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A. Unless person is suffering from a rare disease or peculiar deformity, there is little opportunity to sell his body for scientific re- search. It would be necessary to contact medical institutions to see if they would be interested.
 e. How much money has Congress appropriated for Federal participa- tion in the 1889 New York Worlds Fair?
 A. $3,OOO,O0o.
 Q. Where was the world premiere of "The Buccaneer"?
 A. The film was first publicly ex- hibited at the Saenger Theater, New Orleans, La., January ', 1888.
 @. What is the calibre of the larg- est U. s. mobile gun, and the weight of its projectile?
 A. The -millimeter Howitzer, which fires a 345 pound projectile.
 Q. Has the number of Civil Service employees of the federal government decreased since the first of January? Has there been a corresponding de- crease in the payroll?
 A. At the end of February there were 808,951 employees in the execu- tive branch of the United States Government, a decrease of 3,320 since January. The February pay roll was $12O,793, 1886, compared to $122 2,979,743 in January, decline of approximately $2,20o,0O0. or Ia per cent.
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begin with honestly supported by drivers and honestly enforced by the police. With these different elements in force, weather becomes a minor influence, readily over- come, and safe operation is the rule.
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Current Comment

I wasn't trying to stop no train, I was just wavin'. David Swackhanner, of Rear ney, Neb., whose gesture of greeting" looked like 8 trouble signal to an engineer.
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Those Chinks are getting so chesty that, first thing you know, an army of them will be swimming over with swords in their teeth to take Tokyo
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A Thought for Today

When Jesus heard it, He saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the phy- sician, but they that are sick; came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.-Mark 2:17
 He who seeks repentance for the past shoulo WOO the angel virtue for the future.-BulWer
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Foreign nations are saying to us: "If we had your country, we wouldn't have any troubles"
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Through blind the Chinese dol phin is able to catch and devour fish that have normal eyesight.
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Questions and
 Answers
By Frederick M Kerby

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T est Y o UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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Q. How long are the Mexican and Canadian borders of the United States?
 A. The boundary between Mexico and the United States from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean is approximately 2,013 miles. The Canadian boundary, excluding Alaska, but including the water boundary through the Great Lakes, is 3,987 miles.
 o. Is it possible for me to sell my body to any person or organization for dissection and medical study after my death?
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sands of miles away, was spelling
her mother and making her (the
girl's) life miserable. 1t seemed
that mothers latest idea was to
install ramp in the house in place
Of stairs; mother thought one could
save energy by sliding down the
ramp. Besides, my suggestions
were all so expensive, and she and
mother would have a hard time
trying to adopt them CT nothing
as that was what they had the
most of nowadays.
Today I gather from the latest
news from the New England sector,
Mother is still going strong, and
Daughter is no doubt In swoon
and unconcerned about the whole
thing. Mother reports that she feels
q nervous wreck when she gets
through washing windows - from
hanging on the outside. So all the
windows II. her Odd House are go
ing to open inward. Washing such
windows will pe comparatively
safe and easy, and besides they
will not give you a fight when you
have to put on or take off screens.
Well, that doesn't sound bad. I
might even offer suggestion
about window screens, but darn it,
there must be some people who
dare risk their regulations for
sanity-having fought some bloody
battles with window screens in my
time I'll pipe down and give our
readers a chance to tell us how to
deal with some Of the problems Of
building and living in Odd House.
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Mary Anderson, director Of the
Women's Bureau Of the Labor
Department, turned over to Sec.
retary of Labor Perkins list Of
recommendation for the rehabil-
Itation of these women on relief.
Studying Miss Anderson's rec
concentration concerned primar-
ilv with increasing the women's
employability) should wake par
ents up to the need of giving their
own daughters the best training
possible.
Once 1t was all right for parents
TO marry off a young daughter who
knew nothing about the business OF
earning living. But the parent who
encourages an unframed 18-year-
old girl to get married these days
may be pushing her toward "un--
attached - jobless -penniless-and
over 49," toward a future place
F. on the countrys relief rolls.
For once that unframed wife,
through the sickness or death OF
her husband, or through divorce,
nnds herself out job-hunting, she
will face all the problems that
the women now on relief faced
and found unbeatable.
parents owe 1t to their daughters
IN see that they have some sort OF
training by which they can earn
living. If they can't afford to let a
GIRL 20 on to college (where she
|should specialize, not take smat-
Herring of subjects), or send her to
business college, they should see that
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- WE, THE WOMEN ---
Relief or Self Sufficiency--W Which?
Parents Training Of Girl Decides

she is well-equipped for earning a
living by domestic work-should the
need ever come.
Social workers In New York are
plagued with girls who come to the
city looking for work - but who
don't know how to do anything at
ALL
IF they only knew how to
cook well, how to set a table cor
rectly, how to house-clean, how
to take care Of small children, we
could find them jobs" one woman
told me. But their mothers have
MT seen that they had any more
training than a debutante. They
don't even know how to make q
bed"
Parents today have the same
duty toward their daughters they
have always had toward their
sons. Ito prepare them for some
profession or trade - no matter
how humble.
Copyright 1888, NEA Service. IncJ
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RAISING A. FAMILY
By Olive Roberts Barton
It's Dat Ole Debbil
"Inferiority' That
Makes Us Sensitive
By Olive Roberts

others. The greed for possession
is backed by inferiority. A child
learns early to crave the same
playthings as his pal. 1t is less
envy than we think, but an SOS
sent out to save his pride.
When he fails in spelling, the
fact of missed words is not the
sore point. Rather it is the hurt
of low mark that rouses the
hobgoblin, inferiority.
Children Naturally Defensive
Self being the center of the mind,
almost anything and everything
wounds 1t. And unless this boy or
girl is purely objective, or totally
unconscious of himself, as few chill
dren are, 1t is easy to figure that
almost every adverse experience cuts
deeply.
Yet we have the paradox Of re-
peated wounds toughening fiber and
working cure. I wonder, however,
if this Is quite as true as it seems.
Acceptance does happen, and we
learn adaptability, but don't really
believe that people ever change at
heart.
Almost everything we do is done
for reasons of defense in one form
or another. Try to think of each
child as living on the defensive. 1t
will broaden your view and solve
many puzzles.
NEXT: Cam0ufiaging hurt egos.
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YOUTHFUL FROCK
WITH IT'S OWN BOLERO
PATTERN Gil

That unmistakable look OF viva
cious good taste--here you sec 1t IN
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Pattern GIL! No wonder you feel
an urge to send for this design i'm
mediately. 1t suits so many types
of figures and budgets, and can be
made up so easily! Look ahead to
Autumn-and you'll discover a need
for an outfit or two like this. What
q sweet little thing the dress itself
is-and you can make 1t up on the
bias If you like, sleeveless or with
cap sleeves, with high back or sun
tan back. Ric-rac and buttons are
fashionable as can be: therefore
they're Just what you want to lend
spice to the pert bolero. Choose
dark crepe, cleaning satin or rust
ling taffeta.
Pattern Gil is cut in misses and
womens sizes IL, Ia, l6, Ii, 70, 80,
80, "a, SO, SO and 40. Size l6,
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rae.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS Use m
coins for this pattern. WE ~
CLEARLY SIZE, NAME ADDRESS
AND STYLE NUMBER.
SerYd orders to the Waterbury
Democrat Pattern Department.
Monday; Slimline Frock,
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she had to leave high school In |
sophomore year. When friends
went on to college, she went to
work.
Now, when the college crowd is
home, and the talk Is Of current
questions, economics, literature,
drama, pretty Ann finds herself a
mental wallflower.
Who is Thornton Wilder? Who
are the Sudeten Germans? Where
Is Hankow? Ann doesn't know.
She feels lonely. sighted.
Yet she could enter into the
bright alert chatter of cultured
young people. And SO can you.
Begin by reading your newspa-
per, its international news, special
features, editorial pages. Did you
see "Good Earth" In the movies?
Read Pearl Bucks book about the
poor Chinese farmer.
Our 32-page booklet gives you an
absorbing plan for acquiring cul-
ture at home. Book lists recon-
mended by the Committee on Col
lege Reading.
Send loo In coins for your copy
Of BUILD YOUR OWN COLLEGE
BACKGROUND 10 the waterbury
Democrat Home Service, 63S Sixth
Ave. New York, N. Y. Be sure TO
write plainly your NAME, AD-
DRESS, and the NAME Of booklet
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Latest Styles
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Clarifying
Yourself
BY Alicia Hart
NEA Service staff Mriter

NEA Service STAN Writer
Your daughters chances Of grow
ing up to be a great beauty are
undoubtedly fairly slim, but If you
do your part from the day she Is
born, there's no reason under the
sun why she won't turn out to be
attractive. Beauties are born beau
tiful. But downright attractiveness-
the glowing variety which doesn't
fade with the years-is within easy
reach of all and sundry.
During the first four years OF
your daughters life, you, or her
nurse, ought to pay great deal OF
attention to seemingly unimportant
details. 1t isn't enough that you feed
her properly, keep her clean and
take her to the doctor regularly. In
addition to the essentials to her
well-being, there are several more
little matters that require your
earnest attention. That is, II you
are determined that YOUR child,
at the age of twenty, won't go
about blaming HER mother for the
lack of beauty.
There is, for instance, the business
of Misunderstanding. Don't tolerate it
for minute The baby may look
pretty cute with her thumb in her
mouth, but the results of this little
habit won't be cute at all.
If her ears do not lie fiat against
her little head, some kind Of ear
cap contraption is very much in
order. You can buy one in almost
any infants wear department, or, If
you like, make one yourself from
soft pieces of cotton cloth.
Groom her tiny nails as carefully
as you manicure your own. Push
the cuticle back with soft towel
several times day. Always use an
emery board to smooth down rough
edges after cutting, and clippers
to remove bits of jagged cuticle. If
her nails are perfectly comfortable.
she'll be less likely to bite them. If
she does persist in biting them,
consult your family doctor about
her diet and her apparent nervous
ness and give her hands thor
| ough manicure twice week. Each
manicure may be accompanied by
gentle lecture on how pretty her
nails look when they are reasonably
long.
Teach the child to stand and walk
correctly-chest and head high,
stomach pulled in and backbone as
straight as possible. There should
be no exaggerated hollow in the
center Of her back. If there is, her
stomach will stick out and her hips
will seem much larger.
Teach her to use hairbrush
each and every night, really to en-
joy her daily bath, to hang up her
dress the minute she takes 1t Off,
always to carry clean handker-
chief and all the other things you
know to be important to a we'll
groomed appearance.
And remember that about the
worst thing you can do is to COM
pare her unfavorably with more
attractive sister or playmate. Teach
the child the fundamentals Of
poise and nice manners, but don't
embarrass her by being too critical
II she doesn't learn any too rapid
ly. Mention her good points more
often than her bad ones. Otherwise,
she'll get discouraged and just de-
eide that she's hopeless ugly
duckling.
NEXT: When she's older.
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QUESTIONS g. ANSWERS
Inherited Progressive Deafness


I am a victim of otosclerosis,
which physicians say Is inherited
progressive deafness. Saw in your
column last year an item about
value of high vitamin A diet and
calcium and iodin. Please give me
any information you can. GA. w. H.
Answer-Send stamped envelope
bearing your address, and ask for
monograph on High Calcium Diet,
Calcium Feeding, Vitamins Every
body Needs. Also Iodin Ration in
structions. High vitamin A diet Is
practically same as high calcium
diet. Just my notion that vitamin
d Is more important than vitamin
A In such cases.
Excessive Carbohydrate
Do breakfast cereals produce an
excessive amount of mucous? When
I eat them ! get a dummy feeling
in my ears. Lately have tried
eating only fruit for breakfast, and
then don't get that effect, but
fruit doesn't keep me satisfied I'M
til lunch. "a. G. ~
Answer--No food produces mucous
Probably plain wheat, in one form
or another. for breakfast, would be
better than the refined cereals. Send
three cent stamped envelope bear
ing your address, for monograph
wheat to Eat" The drumming in
the ears may be a manifestation OF
allergy or sensitivity to some par
ticular food. An all fruit breakfast
Is fine-carry some fruit, nuts or
even q little plain wheat with you
and take some about midforenoon, to
tide over. This is not q bad plan
for many who feel let down midway
between meals. from low blood
sugar.
Copyright 1888, John r. Ollie co.,
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GA aAAa oAAN
rest of us miser-
able.
No one knows
what causes in
feriority, in spite
of the analysis of
experts. The man
who goes to Rome,
for example, may
try to do as the
Romans do and
feel right in 1t,
but away from
his own pas
lures he may
feel less than
the slave who
b e a r S t h c
wines. At home
he was king in
his country and
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Caroline
Chatfield
No Matter How Long She Lives With Him. Wife
Cannot Get Used to Tipping Husband, His
Alcoholic Attitude to Her Gets Her Down.
Says Today

something queer cycles
perfect with of
chronic you permit dunkard husbands It's enough
the country to the east coast or vice versa.
Presumably Of drinking exception
the that anything lives with
enough a from a that
lived with enough get used to him. Even when she
knows psychology well predict the changes that
him when he's his has enough to keep the
with him. teach the children
their father despite his indulgence the bills position
secure that his drinking habits don't hazard the famys place
Hyde
Whether he's rich man. beggar thief the thing that
virtually
model when sober be garbroth when
loving father
popping tyrant when he's tight
psychologists
regardless
but that tipping release him relaxes his his wits and does
with the hence all the devil that's in him OUT
and there's devil In the best Of them
catch the ppng
guilt
vaio first law OF life work. She hears with her but
understand with heart mind Jekyy who loves
bottle and hecke humate
surprising drinking
security marriage
without which marriage the woman They can
hand They live the of children
there ,nv routbs clothes
hacks or education for their minds
drinking men pick up
and them with and gany that's beautiful behold
CAROLINE CHATFIEID.
the Best Of a Tipping
&c
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ODD HOUSE BLUES, SWING 1T
Just a year ago today, Mrs.
w. ]. w., New England reader,
cut loose and told us here some Of
the things she was doing to make
her home a comfortable place to
live In. She thought house should
be made so that woman could
rest, read, work and plan in it.
I inferred from Mrs. WIS gen.
eral style, and my inference was
later confirmed, that she favored
arranging one home to suit ones
own taste and convenience, without
much regard for what the architect,
the neighbors or ones friends might
think about it. 1t was a bit bold OF
me to draw such an inference at
that early stage of the agitation.
Might easily have Unanswered my
self another step nearer the nut
hatchery. But somehow liked the
way Mrs. w. proceeded. When she
decided what she wanted she went
straight ahead with 1t and got 1t.
An achievement that bespeaks ire
mendous strength Of character.
For example, when she had put
wheels under the old dining table
80 she could run 1t into the living
room for a meal when the fancy
seized her, and converted the old
dining room into a library, she de-
cided to install swing settee be-
fore wide windows looking out
upon a pleasant vista of lawn and
shrubbery. Right here the deter
mined New England lady struck a
snag. She had a nineteen year old
daughter who, as soon as she got
wind of mothers dotty plan, firmly
vetoed the idea and labelled 1t
ridiculously out of place. sug-
gested that Mrs. w. should supply
her daughter with catnip, camphor
and hoop skirts to fit in with the
young'un's ideas Of the way to live,
and that brought rise from the
herself. She complained
that I. poor or Doc Brady, thou
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MIS-. bHTCUn
lord over his neighbors. He never
dreamed that he had gram Of in
feriority in his soul. But removed
from familiar things, up pops the
imp of self-deprecation and he is
awkward and unhappy.
We speak of sensitive" children.
Technically, this means that they
words need not confuse us, because
they smack of the net book. Sen
sitive" is all right, and it means
easily hurt. To be thin-skinned or
easily hurt means nothing more or
less than to be inferiority- ridden.
Pride is our desperate attempt
to keep not only self-respect but
the good will and approval Of
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are UlleQ WIN
the n a m es of
women in jus t
t h Sc circum-
stances.
T h e problem
of lone women,
unframed or
poorly trained,
+ a C in 6 t h e
hopelessness of
competing In
business W l t h
b e t t e r educat-
ed, stro n g e r,
more attractive
young women,
is a tough one
for the country
to solve.
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WOMAN,S REALM
$9SE4 ARS Casual But Smart E ESB R T1GE

Miss Elizaeth Saunders goes to
the beach at Newport In a simply
tailored Outfit-a f0ur-pOcketed
bush coat and mannishly smart,
white wool jersey Stacks. The coat
is of sail red jersey. Her mother,
Mrs. Truman Laurence Saunders,
wore a similar outfit in all white.
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Easy to Give Yourself
A College Background

Don't Be . Mental Wallflower
Ann has everythingl She Is
pretty. No one plays better tennis
than she does, nor dances more
gracefully.
Everything? Not quite. Ann
can't carry on a serious converse.
ton. Through no fault Of her own
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Ultra hattering is the youth
full dirndl that pretty Joyce Ward
wears on exclusive Bailey's Beach
at Newport. OF cotton print, In
sudued pastel shades, It has . low,
square neckline, short, puff sleeves
and self buttons down the front.
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By RUTH MILLETT

Unattached, jobless, penniless -
and over 40 is rather hope
less picture of women. But
the relief roles OF the country
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Ho10 To Keep Well
BY DIR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

pertaining health and hygiene to
should be brief
only few be
of
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Rv Olive Roberts Barton

BY Olive RObertS Barton
I have written frequently about
inferiority. 1t Is the basis of so much
failure, so much misery and unex-
planned conduct that put 1t first
of the seven devils that make
chi16rap and the
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NEXT: When she's older.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
CHICAGO GRAIN
By tie Associated Press.

BY TIE Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 2.-Wheat prices
soon lost small opening advance to-
day and declined about a cent from
the early high when selling in
creased.
All deliveries fell fractionally be-
low the previous close, and Septem-
Der wheat equaled the seasons low.
Reports of frosts and freezing tenn
peratures in the winter wheat belt
touched of conflicting comments as to
the probable damage, but had only
passing effect as buying influence.
One leading crop expert said the in
jury was likely to be severe in some
sections.
Other observers tended to minimize
the danger, however, and an advice.
from Enid, Okla, said that no damage
was believed to have occurred because.
growers said, freezing was harmless to
wheat when there Was plenty of mois-
ture. There were other traders who
suggested that the crop might be ben
fitted by frost through the checking OF
rank growth. The weather forecast
predicted more light frost tonight
This uncertainty regarding the crop
situation tended to make traders hesi-
tant to take a position in the market
Liverpool prices closed l4-ss higher.
or about as expected Export business
in both domestic wheat and corn over
night was light.
Corn prices held to a range of %
cent and showed virtually no change.
Oats and rye also were quiet although
prices in the latter market declined
about a cent, rejecting wheat market
weakness.
Provisions were higher, gaining II to
| 20 cents at times.
Around midsession wheat was 3s-5s
lower compared with yesterdays finish
May, 853s; July, s13s; and corn was
unchanged to Il down, May. 6l1a
July. 62ls.