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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
. MeKENNEY's BRIDGE QUIZ
Even High Joker May Be Discarded in Fast, New Game
BY VIM. Y. MCKINNEY Americn,a Gard AnLhNriLY

This is the last of Q series of six articles on "Super-C Contract Bridge . form of the game using the joker, described by Capt. John M. Ellicott, .. s. N., retired, in his new book.
 Today's hand is another warn- ing of the importance of knowing how to handle the widow card in this new game. The declarer pushed aside the ceuce of hearts and play cd his cards as they stood. He held off until the third round of spades, then led a diamond. South won and exited with a diamond. Declarer cashed the other top diamonds, and then tried to get into dummy. He played the ten of hearts and let it ride, but South shrewdly refused to win. Then came the ace and an- other heart. South won and cashed tho fourth heart. West won spade, two hearts, two diamonds, two clubs, and his joker, going down one trick.
 There are several better discards that West could have made; in fact, he could have picked up the deuce of hearts and discarded the joker. Now do you see what would hap- pen?
 When South exited with the nine of diamonds, declarer would win,
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SHIRTWAISTER HAS CONTRAST NOVELTY
AT'TERN 325

Al G1ktAN OGO
 Flash for headline fashion news in the sporting field! Have you ever seen a smarter, more dash- ing and original shirtwaister mode than Pattern 325 - an exclusive Claire Tilden creation? Every line is cut with clean-cut, youthful verve. The bodice fits with soft flattery; the slim sirt has nice front panel. But the highlight or all is that clever scalloped yoke treatment-very new and gayi she convertible collar is well-shaped: the front buttoning to the waist is a convenience. Though the pockets are optional, they are so smart that you won't want to omit them. For a really striking effect, add con- trasting bands with inverted-scal- lop edges on the pockets, and match them with the yokes, the short sleeves and the entire back bodice of the contrast. A long sleeve ver- sion is included in this spirited dress which you'll wear in the country. in town, to work. for sporting events wherever you want to look smart. trim and youngl Be sure to refer to the accompanying Sewing Guide for its expert. easy-to-follow inc structionsl
 Pattern 325 Is cut in misses and women's sizes i4, i6. IS. 20, 32, 34. Sc, 38, 40 and 42. Size i6 requires 3 5-s yards 35 inch fabric and 7-S yard contrast.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (l5eD in eolns for this pattern. WRITE CLEARLY SIZE. NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department, 70 Fifth Avenue. New York. N. '.
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Of Interest to Women

Have you 3 household problem
 to solve? Write your question clearly, ssgn your name and ad
 dress, enclose a three cent pastage
 stamp and mail to The Woman's
 Editor, Washington Service Bu-
 reau, The Democrat, 1913 18th
 Street, Washington, D. C., for a
 personal reply.
 o. Is the use of the water bath or other non-pressure methods re- liable for canning meats?
 A. No. Although insufficiently processed meat may keep when stored at low temperature without visible signs of spoilage. there is no certainty that the bacteria which cause food poisoning have not been active. If a pressure can- ner is not available, other methods of preservation should be used for meats.
 c. Who was the first potter in 
 4. Dirck Claesen. Pot Baker, . who is named that way in the list of burghers Of the City of Amster- dam. New England. April is. 1857.
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"DIvE BOMBER"

Hollywood, Calif.-Errol Hymns next staring vehicle will be Dive Bomber" Warner Bros. announces.
 Because of the story's timeliness- 1t Is concerned with on important aspect of the nations defense pre- parations - Warmers decided to schedule 1t ahead of "They Died With Their Boots On," announced earlier as Flyn't next picture.
 The stars latest completed film Is "Footsteps in the Dark" his first modern dress comedy in three years.
 Filming of background shots for Dive Bomber" has begun at Pen- sacola, Fla, Michael Curtiz, who has been at the helm in the making of most of the Errol Flynn action epics, will direct.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

Beauty all summer in your gar- den when you have lovely lily pool and you can make one yourself 1!
 Choose @ quiet corner and sink in the ground and ordinary tub filled with good soil to within inches of the top. Add inches of water and border with rocks, for a natural look.
 If you plant soon, what a pie ture of beauty you'll see this sum- merl Pygmy water-lilies, in yellow or white, that may give 8 hundred blooms season blue forget-me- nots and yellow marsh marigolds nestling in the rocks by the pool and beside it, reflected in the water, tall iris, Regal fern, white-flowering arrowhead.
 And all with such tiny effort! To plant hardy water-ililies, you simply press a piece of rootstock length wise into the mud and, with a roc, weight down one end until 1t takes root.
 You may as easily make charm ing rock garden, too, as a setting for your pool.
 Our 32-page booklet gives exact details of making tub. cement and stock ponds. Tells how to grow hardy and tropical water-lilies. lo- tus; suggests border planting for charming effects. Has directions for making and planting delightful rock gardens, in both sunny and shady spots.
 Send l0c in coin for your copy Of HOW TO MAKE ROCK GARDENS AND LILY POOLS to the Waterbury Democrat Heme Service. 63S Sixth Ave, New YeFk. ". Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME. AD- DRESS, and the NAME ef booklet.
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one comments on the improvement in my figure since the baby came.
 SAF,. ARN

one comments on the improvement in my figure since the baby came.
 (Mrs. 0. J. M) Answer Normally childbirth should not spoil the figure. Copies of the booklets Preparing for Ma ternity" and "The Brady Better B Bigger Baby Book" mailed on request If you inclose ten cents for each or either booklet and l-cent stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress.
 Atrophy of Nails
 About @ year ago I read some~ thing in your column about thin, brittle, ridged or pitted nafls.
 Mrs. P. R) Answer-That condition is often due to nutritional deficiency, and the daily supplementing of the diet with a. fair amount of vitamin B complex and vitamin D for a year or so should improve the condition of the nails as well as general health.
 (Protcted by John F. Dille Col
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WE THE WOMEN- It's High Time We Girls" Grew Up, Says Ruth Millett

of silly referring to ourselves as girls long after we've taken to dye ing the gray hairs and spending our money on facials.
 And when we say gals it's even worse. For gals is such old, dated slang that it marks its user as in the neighborhood of forty, at least.
 We haven't anything to lose by admitting, at some stage of the game, that we're mature adults - that we are no longer girls, but women.
 FUNNY AND
 PATHETIC
 And we have quite bit to gain. Dignity, for one thing. It doesn't sound very dignified when a plump middle-aged matron, who pants as she climbs a short flight of staiHs, refers to herself and her friends as girls"
 It's little bit funny, and little bit pathetic. It also reminds the listener of just what "the girls" don't want anyone to be reminded of-that they aren't girls any long, CT.
 So let's decide a time when we should start calling ourselves wom- en, and then stick by it.
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Q MODERN MENUS
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Service Staff Writer

Mullins put the taste of plenty into any breakfast menu. And they have excellent food value, especially when made with whole grain cerals. BASIC RECIPE FOR MUFFINS
 Two cups sifted flour, 4 tea spoons phosphate or tartrate bak- ing powder or 2 teaspoons combi- nation baking powder, 1-2 tea- spoon salt, 9 to 4 tablespoons sugar, l or 2 eggs, well beaten, cup milk, 2 to { tablespoons melted butter or other shortening.
 Sift dry ingredients together. Combine eggs, milk and melted shotening and add all at once to dry ingredients. Beat barely enough to dampen all flour, about 20 to 25 seconds, leaving dough lumpy. not beating until smooth. Spoon into hot well-greased muffin pans and bake 20 to 25 minutes in . hot oven (400 de grees F)
 Good mullins should be only slightly rounded, without knobs, and have an even texture without the tunnels" or long holes pro- uuced by owe rmlxlng.
 WHOLE WHEAT MUFFINS
 Substitute whole wheat flour for white flour in original recipe. Brown sugar or molasses, may be used in place of sugar.
 CORN MEAL MUFFENS
 Use 2-3 cup of corn meal and i-3 cups of flour in place of all flour in original recipe. Use maxi mum amount of shortening.
 COOKED CEREAL MUFFINS
 Use l-2 cups flour and l-2 cup Of cooked cereal and de crease the milk to Ia cup in original recipe. Combine the cereal with the egg, milk and shortening and mix as Usual.
 SOUR MILK OR BUTTERMILK
 MUFFINS
 Substitute sour or buttermilk for sgeet milk in the original recipe. if milk s very thick tciabbere db increase to 1 i-4 cups. Use i-2 teaspoon of soda and decrease bak- Ing powder to 2 teaspoons of phos-
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him the fortune which made Shan- gri-La possible. Like many business men before him, he had the habit of work--which even retirement" could not subdue.
 He bought 300 acres adjoining his own 100-acre estate. He got an architect to draw plans for @ super-deluXe subdivision of winter homes for those who can afford them. He ordered created flower and vegetable gardens, huge lake in the center of the property, with deep channels for yachts, leading
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to Nassau's harbor and, in the other direction, to the sea.
 Axel Wenner-Gren calls his real estate project Paradise Town," which is & bit more attractive than Hog Island" He really puts him. self into it-a holdover from his Big Business days of executive offices and multiple push-buttons.
 It pleases him that his Paradise Town development provides 800 na- tives with regular employment. It also pleases his good friend, the
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start referring to herself and to her girl frie ds a s women.
 The way 1t is now, with no- b ody knowing just where the dividing line is, women reach t h IF sixtieth birthdays S till r e f errin g to t h cir contem- poraries as "the girls
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Menu Varieties Offer
 Tempting Breakfast Tips

phate or tartrtate or 1 teaspoon of combination. Sour milk Is particu- larly good in corn meal and bran mullins.
 BRAN MUFFINS Use 3-4 cup of bran and 1 IA fine ground whole wheat flour in original recipe. Decrease milk to 3-4 of cup. Substitute molasses for sugar.
 MONDAYS MENU
 BREAKFAST: Mixed stewed dry fruit, cooked cereal mullins, marmalade, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Bacon, corn pudding, bread and butter, stewed pears, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Minced chicken and gravy on toast, buttered noodles, canned peas, green salad, rhubarb, pie, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
GlorVying Yourself
By Alicia Hart
NEA Service staff Writer


 No woman, however, pretty her face and hair, can wear the new, revealing lace dance dresses unless her shoulders and back are soft, smooth and beautifully groomed.
 If you have deep hollows along your shoulder bones or if your neck and shoulders are thin rather than subtly rounded or if the skin on your back isn't clear and smooth, it's better to forget about dinner and dance dresses with lace tops for this season, at least. Meanwhile you can get yourself in condition to wear them next year.
 FILL OUT THE FOLLOWS
 Swimming-particularly the good old-fashioned breast stroke-and swimming exercises will do a great deal to fill out hollows along the collarbone. Bad head posture often means the difference between hay ing long, slender, swan-like throat and a long, stringy- ugly one. Reg ular use of long. handled bath brush has improved the texture of the skin on many a back.
 No matter how good your figure, you won't be as attractive as 1t is possible for you to be unless you carry your head gracefully, making the muscles at the sides of the neck do some of the work of supporting your head. Chin should be high, but not thrust forward.
 FRY THIS
 EXERCISE
 To improve your posture and beautify your throat, try this exer- else:
 stand erect, relax jaw and neck and let head fall backward as far as possible, opening mouth. Now place fingertips just behind ears and lift head upward. meanwhile slow ly closing your mouth. Repeat five times. Then do the exercise five times without using fingertips. Sim- ply imagine that pressure bsehind ears is pulling your head upward.
 Remember to clean your neck with soap and water or cream as often as you clean your face-and to use night cream faithfully. Don't let makeup end at the chinline. Carry your foundation and face powder downward on threat. Your throat should match your face. Un- less you apply makeup skiilfully. is won't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

cash his other high diamond, then lead the deuce of hearts, playing the seven from dummy. Thus South would be forced in the lead, and no matter what he returned, declarer would be able to win in dummy, cash the two good diamonds and thus make his contract.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

Duke of Windsor, governor of the Bahamas. His once-Imperial Ma jesty, now Royal Highness, is in- tensely concerned with improving the condition of his black subjects, who comprise 80 per cent of his tiny realm.
 And there's your recipe for "get- ting away frcm it all." Just dash out and accumulate the money the Wenner- -Grens have, use 1t with the taste and discretion they have and, comes an attack of spring fever, you'll be all set.
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Caroline Chatfield
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BY RUTH MILLETT

Come on, girls. Let's get together and decide Q problem that concerns just us.
 Let's decide just how long a girl is a girl, and when she ought to
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| 8 fabulous fortune manuIaCCurlIlB Vt
 You're somebody like that, and you're searching for magic isle, for brilliant, sun-blessed tropical days that go to rest each night un- der a coverlet of black-blue sky diamonded with million stars. You search the world-in 300-foo; yacht, with a crew of 43. You end your search in the Bahamas And Fate being the wacky jade she is you pass up Bali, Timbuctoo and all the haunted isles to settle on-of all places, Hog Island just across the harbor from Nassau. FOUND THEIR
 ISLAND PARADISE
 Hog Island or no--Axel Wenner- Gren found what he wanted-and Mrs. Wenner- -Gren (nee Marguerite Liggett, of Kansas City, Mo- agreed with him.
 So the Wenner- -Grens bought romantically-named Shangri-La, a magnificent beach home on the island. They hired scores of dark skinned natives to improve the grounds, to create flower and vege- table gardens, to build cages for rare tropical birds, to keep the sun bleached beach in front of their house immaculate, to plant feathery palms in the patio, to dig wells to provide water to beautify the gar- denS.
 And that is where I met the Wenner- -Grens, in the utterly lovely estate that they had made out of Shangri-La.
 Small, dark, vivacious Mrs. Wen- ner- Gren is noted as 8 gracious hostess, and friends remark on her talent In organizing her beautifully run household. She enthusiastically shares her husbands humanitarian aand cultural interests. She trans lated, for American readers, the popular children's book, "Ake and His World" by the Swedish poet Bertil Malmberg.
 HOUSES SIMPLICITY
 BELLIES ITS RICHNESS
 She received me in a house com bining beauty and spaciousness without ostentation. It even has an art gallery, which, in the general ensemble, does not overwhelm the guest. Tn spite of famous paint ings on the walls and rare rugs on the floor, the rom Is so deceptively simple that many visitors mistake 1t, at first, for 6 simple sun room,
 Elsewhere, the house is colorful, There are bright touches of salmon on the chairs in the library, bright hued cushions in the beach house betdeen the main residence and the beach.
 The enormous white concrete house is built around @ patio in which brilliantly colored parrots hop from royal palm to royal palm, It is surrounded by acres of gar- dens, formal and informal. Gala lilies grow in profusion on the banks of man-made streams. Exotic hibis- cus-scarlet, pin kand white, parade their lush beauty everywhere.
 But Axel Wenner- -Gren could moi confine himself merely to building up his own home, Shangri-La Somewhere in him was still the drive and energy which had brought
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
WOMAN,S REALM "
Household Hints
This Tale Of a Tropic Paradise Won't Help Your Spring Fever

BY MARIAN YOUNG NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Nassau B. w. I-You from 1t all You to find isle wherenwe know the rest easy. I'll give the formula
 you be like Axe Wenner- -Gren Axe Wen the Rooseveltan passion for anonymity and the familiar and don't immediately Swedish
 fabulous fortune manufacturing
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Should girl automatically be- come a woman when she reaches 25? Or should the dividing age be 30? Or should it be pushed up to 40?
 It's for us to decide. But decide we should. Because we sound kind
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Latest Styles
Ho1v To Keeo Well
Av DR WILLIAM BRAnv. MD.

  envelope Is enclosed Lett bre. ony few De answered In this column No to Chicngo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
THE PREVENTION or
 CHHLBLATNS

Chilblain being first degree frost- bite, comparable with first degree burn, which means a burn that only reddens the skin and causes some irritation but does not destroy skin or other tissues and does not raise blisters, calls for the same preven- ton and treatment as ordinary frostbite or freezing.
 A reader reports: T used to suf- fer from chilblains and the more I dressed for warmth the more I suf- fered. So I began wearing less. I found that perforated shoes and light weight overshoes kept my feet just as warm and eliminated most of the sweating. I also tried to keep the overshoes in Q cold place so they would not warm my feet too much before I went out. Of course I can't go out in cold weather and just stand around and keep warm in summer foot wear but my feet do not get cold when I am walking and'1 haven't suffered chilblains or frostbite for number of years"
 IF. H. F)
 The reader deals sensibly with the important pgedisposing factor of chilblains, dampness. It makes little difference whether the feet, or rather the foot coverings are damp or wet from sweating or from eX- posture to slush or water. Excess of moisture in the coverings of the feet impairs the insulation of the footwear, makes 1t heat conductor, and so makes the feet cold
 A great many victims of cold feet, whether they suffer actual chilblain or frostbite or not, make the mis- take which F. H. F. corrected, that is, they wear excessive foot covering, just as they wear too much clothing ing because 1t is the winter season and they have Q childish notion that the warmer you dress the safer and more comfortable you will be. The contrary is true-the less cloth ing you can get by with at any time and in any circumstance, in physical comfort, the safer and the healthier you will be. say "physi- cal comfort"-meaning actual bodily well being, not morbid fancy or fear of taking cold"
 Individuals subject to cold feet, and especially those subject to chil- plains, should wear lose or coarse ly knitted wool stockings or at least stockings with such feet; thick cork insoles; loose fitting shoes with soles broad enough and long enough to permit free movement of the toes. They should avoid tight shoes, tight garters around the leg. Wherever and whenever possible, many times a day, they should lie on back with legs lifted to verticle and ride an imaginary bicycle @ few moments in that position, to help the crcula- tion.
 To control excessive sweating of the feet, pour into each shoe, from on etc the other, once in two weeks, enough diluted formaldehyde solu- ton to moisten entire insole, and then let the shoes so treated dry out thoroughly for at least twenty four hours before you wear them again. For this purpose dilute standard 37 per cent Liquor Formal dehyde by putting an ounce (two tablespoonfuls) in half pint bottle tablespoonsfuls) ina half pint bottle
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Brazil has just launchded It's tenth warship constructed in four years.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Riggs Disease

Have you any pamphlet or any advice to give on Riggs disease of the gums? (W. W)
 Answer-Riggs was the name of an American dentist who was among the first to recognize and describe the condition, so 1t is Riggs disease, otherwise called pyorrhea alveolaris or sometimes gengivitis. For monograph on the subject send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress-Preventioa and Treatment of Pyorrhea.
 We'll, Why Not?
 I am 28, had my first baby six months ago (don't know why I waited five years), and found the experience amazingly easy, which I credit to faithful study of and adherence to the instructions in your booklets Preparing for Mater nity" and "The BBBBB Book" Baby is a happy, healthy dear. never felt better in my life and every
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Evening star., 1941-03-10
Sergt. Roland 6. Ford,
Retired Policeman, Dies

Sergt. Roland G. Ford, A, retired
White House policeman and mem
Der of the force pistol team, died
yesterday at Mount Alto Hospital.
Sergt. Ford, whom Capt. Herbert
L. Marcy of the force described as
zone of the best officers who ever
served here" was retired February
! because of a heart ailment.
Made a sergeant in 1899, Sergt.
Ford had won more than 200 medals
for his accurate shooting in match
competition and had been praised by
President Roosevelt.
Native of Independence County,
Ark, he was the son of William P.
Ford and Mrs. Tabitha Ball Ford.
His mother formerly was of Lou
doun County, Va.
He volunteered for service in the
World War and later joined the
Marine Corps In 1921 he was ap-
pointed to the Metropolitan police
force and transferred in 1925 to the
White House force.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Maude Love Ford; three children,
Roland, Margaret and Nancy Lee
Ford; four brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services will be at pm.
tomorrow at the Chambers fu-
neral parlors, Thirty-frst and M
streets NV, with burial following
In Arlington National Cemetery.