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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
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to find the thing there. Again, for one reason or another. but probably because it rhymed so tidily straight through mine. wine, heights, nights, desire, fire, rest, breast" like that-and un- doubtedly because it was silly and did not make sense to her. Nary Frances decided that it was for her and had 1t charged out on her library card.
 She chose a night in May, when the starlight smelled of all the neighborhood's pink roses, and a small new moon swan, smiling, on its back in the sky, to recite to Earl DeArmount- No matter. It is not worth quoting. and the child had not the faintest idea what she was talking about. Earls response is the only thing of im- portance connected with that par ticular evening.
 "Cripes!" said he, and, "Aw, gee, honi Aw, gee-I don't know as you ought to rave like that. Frankie sure suits you for a name. Frank see? And yet so pure and inno- cent and all. I ain't worthy to touch the soles of your feet-see On the square I ain't. And yet, sometimes, you sem like a woman grown and other times like a little bitsie-" he paused. fastidiously de- sirous for pertinency of diction-- "cutie baby girlie, and guess that's what's got me kind of going about you-see? And you feeling like you just said about me, and all, it seems kind of mean to go off and leave you, specially since I got no prospects in sight elsewhere at present date"
 The Stephen G. Perry Players, after an unfortunate few weeks in the Hong Kong Moving Picture the Crazy Grooming Coombers and Unable to make toher satisfactory contracts, were resting indefinite ly."
 But for three breathless Friday nights Mary Frances had gone with Ermintrude and MT and Mrs Hill-needless to mention the elder Hills ignorance of plot, design or motive-and had sat with pounding heart and parted lips and watched Earl moving about among people who were in the highest of high society. He was debonair. He was dauntless with tea-colored decan- ters; he opened doors for ladies who were going to night and coun- try clubs; he rang for buffers; he did and said, in fact-if clumsily- all the things that the Reggies and Geoffs and Ferdies always do and say in Mrs Mayfairing's morning room, or Captain Starkweather's library. Time the Present. And Mary-Frances had an obedient memory and an energetic imagin- ation.
 "Oh, Earl" she now protested. I wouldn't come between you and your professional career-not for in the world. You'll just have to go. Duty calls you, and everything. But neither distance nor anything can part us, and we'll never, never forget; and, in time, we'll be reunited"
 (TO be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
V GGGF SUE
Ry Marqery HaIe

Ruth went directly home when she left Sue. She found the house deserted. A fire was going out on the fireplace so she poked it into a blaze again and threw some wood on it. It was apple wood, and the odor was little sweet, like the memory of summer or something lovely, she told herself.
 She walked to the windows and glanced out. Life was so much better than it had been for long time. Better than it had been since those magic days when she had been a student nurse and Joe Ray nor had been an interne. She knew that Sally and her parents would be coming home soon, so she went into the kitchen and made some coffee, and spread thin slices of bread with sandwich filling.
 She had just finished when her parents came. Sally arrived a few minutes later.
 "where have you been?" Mrs Bradley asked. "You look i'll. sal- ly! Who was with you?"
 "Joe Raynor." She clipped off the words.
 "Why didn't he come in
 "I didn't want him to. I'm tired. I've stood all I can for one evening"" She sank down on the davenport and Ruth wondered suddenly if Sally intended to tell about her experience of the eve ming. It wasn't like her to talk. If she did, it would be merely be- cause she knew that the story was out anyway
 What do you mean, Sally?" MT Bradley's voice was fatherly and What did you have to stand?"
 Everything! And it's all Ruth's fault! Look at her! She thinks she's smart because she had her hair bobbed! Bobbed! Years and years after everybody else has stopped doing it!"
 Ruth remembered that she had not seen her parents since she had had her hair bobbed the night be- fore.
 Ruth's face turned a little pale. She started to answer but Sally in- terrupted.
 "Oh, I know you're thinking that it's the vogue to wear your hair in the most becoming way, whether short or long. That's true. But some of us are lucky enough to look well in the newest kind of cultures. Others-are not!'
 Rather hard on your sister, aren't you, Sally?" MT Bradley asked, but his eyes were approving as he glanced at the red-gold hair and mutinous blue eyes.
 Ruth, you had no business to cut your hair. You looked compe- tent with it long. Reliable. And in these days when positions are so scarce you need to look that way!" Mrs Bradley's tone was dis domineering.
 Ruth smiled. A crooked smile that was a little wistful.
 That's compliment. I'm tired of having people think I'm staid and prim and sedate. I'm not!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
>YOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Barton 0iq5a eY NEA SERVICE ING.

l often wonder if certain fathers know that they are being held ur as eternal Judgment to their child ren That they represent only retri- button and wrath and in such role are being used as club over the heads of their boys and girls.
 It may be that a certain per- centage of men do know it and en- joy the part. They may feel very important and mannish about be- ing the Juggernaut that rolls every thing out nice and fiat when it ap- breaches.
 But I happen to be of the opinion that most dads don't want their children to think of them like this.
 When such a parent comes home at night he surely doesn't relish Johnny running and hiding or Bet ty regarding him out of big, fright ened eyes, wondering what he Is sure, hearing his wife say: "John- ny did so and so today. l told him you'd whip him."
 The Hangman's Role When he has been away all day and knows nothing of what has actually happened (for warmed | over cases never include all ther is to know) and instantly he has to turn hangman, it isn't fair to him or to anybody else, because in time that is just about what the children will think he is. A fathers position in his family today is different from pastoral ages when families were together as units and the father was an entity in domestic affairs. Now he goes out to the office or store or factory and seldom sees his child ren especially if they go to bed early as the should. Then, just for a few minutes or so.
 Sunday is not fair day to judge him by or anybody else for that matter. None of us is at his best when he is inactive.' Sunday doesn't give the children a fair idea of him at all.
 This business of being a dad then really needs something to aid actu- ality as far as the little people are concerned, instead of making mat ters worse by talking. He not only should be spared that stigma of "big boss" but needs certain bol- steding, such as little myth now and then about fathers being such a fine man and all that. Per- haps he is fine" and again per- haps he isn't and his wife needs to put her tongue in her cheek when she is saying so. But that's all right. Her opinion is her affair. The children have right to be- lieve in a halo even if it is only silver one-moreover, it is good for them to believe in their father.
 Dad Has Part to Play
 Of course, if he comes in every night ranting around on his own account any sort of halo wiuld slip off anyway, so there would be little use in a mother spending too much time on it's fabric. But few men are like that. They love their little families and want to be loved in return. The halo is there if love put it there and any ornamentation his wife can give it won't hurt anything.
 At any rate I think it decidedly unfair to label the absent. one by that outmoded phrase, "Wait till you father conaes home!"
 It is confession of weakness most of the time, I fear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
Wise Crncks? They're Old-Fashioned! Valentines
 OF 1932 Are Sentimental Or Lightly Humorous Greeting Simplicity; Forget: It's Leap Year
It's Leap Year!
By JULIA BLANCHARD NEA Service Writer


 New York.-Hard times have made the world sentimental, if you want to judge things by the 1882 crop of valentines.
 Poppy jokes and barbed wise- cracks, which reflected the pert young moderns and delighted all during the past few years, have fallen into the minority.
 There's nothing over-saccharine about the 1892 sentimentality of valentines, however. Old-fash- toned stuffy ones with 1890 love- sick gentlemen or ladies mourning in beautiful flower gardens. with a lot of lace as back-drop, are missing. Pussy effects are out.
 Let's Be Friends!
 The new warmth of feeling shows itself not in floral verbiage but in nice, light touches For the first time, for instance, friend ship as well as love Is recognized as sufficient reason for sending a valentine. Some of the friendship valentines are cross-stitch floral designs, others are line-drawings with cute little verses.
 Leap year valentines abound. Instead of over-doing 1t, however, the figures usually are in modern dress and they are funny, not pa- thetic. Girls catching men with butterfly nets, fishing rods and au- tomobile bumpers give a line on the light touch of these.
 Depression valentines are to be expected this year. And there are many varieties of them, always kidding the situation a little bit, such as one that pictures a cou- pie sitting on a heart that wears a lot of patches and carries a line cept "a heluva lot of love-"
 Being leap-year. cats figure more largely than dogs in many valen- tine decorations. There are all kinds of cats pictdred, from silky Persian pussies to alley cats. Moreover, the leap year motif shows itself in some of the cards picturing girl carrying ring, with a diamond sparkling all ready for the man to slip 1t on her finger without having to buy it.
 The Red Menace!
 One of the cutest cards which shows the Russian influence is a Muscovite Dan Cupid holding a heart-shaped bomb, with. the threat "Ya better be my Valen- tinesky, before I see Redsky!"
 Some of the new valentines re- fleet. this modern age of ours by using metallic papers, silver, gold, bronze. Others are extremely simple parchment, with inscrip- tions. still others have white background with pastel colors Pale rose, apricot, turquoise blue and yellow tones predominate and few are real turkey red as they used to be-. t'
 Envelopes this year are plain white, instead of matching the decorations as they did last year. This return to simplicity high lights the dainty decorations and the amusing bon mot. And, strangely enough. simple white seems to make the sentimentality of 1882 more. real.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

popovers is understood the. mys- tery of; their popping" becomes clear. Milk contains a large per- centage of water and the sudden application of intense >heat to the popover batter causes the water rapidly to change to steam. Steam is, of course, many times the vol unme of water and stretches the gluten walls of the foour to their utmost. This with the help of the egg forms the hollow shell of the popover. This explains the neces- sity of pre-heating the pans as well as the oven.
 Heavy Pans Are Best.
 Iron of cast aluminium gem pans and glass of .earthenware custard cups are suitable for popover bak- ing. The lighter weight gem pans can be used, but the popovers do not always pop" as they should.
 You will find popovers an urus- ually versatile bread-stuff. They can be used as a case for creamed chicken or fish in place of timbal shells or patty cases. Creamed dried beef served in popovers Is a bit more festive than plain cream ed dried beef. Used for a dessert with a filling of sauce poured over them, they reduce the amount of sugar in the menu to an apprecia- able degree. Popovers piping hot from the oven served with fresh maple syrup make deliciously seasonal early spring dessert.
 Popovers.
 Two eggs, I cup bread flour, scant cup milk, 1-3 teaspoon salt. 1-2 teaspoon melted butter.
 Mix and suit flour and salt. Add milk gradually, beating to make smooth. Beat eggs until light. Add the eggs to first mixture, beat ing with a dover beater for two or three minutes. Heat muffin jans until hissing hot and grease thoroughly. Fill each pan half full with popover batter and place at once in the hot oven. Bake for 20 minutes at this Temperature, then lower, the temperature to $50 degrees F. and continue baking for 20 minutes. Turn off heat and let stand in the oven for five minutes. Serve at once. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
 Laplanders are more trouble to make but are very delicate and crisp. Two cups of milk and two teaspoons melted butter are used and the whites and yolks of the eggs are beaten separately. The whites are folded in last.
 Maple Syrup Cake.
 One and one-fourth cups maple syrup, 6 eggs, 1 cup pastry or cake flour, 3-4 teaspoon cream Of tar- tar, 1-S teaspoon salt.
 Separate yolks from whites of eggs. Beat whites until stiff; us- ing a wire whisk. While beating the whites, cook the syrup until a firm ball is formed when a few drops are tried in cold water. Slowly add the cooked syrup to beaten whites, beating constantly. Beat yolk of eggs until thick and lemon colored. using 6 wheel beat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

"The stuffed celery takes the place of salad. Mix cottage cheese with 8 little Philadelphia cream cheese and a small amount of may onnaise. Add pepper and cayenne. Wash stalks of celery and stuff grooves with mixture. Do not smooth over top.
 The meat loaf is mixed in the usual fashion, having it we'll sea- soned and somewhat drier than us- ual. Have a yeast dough which has risen and been kneaded. Roll out about one quarter inch thick. Wrap around meat loaf and bake for an hour. The dough should be 50 we'll joined that little if any juice can seep out as the loaf cooks. When baked cut in slices and serve with Q gravy made from canned consomme, thickened and enriched with canned mushrooms sauted in butter before adding to thickened gravy.
 Bridge luncheon menus are dis. Cussed in Nancy Pages lcaflet of that name. Send 8 stamped, self addressed envelope to Nancy Page in care of the Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

formed the habit of going straight to the radio, as soon as she got her wraps off, and turning it on and keeping it going most of the day. Aunt Isabel is a grand sport, so she stood it for a couple of times or more; but last week she said, 'Susy, don't you think you could work faster if you'd stop bothering about the radio? "'Yas, ma'am,' Susy said, 'yas. ma'am, I could work faster-but couldn't put near the heart into it."
 Cecily laughed, as she was sup posed to laugh, before she said, But l don't see the connection exactly--if at all."
 "Of course you don't. There isn't any. I was changing the subject"
 She pretended to accept it gratefully. T know a nice one, too," she said, about little boy named James who ate all his Easter eggs
 But. when they had stopped in front of the building where her office was, and just before she got out of the car, she asked, Isis cNcTythllS dll TIB HC LHcH, DdTTy
 ''All right! There's an answer, classical, to that. You know it, don't you?"
 She nodded, and with no more than a twinge of doubt she smiled and left him. At the door she turned, to nod and smile again; but he had driven along. He'd have to-he couldn't stay there, double parked. and block the traffic..
 The aging lady who wore the black lace hat with the purple petunias beneath the brim was not to blame. Laurence Hopes poetry had been highly recom- mended to her by stoutish per- son whom she held in esteem and called "Boy-o." She had taken the red volume from the shelves of the public library, had dipped into it, had decided-for one req son or another-that it was not for her, had risen hurriedly from the chair, and had left the book lying where she had pushed 1t away from her on the table.
 It was frightful mischance, merely, that caused Mary-Frances
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

"What can we have for a bridge luncheon, Nancy. that won't cost too much won't be too much work and won't add too many calories to the days meals?"
 "That't a large order. Tell me, are you limited as to the number of courses you may server"
 NO, except by our pocketbooks. I wanted to have hot dish, a simple salad and a dessert.'
 Well, let's see. We might have a hot meat loaf. baked in q crust, mushroom gravy, toasted rolls and stuffed celery, orange gelatin with chocolate waters. How does that sound?"
 Grand, just grand. But tell me how do you make all those dishes?"
 "The orange gelatin may be made with ready favored gelatin or with a plain one favored to taste with fresh orange and lemon juice. When 1t has started to congeal add sections of orange freed from white tissue. I'd buy chocolate wafers. although you could use . home made brownie cookie, if you want ed to-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
GLoRIFY'ING
 YOURSELF
By Alicia Hart
0I65z 6Y NEA SERVICE ING.

Modern women know that they for beauty without little home- work.
 Their ''problems'' that must be solved always involve the skin. But everyone knows that beauty no longer is considered only skim deep.
 Banishing or preventing wrin- kles, for instance, takes up the subject of relaxed muscles, poor circulation, and the state of your health in general.
 st There seem to be many women who simply cannot take their own hands and slap their faces with enthusiasm night and morning. For them, however. there are lit- tie commercial paters that do the trick neatly; and practically all they have to do is to hold them and twist the wrist a bit
 Patters are soft rubber circles at- tached to flexible long handles. They beat. a smuffled tat-tat on your cheeks and under your chin with rhythmic force.
 Never use one without having creamed your face thoroughly. One of the tricks in treating wrin- kles is to drive cream in and give the skin more, nourishment. A very oily skin is the last one to wrinkle.
 Get some anti-wrinkle cream to use with your batter. These creams are specially prepared to attack a skin that needs attention paid to it's shriveling condition. When you use your batter right, and have the correct cream, the skin just seems to eat up the nourishment and thrive on the skipping.
 Don't expect results right away. One woman I know has been giv- ing herself anti-wrinkle treatment for over year and says it is just within the past few months that she has realized. how tremendous an improvement the daily routine has accomplished,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
DOG PHONES POLICE
 e,a TO SET HIM FREE

By, NEA service
 Fort Worth, Tex.-"Bow! Wow!" boomed into the ear phones of a telephone operator in the main ex- change. The barking continued. The operator. puzzled. called police and gave them the number of fill- ing station where the barking was coming from.
 Police, suspecting a holdup. rushed. to the station. There they found black, shaggy dog locked in the sttaion. The dog had failed to attract the attention of anyone. and had become frantic to get out. In dashing around inside, the sta ton it had knocked the telephone off its stand. Its barks were then picked up and transmitted to the ears of the operator.
 Dick Knight, attendant at the station, said the dog was. stranger and whined outside the station un- til. he let him inside to warm. The dog went to sleep and Knight for got about him, locking him inside when he quit work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
AsPEEDYn DETECTIVES

Los Angeles.-In a recent hold Shortly after, thieves called and off, fered to sell him the ring for $2OO, naming a place for him to meet them with the money. Woolard notified police, and headquarters dispatched seven detectives to the place the thieves and Woolard we're to meet. But they got there five minutes after Woolard, who had his ring but not his $200.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

Women who are criticaI of the look of their floors are turning to the small washable cotton chenille rug as solving many of their diffi- culties, particularly for such rooms as nurseries, rooms with brightly finished floors, and where a rug is necessary to throw down between large Ieces of furniture. The one of Spartan design shown above is heavy black <. and white chenille with a modern pattern that fits well with the simplicities of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

I've probably got more wings on my heart than Sally has on hers! I'm glad do look-carefree!"
 T like it, Ruth" Her father eyed her critically. "I wondered what had changed you tonight. It's all right. But don't get fool ish notions into your head. Re- member that you are very good trained nurse."
 Ruth sank down at the other end of the davenport. Sally was going to talk again. She could tell. Sally was preparing the stage for another bomb. It wasn't fair;. of course. for Sally to escape so easily from embarrassing sftua- tions. But it always happened that way.
 sally's voice came again. Low. Clear. As though it wanted every word to take effect.
 "B0bbing her hair isn't the worst thing that Ruth has done!"
 NEXT: A quarrel.
 Copyright 1882. NEA Service Ipc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

two carry American tables. It is reversible, the black being white, and vice versa, on the other side, giving it the decorative appeal of two rugs. Other color combine tions in the same design are also attractive. These rugs are dyed with fast colors which make them sun fast and washable and ought to have a life of at least ten years with any sort of care. One charm of chenille rugs is that repeated washings give them the appearance of fluffy silk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
BEAVER ON RABBIT

Washington-Dr c. F. Friend. rabbit fancier, has developed new breed of rabbits. These bunnies are valuable for their fur, as 1t is of the same color and texture of bea- yer fur. The new strain developed through application of Menders law. and is due. to a biological change in cells known as "mu- tation."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27

and salt-reQuired to make pop overs are always at hand. If an emergency arises, it's an easy mat ter to stir up a dozen of these fas- cinating shells and they are sure to be liked.
 When the physical change that takes place during the baking of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
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BREAKFAST:

BREAKFAST: St ew d prunes, cereal, cream, bread crumb omelet, crisp toast, milk, coffee.
 LUNCHEON: re a m e d brains in rice border, hearts of escarole, popovers, straw berry preserves, milk. tea.
 DINNER. Roast knuckle of veal. mashed sweet pota- and spinach salad, cheery up- side down cake, milk, coffee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
VATICAN BuS LINE

Vatican City--It Is reported that a public notorious service. This service will be free for officials and employees, and slight charge will be made for outsiders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
G;S:M7o .o-1'kMARY> KITCHEN
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
 Popovers offer happy change from the mullins and rolls usually served at luncheons and break fasts. Strangely enough, however, they bespeak an unknown realm to many housewife and she he's itaes to include them in her menus. Yet the secret of delicate popovers lies in the simple factor tempera- aure.
 The materials-milk. flour. eggs
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PLAN IMPROVEMENTS

ately $115,00O will be expended by the veterans administration for maintenance and repairs during the fiscal year at the Veterans hospital. Whipple Barracks. Ari- zonG.