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''Valeria, I want you to know Peters wife. Ann, this is valeria Bennett"
 valeria had smiled at Ann in friendly fashion, saying, II hope we are going to be friends, Ann. I've known Peter since we both wore baby clothes"
 Ann said. Thank you" Nothing more. She had seen the hard glint in Valerias eyes and guessed the hatred behind that soft and friend ly speech.
 valeria introduced the man be- side her and then, suddenly, laid a hand on Peters arm. Peter, dance this with me for old times. Ann, a fair exchange Is no rob bery. Tommy Is q grand dancer"
 Ann danced with Tommy, feel ing very angry with Peter because he had allowed Valeria to take possessoin of him in such a fash ion. Feeling very angry with her self because she had been unable to cope with Valeria.
 Peter" said Valeria, will you come into the conservatory with me moment?"
 Nc"
 'Why?"
 Because there's no reason why I should.p
 ''So logical all of a sudden; i; whispered Valeria. "Or is it be- cause you're afraid your wife will be jealous?"
 Ann jealous!' His vehemence was revealing.
 Then the girl didn't care any thing about him. That made things easier.
 Come on. Peter. I think you owe it to me to talk things over. You cant know how hard all this has been for me-
 Peter looked down and saw her eyes filled with tears. All right" he said.
 Ann saw them leave the ball. room. Her face flushed. It was an instant later that she saw Tony making his way toward her through the crowd.
 Her heart turned over. Tony here! Probably he would make a
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What T'he Doctor Says BY DR. s. J. CRUMBINE, GENERAL EXECUTIVE AMERICAN CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATION

Christmas Eve the less it will hurt them to stay awake late that night and wake early next morning. In fact I think it would do you all good to take afternoon maps every day of the festivities. Might save nerves and tempers all round!"
 Mrs Johnson nodded. "It's an idea, Doctor," she agreed, land 1t might help to offset the extra eat ing too. You know what holiday meals are--not to mention the gift boxes of candy and the marshmal- lows and popcorn and everything else that the children collect" "But they don't have to have them all at once, do they?" asked; "Can't one box of candy do at a time, and can't the rest be put away out of sight?" VI suppose so," said Mrs Johnson, in, rather what children are. They won't rest
 "As for quarrelling. over the presents" l continued, T don't be- lieve they're likely to do that sun- less they're oyer-excited or oyer tired. I know Claire and Robert and Baby John too--get dozens of gifts, not only from their family but from relatives and friends and too much is sometimes as bad as too little. Why don't you do the same with the toys Let the children have evefything for . while, and then quietly put away those in which they seme to lose Interest. Later they can como out again as good na new" Mrs John- son smiled. "That sounds a good idea too, Doctor" she said. land i'll try G."
 It always S seems % . great pity to mo that Christmas is 70 often gpoiledi that what ouHht Co De the happieat day in the year for chil. dren 70 often ends lp tears and iagefd nerves. 4 little oisortlon. Q llttlo tact and common eeRso should prevent this, { think.
 NEXT WEEK. 4 rinnFnn nanlnt lin.
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RPY0UR
 C.AILDREN
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Don't Regard Tired One as Lazy Because He May Only
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 Don't Regard Tired One as Lazy Because He May Only / E-s Ra ys Re III ts .s Sleep may bind up the raveled sleeve of care, but 1t takes long CT thsn 1t does, to rest the arm in the sleeve.
 By this I mean that sensitive high strung children and those who live. too greatly on emotion need a great edal of solid slumber. Usually they are hard to get up in the morning. And when they do get up they don't feel right, Parents are apt to call them lazy and the other children make fun of them. <
 And so, poor little souls, added tp their physical weariness are more troubles.
 Usually they are too thin, but not always Such a child may de- ceive even { watchful eye. The reason may be that after he has been up and around for an hour he appears to function normally, but but this is probably because he begins to live on his nerves again.
 Causes are, obscure, of course. Even the best of doctors are some- times puzzled by this lailguor and sick feeling in some children after. sleep - apparently enough sleep too. 4s
 Once in awhile it happens that the hard-to-get-up child has had some high-grade, disease, scarlet fever, typhoid, diphtheria or some thing else, and has never quite gotten over it. There is a; new theory that in sporadic, cases some of the germs still finger. This, of course, is too unusual to. apply gen. erally. It is merely a thought.
 But 1t seems sensible to think that child may be, at the best generally vitiated from the results of a, disease. Just not quite strong and normal, that is, for a long time after. Or that there may be infection of some sort not account ed for by tonsils, teethrs.or ade- holds. es x ss Whatever it .is, 1t ,shodId not be called laziness.S Z. -
 Sometimes q fatiEue chile, known as ssticll to the doctors, lacks certain sbalancs of body chemistry. This is a matter. Tor k hospital treat attiaetlt and once dtag+ nosed as such siio oald not be fooled 'W1LHa At g1lOlktk tk>p-.S :. 5s+ "
 The real fatigue child shows it in his attifnde. Hanging shoul- ders. hanging jaw, a distressed drawn expression in the eyes, bad color aud little or unnatural appe-
 once gthss fatigue child gets to sleep he usually wants to go, on sleeping forever. & Whatevpf the teason for not wanting to get up. whether the Ecause is nerve-fag, body-fag or in- lection, it should be called to the doctors attention. Naturally the first thing he will say is to give 5 this Title boy or girl at least ten long hours sleep at night and a rest in the afternoon.
 ,s.. If that, still doesn't work and all other attempts to- build him Or < her up fail, thenfhe will do some really serious analysing you may be sure.
 think children don't get enough sleep. that they live these days under too much pressure and excitement and all that. But most of them seem to stand 1t pretty well. It is only the occasional child who needs this special atten- ton. But just calling him lazy won't cure him. He simply can't Icopyrisht 1884. NEA Service Incl
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never lost a case. The only trouble with this parable is that I never had more than a handful of ty- phoid fever cases to treat. But wouldn't it be a swell story if I were as good at lying as I am at bowling?.
 An, but them were the days! The diet for the baby was mathemat- ically computed according to the infants age. Thus, up to the age of 6 months the modified milk formula had to be 3-6-1 and noth- ing else-3 per cent of fat, of sugar, l of protein. Queer how the docs mistrusted protein. Mothers milk generally contains twice that much, but the docs were obsessed with a notion that protein was difficult to digest" so the luckless infant on the bottle had to worry along on half-rations. It was a great era for the pediatric busi- ness; baby specialists made lot of noise in the profession.
 Today young infants whose mothers fall down on the job are not confined to a restricted milk diet, unless their guardians are too dumb to learn anything. The in- fant receives not only straight milk and cream, but fruit juices or the pulp of fresh we'll ripened fruit, scraped beef, carrots, spin ach, beets, sweet potatoes, banana, cod liver oil, cereal gruels, soup, zwieback or crisp toast, cracker, egg. On suchdiet the modern in- fant makes the old item baby look like a sickly creature.
 In tuberculosis we formerly en- deavored to get the patient fat. We thought that ability to store fat was a kind of index of the pa tient's capacity to recover. But we learned better, both from new knowledge of nutrition and from experience. We know now that obesity Is a handicap when the pa tient is battling with tuberculo- sis. The present aim of the com petenet physician is to keep the tuberculosis patient in nutritive equilibrium, diet which keeps him at his ideal weight. This al- ways favors recovery.
 Perhaps if no other respect has our practice changed more than in the treatment of obesity. In place of the freakish, blind and often disastrous dietary restrictions of earlier days we now prevent or correct overweight by a sane reg imen which is physiological and hence san have none but benefi- cial effects on the general health.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Bones Crack
 My bones crack in the joints, sometimes so loudly that it is em-
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barrassing. There is no soreness or pain. I am IT years old. (Miss l.. B.
 AnsWer-More vitamin D, more
 calcium, more exposure of body to
 sunlight Cor artificial ultraviolet), |,
 more physical training. Good way tp get more vitamin D and more cal- cium is by using irradiated milk instead of plain milk-it costs only a cent quart more.
 Scalding Better Than Par-B0iling See the milkman adjust the bit in his horses mouth and then pick up bottle of milk and place it on customers porch, where perhaps stray cats will lick the frozen milk that pushes up the cap Mrs. V. E. M.)
 Answer-Of course there are chances of contamination of milk after 1t has been pasteurized and the bottle capped for delivery. l prefer to buy raw milk, and if the source is at all questionable any disease germs in the milk are des- troyed by bringing the milk to a boil for a minute or less. This
 scalding is as effective. in killing
 the disease germs in milk as Is pas- teurizing (par boiling, heating to 145 degres for 20 to 30 miputes) ],
 and besides the brief scalding is
 less destructive to vitamin c than
 prolonged par-boiling or pasteuriz-
 ing. Finally, it takes care of any
 such contamination as may occur l between pasteurizing station and customers kitchen.
 Copyright 1894, John F. Dille Co)
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SYNOPSIS


 ANN HOILISTER, pretty and
 11, bCcalEB her enga&efnent to
 HONY WICKLE, commercial art
 lt1, became of his drinking ana
 GenetNl Responsibility. The
 same day PETER KENDALL,
 wealthy and prominent, learns
 how VAbERlA BENNETT, his
 Ekncee, hase received him, and
 tells her everything Is over be-
 tween them.
 Ann and Peter, both heart
 sirk and disillusioned, meet in Q
 restaurant. When Peter asks her
 to marry him, Ann agrees.
 They are married that night
 and set out for Florida. They
 spend several weeks there hap
 piiy until Peter is called home 19Nlm because of business. All of
 the Kendall family except Peters
 sister, M1LL1CENT, snub Ann.
 AHillicent gives a dance to in-
 trDduce Ann to society. Tony se-
 cures one of the invitations and
 his jealousy flames afresh. z CHAPTER XXI
 Mac was still at the telephone. After a moment Tony got up, slip ped the invitation in his pocket and left the office. On the way home he stopped in a restaurant. He and Ann had often eaten there. "A hot dog and coffee. Make it strong" Tony said, ''and bring me some water and an extra glass;"
 Sure, Mister Tony" The pro- prietor came back after he had given the order, leaning compan- ibhably on the handicapped counter.
 "The young lady? She has gone away, perhaps?"
 enough business, Nick, to keep you busy?"
 "Sure, sure I have" The man began wiping off the spotless counter and left his irate young customer alone.
 Tony got into his car and drove home. Alone in his apartment he read the invitation again.
 The card was a charm. Present it and some liveried idiot would bow and scrape and usher him irto the Heath home. Someone else would take his hat and coat and then he would be in a crowd and no one would be the wiser. He would see Ann dancing-Ann who had not answered his note. who had avoided him. The desire to see her was like madness in his blood.
 He fixed himself a drink and undressed. He tried reading him. self to sleep. It was no use.
 The thought of the card kept b0bbipg up in his stream of thought. All he had to do was to be John Macdonald for tonight to butter and few strangers. And he would see Ann. He would have, the chance he had been wait ing for to tell her what a rotten thing she had done, running away frdiii him that night, narrying Peter Kendall when she loved him
 When she knew in her lieart that Eileen and all the other women in the world could go straight to hell as far as Tony was concerned.
 10 was no use. He would have this thing out with her. Now. He got out his evening clothes with shaking fingers and turned on his bath.
 Ann, picture in exquisite. costly siEaplicity, and Valeria model of expansive sophistication, stood staslng into each others eyes.
 Milllcent had introduced them.
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1.-Aiyah E. Lauer and Harold L. Kotvis carried out extensive tests on the powers of observation of automobile drivers. The, subject was seated at the wheel of an aut tomobile with a moving canvas be- fore him which gave the impress sion of driving on q highway with all it's signals, turns, obstructions etc, and the experiments proved that, on the average, older drivers saw less and saw less quickly than younger drivers. Every, driver should be. compelled to undergo similar tests.
 Every often. Edison. as his biograpter relates, could have had his hearing restored by an opera ton and the day was set. When the time came however. he ie- fused, as he said his, deafness shut out noises and a lot of nonsense and enabled him to concentrate much better, on his work. While deafness is distressing to the indi-
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only too glad now to have the tam gle unwound by legal methods.
 Tony was pulling Ann toward him, his dark head bent toward her. Ann, resisting. whispered. Please, let's play the game fair ly."
 He drew back then, not because of her words, but because he had heard some one enter the conser- vatory. Peters face was white and stern. He said, Isn't this mine, Ann ?"
 "Peter," said Ann in . tremu- lous voice. 'I want you to meet Tony Mickle.'
 The two men bowed stiffly.
 Ann said. "Goodby. Tony"
 He answered, "Good night, Ann"
 And because she guessed his pain. she said gently. "Dance with me again"
 Some other time. I'm running along now"
 Flame in Tony's eyes. Steel In Peter's.
 Ann breathed easier. Somehow something terrible which had been about to happen. hadn't.
 (TO 3o C0ntiDued)
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Old Timers Should Revise Their Funny Notions About
 Diet

Old Timers Should Revise Their
 Funny Notions About
 Diet.
 When I was an interne we had g good deal of typhoid fever, and the conventional diet in such cases was milk or at least only liquids. What the medical profession didn't know about diet and nutrition then fills many books now. Internes are ap- prentice doctors. During their in- ternship they see the staff doctors at work and have some opportun- ities to get their hand in under the control of the staff. Internes may learn not only how to do things but also how not to do things. Once a typhoid patient up and died on us. At the necropsy we found a ty- phoid ulcer in the intestine perfor- ated by tough mass of gristle. Not gristle from meat. Just curd of milk. From that I inferred that liquid diet isn't always what it is cracked up to be, or something to that effect. When I got out into practice for myself I allowed by typhoid fever patients to have scraped beef, toast ,aggs sooked as they preferred. ice cream, ripe banana, fresh fruit juices-and l
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yidual such persons testify that it leads to greater alertness in order to See and follow what is going on. Alfred Adler. psychologist. main tains that nearly all civilization is the outcome of efforts to over come feelings of inferiority. often caused by physical defect.
 3.-Certainly because of three great changes in the patterns of our lives. The husbands life is vastly more varied, especially if he lives in the city; second his wife has become much more eemanci- pated," probably has a job of her brown, or if not has many social activities: and third rearing and educating children to-day Is infin- itely more difficult than formerly. The automobile alone has made it vastly harder to keep track even of where, they are and if the airplane becomes common, the children may drop in from some other part or the world for e meal.
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By ALICIA HART NEA Service Staff Writer

The woman who sat next to us in the theater the other night l had one of the sweetest faces ever have seen. Tender and faint l ly smiling, expertly made up, it was framed by a smooth, careful ly groomed coiffure that en- hanced each soft feature. She proved concIusively that middle age can be fetchingly attractive a shining example of what a wom- an can do to keep lovely through the years.
 A woman of about the same age nearby was a sharp and not very pleasant contract. She, poor thing, apparently had put on makeup and arranged her hair in an effort to appear quite young. Her rouge was too vivid, powder so thick that it emphasized the lines in her throat, and hair done up in debutante-ish ringlets that were far from flattering, if not actually ridiculous.
 Every nlatlire woman should realize the importance of a becom- ing coiffure. It doesn't necessari- ly have to be straight-if waves are flattering, by all means wear them-but, whether long or bob- bed, it should be rather dignified. and completely in keeping with your age and clothes. It always must me sleek, shiny and clean, too.
 Tn addition to hot oil treat nnent once a month and a sham poo every ten days, a nightly brushing is important. If you dye your graying locks, have them re. touched often enough to prevent streaks and an untidy look. If not, have your hairdresser do all she can to make the white hairs absolutely pure white. As a mat ter of fact, there's much to be said in favor of white hair. It not only softens the features, but gives you a chance to wear all the pretty soft shades of pink. blue, laven- der and green that you never dared select before your hair turned.
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GLORIFYlNe 
\ HxAIicieHsrs
xi4SyN Nsk LANCE IEiE

When q woman feels she's growing old she starts watch- ing the gray hairs. What- ever the color, hair can be the maturing wOnlan's crOwning glory throughout life if she will follow a few suggestions for its care. Read Alicia Hart's advice in this third of her special series of articles.
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CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS


 Christmas shopping?" I had full of packages, on the main tend to do 1t early" she said with works Same here,H I told her, relieving her of the biggest parcels. Tt seems silly to do it before Thanksgiving. yet there's so little ktime after"
 Mrs Johnson was silent for a moment, and, glancing at her, face. She must have noticed my glance, for she suddenly exclaimed, "Do you know, Doctor. I'm dread mas?" "Yes. .. wouldn't let when its all over: the candy eat- nut shells all over the fioor-and the squabbling about presents and the late nights-and the par but I really mean it."
 She looked so serious that l couldn't help smiling, T expect q BOou HhuJ RaEehte WVtio Sbtes with you" I replied, though the youngsters probably wouldn't. But does tt have to be as bad as you suggest 2" "Weli," began Mrs Johnson. "take Christmas Eve, for instance. We always dress the christmas tree after supper. and everybody takes q hand--which means late bedtime for Robert and Claire and even when they do get to bed they stay awake half the night. wondering whether it's Christmas morning yeti" "They'd Dc strange children if they didn't" said l, "hut couldn't y0u arrange for them botil io take q good. Ions nap in the afiern0onf Oh, know they might protest" hurried on before Hho could object. ''and think they were missing some of Inc fun but you might assure them on ihRt point. Tho longer they rest on
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for q small gift than those twist edsea- shells of white pottery to hold flowers. Or q well-propor- tioned lamp with a niceiy-carved white pottery base and a white parchment shade. White, inci- dentally, is being used a lot this year for accent in all kinds of rooms, so that a white ornament is about as good a guess as any.
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TWINS HAD DIFFERENT
 BIRTHDAYS

Cinoinnnti--(uP)-Twins with the General hospital here. daugh. diflarent birthdays were born % ters Of Alma and Everett smith, ff Cincinnati. One child was born at iii40 D. nl., the socond i7 min- uten later. at isieg c. fn., just AlA mlnutes after a new day had started.
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An extra gadget that hardly any hostess would buy for herself but would have fun with if somebody gave 1t to her is n silver plated brandy heater to use for warming the liqueur to put in after-dinner coffee-or to make hot butter sauce at the table.
 And of course there's the travel- ling case for fish which sounds cuckoo, but really is not a bad idea when you think Of all the people who can't go away for a long weekend because their tropical fish would turn over on their storn-
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APPENDIX ON LEFT SIDE
 Waynesburgh, Pa (UP)-It took a little probing on the part of sur geons to find William Graysinger's ailing appendix. But they found 1t --on the left side, instead of the right. They weren't surprised much. for they already had found his heart on the right side.
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plan m Lnl8 CdSSy uOWcNcEs gO uc certain that your emergency gift went to somebody who already had fishi
 Ttyo-Faced Uock
 The two-faced electric clock, es- peciaily for table between two beds, has merits that are instantly apparent to even the most casual shopper. So has the reading lamp that tilts in any direction and fo- cuses light only on the reading matter. It could be used to great advantage by the wife whose hus- >6kha doesn't like to read In bed. She could finish her detective story at a. m. and he would never know she hadn't been fast asleep all the time.
 The desk pad, set in metal stand with rubber feet and An electric light bulb under the roll at. the top Is amazingly cheap and, highly convenient. Seems, as 2 if nearly everything comes with its. own light this Christmas. anyway, including a cigarette case suitable for man or woman of the most pampered tyne in which the cover rolls open. The hameless lighter is built in. @ sar
 Prop for Newspaper
 The newspaper rack for the breakfast table has obvious points. You prop up the paper out of reach of the marmalade and but- ter and use both hands for caring into the bacon and eggs. 7
 The increase in armchair trav- elling Cor something) has made maps and globes more popular this year than ever before. The globes, too, come with their own illumina- tiotl. Press a button and there. tha world is, lignted up at your ,whiin.
 one of the newest notes in gAid- gets Is the co1ored copper vase Cor 1t might be a bowD With real low CTS worked in as .adornmente by st process which is a secret. 5.
 So there you are emergency gifts that at least you are unlikely 10 give away this year and get back next! Because the recipient will like them too well to part with them.