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est lilac satin with a sash of deep royal purple, noticing only the new lounge chair, so deep and in- viting and comfortable looking And the paper on the smoking stand.
 Hey, what is this, wifely touch? Or do I notice little solid comfort offered the tired business man?"
 "G O o f." Iris chuckled, but secretly, her mind was winging back to the new suit, spread out on the bed, and the new fur scarf and gloves. the handmade linen blouse. After supper, she'd put them on, to wear to the movies.
 After she had fed the brute, she'd spring the new suit, and it would do what the lilac satin house coat, and the good food, and the comfortable lounge chair had failed to do. It would make Bart realize she was an attractive girl. Make him see she wouldn't languish around unnoticed, un- appreciated forever.
 Over the shortcake, Iris men, tioned the offer the deans wife had made her.
 They're going to Japan for the summer vacation, Bart, and they want me to go along, too. He plans
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and one operetta Janet Doran has been turning out since the ripe old age of D." which she frankly admits she reached back in the early POS. It is likely to ac- count, too, for some of the best sellers on the nations book mar kets these days.
 For Janet Doran, prudent New Englander, is both prolific and punchy writer. She takes her plots from the little everyday dramas of life and before she is through with them they become major episodes. Take Bride on a Budget" America has had millions of brides but 1t takes 8 story like Janet Doran's to dramatize the lives of most of them.
 Janet Doran was educated in eastern schools, sold her first liter ary effort to the Baltimore Sun, an editorial about dog with fire crackers on his tail on the Fourth of July. It was denunciatory.
 Since then, she has sold to the country's leading slick magazines, has published two books Song in My Heart" and "Gilded Lady," writ ten several successful serials of which Bride on Budget" is the first.
 She has one son, 16, "the only man in our life, and the only love. Outside writing"
 had learned long ago She had learned how to cook 1t long ago,
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figure, the straight, square shoul- ders, the flat, supple hips and the slim waist that made a suit just right.
 Then Iris remembered Bart. She had to do something about Bart, really. She had tried everything, done everything-still they were about where they were year ago. Business was bad, Bart was cau- t:ous, thrifty and too proud to marry when he felt he couldn't support wife.
 "I'll take it with me, thanks" |" Iris told the salesgirl. And the little blue book in her purse said, leash $15, balance due, $65, pay ments weekly"
 Everyone knew Iris Ives, knew she worked in. the deans office, and was the best-dressed girl on the campus, the most popular. Few remembered that she had been the best-dressed girl in 1881, or that she was the belle of Fraternity Row, that year, though. Only Iris, and tiny call endar in her bedroom, knew that.
 By the time she had discovered the tailored linen blouse with the French cuffs, the alligator pumps, and the pinseal purse, the weekly pay checks of Miss Iris Ives, were mortgaged for six months to come. But by then, Iris didn't care.
 By then, she was sure, Bart would change his mind. The suit would do that.
 "You ought to model, Miss Ives," the salesgirl had flattered her, when she tried on the suit. Se- cretly, Irish had always thought she should too But models led precarious lives, and private sec retary, while not getting anything glamorous in the way of salary, did have a definite sum to depend on each week.
 Do you budget, Miss Ives?" the salesgirl went on. Iris nodded. She honestly believed she did. She honestly believed this was the trick in looking like debutante, on a private secretarys salary.
 At least, she bought her clothes in budget shops, agreed to pay so much a week, and because she was a living, lovely advertisement for the clothes, was able to ex- plain, prettily. to credit managers, why this weeks installment would have to go over until next week, because she had to go to the dentist. (Or the doctor, or pay her insurance, of which there was none, only it was grand alibi, or anything else that occurred to her at the time as suitable explanation for robbing Peter to pacify Paul.)
 That night, there were many new things in the little two-room apart ment where she invited Bart for Saturday suppers. There was the deep lounge chair she bought be- cause Bart liked to read the paper while she prepared the food she had purchased from Mrs. Kemble's home kitchen shop. There was the smok- ing stand, and both would cost her but g dollar a week, and the set of glazed blue pottery dishes includ- ed as premiums with the bargain chair.
 There was the food-temptingly old-fashioned home-cooked baked beans from a huge crock Mrs. Kemble cooked each Saturday and hot crisp rolls. and brown
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That Hits Straight Home Bride ona Budget

too. A Gamma Epsilon boy from Wisconsin taught her. The heavy iron skillet, the deep hot fire, and the iron smoking and blue hot. Then, time the steak. Exactly so many minutes for each side. And it was a dish fit for an epicure. Even Bart raved about it.
 Good steak feed costs you $1.50 apiece, these times; ;and you cook one for a fraction of that, Iris. I don't see how you do it."
 Iris never told him. Bart was hound for figures and if he knew how much these Saturday suppers cost her, there'd be a riot. Too, he thought she cooked the things herself.
 Nothing like home cooking" he was always saying. "Now take these rolls, and baked beans-I'll bet there isn't house on Faculty Row that has anything to touch them tonight. Immigrant cooks, Saturday nights of, and their minds are on the clock and their A@SSNo, INV C1AS tabAO.
 Iris kept her own secret counsel and tried not to worry about the two dollars, or three that each supper bit out of her pocketbook Home cooked rolls were 35 cents a dozen, brown bread 25, fruit for the salad 20, mayonnaise 25, let tuce IS, steak 60 a pound, and 1t came to 94 cents, and SO on, to the berries that were 35 pint, and the half pint of cream, 25.
 Still it was worth it. Bart had his own little radio shop, and was coming along fine. And he was by far the most attractive man she had ever known. Though he hadn't reached the point yet wherein he realized the value of dressing to look the part of successful, rising young business man.
 What for, Iris?" he argued, when she mentioned sale on mems suits once, Why should I mortgage my future just to keep up with the Joneses? This suit is good enough for me-had it three years now, and there's still plenty of good wear left in it. A man has to think of his business these days; can't put it all on your back and have anything left to snap up bargains with"
 So he hadn't bought the suit. But secretly, Iris speculated on what she could do to improve him He was really quite handsome Not quite so tall as some of the tglamor boys she had known from Fraternity Row, but well-built. He had excellent shoulders, broad and square, and a fiat stomach and lean hips. Long legs, and a graceful sort of swagger. And his features were excellent. Thick dark wavy brown hair and brown eyes, and big mouth that didn't smile often, but revealed strong white teeth and a definite charm when he did break into a grin.
 A sturdy, dependable young man, Bart Whitaker. Ambitious thrifty. A good catch. And when a girl was sliding into her 18th year, she had to consider such things.
 The evening paper was folded on the smoking stand, and Iris stood behind the new chair. wearing the new slipper satin house coat that dipped to the very floor, and made her waist look not an inch more than 20 inches. Bart flung open the door and grinned.
 Hi. honey" he greeted her Not noticing the new housecoat which had cost $11, and was pal
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CHAPTER I

At first, when she saw the powder blue gabardine suit, Iris did not think about Bart Whitaker.
 At first, there was just the shop window and the suit with the rich geamng strand of mink fur flung carelessy shoulder and the long suede gloves on the floor nearby. The suit did something to her. Crystazed desire that had lain dormant threading it's uneasy way through many things she had done up to now.
 It was a suit year, this spring. Everyone wore them Matrons, slim schoolgirls business women ca reer girls, mothers But only few them as they should be worn. Only few had the slender, boysh
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ings of stories" And bfore long, the beginnings bothered h e r too.
 Result: one of the le a d i Il g short story and serial fl c t i o n writers in the country.
 That in brief, is the genesis of Bride on a Budget" and of ot h CT novels, C nrt stories
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pooling expenses and income. l know we could. There are budg- ets."
 His brown eyes studied her ex- citedly. Then big grin broke over his face. Budgets! It would take girl like Iris to know about budgets. Sensible, she was: smart. Figure every penny.
 i've this suit, Bart-I wouldn't have to buy anything else"
 T should say not. It's a knock cut, honey. But let's figure this.
 (To Be Continued)
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bread. There was the salad Iris assembled from lettuce, halves of canned pears and pineapple rings, and jar of Mrs. Kremble's home made salad dressing. There was the steak. And strawberry shortcake. because it was late May and berries were in from Florida. and a box of prepared shortcake biscuit required only a bit of milk, and a hot oven to transform it into a delectable des- sert. But the steak was the main item.
 Men loved steak, Iris knew. She
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nothing against him personally. merely think he's heell' In the Stork: ''Whaddaya mean a clean lifel With these orchids2". {. At the Onyx: No wonder you smell fried ham-Ben Bernie just came in' Tn Club 1S; 'aThe next time you buy a new toupee get one with brains in itl"
 Wall Street Vignette: Lieut.. Tom Littlefield of the 1st Division led a raid at no Liberty Street the other night {. Several Wall Streeters were pinched for witnessing an "iri- decent and immoral" movie show in an office building The papers had the story ... But not this one .e. A prominent Stock Exchange floor member, whose initials are F F, became very nasty Gin the sta- tion house) to the detectives and one reporter 4I'1l tell Commis- sioner Valentine and have you all bounced" he yelled To the scribe he thundered: You're jour- nalistic louse! If you dare print a line about this you'll be fired, promise you!" ... The City News reporter lost his patience He then phoned all the district report CTS to come and get the piece-and they all went to town" on it-but with trimmings! Moral: Never call an abusive Wall Streeter names . Call his bluffs,
 Observations: The Rockefeller Center sector, where there's always a breeze, no matter the temperature :. The Saks 5th Avenue show win dows currently spotlighting the lat test femme rage brilliant scarlet jackets) and the clever sign att tached: "The Red Goats Are Com- ing!" The lights of Manhat- tan as you come East via the George Washington Bridge Fifth Ave- nue: The street that always seems to have a clean shave The book in 50th Street book shop win dow. It sells for 49c but has a million dollar title: Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood" |. Those glass phone booths at the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium where you can phone and still watch the game The pamphlet hawk CTS of racial hatred, allowed to keep all they make.
 New Yorchids: Grace and Charlie Herbert's ditties at The Whirling Top-smott stuff The Davalos Congo Dancers at Leon & Eddie's Teddy Powells latest: Its All Over Town," a swelegant torch ant Naomi Shaw's and Dick Himber's: Alone in the Station,"- destined for hitdcm !. Margie Hart's girlesking at the Gaiety Ann Preston, who dances like a moonbeam on the Astor roof =. :. Alice Brady's superior acting in Young MT. Lincoln" . That grand sopranoter with Johnny Greens crew-Genevieve Rowe. She was buried in the chorus of the show until an exec heard her at re- hearsal and now she's soloist! :. Frank Bucks monkeys at the Fair. You buy a banana (attached to a balloon) for a nickel-chuck it into the air = there when it descends, they bounce on it and when the balloon explodes-haw!!i
 Broadway Confucius' Remarkable Remarks: Give dollar make friend. Loan dollar make trouble :. Flat tery only good to hear from people who not afraid to give criticism Funny thing that so many smart bloke have so little common sense Biggest trouble with lies is that so many people believe them :. Best way to become pessimist is to listen to optimist If success go to your head then it went to wrong guy You getting old when you begin watching your food instead of your waitress.
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Author of New
 Serial Hated Bindings
 Janet Doran Started Writing to Improve
 Fiction Art

One very definite development marked Janet Doran's major in college English Lit: she became acutely dissatisfied with the end-
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MAJOR SHONS TO
 LECTURE TONIGHT

Major Charles Shons, athletic .di- rector of Taft school will lecture on Combat Orders" tonight at the final school of the season conducted by the Waterbury Reserve Officers in the pest office building. The talk will be followed by an attack prob lem based on theoretical invasion of Waterbury through Watertown, by an enemy force.
 The meeting will be attended by Major Leslie L. Lathrop, U. s. A., of Bridgeport, regular army instruc- tor.
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The Story of a Girl Who Thought Love Came First And The Bills Could Take Care of Themselves
CAST OF CHARACTERS

IRIS IVES-A radiant bride who thought love came first and money could take of itself.
 BART WHITAKER = righteous bridegroom who looked at the banknOte first and his wife afterWard
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Marcia cut in hastily. "ob she. hardly seen it, Mother"
 You were lucky to get 30 en. thusiastic a guide as J !mmy, fir that case, Linda my ear, Vel l soon have you convert cd into ar ardent flying fan. Jimmy 1, wrapped up in his " ark here anc believes in 1t as few other men do Although, of courye., all of us arc partisan ."
 He would be just the kind oi man who WVlId be wrapped UT in his work. 'Ae was enough like George CaWrf for that. The same steel, Ae same strength, In Jimmy the steel was more finely tempered, the strength more like the strenf th of slender wire than concrG 4 wall.
 She had often reflected that Georg'I used the battering ram of steadj grinding, when sometimes sheei brilliance might have achieved tne same end more quickly. But as h'Jr father had remarked, George { ,ot there. And brilliance was some- times undependable. George was al- ways dependable.
 Quickly, she had caught herself She mustn't even compare George with Jimmy She concentrated on her plate; on the food which was tastelcss to her.
 "Queensville," his voice said What's 1t like?"
 Marcia was helping herself lib- erally to toast and jam. Its a quiet graveyard, Jimmy, my love. Don't you remember I told you how stilfled out there three sum- mers ago, when you were on the Lexington2 You needn't give me that look! Linda knows what I think of Queensville. I said enough the whole time I was there. We had swell time anyway. You ought to meet Lindas father He always has his nose in a book guaranteed not to be less than 1000 years old. He talks in par ables. Oh, not the Bible! Ancient historyl Everything that happens nowadays, 1t seems, happened the same way and for about the same reasons in ancient Rome, to hear him tell it."
 T expect he's right" Mrs. King put in. History does repeat it. self"
 But governments seldom learn that lesson," Linda couldn't help saying
 Anyway your father sounds very learned" Jimmy said.
 Daddy is one of the foremost authorities in Latin and ancient history in the country"
 'In that case, I wonder what he thinks of modern Naval officers. College professors usually don't approve of us"
 "Oh, Lord!" Marcia whispered. Here he comes!" Her eyes be- sought Linda not to make any breaks. Linda cruslbled toast in her fingrs and Mrs. King, pouring a second cup of coffee for Jimmy, remarked, Most professors sub- scribe to the belief that war is barbarous. And 1t Is, of course. Nevertheless, 1t is lucky you're already engaged to another pro- lessor, isn't it, Linda? So many
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visiting girls bring home flying -in-law from Pensacola"
 Lindas lips were suddenly stiff A muscle twitched in Jimmys cheek. Then, against her will Linda was looking across the table. Looking straight into his eyes. The blood raced and pounded in her veins as she felt his eyes asking their deep, word- less question and her own eyes answering.
 (T0 Be COntinued)
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. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
The Crown Thot Rules
 Nation Without a Kino
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TT isn't worth much as royal
 crowns goa jeweler probably would value its gold and jewels al about $l500--but to the people of Hungary the Crown of St. Stephen is the greatest treasure in the world. To them it is the symbol of hope, of faith in some future monarch who will restore Hun- gary to former greatness.
 While the crown remains the nations sole link with the mon- archy, and all acts of legislature and courts are 'in the name of the Sacred Crown" Regent Governor Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya holds the power. He is the un- crowned king of Hungary.
 For l9 years he has guided the destinies of his country. His tech- nique in seizing power and elini- mating his enemies has made precedent for other dictators to follow. Trained in the relentless discipline of the Imperial Navy he still retains the title Admiral" -Horthy has led Hungary out of the terror of postwar revolution, has steadily strengthened the mili- tary and economic position of this last remnant of the Hapsburg em- pire.
 Horthy has made no attempt to seize the crown for himself. Rath- CT, he has built greater nation for some future king to rule.
 The crown that unknown king will wear is shown on the Hunga- rian stamp above, olive green, of the series of 1888, commemorating the 900th anniversary of the death of St. Stephen. The stamp was overprinted upon the annexation of Czech territory.
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Dunsmuir. Cal. (UP) - Robert Colthart, shop instructor of the local high school, while trout fish ng in the middle of the stream
 had the doubtful thrill of seeing Q big brown bear come out of the forest. wade across the river. and eat his entire days catch of rain- bow trout In the meantime Col- thart transferred himself from the stream to the branches of a nearby
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CRANiUM CRACKERS
RIGHT OR WRONG?

Some of the following statements are true, some are false. Which are which-and why?
 1. Managua is the capitol of Nic- aragua.
 2. Esperanto is form of Span tsh widely used in Portugal.
 3. Mississippi was the first state to secede from the Union before the Civil War.
 (. Francis Hopkinson designed the first Great Seal of the United States.
 c. 3271 is the cube root of 35.
 AnGWera on Back Page
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Q SERIAL STORY
 WAR AND A WOMAN eo2S sY sEIaY m ". M.!IAeG .!.se ~e
CAST OF CHARACTERS

LINDA STORM - Fell In love
 with her best friends fiance. MARCIA KING - Navy girl,
 loved a flyer.
 JIMMY COOPER - Naval flying
 instructor at Pensacola. GEORGE CAMERON - Linda's
 flance.
 Yesterday: Realizing that she has fallen in love with Jimmy, Linda battles her emotions, deter. mines to stay away from him. Marcia mlsinterprets her attitude, which Linda planes on her hatred Of war, believes Linda dislikes Jimmy.
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BEAR TREES ANGLER

Answers on Back Page
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American Rearmament

The huge rearmament bill finally passed by Congress on March 9 provides for building up the fighting strength of the army air corps in both planes and personnel, improving defenses of the Panama Canal, and the placing of orders for war materials to educate American industry in their production. There seems to be widespread national approval of such measures, based not on American eagerness to go to war but on the strong belief that adequate preparedness may help to prevent threatened war.
 Hitler's amazing conquests have been made by show of force, not by fighting. Observers of the situation inside Ger many believe that while that government was better prepared for waging war last September than Great Britain and France, it's superiority is rapidly disap- bearing. They believe that when the Superiority is clearly on the "Stop Hitler" side of the European lineup, the dictators will not dare to make war and will even stop their bloodless aggression.
 American rearmament, accompanied by clearly expressed American disapprov- al of the dismemberment of Czechoslo- vakia and the whole German policy of mastery of Europe, should add weight to the anti-Hitler movement That, at least, is the American hope. If it proves ground less, it will be even more important to be prepared for self defense and for protec- ton of the Americas.
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Many local people might ponder on part of the report recently furnished the Legislature on the crowded conditions in the Waterbury county courthouse This report, drawn up by a committee of two Republicans and one Democrat, said in part that good deal could be done to- wards preventing crowded conditions by cooperation between the Superior and Common Pleas Courts holding sessions City of New Haven. Now that might lead one to believe that relations, so far as courts are concerned, between Waterbury and New Haven are strained. We don't like to believe that, but the committee report leaves no other alternative.
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And that, too, looked like wonderful idea until building trades trouble devel- oped.
 The bricklayers started cementing in the glass bricks, and then the glaziers protested. Glass, they maintain, is gla- ziers' work. The bricklayers insist that by the same token, bricks are bricklayers' work, no matter what they are made of. And there the controversy stands. More plastic substitutes for plaster and wall paper, and so on.
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Current Comment

Democracy is not hard and fast set of rules, but it is way of liv- ing.
 -Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian diplomat, on mission to Wash ington.
 Be active, and don't count the years!
 Mrs. Mary Adelman, who re- gently died in Chicago after at taining an age of 110.
 Dancing is the only art that can't wait to be appreciated. You can hang up picture and wait for posterity's verdict, but a dance must be immediately understood, or it has failed.
 Foster FitzSimons, Detroit dancer. There are no national boundaries in the things of the mind. pr. William Mather Lewis, presi- dent of Lafayette College. advo- eating that education attaches be sent to legations as well as mili- tary and naval.
 
 It is our generations destiny to make democracy live. William o. Douglas, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.