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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
BY MARIAN YOUNG

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 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York-With Princess Eliza beth and Shirley Temple offering plenty of inspiration to fashion minded mamas all over the world, and important American firm adapting designs created by little tots to prints for small girls and another naming their diminutive creations after ever-popular songs, clothes for the smallest members of the family are high-styled and handsome.
 This is a fall to send your curly headed young hopeful back to school in smart, colorful prints which are unique enough to satisfy her desire to be different so teach CT will notice her yet practical enough to save you laundry wor- ries.
 Tailoring Counts
 for Riddles Too
 The choicest children's frecks are completely pre-shrunk and fade- proof. Many are finished with white collars and cuffs. Several types have little yokes. Others are cut on dirndl lines with molded waistlines and billowing skirts.
 For cool days, little coats to go over the prints are classically tail- ored in the best English manner veritable miniature Chesterfields, they are, with vents at the back, velvet collars and double breasted closings.
 One handsome coat for a child is of hopsacking-type wool tweed with brown velveteen collar, a deep kick pleat opening cut from the center seam down the back and high breast pockets. This is worn with roll briin sailor of matching fa- brio.
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This diminutive coat of hopsack.
 ing type wool tweeds Is styled on
 classic English Hines. It has 2
 brown velveteen collar, tweed and velveteen buttons. The roll
 brim sailor hat matches 1t.
 with a matching hat. Many of these prints, too, have been de. signed by children for children.
 Accessories in the children's de- partments are more interesting than they were when you and I were young. There are printed purses to match dresses tless expensive than you think, cute little belts and neckerchiefs with which a little girl can change the appearance of an old sweater just as big sister does, ankle socks to match calots that hold curis in place. Also perfectly beautiful shoes which keep feet
 comfortable as well as pretty to look at. Modern footgear for chil- dren encourages little toes to grow straight and lovely and discourages corns, callouses and weak arches.
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Modern Menus
SUNDAYS MENU

SUNDAYS MENU
 BREAKFAST: Orange juice, Spanish omelet, cinnamon buns, coffee, milk.
 DINNER: Blackberry juice, ham, sweet potato, prune and pineapple oven grill, peas in cream, cantaloupe salad, French dressing, fresh plum tarts with vanilla ice cream, coffee, milk.
 SUPPER: Salmon. and cucum- Der in gelatin, lettuce, sliced tomatoes, toasted rolls, nectarines, peaches, grapes, tea, iced cocoa.
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Golden Opportunity to Participate in Their
 Daughters Social Life.
 working up their daughters have astue parents who regard the only when this attitude toward the adosscent problems can they make the pTo .na sa ana San give ne
 Everybody sympathizes with puzzemen thought her little girl indefinitely and then one day bushing the mention of % @ nsf Sa % %er BTt ns @ .s se 5 % Sns :sSs s%' Ss Then why can't she take this new phase in strde'
 Most the transitions this life slip up s on , us before s: n ": are pre-. ready accept the changes adjust ourselves to then and make o % @ of oS y @ @ when the
 All the en zy of fear children too suffering parents understanding and ec girls begin the boy ycOnsciOus and Ooy:1asy on sop to their budding vanity Many . ias when tsey ou in S Sy. sad 1 ns n % s.P vs make them happy.
 they have given them pretty clothes trips liberal spending s bicycles & tennis m % & s % b sna ssUs d they are baed seeing they will until the Sys father everybody must suffer.
 Nobody believes turning fifteen old aiety wisdom opening their homes @ all the @ s n ns n m % ou ne things yeam to do.
 Certainly of golden opportunity for father and mother has arrived when daughter gives evidence interest in the opposite than those who refuse to Touring for that the period made '"-' '''N '""' A' ~ ~ CAROLINE cHATFIE1D :Y ss:ss;. paper.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 KidnAYa

Are liberal amounts of dried fruits and acid fruits hard on the kid- neys? Are fruits or fruit juices harmful or beneficial to the kidneys as e rule? 6. A. J.
 Aiiswer-They are not hard on the Kidneys. As q rule fruits or fruit
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A persen who has filed his firss papers for naturalization in the United States must be within co days of getting his final ptlpors tc be eligible for civil service exf afninations.
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By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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Caroline Chatfield
Says To-day

The Boy-C Crazy Period Through Which Every Normal Young Girl Passes Can Be Made Safe and Sane by Parents Who Recognize It and Crasp the Golden Opportunity to Participate in Their Daughters Social Life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20

Nobody with any believes turning fifteen old rs formal dates dances night rides and unrestricted wisdom the folks to gather in the ngroom laugh talk and sing the innocent young inRsYe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

(the only delegate from thence in cOnvention) and was sub
 scribed to by every member
 present except Gov. Randolph
 and Col. Mason of Virginia, and \ MT. Gerry from Massachusetts.
 The business being thus
 closed, the members adjourned
 to the city tavern, dined to- gether and took a cordial leave
 of each other after which
 returned to my lodgings - did some business with, and received
 the papers from the secretary
 of the convention, and retired to mediate on the mOmentOus
 work which had been executed"
 What a tremendous story is told in that terse and modest account of September 17th, 1787-by the man who had led the patriot armies that made the Declaration of Independence good, and by unanimous choice of the constitu- tional convention had served as its presiding officer! Sometime great American drama will be written-perhaps it will be named SEPTEMBER 17th" portraying the closing scenes of the conven- ton in INDEPENDENCE HALL and the Farewell Dinner at the City Tavern" when the immor- tai delegates who had so earnestly worked together for four months took a cordial leave of each other"
 Connecticut has reason to be proud of her three delegates in that famous group - who were great in the convention, and great in after years in the serv- ice of their country: Roger Sher- man, William Samuel Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth.
 Among the delegates were sev- eral former soldiers of the Revo- lution besides General Washington and Col. Alexander Hamilton. One of them, William Pierce of Georgia, jotted down in note book, many interesting comments and sketches of his fellow-mern- bers of the convention from which the following excerpts:
 Of the Connecticut delegates MT. Pierce wrote
 "Dr. Johnson is a character much celebrated for his legal knowledge. He is said to be one of the finest classics in America and certainly possesses a very strong and enlightened under standing. MT. Sherman deserves infinite praise; no man has @ bet ter heart or clearer head. Mir. Ellsworth is. a judge of the Su- preme Court of Connecticut. He is a gentleman of clear, deep and copious understanding, el- oquent and connected in debate, and always attentive to public duty"
 Of some of the Virginia dele
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and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a dif- ference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particularly interests.
 In all our deliberations on this subject we have kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, per- haps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Con- vention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, that might have been otherwise expected; and thus the. Constitution, which we now present, is the result of 2 spirit of amity, and of that mu- tual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our poli- tical situation rendered indiS- pensible. .... -,
 That 1t will meet the full and entire appreciation of every State is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interests been alone consulted, the consequences might have. been particularly disagree able or injurious to others; that 1t is liable to as few exceptions aS could reasonably have been ex- pected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting well fare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish. ...
 We have the honor to be, Sir
 .o, Your Excellency'S most
 Obedient and humble Servants, With great respect, ...'.. George Washington, President
 By unanimous Order of the
 Convention His Excellency,
 The President of Congress.
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and served with great reputation through the war;,
 Of Pierce Butler, also of South Carolina, MT. Pierce says:
 "He is much respected for many excellent virtues. He Is 8 gentle man of fortune and takes rank among the first in South Carolina. He has been appointed to Con- greSS and is now 8 member of the legislature of South Carolina. He is an Irishnnan by birth"
 Of Capt. Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, Captain Pierce writes: ..s ;. !.
 'He Is 8 gentleman of talents, with ambition to exert them. He possesses 8 good education. He speaks well. There Is an honest rectitude about him that makes him 8 valuable member of society and secure to him the esteem of all good men. He served with me as 8 brother to General Sullivan in the western expedition of '79."
 
 After winning the War for Irl- dependence and signing a Treaty of Peace with Great Britain in 1783, the victorious American pa- triotS had different kind of a job to-, attend to: that required utmost wisdom and skill: to frame & permanent Government for the new Reupblica to take the place of the temporary Articles of Con- federation that had been adopted following the Declaration of Inde- pendence.
 That Government must indis- solubly bind the Thirteen Inde- pendent States into, one Nation for their common defense and welfare, and safeguard their dear ly bought Liberties to be passed down inviolate to their children and the coming generations. {
 Future Glory
 They believed that they were founding a Republic that would extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific, destined to play a mighty part in the affairs of Mankind. And if you doubt whether they looked so far ahead-read care- fully the poem entitled, "The , FUTURE GLORY OF AMERICA" reprinted on this page from Capt. John Dunlaps newspaper, THE JACKET" that circulated ; throughout; the country and among, Washington's Soldiers at Valley Forge (among whom were many Waterbury boys) during the darkest days of the Revolution
 They believed, too that a Might
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gates MT. Pierce comments:-; .,I
 General Washington is well known as the Commander -in- chief of the late American army. Having conducted these States to independence and peace, he now appears to assist in framing 8 government to make the people happy. Like Gustavus Vasa, he may be said to be. the deliverer of hs country; like Peter the Great he appears as: the politician and statesman, and like Cincinnatus he returned to his farm perfectly contented with being a plain cit- izen, after enjoying the highest honor of the Confederacy-and now only seeks for the approba- tion of his countrymen by being virtuous and useful. The General was conducted to the chair as President of the Convention by the unanimous voice of its mem bers. MT. Wythe is the. famous professor of law at the Uniyer- sity of William and Mary. He is one of the most learned legal characters of the age. No man it is sad understands the history of government better than MT. Wythe-nor any one who under stands the fiuctuating condition to which all societies are liable better than he does. Mir. Madison has long been in public life, and what is remarkable, every person seems to acknowledge his great, ness. He blends together the pro- found politician and the scholar, the lead in the Convention, and though he cannot be called an or ator, he is a most agreeable, elo- quent and convincing speaker. He is gentleman of great modeSty with a remarkable sweet tenn per-" s .>r .''s'f
 Of the youngest member. of the Convention, MT. Pierce comments:
 "Mr. Charles Pinckney tSouth Carolina) is a young gentleman of the most promising talents. He is, although only twenty-four years of age, in possession lof a very great variety of knowledge. Gov ernment, law, history and philos- ophy are his favorite studies, but he is intimately acquainted with every species of polite learning. Of the oldest member of the Convention, MT. Pierce writes with pride and affection: "Dr. Franklin is the greatest phiIos- 'opher of the age; all the opera tions of nature he seems to un- derstand. He is Q most. extra ordinary man and tells R story In & style more engaging than any thing I ever heard. He is 82 years old and possesses an activity of mind equal to Q youth of 25."
 Of Charles Cotesworthy Finck-f ney, MT. Pierce comments:
 "ae is . gentleman Of family and foftune: He has received ia {
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Civic Leaders | 'tIo'lSpeak onThe Constitution
School Children of Water.
 bury to Hear Special Addresses Tomorrow

TWenty-seven local civic leaders and clergymen will deliver addresses .tss tllesp. 8. Constitution tomorrow to thousands of public grammar and high school pupils in the city, 1t was announced today by Rawson ". Haddon of the Mattatuck His t1ricAl society.
 Tie speakers will address the pupils s;of the various schools at special assemblies in cornmemora. tion Of the opening of the first Con- stitutional Congress in 1787. The local program is being sponsored by the. Mattatuck Historical society and the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
 Informal Program
 No formal programs have been listed for the local parochial high and grammar schools but 1t is ex- pected that informal sessions in honor of the event, which marks the start of a commemorative per- iod in Connecticut schools which will last until April, 1889, will be held at the various institutions.
 Dr. Thomas J. Condon, Superin- tendent. of schools, said today that in addition to the formal as- semb1ies the Individual class teach- CTS would sponsor their own pro- grams.
 The complete list of speakers at the various schools, released today, is as follows:
 Crosby, Attorney John Cassidy; Wilby, Rev. David P. Gaines; Leave1iworth, Attorney William Gager: Mary Abbott, Rev. Roger B. T. Anderson; Barnard, Rev. James E. Gregg; Anderson, Rev. Samuel Budde; Bunker Hill, Rev. w. Moreton Owen; Chase, Rev. M. c. Madden: Croft, Mrs. Florence B. Webster; Driggs, Rev. John R. Coombs; Duggan, Miss Daisy Lord, and East Farms. Mrs. Adrian Mul- Joy.
 Other Speakers
 Hendricken, Everett M. Stanley: Kingsbury, Mrs. Lewis G. Merrill; Maloney, Roger Gay; Merriman, Alfred F. Meyerhans; Rockville, Adrian Mulloy; Russell, Harry c. Post; Slocum, Dr. Howard Miller: Sprague, Rev. Alison Smith; Tinker, Rev. Conner Lewis; Washington Walter Torrance; Wash, Harold Post. and at South school in Oak vile, Oscar Locke.
 The speakers at Webster and Woodrow Wilson schools have not been announced as yet but arrange ments will be completed before to- morrow in this item, it was stated today.
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Thrill Remains
 On the 18th of September the great Document first appeared in print, in Dunlap & Claypoole's newspaper, "The PENNSYLvA- MA PACKET and DAILY AD- vERT1SER," (filling the entire four pages of the paper) and was distributed for Congress and The PEOPLE to study and ratify if they approved.
 The photographic reproduction printed on this page of 8 portion of that famous old newspaper enables us to see the stirring PREAMBLE to the CONSTITU- TON exactly as the founders of our Republic saw it 149 years ago.
 If it gives us a thrill today in 1886, we can imagine what 1t maent. to them in 1787.
 % It is of interest, too, to remen1- Der that the hands that set that type also set the type for the first printing of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; and that the same hands bore arms val iantly in the battles of Trenton and Monmouth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

One of the most highly priEed
 letters composed by George
 Washington and the framerS of
 the Constitution, accompanied
 copies of the proposed dOcu- ment to the various colonies.
 It was read in Waterbury 15O
 years ago. It explained the,
 actions, the hopes, the recOm-
 mendatiOns of the committee i'm
 submitting the Constitution for
 official acceptance. It read as
 follows: o.. ;@A'.9' Ns C.,
 "In Convention, Sept. 17, 1797. Sir:- .' ,''
 We have now the honor to sub init to the consideration of the United States in Congress as- sembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most ad- advisable. ''.,'' = =
 The friends of our country have long seen and desired; that the power of making war, peace and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judi cial authorities should be fully and effectually vested In the gem eral government of the Union: but the imprOpriety of tdelegating such extensive trust to one body of men Is evident -- Hence results the necessity of different organ- nation. ''.t
 It is obviously impracticabIe in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of in- dependent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest
 and safety of all individuals enc tering into society, must give up . share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacri- flee must depend as we'll on Sit- uation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained, ItsiS at ali times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be received;
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No Illusions

NO ILLUSIONS
 For four years after winning their Independence those deter mined American PioneerS-on the farms and in the scattering vil- lages and towns from New Hamp- shire to Georgia studied and de- bated the history and science of government. They knew the fate of other democracies that had started with high hopes and flour ished for a time -only to be destroyed. And they knew that the causes of those failures were oftener from within than with out. They knew that the first essential for successful Govern ment by the People was the char acter and type of the People themselves - steady, intelligent, honest, fearless and eYerlastingly alert and vigilant. They were confident by the long And hard tests that they had already been subjected to-that America pos sessed a type of men it and capable of self government.
 But they had no illusions about human nature. They knew that love of power and the tendency to abuse 1t, was . human trait and that the only safe way to entrust power in 8 democracy was with Q doubles chain-curb- bit. ..e
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Invitations have been received by 399 executives of Connecticut womens organizations to attend the New York Herald Tribune Seventh Annual Forum Current Problems to be held October 4h and 5th at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Among the state organ nations expected to be represented the Conn DlV Federation of Womens Clubs; Conn. Society Daughters of the American Revolution; Conn. Federation of Bus ness and Professional Women Conn. League ot women Voters Conn Congress of Parents Teachers Hadas sah: National Federation of Music Clubs; National so ciety New England Women; Eastern Federation of Del nhisns Association of Bank Women; Zonta Information al: National Womans Party; Conn Federation of Garden Clubs National Society of Juniors in the D. A. R. Conn Society of Children of the American Revolution; Nation c of Jewish Junors Association of Junior Leagues Of America Girl Scout Leaders; Boy Scouts; Camp Fire Girls; Conn League of American Pen women Conn state Association of Deans of Women Conn. Womens Chris tian Temperance Union; and the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16
(BY JOHN BARR)

One hundred and fifty years ago tomorrow September 17th, 1787) Roger Sherman and William Samuel Johnson, representing the State of Connecticut, signed their names with their fellow delegates from eleven other states-to the document that England's states man, William E. Gladstone, de- clared to be the most wonderful work ever struck of at 8 given time by the brain and purpose of man. And that night George Wash ington made the following entry in his diary:
 Monday 17th
 Met in convention when the constitution received the unani- nous assent of II states and Col. HamiltOn's from New York
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Good Evening.
SHE'S NEVER TAKEN A BOW
BY THE MAN IN THE rowEH

 She has had many triumphs, Has even been hop, And has experienced great joy When she's finally reached the top She has had the distinction Of interviews galore, Endorsed creams and toothpaSteS, Has penned a brief memoir. She knows how 1t feels To be stared at by the masses, Al. How to be properly condescendtng When dealing out passes. She doesn't give boot How she's written up, She'll pose at moments notice With pet panther or Pekinese pup. She has known many thrills, But has missed one thing, because In the movies a star never gets Spontaneous applause. So while she's had her triumphs And in pictures she's WOW, She's missed lot really For she's never taken bow.
 FEM. EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

There was an ancient mariner. Time has rested lightly upon the broad shoulders of Captain Samuel Collins S2yearold mariner of Essex, Conn He recently stepped the mast of sOOp that he started making two wears ago. Every part of the craft except some from
 work is the product of his weather-beaten hands In his old boat shop he sewed the sails The sloop has no provision for auxiliary engine for its maker con siders an engine an "encumbrance to a real boat"
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Convention

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 At Mount Vernon -on1theLPoto mac, the patriot Virginia farmer who had faithfully served his country without pay if4 the RevO- lution and had treated with scorn proposal toS make him king was up at 4 o'clock every morn- ing, in his library or pacing back and forth on lis 100 foot veranda overlooking the Potomac, or rid ing horseback over his plarita- tions for thinking and planning yes, and praying for the inme- diate and future welfare of Amer lea. ' .,t j, And SO 1t was throughout the land: and when, in the autumn of 1787, twelve out of the thir- teen States sent their. delegates to the CONSTITUTIONAL CON- MENTION at Philadelphia, to frame a new GOVERNMENT for their new NATTON-the whole AMERICAN PEOPLE were pretty well informed and had been, do-
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AnssUers To
 Test Questions

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 3. No. Several of the Pres idents never went to college. {. Nadir.
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