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The Washington times., 1931-06-06
Married Too Young
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am just IT; my husband
is 20. We have been married
just a little over a year, al
though I feel as though I had
been married 10. My husband
goes out almost every night
leaving me home. He does not
tell me where he is going or
when he intends to return. I
have often begged him to take
me along with him, only to be
refused; then he goes alone.
I don't think he loves me
treating me in this manner.
I adore him, and he knows it.
Please advise me what to 40,
as we have a little daughter to
consider. ROSE.
Perhaps you show too plainly
how much you care, and
strange as it is, there are peo-
pie who persist in being blind
to their blessings. They never
appreciate love till it vanlshes.
How about your appearance?
Do you look as smart as other
girls Of your own age? You're
right in trying to keep the
home together on baby's &C
count, and I hope you'll be
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be ulcerous If inoperable -
close up wound-but better to
exp1ore-in other words-im-
perative that the attempt at
surgery be made -"
God knows that was plain
enough. All this elaborate pre-
amble boiled itself down to the
fact that Jenny must go under
the knife. Either her complaint
was operable or not.
'The exploratory knife will
Lell?"
All Summed Up
you have about summed it
up, Mr.. Rarick. It Is not i'm
probable that Mrs. Rarick's
complaint may prove itself to
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cept for Ramon. Flowers to
the ceiling of a sitting-roorn.
Chaise-longue. None of the
onus of illness. One simply
could not be i'll in a hard white
hospital fashion. for Ramon's
sake.
"..., besides Mrs. Rarick, I
have no intention Of confining
you to the hospital those few
days. You may leave every
afternoon after We have tink.
cred at you for a few hours,
but you must have all your
meals at the hospital and re-
turn six o'clock evenings for
your dinner and early bed"
Perhaps, then. Ramon need
never know! There could be
nothing seriously amiss with
one who was allowed such len
iency.
He Need Not Know
Ramon need not know. Fri.
day, Saturday, and Sunday
would pass quickly. She could
disappear under pretext of
weekend. Nuisance, having to
tell Jennifer and Rarick. And,
oh dear, Friday was the Glux-
ON dinner (not that the Glux-
oms really counted) and Satur.
day the automobile contest at
the Garden, a society competi-
tive gala contest for the most
beautiful car. Jenny'S new spe-
cial-body Twin Hercules had
just arrived from Italy-oh
DEAR.
So Jenny took the overhaul
ing, for the most part in good
nature, rushing back to the
hospital apologetically late, and
creating in her wake a confu.
sion. a specialness, and a lavish
ness that were as outwardly
annoying as they were secretly
impressive to the nurses.
At the end Of the three days,
Jenny, her maid, her pillows,
her special bedding, her framed
phot. Graph o. Avery, her
bottles of scents, her thermos
flasks, her silver flower vases,
her special breakfast china. her
frilled bed-jackets, her char
acter, dolls and stuffed dogs,
departed from the hospital for
home.
Three days after that, the
reports on her tests were COM
pleted.
Somethi1.s that had not
happened to- Rarick in years oc-
Cured one morning. At least
it haG not happened to him
since his clerkship days in
Schwebbe's hardware store.
A peremptory command, in
the form of q hand-delivered
message, lay on his desk. He'll
man had laid it face-up on the
top Of his sorted mail.
1t Is imperative that you
come to my office alone ct four
o'clock this afternoon. Regard
this as confidential.
JOHN NOON.
A Great Figure
Noon was the man under
whose car Jenny had peen
during this recent little dis
turbance. An illuStrious figure
in medicine, who had recently
operated on an exPresident Of
the United States, and who
was almost certain to be called
in first or named as conSultant
in the illnesses Of the great.
Could this little upset Of
Jenny's have a graver Signifi-
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man. There were two sheets
Of white paper spread on 1t.
IT have sent for you, Mr..
Rarick, before communicating
with your wife. In cases like
this it seems best.
Might Be Serious
"You are not, take it, the
man to want beating around
the BUSH"
mo"
There is a possibility that
Mrs. Rarick's trouble may be a
major one. I say possibility ad-
visedly. because an operation
may reveal it to be an unmalig-
nant complaint that will re-
spond to surgery. Miss Bart,
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FASHIONS
F A n CIES

The sky's the limit when it
comes to blue, for that shade is
ideal for spring wear. It is the
shade used for q two-piece bouc-
let frock with cap sleeves. Color
is introduced by a striped gilet
in different shades Of blue and
orange and finished with crystal
buttons.
It's a patent fact that patent
is one of the smartest feathers
this season. A new hat, a mar
row straight-brimmed sailor, in
plaided yellow, black, red and
white Cellophane is posed over
a black patent bandeau and
trimmed with patent band and
bows. .... n
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THE BEAUTY
BOX

Correct posture creates vital
ity. Slumping is an attitude of
despair. There's many a little
shmp who'd like to look like a
queen, but she can't because she
hasn't a royal carriage. How
one feels depends to a consid-
cradle extent upon how one
walks, stands and sits. For
the simple reason that correct
posture affects the inner or
gans. keeps them where they
belong, allows them to function
better. With chest high,
tummy held in and hips back,
the nervous system is more
likely to be strong and sound
than when the backbone is
limp and the step tagging.
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BY FAY KING

tained the four stories Of Of
fices, laboratories, consultations
and-observation rooms of DR..
John Noon
His summons into an inner
office came almost immedi-
ately. It struck Rarick with
surprise that he was tremb-
ling. Here was a firm that
dealt in human destinies. He
was doing business with it.
An old man sat at an old
desk in an old room. At
least, the DR.. Noon of this
room looked older than the
DR.. Noon Of the hospital. His
desk was as uncluttered as
Rarick's own. Again it was
the uncluttered desk of a busy
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bring in Mrs. Rarick's X-ray
plates.
Here are our findings, Mr..
Rarick. See this negative?"
There was wall frame ready
to receive it. with an electric
bulb behind, that made trans
parent, the story Of the flesh Of
Jenny, told in bits Of waving
lines and clumps of shadow. So
there was the bit that was
Jenny-on glaSs-in light-in
shadow,
Those heavy spots in there,
Mr.. Rarick, are what concern
us. The .X-ray cannot reveal
their depth. But these shadows
indicate er-a-an obstruction
-alimentary canal-may merely
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For Sailor Sweetheart
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

For Sailor Sweetheart
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Would you give me an idea
of what would be a nice and
useful present to give to my
sailor sweetheart on his birth
day? He has been away for
quite while. Thanks. L.
If he smokes, you can give
him a cigar or a cigarette case.
A leather photograph case is
always acceptable, if you're en-.
gagged or about to be, you
might include a photograph of
yourself. Handke ~chiefs en-
broidered with initials make a
serviceable gift, so do neckties.
Beware Tart Temper
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am a young man, age 10.
Three years ago 1 fell in love
with a pretty girl at school. So
to make a long story short,
called her up every night in the
week. One night she told me to
call her up at 7:30. This for,
got to do. The reason why?
Well, I was attending school. So
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TOday'S Famous Birthday:
Robert Schumann, born 1910,
famous German composer.
June 8
If June 8 is your birthday,
the coming year promises to
be an suspicious one. Gains
through real estate and other
vestm eAsS and benefits
through older epople are indi.
Gated, but it Is imperative that
the Geminian craving for diver.
sity and change Is held within
reasonable bounds. Important
dates: Low vitality, avoid de-
preston from July 14-16, Sep
tember 10-11, october 1917;
December 8-9-10, January 1914.
Unfavorable marital vibrations,
tending to accidents. arguments,
etc, during July 7-13, August
22-24, November 20-25, February
1920 Good for general affairs:
June q to July !, August lila,
November 1915.
A child born June 8 will show
eager curiosity and interest in
his surroundings. He will have
a very sympathetic feeling for
others and gain will come
through older people. He will
have a fine home in later life
and the text on his escutcheon
will be: MY home is my CASTLE"
GCopyrisht. 1881. Premier
X Syndicate. Incl .
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CHAPTER 3s

CHAFIEh SS
Ramon must be placated.
There had never as yet been a
time when Jenny. in Ramon's
behalf, had drawn against her
account for sums that would be
noticeably unusual. But in a
pinch that could be managed.
There were ways of arranging
with jewelers. and furriers for
bills to be presented for goods
never delivered.
That was a common device
employed by women who, un-
beknown to husbands, lost
large sums at gambling. You
arranged with your furrier, for
instance, to send in a ctate-
ment for a five-thousand-dol-
lar mink coat. You returned
the wrap, but paid the check,
which in good time was re-
turned to you in currency by
your tradeSman
When one was desperate. E.
and yet, somehow. terribly. re-
lentleSsly. Ramon did not seem
at want to be placated. What
what in Gods name did one,
who felt the universe slipping,
do to reclaim it?
It was then that digestion
seemed to go nervously back
on her, and that Jenny de-
cided to visit the specialist.
Actually, Ramon's antipathy
for illness was something rep
rehensible, Of course, but at
the same time, adorable and
fascinating and fastidiouS IN
him.
Illness vas something from
which you protected Ramon.
A Wretched Week
It was an acutely wretched
week of physical distress that
preceded this visit to the spe-
cialist, about which neither Jen-
infer nor Rarick had inkling.
Not even the maid in the
Breton cap. a staunch south
of-France woman, who had
served Jenny well and long,
knew to what extent she had
been in torment.
The verdict was neither so
good as she had hoped nor so
bad as she half feared.
Some digestive complications.
The specialists manner was
casual and reassuring. Thank
God for that. Life was good.
But the best method Of diagno-
sis and determination would
mean a short period of observa.
ton at a hospital. Few days.
A little troublesome. but moth
ing to worry about X-rays.
microscope. Test meals. A
chill ratified itself against
Jenny. Hospital!
Nothing to be alarmed
about. Most efficient method.
Merely a checking-up process"
eyes, yes, Of course"
Then and there the matter
was arranged by telephone.
"A large suite, doctor?"
He placed his hand across
the mouthpiece.
"The hospital is too crowded
to allow for suites. Mrs. Rarick.
You are fortunate to be able to
obtain a single and bath. Is
Friday all right?"
eyes"
The suite did not matter, ex-
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depressing effect on him as the
sight of mid-Victorian furni-
ture.
a girl has to have a lot of
intelligence before she knows
enough to act like a dumb-bell
and learns how to talk Ito a
mani like a moron.
Copyright, 1881, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.
The Washington times., 1931-06-06
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those whose Birthday Is
June 7


# June Z is your birthday,
during the coming year many
events will tend to keep you
busy and you will have to hold
q goal steadfastly in view and
avoid overstrain. Be extremely
prudent in monetary affairs to
prevent financial losses and do
not let an effervescent restless
ness and perpetual diSsatisfac-
ton hinder you in the attain
ment of your final success. I'm.
portant dates: Refrain from
hasty actions from July 6 to
II, August 8 to IA, November
II to %, March 4 to 8, Good
for general affairs from July IL
to IA, August "a to 30, Septem
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I called her up at $50 instead.
In the morning she was mad
and we broke up. All on account
of that call. The worst part of
it is, she did not give me a
chance to explain. l call her up
nearly every day in the week,
but all she does is hang the re-
ceiver down. I'll admit I love
her and I've tried to forget, but
it's all in vain. 1t seems to me
my case is hopeless. What must
1 do to win her? Right now !
am working. so it is impossible
to go to school and see her.
H. A. G..
I don't want to say anything
unflattering in regard to your
taste in young ladies, but this
one strikes me as belonging to
the citrus type. Any reason
able person will listen to an ex,
planation, and your excuse was
good. I believe I'd try to forget
the damsel who bangs the phone
receiver down. And try to be,
come acquainted with someone
more approachable.
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CORRECT
MANNERS
Mrs. Cornelius Beechman'

Mrs. Cornelius Beecnman-
Why Not 'Dramatize" the Salad?
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
1. Is it correct to serve very
rich fruit salad at a party when
other food is to be baked ham,
potato salad, olives, pickles, ice
cream, cake, candy and nuts?
Mother is very fond Of this
salad, and 1t is to be a party
given in her honor, so don't
you think it should be allowed?
OF course, want to have your
opinion, since I would not like
to be criticised.
2. Do you think I should
serve bread, tea biscuits, or
would you suggest something
else? ks.
/. I do think that this salad
is a bit rich considering the
other items Of your menu.
since you are especially
anxious to serve this salad,
why not make this the salad
dessert? That Is. have the other
items as you plan. and then
serve your salad, with an &C.
companying bread-detail that
is appropriate. Then omit the
ice cream and cake. In other
words, dramatic" your salad,
and omit the dessert.
2. Tea-biscuits, split and
toasted, are good, very good.
Or Swedish crackers, buttered
and toasted, with the fruit
salad, are good. Or any other
kind Of not-sweet wafer, but
tered and toasted. The bread
or biscuit or cracker that &C
companies such a salad should
be simple, and not sweet.
Both Proper and Convenient
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
An organization of which l
am q member Is having a din.
ner dance at a local night club.
The organization is composed
of young men. The table will
be set in banquet style. Each
member will escort a young
lady.
l. Would it be proper to
have place cards?
2. If so, should a card also
be placed for the young lady?
The names Of the ladies are
available. NJ B. E.
/. Yes, it would be both
proper and very convenient.
2. Yes Each guest would
have q place card. The place
cards should be simple ones.
plain white. You can buy these
at any stationer's. -
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A Pulse -Tingling Romance
Starring Marion Davies
By Fannie Hurst
Whose novels have her place among the foremost Of
modern writersJ

This famous story has been
made into q talking picture by
Metro GOldwyn Mayer with
Marion Davies In the leading
rOIe.)
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
AnsEOerS To TOdGy's Test
Questions On Editorial Page

1. False-green coloring mat
ter in plants. 2. FalSe-cdu'
Gator. 8. False-"Little Boy
Blue" Eugene Field. 4. True.
S. FalSe-therefore. 6. False
swallow. z. True. 8. False
Gree verse. 9. True. 10. True.
ii. Altitude. IL. Luminous cir.
Gle around saints heads in
pictures. l3. Not extreme. Ii.
Menagerie. is. r ed e m e r,
Christ,
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wishing to good mixers" they often undermine
confidence in their their husbands character
making extraagant social gestures they often only ae
those they wished to impress.
Winding her business is the best wife can help
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when he applies for position OF trust or
wishes negotiate a loan at reliable bank.
Naturally wives wish their husbands, but
unfortunately mistaken in their method
assume poses misunderstood
than
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able to write me again and tell
me your husband is doing het-
ter.
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Hard to Be Cordial
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
When 1 was a little girl I
was practically adopted by an
The Washington times., 1931-06-06
Your Ruling Star
BY William Shwader-.

Der 26 to october 2, January 5
to 10.
A child born June Z, will be
sensitive, restless and retiring.
He will have an unusual men
tality, love Of beauty and art
and could be successful in all
intellectual and artistic pur-
suits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
OF A GREAT NATION OR
THE MISSING BATH-PLUG

our Hero visited the great industrial centers OF
Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad He went through
Mimi, Kazan, Kiev and other cities. IT talked
with peasants in remote districts where few for
egn observers have been for years"
But, what, my readers ask in happy antcipa-
ton, are the results, the conclusions, the find
ings. In what Illuminating phrases does he paint
the great cultural work being carried out
liquidation of illiteracy, compulsory education
mass social work of clubs, of the schools and
universities, hospitals and rest-homeS Our
Hero has been in the village, spoken with peas
ants-then what does he say about Collective
cation; what, finally, are his impressions of the
Five-Year Plan Of its second year of fulfilment.
Poor beguiled reader, doomed to cruel awak-
ening, 1t was not with these passing questions
that this wonderful mind was engaged. 1t was
to get to the root-matter of the entire system,
Of the whole bag of tricks" that H. H. T. had
devoted his extraordinary intelligence and he
found it (the oot-matter)-Yea Bogo he found
tin the missing bath-plug of his bathroom
at the Hotel Europa Leningrad This is the truth
as sure as live, Yea BogoI Listen:
''Now the carpets are threadbare, the sheets
on the bed too small to leave any edge for
tucking in . and THE BATH-PLUG IS
MISSING. Only small details-BUT 1T IS BY
THE DETAILS THAT ONE READS THE
STORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA" (see Answers
Aug. 9th, 1880, page d.
e Mr.. H Hessen Tiltman reads the story of the
October Revolution NOT in the building of a
Dnieprstroi, a StaIngradstroi, a Bobrikovsk,
NOT in the net of power stations and factories
springing up all over the country, NOT in the
gigantic Collective and State farms that are
changing the social face of the village, NOT in
the total liquidation of unemployment, the rap
idly rising cultural level and welfare of the
workers and peasants, No. not in these petty,
insignificant facts may one note the outcome Of
October, 1917-but in the absence of the bath
plug from our Hero'S bath
Poor poor Mr.. Tiltnan, what keen analytic
mind is yours! What colossal powers of obser-
vation! What a gigantic piece of intellectual
reasoning to place your finger unerringly on the
Achilles Heel of the system evolved in the USSR.
We are humbled Mr.. Tiltman awed into bowed
silence For you, you have shown us the I'M
surmountable inferiority of the "decadent" Sow
let system to that of enlightened" civilized"
Britain-in missing wretched bath-plug.
I. Andur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Pansies Flourish Under
Capitalism

Being deprived of the questionable privileg
of moving in Broadway society," we never knew
until someone informed us recently that the cur
rent term for describing those suffering from a
rather repulsive form of sexual abnormality or
disease is that of "panses"
But just when the capitalist press was all
excited about the Pioneers making fun of Santa
Claus, and preachers were denouncing this ter
rible Pioneer menace to santifed capitalism, our
informant walked in with copy of the capital
list paper known the Daily Mirror of Dec. 49,
and showed us an &C on page "a, which ran as
follows:
"Opens tonight; after theatre; Karyl Norman,
the Creole Fashion Plate, in Something Different
entitled 'Panses on Parade'-at the new PANSY
CLUB, 48th and Broadway-Reserve your table" "
The "glories that were Greece and the gran
deurs that were Rome" had nothing on little old
New York, it appears. But they didn't have daily
capitalist papers to advertize such things In.
But of course the Mirror is not barred from
the mail That honor is reserved for the Young
Worker, the Young Pioneer the Vida Obrera-
and the next one selected by the capitalist gov
eminent. These are menace. indeed to Pansy
social system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
BY GRACE HUTCHTNS


NEW YORK FP0.-Carolne Drew, young
organizer of the Trade Union Unity League is
serving 80 days in the Women's Workhouse on
New Yorks so-called Welfare Island among the
jobless women arrested for stealing and drunk
enness. She explained to the visitor how her
work last year in organizing southern textile
workers had been held against her in the present
case, and told the stories Of some Of her fellow
prisoners.
AS one of the original II strike leaders held
In the Gastonia case, she was marked for worse
treatment than the other two arrested with her
for speaking at a street meeting last May in
New York City A cop pulled her down off the
goods workers in the needle trades, and charged
her with assault for biting his knuckle At the
trial. no witness could say he had seen her bite
the cop, but her record in the famous southern
strike was brought up against her. Three Tam
many judges sentenced her to 80 days while her
fellow organizers served one day each in jail
Tammany politicians are scared just now Of
further revelations on the vice-ring and are not
arresting SO many women victims, to be framed
on charges of prostitution So the Women's
Workhouse, old and gray, with its steel barred
doors and windows, contains mostly victims of
memployment-girls and women driven to drink
or to shop-lifting because of desperate need for
food and clothing.
Passaic woman stole a dress for her child
She and her husband had both been out of work
for months. The workhouse is her reward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
BY FRANK HENDERSON.

THE close of the year marks the Tenth Ami
versary of the Red Sport International Its
birth signified that millions of worker sportsmen
all over the world gathered together under one
banner to show their determination to utilize
their sport activities for strengthening the class
force of the proletariat; to utilize the whole
power of their organizations to work for the VIC
tory of the proetariat; and to defend victories
already won by the workers of the Soviet Union.
The aims of the Red Sport International differ
fundamentally with the role of the Lucerne
Sport International founded by clique of re-
formist leaders led by the Second C'Socialist')
International declared dead" long ago by the
revolutionary proletariat. The Lucerne Sport
International best shows its colors by excluding
worker sportsmen of the Soviet Union; expelling
sportsnen who participate in sports of the RSI,
and particularly by being devoid of any revou-
tionary program and lending no support to the
struggles Of the proletarat.
Just as different is the role OF the two sport
internationas In the preparations for interna-
tional sport gatherings in 1881. How does the
Lucerne prepare for the Lucerne Olympiad in
Vienna In 1881?
We note systematic struggle on the part Of
the leaders of the Lucerne to clean out revolu-
tionary tendencies within its ranks They want
pure white sport international which will be
a willing tool for black international social fa5-
cism. We witness expulsions of whole leagues of
worker sportsmen who support the program of
the RSI in such countries as Alsace-Lorraine
and England. We find explosions Of hundreds
of thousands Of closs conscious sportsmen in
Germany, Finland, Czechoslovakia, and s'witzer-