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Evening star., 1936-01-09
Oh art and
Regime Fine
|ReducingAid
Determine Correct
Weight and Outline
Strict Schedule.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

UTE'RE still taking inventory. The
w hair yesterday, the skin the day
before. It's the figure today. And
that doesn't mean merely: Are you
overweight or underweight? There's
much more to a really good figure than
normal weight. &c. get out your
chart, answer the following questions
as honestly as possible and evaluate
your figure perfection.
I've seen any number Of women
who were very near their normal
weight yet did not possess what ex-
perts would call a good figure. Pro-
portion is the determining factor,
even more than weight.
Are you underweight? Overweight?
Or (happily) very near the average"
or normal weight for your age and
height according to modern health
and beauty charts?
Bear in mind that your frame"
or bone structure has definite bear
ing on weight. Women with narrow
frames, for instance, may be in ex-
cellent health and feel splendid, yet
tip the scales at some 10 pounds below
the so-called average" II you have
always been just few pounds under
or over this average, but feel fine
regardless there is no cause for con-
cern. Beyond 10 pounds the difference
calls for study.
If you are considerably overweight
or under weight the safest course to
follow is to see your physician first.
Let him suggest the proper reducing
or weight-gaining procedure, and fol-
low his instructions to the letter. A
sane reducing regime should COM
bine exercise with somewhat cur
tailed diet; the pounds should be
shed gradually (two pounds week
for a few weeks should be ample. A
weight-gaining routine should provide
for more sleep and rest, and more
of the fuel foods; milk, eggs, butter.
cream and so on. This does not mean
that vegetables and salads are to be
overlooked. They are important for
balance, just as reducing diet must
include some sweets and starches for
balance. but these are cut down a
good deal.
out of proportion" calls for local
lied exercise. Massage by an expert
is. Of course, very helpful. Posture
is just about the most important ally
to figure perfection. Do you carry
yourself beautifully? That is the most
important question Of all. And do
you regulate your diet, take sufficient
exercise, long walks and similar out
door activity to keep weight and pro-
portion under the asset column?
My bulletin on Posture" contains
many helpful hints. Send self-ad-
dressed, stamped (3-cent) enveope
for it.
! (Copyright lQ36t
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Making and
Keeping a
Promise S e
Disappointing Chile d
Instills First Seeds
of Cheating.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

IT IS easy to promise child treat,
say for next Saturday. If he will
be good and take his medicine, or go
to bed without making a fuss, or be-
have nicely when Aunt Susie comes.
Very easy. The child accepts the
promise at its full value, keeps his
side Of the bargain manfully and
then, when Saturday comes along,
keeping that promise, so easily made,
often becomes a difficult matter.
"It's Saturday. I'm going to the
circus. You promised me you'd take
me. When do We start?"
20 now, let me see. I did say I
would take you. but never thought
about the engagement I had with the
club. I'll take you some other time
The child is helpless. His disap-
pointment is shock to his faith in
his people They don't keep their
promises. They don't mean what they
say. They are not to be counted on
as he has been counting on them. He
feels betrayed, cheated and suddenly
very helpless. What can he do against
such a breach of faith as these grown
up people have made as matter Of
course? Well. he won't be taken in
so easily next time.
A loss of faith in people is more Of
q loss than it might seem at the mo-
ment. A child generalizes readily.
One example becomes the rule for
him and he acts accordingly. He
learns to play the cheating game HIM
self. He says he will learn his lesson,
do the errand, refrain from doing
something that he ought not to do,
and goes blissfully ahead doing pre-
cisely what seemed good to him to do.
Promises frequently are just exercises
in speech.
Such an attitude, far commoner to-
day than one likes to believe, will
lower the character of the person who
assumes 1t. He has no standard for
cooperation with his fellows, and
without it he is certain to make q
failure Of his life.
The notion that cheating the game
gives one an advantage in the strug-
gle for success is in itself the biggest
cheat of all. No cheat can win. True,
it has happened that the cheat has
finished the game with the money in
his pocket. Money does not always
mean that the game of life has been
won. 1t may mean that it has been
lost. by cheating. by breaking prom
ises, by bad faith.
It may seem to be a far cry from
breaking a slight promise to child
and seeing that child fail in getting
the best values out of his life, but to
me they are very close. Train child
to discount or disregard a promise
and you train him to spiritual dis
honor. The person who suffers that
loss drinks deep Of the bitterness Of
failure.
There is no worse failure, no keener
suffering than that of the soul be-
trayed.
Teach a child that ones word is
sacred. better than his bond, and you
lay the foundation for his real sue
cess. Man does not live by bread
alone. He can live on very little bread
If his soul Is eager to feed his spiritual
tcopyYisht. 1oSeJ
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Rules and
Reason of
Etiquette
List of Questions Ere.
quently Asked An
sWered.
BY EMILY POST,

NEAR MRS. POST: We would pre-
fer reasons for your answers to
the following. but not at the expense
of leaving of some of our questions:
@. In passing strangers when TAX
ing our places Cor going out between
the acts) in the theater, which way is
one supposed to face?
A. The stage, because much easier
to press your knees next to back of
seat in front than to pass people knee
to knee, which you must, however,
manage to do should you cross over
others in your own theater party.
@. Cd At a mans stag dinner at
home. what becomes Of his family?
(2) May his wife receive the guests
and then go away?
A. % Usually they go out and
dine with wife of one of the husbands s
guests. Or possibly they stay upstairs.
At all events. they stay out of sight
90 On no account should she appear
@. Should q man stand bare
headed on the street when talking to
woman?
A. A gentleman would; yes. (This
is one of the occasions when the word
gentleman is essential to meaning0
@. Must all gentlemen at table stand
when they are with ladies and another
gentleman stops to talk?
A. No. Because gentlemen are re-
quired to rise only for ladies.
O. Should a woman assist man
in putting on his coat?
A. A lady-never unless he Is old or
an invalid. A woman-if she is maid
and he visitor Of her employer-yes
@. Is a fiance introduced to his
iancee's friends as John Or Mr.?
A. To her personal friends as John;
to acquaintances as MI.
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-09

a fool or a blabber for wife, he Is
justified in not telling her anything
about his business, but if he is mar
ried to a sensible wife, he makes
great mistake in not confiding in her.
For one thing, it is the wife's right to
know just exactly what her husbands
income Is because she is his partner
and she sinks or swims with him.
Also, it is the only way by which she
can gauge her expenditures. Many
woman runs her husband in debt Just
because she thinks he is making more
money than he is.
Nearly all women are anxious to get
along in the world. If their husbands
will talk over their plans with them.
and make them see how. by economic
ing, they can enlarge the factory or
Ak up the store, they will gladly pinch
pennies to put into the enterprise.
Furthermore. many women have
shrewd financial judgment and their
husbands lose much when they lose
their advice. Many a wife's hunch has
made her husbands fortune.
But a lot of men are funny about
money. They will trust their wives
with their happiness. their names and
their honor, but not their pocketbooks
DOROTHY DIX.
! r X
NEAR DOROTHY DIX have a
daughter aged II. Just a high
school kid A man % years old is pay
ing attention to her. He is fine man
in every respect, but I feel she is too
young to have regular company. What
would you do about it?
AN ANXIOUS MOTHER.
Answer-Just let it rock along with
out making any issue of it, except that
the girl cannot 60 out or have dates
during school nights.
OF course, girls are much older now
at II than they were in your day. We
speeded up age as well as everything
else, and probably your daughter is
more sophisticated and better able to
take care of herself now than you were
when you were married. So her step
ping out little is to be expected. All
the girls do it. And you can't keep
yours from doing so without making
her feel like a martyr and tempting
her to have her dates on the sly in
stead of under your eye.
r X
NEARLY all young girls are so fat
tered by the attention of grown
up men that they imagine themselves
in love with them. This is likely to
happen to your daughter. If it does,
don't make the mistake of violently
opposing the man. Nothing precipi-
tates a marriage like opposition. Just
stall for time. Make them wait until
the girl is at least 20.
Seventeen is too young for any girl
to marry. At that age her tastes are
uniformed and she has no idea of what
kind of man she will want for hus-
band three years later. And she has
had no playtime of life, and to miss
that does something terrible to wom-
an. It upsets her for life. She is al
ways crazy for the fun she has missed,
hungry for the romance she never had,
craving the admiration OF men. Near
ly all the women who, at middle age.
get themselves into scandals married
in their teens.
One of the most pathetic sights on
earth is q poor. sickly, young girl
mother with a sickly little baby in her
arms and another clinging at her
skirts watching the carefree girls Of
her own age dance.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

rleQ, SO nave UecH HUN
than self-supporting and have cost
my husband nothing. On the con-
trary. I have helped him, which I
was glad to do.
But my husband refuses to confide
in me anything whatsoever that has
to do with money. We are living with
his people and he has refused to tell
me how much he pays them for board.
His income he claims I shall never
learn from him. I know that he Is
in financial difficulties, but what these
are I have no idea, as he thinks that
a mans business affairs are none OF
his wife's concern. All of this hurts
me drea dfully, as had thought that
married life was a partnership and
feel that my husband shuts me out
of his life when he will not conflde
in me.
am trying to make the best OF the
situation, which also involves child
lessness, as he does not want family
because of the expense Of the upkeep,
Ol1ClCu W 4AAoAANS q bobJ
myself What about it?
A CONSTANT FOLLOWER.
Answer-Not much. A husband
with as tight a fist as your husband
has. and as dumb a tongue, would
need to possess every other charm
and grace of body and mind to offset
these drawbacks. I doubt If he has
these. So, as you have to earn your
own living and he doesn't even regard
YOU as a confidential friend he can
trust. it seems to me that you are get
ting a thin deal out of matrimony.
X X 4 X
EVIDENTLY you are married to a
- man whose ideas about women
and money are pre-Victorian. Then
1t was thought that female was con-
stitutionally incapable of understand
ing anything about finance and that
she would probably have Mysteries II
she tried to add up the butchers bill,
SO the only thing for a good husband
to do was to handle all the money
himself and dole out dime to her
now and then as an especial treat.
In those lays when q man married
a rich girl he took over all her prop
erty and put it in his own name and
that was the last she ever saw Of 1t.
AS for wife being given an allow
ance for herself as some slight re-
muneration for the work she did as
housekeeper, cook, seamstress, baby
tender and what lot, no man dreamed
of doing such thing. Wages for
wives! Never! They got their board
and clothes. What more did the un-
reasonable creatures want?
But this notion that women don't
know anything about financial mat
tiers, can't understand them and are
not to be trusted with money, any
way, is a quaint conceit that is laugh-
able enough in these days when
women are following every gainful
occupation. There are not only women
bank tellers and bank presidents, but
probably nine-tenths of the money
that is handled goes through the red
nailed fingertips of women cashiers.
X X
CERTAINLY your husband, Of all
men, seeing that you appear to
be a better business man than he Is,
should not consider you unworthy to
be told anything concerning his money
affairs.
OF course, II Q man has picked out
Evening star., 1936-01-09

ing lipstick all
over your face,
and b ecom i n g
embroiled W it h
hooks, eyes and
u n y i e ! d i n G
sleeves, you tear
the latest model
OF in a frenzy
and rush to the
tape m e a S u r e
and scales to be
sure that you
have not added
IN C h e S a n d
pounds since the
last tim e you
fai1rcl1a Sed q frnc
Evening star., 1936-01-09

Be of good cheer. Nine times out
of ten this is not the case, and the
fault, dear lady. lies not in yourself
but in dressmaker's standards. We all
know the perennial alibi-"Oh it
must have been marked wrong in the
stockroom," which may. of course, be
true, but it is very apt to be a far
deeper offense than that.
Since the ready -to-wear dress in
dustry was developed, no one has
really taken the trouble to find out
the true averages and variations in
Evening star., 1936-01-09
For Bad Winter
Coughs, Mix This
Remedy Yourself
Saves Good Money!

Saves Good Money! No Cookingl
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If you want the best cough remedy
that money can buy, mix it at home. 1t
costs very little, yet it's the most reli-
able, quick-acting medicine you ever
used. The way it takes hold of dis
tressing coughs, giving immediate re-
lief. is astonishing.
ANY druggist can supply you with
21a ounces of Pinex. Pour this into a
pint bottle. and add granulated sugar
syrup to make a full pint. To make
syrup, use cups of sugar and one cup
of water, and stir few moments until
dissolved. No cooking needed. It's no
trouble at all, and gives you four times
as much cough medicine for your
money! real family supply. Keeps
perfectly and tastes fine.
1t is surprising how quickly this
loosens the phlegm, soothes the irritat-
ed membranes, helps clear the air pas
sages, and thus ends bad cough in a
hurry.
Pinex is a compound of Norway Pine.
in concentrated form, famous for lts
effect in stopping coughs quick
". Money refunded if it does ~
not please you in every way. 80
DIMES
IL for Cou9hS.A
Evening star., 1936-01-09
1859
Cracker-bite..

Use small round butter crackers as
a base. Shape tiny balls of deviled-
ham spread and place in center OF
each cracker and circle with a piping
of egg yolks mixed with mayonnaise
and put through a pastry tube.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
/ Cooks S Corner
By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
OYSTERS FOR DINNER.

EScalloped Oysters
Baked Potatoes
Buttered Tomatoes
Bread Butter
Cabbage Relish Salad
Eogless Carrot Pudding, Steamed
Foamy Sauce
Coffee
Milk for Children Daily
ESCALLOPED OYSTERS.
1pint small y teaspoon salt
oysters 4 teaspoon
Q cups cracker paprika
crumbs IA teaspoon
cup butter, celery salt
melted l cup milk
Carefully examine oysters and re-
move any shells. Mix butter. crumbs
and seasoning Sprinkle layer OF
crumbs on bottom buttered baking
dish. Add layer of oysters. cover with
crumbs and add rest of oysters.
Spread with remaining crumbs. Add
milk. Bake 80 minutes in moderate
oven.
CABBAGE RELISH SALAD.
2 cups chopped u cup chopped
cabbage sweet pickles
Il cup chopped - teaspoon salt
celery u teaspoon paprika
u cup chopped y cup salad
pirnientos dressing
Chill ingredients. Combine and
serve on crisp cabbage leaves.
EGGLEsS CARROT PUDDING.
STEAMED
GA Favorite-Not Very Rich)
] cup grated raw u teaspoon
carrots cloves
! cup grated raw y teaspoon
potatoes nutmeg
! cup -four l teaspoon soda
u cup sugar % cup chopped
teaspoon raisins or
cinnamon dates
Mix ingredients and half fill but
tered mold. Cover tightly and steam
three hours. Unmold and serve warm
with sauce.
There is sufficient moisture in po-
tatoes and carrots so that no liquid
is required in the pudding.
FOAMY SAUCE.
4 tablespoons u cur boiling
butter water
q cup confec- teaspoon vanilla
tioner's sugar Il teaspoon
2 eggs lemon extract
Mix butter and sugar. Add eggs and
water. Cook three minutes in double
boiler. Stir constantly. Add extracts
and serve warm.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

unable to force yourself into the dress
e your choice? This becomes pretty
Safuriating-especially when for years
y5u nave worn size l6 with impunity-
and plenty of room left over besides!
Usually, after wrecking your hair, smear
Evening star., 1936-01-09

BY BETSY CASWELL.
r AVE you ever been assured by
| the salesgirl that This is a
size Is Moddom"-and then
1 found ,yo,lrself humiliatinply
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Dorothy Dix Says
He Who Refuses to Discuss Finances With
His Wife Is a Poor Business Man.

~ EAR MISS DIX: am busi-
ness woman and I continued
on with my job when I mar
. ried, SO I have been more
Evening star., 1936-01-09
BY BARBARA BELL.

w YHAT mother is there who
A/ hasn't long since learned
" " that trick of making a SIM
y,Ia y,oftar,, do douhla d11fv
Evening star., 1936-01-09

One of the. most pathetic sights on
earth is a poor. sickly, young girl
mother with sickly little baby in her
arms and another clinging at her
skirts watching the carefree girls OF
her own age dance.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

CERTAINLY your husband, Of all
~ men, seeing that you appear to
be a better business man than he is.
should not consider you unworthy to
be told anything concerning his money
affairs.
OF course, II o man has picked out
Evening star., 1936-01-09

(Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-09


o Evening Star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16

s244, 800. which includes applications
for refinancipg Of homes built with
in the past IL months and more.
Fairfield is second with $241 300,
and New Haven third with 100000.
In his report for 1886 activities.
Administrator Mcdonald states that
mutual mortgage insurance. the
permanent part If the FILA pro-
gram. is entirely responsible for the
substantial improvement over last
wear. The volume will be more
than two and One-balf times that Of
1895, indicating both wider accept
ance of the FILA long-term financ-
ing method. using private funds,
and greater volume OF construc-
ton.
Volume Passes Billion
Since 1t began operations in 1884.
the Federal Housing Admjnistra-
ton had transacted total volume
Of business TO SLIPS, 800 240 I'D to
December /. 1886. This includes
home mortgages accepted for in
surance, modernization and repair
notes insured and commitments on
large scale housing projects. Also
included are home mortgages IN
process. amounting to $40. 4l1,046.
and large scale housing projects ex-
amined but not accepted for in
surance.
In addition, It Is estimated that
the program OF the Federal Housing
! Administration has generated over
$1,000 900, 900 worth Of moderniza-
ton and repair work, which does
not show in Its own records. Careful
checkups have disclosed that Tor
every dollar Of repair work insured
approximately "a have been spent on
jobs paid for In cash or by other
methods.
The entire program Of the Hous-
ing Administration, 1t is estimated
has created the equivalent OF one
years work for 2,00O,000,000 me-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16

Bachman Of West Virginia, Borah's
campaign manager; and Dan Nor
gan, Cleveland, O., another Borab
leader.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16
Y. M. C. A. Notes

where a new world checker cham
pion has been crowned, none other
than Wallie Simpson. She Jumped"
two men and got king. D'ya get
it2 Hal Tell that one to the boys If
that one don't pull a laff, introduce
'em to the undertaken"
The bess checker players Of the
city are invited to attend and parti-
cipate In the evenings program.
Raymond Leopold was elected
president of the Tartars at their Or
ganization meeting at Central Y.
M. G. A. last night. Other officers
elected were Louis H. Silverman,
vice-president and secretary; Mat
thew Koblinski, treasurer; and Saul
Hennes, sergeant at arms.
The club decided to make appli-
cation for membership to the Inter-
Club Council on Friday night. Ray
mond Gogoleuski and Matthew Ko-
bilinski were chosen to represent the
club at the council meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16
Y TUMbLERS TO
ATTEND DINNER
Borough Troupe Invited
Here for Turkey Dinner
Friday Night

Naugatuck, Dec. 16-The Nauga-
tuck "Y" tunibling troupe opened
their season last Friday night at the
"Varities of 1887" for the First
Methodist Episcopal church in Wat
erbury and scored a big hit in clos
ing the show. Phyllis johnson, again
received great applause for her sin
gle numbers as well as her aerial
numbers, while Bob Wood, the COM
edian was at his best, first selling
his "I-O-Wain-E-AC" Germ killer,
as a vender, and his timed" falls.
The group Is invited to attend a
turkey dinner at the church next
Friday night at $50 O'Clock.
Entertain for New Years Eve
The Naugatuck "Y" has been ask
ed to put on New Years eve pro-
gram for the German American
Council Of New Britain. Jean Martin
will open the program with a dance
number. The ladies, class consisting
Of Jane Schwartz. Babe Beaulieu,
Ann Erickson and Evelyn and Fritz
Klambt will exhibit the "Illuminat-
ed Club Swinging" Miss Martin will
give another dance specially. and
the closing number. the "Y" Tum-
blers. A group Of "a will make the
trip. Mrs. Noble Allen will be the
pianist for the entire show. A full
course turkey dinner will be had
at the occasion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16

Kwangsu Province, China, Is buy
ing paper mill equipment from Aus
tria.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16

South Africa is importing 81 per
cent more American toys this year
than 1t did In 1885.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16
MONTREAL ELECTS
RAYNAULT MAYOR

Montreal. Dec. 16-UP)-Adhe-
mar Raynault, elected mayor OF
Montreal by a plurality OF 3,458 IN
yesterdays balloting, faces some OF
the most difficult problems any
Montreal executive has had to meet.
observers agreed today. The city
Is so deeply in debt that ingenuity
will be necessary even to devise ways
TO meet the interest. especially In
view Of Raynault's pledge TO kill
the city sales tax.
Raynault Is q follower OF the
Union Rationale party headed by
Maurice Duplessis. premier OF Que
bee. He thus may eb expected 70
cooperate with anticipated efforts
by the provincial government 10
take a greater hand In Montreal az
fairs. Many OF the newly-elected
city councilmen are not In SYM
pathy with these proposals. how
ever, fact which portends stormy
times for the fiery Insurance. egent
W11o WAS chosen mayor.
Raynauit was elected with b2,5o6
votes 10 40.i28 for former Mayor
Camillien Houde and 1884 Tor
Candide Rochefort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-16

opposition among committee MEM
bers to the red-haired Kansan who
was at the helm during the party's
most sweeping defeat.
Diverse Opinions
The reply of George Harding, Chi
cago committeeman was typical:s
II am very favorable to Mr.. Ham,
ilton personally. I believe he did as
good a job as anybody could" Fish,
leader in Sen. William E. Borah's
unsuccessful campaign for the 6. o.
p. presidential nomination last
spring, was bitter against Hamil-
ton. He charged the Kansas leader
cleft a party deficit in excess of
81, 100000 in spite of the fact that
republicans advocated during the
campaign balanced federal bud
get and pay-as-you-go policy"
List Of Prospectives
In a letter to committee mem
bers, Fish urged selection OF new
chairman from a list that included
Sen. Frederick Steiwer Of Oregon,
keynoter and temporary chairman
at the Cleveland convention where
ALI M. Landon was nominated: Sen.
Charles L. McNary of Oregon; Frank
Burns, Washington national COM
miteeman; FORMER Rep. Carl G.