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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-29
FAVOUR CHILDREN
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Betty, aged two, can't dress her. self. Betty, aged ten, can't darn her stockings. Betty, aged eighteen, can- not make herself a petticoat.
 Betty at two cannot feed her- self. At ten she can't set the table. At twenty she cannot cook g meal. !. BECAUSE when the time was ripe for beginnings her mother al- ways said, "She makes such a mess of things can do it more easily myself" You see, she had her eye on results, not on Betty.
 It is a recognized fact that the child who is given the opportun- ity to try will develop dexterity twice as fast as the one who is held back. Furthermore, he ( or she) must be encouraged to do things that he cannot do at all.
 Deterioration Follows
 People who go through life per- forming only those feats that come easy or natural to them grow moss. And as nothing stands still, but either goes back or forward, dete- rioration sets in and they cease to do even easy tasks well. The next stage to familiarity with a job is carelessness and lethargy.
 Betty at two should have been taught to pull on her stockings, crooked and twisted perhaps, but on. At ten she should be shown how to darn her stockings and sew 8 rip- ped hem. The stockings might be 8 snarl and the dress not so good either, but these two acts in finger dexterity are the best things in the world for her. After two or three tries she might get the hang of 1t, maybe not.
 Perhaps she never will be a him. ble sewer. But that effort she makes is the best practice she can have. If she can't set a hem at ten, or a darn either, just when is she going to learn to cut out simple pattern and make things?
 Mental Agility Takes Practice
 oy tllC cdlklC tOhCJ4p OtAACA SAaNCo are learned by practice, besides fln- ger deftness. There are, for instance, the muscles of the mind. What is true of physical agility and its cul- tivation is applicable to mental de- velopment.
 It is wise to give the child things to think about that are just a. little beyond him. Not too hard, because that may lead to Encouragement. But a bit of dif- ficulty to meet and conquer, even though the victory is only part of a victory, is something gained.
 We don't improve ourselves by doing only what we have managed somehow to absorb, but by attempt ing the next-to-impossible feat.
 Betty will learn after much struggle to put on her shoes as well as her stockings. In year she can dress herself. The big event is the day she STARTED, not the day she walks in completely caparisoned.
 Beginnings may be messy, but they count. Copyright 1885, NEA Service, Incl
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because of me-for yourself. Why, you don't know anything about him. You don't know who he is or where he came from or what he does or anything, For all you know he may be a crook"
 "Bobbyl" There was real anger in her voice now.
 "Well, it's so. You don't know. You met him in a night club. Larry Glenn said you never know, who you meet in a place like that. He might be gangster. He might"
 "Stop!" she cried, her eyes blaz- ing.
 Well, it's true,' he said. She looked at him scornfully.
 T don't think that of you, Bobby"
 Think what?"
 "That you'd be so jealous you'd you'd blackguard a man behind his back, when he isn't here to de- fend himself"
 "I'rn not blackuarding him."
 "Oh, mol"
 "Well, I'm not. I'm just" "What do you call it. then? Tell ing me he may be crook or a gangster! He's 8 clean-cut, decent boy. You're the one that doesn't know anything about him. I do. I've seen him lot. I like him."
 They sat facing each other, flushed, intensely in earnest, in- tensley unhappy, and both of them If an outsider could have watched just little ludicious, as youth is when it eagerly turns 8 little misunderstanding into 8 great quarrel.
 And then, to his complete amaze ment, she began to cry on his shoulder.
 AS she sat in the Pullman car the next afternon, on her way to her home in Maplehurst, Jean tried in vain to think her way out of the distressing emotional tangle with which her two young admirers had presented her.
 It wasn't right of Bobby, she told herself indignantly, to try to poison her mind about Sandy. Sandy was as honest as-as anybody. It wasn't his fault that he'd had that little mixup with the police; and anyway, that had bean strengthened out in- stantly, as soon as Jean went to the police station and explained that Sandy had been with her that Fri day afternoon
 She drowned faintly. Why did she always fel vaguely uncomfort- abel when she thought of that? What was wrong with 1t? She and Sandy had gone canoeing; 8 week later she had saved Sandy some embarrassment by telling the police about it. What was 1t that kept tapping at the door of her mind, telling her that there was some- thing wrong with 1t?
 Then, suddenly, she knew, and gripped the arms of the Pullman chair in panic dismay.
 She remembered, now: that af- ternoon when Bobby came to see MT. Montague, and she got the af- ternoon of and went out with Sandy.
 The robbery of which Sandy had been suspected had happened on a Friday. She had convinced the police that Sandy was innocent be- cause he had been canoeing with her that Friday afternoon. But she remembered now.
 It hadn't been 6 Friday, after all. She had gone canoeing with Sandy on Thursday. On the Friday when the robbery occurred she hadn't seen him at .alll \, tTo ps Centinuedj
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Style Chats

Paris. (UPl-This seasons gen- erous use of fur as trimming ne- cessitates changes in the feminine silhouette. The broader shoulder line of winter capes and coats has to be balanced by new treatment of the hipline, while hats need to be a little wider to give symmetry to the wearer. The balance Is achieved by the use of large fur pockets, fur belts which correspond with en-
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asked. Jean resorted to one of those little mannerisms which women use at such moments, and carefully patted her hair into place in front of her right ear.
 "Why, nothing" she said inno- gently.
 "well-" said Bobby doubtfully.
 "Well?" ..
 "Well, why dont-why don't you want me to kiss you?"
 AS matter of fact, Jean was wondering the same thing. Why didn't she want him to? But she only said, "Oh, Bobby, let's - just talk"
 Bobby stared at her, then made a humorous grimace, took his arm away, and said, "Okay. Let's talk. Go ahead"
 She pouted prettily and said, "Oh, Bobby, don't be like that"
 Like what?"
 They looked at each other, and discovered that they were close to quarrel, and neither of them un- derstood quite why.
 What's the matter tonight? Want me to go home?" demanded Bobby.
 "Nothing's the matter. Do you want to go?"
 The looks they were exchanging came closer to the classification of glare" Bobby sat back and crossed his legs. He took out cigaret and lit it with vast care. Then, impul- sively, he dropped his cigaret into the ashtray, turned to face Jean, laid his hands on hers, and said softly, "Jean, dearest, let's not quar- rel-please. Is anything wrong?"
 To his surprise her eyes became misty. She shook her head "No,"
 T love you, Jean. You love me, don't you?"
 She looked at him a long time before she answered, and then she found herself saying, rather shakily:
 "Oh Bobby, it's so - you see, we've known each other all our lives, and I know I'm terribly fond of you .. but I wonder"
 "Yes?"
 q wonder if maybe" "
 She left the sentence unfinished He frightened his grip on her hands and said, "Please, Jean, for Heav- ems sake-maybe what?"
 "Oh-" She withdrew her hands, reached for microscopic handker- chief, and dabbed at the corner of one eye. Maybe it's just that I love you like - like a sister would. I mean"
 Bobby suddenly had a depressing mental image of the long and TO- mantle figure of Sandy Harkins; and he said soberly, "Jean, is there do you care for somebody else?"
 She looked miserably at the floor and said, T don't know"
 You never thought you loved me like a sister until just now," per- sisted Bobby. Tt It." He hesi- tated. Then, hating himself for saying it, he said, "Is it this Har- kins fellow?"
 She made no answer but contin- ued to stare at the floor. Bobby looked at her for long time. He felt a sudden flare of anger not at Jean, but at the lanky westerner who, he believed, had come between them.
 Tt is, isn't it?" he said. Still she made no answer, but it seemed to him that her continued silence was answer enough.
 Don't do it, Jean," he said at last. His anger put an unexpected rasp in his voice. She looked up, surprised. Don't do what?" she asked.
 Don't fall for that bird" he said, his tone more harsh than he has intended to make 1t.
 There was a glint of anger in the line of her mouth as she returned his gaze. He ignored 1t, ignored caution as well, and plunged on:
 For your own good, JeanI Not
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GAS KILLS STATELY FILMS.

0zKO 1KAANO O1<A1EH4 zS111v15s Toledo, o. (UP) Three rows of stately elms more than a half cens tury old, lining one of Tolodo's most fashionable streets, are doom- ed. Gas escaping from a main t,n- der the street last winter was held in frozen gronund until it poisoned the trees.
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CHAPTER XXI


 :. After jotting down the license number of the car, and ascertain ing that Lewis had neither asked for any road maps nor made any < casual remarks that would give any clew as to the direction he had planned to take, Larry and his men s returned to the federal building. In 1. his office Larry reassembled his < staff about him.
 "Now," he said, we've got to 2 drift around town and ask ten mill !. lion questions. Somewhere around Dover there must be someone who has some sort of notion what part of the country these people were apt to head for. It's up to us to find out-fast."
 Even a government detective on a manhunt has time for @ little pri- vate Ifes occasionally = especially when the trail he is on grows cold and leaves him, temporarily, with out lead. So it happened that the night after the raid found Larry Glenn and Bobby Wallace eating an informal dinner with Jean Dunn ir, Jeans apartment.
 The dinner was by way of being 8 farewell party for Jean, who was to leave for home, on a weeks va- cation, the following day. Bobby, chastened and humble because of his misadventure with the stolen bonds, looked at her admiringly as che oov.rtaI fha S,oaoI cIaa xv,o c x,ax,, pretty, with crinkly little apron over her summer frock, and she happened also to be an excellent cook.
 Jean simply must marry him, the 1ove-smitten youth unused, gazing darkly into his bowl of consomme, his spoon poised at the brim. She had been seeing 8 good deal of this Sandy Harkins, and that was a bad thing-for hadn't Larry Glenn dis covered facts that convinced him that Sandy was gangster, a mem Der of the desperate Red Jackson nnobl Of course, Jean really could not care anything for the man |. but 1t wasn't a good thing for a girl like her to be associated with him at all. Oh, well, Bobby would get her to set definite date for their wedding, and we'd warn her about Harkins, and
 But just then the others recalled him to his surroundings by asking him if he had gone into a trance, and his earnest daydream dis solved in embarrassed laughter.
 They had a pay evening, these three old friends, recalling home town experiences, joking about peo- pie they had known and pranks they had played as children, and revelling in the intimacy of old friendship.
 One incident occurred - thing which seemed utterly trivial, at the time, but which was to become much later, an event of vast i'm portance.
 Jean learned, for the first time, that Larry was Department of Justice operative. Highly thrilled she piled him with questions about his job, and asked him, among other things, how fingerprints were taken. Larry explained by giving g demonstration.
 It happened that Jean had an ink pad on her desk. Taking it and a sheet of note paper, Larry play fully took impressions of her finger tips, explaining how each persons prints differ from every other per-
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
 BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

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TODAY's FASHION TIP

Cloth coats heavily trimmed with fur are smarter than fur coats this season.
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Suited for Dinner
Jacket Dress Features High Collar

Silver
 silk metal
 in an
 interesting pattern is used to fashion an attractive dinner suit for restaurant dining. This consists of foor-length dress with upstanding
 collar,
 lined in
 mulberry velvet,
 and g short jacket, also lined
 with the velvet and trimmed
 with white fox. tseen in the Terrace Room at the Plaza,
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RYNOPsTs

LEAN DUNN, secretary to DOM AID MONTAGUE, lawyer, delays her answer when Bobby Wallace, automobile salesman, asks Jean e marry him.
 At the Golden Feather night club she meets SANDY HARKINS whose business connection is vague. Sandy introduces Bobby and Jean to MIR. and MRS. LEW IS and Bobby arranges to sell some bonds for Lewis. He sells them to Jeans employer.
 LARRY GLENN, federal agent, long . friend of. Jeans parents, is trying to locate Wingy Lewis, Bank robber. Larry locates some stolen bonds and questions SON. NY BOYD, gambler, about them. Boyd confesses he bought the bonds from Donald Montague. Montague tells Larry he bought them from Bobby.
 Larry talks to Bobby, learns Lewis bought a car recently, and suspects it is armored. Federal men go to Lewis hotel but he and his wife have disappeared.
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BY JOSEPHINE GIBSON

0x JO6Ek xAAINEs UAD0OlN
 Do plan to give the children a Halloween party this year. No gala day is so adaptable to childish ways with all its witchery and magic, it's pranks. And it really takes so little effort to make @ child's party a success that 1t sems pity to pass up the opportunity. You have only to revive the old games and stories, set this spooky party table, and serve the gay food suggested below. For a party table, cover the dining table with strips of black crepe paper and serve on plain white china or paper plates. Light the darkened room with short white candles stuck in painted black bot ties grouped around ghostly cen- terpiece. To make the centerpiece, inf1ate several white balloons with gas, fasten them securely to the tablecloth with string, paint strange black faces on the balloons, and tie a light cheescloth triangle about each string for ghostly garb. Then serve this amusing simple menu, and the children will all have a splendid time.
 Apricot Sherbet
 Ginger Drop Cookies
 Halloween H0bgOblins
 Cider
 Apricot Sherbet (serves 6)-Com- bine cup sugar, A cup water, pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon Pure Cider Vinegar. Cover and boil un- til syrup forms short threads when dropped from tip of spoon. Pour over 2 egg whites which have been stffly beaten, and continue beating until mixture is 1ukewarm. Add l cup apricot pulp and 1A cups milk and mix thoroughly. Pour into freezing tray and freeze, without stirring, required number of hours Usually 5 to 6 bours).
 Ginger Drop Cookies-Cream A cup butter, add h cup sugar grad
Evening star., 1935-07-30

( Jobless Drop in Scotland.
! Registered unemployed in Scot
land now number $4,000, a decrease
of $4,000 in IL months.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANKOW China. July 30-A great
pile of rude wooden cofflns-a verl-
table mountain of the dead-is grow
ing ever higher on the banks Of the
Yangtse River near here.
Red Cross workers are pursuing
their grim task of reclaiming the
bodies of food victims swept down
from the inundated up-river districts.
A corps of carpenters is working
feverishly in an effort to provide the
coffins in the huge numbers needed.
Every corpse must be encofined in
accordance with the Chinese belief
that the spirits of the dead are
doomed to eternal restlessness unless
their bodies are decently inferred.
$500 Collins Piled Up.
Already 1900 of these unpainted
wooden boxes are stacked along the
banks while hundreds of other bodies
await the construction of their last
receptacles.
The bodies recovered are believed
to represent only a fraction of the
total loss of life in the floods, as it is
known that tens of thousands Of VIC
Tins were trapped inside the walls of
cities and behind dikes or swept sea-
ward.
Although the peak of the floods was
definitely believed passed today and
the waters were receding sharply, the
details of the devastation are only be-
ginning to filter in.
Only One Town Escapes.
The Rev. Adolph Koehler Of Nico-
lett, Mimi, returning from 70-mile
journey up the overflowing Han River,
said he encountered only one town in
that entire distance which escaped
inundation.
High spots on the dikes and other
patches of dry land were literally
black with humanity" said the Rev.
Mr.. Koehler. When we stopped,
they crowded around by the hundreds
pleading for medicines and food.
Many of them are subsisting en-
tirely on the occasional watermelons
which are floating down the river.
Hundreds are ravaged by dysentery,
typhoid and other epidemic diseases -
Stories of Missionary Heroism.
Deeds of missionary heroism are
frequently told by the flood victims.
At Chung Hsiang, north of here, an
avalanche of water poured into the
city with such violence that one sur
vivor thought the end of the world
had come" Missionaries saved
scores of lives by rescuing victims
from tree tops and the roofs of sub
merged houses.
In some of the flooded districts, the
people have returned to their ruined
homes and now are fishing from boats
Evening star., 1935-07-30
BIDS OF 81 TO $150.o9
FOR THE MACON REFUSED
Navy Abandons Scheme to Get
Some Compensation for Loss Of
$2,5OO, 900 Dirigible.

BY the Associated Press.
SUNNYVALE. Calf, July 30.-The
Navy believes bids Of 81 to $l50.9s
for wreckage of the S2.500,000 Navy
dirigible Macon, now reposing some
where in the Pacific Ocean OF Point
Sur, Calf, are too low.
Officers of the air base here said
yesterday naval executives had sought
to obtain some return from the wreck
age, but when offers ranging from 81
by Max Eugene Nohl Of Milwaukee,
Wis, to $15O99 from the Winchester
Salvage Co. of Portland came in they
decided to abandon the project.
The Macon sank with the loss OF
two lives last February after, accord
ing to. testimony presented at an in
quiry, the metal structure at the top
fin collapsed.
Evening star., 1935-07-30

committee with bottle lock which
ne said would put an end to bootleg
ging as practiced by several large
liquor corporations. When Barlow be-
came more specific. charging National
Distillers Corp. with being head Of q
bootleg ring" Senator Clark threat
ened contempt proceedings for his re-
fusal to give proof Of the statement.
In a subsequent letter to Clark,
Barlow expressed his resentment at
the bullying" he had received and
said he was willing to accept the con-
tempt citation in order tc expose ths
boJtleggers."
The committee hearing came I'D In
connection with the Federal alcohol
control bill.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
DlSTILLERY CHARGE
DISPUTE IS DROPPED
Clark Tells Bottle Lock Designer
He Will Not Press In
quiry.

BY Lnc ASSoclhtco fresS.
Following an exchange Of heated
correspondence between Senator
Clark, Democrat, Of Missouri, and
Lester p. Barlow, bottle designer,
over Barlows refusal a. Senate
Finance Committee hearing to explain
charges that big distilleries headed
bootleg rings" Clark today dropped
the matter.
He told Barlow in letter that. "As
I do not believe that the expenditure
Of public funds or waste of valuable
time in advertising your patent prod
uct would be justiflable. I shall not
press the demands for your citation" !"
Barlow, an engineer for Yale &
Towne Co, had appeared before the
Evening star., 1935-07-30

trafic' policeman's whistle disturbed
the efficiency Of the robbers.
Before the clerks could free them
selves the loot-loaded thieves had dis
appeared in the hurrying crowd.
The Marie Antoinette necklace vas
displayed In the window on q model
neck as headless as the Queens came
to be. The necklace was made up Of
25 fiat-cut rubies Of from one to two
carats each. set in gold filigree with
small diamonds and with ruby and
diamond clasp.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
$1,000 TO LOSE RELIEF

TORONTO, July 30 R.-Onta-
rios $4,000 or more single jobless men
will be crossed of the relief rolls
Thursday under Premier Mitchell
Hepburn's plan to increase the avail
able supply of farm labor.
A protest movement led by Mayor
James Simpson Of Toronto appeared
to have little support from other
municipal leaders.
Hepburn said there was . scarcity
of farm labor,
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Alfonso Is Exonerated.

MADRID. July 80 CP).-The Su-
preme Court exonerated former King
Alfonso and his ther-in-law, In
fante Fernando de Bavicra, yesterday
on charges Of graft in connection
with contract involving the Onta-
media Calatayud Railway during the
dictatorship.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
MARIE ANT0INETTE
NECKLACE STOLEN
Bandits Take Famed Jewels in
$4,000 Robbery at Fifth Ave-
nue. Shop in New York.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 30.-A ruby neck
lace, which jewelers. claimed once
adorned the neck Of Marie Antoinette,
was in the hands of thieves today
after a daring jewel robbery.
The necklace, valued at $4,000, was
seized with other gems valued up
ward from $4,000 during the rush
hour late yesterday from the store
of Nicolai Miller at TAB Fifth avenue.
Two robbers bound and gagged two
clerks, and within 10 minutes cleaned
out the show windows and show cases.
Hundreds Of pedestrians hurried by
In front. Trafflc-jammed automobiles
honked. Neither these nor the shrill
blasts of the busy Fifty-seventh street
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Mountain of the Dead Redrs
As Chinese Floods Recede
Wooden Coffins Are Piled High, While
Hundreds of Bodies Are Recovered
After Vide Devastation.

| for their sacks of rice, beans and
ether possessions.
Among the many stories Of whole
sale tragedies, few are more poig-
nant than that told by the survivors
from Miehyang, who said that 1000 of
their townspeople were swept to death
while laboring to repair a weakened
dixie. The workers on the dixie were
isolated as on an island when both
ends of the abutment were swept
away. They, too, were carried into
the food before the eyes Of their
neighbors and relatives.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Jewe1ry-Street Floor

500 Pieces 81 Costume Jewelry
In summer shades-bracelets. clips pins, earrings EN
Evening star., 1935-07-30

Mr.. Holcomb Rogers and Miss Edith
Rogers have had as their guests last
week at Blossom Hill. their home at
Floris, Va, Miss Dorothy Rogers of
New Brunswick, N. j.: Miss Katherine
Rogers of Trenton, N. j.; Mrs. John
p. Willman and her two children
Edith and Jim of Ithaca, N. Y, and
Miss Mary Eleanor Rodgers of Fa-
her, Va.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
PART OF PLANE DROPS
1000 FEET INTO HOME
Piece of Steel Penetrates Roof and
Lower Floor Ceiling-Barely
Misses Girl.
Y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, July 30.-The
steel rocker box of an airplane cylin-
der head worked loose 1000 feet above
the city yesterday and hurtled down
through the roof Of the home Of
George c. West.
West said the box, about six inches
deep and a foot long, tore through
both the roof and the dining room
ceiling, barely missing his 13-year-old
daughter, Barbara.
Clyde Freeman, pilot, made safe
landing with the crippled motor.