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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
Reputation
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When size saw him standing
there with an eagerness no at
tempt at indifference could con-
ceal she felt shy and incapable Of
handling the situation.
You wanted 10 see me ?" Chris
asked.
Eyes. Come in. Chris
They were silent as he removed
his coat ard seated himself across
the room from her.
I'm going to tell you something
which will be a terrible shock"
she predicted. "Of course / do
not know how you feel about me
any more. You may have changed
entirely since the last time we
were together"
you know better than that"
Chris said stiffly.
1--WE decided to be absolutely
frank with you" she declared.
Then you'll understand why I
had to act as did,"
He leaned forward tensely.
I'm the daughter of Robert
Trenton" she blurted.
She stopped but Christopher's
expression did not change.
80 whet?"
DO you mean you don't know
who Robert Trenton was ?"
THE name sounds familiar" he
admitted.
So then she would have to tell
him the whole bitter story. Gail
closed her eyes and drew a fright
ened breath before she continued,
Your father sent my father to
prison for the theft of an emerald
ring"
Now at last the light dawned.
Christopher said, "oh. yesw He
added in a voice which made her
sick at heart, You don't mean
that, Gail You can't be the
daughter of man like that"
He didn't do It," she said in
a low, fierce voice. MY father
couldn't possibly have done such
a thing"
There was silence for a moment
then out of the blackness which
surrounded her she heard Chris
say, "Why, no, darling, of course
he couldn't. If he was your IA
ther then he couldn't have done
it. I remember now Father al
ways said he trusted Robert Tren-
ton. That's what made it SO in
credible"
Tears OF Relief
Tears of relief were rolling
down her cheeks.
do you really mean you don't
believe it just because he was my
father" she asked wonderingly.
That's right. He was convicted
on circumstantial evidence wasn't
he? 1t was so long ago that
didn't remember much about it
except how upset my father was"
Mine died as a result of it."
Gail informed him.
But he was across the room
now holding her against his breast.
Sweetheart, I'm sorry. No
Continued on Page IA, Column 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
Taste
Today
By EMILY POST

The rule has always been strict
against permitting the family of
the bridegroom To give any part
Of the wedding. This is considered
the obligation Of the family OF the
bride. and yet there are times
when this tsbu against giving the
reception In the house Of the
groom's family Is unreasonable
especially since IL Is quite proper
that a mere friend Of the bride or
her own family offer her house.
This long established prejudice.
nevertheless. explains the curious
feeling" Of her mother described
by the bride-to-be in this letter:
We live in very small apart
ment. II Is certainly not POSSIBLE
to have a wedding in it, or even to
have a reception big enough TO in
clude both our families. MY
fiance's sister has offered her
beautiful big house for both the
wedding and reception. Ny par
ents are hesitating TO accept be-
cause my mother has a curious
feeling that this would be putting
my family in the wrong. She
thinks / should be married in
church and that we should dis
pense with the reception. Natur-
ally, II 1t were possible. I would
so much rather have a reception.
My family circumstances are mod |
est but they could manage a re-
ception II we had a place to give
It,"
As I have already written,
there is prejudice-and yet oc-
casionally there are mitigating
circumstances which counteract
this rule; circumstances which
may perhaps be yours. For exam
pie. IL his family and yours have
long been friends and IL his sister
In particular Is one OF your best
friends. this would make all the
difference since no one could pos
sibly believe that you were trying
to make a display--or in fact,
think anything but the truth.
I do think. however, that the
wedding should be In church, to
which your parents of course send
the invitations - with reception
cards enclosed, also in their names
at the address OF your future
sister-in-law. This wording means
that your parents are contribut-
ing all service and supplies for the
reception and have merely bor-
rowed the house.
II your own family and your
family have not always
been friends, 1t would be best, /
-hink, to wait at the back of the
,hurch and receive the good
wishes of everyone, and then let
your sister-in-law give a welcome
nome" reception for you when you
'eturn from your wedding trip.
boy FRIEND and STEADY
Company"
Dear Mrs. Post: Is It true that
boy friend" and steady COM
pany" have been accepted as pres
terms for yesterdays beau
and admirer?
Answer: I have to acknowledge
that the gates have opened for
boy friend" but steady COM
psny' and keeping company" are
both outside the gates-and l, for
one, hope they stay there.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate,
Incl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

being hurt II Is practically impos-
sibie TO ignore the cutting talk Of
other human beings.
INSTEAD OF worrying about the
talk az other people. why don't
you start to work on YOURSELF II
you are overweight 1t lies within
your power to remedy the matter.
Do your reducing under the d.
rections Of competent physician
and you viii find that with your
loss of weight you viii gain self
confidence.
Our physical imperfections have
a way Of determining our mental
attitude. 80 do what you possibly
can to overcome any sense Of In
adequacy. But remember. most OF
US have a feeling of self-conscious-
ness At times and because no one
Is ever free Of 1t. try to be content
in the thought that II other people
have overcome self-consciousn
you can too.
1t takes a determined effort and
the ability to laugh at yourself as
easily as you can laugh at the
funny picture often made by
others.
To Mrs. P.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

his immunity, HdluIdI HIIu HO-
quired.
The community in which the
child lives may make certain pro-
visions to promote health and
prevent disease which will bring
into balance those forces which
make for normal growth and de-
velopment, but the individual
must learn to do many things for
himself.
In the first place there Is "old
man heredity." Oliver Wendell
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

adjustments be-
tween the indi-
vidual and his
$ u r r oundings.
His ability to
make these adj
justments de-
ponds upon his
heredity, his in
telligence, his
ira | n n & in
h e al tn habits.
h | s resistance
to unfavorable
conditions a n d
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
ABOUT BABIES

Holmes cnce said that il we could
choose our ancestors we could
have a better and healthier race.
That being impossible, we must
the present generation
Of young people to make better
liz their mates. The i'm
portance of a healthy, vigorous
stock to produce healthy children
cannot be cverestimated.
We may not be able to do much,
if anything, about our heredity,
but we can provide more adequate
ly for the on-coming generation.
In this connection, too much can
not be said in urging proper
prenatal care for the expectant
mothers. An adequate, balanced
diet, freedom from disease and de-
fects, plenty of fresh air and sun
light, rest and recreation and
mind free from fears and worry
not only help to promote a healthy
pregnancy, but put the mother in
a better position to nurse her baby
and care for its daily needs.
Health habits really begin at
birth. The regularity with which
the baby is fed, his daily routine
of bathing, sleeping and associa-
ton with his parents lay the foun-
dations for more exacting health
habits later in childhood. Psy-
biologists Tell us that habits good
and bad are largely formed in the
pre-school years.
Next TO a good nourishing diet
and health habits we must place
recreation ir the form of play and
lots of sleep for the growing child.
Children should play and rest in
the open air as much as possible.
They should gradually be exposed
to the sun, with protection of the
eyes. In the northern and eastern
parts of the United States there is
very little sunshine in the winter
months Children should be given
cod liver oil daily in these parts
TO make up Tor the deficiency Of
ultra violet rays.
A healthy child is free from de-
bilitating diseases and defects. The
child should therefore be pro-
tected against those diseases for
which We have immunizing meas
ures such as smallpox. diphtheria,
etc. He should be under the SUI
pervision of physician who will
give periodic examinations and
correct any remediable defects
which may appear.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
M. D.. DIR. p. H.
Secretary, Maternal and Child
Health Section Of American
Public Health Association
BY RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT,

Health is a delicate balance be-
tween many conflicting forces. A
healthy balance of body and mind
must be maintained by constant
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
BY CYNTHIA GREY

It Is not uncommon for women to ask what can I do
with time gWhere can go to meet interesting men
and women-the kind of persons really want meet?"
Such questions can't help but make most of us think
twice about woman's time and her use of it.
It to the women who ask you these questions
should be questioning themselves instead They should ask
Am trying to pay off the debt owe MYSELF"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

So simple knit effective this sweater will be of yeor
round to every Moke il with sleeves, you wish.
Poten 2543 contons directions for okno sweater so
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required.
Send ten in coin and token for this pottern 20
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
TodaY's
Recipes

Dessert likes to kick up is heels
in springtime. too. Let's do some
thing about 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
SPONGE DROPS
(Serves Four to Ski
COFFEE GELATIN DESSERT
(Serves Four to Ski

Two eggs. 1-3 cup sugar, pinch
salt, 1-3 cup flour, y teaspoon
lemon or vanilla extract. Beat
sailed egg whites until stiff, and
gradually beat in sugar. Add egg
yolks beaten until thick and light
colored, and flavoring. Fold in
flour which has been sifted sew
eral times. Drop batter by tea
spoonfuls onto buttered baking
sheet. Bake in moderate oven
1925 degrees F.) until delicately
Drowned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

lin debt to themselves. They
don't know how to budget their
time and interests 30 that they
can pay off all the things they owe
themselves.
They know that time is slipping
away and that before they are too
old they should get some fun out
Of life. But they never have a
moment for themselves or else
they have too much time.
They mean 10 educate them
selves beyond what they were able
to learn In school. but when there
is time for reading. IL Is easier to
pick up = light love story than to
concentrate on heavier reading.
They are going to DO something
about those extra pounds that add
years to their looks. but 1t is 50
easy to laugh them off.
They would like to have real
friends OF their own. not limit their
friendship TO the persons they feel
obligated to entertain. But some
how they never get around to hav-
ing lunch with a woman for the
simple reason that she is fun or
a stimulating person.
II the Debt Piles Up You May
Never Pay II Off
They want to live gracefully. but
they put that off to the time
when the budget will allow for
more Of the Injuries.
They would like to get their
minds Strengthened out about any
number of subjects, 90 that they
know where they stand and where
their lives seem to be taking
them. But they haven't learned
how to clear their minds Of nag
ging little worries even in the few
minutes before they fall asleep at
night.
And so the debt to themselves
piles up year after year until II
gets 50 Zig II can never be paid
,ff In full.
Miserable
Dear Miss Grey: ! am Just one |
4 the many young people who are
their lives because self
Consciousness curses them.
Ever since I can remember I |
lave been the victim OF teasing |
md wisecracks just because am |
! little overweight. I try to take
t good naturedly but II DOES |
lurt and makes me more self |
conscious all the time.
When I show that I am hurt,
,eople inform me that I am the
'ictim of an inferiority complex
md advise me to overcome 1t. But,
lespite their so-called good advice.
hey still so on making wisecracks
lbout my flesh and no one tries to
,clp me forget myself.
Should ! ignore their remarks.
ret angry about them or reply and
'ay something that viii hurt them
u they hurt meg
would certainly like to get
,ver being self-conscious but find
i almost impossible on account
Df the thoughtless and unkind at
titude Of others. I live in fear OF
having everyone meet make fun
Of me and 1t Is getting so 1t makes
me hate people. ! don't want to
10 that s. G.
! realize that II doesn't make
good sense to tell you to ignore
others and forget their unkind re-
marks. When we are continually
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

II you're not using it, sell 1t with
a Fast Action Times Want Ad
Phone Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02

II you're not using It, sell 1t with
a Fast : Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
BOY Friend" and STEADY
Company.
Answers to Test Questions

Below are the answers to test
questions printed on the editorial
page:
]. For Andrew Jackson, "Old
Hickory; for Thomas J. Jackson,
"Stonewall."
2. Octagon.
3. Germany.
4. Alfred Z. Landon of Kansas.
5. Iron.
6. With.
Z. Vermont.
s. Los Angeles. Calf.
Q. Where was then the gentle
man."
10. Stool.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
Woman Should Forget Idle Promises
And Pay Off Debt She Owes Herself

Time Spent in Fretfine Over Monoionous Existence
Could Be Used in improving Appearances and Mind
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-02
SOUR CREAM SPICE PIE
tServes Four to Ski


One unbaked pie shell, cup
sour cream, q cup sugar, eggs,
/ teaspoon cinnamon, u teaspoon
nutmeg, "a teaspoon ground cloves,
y cup seedless raisins, pinch of
salt.
Mix sugar and cream together,
add slightly-beaten eggs and re-
naming ingredients. Pour into
unbaked pie shell and bake in hot
oven (425 degrees FL for 20 min
utes; reduce heat to moderate 1925
degrees F.) and bake 80 minutes
more. One cup undiluted evap-
GRATED milk plus one tablespoon
vinegar my be used in place of
sour cream.
COFFEE GELATIN DESSERT
(Serves Four to Six
Two cups strong hot coffee, 1
tablespoon gelatin, 4 cup cold
coffee or water, few grains salt,
Il cup sugar.
Soften gelatin in cold liquid
Dissolve sugar and salt in hot
coffee, add softened gelatin, and
stir until melted. Chill until firm.
Serve with sweetened and favored
cream or soft custard. Whipped
cream or stiffly-beaten egg white
may be folded into the gelatin
when it is partially set.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-01

a man name J. T. Savage but am not
sure. Forty five years is a long time,
that was 20 years before you ever
thought of this world. A couple years
or so before living in Durant l went to
school at Lexington, Miss. to the Lex
ington Normal College M the por-
fessors were named J.. S. Dickey and
l.. T. Dickey. They made me go to
church every Sunday and one Sunday
the minister said everyone should
memorize at least one verse from the
bible and gave out a verse and asked
us to remember it. Well the verse was
John 3:16' and l can recite that just
as well today as that preacher did
as years ago.
There was a family there name
George Wilson and he had a daugh-
ter and two sons. The daughter was
about the loveliest thing to look at I
ever saw m every time I looked at
her my heart grew fonder. She had
a brother named Calhoun and other
George Junior. She was about Is at
that time I believe and 1 was along
about that myself, at least we came
along in the same century. I learned
to swim while at Lexington in the
famous "old swimming hole" There
were two Ashcroft boys that were in
my class and they too had a very
pretty sister. I have always been
strong on the pretty sisters. "Oh
memories that bless and burn"
1 have a very beautiful niece liv-
ing in Lexington now, but I don't
know her married name, she was
Mary Elizabeth Yates before merriage
and she is extremely attractive-my
sisters daughter.
I bet you didn't enjoy that Demo-
cratic convention any more than 1
did. 1 listened to it on the radio and
every time some one got up to put
a nomination before the convention I
went int commissions. 1.-THE man whom
/ am about to name etc. etc. etc"
1 sometimes wonder if they will ever
get to the point where they tell you
who that great man is. I would like to
have Primo Carnero standing right
before him and just before he gets
to the name drive one of those No.
les clean through him from the rear.
: Well Miss Brannon 1 wish you lots
of success for your paper and if any
of the people named are still around
| Durant give them my best regards. ]
[ am running a high class auto court
L 5 miles north of Golden Gate Bridge
on the 101 (Redwood) Highway and
if you ever come out to the fair you
coundn't stop in a better place.
{ Very sincerely,
4 J. I. HILLARD.
l see where Ann Sheridan had It's
Y proposals in June and I suppose you
had about that many at the Democra-
: tic Convention and you probably de
serve them, but of course 1 am mar
: ried and too old for you anyway, sc
: be that as it mayor ever more so.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-01
Los Angeles, Calf.
July %, 1910.

Miss Brannon:
Please note the enclosed newspaper
clipping especially the one by Damon
Runyon boosting the prettiest delegate
to the Democratic Convention. The
writer 20 years ago a travelling sales
man in the south spent many happy
hours in Durant and will agree with
Damon Runyon and truthfully say
that Mississippi, Alabama and Ten
nessee have the prettiest girls in all
the world. The writers wife now de-
ceased, was a Tennessee girl.
Miss Brannon no doubt hat you
and many other good southern demo-
Gratis saw in Chicago the kind that
nave taken over the Democrat party.
1 only wish that the good people hat
control the Democrat party in the
large cities, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles. The
Democrat party are made UP of Jews,
negroes and the lowest element out
of Europe. Communist, c.. 1. 0. and
others we have no Democrat party in
oHiy III IdIIle, Ine lOWSSs
element of Russian Jews control it.
The new dealers have brought to
California more than 10000 paupers
from Oklahoma, Missiour and Arkan-
sas and put them on the Dole SO
that they could build up a big so
called Democrat party in California.
Ihey brought tens of thousands of
negroes from the south and put them
on the w. P. A. at S55 to $85 per
month and do nothing of course that
pleases the negro. They keep 100000
M~exicans here on the dole to vote
for them. The New Deal is SO red
it smells. Heading the Democrat Dele
gates from California to the Chicago
Convention, Melvin Douglas, an En-
glish Jew, born in England, a moving
picture actor, and a known Moscow
communist and a very low degenerate.
The type of Chas. Chaplin also Jew
1sh. We here in California know this
filthy outfit. Please wake up the south.
tell them the Democrat party that
they all so well loved don't exist any
more in Washington. It's UP to the
south to save American Democracy
n / pray to God that the South will
wake up and help dust the New
Dealers.
FROM A FRIEND
OF THE SOUTH.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-01
Rain Ruins Stote Crops

If the estimate of crop damage throughout MISSISSIPPI
by county agents is anywhere near accurate there Is
going to have to be some serious thought given to feeding
starving state farmers as we'll as the hungry people OF
Europe this winter.
Farmers in Mississippi and all over the south have
suffered terrific crop losses in cotton, corn, hay and
foodstuffs. Estimates of damage on cotton run from
rs to rs percent and on corn the damage is even higher.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-01

Foodstuffs lost varies from Is to rs percent.
Onlv three counties in the state, Issaquena, Walthall
and Pearl River, are unaffected by the tremendous ram
fall suffered this season.
County Agent I. w. Carson estimates Holmes countys
damage at forty percent for cotton and corn and 20
percent damage on hay and food crops,
The same story is true of other states in the deep
South.
1t looks like the farmer is going to have to have
somebody to help him.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-01

The Durant News is authorized to
announce the following candidates.,
subject to the action of the August,
1910, Democratic primaries:
For Supreme Court Judge
JUDGE SIDNEY SMITH