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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-04
GLORrFYTNG YOURSELF
Comparative Beauty
MEASURINGS BEST GUIDE
 FOR DIET

Just as important as the bath room scales on which every beauty minded woman should weight herself daily is an accur7 ate tape measure with which to check up on dimensions. To gain a pound is no special calamity providing your measurements re- main about the same.
 However, if, instead of being evenly distributed. the added weight is taken on across the hips and the tape measure shows a wider spread there, something ought to be done before another pound is gained.
 Starting a strenuous reducing routine when you know absolutely nothing about your measurements is all wrong If your hips are too broad but the rest of your dimen- sions perfectly all right, obviously exercise and not diet is in order. If you are overweight in several places go ahead with the diet, us- ing the tape measure each night to see if you are losing proportionate weight around waistline, hips, legs and arms.
 Remember that height and age have an important bearing on what your dimensions should be. Just because o woman aged thir- ty is the same height she was at twenty doesn't mean that her measurements should be the same. She ought to be a trifle larger everywhere as she gets older.
 As shining examples of correctly proportioned women you can very well take some of the mmercial models and screen actresses who look healthy rather than too thin and angular in spots.
 There is, for instance, Edna Waldron, Hollywood screen dam cer, whom dance directors say has a perfect 1895 figure. She's feet 3 1-2 inches tall. Her throat measures II IA inches; bust, 33 1-2: waist, 23 1-2: hips, 33 1-2 and calf F -1-2 inches.
 A commercial photographers model who is feet inches tall measures 34 inches about the bust; 36 around hips; S7 around waistline and 13 around the calf of her leg. She's twenty-five.
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Nearly all salads, whether they are fruit, vegetable or meat, are better for the addition of few apples. Cubes of tender, crisp ap- pie add flavor and body to fruit cups, too.
 Apples for pie. sauce and pud- dings to be baked should be tart, well, favored and of fine texture to insure quick cooking. Those wanted for baking should be per- fectly formed, firm and of good size. If they are too delicate in grain, they will fall apart while baking and be unattractive for serving.
 Add Sugar Last.
 When you make apple sauce, remember the rule of adding su- gar to fruit after the fruit is cooked. Less sugar is. needed to sweeten the sauce and the flavor is more delicate that way. If you have not carefully trimmed out all bruised spots before cooking, the sauce should be rubbed through colander because the bruised flesh of apples becomes hard and tough after cooking. Also be sure that every particle of core is cut out, especially if children are to eat the sauce.
 Apple sauce with pork and roast goose is on old story, but try 1t with veal and chicken, too. Baked apples are a perfect dessert to serve with a lamb, chop dinner. Minted apples are good with roast lamb. Instead of using leg of lamb, choose the shoulder and have the butcher bone 1t for you. Save the bones for broth the next day. Then make stuffing and fill the boned cut, tie securely and. roast as usual. T ry apple cordial with a mixed grill dinner some evening when you have 8 man guest.
 Apple Cordial.
 Four large apples, 1-2 lemon, 1-2 cup light domestic wine, 1-2 cup sugar. tablespoons water, tablespoon butter.
 Wash and core apples but do not peel. Slash skin four or five times from top of apple down half way. Put in buttered bak. ing dish, Sprinkle with grated rind and juice of lemon and pour over 8 syrup made of wine, sugar water and butter. Cover. baking dish and bake one hour or until apples are tender in slow oven (325 degrees F.) Baste the apples ofAen with the juice in the dish. Serve warm or chilled with the juice in the baking dish and 8 dab of whipped cream.
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RR YOUR CHILDREN
. A Qese Robssss He.Aea 2.


,,, What is GerOline dOinsY" asked
 studying" said her mother.
 The neighbor looked blank. The radio upstairs was going full tilt and every sonoroug word could be distinctly heard in the 1ivins room. At intervals an ominous gong would sound, to add creeps to the mystery story.
 Caroline's mother smiled. "Sha can't study unless she has some sort of racket going on," she ex- plained. "The minute she goes to her room she turns on the radio. Children are funny nowadays. You and couldn't do it that way, could we?"
 T should say not. Why can hardly talk to you. Doesn't it make you nervous?"
 I'm used to 1t. I used to be fidgety, but I don't notice 1t any more."
 ''Do you mean she really studies when someone is telling an excit- ing story?"
 Learn to Work Amid Din
 "She seems to get her lessons. oh, suppose she stops to listen now and then. But they say it's good for young people to learn to concentrate with all sorts of noise going on about them. In some schools where they teach short hand and typing they see that there is plenty of noise so that when a girl gets a job later she will be able to work without dis- traction"
 "Yes. can see why that is," acknowledged the neighbor. "But do you actually think children can think deeply and be interested in what they are doing with jazz band dinning in their ears?"
 '"They used to tell us that the Chinese studied aloud in school. And I have heard they do it in some of the Russian schools to- day. There must be some idea behipd 1t, noise mean-there's always some reason you know"
 My brother is a minister" said the neighbor thoughtfully. When he writes his sermons he has to havet he house as quiet as the back woods. He says he cannot feel very spiritual with the elec- tric sweeper going. do think there are times when we should think without 8 racket. It's good for us and easier on our nerves. I can't imagine writing poetry in g boiler works or planning next years garden with broken chain clacking against the fender of the car."
 Her hostess nodded. That's right. It is the spiritual side that suffers. isn't 1t? No time to be emotional. Maybe that is the idea. Young people today don't want to be emotional. They want to avoid sentiment, to avoid soul searching and feelings. The moment is enough. don't know whether they'll be happier or sorricr for it."
 "Well, goodnight. I must go."
 ooh, please don't. I'll tell Caro- line to turn off that radio"
 It ceased in an instant and the girl came downstairs. '"Through?" asked her mother.
 "No." said Caroline. "Tll fin. ish after while." As the visitor left a half hour later she ran up- stairs. "I'll finish my composition on Goethe" she called. As the door closed the radio snored out, "Oh, there was a COW, and her name was Mike" The lady es- capped.
 (Copyright 1895 NEA Service. Incl
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SYNOPSIS

RUTH WOODsON, pretty, rgRmlleas girl Of 10 in search of work, seeks refuge from . storm tn an old stone house with . blue door in the little town of Worthwhile. The queer old house. lreeper, BERTH GIBBS, also known as PENNY, thinks Ruth tO be ELAINE CHALMERS, whose grandfather built the house. Ruth falls in love with JOHN McNEHIL and decides to say on, pOsing as Elaine.
 Elaine Chalmers, at Graycastle College, vows in . sorority meet 1ng to win the love of her chiI. hood hero, John McNeiIl. John receives . letter from Elaine and realizes that the girl next door is an impostor. He loves her, regardless. He is called out of town suddenly and leaves Q note 6f explanation for Ruth, but Bertha Gibbs fails to give 1t to her.
 Ruth fears John has gone away in disgust. That night she saves from suicide DUNCAN HUNTER, Elaine's uncle, who has been hiding in the old house after escaping from an insane asylum where he has been un- justly held. She persuades him to prove his sanity legally.
 
 Elaine arrives and discovers Ruth has been using her name. She talks cruelty and Ruth goes away. As she is hitch-hiking to Cleveland she is picked up and given . job in that city as house. maid. Elaine talks with her uncle. Meanwhile John is hur- rying home to Ruth.
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PARIS STYLES By MARY FENTREss

(United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Paris (UP)-Dilkusha's new winter collection is inspired by the Russian renaissance period and clearly shows the strong Italian in- fiuence which prevailed in Russia during the seventeenth century. peasant necks and large sleeves in riot of rich colors characterize this collection.
 Extremely interesting is her new town suit in green ribbed wool Lastex with a short tied jacket which buttons on a curved line. The jacket has Q high, round, stand-up collar of golden brown seal, IS edged at the hem with seal, and has puffed sleeves whose full ness comes from an extended tight wrist band. The skirt is worn with frothy blouse of lighter green organza. The old-fashioned, high necked yoke is covered with tiny ruffles and tucks which continue in g. rounded line over the tops of the shoulders to form short puffed sleeves.
 In direct contrast is an evening gown of fine, shimmering gold lame which IS ,cleverly twisted into folds of drapery to achieve fitted waist. The skirt Is full in front and caught into fold in back, and the 1ow-cut decollete is supported by narrow straps over the shoul- der. With this Is worn scarab green velvet jacket, which comps to waist length.
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My sister is left-handed, and as "a youngster of 4 she suffered a severe burn of the left wrist. The hand was kept bandaged for many weeks. Naturally she had to use the right hand then, and they thought she would be broken of left-handedness, but as the band age was gradually eliminated she began to use the lcrt hand again. In school they did their utmost to break her, but it wouldn't work. Now she is married and three of her four children are left-handed. One day her oldest girl was do- ing her home work, when her fath- CT started to chastise her. He said the teacher was complaining to them that it was the parents fault for not making her do things at home with her right hand |. Then I came across the bit of verse inclosed, about making a left-hand- ed child a nervous wreck by forc- ing him to change to right-hand- edness. This convinced the father, and he took 1t to the teacher, who was also convinced and she did not interfere any more. The child's nervousness stopped and her school work has improved remarkably since they stopped nagging her about her left-handedness. (B. J.)
 If there is a good reason for interfering in natural left-handed- ness, 1 have never learned what 1t may be.
 If you compel left.handed child to change to right you put a great handicap on the child and very likely give him a lifetime ineptitude complex.
 Many instances are on record which indicate that forced change of natural 1eft-handcdness to right handedness is likely to produce stuttering or other impeachment of speech; and in such cases the best remedy is generally resumption of unrestricted use of the left hand for all fine work.
 Statistics show that three or four out of every hundred children are naturally left-handed.
 It would probably be better for the world if there were more left AANhNSN pSOPAC AIA lls
 This advice would give all par ents and all teachers: Let left handedness alone. Nature knows best about such things.
 In your opinion is lemon juice a good thing to take to help keep the liver in proper condition? If SO, what quantity and at what time in the day, or arising or at bed- time? (Mrs. G. K. T.)
 Answer-So far, as know, it has no more virture for such pur- pose than has orange juice or to- mato juice or any fruit juice which Is fresh.
 Dye Dcrmatitis.
 About every six weeks I get an Irritation of the eyclids not the
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road after I'd had slight acci- dent. You offered to help"
 "Yes." nodded John. So the man had been Duncan Hunter. All this did not greatly interest him. It did not make him forget that the girl he loved had gone away and that he did not know where to find her Three days ago she had been here Almost his. Almost attainable. Per- haps entirely attainable if he had but had the courage to tell her how he felt about her. Now she was gone, and these two fantastic peo- pie from another world were in her place-a pampered girl who had probably. mistreated her and driven her away; a man who had once be- longed here but whose presence in the house to-day was somehow un- natural.
 Duncan Hunter said to him. You're old enough to remember certain things about me, young Me- Neill. You may recall hearing was in an institution for the in- sane. l was escaping from that place when you passed me on the road. I've been staying here since then. I'm on my way to give my- self up now"
 But he'll be out again soon, T old Bertha broke In, nodding her head emphatically.
 "Oh. yes," said Elaine. He's sane. Saner than any of us here, ] believe" She laughed lightly to relieve the tension.
 John McNeill heard all this only in relation to the girl who had been here and was gone. His mind said God! An escaped madman. And he was living in the house with her for days!"~
 Duncan Hunter said, Gan you call a taxi for me, McNeill?"
 "Yes," replied John. But first ] must ask you something. You were here in this house with another person for several days. Not your niece, but girl about her age She's gone, and none of us know where. Do you know, by any chancc?"
 Duncan Hunter shook his head It shames me to say that I don't The girl came to me in the darkest hour of my Encouragement and persuaded me to hold on a while longer. She talked sand and grit into me. She opened the door for me--if may be permitted to speak in an fashioned, forid way - to healthy vision of life and duty But, like most introverts, came out of the experience thinking only of myself. forgot to be curious gentle personality who had helped me over a rough place. Who is she, by the way?"
 'I don't know" John McNeill told him.
 Duncan Hunter looked at John McNeill's tight-lipped face and said, "If you want to find her that much, it can be done. There are ways. Detective service, you know I've more money than I'll ever need. You can count on me to any extent"
 Thank you, MT. Hunter" John said, belatedly offering his hand T can swing the cost all right Your advice was what I needed. I'll call taxi now. What train arc you catching. the 10:15 south?"
 "Yes," replied Duncan Hunter "Goodby, my boy, and good luck Never let a girl go if you love her I did that once--"
 After John had gone they stood locked in inactive silence for z
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. 1. This depends largely on mswhat psychologists call "emotion- ..a1 maturity" that is, whether or ynot you are acting your age."
 Tests indicate that probably one- ssha1f of all people never grow up s..beyond age twelve or fourteen in nrtheir emotions although they ss1ion insurance policies show age s.27 is the average age when men "take out life insurance and this, 1 sthink, is noe of the best indica- Etions of adult judgment and ma rture emotional life.
 r 2. One man on 8 desert island
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CHAPTER xxx

John McNeill, arriving in Worth vile Thursday morning, took Q taxi to his home. He let himself in with latch key, deposited his bags in the hall and halloed to Susie. When she came, on the run, from the back of the house he talked to her for a few minutes, giving her the detailed family news which she craved.
 Presently he looked at his watch and said, Before I go to the fac- tory I'm going over to the Hunter place."
 You bettah!" Susie agreed 'Miss Elaine done come ovah here yestiddy to git news of you. She tell me to have MT. John come to ssee her, minute he gifts home" "She did, eh?" exclaimed John. pleased. So she cared enough to do that! The world was just about right to-day.
 Susie said, "Lemme fix you some breakfast first!"
 Mo-" he shook his head. T had breakfast on the diner to save time.." He went out of the house, whistling, and crossed the lawn.
 When he knocked at the front door, Bertha admitted him. She started violently at sight of him, Remembering something which she had Temporarily banished to the dim recesses of her mind.
 John asked. 'Is it too early for me to see Elaine, Bertha?" { The old woman stared at him qiieerly. He thought she had not heard and repeated the question.
 Bertha Gibbs, still silent, turned to look in the direction of the up- per hall. He followed her gaze. A girl was coming down the stairs. he waited. This one was a glamor- ol1s stranger. She wore smoke-gray satin lonnging pajamas held at the waist with a heavy red sash. The sash swayed about her knees in rhythm with her languid walk. Her hair was gold-brown. Her eyes were dark. She was very, very beautiful and she was smiling at him. ' "Jofn McNeill!" said the girl, in a voice that was somehow tender in spite of it's clipped tones. DO you remember me?"
 John said, Elaine Chalmers" It was more of statement than a greeting. He continued to stare at her, trying to think in his clear, deliberate way what her coming had meant to that other one. AL
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she must watch out for this symp- tom Of encroaching years. To the woman who still radiates romance, and who takes life as she finds it, the years have no terrors for her. She holds her youth a long time, and ts confident of her hold on the affections of her husband and her social world. She can afford to be liberal in her judgment. of other women. We find Mrs. Frozen-face" often the wife of that type of play-boy who never grows old. Long after she has grown fat and stodgy, and spend- Ing most of her life at Bridge tables, her husband Is sought after, not only by his fellow Clubmen, but young and volatile women, lind him quite interesting and amusing. The wise wife will rec ognize her husbands type, and she gains nothing by freezing up in the presence of other women. Instead she merely dates herself. She proclaims by her attitude that she Is no longer in the picture of the day. The world is fuil of fun, and the man of the family is in constant touch with the world out side. So 1t behooves the sensible wife to hop on. the merry-go- round, join in the fun, and smile at life and the gay, volatile, peo- pie who make life interesting and worthwhile.
 My deare Miss Vail: What do
 you think of . girl who steals
 the. affections of her sisters boy
 friends? I have a sister who
 makes Q practice of double-
 crossing me with every fellow,
 who shows attentions to me. As
 soon as I find that he is falling
 for her line, cut him out. But
 this Is very embarrassing, and I
 am very unhappy at home. I
 hope you might advise me as
 you do so many other girls.
 Signed: JEALOUS.
 My dear Jealous Girl: That is a peculiar trait which many of our sex take great pride in. Many girls think 1t smart to cut in on another's boy friend, and the sad fact remains that there is little if anything which you can do to make her realize how contempible such a trick 1t. You've got to wait till you have reused the real love and true affection of some young man, who will be attracted by no one but you alone. After all, any fellow who will be so easily be- guiled by another girl, isn't anyone to cry over. You should really feel grateful that you have learned the lesson in time. However, per- haps, your knowledge of your sis- ter's attractions has created an in- feriority complex in you, and this might reflect in your attitude with the young men. Watch out for this; study your type, and learn ito bring out all the beauty possible Tin your makeup and dress. Make the most of yourself, and don't let your sisters silly and selfish be- haviour, dim your personality nor dampen ~your spirits. She will learn, and perhaps be paid back in her own coin, some day.
 VITAL VAIL.
 Address your mail to care Wa terbury Democrat or Radio Station WATR, should you desire a con- fidential chat, Heart to Heart with Vita Vail.
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time. Then Elaine said, Was 1t Jane Emerson, Uncle Duncan?"
 Yes" he answered. That was her name then"
 Its still her name," Elaine told him. "She is secretary at Madame Leshki at Graycastle. She's very good-looking and attractive, but so straight-laced you want to kill her.
 "She was always those things" Duncan replied. But man shouldn't put a Brazilian adventure before his love. Not if his love happens to be a broad, unforgiving woman"
 Elaine said, "I think it's because of you that she takes such an in- terest In me. She's always trying to reform me. When she's not re- forming me in her spare time she's reading books on how to grow orchids"
 "Eh?" said Duncan Hunter in surprise.
 But Elaine was no longer inter- ested. She was pulling aside the curtains at window to see John McNeill get into 2 roadster and go driving off like mad.
 lTO Be COntinued)
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eyes, but the skin of the cyclids and sometimes the cheeks and over the bridge of the nose. with q kind of burning blistcrlng. It Is very un- slightly. (Mrs. H. +. L.)
 Answer-A common cause of such dermatitis in women Is irrita- tion by some used in a cosmetic applied to darken the eyelashes or a "hair tonic" or in 8 hair wave or wave lotion.
 Copyright 1895, John r. DilIe Col
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TOMoRROw's MENU.
BREAKFAST:

BREAKFAST: orange juice, cereal, cream, crisp broiled bacon with scrambled eggs, toast, milk, coffee.
 LUNCHEON: Open cottage cheese sandwiches, peach tap ioca pudding, milk, tea.
 DINNER: Mixed grill of lamb kidney chops with broil- ed Canadian bacon and egg plant creamed caulifiower. cress and radish salad with French dressing, apple cor dial, milk, coffee.
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spIRITUALIsT SCHOOL OPENS

White water, Wis. (U.P.)-A spiritualist school, Morris Pratt Inc stitute, closed for the last three years because of losses in its en- dowment fund, has reopened. Principal A. E. Hanson plans to establish standard curriculum so that credit obtained here will be acceptable elsewhere.
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LET LEFT-HANDEDNEss ALONE

A reader sends this history:
 An aunt of mine was left-hand- ed. They tried to make her use her right hand in school by rap- ping her upon the knuckles. She eventually got into the habit of using her right hand for many things, but her best work (she was a dressmaker) was always done with her left hand.
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Can Be Used In Combination With
 Fruits. Meats or Vegetables.
By MARY E. DAGUE NEA Service Staff Writer

I've just re read John Bur. roughs' essay on the apple and con- sequently am feeling more than ever stirred about the noble com mon fruit, best friend of men and most loved by him, following him, like his dog or his COW, wherever he goes!"
 Everybody knows, of course, about eating apples raw for the cake of the teeth, and baked or steamed apples are fine for babies.
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Heart to Heart
 with =
 VITA YAH.

roCOgniZo 1t. I'm TeLefEiu8 Ell now, to that type of woman V believes that just because she
 came the wife of a certain man, the rest of his natural, he has
 right to enjoy q sociabie chat, nor a carefree laugh with any other female on earth. My attention was called to this specimen re- gently, at Q large and gay affair. Everyone present was having de- lightful time, when I suddenly be- came aware of the 9r0sen expres- sion on the fact of a woman across the room. Her husband was try. ing hard to be cheerful with her. but her lips were compressed into a hard line, and her features were stern and grim. Evidently, she was annoyed, by the mild and harmless little attentions which he had paid to the women in gen- eral. How hateful that wife made herself; not only in the eyes of her husband, but she threw a wet blanket over everyone who mo- ticed the little pantomime across the room. There comics time in the average woman's life. when
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ToDAY's FASHION TIP

Bright new shades of greens, blues and purples call for a revision in makeup to adapt g woman's complexion to harsher colors.
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
 BY WILLIAM BRADY. MD.

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