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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
THE DANGERS OF RESTRICTED
 DIET

I understood you to say mineral oil has no remedial value. This prompts me to inquire what one who has had ulcer of the stomach for twenty years can take instead of mineral oli. Your booklet '"The Constipation Habit" which I have, is excellent for normal persons, but my diet is so restricted that I must take something for laxa- tive. I hope you can suggest some thing that will be safe. Miss ESD
 The view expressed by the core spondent, and the request the cor respondent makes, is typical of many. For that reason it merits discussion here.
 The great ma ajority of ordinary folk, with nothing particular the matter, rating a c or say 75 per cent in health status are on that low level partly because their everyday diet, of which a large portion of the calories come from refined foods poor in vitamins and minerals, fails to maintain optimal nutritional condition, vite. If that is true of people in general, or at least people who pay no particular attention to their daily vitamin and mineral intake, how much more im- portant it becomes in the case of the individual who has been follow ing restricted diet for months or years.
 Today no physician who is at all competent neglects to prescribe special supplements to insure the patient whose diet is necessarily restricted in one way or another an adequate daily intake of vitamins and minerals.
 But to return to Miss E. SIS case, if the alleged stomach (gas- tric, peptic. duodenaD ulcer has been present twenty years it is not only unlikely that restriction of diet can be of any avail now, but, in my opinion, rather likely that her stomach condition and her general health would both ben eft by return to a reasonably general diey, little if at all re- stricted.
 Certainly the motor function of stomach and intestine should im- prove when the daily intake of vitamin B complex is brought up to somewhere around the optimal. To this end I recommend that she eat three or four ounces of wheat germ every day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

You know what brain he has as well as do. Every time he reads a story he is getting more and more information. The way books are written now, they are a whole edu- cation in themselves"
 T know all that" said Mack's father, "but I feel this away about it. Working with the hands, learn- ing to use fingers skillfully, get
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

thoroughly with sulphate of copper or Bordeaux mixture. Another meth cd is to loosen the soil and soak with iron sulphate, using one pound to l 1-2 gallons of water. The Bor- deauX mixture is preferred as. it does little or no damage to the grass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
STAR AND VILLAIN

Fritz Leiber, cast as the william in RKO Radios ''They Made Her a Spy" featuring Sally Eilers and AL Ian Lane, is one of Americas most noted Shakespearean actors. For four years he was director and star of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. ..--,,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

be made of us in wartime?
 w o u l d we again be left at home to carry on Hike brave women," helping the old men and t he physically unfit run the country. looking after the chil- dren, c h c e r. ing the men at the front with letters and try ing to get used to having bombs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
TOMORROW'S MENU

Breakfast-Orange juice, creamed codfish on toast, whole wheat muf- fins, coffee, milk.
 Luncheon-Cheese soufie, rolls, dandelion and grapefruit salad, CO., coanut cup cakes, tea, milk.
 Dinner-Fish fillets, poached ip vegetable stock, parsley new pota- toes, baked tomatoes stuffed with peas, romaine and orange salaG, French dressing. fresh strawberries tapioca cream. cookies. coffee. milk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
LION ON THE LOOSE

A thrilling lion act, an even more thrilling lion hunt when one of the animals breaks from his cage into 8 circus crowd, feature scenes in RKO Radios "Fixer Dugan." the cast of which is headed by Lee Tracy, Virginia Weidler and Peggy Shannon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

DecduSe y 0 u were always so c r a 2 y about cabinet work is no reason why he should take to it."
 Then y o u W a n t him to go on dreaming a b out pirates a nc cowboys? Always dream ing? Living his life curled up on a couch?"
 I'll e doesn't, a l W a y s. He studies h a r d.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
DISNEY USES BAzoOKA

The bazooka, that strong musi- cal CD instrument created by Bob Burns, was borrowed by the Walt Disney musicians for use in scoring the latest Donald Duck film, Don aids Cousin Gus"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

''The boy reads too much,' said Mack's father. T am going to get him carpenter set and show him how to use his hands"
 He won't like it." mother com mented. You can't expect boy to ride his parents hobbies. Just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
WE, THE WOMEN
--WE, THE WOMEN--
 WOMEN AS
 WARRIORS? WHY NOT?
By RUTH MILLETT

It may be time for us women to start wondering how we would fare in war, modern-style.
 We are independent, if not equal, human beings now. What use would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Latest Styles
HOzv To Keeb Well
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

Have you household problem to solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, enclose three-cent post age stamp and mail to The Won ans Editor. Washington
 Service Bureau, The Democrat.
 1913 18th Street. Washington. D. C.. for personal reply. o. What are the shades of color of hair?
 A. The following shades of hair tint are available and we assume that they indicate a definite color of hair; light blond, blond, ash bland, dark ash blond, light ash blond, dark ash blond. light ash black, deep black, dark warm brown light warm brown, brown. light brown, dark auburn. auburn, golden brown, reddish blond and golden blond.
 o. What causes toadstools to grow in lawns, and how can they be destroyed?
 A. They grow in a soil that is rich in organic matter. Moving usually destroys them. but in per sistent infestations soak the ground
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20
Caroline Chatfield Saw To-day

Chiselling Wife Can Talk Herself Into Good Position But She Can't Maneuver Herself Into Happiness. MISS CHATF1EID
 than he thinks living absolutely of the furniture to buy the things needed but my small salary added to his merely them and he replies that privaions will do them good
 Soon business man, also married who loves his home mine He aing wife and have just confessed He his wife understood of highest principles ideals ambitious successful and know we could be bssl happy should two endure misery and pass when they were young and inexperienced?
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

The industrial revolution is aptly illustrated by the contrast shown here between a 17th century char coal burning iron and modern type. Instead of charcoal this mod ern iron holds water and when heated electrically produces steam which may be released through perforations in the irons tip. Aside from making clothes sprinlxling u1- necessary it reduces the possibility of scorching to nil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-20

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Evening star., 1939-12-17
Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART Seventeenth street and New
Is on paintings and cSo ole by Russell Gowes d
Autographs Hurd, to December o.
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON 2ol7 street NV
Paintings by dro Hbbad and etchgs by Benson Moore De-
cember O January S.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING, Con-
3d. Oil paintings and pas by Esteban vaderrama
January Miniatures by December 49,
NATIONAL MUSEUM ARTS INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
bv members Of the New York Camera Club december to 81
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY 1900 Twentyirst street NV
Christmas sale exhibition works by artists Of Washington and
Braque December 6 to January g.
PUBLIC Ii LIBRARY Eighth d and streets Nwlumnat0ns
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY-Painings by
Comns December l 81
STUDIO GALLERY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY,
213l NW-Works by Hugo linden, December to 81
THE WHYTE GALLERY, 1907 street N.W-Christmas exh
bon OF paintings by members OF Studio House Group December
GEORGETOWN GALLERIES, 141e Twenty-second
kenealy Byrn and john Greer 10
WoMEMs Ga CITY cLyB 7s jackson place NW-Panting by
FREER GALLERY OF ART the Mall at Twelfth street sw-
Permanent paintings drawings and prints
american as artists 's rea'0cA f'00" anu paintings
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- DIVISION OF FINE ARrs-prints
by Whistler and prntmakers the Dubaron
Collection Additional prints by Whistler and Penne purchased
South" photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston
TEXTILE MUSEUM. 1880 NW.-Rugs. tapestries
Myers, $50 Fifteenth street NV.
tion Gallery oil paintings by artists of the Art Section of the Com
muni Project Of the Works Projects cden
Gallery, work of Danish children.
CHALET NoNPARE1I, 71o3 Old Georgetown Bethesda,
E Beverley Sanford Bryant December II to January "a
THE LITTLE GALLERY 32o4 o street N.W-Paintings and
drawings from The Inner Life OF Man, Frances Wckes
D.A.R MUSEUM Memorial Continental Seventeenth
Fridays at 345
EXHIBITION Of handwrOught tewelry
Gardner Hale master craftsman Of Boston, at 1909 Connecticut
avenue NV" from December 7 to 2
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color as raucous as the sound Of q
fingernail scratching a blackboard,
his drawing so incorrect that it irri-
tates and sometimes even arouses
temper. Why, one asks oneself,
should shapely things be made un-
shapely, tables represented in re-
verse perspective, or with restless,
ripping edges? Do they really be-
come thus more meaningful? Nom
objective art. and that which deals
with pure abstraction, does not en-
ploy recognizable things as units of
composition; but, in both his cubistic
and abstract painting, Braque does
Sometimes, these forms are scarcely
recognizable, but again, they are
quite plain. Aside from the fruit
and flower pieces, perhaps the most
obvious are the large canvas on the
staircase wall, dated 1899, Of La
Modele a lAtelier de IArtiste," and
the one in gallery "a" painted
nearly 20 years ago, La Femme a
la Mandolin: in both, figure Of
woman is seen simultaneously from
two viewpoints, the one in black
silhouette. The canvas on the stairs
is well organized so far as compost
ton goes, balanced and agreeable in
color-a thoroughly amusing stunt.
But is it more than this? What
pleasure can one find in seeing
double-or in objects distorted as by
incorrect vision? The sensation that
such works gives to some is that of
horrification.
Lacking Qualities.
In connection with the works of
both Picasso and Braque, one hears
it said that they are fine in'pattern;
but, certainly, this comes from a
misuse of the phrase, which signifies
organization of design. rhythm. bal
ance. Nature does not consciously
make patterns, but man, taking
natural units, may, if sufficiently
gifted, weave them into a design,
the pattern of which has both sta
bility and beauty. 1t is because of
these qualities stability and beauty
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tee are Gustav Baumann, Frank
w. Benson, Samuel Chamberlain,
Arthur w. Heintzelman. Eugene
Higgins, Rockwell Kent, Bertha
Jaques, J. j. Lankes, Thomas Mason,
John Sloan. Stow Wengenroth.
Charles H. Woodbury. and Mahonri
Young. OF the II honorary men,
bers, 3 are Washingtonians-Leices-
ter B. Holland, Ruel P. Tolman and
Leila Mechlin.
The purpose of this American
Committee of Engraving-"engrav-
ing" being used in a liberal sense
to include all the graphic arts-is to
encourage exchanges of prints be-
tween nations by organizing exhibi-
tions to be sent abroad and inviting
exhibitions from other countries.
Owing to the wars in Europe these
exchanges will for the time being
be with our American neigh
bors. The idea terminated from the
exhibitions of etchings, engravings,
Autographs, ETC., sent abroad un-
der the auspices of the American
Federation of Arts by invitation,
all of which were assembled
through Mr.. Arms invaluable as
SiStance.
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in a measure, were less good than
those produced by the machine and
thereby acquired merit. But that
day is now, fortunately, long past,
and the myth to which it gave Gre
dence dispelled-partly by the high
standard set up and held to by the
Arts and Crafts Society of Boston
and partly by the high order Of
merit of work produced by Mr.. Hale
and his colleagues, fellow members
of this organization. 1t is an inter-
esting fact also, and worthy of COM
ment, that in upholding this STAN
dard and producing beautifully as
well as individualistically, these
craftsmen, who are artists, have
unconsciously helped to put COM
mercial work in the several fields
on much higher plane. Witness
the excellent costume jewelry" and
the table silver of today which are
sold over the counters of depart
ment stores and even five-and-ten
cent shops. The manufacturer is
trying to keep up with the crafts
men. and the craftsmen not only
applaud, but are glad of the effort,
for the sake of the art they love,
and because, in the improvement of
taste, their own patronage increases.
Mr.. Hale is, in the first place, an
excellent designer, and then a most
skillful craftsmen. He learned his
art England at Chipping Campden,
the great craft center of several
decades ago, and he has practiced it
with the utmost eagerness for per-
fection. His use of precious and
semi-precious stones in combina-
ton with precious metals is espe-
cially pleasing and increasing eff
fectiveness is given ofttimes by the
employment of enamel in varied
colors. For the most part, his
jewelry is refined in feeling, as jew
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the figures are we'll placed on the
canvas and their individuality sug-
gests faithful likeness. Among those
in the present show are Young
Hero" Negro non-commissioned
officer of the World War (painted
shortly after its conclusion), wearing
the Crdix de Guerre and other deco
rations; Eileen" an attractive
titian-haired girl. and THE SWIM
mer," vital study Of a young ath-
lete, painted about eight years ago.
The drawings of Negro types, too,
are searching studies of character
and bone construction. The best of
them transcribes a young man with
uplifted face and hands, a study
which particularly must have inter-
ested the artist, as it appears three
times in the present show.
Varying Quality.
The exhibition is uneven in quail
ity, with a variation in technique
that appears to indicate that Mr..
Comins is either an indefatigable ex-
perimenter, or that he is susceptible
to diverse influences and the results
are not always felicitous. One thinks
Of the Mexican muralists when re-
garding the forms of "Yendo y
Veniendo" (Which. nevertheless, is
notable for its deep-toned COLOR !;
one senses a hint of Gauguin in
Flesh and Green" and recalls Sloan
or possibly Du Bois in Sunday
Edition" Such reminiscence may be
completely inadvertent on the part
Of the artist. Perhaps most Ameri-
can painters, when they visit Mexico,
are similarly struck by figures hunch-
ed in zarapes and crowned with large
hats, and perhaps most tidy people
are repelled by the Sunday news
paper avalanche littering many in
teriors. Mr.. Comins' Sunday
Edition" is a humorous commend on
this Nation wide folk habit. Aero
batic Pose" and African Motif
seem to have been excursions into
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that design is often more restful
and pleasurably enduring than .
bit of nature itself. OF these quail
tiles, Braque's paintings are pc
culiarly devoid; they are restless to
the extreme and unstable, they
utterly lack beauty in form, and in
thought, which, for centuries, has
been associated in the mind of man
with art.
But, some will say, art is personal
equation, and appreciation perhaps
even more so than its creation, which
is very true, but it should not be for
gotten that the arts, as we'll as the
sciences. are based on certain in
exorable rules which can no more
be disregarded than can those which
govern the universe or the human
mechanism. It is through forget
fulness of this fact that much of the
valueless art of the present is due
and more is the pity. Having lost
our compass, we are foundering
around in uncharted seas.
Obviously, there is wide divergence
Of opinion on these questions, as
brought out by the paintings of
Braque. Mr.. Sweeney, for instance,
says: The fundamental character
istic of Braques work is its comfort
able, material sensuality. To enjoy
a painting by Braque completely we
must eat it with our eyes-suck it
like a fruit. The savor of its color,
the pulp of its textures, is its vital
expression"
Also, referring in his introduction
to Braque's "artful, disciplined ar
rangement," Mr.. Phillips remarks
that there is poetry "in their varied
patterns, their contrasted textures
and their selective, subtle auto
graphic color schemes. The art Of
Braque," he insists, "is lyricism Of
pure esthetic relations in which the
complexities of our age are fused in
a serene balance and harmony
And he salutes him as great
master"
Reflects Feeling Of Age.
That Braque reflects the feeling
of the age in his work, none can
deny, but to the present writer it
seems much more the confusion of
the present, the desire for sensa-
tionalism, the hateful unrest which
engendered the catastrophy Of war
than the balance and harmony Of .
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all are his little studies made while
the fire of enthusiasm, freshly light
ed, leapt high. This collection Of
his work to be shown at the Arts
Club comes directly from Boston,
where it has just been exhibited.
Mr.. Moore's etchings are too well
known here to need introduction or
commendation. Their interest and
excellence are well known. 1t may
be worth mentioning, however, that
Mr.. Moore's name and achievement
stand high in the estimate of print
collectors far beyond the boundaries
of his native city. He is a member
of professional associations in va
rious parts of the country, and his
etchings are to be found in the
leading public collections here and
abroad.
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different hinterlands Of modernism
with unconvincing results.
-Four paintings in which simpli-
f1cation Of form approaches abstrac-
ton include Guatemala, Lava,
Women and Corn" and several still
life compositions. In the first named,
the women's red skirts and the
feathery green of corn are effectively
placed accents in dark gray color
scheme.
Unseen Subject.
Six drawings and two frescoes in
the current show are details for q
mural on the theme, Liberation
Through Christian Law" (executed
for Government competition), Of
which Mr.. Comins also exhibits a
complete sketch in oils, revealing an
emphatically balanced composition.
Three other small frescoes represent
St. Andrew, st. Peter and Victory"
In remarking that these do not seem
to be faithful likenesses, one is re-
minded of verbal tilt reported in
the art press few months ago. An
outspoken layman, viewing a mural
by Rockwell Kent df we recall cor
rectly) stated that an angel depicted
didn't look like an angel" Mr.. Kent
replied that he was interested to
meet one who had actually seen an
angel.
Mr.. Conins could, with equal logic,
point out that no one alive today
has met Andrew and Peter. But
most people probably have some
mental conception of the appear
ance of saints, who should be more
than merely men with pleasant faces
and well-groomed hair and boards;
they ought to be more than merely
men holding keys or other symbols.
Mr.. Comins is native of Boston
and continues to spend his summer
in Massachusetts, as member of
East Gloucester's artist colony. He
has painted frescoes for the Capitol
and Walter Reed Hospital
Evening star., 1939-12-17

ment of the many and the delecta-
ton of the few. Therefore, the fact
that the Braque exhibition is here
while a most comprehensive retro
spective Picasso exhibition is in New
York, at the Museum of Modern
Art, lends additional interest.
Fifty-five paintings are included
in the current showing, which oc-
cupies five galleries-the old dining
room, the stair we'll and two halls.
The collection was assembled by the
Arts Club of Chicago, and among
the lenders are numerous private
collectors, as we'll as art museums.
Three of the loans are from the
Phillips Gallery's collection. Walter
P. Chrysler, jr, of New York is the
largest private lender The cata-
logue contains an introduction by
Duncan Phillips, a biographical note
by Henry Mcbride and an "Ap-
probation" by James johnson
Sweeney.
Braque's father, it appears, was
a house painter, and "Braque, him.
self" to quote Mr.. Mcbride, did
some sort of an apprenticeship at
that trade, learning to do the 'imi-
tation marble and wood granting,
which was afterward to be incor-
porated into his compositions and
borrowed by Picasso and the others" ;"
His early. years were passed at LIE
Havre, As young man, he worked
in Antwerp and Marseilles, but he
has always, apparently, been at
tracted by the sea, and for the last
decade he has spent his summers on
the north coast of France, near
Dieppe. Mr.. Mcbride tells of hav-
ing been taken to see him by Ger
trude Stein, when the painter was
still young, and observing that he
had the physical setup of an ath-
lete. That was before 1900. When
the World War came, Braque went
into the army, was wounded in the
head at Carency and had to be
trepanned, but was given two cita-
tions. Later, he was called upon to
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design "decors" for the Russian Bal
let Russo. In experimentation with
cubism, he and Picasso kept close
pace-as close as could an adven-
turous Frenchman and Spaniard-
but Braque has never carried his
extravagancies to such length as has
Picasso, perhaps for the very rea-
son that French, not Spanish, blood
flowed in his veins. Both men
abandoned the realm of art in an
endeavor to express in their work
things felt but not visual. Mr..
Sweeney says, in appreciation of
Braque's paintings: "On this foun-
dation chat of the house painters
humble methods and tools. Braque
built an Immediately personal sys-
tenn of unifcation for his express
sion which preserves a strict in
tegrity, still owes nothing necessarily
to conventional observance. 1t is
a unification based on an organiza-
ton of intensified sensual appeals,
teXtual and chromatic, that trans
late themselves into sensations OF
touch and taste, as often as into
sensations of light and weight.
Sensation first and last: for, to
Braque, as he himself has put it,
sensation is revelation"
Hold Explained.
There we have an explanation not
only of the art of Braque-and, in
cidentally, of Picasso-but of the
hold that art of this sort has taken
upon those by whom it has been
admired and exploited. It evokes
not emotion, but sensation, and it is
primarily sensation which, in the
present world, is chiefly sought. 1t
is this element which is dominant
today in our literature, our theater
Legitimate and cinematic), our
music and our painting, and which
changes the complexion OF con-
temporary life
It must be admitted, however, that
the sensationalism latent in the art
Of Braque is of so subtle a character
that, in most instances, it must pass
harmlessly over the heads of many
observers. Some of his still-life
paintings, especially those of fruit,
and in one instance of flowers, have
very pleasing color of sort, as we'll
as an impression of virility in form;
but when he essays the abstract, he
becomes not only quite incompre-
hensible, but utterly unlovely-his