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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Peggy won't hold Jacks interest long. He'll find another girl who can share his enthusiasm for books, music, art.
 Don't shut yourself off from de- lightful friendships because you didn't go to college. Build a cul- tural background at home.
 But how to Start?" you ask.
 Cultivate the appreciation of many subjects that puts you at ease in any group. Music: find out why some of the great compositions you hear over the radio-like Tschai- kowsky's stirring Overture 1812"- were written.
 The theater: when you see a fa- nous actress like Greta Garbo in the movies, ask yourself what makes her performances so memorable. Is it her voice? Her facial express sions? The way she seems to live her part? r.. Your next step? Decide to know more than most people about some one field. Perhaps you're interested in dreams. Study phychology. Our 32-page booklet shows you how to work out an easy, fascinating program of self-education. Use of newspapers, movies, radio. Book lists recommended by committee on College Reading.
 Send 10c for your copy of BUILD YOUR OWN COLLEGE BACK GROUND to the Waterbury Demo- crat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave. New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

.BkAUEX''a''''' '''' GlOrifing
 Yourself
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service Staff Writer


 Regardless of her age, weight height where she lives, any woman can, within three months, reduce her hip measurements considerably It isn't any easy task, and it isn't much fun. But it is not nearly as difficult as the majority seem to believe and, especially with the swimming season close at hand, it's centainly a worthwhile idea.
 Exercise is the answer. If you are just generally overweight, you prob- ably should plan to eat less anG exercise, too. But if surplus weight on hips and thighs is you main con- cern, then you can go on eating the customary amount of food, con- centrating on exercises and do them the required number of times every single day. And if you can manage brisk walk of not less than mile three of four times a week, so much the better.
 Here are several exercises, especially designed to reduce hips and thighs. Pick any three, then stick to them:
 Lie flat on the floor with arms at moving shoulders, roll to the left until left thigh is pressed against the floor. Now roll to the right as far as possible. Roll from side to side ten times the first day, eleven the second, and so on until you are rolling back and forth fifty times each morning.
 Lie on the floor on your left side with left arm up-stretched-head resting on it. Place right hand on the floor in front of you-palm down. Now lift both legs off the floor. Keeping knees stiff move legs back and forth rapidly-as if you were running. Notice the pressure this puts on the thigh that rests on the floor and how it makes hip muscles work. Repeat ten times. Turn over on your right side and repeat.
 The tried and true riding the bicycle exercise is fairly simple to do and most effective. Simply lie on your back on the floor. Then raise legs as high as possible, bending knees and supporting weight with hands placed under hips. Now make believe that your feet are on the pedals of a bicycle and that you are trying to win a race. Repeat fifteen times the first day, twenty the second, and so on until you have reached sixty.
 Lie on the floor with hands at sides. Keeping knees straight and shoulders flat, raise right leg. cross it over the left one and touch toes of right foot to the floor. The high CT you can raise the leg and still keep toes touching, the more good the exercise will do. Repeat, crossing left leg over right.
 NEXT: Active sports for youl figure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
STRAND

Attractions which may be seen for the last times today at Warner| Brothers cozy, clean and comfort able Strand theater include ''The| Goldwyn Follies" with Charlie Mc-| Carthy and Edgar Bergen headingl the stellar cast of favorite person-| alities; also "The Spy Ring" star-| ring William Hall and Jane Wyman.
 Local movie fans who saw and| heard Deanna Durbin sing in '100I Men and Girl and "Three Smart| Girls" will be pleased to know that| the golden voiced sweetheart of the| screen and radio presents three new songs composed especially for herI in her latest starring vehicle Mad About Music," opening a three-day engagement at the Strand starting| tomorrow.
 These new songs that will have| you humming for weeks to koane are| "A Serenade to the Stars,""I LoveI to Whistle" and Chapel Bells," all delightful numbers that will giveI you real enjoyment when you hearI Deanna sing them.
 Herbert Marshall is cast in tha| featured role of this story of little' girl who tells bouncing flbs about q father who never existed. She inn agines she will never be called upon to substantiate her statements about| him. But the day comes when she' has to produce a father-and find him at once. Naturally she pick%' upon the first likely man she See@ and after explaining the circum stances to him finally persuades hiA to act as her parent during his shoI stay in her city.
 Many exciting events happen aft this which will make excellent q tertainment for the entire fami so don't fail to see it over the wed end.
 Gail Patrick and Arthur Treac CT are also featured throughout film while Marcie Mae Jones, Jac| Moran and Helen Parrish, tn youngsters lend their support to popular 15 year old star.
 The Strand program ;s roullS out with the presentation of "Ars Lupin Rcturns," mystery thr
 that will hold you Hrcathlcss
 start to finish. Mslvyn Dou
 Virginia Bruce and Warren WI
 head the splendid cast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Claire Tilden PATTERN 591

AS fetching a frock as ever graced the Summer horizon and one which will play a very important part in your wardrobe. Dainty, feminine, and cool, it will take you smartly to teas or daytime parties and you'll get the most amazing amount of satisfaction out of hay ing made it yourself. With the aid of Pattern 591 and it's Detailed
 Sewing Guide you'll be able to turn out that graceful gored skirt and those pert open sleeves with the greatest ease. Trim the yoke and bodice with tiny buttons and edge the neck, sleeves openings and bow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
AFTER ALL. IT IS A QUESTION
 OF ADRENIN

A doctor in practice has certain advantages over a doctor in print. For example a doctor in practice is comparatively safe in saying what he thinks about the matter of exam ming the eyes for failing vision and prescribing for whatever ails the patient; or about the effects of pas teurization of milk on human nutri- i ton.
 From experience know it is safe and sometimes apparently sound for doctor in practice to advise a dis tracted mother to try a dose of the gad on wayWard and defiant daughter in her early teens. In print, however, he can't do it south of the 33d parallel, I have been given to understand.
 Is there any difference between physical courage and mental or so- called moral" courage? For ex- ample, could person have sufficient courage to fight with menacing intruder or to face great danger in order to defend or help another who could not defend or help himself, yet lack the moral" courage to uphold view or a belief he believed to be right, against any and all oppoSi- tion? Or on the other hand, could a person be conspicuously coura- geous in taking his stand on some great moral question of ethics or re- ligion or social economy. yet prove cowardly in respect to personal dan ger?
 My own answer is No. Courage is courage and fear is fear.
 It all depends on the amount of adrenin secreted by the adrenal glands and poured into the blood under the emotional stress. If the adrenal function is deficient, the person will not have much courage of any kind. If the adrenal func- toin is not too greatly inhibited or restrained or weakened by long edu- cational and cultural training and by the constant inhibitions imposed by civilization with its necessity for dissembling, concealing or repressing primitive emotions, the individual will have sufficient courage for most emergencies, physical or moral.
 A certain schoolmaster had the right idea. He staged regular box ing bouts between evenly matched boys, as the manly way to settle their quarrels. The system worked beautifully until one refused to ac- cept the decision against him, went home boo-hooing to his misguided parents and created a furore in the community, which put an end to ar excellent system of training.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Monographs
 Please give a list of your free monographs or treaties. (Mrs. E. H. Answer-A partial list:
 Acne (Blackheads, PimpleS, Oily
 Skin)
 Pruritus (itching without appar-
 ent cause)
 Falling Hair and Dandrufff.
 Hay Fever.
 Gaining Weight.
 Prostatic Obstruction.
 Bed Wetting.
 Piles.
 Asthma.
 Stage Fright and Examination
 JitterS.
 Diabetes.
 Tobacco Habit.
 Somersaults.
 Nephritis (Chronic Bright's Dis
 easel.
 Foot itch (Ringworrn, Athletes
 foot)
 Headache Neuralgia, Migraine). Menopause (excessive sweating;
 foul sweating).
 Varicose Veins and Varicose Ul-
 cer.
 Insomnia. Wheat to Eat
 High Calcium Diet.
 Vitamins Everybody Needs.
 Bread and Milk Club.
 Belly Breathing.
 Chronic ArShritis (Rheuma- tiSm).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

ous but the way these varmints kill is by chewing, sucking blood and snueezing. Natives finally were able to unwind the snake and pry open it's jaws. Kegl went to a hos pital. and his arm is not yet entire ly healed.
 After being a jittery spectator at that event, Tapley had to wrestle the same python for some closeups. They were much too close for com fort. The snake was held by { gang of natives while the actor got 1: good grip with each hand on the loose flesh on each side of the rep tiles jaws. Then Director Clyde Elliott yelled "Action!" and there was plenty of it.
 Tapley could hold off the snake s head all right, but not the rest of its body. The sequence was sho' on silent film, so Tapley yelled for assistance whenever the coils got too tight around him. On this cue natives would haul the python's tail off the ground, trick which prevented it from constructing witt, mucl, force.
 "The natives eat python meat. and relish it." said the actor. But I never got that hungry"
 Buffalo R0ping
 He and Elliott were trying to think up another thrill sequence one day, and Tapley got the idea of a water buffalo rodeo. He got rope and practiced until he believed he could lasso one. They found a herd set up couple of cameras in the bushes, and Tapley waded into the river. He was promptly charged by a COW with calf, and next found himself in front of a stampede. He swung his rope and caught not one buffalo, but two. They jerked tlim off his feet and aquaplaned him tc shore. It should make 8 good se- quence, though it may look more l funny than perilous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
POLES

"In Old Chicago" which opens this afternoon at the Loew Poli Theater, is a vital, spectacular film document. It contains all the ele- ments that go into the making of great entertainment.
 The story leading up to the burn- ing of the city on the night of Oct. g, 1871, is lusty, powerful and au- thentic to an infinitesmal point of careful research and scenic detail.
 A book by Nevin Busch, the legend of Mrs. OLeary's COW kick ing over the barn lantern and an accurate, braWling, sprawling story of life in that era have been evolved by the ace screen adapters, Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien.
 No less brilliant has been the di- rection of Henry King who devel- oped the personalities of the OLearys. He keeps a lot of move ment in the early sequences and steps up his tempo to move fluently into the terror, tragedy and flight of the fire. For the realism that wells up from the screen in these stirring, blazing scenes, Bruce Hum- berstone's direction earns we'll merited praise.
 But dramatic laurels most cer- tainly are due Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Brian Donlevy and Andy Devine.
 Miss Faye, is revealed in Tn Old Chicago" as a surprisingly talented actress. Her role is the Soubrette in a gaudy, glittery saloon of 1871, the saloons owner.
 Tyrone Power, that comet among the Hollywood stars, literally takes the role of Dion OLeary in his teeth and runs away with 1t.
 Don Ameche, as Jack OLeary, the direct antithesis of Dion, gives sincere performance as the re- former and envisioner of a clean, orderly, civic-minded Chicago.
 Alice Brady is magnificent, giving the finest performance of her bril- liant career as the hardworking, outspoken Molly O'Leary.
 Credits for excellent performances could go on through the entire cast even down to the extras who rush madly through fire-ravaged streets.
 Added treats on the same pro- gram are Invisible Enemy, with Alan Marshal and Tala Birell, and chapter 2 of the popular serial "The Lone Ranger"
 This co-ing Wednesday, and every Wednesday hereafter, Man ager Ed. Fitzpatrick will present Loew Poli theater patrons with a grand entertainment treat - 5 big acts of big time Broadway Vaude- vile, featuring the most popular and best known entertainers on Broadway at the present time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
sLIPCOvERs THAT LAUNDER

For slipcovers, it is economical to select materials that are sturdy and washable. If not certain the fabric is color-fast better test a small piece before washing the entire cover. Readymade slipcovers are usually labeled as to their availability. Use the same care in laundering that you would any colored or figured material. A little prepared starch mixed in the last rinse water will leave the covers fresh and crisp looking. If the colors fade or run, it is safer to turn the job over to reliable dry-cleaner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

hAloW AA6 "AiSAN are n o W, and S m all wander CTS are trained to stay Il e a I home.
 However, we still h a V e the occasional ad- venturer " i t h us. These brave l i t t l e spirits must have some r e a S o n TOT s h a k i n g off home ties every day or so, and edging around t h e corner to seek their for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Caroline Chatfield
Come Spring-Females, Feathered and Unfeathered, Fancy, Handsome Gentlemen That Preen Them selves Proudly Present Themselves Properly and Promise to be Good Providers.
Says To-day


 Promise to be Good Providers.
 Gentle reader you couple of bidlovers among your friends you with lot of boring talk about prds % shape song habits and habitat Go for re Wh them o enjoy spring landscape but you don't enjoy It. % run you crazy ordering stop so they can tram ther neo ea m new you nwardy they at Teos rows the sound of twe go into ecacS that irritate you no end
 Sit garden to chat and sensible conversation question: Their sentences puncuaed VII" o delight at sight passing They puncuate with saccato comments on hasnmg wing n % " they the 'o orus
 the will turn to the other and with Excuse us for moment ask the noe rom o @ tan throat wait with what patience you devout wish all birds and bird nuts would vanish the face of the earth
 Yet there's one saving grace semocca sionaly with human interest story which makes you one of red birds had feeding station outside her living room window where enough fancy food to maintain amy seos crumbs and worms if she can get them weather is at premium His winter policy IS every catch the hindmos of which each gentleman that he's being arrogant se greedy sympathy with the hunger Of the ao red bird must eat And there on the apple she sits patiently waiting her turn Shes had hard fall from his majestys table, or eating table She's coWed the way With poor e they been msreated by the stronger sex Life has got her down
 Does he ignore her and let her choicest mOrse flies to the apple tree his best with his best compl bea inside he hruss the dainty b sod
 And why no Any lady, with without gentleman who himself proudly presents himself properly ~ ~ CAROLINE cHATFIELD. S s:. osss ;hs s"nn for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
RAISING A FAMILY-NO. 70
 By Olive Roberts Barton
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F F X

There is less trouble with little runaWays today than there used to- be.
 This is one good thing that has resulted from the traffic menace. Mothers are more concerned in knnurinu mhere their little folk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Mode, S, rrl Nc nus
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Service Staff Writer

NEA Service Stan Writer
 Despite the warm weather, ladies will bake. So here are three excel lent recipes which those ladies nigh want. They can be baked equally we'll in gas or coal ovens. Refrigerator Rolls
 One cup milk, 1 yeast cake, IA cup lukewarm milk, 4 tablespoons sugar, l teaspoon salt.
 Scala milk; add fat, sugar and salt. When lukewarm, add dissolved yeast. Add half of flour and liquid.
 Beat with mixer till bubbles are formed. Add remainder of flour and knead. Form into rolls; let rise and bake in hot oven (425 degree F.) for 15 to 20 minutes. This dough may be stored in refrigerator and used when desired.
 Zweiback Torte
 One box zweiback rolled fine, 1-2 cup melted butter, Ia cup sugar, teaspoon cinnamon, 2 teaspoons cornstarch, 3 egg yolks, cups milk, 1-2 teaspoon vanilla, 1-2 cup sugar.
 Mix zweiback, butter and 1-2 cup sugar and line sides and bottom of cake pan. Save enough for top.
 Make custard by mixing corn starch and sugar well, then add a little milk and the beaten yolks, then rest of milk. Cook on low heat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Tuberculosis.
 Pocket First Aid Kit and How
 to Use It.
 For any one of these enclose a three-cent-stamped envelope bear ing your address and name the mon- ograph you want. No clipping will suffice. If you want more than one send ten cent coin for any three. Copyright, 1888, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Mondays Menu

B R E A K F A s T: Grapefruit waffles with honey, bacon, cof- fee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Black bean soup, frankfurter rings, en- dive salad, pecan cookies, ap- plesauce, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Roast beef and green pepper hash, baked po- tatoes, butter broccoli, stuff ed beet salad, zweiback torte, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
Ho70 To Keep WeU
 By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23
CHESTER TOAST

For crisp, evenly Drowned toast, use fine textured bread from one to three days old.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Universally liked could be the most popular in Hollywood he wanted to mix he's the shy retiring de
 swell tenor voice but seldom makes about nine married Lamont former New born in Kankakee Ill., where his father vonst spent childhood touring the mddewest
 30 educated at Carroll College Waukesha a roustabout for worked in night orchesas in New York five
 tale star in pictures 6 feet inches weighs 1855.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

I think the psychology of it is simple. They are tired of the same old things done in the same old way, and get a thrill out of new sights and sounds. A child will trail dog, for example, if he loves dogs and is denied one himself. In one such case the dog disappeared the first day, but later the child was found repeatedly at the same place, where he had parted with his friend, because that place was associated with pleasant memories.
 The cure, or attempted cure, for straying used to be putting to bed or trying. Now we know that such things only make matters worse. Our whole human set-up tends to the other extreme, when artiflcially restrained. We can sit in a room quite contentedly day after day reading or knitting, but let somebody say we are locked in and can't get out, and we insistantly de- velop a phobia about freedom. How like the little child who is kept prisoner. So it is no cure, but rather a challenge to further adventure. Running away becomes a need.
 
 Make Home Attractive There is great difference in chil- dren and some will want to see what is on the next street, while others are content to know only their own yards. Study this disposition in your child.
 The child who went to a cer- tain grocery store when he got a chance, was looking for another ends with lace. Lovely in sheer fabrics.
 Pattern 591 is cut in misses and women's sizes 12, IA, 16, IS, 20. 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 re- quires 3 3-4 yards 39 inch fabric and 5-8 yards lace edging.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in coins or stamps (preferably coins) for this pattern. WRITE CLEAR LY SIZE Nf<IE. ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department. ' Monday: 1920 Fr0ck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Pert, vivacious Mary Mason is playing the school teacher in "SchoOlhouse on the Lot" a comedy hit now running on Broadway. Prior to that, she played in Brother Rat" and was hidden behind pair of horn trimmed glasses until the last act. She made her first stage appearance at the age of seven in Booth Tarkington's "Penrcd." Mrs. Carl Fisher in private life, she has curly. brown hair, large round, brown eyes and the suggestion of
 dimples in her cheeks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-23

Well it seems that gentleman bird gallant wh bitter cold and food is at premium His winter DO every bird for himself dmost of whicf gentleman that he's not being arrogant
 greedy having sympathy with the hunger of the feathered
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-04-07
PROVIDE HOT LUNCHES
FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Piping hot lunches for an averag
of 1886 hungry school children
daily in 211 schools scattered through
out % counties in the State of Wash
ington and representing $61,311 in
WPA funds for the school year for
providing cooks and attendants, was
revealed in a report by Don G. Abel.
State Administrator of the Works
Progress Administration today.
"These hot lunches are provided
for che school children in outlying ru-
raj districts where they have to come
some distance from their homes to the
school and where they are not properly
fed at home. In some cases these hot
lunches which the children receive at
noon is the only properly balance
meal of the day for them" Stric
attention is paid in preparing the men,
rs which are drafted by qualifie
dieticians,'' Abel stated.
In additions to preparing hot lun.
ches the WPA cooks will can donated
fruit and vegetables in season, for use
during the school year. The food to be
canned is usually donated through tn
efforts of local community clubs and
Parent Teacher associations
Throughout the state, the nvolber
OF school served range from one each
in Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla
and Klickitat counties to "a schools
being served in Spokane county, which
is the largest unit in the state and di-
rectly benefits z,1s5 school children
The largest daily attendance for a
single school is at the Federal Wa.
School, King county on the Seattle
Tacoma highway where six WPA
cooks and attendants serve 318 child
rem daily.
"An indication of the approval Of
the WPA hot lunch program for schoo
children is indicated in an increase OF
more than $500 lunches served daily
within the past year and it is ou1
intention to see that no needy school
child in the state of Washington goes
without 1lourishing noon day lunch "
Abel continued.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-04-07

complete authority to remodel, re
vamp or reconstruct the whole busin
Cos, it anything untoward should dc
velop. There is no more politics in tn
question than in the weather, but her
comes political group with the sin
gle purpose of embarrassing thte Dem
ocratic president, spending huge sum
to defeat the bill, and shrieking int
the political universe that if the al
teration in the governmental machin
cry goes into effect, tomorrow will
see Stain, Mussolini or Hitler drag
coming the nation from the White
House.