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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
HELEN WELSHIMER SAYS: LET HIM ALONE-- HE WILL LIKE IT

twin friendships which have caused you to reach your present stage of development, in so far as they affect your growth and happiness favor ably. should be encouraged. If they interfere with your marriage rest assured they are not enrichening you.
 When the gates stand wide, a little prince isn't nearly as eager to leave the turreted playroom and run Up the road to play with the peas- ant lads, as he is when the guards carry the keys and he must sit and envy the rag-tag ends of frolicking music coming up the road.
 No man or woman wants to see the same person for 24 consecutive hours from now until eternity. Of course people begin by thinking they do but it's as humanly impossible as picking up the Rock of Gibraltar. Two people may love each other deeply and sincerely and still enjoy hours apart.
 When quicksilver spills, If you chase 1t, it eludes you. If you leave it alone, 1t stays quietly in one place. Love, too, can not be driven. Let 1t be a free will offering, its time a willing gift, and your husband won't leave you except from nine to five thirty five days week, for an occasional business trip and any evening he feels the urge to look up an old pal.'
 Copyright, 1897, NEA Service, Incl
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rely on a set formula for success yau must test out wolr fruit for its acid, sugar and pectin and change your basic recipe according to your luck in the lottery. To many jelly makers labor lnder the belief that there is just one tried and true formula for each kind of jam or jelly. Blue nature is at the bottom of the jelly jar, not any printed formula.
 Sugar Kills Tartness
 In general however, thls rule works with minor variations. For a heavy and sweet jelly, use cup sugar for each cup of fruit juice. But two-thirds cup of sugar to each cup juice makes c really more deli- cate jelly. In making jellies of tart fruits, such as entrants, use as lit- tie sugar as possible because the tratness of the fruit should be pre- served in the jelly:
 If your jelly turns dark, 1t has been cooked too long, To cut down cooking time, and consequently darkening, use q wide shallow kettle. This will allow for great surface evaporation and therefore require less cooking of the juices.
 one important dont--don't try 10 be heroic and put Up the win terS jelly all on . summers morn- ing. It just won't do. Make jelly in small quantities. Six quarts of berries or eight pounds of fruit Is q full time job for one day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
MIND Your MANNERS

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the fol- lowing questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below:
 i. Is 1t considered smart to crook ones little finger when drinking from a cup?
 2. Is 1t good manners at the table to discuss the cost of food2 3. Is 1t good form to use paper doilies on platesp
 4. Should candles be used. on a tea table in summer timer s. Does one at sherbet with a spoon or fork?
 What would you do lf-- You are a hostess setting . supper table where guests will not need to use knives? Place the
 ta) Fork on left and spoon on
 on right?
 tb) Fork on right and spoon on
 it's right?
 (c) Place knife as usual to bal'
 ance silver?
 ANSWERS 1. No--affected.
 2. No.
 3. No, except at informal parties or under fruit that will stain. {. Not unless 1t happens to be cloudy day.
 5. Spoon.
 Best "What Would You Do" sOi. Iutl0n-- tbD. Copyright 1887. NEA Service, Incl
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search.
 Unless you are hardboiled he puts catch questions and cross- examines you and shows by his manner that he was afraid of that he half-expected he knew more about the subject than any ordi- nary doctor does.
 Tn most cases of colitis, said Dr. s, W. Patterson. in the London Practitioner, February, 1886. the cause appears to be local irritation arising within the bowel and spreading outwards. This may readily be begun by the abuse of laxativeS and aperientS (the Eng. fish are 50 fond of that word that they insist on dragging 1t in even though 1t means the same as laxa. tives) and by colonic irrigations, Foods are hurried through the in. testine incompletely digested. The contents of the large bowel then remain fluid (should be solid), and at body temperature are a suitable culture medium for growth of bac. teria.
 In the New York Medical Record, February 5, ie36, pr. J. P. Mon- tague says there is no doubt of the improvement in subacute and chronic cases of ulcerative colitis following 6 high vitamin diet; the danger of vitamin starvation in chronic cases is considerable, as patients tend to adopt 0 limited diet, mostly carbohydrateS--and to that one may add that the diet is usually refined carbohydrates which are generally poor in vitamins. Chemical analysis of the blood us- ually shows Q lowered calcium and phosphorus reserve (perhapS inci- dent to lack of vitan1in CD: and the persistent diarrhea brings about a depletion of vitamins.
 Experience of many physicians Is showing the value of supplement tary feeding with vitamins, es- pecially B, c, D and c. in all cases of colitiS, whether there iS consti- patton or diarrhea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 AlierRy

What is your opinion of this test and treatment for allergy from cold: Immerse one hand in cold water for two minutes. If swollen, continue such immersion each day, and gradually the swelling will de minish. (W. J. McK.)
 Answer-To cali that hypersensi- tiveneSs to cold 'allergy" Is Stretchs ing the Idea beyond reason. I see no objection to the experiment, if 1t works as you describe, as l believe 1t would in any case.
 Immunity
 I am quite susceptible to colds" bronchitis and similar disease of the respiratory tract. Have received "cold" vaccine treatment for several years which helped some. What further treatment can you suggest? (D. O.
 Answer-supplement daily diet with optimal ration of vitanin D, most conveniently and economically taken in the form of irradiated yeast.
 Fear of Dentist
 Can anything be done for Q per- son who has c great fear of going to the dentist? (R. T)
 AnSwer-Yes, his physician can administer c dose of amytal sodium amytal, or similar drug. to put the patient into c neutral or indifferent state and protect him from the risk of shock. Such drugs can be ad. ininistered only by the physician or the dentor.
 Copyright, 1887, John r. Dille Col
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some their husbands would like It. After all, If you are going to be so adhesive you stick, a man Is bound to begin to think he was caught with fly paper.
 Miss Hills has sat on the side lines and watched the great matri- monial play, and she has discovered that ageless truth that Eve practis- ed, Cleopatra forgot, and the Duch- ess. of Windsor was born knowing, namely, that If you want to hold a man you must let him be free to follow the dictates of his own per- eonality. :.
 After all, he was parsonage, and so were you, before the ceremony. You still are. You would bore each other to distraction If you adopted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
Pause Each Day for A Favorite Poem

Only two Of the lovely. lifting lines from James Thomson's Give A Man A Horse He Can Ride" But they do lift the spirits, don't they2 There's no day so dull that a favorite poem can't transform 1t. Have you discovered the beauties of "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes?
 Build thee more stately man.
 sions, O my soul,
 AS the swift seasons rolll
 Leave thy low-vaulted pastl' Or the fine serenity of John Burroughs lines2
 Asleep, awake, by night or
 day,
 The friends I seek are seeking
 me-"
 Or the charm of Robert Her. rick's verses2
 Gather ye rosebuds while ye
 may,
 Old Time Is still a-flying." How much such poems can add to your life If you make daily habit of theml Tn our 32-page booklet IS fine collection--by Ten nyson, Longfellow, Poo, and many others.
 Send 1Oc for your copy of WORLDS BEST-LOVED POEMS to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 sixth Ave. New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS. and the NAME of booklet.
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-RAkENTB-
 Your. Children
By Olive Roberts Barton

should we tell A little girl that she Is pretty, or dwell on small chaps lovely eyesP
 Yes, there is nothing wrong with 1t in most cases. Vanity Is as nat- ural as breathing. Why else do cos metics have such an enormous sale, and beauty and barber shops do such a rushing trade? It is fine thing to think that one is pretty or handsome. That of our minds, we can go about the rest of our business.
 It used to be one of the first principles of child raising, to hang mirrors high. The young lady who stood armiring her pigtails in the hall rack glass was told she would turn into e monkey If she got too vain.
 Not Always Vanity!
 Alasl When an aunt thus ad- naonished me years ago, wasn't admiring my snub nose, but was usually trying to see If could see myself crosseyed, or could wigSle my ears as boy in school did.
 But there was more. I was won- dering why no one ever told me l was pretty. hoped was put sus- pected not. And when l look pacK over old photographs, I know the short upper lip they teased me about dong enough now, dear knows) would be featured today as q child'S chief charm.
 How happy I would have been had someone said l was pretty In" stead of just "clean" or "nice," the limit of a daring compliment to childhood then.
 Of course, mothers today are as fearful as mothers Of the past lest their offspring turn Into unbearable little prigs. But except In compara- lively few cases they need not worry. Little children especially arc as impersonal about their faces as about their clothes. They accept a compliment about eyes or hair as they would about Q dress or pair of new shoes.
 Overdoing It
 Gushing naturally can be over' done, and l have in mind . party, when the ladies ravcd 50 openly about the little girl who came shyly Into the room. that felt like saying, Never mind. dear, you aren't as bad as all that" She was indeed lovely, but I felt sorry about the embarrassing barrage that made her uncomfortable and self-con- scious.
 It is very bad to compliment one child in a family and omit the plain one. Of all people in the world. the homely ones need most praise. Not that unbeautiful youngsters, really care too much how they look, but they suffer in comparison with others. It adds to inferiority when all the spontaneous outhursts 90 one way.
 It Is Q natural expression of love for a mother 10 say, You are SO pretty" or "what e handsome boy" Maybe the children won't believe her, for mothers are habitual ad- mirers anyway, but they will be. ileve their father. It takes dad to convince young James that he's the best looking fellow around, or Mary that her dull straight hair b the kind he prefers to all others. In this compliment business, he cer- tainly should do his share.
 Copyright, 1887. NEA Service, Incl
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-BEAUTY--- GI0rifying Yourself
 D., Allnla Kluwi
NEA Service staff Writer
By Alicia Hart

Unless there is something organi- cally wrong, in which case she ought to consult a doctor at once, any woman can be slender. Those who keep their trim youthful lines through the years are the ones in whom pride in their figures is far greater than love of rich food or hate of exercise.
 If you are not Q naturally thin person, managing to stay slender is no easy job, but 1t is not an im- possible one. Warding of excess weight means eating stewed or fresh fruit when everyone else at the table is having c wonderful time with lemon rneringue pie or choco- late cake with fudge icing; walking when you would much rather take Q taxi or street car; doing Q few ex- ercises when you want to crawl back in bed and sleep fifteen extra minutes. If you feel that being trim and slim is worth all this bother, revise your diet and exercise habits and start right away to lose weight.
 Several authorities agree that one who eats very little (and nothing really fattening) for breakfast and lunch can have practically anything she wants for dinner.
 Begin the day with fruit and coffee. If you are used to huge breakfasts, have c slice of thin toast with the coffee 50 that you won't have 6 pain in stomach or head long before lunch time. For lunch, order clear soup, c large salad and 0 bit of fruit for dessert. If you are hungry between breakfast and lunch or during the afternoon, you can have more fruit or . glass of milk. No chocolate bars or rich mullins or bits of pastry, please.
 At dinner time, eat generously of vegetables, lean meat and salad. Then you won't want dessert any, way. However, If you want 1t, eat it. Dessert once q day b approved by most diet experts.
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Make your aprons at home, and save moneyl" advises Claire Tilden, clever designer of this brisk and snappy pair And who among us doesn't need lots of aprons, gay tea time ones and efficient kitchen ones? Here's Pattern 4l3 with one of each kind, and a Detailed Sewing Guide to tell you exactly how to vary the pattern for both smart versions. Each boasts 6 secure "an- chor" back which means they'll "stay put" through stress or strain. One, as you sec, Is bedecked with frills; the other, of percale, is plain for efficiency's sake. Ideal to make for the bride-to-be who has Every thing. but nothing practical
 Pattern 4l3 is cut in sizes, small, medium and large. Small size apron A, requires 2 l-8 yards 36 inch fab- rio: apron B requires 2 yards.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (ibc) In coins or stamps tpreferably colns) for this pattern. WRITE CLEAR. LY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
THE iCoLTTIs vAGARY

SVSA AS NnS'Ae
 Most of the inconsistencies Of yesteryear, I learn from the letters, are now possessed with colitis. It is as difficult to answer their ques- tions as 1t has always been to answer the academic questions of Class B neurotics. I am hampered by the unacceptable fact that there Is such 6 condition as colitis, in- fiammation of the large bowel, 50 1t is inexpedient to attempt to dis abuse their minds of the absurd notion. Now you can make some victims of the nervous exhaustion obsession listen to reason when you remind them that, 50 far as we know, there is no such thing as nerve energy and hence there can be no such thing as exhaustion or loss of nerve energy. Often 1t may be necessary to challenge the poor geek to cite e medical or scientific authority for his weak nerves vagary. If he scouts around and fails to get reputable witness to sustain the silly idea-that is, Q live one - there is fair chance that you may be able to show him the way back to health.
 The individual with 6 claim of colitis is a tougher assignment. Es- pecially if some colon laundry or some food specialist has been tam- pering with him. He submits ab. strue problems pertaining to the flora and fauna of the alimentary canal and the acid ash and aka line ash foods and leaves you fab. bergasted at the extraordinary amount of inside transformation he has collected in Q few years of re-
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MAKE IT YOURSELF
 NEEDLEWORK PATTERN Fruitful Effort

Luscious red-ripe cherries, pur- pie grapes, cool blue plums, straw berries and oranges. Applique these designs to luncheon, place cloths or tea towels.
 Tn addition to the five designs, about 2 inches in size, the same motifs are repeated in pan hold CTS.
 To order, ask for No. C8443, or tear out illustration and send with 70 cents stamps or coin. (Any natterns only 25 centsJ Address fcur ogders to the WATERBURY DEMOCRAT MAKE IT YOURSELF PATTERN BUREAU, BOX i66. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Be sure to give name and complete address.
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Mod fern Menus
BY MRS. GAYNoR MADDOX

NGA 9GEVBCG 0b0u WEhtGE
 Men may neglect their wives for their business, but women at this time of year often neglect every thing else for canning. While the rest of the world is preparing for the next war, American housewives are preparing for next winter.
 The only thing wrong with jams and jellies is that there aren't al- ways enough of them on the shelves. Faddists rant about their harmful qualities. Expert dieticians deny According to high authorities, jellies and jams having fruits and sugar in them are not only rich in flavor, but have high energy content and are easy to digest. They are partic- ularly good for active children at breakfast and luncheon along with other foods.
 Pectin Dictates
 Do you know your pectin? That Knowledge is the beginning of sweet wisdom. A good jelly is made with juice that contains ample proportions of sugar, acid and pectin. Many delectable fruits are deficient in pectin and require a friendly lift from other fruits or from bottle or boxed commercial pectil1. These fruits are usually unreliable on the pectin side peaches( pineapple, cherries and rhubarb. But applies, crabapples, entrants, grapes, quinces and plums are as reliable as Old Dog Tray.
 Selecting fruit for preserving is a lot like Selectiig a mai for marriage. There may be more sweetness or more acide than you bargained for. Tn other words, don't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
CINDERELLA TALE

Just as it did to Cinderella, 6 lost slipper brings romance into the life of Harriet fiilliard fin RKO Radios rippling musical, "The Life of the Party" fin which sine plays opposite Gene Raymond, Joe Penner, Park yakarkus. Victor Moore and Helen Broaderick also head the cast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
WOMAN SURGEON HoNoRED

Albuquerque. N. M, - (U.PJ - Dr. Estella Ford Warner, newly ap- pointed district medical director in the U. 6. Indian Service. holds the unique position of being the only woman in the regular corps of com. missioned personnel in the U. 6. Public Health Service. Her rank Is that of Surgeon. comparable to the rank of Major" in the army.
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their distinctive character.
 If economy is point in buying curtains let color play the i'm. portant part. Often-if color Is right-as good an effect can be had with celanese tafetta, satin or moirO as with real silk.
 Usually combination of dif- ferent woods which 90 well to-
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days a week, and for an occasion al business trip, and any evening you feel the urge to look up an old pal.
 Miss Hills, liv- ing alone as she .does--and liking It, too, she says tells wives in a recent issue of Liberty magazine, | h a t If h ey would do Q little staying alon e, too. that even If they did get lone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
BEGAN EARLY

Fred etne. gray-iiaired Staro [ RKo Radios "Hideaway" began iii4 professional career at i2 years Of age as afi aerial performer with 2 tent show. lie appeared profession ally for more than 50 years and is credited with six pictures.
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Tomorrow's Menu

BREAKFAST: Blackberry and orange juice, country sausage, cornbread, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Spanish, ome- let. wholewheat toast. apple and celery salad, cookies, tea, coffee.
 DINNER: Broiled a m b chops, buttered noodles, stuff ed tomatoes, watercress and pineapple salad, orange jelly with banana cream custard sauce, coffee. cilk.
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By Helen WeIShimer

Don't ever leave mep It's a good last line for a motion picture, says Marjorie Hills, but wife should add few necessary words. She should say: Don't ever leave me except from g to 5:30 five
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Ho1e, To Keep WeU
 By DIR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

hemh eyE':ns m": to enclosed Letter. shogd v os Jew reply ne
 
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ANSWER:
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

Apparently your you things young man. good Ytead you have faith in the fair namely that girl of sixteen doesn't know that she permitted rush helter
 with considerably older of wide experience tho marriage would likely net her first divorce and the third
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gether Is preferable to 8 room fur- nished all in one wood A good finish is extremely important :. one close,y duplicating the mellow patina of antiques or soft r1a. tural finish.
 NEXT TUESDAY: Sealing Furni- ture to the Room.
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schemes. Or. if a good bargain is found already upholstered in suit able material, have 1t inexpensively slip-covered to bring 1t into har- mony. A good upholsterer will make covers as trimly tailored as the tight upholstering.
 We always need one high piece in each room, such as a corner cabi- net, secretary, breaktop or a screen. Occasional pieces such as end and coffee tables, bookstands, drum or dropleaf tables, shelves, side chairs and ottomans, should be selected for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06

ulmaum of never" nothing than momenay impulse accusations boredom with designed your she knows and love her. will want against her folly Then give her at least in which think the matter through She will watt don't about that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
BY MRS. JOHN M. DODD Written for NEA Service

The temptations and the broad opportunities that fur niture sales hold for horneloving and so great the good buys are numerous that the shopper ought to fix few decorating principles in mind before look ing
 First of all (and tendency to spend practically entire mportan furniture ing little anything for the occasional pieces and accessories which equally necessary to room.
 Sometmes-nsad buying sofa lounge chairst is to have merely season saved for handsome breakp secretary desk distinguished tables of arm chairs which need to round out its scheme give to every upholstered then later the will be adequately furnished and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06
Caroline Chatfield Sqps To-day

Not Cricket for Twice-DivOreed Man to Marry 16-
 Year-Old Girl Who Doesn't Know Her Mind nor
 Comprehend the Seriousness of Marriage. . DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:
 divorced Because of with become extremely jealous suspicious myself Wouldn't the third problem which unable to madly sxteen-yearO old girl and postponed the date since thinking She wants married what best for her? lot of little things which others might not notice which nothing than child Naturally this makes taking advantage of her by marrying her She s indifference tring that happy do to wait a enoush really wants Any advice will be greatly appreciated J. L. T.
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necessarily mean huge over-stuffed chairs. For average homes me- alum -sized upholstered chairs hay ing slender lines and fairly low backs are best. Most rooms need easy-t to-move open-arm chairs as much as they do lounging chairs.
 Fitting Upholstery to Scheme
 Often 1t is wise to buy uphol- tered furniture in the muslin ana have 1t covered to fit individual
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Little Accessories Are as Important as Large
 Pieces of Furniture in Achieving Good Effect
SO AVOID SPLURGING

you're going brighten the house with few new pieces furniture Before take advantage of the August advice of Mrs John M Dodd of foremost authorities New York decoetoEs on the accessories in making nvabe Her arsIee te second a special Waterbury Democrat by prOEn decorators subject "hy the Decorator Does It.
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the divorce court enough to make hesi third the him remind himself that 1t marriage quarrel majority young married idea remaining but they won't take the punishment of putting their lives together wants the other make all the all the adjusting marriage cannot be worked out that
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   Au confidence Write Miss Chathled. In Oe
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