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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
Mysteryl Thrillsl That's what you

Mystery! Thrills! That's what you want at your Halloween party.
 So have guests enter by dimly lit hallway-w wicked witches ride broomsticks, where black cats prowl (You cut these out of black paper, fasten to walls.)
 Set up a ladder for everyone to pass under-and if there's a ghost to pop suddenly from dark corner so much the spookier.
 Fun then to mix the crowd with Hallowe'ne version of Musical Partners" You have ready pairs of cards, each pair bearing the name of Halloween character and his "song"-such as OWL, Tu Whit Tu Whu; WITCH, Cack1e; Cat, Meow; GHOST, Groan; Wind, Howl.
 Pairs are divided and placed into two piles-one for the boys to draw from, one for the girls. Then, at a signal from you, everybody starts singing the song" on his card. What weird dinl But, sooner or later, each Cats Meow" or what not finds his mate, pairs of for the next stunt may be an excit- ing Alphabet Scavenger Hunt or Pumpkin Prophecies or Wedding Ring Fortunes!
 You'll find these and other lively games in our 32-page booklet. Has games for all kinds of parties-ice- breakers, team games, brain tick lers, kitful of jolly stunts.
 Send 10c in coin for your copy of PARTY GAMES FOR ALL OCCA- SIONS to Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave-. New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS. and the NAME of booklet.
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Of Interest To Women

store the boks in light, airy places after Immigration with carbon disul- phide. Pack the books in a tight chest or trunk and place about F teacupful of the carbon disulphide na tin plate. The carbon diSul- phide being heavier than air, will gradually settle to the bottom of the chest or trunk. Leave the looks in the chest or trunk for about "A hours The tighter the chest or trunk, the better. Be careful not to breath the fumes, as carbon disulphide is 6 deadly poison.
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presses down on stomach, liver and intestines, like tarpaulin over haystack, and of course this causes the belly to bulge or expand or in fate: at the same time it tends to produce negative air pressure with in the chest, or 'suction" if you prefer, and hence air enters the lungs. Thus action, contraction of the diaphragm is the essential na- ture of inspiration, inhalation or breathing in.
 Besides tending to produce mega tive air pressure within the chest cavity, contraction of the dia- phragm tends to produce increased pressure within the abdominal ca vity. This increased intraabdomin- al pressure accompanying inspira- tion or taking breath tends to drive the blood out of the veins ill the abdomen. Psychologists esti- mate that nearly quarter of the entire volume of blood in the body may stagnate, so to speak, in the vast network of veins in the abdo- men, particularly in sedentary, in active, flabby individuals and, in the opinion of plodding practition- CT who is fair to middling lawn bowler, particularly those who do not breathe naturally. The con- tracting diaphragm forces some of this stacker blood along through the veins toward the heart: and at the same time the lowered intrathora- cic pressure (within the chest ca vity) favors the return of the blood through the great veins to the right auricle, whence 1t passes into the right ventricle and is pumped to the lungs for oxygenation. This ac- tion of the diaphragm (and minor muscles of breathing) is scientific ally called the aspiratory function of the thorax. It may be consider ed as the booster pump action. Anyway it should be clear that the lefficiency of your circulation, whether you have heart or artery disease or not, depends on how you breathe.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Mosquito Bites
 Never before saw such big and vic- ious mosquitoes as here on the Cape, not even the famous Jersey breed. Help, help-if you have any remedy for the bites!
 c. L. D.
 Answer-Gently rub with moist soap, or touch the puncture with Q lump of indigo, or gently rub with naphthaline (moth balD. or bathe itching skin with tablespoonful household ammonia in cupful of water or with tablespoonful salera- tus in cupful of water, or apply a drop of glycerin or peroxide to bite or touch once only with tincture of iodine.
 Dandruff
 Please recommend something for excessive dandruff. co. L)
 Answer-This pomade, or other, remedies given in monograph Care of Hair and Control of Dandruff'' (for copy send stamped envelope bearing your address), may serve:
 PreGipltalad sulfur (mllk Of slll- fur)----. 1 dram tteaspoonful sals icylic acid powder -...--.20 grains Freshly prepared ointment of rose water, cold cream) -@--.s.0ne ounce
 Properly made, the pomade con. tains no particles that can be feiG between finger and thumb. Part hair here and there and rub into scalp (not the halFl e very small amount on tbs Of fingers, covering Q different quarter 0f scalp each might except Saturday night when 8
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
GloriNing Yourself
A Alicia Hart
NEA Service staff Writer

It is aging to do everything the hard way. The woman who decides at an early age that she can be efficient without allowing herself to look or be hafassed has a good chance of remaining youthfully at- tractive through the years.
 Planning more elaborate party than you can handle with grace and ease is doing things the hard way.
 So is nagging your children about hanging up their clothes instead or spending some time training them in habits of neatneSS Or fighting with your inlaws instead of deciding to get along politely with them, or simply not to see them at all.
 You make life unnecessarily dlf-- ficult for yourself when you set goals that you are determined to reach, even though it doesn't real ly matter whether you reach them or not. (For instance, resolving to clean the entire in one day rather than doing the upstairs one day rather than doing the upstairs one day downstairs the next, and so ono It is aging to indulge in fits oi rage over little, unimportant things Browning over your typewriter or the household bookkeeping puts lines across your brow but really doesn't speed up your efficiency. Hurrying breathlessly to an ap- pointment instead of planning youl time and allowing an extra five minutes to get there spoils youi poise and puts a grim expression around your mouth.
 Refusing to do some of the house hold duties the easy way makes many a homemaker look old before
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she should. The dishes will be just as clean and her feet great deal less tired if she sits on high stool instead of standing before the sink.
 And why should she lean over the hot stove for fifteen minutes, stir ring the Jumps out of the gravy, when she could just as well let it cook by itself part of the time and then strain it through sieve to re- move Jumps?
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nAlNe Marun ueblC kNepuplsChu standard -bearer, Wendell Willkie.
 With Miss Marion E. Martin, womens division director, Republi- can National Committee as their leader, Republican women workers were lined up for an intensive oc- tober "doorstep drive" to carry the plea for Republican party candi- dates to every household in the country,
 "uet every vote in the ballot box" ls the rallyinE slogan, adopted by over one million workers in the ''Womon for Willkle" campaign.
 in that Detroit meeting was the nucleus of the great army Of work. eFs, none of whose names evinced more interest and acclaim than ( Rfoup Ol Ave distinguished wlvea-- Mrs. Wendell Wlllkle, Mrs, Charles L MsNary, Mrs. Robert A. Taft Mrs. Arthur H, Vandenbefg and Mrs Prank oannett
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Modern Menus
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Service Stan Writer


 Hamburger can be sweet music at party. Johnny Green, popular composer maestro, gives a home buffet supper every other Thursday and cooks for the crowd. The boys from his orchestra report Johnny's hamburger compositions harmonize easily with mans appetite. Here are three of Johnny's popular num- bers on the kitchen stove.
 HAMBURGER HASH
 (ServeS 4)
 Three cups cubes raw potatoes, 1 cup chopped raw carrots, 2 small onions, chopped. 1 tablespoon minced parsley, Ia pound ground round steak, 1 cup milk, l teaspoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon black pepper, i-4 cup buttered bread crumbs.
 Mix all ingredients (except crumbs). Place in buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with bread crumbs in slow oven (325 degrees F0 for one or more hours.
 HAMBURG DUMPLING STEW
 (Serves q
 One and one-half pounds ground round steak. cup corn flakes, l teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, ] teaspoon grated onion, 1 egg, i-2 cup boiling water or clear soup stock, 2 cups stock for cooking.
 Mix ingredients thoroughly and shape into small balls. Fry In large saucepan with cover m bacon fat or butter until well browned on all sides. Add 2 eubs soup stock ol boiling water. simmer for i-2 hour Make dumping mixture. Drop spoonful Of mixture on top Of each bali. Cover saucepan securely and cook for 70 minutes. Serve at oace with cooked vaeetabies.
 Dumpi|nenl Dlft together 2 ellpa four. is2 teaspoon nelt end | toa. Gnooln baking powder. MlA in 6Ilonfh mIIk le make soft dough.
 BOILED MEAf BALLS One pound ground round slsak
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let others know they like and admire them
 shells It couo easy by smiling warmly rather than politely
 coming right out and saying the nice things they tnn There's other think he's pretty let him know it.
 BETTER TO SAY SOMETHING HE MAY REGRET
 Also make the first toward friendship instead of holding waiting to be singled out
 And they could overcome people really close friends his business to himself
 is much something possibly regret than go through life being outside his family
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Have you . household problem to solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, enclose a three-cent pnStage stamp and mail to The W0man's Editor, Washington Service Bu- reau, The Democrat, 1913 18th Street, Washington. D. C., for 8 personal reply. c. How can book worms be ex- terminated
 4. They usually thrive in damp dark places. To eradicate them
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In Detroit, two thousand women voters from 40 states, represen- tative of 5000 clubs under the banner of the National Feder- ation of Wo- mems Republi-
 can Clubs, gave testimonial to their 1940 politi- cal prepared ness, and their enthusiasm for the 1040 mag -.kl~H1..,.t.Ytaa~
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The Democrats Service Bulletins
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From Ihe Style Judges Stand:

Trmy shod beautifully exqutey dressed society obviously have bought wearing clothes in American designers collections. Sheer jersey dresses in subdued rather lighter 
 with at the Ftrity classic or the m fashionable Belmont Park last Saturday PLENTY OF LEOPARD USED
 description and as many nuns 8 writers have predicted there would be-
 separate fur piece The beige jersey Alfred GWynne Van instead of red with her dress of this type leopard suits galore and leopard nun watn with the bracelets profuon n gala opening gala fashion shoW
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ances but no close friends. Nobody has anything 10 say against her. But no one has great deal to say Tor her She is the kind of person who you see often stuck in routine jobs. Her personality lacks warmth and magnetism"
 THE SHELL CAN BE BROKEN
 That executive is right. There are lots of people both men and women-who never get the most out of their ability looks and brains because they never break through shell of reserve to meet others on equal ground.
 Usually they are extremely polite Usually they are nice people underneath their shells But it takes so long to see what is behind the shells that most people never bother.
 It wouldn't be easy for any one of these persons
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VERSATILE

Preston Sturges, Paramount wri- ter-director who has just completed "Christmas ki July" is probably Hollywood's most versatile person. ality. He writes his own stories, directs them, operates a restaurant, heads an engineering concern, writes poetry, is an accomplished boxer, a dilettante in music, speaks several languages-a other things.
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Ho1, To Keep Well
 Rv DR. WILLIAM BRADY. MD. < seS7

hygiene
 
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shampoo may be taken. Two or three weeks of such care will usual ly correct the trouble for conSid- erable period.
 Protected by John F. Dille Col
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Caroline Chatfield Sqys Today
Wife Can't Laugh While Husband Holds Her Heart
 in Lemon Squeezer.
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Lemon SQueeZeF.
 There brittle girls in these days who tell the wife two-mng forget him. consider hesen hearache ride 10 Keno the adventure That might Work careless wife who was casual aoo greatly concerned wife who has loved her hus s wife has put all she had into her marriage with aching hear huiated uride and husba another
 No husbands stepping understand that there has been loving and loyal "A blanket to point of She's been thrifty and hOuSekeeper and made him another Why oh why has this Overtaken her?
 Laugh of this anguish it takes all and round husband been whole she habits rebuilding homepa converts into relation to each other except the roof
 a priceless thing to never been a lemon Laugh off? Why that build sanity before laugh it's security held her implicit faith another finishing the journey with the she's CAROLINE CHATFIELD
 How the spurned Wife Can Rebuild Her Life
 ..nm.ea
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
WOMEN ENLIST IN VOTE DRIVE
 FOR WILLKIE

Twenty years ago American wom- en were preparing for their first vote in a presidential election.A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

{ small potatoes. small onion, 1 teaspoon salt. i-8 teaspoon black pepper Run potatoes and onions through food chopper. Add to ground steak, season and knead Into ball about 2 Inches in diameter. Drop Into quarts of rapidly boiling Salted wa- ter and cook SO to Go minutes.
 
 TOMORROW's MENU
 l3lsEAIgpADT: slowed fresh prnnes, cracked wheat cereal, popovers, Jelly, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Hpanish omeIet, toasted hard rolls, Fomaine eel. ad. hutteE1coich cookies, tea, milk.
 DINNER; Hamburg dumpIlne stew. sroen beans, bulteFed boela Nalofefo19 salad chocolate steam pudding, hard sauos. o0l- ANHt
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MARIAN YOUNG.
THE WOMEN Come Out Of Your Shell--- No Ones Going In After You
BY RUTH MILLETT

She is an attractive looking intelligent who does her job well
 inc man could organization she VIII never much further already. Why? nSh has
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of publication
  confidence Write Miss Chatneld MPWM
Smyrna times., 1940-01-04

in Maryland, saying: Probably the
most noteworthy single accomplish
ment was the favorable outcome of
the condemnation proceedings for
the acquisition Of lands necessary
to complete the Patuxent Research
Refuge, Md, thus bringing to a
successful conclusion the plans of
the Biological Survey for establish
ing a wildlife research refuge in
the east"
The Patuxent refuge was dedi-
Gated by Secretary Wallace on
June 3, and Gabrielson said, "Is
Significant in its promise of future
improvements in wildlife-manag
ment practices" Research at Pa
tuxent, he said, would include ex-
pertinent in game and fur-animal
management, manipulation and
habitat, studies of food and cover
requirements and investigation of
wildlife diseases, propagation of
Continued on Page Three)
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old piano, which looks in design
very ancient along side of those of
this day. 1t was built in London
and bears the date 1885, being thus
over a hundred years old. 1t is
about eight feet long and some
eighteen inches in width, and in
musical qualities hardly has a sug-
gestion of the mellow tones of in
struments of the present day.
Those whose memories go back
to the days of the numbering stage
coach for carrying the mails and
six cent postage twenty-five if to
the western states) can better ap-
preciate the cheap rates and speedy
facilities of the latter days Every
year bring improvements. Thus,
on Monday of last week, a mer-
chant found he was running low on
certain Christmas goods, got up in
time Tuesday morning to write and
get letter off on the first train to
Philadelphia, ard shortly after din
ner the expressman pulled up to
the door with the goods desired
the whole thing but a little over
half day.
Smyrna times., 1940-01-04
STRANGE DEATH OF
ALEXANDER BAINARD

L
One of the most horrible murd-
ers that has been committed in this
vicinity for long time was un-
earthed Monday by the inquest
held by Coroner Gamble on the
body of Alexander Barnard, an
aged colored man, who was found
dead on Sunday morning in a hut
about mile above Green Spring,
on the Delaware railroad. Barnard
was a colored farm hand about so
years of age. It was known that
he was thrifty and bad saved be-
tween 400 and 500 dollars which he
carried in leather belt worn about
his waist. He lived in a small log
hut on the farm of v. Offley Hill
the proprietor of the Blackbird
hotel On Thursday night Barnard
disappeared and was never again
seen alive. On Sunday morning
Mr.. Hill passed the hut and found
the door still smeared with blood
and the hut door locked on the out
side with railroad lock. Investi-
cation revealed Barnard lying on
the floor Of the hut with his throat
cut and skull crushed. Coroner
Gamble was at once notified by
Mr.. Hill, but owing to the fact that
no trains run on the Delaware Di-
vision on Sunday he was unable to
reach the place until Monday morn
ing. The coroner made thorough
investigation previous to holding
the inquest. He found the body, as
first discovered by Mr.. Hill, lying
on the floor of the hut. The throat
was cut and the clothes smeared
with blood. The door sill was spat-
tered with blood and door had been
locked on the outside. The hut
itself was filthy and the stencil was
sickening. The mans nose and
hands had been eaten away by rats
and the animals had also eaten
other portions of the body. The
| people in the neighborhood who ac-
companied the coroner to the scene
/ informed him Of the reputation the
man had of having saved money.
| The coroner then made a complete
search of his clothes and found two
silver farthings. A second search
was made and S96 found in a sec
ret pocket on the hip of the man s
trousers. The jury rendered ver-
dict that the deceased was murder
ed by person or persons unknown
to the jury. Coroner Gamble re-
moved him to the morgue in Will
mington where he will remain until
arrangements for his burial are
made. There is no doubt in the
minds of any one there that Balm
ard was murdered for his money.
Another evidence of murder Is
found in the fact that but S96 was
found on his person although he al
ways wore about his waist and has
frequently shown to other persons
belt containing between four and
five hundred dollars.
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81 EGGS

a comparatively few customers.
Costs had to be high.
Prices on everything you buy to-
day, regardless of whether you live
In village or a large city, would
be higher now If 1t were not for the
service Of advertising in lowering
them to your advantage.
As soon as a manufacturer or
merchant begins to advertise he be-
gins to sell more AS he sells more
it costs him less to sell to each Gus
toner. He cuts the price. More Gus
toners come. Again he is able to
cut the price.
Pretty soon you have the situation
of improved quality and lower
prices. brought about through the
creative service of advertising to the
consumer.
Advertising and high prices do not
go together at all. They are eX-
tremely incompatible to each other.
1t Is only the product which is un-
advertised, which has no established
market, that costs more than you
can afford to pay.
Whenever you go into store and
buy an item of advertised merchan-
disc, 1t doesn't make any difference
what, you are getting more for your
money-more in quality and serv-
ice-than you would get If you spent
the same amount for something
which was not advertised.
The man who builds a business
on advertising can give you more
for your money because advertising
enables him to give more for less.
See how advertising pays you every
day.
q Charles B. Roth.
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vertised in your newspaper today
and you will see that, although much
talk is banded back and forth con-
corning the increased cost of living.
the fact is that the cost has gone
downward consistently since from
tier times.
One of the reasons for high prices
then was undoubtedly the difficulty
with which the supply was obtained
the hazards and expense of trans
porting goods.
But the chief reason was that the
cost of these necessaries could not
be spread out over enough custom
ers to bring them at lower cost to
all. The merchant had to pay the
cost of his business out of sales to
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First Checks February /

First checks will be MALE
about February l. The Social Sc
curity Board estimates that 9O0.-
900 men, women, and children VIII
receive benefits totaling 100000
600 during 1910.
In addition to retired workers.
widows and orphans Of insured
workers also will receive monthly
pensions. The total payment ta
such a family will range from S15
to $624O a month, depending on
the amount of wage credits accu-
mulated by the husband and father
during the three years that work
ers and employers have been pay
ing into the old age pension fund.
The wife of a pensioned worker
also will receive a pension equal
to one-half her husbands if she
is over 65. Thus the total maxi
mum payment to such a couple in
1910 will be $62.4O.
Actuaries estimate that pensions
of unmarried workers will average
about S26 a month in 1910 and that
the combined payments to married
men and their wives will average
S39.
The social security law provided
that no monthly benefit will be
greater than so per cent of a
workers average monthly wage
prior to retirement. It also fixes a
legal maximum of S85 for mar
ried couple, which will not be avail
able until the wage Garner has been
insured for 40 years.
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SECURITY LAW
NOW IN EFFECT
Changes Benefit 600 Aged
Delawareans; Estimate
For Nation, 100000
FIRST CHECKS FEB. 1ST

Thousands of men and women 65
years of age or over became elig-
ible on January 1st for government
pensions of from $40 to S41.60 a
month. About 100 persons in Del
aware have filed claims for old age
benefits under the amended social
security act, according to Roger R.
Minker, manager of the boards
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TWO MEN NEARLY
MURDERED

The affair at Hartly last week,
as bad as 1t was, was greatly ex-
aggerated in the daily papers. The
following from the Sentinel, we are
told by gentleman who learned
the facts in Hartly, Is a correct
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tereStS me occasion
ally to read the cur
rent prices Of things
you buy every day
now for a few cents.
Eggs were 81 a
dozen in those days.
Sugar brought 40
cents a pound. Kero-
sene was So a gal
Ion. Candles cost Is
cents apiece.
Compare these
prices with t h e
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