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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06

Who'd ever guess this trim slip covered chair was yesterdays shab- by apology?
 So smart it is now in rich blue cretonne, its gay floral design cen- tered on back and seat. Attractive, too, the frilly ruffle, the welted seams in contrasting color. No patterns neeGed-just fit your cover the pin-on way and follow simple tips.
 Smooth the cheery fabric down back and over Seat-wrong side out for welted seams. Anchor with pins, one row across top. rows of pins down the sides. Cut, allow ing 1 1-2 inches for seams. Sim ilarly, pin and cut sides, arms, back.
 Those rounded corners on back and arms where the material budg- es? Take tiny darts as the dia- gram shows.
 To give that professional finish, trim seams with welting (covered cordD. Slip welting into seams as shown in diagram and stitch from wrong side.
 Get complete instructions and diagrams for slip covers from our 32-page booklet. Shows how to fit all kinds of chairs and sofas the pin-on way. Explains cutting, fit- ting, finishing. Attractive color schemes, fabrics, trimmings.
 Send 1Oc in coin for your copy of HOW TO MAKE SLIP COVERS to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave-, New York N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
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Glor1tyimg Yourself
Bv ALICIA HART

water, pats on night cream and leaves it on for half an hour.
 Lemon Bleach Is Cheap
 Sometimes, for change, she uses a mask of almond meal and sweet milk paste instead of the beaten egg variety. Plain lemon juice is one of her favorite bleaches for hands, knees and el- bows. Half lemon juice and half warm water is good bleach for arms, shoulders, throat and face
 She likes commercially pre- pared cleansing and night creams better, of course, but she can, if she has to, cleanse with mineral oil and soften with plain lanolin which she buys in a drug store.
 She watches for sales of her favorite face powder and buys a generous supply then and there. She'd rather have one dram ot good perfume and use it sparingly than a large bottle of a mediocre brand.
 Last but most importantly, she knows and believes that plenty of fresh air, lots of sunshine, ade- uuate sleep, a sensible diet and a great deal of exercise are the best beauty treatments in the world regardless of how much or how little one has to spend on cos- metics.
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 sell. It is a wonderful thing to create beauty and also make money out of it. Commercial art is not looked down on the way it used to be when great painters and sculptorS lived in attics and starved just for their arts sake"
 Mrs. Gray looked out of the win dow when her girl was reciting the stereotyped lines. She knew them all, by heart. It had been acting with her, in her youth. And when it failed she was glad to get a position as secretary to a woman in the corset business.
 T think it would be marvellous to get some good instruction in clay" she said But, darling, why not take something practical, too? If you don't happen to earn enough at your art, it might be handy to know how to make dresses or take dictation or know about social ser- vice. Some practical vocation where by you can make money if you don't get married. Father is not so well, he has had lot of business reverses. We'll have to come down to earth, fear"
 "Oh, mother, if I can't go on with my art, might as well die. It's the only thing I care about"
 Parents Don't Understand"
 'You wouldn't just like to come home and stay, would you? have seen so little of you the last few years. And I think you ought to be learning something about cook ing and keeping house. It takes time to learn about gadgets and so on. Wouldn't you like just to be our girl? The money spent on your further education would give us all some trips and nice things to wear and we'd have lot of fun."
 why, you said yourself just now that father needed my help. How could help him if were sitting here all the time?"
 'The expense of two more years study and setting you up in busi- ness would be saved. And money saved is money earned"
 l Miss Thompson said her greatest difficulty was in making parents see the light, and guess it is," sighed Helen. Do make Daddy see it my way, mother"
 "Yes. will," promised the older woman. But she knew that her girls talent was not that of genius or even first-grade calibre. In a competitive world she would get nowhere. She was merely handing her child another toy, and life was still ahead to be faced, with bread to earn or home to be managed What was the answer?
 Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl
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NEA Service Stan Writer


 Having no money to spend on de luxe creams and lotions is no ex- cuse for neglecting your hair, skin and figure. Many woman whose budget is extremely limited manages to keep herself charmingly attrac- tive.
 If she cannot afford a good hair brush, she messages her scalp with her fingertips every night, then rubs scalp and the hair itself vigorously with coarse bath towel. By the time she has sep arated her hair into small strands and rubbed ach strand, every trace of dust and excessive oil has disappeared. Naturally, brushing is simpler than massage and a brisk rubbing and probably slightly more efficacious. This she knows, too, but she doesn't let lack of brush keep her from having glossy, gleamingly healthy locks.
 More than likely, she slbsti- tutes an egg mask for the nicely scented, commercially prepared mask she'd like to have. After cleansing her face and throat she smoothes on layer of beaten egg white, lets it dry, then a layer of beaten yolk and lets it dry. After applying another layer of white and another of yolk, she rests for twenty minutes, letting the top layers dry thoroughly. Afterward, she rinseS off the mask with warm
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rangement-the latter is too often called "colitis" although the idea that there is inflammation of the colon is an error.
 Wheat germ, the portion of the wheat kernel which is carefully re- moved and discarded (used largely for animal feed) in the modern nil- ling of flour, is the richest natural food source of vitamin B complex Vitamin B complex means all of the entities or factors that grow in foods containing vitamin B = including B-1 or thiamin, B-2 or c or riboflavin, nicotinic acid (black tongue and pellagra curative), an- tineuritis, antidermatitis and anti- gray hair factors, as well as Sev- eral others not as yet definitely re- cognized.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 When Baby Takes to Drink Our baby, aged IS months, has no use for water, except as a bath, in which he delights, since we have given him orange juice in large quantities. Is his distaste for water due to our practice of boiling all the water we offer him to drink? (MiSs B. E. O.
 Answer-If the water is suitable for adults to drink it is suitable for the baby, agreeably cold. If the baby needs more water than he gets in fruit juice and other liquids he will ask for it and drink it. Second Hand Sp1oke
 Can you give a statement that harm may come to smokers who have to breathe the air pollut- ed by the exhalations of tobacco smokers? (S. M. D.
 Answer-I believe infants and young children are frequently seri- ously poisoned by breathing the air in a room polluted with tobacco smoke. Unquestionably non-smok- CTS are affected more or less by breathing air so polluted, in the same way, if not to the same de- gree, as they would be affected by smoking.
 Cure of Rupture Please give some information on the cure of hernia or rupture by injec- tion rather than operation. (Mrs. c. T. O.
 Answer-In most cases injection treatment is as likely to be success full as operation. In any case it is important to select only physician of standing for the treatment. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph on hernia. If I know of a physician in your community who is skilled in the injection technique I will be glad to give you his name. Copyright 1888, John F. Dille Go.
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CONSTIPATION HABIT AND
 COLON HYGIENE

Principal explanation for the poor health or under par condition, the lack of vite or the consciousness of being mot sick yet not very well, which the periodic physical or health examination reveals in the great majority of people, is in my opinion prolonged, habitual, perhaps life long shortage of calcium, phosphor- us, vitamin D and vitamin B com- plex.
 It is virtually impossible to get an optimal daily ration of sunshine vitamin D from natural food-that is, food natural for people of our time and race. Possibly people who live largely on fish may get suffi- cient vitamin D from the body fat and the liver oil of fish. People who consume usually large amounts of fresh butter, cream, fresh whole milk and fresh eggs, may get nearly enough sunshine vitamin D from these, the only sources of vitamin D in the or dinary diet of children in America. Certainly people who consume more than the usual amount of canned salmon and sardines get more vita min D than those who do not use these foods. But even in these ex- ceptional circumstances it is now recognized by nutrition authorities that not only infants, but young children and adolscents up to the age of IS years almost invariably suffer from inadequate intake of vitamin D.
 have endeavored to explain here in earlier talks that, to my mind, this prolonged moderate de- ficiency in daily intake of vitamin D tends to make youths in America unstable, how it accounts for the national characteristic of weak nerves
 The vitamin B complex shortage from which nearly everybody on ordinary refined civilized diet suf- fers more or less, is more speci- fically responsible for everybody S constipation habit and colon de-
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STYLE FIRSTS
AFTERNOON STAR" THAT'S BRAND NEW
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PATTERN 727

Like compliments? This Is the new dress to bring them your way! And it's "topS" too for easy mak- ing, so why not order Pattern 727 at once? You'll find it wonder full standby for every afternoon oc- Casion-in fact, a double asset be- cause it has a separate bolero. Make it in a sheer or novelty wool-or one of the new silks and feel thrifty las well as Style-wise. The bolero will comfort you on shivery days now, and take the place of light coat when spring comes. AS for the alluring, shirred-sleeve dress, it has fashionable "nipped in" Slen- lderness at the uplifted waistline (for variety add a vivid sashD And lit boasts the incest swing skirt, as well as soft, lovely bodice with versatile high neck!
 Pattern 727 is cut in misses and women's sizes IA, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, B6, 3S and 40. Size 16, entire en- semble, requires S-8 yards 39 inch fabric and 3-8 yards ribbon.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins for this pattern. WRITE CLEARLY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department.
 Wednesday: Youngster Dress.
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about 12 by inches, and cover with half of the cranberry and honey mixture.
 Top with second slice and cover with remaining cranberry mixture Arrange boiled sweet potatoes around ham slices. Bake in a moderate over (350 degrees F) for about hour o, until ham is tender. Baste occasion ally with liquid in dish. Serve ir same dish.
 T0mOrr0w's Menu
 BREAKFAST: Applesauce rice cereal, buckwheat griddle cakes, crisp bacon, syrup, cof- fee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Cream of po- tato and spinach soup, toasted cheese rolls, plum jam turn overs, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Cranberries with ham, green beans, lettuce and celery salad, chocolate sponge, whipped cream, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06
Caroline Chatfield Says To-day
Prohibitions of Society Aren't Arbitrary Rules Lai Down by Prudes. They Are Made for Girl' Protection.
Protection.
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:


 problem give opinion on it. girl twenty old and live in rather small town go college nearby city problem to this city and spending alone order to be with him We to the sometimes don't Of ill sometimes it's real late three o'clock in the morning.
 going for long time but people here are just now they talking about It they attend their business Of temptations when two people are to- hotel city, but tell tis the only does this?
 opinion about this and tell me if it's really thing should mother down and this to marry anything that will give chance to be with him
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t ke the art course at Boswell than anything in the world. Mayn't I, mother?"
 Sculpture. Art. Let me see, dear. Yes, it IS tempt ing, after you have had so much en- couragement, but what would you do with it?"
 Do with it? W hy, after I'm through I could get a studio and
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MANICURE SETS FOR GIRLS

To encourage your small daughter to keep herself well-groomed, there are lots of good ideas on the Christ mas counters.
 How about miniature manicure set. so that her nails will be clean and neat? A small fish-shaped nail brush will be useful in this project, too. Then there are comb, brush and mirror sets in small sizes. And variety of tiny sachet pillows, set of which might inspire a child to keep the drawers of her dresser heater.
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Mod e,rr $, M ersIs
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Service Staff Writer

When an English lamb chop meets a slice of pineapple, it's just like "boy meets girl"-pretty grand! And when a mess of cranberrieS gets ac- ouainted with honey and goes a. baking with sliced ham and sweet potatoes, well, you've got something there.
 Lamb Chops with Pineapple
 (6 servings)
 Six double lamb chops Cor nut ton chops), 6 slices canned pine apple, 2 teaspoons finely chopped parsley, salt and cayenne pepper butter, flour. Broil chops under moderate clear flame. Dip drained pine apple slices in flour, then fry lightly in butter. On each hot pineapple slice place a still sizz- ling chop, season, and sprinkle with parsley. Garnish with crisp watercress. Remember that wa tercress is for eating, not only for looks.
 Cranberries with Ham
 (6 servings)
 Two large slices smoked ham, 3-4 inch thick, 2 1-2 pounds; l ta- blespoon whole cloves, cups craaberries, 1 cup strained honey, 8 or 10 small boiled sweet potatoes. With a sharp knife, cut edges of ham slices in several places to pre- vent curling. Stick cloves around edge of slices. Grind cranberries in coarse food grinder and mix with honey. Place one slice of ham in shallow heat-resistant glass dish,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06
Latest Styles
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By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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WOMAN,S REALM E
Cosmetic Gifts Are Useful And Beautifully Packaged
By ALICIA HART NEA Service Stan Writer

New York = Holly-trimmed cos- metic counters are laden with Christmas gifts that every member of the family will love.
 From spicy sachet pillows for grandmother to miniature nail brushes and manicure sets for small boys and girls, there's the right beauty gift for every person on your list--not skipping father, brother, Uncle John and your best beau.
 Your best girl, whether wife, sweetheart or mother, may have a favorite brand of perfume. These and many new varities, too, come in unbelievably stunning bottle. Three tiny tlacons with graceful plume like shoppers are packaged in an att tractive box trimmed with similar plumes. A softly lighted Christmas tree, with a sparkling white base, is loaded with eleven dacons of fine perfume. It comes complete with electric cord and plug for illumina- ton and would be gift deluxe in- deed. Incidentally, the perfume tree would make a nice centerpiece for a Christmas party table-with flacon for each guest.
 Two tiny bottles of fine perfume, their tops swathed in white leather, are done up in regal looking box of simulated white leather with gold trimming. Five tiny perfume spheres hang from the stem of bright col- ored oak leaf, A crown of perfume comes in Christmas bell. And a set of two sparkling white bells con- tains two perfumes from famous manufacturer.
 COSMETICS AND
 BATH ITEMS
 Among other new items that are sure to bring Christmas delight to any. woman you know are: A set of rouge, powder and lipstick to wear with her black dresses; giant size bath soap q pound) in assorted scents and flower shapes; 8 milk mans miniature basket rack of red wire with eight chubby bottles of pasteurized milk powder for the bath; charming silk envelope off the purse with compartments for compact, npstick, comb; six colorful swansdown puffs in transparent box; spicy toilet water, bath salts, talcum and soap in a miniature trunk of early American design.
 Also, a wooden bowl of pot-pourri to keep on the closet shelf; good hairbrush with satinwood back and genuine, first quality boar bristles; hand-decorated, three-piece wood dresser set with a stylized flower basket motif; dusting powder travel box with a separate compart- ment for the puff; condiment set including two tall white shakers one filled with perfumed oil for the bath, the other with spicy after bath talcum powder.
 If you know her well enough to know her preferences and coloring, send a huge jar of her favorite cleansing cream or night cream or both; face powder, a couple of lip- sticks; glamorous eye makeup: hand lotion in a festive package; two or three bottles of fine nail polish or even jar of mask cream. And, as always, 8 ticket for 8 facial or a new permanent wave or a course of exercise treatments cannot be beat en.
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Let remind that the prohibitions of society eght ta signals set to laid of pudes, they of reasoning a business weeh-ending a without a chaperon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06
TO KEEP LEMONS FRESH

To keep lemons from becoming hard and dry, store in tightly cov- cred glass jar or porcelain dish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06

With all the freedom that people enjoy these days there just few that haven't down and and mother the taking mother ncden the plan the purpose this lad; familiarity contempt
 naces which these weekends naturally of Hamiiarites
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Expert Artisan Is Better Off Than Second
 Rate Artist
NdIC HI lIOI Rx OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
 Miss Thompson says am cut out for sculpture" said Helen. T have wonderful idea of form and beauty, she told me-" I would rather
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We'll happens that when girl lays herself liable things that people taste invariably those exceedingly charitable doubt The gosp usually think the don't and it. they their eyebrows at suggest the worst
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ANSWER:

ANSWER:
 it's that mother however anxious she might flying propres Nobody discovered the conventions of society gOsspand tried it. Not by standard could it be considered proper twenty girl hotel coming in going a of night Skipping gossip the temptations that are subject to?
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people attending their business it's somebody's interesting there's to expect it. Gossip know like operation for appendicitis of anybody but the patient that's having bothered about somebody's having appendix out but oh what difference makes when the patient and it's dix that's missing!
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23

Speaking of Flynn-recently he
worried Warner Brothers no little.
He bought new yacht, and decided
to go on a six months trip in search
Of adventure. The executives OBJ
jected. They finally gave him three
weeks off. He had to go to Miami
to get the yacht; he was to sail it
through the canal, and fly to Holly
wood to work in "Sister Act" Off
he went, and off he stayed. He
spent four weeks in Miami. A
studio representative went after
him, and went back without him.
So Jeffrey Lynn, whose face isn't
exactly familiar on the screen as
yet, was given the lead in "Sister
Act" with everybody cheering for
him, and now the studios delighted
with his work. 1t may be another
of those cases where star walks
out and a new star walks right in.
If Jeffrey Lynn does climb to star
dom he can thank Bette Davis for
giving him a start. While appear
ing in a road company of a New
York stage success he was given a
screen test by Metro. Nothing came
of it so far as Metro was concerned,
but Miss Davis saw the test and
wanted Lynn for a role in "Jezebel."
He didn't get it, but Warner Broth
ers liked the test and gave the
vo11nC man contract
They're admitting now that the
clever Miss Davis was right when
she refused to play in Comet
Over Broadway" saying that the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23
Star Dust
*Speaking of Doubles
X Flynn Out-Ly,1n In
*MusicaI Lombardos
BY Virginia Vale

XX1HEN you see "Robin
w Hood" you're going to see
some remarkable archery; it
will look as if Enrol Flynn is a
wizard with the bow and ar
row. But the man behind the
bow was really Howard Hill,
and you will be able to see him
in a film of his own before long
-one Of those Pete Smith
shorts. Hill will go William
Tell one better by lining up fiji
teen pretty girls with apples on
their heads and shooting the
apples off.
Remember the days when no studio
would ever admit that any actor
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23
MORE ROOM
A Heck of a Note

Mother had finished cleaning the
living room and had rearranged the
furniture.
"We have so much more room in
there now" she said, referring to the
new arrangement.
"We should" answered Ellen.
"You have all the dirt out now"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23

had a double for
any stunt? They
used to make
Douglas Fair
banks have one
sometimes, when
the stunt was too
dangerous - and
he'd manage to
do it himself
when the cam
e r a S weren't
grinding, just to
show that he
wasn't afraid.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23
The Right Turn
By j. MILLAR WATT

Western Paper-While negotiating
a sharp corner, Mr.. Turtle tried to
turn his car too abruptly.
We're relieved to hear that the
car didn't turn Turtle!
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23

OF name dialogue. a.
Jimmy Cagney has bought three
Vineyard, and would rather talk
crops than movies any day. They're
smart family, those Cagneys; His
sister took hOnOrS at Hunter college
the other day.
Unlike some news broadcasters,
Boake Carter writes his own stuff.
But he has able assistance from
his wife, who used to be society
editor of Philadelphia newspaper.
ODDS AND ENDS-Judging by recent
demonstrations, it looks as if teleuision
would be in its infancy for long time to
come Helen Hayes is willing to re-
turn to the movies if somebody can find
her story as good as "Fare,UeU to arms"
;. "FaretUelI," ETC., has recently been re-
edited, because of the mix-up in interna-
tional affairs, and ,oiH be re-issued :. If
"Woman Against the World" comes your
sOay you'll see Alice Moore, daughter of
alice Joyce, in leading role The
nouel, Sixteen Hands," has been bought
for the screen for Bob Burns; it's story
about mule He'll do Arkansas
Traveller" too :. And he went to court
the other day to ask that the records he
made in 1888 and 1884 be kept out of cir
cuIation, on the ground that they injure
his reputation as a creative artist In
1884 he made $500; in 1897, 100000
Nothing like getting good break, and
deserving it,!
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23
REGULAR NUISANCE
Little Mary met the doctor.

"You brought a little baby next
door, didn't your" she inquired.
eyes," he answered: "Shall l
bring one to your house?"
"No, thanks" came the prompt
reply. "Why, we've scarcely time
even to wash the dog"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23
BETTE DAVIS

story and dialogue weren't up to
scratch. One newspaper man called
it "a very badly written story full
of inane dialogue"