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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
STORE SCHEDULES
 CHANCE TONIGHT

Beginning tonight, stores of the city will be open till o'clock each night from now till Christmas. with the exception, of course, of Sunday night. The late schedule was arranged by the Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Com merce.
 During the past two weeks the stores have been open till o'clock on Wednesday and Saturday nights only. There are six full shopping days from. now to Christmas, giv ing the public ample opportunity to complete its shopping.
 The largest of all bats is the fly ing fox, which has a wing spread of nearly five feet,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
PREHISTORIC SKELETONS
 FOUND

Willamette University. Salem Gre = (U.P.) - Skeletons of three Indians, believed to be prehistoric, have been found in a burial mound east of Harrisburg by an expedi- ton of students led by Dr s. F. Laughlin. professor of sociology. it was announced here by University officials
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Boston, Dec 1S-(UP)-Weather forecast:
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island Increasing cloudiness not quite so cold tonight. Wednesday snow or rain and not quite so cold.
 mnecticut-Increasin cloudiness and slightly warmer tonight. Wed- nesday, snow or rain with rise Tn temperature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
St. Margaret's Team
 In Championship Tilt
Local "45" Players to Engage in Battle With Thomas
 ton K. of C. Representatives Thursday

Connor's Bambinos upset Flaher- tvs Champions and which enabled them to jump from the cellar posi- tion. McVerry's Bakers took over Delaney's Undertakers, 34 to 29, while Carr's Highjumpers knocked off Moran's Specials, by the same
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
SIDE CLUB
 ARRANCES DANCE

The second Neighborhood dance will be sponsored January 11th, by the East Side Community club, with the East Side Melody orches- tra providing tine music for trip pers of the light fantastic.
 Members of the dance commit tee are urged to attend. Thursday nights meeting at the Community house, 20 Taylor street, at S:00 o. clock to discuss further plans for the dance which is to be held at the Mill Plain Grange hall. Anoth- CT subject that will be opened for discussion will be the planning of a New Years party to be held by the club. Members of the dance committee consist of Maurice Fitz- gerald. Louis Dwyer, Rober Con- ner, James Hartley and Michael J. Bergin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18

A machine has been invented to peel willow sticks that are to be used in weaving baskets and mak- ing furniture five times as fast as the work can be done by hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18

nfpeee'a monetary nap ls iha agaaima.
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out the usual safeguards of de-
bate.
1t was necessary to act quickly
and decisively, even at the risk of
making mistakes. The good which
was accomplished has thus far
outweighed the harm. The panic
was quelled. Some recovery fol-
lowed.
The opinions which are forming
are remarkable in that they in
volve neither a wholesale condem-
nation nor a blanket approval of
the whole program of the new
deal, but discrimination and a de-
sire to amend and perfect it.
This debate has produced some
bad temper, some wild charges,
some personal abuse. But on the
whole the critics have not been
destructive and the supporters
have not been dogmatic. The
critics of NRA, of the securities
act, of the banking bill, of the
stock exchange bill, have not only
been listened to but have produced
an effect.
Copyright 1884
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Finally when Roosevelt or
dered the United States fleet from
the Pacific, the British suggested
the ACCESSIBILITY of keeping it
there.
American admirals, after con-
sulting with Roosevelt, replied:
Sorry, but where was your feet
when we needed support during
the Manchurian crisis?"
1t is traditional British policy
to play both ends against the mid
die. They do it between France
and Germany. They have done
it between the United States and
Japan.
Roosevelt's idea now is to adopt
the same strategy-play the Brit
ish off against the japanese.
After all, the British have 100
per cent more at stake than we
have in the Orient. They are the
real rivals Of Japan.
IRON now on you will see an
Il outward show of friendship
for the Japanese. That is why
state department inquiries regard
ing Japan's latest blatant boast Of
a protectorate over China, was
milder than Europe's. Roosevelt
plans to let Cordell Hull make
nice speeches to the japanese.
But in the shipyards, naval
building will go on.
Also, notice this: The Philippine
independence bill says nothing
about Withdrawing our naval
forces. The bill is purpoSely,
significantly silent.
Roosevelt wants to get rid Of
the Philippines. But if at the
next naval conference, Japan is
recalcitrant, he has two powerful
bargaining weapons: l, the big
gest naval program in history; 2,
making the Philippines and Guam
armed bases.
Copyright. 1894. By United Feature
Syndicate. 1nc.l
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MARIA had naturally listened
1V1 with greater interest than
her sisters, while the young men
described the newcomer as very
handsome, of medium height,
with dark brown hair, worn rather
long in the latest fashion, bright
blue eyes and expressive features.
He was represented as being very
brilliant.
While the Beadnell girls waited
in the drawing room other people
arrived for this was party given
to a circle of friends. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Porter Leigh 81 Lower
Clapton, came with their pert
young daughter Marianne, a very
particular friend Of Maria Bead
nell's, who, as she tripped upstairs
to lay aside her wraps, called
down over the banister that she
too was all agog to meet the new
young man.
At last the whole merry party
was assembled and the young
llGn having dI44NCQ Will C14CA4
friend, Charles Dickens was intro
duced. After looking at and
through every one present, his
eyes finally rested on Maria, the
dainty flowerlike little Miss, with
a profusion of curls and an ador-
able figure, dressed in charming
gown of raspberry silk that frank
ly revealed her dainty shoulders
and beautiful arms; arms that
were displayed to advantage when
presently she sat down to her
harp and played a selection from
Norma" Later she sang the new
songs, Meet Me by Moonlight
Alone" Alice Gray" and she
Wore Wreath Of Roses" in a
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-


ONE of the human ailments that might have mys-
~ titled or troubled you is called arterioscerosis
or hardening of the arteries. In this case, the walls
of the arteries, the vessels which carry the blood
from the heart. become hardened.
A blood vessel is a tube with wall that contains
several layers Of tissue. Ordinarily the wall Of an
artery is elastic, like live rubber tube. 1t will
stretch and after it stretches it will back to
its original size.
If the walls Of the blood vessels become dilated
to accommodate an increased amount Of blood flow
ing through them, the pressure does not change. If
however the walls not dIlate and the amount
of blood passing through becomes greater, the blood
will pass through under high pressure.
For that reason hardening of the walls Of the
arteries is frequently associated with high blood
pressure In some cases the hardening Of the walls
Of the blood vessels takes place after there has been
an increase in blood pressure for a long time.
OF course, there are great many blood vessels
~ in the body and hardening of some of these
vessels may be much more serious than a similar
condition affecting Others
Sometimes the blood vessels of the heart itself
become hardened and narrowed Then when the
person concerned exercises too severely tries to
up flight of stairs he will have pain in his
heart because OF the insufficient flow of blood
through its muscles.
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dated Feb. %, 1855, has the dis
tinction of being one of the great
est love letters ever written.
ON an April evening in spa
~ ciouS old house at 2 Lom-
bard street, London, three lovely
sisters were dressing to receive
three young men at an evening
party. Margaret Beadnell, the
eldest, expecting David Lloyd,
whom she was soon to wed. Anne
Beadnell, looking forward to see
ig her sweetheart, Henry Kolle,
to whom she would probably soon
become betrothed, and Maria
Beadnell, the youngest, 19-pretty
very popular, possess
ing many suitOrs, was anticipat-
ing with some curiosity first
meeting with the youthful Charles
Dickens whom Lloyd and Kolle
we're bringing to call.
Lloyd and Kolle had already
sung his praises, had told them
he was young reporter at the
house of commons, where he
took down" in shorthand the
long, ponderous speeches for one
of the London newspapers. That
he knew his way about London
very thoroughly, and the two
young men had limited mysteri-
ously of various lively excursions
they had enjoyed under his di-
rection-to Vauxhall and Kosher
vile Gardens, White Conduit
House and similar gay resorts, as
we'll as to the more riotous "Cyder
Cellars" and Free and Easies,"
of the Public Houses about town.
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they record one of the great love
stories of history, more romantic,
more realistic, more dramatic
than any novel he ever wrote. The
fact that Dickens destroyed all Of
Maria's letters leaves us to Specu-
late somewhat on the purport of
many passages in his own which
have a decidedly cryptic aspect;
thereby giving rise to a wide di-
vergence of opinion. Just beneath
the surface there are numerous
essential facts and illusions which
only an alert reader will discover;
all of which adds to ones zeSt in
unraveling the story.
A ND what is of even greater
L N moment is the fact-empha-
sized by Dickens himself-that his
whole success in life was grounded
on this early love affair. In after
years Q85O he wrote to Mrs.
Winter formerly Maria BeadnelD,
whatever of fancy, romance, en-
ergy, passion, aspiration and de-
termination belong to me, I never
have separated and never shall
separate, from the hard-hearted
little COMMEMORATIVE it is
nothing to say I would have died
for with the greatest alacrity. 1t
is matter of perfect certainty to
me that began to fight my way
out of poverty and obScurity with
one perpetual idea of you. If
the most innocent, the most ar
dent and the most disintereSted
days of my life had you for their
sun-as indeed they had-and if
1 know that the dream 1 lived in
did me good, refined my heart,
and made me patient and perse-
vering, and if that dream were
all of you-as God knows it was
How can 1 receive a confidence
from you, and return it, and
make a feint of blotting all this
out!
when we were falling off from
each other,I came from the house
of commons (where he was
shorthand reporter many night
at or o'clock in the morn
ing, only to wander past the place
you were asleep in. And I have
gone over that ground within these
twelve months, hoping it was .un-
grateful to consider whether any
reputation the world can be-
stow is repayment to a man for
the loss of such a vision of his
youth as mine"
His long letter to Mrs. Winter,
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Behind all this is fascinating
history-some of it told to Roose-
welt by Henry L. Stimson when
the latter still was secretary of
state. StimSon was the idealist
who got "out in front" for the
French and British, and in return
got not even a postal card of ap-
probation.
When the japanese first invaded
Manchuria, Stimson stepped out
in front and called: Haiti"
When the japanese began
spreading out all over Manchuria,
he called it again. When they
started south of the Great Wall
into China proper, he repeated
it.
Finally he consulted with the
French and British regarding his
doctrine of not recognizing terri
tory gained by force, though they
promised to support him. After
public announcement Of his doc
trine, he looked around to find
them smiling in the rear. Slim
son told all this to Roosevelt be-
fore he came to the White House.
T. II
A FEW months later the British
L n began to see that the Japa-
nese march Manchuriawards was
not going to stop them. 1t was
aimed at China proper. at the
rich Yangtze valley dominated by
the British empire; at the vast
market of south China, fed from
the British port of Hong Kong.
So the British got nervous. They
held a meeting of their high navy
and army chiefs off Singapore.
Presiding over it was Field Mar
shall Allenby. They sent two mine
laying cruisers-newest additions
to the feet-to far eastern waters.
Sir John Simon talked with Mus
solini about Italian protection for
the Mediterranean if the British
had to send their feet east. /.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY GO-ROUND
: BIZ Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON May behind the cautousneSs with
w playing his cards in the far east Is
carefully policies of the deal
Actually deal 1t is based upon an DID, old lear
o the far east.
The Roosevelt policy that recently
We're not putting ourselves to far
front"
worried about their far flung
ndoChna; the Dutch
concerned for their Chinese stake
they of themselves.
Probably ardboed about foreign
pocy-excpt in the White House
the socaled
suspicion they possible would like to see us
would Justify
Japanbut always from the safety of the sdees
OUT policy apparent pacifsm is deceptive
ID Coupled with Roosevelt preparing quietly for any eventuas
i necessary, the Orient.
bayhoo with
program shpyard the country is working near
public budget provides for
TWEEN NEW
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: The Romantic and Beautiful
BY ii. III. HARPER.
Fpisode No. l

upward CT twenty an English book dealer came
extraordinary collection autograph letters
from Beadn Lombard
he drew the character Of
Dora in his personal Coppered The first
the 1906 written while he
Dora his heroine who meanwhile mar
his life second
beginning 1855, disclose
Of the dramatic episodes Of his life
these cherished descended
they into the hands of the Lon
copied
offered Mr. William K. Bxby OF ST.
Louis, who Immediately bought them.
is important
chapter biography Dickens entirely from the
that by the hand of famous literary man. presents
highly story has universal appeal
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LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS
ia Bead,1eH First Inn1otalzed in DauM Cobbe1fiezd

sweet, rich voice that was destined
to linger in the young visitors
memory.
A ND she, looking back at him,
L n saw a very smart, gay young
figure, dressed in as near the
height Of fashion as his limited
means would permit; and when
Kolle and Lloyd asked him to do
his share in entertaining the
party, she was charmed to see
him stand up, with very little
urging, and give the assembled
party a vaudeville act that would
have made a creditable perform
ance at Drury Lane.
A lifelike imitation of Mathews,
in one of his famous cat Homes"
and of T. P. Cooke in BLACK
Eyed Susan" and for the loudly
demanded encores he sang a
repertoire of comic ditties of the
day, ranging from Mrs. Monday"
to Hot COLLINS" In fact he was
so finished in his acting and so
fashy in his general aid that Mr..
and Mrs. Beadnell, while enjoy
ing his performance, perhaps
made mental notes that he must
not be allowed to faScinate their
beautiful little daughter.
But the evening was not far
advanced before Charles, with
his usual impetuosity, had fallen
desperately in love with Maria.
He had eyes for no one else; he
sat enraptured as she played on
the harp, and hung on every
word that fell from her pretty
lips. 1t was a case of love at first
sight for him; his ardor swept
the young beauty quite OIL her
feet and before the evening
passed, they had arrived at a very
satisfactory understanding.
TUT as the love affair pro-
D crossed the unromantic par
ents were becoming more ana
more convinced that young Dick
ems. with only the slender pros
poets of a parliamentary report
err. was not exactly the right con-
sort for their attractive young
daughter. There we're we'll found
ed rumors that his family was
very poor, that his father had
been imprisoned for debt, ana
that he himself had been a rather
neglected little boy.
What was the younger set"
like in the 1905? George Cruik-
shank's sketches show that the
"fapper" of that period wore her
skirts very full and long, but as
Du Maurier makes one of his
characters in a Punch cartoon
say to a lovely guest who is on
the point of leaving, "Ah, when
you come to see us your stays are
SO shOrt!"
So the stays and the bodices of
the gowns of 1880 left little to
the imagination. kissing, en-
bracing and such liberties were
the rule in the upper middle class,
while moderate drinking was a
universal custom. Young Dickens
was rather adept at all these di-
versions.
In tomOrrow's thrilling episode we
shall read a description of the amOrOus,
sentimental 1s3Os which were very like
the 193Os. And we shall read Dickens
first letter to Maria.
Copyright, 1884, John F. Ollie Coz
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1t is doubtful if there has been
a case since the days of Dante,
where a noted author has chung
as tenaciOusly as Dickens did to
the memories of an unrequited
love. In his mature manhood he
wrote to Maria, the object Of his
boyhood love: L never can think,
and 1 never seem to observe, that
other young people are in such
desperate earnest, or set so much,
so long, upon one absorbing hope
1 have never been SO good
man since, as I was when you
made me wretchedly happy"
DICKENS first immortaliZed
II Maria Beadnel in David
Copperfield, then buried her, all
under the pseudonym of Dora"
But Maria refused to stay buried,
and a few years later she uneX-
pectedly returned to her unhappy
"Doady" as living reality. But
just before doing so, she prepared
the way by writing him several
endearing letters; and in response
to these, without having seen her
in the maturity OF life, he wrote
her a series Of answers which con-
Stitute a dramatic autobiography
in themselves, far more intimate,
more sincere, more reckleSsly i'm
pass'oned than he would have
written had he not for the mo-
ment been completely subjugated
by the remembrance of the one
and only great love of his life.
I am of the opinion that as
general rule a mans private cor
respOndence relating to affairs of
the heart is not proper subject
for public notice; but owing to
the widespread interest in this
absorbing episode, and the discus
sion to which it has given rise, it
would seem that Dickens admirers
are entitled to know the authenti-
Gated facts, particularly as these
facts have a very direct bearing
on his life, and on some of the
best of his Writings-an actuality
which. although strenuously de-
MED by his biographers, he him.
self freely admitted
In the first place, the letters
contain nothing but what is quite
in keeping with the normal un-
sanity qualities of our author,
both as youngster when he was
a struggling reporter and as a
man of mature years enjoying
worldwide fame. And secondly,
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was 10 write nice, Snappy
column for the New York
trade and that by the simple
process Of keeping a carbon and
using a stamp these selfsame
pearls could be sold 10 some en-
terprising editor in Nebraska for
So. So. or whatever the traffic
would bear.
If we could find a couple of
hundred editors like this it
might rebound to the glory and
the profit of the syndicate man.
and each week I myself would
draw down bonus of S25.10.
The plan fell through. We are
not sure where the blame lies.
Some say one thing and say
the other. Either the column
lacks circulation appeal or the
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minds now because all these men
have had the honesty to study the
facts and the courage to modify
their opinions. Let the outcome
stand on the record as an example
of intellectual integrity in
democracy.
TT does not stand alone. During
Il the last few months there has
been taking place big discussion
of the various policies adopted last
spring and summer. These poll
cies were adopted quickly, under
the pressure of panic, and with
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBRO0K PEdLER

ND ELLIS PARKER. the hick detective of Mount
~ Holly, N. j., the guest of honor at one OF
those dollar-and -half-road-house testimonial din
nerS Tuesday evening when he finished forty years
OF service as one-man Scotland Yard
He began a dirt-road HawkShaw. tracing
chlCken-thieveS by the feathers and tracking down
board-bi jumpers. a breed of fends in human form
and great nuisance to the hotel trade in their times
who used to lower their carpet-bags down the rope
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If he will reread the address de-
livered at Topeka on Jan. 80 by
Mr.. Hoover's secretary of the
treasury he will find there the
same views. Mr.. Mills said:
"A practically complete self
contained and controlled national
economy can doubtless be attained,
but only at a frightful social cost,
and by the forced migration of
millions of people from their
homes and an al-round lowering
of the standard of living.
L prefer to turn my attention
to the possibilities, among others,
of recovering lost markets.
Granted that the difficulties are
enormous, and that much time
and patience will be required, this
is even more true CT the self-con-
tainment program. We will have
to abandon the present policy of
isolation and intense nationaliSm
and to some extent modify recent
tariff practices.
This may sound strange COM
ing from an orthodox Republican,
but I have never understood that
a sound system of protection
means the erection of impossible
tariff barriers, the destruction of
our commerce with the rest of the
world, and the sacrifice of the
efficient farmer to save the in
efficient manufacturer
THIS is the identical position
l. taken by Mr.. Stimson. 1t is
the position taken by Mr.. Wallace,
by Mr.. Hull, and by Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t may seem incredible to irrecon-
cilable partisans, but it is never
theleSs true; on the fundamental
question of national policy, as to
whether we are to contract our
economic existence and be forced
into a regime of compulsory re-
Stricton or to expand it by de-
veloping foreign trade, the two
men best qualified to speak for
the Republican party are in agree
ment with the leaders of the
Democratic party. There could
not be a more inspiring. example
of the triumph of diSinterested
opinion over partisan dogma.
1t is not only the Republican
leaders who have moved away
from their previous positions.
When Mr.. Hull was in the opposi-
ton he opposed a grant of powers
TO the President which did not go
so far as the bin he now sponsors.
Mr.. Roosevelt passed through a
phase of intense economic ma
tionaliSm last summer during the
early days of the NRA. So it is
not only Mr.. Stimson and MIR.
Mills who have departed from the
policy with which they we're once
identified. There is meeting of