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From the time Princess Elizabeth was five, Princess Margaret a baby, Marion Crawford was royal governess. She has written a warm, friendly story of her 17 years as playmate and companion to two girls growing up behind the pageantry of royal life in Buckingham Palace. It begins in this issue.
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LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
Jauuary, 1950
Doctors IWel<ou,Too, May Have A Lovelier Complexion in 14 Days !
No Matter What Your Age or Type of Skin!
Not just a promise — but actual proof from 36 leading skin specialists that Palmolive Soap facials can bring new complexion beauty to 2 out of 3 women
Never before these tests have the women of America witnessed results so startling! Yes, scientifically conducted tests on 1285 women — supervised by 36 leading skin specialists — have proved conclusively that in 14 days a new method of cleansing with Palmolive Soap — using nothing but Palmolive — brings lovelier complexions to 2 out of every 3 women.
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Here is the proof it works!
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Each month the Journal cover fea- tures an Undiscovered American Beauty — a girl who has never pre- viously modeled for money. Nomina- tions are submitted by professional photographers throughout the country .
Francine de Fere may change her mind again when this month's cover appears, but as we go to press she plans to become a social worker. Now only 20, she has embarked on two previous careers : actress (school productions of Little Women, Berkeley Square) and author (a series of poems written at the age of 8, an operetta at 12). A junior at California's Scripps College, she takes life seriously, and has twice spurned overtures from the movies.
Francine was born in Rochester, New York, but crossed the country when six weeks old. She has since lived mostly around San Diego,
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There is no limp. Denis, like one half of all poliomyelitis patients, has recovered com- pletely Yours sincerely,
DOROTHY O. MOORE.
What Women Like In Men
Bear Lake, Michigan.
Dear Editors: In going through an old book in our attic, I found the enclosed from a very old issue of the Journal. I wonder, have women changed in what they like in men?
"Women, I think, like manly, notjady^
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(First part of eight) . . .
January, 195(1
VOL. LXVII, No. 1
Marion Crawford 34
Fiction
The Scientific Approach Frank Stevens 40
My Name is Mary! Marie F. Rodell 42
It Was My Birthday Vol Teal 54
Gentian Hill (Conclusion) Elizabeth Goudge 56
Special Features
Our Fear-Ridden Middle Classes Dorothy Thompson 11
Hello! 11
There's a Man in the House Harlan Miller 23
Profile of Youth: Maxine Wallace 44
Are You a Social Schmoe? 46
How to Get Along With Women Bea Carroll 73
How America Lives: Always Home for One More
Margaret Weymouth Jackson 111
(peneral Features
Our Readers Write Us 5
Under-Cover Stuff Bernardine Kielty 14
The Child Who Stutters Dr. Herman N. Bundesen 24
Making Marriage Work Clifford R. Adams 26
Pick a Problem! (The Sub-Deb) . . . Edited by Maureen Daly 28
Diary of Domesticity Gladys Taber 31
Fifty Years Ago in the Journal • Journal About Town 33
Bringing Up Parents Dr. Barbara Biber 75
Ask Any Woman Marcelene Cox 80
This is a Nosey-Knows-It Munro Leaf 109
Fashions and Itcaul v
Fashions in the 1950 Sun Wilhela Cushman 48
3 Hours + a Few $'s = Nora O'Leary 52
American Beauty's Year-Round $112.75 Wardrobe
Cynthia McAdoo 76
Food
Fireside Supper Ann Batchelder 58
Line a Day Ann Batchelder 60
Quick and Easys for Two Louella G. Shouer 104
Fine and Frugal . . . Vermont Dishes .... Louella G. Shouer 116
Interior Decoration
New Life for Antiques
Henrietta Murdock 118
Poetry
Cyprus^Ninety per censors the Cheek of a Child? Helen Harrington 12
Robert P. Tristram Coffin 64
Elizabeth-Ellen Long 78
. . Yctza Gillespie 99
Elizabeth McFarland 107
. William Meredith 121
ldren Marjorie Lederer Lee 1 2!i
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I think a January Sunday dinner just needs a gleam of Southern sunshine. And this is it! Crisp, butter-fried chicken with golden corn bread sticks and Meadow Gold Honey-Butter! You make the corn bread and butter this wav
Not just a promise — but actual proof from 36 leading skin specialists that Palmolive Soap facials can bring new complexion beauty to 2 out of 3 women
Never before these tests have the women of America witnessed results so startling! Yes, scientifically conducted tests on 1285 women — supervised by 36 leading skin specialists — have proved conclusively that in 14 days a new method of cleansing with Palmolive Soap — using nothing but Palmolive — brings lovelier complexion-, to A out of every '.'> women.
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Serve hot Chox, too. Just hot water and three heaping teaspoons per cup does the trick. No milk or sugar needed — they'' re already in the Chox. Oh yes — wish Junior or Susie "Happy Birthday" from me!
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Our Readers Write us
Invites Journal Readers
Clopton Hall, Raltlesden Near Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk, England.
Dear Editors: If there are Journal readers planning trips to Britain, I should be charmed to show them the inside of my home — a 25-roomed higgledy-piggledy collection of architecture built at varying times during the past 1000 years — and to initiate them into the mysteries of running it with onoand ahalf maids (as against pre- war eight indoor servants), in spite of all our restrictions.
There is no telephone, and we are 2^2 rail hours from London. If readers will write to me first I will meet trains at our nearest station, Stowmarket.
For obvious reasons (i.e., petrol and food restrictions), I can't do this every day, of course, but could manage two or three a month. The only American I ever met was awfully nice. Just imagine, you are such a big country and I've met only one of you. They ^ay I am laying myself open to receiving all sorts and conditions of people in my home, but the Journal is so nice I feel anyone who is a regular reader must be nice too.
Yours sincerely, OLGA IRONSIDE-WOOD.
rlf Journal readers go — do take a pound of butter, soap or a pair of nylons in response to this friendly offer. ED.
Polio Can Be Cured
St. Louis, Missouri. Dear Editors: At the peak of the polio panic last August, my son, Denis, ten, came in from play one day with a sore throat, headache, nausea, severe pain in the small of his back. His temperature was 102°.
Thirty-six hours later his temperature had soared to 105° and his back was stiff. He was admitted to a hospital, and a test of spinal fluid confirmed my fear. It was polio. When the door of the isolation ward closed upon him it was as though the door to the future had banged shut.
On the fifth day of his illness the hospi- tal called. Trembling, I listened, prepared for the worst. Then the doctor's voice: " You'll be delighted to know, Mrs. Moore, that your boy is sitting up in bed, eating chicken dinner." I was weak with relief. A week later, Denis was brought home.
My boy is in school now, and during play hours he runs, rides his bicycle, plays cowboy with a healthy v\jhoop and a tackle. There is no limp. Denis, like one half of all poliomyelitis patients, has recovered com- pletely. Yours sincerely,
DOROTHY O. MOORE.
What Women Like in Men
Bear Lake, Michigan.
Dear Editors: In going through an old book in our attic, I found the enclosed from a very old issue of the Journal. I wonder, have women changed in what they like in men?
"Women, I think, like manly, not lady- like men.
"They like honesty of purpose and con- sideration.
"They like men who believe in women.
" They like their opinions to be thought of some value.
"They like a man who can be strong as a lion when trouble comes, and yet, if one is nervous and tired, can button up a shoe.
"They like a man who can take hold of the baby, convince it of his power and get it to sleep after they have been worry- ing with it, until they feel as if they had no brains.
"They like a man who is interested in their, new dresses, who can give an opinion on the fit, and who is properly indignant at any article written against women.
"They like a man who knows their in- nocent weaknesses and caters to them;
who will bring home a box of candy, the latest new magazine, or the latest puzzle sold on the street.
"They like a man who is the master of the situation — that is. who has brain enough to help a woman to decide what is the best thing to do under the circum- stances, and who has wit enough to realize, when one of the fairer sex is slightly stub- born, that persuasion is more powerful than all the arguments in the world.
"They like a man who likes them — who doesn't scorn their opinions, who believes in their good taste, who has confidence in their truth, and who knows that the love promised is given him."
Yours trulv, BLANCHE M. HOPKINS.
Fifty-Two Years of Pleasure
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Dear Editors: It is fifty-two years since I first subscribed to the Journal. My family used to tease me about "living by" the Ladies' Home Journal.
My subscription is now paid up to 1951, but I hope to live to be eighty and will always want the Journal. In my opinion the Journal has steadily improved throughout the years.
Very truly yours, MRS. R. A. BINKLEY.
^ We'll try to keep bettering it. ED.
Toward Better House Design
Easton, Pennsylvania. Dear Editors: Several weeks ago a pro- spective client came into my office to talk over the possibility of engaging me as her architect. She showed me one of Richard Pratt's articles in the Journal, about a fine example of contemporary architecture. It had proved to her that she wanted a house designed from a progressive point of view.
This shows the effects of the valuable work Richard Pratt is doing. Our pre- liminary educational work is simplified when clients, after seeing the work of the best contemporaries in your magazine, come to an architect.
Sincerely yours,
PAUL BEIDLER.
Where People Are, the Journal Is
Beirut, Lebanon.
Dear Mrs. Bass : Your Journal staff cer- tainly gets around. I have just spent six days on the S. S. Campidoglio en route to Cyprus. Ninety per cent of the passengers were Jewish refugees from all over the world, bound for Haifa, many of them sleeping on the open deck. It is a tragic situation, for Palestine is terribly over- crowded. I couldn't help wondering what would happen to all those who were on our ship. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant voyage, for we stopped at many Italian ports and were allowed to go ashore for a few hours and have a look around. Italy seems to be way ahead of France and Belgium in returning to prewar conditions.
Spent a week in ancient Cyprus, which is full of history, old monuments, castles, monasteries, rich mythology and flies. I boarded a Turkish boat for Beirut and am now having a fascinating time exploring the land of my birth (due to missionary parents). This, too, is a romantic, ex- citing city. But there's a dark side to this part of the world too. I have seen many camps full of Arab refugees who fled Palestine, leaving behind all their worldly possessions, and are now just waiting — waiting — for what? They have no jobs, no money, no clothes, no food.
I have been asking young people in the various countries what they think of Pro- file of Youth. Apparently it has really got around, for most youngsters have heard of it! And how popular the Ladies' Home Journal is in Syria and Lebanon ! Each copy is passed on to friends, and on agiin,
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and is road from cover to cover. You can see how ideas from the Joirnal click in this country. Miss Murdock's decorating schemes have been copied in several homes I have visited. Nora's patterns are widely used in Aleppo. And many Lebanese and Syrian girls have cut their hair so that they would look like Dawn Crowell Nor- man's models. Very best regards,
JINX WITHERSPOON.
■ •roof of Her Luvn
Lisbon, Portugal. Dear Editors: I think you will know just how much I love the Joi rnal when I tell you that a whole trunkful of my old copies came half around the world with me from Hong Kong, China. I just couldn't part with all the delightful articles and stories which, thanks to you, still give me so many pleasurable hours. Sincerely,
THERESE A. BOTELHO.
Fart Before Opinion
Dothan, Alabama. Dear Editors: I began Profile of Youth saying to myself, "This will probably be another condemnation of modern youth." To my surprise, I found it extremely inter- esting in places and definitely shocking in others. I'm seventeen, not exactly a stay- at-home' type, either. To me the Profiles show force and magnitude as well as com- mon horse sense. I hope you will continue your study of us and maybe in your last article give a fair opinion of it all.
Very truly yours, MANELLE McPEAKE.
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Young Doctor's Story
Denver, Colorado.
Dear Mr. Gould: A lot of our neighbors and friends currently think of the doctor as a prosperous fellow in a swish black car extracting money cruelly from the patients in undeserved proportion to his service. When such sentiments are expressed I hold my doctor-husband's hand very tightly, grit my teeth, and wonder if these people really know the whole story. I wonder if they know the long hard struggle it is to get through med school, through the in- ternship and then through the two, three, four or five year specialty training?
I know this other side of the picture pretty well. Marvin and I were married at the middle mark in his internship (he gave four pints of blood to get the folding stuff for my ring and the small ceremony; I typed two theses and dusted books to earn money for his ring). He was earning $10 a month and I earned $90 in the X-ray de- partment (X rays of spines being a far cry from my theater training at the University of Iowa!). We spent the war years far apart, and then began the surgical- specialty training which is now beginning its fifth and (oh, wonderful thought!) final year. We have acquired two small off- spring and have a third scheduled. We live on salmon, noodles, free pablum samples and the sincere belief that this time spent in specializing will give far better service to the patient and that a job worth doing is worth doing well. We despise with un- restrained passion the unfair medical few who are overcharging to fatten their pocketbooks, but we despair that the average layman does not know how long is the grind and how poor the financial re- ward until the business of curing the ach- ing back, and so on, is thoroughly learned. We are not unique in our situation. There are hundreds like us in the hospital pro- grams and our story, while full of laughs, contains also a serious answer to the cur- rent game of decrying the M. D.
Sincerely, (Name withheld by request.)
Editor Has "SUu"
Helsinki, Finland.
Dear Editors : One of your associate edi- tors, Mary Lea Page, just went out the door after spending an afternoon with me and meeting a few more Finnish friends. She was just as we expected a Journal editor to be — smart, chic, intelligent and bubbling with ideas. Mrs. Page lias what Finns call "SiSIl" (intestinal fortitude). Sin has "discovered " the "Sauna " (Finn- ish steam bath) anil intends to build one in her own home near a lake.
The "Sauna" is enjoyed at least once a
week by everyone In Finland. The general
routine is to sit up on the highest bench until you fei l toasted by the hot humidity emanating when one tosses water on the very hot rocks; then if you're near a lake, (( ontinurd on I'age X)
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THE 'GARDEN DEPARTMENT' I select from a really fresh ;ty of fruits and vegetables that my family raves about, ow that these fruits and vegetables are harvested fresh, ered fresh, and sold fresh! The taste proves it, too!"
"FOR SIMPLY YUMMY BAKED GOODS ... I go no farther than the Jane Parker Department. There I find the grandest assortment of cakes, rolls, pies, cookies and variety breads imaginable — no wonder I call this MY BAKERY!"
"ALL MY OTHER FOODS art- obtained just as easily from the grocery and household sections. And a wonderful help to me with my budget is the A&l' policy of showing the price plainly on every single item 1 buy!"
IS IT EASY FOR YOU TO SHOP AT A&P?
Are the aisles of your A&P Super Markets wide enough to give you easy access to the foods you want to choose? Are the stocks within ready reach? Are the different foods arranged to let you market without hunting about? If any of these things can be improved at your A&P, tell us about it. We welcome your sug- gestions . . . your criticisms, too. Write CUSTOMER RELA- I TIONS DEPARTMENT, A&P Food Stores, Graybar Building, I New York 17, New York.
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Januar) J ]
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(Continual from Page 6) river, or oven a swimming pool, you dash out into the water and come out tingling all over. Repeat the heating treatment and then scrub yourself until you are so clean that you squeak! Seasons don't stop this ritual. In winter one substitutes a roll in the snow for the plunge into the lake. Chop a hole in the ice of the lake and slip down into the icy waters if you really have "Sisu." We regret Mrs. Page won't be here for that experience, but we know she would have the "Sisu" for it!
Sincerely yours, VERGIE NELSON.
Church Uses Youth Profiles
Enid, Oklahoma. Dear Editors: I have followed with in- terest your series of articles, Profile of Youth, and find them very worth while. As I have agreed to teach a course in teacher training for the Enid Council of Churches, on the subject of " Understand- ing Youth," I wonder if I could get the material you plan to use in the future.
Sincerely vours, A. T. OVERTON.
<.«•« Husband Who rooks
Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Editors: I had two baby boys, fourteen months apart, and my housework went undone, although I seemed to spend all day working. I remember there were times when my hair wasn't combed until three o'clock in the afternoon, because when I got a free moment I just sank into a chair to rest. And there's not much you can do about the tiredness, because it's as much from being up in the night with the babies as it is from daily housework. But I know now three things that I would have done had I known enough to:
1. Bought an electric vacuum cleaner and had my husband use it for an hour three evenings a week.
2. Absolutely, even if I had to get a loan, bought an automatic washing machine that spins clothes damp-dry.
3. Ironed only my own clothes, had chil- dren's clothes of jersey or corduroy (which don't need ironing), and had my husband send his shirts out to laundry.
And one more thing is nice, if you're lucky enough to get one, as I was: a hus- band who likes to cook. Sincerely, (Name withheld.)
Where Amerieans Fell
Paris.
Dear Mrs. Could: I visited the perma- nent military cemetery at St. Laurent-sur- Mer, about 150 miles west of Paris, to see my brother's grave. We had obtained, from Washington, the plot and row num- ber. The American Graves Registration Command here checked this information with its files. The cemetery is under con- struction and bodies are still being moved from temporary resting places in France.
It is difficult to describe the feeling that came over me as I stood before my broth- er's cross, one among 9000 in the cemetery. The cemetery is located on a bluff, below which runs part of Omaha Beach, so that the crosses seem to extend clear to the blue English Channel. In the channel, below the cemetery, lie rusting hulls of Allied ships that came in to make the landings and never left.
I stood there overwhelmed by Nature's vast sky and endless sea, stunned by the thousands of man-made crosses. They seemed to couple the magnificent serenity of Nature with the hideous destruction of man. Yet a peace rose up from the sea, descended from the sky, and rested over the crosses and the skeletons of the ships. I felt that peace.
I felt, too, that families like mine, who decided to leave their sons where they fell, cotdd rest content with their decision.
Sincerely, JEANNE STILES.
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FOR COLDS AND SORE THROATS
Mother knows best . . . realizes that, used early and often, a Listerine Antiseptic gargle can often head off a cold or lessen its severity. In count- less families it's a time-tried first-aid against colds and sore throats. Hete's why:
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Listerine Antiseptic reaches way back on throat sur- faces to kill millions of germs called "secondary invaders". These germs often invade throat tissue when body resistance is lowered by wet feet, cold
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If used frequently during the 12 to 36-hour period of "incubation" when a cold may be developing, Listerine Antiseptic can often help guard against the mass invasion of germs.
If the cold has already started, the Listerine Antiseptic gargle may help reduce the severity of the infection.
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January, 1950
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Our fear-Ridden Middle Classes
By HOI tOT II I THOMPSON
HELLO!
My name is Ann. I have polio. That is, I've had it. Most kids get well, you know. I'll be out playing soon, but it has been a long time. Everyone has been so good to me. People I never saw before brought me things and helped mommy and daddy take care of me. Mommy says it's the March of Dimes that did it. Did you ever see dimes marching? I have not, but this year I'll watch for them. I want my dimes to march too. I'll march right with them.
During 1949 the cost of providing medical care for those who needed financial assistance during the worst epidemic of infantile paralysis in Amer- ican history strained the National Foundation's re- sources to the breaking point. To build up adequate defense against whatever may come in 1950 and to go on with the now-promising search for a polio preventive, the American public must sup- port the March of Dimes (January 16-31) more generously than ever before.
Join the 19511 March of Dimes
RECENTLY, at a party, I ran into an acquaintance I had not seen for several years. I knew him as a graduate of a distinguished university, 1 an editor on a small but established publication, and an occasional writer. I came in; a friend, nodding toward him, said, "Do you know what Jack is doing now? He's just been telling us. He is studying lithography. He's going to be a printer!"
Later Jack confirmed this, a bit grimly. "Two times in the last five years I have been kicked out of my job without any reason being given for it," he explained, "and each time it meant several months without a job. In one case two other men were hired to do what I had previously been doing — and since then they have been fired too. As a salaried editor the most I ever earned was a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week, and I regularly took a briefcase of material home to work on nights. I can earn that much, without homework, in the workingmen's end of the publication business, and there I can't be kicked out because of a boss' 'change of policy.' I will have more time to write, my family will have more security, and I will have more self-respect. I am resigning, once and for all, from the most kicked- around class in America — the salaried middle class." "How does your wife take the news?" I asked.
"My wife is for it. She wants the rent paid, three meals a day for the kids, and, thank God, she's not a snob."
Paul — another case — was a graduate engineer, who at the age of thirty- five found a job in an engineering firm at a salary of $60 a week. He had a wife and one child. He remained with the same firm for fifteen years, with small but regular advancements, until at the age of fifty he had a subordinate executive position at a salary of $160 a week. This firm had been a family- controlled industry until its head died. It was reorganized with a board of directors. A few weeks after this event Paul was called into the office of the president, and informed that there was to be "a new policy" — and, to come to the point, his services would not be required after the following Monday. (It was a Thursday.)
There was no explanation of what the new policy might bo: no appeal to co-operate with it; no suggestion that the firm laced financial difficulties and would have to ask the employees to consider a cut in salary; n<> charges of incompetence or malfeasance; and — no severance pa) in recognition of fifteen years of service.
A man of fifty, with a formal reference offsel by the fad thai be had been fired after fifteen years of service, does not easily find jobs — and Paul had
Executive Editor, Mary Bas9 • Managing Editor, Laura I.ou Brook man • Associate Editors: Hugh MacNair Kahler. Bcrnardine Kielty, Ann Batchelder. Wilhcla Cushman, William E. Fink. Alice Ulinn, Richard Pratt, Henrietta Murdock, Louella G. Shoucr, Mary Lea Page, Maureen Daly, Dawn Crowed Norman. John Godfrey Morris, Joan Younger, Lonnic Coleman, Margaret Davidson, Nora U'Leary • Contributing Editors: Gladys Taber, Louise Paine Benjamin, Gladys Denny Shultz, Barbara Benson, Margaret Hickey • Assistant Editors: John Werner, Charlotte Johnson, Donald Stuart, Ruth Mary Packard, Ruth Shaplcv Matthews, Alice Conkling, June Torrey, Lilt Clendinning, Joseph Di.Pictro, Anne Einsclen, Glenn Matthew White, Betty Niles Gray, Jan Weyl, Elizabeth Qoelsch • Editorial Assistants: Alice Kastberg, Iris Wilken, Betty Coe, Jeanne Lcnton Tracey, Cynthia McAdoo, Eleanor Pownall Simmons, Adrina Casparian, Virginia Price, Marion Wilson, Lois Withcrspoon, Jeanne Stiles, Elizabeth McFarland, Polly Poland, Elizabeth Crawford, Marthedith E. Stauffcr, Virginia Brown, Victoria Harris, Robert N. Taylor, Helen Schmidt Kennedy.
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encountered a shock from which he has never recovered. He was an introverted type. As his savings disappeared and no jobs turned up except purely mechanical ones at less than a respectable workman's wages, he developed a crushing sense of defeat and inferiority. He began drinking and seldom came home sober. His marriage broke up. Most of his friends fell away — he did not want to see them. His son. in another white-collar job. helped him as he could. The last time I heard of him he was working as a warehouse packer, certain to lose that job, too, because of his alcoholism. Yet he had never once drunk to excess be- fore that fateful Thursday, when in fifteen minutes, an existence and a family had been ruined.
I wonder whether Americans realize that ours is the only civilized democratic country w-here such treatment would or could hap- pen. Elsewhere either deep-rooted custom, holding such behavior in sufficient con- tempt seriously to injure the offender, or the law itself prevents it. In all the Northern European countries, for instance, there is a legally codified concept of "earned rights" (in contrast to the American concept of natural civil liberties ) which guarantees all "white collar" em-
Schoolteachers are a case in point. Thej are atrociously paid, in many parts of tn Union. But that is not the worst. All ov* the country they are serving under prii( cipals. many of whom have never been t college, who owe their appointment j political pull, who haven't even the vj guest notion of teachers as a faculty, wit some say in the business of education. 0 refusing to renew a contract, these prii cipals can finish a teacher with the emploj ment office of the state university. The cultivate servility as the price of holding job. When teachers, whose status is thi of mere servile hacks, do rebel and unioi ize. why should anyone be surprised ?
The salaried middle class is the ma kicked around class in this country.
It is even kicked around by governmen whose taxation policies bear harder on than on any other class at the top or tl bottom. Businessmen can provide pensior for themselves. The rich can live on tl interest on accumulated capital. Works can and do extort pensions by mass actiot But the salaried man and the self-employe professional pay through the nose in tl usually limited period of years when the earnings may t
ployees against be- ing summarily dis- missed; which as- sures them under all circumstances of severance pay — a fixed amountof their salary for every year of service— and pen- sions after a certain length of service.
Legal restrictions on the right to hire and fire can, and often do, lead to inefficient produc- tion. Many Euro- pean firms are greatly overstaffed either because they cannot dismiss em- ployees, even with bonuses, or because it is too expensive to dismiss them. But the kind of brutal inconsidera--
tion and arbitrary conduct which is per- missible in our country is also not efficient.
The most stable and prosperous firms in America are not the ones whose top execu- tives behave like little Caesars. There is. let us be thankful, a pleasanter side to the picture. I know of many excellent firms where it is a policy never to dismiss a sal- aried employee without giving that em- ployee a friendly notice, and without keep- ing him until he gets another job. This policy is a simple, humane recognition of two facts: that no one really wants to stay where he is not wanted, and that anyone who has a job can more easily find another. Anyone who approaches a prospective em- ployer on the ground that he desires to change is in a better position than one who must admit he has been fired.
People can outlive their usefulness. They can grow stagnant in one environment and revive in another. There can be sincere policy differences which produce strain, and suggest change. But a society which calls it- self "democratic " and "humane." and then permits the arbitrary ruin of existences, is living a hypocritical existence itself.
I do not personally like the idea of trade- unions of professionals. I do not like. abstractly, the idea of teachers' unions, or of a newspaper guild. There seems to be a great deal of difference between mechani- cal work, in which there is little individual- ity, and the w age the main thing, and work where individuality is of basic importance, and the work pursued by conscious choice and largely for itself. But what is bringing about the gradual unionization of the mid- dle classes is not an abstract idea, but sheer brutal reality.
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What is so soft as the cheek of a child? Damask, satin, pearl? Soft as the song of the sea in a shell Is the cheek of my little girl.
What is so soft as the cheek of a child?
Sleek as the wing of a dove, Smooth as the smooth-flowing water of stream' Is the cheek of the child I love.
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high. If employe* they can so easil be fired that the escape pensio schemes of firm And they cannot at ticipate any secui old age from exis ing social-securit schemes.
This neglecte class should insi; that its members \ allowed to set asic a fixed proportion < their earnings to t invested in Goven ment bonds, as s emergency and pei sion fund. This ii vestment should I taxed only when is drawn upon ar thus becomes part i income. The Go' ernment would thi be assured of coi tinued investment in Government bond and would contribute to the security of tl class which throughout all history has bee the most patriotic and the most stabilizir force in every society.
This investment program for the midd class has been suggested by tax experts ar by the New York City Bar Associatioi and no reasonable argument has bee advanced against it.
But over and above, and more importai even than legal and tax protection, is tl climate of human relations. No one tall more about human dignity than Presidei Truman. Yet he could dismiss a disti' guished admiral, the Chief of Naval Oper tions. via a press conference, allowing hi; to learn that he was "out" from the new- papers! Apparently it never crossed h mind that even if a man is to be dismiss* for cause, it is not necessary to add humili: tion to injury.
Until, in ethical climate, law and volui tary code, the salaried man is better pn tected than he is, we shall have a fea ridden middle class, driven into yes-ma servility, into cutthroat inner-office ii trigue. and into the typical salaried man diseases: stomach ulcers, heart and nen ous ailments, thrombosis, and excessiv drinking— the diseases contributed to t fear.
This middle class, by nature, trainir and profession composed of the stronge individualists and supporters of democrac should never have to doubt the promises . democracy and should Ik- among the fir to benefit from its |>erfonnance. The oth« road leads to democratic chaos. This h; hapixned repeatedly in history. And it c< happen here. THB kn
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For thanks to ajjpique system of quality control, Swift' s Premium is always perfect. From the care-
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AM BUTT WITH ONION CUPS: Prepare rift's Premium Ham according to directions i tag. Cook 8 large onions 20 min. in boiling, Ited water. Drain; remove centers; brush th 1 tbsp. melted fat. Fill with 2 c. hot, oked peas in lA c. medium white sauce. Re- at in slow oven (325 °F.) for 30 minutes fore serving. Good with hot or cold ham.
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January, 1<
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Don Wilton of the Jack Benny Program:
"I've found it, friends, I've really found it, the Raisin-Bran that isn't soggy. My taster tolls me Skinner's Raisin-Bran is made crisper than any other Raisin Bran. Two well-known, independent labora- tories tested 'em all, and found the same answer. So I said to myself, 'Don, old boy, why eat Raisin Bran that's soggy, soggy, soggy when Skinner's Raisin-Bran is crisper, crisper, crisper?' And, friends, I'm asking you the same question. The best answer is to go get some crisper Skinner's Raisin-Bran, and see for yourself."
While other cities sleep, Neiv York still goes about its bttsiness.
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1WERE IS NEW YORK is a jewel of a I book finely eut by the master hand ** of E. B. White. In spite of its tini- ness — perhaps because of its concise- ness— it does complete and beautiful justice to the greatest city in tl^e world. Here is, indeed, the Leviathan, all 7,000,000 parts of it. Writes White:
" I am sitting in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown. No air moves in or out of the room, yet I am curiously affected by ema- nations from the immediate surroundings. I am twenty-two blocks from where Rudolph Valentino lay in stale, eight blocks from where Nathan Hale was ex- ecuted, five blocks from the publisher's of- fice where Ernest Hemingway hit Max Eastman on the nose, four miles from ivhere Walt Whitman sat sweating out editorials for the Brooklyn Eagle, thirty- four blocks from the street Willa Cather lived in when she came to New York to write books about Nebraska.
" When I went down to lunch a few minutes ago I noticed that the man sitting next to me ( about eighteen inches away along the wall ) was Fred Stone. The eight-
een inches were both the connection and the separation that New York provides for its inhabitants. My only connection with Fred Stone was that I saw him in The Wizard of Oz around the beginning of the century. But our waiter felt the same stimulus from being close to a man from Oz, and after Mr. Stone left the room the waiter told me that he had taken his girl for their first theater date to The Wizard of Oz. It was a wonderful show— a man of straw, a man of tin. Wonderful! ( And still only eighteen inches away.) 'Mr. Stone is a very hearty eater,' said the waiter, content with this fragile partici- pation in destiny, this link with Oz."
Never underestimate the power of a woman. Which mosquitoes bite hu- mans? Females. Which horseflies bite horses? Females. \\ hich honeybees are the "workers'"? Females. A sea lion fainted on Milton Berle's set last summer. We'll bet it was a male.
On the other hand, don't overesti- mate the power of a woman. . . . Up in a (Continued cm 1'uge 16)
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(Continued from Page 14) little summer cottage on Martha's Vine- yard, things had not been going so well between husband and wife. She had toyed with the idea of breaking up the home — of leaving him forever. But she thought she owed it to herself to get a perspective. She would go away for a short time, she told herself, and think it over. So she packed a suitcase and came down to New York. Her conclusion — after five days' separation from home and husband — was that she had been silly. She returned to Martha's Vineyard overflowing with good will. All was well, and she never again would leave home. But when she got to the cottage she found that her husband had his suitcase packed. He'd thought it over for five days, too, and he was departing on the next boat.
Or take Christopher Morley's dim view: "Lyric in a Parking Lot."
" Whether by day or after dark A ivoman, ivhen she tries to park, Goes back and forth in the same arc.
A ivoman parking at a roadhoitse Is funnier than P. G. Wodehouse."
If you want to know what a rasp is, or a Stillson wrench, or a try square, or tin snips, or a coping saw, or a c clamp; if you want to know how to clean the smokepipe, or weatherstrip a window;
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or what's the matter with your car when it backfires, pulls to one side, weaves, won't start, or — bless us! — how to change a tire, then get a book called The Woman's Fix-It Book, by Ar- thur Symons. It may or may not be good. For this department it unlocked a thousand mysteries.
For people ivho love old furniture, who don t know much about it but want to know more, there is now a concise, inex- pensive little book: Old English Fur- niture, by Hampden Cordon, C.li. (E.P. Dutton and Co., 300 4th Ave., New York, $2.75). So many antique-furniture books frighten one off by sheer size and weight!
The Bible and the Common READER, by Mary Ellen Chase, came out in 1944, but we just got round to reading it on a vacation in 1949. And what an excellent book it is !
After years of teaching Itihlc at Smith College. Miss Chase had pirn I j
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used it verj effectively. First she told t he story of how t he King James ver- sion came to l>< — a fascinating tale.
Then she gave a brief history of the
Hebrew people during Biblical times — which is of course the same history that tin- Bible itself tells. Then she described the Hebrew people's racial
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(Continued from Page 16) and literary characteristics — a study, in other words, of the authors of the original version. The hody of I he hook is an analysis of the Hi hie as literal lire. Miss Chase leaves out the sections lhat have no meaning for us today, and makes the rest of it so dramatic lhat non-Bible readers will wonder where they've been all these years.
Sholem Asch's Mary belongs right here. Readers of The Nazarene and The Apostle know how thoroughly Mr. Asch has studied the customs and thinking of the ancient world. In Mary. which precedes the two others chrono- logically, the same careful research is apparent. From the Annunciation to the Nativity, through the days of Yeshua's (Jesus') teaching, fasting, praying, up to the Crucifixion and the final dawn of Easter, the New Testament story is strictly followed. But the familiar out- lines are filled in with the rich details of daily living, and with personalities, and the intricacies of human relationships.
Sholem Asch is frequently asked if he has joined the Catholic Church. But the answer is no. What he has endeavored to do in his novels is to show the common in- heritance of Jews and Christians. For him Judaism and Christianity are one culture and one civilization.
L.H.J, readers will be glad to know — particularly if they are widows — that Gladys Denny Shultz has a new book
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outentitled Widows Wise andOther- wise. It contains many case histories on the basisof which the author provides de- tailed advice as to how best a widow may order her affairs and preserve her emotional balance.
Although the life span is lengthen- ing, we still cannot read all the books that we want to read. There still is not enough time. If we could just sec a list of all the good books in the world, what a help it would be! And if besides the mere titles and authors, we could also find out what each of the books is about and when it was written!
Such a book is now on the market: Thesaurus of Book Digests, edited by Hiram Haydn and Edmu nd Fu Her. Fifteen authorities worked on their spe- cial fields over a period of seven years, and the result is 2000 excellent resumes of the world's permanent literature. It is not a substitute for reading, but it is a remarkable guide to reading, and an im- portant reference book. (Crown Pub- lishers, 419 4th Ave., New York.)
For these wintry days when children are home with colds and demanding (Continued on Page 21)
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(Continued from Page 18) amusement, we suggest: For little ones, five to eight, The Mirrob Book for Boys and The Mirror Book for Girls, by Jerome Meyer. There is a little mirror in each book in which the young reader sees himself as a football hero, an aviator, an Indian chief ; or a bal- let dancer, an airplane hostess, a.bride, and in many other guises. (J. B. Lip- pincott Co., 521 5th Ave., New York. S1.00.) For children seven to thirteen, there is Pencil Fun Book, by Frances W. Keene. These pencil stunts start easy and get harder. In fact, mamma herself will have fun. (The Seashore Press, Pelham, New York. $1.00.)
There are all kinds of books. Now we see one called How to Sleep, by Dr. James Bender. Some of Doctor Bender's conclusions — backed up by psychological and physical research — are worth repeating:
1 — Women need almost an hour more sleep than men, every night, in order to preserve their health and enhance their beauty. 2 — Fewer divorces are found among couples who sleep in double beds. " Wider double beds — 75 inches — is one of America's great needs," says the doctor. 3 — There are three men snorers for every woman who snores. 4 — Many men stop snoring — at least for a time — if you whistle softly. Those who snore with mouth wide open stop when you drop a piece of soap into the mouth. ( The statistics on this as grounds for divorce are not included.) 5 — The aver- age American housewife does a poor job of making a bed. She should sprin- kle the sheets with cologne or lavender and not tuck down the covers so tightly that free rolling is inhibited.
What with Eleanor Roosevelt's crew cut and Mary Martin's close-cropped
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curls as hair-style novelties, some women of the political and theatrical sets are already looking pretty funny.
Once in a blue moon you'll find a child who likes his Christmas present so much that he ivants to express himself about it. Like the ten-year-old boy who re- ceived a copy of Augustus CAESAR'S WORLD, by Genevieve Foster:
"Dear Aunt Ruth: Thank you so much for that wonderfull book about Augustes Czaezers World. We are studding all about the things that happned at the same time he was alive in school. I know my teacher will love to know that J have that wonderfull book. I never saw such a book before. It has everything in History. I just cant wait to read about Czaezer and thank you again."
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After I ve paid S13.20 for a pair of New ^ nrk theater tickets on our annual visit, and later find the stubs in my pants pocket, my opinion of the free fun at home soars. If those shows are worth $6.60, then my ten-year-old's performance is worth $5000 a year.
"Tm not sure," says Peter Comfort, returning my rake and borrowing my snoiv shovel, "that the man whose wife spends her days playing bridge and canasta is any uorse off than the wife uhose husband series on too many committees."
At last it has dawned on me how our teen-agers decide at which house they'll gather for the evening: they reconnoiter by phone till they've discovered where the grown-ups are least likely to be home.
I can't prove it, but I'll bet SI my suspicions are sound. Wives in our circle have concluded that thev get taken downtown for dinner oftener if they serve a dull meal or two every week.
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By HARLAN MILLER
Maybe Junior has sprouted an elfin sense of humor since he has been away at school. He devoted his last letter entirely to his des- perate need for various sums of money, and signed off with ''I've tried to paint you a picture of life at school."
After a pilgrimage to the Hyde Park mansion my wife thinks that the Roosevelt- haters did a lot of needless worrying. "Any clever woman," she says, "could have told 'em that a house filled with those cherished heirlooms couldn't harbor a traitor-to-his-
class
Some of the wives in our town delight in overemphasis of their husbands' quaint- ness. If they were married to Einstein they'd treat him as an adorable old ec- centric who hated to go to a barber and get his hair cut.
Our towns best-groomed man lives in a one-bathroom apartment, and now he's shop- ping for an old-fashioned ivashbowl and water pitcher. '~rfo woman seems to understand," he complains, "that a man's bathroom routine may in- volve anywhere from thirteen to twenty-two separate operations every morning. '
I'm not quite positive whether I like meat loaf because it tastes good, or because it's easy to carve, or because it keeps the grocer v bill down. (Also, it seems better cold at midnight than hot at dinner!)
Wv revolt against big parties is apt to flare up on New Year's Eve. Too often at midnight I half reluctantly embrace a comparatively strange woman on the dance floor, unable to reach my Own wife at the sentimental moment.
The breakage among my favorite phonograph records is incredible. I suspect Junior sails 'cm across the room at the record player to prove he's an mi- trammeled soul. (Or maybe it's his criticism of my corny taste in music.)
My wife frowns on my colored shirts, but admires them on other men. Many times she's finessed me into a white shirt at the last minute. "You look so dress} in colored shirts," she says, "and other men look so
Some of our town's worldliest people reveal their tenderness at Christmas. Like our neighbors who al- ways invite a couple of childless newcomers to supper on Christmas Eve or Christmas Night.
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An enlightened young mother we know has at last stumbled on <i year-round use for their old swimming pool. She keeps it drained and uses it as a phi v pen for her lots.
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Much as I rebel against the fashion of calling every girl who has two eyes and a nose "pretty," I confess I"\e never seen a homely girl on a Bkating pond.
MayU- the neu trend toward music and art is an attempt to Jill our lives uilh souvenirs that won't etentually clutter the hip allies fteoplc no longer have.
"If I had a homely daughter," confides Betty Comfort, eying the neon tree lights of a newfangled neighbor, "I'd persuade her that an intelligent eye, a sweet mouth and a soft voice make a plain girl more charming than a prettv one."
If e ve been experimenting in our household u itli one of those new nylon starts. It can be washed in two minutes, dries in an hour, and is a warm shirt for a man to wear in an overheated room. But my lady's verdict is, "Hurrah! It needn't l/e ironed!"
Ever since our honevmoon mv dauntless wife has needled me sweetly to drink milk before bedtime instead of ginger ale or bean soup or lobster bisque. She never gives up. and to my surprise I find my- self unyieldingly drinking milk oftener and oftener.
To my intense amazement, our youngest was recently voted the neatest /wv at a session of his Cub Scout troop. They've either got him hypnotized or their definition of" neatness" is broader than mine.
One of our village belles met Mon- sieur Dior, of Paris, at a big-town party and he complimented her gallanth on her gown. "Mow 1 wish." she sayl wistfully, "I could have replied that I'd just run it up on mv sewing machine!"
Only after we bought our ten-year-old a set of tools did we remember that we bought an identical set for Junior six years ago. and that he had it impartially distributed around the neighborhood by .\ew Year's Day.
A bright young psychiatrist from the state university who lectured in our town recentlj said casual!} thai it * healthy for children to ha\ e other rchiti\ e> around besides their parents. This ma j make aunts and grannies and uncles more fashionable than the\ ve been smc,- tin- nineties.
Older men at the club often deplore that their money sooner or later falls into the hands of their innocent widows. I don't see how they can avoid it unless they marry women eight or ten yean older.
What few men ever suspect or admit: that per- haps forty ish women get the same sort of lift from voung men that fort \ ish men get from \ oung women. (\\ hat. from those half-baked young scamps?)
When your son and daughter give vou a sharp tussle at the bridge table the first time. . . . And \our wile says something scathing about somebody she didn't know you disliked. . . . And you sec your picture on Junior's dresser. . . . And your youngest chokes up with compassion and pity for the helpless. . . . Then you know you've attained something y ou don't need to lock in a safe-deposit box, and you decide to invite your favorite bachelor to dinner.
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Stuttering is the commonest form of speech diffi- culty, and most cases can be treated successfully.
The Child Who Stitters
By Br. Herman TV. Bundvsvn
President, Chicago Board of Health
PARENTS of children who stutter do not ordinarily think of these children as handicapped. Yet a speech diffi- culty may alter a child's life more than a tragic physical disability.
I have known attractive, brilliant youngsters to avoid reciting in school when they knew the subject well, through fear. Painful experiences — being imitated or laughed at by thoughtless companions— often make an indelible imprint on the per- sonality.
Fortunately, we are beginning to under- stand a lot about stuttering and can treat most cases successfully. Better yet, we know that parents who are alert and in- formed can do much to prevent stuttering from becoming habitual, and to correct it once it has gained headway.
Few parents who come to me for advice know exactly when the difficulty started. " I guess Billy has always had some trouble talking, but it seems to be getting more noticeable lately." This points to an im- portant fact: nearly always, stuttering will get worse if neglected. The longer it con- tinues unchecked, the harder it is to treat.
While many parents understand that stuttering shouldn't be ignored, they pro- ceed to make things worse by nagging about the child's difficulty. This makes the youngster conscious of his handicap— which is largely psychological— and adds feelings of anxiety and guilt.
We need to know more about the causes of stuttering. A few children stutter be- cause they are what doctors call "arhyth- mic"— lacking the precise co-ordination of brain and muscle required for speech. In the majority of cases, however, the cause of stuttering is an expression of some under- lying emotional conflict in the child's life. One authority expresses it, "There seems to be a greater than average amount of tug of war in the histories of children who stutter."
The classic case is that of the child who senses a lack of harmony between his
mother and father. The child's desire tl please both parents results in anxiety. H;| impulse to speak is often at war with hiB fear of offending, and stuttering may reac| ily appear as the result.
In most cases, the conflict is less drsj matic. Speech difficulty can result from simple attempt to gain attention by a chil whose parents seem indifferent or remote Such a child may discover accidentall that stumbling over words makes him th
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The " withdrawn " child is another hkel victim. He shrinks from social contacts C (Cimtimti d on Page 75)
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Avoid Married Monotony
THE other day Henry came in to talk to me about his marriage. Divorce was far from his mind, but he was seriously perplexed. Married only five years, he couldn't point to any tangible rea- son why his marriage had lost its savor. He said his wife was a good cook, a capable housekeeper, a con- scientious churchgoer, and that she fulfilled her "du- ties and obligations." But, somehow, he and she were not so close as he had hoped they would be. There was no indication of incompatibility, yet the marriage was joyless.
At his suggestion his wife, Ellen, arranged for a conference. And when she described her husband, he likewise had no outstanding defects. She thought their marriage satisfactory, even though it was rather dull and uninspiring.
Henry and Ellen may be able to avoid an actual break. Nevertheless, their marriage is just one of countless thousands that settle into a routine, then gradually stagnate. The husband earns a living, the wife runs a house. The days are smooth but common- place. In many cases like Henry's the marriage goes its dull way without interruption or crisis. But exam- ples in our files show that in such a situation a trian- gle often develops — when the right third person comes along. And, far too often, such a person does appear. The acquaintance is likely to be casual and un- planned; romantic attachment develops only because the marriage offers too little competition.
Marriage should be a growing process, not a static entity. Take stock of your marriage. Has it stopped growing? If so, do your best, these next twelve months, to revive the enthusiasm, the awareness of each other, and, yes, the excitement that you both surely felt dur- ing the early stages of your marriage.
• Be more courteous, both in voice and in word. Express your wishes as requests, your advice as sug- gestions, rather than issuing orders or instructions.
• Surprise your husband with an occasional token of affection, whether it be an unexpected kiss, or a little gift from the ten-cent store or newsstand.
• Respect his privacy. Don't disturb his personal belongings, open his wallet or read his mail without his express approval. Don't read over his shoulder without invitation.
• Introduce fresh interests to the family circle. A new card game, a plant or a shrub, a household jour- nal or snapshot album — any continuing new activity which appeals to you both will add zest to your com- panionship.
• Take an interest in his appearance. Keeping his clothes in order is your job; encouraging him to look his best, and admiring him when he does, should be your pleasure.
• Take an interest in your appearance. You "dress up" to go out; why not make the most of your looks when you tw stay at home?
• Build him up. Undoubtedly you admired his skills and achieve.nents before marriage. Let him know that you still do.
• Show your appreciation. If a neighbor repaired a torn screen for you, you would thank him. Why not show your husband the same courtesy?
These are all little things, but much of the joy of living depends on our capacity to take pleasure in small things. And indifference between husband and wife can be almost as dangerous as hostility.
None of these suggestions involves much more than the kind of courtesy you would instinctively offer a stranger. Good manners can keep molehills from be- coming mountains. But too many wives — and hus- bands— are at their worst with the very people who matter most to them, their own families. A woman may coax the plumber instead of scolding him, con- ceal her fatigue from a caller, and control her an- noyance at a committee meeting — then "let go" at home, bossing the children, nagging and complaining to her husband. Mos families would be happier if courtesy, like charity, began at home.
You and Your Husband's Job
OUR researcn has disclosed that a sizable pro- portion of wives (23 per cent) have some definite grievance about their husbands' jobs or the relation- ship of the husband to his job. Most prominent com- plaint is that the husband lacks ambition or isn't taking full advantage of his opportunities.
It is perfectly natural for a woman to be concerned about her husband's job. A wife's desire for security is fundamental, and her husband's present income and
Ask Yourself: Is Your Life Satisfying?
Health and temperament, job, friends and marriage all play a part in a full life. These questions will help you assess your achievement this past year. Omit the last five questions if you are single.
1. Are you usually happy and contented?
2. Does the future have real purpose (meaning) for you?
3. Is your life free from any serious frustration ?
4. Do you look forward to each new day?
5. Are you in good physical health?
1. Do you plan ahead for greater work effi- ciency?
2. Are you more skilled at your job than last
year?
.3. Do you find increasing pleasure in your work?
t. Are you proud of your job?
5. Dt>es its income cover your essential needs?
1. Are your social activities satisfying and re- warding?
2. Do you have more friends today than a year ago?
3. Have you improved at least one social skill? t. Do you have someone in whom to confide? 5. Is your program of recreation balanced and
complete?
1. Do you and your husband love each other?
2. Are you two free from financial strains?
3. lias your husband been a good companion? 1. Do you and he talk things over freely?
5. Is your marriage free from any serious dis-
appoin i men t ?
Ideally all questions should he answered "Yes." t store of less than / in any group suggests a real handicap in that area. Your ".Yo" answers can show you where to seek improvement in I9~>0.
luture prospects are factors in that security. More- over, if the husband achieves job advancement and increasing pay as the years pass, a wife feels more so- cially approved. Not his future alone, )ut theirs, de- pends in large part on his progress in his work.
But her concern should not express itself merely in prodding him. She must assume the responsibility of helping him to succeed in every way she can, both direct and indirect.
First of all she must understand and, so far as possi- ble, share his job aims. Otherwise conflict i:. likely. A husband wants work he finds interesting in itself; steady employment and security of tenure; a super- visor who is pleasant, capable and fair; adequate pay for his work, pleasant working conditions, physical safety and some chance for promotion.
But, whereas the amount of his pay is third or fourth in importance to a husband, it is often first to his wife. To satisfy her, he may take a better-paying job which he doesn't like. This solution is seldom permanently satisfactory to either.
Before concluding that your husbanu lacks ambi- tion and enterprise, make sure your complaint is valid. Unless he has a history of frequent job changes, of unemployment due to his own negligence or indiffer- ence, and of having lagged far behind the friends he had when you married, then the trouble may not be his lack of ambition, but your excess of it. On the other hand, if these things have happened, and have been accompanied, as they often are, by excessive drinking and other vices, then the final recourse may have to be a psychiatrist.
Whether or not you are satisfied with your hus- band's progress, check to see if you are doing all you can to help him get ahead.
* Do you make it easy and pleasant for him to get to work on time? Do you see that his breakfast is pre- pared (and if possible shared with you) on time? Do you keep his work clothes in order and available? Do you see that any equipment or tools are at hand when he needs them?
* Do you protect his health, by seeing that he gets plenty of rest, and recreation of his choosing?
* Do you co-operate when he has homework, by keeping the children quiet, declining social engage- ments, and avoiding unnecessary demands yourself?
* Do you show an interest in his work — not just the pay check, but his daily routine, his problems and his achievements?
* Do you praise his accomplishments and minimize his failures?
* Do you do your share in handling the income wisely? If it's hard to make ends meet, the trouble may be overspending, rather than underearning.
* And last but not least, does he like his work? A job which is a challenge to one man is a chore to an- other. Perhaps your husband is in the wrong field. If you both believe this is the case, and he can find an opportunity to make a change, encourage him to do so, even if it means a temporary financial sacrifice. Other things being anywhere nearly equal, he's almost sure to earn more in the long run at a job he likes.
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No. I lad von really eared for your wife, you wouldn't have delayed action until this late date. Sine* neither children nor religion is a factor, your only motive seems to he a desire to punish your wife for her recent interest in another man.
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1. "/ dated a girl for six months and then ice broke up. Hoic can I set my class ring back?"
According to the rules, a girl should give a class ring back the very night she and her ex-chum de- cide to call it quits on going steady. But maybe you broke things up the hard way hard for the girl, that is! i. simply by not calling, not making dates and not acting like the ever-lovin' boy you once were. In that case, a phone call — just as friendly as you can make it — to ask if you can stop over to say "hello" and pick up your ring should do it. Or. if you're not too smooth on the telephone chatter, drop the girl a pleas- ant note with an "it's been nice knowing you but . . ." theme, and ask her to return the ring by mail. Most girls will get that piece of jewelry back before you can say "United States Post Office."
2. "Is it true that boys like only girls tcith good personalities?"
Yes. it's true, but before you start singing the blues about your own personality rating, let's face facts. A quick look at the dictionary will tell you that "person- ality" means "quality or state of being a person" and "good" means "sufficient or satisfactory for its pur- pose," Rearrange those words, add a little common sense and you come up with this answer: If you are warmhearted and friendly, boys will like you whether your personality is quiet, gay. temperamental or any other variety. In high school a "good personality " means being easy to get to know, friendly and fun to be with— and with all that, why shouldn't boys like you?
3. "My parents say I have to be in at ten o'clock every iceek nisht and ticelve o'clock on week ends. fT hat can I do about it?"
Try passing on to them the information that teen- agers, in a coast-to-coast checkup, report that the average deadline is 10:30 on week nights for club meetings, church groups and an occasional movie > . 12 o'clock to 12:30 for week-end dates, with "whatever time the dance ends plus 45 minutes for a bite to eat " as the deadline on special big evenings. If other par- ents say "okay." your parents may say the same!
4. "Should a sirl so hal/icay in chasins a boy if she knoics he likes her?"
Probably the best way to catch up with a boy is to start off at a slow walk — "just happening" to turn up round the drugstore or basketball game when he is there, "just happening" to remember a new joke when you meet him in the halls, and "just happening" to be more friendly to him than to other boys. An invitation to a turnabout party, a bid for a Sub-Deb dance, ar- rangements to join another couple at your house some evening are good "halfway" tactics. But no phone calls "just to talk." no writing love-lorn notes in history class and no hanging around the drugstore if he happens to work there. If a boy likes you. the best way to get him is just to be "available" and let him do the rest- s' "My girl friend is so much prettier than I am that all the boys pay much more attention to her than to me. Should I drop her?"
No. You can't spend your life running from pretty girls — so why not start now learning how to face the competition? Presumably, if Miss Prettypuss has chosen you as a friend, there is something very nice
about you. something that may make boys also want you as a friend. Don't spend all your time with Miss P., however, but when you are together (and with boys act as a pair, never as rivals. For instance, get into the habit of saying such things as "The funniest thing happened to Molly and me yesterday": or "Molly and I are going home . . . want to walk?" Chances are the boys will begin to think of you as they think of Molly — even if she is still prettier.
B. "/ passed my sixteenth birthday recently and my parents have noic agreed to let me do baby- sitting. Hoic much should I charge?"
Baby-sitting rates vary in different parts of the country and in different communities, but here are rates which many baby sitters and their clients have found acceptable: 35 cents an hour up to midnight, with 50 cents an hour for every hour past twelve o'clock, plus an extra 50 cents if the baby must be bathed, fed and put to bed by the sitter. Some sitters agree to a straight 35 cents an hour under all working conditions if they are allowed to have a girl friend in. the use of the television set or "light icebox privileges."
7. "Tf hat can a girl do ichen she's on a date and she and her boy friend both seem to run out of con versa t ion ? ' '
In the first place, running out of conversation doesn't mean that a boy | or girl • isn't having fun. .Allow time for "friendly silence." but if you feel loo many of your dates are on the silent side, take precautions be- forehand. Here's some advice that's old but still good — and the only way to stock up on con%'ersation titbits ahead of time. Before the date, take five min- utes to decide on five definite subjects you can talk about during the evening. Think about what movie you have seen recently, some bit of talk about school, some book you've read, or an item about a sport you both enjoy. Make the subjects definite in tout own mind and you'll find them on the tip of your tongue when you need them !
8. "Is there any icay a girl can knoic ichen she is really in love?"
Yes. Her eyes will sparkle and the stars will shine brighter: there will be orchids for breakfast and a new moon in the sky and music in the air. At least that's what it says in the storybooks! But in real life, par- ticularly with a high-school gal. here's a better "is this love?" check list: The girl will probably scribble his name on notebooks and cut his picture out of the year- book for her wallet. She will want to date him on Sun- days, hold Friday nights for Its dates, dream about him on weekdays — and would even turn down a date with Montgomery Clift. if he asked. And if she feels the same way six months later — well, maybe it's love!
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The snow fans out wide around the barn, while all inside are snug amid the drifts.
Diary of Domesticity
ttff GM.ABYS TA It lilt
TAKING in the early morning, I hear 1/ the snowplows driving down the road.
■ It is a comforting sound; we are
■ not alone in all this world of ice and w, we are a community. I get up and ■c out the front window to watch the at fans of pure heavy snow as the plow ns in front of Stillmeadow and moves k. Beyond us the road climbs the hill 1 is not really a road at all ; we mark the I of the plowing.
The countrymen on the plows are always :erful. If the snow is very bad, they gh about it. George comes from the n with the milk pails and I hear them dng about how many inches we have v. It is a matter of pride that we have much weather around these New gland hills. # The spaniels dash out barking madly, netimes they disappear to the ears in
■ drifts, like swimmers in a white sea. ney's golden ears lie flat on the surface she lumbers along, the little ones skip the top. Young Flyer and Sue can't lly understand winter yet, for they are nmer's children. What an adventure this ite stuff is, you can nip it up and it Its on the warm eager tongue! And it lgs to one's paws, says Sue, and then nishes when one gets by the fire.
This is the month of bills. December is a :nding month, and comes January first, realize it. Those happy people who dget can meet January with a composed ile, I dare say, but I am always sur- Jsed. I never really have understood »ney. I tried to understand devaluation. I ced Ed Shenton to explain it to me, be- jse he is so intelligent and understands i limitations very well. And afterward I it kept on wondering how a dollar could at once not be a dollar after all. Now this is what I decided about money: oney is terribly important, and not im- rtant at all! For money will buy the oes, but money will never move the foot
forward in the shoe. The most luxurious gift that can be given has nothing at all to do with money, but with the heart. Fortu- nately the heart may always be rich, no matter how thin the purse.
Every winter we plan on a trip south or west or somewhere, and every winter finds us shoveling snow and stoking the furnace just the same. It is so easy in summer to say, "This year we will go away for a change in the middle of winter." And then we begin to think how Maeve will feel, for an Irish setter does not like to be left. This year I did have to go to the Middle West for three days. I felt reasonably cheerful until I got on the train. There was a snub- nosed little Boston bull saying good-by to his master as I took off my coat. I immedi- ately got homesick and approached the two hopefully. I was going to offer to puppy-sit while he had dinner. But the Boston was staying behind. I leaned out and watched the small thing trot away with his mistress, and how empty that full train seemed with not a paw left on it. Nothing but people.
The mysteries of a roomette astound me. I spent three nights supposedly sleeping in roomettes. Well, for one thing, no two are alike. All the buttons are in different places. You steeplechase the light switches. First you get the fan humming, then the next one brings the porter unexpectedly. The lights go on and then you find you haven't locked the bed in place and it threatens to fold you up.
Eventually you get everything off except the lurid blue night light, and the switch for that you never find at all. And then you get thirsty. Dreadfully thirsty. You think of deserts and cool springs. The train is hot and you find you've turned the heat on in- stead of turning it off. The fan makes a terrible noise, but just beats the air up like an egg beater. A tall cold glass frosted with cry stals, or a beaker of buttermilk from a cool springhouse— oh, just a drink of anything! (Continued on Page 12S)
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THE Liberty Bell tolled, cannon were fired, everywhere people shivered in the near-zero, frosty- clear weather, welcomed the twen- tieth century with "hope, prayer and merriment." In this month of January, 1900, schools in Scran- ton, Pennsylvania, were closed be- cause of an epidemic of diphtheria, Hawaii had the bubonic plague, the British were overwhelming the Boers, and John Buskin died.
In the January, 1900, Journal, Ed- itor Bok reports that the health of 50,000 U. S. school children was be- ing "shattered" yearly by too much studying, found thousands of other children "permanently crippled"' by "our cramming system of educa- tion."
Social visits: "Husbands and wives rarely call together in America; in- deed, husbands rarely call at all."
How to Train a Green Cook: "Hours which extend from 5 A. M. until 11 P. M. are discouraging to a cook. ... If the butter and cream are kept in the cellar, tell her that one trip will be sufficient if she car- ries a tray."
Baby care: "Veils are used for young babies as protection for their faces. As soon as the baby is able to see through the veil, it should be left off or his eyes may be injured."
Good Form on All Occasions: "Rise to leave when you are the speaker — not when the conversation has languished, lest you appear to go because you are bored. "
Advises cooking expert Mrs. Rorer: "The outside covering of fruits and vegetables is indigestible. In eating prunes, simply reject the skin as you would with a grape. T. '. My mission is to uplift the housekeeper and to assist her in keeping sickness away from her home. Two thirds of the diseases of the present day can be traced to the home table."
High fashion : "The new Directoire coat is made of white corded silk with revers of heavy cream satin, lined in pale pink satin covered with heavy white liwe."
LEARN TO BE A QUEEN? AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF GROW- PALACE WALLS ... BY PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S GOVERNESS
MARION CKAWi 11 wasn't until some time after the Goulds returned from their second flying visit to England last fall that the editors here first had an inkling of the story of The Little Princesses, which starts in this issue. That's how far be- hind the scenes, and in what secrecy, this great Journal scoop was accom- plished; the story of which, as Mr. Gould unfolded it to the staff, was as fascinating in its way as Marion Crawford's extraordinarily vivid and intimate picture of the British royal family.
HAD always wanted to teach, though not in the usual way, had certainly never intended to |me a governess.
|was born June 5, 1909, in the house where my mother, and ither before her, had been born — Iside Cottage, near Kilmarnock, /rshire. After my father's death, I was two, my mother remarried /e came to live in Dunfermline, )tland.
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Tiuriaji miner comes to town he has so many things to do with various writing commitments, and the overhead cost of his trip is so great, he figures it costs him money even to read a magazine. According to his calculations, one ar- ticle took lime worth $8.50. So now he saves his reading for the train trip home.
Journal staff members have made use of many types of transportation in get- ting their stories, but when Lois With- er spoon arrived recently in Corinth, Mississippi, on this month's Profile of Youth, with four miles still to go to Maxine Wallace's home, and the roads so deep in mud that cars couldn't get through, it marked the first time any of us had to resort to a tractor.
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It began back in the fall of 1942, when the Goulds made a wartime flight to Eng- land and lunched with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth as guests of Lady Astor.
| Sitting next to the sixteen-year-old Princess, Mrs. G. was struck with the fresh charm and naturalness which made this heiress to the throne so much like anyone's delightful daughter— her own, or yours, or any of ours. And it oc- curred to the Goulds, as they chatted with this enchanting child and her queenly mother, that the bringing-up and training which prepared a girl to rule a great nation would make a story both irresistible and important— espe- cially important at a time like now, when it can mean so much that people of all kinds and classes should see with clarity and comprehension what goes on inside one another's lives.
As the Princesses grew, these thoughts grew with the Goulds, and when the) were finally able to obtain an official opportunit) to prepare the story, the) flew to England, eventually discovering there the one perfect per- son in the «oil«l to write it. The dis- cerning account, the personal and privileged glimpses, which < ► ■ • I > I Iraw- fie could give, create, you "ill see, iust the human understanding of people ■■■ high places the world now needs — filled with all i be romance and reality of life,
Hugh Kahler, our youngest-in-spiril editor, came around the other day with a book in his hand. "You're too young to know about this," he said, which got us, right off. He painted to this para- graph on page 241: "The first public campaign to check the mounting death- toll of cancer was launched in the United States by Tom Cullen of Balti- more. The year was 1913. The place was The Ladies' Home Journal." It's in Judith Robinson's biography of a great doctor. Tom Cullen of Baltimore.
A New Mexico man, who is 115 years old. and had just completed a 67-mile walk, gave his secret of long life: "I never got married." ... Of the people who go swimming each year, only 7 per cent can really swim (at least 100 yards ) . Another 40 per cent can swim a little (30 yards) and the other 53 per cent cannot swim at all. . . . More than one out of every two Americans today are church members— but average church attendance (except for Easter) is only 30 per cent of the members.
To show you how theJOURNALis made up of little things as well as large : For dessert in a diner out in McCredie,
Missouri, lust summer. John Morris chose the banana cake made hv Mrs
Barnes, the proprietor; liked it s<>
much be asked her for the recipe, which he fiu\ e on his return I <> 1 1 mil In ShouGF, who tried it out in tin* Work- shop kitchen. They found it so tastj they mailed Mrs. Karnes a check, then sent tin' recipe to Mrs. Hoicontbsi of i he < fatober America 1 <ivea, dow ■■ in South Carolina, lor her to try, ami
puhlished it in thai issue. Now she's
written Louella in great excitement. Mrs. B.'s banana cake got a blue ribbon at the Spartanburg count) lair.
Sarah Churchill was so delighted with the dress we provided for the photo- graph WiUveUt Cushtnan had taken of Il lusion Churchill's actress daughter
A Journal dress for a Churchill bride.
in the November Journal, that Mrs. C. made her a present of it; and so de- lighted with it later that she wore it at her wedding, as you may have noticed in the newspaper pictures.
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HOW DOES ONE LEARN TO BE A QUEEN? AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF GROW- ING UP WITHIN PALACE WALLS ... BY PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S GOVERNESS
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0/ HAD always wanted to teach, (j y though not in the usual way, and I had certainly never intended to become a governess.
I was born June 5, 1909, in the same house where my mother, and her father before her, had been born — Woodside Cottage, near Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire. After my father's death, when I was two, my mother remarried and we came to live in Dunfermline, in Scotland.
I studied at the Moray Training College, in Edinburgh, and my training had taken me into the poorer parts of the city. Here I saw a great deal of poverty, and had to do with children who were not very bright because they were undernourished. I was at that time very young, and I became fired with a crusading spirit. I wanted to do something about the misery and unhappiness I saw all round me. I wanted desperately to help. I always had a great sense of vocation
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Little House, where grownups went on their knees, ever) thing was scaled to children and the Princesses counted linen, tooked, shook rugs, made beds.
Crawfie, friend and companion for 17 years. Kli/aheth (dining electric car) and Margaret — snapshot taken l>\ Queen one cold da\ at Royal bodge.
and the feeling I had a job to do in life, and I bad quite made up my mind that this was what my job was to be.
Something else, however, was coming my way.
I had finished my exams, and gone home to rest. Dunfermline is a small country town built on hills. Up to the First World W ar it was the center of the linen industry. Both the Queen, when she married, and Princess Klizabelh were given large ( bests of linen from Dunfermline.
It has a famous old abbcv where the hodv of Robert Bruce is buried, and a lovely palace, now in ruins, which was the home of the early kings of Scotland. Once it was the capital of Scotland. Charles I was born there and the bed in which he was born is now
Marion Crawford was responsible for lite education of Princess Elizabeth from the time she was five until her marriage nearly seventeen years later. Although Crawfie' s official title was Royal Governess, she was friend and adviser to the young Princess and her sister. Margaret Rose and (hiring the five war years when the children were evacuated to W indsor Castle she hud them in almost sole charge. Her story of them is as intimate as her relationship, which Elizabeth summed up when she was showing Crawfie where she was to sit at the wedding in Westminster Abbey— close by the King ami Queen: ''You must be near us. as you have been all these years."
h handwriting on Christmas greeting to beloved ie when Elizabeth was nine and Margaret five.
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EACH DAY BEGAN WITH A ROMP IN PAPA AND MUMMIE'S ROOM.
part of a mantelpiece in a big place the Elgins have not far away, called Broomhall. Andrew Carnegie was also born in Dunfermline in a little humble cottage which remains quite untouched.
Broomhall is a square Georgian house, to the south looking onto the Forth; to the north one can see the lovely range of the Ochil Hills. It has a very large front hall, and round it are placed some of the Elgin marbles. It was old Lord Elgin who brought these over from Greece. As the family is directly descended from Robert Bruce, his sword and helmet also hang in the hall. Both the helmet and sword are enormous, as he was an outsize man.
One morning I had a letter from Lady Elgin, who knew I had fin- ished my training and had heard I was home on long leave, asking me if I would take her son Andrew, Lord Bruce, in history. He was a charming little boy of seven whom I already knew, and as I had noth- ing very definite to do when I wasn't studying myself, I took this on. What influenced me greatly was that I loved walking, and this post was within walking distance of my home, about three miles through shady woods and paths among the farms belonging to Lord Elgin, with occa- sional glimpses of the Forth through the trees.
As I sat writing the letter accepting Lady Elgin's offer, I little dreamed that here was one of those turning points in life that we never do recognize when they first come along.
The Elgins were a charming family, very friendly and simple. Soon the three other Elgin children joined us — Lady Martha, Lady Jean and the Honourable Jamie. Presently I was running a small class at Broomhall, teaching other subjects besides history to four very nice children, and enjoying it thoroughly.
But I still thought of it as a temporary post, to tide me over until I could take up my real lifework.
The Elgins breakfasted early, about eight o'clock. I used to ap- proach the French windows leading into the schoolroom to the strains of hymns and the tail end of family prayers, and I would wait in the garden tactfully until these were finished. The children used to peep through their fingers during their devotions to watch for my coming.
Friends and relations were always dropping in and would join us for the midmorning break called "elevenses." This pleasant custom is a sort of afternoon tea in midmorning. The grownups had coffee and the children a large glass of lemonade, rock cakes and jam, while the domestic staff and garden workers would retire at the same time to stillroom and stable for bread and cheese and cake on their own.
Most large country houses have a stillroom. It is the housekeeper's domain, where all jams are made and stored, all fruit bottled, and light meals that need no cooking, like elevenses and afternoon tea, and after-dinner coffee, and so on, are prepared. It is really an extra pantry and storeroom. The linen is mended there, and peaches and other fruit are stored. It probably comes from the old days when things were brewed and homemade wines made.
I^id) Boso Lew-son Cower (pronounced in our simple British fashion "Leu-hon Core") came about this time to Rosyth with her husband, the admiral, who was stationed there. Rosyth is on the banks of the Forth and not far from Broomhall. I was (Continued mt Page M)
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The author, at 10, never dreaming at 27 she would be the royal governess at Buckingham Palace. Her tie is red, so are her socks. The royal family chose her for her gaiety, youth and learning.
Crawfie put off her own wedding 8 years — she wouldn't leave her royal charges until the war was over — at last married in 1947, when 38.
Kverything about horses delighted the children. Thru launite hook was Black Beauty; their favorite playthings, their toy horses; their favorite people, the grooms. Here Lilihet copies a horse right down to its hoofs while Margaret ride-. I'lawnate is Margaret Klphinstone.
They loved playing Indians, hopscotch, hide-and-seek with papa and Crawfie, wild card games with mnmmie; but, cut off by their royal birth, they had many four-legged friends, few two-legged.
When friends could think of no othergift, they knew toy horses would be welcome. Thirty-odd stood outside the princesses' bedroom doors; nigh ll\ they fed and watered them. They were still there when F.lizabeth married.
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I.ilibet neve'- cared a fig about clothes, but loathed hats and a long, drab mackintosh. Margarei was always choosy, (nil had to accept big sister's hand-me-downs until she was 17.
(Mamis Castle, where the Queen was broughl up and where Margarei Rose found i 1 1 an old trunk a torn pennj dreadful about pirates. She fixed il up. read il secretly.
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Margarei and Little House. The girls were not above laking a whack at each other when roused. Kli/ahcth had a quick left hook: Margarei
used herroval teeth. Moth punctuated cries of "you brute'1 with -lap-.
Elizabeth and her first love, Owen the groom. One da\ when she asked her father about some plans, he said testily. "Don't ask me, ask Owen. Who am I to make suggestions?"
Picture painted by Elizabeth for blotter set she made Crawfie for Christmas. Royal presents were simple — a china dog, a calendar. But Elizabeth saved every fancy ribbon and wrapping, neatly put them in a special box.
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{Continued jrom Page 36) asked if I would take their little girl, Mary, who was rather delicate, for a short session every day.
So now in the good weather, which is not so infrequent in Scotland as some people suppose, I had a really fine day's walking. I would do the three miles to Admiralty House from Broomhall when I had fin- ished my class there. Then when the day's work was over, I would walk home again.
It seemed to me then that this was just a pleasant interlude, a tem- porary arrangement to fill in the time between one course of study and the next. I intended, as soon as my present outfit of pupils were ready for school, to return to my first love, which was still child psychology. I spent my evenings reading and studying for this very happily. I was twenty-two. At twenty-two one has the illusion of there being lots of time.
Meanwhile, Fate was marching up on me in the way Fate has. There came one lovely morning when I walked as usual through the gardens of Admiralty House for my session with Mary. The gardens were very charming. Terraces ran down to the River Forth, overlook- ing a bay called Margaret's Hope, after Margaret, sister of Edgar Athel- ing, the Saxon King. She married Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland. The chroniclers say she was learned and pious, and a keen politician. She did a lot to bring English ways and customs up to Scotland, and it was here she is supposed first to have landed when she came north. I always took this part of my walk slowly.
Lady Rose had said something in my hearing of visitors, but I had not paid much attention. There were always visitors coming and going, and we were seldom alone for our elevenses. As I crossed the lawn I remember there came over me an eerie feeling that someone was watching me. It made me look up toward the house. There was a face at the window, and for the first time I met that long"W5ol, appraising slare I was later to come to know so well. (Continued on Page 79)
"For goodriWs' -Ac teach Margaret arid Lilibet to write a decent hand," morted old Kiiif: George l<> Crawfie. "I like a hand with home character in it.' Lilibel childish ver-ion of Elizabeth, Mill used by family.
"We aren't supposed to be human," said the Queen sadly after I coronation ceremony, with halcoin appearances (family calls them -till expected. Girls' cloak-, were ermine: ahow nlxcr sandals were hot
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THE door of his office opened rapidly and Frederick Scott dropped Mr. Tupper's copy of How to Get Along With Everybody into the open desk drawer in front of him. Pushing the drawer shut, he looked up to see the slen- der, blond figure of the steno-pool supervisor striding pur- posefully through the door. Scott felt his jaw tighten invol- untarily. For a moment, as his mind protested the bitter irony of such a baptism, he felt urged to forget all about his week-end resolutions. Nine-fifteen on Monday morning and his first contact was Miss Novick! He never should have succumbed to Mr. Tupper's suggestion. But summon- ing his resources, Scott managed a smile.
"Good morning, Miss Novick," he said. "Lovely morn- ing, isn't it?"
Scott's voice echoed strangely to him, and he noted two peculiar things. First, he recalled that it was a lovely morn- ing. He had been lured out of the bus at Thirty-Fourth Street, and had walked the remaining seven blocks uptown in perfect spring weather. The second was that his words and tone had an impact on Miss Novick as sharp as a slap in the face. Scott's smile became more genuine.
"Why — good morning," Miss Novick replied, startled momentarily out of her mood of determined hostility. She was young, too young for her supervisor's job, Scott thought, and, despite the stubborn set of her chin, rather brightly attractive.
"Yes," Scott said, leaning back in his chair, "I walked a bit along Fifth Avenue this morning. It was glorious."
Miss Novick had recovered. Her blue eyes regarded Mr. Scott coldly. "I don't doubt it," she said. She put the paper she had in her hand on the desk in front of him. Without
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looking, Scott knew it was the memorandum he had sent her Friday. "I wanted to see you about this," she an- nounced tersely.
"Oh, yes," Scott said amiably. "Won't you have a seat?" Miss Novick, facing him from the other side of the desk, shook her head. "I prefer to stand," she said. Her voice was icy, but Scott could see that his determined friendli- ness puzzled her.
"I've been looking forward to talking this over with you," he said. "I am sure you will have some helpful ad- vice on the subject."
Grimly Scott reflected that he had indeed been looking forward to her inevitable visit. Ever since that first unfor- tunate clash Miss Novick had fought every recommenda- tion of his which at all concerned her department. And he was fairly certain that more than a little of his difficulty throughout the company could be traced to the radiation of her dislike. Miss Novick was very popular.
"It just won't work," she now said flatly, with a signifi- cant look at the painfully typed memorandum. Scott had had to type it himself, as he had not wanted word of it to get hack to her until he had considered the finished prod- uct from every conceivable angle.
It was a simple-enough reform he had proposed. Merely that the stenographers in the pool be assigned in rotation as the calls came in. And not, as now. in observance of an intricate protocol which sent certain girls to certain men because of real or imagined preferences on either part. Scott had estimated an efficiency loss of at least 25 per cent in wasted waiting time and general inelasticity of person- nel assignments; to say (Continued on Page 98)
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By MARIE ¥. HOIM I I
SHE faced herself in the bathroom mirror, in the cool half-light of a November morning, as she brushed her hair. / shall definitely hare it dyed on Monday, she thought. Gray hair is becoming to some faces — it just makes me look tired. She put down the brush and reached for what her family called "mother's mind" — a scratch pad and pencil that hung by the head of the bathtub.
"Joke all you like," she would say, "but it's only when I'm in the tub before the rest of you are up in the morning that I've any time to think."
On the pad each morning she wrote the plan of her day. Today — Saturday — already listed "Emergency Ladies' Aid mtg — 3 p.m. Meet Bill at club afterward. Speak to Tommy about gulping. Market. New oilcloth for kitchen. Picasso show — last day. (This was heavily underscored.) Sale at May's — win- ter suit? New bathrobe." She ought to be able to get all that in before three, with plenty of time to meet Bill after the meeting. Now, with a firm pencil, she wrote at the bottom: "Call for hair appt. Monday." Then as an afterthought: "Prepare family." She tore the page from the pad and put it in the pocket of her housecoat.
She let the pad dangle back to place, gave her hair a last defiant brush, and left the bathroom. Bill was still asleep, sprawled face down under the comforter. She bent softly over him, pulled the comforter from his face and smiled. It never failed to enchant her that, asleep in this fashion, hair standing straight up against the pillow, he and his young son looked exactly alike.
She tiptoed from the room. The doors to the children's rooms were still closed; but as she came to the head of the stairs, the odor of fresh coffee came up to meet her. Effie was up and at work
in the kitchen. She sniffed gratefully as she pushed open the kitchen door. "Morning, Effie."
"Morning, ma'am. Coffee will be ready in a minute."
"Good; I can use some. What are we short of, Effie? I thought I'd get a leg of lamb for dinner, and roasting chickens for tomorrow; if you'll make us a really big chocolate cake, it ought to do for the week end. Oh, and I"m definitely going to get new oilcloth for in here today. Red and white check, I think: that always looks cheerful."
"Can't abide red in a kitchen," said Effie definitely. She was a spare, pointed creature of indeterminate age and very determinate ideas. "Yellow, now, or blue — red, no."
"All right, Effie. Not blue, with green stripes on the curtains; but I'll get vou yellow. \\ here's the marketing list?"
List in hand, she went into the dining room and scooped up the morning's mail from her place at the table. Three for Bill, four for herself — all dull. Before she could slit the first one open, the phone rang. Who on earth, at this hour
"Hartford calling — just a moment, please." There was a mutter of voices, then her fa- ther's voice: "Daughter? How are you?" He never waited for answers. "Mr. Harmon is driving over your way today — thought I might ride with him, if I won't be in the way for a few days."
"That's wonderful, father," she said. "We'd love to have you. When do you think you'll get here?"
"Oh, he aims to start around noon — we should be there by five, maybe a little earlier. Kids all right? Bill too? Good. See you later," and he hung up.
She returned to the dining room, where Effie had now set the (C ontinued on Four 78)
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rHEN Maxine Wallace was a tiny six- year-old in a Baptist church twelve years ago, she took to heart a lesson onw h.ch the minister waxed particularly eloquent: "Always obey your parents." And Maxine, today a quietly pretty high- school senior, always does-"even some- tunes when I think they might be w rong Ood always knows what is best for us " This belief in God, and His ability to
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Maxine, who goes to church three times a week, feels firmly. "If children are taught right in the very beginning, they'll believe what you believe.
It takes all kinds of young people to make up the teen-age world. This is the eighth of a series of articles about teen- agers and we still haven't found any two alike. What's done in Iowa may be frowned on in Idaho; the hit dance step in Columbus, Georgia, may be old stuff in Columbus, Ohio.
Objectively, candidly, we are presenting young people as we find them, in the high schools they work in, the homes they are growing up in, places where they find their fun; at their best and at their worst — twelve Profiles of Youth.
bath in the kitchen in a tub of well water her mother has been heating on the wood stove, and after a light breakfast of tea and toast, is ready by 7 for the twenty-minute ride into town on the battered orange bus her brother-in-law found a "better buy" than a car. Busy with both school and a job, she doesn't get home again until 6 at night, and after a supper of vegetables cooked Southern fashion with lots of pork drippings, settles down to an hour's homework — unless she has a date for the movies, roller skating or "just to sit in the parlor and talk.'' Living out in the country as she does, Maxine dates mostly farm boys who have no cars*— 'and for them Saturday night, when the school bus runs into town at 6 and leaves again from Corinth's courthouse square at 10, is the only night they can really entertain a girl. Maxine dates at least twice a week, must be home by 10:30, is happiest when a boy comes to pick her up at the country Baptist church where she and her family attend church three, and sometimes four, times a week — "Some- thing would have to be awful important for me to miss church for it,'" she says.
At home her four young, blond brothers (Bobby Hill, Buddy Ray, Billy Aloy and Tommy Neal) and little sister Sue call her "Peen," a child's variation of Maxine. They are usually too busy helping their dad in the cotton fields, or playing trains in the mud under a huge pecan tree in the back yard, to have much time for Maxine, but they love to tease her about boys — "What do you see in him?", or "We'd love to go to the movies with you tonight. Any objections?", followed by a big roar of laughter. Of them she says fondly, "Oh, they're somet h ing, all right."
The Wallace home— on a forty-acre plot which Mr. Wallace bought eleven years ago for $1500 and has just (Continued on Page 120)
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"Town girls don't speak to us farm kid~^ unless we speak first." Negroes — 20% of the townspeople — have their own school.
Maxine dates twice a week, doesn't like boys to spend much money — "they should show thev know how to save for the future."
If Maxine could go anyplace in the world, ^ she would pick Kentucky- "they haw such nice horses there, and I just love horses."
"Popular? No, I'm not. Popular jn'rls have boya around all the time." Maxine goes out twice a week, likes church dates best.
Higli schoolers rut loose on public vehicles after home team wins game. Muscle men do calisthenics on bus handrails: self-styled artists pencil mustaches and phone numbers on posters; exuberant fans unscrew light bulbs and explode them on streetcar floor, climb in window- in save fare.
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Tee n-agers look at their nm niters, loll it'htt t ~s eo its id e red via tit and wrong according to their oirn rules.
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Mtitinw "irfle" ad-libs, emotes with movie hero, mutters. "Think you, Howard Duff!" after screen kisses.
Churivr mvinhvr. Bored ol EdJ tion," yawns in class, knits at \ rally, does nails in school assemt
"Yitlhtl" pi (lend- sen lor girl who has TV set, visits her only lo keep up with llopalong Cussidy, Milton Uerlc.
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1. The movie is romantic and so are you, sitting in the second bal- cony tcith your favorite dole. Do you:
(a) Treat the rest of the audience to a double feature, playing a "young love"' scene that keeps their minds off the screen?
(b) Indulge in a little light handholding. because you do like each other, saving the more obvious affection till you're alone together?
2. The punch is setting cold and the party is just warming up. hut you know that \o:ir dale has an early deadline. Do you:
(a) Make your exit without breaking up the party, pretending that both you and your date have a family zero hour?
(b) Suggest that your date mate phone the folks to ask for a special extension of the deadline?
3. Thursday is your mother's bridge-club day. When you finally hit home that afternoon and find the foursomes still in the living room, do you:
(a) Exchange greetings and head for the kitchen as soon as possible to see what food is left over from the party?
(b) Take extra time out to make small talk with the women, even those who dont have a son or daughter vou"d like to date?
/. Humors are/tying tin i club from school is giving a dam e, and
you and your crowd are on the lookout for aomefun. /><> you:
(a) Plan an evening on your own. a movie or part\ with your crowd, though you have a mad yen to crash the club shindig?
(b) Decide to latch on to the festivities, since anv partv i- gaver with you around?
•». t.lothes are casual at your school: s/ntrt shirt* and jeans are standard for fell '<•>, - . sweaters ami skirts the uniform for uirl*. mil you:
(a) Start a fashion trend of your own. wearing vour snappiest clothes for eight-thirtv classes?
(h) Follow the casual fashion set by the crowd (well tubbed and -crubbed, of course) and save your finery for Friday nights?
<!• Burt Lancaster is No. / movie man in your life ami his new film is at the Strand. But your date and the other couple ivith whom you're doubling want to go bowling. Do you :
(a) Silently promise your boy Burt that you'll see his movie Satur- day night instead and fall in with the other-" plans?
(b) Suggest that you and your date meet the two other allev cats alter the movie, when they've knocked (Continued on Pag,- 72j
1 1 fall Mm? Teens sav "yes" 1 has invitation to partv or goes y; "no" if she "wants to talk. "
Should I auk him in? Girls often ask date in for snack after earlv date: boys say it s "invitation to neck.'"
H'fco speaks first? Shy guv often ig- nores date in school. Girls agree on best rule: "Sav hello first — think afterward."
Hair in net in night club? Teens who don't know headwaiter from hatcheck read etiquette hook before big night.
/store '"wreeks-all" pyramids s. shoots water through straws, tip under upturned glass of water.
Partv poopers raid icebox ("They always take tomorrow's dinner'"), wear lamp shades for hats, juggle ash trays.
IITIt (big telephone operator) says In- is inspector, asksgirl to whistle, prom- ises to "send birdseed in mornin""
It. tit ( darned average- raiser) waving hand madlv in class, evoke- comment, "li s never smart to be loo smart!"
wet eharaeter"c\o\\m in halls, s water from fountains, ducks heads when they try drinking.
At most schools, couple who eatalone together in cafeteria cause raised eye- brows. "Some girls can be too popular!"
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knock yourself out showing it." Teen- frown on "mushy" necking at parties.
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Honey-gold nylon strapless swim suit, quick to dry. By Rose Marie Reid. Above left— straight Chinese blouse and knee shorts In shantung, by Joset Walker, bag by Phelps, sandals by Faic Joyce. Below left— red linen pocketed shorts, tie silk bra and coat, by Clain- McCanl.-ll.
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he new year sees the coming in of sportslike American fashions, long loved, welcome again n new versions. A shantung dress with a natching sweater, casual tailored necklines for light and day, pleated skirts from cotton bath- ng suits to chiffon evening dresses; the fash- on of the shirtwaist dress, the blouse, shirt-
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A pink suit, fresh as a sea breeze, worn with white pique Breton by Jane Derby, white cotton gloves. Timeless style, rayon fabric forgoing South and for summer. Suit by Alvin Handmacher.
Picture polka dots — pretty silk shantung dress with shonlder-tip neckline, pulled sleeves, shirred bodice, for any Southern afternoon, by Claire MeCardell, to wear with bright linen pumps.
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The bare camisole top under a jacket, the dress with a bare arm and high neckline is the thing, day or night. The gloveless hand and jeweled wrist, or the hand carrying longer gloves looks right. The wrapped bodice with bare shoulders is a bathing-suit or a dress fashion. Your head is veiled, your scarf small, stockings pale. The colors of the new fashions are sharp painter's pastels: pale pink, vibrant red, honey golds, oyster white. The tortoise-shell bag and nutshell leathers are good accents, especially for pink and blue. Silk honan, in the shantung family, is in again in two-piece dresses. Wool jersey wraps the slim figure in a bathing suit, or is pleated in a spectator dress. Nylon comes in a new weave for your quick-to-dry swim suit. All these fashions are here todav for the South, and definitelv here for 1950 summer.
Every-occasion evening dress: fashion of short sleeveless flame-red pleated chiffon.
Red lie-silk dress by Larry Aldrich. with ribbon hat by Mr. John. Tweed suit by Alvin Hand- macher, with jersey hat by Mr. Alf, fur-felt bag by Mr. John. Red chiffon by Larry Aldrich with rajah stole by Mr. John. Blue silk shantunp by Stasia Menkes. Pink and blue shantung dresses by Gore Poller. Red coal by Nathan Bader, with \ eil liv Mr. lohn, and w hile dress bv Jospl Walker.
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Important two 'piece overblouse silhouette in Ever-ready gray tweed suit for every kind tie silk, with elbow sleeves and side pleats. of travel: slim skirt, short-jacket fashion.
Heavenly twin dresses, silk honan; one sleeve- less, one long shirt-sleeved, both two-piece styles.
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The indispensable coat . . . wrist-length this year and with turn-back cuffs. Bright red; fashion with white, navy, gray, beige. Worn over everything!
Three versions of one design: braid-bound yellow wool criss-crosses / to button: turquoise wool, jet and braid trimming (Think of it in ink linen for summer); checked wool with searf ends. No. 2640. (/
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Many of us don't have TIME to do a great deal of sewing. When we do, we like to see results in a hurry. We find it quite satisfying to make a little hat of scraps left over from a favorite dress in less than an hour, or a tube jersey skirt in a couple of hours. We have used trimmings and detail usually found only on ready-made clothes. The nicest part of it is that you dont have to put the trimming on yourself (which is a great timesaver). Your pattern tells you which pieces to send to he embroidered; the modest prices range from $1.50 for the scarf with your very own initials and nailheads, to the velvet-appliqued pockets that are extra special for
.50 for both. You will note that each design does not depend Entirely on its trim . . . we have done at least one other version without it and found them equally effective, especially if you use one of the new novelty fabrics. Your pattern will give you a detailed drawing of the trimming and tell you where to send the pieces if you wish to have it 'lone Turn to Page 71 for diagrams and other views. Ii> MORA O'LKARY
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IT was starting to rain. I let all the other kids get ahead of me going home at noon. It was my birthday and I didn' t want them to know it. I hadn't brought a treat to school like I always did. Nobody had remembered that it was my birthday. But even if she had remembered, mother couldn't have gotten a treat ready. She wouldn't have had time or maybe even the money now, because doctors cost a lot of money. But even if she had the money she couldn't go out and look for a treat for the kids. Not now.
I felt pretty awful and pretended I had to tie my shoe when some kids came running by me. I didn't want to walk with them and I didn't want them to see me feeling bad.
Of course I didn't really care about my birthday. In our family birthdays are always something special, and besides presents and treats in school and a cake and ice cream, you can always do what you want to on your birthday. I mean anything. You can choose a show and have everybody go to it; even if your father has an important meeting, he has to go where you say.
Or like what Pud wanted to do once was get on top of grandma's house and have his birthday there. It*s a place with a little railing around it and the chimney is in the mid- dle of it and it's on the very top of the house and the house is two stories and an attic and I don't know why the place has a railing around it. Pud always thought it would be a fun place to be and so he was there most all of the day on his birthday even if mother did almost die for fear he'd get too close to the railing and fall over or the railing would break when he leaned on it, it was so old. Pud took bis lunch up there with him. But not me in the morning. I had to stay down and he kept calling to me and everyone else to see him way up there. But in the afternoon be invited me to come up with him and we had birthday cake up there and it was sure cozy and far away like a little porch in the sk\.
Or you could have a party if you wanted to. Anything you wanted to do. Anything. On your birthday, you were king and your wish was the law.
But nobody had asked me now, of course. And anyway I didn't really care. If they had asked me, I couldn't have done what I wanted to do. I wanted to play with Pud again. I wanted Pud well. He had been sick for so long.
I went in the back door quietly so if Pud was sleeping I wouldn't wake him. I hung my jacket on two hooks in the hall,- spread out so it would dry while I ate. Nobody was around, so maybe I'd have to make myself a sandwich and get some milk. Sometimes lately mother didn't seem to even know when it was mealtime.
Then I went in the kitchen and there was my lunch on the table. There was a bowl of chicken soup, the kind I like best of all, and a glass of milk, and I looked inside the sand- wich. It was peanut butter and boysenberry jam. my \ei \ favorite, that we haven't hardly got any left of! I felt kind of good. Maybe mother did remember it was m\ birthday alter all, or she wouldn't have everything I liked. \nd then when I pulled the chair out there was this package.
It was queer opening the package all alone, with no one there. My heart was beating hard like I was scared. And then the paper was off and it was one of those neat tractors I've been wanting so long! It'll climb over anything. It'll al- most climb up the side of the wall!
I put the tractor on the table and started to eat m) soup, but there was this big lump in my throat w here I must have bumped tmsclf, and the soup wouldn't go b\ it ver\ good. I pushed the tractor back and forth on the table a little bit. It was a neat tractor, but it wasn't much fun to play with a tractor all alone. 1 wondered il I'ud would gel well to play with il with me. It was me and Pud to- gether that wanted the tractor. (Continued on Page 106)
He had lo find ih«» boy, even if it meant never r«»i urging from the search.
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THE moon that had shone upon Zachary's fight with Mike kept Stella awake most of that night in her little room at Weekaborough. When she dropped into restless sleep she .saw Zachary once again as the boy from the moon with his bundle on his back, and he was finding it so heavy that he was staggering beneath it.
She got up next morning heavy-eyed and anxious. Her anxiety about Zachary was not a thing she could tell to anybody. Father and Mother Sprigg, had she spoken of it, would have told her not to be fanciful.
In the evening some of Father Sprigg's cronies came in, and the tobacco smoke and conversation were so thick and loud that she and Hodge escaped out of the kitchen to the meadow. The evening light lay level and golden across the grass. There was no breath of wind, no sound but the tinkling of the stream as it flowed from the well beneath the hawthorn tree through the meadow to the trough, and then disappeared underground to feed the well in the yard and the duckpond in the orchard. The meadow sloped up- ward to the hawthorn tree, and Stella climbed with drag- ging feet, weary and heavyhearted. Hodge moved beside her, his tail tucked between his legs, sharing her sorrow.
Stella settled herself with her back against the tree, Hodge lying beside her. She shut her eyes and listened to the sound the water made as it overflowed the pool and fell over mossy stones into the stream below. For genera- tions this well had been thought to be especially beloved by the fairies— not the goblin folk who had frightened her in her childhood, but the Good People who Granny Bogan believed had taught her the use of the herbs.
Stella slipped her hand into her pocket, and there be- tween her fingers was the muslin bag of rue. She remem- bered that Granny Bogan had said she must soak the leaves in the water of a fairy well and bathe her eyes on the night of the full moon. It would be full moon tonight, and here was the fairies' well just beside her. She took out the little muslin bag and opened it, dipped up some water in her hand, shook the rue into it and bathed her eyes. When she had done it, she felt a little uneasy. What would mon pere
Copyright, 1949, by Elizabeth Goudge. The complete novel, a Lit- erary Guild selection, is soon to be published by Coward, McCann.
say to such a performance? He would tell her that she ought to go to St. Michael's Chapel and pray. And so she would. She would go tomorrow when she was back at Torre.
Reassured, she got up and ran back with Hodge to the parlor for supper and bed.
Next morning Stella sat in the doctor's gig, her basket at her feet. They drove at a good pace, clearing the hot honey-scented air as swimmers the foam of some warm blue sea. It was usually fun, but today the doctor, looking down at Stella, could see no happiness in her face.
"What is it, Stella?" he asked.
"Zachary doesn't like it where he is."
"He's not fond of the sea, but he'll soon be home," said the doctor.
"He wasn't at sea in the dream I had last night," said Stella. "He was in a dreadful place. There were a lot of men there and some of them had hardly any clothes, and the rest were in rags, and some of them did not look like men at all." She broke off and shivered in the hot sunshine, then went on again, "Zachary was leaning againsjt the wall, just under the grating, and the wall was slimy. I could see his face. It was bruised, as though he had been fighting. He looked like the picture of Christian in Mrs. Loraiin- - Pilgrim's Progress, when he is shut up in prison in the City of Destruction, and I knew what he was tanking. He wanted you and me very badly, but he knew that there was no way that he could tell us where he was. I tried to call out to him, but my voice wouldn't come out-flf m\ mouth. And I tried to run to him, but my feet wouldn't move. . . . Then I woke up."
"You had a nightmare," said the doctor. "What did you have for supper? Rabbit pie?'!
"Milk and bread and honey. And it wasn't a nightmare. I'd bathed my eyes with rue and the water from the pixies' well, like Granny Bogan told me to."
"All the tarradiddle Granny Bogan told you wasrjust a fairy tale, honey."
"Fairies are true and what they tell you is true."
"That's a matter of opinion! Now listen; if any disaster had happened to Zachary I should have been told. The authorities have my name (Continued on Pa&e 62)
By ELIZABETH GOUDGE
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Y father fancied himself a wonderful lire builder. His method was this: He would fetch some oldish newspapers and start to lay the fire. A headline or picture would catch his eye and he would squat in front of the lire- place and begin to read. As he read on he became interested in other items and time went on. Finally, when someone happened in to see how the fire was making out — it wasn't. It hadn't happened — yet. After he was prodded into get- ting some action, what he considered a fire was laid and lighted. It promptly expired. And no matter what he did, the fire refused to do its part. And after someone — usually your corre- spondent— took over, and we really got a fire, he insisted on poking and improving until again expiration took place. And it wras all to do over again. You know, by now, that there are fire builders and fire putter-outers. Thai s my point. Let the builders to their job. Let the rest sit and rock and read last September's papers, if that be their choice.
Speaking of fireplaces. There are few things in life more homely and restful and comforting than an open fire. Especially when the winter winds blow high and shrill and the winter snows are adrift and the curtains are drawn against the importunate clamor of a stormy night. So to come in out of the cold and find the lugs ablaze and roaring up the chimney — can you tell me of anything better than that? Well, I can tell you what makes the picture complete and completely satisfying— and thai is ... a Fireside Supper. Yes, folks, a little supper, while you anil maybe some of your friends, having stamped the snow off in the from lull and left the wet overshoes on (he nice clean rug, gather by the fireside to cat a simple — get-it- yourself— supper. You may beat this combina- tion, but you can't heal it very much!
The time is now. Because winter is the lime for such doings, and the boys and girls have trouped home from their skiing, we'll set the
table here and have our promised, narty. And if you think this is a pretty simple meal, wait till the folks get at it. And watch the smug satisfac- tion on every face as the waffles disappear and the sausage and apples take a beating and you'll find it's a clean sweep, a suppertim.e grand slam. And you all know what that is.
W hat are ice waiting for? Here's the pitcher of waffle batter all set to do the right thing l>\ the expectant iron. Afld here's vour receipt — the kind that will get you the above-spoken- of batter. And in order to have enough of the same, all you have to do is to multiply. You can multiply, I trust. I hesitate to go into thai subject personally.
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Sift together $ cups flour. 1 V% teaspoons sail. 434 teaspoons baking powder and I tablespoon sugar. Separate 3 eggs. Beat yolks until light and add 214 cups milk and beat again. Heat in the sifted dry ingredients and H cup melted butter or margarine. Just before baking, fold in egg whites, beaten stiff. Bake in a hot waffle iron un- til golden brow u. This quantity w ill serve 6, and makes avery tender, crisp waffle. Number of waf- fles it makes will depend on thesi/eof your waffle iron. It's eas\ to double up on vour halter — you can tell by your iron and the hungry crowd w he t her \ ou ha \ e enough. \nd do ha \ e enough. And there are folks who eat and eat again — and when I meet a slow waffle eater, I'll throw my arms around thai guy and hold on tight.
You don't need <i barrel. Well, vou don 1. and maybe you ean'l see an\ connection be- tween barrels and apples, hut I can. \nd I'll
bet ;i lot of vou can too. For I remember when
the neighbors would cerlainb have talked il vou didn l have at least tint barrels of apples in the cellar come w inter. Three were much better and set a certain pace among the red-plush-and-
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1 If ever the English ballet troupe comes your way, don't stay home and say, "I hate ballet." You won't hate this one. You will never forget it. Sadler's Wells is the name— isn't that Old English for you?
2 As rare as flowers in the snow is a southern pecan pie in a crust so flaky that you have to taste twice to be sure there's a crust at all. Covered with whipped cream or not. Pecans big and sweet. That's the old South at its sunny best.
H Brown Betty grew to fame in New England, and when it's made with the kind of apples they grow up there and sweetened with maple sugar, it makes the mouth water just to remember it. Served always with maple- sweetened plain cream. Canned sliced apples (of New England ancestry, no doubt) are ex- cellent for such dishes.
4 For a hot supper dish, creamed white tuna fish, flaked but not too flaked and put in a rich cream sauce, served in patty shells, is worth more than one passing thought. Thoughts do pass, don't they?
5 That reminds me — I don't know why — to remind you to warm Camembert or any other softish cheese when you serve it. Camembert ought to be soft enough to run You'll run a mile if it isn't.
6 Now for a little treasure of a dessert that came to me last summer by way of Vienna. Take fresh lady fingers and soak them — not too much — in cream. That's the first step.
7 Put them in the bowl from which they're to be served. This dish won't turn out pretty on a platter. Have them crisscross or any old way in the bowl. Fill with flavored whipped cream. Garnish with grated chocolate, chill, and there you are. "Delicious" is the word.
it Zucchini, that little Italian squash that looks like an overgrown cucumber, makes quite a hit for itself if you slice it. unpeeled. dip the slices in thin fritter batter and fry them in deep fat. Drain well, salt and pepper them, and you'll be surprised.
J> Advice from the spaghetti lover's column: Try cooking a batch of spaghetti or macaroni (the latter for me, if you don't mind), drain it to the last drop and set it aside in the kettle, topped with a towel and cover, to meditate while you prepare a clam sauce in this wise.
10 Take a couple of cans of minced clams, juice and all. Make a light really light cream sauce, and that means about like wind heavy cream. You know? Season well and heat your clams. Put clams and sauce to- gether and maybe season more. Taste it.
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11 Now put the spaghetti and or. as the purists say. macaroni in a deep, roomy cas- serole. Pour in the clam sauce. Have the dish full. Cover it with fine fresh cracker crumbs, with little pieces of butter disposed casually but generously on top. Dust with paprika and bake till the sauce bubbles through. And if you wish to add grated cheese, add it on top.
12 Get for yourselves some fine shiny green peppers. Cut in two lengthwise, take out those red-hot seeds, then parboil — the peppers, not the seeds. Drain and arrange in a greased bak- ing dish. Fill the peppers with ham or corned- beef hash, made hot beforehand. Bake to a nice brown and serve with a green salad.
Ul Let's try a fish dish just because it's January and you can't go fishing nohow. But you can buy some oysters and some fillet of sole, as frozen as the trout stream, haunted in the alders. Unfreeze the sole and cut it into strips. Drain the oysters and save the liquor.
I 1 Begin by wrapping each oyster in a strip of sole and pin with the faithful toothpick. Saute these in butter or margarine.
li» Now make a well-seasoned cream sauce. Season with your eyes not shut but not loo open. If you have at hand some finely chopped fresh lobster meat, add this to the sauce and cook a few minutes. Put the sole-and-oyster business in a shallow dish, remove the picks, add sauce and bake fifteen minutes in the oven.
Hi Why not provide yourselves with a can or jar or two of hearts of artichoke? Might as well now as later. For once you get the idea, you'll have them on hand for special occasions.
1 7 Drain the hearts and season. Dip each heart in highly seasoned cream sauce, made on the thick side (croquette mixture), cover with fine cracker crumbs. Dip in beaten egg, again in crumbs and fry in deep fat.
til From an old cookbook: "Learn to slight where it will do to slight. If a Porter House steak is out of the question, codfish in cream is just as filling. " But it isn't always a question of filling- -or is it?
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1J> They call it gravy. I call it sauce. Here's how. Steam to done a large roasting chicken. Cut off the breast in four pieces. Don't over- look the fillet. Take the meat from the leg bones and the "oysters" from the back. Saute lightly in butter or margarine. Use a large spider (fry pan, of course).
20 Now add a large piece of butter to the chicken. Sprinkle with flour. Pour in, in slow motion, a can of chicken broth, the strong kind. Stir, turn and add two cups of heavy cream.
21 If you stir and turn your chicken, you'll have a sauce as smooth as a kitten's ear. If you haven't enough sauce (you need a lot) add broth and cream and turn and stir. Seasoning? Salt and pepper and a little savory. Cook slowly. Stay with it.
22 The best way to serve this good dish is to take the chicken out on a hot platter, sprinkle with paprika, and in the center have an ample mound of cooked rice with sifted hard-boiled- egg yolk over it. Add the sauce and you'll be the Grandma Moses of the skillet.
2JJ Have you tried the new quick-cooking rice? Takes hardly a minute to cook — and you'll have white and fluffy rice every time.
2 1 Kentucky suggests this salad: Hollow out half a green pepper and fill it with diced grape- fruit and apple mixed with mayonnaise. Gar- nish with walnuts. Sounds good, doesn't it?
25 Milk-toast file: The querulous invalid who demanded tomato paste on his milk toast. Ate it and liked it. Quite a successful man today. Goes to show — or does it?
2<» A garnish for ham, baked or fried, is seed- less raisins parboiled in a little orange juice. Have plenty and toss them up with hot orange sections. Awfully good. Awfully!
27 For a delicious clear soup, mix together V/i cups each of tomato juice and canned bouil- lon, and J/3 cup diluted frozen orange juice. Heat and serve with a slice of orange on top.
2H May I say one word of advice? Well, spare the water when you cook vegetables, fresh or frozen. As for draining, no need for it if you follow this advice. Also, you'll eat better.
2!» When you bake corn or Johnny cake, as I call it, baste it often, as it bakes, with melted bufter. A word to the wise— to coin a phrase!
:tO Cucumbers and Brussels sprouts and car- rots if you wish, the same in January as July; sweet corn on the cob, and what a lus- cious dish! You needn't wait for summer - nor do [,
:it Here we are again, at the end of those thirty-one days. Sort of special, for it's New Year's. A happy one this from the heart.
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as his adopted father. Too much bread and honey is very indigestible, as I've told you before."
"Please sir, you must go to London and find Zachary ! "
"Why London?" asked the astonished doctor.
"Parson Ash says that London is the City of Destruction."
"Stella, just because you had a nightmare, do you think I should leave my patients and go tearing off on a wild-goose chase to Lon- don? Mrs. Baxter is going to have a baby. Jo Stanberry has a whitlow that will need lancing in a couple of days. And there is a little girl with scarlet fever whom I do not leave for more than a few hours at a time."
Stella was silent for a while. Then she said, "No, you can't go. But mon pere could go to London instead of to Exeter."
"Is mon pere going to Exeter?"
"Yes. Sir George said he could take a holiday."
"And what makes you think le Comte de Colbert will change his plans because a little girl has had a nightmare?"
"Mon pere would do anything in the world for me so long as it did not harm my im- mortal soul."
The doctor, startled, looked down at her. "Is mon pere suffering from any anxiety about your soul?" he asked dryly.
" He would like me to be a different kind of Christian," said Stella. " He would like me
to be the same kind as .
Mrs. Loraine and him- ■■■■■■■■■ self— and Zachary. He hasn't said that to me. It was Mrs. Loraine who said so. Mon pere will go."
The doctor was not so sure. He doubted that a director of souls would think a little girl should be encouraged to take her nightmares seriously. But there MBH^HMBMH was another notion that might move the abbe.
"Stella," he said, "after you have told the abbe about your nightmare you might give him a message from me. Ask him if he dares go to Newgate and make intimate contact with the dirty, the ignorant, the thieves and the murderers. Ask him to remember a con- versation we once had. Tell him to each man his own devil, and I wish him good luck if he takes this chance of having a tilt at his."
The morning continued hot and bright. By midday the clouds were gathering on the horizon, and by the evening a storm was brewing. Mrs. Loraine went to bed early and told Stella to go too. But in her room, in- stead of undressing, Stella put on her bonnet and a pair of stout shoes. She hated storms, but Mrs. Loraine had been ailing all day, and she had not been able to go to St. Michael's Chapel. So she must go now. To stay at home would be to fail Zachary.
The steep climb up Chapel Hill taxed her weary small body to the utmost, and half- way up she had to sit down and rest. The bay that had been so blue and sparkling in the morning was now the color of lead. The clouds were black and heavy, edged here and there with livid light, and every moment it grew darker. It will be dark in the chapel, thought Stella, as she started to climb again.
Yet, as she came near, she was astonished to see light shining out from the chapel win- dows. Looking in, she saw a lantern burning in one of the alcoves in the north wall, and before the place where the altar had been, a white-haired man was kneeling. She gave a cry of delight and he turned and saw her, then got up and held out his arms and she ran across the rocky fl<x>r and fell into them.
"You're in trouble, child?" asked Dwabbv.
" Ye8, mon pere."
They sat down and she poured out the whole story, and then carefully repeated the doctor's message.
"You'll go, mon pere?" asked Stel anxiously. "Certainly."
The message was like a trumpet call, bi the doctor had misjudged him, for he woul have gone without it. Stella's tale of fairies dismissed as nonsense, but her dream he t seriously. He knew better than the doctor tl strength and mystery of the union that cal sometimes exist between a man and a womai
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mystery have its place in ^ you : do not be always turning, up your whole soil with the plough- share of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve a nook of shadow for the passing bird: keep a place in your heart for ihe unexpected guest, an altar for the Unknown G<m1.
— AMIEL.
Stella put her hand on his knee. " Will it tj all well, mon pere?"
"Yes, Stella. However bad this storm tha has caught Zachary, he'll come to lar, safely."
" But he isn't caught in a storm, mon pere] "The storms of nature aren't the only soi of storms, Stella." He looked round at tn chapel, which had become so dark that witj out the lantern they would scarcely hav been able to see each other. "Though there I going to be one of the natural ones soon, I think. A bad one too."
Going down the steep path, they were gla of the abbe's lantern, for they would scared have seen how to pick their way over tl rocks without it. The roll of the thunder w; near now and lightning was playing over tl restless sea, but still there was no rain.
It came suddenly, the wind tearing their clothes, driving the rain against the faces. Before she had time to get wet t' abbe had picked Stella up in his arms. Th
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Aram in t a appeare carrying a candl "Gracious goodneb sir, you've never take the child out in all th wet?"
"I'm not wet, An minta,"said Stella. "Ik ■■■■■■■■■■ de Colbert carried me.
She took off her boi net and stood smiling up at him. But he d not return her smile. He stood as thouji turned to stone, staring at the gold lock round Stella's neck.
"Stella, the locket," he said harsh! "Where did you get it?"
The harshness of his tone so startled Stel that unconsciously she put up her hands i hide her treasure. "Mother Sprigg gave it 1 me," she whispered.
The abbe put a hand against the wall. Fbo he adjured himself. Gold lockets were not rarity. The one he had chosen for Therfe had been a cheap one, though it had been tl best he could afford, and there had probab been another dozen in the shop of the san design. He achieved a smile and bowed.
"Good-by, Stella. I shall be in London I the end of the week."
The abbe traveled up to London in wii and rain. He had managed to secure a se inside the coach, and sat in his corn wrapped in his cloak against the icy draft with the raindrops that seeped through ti roof dripping rhythmically upon his hat. h was astonished at himself. Here he was trav< ing to London because a little girl he lov< had had a nightmare and a country doctor h; sent him a verbal challenge which his pride d not permit him toxefuse. He was off on a wfl goose chase. What a fool he was for Stell
The abbe wasted no time. The very ne: morning he presented himself at Newga prison, joining the pitiful crowd of prisoner friends watching at the felons' door. Owing his respectable appearance, he was ushen straightway into the anteroom where visito were searched. He submitted to this proce with cold distaste, even though in his ca| only his pockets were examined.
The abbe lwked grimly round the dirtl dark room where he was standing. I le kntj how cruel penal laws of England were at tr| (( 'ontittutd oh Paw t il
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January, 19."
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(Continued from Page 62) time, and for what slight offenses men and women were tortured and hanged.
He went down a stone passage to a door which a turnkey, keeping guard beside it, unlocked and unbolted. Passing through, he found himself in a long narrow passage, its walls formed of iron bars. On one side was a yard where the prisoners were exercised, and on the other, behind a double grating, was the first of the prison wards.
It was even worse than he had thought. He forced himself to look steadily at the inmates of the dreadful cage. Most of them looked inhuman and many were only half clothed. The dirt and overcrowding, the noise and stench were horrible. Many of the men were sodden with drink, for they could purchase liquor in the prison. There were young boys there, and it was among them that the abbe searched. But he could not find Zachary. He turned awav,
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and found again the turnkey who had let him in.
"Are these con- demned men?" he asked.
"Yes, sir. Men con- demned to the hulks or Botany Bay." "For what?" The turnk ey shrugged. "Smug- gling in rope to a pris- oner, maybe. Hiding a thief or receiving stolen goods. Some minor offense."
"Have they been here long? "
"Months, some of 'em, waiting in, trial, and then waiting to be sent to the hulks," the turnkey said. /"Where are the men condemned to the gallows?"
"In cells, sir. You can't see those."
"And the untried men?"
"Round the other side of the yard, sir."
The abbe walked round to the other side. The scene here was much the same, but not quite so ter- -Nefbeca>.w the men * -' had cot been here sc
their response one to the other. Nothing the had happened since had had any power { destroy the instant liking that had bee like a bridge between them. It must sti hold. He did not shout again, but with h eyes'on Zachary, he set himself to cross it.
Zachary turned and their eyes met just l a turnkey's hand descended on the abbi shoulder and he was pulled from the bar The abbe could see tears pouring down tl boy's face, the tears of a child awaking sik denly from nightmare. The abbe waved hj hat, turned and made his way back int the outer world.
The abbe had all the aristocrat's power d getting what he wanted with the minimuii of difficulty. The letters of introductio which he needed were soon in his possessioi and three days later the governor of th prison allowed him an interview with Zacl ary. They had ver
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"I can see to it th« you are committed fi trial quickly. But fir I must find out whi happened to Mike
"I should like know that I did n kill Mike," said Zac ary. He spoke quietl but the abbe was aw? of his misery
"Alive or dead, 1 has not the stain > murder on his soul
"No," said Zacl ary. That fact ws the only comfort th; he had. "The da tor — my father - he went on.
"I will write nil tonight."
"And Stella," sai Zachary
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against the double bars, but he could not see Zachary.
Under a grating high in the wall a wooden wash tub had been set, and four or five men were gathered about it attempting to wash their clothes. The water in the tub appeared filthy, the rags they were wringing out of it scarcely less so, yet the abbe found the sight heartening. Here were a few men struggling after decency. One of them, stripped to the waist, had his back to the abbe. He was a tall boy with dark tumbled hair and a thin brown back upon which the ribs showed starkly. He half turned, but before the abbe could see his face the gap in the crowd had closed again. It might have been Zachary, or it might not.
Suddenly he saw him again. He had fin- ished his bit of washing and hung it on a nail to dry, and now he was leaning against the wall, shivering without his shirt. He was Zachary, but so changed that for a full mo- ment the abbe was not quite certain.
He was not looking at the abbe, and the turnkeys were coming down the passage, shouting that the visiting hour was over. The abbe called "Zachary!" but his voice did not carry to where the boy stood. Then the turn- keys were among them, seizing visitors by their shoulders and pulling them away from the bars. The abbe, in desperation, remem- bered their meeting in his sitting room after the wrestling match, and how quick had been
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" She's a white witch ! " chuckled Zachar The key grated in the lock and the abi thanked heaven that he had just had time i admit the fairies to Newgate prison.
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pital? It might have been Guy's. Then one of them felt in his pocket and produced two curiously shaped bits of wood, with a length of cord wrapped round them.
"Found it on the cobbles where the lads had been fighting." he said.
"What is it?" asked the abbe.
"Couldn't tell you. sir. Looks like it might be a sort of top."
The abbe in his turn pocketed the toy. It might come in useful. Then, slipping a gold piece into each grimy palm, he reminded them that they would be called upon to give evidence and hoped their report of the prisoner would be favorable.
He went immediately to Guy's Hospital and found the wards there only slightly less terrible than those of Newgate.
There was no Michael Burke upon the hos- pital books. The porter cheerfully remarked that not every young ragamuffin brought in from a street accident was in a state