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Evening star., 1935-09-07
Dorothy Dix Says
Infrequent Visits Make for More En-
during Friendships.

women break up in row in which
each broadcasts all the secrets that
the other has told her And that
is why it is not wise to either know
people too well or let them know you
too we'll The best friends and the
best neighbors are those with whom
We live on terms of cordiality and
mutual esteem. but whom We treat
with formality and whom We do not
visit too often.
AS for the women who do all of
their housework together. they are as
good to end up in row as nickel
is for gingercake.
DOROTHY DIX.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: The girl
to whom I am engaged is slowly
becoming bald. Should I go on and
marry her and buy her a bottle of
hair tonic. or should ! break off the
engagement? GEORGE.
Answer-If the girl Is all that you
wish in other respects, you should not
let her falling hair come between
you in these days when transforma-
tions are so beautifully and artistically
made that many women who have
scads of hair of their own wear them
rather than go to the trouble and
spend the time having their own hair
hennaed or platinumed or perma-
nently waved.
After all, while a bald head is not
a thing of beauty. 1t is no disgrace.
1t is no defect of character, such as
a high temper or self1shness, or a
mean and tyrannical disposition. 1t
wouldn't be so hard to live with as
dumbness and stupidity. And so as
between golden haired Spiteful Sally
and Nagging Ann and Bald Dora with
a sweet, generous disposition, I'd take
Dora, even if she didn't have spear
of hair on her head. For you could
cover up Dora's defect, but there is
no way to hide meanness and littleness
and dullness in woman.
And why not be just? You know
very we'll that your sweetheart wouldn't
consider giving you the air just be-
cause you were losing your hair Every
day you see women marry men who
are as bald as parrots, and they are
proud to flaunt them before the eyes
of their friends, because they know
that women have enough sense to
rate a man by what. is inside of his
head, not what is on the outside.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1935-09-07
IN#a'5IIHlIL
BY LUCIE EBERLY.


- ment, your son has expressed
desire to personally select the
furniture for his room at COL
lege. Nowadays this tendency is not
unusual. The young man considers
it a privilege and a lark and derives
great satisfaction from the idea that
not one taint of the feminine has
crept into his campus abode.
There are some men who have an
unusual talent for interior decorat-
ing; they possess an uncanny sense
of balance and a keen appreciation of
practicability combined with the artis-
tic. Numerous rooms at Harvard,
Yale and Princeton are astounding
examples of what the young mascu-
line mind has absorbed and uncon-
sciously expressed along decorative
lines. Some of the minutest details
have been thought of and carried out.
Yet, these young amateurs are modest
in claiming credit or recognition and
perhaps no more than one out of a
thousand would ever dream of becom-
ing a professional decorator.
IF YOUR boy, however, is depending
upon you to plan his room and
purchase the furnishings, be sure to
hold in mind the following: His
room should be kept comfortably mas
culine, and comfort to a boy means
ease in finding his belongings when
moving at top speed Therefore, the
furniture must be sturdy and the room
must not be overcrowded. There
must be handy place to put books
and other objects that are used daily.
He will not want small rugs that scuff
up under his feet. Draperies must be
simple and hang straight, while COW
erings for furniture should be leather
or of the heavy homespun variety.
Some boys do not care for desks
they would much rather have a long
table which provides more elbow
room" and books and papers can be
scuffled around to the hearts content.
One of the most urgent needs will
be lamps-lsmps with solid base
These lighting units should be placed
advantageously and should be equip
ped with bulbs Of proper voltage. The
shades should be of parchment or
some composition that will stand
abuse, as they are bound TO be knocked
about bit.
Since color is TO be used more dae-
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Millinery Note.

LONDON Pl.-Adaptability Is a
feature Of some Of the new Autumn
felt hats. A plain ribbon band is the
only trimming, the brim is sailor
style, and the crown can be dented
in several different ways to alter the
appearance. They can be worn fiat
on the front of the head, or at a
slight angle.
Evening star., 1935-09-07

SlaQ 10 see me. DuL 90 not "dnL 10
overdo things and wear out the wei
come on the doormat. Neither do I
want to shut myself in like hermit
and stay at home all the time, Some
neighbors wash clothes together. can
fruit, do ironing and baking. Do yCu
think this tends to end friendship?
MRS. FRED.
Answer: I think any woman who
went to see her neighbors every day
would soon come to be regarded as a
pest. Of course, when you go to see
people politeness compels them to
pretend to be glad to see you, but vou
can bank on it that they are not
overcome With Joy at having to swal-
low a daily dose of your society.
JUST consider the subject dispas-
" sionately and you will be bound
to realize that you interfere with
their work or their plans. They are
in the midst of some job that has to
be done, but that they have to stop
in order to CAB for an hour with you,
and this disarranges their whole
schedule for the day. Or they were
about to go downtown shopping or to
the movies and had looked forward
to a pleasant and exciting afternoon.
but when you drop in they have 70
sacrifice the anticipated pleasure and
listen to you repeat for the thou-
sandth time all about Sally's beaux
or the baby's new tooth. For no
person can possibly think of new
and thrilling conversational line for
every day of the year.
Or they we're going to read a new
book they have been hungry to get
at, or they were tired and we're Just
about to lie down for little restful
nap, when in you come and they
have to get up and thrash over the
same gossip you have winnowed. over
a hundred times before.
There Is no aff1iction worse than
the everyday visitor. She wastes our
time. She interferes with our pleas
ure. She knocks our plans galleywest.
She invades our privacy. And she
bores us stiff.
a ND when the daily visitor adds to
her iniquity being a back-door
neighbor, who runs in without knock
ing, who knows what you have for
breakfast, and how often you change
your skirt, and what your new hat
costs, and what time your daughter
got in from the party, and what your
husband said to you about your AurC
Geraldine's visit, why, then she is
public enemy No. /, and the Govern
ment sleuths should get on her trail
with orders to shoot at sight. For the
daily visitor and the back-door neigh
Dor stir up more trouble, start more
scandals. wreck more homes and
break more hearts than any other one
set of people in the. world
The old proverb that says that
"short visits make long friends" should
be amended to read "Infrequent visits
AldhO 4O4 CAANAdA AlS TOI
it is the essence of friendship that
we should have enough of it to flavor
life, but not so much of 1t that it
sickenS us.
* X X X
A FRIEND is one of whose affection
1 we are assured, of whose interest
we are certain, some one to whom we
can turn for entertainment or SYM
pathy or help in our time Of need,
but it is not some one who is forever
on our backs, like the old woman Of
the sea, not some one of whom we
can never get rid, not some one who
is forever poking her nose into our
affairs and who knows what is in
our skeleton closet as well ss we do
ourselves.
Most intimate friendships between
Evening star., 1935-09-07

vi OpPN llOiii VIZ
family bu d g e t.
With high meat
prices, and some
other foods becom-
ing more or less
unobtainable with
the changing sea-,
sons, the conScien-
tious mother is
Sorely beset by
worries and the
n i 6 h t m are of
mounting bills.
However, for the
child from 2
m & wears a diet
Evening star., 1935-09-07
Cooks Corner
BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
BANANA CAKE RECIPE.
BREAKFAST MENIJ

] BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
BANANA CAKE RECIPE.
BREAKFAST MENU.
Chilled Orange Juice
Sott-Cooked Eggs
Brotled Sdusdges
Buttered Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON MENU.
Cream of Tomato Soup
Chilled Pears Sugar Cookies
Tea
DINNER MENU.
Bror1ned Lamb Steak
Buttered Green Beans
Mashed Turn,pS
Bread Apple Sauce
Thick French Dressing on Ruu
Vegetable Salad
Louise's Banana Cake
Coffee
THICK FRENCH DRESSING.
fStays thick if stored in refrigerator. J
u cup sugar teaspoon salt
l teaspoon / teaspoon
celery seed onion Juice
1 teaspoon dry IL cup vinegar
mustard 1 cup salad oil
/ teaspoon
paprika
Mix ingredients in deep bowl and
beat well. Chill and serve on any
kind of salad.
RAW VETETABI,E SALAD
sometimes called health sdldd.)
l ss43ns sSP carrot "a ss1s,s sqp diced
e.Pnsac esP Shredded 2 tsossDG ts6lssDGOas 11..n
"a cup grapefruit peppers
"a teaspoon salt
Prepare carrots and cabbage and
soak in chilled water until crisp.
Drain well and add rest of ingredi-
ents which have been chilled. Serve
piled roughly on crisp cabbage leaves.
LOUISES BANANA CAKE.
a. cup fat a cup sour milk
Ia cups sugar ! cup mashed
l teaspoon banaras
vanilla u cup nuts
teaspoon fblack walnuts
lemon extract preferredD
!. teaspoon salt 9 cups -four .
. eggs i teaspoon soda
Cream fat and sugar. Add rest of
ingredients and beat 2 minutes. Pour
into shallow pan lined with waxed
paper. Bake 80 minutes in moderate
oven. Serve topped with whipped
cream or covered with a white icing
(To mash bananas, peel and press
through coarse sieve)
Evening star., 1935-09-07

EAR MISS DIX-Is every day
too often to visit a neighbor r!
l have had several friencs
whom l used to stop in on
Evening star., 1935-09-07
BY BETSY CASWELL.
HAVE many letters from mothers
who ask despairingly, How can

1t is indeed a problem. The grow
$1g child. to get the best possible start
in life. must have certain food
elements, no matter what else Is
Evening star., 1935-09-07

every Gay and UHty Always SttIHtu
glad to see me. but do not want to
overdo things and wear out the wei
come on the doormat. Neither do I
want to shut myself in like hermit
and stay at home all the time, Some
neighbors wash clothes together, can
fruit, do ironing and baking. Do ycu
think this tends to end friendship?
MRS. FRED.
Evening star., 1935-09-07

Most intimate friendships between
Evening star., 1935-09-07
MY Neighbor Says:

(Copyright. 1881
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
Lacking In Dispatch

How many times have we read about something being accomplished with dis patch? It's one of those trite expressions that newsaper editors promptly cross out when the cub reporter inserts 1t into hlS first story. Still we'd like to be able to record that the patronage question in Con necticut had been settled with dispatch. We should have liked to have written thls, though, in 1883, for that was the year when the patronage question in Connec- ticut should have been settled. It IS now 1885, and so far as we can see the matter is still about to be settled.
 Nothing has destroyed the caste of the democratic party in Connecticut like thls pickering back and forth over the many appointive positions that went to the dem ocrats when they took charge of national affairs in March, 1883. And with mo- mentous election coming in 1886 we don't believe that the outlook is any too favor able. We'd like to be more optimistic, but why refuse to face the facts The demo- crats have fooled around so long that we can't quite see the dominant party of 1852
 It isn't merely the postmastership in Waterbury that gives concern. That i'll itself would be quite enough, but the whole state, we are afraid, must be 1n- volved in the consequences of failure to do something and then stick by. We'll admit the circumstances were not propitious. But, nevertheless, the circumstances that the democrats had to face were no differ ent than those faced by republicans III earlier years and they did proceed to move with dispatch regardless of toes stepped on or feelings hurt.
 Right now it would appear as if solu- ton of the internal revenue collectorship is no nearer solution than year ago. Compromise candidates are' being dis cussed. They were all along. Swinging these appointments out may prevent open breaks within the ranks, but what about the voters back home? There is more inde- pendence of thought among voters to-day than ever before. The political leaders who imagine they can sway vast multi tudes by vague promises are behind the times. There is too much confidence be- ing placed in political organizations. We'll defined public opinion won't respect them. The breaking point is almost at hand. Keeping faith with the people prevents just such ruptures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
Timely Textbooks

A college professor is using the radio addresses of Father Coughlin as labora- tory material for his classes in public speaking. He says: "He is giving my students, especially in augmentation, quite an exciting study in the tricks of emotional appeal"
 The radio orators speeches, whatever one thinks of their economies, show con- siderable knowledge of audience psycho! ogy, to resources of rhetoric and the use of the voice in speaking. Analyzing them with attention to such points seems an excellent thing for public speaking stu dents to do.
 That stirs up another idea. Are teachers in other subjects making use of current affairs for laboratory material? There is g wealth of matter in the daily news which could be used to great advantage in his tory, economics and political and social science classes. Finding the roots and causes of current events would be most educational process and ought to afford an interesting approach to the above men, 'tioned courses. It may sound a little like beginning at the wrong end of things, but . is more likely to develop the mind than the old method of studying dry as-dust textbooks with no apparent relations be- tween their theories and existing human society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
THE GENERAL, JOHNSON BY ' NAME, IS TAKEN FOR
 THE WELII-KNOWN tA s URIDEy,

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Being mem Der of the National Union for Social Justice I sat up late Saturday night to listen in to the vituperation biting sarcasms' and the broadsides hurled at our beloved priest by that parasite known by the name of General Hugh Johnson. l wonder if the Rev. Father underestimate the qualifications of this general. But to my mind the general must be promoted to the admirality. It took him so long to clear the decks for his parting shot im-. agine he. must be poor general and an inferior admiral when his broadsides did not hit the mark. The poor general could not pay for his radio addresses as his be- nevolent bankers and money lords would not sponsor his inflamatory and vile epithets emanating from the foulest tongue that jaws ever closed upon. This wonderful genius had a position of trust. He was llatching a salary of $15,000 per year in the code known as the MIRA, but he fouled the nest so. that he had to get out. What a pity! A man of his ability to be removed from office. From his expressions regarding the Rev. Father he must be a descendent of Cromwell of bloody Kitchener. consider him to be parasite of the worst type who takes his stand nar HA nG1 AR against q people prostrate with grief, starvation, and misery
 brought about by the nefarious doings of the money barons. the Insulls, Harrimans, Morgans, and others too numerous to mention.
 You. MT Johnson, ought to take a sea voyage. It might do your
 depraved mind good. The best thing you could do would be to go over to Devvy and join up with your Cromwell cousins to celebrate the battle of the Boyne. the 18th of July. You could make a lot of noise with the big drum. What do you want. general? The Rev. Fathers scalp. What price do you want to pay for it? If you are descendent of Cromwells 'tis bred in you to be & priest hunter. If you want revenge on the priest of sacred calling, I would advise you to go down to Mexico where yon can wreak your vengeance on them without restriction. You want to refer us to General Per-. shing tor your credentials. Wonder if you got any distinguished con- duct medals, although I saw people wearing them that never earned them. wonder what be- came of the Ku Klux Klan. They disappeared over night. They swore that they would do away with Catholics, Jews, and colored people. They might be resurrect- ed. They might need general of your caiibre. As an Irishman and Catholic wish tc remind you that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
So They. Say

In the last five years this country has lost enough in income to buy the whole of the United States lock, stock and barrel.
 Coy Philip r. LaFollette of Wisconsin.
 
 liucy Long is just farmer boy who does not understand what it is all about. He may get edu cntcd in Washington if he'll be willing to learn from those like LaFoette, Norris and Costigan.
 Upton Sinclair No man is free when he cannot sell his labor. H. H. Stevens, Canadas former minister of trade and commerce. Every punch in the eye l give Schmeling is one for Adolf Hitler.
 Max Baer The practice of law is not a game to get criminal free, but attempt to arrive at justice. lawyer who knows his client is guilty and per- mits him to perjure himself makes himself par ty to the Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
Milk Drinkers

Asked to guess what is the favorite drink of New Yorkers some people might say water Others might say cocktails. Perhaps not many would guess milk, yet figures compiled by the Brewers Board of Trade put milk in first place with beer second. The average consumption of Temperance liquids" last year, the board reports, was 92 gallons per person, ot which 5 1-3 gallons were milk, 22 gallons were beer and 20 gallons were coffee.
 The brewers hasten to point out that their beverage makes remarkable show ing because it does not include children among its patrons. It is essentially drink consumed by persons 20 years old or over". But that should not make the dairy people feel sqeulched. Milk has host of child consumers, but it is also used more and more by adults. It has made it's appearance in workmen's lunch boxes in recent years and will be even more gener- ously consumed as better times make 1t possible for everyone to have 1t who wants if
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04

with his departure. He says he is getting out in order to accept another and more Important" federal post.
 If 50 he nluS have hard time securing Senate confirmation. HULL TARIFFS
 It has escaped the attention of most people, but Cordell Hull, mountaineer Secretary of State, has just won an important vic- tory.
 From the very start of the New . Deal, a bitter fight has ragged round his policy of general tariff reduction and most favored ma ton trade treaties. Various fac- tions within the Administration favored the cut-throat competi. tive method of quotas. and tariff bargaining prevalent in Europe to-day.
 But now Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reischbank, has announced that Gcrlnany's compensatory tariff system has failed. Simultaneously Premier Elandin has come out for HulI's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
Biennial Day of Education

There comes a day in every session of the Legislature when is paraded before members of a committee what purports to be the trend of modern thinking-birth control. We feel confident that it's success, so far as emasculating the present laws on dissemination of knowledge of an un- natural and non-C Christian habit, will be the same as in the past. There has been no change in the attitude of the recognized opponents of birth control. There never will be. Their arguments are eternal.
 It is probably just as well that this bill, in some form or another, comes up at least once every two years. It affords an ex- cellent opportunity to preach some homely facts about the sanctity of the home, the proper and true relationship of the hus- band and wife, etc. It is an opportunity that those who walk in the light do not shun. They leap at the chance to pro- mitigate their belief in the precedence of the supernatural over the natural.
 We exhort our legislators from Water bury to remain true to the stand they and their predecessors adopted in the past when considering similar birth control measures. We do not consider it ill-advised for anybody or any organization to ap- proach them with the view of encouraging their opposition to birth control measures that are not going to produce the beatific and healthful results that proponents claim. This is an issue to be considered both from moral and health standpoint. On the latter there may be differences of opinion, but on the former there is but one thought - condemnation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
Selected Poem
MOTHER CAREY's HOUSEKEEPING

(Arthur Guierman in the New York Times) Far, far below the restless waves commotion Lives Mother Carey, mistress of the ocean, Who sends before her, when the weather thick
 ems,
 The stormy petrels, Mother Carey's chickens.  A house of coral shelters Mother Carey; She milks dozen sea-cows in her dairy; The mat before her doorway is fiatfsh; Of course she keeps dogfsh and catfish. Her sentines swordish, pike and garfish; Her lights sunish moonfsh, lampfish, star
 fish, While angelfsh and other gentle fishes, Attend to al her wants and wash her dishes. Upon her seaweed lawn her seahorse grazes; With sea-anemones her garden blazes; And though 'tis what household science
 teaches. She knows the proper way to clean her beaches Though shells come in till all the sands are shelly Or jellyishes cover them with jelly, Twice every day. from Saturday to Frid'y, Her sweeping tide makes everything all tidy!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04

democratic-endorsed opponent Mir Babin getting the job, has it ever occurred to you, MT Editor, that if q republican president were in Mir Kelley would never have been thought of. However, if that hal been the case l don't suppose for sought the position either. But he would be just as entitled to 1t under those circumstances, if they existed, as he is under the present.
 What I am trying to bring out, MT Editor, Is the fact that you and a lot of Kelley supporters are placing too much stock in at least fifty per cent of the Kelley sym pathy. To be blunt, the repub-. lican sentiment. Don't you think a whole lot of that has been manu- factured by republicans and your foxy competitor to break up the democratic party?
 True, many and perhaps, your self, may be honest in believing MT Kelley should get the position. But don't you believe everyone IS especially the loudest roofing re- publicans. Good old Jim Kelley, and I think whole lot of him, Is just being taken for political sleigh ride by many of his would be admirers. The fat, however, is now in the fire unless MT Kelley gets the job. And in that event the anvil chorus has sold the demo- cratic party bill of goods it does not want. If he. doesn't get it, well there's the reprisal threat on the other hand. So that to my way of thinking, the situation has resolved itself into, as far as the democratic party is concerned, c heads I win, tails you lose proposi- tion. What a headache some of the boys must have?
 Yours in sympathy,
 A MOURNER.