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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
Glorityimg Yourself
By ALICIA HART

T think that sweeplingly long, false eyelashes and long, pointed, false fingernails are as out of place in a business office as a velvet dress and sequin jacket would be-"
 That's a male executive speak ing.
 T know that it's important for the working girl to look smartly turned out when she turns up for party shortly after five", he con- tinued. But doubt that look ing nice at party is any more important to her than being dressed appropriately during bus mess hours. That is, assuming she wants to get ahead in the business world.
 "If she thinks that artificial eyelashes and fingernails are nec- essary to the success of her so- cial life, why can't she carry them in her bag to the office, then put them on before she leaves for the party?"
 Of course, that's only one mans opinion. But it may remind the young business woman anew that she is judged in the business world by her appearance as well as her work.
 You may like dressy afternoon frocks and fancy, giddy shoes, little girl" bows in your hair and transparent blouses, but they are
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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Have you a household problem
 t3 solve? Write your question
 clearly, sign your name and ad-
 dress, enclose a three-cent post
 age stamp and mail to The
 Wom ans Editor, Washington
 Service Bureau, The Democrat,
 1913 18th Street, Washington,
 n. C., for personal reply.
 e. Give directions for making liquid yeast with potatoes.
 '. A. Pare and cut 3-4 pound ot potatoes into small pieces, and cook until tender in 1-4 cups boil ing water. Mash the potatoes in the water in which they were cook ed, add tablespoons of sugar, 1-2 tablespoons salt, and enough cold water to make IA cups of liquid and allow this mixture to become 1ukewarm. Add cup of starter re- served from the last baking If none of this starter is available, one cake of dried or compressed yeast soaked in cup of lukewarm water may be used instead. Allow this mixture to stand overnight. In the morning it should be light and frothy, and is then ready to use. Stir it well; pour
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Mod de,rr, Menus
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX


 NEA Service Staff Writer
 A luscious coffee cake can turn aside spring fever, and with a pot of tea or coffee and good friends will make life seem brighter.
 Fruit Wheel
 About 12 1-inch slices)
 Two cups flour, 2 Ia teaspoons baking power, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, 4 tablespoons shortening, 2-3 to 3-4 cup milk.
 Filling: 1 cup cooked, seeded prunes, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1-2 tea spoon cinnamon, 2 tablespoons melt ed butter. Topping: IA cup blanched sliced almonds, 1-2 cup confectioner's su- gar, tablespoon cream or milk.
 Sift flour. baking powder and salt together. Cut or rub in shortening. Add milk to make a soft dough. Turn out on lightly floured board and knead lightly for . half min- ute. Roll out to rectangular sheet. brush with melted butter and spread with prines. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over prunes. Roll up jelly-roll fashion. Seal edges. Place in half circle on greased cookie sheet. With scissors or sharp knife. cut almost through roll from outer edge at about 1-inch interval. Bake in moderately hot oven (425 degrees FL for 25 minutes. When done brush with topping made of con- fectioner's sugar and milk. Sprinkle
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BROCK WITH BOLERO
PATTERN 75s

Classic Frocks with boleros have received 8 style boost !. and Pat tern 759 is the smartest, most flat tering and useful version you can make for Spring and Summer! In addition, there's a minimum of work to the cutting and stitching Gas you'll find out from the sewing guide page). Since we're in Color Cycle, you'll want to strike gay accent. note with the bolero- but be really practical, and use shade to team up with other dresses too. Don't you like the diagonal line of the dress yokes-which are at front only, and hold in the soft ease just below so slnartly. Comfort features of this very attractive and practical Claire Tilden style include the but ton-closing of the bodice-f front, and the flare in the pretty skirt.
 Pattern 759 is cut in misses and women's sizes IA, 16, l8, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and A. Size 16, dress, re- quires 5-8 yards 35 inch fabric and 3-8 yard ribbon.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5c) in coins for this pattern. WRITE CLEARLY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department.
 Wednesday: Matron Dress.
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You May Win In Life With a New Philosophy
Let Wise Thinkers Inspire You

Let W1Se InlnKerS inspire 1Ou
 The trials of life-dull domestic routine, illness, troubles on the job! They come to everyone. How do you meet them? Do you let your self be overwhelmed or do you triumph over them?
 Your attitude, your philosophy make all the difference in the world. For "men are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of things"-said the great Roman philosopher, Epictetus.
 And through the ages philoso- phers have directed their rich in- sight to the task of helping you. Seek activities that take you out of yourself-advises the English think CT, Bertrand Russell-and your new interests will offset disappoint- mentS.
 Happiness doesn't just descend upon you. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, said it's the crown of an activity"
 And when problems come your way, remember the words of mod ern writer, Owen Mister, We place at the top of our esteem those peo- pie =. who are not brave merely, but gallant"
 Read the essence of the great philosophical teachings in our 32- page booklet. It gives the wisdom of sages of the past like Plato and Socrates, of such famous contem- poraries as Santayana. A guide to happiness.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of PHILOSOPHY: A GUIDE TO HAPPIER LYING to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME. AD- DRESS, and the NAME of booklet.
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the teeth) and vitamin A (for the gumS).
 AS to the phrophylactic value of an adequate intake of vitamin A against chronic inflammation or disease of the gums (gingivitis, pyorrhea) or the value of optimal intake. of vitamin A in the treat ment of such conditions, Edward Mellanby is not at all positive And, for once, can't add so much as a fancy one way or the other, because know nothing about it. The thousand (human) guinea pigs on whom I intended to experi- ment with vitamin A proved toe shy only about 90 volunteered and that would not be enough to prove anything.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Changed Person


 Particularly has your suggestion of calcium and vitamin D made me into changed person. For over a year now have been taking calcium and vitamin D as you suggested, my nose seems normal and my teeth have stopped decaying. (Mrs. E. l. R.)
 Answer Thank you. Your chronic rhinitis" was probably in the nature of allergic rhinitis, hy- peresthetic rhinitis, rhinorrhea or perhaps sinus trouble. High calcium diet, calcium feeding, increased in- take of sunshine vitamin D are gen. erally advisable for such trouble, as for hay fever, asthma, periodic sick headache (migraine), recurring hives, giant hives, bronchial asthma tetany, Gin adults leg cramps at night, and various allergic states Send stamped (3c) envelopes bear- ing your address and ask for mono graphs Calcium Feeding" and "Vit- amins" Everybody Needs" Do not send clipping.
 What to Do Till the Doctor Comes
 The very day after we received The Medicine Cupboard" we had occasion to use advice in it-our four-year-old son choked on 8 but ton. We held him up by the feet and thumped his spine between the shoulders, and in moment he coughed out the button and was all right. Our gratitude ... (Mrs. E. A. O.
 Answer-Copy of '"The Medicine Cupboard" with Family Formularly will be mailed on request if you in- close twenty-five cents coin and stamped envelope (standard size) bearing your address.
 Copyright 1889, John F. Dille Co)
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GUINEA PIGS COY ABOUT
 VITAMIN A

High vitamin A diet recommended by Edward Mellanby, noted English physician and nutrition authority, for patients with disseminated (mul- tiple. sclerosis if you know what it is this may never interest you, if you don't never mind:
 One to two pints of milk daily. Two eggs.
 Liver (mammalian, not chicken liver.)
 Green vegetables.
 Carrots.
 Two teaspoonfufls of cod liver oil twice a day.
 Such a diet, Sir Edward says in his book Nutrition and Disease (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, '34, brings great im- provement in early cases, however severe, and favors stationary condition in more chronic cases. that is, the patients get no better but no worse.
 Incidentally Mellanby explains wherein the present criterion of malnutrition differs from the older criterion which most laymen and too many physicians still accept. The old criterion was mainly a comparison of height and weight at @ given age. The child who hap pened to be naturally small and thin, though perhaps in good state of nutrition, was automatically classed as "malnourished" or un- demonstrated" by that criterion. The present concept of good nu- triton, as Mellanby graphically de- scribes it, is rather something like this: "A well-grown, healthy look ing child with badly-formed and carious teeth ought to be regarded as suffering or having suffered from malnutrition. The bones of such a child are probably also de- fectively calcified, but this may not be revealed by ordinary exam- nation but only by photographic examination or by the greater ease with which these bones may De fractured. Similarly, a child with a goitre but otherwise well grown and healthy is passing through a period of specific malnutrition. {" (Mellanby does not say, but I, or Doc Brady, suggest that the speci- fic deficiency in goitre, simple or exophthalmic, is lack of sufficient iodine and perhaps insufficient daily intake of vitamin D. The same applies to anemia. If we take these tests as criteria, large part of the population of this country (England) Is suffering from mal- nutrition"
 The Mellanbys Edward and May) first observed and convinced the medical profession that the de- velopment and health of the teeth and gums is controlled largely by the daily intake of vitamin D (for
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off 1 cup to save as starter for the next baking, and store it in a clean, scalded, loosely covered jar in cool place.
 o. How should raisins be pre- pared for use in cakes, cookies or breads? A. Cover them with hot water and simmer gently about five min utes.
 o. Can anything be added to water in which potatoes are cooked to prevent discoloration?
 A.. Add slice of lemon or a tea spoon of vinegar.
 (See our general Question and An
 swer column on Page 2?
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as inappropriate to an office as golf shoes are at a dance. You don't have to go to work in man. nish suits and slouch hats, but neither do you have to assert your femininity so vigorously. You can look pretty without ap- bearing positively inefficient.
 Naturally, neatness and clean- Illness are of paramount import ance. The average executive isn't likely to promote to better po- sition the little girl who doesn't have a spick and span, perfectly groomed look about her.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

sliced almonds over the icing. Serve hot or cold.
 Sour Cream Coffee Cake
 One cup sour cream, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 2 eggs. 1-2 cups sifted flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1-8 teaspoon salt, powdered sugar and chopped nut meats, or butter, cinnamon and sugar.
 Combine and beat sour cream, suda and eggs. Sift the sifted flour again with sugar. baking powder and salt. Add sifted ingredients to cream mixture. Beat batter until smooth. Spread dough in shallow, lightly greased 8xl0-inch pan. Bake In moderate (360 degrees FL oven until done. While still hot, sprin- kle with sugar and nuts, or butter, cinnamon and sugar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

All 6 n [, l will. But first , have to run over to Polly's with this book"
 Dorothy had to be sent for when dinner was ready. She came in, all excuses. q didn't dream it was so late. Angy stopped in and we thought we'd play just one short g a m e of Chinese checkers. I'm so sorry"
 T h ave been ironing all day."
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
ANSWER:
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

ANSWER: your fathers girl who's given him lief to believe what belve namely, that The that toys with the thought of marriage to girl thirty himself I did" The fact that he's pong himself by repeating this fable proof he spping whisng through
 
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 Naturally daughter seeing fathers dignity melt like the her salvage what's left of it is his decision pleasantly and wish him luckwh he have at that There u marriages of this sort community give of hope
  knows but father work it happily?
 Karl Menninger that nothing implications" Certainly which old trying his youth jokes don't deter him. a daughters warning won't.
 CAROLINE CHATFIELD. The between sympathetic prosperity size of his the line between repeating interesting bit gossip humour that kindly ridicule s
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
TWO SISTERS TEACH 90 YEARS

Plattsburgh, N. Y. - (UP) - Graduation this summer will mean a combined total of 90 years of high school teaching for two sisters. Miss Grace E. Barker, who has ad- vanced to vice principal, will retire with 50 years of servise. Her sister Gertrude will end a 40-year career.
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after dinner. 'Ted, I want you to help Dorothy do these dishes. She has to go to rehearsal"
 q simply can't, Nom. got be- hind with math last week when I had that toothache.
 Do as you are told" says father.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

SHOE LACE CAUSES CRASH
 .Deepwater, N. J. (UP).-An united shoestring which tangled around the accelerator caused his automobile to frash into another here, John J. Jackson of Marshall town told police. He stopped the car by tearing the shoestring loose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
HEALTH.
Hozg To Keeb WeU
By DIR. WILLIAM BRADY. MD.

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LIFE LONG AND HAPPY

Decoto, Cal. = (UP) - Paris Jas per Ferguson, 95, oldest resident of the Masonic home in this city, will celebrate on April IA the 65th anniversary of his marriage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

His wife. Ruth. is s2. They "schoo- nered" across the plains in the gold rush days, and insist life hes always been happy for them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

Transfer of the fur trade from Leipzig, Germany, to London has made the English city the chief world market for furs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

Take rather than pains older philosophy  herself coorfu whether bance graciousn clever sophiscaion she 
 like plague tendency build ones self up subtly tearing 10 Like herself well enough that isn't mortified thought of spending evening If she has the gmpaon to stick points, attractive at 40 than
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Caroline Chatfield Sqw 7oday

Old Man Decoyed by Beauteous Young Gal Is Deaf
 to Daughters Plea For Sanity. DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:
 that wouldn't make father unhappy because realized that natural interested widow delighted had time thought
 thing thirty his junior swept him of his feet and he has deter marry father sensible spected successful morifes death Is there anything the folly of what he's doing?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

1. Be her age. Not keep sliding out from under responsibilities with the excuse that there is time flor all that" later
 9 Fit into the changing circumstances of her life, giving up rather careless living when her own or her husbands success goes beyond that or forgetting 8 more pretentous background when it no longer be- longs to her.
 g. Keep from becoming schooner. Many smart, ambitious women lose their charm quickly when they get too concerned with putting their best foot forward and making the most of every opportunity and every acquaintance.
 f. Avoid limiting her friendships to one two women, no matter how sufficient they seem to be at the time.
 5. Make serious study of some subject that has always interested her, whether it is music, interior
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

i've been ironing all day." sighed mother, as she lit the gas and put the beans on to boil. T wish you would set the table, Dorothy"
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Latest Styles
WE, THE WOMEN.
These Ten Rules Will Make Any Woman Ten Times More
 Attractive In Ten Years
By RUTH MILLETT

who make she a should follow en-pot plan she doesn't she'll become girl of 20 too little a of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

HOLLYWOOD.-The younger stars are among III the most smartly- -garbed on the lots. When they are working, they take what the wardrobe department prescribes or whatever costume the script calls for. But when they go out to shop for themselves, they have very, definite ideas about clothes. Here are few of the many young sters I saw whose achievement of chic can stand comparison with that of any group of women anywhere-yaunted Paris included.
 MARIAN YOUNG
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   All held confidence
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-23
Pre-MarifaI Exam
To Be Demanded in
Law After Sept. 10

Cupid will have to take another
hurdle to marry off couples in
Imperial county after the new pre-
marital examination law goes into
effect September ID.
No marriage license may be is
sued in California unless both par
ties to the marriage contract pre-
sent a physicians certificate show
ing they are free of venereal dis
eases.
Clean bill Of health certificates
must be filed with County Clerk
w. J. McClelland before he may
issue marriage license No certi-
ficate-no license will be the rule
after September 18.
DR.. w. M. Dickie, state health
director, said couples who plan to
marry after the law goes into ef-
feet may start to take physical
examinations and blood tests now.
The tests must be made within 80
days before the date the license
is issued.
The certificate will set forth that
the person is not infected with a
venereal disease or, if infected, is
not in the stage when there is
danger of the marital partner be-
ing infected, Dickie said
Persons born with syphilis, those
who have had it for many years
may be permitted to marry if the
disease is not in a communicable
stage" he said. All persons plan.
ming to marry should consult theil
family physician for examination
and blood test. Free tests may bt
obtained at public clinics.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-23
Grapes Of Wrath Sour! So Says
Associated Farmer Head in l.v.

if I were a member of this migra-
tory group I would resent it just
as much as Californians resent his
descriptions of the way this states
residents treat them. l don't see
why Steinbeck should paint these
migratory workers as moral lepers.
They're not!
The rancher scoffed at Stein
becks charge that California farm
ers lured the socalled dust bowl
refugees west SO as to have great
surplus of cheap labor He said
he did not know of one instance
where this had been done.
California pays her farm labor
higher wages than any state in the
union. Farmers have no reason to
entice more of the migratory work.
ers from Texas and Oklahoma.
There always are 40 men after
each job. ..,..t..t.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-23

G G. Bennett, president of the
Associated Farmers of Imperial
county, Wednesday joined the state
wide chorus condemning John
Steinbeck's book, Grapes of Wrath
and said Oklahoma and Texas had
as much reason to resent the book
as had California.
"The whole plan of the book is
unfair" Bennett declared, because
Steinbeck took an extreme case, an
extreme character, and extreme sit
uation and put them together to
form what he had no right to call
an average case.
Il have had Oklahomans and
Texans working for me for years
and have known many others from
these states who worked in Imperial
Valley. They don't resemble Stein
beck's characters in any way and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-23

reportedly warning London to keep
out of Germay's quarrel with Po-
land, the British government:
/. Sent ambassador Sir Neville
Henderson to Berchtesgaden where,
in a brief conference, he trans
mitted warning that force would
be met with force if Britain's de-
sire for a peaceful solution of the
quarrel were ignored.
2. Summoned the privy council
to meet tomorrow in advance of
Thursday extraordinary session OF
parliament to consider defense pre-
cautions for any emergency created
by Hitler's determination to get
back not only Danzig but all for
mer German areas from Poland.
3. Arranged for King George to
return to London tonight to pre-
side at the council meeting. The
king in council has power to make
war.
Nazi HOnOred
The sterness with which the Brit
ish government acted to meet the
threat of war before this weekend
overshadowed for the moment the
furious diplomatic battle in which
the Nazis sent the foreign minister
to Moscow to line up the Commu-
mist state as neutral. Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, Nazi envoy, was receiv-
ed with high honors and Immediate
ly went into conference with So
Wet Premier Viacheslav Molotov on
the projected German-Soviet nom
aggression pact.
In Berlin, where the NaZi news
papers renewed their attacks on
Poland, the French embassy advis-
ed members of the French colony
to be prepared to go home. Various
cruise ships in European waters
were changing their schedules to
avoid danger zones. American tour
lists swamped the London consulate
with inquiries about going home and
ships bound for the United States
were crowded.
In Tokyo, the japanese govern
ment announced that the proposed
Soviet pact would have no
effect on Japan's creation of "a
new order in East Asia
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-23
Will Poles Fight?
Peace Hinges
On This Issue
Someone Must Make Big
Breakdown, Or 1t Means
Conflict in Europe
BY WEBB MILLER

LONDON, Aug. %. UP)
"A supreme European crisis
approached today.
The alternatives were big
backdown by Hitler, by Poland or
by Britain, or war.
Events we're moving toward a
climax with irresistible momentum
It was most likely that the show
down would come before this week
end. .
1t seemed today that the question
of general European war depend
ed primarily upon two things:
/. The nature and extent OF
Hitlers move against Poland.
2. Whether Poland, knowing that
neither Great Britain nor France
could render her effective military
aid, would nevertheless decide to
fight if Germany attacked.
1t was learned that the German
general staff estimated that it would
completely crush Poland within two
or three weeks by simultaneous
thrusts from the south through Slo-
vakia, from the southwest through
Silesia, and from the east from
Pomerania.
If the words and the grim temper
of the British people mean any
thing Britain will fight if Poland
resists on a wide scale.
Everyone, British and foreign
with whom I have talked since I
returned to England by airplane
from the United States Monday,
agrees on that.
At yesterdays cabinet meeting,
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain took a most determined posi-
ton regarding the necessity of Brit
aims fighting if Polish independence
is endangered. The entire cabinet
was with him. even Sir John Simon.
chancellor of the exchequer. and
Sir Samuel Hoare, home secretary.
who have been regarded as advo-
Gates of "appeasement."
Officials here said they have rea-
son to believe that Hitler's plan
is to seize pre-war territory from
Poland, perhaps preceding the seiz-
ure with an ultimatum. If Poland
resists, he would attempt to crush
her completely by military force
as rapidly as possible.
Then. even though Britain and
France had started to war, he would
turn to them and offer immediate
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