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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27
RY DORTs .. sTETTNER

Jinny Armstrong sat on the edge of the bed, patiently reciting the bedtime poem to her small audience of two, who were sprawl ed on the rug at her feet. "The Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summers day;
 The Knave of Hearts
 He saw the tarts
 And stole them clean away.
 "Go on, Mummy. Finish it." commanded her eldest, aged eight.
 "Yes, finish it like Timmy said" This was little Marie helping out.
 q can't remember the rest" said Jimmy absently. Something about the King finding the Knave and making him return the tarts, I think"
 And now" she continued more firmly, q think it's about time for you two to be in bed"
 Wanna wait for Daddy" two voices instantly cried.
 "Daddy'll be home later with company, but I'll send him in if you're good and go to bed right now" she shamelessly bribed.
 The bribe worked. AS soon as the babies were settled Jimmy hur- ried downstairs to give herself a final inspection before the long hall mirror.
 Oh, everything just had to be right tonight! Tim didn't know that the company he was bring ing home was one of Jinny's old friends-an admirer, in fact. Michael Logan! Tall, adventurous almost mysterious. He travled so much that Jimmy had lost track of him. Heard he was working as travelling agent for perfectly huge rubber company.
 The click of Tim's key in the lock sent Jimmy leaping for the front door. She threw her arms around Tim for her kiss, and step- ped back into the light as he said:
 "Jinny, this is Michael Logan"
 Michael searched her face with his heavily 1ashed eyes, look of amazement in them. "Jinny?" he murmured with dis belief. Then "Jinny Thomas!"
 Hey" interrupted Tim, "let me in on this, will you?" "We1l, when we were kids" they both began together, then stopped overcome with laughter. Finally Tim did manage to get the story-if not clearly at least en- Enthusiastically.
 Throughout the evening Jimmy sat spellbound, listening to Michael tell of the strange countries he had visited. She was childlike in her eagerness to know of the distant places, the peculiar people, the weird customs
 Oh, why did Tim have to be al- ways stuck in 'an office! Why couldn't they travel like Michael MichaeTs deep. suave voice rolled on. He was talking of India-Cal- cutta. Going to sail for Calcutta in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27
WHOM2o FIR5To|
 IN AMERICA By Joseph Nathan Kane Author of Famous First Facts"

Where was the first public skating ring opened' Who made the first rubber heels'
 When was the first sleep. ing car patent granted'
 Answers in next issue
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27

Michael suddenly looked at his watch, and interrupted her reverie with a whistle of amazement:
 'After twelve! I've got to run. S He arose and turned to Tim. TT leave for the coast tomorrow night. Couldn't I take you people for a ride during the afternoon2 It's Sunday"
 Count me out" said Tim. "Go1f engagement, Jimmy can go Sunday was a beautiful day. Spinning along the River road. Jimmy and Michael conversed as happily as children. Michael I1ad- mt driven far from town before he pulled up under a grove of trees.
 we can talk better here,v he explained. There's such mass Of things to say about India-'' Suddenly Jimmy realized she did, mt want to hear about India. Shc wanted to hear about herse1f-- Michael and herself. Michael seem ed to sense it too. His eyes bright ened, his face flushed as he encir- cled her shoulders with a strong arm, and drew her close. Come with me, Jinny!" he inn plored into her ear. Come to India with me, little sweetheart"
 Jimmy leaned back against his arm, studying him.
 Why not!" she said with sud- den fierceness. T don't want to be tied down while I'm young! want romance, Michael, romance! And | Tim"
 Suddenly she made a frightened. distressed little sound. Tim, his face as white as the concrete road. was standing on the ground behind Michaers backi
 IT thought was lucky to find you, Tim was saying duly. But now-I guess it doesn't make ang difference" And he turned to walk back to the little coupe parked a few yards behind.
 Tim! Whats happened?"
 He turned then. "It might fr@ terest you to know that Marie fe]I down the stairs just after you left and cut her head"
 My baby! Where is she? Is she all right?" Jimmy ran to Tim. "Oh, hurry-let's go home" As Tim rapidly whirled the car around in the road, Michael lifted one hand in sportive gesture Of defeat. It was not noticed. -AAAa AdPAaAy CAple1luCQ WA6I 4Ix1NX happened. and added sshe's AIf right now. put her to bed" He was sitting tensely, eyes straight ahead. Jimmy could think of onlv one thing in her miseryl-she want ed to cry.
 Her head fell on Tim's shou1der. and his fury turned to dismay. Quickly wheeling the car over fo the side of the road he stopped and took Jimmy in his arms.
 Please. Tim," she implored, IT, I didn't mean 1t! must have been crazy. Michael never meant ar1y- thing to me, and he never wf1l. She put her hand on his shoulder. Please, Tim!'
 Tim was sobbing now, but f78 tense bitterness of his gaze had vanished. He clasped her tenderIY kissed her full on the lips.
 She murmered against his shoUl- der words meaningless to him.
 'The Knave of Hearts
 Brought back the tarts,
 And vowed he'd steal no moresH
 Copyright, 1884, The Chicago
 Daily News, Inc.)
 Tomorrow: Prudent Prue," naf4 rated in the racy style of Jaxnc5 Edward Hungerf0rd, is . cleHeE story of an umbrella salesman WII0 was grossly misunderstood by {06 boss and the girl friend. @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27
KNAVE OR HEARTS
Jinny's Longing for the Romance of Distant PIa<
 Was Dissipated by Nursery Rhyme

three days.
 Jimmy eazed at him as thoN a dream. He seemed to be fafF'r# only to her now. How handso1ne T. was, how cultured. how-lzow I1 mantle!
 That was 1t! Tim had almost f1' gotten romance. All he could I0 of now was business onH3|a just made that way, Jimmy arBN woman needed romance: they #t1@ just made that way, Jimmy atEQe1 casting an irritated glance at t1e unsuspeeting Tim. How set EV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27

Tomorrow: Prudent Prue, 1" naf-
 rated in the racy style of Jazncs
 Edward HungerfOrd, is . clexeE
 story of an umbrella salesman Wl1o
 was grossly misunderstood by ff6 boss and the girl friend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-27

Answers to Previous Questions COv SAMUEL R VAN SAINT. V of Minnesota signed the optometry bill on April l3. 1901 Croweli invented both the bags and the machine for making them William Brown compiled the first pharmaco- poeia. of 32 pages for use of the military hospital of the U S army at Lititz, Pa e
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
LISTEN: WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

Brownsville if you look at it
with the same stupid, selt-ab-
Sorption.
Do you want-really want-to
find adventure? And, incident
ally, hand yourself a big sur
prise? Then try this:
Take an afternoon off, or an
evening. Leave your house and
for TWO HOURS walk up and
down any street where you will
meet many strangers. or sit in
any central spot where many
strangers are passing by E.
AND STUDY THEM.
Don't think about yourself.
Don't compare those faces and
their obvious problems with your
own. TRY TO READ THEM
AS YOU WOULD READ SOME
FASCINATING BOOK. TRY
TO SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS
WHAT LIES BEHIND EVERY
PAIR OF EYES.
Hitherto, eyes have been just
eyes to you. But, before you
have been there five minutes,
you will see that no two pairs
of eyes in the world are alike.
There are Shamed eyes, and de-
fiant eyes, desperate eyes, sick
eyes. eyes that are like dirty
window panes which have been
shut for many a dreadful year
..eyes that are like skinned
souls, with their bleeding naked
for all the world to see. And
there are triumphant, challeng-
ing eyes. And eyes that have
won peace at a great price.
But how much of all this will
you be able to see in those two
hours? I wonder. That's the
test. Sit there! Watch!
THEN GO HOME AND TRY
TO WRITE DOWN WHAT
YOU'VE SEEN. Not ALL you've
See-puC JuSC WQaC you've seen
in half a dozen faces. Out of
those hundreds who passed, try
to discover and describe the
secret life of just six spirits.
You don't think that's much
Of an experiment? Yet, by
just such seemingly humdrum
jauntS, those who know how to
look find adventures to set the
whole world sobbing, laughing,
Shuddering or blazing with in
dignation. Out of just such
jaunts Odd Mcintyre writes his
daily column-Damon Runyon,
Mark Hellinger and Jack Lait
compose daily or weekly stories.
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

tAdCS w II
you want! Danger, excitement,
thrills! How you envy people
who have them. No wonder
such people are fascinating. No
wonder they remain fresh and
vivid long after stay-at-home
folk have become withered an
tiques. Adventure keeps people
young like that!
You're right. 1t does. You're
also right in thinking that your
own life would be infinitely more
colorful if you could escape from
it's narrowness and monotony.
But you're wrong in thinking
that you have to go to Africa
or Siam, Alaska or Egypt to
get it.
For there are as amazing ad-
ventures waiting, just outside
your door, as much mystery
and horror, beauty and wonder
and deadly danger, as you'll
find in any jungle or ice pack.
And you'll need no education
to find them. no ticket to ad-
nit you to them. You need
only open your own eyes and
look into the eyes that pass!
"Aw," you say. "I've heard
all that hooey before. And I've
tried it-tried to get a kick out
of studying people-but it never
did me any good"
Then you might as well stop
yapping for jungles, partner. If
you can't get thrill out Of the
passing show, you wouldn't get
it out of China, either. For ad-
venture doesn't lie in the scene
we See-but in the eyes with
which we see it. And Bali will
bore you just as much as
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
The Greatest ShOW
On Earth
BY John Snure,

hopes to defeat Little Davey,"
from all reports.
Probably no two men to op-
pose each other for political
office were ever more different
in their political methods.
ZihlmGn, q practical politi.
clan, is the type that takes little
interest in national affairs. He
spends his time trying to secure
tavorS for his friendly con-
StituentS.
Little Davey," on the other
hand, believes the national sit
uation is more important and
refuses to be diverted when
matters of Importance to the
country are at stake.
Both men migrated to Cum
berland at an early age. Fred
worked in a glass factory, was
friendly to labor, and secured
his backing from the labOring
class. Davey was a miner,
studied law and progressed in
politics.
He is little interested in per-
sonal appearance, social accom-
plishments and such things.
Fred was a sartorial sensation
in Congress.
Fred defeated Davey for the
House and took his place in the
Sixty-fifth Congress. Davey had
served since the Sixty,second.
Then Davey defeated Fred
for the Seventy-second Congress
and was reelected to the
Seventy-third. Now Fred seeks
to wrest the place from Davey
again.
The two men have been on
the political see-saw b it
doesn't appear as though Fred
could bounce Davey off in view
of the Lewis record.
Attorney General Homer s
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

SELVES. There are myriads of,
modern young women who do
not know real love from the
imitation, and who cheerfully
accept the spurious article
and then wonder why it doesn't
even stand the acid test of o
few months of marriage.
There are so many limitations
of love in circulation, these
days, that it takes an expert to
know the counterfeit from the
genuine. A man, in fact, often
prefers a good imitation to the
real thing, because it is so much
less responsibility. And, besides,
he figures that it will last about
as long as he'll care for it, any.
how.
But it is high time that
woman stopped kidding herself,
and called on that much-vaunted
intuition of hers to sound the
warning when she is about to
pass herself a gold brick.
The woman who marries for
money, or for convenience, or
for a home, may be cheating
herself. But, at least, she knows
what she is doing; and she is
getting what she THINKS she
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
+ Human Side Of the News - ByEdwin c. T Hill

leum type of post office is out.
The new ones will be Snappy
business structures, designed for
efficiency, economy, general all
around utility in diSpatchlng
government business, and the
incidental aesthetic integrity
which comes from utility.
Under both President Hoover
and President Roosevelt, other
public buildings have gone a
long way in this direction, and
it may be that one of the by
products Of these chaotic years
will be the wreck of many Of
those gloomy old monstrosities,
mongrels most Of them, and the
substitution of something all our
own. Maybe we're headed for
an aesthetic as we'll as an eco
nomic "autarchy."
One often wonders why Amer
lea, with its fine colonial begin
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
Spank Your Child?
Psychologists Say eyes"

The old adage, spare the rod and spoil the child
takes on an entirely significance we can trust some
of the new discoveries of educational students set forth
before the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
It appears from these experiments that the safest way
to train and discipline children is by Furnishing hem and
the most dangerous way is by reraning from Furnishing
them but telling them that their wrongdong has made
them lose their parents love.
If, say the psychologists must punish children,
make the punishment external simple gesture such
as spanking them.
Never use loss of love affection as club Never tell
Mary Johnny who has done something wrong that
don't or won't love them any more.
All sorts of emotional and even physical disturbances
in later life said to result from denia of affection
or from moral instruction designed to make children
feel unworthy remorsefu when they have done some
thing wrong"
So, bend over son!
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

sanction to the program or
make loans under it.
Others apparently make loans
but in reality they give money
to those persons who would have
been entitled to borrow under
the banks private plans.
Credit, consequently, is not be-
ing granted as originally hoped.
From the Middle West, not
so long ago, came a commu-
nication to the Housing Admin
iStration.
The banker, a Republican,
stated that he refused to have
anything to do with the HOus-
ing Administration merely be-
cause it was a creation of
Franklin D. ROOSevelt'S.
He asserted that he refused
to back any part of the Presi-
dents program, including the
FHA.
Faced by the attitude of bank
erS in certain communities, citi.
Gems, builders and contractors
are taking matters into their
0IDn hands.
Not far from the city of
Washington is a small town in
which four banks are located.
Each Of these banks refused
to back the Housing program
by making loans.
The builders and contractors
waited upon the bankers.
They advised that not far
away was another town having
banks which were more inclined
to back the Administration. The
irate builders informed the
banking gentry:
"Unless you come through we
will take our banking business
to the other community"
The four banks, so arbitrary
before, are beginning to see the
light.
The Cumberland glass worker
is back in the running for the
House again.
Fred Zihlman, renominated
by the Republicans to oppose
the incumbent Democrat, David
]. Lewis, is going to have a
tough fight on his hands if he
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

A Boston woman has paidSa
fine price, possibly 100000, for
ono of the 400 violins in exist"
ence which bear the name OF
the maker Antonio Stradivarius.
Every now and then the "dis-
covery" of a Stradivarius is re"
ported from some garret or
warehouse, only to have the
experts shatter the dreams Of
the finder with the verdict that
the violin is only a copy or
counterfeit. There has not been
a genuine find in 80 years, and
the whereabouts of the real ones
are known, from the $50, 900
Messiah Stradivarius in the Brit
ish Museum all the way down
the list through the other 399.
The violin maker of Cremona
lived IS years, from 1864 to
1929, and at the height of his
career was a stern-looking man
of the Cromwellian type, with
dark eyes and flowing hair. All
told he modelled and vanished
1900 violins, and set up his
craftsmanship and that Of Gre
mona as the model for all time.
Those that remain in the hands
of the music masters or in the
vaults of the collectors today
would bring in the aggregate
about $20,000,000.
Twentieth century science is
constantly probing into the
seventeenth century craftsman
ship, seeking to learn the secret
of the quality of the Stradiva"
rius. Toscha Seidel, the violin
ist, submitted his instrument to
tests by DR.. William B. White
and photographs of the sound
waves showed the Stradivarius
triumphant in the most severe
tests of modern acoustics. DR..
White and Seidel decided that
the secret of the Stradivarius
was the simplicity and Symme-
try of its fundamental vibra-
tions, and this, in turn, they
concluded, was the result of
Stradivarius' slow and patient
construction, his exquisite tonal
sense and the mellowing Of
time.
A common belief through the
past two centuries has been that
Stradivarius possessed a secret
formula for varnish, and that
therein was the reason for the
superb quality of his violins.
He did have the formula, and
no one has been able to dupi-
cate the orange-red, soft coating
which he gave to the wood.
However, they put one of his
instruments under the X-ray at
Purdue University recently, and
the findings there seem to ex-
plode the theory that it was
all a matter of varnish. The
Indiana professors discovered
that the top part of the violin
was of a material in which the
fibre structure was almost COM
pletely gone and the crystallites
of celluloSe in the wood were
distributed at random. Their
verdict was that it was the Sc
lection Of the proper type of
wood-Spruce for the front and
maple for. the back-and not
any special treatment of the
wood. or varnish, or age.
AS rare and as rich as Is a
violin made by StradivariuS there
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

having any
thing happen
to you.
You W ! S h
you could go
off to some
foreign coun-
try-into mys-
terious jungleS
across sin
lister deserts
along t h e
frozen saw
tooth of some
Alpine wilder
ness
Adventure
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

Homer 5. Cummings re c OVere e d,
and went on talking.
The chair 1DGS formerly used
By Republican Attorneys Gen.
eral John C. Sargent and VIII
liam E. Mitchell.
And now the question is. did
the chair break because of the
great legal burden on Cum
mings' shoulders, did the old
spirits of the Republicans re-
turn to annoy him, or was it
Just another indication that
Democratic support is crum.
bling?
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

Housing pro-
gram is such
t h a t t he
banks would
not be in a
pos ion to
lose money on
loa ms, they
are refusing
to back it in
many sections
of the coun-
try.
Republican
bankers, par
ticularly, are
ref u sing to
give their
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

Mellon t a x
case with the
news h a W k S
t h e o t h e r
day.
In the midst
of the Seri-
Gus discus
S n, t h e
C h ir o n
which the At
torney G e n
eral W a S sit
ting broke.
~
He was al
most dropped
to the floor,
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

Tory banks are giving Mr..
James A. Moffett's Federal
Housing Administration plenty
Of trouble.
Although the Set-up Of the
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
Mryy=Go-R Round
Bv Helen Rowland

wants. She Is not walking the
plank with her eyes blindfolded.
It is perfectly amazing the
number of girls who rush into
marriage on the strength OF an
impulse, or a passing sex attrac'
ton, that are keeping imitation
love in circulation, double-cross"
ing themselves and promoting
the gold brick market.
It is the astonishing number
of men and women who are 60
ing through life putting up with
a counterfeit, and don't know
it, that are causing the love
depression.
It is the torch singers and
the song writer's who call so
many things by the name Of
"love," that are. getting us all
confused in our notions of what
love is, and leading us into all
sorts of mistakes.
It is the novelists of the
"kiss-and-thrill" school, and the
pseudo-philosophers of the Give
your.own.life" school, and the
pseudo-psychologists of the "sex-
O'Clock" school, who are putting
love on the spot.
How can a young woman know
what is love-or even WHICH
is love-after she has listened
to all these false prophets for
a few years? No wonder she
plunges into a silly affair, a
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
You Want Adventure?
Here It Is!

You're sick, you say, OF stay
ing in the same old place-do-
ing the same old things=neVer
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

are others by craftsmen Of the
Cremona school which are held
in as high repute. His pupil,
Guarnerius del JeSu, produced
an instrument which was pre-
ferred before the masters by
the great Paganini. A Guarne-
riuS today fetches as much as
100000; and there are also the
violinS of carlo Bergonzi, which
the celebrated Belgian player
Ysaye said were finer than those
of StradivariuS.
Graeco-Roman architecture is
all right to house and admin
lister the codes of JuStinian, but
when the government gets into
business, public buildings must
become buSiness-like structures.
This seems to be the logic
Of Secretary Morgenthau'S an
nouncement that the old mauSo-
The Washington times., 1934-09-15
By. T. E. Powers

u1L1SS, SOG 81 NCoPSA oUOAJ @ONAN
up with extraneous fixingS and
old moth-eaten tradition in de-
veloping both its public and
private architecture. It seems
that much of this ugliness must
have resulted either from evil
generalization or high-proof llq-
uor, but probably not. We were
feeling our oats in those days
and somehow we just had to
drag in everything lying around
loose. It was a grand free-for-
all, with no hard boiled de-
Medici to summon a Michel
angelo or Leonardo da Vinci,
have them fix up a unified plan
and put it over.
This is, of course. a delicate
subject to broach to any tax
payer, but if he will look around
a bit he will find that for a
great many decades he has been
paying, not only for uginess,
but for flagrant and irretriev-
able waste. Any architect will
tell you that these big, smeary.
depressing, slate-gray Federal
dinosauts-aesthetically as ex-
tinct as the diplodocus-repre-
sent Just about so per cent
waste, aside from their being eye
sores. They have corridor big
enough to hold a three-ring cir
Gus. In the feudal tradition,
they have walls about three
times as thick as necessary.
They frequently are designed
without regard to easy and free
access and there is huddle and
confusion instead of the easy
flow of business which marks a
properly designed business build
ing.
One may make some emphatic
reservations about Shoveling in
more Federal funds for even
adequate and beautiful buildings
at. this time, but, ineXorably,
the whole Government estab-
lishment-city, state and Fed
eral-expands; and, things be-
ing as they are, it seems all
to the good when skilled and
Soundly educated architects are
taking a hand in the new build
ing enterprises, as they are now
doing.
For instance, the CWA turned
loose a brace of good archl'
tects on a survey of the beaut1-
full old early colonial buildings
Of America. They studied about
200 fine examples in New Jer-
Sey alone. They photographed,
sketched and blue-printed these
grand old buildings for poster
ity. 1t isn't their idea that
the problem lies in merely re-
producing these structures
that usually doesn't work out so
well. But; where the environ
ment calls for it, and where it
is the choice of a community,
we find available this great
heritage, and we can build with
it again.
This writer, having once de-
signed and executed a colonial
dog house much admired by
the neighbors, feels qualified to
speak on these matters, and his
judgment is-and he is ready to
play it clear across the board
that you can't beat anywhere
the early American colonial, for
beauty, integrity and all-around
adequacy and satisfaction.
Copyright. 1894 by King Features
Syndicate, lnG.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-15

In at
n Street, Washington. d
D. J, editor