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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07

were starry under their preposter. ous lashes. Her breath came and | went quickly as she thought o1 what Bob had said. He had been masterful and she liked him to be- But she was glad to remember that she had stood out against him proudly. She almost laughed. re- memberlng the fierce, Set line of his jaw at what he had termed her stubborness.
 She shrugged her shoulders. de- terminlng to put this scene away in some quiet corner of her mem- ory. She could not with honor go on thinking of Bob. With q new soberness she took off the lovely suit and hung 1t away, slipping into her sober office dress for the even- ing meal. Tomorrow Aunt Jessie would be home and the hours would be crowded until Monday morning when she would be mar ried.
 Married! The word struck on her heart like kneil. Susan was glad when Rose hustled in a few minutes later, bundle laden and bringing with her a breath of cool, night air.
 "Is your man coming to-night?" Rose wanted to know. Susan said he wasn't. He had had to go to dinner at the club.
 Well. 1 won't say I'm sorry" cried Rose. We can have com .ortable. gossipy evening. What have you been doing all day?"
 Susan said, Nothing much" She had been for a walk. She hoped her voice did not betray her.
 This time next year you'll never set foot on the ground, I suppose. You and your limousines!" said Rose with affectionate raillery.
 Susan said, Don't be an idiot"
 Under the current of talk all even ing her thoughts reverted to Bob. What was he doing? Whom was he talking to? Her heart throbbed with a slow and steady pain. Bob was reckless and angry. She had gent him away--tO what? Susan dod not sleep well that night.
 Idling heavy-eyed at the break fast table next morning she heard Rose fling back from the hall. "Sue, here's a letter for you. It looks im- portant."
 Susan's pulses leaped. She seized the envelope with trembling fingers. It was addressed in Ernest's hand writing.
 (TO Be Co.itinucd)
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 YOURsELE5
B. AIicis Hart
" v, | 6

The platinum blonde. thouof passe now, did her bit for all Wot men. (
 That bit, the important bit. conA sisted of establishing the fact that a girl can affect any artificial color she likes in her hair and naunt it. not hide 1t or be ashamed of it.ss
 Why not profit by the example? I don't mean to advocate going platinum. Don't fnisunderstand me. That particular type of bleaching is particularly hard on the hair. Hardly worth the effort.
 What l do mean is-why not look your hair over and if 1t IS drab, do something about it?
 When summer comes every girl should have lovely hair. Drab hair isn't 1t pretty. It isn't the least bit attractive.
 The same hair. rinsed with one of the golden rinses, may take on an amazingly lovely character. Or perhaps you look better with some- thing not the least bit reddish. but just a lemon rinse which bleaches just the least bit and brings out your color.
 Chamomile shampoos can be had which are particularly good for the girl with light hair that is just naturally light. not red, not gold. Way back before your mother was born ladies appreciated the effect of chamomile and used 1t.
 Women in the old country have continued using 1t while Americans have practically forgotten how bcns eficia1 the herb can be. Why not try 1t?
 There are several tested rinse3 on the market that don't hurt youa hair. Most of them do dry 1t out n bit. But you can counteract that by using an oily tonic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07
RUTH TRIES TO
 EXPLAIN HER KISS

For a frightened second, Ruth didn't move. Then she pulled away fiercely, and almost ran from the room. Dale Courtney had looked away as soon as he had noticed the scene in the den. He had walked to the other end of the room by the time Ruth reached the door. He was watching the fire that blazed on the hearth. He was mak- ingn some impersonal remark to Sue, who was laughing back.
 But Ruth had such a dizzy, broken feeling in her stomach that she couldn't stand, She dropped in- the nearest chair. She wanted to see Dale alone. She wanted to ex- plain to him that she didn't two- time. That she played fair. That the kiss had meant nothing. It had been kindness. Not even willing kindness. But Dale didn't look at her. He went on talking to Sue. She wondered If he would ever stop. Would ever turn and look at her It seemed that the world ended a dozen times while she waited.
 Then at last he did. But his eyes didn't finger. They went beyond her, sought the clock.
 "I didn't realize. it was so late. must be going" he said
 But you can't. You have to let me explain" Ruth wanted to say. But somehow she couldn't. She sat very still. She couldn't find her voice. But she had to talk. Had to! She made a great effort.
 "ButsI want to see you first" she said.
 Dinners nearly ready. You're staying Sue told Dale. "Ill go see how it's getting along"
 "No, thank you, I cant. I have another engagement he answered. But Ruth noticed that Sue looked at him quickly, as though she, too, sensed the change in his manner. She didn't insist. though. She slip ped into the kitchen.
 Dale you can't go. I can ex- plain. ..." Ruth began.
 He waited. The expression on his face didn't soften. There was no relenting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07
YOUR CHILDREN
A LESSON FOR PARENTS
By Olive Roberts Barton
0I9sz eY NEA SERVICE INC.

Charlie was ashamed of his red hair. Every time he looked in the glass he hated it more.
 The family laughed about Char lie and his red hair-that Is, they laughed because he hated 1t so. "Why it's lovely hair!' said his mother soothingly. Lots of peo- pie have 1t and think it is grand" was usually amusement in her tone Even when there wasn't there was certain crooning sym pathy that never quite reassured. He rather thought she would greatly have preferred him to be crowned with the coal black silk his brother Dan boasted. Dan was considered handsome.
 Charlie's hair was a bright ter rible searching red. And he had freckles. He hated the freckles almost as much as his hair.
 No one knew why he felt this way. He had been conscious of 1t from his play-yard if not from his cradle, and when dads friends used to come in and look at the baby and say, "Carrot-top, sure enough, Jim! Where'd he get that?" And dad would say. "Going to use him for a lighter. boys" And give the red curls a tweak.
 There was plenty of that kind of talk.
 Well--he was ugly and there was handsome Dan who got all the smiles and pleasantness when 1a- dies came. Charlie didn't like company and wouldn't talk. Dan l liked company and did. He hung | around and got nice things said to | him.
 "I Want to Be Bad"
 The sore deepened and the breach widened. He was ugly and | children who think they are ugly | get the idea that nothing is to. De expected but badness. Anyway. | better to be thought bad than a 1 Joke. It distracted attention.
 And then came the day of the ] school picnic. Charles had not started to, school but he had to go to the picnic. He couldn't get out of it. Aunt Jane taught Number One and she insisted on taking him. It was all settled. He had to go.
 He got on the street car with misgivings. He knew every one was going to laugh at his hair. There WAS one tough-looking chap whom Charlie spotted at once. This fellows eyes immediately lighted on Charlie's top. For some reason of defense Charlie yelled "Pie-face" at him first. to Aunt Jane's horror and absolute stupe- faction.
 "Carrotsl" shouted back the lowbrow. Then and there occur red stand-up and knock down fight in the aisle. The little girls screamed, thet boys cheefed.
 Charlie won with honors. That's the ticket, h." compli- mented a sage of six, skipping Charlie on the back. All the little boys said, Red fixed him! He'll let us alone now" And the girls whispered, "Isn't he brave?"
 Aunt Jane restored order. The car moved on. Charlie was Red" now and hero. Not word was said about his hair. He was just Red" accepted by the world.
 He never gave his hair thought after that. He never should have given 1t a thought. It was the family's fault.
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he was shy ana it was often difficult for him to conquer his inbred New England reserve.
 It was early spring twilight. The western sky deepenedi from rose to mauve and then to lilac. Almost without warning night closed in. The taxi toited over the old pave- ments.
 Heath dismissed the driver at the corner and paid the fare. Suddenly he began to feel rather foolish about his unannounced visit. It was simnly that he had felt he must see Susan at once. There was no rhyme or reason to the impulse. He was moved by one of those inexplicable promptings which occasionally change and color an entire life.
 His steps quickened as he came in sight of the Milton's house and he went up the steps lightly, on eager feet. His hand was almost on the brass knob of the door opening into the tiny vestibule when he stopped. arrested.
 That was Susan's voice. There was trouble in 1t and pain, too. Without meaning to, without con- scious design Heath listened. What was that she was saying?
 'I can't possibly do 1t now! I've given my word and I mustn's go back on It."
 The listener stiffened at the re- ply. A mans voice, pleading yet dominant, said: But darling. we've gone all over this before. There's no' sense in it. It would be much more honorable for you to tell him you love someone else. He'd be a good spoM about it.'
 The girls voice sounded as though she had been weeping. .'1 can't! l can't. tell you"' Wildly the words went on, "Oh, why did We find each other too late? Why couldn't you have told me all this last summer? It would have been so perfect then"
 The man in the shadow waited to hear no more. Quietly he went down the steps. So that was the way of it then! He felt no anger, only deep and abiding sadness. What a fool he had been! Of course the child would turn to someone of her own age. Why shouldn't she? It was as natural as a flower turning toward the sun. He had been blind and selfish idiot not to have seen 1t earlier. Waring had warned him and had been right.
 For a long while Heath pondered how to find a graceful way out. He must manage to save SuSan's pride as well as his own. A servant tip
 a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07
100 PER CENT HONOR
 ROLL AT BUNKER HILL


 During the 1931-32 year the following pupils have banked 100 per cent every week, according to an announcement made this morn- ing by Principal Ralph W. Car rington of Bunker Hill grammar school:
 8S-Danforth Shattuck. Lois Fenton, Elizabeth Hill, Jeanne La- Vigne.
 sW-John Brophy. Dudley Bur ton. Gertrude Austin, Thelma Bar nish. Eleanor Callan, Ruth Clinton, Ruth McIldowie, Amy Thomas.
 7F-Joseph Omiciol. Lillian Mitchell.
 7B-Arnold Greenblatt, Barbara Chase, Laurette Hogg. Barbara LaVigne.
 sP-Helen Austin. Josephine Cocchiola.
 6D--George Elmore. Betty Bloom, Marion Hemans, Ruth Ringenberg, Betsey Shattuck.
 5F-Richard Beadle. Norman Farnloff, Russell Farnloff. Dorothy Garfield. Helen Pritchard.
 5K-Florence Cocchiola.
 4G-Eleanor Cooke, Lillian Ro- te1ia.
 4B-Donald Hickey, Albert Shattuck. Virginia Girch. Florence. Smith.
 2K-Evcline Angrave. Ruth Greenblatt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07
BARGAIN COUNTER

Paris.-Housewiv whose pet hobby is to go to Il department store and bergain with the clerks have special counter all their own in a large mercantile estab- lishment here. It is bargain ing counter" where customers go and for articles. A customer makes an offer for any article and the store reserves the right to ac- cept or decline within 4S hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07
Yon, Can Run It Up on Sewing Machine in About an Hour


 If you want to make a darling splash of colour in simple sports type-here's your model.
 It's cotton to be certain, for 1t is as smart as paint this season. It has alinen finish. The ground is white with orangy-red motifs. The decorative buttons of the raglan shoulders and the belt buckle tone with the red shade.
 Loads of other materials suggest themselves for this cool dress. Pale blue plque. yellow cotton mesh, lime green linen, white crinkle crepe tub silk and dusky pink fiat tub silk are especially smart.
 Style No. 458 is designed for sizes 14, 16, IS. 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 3 1-8 yards of 39 inch material with 3-4 yards of binding.
 Our Summer Fashion Magazine will help you economize. It in- cludes styles for the miss. the stout. the matron and adorable models for the kiddies. Also mod ern embroidery for the home, lin- gerie, pajamas. etc.
 Price of BOOK 10 cents.
 Price of PATTERN Is cents in stamps or coin (coin Is preferred) Wrap coin carefully.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07

Send your money and order to Pattern Department, Waterbury Democrat, Waterbury, Conn.
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REGIN HERE TO-DAY

SUSAN GAHENs x1 ana peAm- tifui, Inns become engaged to ERNEST HEATH, her former employer. She 6 secretly in love with BOB DUNBAR, miiiiOnaiFc's son, whom she met at business school. Heath sends her aunt south to Fecuperate from an ill., meas and the girl Is grateful. BEN IsAMPMAE, Susan's reject. wounding Heath. He rcCOvcrs and fully to sec Susan. He secs her at the tileater one night with Heath and becomes angry. DEN ISE ACKROYD, debutantc, wants Bob for herself. Susan meets Bob at a masked ball and he makes love to her. Denise ap- pears and says she and Bob are engaged. Susan runs away. When Heath urges an early marriage she agrees. Waring tells Heath that Susan cares for another. Almost on the eve of the we'd ding Bob comes to sec her.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xLIII
 His laugh rang out. Who says it isn't right?"
 T do."
 Look here, my grill" With a single long stride he was at her side. He dropped to one knee, bringing his face on level with Susan's. We've got to cut out this nonsense. We're wasting time. thought we settled all this that night.s
 Nothing was settled" Susan said, trembling at his nearness. She could catch the scent sofTexpensive tobacco and shaving soap and Rus sian leather. His blue eyes, danc- ing wickediy, were Sdanserously close to hers.
 T thought you were bright" he mocked her. 'T thought you knew what I was talking about.Y His voice lowered, softened. Into 1t crept the lovers note that Susan had heard once before.
 My girl" he muttered, covering her clasped hands with one of his own. My own darling"
 fSusans heart melted to him ut teriy but she sat, rigid and appar- ently composed.
 Sweetheart, look at mel" Bob commanded.
 Unwilllngly she turned her eyes to his. You musn't," she warned him. i've no right 10 listen. You've forgotten--".
 Forgotten what?"
 The flush ran over her pale skin clear down to the point where the creamy throat was swallowed up in the aureole of pale fur.
 This Susan indicated her outfit. This Is the costume I've chosen for my wedding"
 Your wedding! l won't have it," Dunbar stormed. You belong to me and to nobody else"
 Ernest Heath did not fully un- derstand the impulse that drove him to call on Susan before din- ner. He could not have explained 1t to himself, but here he was rush. ing along in a taxi through the familiar, shabby streets It was cur ious, he unused, that this drab en- vironment could have produced a girl such as Susan. You could be proud of her in any company. he thought. He gloated at the pros- pest of showing her the world. It would be like opening a trinket box to the gaze of an admiring child. At this time next week she would be his bride. They would be sailing on blue waters with the future stretching ahead of them a para disc.
 He felt suddenly humble. sud- denly afraid. He had never ex- pected life to be so good to him. He had given up hope and now. amazingly, a,whole. new visa had been shown him. All at once he was impatient to see Susan and tell her something of what was in his heart. He was not an inarticulate man but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-07

With view to lessening early morning neise Of rattling Myik bottles. q rubber compsny has de- vised rubber-covered milk contain er0.
Evening star., 1932-07-27
CONNECTICUT AIDS
REALTY TAXPAYER
Grants Is Years to Needy
Property Owners on
Their Assessments.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn, July 27.-Con-
necticut IS extending to needy real
estate owners Is years in which to pay
their assessments
1.-THE harsh severity of the laws Of
other States has been softened by a
unique provision for the unfortunate -
said Tax Commissioner William H.
Blodgett yesterday.
Connecticut permits those in dis
treSsed circumstances to defer without
interest. for a period not exceeding Is
years, the payment Of their real estate
taxes upon the satisfaction of certain
conditions"
his State tax, Blodgett added, Connec-
ticut laws are less stringent than those
of many other commonwealths.
Whereas many States set one year as
the limit for payment, Connecticut has
fixed the maximum at two years. In
tereSt for delinquent taxes Is three
fourths of l per cent q month and
there are no penalties.
Only few property owners, however
have taken advantage of the 15-year
provision, and the rate of collections
has been high. Blodgett attributes this
to continual emphasis on the necessity
of paying taxes within two years.
Where the time element has oecu-
pied q conspicuous position In tax col
lection procedure" he said, there is
usually little, If any, trouble with un-
collected taxes.
mo municipal fiscal system could
long continue If the municipality could
not annually count on a substantial
amount of receipts from taxes"
Evening star., 1932-07-27
COBLENTz, GUILTY,
TO SEEK RETR|AL
Full Bench Decides Verdict on
Charge of Accepting Deposit
for InsoIvent Bank.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 27-State
Senator Emory L. Coblentz, convicted
of accepting a deposit at one Of his
branch banks when it was inSolvent, to-
day prepared to seek a new trial.
His attorneys have until Saturday to
file motions for a retrial. Meanwhile
the convicted president Of the Central
Trust Co. of Maryland was free on
S2500.
Senator Coblentz was found guilty
late yesterday by the full bench OF
Circuit Court here after the three
Judges had spent more than a month
going over the testimony submitted at
the four-week trial late In May and
early In June.
In announcing the verdict, Chief
Judge D. Lindley Sloan said the judges
were convinced the financial institution
was "hopelesSly" insolvent for a lfns
time and "the defendant not only knew
it, but he was personally largely re-
sponsible for its condition"
The Central Trust Co., with its home
Office in Frederick and II branches in
Central Maryland communities, closed
September 3. In February the Howard
County grand jury indicted Coblentz
and four other officials on several
charges Of violations of the banking
laws.
After the cases had been brought here
on a change of venue, Coblentz was
placed on trial for accepting a $316.50
deposit at the Washington Trust Co.,
its Ellicott City branch. the day before
1t closed.
Evening star., 1932-07-27
SOVIET LIFTS BAN
ON SALE OF CROPS.
Permits Peasants to Place
Produce More Freely in
Private Markets.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated RTeSS.
MOSCOW, July 27.-Soviet authori-
ties today announced a new important
step in the direction Of removing Of
fetal restrictions against sales by Rus
sian peasants of their own products.
Hereafter, according to the new de-
cree, all peasants living within q dis
tance of so kilometers (about 80 miles)
of Moscow are freed from contracts
which heretofore obligated them to
deliver their produce to State co-opera-
tive organizations at fixed prices.
Grain Is Excepted.
An exception was made regarding
grain, however, and the grain contracts
will remain in operation.
The peasants may sell all other
products such as milk, eggs, fruit and
vegetables, without price restrictions,
either to co-operatives or to private
consumers.
The only reservation Is that those
peasants who have not joined the col
lective farms must carry out so per cent
Of their contracts for potato deliveries.
At the same time the Government
issued a decree, supplementing that of
last Sunday, extending commercial free
dom to artisans co-operatives. The
new decree provides peasant producers
co-operatives in regions where handi-
craft trades rather than farming pre-
dominate, shall be under the direction
Of the artisans co-operativeS instead of
the collective farm system.
Exchange System Formed.
1t orders the collective farms to per-
NIT their members freely to form arti-
sans co-operatives and outlines a sys-
tenn Of exchange whereby the collect
i've farms shall furnish the artisans CO.
operatives with food, raw materials, and
transportation, while the artisans are
required to sell part of their output to
the collective farms.
The recent measures favoring the de-
velopment of handicraft industries are
linked closely with the new policy of
permitting peasants to sell their prod
uce more freely in private markets
because the success of this policy de-
pends largely on the availability for
peasants of many types of goods of
every day consumption Of which Rus
sia's handicraft industries produce q
considerable share.
Evening star., 1932-07-27
HOUSE CANDIDATE
ENDS LIFE In PROBE
Arthur Sellers, G. o. P. Choice,
Shoots Self at Philadelphia-Ac-
cused of Estate Embezzlement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July PA bullet
has ended prosecution of Arthur Sellers,
Republican candidate for Congress, ON
q multitude of charges affecting his
conduct of the Office of deputy coroner.
Sellers shot himself through the heart
yesterday, authorities said, while police
guarded his home to prevent his es-
cape from the city. His end came as
a magistrates Office was thronged with
persons awaiting his appearance for a
hearing on charge of embezzling S50,-
900. The money was trust fund
of which he had been executor.
Sellers, who was 81 and a lawyer, had
been the target Of more than 100
charges growing out Of his admins
tration of estates. The accusations
ranged from embezzlement to giving
pauper burial to friendless persons and
then presenting exorbitant bills for
funerals.
His legal difficulties dated back to
the Philadelphia primary campaign Of
last April. The Republican organiZa-
ton here withdrew its support from
Representative Benjamin M. Colder,
candidate for reelection, and slated
Sellers in his place.
Colder lashed out at the organiza-
ton and Sellers. carrying his fight to
the floor of the House at Washington.
Evening star., 1932-07-27
B0RAH PARLEY PROPOSAL
DENOUNCED By RANKIN
Mississippi Democrat Declares
Same Proposition Sponsored by
international Bankers.

Representative Rankin, Democrat, Of
Mississippi, today characterized as ''the
most astounding political development
Of recent months" the proposal Of Sen
ator Borah of Idaho for a world con-
ference to consider war debts and other
postwar problems.
"ThB Is the same proposition that
has been pushed forward by certain in
ternational bankers for the last few
years." Rankin said in a formal state
ment at was back Of the Hoover mora
torium proposal last year, as was evil
denced by his request for the recreation
Of the old Debt-fundine Commission,
which could have but one possible func-
tion-that Of reducing or cancelling
these debts
Rankin said the bankers wanted to
cancel foreign debts to protect $l6,000,-
100000 they had loaned abroad.