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She hadn't been listening and Rolf was talking about something at the office. Suddenly the girl laughed.
 "Oh. Rolf" she said. "the sil- Hest thing happened to-day. was coming by the Brewster Coffee Shop and I saw an awfully pretty girl. She was with man in gray and for a minute was sure it was you! I--I was certain of it!' You mean - you thought you Saw--me-"
 You must have double. Hon. estly, I'd have sworn-but then of course I knew it couldn't be!"'
 Janet laughed and Carlyle joined her. Somehow the mans laugh was not so convincingly mirthful as the girls.
 Funny" h eagreed. You don't think I've taken to lunching at the Brewster, do you? ?"
 "Oh, of course not. But honestly it did look like you"
 The talk drifted to other things. Janet brought the dessert and the coffee. It was while they were drinking the fragrant golden bev- craze that Carlyle said carefully: Janet, there's something I want to talk to you about" (TO be COntinued)
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figure and booming voice in the shadows.
 "H'lo. honey.r
 "Oh, Rolf-H
 It was a brief greeting. Janet hurried back to retrieve the cream sauce and the steak. The young l man tossed aside his hat and top coat idolentfy. Yes, it was a gray topcoat and a felt hat exactly the same shade as the young man who entered the Brewster Coffee Shop had worn.
 Janet was too busy to notice that. She had disappeared behind the screen that shut off the kitchen" from the rest of the room. The young man, left to himself, drop ped into an arm chair. He pro- duced cigarets, lighted match, applied it to 8 cigaret and leaned back comfortably, watching the curling smoke drift ceilingward.
 "Busy today?" Janet called. "So-so." Suddenly Carlyle mo- ticed the table with it's bowl of roses and its tall candlesticks. "Say, what's the idea? Looks like a party"
 Smiling, Janet emerged from behind the screen. Tt is. a party, Rolf. Don't you know what day it is?s It's your birthday! I wanted to surprise you"
 "Birthday-say, I'd forgotten all about that. How'd you know? How'd you happen to remem- ber-?"
 live remembered ever since-oh, for months and months. Something you said one day last summer. Are you really surprised? I thought it would be fun to have dinner here together tonight. Just you and I, Roifss We're going to have birth dayscake-"
 The sentence was lost as she made a frantic dash for the stove. In time to prevent serious damage she turned off the blaze. Five min utes more and the platter of steak, the asparagus, the salads, and the crisp, golden rolls were on the table.
 "You light the candles" Janet said as she united the blue and white apron. Her face was glowing and pink from the heat, her hair a trifle unru1y. There was not time \ IV OL tAlI iOWs hO must be eaten while it was hot.
 Just for an instant they stood there together. The room behind them was" dark. The candlelight-- flickering and uncertain-cast a pale golden radiance over the table disguising the cheap dishes and worn lunch cloth. The scent of the rosebuds was sweet and spicy Janet's hand slipped into Rolf's She raised a face glowing with happiness.
 kiss me-" she whispered. | His lips brushed against her forehead. It was a nasty kiss-al- most a preoccupied one. Janet's eyes, just as her heart, must have been so filled to overflowing with joy that she failed to notice the look that crossed Rolf's face. It was gone in an instant. Gazing across the table at him. Janet saw a young man any casual observer would have called rather handsome. Rolf Carlyle found it easy to make friends. Women liked his blond hair, his dark eyes and ] the resemblance (slight though it
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providing he had the cash.
 Perhaps that gracefully molded chin lacked little in firmness.
 Perhaps the brown eyes, with their ingratiating smile, were 8 bit too pleasure-loving. In Janet's opinion Rolf possessed the combined wit, charm, intellect and good looks of the heroes of the six current best sellers, the six most popular plays on Broadway, the six most success full recent screen dramas-and more for good measure.
 There is no doubt that she was prejudiced. To his employers, Dwight Kendall and Jim McPhail, who owned the Atlas Advertising Agency, young Carlyle was a begin ner with a fair chance of working up in the business. People liked Carlyle-and that was an asset. He had the brains too, if he'd set tie down and apply himself. Rolf had worked at the Atlas, office for a year and half. During the two years he had attended college Rolf had sold advertising on the college paper. He had landed the job with the Atlas company when Frank Dennison, friend, had given it up to join the staff of the Gazette. Hired at $50 week and given rou- tine office duties, Carlyle had earned two raises since. He had three accounts now for which he was responsible and occasionally was allowed to try his hand at writing advertising copy for some of the more important clients.
 It had been on an errand for the Atlas company (bringing copy to be inserted in the Every Home magazine) that Rolf Carlyle had first seen Janet Hill. There had been a few words between them. Carlyle had found occasion to drop into the Every Home office on other errands. After the evening when he first persuaded her to have dinner with him the courtship had moved swiftly. In little more than a month Janet Hill had prom ised to marry Rolf Carlyle.
 All that had been nearly year ago. Janet, during those months, had learned to care more and more for Rolf. Not once did it occur to her that he could feel otherwise.
 The birthday dinner proved success. The steak was tender. cooked exactly as Rolf liked it. The salads were crisp and the' rest Of the simple menu. was appetizing.
 Janet thought, "This is how it's going to be some day-when we're married. This is the way we'll have dinner every night!
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$ YOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Barton
OIo53 sY NeA StRVIcE. INC

I saw the first robin today, the
 first spring robin! Two weeks ago
 saw one, the day before that
 dreadful blizzard. During all the
 bitter days and nights that follow ed worried about the poor brave fellow. Where would he hide to keep warm? Did he live to regret
 his folly, coming too soon to the northland that delights in fooling
 birds as well as people about the weather?
 When I saw that Robin I was visiting in the country. The snow was very deep after those two bit ter dark days, and the sun came | out glittering bright. He did not appear again, but my hosts being bird lovers and using every means in their power to house and feed winter as well as summer birds,
 were rewarded by having some in- teresting visitors.
 Two very red headed wobdpeck CTS were terribly busy picking mites off the bark of a small tree not ten feet from my window. A doven snow birds were ecstatical- ly wollowing in the deep white powder on the terrace. Two nut hatchers, who likewise had stayed all winter, were running about the trunk of an oak like two little mice half the time upside down, as nut matches regards the universe as having no top or bottom, as indeed it hasn't.
 I took walk, and by the way, IT repaid, for out of clump of bush es ahead there drummed up a cou- pie of dozen quail. Deserve Protection My host later pointed out lot | of starlings feeding in hedge. He | wanted to shoot them but I stop
 he declared, land drive the other
 birds away--gangstersg of birdland
 they don't belong in America,
 he added.
 But to me a bird is a bird and won't have it shot if can help it. Now today I see a robin in my own garden. He deserves a story that is, all birds deserve story.
 And they deserve protection and attention. It isn't fair that we have all the pleasure of seeing and hear ing them and do not help them to live. They are so appreciative of a little help and show it by using what we give them.
 Bird-houses are not only cheap. but they are easy to build! A lit- tie house with little hole for a wren, to keep larger marauders out Bigger ones for other birds, and on up the grade until we come to the "hotels" for martins.
 Last spring in the south we rarely passed a Negro cabin, no matter how poor, that did not have its supply of "gourd" bird-houses.
 But getting birds and keeping them is another thing. Watch the cats, especially when nesting time comes. Make the children watch men and tell them to keep any beast of prey away. Cats should not be allowed to run at large dur ing the nesting season. Pet cats can be trained to let birds alone. Cats should not be out at night, ever, and through the day they must be vigilantly watched.
 Teach the children to love birds. Let them learn their names. And better still, on nice days send them. if possible, some place where they will see and recognize these feath- cred friends.
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1-Yes. The art, literature, phil osophy, science, religion, manners and morals of man is the answer the final answer, except for tech nical problems of the philosophers as to ultimate reality" "prag- matic truth" and the like. The explorer, climbing the mountain, finds truth in the climbing, not in the view at the top. The humble wife in the home doing her duty to husband and children, the work man doing the best job of work of which he is capable, the scientist searching for truth, all have found truth. For truth, as a living real
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Tt was because I was thinking about him." Janet told herself. Imagine l-1aking such an idiot of myself! Why, it couldn't have been Rolf" She accepted this explana- tion eagerly, with a sense of relief.
 For a moment, though, she had been startled
 Smiling, treasured, Janet hur- ried along. A minute or two later she was turning into the doorway of Rooney's Cafeteria. Most of the noon-time crowd had lunched and departed. The long room with ita innumerable little tables, all with gleaming tile tops, was not even half filled.
 Janet ordered satisfying lunch two vegetables, a salad, a glass of milk and for dessert, a delicious looking fruit tart. She carried her tray to a table near the side of the there. Blessedly quiet. Suddenly Janet realized that she was hungry. The hot food seemed delicious and for several minutes she devoted herself to it, thinking only how pleasant it was to eat an appetizing meal in peaceful surroundings.
 Then she took slip of paper from her purse and began checking over the items listed. Hayslips' first for the pen and pencil set. In parenthesis Janet had set down ''$5". It seemed lot; enough even for the handsome pen and pencil she had visualized as Rolf's gift.
 The dime store was on the list for candles and @ glass top to re- place the one broken on the coffee percolator. The cut-rate flower shop next for a half dozen pink roses--little ones that wouldn't last long but would be just right in low bowl on the, table. The roses would cost only 50 cents. Then there was the meat market and the grocery and all the things that must be bought to prepare the birthday dinner.
 Janet went over the list. No, there was nothing she had forgot ten. Two-fifteen now. She must hurry!
 Four hours later Janet Hill stood before the two-burner gas stove stirring cream sauce, trying at the same time to keep an eye on the steak broiling in the skillet that sat none too securely over the other blaze. The asparagus, cook ed, was propped as near as pos sible to the heat to keep it from chilling. A steaming coffee pot posed perilously at the corner of the tiny shelf, serving both as kitchen table and a support for the gas stove. Dishes, tea towels, a paper sack, knives and spoons Uttered the Impoverished kitchen.
 For a moment Janet stopped stirring to push strand of hair back from her face. She was warm and her nose was shining. The last minute, wit everything to be done at onc was always con- fusing. Rolf ould come. any time now. ,4
 Rolf would cone any time. There he was now-the buZzer on the bell downstairs pressed three times in rapid succession! Janet's apart ment" was on the second floor and Rolf could make that single flight in record time.
 A sharp rap at the door-Janet leaving the stove, risking ruin of the dinner to, answer-a slim, tall
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ity, is the fulfillment of our high est functions, and we achieve the truth of life just to the degree that we do "the whole duty of man" and fulfill our richest, personal possibilities.
 2-Yes. It can be measured more accurately and it's future de- velopment prophesied better than any other human talent. Dean Carl E. Seashdre, founded the psychol- ogy of music and he and his pupils have developed nearly all we know of it. They have measured more than thirty clements that enter in- to musical talent,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-07
GLORIFYlNo
 YOURSELF
By Alicia Hart

Perfume should have an impOr- tant part in your beauty budget and a foremost place in your daily beauty routine.
 Since time immemoriai women have liked perfumery and rightly so. It is the one way to surround yourself with an air of mystery SD necessary if you are to have fas- cination. .. You should have several kinds. Even if you don't feel that your moods change often enough to warrant changing perfume odors at least you should concede that the change of seasons gives you an excuse to vary your perfume.
 Spring is the time to make change. You can use d heavier scent when you are out of doors and when the windows are open most of the time. Winter and steam heated rooms really call for light odors but when spring ar- rives you can go the limit and get that heavy scent you've been se- cretly coveting all winter.
 However, consider your type and the kinds of clothes you wear most of the time before you buy any. If you are going in for tweed suits and tailored clothes single flower odors are better. Feminine appar- ell of the dress-maker varieties call for heavy, combination perfumes.
 English women like lavender. If you have never used it you may be surprised at how much you will like its freshness and rather old fashioned scent.
 Single white flower odors are often popular with blonds. Tie exotic, combined scents are more ideal for the sophisticated, bru- net personalities.
 There are many differences of opinion as to where to apply per- fume. The hollow of the throat, wrists, ears and back of the necK are all good places to use it. How ever, an atomizer is better than dropper. The even spray keeps the odor from being too heavy.
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3-Yes, but a lot of love that goes by that name is no more like real Platonic love than Joey Browr is like Buddy Rogers. Fine and lofty friendships, beautiful literary correspondence. lifelong enjoy ment of each others company does exist between high-minded men and women with no thought Oi what is commonly termed sex. It is based on the inspiring friend- ship of two fine minds, and clear heads with many mutual interests in life. Platonic loce is beauti- ful thing so long as 1t isn't too much tonic and too little Plato.
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wished a little wistfully for the old days when he had lacked SophiSti- cation-or veneer that passes for it, perhaps. 's- The new Jimmy was more inter- esting .. but she would never feel 50 sure of himsnoW. But she loved him. .. in a different way that she had. She knew that. She knew that Jimmy sensed it, too. But she il loved him.
 '1'm going to run up to the apartment and pack" Jimmy said when the luncheon was over. Want to come along?" ''Want to come along!" She had | not been in the apartment for a long time. She wondered how it looked Jimmy wanted her there. Maybe he couldn't find his collar buttons. She knew that he had always detested packing. She would be useful. But he would not have asked her if he hadn't want ed her!
 "I'd love to go" She smiled gaily. 'I'm still good at packing, Jimmy. And want to see the apartment"
 "It's-changed." He smiled rue fully.
 "How, Jimmy?"
 "Two burned holes in the living room rug. half a dozen or may be dozen broken glasses-cups cracked-oh, it's grand place. You'll be keen about it."
 He laughed into he eager face.
 "Who cares about holes in rugs. We'll buy more cups and glasses. Come on!"
 She didn't have time to look around until the bag was packed
 "Never mind, young lady. After you see the wreck I've made of your happy home you'll probably refuse to pack the bag. Do that first,' he commanded in the old, gay way. She found Jimmy watch ing her almost anxiously when she finished.
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was) to a certain motion picture star. Men liked Carlyle because at
 bridge and golf he was as good a loser as a player; because his easy good nature never seemed to desert him; because if a fellow wanted a
 loan Carlyle would come across
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

JANET HILL is engaged ROLF CARLYLE but they do enough money marry. Janet secretary for BRUCE TAMIL TONI advertising manager Every Home magazine Rolf works Advertising Co., Janet insists they have $500 savings before they be married.
 HOWARD CRESSY another empoye of the magazine tries make with Janet but she discoursges him.
 She the office one Saturday prepare prise birthday dinner way couple entering Hotel Coffee Shop recognizes the Rolf
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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WIDOWS ARE JANIToRs

Cambridge. Mass -- (UP)--Mrs Mary A. Moynihan and Mrs Mar
 garet Duffy, widows, both in their 7O's, have been janitors in Cam
 bridge public schools 22 and 2l
 years. respectively.
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CHAPTER II.
 the girl in the fur and the young be- disappeared Janet had barely hem had heard her Its Ro and still struggling with the shock when the of the Coffee Shop closed.
 Immediately returned Of it couldn't have Rolf with pretty. expenvy dressed girl It other young whose happened be the shade Of gray Rolfs, who dark felt at the angle
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It's very simple-as it should be for youth.
 It carries a sportsy air in it's
 buttoned closing from neck to
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 Still another asset is that it is easily fashioned.
 For it, linen in sailor-blue is exceedingly attractive with white trim and buttons, carrying out the nautical idea, now, so popular. Angora weave woolen in yell low and brown checked pattern Is another smart scheme with yell low trim.
 Style No. 5s7 is designed in sizes 8, 10, 12 and IA years. Size requires 1-2 yards 35- inch, with 1 1-4 yards 3-4 inch braid.
 For warmer weather wear, you can omit the long sleeves as seen in the miniature view. The new Fashion Magazine is
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LOCAL MAN FINED
 IN COMMON PLEAS
John KuratOwski Paid $1l0 and Costs for ViO=
 latiOn of Motor Law

John Kuratkowski of this city was fined $100 and costs on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and fined $10 and costs for not having a license when he was arraigned before Judge Edward J. Finn in the common pleas court today. The accused was arrested in Naug- atuck and when haled before the borough court was sentenced to 60 days in jail on the drunken driving charge and fined $10 on the no license offense.
 He appealed the borough courts decision to the local common pleas court and disposition was made by Judge Finn today.
 His counsel. Attorney Joseph c. Guilfoile, made strong plea. stat ing the accused was married and the father of two children. He said he did a foolish thing when he purchased the car for $65 and at- tempted to drive it without a li- cense after having had severa, drinks. He added that the accused was in dire circumstances. N~ Judge Finn thought the stor, did not jibe, referring to the dire circumstances and the purchase oi the car. Judge Finn placed the accused on probation for month and a half to pay the fines.
 Nolles were entered in three other cases. They were those of James Fasane, charged with reck- less driving; Edward Leavy. like
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FRENCH AIRMEN
 BUILD CHURCH
Shrine to Have Chapel Dedicated to Our Lady
 of the Skies

Paris (UP)-A church is being built for French airmen.
 Officially the parish church of Nouveau Bourget, the village on the borders of Le Bourget, the shrine will contain a chapel dedi- cated to Our Lady of the Skies.
 New Bourget, which numbers 1000 inhabitants, has been grow ing ever since the famous airport was turned over exclusively to civil aviation. It is expected the village will number 15,00O inhabi- tants by the end of 1883.
 St Charles du Nouyeau Bour. get will be the name of the church in memory of Charles Nungesser who, with Coli, first attempted tc fly from the European continen, to North America and disappear. ed. The shrine is officially dedi. cated to. the memory of Mgr Charles Gibier, bishop of Yer. sailles, great friend of airmen who died in 1881.
 The church, built on the sim. pIest lines, will cost about ont million francs, not counting tho three carillon bells to be installed in the belfry, and of which tn, largest will toll for fiiers in gen. eral and the middle one for pilots The small one will be fore genera use.
 The airmen's chapel will be pre-. sided over by white limestone statue of Our Lady of the Skies work of modernistic simplicit, which represents the Virgin witt head lifted and arms outstretched as if she were about to "take off,"
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Terryvie Girl Testes As Morel Trial Gets Underway
DEMOCRATIC CLUB DANCE TOMORROW
Initial Show of Brooklyn Young Mems Unit at
 St JOseph's Hall

With President A. R. Martino acting as master of ceremonies, the Brooklyn Young Mems Demo- cratic club is sponsoring it's first annual minstrels and dance under the direction of Joseph Lezotte. All roads will lead to St Joseph's hall tomorrow night where capacity crowd is expected. A real minstrel treat is in store for everybody.
 The cast embraces an all- Brook lyn chorus of 40 men blending their voices to perfect harmony and some of the best known entertain CTS from all parts of the city will also be included in the list of cele- brants of the stage. Such stars as Lillian Mccoy, Dot Sternberg and Helen >Larkin, dance artists, musi- clans as James Kelly, Victoria Miro, Thomas Cocchiola, Domenic Mecca and Michael Morris. fun ny men such as Solly Freed man and Joe Palladino, will serve to make the show noteworthy one. Topped off by local dance band of Timmie Grove and His Colonials, Q gala night is assured everybody. Many valuable door prizes have been donated. by local merchants.