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Evening star., 1939-04-18

Dear Dorothy Dix: People are
always wondering why girls want
to leave home. I am telling 'em.
1t is because as long as a girl
lives at home she hasn't any more
liberty than dog on a leash, and,
no matter if she gets to be so old
she has to dye her hair and wear
false teeth. mother treats her as
If she were an imbecile baby who
didn't have sense enough to cross
the street. When a girl gets married
mother emancipates her and re-
CARDS her as an oracle, but as long
as she stays single mother feels that
she has right to tell her what to
wear, what to do, when to come in
and how late she may stay out. And
if daughter rebels and declines to
be put through the third degree
about everything she does, mother
reproaches her for being ungrate-
full and prophesies she will come to
no good end. Maybe daughter sup
ports the family, but does that give
her the right even to move a chair
in the living room or take down an
eye-sore of picture? Not at all.
Mother says she is not going to have
anybody interfering in the way she
runs her house. Mother grabs the
girls pay envelope as her right and
gives the girl back what she thinks
she ought to spend, but she wouldn't t
dream of treating one of the boys
that way. 1 have never known a
mother who was grateful to a
daughter for supporting her, but I
have heard many mothers simply
gush over with gratitude when a son
gave them $40 bill at Christmas.
If mother used only one lobe of her
brain she would know that any girl
who has sense enough and character
enough to hold down a good Job
could be trusted to take care of her
self. And, anyway, it is no good
watching her while she is at home.
because she has the whole day in
which to go to the bad If she wanted
to.
NANETTE.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

When you buy the bandana hand
kerchiefs get enough red ones for
the boys and enough blue ones for
the girls. If you can find as many
different patterns as there are
couples and a red and blue
handkerchief of each pattern you
can have the crowd match patterns
later as a way of choosing partners
Tor games or supper.
Once the guests are assembled,
lead the way to the picnic site. The
last half mile or so should be trav.
eled on foot, and you'll be a gay
and merry mob tramping along
some country road with your bun
dies over your shoulders.
Having arrived at the picnic spot,
start your program of games
promptly. Otherwise some of the
more romantic couples may go
wandering off to sit under a tree
and smell the flowers, like Ferdi-
nand.
Here Are Some
Games to Play.
Any of the usual picnic pastimes
will make splendid entertainment,
but here are few extra ideas.
Make several pairs of tin-can stills
by punching two holes in the sides
OF an old tin can near the bottom
and fastening the ends of a loop
of strong cord in these holes. The
panhandlers must then race on these
stills, standing on the cans and
holding the looped cords in their
hands.
Hold elimination heats until you
get boy and a girl winner. The
course should be short, and the
rules provide that any runner who
steps of can must go back and
start over. Cardboard medals bear
ing the word "chump-ion' can be
pinned on the winners with hugh
safety pins.
Duck-on-a-r rock is another good
game which almost every boy knows,
and the materials can be found in
any field. And don't forget such old
standbys as de-and-seek, drop the
handkerchief and three-deep.
After an hour or so of games your
hoboes will be no longer hilarious
but merely hungry. Build a fire
and turn them loose with the hot
dogs and pointed sticks. Meanwhile,
have your coffee pot simmering
either hanging over the fire from
stick driven diagonally into the
ground or supported on a couple
of stones with hot embers in be-
tween.
Better be sure of your wood sup
ply in advance. If there's any doubt
about it, take along enough dry oak
wood to make plenty of glowing
Goals for toasting the dogs, marsh
mallows. apples, potatoes or any,
thing else that strikes your fancy
and your appetite.
When everybody has eaten his fill
it will be dark, and perhaps there
will be a nice spring moon shining
through the trees. That's the time
to gather round the fire for a little
harmony, with everybody singing
Justify, or dreamily, in their trem-
bling tenors. boisterous bases and
shaky sopranoes.
Copyright 1e3a)
Evening star., 1939-04-18

things must descend upon people so
virtuous and kind.
Thus the rug that is to be woven
must have fine structural architec-
tural pattern to express the idea the
artist has in mind, which in turn
will support the great deluge of gifts
from heaven and the good omen
that shall rest upon it. In this way
he fires his weavers with enthusiasm
for the task ahead and directs their
choice of the colors to interpret these
ideas.
AS the work starts, a chant begins.
1t is a rhythm known to weaving
people all over the world. We find
it among our own Navajo Indians in
the Southwest, in China, India and
in Persia. Weaving songs combine
actual directions for the work along
with prayer for nimble fingers
and lifting beat that makes it
possible to carry on" without too
much fatigue. Three black, two
red, three black, five red. three black,
four green ;" on and on. The
uneven numbers are the spaces be-
tween the architectural columns:
the even ones the ascending and
descending bands and borders.
Colors Quite
Often Vary.
When a weaver becomes tired
another takes his place, bringing
with him his own tools and yarns.
His Interpretation of the color may
vary slightly from that of the first
weaver, or the temperature of his
dye may have given the woods a
slightly different hue, but that is
his privilege, and that same indi-
vidual touch is what made the Per-
sian rugs of years ago so beautiful in
their varying surface color.
In his official capacity and daily
work the gentleman who told us all
this is associated with one of the
large storage plants in Washington,
where his expert advice and knowl-
edge of fine rugs Is most valuable.
Being interested in rugs because Of
his constant ASSOCIATION with them
and because of his early training.
the story in this column reminded
him afresh of the art of his native
country. and he decided to weave a
rug just to see how much he re-
membered.
1t Is now half finished, and it is
quite evident that his memory is
excellent! He manufactured his
loom out of odds and ends, and while
his tools are far from the real thing,
he owns a collection of exquisite
hand-dyed yarns that will interest
the many readers who have written
asking for information about them.
All of this he has set up in the
main lobby of the plant so that those
who are interested may see the
actual weaving as it progresses.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

can start setting the tone of the
affair in your invitations, which
should be written on torn pieces of
brown wrapping paper and read
somewhat as follows:
Dear Weary Willie, you're invited
to share
In my panhandlers' picnic, and
Danish all care.
Meet on Friday at 4 at my house,
and come
Prepared for a frolic and dressed
as bum"
Sign your name and add prince
Cor Princess) of Panhandlers."
AS soon as the invitations are
out-or even earlier If you believe
in preparedness-pick the site of
your picnic. If enough cars are
available in your crowd to provide
transportation you'll have no trou-
BILE finding an attractive spot in
the woods, or in q meadow by a
stream. If reaching the picnic site
means walking or bus or trolley
ride, your choice will be more limit
cu. but a uILlc dQVdnCc luVeSLlRd-
ton will solve that problem
Whether you go by automobile
or by public transportation you'll
want to make your hilarious hoboes
do little walking before the picnic
gets under way. When the gang
gathers at your house, provide each
arrival with typical hobos bundle
consisting of a bandana handker-
chief tied on the end of a stick.
These sticks should be sharpened
at one end so that they can be used
later for toasting hot dogs and
marshmalloWs.
See That The
Bundles Are Loaded.
The bundles contain all the things
that you want to take along on the
picnic, including frankfurters, but
tered rolls, mustard, coffee and a
coffee pot, sugar and cream, marsh
mallows, doughnuts and apples.
You can also hang a tin cup on
each stick, which will avoid any
broken china if some of the boys
start using their bundles for shinny
clubs.
Evening star., 1939-04-18

Hold on to a door knob or some
other object of convenient height
for support. Place other hand on
hip and kick as far forward and
backward as you can in rhythm.
Then turn and support yourself
with other hand and kick with op.
posite leg.
Wear fiat heel shoes. or no shoes,
when you do this and turn on the
radio to music program. That
helps. Always do this before begin
ming any slimming exercise.
When you have your legs limbered
from doing exercise l (above) you
may slim your thighs and strengthen
your abdominal muscles with exer-
else 2.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Dorothy Dix Says
Mothers Should Realize Grown
DAUGHTER Must Lead Own Life
Star Stah Photo,

Answer-There is no denying that.
as general thing. mothers and
grown daughters find it pretty hard
to live together in peace and har-
mony. That is why mothers always
look like the cat that has eaten
the canary at their daughters we'd
dings.
They feel. glory be. that they are
going to have their houses to them
selves, in which they can do as they
please without Sally or jamie or
Mamie wanting to take down grand
pas picture from over the parlor
mantel. Or have doilies on the
table instead of good, respectable
tablecloths.
And daughter feels the same way
about leaving mother. Whatever
the disadvantages of. matrimony, it
is going to give her some of the
privileges of being free. white and
81 and not having mother camping
on her trail with endless sugges-
tions. 1t is a matter of common
knowledge that mothers and daugh-
tiers are always a lot fonder of
each other after the girls get mar
ried than they were before.
Without doubt, the mother -and-
daughter conflict is more acute now
than it used to be. because mothers
try to treat their daughters the way
their mothers treated them. They
can't realize that the whole status
of girls has changed and that they
can't be kept in leading strings as
the young person was in their day.
A girl who works outside of the
home and makes the money that
pays not only for her keep, but
help support the home has a right
to be treated as a star boarder and
not slavey She also has a right
to her own privacy, and it is a pity
that more mothers cannot recognize
this and treat their daughters with
the same consideration they would
show strange girls.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
BY BARBARA BELL,

Here's a dress designed to make
people exclaim when you wear it,
why, how slim you look" Every
line and detail is slenderizing as
well as extremely smart. This pat
tern has, you'll notice, long, un-
broken lines in the back. The skirt
Is cut to high princess waistline
In front, which subtracts inches
from your middle, and is topped by
bodice gathers, which assure you
Evening star., 1939-04-18

little afraid to be too sentimental
In this workaWay world, however
and tempered the enthusiasm as
much as we could.
Now we are sorry, for right IN
the midst of one of Washington s
busiest rug-storage plants an Of
ficer of the company is weaving
a Persian rug. and he tells the story
as we wish we had done
AS We have pointed out once or
twice, complete understanding If
the preparation of WOOL the dying,
twisting into yarn and the weaving
itself is absolutely necessary for the
proper cleaning, repairing or safe
storage of valuable rugs. In this
way, lore of the Persian art of weav-
Ing touches the business of operat-
Ing an up-to-date storage ware
house plant.
Born in Persia, the gentleman we
speak OF lived there through his
early childhood. Gentlemen of cul-
ture and intelligence in Persia are
expected to understand the art of
weaving rugs just as in this country
we expect them to be patrons of our
native arts. Children of 5 or 6
sit by the hour in the weaving
houses listening to the stories that
are the tradition of the loom.
Comparable to
Writing Poem.
Rug weaving in Persia might be
compared to the creation of a poem
or symphony. The artist is re-
leased from the drudgery of detail
and conserves his strength and in
spiration for the idea he wishes to
interpret. The loom is set up and
the weaver is in place before the
artist begins to explain his thought.
He may speak of the person who
has commissioned the rug. he dwells
on the family history and the pro-
vincial background from which his
clients family has sprung. More
than that, he goes into detail,
enumerating the virtues of the fam
lily. touching on religion, his way of
living, and the fact that all good
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Tea.Time Novelty

Here is a new tea-time wrinkle
Let the guests sweeten their tea with
little lemon drops or bits of rock
candy. For real distinction, dip the
candies in rum before offering to
the guests.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Handle With Care

Three dont's in the care of fine
furniture include: Don't put furni-
ture near hot radiators, don't put
1t near open windows, and don't let
your house get too dry,
Evening star., 1939-04-18

Get down on one knee and stretch
other leg out straight. Raise arms
in the air and keep them there as
you reverse leg positions-that is, as
you balance on one bended knee the
other leg is thrust out forward. Take
it easy at first for it is strenuous.
Those of you who complain Of
thick upper thighs or protruding
stomach should do this daily. Only
few times at first and increase the
movements each day.
(Copyright 1o39D
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Ny Neiqhbor Says:

If you wish pie crust to have
. glazed appearance paint it
over with a pastry brush with
cream or with beaten egg and
water and bake in hot oven 20
to 40 minutes, according to con-
tents of pie.
Canned or fresh fruit juices
lend variety to the breakfast.
Among the more popular juices
are prune, grapefruit, cram
berry, orange, pineapple and
more lately-apple juice.
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Try a 'Panhandler's Picnic
AS Novel Entertainment
For the Gang Outdoors
Appropriate Food and Games
Will Give Right Atmosphere
To Evening of Real Fun
BY KAY CALDWELL and ALDEN HARRISON.

Do these warm days and balmy evenings yanng
outdoors?
Of the enjoyable geogehers all at the same time
Just stage panhand to the enean-
- 49, -
Saturday afternoon Office hours will
Evening star., 1939-04-18
Modern Rug Weaver Recalls Art and Science His Native
Persian Gentleman Now
Creating an Exquisite
Handmade Carpet
Actual Work in Ancient Land
Is Only Directed by Artist,
Who Interprets Meaning
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

nothing
than find
explain
all agog
Last January S a
glorious and fascinating with all the philosophy politics
Evening star., 1939-04-18

The of this taking up right
Washington learned his childhood faof
he had thought his
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Evening star., 1939-04-18
NANETTE.

by BARONESS PIANTONL
With our simple pattern fascinating
TO make your plain linen towels attractive with these
fruits
giving different designs each measures from to inches
wide and about inches deep towels will delight
To obtain this pattern inclose IS cents
coin to and postage Address Nwo
Editor Evening Star. ~ ~ " ~
Evening star., 1939-04-18
TINE REMOVABLE DRu o -EkroR q, ~.

new type teapot ends the need for tea str,ininr
and makes It easy to make better tea, Turouo;..
green pot holds cups. $1.25 retail value. Yos
can get one by sending only 75t and four ii.
tops from Mccormick Tea cans to: Mccormick
Sales Co.. Baltimore. Nd. Mccormick Tea IL
Ike no other tea. It has such different flavor.
10 smooth, rich and mellow. that many prefer Il
without swsetening Tor With mach less thas
nsaal). Ask your grocer fos Mccormick Tea q
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
FOUR YOUTHS ROB
 100 APARTMENTS
Caught in Massachusetts Where They Confessed to
 Number of Breaks

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 15-(UP)-- Four youths captured In Wilm- ington woodland hideout have con- fessed, police said today, to robbing 100 apartments in New York city, five in Boston and one in Cam bridge.
 still sought for questioning were two girls identified only as Rose" and "Alvina" who spent last week. end at the Wilmington camp. The youths insisted the girls acted only as housekeepers and had no know ledge of the robberies.
 The quartet, all charged with burglary, comprise John Risko, l7, (942 Bergen street. and James Me- Erarney, IT, (666 Park place. New York city; Robert Coffin, IT, Gl52 Piciffic street Brooklyn, and Rich ard l.. Harrison, 25, d324 Oak stfeeO Los Angeles. Calf,
 New Member Caught
 Their arrest followed seizure of & newly adopter member of the gang. Albert Dc Vito, 20, of Wake- ilNAdI DOilIG ohiNit i<S NlbV Wu9 PANhSA up as suspicious person shortly alter the Cambridge apartment of George Von Kapp, Arlington high school teacher, was footed Sunday night
 Questioned 24 hours, Do Vito al- lcRedly confessed and told police the other members of the gang could be found at the Wilmington cottage. Three were seized in the cottage and the fourth on his ar- rival there from a bus trip to Lo- well.
 The out-of-state quartet told poe Ice they came to Massachusetts two weeks ago when the chase got "too hot" for them in New York. They entered only st-fioor apart- ments through unlocked windows they said. Loot from New York was sold in Boston, they said, and that from Massachusetts, in Providence, R, l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
Orchids to oYou-- 10 .OOO of I hem-- -FromWPA
Government In Florist Business

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 1b-Uncle Sam has orchids In his budget. They won't Do ready 10 wear for a while yet-.-say seven yeaB with good luck. Ten WPA women workers in 6eat- ties Volunteer Park conservatory arc caring for some 10000 orchid seed- .iings which 1t is hoped. will grow up and mix with the best people.
 Orchids grow in tropic Jungles; fin remote mountain reaches, almost 5 anywhere except in Arctic regions, but it's usually simpler-though ex- persibe--to pay 60 to si2 e blossom : to the corner florist
 orchids and WpA are hardly the |. most natural combination in the {. world, but that's what the Seattle Park department has achieved un. der tho direction Of Jacob Umlauff, the departments chief gardener.
 Nurtiired by licorice fern and gov- ernment money, the hothotise or chids, like some government under takings, are not immune 70 parasites And it's the job of the WPA work CTS to scrub of the scale formed by parasitic animals once every three months. sponge the plants and trans .Jlant them. <. AS they scrub and sponge, the women can feast their eyes on the exotic beauty Of some 300 PersivaI- liana orchid blooms which they helped to nurture. And 300 other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

1 Ter and Mussolini, parodied of Mister Paganini," and it would have severed all Hollywood's diplomatic and commercial relations with tho dictator states if there had beer any left to sever.
 There was dancing, of course, tt modern tunes from an orchestra in old fashioned dress. Somebody observed that people have travelee half way around the world to sec spectacles less astonishing than q rear view of Miss Ross, in her cons pletely backlesS gown, doing 6 rhumba.
 JEANETTE AND LEW
 TOGETHER FIRST TIME
 In Broadway sefenade." Jean ette Macdonald and Lew Ayref are working together for the first lime. It's sefni-fnusical with an old up-and-down story: she't q singer, he's song writer, and they're married. Her fame soon oyerShadows his; she goes to Eu- rope; they're ostranged, divorced reunited by one of his songs. re- united, remarried-and you know the rest. Macdonald fans will be glad to find her in film of more dramatic tenderness and jess dig nity than usual. MT. Ayres is q great help in these matters. and it is good to sec the way he fl justifying his new popularity.
 Tn the picture, Ayros is sup- posed to be very hot-tempered fellow, quick with his fists. But if he really were like that. on actor amed Albert Morin would have been beaten to C pulp sey- cral days ago. Morin, pet stooge of Director Robert Leonard. is c ribbcr.
 Shortly after the picture was started nc was introduced Co Ayres as q noted French news paper correspondent and began to interview him. Between scenes Morin interviewed him all that day, and the next--and the next. rt'B still going Oil. He is dogged, insulting and mostly unintelligiblc. Ayres k going crazy, but 60 far, with q visible effort, he has nan- aged to keep his fists in his pockets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

No real reason Is required for holding Q costume party in Holly wood, but this one was in celebra- ton of finishing the picture. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man." which stars W. c. Fields. MT. Fields didn't show up. Producer Lester Cowan stood in for him, though; he came disguised as the man with the . nose. Tyrone Power came as an- other famed Tields-:Lew, the part ner of Joe Weber. He arrived by horse and buggy, an eqlIipage prob ably left over from "Jesse James, BERTs GOOD ENOUGH
 FOR THE CUSTOMERS
 Bert Lahr. happy to escape from his hot and heavy lion costume in "The Wizard of o." did a couple of dances during the imprompt,i show. His solo impression of a team of ballroom dancers was some. thing that likely will be re-enacted in same picture soon. Harry Ritz and Martha Rave did on imitation of e couple of imbeciles singing q song. It was something about Hit-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
LiaUOR PERMIT NOTICE OF APPLICATION

ThIs is to gly9 .sl gotIf,S, tIG,, I that 7 t6rbury, Conn, have 6led an appil. cation dated Feb. <gth, 1889, with the LidH0r Control Commission for . Package HtOre Permit for the sale 25g iljli Bt, WaterbUry, Conn. The business is owned by Harold Jyesrs son, of ss2 HI s., Waterbury. Conn, and will De conducted by Harold ttearsoB. of 3S2 fIijl s., Wa teFbury, Conn, as permltfee.
 HAROLD IttAfssDN.
 Dated Feb. sth, is39. 2-s-ib
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
Mine Host Mccarthy Throws Whing
 Ding In The Deep South Of Hollywood
Shirley Ross Looked Antique, For a Minute
Ry PAUL HARRISON

Hollywood - The movie colony spends most of its time working in costumes, but 1t also loves costume parties. So the Greatest Collec- ton of Hams Ever Assembled in One Smokehouse"- "-according to the invitations sent by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy-trouped into the ballroom of the old Beverly Hills Hotel the other night for a gay-nineties soiree.
 Tho most distinguished players in town didn't seem to mind being called hams by Mccarthy, who can get away with anything. They even dressed the part. Almost everybody raided studio wardrobe departments during the day for q period outfit. This gave the gents chance to stalk around behind handle-bar mustaches and sinister leers saying, "Ah-ha, my proud beauty"
 MCCARTHY PROVES
 HIMSELF A CAD
 The proud beauties, in turn, got a chance to dance the can-can. One who didn't kick very high was the Princess Baba. Mccarthy reproach- cd her, saying she didn't need to be so dignified just because she happens to be the daughter of the Maharajah of Sarawak. She said It wasn't that at all; she simply hadn't put on anything under her heavy gown. Mccarthy didn't exactly blush, but for once he couldn't think of anything to say.
 About the only guests who didn't wear old-time outfits were Norma Shearer and Brian Ahern and the Basil Rathbones. They came late, after attending an uppity little gath ering to welcome Noel Coward to Hollywood. They didn't dance the can.can, either.
 SHE LEFT CONFUSION
 BEHIND HER
 The photographers also were in modern dress, and there were lots of them. They spent most Of their time snapping Betty Grable. who spent most of her time spapping 0er kHrtcTb' S1e iiau V ieeA SuH- can costume--the one worn by Ciaudette Colbert in "Zaza," Miss Grable was a more authentic oc- cupant of tho dress. though; she wasn't equipped with the full-length hose which the Hays Office ordered on Miss Colbert.
 Nobody paid much attention to Shirley Ross when she arrived in what appeared to be demure, old fashioned gown. The photog- raphers' stampede began when Miss Ross turned around. The entire back of the dress was missing, from hem to neck. There was just one startling expanse of corset, pink Interchangeable, and Miss Ross's -er-gar1s.