rita Smith and Fred Smith of Plaza avenue are entertaining their cousins, Marian and Gertrude Phelan of Plaza avenue, at their summer cottage at Bay View.
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If you ever have watched a baby wriggling his toes and have mo- ticed the way they are almost as agrile as fingers, then you know to what extent your own toes have be- come practically useless.
 Get out of your shoes and wrig- gle your toes about. See if ycu can move each toe separately, without moving any other one. Few aduts can. The way they grow less and less movable while tucked away in shoes and not used at all is really startling.
 There are several exercises which you can perfect so that you can do them without taking off your shoes. In other words. while sitting at your desk working, sitting at home read ing or even riding in the auto or street car you can exercise your toes to good advantage.
 First of all, just learn to wrig- gle them. The best way to do this is to get barefooted and stand in mud or wet sand and move your toes about until the mud or sand spurts Up between your toes. Sec how much you can get up on top of your toes. Then wriggle it off and begin again.
 Second, stand on tiptoe and walk all over the sands or fields. Don't drop back on the ball of your foot for as long as you can stand it.
 Next, walk on your heels. or try to. This is much harder but it IS excellent exercise for the feet. for it uses muscles that never come into play ordinarily in shoes.
 Now turn your feet over and walk on the outside part of your feet, with your soles facing each other. This strains you. Don't do it too long. When you tire. turn your feet over and do a few steps on the edges along the big toe side.
 After you have done all of these exercises. lie back in a relaxed. stretched-out position and try again to move your toes, one at a time. It will take . long time to get the trick. Some adults have lost 1t forever. But moving all these un- used muscles does wonders to lim- Der up the feet and make them feel like dancing or walking blitheiy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11
BY VIM F.. MCKINNEY

BY VIM E. MCKINNEY Secretary American Bridge League
 TolloWing are examples showing how to apply the pitch count. There are two different South hands and three different North hands. Fol- lowing the card you will see a small figure in parenthesis-thes represent the total count for each The figure at the bottom is the total count for the hand. The count. as previously explained, is ace four, king three, queen two, jack one.
 Hand No f.
 In hand No l. South, the dealer, counts four. in the spade suit for the ace and one for the jack, giving him five for spades, three for his king of hearts, three for the king of diamonds and two for the queen of diamonds. and nothing for the fore, is 13-sufficient to open first or second hand, but not strong enough for a third or fourth hand bid as third hand requires count of 14 while fourth hand requires a count of 15.
 Hand A
 Holding hand A, if your partner opened first or second hand with a no trump, you, with only count of eight, should not bid two no trump. Your partner has advertised a count of 13 only. As you have only a count of eight the combined count of the two hands may only count 21, and as a count of 2 2is required to bid two no trump, your proper declaration is to pass. However, if partner bid third or fourth hand, you should raise to two no trump.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11
By FANNY Y. CORY
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Finally the messenger boy re- minded them that he was waiting for an answer and Beryl, with Tommy's help. composed one which they addressed to Irene at the hos pital in Oakdale where Gaylord had said she would spend few days to recover from her injury.
 Nothing to worry about" Tommy said to Beryl when he was taking his leave.
 Beryl felt that he was hiding his own feelings in order to reassure her but she was incapable of mak- ing an effort to offer him comfort in return.
 After he was gone she wondered if comfort wouldn't have been superfluous, for on reading Gay lords wire second time she sensed a coldness, almost an indif- ference to Irene's plight. It was almost like message a stranger would send as a duty.
 Had Tommy noticed this? Would he conclude from it that Gaylord and Irene were still estranged? If that were so Tommy couldn't be terribly upset over Irene's injuries which Gaylord called slight. Be- ing assured of a chance to win her for himself would be the big thing to Tommy. Irene could recover from slight injuries but Tommy was sure to feel he could never re- cover from losing her a second time.
 RervI went to talk with her
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YOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Barton 2!aSl eY NsA SERVICE INC:

After years of age child makes rapid progress in his own develop. ment.
 Before this time he will depend largely upon other people for his amusement preferably his mother, but now he is capable of interesting himself in things about him. This is the reason that we sympathize with his mother and express our selves some way like this: Hes into everything? Don't tell us. We know he's at his very hardest age"
 He is too little to have any judg- ment, and yet his spirit of independ- ence and investigation knows no limits. This is the time that vases go bang, the cat yells, he falls off chairs and his parents feel like caging him up with the canary most of his waking hours.
 He must be kept safe: so must the cat, and the vases. It isg just a case of making everything as far out of reach as possible until this period is past. It is not wise to smack into him the fear of his own shadow, and shout him down until he is one vast inhibition of every natural impulse, but to provide him with enough room and safe places to play so that everybody is happy.
 I am afraid the vases and low tables will have to go into retreat if he is to have the run of the house. Table covers may not hang over edges, and stairs will have to have gates. As to cat, he will take in tense interest in learning to be kind to 1t.
 Free Rein Better
 To give the 2-year-old free rein in a small worl dof playroom, porch, and garden Ca shut-in one) is far better than to constantly prohibit the things that he is doing. Many people are ruined as to initiative and confidence at this early period.
 Moreover, concentration is in the bud now and continual interference on the part of others is known to be the death of this important thing. People wonder in later life why they cannot concentrate. To often 1t Is because they never had chance to cultivate 1t whne they were tiny children.
 Probably this idea of freedom gave rise to the now unpopular "self-ex- pression" method. Parents went to the other extreme at first and al- lowed their ? and 3-year-olds to do precisely as they pleased. This could not and cannot be. Along with development must go discipline all ways. The child must be taught to obey.
 But the two things can be recon oiled by fixing a child's daily sur- roundings so that he need not be bossed and punished every second. That is ruinous. One of the chief pastimes of an otherswise intelligent woman whom I know is to indulge a grim determination to break" her little son of his destructive habits. 1T won't put thing away" she declares. Hes got to learn not to touch things, if I have to kill him." ...
 He will learn--but in that learning something that he will need enor- mously later on in life will be lack ing. People will say. George is such a nice boy. kut he cant succeed at anything he does"
 So let me emphasize again--give the 2-year-old at least half a chance to work out his Intense interest in lIH ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11

Long cool drinks may start all most as long as hot ones. For in- ! stance, iced coffee is best made by pouring extra strong hot coffee over i large piece of ice which almost fills tall tumbler.
 Fruit drinks, such as lemonade Or fruit punch. are best when a syrup, rather than raw sugar, is need for sweetening. And the syrup is hot to begin with al though it is made long enough in advance to be well chilled when combined with the fresh fruit juices.
 A delicious and nourishing bev- craze is made by combining two cups very rich chocolate, two cups strong coffee, adding one half cup sugar and putting in freezer or freezing compartment of iceless re- frigerator until frozen to the con- sistency of thick cream. This is then served in parfait or tall glasses with spoonful of whipped cream on top.
 make it use red raspberry juice ing fruit in a double boiler until juice runs easily. Mash the ber- ries and let mixture stay in upper part of boiler over the hot water in the lower part for fifteen min utes. Use a low flame. Drain juice. To each quart add one cup sugar, boil fifteen minutes. This mixture may be bottled in sterilized jars and kept or chilled and used at once. To one pint of the syrup add the juice of six lemons, sugar to taste. Put in pitcher with large piece of ice. Just before serving add one and one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11
Uncle Rays
 Corner
A LITTLE SATURDAY TALK

In a recent article about fire eaters," I promised to tell you more about the strange art in a Satur- day Talk.
 How does fire-eater take molten lead into his mouth, chew it and show 1t to the audience as a chunk of solid lead with tooth marks in it?
 Let us follow the trick. The fire-eater produces spoon and pretends to dip 1t in a kettle of molten lead, but he does not quite The spoon has hollow handle containing quicksilver. When held with the bowl slanted downward, the spoon is filled with quicksilver running from the handle. This looks like molten lead.
 As the fire-eater raises the spoon to his lips, the quicksilver runs back into the hollow handle. Then the man pretends to chew and in few moments draws forth a chunk of lead which he has been keeping in his mouth, between his teeth and his cheek.
 Thus, before your very eyes, you think you see him chewing molten lead, but he is really chewing his imagination.
 The fire eater may blow sparks from his mouth. Having lined his mouth with soap or ointment, he can stand a certain amount of heat; but his mouth does not con- tain anything in the nature of a fire-box. What he has inside is d slow-burning string, perhaps an inch long, or piece of punk, or d small piece of charred cloth. Smoke and sparks may be blown forth in this manner. but not flame.
 A flame is produced by blowing gasoline fumes against lighted candle or torch. The gasoline is usually kept in small sponge or wad of "oakum" held in the mouth. The fire-eater closes his lips tightly after blowing out the gasoline fumes, thus preventing the flame from racing back to the gasoline supply.
 A pitiful accident took place in an English town many years ago. A negro fire-eater failed to close his lips quickly enough and the fluid he held in his mouth caught fire. In the excitement some of the gasoline ran down to his clothing which was quickly in blaze. The flames were ct las> put out. The poor fellow was not burned to death, but he. suffered intense UNCLE RAY.
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The Madison Beach Yacht club is to hold dance each Saturday eve- ming during the summer for mem- bers and their guests, the last to take place September 12. Each Tuesday evening a dance will be held for all children, seven to IS ager. He became vice-president and for all classes of members from 9:45 to 12 o'clock. A Tiny Tot" dance for children six years and under will be held next Wednesday afternoon from 2 until o'clock.
 The wedding of Miss Dorothy M. Cragin, daughter of MT and Mrs Frank s. Cragin of West Somerville, Mass, to Everett F.. Perkins, son of MT and Mrs Willard s. Perkins of Kelsey street, took place Thursday at the home of the bride. Miss Cra- gin had as her maid of honor, Miss Mary Hardy of Arlington, Mass, and Miss Ruth s. Perkins, sister of the bridegroom acted as bridesmaid MT Perkins had as his best man, Ather- ton Fryer of Somerville, Mass. Both the bride and bridegroom are grad uates of Tufts college in the class of 1928. After a wedding trip, Mir and MfS IeTklnS VIII IeSlue III 4NeW York where the former is associated with the New York Telephone Co.
 Miss Anna deLancey of Pine street has returned from a two months visit in Santa Barbara, Cal. Last week she was the guest of Mir and Mrs Harry Minot. Mrs Minot is the former Harriet North rop, a sister of Edwin c. Nothrop of Church street.
 Mrs John O'Brien Jr. has been con- fined to her home on Concord street for several days.
 Misses Marie Rouleau, Gertrude Rouleau, c. Gile. Eileen Mulvaney, Isabelle Pratt, Robert Pratt, Felix Rouleau and Claire Bernier are spending a week at Lake Beseck.
 Miss Alta Jones and Miss Zelia Barnett of Stockton, California were guests of MT and Mrs Frank Weis and MT and Mrs Edward Babin of Fairlawn avenue recently.
 Mir and Mrs Richard Arms of Bris- tol were weekend guests of Mrs Arms aunt, Mrs William G. O'Brien of Cheshire road.
 Attorney John Bowling of Holy oke, Mass. was recent visitor in this city.
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mother, but she said nothing of her impression of Gaylord's mes sage.
 "Oh, my poor baby" Mrs Ever cit walled over and over. "Out there in hospital without her mother"
 She's got her husband" Mir Everett, who had come back from getting himself drink of some thing, declared. Now don't you begin meddling!"
 rociously Its all your fault!" she exclaimed. Yours and Beryls. You didn't want Irene here, either one of you. You made her humble herself to go back there. If you'd let her alone Gaylord would have come for her. Oh, my poor baby! Maybe Gaylords lying. Maybe she's hurt badly! Maybe she's dying."
 Mrs Everett kept it up until she had her husband thoroughly fright ened and Beryl too began to won- der if Gaylord had held back the true report of Irene's condition perhaps paving the way for more serious news. But that would be silly. Why should he? He didn't care enough about them to do such thing.
 She hadn't learned yet what his trouble with Irene was but if it were Irene's fault and not his then Gaylord probab bly, disliked the whole family. He couldn't be the brute Irene said he was. but was con- ceivable that he wasn't a saint, either.
 Beryl could see no reason why Gaylord should conceal the true | facts of the accident from them. but to quiet her mother she prom ised to send wire to the hospital authorities for further informa- tion.
 She got it off early as she could next morning and in due time they had word confirming what Gaylord had told them. Irene had suffered severe bruises and lacera- tions of the scalp and face but she was in no danger of losing her life.
 Beryl, without mentioning 1t to her mother, also inquired if Irene was being given the best medical care available in Oakdale. The in- quiry was made to ascertain for her own satisfaction if Gaylord was as- ties of Irene's care. The answer was in the affirmative and Beryl was relieved of burden, for she did not know where funds could be raised to pay her sisters expenses. No one woulud receive the best of anything unless the expense was guaranteed by a reputable person. She felt confident that Gaylord was looking after Irene as far as money was concerned.
 (To be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-11

Mrs. James Dwyer, Sr., of Oakville was surprised at her home recently by a group of friends nj honor of her birthday. Those in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Noel, Mary Dwyer. Emil Loiselle, Law renee Noel, Jr., MT. and Mrs. Eugene Murphy and their sons, Edward and Eugene. MT. and Mrs. Edward Dwyer and their sons, Edward, Els worth and William. MT. and Mrs. John Beck and family. MT. and Mrs. James Dwyer, Jr, and their sons, Albert and Donald. MT. and Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Arthur DeCarusel, Mrs. John Kontous. Jr., and their son; Miss Julia Davidson. Miss Alice flaming, Roger LSsch and Francis Murphy.
 Mir and Mrs Timothy V. Sullivan have returned from their wedding trip and are now residing on Ridge field avenue. Mrs Sullivan is the former Helen M. Svoboda, daughter of MT and Mrs F. J. Svoboda of Ridgefield avenue.
 Members of the Melicent Porter chapter, D. A. R., are invited to at tend the "25 Acre Party" at "The Pines," the home of Mrs Nicholas Pond, regent of the Freelove Bald win Stow chapter of the D. A. R., at Bay View to be given by the chapter on Wedneday, the 15th,. from to 12 p. m. There will be amusements for the children and a card party for the grown ups in the afternoon with super following. Dancing will begin at S:30 o'clock. Mrs c. H. Trowbridge and Mrs James Ross are in charge of reservations.
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.Society Activities Of The Week:

MT and Mrs Edward Collins of Kingsbury street, MT and Mrs Earl Odell and daughter Janice of Giles street and MT and Mrs Edward L. Bowling of Hartford left today for two weeks vacation at Tyler Lake.
 MT and Mrs George Henry Town send of Greenwich will give a din- ner-dance for their daughter, Miss Caroline Trowbridge Townsend, at Horse Island, Greenwich, on Sept 16. Miss Townsend, who was grad uated from Westover school, sails a short time later for Paris to study for a year.
 Mrs David c. Driggs of Pine street will be hostess for the July meet ings of the Madison Garden club on Tuesday, the 14th, at her summer place at Madison.
 Misses Agnes and Katherine Ma nancy of Grove street, with their two sisters, Mrs James Kelley of Chestnut avenue and Mrs Joseph Fleming of New York together with Mrs James Denton, also of New York, left by motor to spend the summer months at Cape Cod.
 MT and Mrs W. Mervin Grove and their son, Billy, of Cheshire, are spending several weeks in. ork, Penn.
 Mrs John Brennan and MT and Mrs Otto F. Bodden of Alma street have been visiting in Canada. Mia gara Falls and Rochester, N. Y, for several days. While in Rochester they were the guests of MT and Mrs James Brennan and family.
 Misses Caroline and Flora Church of Ridgewood street have been en- tertaining as their guests, MT and Mrs Charles FletcGer Church and daughter, Beatrice, of Detroit, Mich.
 Announcement has been made that the annual conference of the New England club women will be held at Rangeley. Me, on Septem- Der IS. 16 and IF with the Maine Federation of Women's clubs as hostesses. Headquarters will be at the Rangeley Lake hotel. This con- ference is open to all New England club women who are requested to make reservations as early as pos sible. Mrs Thomas w. Ryley of West Haven is chairman of trans portation for the Connecticut dele gation.
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We are going up to Canada, Sue. to a hunting and fishing lodge in which ths Beckers have an interest. They will be up later, but we are spending the entire summer. Harry decided that the best thing We could do would be to get away from town for ths summer, and your father has been as excited as a youngster with a bag of new marbles since he heard about it.
 "Its fortunate, isn't it, that your work is in another town, and that Sarah is with you? We are going to close up the house and forget all about everything except that we're out to enjoy these gloriously perfect months where ths wind is cool and clean as it comes through the trees, and ths water in ths bay is cold and clear.
 If you were home, Sue,I would hesitate to so. It's hard enough to leave you anyway. But Knowing that you are happy helps a lot"
 Sue folded the sheets into their original creases and put them back into ths envelope. Then she open ed her pocketbook and put the le- ter inside.
 So she couldn't go home. She had to get to a job of some kind. some where, and stay! She couldn't leave until fall .. or until Jack came back. If only that would be soon If she could glance up and see his gray eyes, half tender, half merry, smiling into hers. If she could feel his strong arms holding her close again so closely that she could forget the town she hated and the job she didn't have and the man across the hall -.
 But she couldn't dream. She had to get a job! Half of her buoyancy was gone as hhe went down the steps of the rooming house and crossed the street. There was a drug store a few blocks down. Sc sat down at the counter and ordered a frosted roll and a cup of coffee. She couldn't afford orange juice to- day, she decided. It cost too much. Until she was sure of a steady in- come she would have to eat filling food.
 Days could bring such different
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Hand B
 With hand B you have an addi- tional count of one in the spade suit due to the fact that you hold the king of spades instead of the queen. Now, if partner were to bid one no trump first or third hand, showing a count of at least 13, you should jump to two no trump as the combined count of the two hands is at least 22. However, If partner bid one on trump second hand, the combined count may now only be 21 and therefore you should pass.
 If partner were to bid one no trump fourth hand. however. he would be required to hold Is and therefore, with your count of nine, you should jump the bidding to three no trump.
 Hand O You have a total count of II, therefore if partner opens the bid ding first, third or fourth hand with one no trump, you should jump to three no trump. while If he opens second hand with no trump, you should only go to two no trump.
 Hand No 2. Dealers hand No has a queen betetr than hand No which gives it an additional count of two or a total of IS. This hand is strong enough to open the bidding in any position with one no trump. If you were first hand and opened with one on trump and partner, with hand B, were to bid two no trump, ycu should go to three no trump as partner has shown a total count of nlne--you hold 15-therefore the combined count is 24, sufficient for three no trump.
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