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Evening star., 1938-12-16
During Holiday Festivities Youngsters Should Increase Circle
Dorothy Dix Says
No Jealousy so Insane as That
Of Mother for Married Son

NIT against their sons and daugh.
ters.
She Is trying to poison your mind
against your wife. She is trying to
kill your love and. admiration for
her. She is accusing her of ofienses
Of which she is guiltless. Just be-
cause she wants you to herself alone.
She can't stand for you to depend
on any other woman, or to 60 to
any other woman for comfort when
you are down-hearted, or for any
other woman's hands to nurse you
when you are sick. She wants to
keep you always mamma.s baby boy
and for you never to grow up to
be q man.
Such mother can never under
stand that the affection that a
man gives his mother and his wife
are not the same and do not clash.
Nor can she realize that, no matter
how fond man is of his mother,
no matter what pals they have
been, nor how congenial they are,
she can never give him the COM
panionship that he Graves when he
is married and that he finds in a
wife if he gets his hearts desire.
Between mother and son there is
the gulf Of a generation that sepa-
rates them in interests, in points
of view, in habits, but a husband
and wife are one.
What a son should do with .
mother who is trying to break up
his home and ALLEVIATE him from
his wife Is hard to say. But I do
not believe that his fllial duty re-
quires him to let her wreck his life
with her senseless jealousy. The
Good Book says that when a man
marries he should leave father and
mother and cleave unto his wife.
Evening star., 1938-12-16

darted waistline, this design is thor
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It's diagram design-you can
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ute you slip it on, and see how
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many times.
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Evening star., 1938-12-16
Manners
of the
Moment

I'm perfectly willing to admit that
the person who always throws her
coat on top of her own hat is very
likely to be a grand person-some-
body with a divine spark in her.
But I'm very suspicious of the
person who throws her coat on top
of other peoples hats and keeps her
own hat neatly stored on her head.
That looks to me like an afectation.
She wants you to think that she has
a divine spark, but she carefully
keeps her own material possessions
out of jeopardy. don't trust her.
But whatever I think of them,
both of these types create problem.
They ruin hats, and take the wrong
gloves, and keep borrowed UNI
brellaS.
One way to handle them is to
keep hats out of their reach and to
remind them about gloves and UNI
brellas as you would child. But
with type No. 2, I think I'd 60 q
little farther. In think I'd just give
her good swift crack over the
knuckles with a ruler. JEAN.
(Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Answering
Readers
Queries
Thoughtful Host
\ Serves Cream
With Coffee
BY EMILY POST.

by EMILY POSI.
Dear Mrs. Post: Many Of the
friends we entertain prefer large
cups of coffee with cream rather
than small cups of black coffee.
I know this from the customary
practice in their own houses. Do
you think I should serve the coffee
with cream during the meal, or is
coffee, breakfast style, ever served
after dinner in the living room?
Or do you think I should simply
ignore what they do at home and
serve every one demi-tasse, since
to do this is the custom in my
house?
Answer-1f you want to be q
really gracious-meaning kind-and
thoughtful hostess, who makes the
preferences of her guests her first
consideration, then you should serve
big cups of coffee with the meal.
But If you want to set a pattern
of correctness, then that is some
thing else again, since such devia-
ton from precept would of itself
change the character of the meal
from a formal dinner table to an
informal supper table. You might,
however, compromise by proffering
large cups of coffee with cream after
dinner. I think that this might be
done without sacrifice of formality.
So many people like cream in their
coffee that a cream pitcher is in
cluded on the afterdinner coffee
tray, even in the most formal
houses. This being so, you would
merely be enlarging the size of the
cup.
Dear Mrs. Post: May my young
daughter of IL give dinner party
at home, of course-and write her
own invitations and take her young
friends to a movie afterwards? She
would like to include boys, too, but
her father and I hardly think this
would be permissible. Will you tell
us how to write the invitations and
tel. us, too, what you think about
including the boys.
Answer-Your daughter could GER
tainly write her own invitations
to boys as well as girls-and to all
intents and purposes, she should be
permitted to give the party alone.
But you and your husband should,
of course, put in an appearance at
her party-not as host and hostess
but as though you had stopped in
at her party-merely as interested
guests-to give it your approval. !
think, too, that you should also 60
to the same movie. I don't mean
that you should sit with the young
people, but simply that you should
be in the theater in case they make
too much noise, or in case some un-
expected reason might make your
presence necessary. In her notes
Cor telephone message) your daugh-
ter would write Cor say, will you
come to dinner next Saturday at
such and such time and go after
ward to see (and then name the
movie)," and also tell the girls
We'll take you home after the pic
ture." Then if the parents of any
of them prefer to send for their
daughters, they will telephone. You
then make arrangements to take the
young people to the theater and al
many Of them as are not being sent
for, home afterward, since young
girls Of this age should not be out
alone with boys at night.
(Copyrisht. 1oSe.)
Evening star., 1938-12-16

Is there Santa Claus for her.? VIII shattered her hobe
destroyed her charity betrayed? VIII her
feGrs christmas morning hen she finds dans differently from
other dreary day? WH such childish YOUR
Evening star., 1938-12-16

Dear Dorothy Dix: I am mar
ried to one Of the finest women
who ever lived. She is good, and
when I say good, I mean good!
She Is broad-minded, generous,
kind, sympathetic understanding,
everything woman should be, and
she Is an angel to my mother. But
my mother hates her just because
she is my wife and is forever trying
to prejudice me against her. Every
time my wife isn't around my
mother puts on the cry act and says
my wife is trying to take me away
from her. On the contrary, my
wife is always reminding me about
my mothers birthday, Mothers Day,
etc., and urges me to kiss my mother
and show her attentions. I have
always adored my mother, but the
way she is acting is shattering my
respect and affection, and makes
me feel lost to her. My wife says
that I am wrong in this and that
without love for ones mother one
Is not capable of loving any one
else. But have even mothers right
to ruin their children's lives?
UNHAPPY SON.
Answer once heard a mother
say that there was no jealousy on
earth so fierce and terrible as mother
jealousy. She said that the jealousy
that woman felt when she saw
her lover or her husband deserting
her for another woman was a pale
passion compared to the jealousy
that tore a mothers heart when she
saw her child loving some one better
than herself.
Evidently your mother belongs in
this class of green-eyed, possessive
mothers who must always be first
with their children, and who are
willing to wreck their children's hap
piness in order to hold them. There
is nothing you can do about it be-
cause jealousy is q species of in
sanity that is deaf alike to reason
and the appeal of affection. Your
mother knows that the greatest mis-
fortune that could come to you
would be to break up your home.
She knows that to separate you from
the wife you love and to kill your
faith in her goodness would break
your heart and wreck your life and
send you out into the world a lonely
disillusioned, embittered man. Yet
she is willing to commit this crime
against you, as millions of other
jealous mothers are willing to COM
Evening star., 1938-12-16
By BARBARA BELL,

Here's a smart design to be hailed
with cheers of Joy from all of you
who wear "a to 48 sizes and yet like
spirited, youthful styles, however
simple, That clever yoke, extended
out over the shrugged-shoulder
sleeves, the point at the collarless
closing, and the slightly full hem-
line-all collaborate to give this
dress unusual charm and individual
ity. With large armholes and a
Evening star., 1938-12-16

seen with any one else but your best
friend, it's easy to lose interest in
other people-and it's equally easy
for them to lose interest in you.
Consider the woeful plight Of
Alice. She went everywhere and
did everything with Connie, who
didn't like to date, dance or pass
the time of day with man or
three.
For one long year Alice chose to
go to the movies with Connie, while
ssr smarter friends were being
waltzed and swung. At parties she
always stayed close to Comics
side-and Connie invariably ducked
into the most remote corner. Then,
when Connie moved to another
town, Alice had to sit at home
beside telephone that seemingly
had lost its bell. She was out in
the cold without a spare" Girls
and men alike remembered all too
we'll how she had ruthlessly dropped
them to devote her time to Connie
So rest the brother or sister act
every now and then. A "closed cor
poration" isn't very inviting. If
you're boy, you're left out of a
lot Of activities and plans. If
you're a girl, dates may become
few and far between. The boys
will say. "Oh, she'll want to bring
Betty along. They always want to
do everything together"
We're not trying to break up
friendly combinations which seem
to be "naturals." All we're asking
Is less concentration. Spread your
time and interests. Have a lot of
good friends. Get around Ask
some one else to go to the movies
with you. Telephone somebody else
about that tough Latin assignment.
Walk home from school or work
with another person. At club meet
ing sit with another girl or boy.
Now that the holiday season is
almost here, show people that you're
open-minded where friendships are
concerned. During the next few
weeks good times will come thick
and fast. Holiday parties and gang
gatherings will be even more fun
than usual if you'll share them with
a lot of people.
Getting variety into your life
won't spoil your friendship with a
best pal. Instead, it will probably
do 1t good. Both of you will be
included in the plans for further
fun.
Don't let a sticky combination
cramp your style.
X
How About
Giving Us Break?
Several times a week we receive
an SOS letter which invariably
goes something like this:
"Dear Columnists:
please help me to be popular.
I want to go places and have good
times, but I Just don't seem to
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Belts for Necks

PARIS P).-Many of the new
leather belts close with a leather
thong tied in small, neat bow. Vera
Borea is using inch-wide leather
belts that 60 twice around the waist
and then tie. Double chic is achieved
when the idea is repeated at the
neck. A sports dress in wine red
wool is "belted" twice-around at
neck and waist, with wine red
leather.
Evening star., 1938-12-16

click. Please tell me what I can
do to improve myself and be more
popular. LONELY SUE"
We like to help people! Nothing
delights us more than hard prob
lem or the opportunity to help a
maid or man get 'round'-having
more friends and more good times.
But we must have something to go
on. We can't help intelligently un-
less Lonely Sue tells us as much as
she can about hersef-about inter-
ests, friends, family and social as
sets and liabilities. Most important
of all, about herself.
We must have her full name and
address because our reply, if printed,
might flu an entire column or two,
which wouldn't be fair to other
readers.
Help us to help you. BY all means,
send your problems to us, but send
yourself along. too. Good teamwork
will mean good solution.
Tip for Girls
Who Get Around.
If an out-of-town boy has been
attentive, devoting time and money
and imagination to providing good
times while you were in his city, be
sure that he knows how much you
enjoyed yourself.
This Is one time when you can
write first. Pen a friendly letter of
appreciation. Let him know what
an important part he played in
making your visit a pleasant men,
ory. And you'll be happy memory,
Tip for Young Men,
About Town.
Make your holiday dates now. If
you wait until Santa Claus makes
his annual dash from the North
Pole, all the choice dates and best
party guests will be in some other,
smarter fellows stocking.
Get busy as soon as you know
what the order of events is likely to
be. Telephone! Write! Telegraph!
Plans for holiday party are
featured in tomorrow's column.
(Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Tip for Young Men,
About Town.

Plans for a holiday party are
featured in tomorrow's column,
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Handling Mattress

If you have an innerspring mat
tress handle it carefully to prevent
any of the springs from loosening.
Turn it quickly and lay 1t on a fat
surface to air. Never hang it over
the end of bed as the springs in
the center could then easily get out
of condition.
Evening star., 1938-12-16
The 'Siamese Twin Act Is
No Asset if One Hopes to
Gain General Popularity
Too Much Concentration on
One Person Detrimental
To Both Bows and Girls
By JOAN FORTUNE and NORTON Hi

BY JOAN FORTUNE and NORTON HUGHES JONATHAN.
There's another nothing to
with bssu sgh in the
have shortsighedy
girl another man. He she known far and wide
and you're as nseparable
II you annex better half likely right
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
BORCNAES STILL
 COURT FUGITIVE
Conspiracy Trial Opens Here Next Week; Acorn
 Avoids Questions

With less than a week remaining before the start of the Waterbury conspiracy trial, two of the de- fendants have not as yet pleaded to the charges as filed by Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn, who is supported by the investigations of the Waterbury extraordinary grand jury.
 Still Missing!
 Enoch E. Borgnaes, New York &C., countant is fugitive from justice, having never been arrested or &C., counted for after the bench war rant was issued for his arrest.
 The other man who has not ex- pressed his guilt or innocence is Harry E. Mackenzie of Bethed, who surrendered and posted bonds of $10,000 two days after the warrant was issued.
 Illness prevented his attendance at the mass arraignment when Mayor Frank Hayes and "A others pleaded not guilty to the allega- tions of conspiracy. At that time ne was cOI1lIleQ JU IIlc OdlDuAy 1lOc- pital with an illness which hospital authorities refused to describe.
 AlcOrn Silent
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn was non-committal today when ques- toned concerning the pleading of Mackenzie. He gave an evaSive an- swer when asked if Mackenzie would be asked to plead Tuesday morning, when the conspiracy case comes to trial.
 It has been reported that Mack enzie has been i'll since the mass arraignment. He has taken abso- lutely no defense measures and his lawyers have attended few of the hearings on preliminary matters. Other defendants whose actions have been similar are Charles E Williamson of Darien, Edward G Levy of New Haven and Timothy Horgan of Waterbury.
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn said to- day that there were no new develop ments and that he is ready for thu opening of the trial next Tuesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
TEACHERS PLAN JANUARY PARTY Elementary English Club Picks Committee for '39
 Bridge Play

The first meeting of the Elemen- tary Teachers English Club was held Tuesday in the Leavenworth library. Miss Mary A. Grady, presi- dent of the club, presided.
 Dr. Thomas J. Condon, superin- tendent of schools, addressed the members, stressing the value of cultural courses, and calling upon those present to broaden along the fields of their own teaching sub jects.
 The next meeting will be held January II at The Elton, at which time the club voted to bring a speaker.
 It was also decided to hold a bridge during the latter part of January.
 The following committees were appointed: Mary A. Grady, Kay Calvin, Mrs. Adeline Fitzpatrick, Grace Flanagan, Bee McGill, Ann Barry, Ella Dougherty, Mrs. Mary Hennessy, Jane Barrett, Celinda Wakealee, Mary Moscovitz, Jane Murray, Mary Murray, and Kath- leen Donahue.
 The officers of the club are: President, Mary A. Grady; vice. president, Mary Lovett; treasurer. Mary Morris; secretary, Bee Nc Gill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
HARVARD REPORT ON APPOINTMENTS

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 23.-(UP). Harvard, the nations richest ani- versity, had endowment funds total- ing. $137, ,157, ,835 as of June 30 last compared with $141 ,941 ,866 one year previously, it was announced today.
 Treasurer William H. Clafflin. Jr., in his report to the overseers explain ed that this apparent decrease re- suited from the reversal for certain entries made on hte books in 1880 and 1885.
 The endowment valuations are ex- elusive of land and buildings used for educational purposes.
 The university'S total income n the instruction, research and admin istration departments for the year ended June 30, was $10,766,870 and total expenses SIG. 1858, leaving an income balance of $110,012.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
Death Claims Two
 Well Known Priests
Father Downey, Formerly of Waterbury, Father Nolan
 Die in Hartford After Long Illness

neSSeS.
 Rev. John J. Downey, IT, pastor of St. Peters Church and a priest for 51 years died after an illness of eight months. He was 8 native of Stamford.
 Rev. Francis J. Nolan, native of Hamden, age 57, pastor of St Justin's Church, died after an ill., ness of two years.
 Funeral arrangements were in- complete todaC, but Father Downey will be buried Saturday. Many Wat erbury priests will attend the fun erals. Father Downey served as g curate at the Immaculate Concep- tion Church of Waterbury. He was graduated from Fordham University in 1883 and ordained December IT 1887.
 Father Nolan was graduated iron Yale Sheffield Scientific school ir 1902 but abandoned his engineering career to study for the priesthood He was ordained in 1906 and was appointed professor at St. Thomas Seminary. He had been pastor oi St. Justin's Church since its or. ganization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
BECKLEY CHOSEN.
 IN NAVAL QUOTA
Local Athlete Among Sew
 eral tO Qualify for Serv- ice With Uncle Sam

George Warren Beckley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George w. Beckley of 1z Ridgewood stret, this city, was selected, examined, and enlisted at the U. s. Navy Recruiting Station, Post Ohice Building, New Haven, yesterday. He was included in a group of several successful candi- dates who were selected as being the best qualified of several hundred applicants throughout the state. With other members of this group, who hall from various parts of the state, he was transferred to the U. s. Naval Training Station, Newport, R. T., where he will be stationed for the next three months, receiving training and instructions in the Fundamentals of Naval education, prior to being assigned to school or to one of the ships of the U. s. fleet.
 ssBuck" as he is commonly called, attended Crosby high school, where he was a member of the football team, playing left end, and also was 8 swimmer of note. He continued playing football when he left school, playing with the Fulton A. c. for three years in the same position. He was member of the Central Y. M. 0. A. wrestling team for three years as a middleweight. During the past two years, because of Beckley's ability as a swimmer, he has man. aged to save the lives of six indi- viduals. at the various resorts in the vicinity of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
Waterbury Buried Under Snow Mounds Ninety Years Ago as We'll
 as in 1856.
(BY JOHN BARR)

Ninety years ago (1848), at Thanksgiving time, the village of Waterbury was busy digging itself out from under the deepest early snow known to the oldest inhabi- ta1lt. The local weekly newspaper of the time in its issue of Friday, November 24, 1848, contained the following editorial under the head ing:
 Great Snow Storm
 The snow storm noticed in our paper of last week, was 8 mere dash in comparison with the tre- mendouS fall of Monday last. We hardly know at what hour the storm began, but from appear ances probably soon after mid- night, and continued without the least abatement till about 2 o. clock in the afternoon. The quan- tity upon the level in this vicinity, was at least IS inches in depth and some rate it as high as IS.
 eff this is the mere preface, Heavens what a volume will be issued before winter has done with usl We have appealed to that man of the village, the oldest inhabi- tant,' for a parallel case, but he only shook his head at the en- quiry."
 But we don't have to rely upon old newspaper files and musty histories for information about what happened only 90 years ago
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
UNITED STATES.
 CANADA WATCHED

Boston, Nov. 2S.--(UP). Dem ocracy is a machine which must be tended constantly if it is not to be broken and thrust aside, according to Premier Angus L. Macdonald of Nova Scotia.
 Dictator nations are watching the progress of Canada and the United States, the premier said last night at the second annual dinner of the Canadian-American League, Inc. Therefore. he said, the two coun- tries should continue to work to- gether to preserve democracy and show the world the peace they have enjoyed 125 years" mot the peace of the bully who takes what he wants by force"
 "On this North American con- tinent we Canadians and Americans have achieved our present greatness under the guidance of democracy. But let us not think that democracy is a machine which can be set in motion and then left to run by is- self. No, 1t is a machine which must be constantly watched and tended, if 1t is not to be broken and Ithrust aside"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
FOUR PERSONSDIE
 IN AUTO CRASHES

Boston, Nov. 2S-(UP).-Four per- sons were dead and three others in- jured severely in pre-holiday auto mobile accidents in New England.
 First victims were Mrs. Agnes Hay ward. 70, and Mrs. Jeanette L. Tripp, 76, of Springfield, injured fatally in separate accidents. Mrs. Eva c. Macdonald, 37, and her IT, month-old son, Stuart, were killed at Grasmere, N. H., when their auto mobile struck 8 tree.
 In critical condition at a hospital here were Lewis Ginsberg, 75, hit by a machine near his Dorchester home. and Gloria Brogna, l2, struck by car while crossing a street. Miss Antoinette Smith, 22, suffered leg in jurieS when her car was struck and overturned by 8 hit-run driver.