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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
THE VANITY OF MAN

Just as finished my letter (Writes
a dentist frisnd-that's what ] said
friend-and / hope he will bear me
out if l am challenged to prove IT'D
I noticed your statement that mems
vests are as necessary as buStles. For
twenty years l have gone without
vest, many times have been CEN
sured for not being tsdily dressed
/ think neat shirt front and tie
look nicer than vest and certainly
one is more comfortable without the
vest, / have cften wondered why
men can't leave off hot clumsy coats
in summer and wear loose, light
shirt with low spreading collar
for all ordinary occasions.
Of. W., d. d. 81
Doctor you should visit Holly
wood The easy, careless, comfort
able informally Of the male attire
you suggest would be almost comic
there. Men and women wear what
they please and leave Off what they
please. Without RIGHTEOUSNESS it
must be said that one good influ-
ence has come out of the great
glamcr factory, and that is freedom
to dress as you like.
Probably fifty per cent Of men
have gone vestless in the last ten
or fifteen years. Some via the
double breasted coat route, espe-
cially when wearing dinner jacket
or Tuxedo, then when wearing Light
summer clothes, and finally they
get accustomcr TO it and discard the
vest for good and all.
Some men will continue to wear
vests regardless. They need vest
to satisfy vanity. They imagine the
vest conceals the paunch That's so
much easier than getting back into
fit condition by proper exercise
and proper temperance in eating
and drinking.
Some one Informed me that vests,
vests, double breasted coats, trous-
er cuffs and similar superfiuitieS are
Slatsd TO disappear shortly anyway,
as a sensible measure of economy.
England called a halt on these
forms OF waste year or more ago.
OVercoats-um. perhaps this is
not the season to laugh at over
coats, but I'll make a note of it and
discuss the abuse of overcoats in a
later article Here I merely quote
a noted English authority on physi-
ology and hygiene, (see p. IS Call
1t Cri"-70-page booklet about what
the untcachable call colds sinus,
"cataTah," adenoids, tonsils, etc.:
1T is absurd to put on ar over
coat when going out for walk.
1t is good to go out and be braced
by feeling cold and so be impelleG
to take vigorous exercise"
| suggest that the kids cut this out
ard keep it ready to show Grandma
VI Aunt Harriette when She is too
nsiStent about ovegcoats and the
ike. To DIR. Hills observation / add
this:
"Clothing Of any kind that is
not necessary for protection
against excessive cold or wet or
heat or Light is detrimental to
health. II impairS the heat-reg-
ulatlng function OF the skin. II
excludes light"
In other words, the only question
TO consider, in regard TO wearing or
not wearing oyereoat, overshoes.
vest, hat, light or heavy underwear
or none, chest protector, mufiler or
open neck Is your own personal
comfort-and you are more eompc-
tent 10 Judge about that than any
one else, II you are not an actual
imbccilc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Household Hints
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEA Service Staff Writer

New York.-Three words TO get
in mind in straight capitals be
fore starting any excursion into the
mid winter furniture market are
CHANGE and MODERN DESIGN
You'll meet them everywhere
Change in prices, delivery and cred
it arrangements, style. Modern de-
sign in everything from implanted
chests to Eighteenth Century-in-
spired desks.
The big ipdustry's leaders looked
over, and seemed to like, some I'M
portant long-range blueprints at its
huge January American furniture
exhibition in Chicago. Now they
herald the birth there, of "a dis
tinct American style and the COM
| ing OF "a new era" wherein the
purposefulness and beauty that are
built into table or chair will be
more important than hardware and
scrollwork added on afterWard.
Adaptations of period designs are
still being produced and sold - if
you're traditionalist, you can get
them. Big news of the year though
| is practical, modern life inspired
stuff. It's coming in response to a
popular demand that often sur
prises the makers.
ENTRANCE OF PURELY
AMERICAN DESIGN
In the past practically every
furniture design, with the note
| worthy exception Of Early Amer
lean, has been the outgrowth of a
basic European style" says an an
nouncement evaluating the big
show. "The good points of foreign
styling do not need to be cast
aside, but the time has come for
American individuality and inven-
tive genius to take its rightful
tplace."
That's big industry talking
and changing, and growing.
Prices are up, which should in
spire bargain hunters at midwin-
ter sales. Stabilize ton for the
coming months was promised at
Chicago. One manufacturer fore
cast an average increase of Is per-
cent during 1912.
Delivery time varies from city to
city, store to store, line to line But
a good rule to follow is:
If you intend to buy furniture,
particularly anything of a new line,
plan ahead, budget, 20 into the
store and order as soon as a new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
5 3oz


q
muticolored
o
The band, edging the waist
the bright colors-blue this
color
contrasting
To obtain knitting directions for MulC son
Pattern 5000 and
the PATTERN Cabot Democrat
Jog Seventh Avenue New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

m-display opens, SO that you can
be supplied from stock or from the
next cutting" ordered by the re-
taller.
Two things have trained the in
dustry's thoughts on the modern
functional design. One, the makers
have an eye on the half-million de-
fenSe-worker houses scheduled to
go up during 1912. Many displays
at Chicago reflected aWareness Of
the need these homes present for
adaptable, smaller, compacter, more
movable, flexible, better looking fur
niture at prices a '$5O-a-week man
can hlldpet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

sugar, and over~baggir are the
usual causes.
q, Is there aIy way TO prevent
mildeW from forming on leather
suitcases and travelling bags?
a, Nearly all feathers are subject
to mildeW when NATURAL conditions
such as temperatures and humidity
OF the air are favorable. MildeW
thriVes best in dark, warm humid
places and grows less readily in W. Il
ventilated, dry places where light
and sur shine have ready access Tine
Bureau OF Agricultural Chemistry
Of the u. S. Department Of Agri-
culture says that the problem is Nh
old one for which no practical soll-
ton has been found,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

These new pieces were made Of
lined oak, bleached mahogany and
walnut, birch and bleached maple.
This market will affect the styling
all through loW-priced and medium
range goods. It's the groove Of
the future.
Secondly, this groove" already
is well cut in the field of fine fur
niture. Four outstanding big, new
lines are out, or will be soon, all
modern design, native wood stuff.
There's Hollywood group.
Framework and supports are of
elm with soft, slatey-grey finish,
drawer fronts are combed oak, quite
light. This large group, for bed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Clarifying
Yourself
D. A1snl> uo~<
BY Alicia Hart

NEA Service tSaff Writer
GAS you know, the men in the U. 5
Army prefer tall girls" writes Elsie
who touchingly wants to grow three
or four inches.
Well, ! didn't know. All this re-
minds me of couple of things
that might be useful to Elsie and
any other girl who really worries
about her size.
One is this. The glamor girl who
is pictured in the newspapers with
admiring soldiers represents an
ideal of beauty-she doesn't repre-
sent the proportions of your ne gh-
bors, your real life friends and com
petitors. At the moment the IDEAL
that you see stressed everywhere is
an extremely long -stemmed Gre
ature.
AS to real-life average women,
consider this: Uncle Sam has just
come up with official stat sites
showing that the mean woman IS
five feet three inches tall and has
a 1915 bust, 20 waist, and 33.2
hip. OF course that mean" woman
is purely mathematical too. Blu,
how she dramatizes the fact that
the average is net he IDEAL row
stressed so much. A very large num-
Der CT women, says uncle Sam, are
short but stout or tall but slender"
BONE STRUCTURE
is INTERCHANGEABLE
So Elsie, merely short, is pretty
lucky at that.
Flesh is one thing. 1t can be con-
trolled, within Limits. But bone
structure, which includes he ght, is
another, and you cannot change 1t
You can dress TO create an illusion
Of proportions that you aren't, how
ever, and you can change your at
titude toward it.
Now one thing that affects your
attitude is everybody else's. The
constant stress on that Wandl Ike
ideal doesn't help you. And here's
the other thing wanted to men
ton. I wouldn't be a bit surprised
to see and hear less about that
long, tall ideal, from now on.
The emphasis hereafter will be
increasingly on health. sanity, real
ism in everything, including beauty,
And that's going to help you to
keep your thoughts off your bone
structure
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

Q ~
be watched and
who W i'll be
gossiped about
just as much as
any woman in
civilian life.
T h e y have
found that out
in E n G l a II d
where the gov
eminent h a S
had to start a
campaign 0 I
counter : propa-
ganda to offset
the vicious gos-
sip that is going
the + O Ii u d S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

room, living and dining rooms, will
come into outstanding stores all
over the country soon.
Organic design, introduced joint
~ by a museum anG outstanding
department stores, is a dark horse
success. 1t ranges in character and
design from radically lined, body
moulding chairs to light birch cab
inets as prim and Familiarity, beau
tifully simple as Puritan cub
board. Each room OF this group
was manufactured from a prize
winning design.
Two other lines will come into
display rooms before Spring One
is designers Helen Park and Sal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
BY RUTH MILLETT

Put woman in uniform; give her
man-sized job to do for the de-
Tense of her country; let her face
danger and hardship In short,
make soldier of her-but you've
still got woman, whose morals will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

@. My Christmas layer cakes
We're disappointing failure, The
layers cracked on the top and the
cake was very dry. have been
baking for some years ard always
make fairly passable cake. Can you
suggest O reason for my failure this
time?
A, # the oven is too hot the
cake Will brown on the top before
y was sufficiently risen; then, when
the heat reaches the center OF the
layer or loaf, and II begins TO rise
II Will break through and crack the
crust As TO the dryr csS. too much
baking powder, insufficient beating
or The amount OF shortening and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

ABOUT the women in uniform -
who, my dear. aren't any better
than they should be, if you know
what l mean"
The stories have spread fast and
furiously, and the women who are
hardest hit by the talk are those
who move up in the ranks. Just as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Of Interest To Women

Have you a househol problem
to solve? Write your question
clearly, sign your name and ad-
dress, enclose threc-cent postage
stamp and mail to The Womans
Editor. Washington Service Bu-
reau, The Democrat, 1913 13tb
Street, Washington, ID. C., for a
personal reply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
PLACxNG ,THE CREDIT

Nancy Coleman feels that Ger
rude Lawrence had more to do with
her determination to stick TO a
theatrical career than any other one
person.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
DEATH RATE DOWN

The tuberculosis death rate OF
North Carolina during 1889 vas 81 0
per 100000 of the population a.
compared with 52.7 IN the preceding
year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
Caroline
Chatfield
Says Today
Character Building Institutions Are Home Fires
Which Must Be Kept Burning
Title Registered, U. S. Patent Office
DEAR MISS CHATFIEID:

mdde-aged widow faced with the problem Of taking up lie
isn't
girl all
companonshp Social
complicated and while had
Last summer beeaved
child passed ard the seemed
realize life
up kft special talent
organizations and can't find the
starting point WIDOW
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

TOMORROW'S MENU
BREAKFAST: Orange juice,
oatmeal. enriched toast, coffee,
milk.
LUNCHEON: Scrambled eggs,
whole wheat toast, frosted cup
cakes, tea, milk.
DINNER: (See column
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
REEL BEFORE REAL

George Brent's real marriage to
MN Sheridan was postponed three
lays until his screen marriage tl
olivia de Havvilland in I'm This
Our Life" could be shot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
ANSWER:


in this life have the most fun
friends those lose them
and the wouldn't have full
SWIM picking where off without
at points 0
being snapped before the ink their signature gets
backbone
national interest
their homes but that they debt the church
occasionally What
or energies clearing house friendships make
Hibution o
building going to be
Of md
While winning the unquesonaby
old home fires which heard much of In the last
this
clothed
home fres.A lonely
widow
heartedly this of
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04

Ho70 To Keep Well
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.


nd writ N
No reply mnde to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
70 MODERN MENUS
Smoked Pork Part OF
Two-Day Meal Pan

will be hot ham salad made from
today's smoked pork butt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
CAROLINE CHATFIELD.

c1obiems
Al held in Write ChntneId.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-04
BY MRS. GAYSOR MADDOX
NEA Service staff Writer

Smoked pork butt can be cooked
for two dinners, thereby saving time
which can be spent in war work
Many other meats lend themselves
to this double duty cooking plan de-
signed 10 save kitchen hours which
NEST patriotic housewives want TO
put TO our about war effort.
TomorroW'S dinner: Grapefruit
juice cocktail, smoked pork butt,
boiled potatoes eight-minute cab
bage, Whole-Wheat mullins, but
ter, cooked fruit, coffee, milk
Shopping list for family OF five
for two days STAPLES not included
III listing.
Four popunds smoked pork butt,
large head cabbage, 2 pounds
tomatoes, ] stalk celery. l No. 2
can fruit or pounds fresh fruit,
6 tart apples, 4 grapefruit, or ! No.
q can grapefruit juice, loaf
whole wheat bread.
SMOKED PORK BUTT
Makes 3 to 10 servings
Four pounds smoked pork butt,
6 whole cloves, 1-2 bay leaf, ! sliced
onion, ! stick cinnamon, l-2 tea
spoon celery seed, ID cup vinegar
Place smoked pork butt in a
dep kettle. Cover with water and
add cloves, bay leaf, onion, cinna-
mon, celery seed and vinegar q
Cover tightly and simmer slowly
until done. Allow 40 10 As minutes
per pound for cooking.
EIGHT MINUTE CABBAGE
One medium cabbage, salt. pep
per, butter, boiling water. Shred
cabbage fine Stand In sailed let
water or very cold water Tor 10
hour before cooking Drain. Have
large kettle fun OF rapidly boiling
salted water. Drop in cabbage a
little at a time so as to reduce
water below boiling. Boil uncoy-
cred for only eight minutes. Drain
at once, dot with butter AID sea-
son. This makes a low cost but
tender green vegetable
Next days main dinner disl.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
TAPS NEW SOURCE

r X. White, chief of the general
salvage section of the WPB, has
written Governor Van Wagner,
asking for directive 10 the state
institutions 10 sell their cans only
to detinning plants or see that the
tin is delivered to shipping points
or depots designated by county
salvage committees nearest its
origin"
The scrap metal drive in the
schools went into high gear yes
terday with the salvage commit
tee distributing posters to be
placed in every school room in De-
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
Scrap Scrap
Two Referees Select Junk
for SmeIfer Owners

The big scrap over the scrap OF
the National Smelling and Refin-
ing Company of Ecorse was set
tied today when Judge Dewitt II
Merriam ordered the junk piles
sold Immediately.
Because the owners OF the
closed smelter, Harry and Rubin
IGrevnin, could not agree what was
scrap, Judge Merriam recently ap-
pointed two referees. They are
Maj. Wayne L. Cockrell of army
ordnance and Wilbur Danaher
vice president of the Equitable
Trust Company.
On recommendation Of the ref
erees, the judge ordered bids
taken for about 5000 tons Of scrap
metal and rubber and all ma
chinery not usable by the smelling
COMPANY.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
WAVES
Officers
Sought

A feminine touch was added 10
'hc office Of naval officer procure
mcnt IN the Book Building today
with the debut here Of the first
WAVES officer, Ensign Helen n
Stewart.
Ensign Stewart, a native Of
williamsburg. Ind, a graduate Of
Indiana University and a school
teacher by profession. will inter-
view officer candidates for the
n8vy'S women'S auxiliary
She was among the first l20 10
hc trained and commissioned at
smith College.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
SAN FRANCISCO

John d. McGillS. executive sec
retary of the state salvage COM
mittee, compared Dctroits results
with other sections OF the country.
San Francisco, which had led
the nation in tin collections up 10
now, was pushed far into second
place. The coast city has had
eight monthly collections with the
largest 373 tons.
Even New York could not shake
Detroit from top place. II collected
| 900 tons of tin cans but of this
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
Detroit, With GAS Tons Of Cans
Ready. for Refinery, Leads u. 5.
Tin Salvage Campaign, However, Falls
Short OF GoaI School Children Help

Detroit today had official praise
from Washington for the best
total of prepared tin cans coll
lected anywhere in the United
States" The tribute was paid by
Burton NJ. Parks. deputy chief of
the tin unit of the WPB's conSer-
walton division, as word was
flashed 10 Washington Of the to-
tails in Saturdays drive.
While the cityS' tonnage OF
picked up Tin still stood at Gas
tons, the outlying sections were
swelling the amount slowly but
steadily.
The Crosse Pointe villages have
turned in u tons, Royal Oak II,
River Rouge 5, Trenton ) and the
Southern Oakland County towns
80 The figures are still incom-
plete.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13

For the Inside News" OF
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column In the Times.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
Tin Cans. Brinq
Detroit S8,49O

Detroits SOC gross tons OF tin
cans, collected in last Saturdays
drive, ape on their way to Sew
aren, n. j.. today where the city
will be paid SIS a gross ton for
them, or a total of $8,490.
Common council approved tho
sale of the cans as recommended
by Edward II. Kennedy, commits
sioner Of purchases and supplies.
who said the Vulcan DEFINING
Company Of Sewaren was the only
bidder for the cans. Local scrap
dealers yards were still crowded
from the previous scrap drive.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
.HsOetry'S
Path to
Victory

Help pave the path 10 victory
via the poetic way! Yes. poets, you
can help Uncle Sam win the war!
Here's how: Take the first two
lines of a nursery rhyme, then
complete the poem in your own
way, being sure TO write about
War Savings Stamps or Bonds in
a manner calculated to stimulate
the sale of these stamps and bonds.
Send your poem to the Rhyme
Contest Editor, The Detroit Times,
1870 Cass avenue, Detroit. Mich.
The Times prints five of these
rhymes each day and if your poem
is printed you'll receive 81 in War
Savings Stamps.
i Here are today'S winning
rhymes:
Submitted by Allan Bloom, 2700
! Oakman court:
Sing a song Of slxpence,
A pocket full OF rye,
War Savings Bonds, War Savings
Stamps.
We all are pledged TO buy;
\ BE loyal TO our country,
i We owe il many thanks,
! The more we give
I The more will live.
Help save our fighting Yanks,
I Submitted by Ed Seeley. sol
I Asylum street, Flint:
Goosey, gOosey, gander.
Whittier do YOU wander?
Down 10 the savings bank
But not my cash 10 Squandcr;
Rather I'll invest il
In the safest SoundeSt way,
War Bonds and War Stamps
OF the good old L. s. A.!
Submitted by Floraiean Fer
guSon. Rcdford High School:
There was an old woman who lived
In shoe.
She had ~ many .chiIdrcn she
didn't know whatto do;
,She bought them some War
Stamps
And a War Bond each.
And The children all said: MY
mothers a peach
Submitted by Pauline Saltzman.
|429 Highland street. S. f.. Grand
/ Rapids
There was little man and nc had
a little gun.
And hts builct~ were made, Of
lead. lead. lead:
He bought all the War Bonds he
could afford.
/ To shoot Hitler through the
head, head head.
Submitted by Miss Mary s..
Spond. 1914 Brinker avenue;
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you
anv wool?
/ Yes sir, yes sir. three bags full,
/ But its going 90 the market
For our boNS inNhe camps.
And with the money That / get
III buy War Bonds and Savings
Stamps
Poems submitted WILL NOT be
returned; decisions Of judges are
FINAL.
Sec tomorrow'S Times for more
winners
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
Woman Found Hanged

Mrs Marie Clifford. 30. was
found dead in the basement Of her
home al 202l3 Irvington avenue,
her body hanging by rope from
the ceiling. police said today. Her
husband. McEvoy. 81, told police
She had been Ill and also dcSpond-
cnt over his impending enlistment
in the navy,
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13

troit public, parochial and Lu-
theran schools.
In addition, 100000 check lists
were given out to the pupils yes
terday TO distribute to their homes
and 10 the homes of neighbors.
CHECK ALL ITEMS
The lists are divided into metal,
rubber and fabrics with a place
10 check each individual item from
metal beds, girdles and old vege-
table sacks 10 wash boards.
The lists urge the householder
TO go through the house from attic
TO basement and surrounding fields
and check each item 10 be turned
in. 1t is expected to bring out
thousands Of pounds Of materials.
Edwin j. Anderson. chairman
of the county salvage committee,
yesterday announced a three day
scrap harvest festival" for farms
and outlying homes In Wayne
County not covered in the Buy
Tank" drive.
The campaign Is set for October
2S to 30. One hundred trucks from
the Wayne County Road Commits
! sion and the state highway COM
mission will pick up the roadside
teolleetions.
Harry Kulp. farm implement
manufacturers representative, will
head this special drive for the
county committee.
"This can he real clean up
scrap occasion for every farmer
I'm Wayne County who has not
vet contributed scrap 80 des-
perately needed by steel mills"
said Anderson. "And II every
farmer will cooperate by gath
erlng his scrap and having II
ready for collection, I believe
we will be amazed at the num-
ber Of tons which will result"
For the Inside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13
ClO Wins Ternstedt

Official election results az the
GM Tcrnstcdt Manufacturing
Company in which The UAW-ClQ
won. ~ votes 30 =, were certified
10 Frank IL Bowen, regional head
of Tho NI,RR
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13

Cadette Col. Bernice Wilson
of Detroit modelling Air Cadet
Recruiting Aides@untf6fnl.
Tunic. skirt and overseas cap
are of military brown color;
Sam Browne belt, tie and shoes
are black, the shirt white.
Other uniforms worn by
women in wartime Detroit
will be identified in The Times.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13

your Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake. II one OF many
famous features In The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-13

only 200 tons was properly pre-
pared for the defining plants.
ours was good job. swell
job. in fact" stated McGillis,
hut good job ~ not enough.
We. have only started"
McGillis pointed out that the
tin cans came from only about one,
third of the total households ir
Detroit. The collection was about
40 per cent of the potential oi
500 tons.
"We must get the other two
thirds to cooperate In the next
tin can collection" said Nc
ellis. "And we must get that
other 60 per cent which prob
ably Is now discarded into the
rubbish heap"