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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

in the hope that relatives may want them. Often it takes some time for them to make up their minds. But when they do, and they find that the child has been adopted by strangers, there is trouble. It would be simple enough if these relatives could be found and their consent granted. But as often as not, they cannot be located. They may not know there has been baby born to their daughter or niece, or sis- ter or cousin, as the case may be.
 Mothers Sometimes Return
 "After some months or years, the news reaches them. What are we to do then, If we have permitted the child to be taken into another home? And how can we expect fos- ter parents to give them up after they have learned to love the little girl or boy they have welcomed?"
 The staff of a founding home had much the same story. It seems that young mothers who have left their babes for someone to look af- ter, usually because they have no money to care for them, find later on that they not only can support the child, but hunger to have their own with them. It occasionally hap pens that two or three years later a mother will come to us demanding her baby. To hear that he has been adopted is poor comfort to her. She may make trouble or she may only got away sadly without word. But we do everything in our power to have such children reunited with their own parent or parents"
 Look Into Origins.
 This accounts for the fact that orphanages have children of all ages, who could have been adopt- ed in infancy, but who now will find no home. What a pity that those without children hesitate to take a child of five or more into their hearts just because he has the start of several years. I can understand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
HAVE YOU A LITTLE SCURVY
 IN YOUR SYSTEM?

Well marked or manifest beriberi is rarely diagnosed in the United States, though there is reason to believe it has occurred as a com plication of, or in association with other conditions fairly frequently in recent years, unrecognized because physicians in this part of the world have not yet learned to recognize what has been regarded as tropical or oriental disease. Certainly all well informed practitioners in this country are now on the alert for the signs of vitamin B deficiency. whether the condition is severe enough to be called beriberi or some milder manifestation.
 Five years ago American medical literature contained virtually noth- ing on vitamin deficiency. Today the medical journals are giving nearly as much space to articles about vitamin deficiencies as they give to Squawks about this here now social or state medicine I mean here now.
 What the medical profession, the real doctors, do not know about vitamin deficiency will fill many books five or ten years hence. One thing too many doctors have yet to learn, and they ought to learn it now if they are not too old to learn, is that vitamins are food, not medicine. They ought to begin to suspect by this time that the dire consequences some bright theorists would have the lowly practitioner imagine "overdoses" or this or that vitamin or vitamin concentrate pro- duce, occur only in the imagination of the busy theorists who concoct such dangers"
 The layman, too, may monkey with vitamins or vitamin concen- trateS as much as he likes without the slightest risk of suffering any injury or harm from overdose" Vitamins are food. Don't be silly about it.
 Well marked or manifest scurvy is rare today. but mild vitamin c deficiency is far more common than most doctors or laymen would sup pose, the characteristic disturbance of health due to diet which is poor in vitamin 0. The symptoms may be present for months or years, never progressing to a stage which may be recognized as scurvy. The symptoms are a sallow, muddy com- plexion, loss of energy, fleeting pains in the joints and limbs, es- pecially in the legS-and the pains are commonly attributed to "rheu- matism." With these physical sym ptoms, there is often a constantmen- tai depression, 8 gloomy disposition, or an irritable or quarrelsome tenn perament. SluggishnesS, laziness or mental torpor in a young person may be a manifestation of vitamin c deficiency. Of course the test of the diagnosis is the treatment. See that the individual gets a liberal ration of fresh orange juice or to- mato juice or any fresh raw fruit or fresh raw green or salad Qeafy) vegetable daily-the amount de- pending on the weight raw fruit or fresh raw green or salad Qeafy) vegetable daily--the amount depend ing on the weight and physical ac- tivity and general condition of the individual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

uy w H U |, when her husband was appointed ambassador to Great Britain, set five of her nine children to packing and proceeded to give the world a new and gracious picture of Amer ican women and American family life.
 In a year she has shown Euro peans that the typical American woman is. not patterned after our heiresses who promise to love, honor and endow their titled es- corts, or the slinky, false-eyelashed movie version of womanhood.
 Throughout Europe, newspapers let hardly a week go by without displaying picture similar to the one shown here of the happy, healthy Kennedy clan erasing the favorite European conception of America as a land given over to Hollywood scandals, gang killings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
RAISING 4 FAMILY
 By Olive Roberts Ba non
Asylum Waifs Often Claimed
 Later on by Own Families
Practise Makes Adoptions Difficult
typical deb
3y Olive Roberts Ba iton

it, but it is too bad, just the same.
 There is this to be said for the founding. Otter the tragic little bundle is illegitimate. And nothing can be discovered about it's parents, which is a good thing to know in case of adoption.
 Yet, there is the same chance in adopting a known child. A child is what he is, and the best may be a throw-back to something fine or something not so fine, as heredity and character is not matter of parents or grandparents only. but of gone. The infants origin itself does not matter so much. The child cannot help that.
 Copyright, 1888, NEA Service. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
CONCORDIAS CALL
 SPECIAL MEETING

An important recommendation from a special committee which has been engaged on an assignment for several months will be made this evening at a joint meeting of the Concordia Singing Society, the Con- cordia Ladies Auxiliary and the Concordia Ladies' Singing Society.
 The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock and it is requested that all members, active or inactive. attend this meeting. The committees report win mark new epoch in the long history of the society and the views of all members are de- sired before Q vote on definite action is recorded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Of Interest To Women

Have you q household problem to salve: Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, encl0se a three-cent post age stamp and mail to The W0man's EditOr, Washington
 Service B"reau, The Democrat,
 1913 18th Street. Washington.
 D. C., for a personal reply.
 o. I would like 8 recipe for Im- perial Deviled Crab.
 A. One cup of crab meat, cups of thick cream sauce, yolks of 2 eggs, 1-2 small onion, chopped; 1 tea spoon English mustard, IA teaspoon chopped chives, 1 teaspoon chopped green pepper. 1-2 teaspoon Worces- tershire sauce, salt and cayenne pepper. Saute crab meat and onion in butter, season with salt and cayenne pepper; add remaining in- gradients and mix we'll Fill crab shells and sprinkle with fine. bread crumbs. Place a small piece of butt ter on each and bake in hot oven un- til brown.
 c. Is there any way to prevent runs and bagginess in silk stockings2
 A. Not entirely. but their liability
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Latest Styles
RUTH MILLETT's Honor Roll

Many women, in m any fields, earned distinction in 1938: Pearl Buck, who, by win- ming the Nobel Prize fin Liter- ature, sfIenced critics who say @w0men amount to nothing in the arts"; Bette Davis, who introduced common sense into divorce proceedings by letting her husband get the divorce because she was busy; Scarlet O'Hara for continuing to be the best known woman of our time.
 Others of note: Helen Wills Moody, who staged 2 cham pionship comeback; Brenda Frazier, whose dark beauty and strapIess evening gowns typified the 1888 debutante; Deanna Durbin, who proved that adolescence needn't be the awkward age"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

frequently a re loa tn to let their h a rg e s go. This pug gle s everyone, and especially the young cou- pie who could m a ke life so c o m f o rtable and happy for one of the tiny inmates.
 But it h 8 s been explained by the officers like this:
 '' w e ke e p cnch children
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Tornorrow's Menu

BREAKFAST: Stewed prunes with dates, codfish cakes, ketchup. cornmeal, mullins, cof- fee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Spinach souffle, buttered toast, Stewed dried ap- ricots, sponge cake, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Grapefruit juice, salmon croquettes, paprika sauce, steamed brown rice. but tered celery cabbage, water 'cress salad, red cherry lattice pie, cheese, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

all II of them. And no wonder. Mrs. Kennedy, whose gray-eyed, curly haired beauty and size IA figure sui. fer nothing from comparison with her pretty daughters, has strict ideas about family life.
 Tn the case of such large fan- fly as mine," she says, "it is neces- sary to have absolute regularity and cooperation. The children are taught that they must be on time for meals, always help one another, be courteous and considerate. and own up to any of their small faults,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

q couldn't make it, partner. The diamond break beat me-" was the lament of the North player, as he wrote down a loss of 100 points at a contract of four hearts. He was consoled, however, to find that ev- cry other North player who had reached the same contract. had the same score. with the exception of Dr. R. H. Ecker, Jr., of New York, national Masters individual cham pion.
 A low spade was played from dummy, and Dr. Ecker (North)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
ORGANDY EVENING BLOUSE

For informal dinning at home, select a knife pleated sheer black dinner-length skirt and crisp, white, hand embroidered organdy blouse. Then twist vivid chiffon cummerbund about your waist-and you"l feel (and loolz) as fresh as the proverbial daisy, even after a tiresome shopping session or a hard day at the ofi1ce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

can be lessened by first. washing the new stockings with mild soap and water, followed by thorough rinsing and allowing them to soak for 30 minutes in 1-2 pint of warm water to which 2 teaspoons of aluminium sulphate has been added. The stock ings should be dried at room tenn perature, then washed again with soap, rinsed thoroughly, and Cried. This process tends to improve elas- ticity of some silk stockings and makes the fabric water repellent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

The king remained outstanding.
 Now diamond was led and West discarded on the second lead. The diamond suit could not be estab- lished without loss, so it was aban- doned and the club eight led. East put up the queen and the trick was won with the ace.
 A club was returned. West WOE and returned a spade. pr. Eckei ruffed, then led 6 low diamond and ruffed with dummy's deuce. There after East could win only his high trump. With nothing but diamonds remaining, further defense was ina- possible.
 lCOpyrieht. I9se, NEA Service Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

crooked politics, kidnapings and Broadway swing dens.
 
 Before she sailed for London, Mrs. Kennedy admitted that she, knew nothing about court life, but prom ised, T will know more about it six months from now" It's safe to bet she does, and equally safe to bet that the court knows more about American life after meeting the Kennedys.
 For the Kennedy family from America made a great hit abroad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

me suppose sisernlaw undertook criice husband wouldn't think that he ought to resent would and he failed call his sensible, critical brothers don't make friend of will lose him given you fair warning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

It seems odd to many people who wish to adopt baby, that none is to be found, especially when there are so many motherless infants in the world.
 Orphan asylums and founding homes, full to capacity at times,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

telling the truth no matter what the penalty"
 That might be an American wo- man from any walk of life speak ing-speaking for the great major ity of us. And that is what Mrs. Kennedy did in 1888. She told the world what we're really like and made it like the picture.
 She told, not by writing book or making speeches, but by seeing that the Kennedy family kept her promise before they left America, "We1l be just ourselves"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
ANSWER:

that the following the winners of beauty contests? They frequently their pretty matters Presumably they conclude the contests will be eternay victory After had their rounds of being toast beauty loving their bounds victory them they desuetude
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

months brother married practically the whole wedding made up of the brides family and friends her brothers neghboS family the wedding Naturally this hurt all told him thought he said should have declined felt that Please opinion of this. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Hoz0 r To Keep Well
By DIR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

health .yEier brief  only n
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

any year uSualV is chosen.
 But taking a long backward look at 1888, the American W o m a n W h 0 seems to have really "done us proud" is one w n o uldudBeu to ell tn e world on the American Fam fly.
 She is Mrs. Joseph P. Ken
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
ANSWER:

yourself brides place imagine bride would wedding minded the extent inviting the sister be bridesmaid had done all that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
CAROLINE CHATF1ELD.


 this eolumn Letters unsuitable for P1bcoa will be answered All confidence Write Miss Chaheld this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Caroline Chatfield Saw To-day
A Pretty Face and StreamIined Chassis Catch Mans Eye but the Homely Virtues Chain Him to the Hearthstone Happy and Contented.
oEAR MISS CHATFTELD:

several contests know I'm but I'm not filler for husband Since skirt escaped his attention that will t gets his wnks We party you hand hold apparently when at home smoke gamble has weakness for the indulge but flirting When scod him he whatever k it hurts him fool of himself and of me have never tried Of that stuff
 easily enough to tell noa attention to EVELYN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Care of the Baby

Our baby, aged six weeks, very constitplated you recommended wheat germ meal or flour :. (Mrs. H. A. H)
 Answer - I recommended feeding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

which responsible bands rowing Generally speaking men who tease their wives whether
 testing their strength and the only the of husband fed with vanity constant calls little spotlight taken flirting knowing that he get Of you in this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
Household Hints
MRS JOSEPH KENNEDY IS 1038s OUTSTANDING WOMAN BECAUSE
 She Sold the World On The American Family
BY RUTH MILLETT

Copyright. 1888, NEA Service. 1nco We, the women, seemed to hold our own in 1888. We turned in creditable performances in business, in literature, in the arts, in sports and in the professions.
 And it is from the ranks of these "career women" that the outstand-
 ing Woman of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

ruffed the second spade. He now led a heart. taking the finesse of the queen. Dummy's last spade was returned and ruffed, and another heart led. won with dtrmmy's ace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

Count blessings child, instead of your There husbands with habits yours vanity oggie affection friends knowing with you, and adoring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary os the American Bridge ieagul

Delayed Play Overcomes Bad Break in Defenders Strong
 est Suit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

pretty old him chained the heastone tented CAROLINE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

FriIny: nIisses' Frock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-29

c. Is there any way to prevent runs and bagginess in silk stockings2
 4. Not entirely. but their liability
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
TWinkIing Toes:
TINY TOTS TOP
T|P-TOP TAPPERS
Washington Times staff Photo

One hundred and forty children,
representing eight Fairgrounds,
staged a tap-dance program en-
titled "A Night at the Carnival"
last night at the Garfield Play
ground, Second and F Streets
Southeast, under direction of Miss
Anna T. Mitchell, special play.
ground department instructor.
The children, ranging in ages
from 7 to 16, were colorfully
dressed. In addition to Garfield,
they are members Of dancing
classes Of the Virginia Avenue,
Sherwood, Judiciary Square. Rose.
dale, Hoover, New York Avenue
and Kenilworth Fairgrounds, Ar
thur j. Maxwell supplied piano mU.
sic for the routineS.
More than TOO parents and spec
tators viewed the performance, in
cluding Miss Sibyl Baker, superin-
tendent Of the playground depart
ment, and Miss Maude Parker. oi-
rector of women's and girls activ-
tiles
The Washington times., 1938-08-27

A. Horigan who replaces Rev.
Louis F. OFT as treasurer; Rev.
Thomas l.. Matthews, guidance
counselor: Rev. Richard ]. Barter,
prefect Of discipline, and Rev.
William j. Gibbons, librarian.
The following Jesuit scholastics
will be on the teaching staff:
Thomas A. Donoghue, James L.
Harley, Thomas L. Matthews,
Santo j. Catalano, Cornelius A.
Herlihy, Matthew A. Rooney, Will
liam j. Gibbons, Robert G. Lowe,
Lee H. Bradley, Thomas j. En-
right, James H. Thirty, George G..
McAleer, Merle v. Baldwin and
Timothy j. O'Dwyer.
The staff also includes the fol-
lowing lay-teachers: Thomas H.
D. Mahoney, Frank ]. Brown,
Thomas F. K. Leckie, Orrel j.
Mitchell, Thomas F. Kane, Ed
ward Spellerberg and George F.
Lynch.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
Fare Enough:
TERRIERS BACK
FROM CAB TRIP

Who said anything about a
dogs life being a hard one?
Evidently the one who uttered
this epic-since quoted extensively
-nevet met Peggy.
Peggy, a Boston bull TERROR,
makes her vacation trips via the
taxicabs and hang the expense!
And furthermore, Peggy Is a lady
and entitled to proper respect, be
it from railroad or street car con-
ductors. What's more from now
on she gets it.
It all began when Peggy's mis-
tress, Mrs. Walter Peake, a Ma
tional Park Service employe living
at 2755 Macomb st. N. w., decided
to go to Cape Cod, Mass, for q
vacation. She wanted to take
Peggy alone. In the pullman-not
the baggage car.
The railroad said no" It was
the baggage car or nothing.
So Mrs. Peake decided it was
nothing. She and Peggy travelled
to Cape Cod and back via a taxi,
cab. The cost? Who cares?
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
Races Blazing Car
To Fire-Fighters

The fact tnat No. IL Engine
Company is only a short distance
from his home saved Archibald
B. Turner, 81 Rhode Island Ave.
N. E., his car last night. Turner
walked out of the house to find
his car burning. He jumped in
and raced around the corner to
the fire house at North Capitol
and Quincy Streets, where fire.
men extinguished the blaze.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
CLOSE CALL
Boy, z, Freed From
Ironing Machine

The next time Robert Miller, 7,
of the 1900 block E st. S. E., wants
to play, he will keep away from
the family ironing machine. Rob
ert was playing near the machine
yesterday when he turned it over,
pinning himself beneath. HIS
screams brought a neighbor.
George Ferber, who released him.
The boy was taken to Casualty
Hospital, where examination
showed he had not been injured
seriously.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
Thief EXTRACTS.
81 BOOTY FROM
DENTIST IN CAR
Bandit Leaps on Auto
At Traffic Stop

Police today we're searching for
an armed bandit who last night
robbed a Washington dentist,
threatened his life, then turned
philosophical and said he might
"get out of the racket"
Victim Of the bandit was DR..
Foster Shelter, 3051 Idaho Ave.
N. w. He had left his office at
1925 I St. N. w., and was driving
home when his car was stopped
by traffic light at MaSsachu-
sets Ave. and Waterside Drive.
MENACED BY GUN
AS the car stopped a shabbily
dressed man about % years old
stepped into the machine, drew a
heavy caliber revolver and warned:
This is a holdup. Give me
your wallet and no funny busi-
ness or I'll take care Of you"
DR.. Shelter handed over his
wallet containing about 81 and
the bandit then directed him to
drive through Rock Greek Park
to the Harvard Street entrance to
the Zoo.
AS they drove along the bandit,
menacing the dentist with the
gun, talked to his victim in a well
modulated voice and showed signs
of being well educated.
VISITOR SLUGGED
AS they neared the Zoo en-
trance, the bandit muttered that
he might soon get out Of the
racket" jumped from the car and
fled. DR.. Shaller drove to his
home and notified police.
Niles Hudson, %, of High Point,
N. c., was walking at Fourteenth
and I SITS. N. W., early this morn
ing when he was Slugged by two
men and robbed of his wallet
containing SO and bus ticket to
his home.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
WPA RAISES
Hopkins Promises s
Merit System Also

Pay raises, a merit system and
Civil Service rating for WPA work
ers in Washington were promised
yesterday by Administrator Harry
Hopkins.
The raises will come within two
weeks, he told a delegation Of
workers headed by Morton Fried
man.
Under the merit system, Hop
kins said, WPA workers will be
promoted and given advanced pay
for retaining jobs, doing work well
and showing initiative.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
knife VICTIM
Man Stabbed Trying
To Stop FigI1t

Paul Richards, 18, of 106 S S..
N. E., was in a serious condition
in Casualty Hospital today, suffer
ing from knife wounds in the
chest and neck. Richards, who is
employed at restaurant at North
Capitol Street and Massachusetts
Avenue, was slaShed when he tried
to separate two colored youths
who were fighting. They turned
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
REV. H. J. WEISEL
NAMED GONzAGA
HIGH PRESIDENT

The Rev. Henri j. Wiesel, for
mer rector of Georgetown Pre-
paratory School, will succeed the
Rev. Laurence j. Kelly as presi-
dent of Gonzaga High School.
Father Kelly will be spiritual coun-
selor at Woodstock College, Wood
stock, Md.
Other officers Of the school, as
announced by Headmaster Rev.
Philip ]. Clarke are Rev. William
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
Co|ored Playground
F Festival Set Monday

Colored playground activity will
end with presentation Of a folk
festival Monday at 4::30 p. m. at
Dunbar High School under aus
pices Of the Community Center
Department.
Several hundred children will
participate in a program in the
James E. Walker Stadium. There
will also be an exhibit Of work
by the children. Fairgrounds rep
resented will include Giddings,
Morgan, Burrville, Stevens, Shaw,
Deanwood, Cook, Briggs, Garfield,
Lovejoy, SmotherS and Young.
The Washington times., 1938-08-27
i'm Staff
FAC-SIMILE OF LOG BOOK REPORT AT NAVY DEPT.

another volume bear the last rec
ords of the battleship Maine.
To Miss Dunn the most gripping
story is told in the log of the U. S.
s. Mount Vernon, World War
transport which was struck by a
torpedo off the French coast on
September 4, 1918.
Thirty-five men were killed
when the torpedo tore into the
boiler room and the vessel seemed
doomed. But every survivor
rushed Immediately to his post.
Guns Of the Mount Vernon