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NANCY PAGE GrandmOther's Hand Lotion
 is Needed To-day
 By Florence l.a Ganke.
By Florence l.a Ganke.

There were times when Nancy sa Id she would not mind winter so much if only it did do such dreadful things to her skin. Her lips chapped, her hands roughened, her nose looked frost-bitten.
 Her mother called attention to the fact that summer with it's burning sun dried the skin in dire fashion but someway Nancy felt that it was mot as painful nor as uncomfortable as the chapped and roughened skin. ''Why every time I touch my young sons silk and wool shirts my han.is rasp through them. And as for try ing to mend silk stockings, think my rough hands make more snags than there are holes in the stock ings at the start"
 why don't you use a hand lotion to keep the hands soft and smooth ?"
 "I would, mother. if I knew of a good formula or recipe" That's easy. I think I can lay my hands on formula that your grandma other used to use."
 This old recipe of Nancy's grand mother Was written in a spidery hand on paper yel,owed with age. Here is what it called for:
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passed. There are still few of those dusty heavens left, but not so many If 1t no longer tops your house, turn a room over to the children for the day.
 Every house should have its old trunk, or barrel, or rag-bag of clothes, grown-up clothes, for the children to dress up. If your house lacks such thing get all the gew- saWs, odds and ends, scarfs and trains you can from friends and reIa- tives.
 A short easy story or play will give the background, or reason. Let them get at some easy story they know. A little gilt paper and card board will make crowns and wings. for they will be anything from birds to kings.
 Well-that is that.
 Homemade easels or drawing boards will fill many an hour. White shelf paper to draw or paint on is inexpensive, or a roll of white paper to be cut in desided sizes. Water color paints, crayons or charcoal are also inexpensive, and watch the children use them if they are sup piled.
 Other possibilities are beanbags made by cutting six-inch pieces of duck and putting in a cupful of small beans. They can be thrown at a mark, five points hit and fifty the game. or the who Is "it" tries to hit another player who becomes "lt' But this needs space.
 A resourceful mother can make up her own suggestions. All the children ask for a pickup from boredom is something new. This is natural. They must be busy, and busy with their interest engaged.
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For a second after Corrinne made her astonding statement that she would get the emerald for Clifford Becker, Clifford's face registered surprise. Then he gave a. low, ap- proving whistle.
 That's the way! You're on, Cor rinne. We can play this thing and help each other"
 T cont want any help" Cor rinne's tones were cool and collected now. T can walk up the steps with out any help from you. When do you want this ... this set?"
 'As soon as you can get'it."
 Tt may take few days" She watched him carefully while she spoke.
 That's all right. I'm going to be with you for few days. Mind if 1 ask how you are going to work around Sue get her to ask Harry for the ring?"
 Not at all. Ask anything you want to. 1 love to listen. But try to get me to answerP
 Corrinne went upstairs and very carefully brushed her shining dark hair and roughed her already red lips. Then she removed the filmy masses of a new gold chiffon dress from the wardrobe and got out the shining slippers that matched.
 'If look gay and happy and ad- venturous maybe can feel that way" she told the sober face in the. mirror. Honestly. if I didn't have q nose that cheerfully turns up I'd look as though I was going to commit murder. And Harry has to under stand,
 She sat very still on the bench in front of the dressing table like slim golden doll who didn't care if she wore party clothes or not.
 love Harry. |. love him so awfully much that it. .... hurts. And yet I do things that make him feel badly. I wonder why?"
 Suddenly her head went down on her arms and sob shook her shoul- ders. Another and another followed. She didn't try to stop. She let her self cry until the storm had passed. Then she bathed her face powdered her nose, and went downstairs.
 She was very lovely to Harry when he came. She couldn't remove her eyes from him somehow and wondered why 1t was. Bob didn't matter now that she was in trouble. 4Ahu SIie Hdu u queer, IOatnlng reel ing when she thought of Max Cor don.
 She excused herself early and went to bed. But she couldn't sleep, and she got up in time to eat break fast with Harry. She waited until he had driven away before she ordered her own car and started toward town. Then she parked and turned down the side street that led tn tho pawn shop where she and Sue had once borrowed money on the emer- aid.
 The proprietor came to meet her, courteously eager to serve. I haven't anything to leave to- day" she told him. "But Du remem-
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Miles had been hiding while Nita was being murdered. No secret drawers in desk or dressing table Or bedside table. No false bottom in boudoir chair or chaise tongue. l.. He had even taken every book out of the four-sheld bookcase which stood against the west wall near the north corner of the room, and had satisfied himself that no book was d leafiess fake.
 His close inspection of the bath room and back hall, upon which Nita's bedroom opened, had proved as fruitless, although he had re- moved every drawer from the big linen press which stood in the hall, and measured spaces to a fraction of an inch. As for the walls, they were. except for the doors, unbro- ken expanses of tinted plaster
 And yet
 He stepped into the clothes closet again. hammer in hand for fresh tapping of the cedar-board walls. Nothing here. And then he tapped again. his ear against the end wall of the closet the wall farthest from the side porch. :.
 Yes! There was faintly hollow ecHO Ol the hammer StfOkeS!
 Excitement blazing high again he took the tape measure with which he had provided himself on his way out, and calculated the length of the closet from end to end Six feet.
 Emerging from the closet he closed his eyes in an effort to re- call in exact detail the architects blueprint of the lower floor. which Coroner Prince had submitted to his jury at the inquest that morning Yes, that was right! The inner end wall of Nita's clothes closet was in the little foyer that lay between Nita's bedroom and the main hall.
 Within 70 minutes, much laying on of the tape measure had pro- duced a startling result. Instead of having wall in common. the guest closet and Nita's clothes closet were separated by exactly II inches! Why the waste space? The blueprint. bearing the imprint of the architects, Hammond x Ham, mond showed no such walled-up cubbyhole!
 Exultantly, Dundee again en- tered Nita's closet and went over
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Send your money and order to Pattern Department, Waterbury Democrat. Waterbury, Conn.
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SISTER MARY'S KITCHEN
NEA Service Writer

Many home makers are faced bS the problem of determining how much of the family income should be spent for food.
 It frequently has been estimated that not more than one-fourth O, the income should be allowed for food But when the income falls be- low what might be considered even a moderate sum, the allowance for food may be above the allotted one fourth because food is of first im- portance on the list of necessities. hTe percentage naturally tends to decrease as the income increases.
 Many factors influence the amount we spend for food. Individ- ual tastes. nutrition requirements. avoidance of waste and economical planning control the food budget as definitely as does the size of our pocketbook.
 { The ability of the cook has much to do with the cost of meals Good cooking is essential if good meals are to be enjoyed, no matter what materials are used.
 Clever marketing often makes it possible to provide better meals at a low cost. Buying in quantity when ever larger amount can be used to advantage always is an economy. The use of canned fruits and veget- ables in place of out-of-season shipped fresh ones makes for a greater variety of foods at moder- ate cost.
 Consideration of the edible and waste materials in foods is neces- sary. Meats containing large amount of bone, although low in price, may be more expensive as a source of actual food than a more costly piece of clear meat. How ever. if the bone and trimmings are utilized in a soup or stew, the waste material is nil.
 Cereals-both the breakfast va much food value at low cost. Dried sources of energy and mineral salts. The root vegetables and cabbage have q long season and are very in expensive. They supply many valu- able nutrients for the minimum outlay.
 Cheese should not be overlooked as means toward economy. concentrated food. it contains nc waste and is rich in calories.
 There are many varieties of fisf that lend themselves to low-cost meals. The wrapped. homeless fill cts are very moderate in price anC furnish protein and minerals. e
 The planning of three nourshine meals every day in the.year requires a knowledge of the composition of foods as well as imagination and creative ability on the part of the home maker.
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One ounce quince seed soaked in four ounces hot water. This mix ture cooled while the other part of the mixture was put together. One ounce of boric acid was dissolved in twelve ounces of witch hazel. This dissolved liquid was then put with eight ounces glycerine and stirred well. The quince and hot water concoction was not put in with the boric acid one. The lotion stood for one day, was then strained and sixty drops of oil of lavender were added. Nancy's grandmother sug- gested the addition of twenty drops extract of rose geranium or of rose water. Rottles of this lotion were corked and stored for the wintry days.
 Copyright 1881, Publisher Syndicate
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Fashion Plaque

A NATURAL baku for the south is trimmed and faced with a band of red linen. The brim is slit at the back and turns
 back on itself.
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YOUR CHILDREN vNipRobeyzsRal1ou
I0lo3lBYNfA SERVICE: INC. 1

We all go stale. Children go stale. Whole families go stale. These dark winter days with the holidays over and the sort dark days filled with the same old routine, the carburetor of existence gets clogged. It needs cleaning. The old car needs
 more gas or change of gas to keep is running till spring.
 When there is snow for sledding or ice for skating, or enough of the feathery crystals for a snowman, the children will ge enough punch out of life without any assistance. But it is too much to texpect of
 our continental climate to ask it to furnish us with amusement from November until April. As it is, ideal
 winter weather suitable for play out doors is rare, particularly in the
 cities. Me seem to jump from bit
 ter heartless days when small noses
 run the risk of being frozen if they poke themselves into the open, to
 rainy muggy, sickly periods when
 retreat is the better part of valor. What can be done to break the
 monotony? How can we beat Old Man Time at his own game, or
 rather help the children to beat him, if they are too little to go to school,
 or on those disheartening Saturdays at home?
 Once in a while it will pay the
 busiest mother to take a day off
 and lay out q plan of home games. Once started the children will prob
 ably have enough ingenuity to carry
 one. One suggestion leads to another
 and it is surprising how well they can amuse themselves if only the proper hint is dropped at the proper time.
 All Kinds of Play
 When I say game" it does not
 necessarily mean the regular or
 ganized play that involvse competi- , ton. For instance, dressing up" is the greatest game in the world.
 It is too bad that the attic has
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Der how embarrassing that emer- aid mix-up was, don't you?''
 The man nodded, explaining how sorry he had been. that his assistant had been the one who had received and sold the stone without his knowl- edge, and started to tell the whole story again.
 That's all right" Corrinne in- terrupted. "But I need your help this time. Can you keep still?"
 The man promised, but his eyes grew more alert.
 Then how long would 1t take to get me paste emerald that would look like the real thing?" she asked. "A much better one than this" She held out the paste stone.
 NEXT-COmplicat
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style is designed in sizes 16. IS, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, AZ, A, 46, AS and 50 inches lust measure. Size 36 re- quires 4 # yards of 39-inch material with 3s yard of 39-inch contrasting.
 No. 956-Bloomer Frock. This style is designed in sizes 2, 4, and 6 years. Size requires 23s yards of 39-inch material with as yard of 35-inch contrasting and 2A yards of binding.
 No. 724-Enticingly Smart. This style is designed in sizes 12. IA. lG, IS and 70 years. Size 1G requires 3M yards of 39-inch material.
 We suggest that when you send for your pattern, you order 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. tt and this Took points the way. also contcins excellent Xmas sus- Eestions.
 Price of BOOK 10 cents.
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|s In such an era of ultra feminine loveliness, nothing is more unpleas- ant than to glimpse hair through chiffon stockings.
 You need not be bothered by hair on the limbs or arms, or under the arm pits. There are eficacious and quite harmless depilatories. In a day when scanty bathing suits are the mode, it is imperative that you give q thought to super iuous hair
 Perhaps you have hesitated to re- move it because you have heard somewhere that shaving makes it come in more heavily and coarser. There is no scientific proof of this If there was such d tendency, shaving or the use of depilatories had little to do with it.
 If using a commercial depilat tory be very careful to follow the direc- tions exactly. Read them several times to make sure that you know exactly how to remove the hair. It really is simple. But every de- pilatory has it's own special mode of application and each is likely to require different number of appli- cations in a season from another
 If you shave your limbs and your arm pits, use a very sharp razor and dust with talcum imme- diate!y upon finishing.
 You can shave your arms, also. if you have very heavy growth on them. But before you do this for it must be .continued-once you have begun, try two things first.
 Try using peroxide to bleach the hair for often you will not notice the growth on your arms if the hair is bleached.
 If. after bleaching. you still see the hair is unsightly, then try depilatory. Depilatories are really more satisfa ctory than shaving for the arms. Many women find them more satisfactory for the hair on the limbs and under the arms.
 Be consistent in the use of de- pilatory or shaving. It is not worth while to remove the hair during a season and then grow careless Daintiness is a characteristic that is worth working for constantly. This is merely one detail of it. But many such details make for that pleasing feminine charm
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All patterns 15c in stamps or coin (coin prcferred). Wrap coin care fully.
 No. S22--Youthful Frock This style is designed in sizes IA, 16. IS. 2G years, 36. 3S, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires T yards of 30-inch material.
 No. 887-For Sub-Deb. This style is designed in sizes s. 10. 12 and 14 years. Size s requires yards of g. inch material with A yard of 30- inch contrasting.
 No. 919--F'or Smart Matron. This
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electric cord, causing the big lamp to be thrown violently against the wall near which 1t stood. But who?
 Anyone of half dozen people. But-who?
 Gro Be COntinucd,)
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ment and the public health service. 1t came from the meat intests. They, like others, have suffered from the depression. In normal times they perhaps would have paid no atten- ton. They have not, hitherto, for the public health service braodcasts such advice every year.
 Secretary of Treasury Mellon, who has Jurisdiction over the public health service, then invoked an old regulation never used in recent years requiring that all statements put out by any treasury agency must be submitted first to his office for ap- proval.
 Thus came down a censorship which may have other results in time.
 The commerce department like wise has come under close watch as the government agency nearest to business. Officials who once talked freely are wary now. The same is true of the tariff commits sion, which has become the center of the political controversy over the Hawley-Smoot act.
 Experts Silent
 Experts on economic matters Chiefly the tariff, silver and business conditions-are maintaining a very discreet silence, because they know it is wise. They are in close touch with developments in all these lines, but they can not impart their in- formation to the public.
 The case of nerves W hich seems to have gripped the government was illustrated in the quarrel re- gently between two economic experts in the commerce department. Gros- venor Jones, chief of the finance division, and his assistant, Dr Ray Hall, which resulted in the resigna- tion of Hall. It was a quarrel over interpretation of certain figures and involved no really great issue or matter of policy.
 Another 'Incident."
 A few days later Dr George J. Elder, chief of the Latin-American division, spoke out fairly frankly in an article he wrote for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about British propaganda in Argen- tina. He accused the British of at- tempting to fan up Argentine preju- dice against the United States in or der to promote their own commer- cial interests. He mentioned the
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LOST-Gem earphone, vicinity of Wa terbury, Sat evening. Please return
 539 E. Main St. or Tel 5259-J. Reward
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Automatic chess player, showing doors open to display clockworks.
 The "robot' of long ago was in the shape of a Turk, seated in front of a chess board. Chess players were invited to play against the robot. They asked to look inside to see whether 8 man could be hidden there; but when doors were opened, i.i the figure and in the box space beneath the chess board, they saw nothing but pulleys, springs, wheels and the like.
 The games amazed the chess players. Not only did the figure move knights, pawns, castles and bishops around in the proper man. skill. Player after player was de- feated by the man-made Turk.
 Kempelen was a native of Hun gary, but he took his machine to Russia and displayed it in the Czar's palace. Everyone wondered about the secret of the magic man."
 When g. chess player puts the queen of his opponent in danger, he is supposed to say, "Gardez (gar- day)' a French word meaning, guard yourself!" Instead of speak ing the word, the figure nodded its head twice. Instead of saying, "Check!" (meaning, "Your king is in danger"), the figure nodded three times.
 In a few games, Kempelen's chess player was defeated; but most of the contests were won by the fig ure of mystery.
 Years later, aften Kempelen had left Russia for another part of Eu- rope, the secret leaked out. There was really 8 man inside the ma chine, Pole by the name of Wo- rousky.
 Worousky had lost both legs dur ing war. The clockworks shown to the public did not extend clear through the machine, and there was enough space inside for the Pole to hide himself. He could see the chess board through small holes in the figure, and could move the arm which had pincers at the end to pick up the men and make the plays.
 (ScrapbOok club members may paste this in 'tMagic Tricks' section of scrapbook).
 UNCLE RAY.
 TO.mOrrOWs-CannO Tricks
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NOTICE

HONOR TERRELL, WILLIAM H.
 HOWARD, WILLIAM v. MOLE. L.
 M. STONE, and C.. ROCKWELL
 CLINE, all of Waterbury and ED-
 Connecticut,
 THE CLINE GLASS AND FURNI-
 TURF COMPANY and-or THE
 CLINE GLASS AND FURNITURE
 corporation organized and existing
 under the laws of the state of
 Connecticut and having its princi-
 pal place of business in the city
 of Waterbury. County of New Ha- SUPERIOR COURT for New Haven
 County at Waterbury, June 26, JUDGMENr CONFIRMING ITEM PoRARY AS PERMANENT E; RE, PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
 This action by complaint, claiming the dissolution of said corporation and the appointment of a receiver to wind up its affairs, came to this when parties appeared, and were fully heard, no pleas or answer being
 The Court finds all the allegations twenty-first day of May, 1881, Milton H. Meyers, of Waterbury was ap- pointed temporary Receiver of the Defendant Corporation by Order of the Honorable Arthur Els, 8 judge of the Superior Court and that said Milotn H. Meyers accepted such ap- pointment, qualified as such Tenn porary Receiver and is now acting as such.
 Now therefore it is ordered and adjudged that the temporary ap- nj nf MnVQrg as receiver of the defendant corpora tion, be and the same is hereby con- firmed and made permanent, that the said Meyers be and he hereby is ap-- pointed permanent receiver of said corporation. and that the authority him as temporary receiver be and the same hereby are reaffirmed and
 And it is further ordered and ad-- judged that four months , from .Sa ,s and I,,d is hereby limited fol. the presenta-- tion to said receiver of claims against said estate, that all claims not so presented be thereafter forever barred, and that said receiver give said limitation, that all claims not presented within the time limited will be thereafter barred, and of the ad- dress to which claims may be sent to him by mail, by publishing such Water Waterbury Republican and Water. bury Democrat, newspapers publish ed in said Waterbury, and by caus- ing a copy of said notice to be mail- ed. postage paid. to each known cred itor, all on or before the third day
 By Order of the Court.
 GEORGE H. FREEMAN. 7-1-3t Clerk
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Automobiles

DEPENDABLE USED CARS
 MODERATE PRICES THE BLUE RIBBON GARAGE, INC. 428 WEST MAIN ST. TEL 3624
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OUR DAILY NEWS LETTER
By THOMAS l.. STOKES

 (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington (UP)-Oficial nerves rubbed raw by the depression prob ably are chiefly responsible for a thinly yelled censorship which has been laid, more or less covertly, upon several government depart ments recently.
 This nervousness crops up here and there, sporadically.
 The public health service put out an innocent and innocuous radio broadcast recently which carried down in the body of it one sentence suggesting that people should not eat so much meat in the hot weather.
 Vehement Protests.
 Suddenly great volume of pro- test descended upon the White House, the agriculture depart
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NOTICE

A hearing on the application of MT. K. Kolesnik for approval cer- tificate to install a retail and whole sale gasoline filling station at BOA Orange St., Waterbury, will be held on July 9th, 1881, at 11:30 a. m., D. s. T., in the Mayors office, City Hall, Waterbury, Connecticut, as provided by General Statute.
 Signed:-
 FRANK HAYES, 6-30-3t. Mayor.