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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
Mitiative and Curiosity
 Prime Needs for Education

OR the part college does two things young people,
 It gives them of having had superior training, which in turn gives them faith in themselves and shows them where to find knowedge-someties how to use it. For training will have to substitute experience-you for whom college is not the immediately following high school And for finding knowledge you will have dig that out for yourselves.
 Whether do that second thing not depends largely on the way in which you spend your leisure hours.
 If you go often to the public library than to movies and dances, you on the right track.
 If you buy good magazines instead of ras you are not wandering helplessly.
 If yOd read the front and editorial pages of your carefully you do your favorte secion you are in reality learning what cassmae who is going ege will find out from courses in economies political science today's problems and
 Your course of study need not be haphazard than your friends who is taking his by hours and Any good librarian could help map out of study or almost college university will send you regular by correspondence methods you want law and order in your learning you can easily arrange that.
 The one thing you cannot do-and be justfied-is to say Il can't afford to go on to school my education will have to stop here."
 Copyright 1937 NEA Service. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
ACETANILID HABIT

ACETANILID HABIT
 Acetanilid is made of aniline Ca coal tar product) and glacial acetic acid. Another name for 1t is phenyl- acetamide. It is an ingredient of scores of more or less popular tab- lets, pills, powders and drinks, which purport to be remedies for "colds," grip, headache, neuralgia, neuritis, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, fever, nervousness, rheumatism, epilepsy, whooping cough, seasickness, dys- menorrhea, lumbago, sciatica.
 Phenacetin is another coaltar de- rivative similar in effect to acetan- lid. Phenacetin is sometimes called acetphenetidin.
 Antipyrin is still another coaltar derivative of similar character; its chemical name is phydimethylpyTa. zolon.
 Pyramidon is still another drug in | the same class, otherwise known as amidopyrin.
 Although these and other coaltar derivatives posses individual differ ences in solubility, taste, appear ance, rapidity of action, cost, etc., they are more or less interchange able, and indeed a familiar nostrum that contains phenacetin this year may contain acetanilid instead next year, due to some change in the market or a desire to assure the world that the product contains no acetanilid.
 The common action of these coal tar derivatives is sedative to the sensory portion of nerves and spinal cord. That is, the drug benumbs sensibility to ache, pain or distress or comfort of any kind. If that were all, the coaltar drugs would be fine for benumbing consciousness of trouble. But unfortunately there are other actions or effects inseparable from the dulling of the sensation. These drugs depress the circulation, and if taken frequently or habitually they disintegrate the blood, destroy red corpuscles. All of the coaltar derivatives that benurnb nerves in- terfere with the vital oxygen carry ing function of the blood. One of the characteristic signs of poisoning, generally chrodic poisoning in hab- itual users of these drugs, is cyan osis, blueness which shows in the lips and the nails or in some in- stances blueness of the whole sur- face.
 In the same mail today came these ietters-one from an eastern state, one from a western state:
 Husband consumes large quanti- ties of Ca drink which contains ace- tanilid). This has made his lips ap- pear blue, also his skin. He buys 1t to use at home, also stops at foun- tains to buy 1t wherever he finds 1t available, taking several doses a day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
The Family Doctor
Greatest Increase In Cancer Deaths
 Is Recorded Among Persons Over 6O
T. M. Reg. U. s. Pat or.

been greatly raised. Cancer is es- sentially a disease of advanced years. The mere fact that more people live longer than used to is proof of the fact that cancer itself is probably not increasing.
 Children who used to die in in- fancy and the people who used tc succumb to typhoid fever, tuber- culosis, dysentery and similar cCm- plaints now grow to an age when they form better sold for @ can- cerous growth.
 Latest available statistics show that there has been no significant increase in cancer among white women at any age below 66 years There seems to have been 8 signi; ficant decrease between the yeaft of S5 and 55.
 One of the points about which there is much argument is whether the age of death from cancer t lower now than 1t was 30 years ago
 Actually, the average age at death from cancer in 1901 was 80 yeers and the average age at death from cancer in 1921 was 6l.7 years. The real increase in the percentage of deaths from cancer Is in people over 60 years of age.
 However, certain forms of cancer may be increasing in incidence in association with the changing hab- its of human beings and with changes in our methods of life We know that certain factors tend to increase the incidence of cancer. Most of these factors have to do with irritation.
 Cancer is increasing because the population is increasing and because more people are living longer than they used to. These people are kept from dying from those diseases from which people formerly died. Cancer being essentially a disease of old age, more people, therefore, are dy- ing of cancer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
WOMAN,S REALM FEE [
Your Children
By Olive Roberts Barton

The other day was having lunch in one of OUT big department stores. that serves a special menu for chil- dren. Next to me sat a mother with her small son of five or six.
 I was nebby enough to see what he got, and it was splendid food. Moreover the glass, the soup dish and his plate were adorned with small animals, enough to tempt the appetite of any youngster. But he ate sparingly of everything. Good as gold, he wasn't hungry. Then came nice desert of chocolate ice cream. This he only played with. Came the storm.
 Mother said impatiently, "Tf you don't eat your ice cream I will never bring you with me again. You have wasted most of your food and it's a perfect shame. Now you get to work and eat every bite of it."
 Son didn't. He couldn't. Something was wrong. What?
 Either he was tired or excited. Maybe he was going to a movie af- ter lunch. I don't know. But one thing was sure. It wasn't the last time his mother would bring him along, and she may as well have saved her breath.
 Unpredictable in Behavior
 Children are always unpredict- able. You never can tell what they will do. But whenever have taken 8 child to public place to dine, I have had exactly the same experi- ence as this indignant lady. You pay your fifty cents o rdollar for their food, and you want your moneys worth, naturally. But they just won't eat. Out goes the turkey, or noodles, or ice cream with scracely a dent in them. It used to worry me. It doesn't now. I know that a sort of paralysis gets hold of youngsters when eating in a strange place. ~
 No matter how tempting the food, or how cute the dishes, Junior and Jane just won't get the stuff inside them. Once on a holiday, we took the children to grand place that cost something like two dollars apiece. They merely nibbled. And when the bill was paid felt like shaking them. There went our hard earned money for 8 treat, and we had naturally expected them to stuff themselves and get their moneys worth, our moneys worth. Nothing doing. At home they would have yelled for second servnig of everything.
 Mothers Are Too SoIicitous
 Why don't they eat? Again delcare I don't know. But there is this to say. Before they enter the dining room, mother says, "Now, children, watch your man. ners. Don't spill your water and sit up straight. Keep your napkin on your lap and keep quiet.
 During the meal she is reaching over to correct the way they hold forks, pulling plates closer so they won't spot the cloth, keeping an eagle eye on everything they do. She is under a strain and so are they. It all comes back to feeling at home and happy when you eat. Where we invited to Buckingham Palace to dine, am sure we would not enjoy bite for thinking of how we would reply to the king. Let's forget the money spent on sojourns into town with the small fry. And fill them up when we get home. Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

He drank excessively for years and has been trying to moderate the past year or two. He is 45, very nervous and irritable, hard to live with ."
 What harm can result from the daily use of (the same drink) if a user take a dose first thing on rising in the morning, before dinner in the evening, and again before retiring at night? The user does not take 1t for relief of after -effects of drink ing but as relief from some feeling of need for 6 dose"
 The preparation referred to by both letters originally contained acetanilid, but later phenacetin. There are on record numerous cases of fatal poisoning from its use. Probably thousands of victims are in a precarious state of health from the habit of resorting to these coaltar drugs for relief of tridng complaints,
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Wry Neck
 Can wry neck be cured surgically or otherwise? This condition has been present since birth and al- though 1t is not painful 1t does re- tract from my appearance my age Is 26 years. e. R. W.
 Al1swer-Perhaps permanent de- formity of bones has occurred by now. However, you should at least have the benefit of an orthopedic surgeons opinion-your physician will recommend one. The earlier ii, life such deformities are treated the better the results will be. Delay per- mits irregular or unsymmetrical growth to produce more or less ir- remediable deformity.
 Harelip
 Is hair lip hereditary? If not, what causes 1t? Can 1t be removed in child or in an adult? (M. L. V. H.
 Answer-Hare lip is congenital, not hereditary. That is, it may be present at birth, in any family. Cause is unknown. It is a cleft in the lip, sometimes a cleft also in the palate or the bone of upper jaw, due to failure of complete de- velopment before birth. It may be corrected in any case. but the earlier the plastic operation is done the better the cosmetic result is likely to be.
 Copyright. 1887. John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
Latest Styles
WEAUH8N-'7 GlorIing
 Yourself
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service stan writer

NEA Service stan WrJter
 If you apply preparations cor" rectly and devote at least one hour to the routine, a home facial can be as restful and efflcacious as a professional one. Don't use luke- warm tonics when the directions call for ice-cold ones, pat creams in with downward instead of upward strokes, eliminate the 20-minute rest period (included in every worth while faciaD or decide that eye pads, dipped in soothing solution aren't necessary or even important.
 Begin the way 8 professional operator does, pinning 8 towel tightly around your head and push ing 1t upward to the hatrline. Smooth on cleansing cream, remove with soft tissues, apply another coat and remove carefully. Now cover face and throat with a generous layer of your richest night cream land begin to massage. <
 Work upward from base of the throat to chin, outward from point of chin to hairline in front of ears, in tiny rotary circles at corners of the mouth and on the lines from nose to corners of the mouth. Place fingertips near corners of eyes near est the nose and, with clockwise mos tions, massage around and around, pressing deeply at outside corner where crows'-feet tend to form.
 Grasp the flesh at point of chin firmly between thumbs and fore- fingers, then pinch along jawbone outward to ear lobes. Repeat eight times. Vigorously pat the fiabby flesh beneath chin. Stroke away vertical and horizontal lines across your brow. Do each massage step slowly and deliberately.
 Now remove the cream with damp cotton pads or clean linen towel and apply a mask. This can be commercially prepared variety or something you have concocted your- self. Wrich ever you use, be sure to rest for twenty minutes while 1t is drying. During this period, cover both eyes with cotton pads which have been dipped in eye lotino.
 After the short nap, n1oisten the mask with @ warm, damp towel, rinse of in cool water. Slap on ice cold skin tonic, let dry. Now your face is ready to receive foundation and makeup. You should look re- freshed-and years younger!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
Claire Tildel. PATTERN AU

Where are you going, my pretty Iiaid"-all dressed up in yeut cap tivating ffoeA9 I'm going to school, of courgA is the aIsswer--and be- lieve tt or not, mother made this perky model ct hcmel Every wo. man, who likes to sec her young "cherub" looking spic and span, win want to make Up Pattern 146- for its long or short sleeves, deep yoke and gracefully flared skirt are aa attractive as they can bel Every Two-to-E Eight will find comfort Ii the matching panties, and they'rL as easily made as the frock is, tool Pretty in wool. Detailed Sewing Guide accompanies this pattern.
 Pattern 44b is cut in children's sizes 2, {, 6 and 8. Size {, short sleeve version requires 3 yards S6 inch fabric; long sleeve version rec quires q 1-4 yards.
 /. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins or stamps (pFeeerably coinS) for this pattern. WRITE CLEAR LY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
MIND Your MANNERS

Test your knowledge by cOR- rect social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authOra- tive answers below:
 l. When one has put laundry in the service door of a hotel room, Is 1t necessary to notify the valet? 2. Is 1t necessary to tip the valet when he returns a suit that has been sent to be cleaned?
 3. Should one put a purse or gloves on a restaurant table? 4. Do most hotels make any additional charge for food served in ones room?
 s. Do most large hotels have arrangements for the care of chil- dreh?
 What would you do if-
 You are ready to leave a hotel and wish to have your luggage taken to a taxi? Ask for e. (a) Busboy?
 (b) Bellman?
 Co Porter?
 ANSWERS
 1. Yes, for there may not be a daily inspection of service doors. 2. No, but 1t Is usually done. 3. No.
 1. Yes. Sometimes added as Room service charge: other times price of fcod t increased. 5. Yes, usually a special maid with whom they may be left. Best "What Would You DO" so- lution--(c). Copyright 1887 NEA Service, Inc,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
SAonaes2etstoe
Do You Keep Your Home At.
 tractive, Livable?

One Mantel--Two Arrangements
 Find tonics for your tired rooms 1 It's astonishing how much interest inexpensive touches add--a new mantel arrangement, fresh touches for shabby furniture, color accents
 Why not plan a modern mantelp Our upper sketch shows the charm of @ vase of garden flowers and three amusing pottery birds in- formally arranged before a big mir TOT.
 To change the same mantel completely, combine family favor. ties with bowl of trailing ivy ii, the formal, or balanced fashion, whiph Is always good lower sketch.
 Is hoinely furniture your despairp Make . smart slip cover for a fussy chaiT. Use & handwoven cover and interesting lamp to distract atten- ton from the lines of a clumsy ta- ble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

For e dEab brown and tan liv- ine-Soom, add color accents tiny gold soIa cushions, bits of pottery in flame and shiny black, flower print.
 Our S0-page booklet gives prac- ticai s,lkgestions for making homes attractive and livable ct little cost, one-room apartments, too.
 Send lOc for your copy of PER- SONALITY IN HOME DECORA- ZION tO the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, e$S Sixth Ave-, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly yGus NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
SOUP IS KEYNOTE OF MENU ..
Rest of Meal Must Be In Harmony
 BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX ' NEA Service Staff Writer

Never fall in the soup, but by all menas put soup, in the fall menu. A pleasant autumn luncheon consists of a cream soup served with crou- tons, or toasted crackers, lalad and a simple dessert. Serve for formal diners a clear soup. For a simple home dinner serve almost any type of soup and plan your dinner &C., cordingly. If you start with heavy soup, such as choWder or split pea, have Q simple dinner. If your soup is clear soup or a noodle of Veget- able soup, the dinner may be a bit more hearty.
 Orange Soup
 (4 to 6 servirgs)
 Two and one.half cups orange juice, cup water, 2 tablespoons quick cooking tapioca, l teaspoon I lemon juice, 1-2 cup sugar, pinch of salt.
 Boil water, add sugar and salt To this add tapioca and cook until tapioca is clear. Add fruit juice, heat an dremove from fire. Serve hot or cold.
 Cream of Water Cress Soup 66
 (4 to 6 servings)
 Three stalks of celery, 1-4 onion, 4 tablespoons butter, bunch water cress, 2 tablespoons flour, 3 cups chicken or veal stock, 1-2 cup Of heavy cream.
 Chop celery and onion very fine, saute in butter, cook about five minutes. Wash watercress. Chop and saute with "celery and onion for five minutes more. To thls mi*ture add flour, stir well and then add stock, stir until slightly thick and cook slowly for about one hour. Strain through fine sieve, add heavy cream which has been heated and serve.
 Chicken Soup de Luxe
 (4 to 6 Servings)
 Three cups of chicke stock g fresh tomatoes, 2 stalks celery, l-4 carrot. 1-2 onion, 1-2 cup cooked flee. l-2 teaspoon salt, little pepper, 1 tablespoon butter, 1-2 cup heavy cream. skin tomatoes. Out celery, onion GnC carrit very fine, saute in butter, kdd tomatoes and sauteed mixture lO chicken stock and cook slowly for about one hour. Add rice, salt and heavy cream. "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21


 year-the first. They have been told how to dress, how to act, how to get through the mysteries of enrolment = even what they should expect from a college education.
 If you are one of the lucky ones, read that advice. Most of it is good and will help make your college entrance easier and much, more fun. But don't bother to go on with these next words.
 Because they are being written for the boy or girl who has had to put off college for another year = or two years - or perhaps for all time. It would seem that that boy or that girl needs advice just as badly as the classmate who is being given the advan- tage of a year in a new place where he will live with young people, and learn from exper- fenced and highly educated men and women,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

Pan holders and then more pan holders is the theme song of this sheet of designs, No. CS444, for there are seven different pan holder mo- tifs given. Youll want new and clever designs this year for these little gifts you wish to make, for those you wish to take to the bazaar, and possibly you need some for yourself. So here is the answer fin a NUMO hot iron transfer that may be used several times.
 To order, ask for No. C8444. or tar out illustration and send with 10 cents stamps or coin. (Any three 10 cent Make It Yourself" pat- terms only 25 cents.) Address your order to the WATERBURY DEMO- GRAF MstSE TT YOURSELF PAT- TERN BUREAU, BOX 16e, KAN- SAS CITY. MO. Be sure to give name and complete address.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
By DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

By DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American
 M Medical Association, and of
 Hygeia, the Health Magazine
 One of the most common topics of consideration is the question of whether the incidence of cancer is increasing.
 We know that far more people die of cancer today than formerly For instance, in 1900 there were 65 deaths of cancer for each 100000 in the population, whereas in 1888 there were 102 deaths out of each 100000 of the population.
 In the intervening period, how ever, the average age of death has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
RAINBOW TOWELS

Linen stores and departments fea- ture handsome turkish towels in a wide range of new coloys and de- signs. If you are going maritime. choose towels, bath rugs and other accessories in deep blue, jade green or yellow with white clipper ships skimming Ngaily across them. If ilionograms are your preference, handsome ensembles are shown in apricot, salmon, sand, dark shades of blue and red and Of course black and white with beautifully annbEoid |eHed initials. Attractive. too, ayo dare brown, red or blue towels with WhltA polka d0kA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
ToMoRRow'S MENU

Breakfast-Honeydew melon, ba- con and apple rings, whole wheat mufnmnnfas, coffee, milk.
 Luncheon-Canadian cheese soup rolls, grapefruit and lettuce salad, tea, hot cocoa.
 Dinner-Tomato and clam juice cocktail, broiled lamb chops, baked acorn squash, string benas, pine appleand cream cheese salad, sponge cake with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
Modern Menus
Canadian Cheese Soup "A to q aArx,isa0a\

Two cups chicken stock, IA cup diced carrots, 1-3 cup diced celery, 2 cups milk, 1-e cup butter, 1-3 cup chopped onion, 1-S cLp flour, 3-4 tablespoon cornstarch, pinch soda Ia teaspoon salt, little pakrika, IA cup cheese, tablespoon chopped parsley.
 Cook celery and carrots in stock Saute onions in butter. Heat the milk, add flour and cornstarch which have been dissolved in cold milk Stir until thick, add grated cheese and serve with chopped parsley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
SCIENCE AIDS SCREEN

The newly developed nitrate test
 which tiscloses whether a person has fired q gun within a hours, is shown on the screen for the first time iIi KlkO NA0ioB ''rA0tty NAugh- ty Girls" cb-featuring Jimmy dlea- lsOh and zaDu Pitts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

amies-thS health phobia Where there big neu asthenes there likely to be little coming along about what's his mind When mother vay concerned with the state of their health this subject predominaes family conversation When the medicine pills pOOns and the youngsters parents cernay putting pill pouring out the com tents they the idea that this normal procedure And they follow suit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
ANSWER
DEAR MISS cHATHELD:

First should go to family physician and ask him to reco- Nerasthna which ayman understand: study
 school books and then will be much better able with Neuasthenc that's what he k You will learn real him they existed And will other dscouagng facts in which will be that the foundation for this acon laid childhood and that only by intelligent and act handling problem little boy from similar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
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Ho1V To Keep WeU
 Rv DR. WILLIAM BRADY. MD.

letters health and hyg'ene should 
   Madison of Waterb
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

The thing think should be said now to you who staying home is this:
 There is nothing in four years of college that the deter mined person cannot get outside universy's walls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21

prchcmn will discDsse6 In unsuitable for publication wH Ss M Write Miss CAatA'ed In cave ot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-21
WE. the WOMEN
Make Whole World
Your College Campus
By RUTH MILLETT

DAGE upon page of advice has been written for the young men and women who have packed their campus clothes and are just now beginning their most important college