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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06

could look down his nose at the Raeburns
 The porter came back just then and took charge of their bags. The elder people settled themselves comfortably in their drawing room. The train was to leave in 20 minutes and MT Raehurn, accord ing to habit, settled himself com fortably for nap. Boots, feeling that odd, stifled restlessness burn ing within her, sought the plat form of the observation car.
 Now that she was alone she could give herself up reservedly to her thoughts. The last week had been crowded with tasks, with the excitement of packing and de- parture. -Denis-Denis! He was somewhere out in the great world, far from her. But he loved her. She was putting. miles be- tween them with every breath that she drew, but perhaps one day maybe not before she was very old -she would lift her eyes and see him smiling down at her
 Startled out of her dream, she heard her name spoken in an incredulous undertone.
 "Boots! Or am I dreaming
 Ecstacy, ecstasy! If I open my eyes, she thought, I'll be awake, His voice has never been so real in a dream before.
 But she was awake. The smell of city dust and the smoke from puffing engines, the clangor of the city sounded all about her. Waver- ingly she opened her eyes. There before her stood the man who had been occupying her thoughts. He was leaner than she remembered him. His dark, oddly blue eyes wore that puzzled little boy frewn she knew so we'll.
 "Boots!' He said 1t again, lin- geringly. "It really is you!"
 Then he was in the litle collaps- ible chair beside hers and his lean, nervous fingers were braced around her own. She was laughing shakily and saying that of course it was. What did he think?
 I thought" lie paused and steadied himself, T thought you were on the high seas now-and
 "You haven't-hayen't. seen the papers?" S.'s''.'s '.'' .,'''' '''''' : '''' "What? No, hayen,t. nssassg- ge'
 She had the clipping in her bag;
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but fine literature. or stories oyer the child's head and outside his interest and preference has turned him away from books altogether. Start Good Books Gradually This is why I suggest allowing him to read the harmless but per- haps not too edifying tales so dear to his heart. Work in gradually and taetfully the books of selected standard that are the foundation stones of good literature. Boys and girls may or may not like the same books, but these be- low can be read irrespective of sex h most cases. I put the average age at about ten. A few youngers, some older. After all there Is no "age'' in books. And I begin with the whimsical, the fanciful and the fairytale:
 Kipling's Jungle ooks'' and
 Just So Stories"
 Kingsley's ''Water Babies" Carroil's Alice in Wonderland" Sandberg,s "Rutabaga Stories" Anderson's Fairy Tales" Grim's Fairy Tales"
 "King Arthur Legends" by "Greek Tero Taies."
 indian Nature Tales"
 Scudder-"Book of Folk Stor-
 ies'' and "Children's Book" Lang-"Blue Fairy Book" Baldwin-"Fifty Famous Stor-
 ies."
 CoiIodi-"Pinocchio."
 Kppfer-"Legends of Greece
 and Rome" Books on the World and Its People Hillyer-"childr Geography of
 the World"
 Lucy Fitch Perkins - Dutch
 Twins". "Italian Twins" and
 others of the series. Hendrlck Van Loon--"Story of
 Mankindr and "Short His
 tory of Discovery" Mary Naples Dodge = Hans
 ssrriaks!!. srLaks!. and the Silver Johanna Spyri--"fIeidi." Simple versions of Swiss Fam
 fly Robinson" and Robin
 son Crusoe."
 cofrman-"chiid's. story of the
 &4HANRH &<&SSt
 Travel Experiences Appiegarth -- At the Fcot of
 the Rainbow" .
 Charles LAndbergh--"We." Admiral Byrd--"skyward," Roy Chapfnan Andrews stories
 of travel and discovery.
 Fiction <. Howard Pyle - "Men of Iron. "
 sBook of Pifntee," lotto of
 the Silver Hand" .. gteyenson - 'sTrensure Island"
 s'f<idnaped."
 Jane porter--"Gcottish Chiefe''. Anatoio Frnnce--"IIoney Bee" ssflInek Beauty"
 "Nohody'a Boy"
 Don't korset the poets, either, or the new history eteries. or books on new science dIseovorles' pr on pIanss and flowers, oT ma: Q: bnoka for children to-day. And scssssisRs slss 'ssR llssNs'.' MIA ssss'ss ins,
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Picture Gozyas DYan1dtiSe Perso,lality
Infinite Variety Of New Creations
 Suits Purposes Of Every Type
BY MARIAN YOUNG (NEA Service stan Correspondent,

NEW YoRK--couturiers never have shown such handsome evening clothes as one these days. There picture frocks with slim waists and skirts that pillow outward at the hemne wine glass types, pencil-ke gowns with slit skirts slender dresses with fullness nassed right in the front the back and the Robe de style creations that reminiscent of what little southern girls wore during Civil War days
 some are dcmure as purple yiolets beside shady. brook. These have covered shoulders with hatterng draperies that fall downward over the arms Others are quite daring with extreme decciettes The most charming types, however. are the ones that combine the best features of these two types
 For instance. at a recent fashion show an Amer ican designer showed a beautiful gown of creamsl- brown tafeta with slim bodice, billowihs skirt and novel neckne cut to follow the natural contours of the chest It backless and had shoulder straps Incidentally you can stop wondering how on earth one keeps such dresses from falling downward. They're held up by means of diminutve steel frames sewed into the gowns and designed to fit shugly against the chest.
 Stained Glass Sets Color Note
 The fabrics and colors that go into the new for- nal clothes luxurious the designs themselves. Lame. velvet. satin heavy crepe and real lace are featured throughout the collections Dark reds rich greens, purple and fuchsia tones, soft browns and black are important.
 Strange as 1t seems most couturiers are not fea- turing white Newest of all the stained-gass color combinations
 Molyneux uses stained glass blue velvet wrap over black velvet dress and stained-glass blue and wine eolored changeahle taffeta to make stun- ming evening cape Other fashion orignators dark velyets and satns trimmed with bands of self mate rial in light shade
 Christmas Tree Pattern in Fabric
 If you like matching jackets with your evening gowns look for the hp.length varieties with raglan or dolnan sleeves that flare outward below the el- bows. A perfect example of how charming such lit. tic coat can be is illustrated here at the right
 Made of silver lame with an indistinct all-over Christmas tree pattern this gown mods the hips and then gradually outward to end in short train. The unusual short jacket has raglan sleeves that are slit from elbows to wrists and lined with black velvet Tight wristet sleeves of shrred velvet fastened at the elbow under the cape-like ones
 The other evening gown (left) of shmmerins black satin has bands of fuchsia satin to trim the low decollte and fuchsia godet in the believing sSidt It's trimmed with of tiny buttons that go all the way up the back of the bodice
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plumbers hands are rougher than those of a doctor or musician but according to the best present evi- dence your characteristics are de- termined by your nervous system, although they may be influenced Co some extent by the giandular sys. tenn.
 2. Prof Samuel ]. Holmes, em- inent biologist. shaws in his far. sIghted new book, "The Eugenlc Predicament," that civilized peopie are alreday probably declining in average mental ability because of of the more intelligent. He shows tho decline in the size of families such families are dying out because it reuires nearly four children iu everqy family that has any chli. dren at all in order to replace ths parents, and our lawyers, doctors professors. teachers. enaineerp, dentists business men ana skilled working people average barely more than two.
 Gcspyrisht John 2. Diils COL
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GLORIFyING
 YOURSELF
R AIieis tlsrt yL
EiSsETs NlE' M.

NEA Service Stan Writer
 "Of course you wouldn't try to talk with your hands or get into the habit of over-gesticulatingt put neither should you make prac- l tice of always holding them psr- fectly quiet. A slight gesture often drives home your point more en- ciently than words. Besides, grace. ful gestures are quite charmlns.
 With these words, a famous dra-
 matic coach opened lecture on l the value of pantomime, not only in the theater but in everyday life. | Then she went on to say that al- though meaningless motions of the arms and hands stampa p erson as nervous or lacking in poise,
 natural ones with a purpose bee hind them add a good deal te Q personality.
 As a matter of fact, several fa- nous actresses have become dis- tinctive personalities by Knowing how and when to use their hands l in conversation.
 Jane CowI, for instance. When he played the leading role in The Load to Rome," audiences fairly gasped at her gestures. Because her hands are graceful and beau- tiful, the gasps were nothing if not admiring.
 An Exercise for Hands
 That's a thing for any woman to
 remember. Hands should be not only white, smooth and weli-groom-
 ed, but graceful and supple as well. Exercises can make them that way. Sit in straight chair, arms hanging loosely at your sides. Keeping shoulders, elbows and wrists perfectly relaxed, make be- lieve that you're shaking water from your finger-tips. Let the fh- gers snap together each time you shake them.
 The nrnake believe you are pull. ing taffy. Bring the hands tOgsth- CT in front of you---fingers togeth- CT in a point-and then fling them outward, stretching the fingers wide apart. Repeat at least 50 times. When you've finished, open and close your hands about 20 times. Do 1t rapidly, tightly elinch- ing your fists and then stretching and spreading the fingers outward. These exercises should be done several times day. Mithin a few l weeks you'll discover that your hands are graceful and supple and that they look years younger. NEXT: How to care for that new fall permanent.
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i. So Amelia Earhart. one of our most charming women. maintains
 Her chief reasons are that until women have learned from experi- ence what q nerve-racking thing 1t is for Q man to be tied down to a desk or work -benoh all day, and until mon learn from experience what q back -breaklng, soul raeking thing 1t is to wash dishes, Iron, and scrub floors over and ever and over again, they cannot develop mutual sympathy and understa nding. shc says that whom men say women should go back Into tho home they forget that nearly ail of womans really interesting work has been taken from the heme into the fae- tory, such as weaving. canning, preserving fruits, raising ehiekena. making the family clothes. ete,-- not very exciting work Co DO sure. but hetier than the acFnbbing and washing which is about all that men lave lsft in tho home fer ihss. cS' ssuns . fssmsr CT
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vegetables or fruit when canning (Mrs F. H.)
 Answer--If the fruit or vegeta- bles are fresh and clean and un- bruised when canned there is no need of such chemical embalming. Salicylic acid is injurious to the stomach and kidneys.
 Return of the Roaches
 We have just returned home from three months in the mouh- tains and we find our house liter ally alive with reaches {. (Mrs R. WI
 Answer-Send 10 cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for "Unbidden Guests" It tells how to deal with reaches and many other pests.
 Copyright, 1894, John F. Dille Col
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Edwards picture. She put it into his hand.
 But I don't see. He didn't .
 No, of course." Her clear laugl rang out joyously. "Ie didn't Jill me. He only--only found a letter. "A letter?"
 "It was," she added dumurely fin the pages of some book he was reading. The Murder of Maria'--- something like that" 1 "Ah! He reddened, comprehen, sion lighting his eyes. He leaned closer. You = you little divvil you!"
 "Why didn't you-" she stam- mered, overcome by the flood of exquisite emotion which threaten ed to engulf her, "why didn't you mail it to me. Denis?" You mean-you mean you broke with Edward because of me?"
 She nodded.
 "Oh, my darling!" =
 sas There was long, murmurous Hnterlude then during which the man said things for her ear only l Porters ran the length of the | cement strip of platform; bells changed and engines whistled grimy men hung out of engine cabs and shouted cryptic nothings to oilers below. The train moved. K. Two or. three staid people with novels in their hands came to the door of the observation plat form and looked curiously at the young people sitting so close to- gether there. Boots and Denis were oblivious to all of this. Their train ran past factories. past bridges and signals. It ran rhyth- nlieally past roundhouses and tow CTS and clicked over the ties past shoddy houses with chicken cOops and metal roofed garages. Boots and Denis were in Already; their hands linked, their ardent faces close together. they wandered In sweet scented fields where only bright-faced flowers grew.
 And you're going to California, too" she marveled after long in- terval. I can't believe it."
 "We'll be married as soon as we get there," he said. NO good vast ing more time, We've done enough of that already"
 He had place near San Jose It was just small ranch-a mer, 50 acres. he told her, deprecating ly. It had comfortable old house on it. They'd live there half the year while he worked. Then New York the rest of the time
 T can't give you what Edward would have" he told her. But she had her hand upon his lips, silencing them.
 What can't understand is how you happen to be on this train just now" she marveled. II thought you were on. the South Seas"
 He had taken fruit boat, he But he'd been eaten by q fever of restlessness. He'd got off at Charleston and stayed there a few days. trying to play, trying to work Nothing had seemed right. He had taken train for Chicago.
 And now--this!"
 They stared at each other, oyer- come with the wonder of 1t all.
 Mrs Raeburn. passing through the last car in a rather anxious search for Boots, a deferential tratnman in her wake, paused as though suddenly struck dumb.
 See the young lady?" the ofil- cial prompted cheerfully.
 Yes. I-I see her. Sorry to have bothered you. It's quite all right"
 The good lady sat down at one of the little baize-covered writing tables. Almost automatically she drew pen and paper toward her and started to write. Dear Flor Ida: Boots Is happy at last ."
 THE END
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rHAprER xLVIn

XEe three well-dfessed people Tn EeN travelling clothes rode across *fl1 wide, tangled streets of the riIf. Mrs Raeburn, smart and Rushed In her brown tailored suit, Iz1red forward to peer out of the
 .Chicago!. she said triumphant- IS. why, it's just like New York noise and all But smokier."
 Mir Raeburn glanced about him with interest. When he alighted from the cab at the concourse of the other station he dragged his ] bad leg Just Q little. Otherwise he was a sturdy enough looking elder ly man in neat grey, with a cam- era slung on q leather strap over his shoulder. The slim girl in blue with the two elder people was they spoke to her. but her bright efi1ber-fiecked eyes had a far away look about them.
 She went off to buy magazines and her mother said, with some perplexity and dissatisfaction: fWell,I declare. I don't know whnt we're coming to. One minute she isn't coming with us and the next she is. I haven't yet got over tle shock of having her tell me she wasn't going to marry Edward Van Sciver."
 "Oh, stop fretting, mother You know you're delighted she's with llss instead of half way across the AtIantic."
 "Of course. am. Of course, I { am. But 1 can't make the child out. She seems to be going around | about half awake :"
 Boots return interrupted this colloquy. She had two bright colored periodicals under her arm and the morning edition of New } York newspaper.
 Look, darlings, will wonders never end ?"
 She showed them the headlines over smiling photograph of Ed s ward.
 s'Scion of Wealth
 Marries His Nurse"
 IS. s. Olympia, at Sea" the story read Edward Houghton Van Sciver, only son of H. B. Van Sciver of Amalgamated Steel, was married today aboard ship to Miss Veronica Mary Kerrigan, daughter of MT and Mrs J. Kerrigan of Staten Island. Miss Kerrigan has been Mir Van Scivers nurse ever sif1ce he was injured in a serious motor accident two months ago."
 well, I never!" Mrs Raeburn looked indignant. "So that was what he was up to-!
 Boots laughed. A cheerful sound 1t was in the big vaulted room. \ Two or three people turned to watch her rosy young face with Interest.
 "Oh, Nuns. you know 1t was ed. You know we just decided we weren't suited to each other"
 Her maternal parent sniffed in- credulously. Looks like it."
 I'm terribly glad" the girl unused, half to herself. He's such a darling, and I know she was ter, ribly fond of him. These rich mons son never know whether they're being married for them- selves alone. No. I mean it," she finished, smiling again at her mothers offended expression.
 "Well. I think you lack the proper feelings in the matter, that's all," Mrs Raeburn said. mol linod but not wishing to show it. It was a mercy, she thought pri- yafely, that the engagement hadn't bean announced; people did gossip i. se. There were plenty of them, at &hat, who knew Edward had been &fGentive to Barbara and who would be only too willing to talk
 Net that theyecouldasay she'd 5eeil tilted. though,7Sheyrwa an E heiress now. No one in Larchneck
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CLINICAL TEST FOR APPRENTICESHIP A

Deprivation of Vitamin A causes
 xerophthaimia, peculiar .dryness
 of the eyes with alteration of
 cornea, night-blindness, failure to develop immunity against respira-
 tory infection, and in some cases
 xerosis or a peculiar dryness and
 irritation of the skin. These are
 the more striking consequences of
 a great or total lack of this vita | min,
 When 1t comes to recognizing | the effects of a moderate deficiency
 or as physicians now call it, avita-
 minosis-A, which morbid state Is
 probably infinitely more common l in this country than we know as
 yet, the diagnosis is not so much
 a question of experience and skill
 as 1t is a question of scientifis
 knowledge. Many of the best phy- l sicians have only the vaguest nos
 ions about avitaminosis of the la-
 mt or ''subacute" type. Indeed,
 lere is no medical literature about
 ,., as yet. The physician who hap.
 pens to be curious about this mod
 ern problem has to dig what he
 can out of a dreary and confusing
 mass of disconnected reports from
 research workers and professional
 workers the world over.
 | P. c. Jeans, M. D., and zelma zentmire. M. s. Chow about such
 a career, girls?). find a practical test for avitaminosis-A in the abil- 1 ity of the patient to count dim
 spots of light in a totally dark room. They use an electrically il- luminated Birch-H Hirschfeld pho- | tometer (Zeiss) consisting of a metal tube with light bulb at one end and at the other an iris dia- phragm, a five-Hght point disk and d. yes, sir, there's no mistake about this and I'm not trying to be funny--a Goldberg wedge. But I'm pretty sure it isn't one of Rube's ideas. Without venturing further into the technical department (the authors describe their method in J. A. M. A. Mar 24. 's4, if any of you doctors care to know) we may say that in a group of 213 children tested. in Iowa. 45 were found to have subnormal dark adaptation. Of these 2l were kept under obser- vation and give na diet which in cluded cod liver oil (cod liver oil is one of the richest sources of Vitamin A. as well as good sourue of the sunshine vitamin, D). All of these soon regain normal vision in the dark. in an average of twelve days.
 Presumably. it is fair to think, these 46 children suffered from latent or partial ayitaminosis-A, and some of them might have de- veloped actual night-blindness or xerophthalmia or xerosis had their vitanin A ration not been in- | creased.
 People getting night blindness do not quite realize their visual tm- pairinent until they get pretty bad and stumble about on very dark days or in tho early dusk when
 normal folk can still see clearly enough.
 Of course nlght.bilndness or any of the other ehafaetistie effects Of yItamiD A deficiency may occur from other causes. Perhaps Co many instanees these. and other possible manifestations of avita- ininosis, can be saged enly by . | thsra peutiG test, that in, by giving
 the patient on exeess Of the essen- tIal vitamin Co one form or an.
 other and observing whether C
 bFlnEs relief
 oUEGTEONs AND ANSWERS
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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By VIM. B. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge Leagu

not think the average player ever makes one, unless by accident. While I think that q little far- fetched, do realize the simpler plays are just as interesting.
 In todays hand, when dummy goes down, the probable losers can be counted very quickly; namely. one in hearts, one in diamonds, and two in clubs. The trick is to find home for one of these losers.
 If the heart finesse would work or club trick could De estab-
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HR YOUR CHILDREN
By Olms Roberts Bsrtoa
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My mail usually contains in- quiries about books. Parents write that they want their chil- drer to acquire good reading habits. Often they mention cul- ture and speak of the classics And 1t is all very fine and lauda- ble, indeed, because a start to- ward good taste in books must be made sometimes not only from a cultural point of view, but be- cause real taste in reading even- tually leads to the greatest and finest enjoyment in later life.
 Before I begin on a list of ''foundation' books--a limited list 1t must be in this spaee--it is best to cNl attention to one basic fact in all children's reading.
 It is that before the interest in "classical" books can be instilled in a child, there must first be cul- tivated his interest in just books.
 It has happened time and again that a parent insisting on nothing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-06
BEEF A LA MODE

Rub a cut of pot roast with salt, pepper and sugar and place 1t in d crock with 2 bay leaves. 6 whole cloves, sliced onions, M lomon sliced and seeds removedS Cover with q mixture of 1-s water and 2-S elder or wine vinegar. Let stand 24 hours. Remove, praise in hot butter on both sides and cook Ia q kettle with a little of the pick ling liquor until tender. Thieken the gravy lightly with flour and butter, remove meat. strain gravy over 1t and serve with fufEy mashed potatoes. buttered noodles or naacaroni and cheese.
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Organized bridge owes vote of thanks to R. R. Richards, as 1t was he who founded the American Bridge league and was its first president. I was glad to see Dick" back in contest play again when I recently attended . tournament in Cedar Point, O.
 Seeing "Dick" in competition again reminded me of a remark he once made to a teacher when we held our first teachers conven- ton with the late Milton 2. Work. A young woman said. "Mr Rich- ards, which is best. to count your winners or your losers??" and Dicks reply was, "Well, I count the ones that are easiest to count"
 Today's hand, which was sent to me by John F. Cannon of Hemp stead, L, l., shows the advantage of counting your haAd immediate ly.
 Cannon said he likes to read about squeeze plays, but he does
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BLAME HEAT FOR ACCIDENT

Cleveland (uP)--Hot weather causes m increase ln industrial ae. eidenta. the Ohio Industrial Come mission reported. The i7.2sb Inc iuries in the state during July
 were the highest for that month since 1881. Thomas P. Keans, eu- nerinteBdent of the division ek- plained. "Fatgue and the dIslrae. lions of excessive heat arc co.
 eountabie In great measuFs fes hlsh accident fFsausneIss."