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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10

Young, slender lines-yours for the makingl Takes but few hours. this becoming frock pattern, and behold-you can blossom forth in a charming afternoon frock that's ideal for Mid-season and Autumn wear. Truly chic Claire Tilden touches enhance this practical mod el-graceful sleeves, flattering ja- bot (omit this if you wish), dis tinctive yokes, and simple bodice are all as easy as can be to cut and stitch. And do see the trim skirt with its jaunty action pleats. Couldn't be more attractive, could 1t? You'll love this frock stitched up in sheer or crepe. Detailed Sew ing Guide accompanies this pattern,
 Pattern AIS is cut in women's sig es 34, 36. 38, 40, 42, A, 46 and 4S. Size 36 requires 4 3-8 yards 39 inch fabric. ,'.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS tl5c) in coins or stamps tpreferably coinsD for this pattern. WRITE CLEAR LY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER. ,s.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department. 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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GUIDE TO RIGHT THINKING

GUtOE 1O hkG11 1nANMANU
 Once you get clear in your mind the fact that acid stomach is not acidosis, although these states are often confused in the popular fancy you will not worry so much about the so-called acid-forming foods in your diet. I am not a food special ist, just a doctor, and what I don't know about eating or not eating this and that fills many circulars, bro- chures and book, for Yankee wise acres. Once when callow medical student tried to uphold diagnosis of appendicitis made by the village doctor in a case of bellyache Auntie Binnel, the village seer, disposed of the upstart by observing that he'd probably know more when he got a little older. For thirty years I stud- jed hard and I still believe the mo- ton that certain foods make the stomach and the system acid is wrong.
 Acidosis is dilninution of the al- kaline reserve of the blood and tis- sues of the body, lowering of the normal alkalinity of blood and tis- sues. Acidosis is practically always 8 consequence of disease and not a cause of disease. Only under extra ordinary circumstances which re- strict the choice of food is a signifi- cant degree of acidosis from faulty diet conceivable. Tn every instance where apparent benefit to health is ascribed to excluding acid-ash foods the real explanation, in my opinion, is either CD the needed rest from overeating, or (2) the increased in- take of vitamins, or (0 the better ration of minerals the individual en- joys while following the regimen.
 However. if you must know, here are lists of foods which leave acid ash and foods which leave alkali-
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Speechless Moments? Synonyms Rescue You

Have An Easy Flow of Words
 Have you ever been in her shoes?
 Expected to say something charming and congratulatory-but struck dumb because you can't think of a thing but your old standby. Gee, how swell!" And that just won't do before these fas- tidious strangers!
 Synonyms are what you need. Brush up on fresh, sparkling words, get rid of overworked ones. Then it's no trick at all to say the gra- cious thing.
 Instead of that monotonous brilliant" trip from your lips. And when you drop the trite mice" and pretty" graceful compliments come easily. What an exquisite room, " "how delightfully."- you sing" such a fascinating person. phrases like these smooth your social path,
 To give. ease and zest to your talk turn to our 32-page booklet. It has 4,725 synonyms for words you use constantly-socially, in business, every day.
 Send lOc for your copy of SYNO- NYMS FOR EVERYDAY WORDS to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, .635 Sixth Ave. New YOlA, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
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PARENTS - 2
 Your Children
By Olive Roberts Barton


 Tn spite of all the things there are today, and the range of en- tertainment for children, believe our young folk still are starved for laughter.
 Even play has become a serious affair. Construction toys and competitive games have taken the edge off fun to 8 large extent. We have gone in for mental and muscular development in a large way, and capitalized interest with a vengeance. The jolly little god of nonsense lies neglected in his corner. |
 The "play attitude" should Ec used more as an agent in round- ing out children than it is, be- cause it sweetens disposition, re- duces strain and colors discipline in rosy light. Children and apults are alike in that they will accept suggestion and correction more profitably if the proposition is coated with the sugar of non- sense.
 Lay Dignity Aside
 The mother who feels that her household is tagging and going stale with the sameness of the days might find it great help if she can whip Up her imagina- tion a little. She will have tU lay her dignity aside, of course and enter into the spirit of the thing as wholeheartedly as tht children themselves.
 There was the mother, for in. stance, who astonished the chil. dren one glum day by tying a big red bow on Towser's tail. The screaming and giggling that followed left a trail of good humor that lasted for hours. Another time she pinned two strips of paper across her dress
 Whats that for, Nom" asked Roger. I'm cross" she said.
 "Cross?" They weren't satis- field.
 "Yes, I'm cross. burnt the beans"
 Another yell of delight Mother could joke about herself. Nonsense for All to Enjoy When things go wrong. try the little shock of fun. There is no law against the family coming in and seeing lunch set on the man. tlepiece, for instance.
 "What's the big idea?" demands one of them.
 well, I thought everybody was looking down his nose at break. fast today" answered the oracle. "so thought I'd fix 1t so you'd all have to look up."
 Practical joking Is out. While a child should learn to take 1t, still It leaves a little hurt, and besides the habit may grow Then 1t ceases to be funny. A Joke on oneself. or a general joke fo- everybody, Is better.
 "A little nonsense now and then
 Is relished by the best of men,"
 Give me that house that rings with laughter, with little snatches of songs and good humor.
 Fun does not create morons; 1t has exactly the opposite effect. The greater the man, the greater his ca- pacity for humor. It Is capital for entertainers because people are SO hungry for 1t.
 Copyright, 1897, NEA Service, Incl
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BY MRS. GAYNoR MADDOX

NEA SerVlCeS StaH WrJer
 Some cooks insist that the addi- ton of prepared pectin decreases the flavor and stiffens the consist ency of their jams and jellies. But an equal number of good cooks in- sist that the guarantee of success that results from using pectin off, sets any minor change in consist ency or flavor.
 Damson Plum and Concord
 Grape Jam
 (10 glasses-6 fluid ounces each)
 Four cups @ pounds) prepared fruit, 2 l-2 cups @ IA pounds) sugar, l-2 bottle fruit pectin.
 To prepare fruit, slip skins from about 1 l-2 pounds fully ripe grapes. Bring pulp to boil and simmer, covered 5 minutes. Remove seeds by sieving. Chop or grind skins and add to pulp. Pit (do not peeD about l Ia pounds fully rip damson plunls. Cut in small pieces and crush thoroughly. Add IA cup wa ter, bring to a boil, cover, and sim mer 15 minutes. Combine fruits.
 Measure sugar and prepared fruit int olarge kettle, filling up last cup or fraction of cup with water if necessary; place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring con-
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foot wide, and most rooms need 8 pair of easy-to-move open-arm chairs (perhaps with upholstered seats and backs) as much as they do lounging chairs. Tables should be correct in scale Gas well as in style) for their individual chair, sofa or window groups, and usually, unless the room is very large or needs 1t. long, heavy drop-leaf or library table is out of place.
 In a small bedroom 1t is mistake to try to crowd large, heavy dress CT, a high, deep chest and full-size dressing table, plus the bed or beds and two chairs. A pair of shallow chests will give ample storage space for clothes; small poudre or vanity is as useful as the large tables |. and much prettier in the room.
 Matched Pieces Make MonotOny
 Variety is another valuable quality to have in the dining room, where naturally the furniture is more static than 1t is in any other room. The decorators idea of a lovely dining room is one that is not too set |. not a meticulous matching of the pieces, although of course there
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CdoC O1 4Nlioo A5hCy Shoot, who has spent 35 years of her life being a school teacher and principal in Kansas City. She has a group of eighth grade boys to supervise at recess. They always play ball. Therefore, when she came to Teachers College at Columbia this summer she enrolled with 100 young men in a course devoted to the science of baseball.
 Hereafter she'll know a home run and a triple play when she sees them.
 Along with this sign of ad- vancement comes the announce ment of Linton Wells, famous correspondent and adventursr whose book, Blood on the Moon," appeared recently, that women have turned into such good reporters that he feels much more likely to be scooped on a story when a woman is his com petitor than when a man is..
 "Women used to rely on their sex to get them by" he states. They would cry and tell the men on the story that their boss es would fire them if they didn't come home with the story. They depended on us to help them out. Not any longer! Sex is forgotten, they go after the news, and get it."
 When depended on their curls and giggles to get dates to ball games too, yesterday. Not any more! If a girl doesn't know the rules she can't expect to be answered politely when she says: Why did that play CT start to run all of a sudden?"
 You have to knew the answers these days. If you don't, you'll put the question away somewhere until you have time to consult a diction- ary if you are wise. We wanted equal rights. Whether we like it or not we got what we asked for-and 1t centainly is making life easier for the gentlemen of the press and the bleachers.
 Copyright, 1887, NEA Service. Incl
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MIND Your MANNERS

Test your knowledge of correct social usage on answering the fol- lowing questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below:
 l. Does starting an argument make for good conversation? 2. Is it usually the self-centered person who monopolizes a conver- Bation?
 3. Does the use of coarse ex- pressions indicate sophistication? 4. Is it permissible to break into Q conversation in order to add a timely point?
 5. Should the wife of a physi- elan refer to her husband as Doc tor" rather than by name? What would you do if- You are hostess wishing to stimulate an intertsting cOnver- aation among your guests
 (a) Keep control of the topics
 of conversation yourself? (b) Start an argument on a
 controversial subjects?
 (c) Draw your guests out to tell
 of their own interests?
 ANSWERS 1. No.
 2. With rare exceptions. 3. No-vulgarity. {. No, for interruptions are sel- Aofn welcome.
 Q No
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BEAUTY.
 Gloriying
 Yourself
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service StaE Writer

NEA Service StaB Writer
 Before you buy single new fall outfit or make any plans at all for new coiffure, do sit down quietly and try to see yourself as you want to look during the autumn and win- ter seasons. Get fairly accurate mental picture of the impression you hope to create. Make notes, then put these aside for reference and as a guard against buying things that are all wrong for you.
 Be pretty sensible about the men, tai picture taking into consideration your mode of living, budget limita- tions and interests in life as well as your figure, coloring and age. Don't conjure up vision of yourself in a Garbo role when you know very well that you have to keep house and tend your family or go to an office early every morning. Try to think of heater smarter better groomed YOU-happy and contented in your own particular niche in the world. Make few resolutions about run down heels on new fall shoes, dust on the new fall hat, wrinkles in dresses and suits. Promise yourself to buy only clothes which are fiat- tering to your figure and absolutely in keeping with your living habits. then to devote precious time to keeping them in order.
 Consider the shape of your face and where you spend most of your daylight hours before you decide on new coiffure. Why bother with an hairdo if you go to business s days a week and go in for active sports weekends? A simple one can be just as becoming-and much less trouble.
 And plan to look natural, using cosmetics to dramatiZe-n distort your best features. Get powder which matches your skin, rouge and lipstick to make lips and cheeks look glowingly alive, eye makeup to make eyes seem larger and lovelier. Bizarre effects will not be smart. Plan to lok like a lady-a trim. per- fectly groomed lady who buys the right clothes, keeps them clean and pressed and uses correct cosmetic correctly. M
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must be harmony.
 During recent years I notice the better manufacturers have observed this preference and are now pro- ducing "sets" of furniture wherein the pieces differ slightly in design a great relief from the mon- otony of the old ones where all de- tails were identical.
 One very interesting way of bring ing variety into dining rooms is shown by the room illustrated, where have used handsome sideboard and table of dark walnut with swag and border touched in antique gilt and chairs painted peacock blue, rubbed down to give it mellow an- tique effect. Seats are upholstered in white leather finished with gold nailheads, and swags brushed with antique gold.
 Color Combinations in Vogue
 You will find this combination of different finishes in some of the most charming rooms of today. Warm brown natural walnut is often combined with bleached walnut chairs for modern schemes; in Eighteenth Century and French
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 Among the angushes if than the anguish the girl whose heart ptiabe part of d O as @ ses he e The not forthcoming because nobody know and there
 But there which and the other melancholy life there life beginning to blight is ton @ menta diseases M entitled to an obo and anybody that @ one The a one of run ourselves crazy and death let minds mill subject day in station the optower that would drown out all the other stations.
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 Nobody has ever found s road to marriage the old propnquy route Take girl as Ugly as mud fence put her on him so he will see through glass arky The ebs be found at all places of business and there are and spell correctly Hail the job that gives the mod ern gal breakl
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 Finally happes world after first youth has able forget themselves and their unseh others These the where and with whom they would nave chosen Ih are M p spp who had and courage and character and some o the pest no" 'f' ""AAA''''0 "'D'''' CAROLINE cHArF1EID.
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Dining Room Inpbued With Character
 GiUeS Hostess Background Of Charm
Choose Furniture in Keeping with
 Size of Room

amount to spend, I advise giving first conSideration--and the most money-to the sideboard. This most important piece should be simple in line and not too bulky. The serv- ing table may be any of one of sev- eral types-a folding card table, con- sole, lowboy, small chest or dropleaf table.
 Watch Shape of Table
 Personally, prefer oval or oblong tables instead of round or square ones, and there should be no awk- ward legs or trestles to obstruct comfortable seating. Dining chairs should have ample seats and backs of medium height, and usually I like a pair of arm chairs for the head and foot at table. These also make good extra chairs when needed in the living room.
 If you have a matched" dining set you can still do much to cure monotony of design by using a smart looking plant stand, dumb waiter or tier-table to hold bits 0t colored glass or porcelains. Or you can build in a pair of corner cup boards with arched tops. In an Eighteenth Century room I often use a quaint tiered fern stand of Vhite wire or iron. In one room I placed a very high one before tall window and the light, airy effect of the greens cascading down was de- lightful. To the Early American or French Provincial dining room a fine Welch dresser or one or pair of corner cupboards will give definite character. FRIDAY: How to use old furni-
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~ WCtC VAAC NAOS- ing hymn, was a mystery to her, because she had no way of know ing 1t was the seventh inning.
 If con o m l c e m a n c 1 p a tion hasn't done all the things for women that their fighting gra n d. mothers hoped 1t would, at least 1t has given them a wider interest in extra . mural &C., tivities.
 AS d e finit t e proof, take the ease of Miss I,llcV
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ANCIENT COFFIN IS 60 TONS

Cairo (UP)-The largest cofan ever made by man has been placed in the Museum here. It is made of hard limestone and is 12 feet inches long. ! feet 6 inches vide and feet deep. It weighs 60 tom The conn was found in 0aili tomb. .is
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LEARNING

Colin Tapley, Paramount contract player appearing as villain in such productions as Wild Money" with Edward Everett Horton, has per- fected his American gangster dialog by reading detective maga- bzines, overcoming the handicap of New Zealand birth and dictio1.
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VALUABLE

A cordon of studio police today was thrown around a Hollywood sound stage as a precautionary measure when Marlene Dietrich wore $10O,0OO worth of diamonds ip sequence of the Ernst Lubitsch- Dietrich film "AngeL' IT
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By ELIZABETH PEACOCK Written for NEA Service

New York--Among decorators you will often hear the dining room re- ferred to as the stepchild which home-owners usually consider after every other room in the house. But from a decorative standpoint, 1t IS fully as important as the living room. It is the natural background of the hostess, and should be as smartly styled and as effective as It is possible to make 1t. And par ticularly - dining room furniture should not be too large or overpow- ering.
 This point of correct scale might almost give first place in selecting furniture for all rooms, however. Sofas shuold not be too long or too bulky where a living room is medium sized or small. Except for sleeping, there is as much comfort in five
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Helen Welshimer Says:- 1Q37WOm1an Has to Be Q
 Good Sport
By Helen WeLShimer

There was a time when woman was as likely as not to think that an observer who said that team was ragged" was talking about its suits. Why everyone stood at the seventh inning just as though
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rooms, a walnut or mahogany side board and table will be used with chairs painted antique white. Often the dining table itself Is a combina- tion of light and dark woods a soft brown walnut top, for exam pie, with off-white legs and apron touched with gilt.
 When the dining room needs go- ing over and there is only a small
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Before Jack Benny dreamed of be- coming | star in pictures end al. outstanding radio entertainer. he worked in his fathers haberdashery store in Waukegan, Illinois.
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Modern Menus

stantly. Gro reduce toaming, IA teaspoon butter may be added.) Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard 1 min ute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once Makes about g glasses G fluid ounces each)
 Grape Jelly
 ell glasses-6 fluid ounces each) Four cups @ pounds) juice, 2 l-2 cups 6 IA pounds) sugar, l-2 bottled fruit pectin.
 To prepare juice, stem about pounds fully ripe grapes and crush thoroughly. Add l-2 cup water, bring to a boil, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. (Concord grapes give best color and flavor. If Mala- gas or other tight-skinned grapes are used, use l-2 cups grape juice, and add juice of medium lemons).
 Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add bottled fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard Ia min- ute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin at once.
 TOMORROW'S MENU
 BREAKFAST: Stewed fresh plums, French toast, crisp ba- con, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Cabbage~pine apple salad, popovers, tomato marmalade, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Fruit cup, veal in casserole, pastry cover, corn on cob, peas in cream, black berry roll, hard sauce, iced coffee, milk.
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Ho70 To Keep WeH
By DIR. WILLIAM BRADY. MD.

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Australian girl cricket players touring England shocked many Dy plas':ng in shorts.
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Proper Scale and Variety Enhance
 Individuality

Getting out of the decorative rut is the speciality of Elizabeth Peacock, New York designer and decorator. She tells in this third article on WHY THE DECORATOR DOES IT how to make your dining room look as attractive and charming as any other room in the house.
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TOMORROW'S MENU
The Democrats Service Bulletins
HOUSEWIVES AND SUMMERTIME

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Caroline Chatfield
Says To-day

The Sure Road to Romance and Marriage is the Old
 Propinquity Route. Girl Can Frequently Find It " via Business or Athletics for Here She Meets
 the Eligibles.
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of Letters unsuitable for pMbint"n w. Ds .ms.ere Write Miss Ch"hIed In of
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FRIDAY: How to use old furni. ture with new.
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BAD BEGINNING

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