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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11

A jewel of a frock with just that designed -for-you look that makes dainty model specially yours, is Pattern 354! Claire Tilden backs the vogue for dainty feminity this Summer with this darling of an afternoon frock that's sure to make all who wear it look their prettiest! Perfect for afternoon and porch wear, you'll love the effect of the double tier of frills that "sets off" the becoming round yoke, and find a dainty flower just the thing for an added note of daintiness! Upris- ing f1ared skirt, and demure bow sash complete this picture of easily made charm, while crisp dimity or voile will also add their share or flatteryl Detailed Sewing Guide accompanies this pattern.
 Pattern 354 is cut in sizes 12. IA, IS, IS, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 requires 3 7s8 yards 36 inch fabric. x. { <
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Latest Styles
Your Children
By Olive Roberts Barton

A mother asked about the pSy- cholopy of a child using baby talk. One day, it seems, Polly began to chatter to herself in odd little phrases. She would say, ~Oh, co poor itty dirl. Oo has to wash orr itty face and bush its nice booful hair"
 'There isn't any psychology" smiled this oracle. "she just likes to do it."
 "But I simply can't have it. She's been at it for a week now" said Polly's mother. "She speaks to all of us that way, and she is forever talking to herself"
 "Let her alone. She'll get tired of it. Polly has just learned that she can talk to herself, and so she adopts another voice.
 I think that every child goes through such a period, and If you ask me, it's much more civilized than all the "ixnay" stuff that the morons think so cute.
 A Lesson in Pig Latin"
 One of my unhappy memories of childhood is about day that my sister and I began to talk to each other over the table in "plg Latin. '"Are vuz you vuz going vuz to etc., etc."
 Our father, 6 rigid disciplin- arian of the old school, began to roar his wrath. 'If ever l catch you girls talking like that again I'll punish you both," said the hate gentleman.
 We were so astonished and felt the injustice so keenly, that our innocent little fun was taken so seriously, that never again did we attempt any such nonsense in his hearing. We never let him see us behaving like idoits, but we did pust the same. He was grand person, but very serious with children. Never could he find anything funny in our antics.
 And yet, another memory of him clings. One evening some friends were in to play cards, and he had had bad luck. Up he got and walked around the table quite sedately, saying that it might break the jinx.
 Why Is Parent Exception?
 My small round face must have showed it's surprise because I was hastily packed off to bed, but my hurt never wore off. Why couldn't we be silly once in a while, when our father could let loose his heavy dignity and do a nonsen- sical thing?
 So often parents correct chil- dren for small scatter-brained demonstrations, never pausing to take stock of their own little ec- centricities. Not so long ago heard a mother admonish a child for interrupting conversation, while she herself was usurping the floor all afternoon and no one else could freeze in 8 remark.
 Children are foolish, yes, but we don't need to inquire into the psychology of it until the race is born without humor and without faults. Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl
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WOMAN,S REALM
YOU KNOW HER AS MOTHER AND FIRST LADY OF BRITAIN
 THIS RARE PEEP INTO HER PRIVATE PROBLEMS REVEALS Queen Elisabeth, The Woman

colored polish applied. Lately she has agreed to wearing a slightly brighter shade of nail polish and ApStick. She has her eyebrows trimmed and is very fond of having her hair brushed. This is almost the only "sensuous" luxury she tn- dulges in, as sine does not care for highly scented bath salts or mas sage. l
 Sometimes, on the advice of her doctors, she has medical massage when very tired.
 Queen Elizabeth, while not in any way delicate, does not enjoy robust health. She used to have what are known as nervous throats" when a young girl, still has them, as well as neuralgia headaches.
 And she has particularly trying form of claustrophobia which causes her to be frightened of crowds and terrified of being mobped. Before going to a theater a message will often come through to the manager from Buckingham Palace asking him not to have the red carpet ana awning put out until the last mo- ment because of attracting crowds.
 The Queens tastes are not in the least high-brow. She neither likes nor understands modern poetry and music but she plays and sings with great charm the old Scottish ballads she heard as a child, and enjoys reading and talking about the "latest book" She has just finished Gone With the Wind" and enjoyed it inl- mensely. She likes long absorbing story best and has made a rule to read so much, and for so long, every day, finding this great rest and refreShment.
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The shoes should be built up nearly one-fourth inch along the inner edge of heel and sole. Or 1n- soles may be worn inside the shoes. We cannot describe proper shoes here. We will send monograph to any reader who asks for it and in- closes stamped envelope bearing his address. Care of the Feet" and selection of footwear. Or a more inclusive booklet Be Kind to Your Dogs" if you inclose ten cent coin.
 Exercises beneficial for weak feet: l. Walk on toes, toeing in.
 2. Walk on outer borders of bare meet. or stocking feet.
 3, Stand with feet toeing in; quickly rise on ties; slowly come down on outer borders of feet.
 These exercises should be done regularly every night and morning, barefoot or in stocking feet, and re- peated from ten to thirty times each seance. Watch children and see that they do not get into the bad habit of toeing out. They should toe in slightly or toe straight ahead. Their soles should permit this natural posture.
 Years ago we thought lack Of iron might be factor of weak feet. Perhaps it is in some instances. But from newer knowledge, of nutrition and considerable experience we now believe the principal underlying cause is lack of vitamin D. In ad- dition to proper footwear, corrective posture and systematic exercise, a daily ration of three to five thou sand units of vitamin D seems to promote most rapid recovery from this structural, developmental defl- ciency.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , Quinine>
 Is the habit of taking Quinine constantly for "that tired feeling" harmful or likely to become drug habit? Is quinine a tonic and if so how much and how long should one take it? (Mrs. w. J. W)
 Answer-One to three grains of quonone two or three times a day would be hamless for most persons (except certain individuals with an idiosyncrasy), but be sure it is only quinine, not some connection of ace tanilide with a trick name in which quinine is mentioned.
 Medical Student
 As freshman medical student I have difficulty f1ndinf material for term topic Food Ash and Acidosis". Can you suggest material? GA. HI. : Answer = Sansums monograph Diabetes Mellitus" published by HarperS. Read also what Wright's Applied Physiology" published by Oxford University Press has to say about the acid tide and alkaline tide. The latter book deserves 6 place on every medical students bookshelf.
 Copyright 1887, John F. Dille Col
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.BEAUTY-- GIorfying
 Yourself
NEA Service Staff Writer
By Alicia Hart

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 Quite as important as the weight which exercise routines cause you to lose and their tendency to keep your figure graceful and supple is the effect they have on breathing. Most authorities agree that shallow, lazy breathing is the root of posture defects-that ones chest will not be high and full, shoulders square and neck graceful unles she breathes correctly.
 Though you refuse to get up and exercise in the morning, do form the habit of standing erect, inhaling and exhaling in the ap- proved manner at least ten times before you start to dress. Hold stomach in, turn hips forward so there is no exaggerated hollow in the center of your back, elevate chest. Then breathe, deeply, slowly, raising arms above head as you inhale, lowering them as you ex- hale. Breathe in until you feel a pain in your chest. Breathe out un- til you feel one hundred per cent deflated.
 Until you get used to inhaline deeply and exhaling completely think about breathing now anc then when you are walking. CO ordinate your breathing with the length of the steps you take. keer chest up. Make muscles at the sides of your neck support your head.
 If your carriage isn't as per feet as you would like to have 1t repeat this exercise five times [ day for three or four weeks:
 Sit in a straight chair with hips not shoulders firmly against the back of it. Relax neck, let
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11

t Kindly advice to women who live alone and don't like it-learn how to make a strawberry blitz torte. It tastes as sweet as wedding bells in June.
 Strawberry Blitz Forte . 7. (6 servings)
 One and one-third cups sifted cake flour, 1 IA teaspoon combi- nation baking powder, 1-2 cup butter, 1-2 cup sugar, 4 egg yolks. unbeaten, 5 tablespoons milk egg whites, cup. sugar, quart perfect May strawberries, crushed and sweetened.
 Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and sift together three times. Cream butter thor oughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at stime, beating very thoroughly after adding each. Add flour, al- sternately with milk, small amount at time, beating after each addition until smooth. Spread ln two 9-inch greased layer pans. s Beat egg whites until foamy throughout. Add sugar, 2 table spoons at a time, beating after each addition until sugar is thor Ioughly blended After all sugar is added, continue beating until mix sture will stand in peaks. Spread in equal amounts on top of each layer. Bake layers in slow oven N325 degrees F) for 25 minutes, then increase the heat to moderate s(35O degrees F) and bake 30 min- Futes longer. When cool, spread with crushed sweetened strawberries. Cut in wedges for servings.
 f Gather ye roSebuds while ye Imay and make jelly while straw tberries are cheap in the market. Summer will fade but breakfast stoast goes on forever.
 | Strawberry Jelly
 (12 6-ounce glaSses) ! Four cups strawberry juice, 2 Tablespoons lemon juice, 8 cups sugar, 1 bottle fruit pectin. Use fully ripe strawberries. Grind Tor crush about quarts berries thor oughly. Place fruit in jelly bag and squeeze out juice. Measure. Add demon juice. Measure sugar and fruit juices into large saucepan. MIX. Bring to boil over hottest ire and immediately add pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard for 1-2 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly into glasses. Paraftin hot jelly at once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11

Only in the evening, for formal
 affairs, when she dons ermine,
 jewels and a cOronet tiara as above does Queen Elizabeth go in for
 luxury. In the daytime (at left,
 tailored simplicity is her prefer
 ence, with small flower Orna-
 mented hats.
 Queens hair for the Coronation?'' he replied, For comfort. not for show and that's all you'll hear.
 As a matter of fact, the Queens pretty, soft, dark hair has always been extremely tiresome to do, ever since she gave up wearing it loose down her back
 She is self-conscious about her fringe, which is the kind that sticks up and won't lie down-real Scottish hair they call it. This season she has had it tllinned out and lightly curled but she has what is known as "old maids curlS"-loose ends around the parting-which were such a nuisance and looked so un- tidy that the fringe was tried as a compromise. She never really liked it, however, and still does a little brushing-away gesture across her forehead.
 Royal Nose Will Shine
 Queen Elizabeth has one of those good healthy skins that do not hold powder easily. Before becoming Queen she used very little, having lived an open-air life and come out" at time before makeup was as usual as it is now. She dislikes powdering in public but found it was almost impossible to go through long Court functions without getting a shiny nose, so she consulted a we'll known herbalist. This clever woman made up a special founda- tion cream for the Queen with a faint rose scent and cleansing fluid called milk of peaches.
 The Queen is visited once week by her manicurist and has a light
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11
-HeIen Wels11imer Says:- After 40 WOman'S Hardest
 Job Is Finding Employment

Our age of economic indepen- dence, which promised financial freedom for the great throng of women who must, or would be, self supporting, is being defeated by a time-limit. Age-not senility, but any count of the years that surpases
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11

30 has become a barrier in the minds of em- ployers when they hire wo- men.
 The develop ment of mea- sures like old a g e pensions and social se- curity are be- coming factors of unenploy- ment in the lives of those who are out of work. With the realization that an older wo- man. in spite of
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her present competency, IS nearer the time for the reception of these benefits. employers are prejudiced.
 Miss Ollie A. Randall, .vice-chair- man of the occupational interests of the Association for Improvement of the Condition of the Poor and who was the recipient the other day of the 1886 Anna w. Porter Memor- ial award, presented annually to the member of the American Woman's Association of New York City who has rendered the most creative and constructive service to the associa- ton, has devoted her life to the study of the unemployment situa- ton. Perhaps no woman in Amer ica is better qualified to judge to- days trend.
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POWELL's DOUBLES FREE

A Milwaukee theater wrote let ter to William Powell, asking for his weight, explaining that, during the run of After the Thin Man, " every patron whose weight is the same as Powell's is to be admitted free. His weight is 169 pounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11
Caroline Chatfield
Most Men Are Sincere in Their Pre-Marriase ! Promises They Break Them Because They ! Promise too Much Under Stimulation of Young < Love-
Says To-day
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

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ting head fall backward as far as it will go and allowing mouth to open. Close your mouth and slowly bri@S head to an upright position. PlAce hands on the muscles at sides of the neck and feel thrm do the uplifting work. Notice how this eliminates the lump on the back of your neck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11
SOPHIE A SEA BABY

Sophie Tucker, featured in M-G-M's Broadway Melody of 1937,' was born aboard an ocean liner, 500 miles at sea from Odessa, Russia, home of her parents.
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Even 30 Is "Too Old"

She makes this sad report: "Em- ployers state that if they hire woman of 40, statistics show that she will be good for only 15 years work, and during that period she is likely to become static. It's cold blooded-but it's true.
 "A woman who already is en- ployed does not need to worry about her age as the organization will re- tain her; but it is the one on the outside trying to get in who must be concerned. Those who do cler- ical work. such as typing, have small chance of obtaining office work, after 30. Those who perform professional services have little op- portunity after 40."
 When we consider that one-t third
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11
Modern Menus
TOMORROW'S MENU

BREAKFAST: Fresh pineapple cubes with powdered sugar, French toast, bacon, strawberry jelly, cof- fee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Potato soup with garden herbs, hot biscuits, fruit salad, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Grapefruit juice, pam broiled round steak, lemon but ter, peas, carrots, mashed pota- toes, strawberry blitz torte, coffee, milk. ..
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WHEN EDDY FORGETs

When Nelson Eddy forgets his lines ill the middle of scene he starts to sing "Oh, Say Can You See Whats Happening to Me" to the tune of Star Spangled Ban ner." .--L.
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Household Hints
BY PHILLIDA HUGHES
 Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl Written for the Democrat and NEA Service

London, May 11-Queen Elizabeth of England has sur prised all in the way in which she has taken her new smiling Duchess following with deference in the wake of Queen Mary and noted for her extremely unadut style of dress, has acquired personality.
 simmer, adopted sophisticated clothes smile only There have been when has
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500 DANCE WITH CARED

Five hundred Russians learned to dance the mazurka with Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer in Metro Goldwyn-Mayer's "Modame WalewslSa."
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Ho1v To Keep WeU
 Bv DIR, WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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FELL INTO ACTING

George Murphy, featured in M-G-M's Broadway Melody of 1937," was once a coal miner, but gave up the job when he was dropped, by accident, down a shaft in 8 large bucket.
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The Democrats Service Bulletins
 CAN YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY?

Remember smell in the kitchen when Aunt Mary was pung fruit and berries and vegetables? '--
 canning has been developed by handling but the taste of those home canned fruits jar always will be of he tastes imaginable.
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of the women who are employed oO clerical work, our imaginations conjure up a magnificent procession winding over the hills to the poor house. After all, old age pensions do not start until 65 and there is a lot of time to be bridged between say, 35, and the mailman's first call with a check.
 More weight is added to the de- plorable statement by New York States recent issuance of a pam- phlet entitled Employer Preference es in the Hiring of Clerical Work CTS" in which it is suggested that women past 30 should not train for clerical work.
 Job Plan Needed
 There, then, is the pleasant set up! What, we ask, is going to hap pen to women who have no hus- bands or sons to help them-or who must aid those husbands and sons?
 True, in the individual case, fre- quently some plan may be evolved. Those women with expert special ized training or artistic ability need not fear. It is the great number with uniform preparation and abil- ity who present the problem.
 eve must find some organized public plan for putting women to public usefulness in return for sup- port" Miss Randall continues wise ly. we need to make an analysis which will solve the problem of supporting them and making them feel useful"
 After all, those years which fol- low thirty, are the time when wo- mans charm and intelligence reach their maturity. She has a wealth of sympathy and understanding, garnered from earlier experience, to give. Twenty is so lnprepared for life. Thirty is so efficiently ready, so eager to give.
 Starring At 40
 Thirty and forty are rich. ripe ages. Most of the actresses of first magnitude on BroadWay-Kather- inc Cornell, Helen Hayes, Judith Anderson-are majoring in their thirties. Some are older. In the field of literature the years count up, for Katherine Mansfield, zona Gale, Pearl Buck, Edith Wharton are women of poised maturity. It is apparent for depth of creative effort there must be years of life and experience.
 Therefore, it would seem that even in the routine fields where mechanical ability and swiftness are so much a part of the game, that a division might be made which would let employers profit from older womenS wisdom. Not for a moment would we deprive the f)eetness of 20 of the job that is it's due. But 20 will be thirty some day-and forty. It's long time to sixty-five.
 The unemployment problem for women now out of work is a seri- ous project which merits mdivid- ed attention. If the field is not so white unto the harvest as 1t used to be-if the laborers are too many there must be reorganization and sowing of new crops.
 Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl
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TODAY'S FASHION TIP

Gold and silver lame is popular for evening due to the coronation influence
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-11

It is impossible to visualize Queen Elizabeth as she is today from pho- tographs. No picture has ever done justice to her vivid sea-blue eyes, her flawless complexion, or the ex- traordinary sweetness of her up- curling mouth. Her manners are celebrated and it is from her that Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose (who have set an entirely new standard in nursery manners) have acquired their amaz- ing poise and polish.
 
 Clothes Getting Smarter
 Queen Elizabeth is not by nature vain nor particularly fond of clothes. She is happiest in Scottish tweeds and knitted jumpers. But she real izes now that as First Lady in the Land she has become England's fashion criterion. Her style in dress is changing, the somewhat childish dresses and hats giving way to a more tailored, sophisticated mode.
 Just recently she ordered forty new models comprising gowns for formal occasions, dresses for quiet dinners at home, and simple linens and printed silks for the country. In this collection blue predomin- ates. Every shade of blue, from the faintest pastel to violet.
 One dress in which she looks par ticularly attractive is of hyacinth blue lame with an immense up- standing collar of smoke-gray fox. An evening cape of turquoise blue velvet is trimmed with chinchllla. Blue velvet tea-gowns are trimmed with fur dyed blue to match. There are simple blue linens and after noon crepes crisply tailored, Wlth little jackets to match, ending just below the w..ist (this has been found to be the most becoming length for her figure, which her dressmakers describe as rather difficult") or full length coats.
 One of the most beautiful models chosen by the Queen is an evening coat of dull silver lame trimmed all round the neck down the front ana round the train with fox fur.
 The Queens friends are glad to note that she is wearing smarter more amusing hats. For London she has chosen small close-fltting skull caps circled with flowers or finished-oR with a crisp little veil and diamond pin. Sailor hats with a tailored look made of straw and