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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-12-15

| DECEMBER o, 1850
Dear Santa
l am 9 year old. I went ia
school very day except 2 days be-
cause 1 was sick. l am in the
fourth grade. 1 like My teacher
very much. Her name is Miss
Kodet. We are going to have a
nice Christmas program. My sis
ter Rita wants a dali. I want
set of dishes. wish you merry
Christmas.
Your little friend,
Martha Schneider
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Seaforth, MINI.
Dec. 9, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus
1t is now getting close to Xmas
so here's few lines to you dear
Santa.
1 am years old and in the
fourth grade.
l would like to have you bring
me an electric train, that is all 1
ask for and please don't forget
the poor little Boys and Girls.
Mother will have food on the
table for you to eat, so please help
yourself.
Merry Christmas,
Roger Dahl
i: :: i =
Seaforth, Minnesota
December 5, 1888
Dear Santa Claus
I am seven year old.
I want a football a farm set and
gravel truck for Christmas.
Please give me some apples nuts
and candy.
My teachers name is Miss Leuck.
l like to go to school.
I am in the second grade.
My sister wants a doll and truck.
Your friend
Leslie Lamb
i: 4:
Seaforth Minnesota
December 8, 1888
Dear Santa
Please send me a bee bee gun.
Please send me a kitten ball.
Please send me monopoly set too.
give the poor children Somthing
before me.
Please bring Virgle rubber ball.
He can not write. am eight years
old.
Your Friend
Mark Henry Bernardy
:. !: :: 8
Seaforth MINI.
Dec. 5 1888
Dear Santa
1 am in the list grade. I am six
years old have a Shirley Temple
doll. Please bring me doll house
with furniture also a doctor and
nurses kit My cousin Roger lives
in Iowa. Be sure to stop at his
house. Merry Xmas Bonita grong.
Vesta, Minnesota
December 6, 1888
Dear Santa,
I hope you give the poor people
some things before me. l am in
the third grade. Please bring me
a set of dishes. 1 hope everybody
will have a Merry Christmas. My
little brother wants a truck.
Merry Christmas Santa Claus.
Your Friend,
Lorraine Kramer
i: = :.
Seaforth. Minnesota.
December, 6, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus,
l want a football and a thing
to that puts air in it. I want a
color for my dog Jackie. Please
bring me a doctor kit. I want
building set. and l would like the
rubber blocks. Bring my mother,
dad, sister, and brother a presant
to.
Do not forget the poor children.
Merry Christmas to Santa.
You friend Cyril John Bernardy
= 4 +
Seaforth, Minnesota.
December 6, 1888.
Dear Santa
I am in grade two.
I am seven years old.
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North Redwood, Minnesota
December 6 1923

North Redwood, Minnesota
December 8, 1888
Dear Santa,
am nine years old, and I am
in the fourth grade. 1 like to
study geography because it tells
all about the world. Now 1 know
where you live. Way up north
where it is very cold.
Dear Santa, would like a nice
new dollie. Mine is broken for a
long time. My little sister broke
it for me. She like dollieS too.
Merry Christmas to you Santa.
Your little friend,
Mary Malecek.
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North Redwood, Minnesota
December 8, 1888

Dear Santa,
I am eight year old and am in
fourth grade. 1 like geography
because l study all about the Es-
kimos. They live in the north
pole like you Santa. l would like
to visit you Santa. I wonder if
little Eskimos boy lives near
your home? His name is Nondla.
He lives in Baffin Island so he
can't live so far away from you.
l wonder if he ever visit you.
Dear Santa, I would like a nice
story book. 1 like to read stor-
les. If you have lot of little BIZ
cycles would you bring one for
my little brother Joie?
1 wan to wish you merry
Christmas.
Your little friend,
Betty Malecek
= =
Danube, Minnesota
December 8, 1888
Dear Santa,
1 hope you are feeling well so
you can go TO every uttle BOY ana
girls home to please them so that
they are happy
l am years old. 1 am very
good. l like all my studys. We
study about many different
things.
I would like to have road con-
struction set. Bring Marlen a
Oliver tractor. I hope your deer
do not die for you this year for
you have to find some more. If
they do you tell me and 1 will
help you find some other ones.
We are having a play Friday.
Be sure to come.
Your friend,
Arvin Kuglin
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North Redwood, Minnesota.
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North Redwood, Minnesota.
December 8, 1898
Dear Santa,
How are YOU getting along? I
am going to school. I am in the
third grade. I am years old. My
. teacher name is Miss Kodet.
When you come to my house be
sure to bring me a cow boy story
book. 1 like to Read. Also bring
me a gold watch that runs. We
still live in Bechyn. But soon we
are going to move. Them we will
20 to a different school. Please,
Santa, bring me some nuts and
candy, and also some for my
little sister Regina.
Your little friend,
Jerome Malecek
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Danube, Minnesota
December 8, 1888
Dear Santa
am in the 4th grade. this is
the first year of geography and I
like it very well. We are study
ing the globe. We have studied
about your land in the study
about Boffn Island. We all have
tried to find your home. there are
4 in my grade. We all get some
bad marks. But I tray very hard.
1 will now tell you what 1 whant
for Christmas. want big wagon
tractor, barn for my rubber ami
mails, soldiers to watch my sheep.
this is all l want for this Christ
mas.
Your little friend,
Kenneth Prodoehl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26

the skin with any grease, ointment or cold cream Is next best. Repeat- ed rinsing of the exposed skin with soapy water will remove most of the irritant. Likewise mopping the exposed skin with bits of cotton or soft cloth wet with gasoline, throw ing away each pledget after one wipe removes a large part of the toxin.
 Large wet dressings, kept wet with soapy water, are good eriter- gency treatment for poison ivy, or keep the dressings wet with table spoon of saleratus dissolved in each pint of water.
 To relieve the intense itching of ivy poisoning calamine lotion with or 3 per cent of phenol is excel- lent. Directions for preparing and using this are given in monograph on ivy poisoning available on re- quest if you provide s. a. .e.)
 Probably most satisfactory rem- edy for ivy poisoning Is frequent application of e per cent solution of iron chloride in equal parts of alcohol and water-cheap, obtaif1- able anywhere, harmless.
 Many persons who were highly susceptible to ivy poisoning have reported that they have acquired immunity, at least for the season, by taking internally, in the early spring the following:
 Freshly prepared 10 per cent tinc- ture of rhus toxicodendron, IS drops Glycerin, two tablespoonfuls Syrup of orange, enough to make THREE OUNCES.
 Directions: Take a drop of this, after breakfast, in half glassful of water. Two drops after lunch. Three drops after dinner. Increase dose a drop each time and continue until the dose is 2l drops at the end of a week. Thereafter take a teaspoon full once day for several weeks. If blisters form, open them with a famed needle, and carefully press out the fluid on clean towel or gauge, taking pains to keep it off from normal skin. Tn handling Ivy poisoning the hands must be care- fully washed with soapy water to avoid conveying the poison from one part of the skin to another or to another person.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS We'll Water
 Please give some advice about water supply in the country--the location of the well, etc. (Nrrs. E. L. M)
 Answer-Write for free pamph- let on the subject, to Public Health Service, Washington, D. O., or write your congressman and ask for it. Gentlemen Remain Gentlemen Want you to know that, following your advice, had the transurethral prostatic resection treatment which you recommended, and am now perfectly well. Since that, several of my friends have had the same treatment, all with equally satis- factory results. I shall always feel grateful for the help you gave me. CW. T. Al
 Answer--Any gentleman past middle age who finds himself drift ing into chronic bladder weakness
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but led painlessly, without the ham, pering strings of personal discipline
 They take to general orders much better at this time than precise ones made purely for their benefit. Intensely idealistic they love a cause. To this they can be more than faithful.
 By losing" this young person II mean, therefore. that he needs to follow someone very strong and fine, who understands the value of impersonal standards such as a camp leader or the lead CT of any group intended to rouse the spirit of good sports manship and self-reliance.
 We have all seen the boy Cor girl who would not stir himself at home, work frantically for group headed by such person man or woman. Mothers wonder at the miracle and sigh with dis couragement when this happens They feel that stranger has ac- complished what they have failed to do.
 It is c mistake to be down. hearted about 1t. The whole proc ess is as natural as breathing Such a child has not forgotten his allegiance nor is he less devoted He is merely tying his wagon to a new star, and temporarily talk ing q flyer from the home nest He feels that he can be freer to work out his noble instincts away from the same old eye and away from the same old routine. In
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- lAUxX GIOritying
 Yourself
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service StafG writer

NEA Service Staff Writer
 Several months ago, Patsy Kelly, Hollywood comedienne, decided that it wasn't any fun to be lat and, furthermore, that she could be just as good comedienne minus many, many pounds.
 So, under a doctor s watchful eye, she launched on rigorous schedule and stuck to 1t with the result that she now weighs 4S pounds less.
 Naturally, the diet was a sen- sibie one. Miss Kelly wanted to lose weight, but she had no intention of losing 1t rapidly enough to endanger her health or make her tired, ir- ritable and nervous. With her doc- tor, she planned meals low in cal- oric content but of food bulky enough to ward of actual hunger. Here is the schedule she fol- Iowed--day in and day out: At seven-thirty she got sip, took e hot shower, followed by cold one, then ate a breakfast consisting of fruit and skinned milk. After a brisk, five-mile walk, she drank an- other glass of skinned milk and, whenever possible, rested for half an hour before lunch.
 Lunch usually consisted of soup or white meat of chicken, or a small, lean chop, large fruit salad and more skinned milk. During the afternoon, the actress walked another five miles or played badminton or tennis or golf or some other game.
 Her dinner included broiled or roast meat, two vegetables, a green salad and something hot to drink. No second helpings. She had to go to bed at l0:30 every night. Cock tails were definitely out.
 Of course, the average woman who wants to lose a great deal of weight ought to start out as Miss Kelly did-by seeing her doctor and having a thorough physical exam ination. Then, by exercising regu- larly and by eating light break lasts and lunches, and sensible din- ners, she'll obtain the same excel lent results.
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from prostatic obstruction is invited to send me Q three-cent-stamped envelope bearing his address. for information and advice. The man with prostatic hypertrophy or ob- struction should not procrasti1ate if he wishes to remain gentleman.
 Wrong Psychology
 Interested in your article saying the expectant father should see the entire proceeding of childbirth. I had a son born 32 years ago. Doc tor made me witness the whole pro- cess. Believe me, if men had to have the babies there just wouldn's, be anyl co. O. W.
 Answer-Tut, tut, the doctor didn't handle the case skilfully; or perhaps he had the wrong atti- tude and wanted to give you . wrong impression. How come so many one-tirner mothers long to have another baby if childbirth is the dreadful ordeal you think 1t is? Copyright 1888, John F. Dille Co)
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RAISING A FAMILY
 Hv Olive Roberts Barton
Let Child Follow a Cause,
 For His IdealiSm Needs It
By Olive Roberts Barton

short, he is not too anxious to be noble at al, except in company and among his own colleagues.
 Organizations Help
 The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and all organizations patterned on them: nature study groups; hiking clubs: school orchestras; sports teams; hobby classes and so on without end, provide such essen tial outlets for the adolescent. In every case the head should be Q person of wide understanding who sees the need of character build- ing and uses the activity engaged in as 6 means to this end.
 Interest, as always, Is the medium through which the heart is reached. The boy or girl will not only be en. thusiastic about his group but ne will make 6 sort of hero Of his leader. It is wholesome and healthy. Don't be jealous, mother.
 Once before I wrote something like this. Don't allow clubs and outside interests to steal your child. He is yours. Keep him at home sometimes" never meant that more than I do now. One or two interests at this time are enough. Home ties must be pre- served at all costs. Interest in his home and responsibility to 1t is the real goal, after all.
 Feed them well, these intense children. Invent ways to hold interest right at home. Make home center, place they want to come to. Show cooperation in their affairs. Hold right on. You won't lose your child, but gain him.
 Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26
Don't Upset Nerves Worry.
 ing Over Trifes

Put Energy to Happier Uses Do you worry over trifles? Fuss and stew till there's no joy left in you--till even your best friends are fed up?
 It's a great pity if you do, for nervous people have in them great possibilities for charm and vivacity. But let worry get the best of you, and you suffer insomnia, fatigue, irritability.
 A nerve specialist would urge you to redirect your energies. What if everything did go wrong at the of- ice? If work got behind and you had to stay overtime? Put the job out of your mind. Change the sub ject" inside yourself by turning to something you enjoy. Join c gym class. Learn to weave.
 If you're kept waiting for an ap- puintment, don't fret. Read Q novel, or knit a few rows on that new sweater. Then when the times up, you'll be your gayest, most vital self instead of nervous wreck. Nervousness may result from eye strain or lack of rest. Tn our 32- page booklet 0 famous doctor tells causes and how to cure sleepless- ness, nervous exhaustion, irritabil- ity. Explains need of calcium in the diet. Effect of tea, coffee, alcohol. How to build glowing health.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of OVERCOMING NERVES" AND EVERYDAY HEALTH PROBLEMS to Waterbury Democrat Home Serv- ice, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS and the NAME of booklet.
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Modern Menus
By MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX
 NEA Service Stan Writer

The first tangerines come to town with the first of November. Their gay color is Q sign of approaching holidays, for they seem a part of Thanksgiving and Christmas gaiety. They are citrus fruit, therefore an excellent source of Vitamin c. and are said to be good source of calcium.
 Quick Tangerine Jam
 Two cups tangerine pulp and juice, 1 lemon pulp and juice, l teaspoon grated tangerine rind, l 1-2 cups sugar.
 Remove seeds from tangerine pulp and juice. Combine ingredi- ents. Boil rapidly 10 minutes or ln- til sirupy and clear. Delicious with cream cheese for nut bread sand- wicheS.
 Tangerine Rolls About 3 dozen)
 One cake yeast, 8 tablespoons sugar, 2 eggs, 6 tablespoons butter teaspoon salt, 1 1-2 tablespoons grated tangerine rind, 4 cups flour cup milk, 3 tangerines.
 Crumble yeast, add 1 tablespoon of the sugar and stir until 1t be- comes @ thin mixture. Add 1 more tablespoons sugar, well beaten eggs 1 tablespoons melted butter and tan gerine rind.
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Of Interest
 To Women

Have you a household problem to solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, enclose g three-cent post age stamp and mail to The W 0 m ans Editor, Washington Service Bureau, The Democrat, 1913 18th Street, Washington, D. c, for 8 personal reply.
 e. How should a servant an. ilounce dinner?
 A. He or she should approach the hostess and, catching her eye say quietly: Dinner is served"
 e. Where can I get information on the care and feeding of a pre- mature baby?
 A. Send a post card to the Chil dren's Bureau, U. s. Department O Labor, Washington, D. O., and asl for Publication No. 8, entitled "Th, Premature Baby"
 c. How may I remove the odo of onions or fish from e frying pan
 A. Scrub 1t thoroughly with sal or heat vinegar in 1t until scaldinI hot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26

Behold two aprons that crop up as the slimmest. neatest and sweet est of high-waisted frock protectors --and come from one and the same Claire Tilden patternl Therefore they should rate top-of-the-list if you're planning to stitch up inex-
 pensive Christmas presents, and they should be your first thought when you're getting ready for Thanksgiving hostess-ing. Differ entity shaped tops and pockets-and various trimming such as ric-rac Rnd buttons it simple to sew several distinctive versions from Phftern 649. For A, select a spir- lfed print with a dark ground that Ioesn't soil easily. B is nice in 8 dotted swiss for a tea-time apron, and in 8 sturdy percale for when xoi, toss up 6 cake. Both have serens that don't shift out of place.
 &3ftern G4e is cut in sizes small. usdium and large. Small size. view k. requires la yards 36 inch fabric
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from close fam fly rela t 1 o h. s h 1 ps n o W. They seem to want to fin d themselves and work out their plans without
 much interfer- ence from par- ents. M 6 y b e they feel that the old basis of dependent child" is be- n C a t h their htilrinR dignity. Maybe t h e y want tn be led.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26
FOLSOM TVY

EUlSON AVx
 Remember poison ivy, poison oak whether 1t grows as trailing vine, low shrub or shrub three feet high, has leaves which are on stout long stems, and each leaf has three leaf lets, two leaflets short-stalked and opposite, the third long-stalked be- tween the other two. The leaflets are irregularly notched, more on one side than the other, and their lower surface looks velvety or hairy Harmless Virginia creeper, often mistaken for poison ivy, has five leaflets instead of three. Poison ivy, poison oak or poison stimac has small yellowish green flowers irl early summer, green fruits or small berries later in the season, and these become waxy globules as win ter arrives.
 If compelled to expose yourself to poison ivy, fresh lather smeared over the skin affords considerable protection, while 1t lasts. 6mearine
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ToMoRRow's MENU

BREAKFAST: Cranb berry juice, tangerine rolls, crisp bacon, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Tomato juice. escalloped corn, wholewheat bread, fruit cup, cookies, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Hungarian goulash, noodles, broccoli, raw vegetable salad, French dressing, fruit bowl, assorted cheese, crackers, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26
SECOND suDsING

Many housewive. advocate putt ting clothes thr0lgh e second studs bath, the hteory being that Q second mild studs will thoroughly remove any trace of grime which may be left from the first wash- ing. Rinse carefully.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26
Rx Olive Roberts Barton

by OIIVG ISUUeICS DdI tVIt
 Paradoxical as 1t sounds, there is c time in every child's young life when mothers may keep e child by losing him.
 This time is during the early years of development, from twelve to fourteen.
 I have explained that sensitive children sometimes draw away
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Latest Styles.
WOMAN,S REALM
HOzg To Keeb WeU
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

tsgucd heah and hygisns 70 deSae. n.uy tttrrs number et sttes
  Adaehn  Of Waterbury DemOeratl
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q. M. REC. 0 8. PAT. orr.
Her ExTSzAVAGANcG i CLO1HES LlkES 10 WAGN
 poLO AND AOchEN Nsssse
BY BILL PORTER AND GEORGE SCARED

BY BILL PORTER AND
 GEORGE SCARED
 Gloria Dickson Is a villainess or the screen, but rally quite sociablt in real life. She received hei' real training in WPA productions was discovered by Q Warnel talent scout while appearing in The Devil Passes" wants to write novels {. has . talent for wood carving models in clay :. seldom wears jewelry but cant resist buying it plays Q fast game of ping pong blond hair. blue-gray eyes five feet, four inches tall, weighs 1I3 born in Pocatello, Idaho was 2l August l3 current film is Diary of an Actress"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26
Caroline Chatfield
Sa1w To-day

Bov Can't Hold Girl Indefinitely with Diamond Ring
 When Her Heart Is Set on Plain Platinum Band DEAR MISS CHATFTEID:
 This girl together for four ana TOT ne wo wears neither anybody else am not making O,rh to support have had clear understanding that possible She now says she tnmks viii be with others which throws me TOT oop offer thinking this might change her mind doesn't want the ring until am making enough death because couldn't bear to lose hsr and am plan that she's getting tired How I hold herr hhkSNA F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26

You indefinitely with love Harry with diamond ring when her heart set plain platinum band You until get pile big enough to buy the pat- will probably discover that the girl not putting
 CAROLINE CHATTTEID
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Her logic pretty big slice out of sls youhand the steady little scouting she's simply using her head and not necessarily dsposng time fight in him he will his good financial stance and return with proposition that girl take tor leave without eeei let . fellow down.
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Household Hints
Little Coed Ridinghood"

0eshgmeu
 primarily for college girls, this smart
 wool
 jersey dress with q hood which can be worn up as shown, Or down to form q soft shawl
 collar, ' 1s ideal for any woman to VwAar autuYnn weekends in the country or in an open roadster. The jersey is soft as an angora kitten. Twisted metal buttons and eleverly concealed
 pockets are the only trimming. The hood Is formed by closing the slide fastener up the center of the two-parI
 collar.
 American
 designer
 Charles
 Armour
 created n.
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and 2% yards ric-rac; view B, 2h
 yards 36 inch fabric. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lScl in coins for this pattern. WRITE CLEARLY SIZE, NAME, AD- DRESS AND STYLE NUMBER. Send orders to Waterbury Demo-
 crat, Pattern Department. Thursday: Schoolgirl Frock.
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ANSWERS
DMAR MISS CHATTTELD:

You Harry, but maybe catch up with her .Ar when she's aren't selfish in wishing 0 arin to go? You see s this way with ga
 ove marriage when she On the after four 1 eans he begins hasn't done for four
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26

think in terms of the present and the future II shes herself of from friends bids for dates and entertain the boy where froc that's coming to herr If she has let 1t get around she's spoken sealed nobody but dumb chuck coming show her good me So the present isn't that she'd better be putting four should eventuate as the last four with understanding but signed contract
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Scald milk, cool until lukewarm add alternately with flour to above mixture. Stir well and make a stiff mixture. Turn on board, knead lightly. Let stand in a warm place and rise until double in bulk; knead down and let rise again.
 Roll dough 3-4 inch thick and cut with a small cutter. Make a crease through center. brush top with remainder of melted butter. Peel tangerines and carefully re- move sections. place one section which has been rolled in remainder of sugar in the center of each roll.
 Fold roll over Gnd let rise until light. Bake 20 minutes in hot oven, 400 degrees F.