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child's beauty" she scolded. You'll admit she has learned more in her three weeks with us than most girls learn in three years. That girl has a head on her shoulders. Why even makes it her business to find out who manufactures the various preparations, an6 what they cost us. And she remembers the name of every customer she serves"
 'Tf she's so clever as all that" said Venetia, T have little propo- sition to offer her. Call her in!"
 Mary Rand was look rather surprised as she closed the office door. Alice waived her to chair.
 Miss Rand" said venetia, ''you seem to be a girl of intelligence. That is why have decided to ask this favor of you."
 Thank you" said the girl.
 "Of course you have noticed the Madelon shop next door?"
 'Why-yes," said Mary, Just bit surprised.
 Well, my plan is simply this" Venetia's tone was very confiden- tial. T want you to call on this Madelon person and apply for position. The card in the window will tell you where to locate her. Tell her that you are not satisfied with your place here-tell her any, thing you wish. She'll hire you of course. I want you to stay with her for several weeks and find out everything you can. Her methods. her prices, where she gets her sup plies, the names of her customers, and above all else, her attitude to- ward us. Of course, your wages will go on here as usual and I'll take care of you handsomely when you return
 But Miss Lorraine, couldn't do
 such 8 thing!" said Mary. Tt
 would be so dishonest Its business" replied venetia. | But suppose some one should
 do such a thing to you?''
 Venetia smiled. 'I'll congratu-
 late any one who is smart enough
 to put it over on me-" she said. Mary Rand looked at the sisters
 innocently. You're really not afraid of this Madelon person p she asked.
 "of course not!" snapped vene- | tia. She's bound to cut in on our business a little, but she'lil never be able to produce an expert like | our Pierre
 But suppose she should take him away from you," said Mary. 7 Venetia bpistled.
 That's impossible" said Alice. She couldn't afford him." The girl displayed her dimples. "RIJf ho te,fn argued. T happen to know that she has already made him a very handsome offer" Venetia Lorraine was up like a flash.
 Did Pierre tell you this?" she demanded.
 'No!" said Mary. She was facing her employer. Alice took her sister by the arm. Don't get excited" she scolded. You know Pierre wouldn't leave us."
 But Pierre admitted he is very fond of the woman" Mary insisted. "1'd like to know how you hap pen to be so we'll informed stormed Venetia. That's easy" said the girl, her hand on the door knob. You see happen to be this 'Madelon per son.'".
 Copyright, 1894, The Chicago Daily News, Inc. Monday: "A Fast Worker" by James E. Hungerford. is an ab- | sorbing tale of . youth who found
 romance amid the green fields when he expected to encounter only pain and despair; but he worked fast and won out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-17
Bx WILLIAM w. PRATT

Nine o'clock on bright spring morning. The dimpled Mary Rand, on her way to the Lorraine beauty shop where she was employed, stopped to admire the window dis play of the new Madclon shop next door.
 This display. put in during the night, pleased her immensely. "I<orraine's can never equal it." she said to herself. In the corner of the windows was a little card which read: Opening May l." That was just week away. A smaller card advertised for expert help.
 Every one in the Lorraine shop had noticed the Madelon window. The Misses Lorraine, Alice and Venetia, were discussing it in their private office.
 But I've tried to find out who is backing tt!" Venetia was saying Everything is such mystery. The owner is a woman, new in the game apparently, wo calls herself sim ply Madelon. Where she comes from or what she looks like, no one seems to know"
 Alice, though half owner of the shop, acted more like junior partner to her sister. "It will all come out in the wash" she said quietly. Why should we get ex- cited about it?"
 Reason enough!" Venetia snap ped. Tt has been five years since we opened next to Margot, Inc. And what happened to them %
 i've always felt guilty about that" said Alice. "Of course we were the cause of their failure"
 "All is fair in business" remind ed Venetia.
 Then let's leave this Madelon person alone"
 But Venetia was not going to leave her alone. For days sse wor- ried.
 Through a small peep hole she had direct view of her own shop. The Rand girl, all dimples and pearly-white teeth, was assisting Pierre with a marcel. This rather disgusted Venetia Lorraine. The great Pierre, whom she had im- ported from Paris and who had created such a furore in beauty cir cles, had always baked at assist ance. He had his own little tricks of the trade which he preferred to keep to himself. Alice, at another desk, was busy with the morning mail. That Rand girl seems to have Pierre under her thumb" said Ve- netia.
 !, Alice laughed. "Yes," she agreed. T overheard one of the girls say ing he takes her to dinner and the | theater," For heavens sake!" venetia gasped.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-17
But It's True!

And it's just as true that Worden's Vitamin 'sD'' Milk contains only the most needed vitamins that your child must have. They cannot drink too much milk--but make sure it's Wor- den's Vitamin ''D."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-17
FIR5To| ! IN AMERICA |: | By Joseph Nathan Kane
 ! Author of Famous First Facts

Where did the first grape fruit come from?
 Where was the first ele- phant born in America? When was the street cars coin box introduced?
 Answers in next issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-17
DAILY SHORT STORY COMPETITION Mary Rand Was Dimpled Maid With Head for Business Even Though She Overlooked
 All Ethical Codes.

'I can't say blame him." Alice continued. "She has beauty and style and personality and brains. Even a Frenchman couldn't de- mand more than that"
 "She sickens me with that per petual smile" spato Venetia.
 Alice swung round on her swivel chair. You're jealous of that
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Hoffman S Riddle
Revue COMING

Lillian and Jack Hoffman are
presenting their kiddies in song
and dance revue, Magazines of
1884," at Wardman Park Theater,
May IS and 26, at 8 p. m. The
Hoffman shows have always been
full Of novelty, but this year the
show promised is 1said to be bigger
and more novel than ever.
The opening number consists
of "a pretty little girls as a rack
of animated magazines. AS each
magazine unfelds tales Of life, ad-
venture, movie stars are portrayed
by catchcy songs and clever
dances. In the literary magazine,
a Blue Eagle ballet was inspired
by the MIRA. In the fashion maya
zine milady will display gowns of
style and charm.
The child magazine promises to
be simply great. The three little
pigs shows children as small white
kittens and fairy tales. And
then to the travel magazine. In
physical culture will show how to
keep in trim, and there will be
many little maids in other num-
berS.
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down. He looked at Charlie.
Charlie was staring white-faceG.
He was lifting his pick high and
bringing it down into the white
dust heavily. jeremiah kept
watching.
It was one minute of eleven
and old jeremiah dropped the
dipper in the bucket again. He
was thinking of the many nights
Charlie had spoken to him of
diving" the $4,000. He didn't
want to be dishonest, but he
knew that $4,000 would come in
mighty handy. He also knew
that he had little chance of get
ting a job when he was freed
next year. He knew where
Charlie had to go to get the
money.
Then he heard a horn. It
sounded faint and far away, but
it was a horn. Inside, he jumped.
He looked at Charlie. Charlie
was grinning family. The ends
of his mouth were curled in hu-
NOR. jeremiah couldn't help but
admire his nerve. He saw the
pick drop in the dust. He saw
the man spit on his hands.
Old jeremiah turned away.
His heart beat hard and fast
within him. He knew that this
was the moment. That Charlie
was starting at this very moment
for freedom. He knew that this
habitual criminal was going to
get what he himself waited %
years for. He knew that he would
be punished for allowing the
escape. He knew that time might
be added to his sentence.
He turned. No alarm yet. The
guards were still talking, under a
tree. They were laughing at some
thing and were half-turned the
other way. He saw the prisoners
raising their picks absent-mind-
eddy, some of them watching the
guards; some of them watching
jeremiah; some of them watching
the figure running like blazes
through the fields.
jeremiah gave the matter no
further thought. He raised the
rifle, sighted carefully along the
barrel, and contracted his index
finger. He fired just once.
He watched Charlie run on for
a few steps. Then he saw his legs
buckle, saw him falter and go
sprawling in the weeds. That was
all.
They freed jeremiah within a
month. Freed him and feted him.
The head of the board of parole
made a speech, and jeremiah
blushed modestly. When he got
home, he had more money than
he had ever seen before. To be ex-
act, he had $4,000.
In a tiny VillGge in the South
liDeS a Uery ordinary man and his
tDite. Locally, the man is looked
upon as a hero. He, you see, pre-
vented a jail break.
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firm T was working for decided
the commissions were getting too
big. Result, I took two weeks
off, went to Hollywood and there
started in as an extra-thus
gravitating toward the work I'd
always known I must do.
CAMERA Armed with letters
to Chaplin, Frances Marion and
Julian Eltinge, I decided not to
use any Of them and, with my
usual good luck, stayed in the
film capital three weeks GnStead
of two), worked every day but
three at SIS per day and slept on
dressing-room tables in order to
keep busy day and night.
This, I decided, was the life for
me and, after a quicI trip back
to San Francisco, I returned to
Los Angeles with my family on
December IS, 1917. Then six of
the worst weeks Of my life-no
work until along in January
used to walk weary miles from
lot to lot: Brunton, Lasky, Metro,
Vitagraph, Fox; to every casting
office I could find. Finally, I
was taken on as an extra in a
William B. DeMille picture.
In March of that year-191S-
G. B. DeMille selected me for a
closeup in a mob scene-big mo-
ment. In November, my first
lead opposite Dustin Farnum in
"Man in the Open" And a salary
boost to $75 per week.
All my savings then went down
on a payment for a house and
there Immediately followed weeks
when I wondered if I'd ever get
more work.
The good old Rich luck carried
me through and I did a picture
with May Allison: then two more
with William Farnum in the
Spring Of 1919; also some work
with Olive Thomas and Gladys
Brockwell-both now dead.
In August Of that year began a
long friendship and screen associa-
ton when, with Will Rogers,
had the feminine lead in Gold.
Wyn's Water, Water Everywhere. !"
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Whispered Talk

Whispered Talk
The men whispered. They had
whispered like this for weeks
All the lights were out except the
one at the end of the block.
You'll do it?"
That was Charlie. He had IS
years to go on murder-for-money
rap. Thirteen years at hard labor
in this Southern prison camp.
Thirteen years of working on a
hot, dusty, country road and
made bitter with the realization
that $4,000 was waiting for him
any time he needed it,
yeah"
That was Jeremiath. He was old
and bald and lean. twenty-five
years he had spent in this camp.
twenty-five years Of waiting for
the time when he would be re-
united with a bride who was now
old-and who still waited. He
would be eligible for parole in a
year.
I'LL arrange for a car"
yeah"
1--WE split on the dough-that
gives you Is grand"
Yeah"
"I'll give you the signal SO
you'll know. I'll drop the pick
and spit on my hands. You turn
the other way and I'll run for it
don't think the gang will yell
but if they do, fire coupla shots
in the air. For Gods sake, don't
get reckless with that rifle!"
II won't"
"I'll get in the bus that's wait
ing and get the dolby. You know
where I got it. Well, I'll grab it
and hustle over to your wife
She'll get half, I'll keep half. and
that's that. Okay?"
yeah. It sounds all right to
me. But don't forget to visit the
wife. I want that twenty-five
bad"
Charlie grinned in the darkness.
Don't worry, Pop. I'll take care
of you all right"
Another night:
Remember, don't crack after ]
make the break. mean, even
though you are a trusty, they're
liable to get suspicious anyway,
Don't crack. You just don't know
how I happened to make it, that's
ALL"
Don't worry about me. You
go to that spot you was telling me
about. and get that money to my
missus as fast as you can. ! don't
care about anything else"
"Okay. But don't talk so loud
You want everybody to be wise?"
mo"
Mickey is going to have the bus
near the gang tomorrow at II,
Don't forget, H."
Il WON'T"
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Frontier Town

Frontier Town
Like a page out of service, this
MISUNDERSTANDING at the
end Of a forgotten railroad track
boosted, along with its one
grocery store, one hotel and q
half-dozen frame houses, the
usual flotsam and jetsam that
finds temporary anchorage in a
frontier town. Killers, thieves,
bigamists-all took refuge in the
surrounding hills. AS penalty,
they had to live through the
Arctic winters of the place; 40
foot, snow drifts and Sub-zero
temperatures.
But the gay, crowded life of
Sites was not for the Luthers.
The "Imogene" and it's owners
house were SO miles away. With
all its harshness, the days there
offered just the sort of adven-
ture that little girls who stayed
in Buffalo never got the chance
to enjoy. For months I rode
Through the mountain passes and
always carried a rifle; the Idaho
bears weren't friendly!
This life-which T then loved
30 well--was all ended, at II, my
father and mother decided it
wasn't the sort of thing proper
Tor a young girl. With the best
of intentions, they got me started
off to a boarding school. But I
never reached the destination
they selected; Instead I married.
Big church wedding, long train,
veil n everything.
The Rich Luck Z
BEGINNINGS: Married at II
two years in Spokane, Wash,
where my first daughter was
born; divorced at 10 and married
again at 20. Four years of being
an Army officers wife in Hawaii;
chief excitement, giving dancing
lessons and teaching Sunday
School. Then San Fracisco and
another divorce. Meanwhile two
other children had been born,
one Of whom, son, died.
San Francisco, my favorite city
on the Coast: The beaches, its
hills overlooking the harbor and
the chill, exhiliarating fog that
rises off the water. There, I
was Irene Rich, realtor, until the
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The Zero Hour

At three minutes of eleven on
the following morning, old Jere-
miah struck the dipper into the
cool pail of water and spilled some
over his shirt front in his ner.
vousness. His rifle was standing
against his hip.
jeremiah saw that the next
rifle-bearing trusty was quite a
ways down the road. Too far
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-05-15
New Man for Mae

Mae Vests new leading man,
Roger Pryor, in eft Amt No Sin, "
has brown eyes and dark hair
like Cary Grant, Macs screen
lover in her two other starring
"'SinemaS,@
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THE VOICE OF
Broadway
by Louis SObOl
Down Memory Lane!
With Irene Rich

CHILDHOOD NOTES. The first fifteen years of my life
about evenfu garden club lecture Them hit by the
panic of 1907 the Luther family pulled stakes moved away
from Buffalo and rked westward Sites daho where the
salvage of the family possessions consisted of gold min The
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1T WAS years ago and the two sat in their cell and
talked 1t night and STILL except and then voice
heard or the scrape of leather cement far off whistle
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All In A Dav
By MARK HELLINGER
A SMART HERO

In tiny Uillage in the South, lOes Uery ordinary
and his wife Locally, the is looked upon as
a hero He, you see, prevented jail break
Evening star., 1934-07-03
C0L0RED ART SLIDES
SHOWN TEACHERS
Technique for Making Device at
Home Demonstrated by
New Yorker.

Visual instruction may be combined
with the teaching of art in public
schools so that simple homemade
lantern slides may be made available
in all elementary and high schools.
Such a plan was advocated yester-
day by w. T. r. Price of Scar
borough School, Scarborough-onHu Hud-
son, N. Y, who gave a demonstration
Of the technique for making home
made slides in color before the De-
partment Of Visual Instruction Of the
National Education Association. The
meeting was held in the auditorium
of the Interior Department.
Other demonstrations were made by
Grace Courtney, principal of Halls
Grove School, Philadelphia; John
Orth of the American Museum Of Nat
ural History, and WILDER Emmert Of
State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.
This afternoon delegates to the
convention were to be shown a series
of slides and motion pictures made
in virtually all parts Of the world by
w. Robert Moore. traveller. writer and
photographer. and a former member
of the foreign editorial staff of the
National Geographic Magazine.
His pictures were taken in Ethiopia,
Siam, Burma. the North Sea, Hawaii,
Inca Land in the Andes Mountains,
Sumatra, Japan China, Africa, India
and South America.
Evening star., 1934-07-03

If a school teacher is satisfied with
her lob you may bet she is both Older
and "fatter" than her dissatisfied
sisters.
This conclusion was drawn oy
Robert Hoppock, assistant to the di-
rector. National Occupational Confer
ence. New York in an address before
the department of supervisors and
teachers of home economics, at the
Red Cross Hall of Service yesterday
Hoppock said there were many sur
prising factors discovered in the re-
lationship between satisfaction and
dissa tisfaction among teachers.
More Married.
THE satisfied teachers, he said,
"were on the average 712 years Older
10 pounds heavier. and more OF them
married
More of the satisfied teachers re-
earo themselves as religious; but
fewer OF them felt forced to 40 things
which hurt their consciences. Ihirlv
per cent OF the dissatisfied group
answered yes to the question DO YOU
Evening star., 1934-07-03
INSULL AIDE HITS
SHOTGUN CHARGES
Demands Bill of Particulars as
Indictments Against Son
Are Dropped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 3.-Counsel for
Samuel insult, under indictment for
using the mails to defraud, asserted
yesterday that from the broad nature
Of the Governments charge, insult
might be accused of anything from a
shell game to Sunday school prank
The plea was raised by Attorney
FLOYD E. Thompson in arguments for
a bill of particulars, after insult
pleaded innocent to the mail fraud
charge. The court promised de-
cision Monday.
Thompson attacked n shotgun"
clause IN the indictment as a general
catch-all, under which the Govern
ment might seek to prove anything
not elsewhere alleged.
The indictment charges that it was
part of the scheme and artifice to
defraud through false and fraudulent
pretenses, Misrepresentation and
promises" to buy and sell stock Of the
Corporation Securities Co.
Indictments charging Samuel insult,
jr., and three others with switching
funds Of one insult company to an
other, were dropped yesterday in the
Criminal Court at Crown Point, Ind,
when Judge Maurice E. Critics ruled
the grand jury which indicted them
had been "unduly Influenced" by
| Judge William j. Murray, who in
structed the jurors and then testified
before them.
Evening star., 1934-07-03
SATISFIED TEACHERS OLDER
AND FATTER, SURVEY SHOWS

have to do things in your job that
hurt your ccnscience?'
Forty per cent answered yes to the
question Is there too much politics in
your job?'
''Three-fourths or more OF both
groups felt that their jobs gave them
a fine opportunity to help others.
Unhappy in Childhood.
About one-fourth Of the dissatis-
fed teachers said they were not happy
when IA to 18 years old and that they
had q strong desire to run away from
home. About the same number were
'shv with other children and mad
parents who were not happily mar
ried
over 80 per cent OF both groups
said they liked children.
Apparently job satisfaction is ef-
tected by many factors which have not
ordinarily peen considered by teach
ers, parents sno employers. 1t may
be that the effect of early home
training on a developing personality
has more to do with subsequent Job
satisfaction than any other factor"
Evening star., 1934-07-03
Aggressive LOue
By Girls Is Held
Contrary to Code
Researcher Finds Mories
Conflict With accept.
ed Standards.

Motion pictures are in marked con-
dict with society's moral code in re-
spect to the aggressiveness of a girl in
love-making, but in at least three
other categories subjected to scien-
tif1c study the movies are perhaps
better than the accepted moral code.
This conclusion was drawn by Prof
Robert P. Wray of Pennsylvania State
College, who last night described a
series of studies before the Depart
ment of Visual Instruction of the Ma
tional Education Association in the
All States Hotel.
The four classes studied were the
aggressiveness of girls in love making,
kissing and caressing, democratic at
titudes and practices, and the treat
ment OF children by parents.
Subjected to the QUESTIONABLE were
so college seniors, 25 middle-aged COL
lege faculty members and their wives,
AZ socially elite young women from
New York and Baltimore. q factory
working boys and 18 factory working
girls.
Evening star., 1934-07-03
EDUCATOR SC0RNS
TECHNICAL 'MATH'
Would Limit High School Study
to What Is Used in Busi-
ness.

If Prof. w. S. Schlauch OF New
York University had his way, many
high school pupils who now worry
futilly over their "math" would have
easier sailing.
The fact is. according to Schlauch.
too much time and effort is devoted
to impractical mathematics. He pre-
fers the teaching Of mathematics as
applied to business science, finance,
economics and other practical sub
jects.
In order to have efficiently con-
Quoted vocations and businesses, citi-
zens who continue throughout their
lives to be self-supporting because Of
intelligent planning, and a politico-
economic structure which functions
smoothly because its citizens UNDER
stand the structure and can partici-
pate intelligently, he made four rec
concentrations.
Il. Minimize or drop such algebraic
techniques as have no application in
the fields mentioned or similar fields.
%. Add to the curriculum in math-
ematics subject matter which does so
function as. for example. probability,
insurance. statistics, annuities and
their applications.
"3. Study the fields in which math-
ematics is scoring its greatest tri-
umphs, and which are most useful to
the citizen: Economics. statistics, ac-
counting, mechanics, physics, finance,
navigation, astronomy.
"a. Give illustrations and practical
problems taken from these fields to
illustrate the use of algebraic processes
and techniques instead of using the
old traditional material and prob
lens"
Prof. Schlauch spoke before the
National Council of Teachers Of
Mathematics and the Department Of
Secondary Education of the National
Education Association at George
Washington University yesterday aft
ernoon.