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One man out of every eight reg istered for the draft in the First World War saw actual service in the U. s. Army.
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Empire cIasntleos or1ng results
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Another charming fable from the Aesop takes the chain a O the boys The Boy with fake telegram informing he has a $25,0O0 slogan contest
 Sges has written and directed his story with the original approach that distinguished The where McGny had brittleness parked satire the present film sacrifices satirical yet an ovrccang of sentimental tenderness proper Boy Girl yarn
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Jimmy PowelD works for coffee slogans for the rival marrying Betty Drew) his $22 copping the contest to ther in home Caine the beddavenport the frame up his jubaon him CTruex) rehired, promoted and given his office
 The prize-gvng coffee bes The hung, Demares holding out for his choice against the pleas The president exasperaed shows up to collect he off Jimmy go shopping They everything nieghborhood folks and then the proxy his
 Everything including job, at stake until Betty
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Empire Classifieds Payr
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Moonlight in Venice!" How beau
tiful this picture looks on your walls
in its rich colors and in its full
size, 9 by IL inches.
You can easily paint it, and other
subjects, too. Your design is on
paper which you can lay under glass
then paint on the glass.
For colors you need only three
tubes of cils-red, blue, yellow. And,
with chart showing how, you can
mix these three to get any color
you want. To darken or tighten
shade, just add black or white
household enamel.
Lovely is our Venetian scene
with its blue-green water and it's
rich dark blue sky. You give it
the simmer of moonlight by
placing silver paper behind the fin
ished picture.
Moonlight in Venice" is in
Guided in our set, -Four Designs
for Paintings on Glass" Others
are Roses and Cottage Tulips"
Tropical Birds" Yankee Clip
per"-each 8 by IL inches. Direc-
tons tel what colors to use;
chart shows how to mix paints.
Send 10c in coin for our set of
FOUR DESIGNS FOR PAINT
INGS ON GLASS to Waterbury
Democrat, Home Service, 635 Sixth
Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to
write plainly your NAME. AID
DRESS, and the NAME Of picture
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know where she is staying. Prob
ably it is Paris; which would be
convenient both for hiding and for
frequent visits from H. r.. II.
There is very good reason for
the Allies clamping down on news
concerning the Duke and Duchess.
With a major war in progress
nothing must leak out which will
revive the bitter memories of an
England divided over the conduct
of the former King and his sweet
heart. Every indication must point
out firmly united country fac
ing hostile attacks.
Many people still do not under
stand the fundamental reason for
the former King Of England be-
coming the present Duke of Wind
sOr. To most Americans, it seems,
the idea is incOmprehensible.
The King of England is fig
ure-head in two ways. First, he Is
the titular head of the British
Empire. Secondly, he is the titular
head of the Church of England.
The issue was not one of a King
marrying a c0mmOner, but one Of
his marrying a divorcee. II he had
been permitted to do this, it would
have established a precedent that
could be interpreted to permit div
Orces among members Of the Ang-
lican Church.
With Edward marrying the
Woman I Love-, the affair turned
out to be the worlds greatest love
story. The moral easily could be,
"You can't abdicate and eat 1t,
too"
Justin Reese b heard in TITS A
Woman'S World" each week day at
10:15 over WATR. His column will
again appear tomorrow.
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Clarifying
Yourself
By Alicia Hart

It's almost as bad to wear toe
little makeup as 1t Is to wear too
much. The washed-out look GER
tainly Is something to avoid.
The new trend toward naural-
ness Is fine, of course, but 1t would
be a mistake for any woman to stop
using any makeup at all. Cosmetics
must be applied subtly, and SPAR
ingly-but certainly they ought not
to be eliminated from the daily
grooming routines of the average
girl That is, unless she has rosy
cheeks, naturally red lips and a
complexion which never gets shiny
or grayish or Sallow.
HELP OUT PALE
EYELASHES AND BROWS
Colorless eyelashes and brows are
the greatest contributors to the
washed-out look. If nature gave you
pale, thin blonde eyebrows, by all
means experiment with a brown
not black-eyebrow pencil. And see
how much larger and more spark
ling your eyes seem to be when their
olorless lashes are lightly tinted with
waterproof mascara.
Another contributor to the washed
out, faded look is dull, lifeless hair.
Thew oman whose hair is Just plain
brown" ought to take care that it
doesn't become mousy brown. Daily
cleansings and polishing with hair
brush will help. A weekly shampoo
a series of scalp treatments at least
once a year, and the best available
permanents also will help a great
deal.
1t no longer is considered chic to
extend lipstick beyond the normal
outline of your lips or to pile it on
an eighth of an inch thick. How
ever, don't think for a moment that
a little lipstick won't improve your
face.
Powder is supposed to dramatic
the skin-not hide lit completely
On the other hand, it ought not to
be used so singily that shiny spots
are evident. Furthermore, family
rosy powder will conceal salloW
tones. And salowness always &C
centuates any tnedency toward the
washed-out look.
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+
A FROCK, HAT AND
NOVELTY POCKETS

The militant trend Of last season
has disappeared with the new fem
ininity, leaving ust one trace be-
hind-the pocket vogue! Claire Til
den provocatively combines the two
moods in Pattern 1872. For the dress
itself has dainty appeal in its lihte-
some princess lines its flaring
skirt its gayly scalloped neck
line and sleeve edges. And a prac-
tical military influence is shown IN
the two pocket versions, both at
tached by belt. One pocket style
takes the form of huge clothespin
bag that {; comfortably wide and
roomy. Besides keep ng your
clothespins, this style Is useful for
holding yarGen tools, and for vari-
ty of purposes. The other version
shows two smaller pockets, exact
-eplicase of the large style, that
make handy carryalls, too. Both
pocket types may contrast, and SO
RAY the hat, included with the pat
tern. See its sun shading, stitched
brim, and firm under-the-chin ties.
Just think how practical this outfit
will be fore all-summer wearl
Pattern 1872 Is cut in misses sizes
IL, IA, Is, 10 and 20. Size 16 re-
quires Az yards IS inch fabric and
u yard contrast.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins for this pattern. WRITE
CLEARLY SI56E, NAME, AD~
DRESS AMI STYLE NUMBER.
Serd orders 70 Waterbury Demo-
crat Pattern Department.
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WHAT EVERY ONE SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT BREATHING

Back in the gay nineties, or per-
haps even earlier, when the opera
bouffe butler was the posture pat
tern for the army, some self made
health expert conceived and popu-
larized the notion that expansion
of the chest was the proper way to
breathe. The doctors of the day
being either vague about physiol-
ogy or timid about enlightening the
public, as enjoined by Sections and
3, Chap. Nv, of the Principles OF
Medical Ethics, permitted this wrong
notion to stand, even allotted the
presumptuous physical culture boys
by including the measurement OF
chest expansion in the routine physi-
cal examination. The chesty COM
pick was laughed out of the army
at the time of the World war, and
The tape measure hokum disap-
peared from the standard medical
examination at about the same time,
although it still hobs up In an occa-
sional quaint insurance examina-
ton.
For at least thirty years the medi-
cal profession has recognized that
weakness" of the lungs, whatever
that may mean, has nothing to do
with tuberculosis. It is a common
experience of physicians who make
careful examinations instead of
making plausible guesses offhand
that individuals with unusually large
chest expansion are as likely to con-
tract and develop pulmonary tuber-
culosis as are those with compare
lively little chest expansion. Even
the thinking layman knows that the
weak lungs" evasion is merely an
attempt to lodge candid opinion as
to whether the patient has tuber-
culosis. It Is generally safe to as
sumo that the individual who pur-
ports to have weak lungs" really
has tuberculosis.
Thanks to neglected education
most people believe the front wall
of the abdomen, the belly, should
be held in or retracted. This con-
sciouS pulling in of the belly goes
with conscious thrusting out of the
chest In the attempt to achieve the
comic opera caricature Of the SOL
dier, athlete or superb" specimen
of manhood or womanhood so prof
liable exploited by Barney Nc
Twaddle and his Topographic pulps.
This artificial and unnatural dis
tortion and restraint inevitably i'm
pairs natural breathing and de-
creases physical efficiency.
Animals breathe naturally. Saw
ages breathe naturally. Civilized
folk breathe naturally when they're
asleep or under the effects Of a gen.
eral anesthetic.
Watch a horse breathe in various
circumstances and you may learn
something.
If you can't find horse, write to
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it to children, using the same spoon,
is especially to be condemned.
The source of infection may be
difficult to determine. Sometimes
a nursemaid or a relative with I'M
suspected tuberculosis coming into
close contact with the baby gives
it the disease. Remember that per-
sons with chronic tuberculosis may
have tubercle bacilli in the sputum
and not show any of the usual signs
of the disease. Those persons may
be dangerous carriers and infect the
baby.
Old people with so-called Chronic
bronchitis" or asthma" may actual
ly have tuberculosis. Coughing,
sneezing or splitting of such indivi-
duals in the presence of children
may be the source of infection. The
bad habit of allowing fond relatives
and friends to fondle and kiss the
baby has undoubtedly resulted in
many cases of infection.
One of the most frequent causes
of bone, joint and gland tubercu-
losis in the 10Th century was the
drinking of tuberculous milk. Be-
fore the days of efficient pasteuri-
cation this form of tuberculosis was
widespread. The only safe milk to
give to babies and young children is
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tains. Slow-running horses whipped
Pendergast and laid him open to
successful federal prosecution for
income tax evasion. Greed and
boodling sent his key lieutenants to
prison. The Joe Doakes remained:
they still would be running the town,
If it were not for Kansas City's wo-
men.
They got out and marched from
house to house, they used the tele-
phone as only a woman can, and
they beat Joe Doakes, swept the
recent city election, returned a
whopping majority for John Gage,
their nominee for mayor.
Their leader was Mrs. George H.
Gorton, a grandmother. Mrs. Cor
ton went into italian districts Pen
dergast had claimed as his own for
years, and when baby cried, he
was seated on the lectern while she
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asked the italian people to aid in
seeking a return of clean govern
ment. Sharing her lead were Mrs.
Russell G. Conner, who headed the
Charter Party women, and others.
The women and allied forces went
out and obtained 100000 signatures
for recall petition; they marshall
led a 5 to majority on February 10
to recall the machine mayor and
council by means of an amendment
to slice their terms from four to two
years. When election day came, they
were on the job even before dawn.
They had hundreds of motor cars
at their command to carry the vot-
ers; 500 women sat at telephones
urging citizens out to vote.
The old machine weapons were
useless. An honest election board
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meant an honest count. Thugs and
hoodlums could not operate against
the women, with a non-machine
police force in power under Cover
nor Lloyd c. Stark's jurisdiction.
So the women triumphed.
Now those women are talking of
getting together, bringing out their
emblem (the broom) once more, and
sweeping the remnants of Fender
gastism from the city and county.
They chill Joe Doakes all right.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
First PhySic

Your opinion Of tea. Daughter, two
months old, much distress due to gas
and lack of mineral B. MS. She is
breast fed, has orange juice and fish
liver oil. How may correct the
constipation? (Mrs. c. P. e.
Answer - BY leaving daughter
alone. AS sure as you begin plying
the baby with physic of any kind
the constipation habit will become
established. Send ten cents coin
and stamped envelope bearing your
address, for copy of Brady Baby
Book. If she has not gained more
than a pound a month perhaps she
needs an additional bottle feeding
daily-of one part milk boiled
minute and two parts boiled water.
Impervious Skin
Astonished at your assertion Moth
ing is absorbed through unbroken
skin. Rubbed some iodine salve
around an mcipient boil and next
morning the boil had disappeared
also the iodine. How Gomez
g. H.
Answer - Not bad treatment
counter-irritant, local antiseptic. No
evidence that anything is absorbed
into the body through unbroken skin.
Lost, q Healthy Spleen
Son, 10, ruptured spleen playing
football. In emergency operation
they removed whole spleen. Is that
injurious to health? Is a special
diet necessary? (E. j. A.
Answer-No. Other Emphatic It's
sues Qymph nodes, bone marrow,
carry on the functions of the spleen,
presumably. At least no particular
Ill effect follows removal of spleen.
Lead Poisoning
Husband, with target shooting
hobby, spends hours at a time over
a pot of molten lead in basement
making bullets for himself and his
friends, filling used shells, printing
etc. Is it harmful to his health,
inhaling the molten fumes?
(Mrs. M. E. r.
Answer-Yes, that is the most
likely way for any one to get
chronic lead poisoning-inhaling
volatilized lead from the molten
metal. The late-I mean your hus-
band should set up suitable hood
with vent and perhaps exhaust fan
to carry fumes out of the basement
when he Is at work.
protected by John F. Ollie Coz
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REJUvENATE WITH PAINT

If you are considering enameling
or painting furniture this spring,
it is important that the piece be
absolutely clean and dry before
adding a new coat. Dampness or
dirt under the new coat will pre-
vent adherence. Any old wax or
furniture polish canbe removed with
turpentine. Wipe dry, rub off with
fine sandpaper, then dust with
clean cloth. The furniture is then
ready Off the paint.
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They mean to educate themselves beyond what
they were able to learn in school, but when there
is time for reading, 1t Is easier to pick up light
love story than to concentrate on heavier reading.
They are going to do something about those ex-
ira pounds that add to their looks but it Is
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 somehow Cney never
get around to having lunch with woman for the
simple reason that she is fun stimulating person.
IF THE DEBT PILES UP
YOU MAY NEVER PAY 1T OFF
They want to live gracefully, but they put that
of to the time when the budget will allow for
Of the luxuries.
They would like to get their minds straightened
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Kansas City Gals
Still Sweep as
PendergaSt Boys
Yell for Mercy
BY PAUL FISHER
NEA Special Service
COrreSDOndent

Kansas City, April 24.-Here in
Kansas City there are 462 men, all
of whom answer to the name of Joe
Doakes, walking the streets mutter-
ing to themselves:
BLAST the women!"
These are the men who kept the
Pendergast machine running IA
years by their work as precinct cap
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Of Interest
To Women

Have you q household problem
to solve? Write your question
clearly, sign your name and ad,
dress, enclose three-cent postage
stamp and mail to The Woman's
Editor, Washington Service Blu.
reau, The Democrat, 1913 18th
Street, Washington, d. c., for a
personal reply.
@. What kind Of stuffing Is used
in upholstered furniture?
A. In furniture of standard
quality the stuffing is long, curled
horsehair; in medium grades it Is
moss, or moss with little hair on
the top; or the cheaper grades Of
hair; in the poorest quality furni-
ture the stuflng is palm-leaf fibre,
sisal, coco fibre, tow, or excelsior.
Two types of hair are In general
ue: long curled hair from the
names and tails of horses which
is the best and shorter hair from
hogs and cattle, which IS less de-
sirable becuese it has less resiliency
and is more likely to mat.
@. Is there an insect that will
knit runs as 1t crawls on silk
stockings?
A. No.
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les h ave b e e n
born with tuber-
culosis acq u ired
from the mother
during pregnancy
but this is not he
reditary in tn e
strict sense of the
term. tuberculosis
is usually acquired
by children after
birth by contact,
direct or indirect,
with those W h o
have the disease.
1t m ay also be
acquired by t h e
drinking of milk
frn M t,1horo,,1p,,c
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CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
DEAR MISS CHATFIELD:

girl and have been engaged Tor two years and we haven't been
promised
peculiar
lately things
told had asked
while still loved couldn't decide what
without
supectng anything trust another girl long
m
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It's A WOman'S World
BY Justin Reese

We have our forgotten man..
Why should there not pe a "for-
gotten woman? No reason at all.
Consequently for tnat dubious
position I nominate the Duchess
of Windsor.
Agree or disagree with me as
you will, but you must admit that
since the start of the war the
Duchess has had hardly peep in
our press.
Maybe the censorship of the
Allies is responsible for the Ouch
ess's present obscurity. Maybe it
it is caused by the desire of the
Duchess to be far removed from
the foils and fancy OF twentieth
century streamlined publicity.
Because she has dropped out Of
the lime-light so quickly, the
Duchess is news. But all 1 know
about the Duchess today is: John
Gunther claims she is one of the
ten most interesting people in the
world. Fashion experts claim she
is one of the ten best-dreSSed wO-
men in the world. Lastly, because
of the Dukes being away on war
duty, she lives comparatively
solitary life.
Before the outbreak of the war,
the Duke and Duchess had been
living at Antilles, on the French
Rivera, in the Villa de la Croe.
Today only her intimate friends
know where she is staying. 1t is
said that the Duke feels that the
Rivera can become too dangerous
and her present whereabouts still
more.
Before the outbreak Of the war,
the Duke and Duchess had been
living at Antilles, on the French
Rivera, in the villa de Ia Croe.
Today only their intimate friends
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milk that has been properly paste
urized or boiled.
BY childhood tuberculosis we now
mean the first or initial infection
with tubercle bacilli. This usually
takes place in some of the lymph
glands. If the child's resistance Is
high and no other infectious dis
sease or malnutrition comes in to
break down this resistance the tub
erculosis infection will remain as
the childhood type. Resistance may
break down, however, at any time
from added infection or from other
causes and the tuberculosis take on
the adult or secondary form in the
bones, joints, lungs and elsewhere.
It is important to make an early
diagnosis of tuberculosis in child
hood.
NEXT: Bright day dawnS in
battle against deadly pneumonia.
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ANSWER:

think that girl thinks and position
that she's tricky really doesn't love
hasn't the admit the truth None of which gives
better the facts And here's
other fact which can't sOmeday love will again
and with it will faith.
CAROLINE CHATFIELD
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Ho10 To Keep Well
D. DR.. WILLIAM BRADY. MD.

letter: health
stamped selfaddressed
written
No
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Caroline
Chatfield
Says Today
DEAR MISS CHATTIELD:

How to Cure Gigges: St. Vitus Dance of the Voice.
DEAR MISS CHATFIEID:
cultivate jolly laugh My attempts
at laughter don't think foolish for
asking you young getting feelings hurt
having gggle you'd think it serious problem
ELIZABETH.
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avoid this than to do
laughing
except can't quiet In the
musical
actresses stage and radio models
for you follow.
CAROLINE CHATFIELD
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CAROLINE CHATFIELD.


publication will
Write Chntaeld this
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ANSWER:

Well young lady, ggglng through which most
perhaps midst Of it. It's the period
between dignfed ladyhoOd and is
that period chickenpOx and measles
o. a n earlier youth.
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WOMAN,S REALM
Latest Styles
PAY OFF THE DEBT
YOU OWE YOURSELF
BY RUTH MILLETT

Lot in debt debt to themselves They don't
they
all they themselves
They and that before they too
me themselves.
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highly their when they drop
carry into maturity which makes
the gigglng begins and
begun ST. Vus dance the voice that
everybody wild
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me, ask for instructions for Belly
Breathing, and inclose stamped
envelope bearing your address.
Now If you were savage or a
horse you would need no instruc-
ton about breathing. But being a
Wiseacre you have learned so much
about it that isn't so,. and therefore
it is necessary that you meet your
diaphragm.
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~ ~ out about number OF subjects that they
they haven't learned how to clear their minds little
in the few minutes before they fall
And the debt to themselves piles after until
so big it paid off
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cows, and from other infected foods.
The tasting of food before giving
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ALL ABOUT BABIES
Young Children Especially
Susceptible To tuberculosis
BY RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT,
Nj. D., DIR. p. III.
Secretary, Maternal and Child
Health Section of American
Public Health Association

Tuberculosis is communicable
disease to which children are very
susceptible, but children do not in
herit tuberculosis. A very few bab-
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NEXT: Bright day dawns in
battle against deadly pneumonia.
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Justin Reese b heard in TITS A
WOman's World" each week day at
1O:15 over WATR. His column will
again appear tomorrow.