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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-20
CHAPTER xxIv

'Now, you and I are going to have nothing but fun for the next two hours" said Dan to Marie, as he reached for the menu. But be- fore even so much as order the clans, I'd like to hear your views on the situation" He twirled the menu card and waved the waiter aside. Remember" though, every minute is precious. You've put your own time limit on this"
 Marie smiled, but her eyes were serious. T know, that's why l don't see what made you bring me here. You'll spend all your time talking to friends"
 Dan drew crazy patterns on the table cloth with a fork.
 T suppose it does seem cock eyed coming to this nosey place, but it's home to me. I think I'd turn up here if I'd committed mur- der and the district attorney were sitting at the next table. guess it's a habit"
 He included the entire room with a single gesture. Nov, take these people here today. Ex-hus- bands and ex-wives are sitting table to table. Sweethearts and wives in the same party. Old hus- bands and new ones at the bar" He glanced around. "The Colony is sort of like a public place for confessing your sins and your pleasures"
 He locked directly at Marie as he uttered the word, pleasures
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Marie Makes a Decision
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That's true" Lyndas tone had lost none of its graciousness. But canalboats are curious homes - where is yours Miss La Porter"
 Marie laughed. T don't think you could ever find 1t. It's on the East river. Does that mean any, thing to you7"
 "No." Lynda spoke abstracted- ly. "Oh, I'm sorry, must be run- ming on, I see your mother and Auntie going, Dan" She jumped up T didn't want to leave with out saying hello"
 DO you like her?" Marie asked, when Lynda had gone.
 T used to think I did, after a fashion," Dan admitted, "that is, until I met you, and then I knew 1t wasn't the real thing" She was silent.
 "A penny for your thoughts"
 "They weren't important, just about you.
 q like that, of all the" And then they both laughed.
 The rest of the luncheon went this way, laughing over silly things that could mean nothing to anyone but themselves; discovering that they shared 8 common antipathy to parsnips, banana cream pie and hatlesS men who strolled through the streets with upturned over- coat collars, that each adored walk ing in the rain and that they both would rather tango and waltz than eat.
 why, everybody's gone," cried Marie, looking up. Tt must be terribly late" She glanced at Dan. I'm not even saying goodby. l can't, I'm just going"
 She got up. He rose with a de- liant, T don't care who sees us, put his arms around her and kissed her squarely on the mouth. 'I'm coming with you!"
 "No, you promised" She laughed and sliped away.
 You may call this goodby-' he shouted, but she was gone. Out in the street, she turned toward Lexington Avenue = bend ing her head as the wind swirled a cloud of snow about her. But she stopped as she heard someone, a girl, calling.
 "Oh, Miss La Porte" It was Lynda Martin. TT don't know how to begin" She paused. But, Dan is SO young and foolish. I don't know how to explain, but he'll break his mothers heart, if"
 "If what?" Marie's tone was sharp.
 If It's so hard to explain"
 Marie stared at her. You mean if he doesn't marry you?"
 "Yes." i Marie looked at Lynda coldly ''You don't need to worry. I'm not going to marry him. Good by"
 Lynda stood there staring after her until she had entirely van- ished in the veil of white snow. (T0 Be Concluded)
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BOROUGH BOYS WITH
 OHIO STATE TANK TEAM

Naugatuck, Feb 20-It is expected two Naugatuck youths will be on ! the crack Ohio State swimming team which will compete against the strong Yale university natators on Thursday, March p at the Yale pool.
 These are Eddie Poscavage and Jack Nixon. Poscavage in scheduled to swim in the backstroke event for Ohio State and Nixon will compete In tk.e sprints.
 The Naugatuck "" swimmers will see action tomorrow night against Bridgeport at the Park City. The local team is in first place in the state league sponsored by the Yale Athletic association, and headed by Bob Kiputh, Eli swimming coach.
 Alex Sullivan is coaching the Naugatuck natators and the team includes: Dave St. John, outstand- ng sprinter. Bob. Richie and Dave Nixon. Joe Glinckas. Bill ROdenbach, Sob Curran, Armand Fratesi and Weston Boyd. D. 11a. tomorrow.
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Cn AMllIM CRACKERS
PUBLIC SERVANTS

PUBLIC SERVANTS
 You can't be expected to remem- Der all of the 96 persons who repre- sent you in the United States Sen- ate. The missing names in the fol- lowing sentences, however, are these of senators who have attracted enough national attention SO that it should not be too difficult to fill in the blanks:
 l. Senators Marvel M. Logan ana ................... represent Kentucky.
 2. Both Senator Harry s. Tru- man and his colleague, Senator .......... ................ CI MlSSOurl are Democrats.
 3. Pennsylvania is represented by Senators ................... and James J. Davis.
 4. Senators John E. Miller and ................ come rom Oklahoma.
 5. The Texas senators are Mor- ris Sheppard and ................. ...'...... .'.............
 Answers on Back Page
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MS. Garden Ring "NOt So Lucky"
 For Lou AmberS

While Lou Ambers has made some of his best fights at Madison Square Garden, the Garden ring has not been 8 particularly lucky spot for the Herkimer lad. Four of the five defeats suffered by Ambers since he became @ headline performer came in Garden appearances.
 That means that Ambers has lost one out of every three starts at the Garden. He has fought there twelve times and No. 13 comes on Friday night when he opposes the power ful-punching Brownsville welter- weight, Al Davis. Their match is scheduled for ten rounds.
 Back in 1885 when Barney Ross relinquished his lightweight title, Anbers was an overwhelming fa- vorite to succeed to the vacant throne. The New York commission decided to le; Ambers fight it out with Tony Canzoneri for the right to wear the crown. Ambers was a 3 to 1 favorite over Canzoneri. But Tony gave Ambers boxing lesson, took an easy decision, and forced Lou to wait another year before reaching the top.
 Bad Beating
 Shortly after Ambers had become champion late in 1886 he took on Jimmy McLarnin in an overweight match at the Garden. Never before nor since in his boxing career did Ambers take worse drubbing than he received att he hands of Mo Larnin. McLarnin captured all ten rounds and hammered Ambers from ringpost to ringpost.
 Early in 1887 Ambers opposed Pedro Montanez at the Garden in another over. weight match. Again Ambers was favored and again he came out on the wrong end of the decision. Shortly after that he faced Enrico Venturi in the Garden ring. The best he could get on that oc- casion was 8 draw verdict.
 In the summer of 1888 Ambers placed his lightweight title on the line against Henry Armstrong. The fight had originally been slated for the Yankee Stadium but had been rained out and put into the Garden. Armstrong fioored Ambers twice and annexed the crown.
 For Davis, though, the Garden has been an exceedingly lucky spot. He has foughG there eight times, has won seven and drawn in the other. His two most recent Garden starts resulted in smashing kayo triumphs, over Can7oneri and Tippy Larkin.
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BY HELEN WoRDEN

"You arc my pleasure, you know" he Oaid. 'But you're more than that, you're every breath I draw"
 Marie was about to speak but the waiter interrupted.
 Dan looked at her mouth 1uirked up at the corners.
 T intend to start this thing of the right way" His eyes twinkled. I'm going to do the ordering. He laughed. T hope you like it. You can tell me later"
 
 While he discussed the menu with the waiter she sat back in an introspectiye mood, hardly aware sof the people round her save, perhaps, the three women in the front of the room. Without being told, she felt their antagonism. She knew that, whether they were looking at her this moment or not, they were thinking of her. Even a week at Varnet's hsd taught her. something about women of this class.
 But she felt strangely free of their criticism because she was neither asking nor taking away any, thing from them. In another hour and so many minutes she would be removed from their lives for- ever. That morning, after she left the barge, she had made up her mind that she belonged neither in the glamorous world at Varnets frou-frou shop, nor Dams sky rocketing circle. With maturity far beyond her years she had de- cided that her attempt to merge the two worlds, had caused all the trouble. She was a barge girl; a canalboat captains daughter and nothing more. However, there was nothing to prevent her from carry ing back memories with her. Dams voice came to her suddenly. Snap out of it." he begged. Where were you? I'm jealous. I'd like to be there too"
 "As a matter of fact you were there" She smiled. I'm happy, are you?"
 He caught her hand under the table. Why do you ask?"
 She drew away. The thrill was so real it made her unhappy. She did not want to encourage any, thing so lovely, if it could not last.
 T know" he said, you don't have to tell me. I'm eating humble pie. Everything else in the world that I've wanted, I've got and now well, I'll never ask you if you love me-until-" he stopped.
 Until what?"
 "Ah, that I won't tell. It de- bends on you" He raised his cocktail glass. ITO the happiest-'
 I'm sorry," Lynda'S voice inter- rupted. Do you two object to a threesome for few momentS?" She smiled gracefully.
 Certainly not" Dan rose to his feet, but there was no enthusiasm in his move. Wont you sit down?"
 Lynda settled in 8 chair opposite them. T believe Miss La Porte and I have met before" Her voice was friendly, but her eyes were hard. "I've heard so much about your living on"
 Marie looked at her. You mean my living on a barge? Yes, guess you'd say I called a canal boat home. I was born and brought up on one-the same one," she added defiantly.
 Which is more than most New Workers can say" Dan added, "be- ing born and raised in one place."
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. STORIES ..
 IN.STAkPS
Royal Bride and Groom Pictured on Iron Issue

FICtUTSO on IrQn issue
 ALMOST every bride and groom
 \ have a wedding picture, but few have theirs so widely circu- lated as were the wedding pictures of Trans Crown Prince Moham- med Riga and, Princess Fawzia of Egypt. The royal couple are pie tured on the Iran (Persia) issue above.
 The 2600th anniversary of the "birth of Japan" will be com memorated by four Japanese stamps to be released during l940. Designs for two of the stamps, for release in February, have been an- nounced. The Essen value will show the sacred golden bird; the t0-sen, pottery and trout.
 War slogans are now appearing ,n British mail. "Grow More Food" and Dig for Victory" are he first of such wartime appeals o be incorporated into stamp cam citations.
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Q SERIAL STORY
CAsr or CHARAcTERs

MARIE LA FORTE - model in exclusive dress shOpe, lives on . barge.
 DAN DONOVAN = pIaybOy son of ( rich Irishmau, In love with Marie.
 TOMMY RYAN = leader of the truckers fighting Marie's father. LYNDA MARTN-sOciety debu- tante, wants to marry Dan. BAPTTsTR LA PORTE - MaFie's
 father. owner of . fleet of
 barges.
 YESTERDAY: Mrs. Donovan lunches with Mrs. Martin, who suggests Dams marriage to Lynda as the best way to unite the DOn- Ovam and Martin Fortunes. Lynda interrupts the conversation. She Is hardly settled when Dan ar- rives, with Marie.
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Children Like Their Homes; a$; Spick and Span

have a room look nice. I well re- member as @ young matron, since this has become reminiscent, of sewing rags together and having two blue rag rugs woven. Virginia was little then, but she came in with her eyes popping out. What pretty carpets" she said. And brought her doll to see. Children love color. They love things to Hook pretty"
 QuietP No, they don't give boot about that. Not many chil. dren, anyway. In these days of radio, have learned lot. They seem to thrive on noise. Let 1t go. It isn't a racket that bothers them, whether 1t is the people all yelling at the same time or some swing band "hotting" 1t up.
 Certainly they love nominees. When every chair has to sit ex- actly on the same dents every day every cushion is hard stuffed with pomp and circumstance. everything so rigid and cold that no one wants to snuggle down and stay. that's not home. The barren house of grandeur needs at least a coy corner or two to keep the heart warmed.
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 and silver, hated to replace showed curtain. didn't like to do my part but dearly loved to come home from school and find everything spick and span. couldn't bear cleaning day. When I opened the door and saw the house pushed around and knew lunch would be on the corner of the kitchen table, I felt outraged. I wanted my house in order. I did.
 To this minute, when I enter a chaotic home. I shiver with dis taste. And, let me add. that I learned plenty early to do my bit and like 1t. I learned to sew and scrub and cook and dust.
 Children love something new in the way of a chair or rug, but ac- tually it is not too highly impor- tant. After the first no'e city has worn of with the nap, they take the latest windfall as a matter of course, pretty much
 PRETTY THINGS
 CATCH THEIR EYES
 However, all children are aware of pretty things. They do like to
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"What a swell Westchester that girl does!" thinks the young man stuck with a partner who isn't so good. And he makes mental note to ask Miss Twinkle Toes for the very next.
 How to do such smart stepping, win admiration on the dance floor? It's simple when you practice at home with instructions and foot print diagrams.
 The diagram with our picture shows the Feather Step, a varia- ton in the slow fox-trot or Vest chester. And here's the way you do It!
 Count 1-Step forward on left foot. 2-Step forward on right foot. AND-Step forward a little to left side on left foot. swinging into open position as in picture. 3-Step for. ward on right foot outside your partner and at the same time bring partner to your right side. 4-Step forward on left foot, swinging 1t in- ward to bring you back to closed position.
 And just as easily you learn the graceful Balance Step, the Change Step!
 Send l0c in coin for your copy of HOME COURSE IN NEW BALL. ROOM DANCES 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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freshly made relish or nodded salad, 1, some Is lost when they are made into sauce; and even more Is des-
 tToyed when the sauce Is strained or the juice made into jelly,
 Cranberry relish Is one Of the most popular ways to serve the raw fruit. It can be mace in almost no time by grinding together through the food chopper 1 pound q quart) of fresh raw cranherries and one orange, Quarter the orange and re- move the seedJ, but use both the pulp and the skin Of the orange. sweeten this relish to taste with about 1 cup Of sugar or strained honey. stirred into the ground fruit, and add i.l teaspoon of salt to bring out the flavor. Put the relish In . covered Jar in the refrigerator and it will keep for two or three weeks and he ready to serve with any kind of meat or poultry.
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TRIM TWO.PIECE STYLE FOR SCHOOL

Her report card reads A-pIus ;. and so does her style ratingi For any little girl who skips of to school In this trim two-piecer will be head of her class in fashion. claire ri. den's Pattern eBs is e spirited jacket and skirt that may match or excit- ingly contrast. A checked or plaid fabric would be smart--og why not make the top of bright green or red fabric with Q dark skirt7 See tiie light-hearted flare of the skirt. which is cut on the bias in just two pieces. You may add suspenders tc keep 1t perfectly in position, with no twisting or crooked hanging to spoil Its style. The trim blouse has long or short sleeves, and Is smart with two little pockets placed high. Don't you love the pretty, front-scalloped c0liar2 Make 1t iIi radiant, light contrast for 6 fresh touch. And do sew on bright buttons that pick ID 6 color in your print design or that match the skirt, Daughter wtll find both pieces useful to wear with other outtlts too. And you viii ind the whole thing easy-as-pie to lnakel
 Pattern Des is cut in girls sises e
 .. 70. i2 and il Size 70 requires J yards 3b Inch fabric. q
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS ilse) iss coins Tor thls pattern. WRITE CLEARLY sIZK, NAME, ADs DRESS AND STYLE NUMBER
 Send orders to WateFhuFy nemds cFat Pattern DspastmeEt, F
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Modern Menus
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX
 NEA Service StafR Writer

Indian medicine men deserve credit for introducing the cranberry as food to the early settlers. But modern science deserves even more credit for improving the quality and increasing the harvest of this tart tastii { berry that comes to the market in abundance this year. In fact, the cranberry crop this win- ter Is estimated to be larger than the average for the past ten years.
 Cranberries are available through out the winter. They are stored un- der controlled conditions and the grocer buys only a small lot at a time. Often select berries come wrapped in ne pound or half-pound packages.
 Some of the crop is tanned, too. as ready -to-serve cranberry sauce, cranberry jelly, or cranberry juice.
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Latest Styles
GlO,uing Yourself
ny Aida HaEI
NEA Service Stan Writer

NEA Service Stan Writer
 The perfect way for anyone past 90 to make herself utterly miserable, get . reputation as Q fanatic on the subject of cosmetics and become Q bore to her friends who are enjoy ing maturity, is to keep on hoping and expecting somehow to look again as she did when she was le, It can't be done.
 And it's G great mistake to get into the habN of comparing the present you to the you Of ten years ago. Any such comparison makes ' little line seem like q deep furrows' a small wrinkle appear to be'a nett work of wrinkles and lines. Nothing could be worse for the morale. z
 About the best you can hope for Is to look i've years younger than you really are. If you must 90 in for comparisons, then be content to compare yourself to women of the same age and not to young girls or to yourself years and years ago. PLENTY OF REST
 SAVES THE EYES
 Of course, If you have plenty of time and @ reasonable amount Of money to spend on your skin, hair and figure, you may be able to look forty when you're fifty, fifty when you are sixty, and so on. Most of IS, however, do well to keep on looking i've years younger than we are. And even this requires pretty regular care.
 Such care must include conscien- tious use of Q night cream, Q hair brush, soap and water, fiattering cosmetics, hand lotion, ice or ice water. TX t}
 It means, too, that you simply must get enough sleep and rest. Nothing makes flne lines around mouth and eyes and pufflness under the eyes any more quickly than con- tinually short-changing yourself on sleep. In fact, the average beauty authority will agree to put sleep and rest at the top of the list-ahead of creams, ahead of lotions, ahead of everything.
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Of Interest
 To Women

Have you . household problem
 to solve? Write your question
 clearly, ssgn your name and ad.
 dress, enclose . three-eent postage
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 Editor, Washington Service Bu.
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 personal reply.
 e. When the brine used for cur. ing pork becomes Fopy. should the meat be removed and the brine changed?
 A. Yes: remove the meat. scrub it thoroughly with q brush and warm water, and repack 1t in q clean, scalded barrel, The new brine, made after the original recipe. should De diluted to as nearly the saltlness Of the old brine as possible. q. Please give the directions for cooking sW0Fdflsb7
 A. It Is best broinisd or panfFled. using plenty Of butter, as the Ash Is usually dry, For baking, cut steaks into service portions and lay in but. tered baking dish; season with salt end pepper, dot with 2 tablespoons Of butter and cover with milk. Bake ln hot oven For 70 minutes.
 Q. What gre the best elsanssrs for tiled flooEs1
 A. noap and water. Ahraslves and bloaehes Fpughen the surface and the floors are more eaa|Iy aoiled. polished.
 e. Please elVo c recipe goF eh0p Ellsy "a which rabbit ie used.
 A. Melt about q tablespoons e butter 0F other tat ln e Sklliet. add cups ef nhFeddnd cnion and slip pf shredded green pepper, and cock the mixture fog 6 few minutes. Then
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connection unhealthful?. .(R. K)
 Answer-Any fuel burning uses up oxygen, produces carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas). Under some cir- culnstances any fuel burning may produce some carbon monoxide. Therefore 1t is always best to have pipe connecting with chimney fue or carrying the combustion products out of the house. It Is always dam gerouS to use any fuel-burning heat CT without such pipe in small closed room, such as a bathroom or Q small bedroom. Electric heat is safe in this reSpect-doeS not pro- duce carbon dioxide or carbon mon- oxide nor consume oxygen.
 Cream In Coffee
 Our economics class in doubt as to use of milk or cream in coffee does 1t lesson food value of milk or cream?. .(Mis V. J)
 Answer-No.
 Recipes
 May I please have your instruc- tions and recipes for. using wheat germ? My son, aged Il. (Mrs. w. B. M) ....
 Answer-I have none, except the general suggestion that wheat germ meal may be incorporated in any recipe calling for flour, by substi- tuting the wheat germ for one-half of the flour the recipe calls for. Or it tastes good enough to eat raw, mixed with any cereal, fruit or soup or other beverage. I have mono graph Wheat to EaW which gives instructions and recipes for the use of plain wheat in the everyday diet. For copy of this send three-cent- stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress.
 (Protected by John P. Dille Col
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over he past twelve months - see just how much they have much they have a c c o m plished outside of man. aging to pro. vide themselves with a roof, f o o d a n d clothes.
 Has the man made any dcti- mite progress in his work - done as much as he set out to do Q year ago?
 Are the couple
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they were year ago?
 Have they drifted away from old friends without troubling to make new ones?
 Do they both have satisfying interests outside their jobs of earning a living and homemaking?
 Then when they have taken a critical look at the last year they can face the year to come. They can decide what they want out of
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BY RUTH MILLETT

It is hard to 90 any place unless you know where you want to 90, That's why 1t is such @ good idea for married couples to set them- selves a goal to work toward.
 At the beginning of every year they should take a backward look
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HOW TO MAKE LINENS LAST LONGER

Don't fold and stack linen damask clothes Instead. roll them on a cardboard mailing tube or . cut-down broom handle. If you have no place for long rolls, do change the creases In which the linens were originally folded, even # you move them only an inch or
 Keep Q roll of dark blue or block tissue paper handy for wrapping. It's time-tested recipe for keeping white linens white.
 Store linens In as cool . spot as possible. In other words, keep them away from heating pipes or chimney flues.
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Don't wash linens in hard water If your local water Is hard, be sure to use one of the many fine water-softeners on the market today.
 Don't use soap with an alkaM content. It will turn the linens yellow all too soon. .l..
 Wash thoroughly but not vigorously A really modern washing machine Is the answer. you don't have one, remember to squeese-n0t rub.
 Rinse at least twice and put Q little powdered hoFax and, for white linens, bit of blung in the third rinslng water. Linen should not be starched