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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-18
- YOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Barton
@issl sY NEH sssX!eE In.s,

The bad tire held out so here l am in Florida. If my articles for a while have 2 tropical flavor you will understand.
 I am drowning my worries over banks and lost savings and III health in interesting things here for the time being. Let me see what I can tell you to pass on to the children. So many funny things have effhappened!
 think the story of "Admiral Dewey" is a good one. That was in St Augustine.
 Admiral Dewey is an alligator and he is 900 years old. He lives with 1899 brothers, sisters, wives, children, cousins and nephews on the alligator farm there. Persaps you have seen him-or seen his pictures in the movies.
 It Is @ fascinating place and a colored man takes you through. Dewey lives in a fiat tank by him. self in this tropical garden dream ing of the days when he used to wait for nice fat Seminole In- dian baby to go wadfng nearby. He never moves. He just lies there and thinks.
 A Contrast in Lives
 Around his cage there is wire fence. And here and there . vine creeps over it. One vine grew right over Dewey's head and on 1t there bloomed a large bright blue morn ing glory. The single blossom hung right over the black old villains nose. I began to laugh--it was so funny. Look" I cried. That lovely thing will be gone to-mor- row and this hideous old codger will be here for 300 years more" (they live to be 1900 years old we were told). And do you know he moved his head, and winked an eye, as though to say, "You're right, Lady!"
 Then there was Tommy, a kid of about twenty, but fairly sizable. The colored man climbed in among a tangle of several hundred young by the snout and tail. Then he turned him, struggling and fight ing, on his back and put him to sleep. He lay there like dead for several minutes. Tommy was com- pletely out. Then the man clapped his hands. Wake up, Tommy" And did that young fellow jump? In second he was in the waterf hiding his humiliation and swear ing in alligator language.
 A Wife-Kfller!
 There were ostriches there too, nursing their disappointment that Eugenie's had gone out. If you are good at staring people out of countenance, try an ostrich. was having an eye combat with one huge rooster when I learned he was. a killer-he had murdered his wife. I said, "Can he get over this fence ?'
 eff he didn't like you guess he could" replied the guide.
 well" said I, 1T think I'll have to be going. But please tell me first. Does an ostrich ever hide his head?"
 ''No, certainly not. That's just a story. But if you put a bag over his head he is helpless" All in- teresting, isn't 1t?
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RyMsrqery Hale

all in the school yard or down. stairs in the rest room, recuperat- ing. She was alone with Joe Ray nor.
 No." He glanced up. Then so suddenly that Ruth couldn't give a startled gasp of surprise he had kissed her full on the lips. A hard, firm kiss. She realized that she had kissed him back. Then as quickly his arms relaxed and he let her go. Ruth put one hand to her lips, across the place where his kiss had burned. She drew back a little.
 But her heart was beating more quickly. It hadn't been a casual kiss. It had been an angry one. Ruth knew that Joe Raynor had no more idea why he had done it than she herself had. It had hap pened-that was all. But it told more than he thought that it did. He was more interested in her than he himself knew. He wanted to kiss her.
 I'm sorry, Ruth" Joe Raynor was saying. "I din't mean to-"
 She ignored his apology. Her eyes were dancing. Then I'm not ..fred?"
 NEXT-An accidental meeting. Copyright, 1892 NEA Service Incl
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rock yourself up to sitting position, back down to fiat position, up to sitting, down again, doing it 20 times. Now hold your knees in your arms and rock from side to side on your back. Do that 20 times, too.
 Now stretch out fat.- arms palms downward alongside of your body on the floor, and try to flip your legs up over your head until your toes reach the floor above your head. If you can't, do this at first. go as far as you can. When you succeed in doing this, slowly raise your feet, touch the floor above your head, slowly bring them back to supine position and repeat 20 times. If you really do this. all of it, morning and night for ten min utes each time, you need not wor- ry overly about how your waist line will look by Easter.
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Dr Raynor stood in the door of Ruth's room. His quick eyes saw that something was wrong. Measles, humps, chicken pox .. 2" he asked Ruth, twinkle in his eye.
 "No, Pink ice cream!" She told the story briefly.
 The twinkle deepened, then sud- denly disappeared. "Good grief, don't you know better than to feed a lot of hungry children on such stuff? Why didn't you make sand wiches?" he asked. "I suppose you think I wanted to poison them just for the fun of watching their faces turn green" Ruth snarled. Queer noises were coming from one little boy and she flew to his rescue without look ing back. "I always thought you were a sensible, reliable sort of person, |" Dr Raynor said, getting to work.
 Strange, isn't it, how mistaken we can be in people" Ruth asked maliciously.
 "Yes." He said it sharply. "You have only luck to thank that this isn't serious. The youngsters will be better in little while. But 1t isn't our fault. You did enough this afternoon, to upset anybody's faith in nurses"
 Want my resignation?" Ruth asked after while when things were calmer.
 Don't be silly. This is the first time you ever lost your balance"
 "Then you think 1t would have been better if I hadn't obeyed my impulses?" she asked.
 Much better"
 'I suppose you are going to re- port me for this-crime" Ruth asked. Her brown hair was tum- bled. There was a smudge of black on one side of her nose. The or ange smock that she was wearing to protect her dress had a collar that stood up audaciously around her flushed face. There was some thing in her eyes and her voice.
 The bell for the afternoon re- cess had rung. The children were
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GLORIFYING
 YOURSELF
By Alicia Hart
9l0yz EY NEH sER7EE INe;

If you want to wear the new gh-waisted clothes with chic, be- gin now to do something about get ting a slim, 1.-the line through your diaphragm.
 You can't hide spare tire of fat that lodges there. You must work it off!
 Before l give you some exercises that are particularly good for just that touchy spot. remember this: The woman who sticks to liquid food, such as orange juice and coffee for breakfast and bouillon and tomato juice cocktail for lunch and then eats a carefully balanced dinner at night, will get in trim twice as soon as one who exercises herself to pieces but goes right on eating cream puffs.
 Now to get to exercising. Stretching and bending are the two forms of exercise that flatten out that diaphragm and slenderize the waistline and that stretch above the waistline. To get in perfect form you need to strengthen those muscles through that section, but to take off the fiabhy fat.
 Mornings and evenings do the stretching exercises that consist of clasping your hands above your head and moving your hands, arms and body above the waistline, first to one side, then the other, and describing circle with your hands above your head.
 Now lie down on the floor and begin the bending exercises. They are practically the same as bend ing standing up, but they are easier to do and some way are more ef- fective.
 Stretch out flat, moving your shoulders up as far as you can while holding your body flat with your hips. Now fiex your knees. grab them with your arms and
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her again that if Mary Frances and that dirty cur were at Blue mont there would be no damage done as long as they managed to keep it out of the papers. If her sister Cecily and her friend found the child at Bluemount, he did hope they would follow his advice and simply bring her home and let the man go. It would be the only way to avoid publicity, and publicity must be avoided.
 She said, "Yes, Mir Hill. Barry and Cecily thought so, too" and listened to what Ermintrude had said q few minutes before.
 "No. they weren't going to get married for while. He couldn't. on account of his fathers will. l don't know. Several months she said. They were just going on their honeymoon and then on the stage. I guess 1t will be all right. Mary Frances really loved him. mother She really loved him, deeply and truly"
 Be still with that, Ermintrude, will you? Answer daddy, now. Is that all you know about where they were going? Positively every thing? Stop crying and answer me. Bluemont tongfht? You are sure of thatY'
 Cecily's voice, stricken, over the telephone. "Barry's just come. We'll start at once. Three hours head start. Dear Lord, Ann!"
 For an instant, Barry's voice. "WeIl find them, Ann. Don't worry. We'll tear the place down, if necessary. MT Hill is right about keeping it quiet, though"
 But suppose" Ann said, again. to Mir Hill, "that they didn't go to Bluemont. Suppose he said that just to mislead us?"
 "In that case, I suppose we'll have to go to the police. Gosh knows what good they'll do. Per haps I'll be able to think of some one who has influence enough to keep it out of the papers, if we do
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 By ANNETTE .- Every woman knows she can't have too many home ensembles that will tub and tub, and always come up smiling.
 And today's model is just lovely.
 The dress is suitable for the house. garden, porch, marketing, etc. And incidentally, it's decided : ly slimming to the heavier build. It has 8 very becoming slimming neckline. Then there is the dia- gonal hip scanning that reduces bulk. Inverted plaits give a grace full width and flare to the hem.
 And isn't the one-piece apron attractive? And it won't slip off the shoulders either, for the sus- bender straps are useful besides being modish.
 : Design No. 91O includes the dress and the apron in sizes 16, IS, 20 years, 36, aS, 40. AZ, A and 46 inches bust. Size 36 requires 3A yards of 35-inch material with 1 F yards of 35-inch contrasting.
 Spring is the most important, the most colorful season in Fash ions. All the more reason why you should have an authentic guide, such as our new Fashion Magazine, to show you the way in design, colors, etc. Of course, there are styles for afternoons, for stouts for home wear, lingerie, children, etc.
 Price of Book 10 cents.
 Price of Pattern 15 cents in stamps or coin (coin is preferred) Wrap coin carefully.
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(TO be COntinued)
TO SEE HIS MA

Denver, Colo.-James Hamil- tons love for his sick mother is reason why he broke out of jail and why he's back in again. Learn ing his mother was in the hospital, he walked out of the Canon City prison yard, got in an automobile and went to see her. He's just re- ported to police here, saying his conscience was hurting him and that he wanted to go back to jail. He's serving a 4 to Swear sentence for robbery,
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MORE THAN HALE

Washington.-The U. 5. Bureau of Standards had the job of testing 27 new commercial airplane en- zines for the Aeronautics Branch of the U. s. Bureau of Commerce during 1881. Out of this total only IA passed the rigid tests of the bureau.
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GR-R.R-R!

Were you annoyed because I sharpened a pencil with your ra- zor?" asked the attentive wife.
 Twice" replied the patient husband. "After I had given up trying to shave, I tried to write with the pencil" Ham, burg.
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WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS--- Weekly Article by Dr s. J. Crumbne General Executive
 American Child Health Association

The following the and by of the nations
 md further articles authority appear weekly ''
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COUGHS

Don't let them gct strangle hold. Fight germs quickly. Creomulsion com. pines the 2 best helps known to mod. ern science. Powerful but harmless. Pleasant to take. No narcotics. Money refunded if any cough no matter of how long standing is not relieved. Ask your druggist for Creomulsien. (sdx.)
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partly because he has initiated his older brother and sisters and part ly because he hasn't been spoiled by too much attention.
 It's curious though, what differ ences there can be in the growth and development of children in the same family, but Mrs Johnson says, it would be very dull if they were all alike. @
 Next week-Are Mary and Claire
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"I suppose our conversations do seem everlasting to him. Perhaps we should break them into shorter units, showing him the same def erence we would any other guest at the table. And I suppose we, can't do anything. more than hush him every so often and tell him he must wait until the grown ups are finished with what they have to say"
 But do let's keep him in his place and not let him dominate our world. It's true, he just about does that-all children do. But for pity sake, let's keep him from sensing it. I don't want to go back to the adage that children must be seen and not heard, but there was something to that pol icy, after all"
 Copyright, 1882, Publishing Syndi-
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Send your money and order to Pattern Department, Waterbury Democrat, Waterbury, Conn.
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
BEDTIME STORIES
Wy HOWARD Z. GARRIS
Copyright 1928. By Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

/ and Wolf. So the Bob Cat skunk
out and as soon as he saw
Uncle Wiggily he began to laugh
so the rabbit would think it was
funny and not run.
What are you laughing at?''
asked Uncle Wiggily, sort of indig-
nant like and naughty.
"At your straw hat" was the an
swer of the Bob Cat, who pretend
ed he didn't know it was the rab-
bit. THE idea of wearing a straw
hat so late in the season. No one is
allowed to wear a straw hat after
September Is, and now I'll show
you what is going to happen. Hal
Hal
WHAT" asked Uncle Wiggily,
suspicious like.
I'm going to bash that hat down
over your nose" mewed the Bob
Cat. Come on, felloWs!" he called
to the waiting Fox and Wolf. Lets
bash this straw hail"
Before Uncle Wiggily could hop
away, the Bob Cat, with his silly
little tail, picked up a stick and
hit the edge of the straw hat,
breaking it and smashing and BASH
ing it down on the rabbit gentle
mans pink, twinkling nose. and
partly over his apple pie false face.
stop! Stopl" cried Mr.. Long
ears.
mo! MOI We won't stop" howled
the Fox and the Wolf.
They, too, picking up sticks, be-
gan to bash the rabbits straw hat
and it would not have been long
before the three Bad Chaps would
have caught Uncle Wiggily.
But just then Jingle, Jangle and
! Baby Bunty, wearing the false faces
, of the Bob Cat, the Fox and the
Wolf came along the woodland
path. They were looking for Uncle
Wiggily to play a Halloween trick
on him, and when they saw the
three Bad Chaps, bashing the straw
hat of some one wearing an apple
pie false face, the rabbit children
were much surprised. "Ohl Oh!
Obi" they shouted.
The three Bad Chaps stopped
bashing Uncle Wiggily's straw hat
and looked around. And when they
saw Jingle looking like the Bob
Cat and Jangle looking like the
Fox and Baby Bunty looking like
the Wolf, why, those Bad Chaps
were so surprised that they ran
away as fast as they could run
They thought they saw themselves
in a looking glass and that was al
ways bad luck for them. So Mr..
Longears was saved and he laughed
and the bunny children laughed
and then they all had ice cream.
So Halloween came to a jolly
end, and if the hook and eye will
watch the spool of thread when
it tries to jump through the button
hole, I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily's yellow paws.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
Editorial Page
and
Features
REFLECT JUDGE FINNEY

ELECTION of a superior court Judge is
Il one of the duties facing voters one
week from today and while the major
attention is naturally concentrated on
the presidential election citizens should
give some thought to the minor offices
to be filled
Judge A. C. Finey, incumbent, who
seeks reelection, will have the endorse
ment of The Press at the general cleo
ton as he had during the primary cam
paign.
During the six years he has held office,
he has made good in the opinion of this
publication and is entitled to reelection
on the strength of his record during that
time 1t has been stated before that the
election of judges is not desirable but
as the state law compels choice of our
judges by means of election, the voters
should take care to pick the best men
and once chosen keep them there so long
as their records are without blemish.
Judge Finney also has the endorse
ment of leading members OF the lmper-
ial county bar who have, perhaps, been
best fitted to pass on his work as
Judge. He would not have received their
support unless his integrity was unques-
toned and his fairness in conducting his
court was unimpeachable.
On many occasions during his term of
office he has been called to duty on the
appellate court bench and has acquit-
ted himself In such manner as to earn
the commentator of the judges per-
manently chosen to preside over this
branch of the judiciary.
Reversals of cases tried in the superior
court by Judge Finney have been re-
markably few and his decisions have
been upheld time and again by higher
tribunals.
In criminal cases when the decision
has been left to him, he has tempered
justice with mercy, where the circum-
stances warranted it, and has not hest
tated to be severe where conditions
made such punishment desirable.
His fairness to both sides in hearing
civil actions has been praised by litigants
and their attorneys and he has at all
times conducted his court with the dig
nifty that should surround the founda-
ton of our civil structure-the courts
of the land.
His duties on the bench have prevent
ed Judge Finney from making an active
campaign for reelection, but his many
friends have been working in his behalf
and feel confident that the people of I'M
perial county will recognize the high
type of his work and will express their
approval by returning him to office on
November 8.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
FROST WARNING
SERVICE TO BE
RESUMED HERE

Fruit growers and others can
get their thermometers tested on
Thursday, November 3, by Fred
A.. Baughman, observer of the U.
S. weather bureau. Growers de-
string this free service should
leave or send their thermometers
to the farm advisors office or at
the packing house of the Imperial
Valley Grapefruit Growers, Inc,
both at FL Centre While the
weather bureau representative will
handle these thermometers as care
fully as possible he can assume no
responsibility if any are broken.
This announcement is made by
/ Frank Beyschlag, farm advisor
He states that the glass tubes of
orchard and other thermometers
often become inaccurate through
constant expansion and contraction
during changes of temperature.
Thermometers used in connection
with the frost fighting equipment
should be tested at least once a
year. Instruments found to be
more than one degree inaccurate
at 0 degrees F. should be discard
Ell. The weather bureau, there
fore. feels that the testing of
thermometers for accuracy is an
| essential service. 1t is willing to
cooperate with growers in provid-
ing this free testing service on the
date of November 3.
The farm advisors office has
been informed that Baughman will
again take up the frost survey and
the frost warning services which
the weather bureau has maintain
ed here for the last two winters.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
NEW FAMILIES
ARRIVE HERE TO
SPEND SEASON

That the many letters and litera-
ture sent out by the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce to persons
contemplating spending the winter
in Imperial Valley are bearing
fruit is proven by the fact that
some of these persons have already
arrived in Ell Centre and called at
the chamber to express their appre-
citation for information which they
had received.
In September the chamber re-
eeived letter from man who de-
sired to bring his mother and
daughter to Ell Centre for the win
ter months and the staff wrote him
in detail answering the many ques-
tons which he had asked. Last
week this man, with his family of
eight persons arrived in this city to
stay during the winter months and
the chamber assisted him in get
ting located. This man is not look
ing for work but has an income suf-
ficient to enable him to live COM
fortably. He will live here for sew
eral months, put his children in the
local schools, and generally con-
tribute to the growth and develop"
nent of the city.
This week another man arrived
here for a several months rest as
a result of correspondence with the
local chamber of commerce, demon
strating further that the prophecy
made at the chamber early this fall
is being proven true. This proph-
ecy was to the effect that there
would be more tourists with COM
Portable means wintering in Impe-
rial Valley during the coming win
ter than ever before.
Although the newcomers men
toned indicate that so far only two
of the many letters sent by the
chamber have resulted in visits,
these two have brought nine people
to the city for the winter and, I'M
douotedly, as the fall advances,
many more will be arriving as q
result of the efforts made by the
chamber staff to interest health
seekers in Imperial Valleys long,
mild winters and sunny climate.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
!. Don't Quote Me-
. BY United Press

have non-partisan administrations.
He appointed the two noted politi-
cal rivals of his day, Thomas JEFF
ferson and Alexander Hamilton TO
his cabinet. They were as far apart
as Calvin Coolidge and Franklin
D. Roosevelt are TO-DAY, only a good
deal more vocal about it.
The constitution authorizes the
President to appoint heads OF exec
utive departments which may be
created by law. During the nations
life congress has created 10 such
executive departments. BY custom
the heads of these departments
meet at the White House every
Tuesday and Friday mornings.
There is no more sanction in law
for this than for the meeting OF
the gang which assemblies in the
card room of the National Press
club every Saturday night. But
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01

WASHINGTON, Nov. lone of
the most important things in a
Presidents life is his cabinet, al
though it has no official recognized
existence in the constitution or the
federal laws It is purely an insti-
tuition of custom.
There is no reason why Presi-
dent Hoover, for example, could
not add to his cabinet the head Of
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration or the head of the vet
Grams bureau, or some unofficial
friend, such as Henry M. Robinson,
Los Angeles banker. who spends
much time at the White House in
private consultation with the chief
executive. President Harding start
ed the custom of having the vice
president sit with the cabinet, a
distinct innovation.
George Washington started out to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-01
Achievement Day
On November %

Achievement day for valley All
club members is set for November
%, at the county fair grounds,
Imperial. At this time achieve
ment pins will be awarded all MEM
bers who completed their last years
projects.
This decision was made at the
meeting of the agricultural club
council held Saturday morning in
the farm advisors office at the
court house.
Plans for the exhibit at the
county fair were discussed and it
was decided that the clothing
clubs would put on fashion show
and that the auction of the pigs
in the pig feeding contest would
take place.
The council will meet once a
month in the future, probably
with the recreation council, to out
line the programs for the month.