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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
THE DEMOC OCRAT'S q Daily Short Story
Complete In This Issue

about my friends. Seer" They gIared at each other. Sud- denly he lifted his hand and slapped her on the jaw. She fell
 backward into the cushions of the couch.
 The door slammed behind him. He had gone-gone to Sally Pear son.
 For a time Margaret lay staring at the ceiling, seeing nothing. This was cruelty. Extreme cruelty. A wife-beater-Bill was a wife-beat- CT. No woman could live with a man who struck her. She would leave the house at once and never come back.
 She pulled herself up from the
 couchs went into her bedroom,
 started to put on her hat. But she
 couldn't go looking like that-hair
 on end, eyes swollen nearly shut, q great red welt on her cheek.
 Cold water, she had heard, was good for bruises.
 She went into the bathroom, un-
 dressed, took a shower. It made
 her feel better, but the silence of
 the hoNse fell around her, a sour1d-
 less waterfall, and she was alone
 under it, alone and helpless. The
 blue pajamas Bill loved, which
 she'd forgotten when she went away, were hanging on the bath- room door and she got into them. Then she began to put cold water on her jaw.
 In the hall something banged. Bill would never come back-never in the world. She opened the bathroom door crack. It was Bill, arranging red roses
 in water pitcher he had got from the kitchen. There were more roses on the table-dozens of roses. And square package. SHE WOULDN'T
 SPEAK TO HIM.
 She wouldn't speak to him, of course, but she'd have to do some- thing about those flowers. She couldn't bear to see roses treated like that. That's better" said Bill, as she got out green glass vase and be- gan to put roses in it. T never know what to do with their damn stems. There are some chocolates there, if you want lem. I meant to
 have some in the house for you but forgot"
 At her feet lay the ruins of Aunt Ada's clock, wrecked forever.
 Margaret stared at the debris, but she did not see it. She saw, in- stead, her mothers smile, heard her voice: When you can't say anything else to your husband. :" She looked up at Bill. She could feel her saw swelling, where he had struck her.
 "I think you're wonderful" said
 Margaret. Simply wonderful" :. THE END.
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.get them. I thought could get to the train all right"
 Margaret sat down, elaborately. fectly all right, darling," she said. Did you miss mel"
 Missed you like he'll"
 "Was it good show"
 "Yes." Bills voice was casual, but his ears were red. "She didn't want to go with me. Thought it wouldn't be right - that you wouldn't like it."
 "She didn't-she didn't tell you that?" gasped Margaret.
 Little red spots danced before her eyes. If Bill believed that moth-eaten gag then Sally did have her claws in him. She wasn't Jealous. Only she did wish Bill would pick a girl with 8 new line. called me up once or twice while you were away, and then she said she'd better stop - that you mightn't like it. And when I asked her to go with me this afternoon she hesitated a long time. I told her she was crazy - that you wouldn't care 8 bit"
 q don't, of course"
 That's what I told her. But she was kind of upset all the same. I took her home after the show and she asked me in and we had a drink. She was terribly sorry when she found I'd missed meet ing you."
 "She would be-" said Margaret.
 Bill was racing up and down the green rug. His ears were still red.
 "She says we're not to see leach other alone any more. If we do we might start caring too much. She's crazy, of course, but she says she isn't a husband-snatcher She's a square-shooter. Meg. Hon. est as they come"
 Honest? Sally Pearson hon.
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He crossed the room, seized her by the shoulders. She wriggled free, jumped to her feet. "I won't stop you! What you do isn't any of my business. I'm going my hags are still packed. Only there's one one thing you've got to know first. Any woman who tells you she oughtn't to go out with you because your wife won't like it is a liar"
 "See here, Meg :"
 She's 8 liar," cried Margaret. "She wouldn't go with you if she really cared what, thought, or else she'd keep her mouth shut instead of whining about how I keep you down! Acting as though you're henpecked! don't care how nfany blondes you make love to, Bill Bailey. I don't only ."
 The clock on the, mantel struck once-seven-thirty. Suddenly it was in her hands, she was glaring at Bill over it. He was white and shaking, and his eyes looked like a cats in the dark, cold and glow ing.
 q don't want you if you don't want me- she shrieked. "Only, if you're picking, do pick a woman with a new line! Not a husband snatcher-that little hussy!" She choked, lifted the clock Aunt Ada had given them. She'd snatch any thing out of knee-pants. And you're a fool-a fool-to believe
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 The porter put down her bags A little cold terror began to eat at Margaret's heart. This was Satur- day. Bill was not at his office Something must have happened something awful.
 "Taxi!" she called. and her voice quivered with sudden fear.
 As she turned to follow the DOT ter she brushed against slim fair girl who looked 8 little like Sally green eyes and she specialized in husbands. But Bill could not be with Sally-not this afternoon, when Margaret was coming home.
 The apartment, when she reached it, was dark and empty and Bill was not there.
 He couldn't be with Sally. He didn't like Sally. really: he was merely flattered because she cooed over him.
 She took off her coat and wan dered into the living room. The French clock on the mante1. Q wedding present from Bills Aunt Ada, struck seven. Behind 1t smiled the photograph of Margaret's mother, plump and sweet and old- fashioned.
 Margaret remembered what her mother had said to her the night before she was married. She had come to her room and had kissed her. My dear" she had said, laughing, 'don't look like that! I'm not going to tell you the Facts of Life. I'm telling you the secret of a happy marriage. I know lot about that! else to your husband" her mother had said, mo matter how angry you are-and nice as Bill is you'll be angry with him sometimes just look at him and say: You're wonderful, darling! And say it as though you meant 1t. You'll. be very happy-Bill is a dear"
 Bill was dear-and something terrible had happened to him Margaret stared at the clock his aunt Ada had given them. Aunt Ada was a modern woman: she would not have approved of Mar garet's mother. Margaret had learned a great deal from Bills Aunt Ada.
 Aunt Ada said that woman must never let her husband know how she feels toward him. This was hard. but Margaret did her best to be cool and casual toward Bill and not show him how crazy she was about him. Aunt Ada ap- proved of this: it was civilized. She said, too, that woman must never give in to her husband, for that lowered her dignity. and she must never show him that she was jealous. Jealousy was the unpar- donable sin: civilized people. mod ern people, were not jealous. X KEY RATTLED
 IN THE LOCK
 A key rattled in the lock. Bill was there, big and solid and slight
 ''Meg." He crossed the room in two strides, bent over her. Darling, I'm sorry! meant to get to the train. but yuo see |. We'll, I took Sally to a show"
 "Oh-so that was it!" Margaret
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How do you spend your vacation? That's always good question ask because there versions to it. One fellow says give book and pipe and the old apple tree and I'm satisfied And he M That's the resful type Then there is the apper who spends two weeks getting ready for with and facial and doc dads etc. then two weeks it in the broing hot sands where she gets like favorite cigarette toasted-and then two
 weeks at resting up after her vacation and sunburn You know the type Then there is that fellow who
 likes tell you about the number of miles he covered and the two with short cut that he found all by his lonesome He has the number of miles gallon all
 figured and the place where he got the best breakfast for bts Then there that poor fellow who most of know because we all in the boat He gets two weeks vacation but he has place to because he has nothing to go with and he just hangs around the house-knocks off few cobwebs in the celar cleans the furnace the cleaner for the wife, to the ball game the radio with Fred Hoey and just keeps watching the calendar how long he has before he gets back to work Personally, would like to click along with those few fortunate brethren who still have enough gold of those yachts like Mike OConne has at the lake and lose myself along the nnumerabe bays capes of the Atlantic and when got fed up this side could make myself happy by knowing there was much more the other side-the misnamed Pacific Oh boy-where is the secret to this moneymaking business where fellow have extra ten bucks in his pocket ready spend without worrying where the next of beans is coming from. Can you help me fellows?
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Answers to Previous Questions. ON June 20, 1921. Mrs. Rob- V ertson was granted the chair. but only to announce the vote on a congressional appro- priation. The William and Mary faculty included the president, six professors, an usher, and a writing master. Rabbit metal. used in bearings to reduce friction and abra- sion. originally was composed of four parts copper, eight parts antimony. and 24 parts Banca tin. Congress gave Bab- bitt $20.000 for his invention.
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her. I don't care ."
 She didn't care, not a bit. Only she'd have to smash something. She lifted the clock, hurled 1t on the tiles of the fireplace. Little fragments of porcelain and glass and the insides of the clock flew about the room.
 "That little blonde tart!" she shrieked.
 Then Bill had her by the shoul- ders, shaking her so that her teeth
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CIVILIZED WOMAN

sst?" That little wretch? Why. she made a dead set at you the first time she saw you!" She was crying now, but the words kept tumbiing out. She's a body-snatch CT, poacher. She goes out, for property. And she can have you. Bill Bailey! I don't care. Go as far as you like!"
 "Margaret!"
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Dialing =. Catherine Conrck of the Dem Staff IS enjoying her annual leave of absence from the Densrtment Walnut Reaching King Clancy star of the Toronto Hockey team and native of Naugatuck, was visitor in town yesterday Mary Luddy and Irene Mccoy are vacationing in the Caskll Mountains Ray Shove, IT, is renewing acquantances for week with friends Tn New Britain Ruth Bowling has returned from Laurel Beach with beautiful suntan Ted Carmody, one o1 the cys most popular barrsters will be Bermudaing for the next two weeks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Bristol
 Road Job Completed
Dangerous Curve Eliminated - Short Section Still
 Under Construction But Open to Traffic

Wilmington. Willington- Warren vile road. Shoulders are being oiled.
 Route No. S3
 Manchester. Rockville Manches- ter road. Shoulders are being oiled for 2 miles. Route No. 1O1
 Winsted- Norfolk road. The two underpasses of the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad company are being eliminated. Traffic should use extreme care while passing the work,
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Notes from cozummists cWf. John Foley 's hospitased ct St. MGrys. Rocco Diordo a0as host ct
 party at hs Lake Hitchcock estate recently !n honor taoenty-first birthday Russ Hickman is sU talking about his three aOeeks trip to Lake Sebeck 20 MGene Uhere be pulled im fourteen large slzed satm'on Not oy is Russ tickled about tha but be put on ma1e Gnd q halt pounds there, aOhich is something. Our demon political reporter, BU Moriarty e0as emjoy1mg the sights about Times Square one day th1s a0eek a0e
 suddenlv c qang of kids mobbed him and sought his outoqraph. BiU had removed his Panama and tue youngsters mistook him for Guy Kibbee of cinema fam,e. You see Biu also has fea0 ha'rs massamg
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ached and she bit her tongue.
 He let her go at last. Maybe I am a fool," he shouted, his voice cold with fury. Its too bad you married me. Only you can't call any girl I go out with names. You're to keep your mouth shut
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By DOROTHY GARDINER

M toward the gates, trying not to In two seconds she would be in Bills arms.
 Inside the gates she paused peerng through the wait ing crowd Nowhere could she Bills red head towering over the hats of lesser Not in the three years they had been married had Bill failed to meet her
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
The Cast of Characters in
 Civilized Woman"

MARGARET, just home from a trip and longing to be in the
 arms of BILL, her husband, who seems
 slightly interested in SALLY.
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This morning talked with who just fifty years of age He tradesan and had been working at this trade for thiryfive The last fifteen or twenty years he had been business for himself Chain Store competition plus high rent etc, giving him chrons headache he decided to quit and to work empoye rather than be employer feeling that he would be valuable to What with his long of exper fence along with the owners side of the picture he felt he would fit very nicely into the scheme of organization He secured potential spot in town and out of town and each time he met with the old story. You are too old" Men and Women of Waterbury - of Con- necticut and of the United States say this challenge to your vision and intelligence Is fifty of too old great segment of population that lies between the ages of fifty and nney-five John D. Rockefeller recently passed Are they to become public charges If event. ualy taxes and isn't big problem in government today the eternal search for methods of painless and successful taxation? Here problem that confronts every and in the country today sure the years him to this dead ne maintain 1t IS entirely out of proportion and unfair to that who has reached the of fifty unfit for further employment cha lenge this age limit unquafiedy Where is all this action old pensions the politicians dshng out around election period? Wake ctizens here is vital problem that requires cool heads to ponder and seek solution There is why work could not be classified and graded in of mans physical ability well mental ability Have you any ideas this subject? We would be glad to get your viewpoints the problem. No one that the human mind and always to meet the test when put to it. Here is of Lfes great tests Are we going to be able to master 1t?
 Editor Tau Toacer Topics: Miss Helen OBriem
 genial student n1rse at the Waterbury hospital is
 enjoying Weearned three a0eeks vacGtion after just
 Isolaton hospital Helen aou graduate from the Water
 bury institutions September ~, and Gu of her a0ard
 patients qoU be pleased aOhen she receives her R. N
 certlicate. She has been sOonderfM to her mamy pa
 best a0ishes to her through your valable colen as
 do. having been one of her patients. Thamk yoa,
 Mrs. c. A. Merrill, West Cheshire.
 Good Night.
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Purely personal. BM Cipriano recently under aoent an operation at the U s. Veterans hospital m Warrington and is q0eU on the road to recovery. Many thamks to Evelym Domnelly of 16s Fulton Park Gvenue for her contribution of tintoil yesterday Joe Lezote a0 be heard Station WDRC ct Hartford Sunday at 12 o'clock in Halian Melodies. .. M C. E. of Fske street the tolooing note to the Toaoer Roses for Mary F. Harmon of WaloaO street. WATR should be congratulated for securing such saOeet singer P be aoaitmg patiently for her every Monday morning.
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removed herself from his arms.
 "Yes. Oswald sent me tickets, to the new play he's in. It's sell-out and this was the only day he could
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FLAMING BRILLIANCE
LII BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good evening.

The lamp of knowledge burns,
 And there amid the glow, We reap the harvest of the years, From seeds of long ago.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
british WILL SHIP
TO MANCH0UKU0
Improved Relations With
Japan Also Provided
in New Pact.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 21.-Acceptance
by Manchoukuo Of British industry's
offer to collaborate In the development
Of the new state was cited today as
one result of the federation of British
industries mission to Japan and
Manchoukuo.
In its report the mission. which is
unoficial and non-political, also re-
vealed an agreement on q scheme for
improved mutual trade between
Britain and Japan by which per
manent link" would be provided by
means Of special committees formed
by the federation OF British industries
on the one hand, and the Japan eco
nomic federation on the other.
The Japanese federation already has
such a committee. the report said. and
immediate formation of similar
British committee was advocated.
Holding that British industry can
not hope to hold its place in world
trade in competition with Japan. the
MISSIONS report said "the time has
come when cooperation should be
possible"
As preliminary step in collaborating
for the development of Manchoukuo
| the mission reported an agreemen,
had been reached to supply steel prod
ucts for delivery in Japan and Man.
choukuo in 1885.
Evening star., 1934-12-21

tine, Tex. to Barksdale Field. Shreve-
port, La, January q.
Ostrander, Second Lieut.. Howard
william, Infantry Reserve, promoted
to first lieutenant, December Is.
Raybold, Second Lieut.. Leslie. Air
Corps Reserve, from Glendale, Calf.
to March Field, Riverdale, Calf. jan
uary 2.
Bertron, Warrant Officer Walter H.,
TO be retired from active service, De-
cember 81.
Leave of absence Is granted to each
of the following officers on or about
the dates specified:
Peabody, Maj. Paul E., General
Staff Corps, three days, December AZ.
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Hawthorne. New, about December
10; to U. 8. 8. Northampton.
Bullard, Chief Machinist Billie B.,
detached as assistant resident inspec-
tor Of naval material, Long Beach
Calf, about January Is; TO U. 8. s.
Kanawha.
Mayville, Chief CARPENTER Armand,
detached u. s. s. Chester about Janu-
airy IL; to Fleet Air Base, Coco Solo,
Canal Zone.
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Lucas, Maj. John p, General Stad
Corps, one day, December a..
Flock. First Lieut.. julius T., Air
Corps, l month and Is days, Janu-
'ary Is.
Each Of the following officers Of the
Air Corps, attached to Boiling Field,
here for flying duty:
Andrews, Lieut.. Col. Frank M.
Fitzgerald. Maj. Shepler w.
Each Of the following officers Of the
Medical Corps, assigned to duty at
station indicated after name, upon
completion of his present tour Of for
eign service:
Allen, Maj. Robert A.. to Fort
Wadsworth. N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-12-21


Cullinan, Lieut.. (Junior Grade)
Ralph, jr., detached Battle Force
about December Is; to U. 8. 9. Ayl-
win.
Mccormick, Lieut.. (Junior Grade)
James r.. detached U. 8. 8. Neches
about December 16: to 18th Naval
District, San Francisco.
Medical Corps.
Shepard, Capt. George w., detached
Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calf,
In January; TO Marine Detachment,
Peiping, China.
Warrant Officers.
Jones, Chief Gunner Michael j., de-
tached Naval Ammunition Depot.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
Seeks to Free Credits.

Attempts are being made by Lthu-
ania to secure the release of frozen"
credits in Germany, estimated to total
s.. .400, 900 at present exchange rates.
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Brothers. Capt. Clyde L.. to Kelly
Field, Tex.
Gaskill. Capt. Robert c., to Fitz-
simons General Hospital, Denver,
Colo.
Neale. Capt. Claude L., to Fort Sam
Houston, Tex.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
NAVY ORDERS.
Bureau of Navigation.

Studley, Lieut.. Barrett, detached
VP Squadron IF (U. s. s. Wright) in
December; to U. 8. 8. Wright as air
oficer.
Black Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Hugh
D., detached Naval Training Station,
San Diego, Calf. In December; to
U. s, s. Upshur.
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them as I ,rve them, burned or
not burned!"
Afterwards they sang, some
Of them entirely out Of tune
and these, Of course, sang loud
est. They went into the cabin,
showed all the furniture to the
walls. Dave played. They danced.
When Pippin sat on the bench
with him, he said inSiStently:
Cant your friend play? Even
one waltz? I want to dance with
you'll"
But no one else could play.
Kate sat in q corner. reading a
magazine and chuckling with
mirth. Suddenly she gave a
deep, ringing laugh. She came
over to the piano.
Here's an article says we can
be rejuvenated, caper about at
70 with the ardor of youth in
our veins. Pippin, what chance
will a girl of Is have against a
wild old woman like me, who
has the stored-up wisdom Of the
years, when I get my second
wind?"
"Oh, Kate, would you want to
60 back to all the anguish and
uncertainty?"
would I! And will I know
how to live the next time!"
She read on. Suddenly she
drew q deep, audible sigh and
tossed the magazine to q chair.
"It won't be any use! They
can't restore the youthful form
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ocean, the blue, clear waters Of
Tahoe flashed.
He let her go but kept hold
Of her fingers.
He said softly. lightly: "It's
more than three weeks since I
saved your life in the storm,
Pippin."
IT do appreciate it. I'm glad
to be here on this great, wild
pyramid"
''Why do you turn your back
on sweet, happy things? Why
may I not say that I think
you"
She interrupted, agitated: 'I
don't want to hear Of love. I'm
not in the mood for hghtness.'
"Nor am II do not feel at
all like trifling. I've seen you
nearly every day. We've spent
hours together, I've watched you
and thought about you. How
long do you think it takes be-
fore one knows"
She turned and looked in his
face but it was warm and
pleading. Something boyish in
his eyes, a hurt, sweet look
made her heart rush-made her
soften.
He saw it and pulled her to
him. He said, laughing: "All
right-I1l be good! But you do
like me, Pippin? You wouldn't
care if I kissed you? I'm not
going to-not now. But you do
like being with me?"
She nodded.
why love being with you!
That's all right, isn't it?"
They heard Dadee and Irene
who were now shouting to ther1.
Dale said: Listen Pippin-I
meant what I said, but I won't
bother you. So don't go taking
trails in the opposite direction
to my trails. Understand"
She blinked and laughed: II
don't want to be alone, either!"
She thought about him. She
wondered with hot, distended
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Bu EIenOre Meherin

or face. What good would it do
me with this ensemble to have
young ideas?"
Lost Dreams
She spoke mirthfully but un-
derneath the breezy swagger
was q hunger-a yearning for
the dreams that are lost.
Dale reached over, took
Kate'S hand and pulled her to
the bench at his side: "Iu bet
on you. Kate, shaggy hair and
all! Here-bang along one, two,
three, like thisl I want to
dancel"
Kate played the Blue Dan
ube which she had learned as
a girl. She remembered three
or four bars. She played these
over and over.
Z Never mind-I'll Sing!" said
Dale. He took Pippin in his
arms. AL the others kept on
dancing. They whistled and
Dale swept Pippin to the
porch. I've been wanting to
dance with you for ages. You
look beautiful tonight"
She said, softly, feeling his
eyes on hers: "That was a nice
thing you said to Kate"
II think it's true. I think she
must have been very attractive
as girl. Only she didn't know
it. That's a great handicap
you've got to believe in your own
power. Why do women crave
beauty so? The really perfect