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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

Stuck for lack or 8 wordl Does this ever happen to you?
 You realize suddenly that you've just said:
 Tt was a TERRIBLE day. We had q TERRIBLE time driving through a TERRIBLE rain. The wind was :"
 You can't say TERRIBLE again! These clever new acquaintances will think you're a bore. Why not say the wind was violent. tempestuous or raging? Add force by saying the day was exaaperating or disastrous. And you had difficult. trying or perplexing time driving through a gushing, drenching or torrential rain.
 Don't go on using stale. flat. ill- chosen words. Our 32-page book let of synonyms for everyday words adds to your speech the living, vi- brant touch that spells charm. Let these 4,725 synonyms rush to your aid in need, stall off cmbarrass- ment.
 Send iOc for your copy of BYNO- NYMB FOR EVERYDAY WORDS t0 the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 03s Sixth Eve, New foFh, V. Y. Ile suFa lo write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME 0f bookIet.
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without being guilty of that unfor- givable bridge crime-passine . forcing bid.
 When South bid three no trump. his partner properly decided to take things in charge and bid the slam. West. who had been licking his chops in anticipation of a juicy set. giee- fully doubled when the bidding re turned to him. North redoubled, and the battle was on.
 There was nothing to the play. The opening lead of the king of diamonds was won with the ace in dummy. A small club was led from dummy and then c trump was played. the finesse taken against tho doubier.
 When the jack had held the trick the low heart was led from dunl- fy and the tack finesssd, Wsstt acc winning. Now there was 1o trouble In making ail tho remain ing tricks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

Volume absorbed 494 Given off ABA
 The discrepancy between the vol- lime of oxygen taken up by the blood and that of the carbon dioxide given off by the blood is explained by the fact that some of the oxygen is uged to oxidize carbon and hydro gen in food and hence some of 1t is eliminated from the body in the form of oxide of hydrogen, known to old fashioned folk as water.
 The expired air Is always warmed to or nearly to body or blood tenn perature t08 to 90 degree F) and is nearly saturated with water vapor. The warming of the air is a means by which the body dissipates heat, though only minor means in man. In the dog the warming of the ex- pired air and the vaporization of moisture in the air is an important means of cooling the body, and that's why dog pants when heat ed: besides, dog has no sweat glands to eliminate water. .t'
 An adult breathes approximately pint of air in an ordinary quiet inspiration. Over and above this, one may draw in three more pints by the deepest possible insporation. Then one may also breathe out three pints over and above the or- dinary or tidal" pint of air, by the most forcible expiration. Thus the total Of vital capacity" Is consid- erably less than a gallon. But af- ter one has breathed out every bit of air he possibly can, there still re- mains in the lungs 8 good quart of air. That, together with the sup plemental air that one can breathe out after an ordinary experation, makes a reserve supply of more than five pintS of air to sustain life when the natural air supply is cut of. A small portion of this reserve supply remains trapped in the air spaces of the lungs even after death from drowning or sudrowning or auffoca- ton and this is sufficient to make the lungs float. This gives aDfnedi- colegal test of importance in certain cases: If 6 newborn infants lungs will float the child has breathed and lived; if the lungs will not float, the child was stiliborn and never has breathed or lived in the legal sense
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Fruit Juice
 How can one with colitis obtain enough vitamin 0 when raw fruits and vegetables are exluded from the diet? (Mrs. A. F)
 Answer--I know of no reason why one with colitis should not take fruit or vegetable juice and the juice of any fresh fruit or fresh vegetable contains the vitanin o.
 Does the blood become thicker in winter than in summer? GA. O R.
 Answer-No.
 Myasthenla Gravis
 Is there anay cure for myasthenis gravis? am not, sure I have ths right spelling. It weakens the mus cles. What causes 1t? Would vita mins held? {. (M. Y. O.
 Answer--Cause unknown. Of 6s patients t3 have died. i6 able to re. sume practically full time work, 2' able to do part time work: i2 ahl' to do light work or short tasks. N' specific remedy known. Remedies favorably reported include glyclne proatigmin and ammonium chior' lde. unaccountahle remissions iikels to occur, SO that patients make re' markabie gains and 90 back to worl after hope has been almost aban' doned. Ltt ] Copyright isss. John ?. p'Ils ca-'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge League

'"If had had Q sound bid, you would have had a good double" was South's mild reply, as West la- mented his inability to beat the re- fnarkable contract, of six spades, which had been reached and made against him, redoubled.
 South was entirely right. The opening bid was psychological, based on the fact that the opponents were vulnerable, and that South had length and some slight strength in both majors. As dealer, when he picked up his hand, he remem- bered the old military maxim that attack is the best defense"
 Solution to Previous
 Contract Problem
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this to no one who can- 4
 not stand 1t to hear a spade called 8 spade);
 "The War Goes On," by .- sholem Asch; Maiden
 Castle" by John Cowper Powys tpretty mystic this): Bitter vic- tory" by Louis Guilloux, Might Outlasts the whippoorwill," by Sterling North:. Green Margins" by E. P. O'Donnell; "The Stones Awake" by Carleton Beals; Ward Eight" by Joseph F. Din- neen: Yang and y!n," by Alice Tisdale Hobart; Death in the Deep South," by Ward Greene.
 In lighter vein, what you might call reading fiction," as opposed to "heavy-thinking fic- tion," are Golden Wedding" by Anne Parrish; All Brides Are Beautiful" by Thomas Bell; White Banners" by Lloyd c. Douglas; Level Crossing" by Phyllis Bot tome; Sand Castle" by Janet Beth; '"The Old Ashburn Place." by Margaret Flint; Honorable Es- tate," by Vera Britain, "A Pray CT for My Son." by Hugh Walpone; Arouse and Beware" by MacKin- lay Kantor.
 Transcending both classifica- tons is Caleb CatlumS Amer ica," by Vincent McEugh. Bet ter give this to a man; I doubt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
MEMOIRS BY FOREIGN
 CORRESPONDENTS

Among the most solidly inter- esting of books are And Fear Came" by John T. Whitaker; Covering the Far East" by Miles W. Vaughn; T Found No Peace,' by Webb Miller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

1t is, of course. unnecessary to point out that South did not have tho scmblance Of an opening bid, 60 -far as high card requirements are concerned. He. too. was most unhappy when he heard his part ner's force with Q jump bid in aa- other suit.
 He feared to rebid his terrible spade suit. 60 no made the bid he felt best calculated to stop the cone tFacting at the lowest ponsible point
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
By DIR MORRIS FIsHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of
 Hygiea, the Health Magazine


 A witty Irish doctor once said that there are two kinds of deaf ness-one due to wax in the ear which can be cured by swinging. and the other not due to wax and not curable.
 Medicine has advanced consider ably since this statement was made 100 years ago, but we have progress cd more in determining the presence of trouble in the external ear and how to eliminate 1t than we have in analysing and controlling conditions which cause progressive deafness We have, nevertheless, made great progress in eliminating many Of the causes of car infections.
 Most people nowadays know enough about hygiene to provide
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
Ho1v To Keep WeH
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD

siE".d letters pannx perscn"i heaIlh a.d :yssne " enciosed etfers should bo brieS aud Q n
 
  of 4 .
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WONDERING.

ANSWER
 phianderer rise he They wife must steel herself to endure the
  como married that his home would permanently desert This alternative doe neither of which will her youth her chagrm knowledge that he has been unfau guarantee her husband
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
Lebkuchen or German
 Christmas Cookies

powders her face and combs her hair: little sachet bags or pastel net cup to keep her curls in place while she sleeps are other attractive and useful presents that you can make-and at little expense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
BRIEF LISTS. OF INTERESTING VOLUMES TO TAKE ALONG WHEN Paging Santa Claus AZ The BOOkSheIUeS
Bv Bruce Cation

OF course you are going to U be giving someone a book for Christmas. The chances are that you'll be giving sev-
 eral people books for ~ Christmas. And you
 may be planning to drop a hint to your
 wife, husband or next of kin concerning a book or two you yourself would like to receive on Christmas morning.
 A reviewer, therefore, can do no less than list Q few of the recent books that stands out as possible Christmas selections. That Is to say he can list the books which are good in their field: and If you will bear in mind that any such list must necessarily be incomplete, the following may help you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
THRILLERs AND MYSTERIES

MT. Pinkerton Has the Clue by David Prone (almost ideal if the subject likes English detec- tive gtories): "The Crimson Hair Murders" by o. and H. Teilhet; "The Corpse With the Floating Foot" by R, A. J. Walling; "Dan- ger in the Dark" by Mignon c. Eberhart (practically sure fire for any mystery story fan White Velvet" by Sax Rohmer; The Case of the Suffering Bish- op," by Erie Stanley Gardner; "One Murdered, Two Dead" by Milton Propper; Spies and In- trigues," an E. Phillips Oppen- helm omnibus; "The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey" by John Dickson Cara real-life murder case out of English history.
 Better check up a bit before giving detective stories-they get around awfuliy fast, and the per- son you're giving 1t to may have read 1t at some circulating lib- rary or other.
 Copyright. 1o3s, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

They that find for loss and this particular defeat the emtions of wife other She must be self to be able to find the compensations situation they 
 which by divorce and with 1t out from under her. Her established place in the social scheme the wife of phandere better established than The satisfaction having him at
 being his charming seIf which the phiianderer which thoughtful with. humiliation her pride the hurt heart his dissertation of her love?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
Hints for Homemakers
 By Jane Rogers

UEEP a jar Of chopped Brazil IN nuts In a cool dry place on your pantry shelf. Mixed with sugar and spice they make an excellent topping for the busy day cake. With the following nut topping no froating is necessary. Mix ono cup chopped Brazil nuts with one tablespoon Eranulated sugar. one half teaspoon cinnamon and one quarter teaspoon ground alispics and nutmeg mixed. Sprinkle over cake batter before baking. This amount is aufieient topping for cake baked in q ninslnch square pan.
 Department and hve and dime etOrss are featuring an amaslng iitus nnt cracker especially designed to remove the shell of the Brazil nut. Controlled pressure of the nut eFabker handle guarantees removal of tiEn toughest Brasil nut shell without breaking or impalring the snt neat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

that the souls phander They concced They cowardy
  that they court compnened and blinded to all but their charm
 CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
POETRY

More Poems" by A. E. Hous- mana must" item, if you're buying verse; '"The oxford Book of Modern Verse;" edited by VII. liam Butler Ycats-another must" item: "Splendour in the Grass" by Audrey Wurdemann; "Callinf Wes-
 tern Unioil," by Genevieve Taggard'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
Caroline .Chatfield
With One Accord All Those Who Know the Philan- derer Rise Up and Say He Cannot Be Cured Un- til Old Age with Its Qualms Relegates Him to a Quiet Corner.
Sqys To-day
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VUiet Iorner. DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

philandering cured? For five widow didn't thought to the opposite Then met man background graduated at college travelled country not bad looking and at thirty though nearly forty Since stories of beautiful his msesseG Now that he about him and this prospect conquest He when he took her to show He gets himself for the evening with attempt doing have made and know that but goadd into We sat in restaurant when After watching him looking at her with table said to that give he could down to the he announced that divorce immediately there to be divorce
 tuthfuy there won't be for In love with him. Again ask Can phianderng husband be cured?
 WONDERING.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
FICTION

More or less heavy. thoughtful and Gas like as not) depressing are "A World I Never Made" by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

if many women would care for it. In slightly rowdy,' masculine way it's a swell book.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.

m VI h this Letter. tor p"bient.n vii he All Miss ChAn~id.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

4VUI O biiG 1kCpIl luCo.
 There's a splendid edition of "Pickwick Papers," illustrated by Gordon Ross. There's Dr. Bustoy Eckstein's Canary" which makes fine reading. For people who like dogs and humor, there is a little gem by Lord Dunsany - My Talks With Dean Spanley.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-12

There are @ few that don't classify easily. You might very
Evening star., 1936-04-25
SelfShneSS
Of Parents
Is InSidiOuS
Wise to Stop and
Consider Matter
Impartially.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

THERE are blind spots in our minds
quite as dark as the one we carry
in our eyes. Those in our minds are
own making We get between the
thing we need to see and our mental
vision. The shadow of our self falls
across the field, and what we ought to
see clearly Is dark to us. 1t is there.
remember, but we do not know it. 1t
is working its own peculiar mission
for good or evil, hidden from our sight
by our own shadow.
Not long ago a mother visited the
school where her little daughter was
attending an upper-grade class. Il
wish you would tell me what to do with
Elsie. She is becoming impossible.
She cries at the least word. Lately,
on two occasions, she has shown vio-
lent temper. She tore up her new piece
in front of her music teacher, made
terrible scene. I was afraid the
teacher would never come back. She
Is high-prlced teacher and makes
an exception for my daughter be-
cause she has such talent. Elsie talks
rudely to me most of the time now.
And she is cross with her little
brother. She is spelling our home"
I'VE think that Elsie Is being over
worked" she was told. "She is two
grades higher now than she would Or
dinarily be- She is underweight. Very
nervous. Complains often of head
ache. She is taking dancing lessons,
music lessons and dramatics outside
school. She thinks she must study
harder so that she can skip another
grade. We think that the best thing
to do for her Is to cut out all the ex-
tras, give her no home work and let
her attend school only on alternating
half days until her health is improved.
The school physician fears she will
have some nervous illness. She needs
rest, less work, no pressure whatever"
"Oh, dear me! She would not like
that at all. She is very ambitious;
you have no idea how ambitious she
Is. 1t would break her heart not to
stand highest in the class. She wants
to enter high school when she
is IL. Her cousins were 13, but she
wants to do better. Or, dear, no.
That isn't what is wrong. Not at
ALL"
The shadow of the mothers self
had fallen between her and her child's
need. Her ambition was eating her
own child's body and mind. 1t hap
pens so often to unconscious fathers
and mothers. A child heads toward
some ideal, some hearts desire, and
his parents frantically pull him back.
They cannot see that the boy Cor the
girD Is going his destined way and that
his good is not theirs, but his own.
Being different, having opinions op-
posite to those of their parents is not
being wrong, not being disobedient
and willful and bad as often as people
think. Usually it is an expression of
progressing growth.
Whenever a parent finds himself
trying to force child to go in oppo-
sition to his expressed wishes. trying
to make him go the way his parents
feel he must go, it would be wise to
stop and consider. els this desire of
mine really free Of selfshness or is the
shadow Of my self falling between me
and my child?"
tCopyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-04-25

TWOLetters
Of Protest
Proper Clothes for
Cruising Travel
Bureaus.
Star Stan Photo.
BY EMILY POST.

DEAR MRS. POST: On the subject
of clothes to be worn on shipboard,
it seems to me that you were for once
behind the procession in your frigid
GOODNESS toward beach pajamas. My
protest is one of those this hurts me
more than it does you" categories that
the parent is supposed to say when
she chastises her child. This is re-
versed as to age q am 49,, but those
are the sentiments. I like you too
much not to hate to see you get prim
over slacks and Mortified by shorts,
both of which are accepted by every
one, and I believe that you know
it, too. So why not come up at the
head of the procession, where you be-
long, and agree that anything ex-
cept beach clothes would be ridicu-
lous on a Southern cruise.
Answer-Thank you very much for
liking me enough to want me to keep
nv place in line. But don't like SO
women out of 100-or even young
girls-running around in pants"
This is not because I'm prim, but
because the feminine figure in the
90 cases is not made for them. /
have seen slacks q pair in 100) on
beaches that hung perfectly and look
ed we'll. And at your age. if you are
short as we'll as slim, you may look
well even in shorts, on the tennis
courts or sailing your own small boat,
but if you think they look well in
the lounge or the dining saloon or
even walking around a deck, I'm
afraid this time we'll have to disagree.
Dear Mrs. Post: May make pro-
test? I am employed by the x & Co.
travel Bureau and was therefore par
ticularly interested in your advice
given recently to those intending to
20 on a sea voyage. It Is my opinion
that your advice will be of invaluable
assistance to many who are contem-
plating a holiday Of this sort for the
first time. But I sincerely trust that
x e. Co. was not the travel bureau
YOU had in mind when, after saying
YOU always relied on your own pet
bureau to plan and budget your itin-
erary, you then mentioned the neces-
sity of getting on board early in order
to secure places in the dining saloon
and arrange for deck chairs. May I
remark that these annoying details
should have been taken care of by
your obviously not very efficient pet"
agents beforehand and for that rea-
son alone I shall hope that x & Co.
are not they.
Answer-I agree that the sequence
of paragraphs might have given the
impression that my pet agency" was
not efficient (and that myself was
not aware Of what should be expected
of a good one). But the paragraph
about attending to your own dining
saloon place and deck chair and lug
gage was addressed to the passengers
who were not going to an agent and
therefore had to look after these de-
tails themselves.
Evening star., 1936-04-25
Ancient Glass-Blowine
Trade Develops New Art
Under Feminine Guidance
Miss Mariana Won Allesch Said to Be
Originator of Fragile Figurine
Vogue

ored glass. Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
vent was so delighted with a plump,
prancing colt when she viewed the
collection that Miss Won Allesch pre-
sented it to her.
When the new art took on" in
Germany, Mariana Won Allesch add
ed to her studio II glass blowers
whose only previous experience was
that of blowing electric light bulbs
and patiently taught them to repro
duce her designs to her satisfaction,
She exhibited first in 1922 and SUBJ
sequently in London, Paris and many
other cities of the continent and in
the United States. Her pieces are
owned and displayed by the Metropolis
tan and numerous other American
museums.
Before leaving Germany she was
engaged by the German government
to study and industrialize the glass
industry in Thuringen, where 5000
men and women work
TN 1928 Miss Won Allesch was invited
by Eugene Schoen, New York
architect, to come to this country and
work with him on the interior of
the Child's room at the Metropolitan
Museum and four floors of the Stew
art Building. She remained and has
become an American citizen, although
she visits Europe nearly every year.
Mariana Won Allesch continues her
earlier work, designing furniture and
interiors, associated with local firm.
She is recognized originator in
modern furniture, fabrics, rugs, lamps,
lighting and wall designs and lead
er in the revolt against the unsatis-
factory effect of some of the first
modern pieces displayed in the United
States, which threatened to estrange
people of taste from all furniture
called modern" forever.
A slender, tailored woman, with
short hair brushed straight from a
high forehead, Miss Won Allesch's per-
sonality does not disappoint the caller
who has seen her work. The five
white Siamese cats, with dark rings
circling their eyes, that snooze and
stretch in her living room or assist
her in receiving have the grace and
delicacy and humor of her glass crea-
tionS.
Evening star., 1936-04-25

For sheer materials are the complete
give-away, when it comes to figures;
any over-stuffed regions that have
been fairly we'll concealed by heavy,
stiff materials during the Winter
months show up most horribly in gauzy
chiffons and other diaphanous fab
rics.
I don't know Of more distressing
experience than to sally gaily forth,
on a bright, sunny morning. to pur-
chase a love of thin evening gown
to wear to that party tomorrow night.
The very dress is discovered lurking
behind a showcase, and tried on, with
confidence and pleasure. But CHI! that
first glimpse in the long mirror is
practically knockout blow. Every
curve is a bulge-every joint sports
padded cushion. The whole effect is
that of a bolster tied snugly in odd
places!
What to do-what to do? You try
on a size larger, in shame and desper-
etion-but even that doesn't look right
the bulges show through the sheer
stuff Just the same Completely un-
nerved. you struggle back into your
Winter dress-which, now that you
notice it, looks pretty funny, too, and
hasten from the shop to quiet corner
where you can think this problem out
undisturbed.
X X X X
THE upshot of your calm deliberation
Is usually one of three things. You
either 60 to the best corsetiere that
you know, and place yourself in her
hands, so that she fits you with a gar
ment that conceals the rolls and
bulges; you sign on the dotted line
for a reducing course at one Of the
teauty shops, or dancing studios, with
or without massage. turkish baths, etc,
depending upon the state Of your
purse; or you obtain an exercise
schedule and routine from some re-
liable authority, and go faithfully
through its motions every single day
of your life At the same time, no mat
ter which of the three solutions you
choose, you will probably adopt some
kind of reducing diet, and try to
stick to it through thick and thin
much to the disgruntlement of your
family, and to your own mental agony.
But if all that you do is to be sue
cessful you should bear in mind that
1t must be done regularly, day in and
day out, with no getting slack here