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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

pickpocKet squad aren't given leads" says Detective Shanley, who has red hair and hazel eyes and looks as though she might be a col- lege physical education instructor, "so start my day by dressing to suit the neighborhood have de- cided to work in."
 All day long she wanders through department stores, stands in theater lines, and pushes her way into crowds. Five times a day she re- ports to the department by tele- phone.
 When anyone looks suspicious (she couldn't describe the look, but said. "there is something about a thief that stands out"), she follows him or her, as the case may be. Usually it's a her, for Detective Shanley does her work where there are crowds of women.
 T can usually tell in 20 minutes whether a suspect is legitimate or not. Often when I have .hunch there is something phoney about a woman, l trail her a whole day without seeing her try anything funny. If that happens, I trail her home, and then look for her pie ture in the police files. If find 1t, I keep after the woman until l catch her at work"
 Detective Shanley has, among the arrests to her credit, the names of 12 of the country's slickest fe- male pickpockets.
 Arrests aren't always made with
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cleaned off her plate. Not a bite left. "See," she said, proudly, T ate 1t all up. I am completely surprised at myself"
 Ccnquers Her Distaste
 She was trying so hard to please. But she was trying also to gain a victory of some kind. She does not like beets, but she had mastered them with deter mination, as well as her cereal and egg. I gave her a double por- ton of stewed apricots, which she loves. Perhaps this made 1t square between us.
 Children grow about foot every time they win Q victory. It does not concern anyone but themselves. Mary did not look for hugs and kisses, or want our praise at that moment. She was satisfied in her own little soul that she had done @ good deed. Copyright, 1889, NEA Service, Incl
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WE, THE WOMEN ---- SHE GETS HER MAN, BUT IT'S USUALLY A WOMAN
Female Detective Specializes in Shop Crowds

out 8 chase or struggle. Just a few weeks ago shopping crowds were startled to see a woman, pistol drawn, chasing @ man in and out of Fifth Avenue traffic. It was De- tective Shanley, after criminal of many arrests. She got him, too.
 Detective Shanley likes her job. "It's exciting" she says. Right now, especially so. For I'm being sent to London this week. I'd die If I had to go back to working in an office."
 It's the first time woman de- tective has even been sent to Eu- rope on @ case, and Mary Shanley is as excited as any woman would be over trip abroad.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Casual Cure

Friend of mine began taking cal. cium and vitamin D for bad teeth and general debility, about a year ago. To her astonishment this seemed to cure her hay fever with which she had suffered for many years. (M. l.. T)
 Answer-A great many victims of hay fever or asthma or both have obtained extraordinary relief from regular courses of calcium and vita- man D. For monograph on hay fev- CT or asthma, send three-cent- stamped envelope bearing your ad. dress.
 Hot Flashes Stopped
 Following your suggestion began taking calcium and vitamin D, also wheat germ, daily. Within three weeks %fme my hot flashes stopped. A million thanks to you, Dr. Brady. I've told many of my friends of your good help. (Mrs. w. E. S)
 Answer-For instructions, I have a monograph on the Menopause and monograph on Calcium Feeding. For these, send a three-cent-stamp- ed envelope bearing your address. No clippings. Ask for what you want. refuse to read my own stuff to save lazy correspondents from writ- ing.
 Copyright 1899, John F. Dille Col
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WOMAN,S REALM
Gloy'itying Yourself
By Alicia Hart
MIA seryice Sum Writer

On her thirtieth birthday, every woman ought to remind herself that skin which is cared for properly will retain its smooth, youthful tex ture and firm contours through the years. Only neglected complexions become discolored, open-pored, deeply wrinkled and otherwise un- attractive.
 It should be- encouraging to realize that the future loveliness of your skin rests entirely with you. But this realization certain ly ought to make you determine to use night cream faithfully, particu- larly on throat and around eyes, keep skin scrupulously clean and to eliminate whatever minor complex ion defects you have.
 Never go to bed without first washing face and neck carefully with plenty of soap and warm water. Afterward, rinse with cold water, skipping 1t on until cheeks are tin- gling. Cold rirses not only stimu- late sluggish circulation, but tend to keep pores from becoming re- faxed and enlarged.
 Don't put fresh makeup on over stale. Clean your face several times 6 day, using cream or @ lotion or whatever cleansing agent you hap pen to like.
 A solution of one part water and one part fresh lemon juice, used twice a week, is a good bleach for @ grayish, discolored throat. A weekly mask treatment will help to keep skin firm and clear. Always pat on and remove creams with upward and outward strokes. Ap- ply night cream around eyes with rotary movements.
 Choose your makeup ever so care- fully, making sure that powder matches exactly or is one shade lighter than your natural skin tones, and the rouge, lipstick and nail lacquer harmonize. Then learn to get each on absolutely fiawlessly. No one looks really smart if lip- stick is blurred or if rouge stands out in two round spots. And if you are thirty, smartness should be your goal.
 NEXT: The foundation of all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

Crisp, colorful new slip covers how they brighten your rooms for spring! And you can make them at home easily, inexpensive ly.
 The smart slip cover in our pie ture is plaid in pretty shades of gray; the seams are gaily outlined with yellow moss trimming. Strik- ing, too, is plain beige with rust moss or--for your bedroom - dove gray and orchid moss.
 And you can quickly make this cover-or any other style-this simple pin-on way.
 Smooth the material over the chair-wrong side out if you use moss trimming. Work from the top of the back to the front of the seat and allow 3 or inches for tuck in between back and seat.
 Then pin along the top and seams Gut while the material is still pinned to the chair, leaving l 1-2 inches outside pins for seams-as our sketch shows. The arms, back, sides and skirt you fit separately.
 Next comes the basting, tryon- and the final stitching.
 How to trim, finish, make plack- etsP Every step in the making of slip covers--from estimating mater ial to finishing-is clearly explained and diagramed in our 32-page book let. Directions for box-pleated flounces; tips on color schemes, fa- brics.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of HOW TO MAKE SLIP COVERS to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plain ly your NAME. ADDRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
BUTTERMILK IS A HEALTHFUL BEVERAGE


 Please devote an entire column to buttermilk, sour milk, fermented milk, acidophilus milk, Bulgarian milk, koumiss and yoghurt. Many of us are using one or another Of these for colon troubles. They are said to prevent fermentation or putrefaction or to maintain a healthier bacterial growth. We be- lieve your views will be a great help c. T. S)
 Koumiss does not belong in the list. It is a fermented beverage or distilled liquor originally made from milk by the Tatars. It is in toxicating. Generally made from cares or camel's milk.
 So far as I have been able to learn, there is little difference in the effects to be derived from the other tactic beverages you mention.
 Use of them, any of them, as a daily food . beverage, is healthful for any one. Tn my opinion plain soured milk --- raw milk allowed to stand until 1t sours = is as good as any of the other fancier tactic bacillus beverages for promoting or maintaining 6 normal predomi- nance of tactic fermentation in the bowel. Use your own taste as to which you prefer.
 Buttermilk or natural sour milk or any milk first boiled then cooled to body temperature and sown with any form of tactic basillus culture to hasten fermentation or conver- sion of some of the lactose( milk sugar) of the milk into tactic acid, becomes practically a pure culture of tactic bacilli. These germs are naturally present in all milk. They are responsible for the souring of milk. They change lactose (miik sugar. into tactic acid; they can change any kind of sugar and any kind of starch, cooked or raw, into tactic acid. They are destroyed by boiling; par-boiling Gas in pas- teurizing) only half kills them, as you might say--that is why pas- teurized milk does not sour as rapidly as raw milk does.
 After milk begins to sour, wheth- CT naturally or from sowing with @ culture of tactic bacilli, any other germs which may have been pres- ent in the milk are more likely to be killed off or at least their mul- tiplication is retarded by the acid produced by the tactic bacilli.
 A similar effect occurs in the colon. Active growth and multipli- ] cation of tactic bacilli in the colon tends to discourage growth or null tiplication of harmful gegnls, such as the specific disease germs and the germs of putrefaction.
 Putrefaction is the decomposi- iton of nitrogenous or proteid mat ter. Fermentation is the decom- position of carbohydrate material sugar or starch.
 A certain amount of fermenta- ton occurs constantly in the proc- ess of digestion in the intestine and is rather beneficial. Besides the de- irable tactic acid, considerable gas is produced by this normal fermen-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

She only nibbled at the things her mother gave her on her dish, and was fussy and cross - for her. which Is never very bad.
 I love this little elf of e girl to distraction, but I pushed back her chair and said, "Scoot! When you can smile and be nice girl, come right back. I'll be waiting"
 She cried a little and finally came back. I set her up like a duchess and she ate what she could. I did not insist on her eating much. I knew she wasn't hungry and a meal more or less does not matter.
 Next evening she climbed lip and I thought saw starry look in her eyes. Something was on her mind. In a jiffy she had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
Foil PickpOckets

Here are Detective Mary Shanley's four cardinal rules for preventing pickpockets from making you 8 victim:
 Don't carry a bag under your arm if you are wearing a fur coat. You'd never feel a pickpocket slip 1t out.
 Don't lay your pocketbook down while you try on hats or dresses or put 1t on a coun- ter while you slip a housedress on over your own dress.
 Don't, when you are in a theater, put your bag on the vacant seat beside you. A "seat tipper" behind you can put his foot on the back of the seat and the bag will slide right into his hand.
 Be especially careful to hold tight to your bag in any kind of a crowd--a theater rush, sale, or in a crowded elevator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

family being to- gether once in 0 while.
 c r anddaugh- ter Mary, three and @ half, de- cided that she wanted to sit be- side me. So l m owed over, made way for her funny lit- tie high chair, and after that we ate our spin- ach together.
 This night she x,,as aak las,n0px,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
RACY PRINT

Ideal for southern resort ward- robes or to wear right now under your fur coat are sheer rayons in new unusual prints. A modified shirtwaister, exquisitely tailored, has a striking design of Mexican ponies, dashing madly across background of pottery blue, with belt and but tons of contrasting color. This model is designed to give you Q sleek, fresh appearance and will in- vigorate somewhat jaded late win- ter wardrobe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

tation, and the gas promotes nor- nal persistalsis and aids in the final stages of digestion.
 Protein putrefaction is con. stant and normal occurrence in the large intestine, but contrary to the notion of many credulous cuss toners, there is nothing toxic" oc harmful in the products of this physiological putrefaction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
BY RUTH MILLETT

When Mary Shanley mingles with the well-dressed shoppers in a Fifth Avenue store or with the pushing housewives in a 14th Street bargain basement, she is one of them. If she stood out from the crowd she
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26

WOulQH ' pe any good at her job.
 For she is Detective Mary Shanley of New York s pick pocket squa @ d, who always car- ries @ .32 revol- yer in her bag and is the only woman in New York police his- tory yer to each the rank of second grade detective.
 "Det e c tiv e s acsinfaafl fn flan
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Of Interest To Women

Have you household problem to solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, enclose e three-cent post age stamp and mail to The WOm n s Editor, Washington Service Bureau, The Democrat, 1913 18th Street, Washington, D. C., for a personal reply.
 c. How many pairs of legs do house centipedes have?
 A. Fifteen.
 e. How may an egg white or an unbroken egg yolk be kept for sev- eral days?
 A. Put them in cups, cover with cold water and set in refrigerator c. Is punishment by deprivation considered @ good form of control for disobedient and unruly children,
 A. Such punishments are ex- tremely useful in teaching the child self-control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
Latest Styles
HEALTH
Ho7c 10 Keep WeH
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MID.

perscnai henh and egs:rs nos enclosed nse G Owtng column No
 
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from Experience.


 Of course knows her business When she puts ny wings on a so fly and find fertile soil seed, can't exactly say shes children certainly does take instance endOws them Witn nee pos fathers for their babies but she mustn't let the prospective fathers know they She the gals learn by perience their they must curb heT natures anxiees and up their tracks, Ana some of gals can't learn Mother expects maid after the without let ting the She expects her to hold the he's being detained She expects babies feed them tend them and then when back and take what husband and children without begging for or demanding more
 Mother Nature with the heartaches that feminine it's train She concerned only that accomplished the replenshs must high for the who doesn't the husband and children not they respect and admire the idea as for instance this mother deserted when little girl nothing but heads and so went saved sacrificed give child what what cost to make the dress the office would sit half the night and my eyes back ached Now when she is old enough a financially she planning another state to live After all have done for her wouldn't let her leave me-
 nd another wife: I keep clean house Every one says I the best groomed in town His him when home in the evening and three M t. him to death. Miss Chated married for companonshp but mostly I'm nurse and mother to the children"
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of ia will
  confidence Write Miss ch"hed in care o this
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business but she didn't give her when endowed them with fierce demanded that they furnish their brakes
 CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
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Caroline Chatfield
Sqps To-day

Mother Nature Endows Female Children with Fierce Possessive Natures, but She Doesn't Teach Them How to Apply the Brakes. They Must Learn from Experience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-26
RAISING A EAh1al Y By Olive Roberts Barton
Character Feeds on Even Tiny Victories

BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
 When my grandchildren visit me, I insist that they be allowed to have their meals at the "big" table. Our dinner hour Is early and like the old fashioned idea of the entire
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NEXT: The foundation of all beauty.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01
( q \

TUESDAY, DECEM-
Der 5, will mark the
sixth anniversary of the
repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment. From a
small city newspaper !
editorial which ap-
peared on the fifth an
niversary of this event
we quote:
"The prohibition era
was the greatest period
of natural immortality
and corruption this
country had known up
to that time, in the cen
fury and a half of its
existence as a nation.
Demoralizing effects Of
the experiment touched
every stratum and phase
of life. 1t corrupted
agencies of law and OF
justice. 1t created an
economic plutocracy of
thugs and gunner. 1t
inspired a nationwide
contempt for law. Its
blighting influence
rested heavily upon
politics. w h ole sale
bribery and thievery in
tn cir innum era bic
forms, hypocrisy in
social andin official life,
corruption of youth,
hi-jacking, racketeerlng
and murder all had their
origin in this ira gic
effort to alter human
customs, not in them
selves immoral or OBJ
jectionable, by statute"
Association OF
MARYLAND DISTILLERS
g. ALLIED INDUSTRIES
MERCANTILE TRUST BLDG. BALTIMORE. MD.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01
SIDNEY SNOW will be glad to
answer any questions
on food
A Recipe Is One Thing
A Planned Meal Another

what the doctor would order, but the
vegetable dish lends opportunity for
greatness. And it would be hard to
find anything more tangy and yet
simple to prepare than broiled toma-
toes. One simply cuts them in half,
separating top and bottom, touched
up with a bit of butter, pepper and
salt, and put under the broiler to heat
through quickly, brown slightly, but
keep intact.
A Yorkshire Pudding may be added
and it is made like this: Mix together
a cup of milk, half a cup flour, two
eggs and one teaspoonful baking pow
der. When well mixed, add salt and
pepper and half cup of chopped beef
suet. Bake in a roasting pan with
beef fat from the roast. When done,
cut into squares and serve with the
roast.
For this season of the year, fresh
apple pie goes with roast beef like
ham with eggs, liver with bacon and
nip with tuck.
Again we say-the individual re-
cipe has no chance unless the balance
of the menu is built around it. But
give even a simple recipe proper &C
companying dishes, and one attains
the heights of civilized dining.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01

Washington - The Post Office
Department announced recently that
it would issue thirty-ive new postage
stamps honoring famous Americana.
Included in this list will be one bear
ing the face of Alexander Graham
Bell, inventor of the telephone.
Amsterdam :. The number Of tele-
phone central Offices in service in The
Netherlands at the end of 1888 was
1,543, of which $40 were of the dial
type. Of the total of 306,4 sub
scribers' lines, 22S, 1888 were connected
to dial central offices and 1904 to
manual offices. instruments in service
at the end of 1888 totaled 430, 268.
Interurban conversations totaled 55,-
633,O2S during the year compared
with 47,4OS,755 in 1887.
Hinton :. The Quisenberry family
of Hinton, w. Va, held a family re-
union via the telephone short time
ago. Arrangements were made pos
sible by previous notice to the tele-
phone company and the call was COM
pleted at an appointed time. Mem
bers of the family at Chicago, ILL.,,
Charleston, w. Va, and Oakland, Nd,
were "present" by telephone.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01
COOKIE RECIPE
LACE COOKIES

Sift cup flour with
LIZ teaspoon baking powder
Blend egg yolks Slightly beaten)
IL cup King Syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 cups rolled oats
LIZ cup shortening
Fold in stiffly beaten whites of two
eggs. Drop by teaspoon on CREASED
sheet. Bake 5 to 2 minutes In hot
oven.
GINGER COOKIES
cup granulated ugar
1 cup King Syrup
scant cup of shortening
3 eggs
8 teaspoons ginger
IL teaspoon salt
Flour to make fairly stiff dough
Mix the shortening and sugar and
beat thoroughly. Add the syrup and
then the beaten eggs. Sift the ginger
in a cup of the sifted flour and then
add enough flour to make a dough
that can be handled. Chill by set
ting in cold place for several hours
or over night. Roll very thin, cut in
any desired shape and bake in mod
crate oven.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01
RADIANT LIVING
Mans Greatest Quest
BY Rev. C. Nj. Griffith
Pastor Methodist Church
Ridgely, Md.


In an article on Gravel as a Fine
Art" the author says that the more
one travels the more he becomes con-
WINGED that the greatest of all studies
is the study of mankind.
While I am inclined to agree with
this statement. I believe that the
study of God and how to attain the
most vital relationship with Him is
a study that surpasses the study of
mankind.
For the greatest quest of man is the
quest for God.
In his much discussed "The Return
to Religion" DR.. Ling says: "In a
world of change and rebellion to au-
thority, God is the only fixed point"
God is, in fact, the only secure an
chorage to which to tie up. He is the
only fixed point from which to start.
He is the only fixed point to which
to return.
Even the polar star around which
all other stars travel is not in itself
a fixed point. There is but one fixed
point for human consciousness and
that fixed point is God.
Perhap this is the fact that was
basic in the mind of st. Augustine as
he uttered that statement that has be-
come classic: "Our heart is restless
unless it repose in Thee"
This was the experience Of the
Psalmist who out of the hunger of his
heart for God, cried: GAS the heart
panteth after the water brooks, SC
panteth my soul after thee, o God
The quest for God is the greatest
quest that man can make, for as we
come to know God we come to possess
life.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01

Many a great individual recipe goes
to seed when one fails to surround
it with other dishes to make the well
planned meal. On the other hand
a little planning and little ingenuity
and not only can much money be saw
ed in the cost of raw materials, but
the meal becomes an event. A bit OF
a secondary cut of beef for roasting
can be turned out as very sad meal
indeed or it may be done like this,
and, viola
For the soup, depend upon a can
of consimme, but with these additions,
cut carrots, turnips and potatoes into
bits the size of peas. Cook each vege-
table separately until done. Then
add a few left over canned or fresh
cooked peas and mix these in to the
heating consomme. Add bit of chip
ped parsley. Serve with strips OF
thin, dry toast. And one has Con-
somme Cialdini.
Before roasting the beef, with a
long, thin knife make incisions with
the grain of the meat. Insert strips
of bacon. Then brown the meat quick
ly and roast slowly. A carrot or
two, an onion and any scraps of eel
cry will help the flavor and in the
end are mashed and help to enrich the
gravy.
Mashed potatoes with roast beef is
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01

PITTS CREEK PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday
Rev. Robert B. Stewart, Minister
Pocomoke City
1000 A. M. Sunday School
LADIES AIDS
800 p. M, Senior, Second Monday
11:00 A. M. Service Of Worship.
7:15 p. M. Christian Endeavor.
Wednesday
7:45 P. M. Bible Study and Prayer
Meeting.
Beaver Dam
Sunday
2:15 p. N. Sunday School.
800 p. M. Service Of Worship.
Everybody welcome. Come and
worship with US.