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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION fSmile AwhilfJSl Double Up The chorus girl was telling the other girls in the dressing-roo- all about her birthday party. "You should have seen the cake," she told her companions. "It was marvelous. There were seventeen candles on it one for each year." There was a disbelieving silence for a moment or two, then her best friend smiled. "Seventeen candles, eh?" she purred. "What did you do burn them at both ends?" Time for It "George looks worried today. What's wrong with him?" "Oh, he's been contesting his wife's will." "His wife's will? I didn't know she was dead." "She isn't." Next, Please The oldest barber gag in history was found on the walls of an an-cient Egyptian tomb. It concerned a barber and a customer. The barber asked the customer: "How do you want your hair cut?" And the reply was: "In silence." His Lot "How many times shall I bow?' said the novice entertainer at th battalion variety show. "Bow?" said the stage manager "No bowing for you, you'll hav to duck." Handicapped A company of recruits, having been issued with new boots, went for a route march to "run them in." At the end of the march, one man was missing. When eventually rounded up ant asked where he had been he replied: "My boots were tied together, ser. geant, so I couldn't get along as fast as the other chaps." Stuck With Him "I once loved a girl who made a complete fool of me." "What a lasting impression some girls make." Man, they say, is made of dust. But some women think it is gold dust. He Got It He My train goes in fifteen min-utes. Can you not give me one ray of hope before I leave you forever? She Er that clock is half an hour fast. Thoughtful of Him "My dear, a great doctor says women require more sleep than men." "Indeed?" "Yes, dear, so er perhaps you'd better not wait up for me tonight." Gems of Thought HpHAT spot of ground pleases me in which small posses-sion makes me happy, and where slight resources are abundant. Martial. If you can be well without health you may be happy with-out virtue. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit: He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. SCOTT. The symbols of the invisible are the loveliest of what is visible. Byron. His own estimate must be measure enough, his own praise reward enough for him. Emer-son. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. CBS' Stage Door Canteen be the vehicle through which Bert Lytell, once a movie idol, will return to films. The movie version, produced for United Artists by Sol Lesser, will bring us a host of celebrities, including Katharine Cornell, who's shunned the films so far, and Lunt and Fontanne, Tallulah Bank-hea-and scores of others. Lytell, has been so busy with stage and radio engagements of recent years that he's had no time for pictures. Orson Welles isn't trying to set a new fad with that shock of long hair that he's wearing at "Ceiling Un-limited" rehearsals. He's letting his hair grow at the request of 20th Century-Fo- x for his role of "Roches-ter" in their version of "Jane Eyre." George Montgomery will do one more picture before he goes into the service; it's in "Bomber's Moon," opposite Annabella the ' SV, i ' I , ' j i ; i I HMMHTW iili IP iff rilfcnA,, GEORGE MONTGOMERY story of an American pilot who's shot down in Germany. Do you wonder that Hollywood's wondering what to use for leading men? Maybe Bob Hope's a prophet; he hopes so. His "The Road to Moroc-co" was filmed six months before the Allied invasion of that territory, and released right on the dot. Re-cently he interrupted his tour of the army camps for 48 hours to do a scene for "They Got Me Covered" which depicts a deflated Mussolini escaping from the nation he led into its present predicament it's being filmed with the blessing of the Office of War Information. Bob's got his fingers crossed, hoping that this scene, too, will come true. Alan Ladd's date with Uncle Sam upset the apple cart so far as Para-mount- 's "Incendiary Blonde" was concerned. He was to have starred in this screen version of Texas Gui-nan- 's life with Betty Hutton, but his prospective induction into the army wrecked that plan. At present the film has been shelved; Miss Hutton gets the feminine lead in "Let's Face It," and Betty Rhodes gets a sup-porting role. They could hardly believe it at Metro when they got two new lads at once. Tommy Dix and Gil Strat-to- n were brought from the New York stage for "Best Foot Forward" and at once Stratton was assigned to "Girl Crazy" and Dix will win Lu-cille Ball in "Best Foot Forward." If the actors on your favorite radio program sound pretty exhilirated, It's practically certain to be due to just one thing the return of a for-mer member of the group in uni-form. "Pepper Young's Family" was almost disrupted when Larry Woodleaf appeared recently. Larry's a handsome lad who joined up be-fore Pearl Harbor, after doing pub-licity for the program; he'd spent eight months in the Far East. Eddie Cantor's explanation for substituting for Phil Baker on "Take It or Leave It" "Last April, Phil Baker took my place when I was in the hospital. So I took his place when he was in the hospital. Next time we'll both be on the program the audience will go to the hospital!" William L. Shirer, the news com-mentator, is planning a series ot talks at service camps throughout the country in the near future. He has Elready given numerous talks at camps in the eastern area. Ed Mur-ro-the London newscaster, reports that he's expecting to solve the no-g-problem soon; he has his eye on an elderly horse, but is still dickeri-ng over the price. ODDS AND ENDS Radio's Tim and Irene are among the featured players in Columbia's picture, "Hcvcille It ilh Hcverly" . . oe Schilling, Edward G. Robinson's stand-i- in "Destroyer," wears a naval lieutenant's uniform the best his boss can do is a chief male outfit . . Thomas Mit-chell's been added to the cast of iMotro's "Hataan I'atrol" . . . Nelson Eddy, who httsnt made a picture since "I Married an Angel," will return to the screen in I'niversal's remake of "The I'hui.tom t the Opera": Deanna Durhin, origin-"Il-scheduled for the picture, probably ivon't appear in it. Carlyle Blackvvell Jr. is following in the footsteps of his father, a star of silent films; he was an outstandi-ng favorite in the of a bygone day. Carlyle Jr. plays a suave lover, we're told, in Metro's "Trifles That Win Wars." When the Jack Benny troupe en-trains for an army camp to put on a show for the boys, Eddie "Roches-ter" Anderson takes over the duties f the train conductor. He calls all stations, helps passengers with theii '"ggage and serves water. PATTERNS f ON THE St? (HOME FRONKps Jx? Zf RUTH WYETjPEARSx6) ily; and three boards of the size desired for the shelves. Either a stain or a paint finish may be used. NOTE: These spool shelves are from Book 3 of the series of eight booklets which Mrs. Spears has prepared for our readers. There are directions for an end table of spools in Book 5 and a corner what-no- t in Book 7. Each of these book- - lets contains more than 30 other fascinat-ing things to make for the home. Copies are 10 cents each postpaid, and should be ordered direct from MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 10 cents for each book de-sired. Name Address I''"7?r","'i THREAD WIRES THROUGH SPOOLS tytpVEtH J BETWEEN SHEIVES g I """"5 1 1 WIND FRONT 5 I fvi'' 4 i V- WIRE AROUND Vi BOARDS FOR ff ff ft tf SHELVES V. k fj BORE HOLES 'A fo W NEAR CORNERS Ji, FOR WIRES Vft TN THE good old days when dress-make-were paid according to the number of spools of thread they used, the empty spools were saved until enough had been accumulat-ed to make a corner what-no- t or hanging shelves. Now, with ma-chines whirring for defense sew-ing, it is again easy to save enough spools for one of these quaint sets of shelves. You will need 60 spools; 12 feet of wire just stiff enough to bend eas- - Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1705-- is de-signed for sizes 10, 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements 28. 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 12 (30) No. 1 style requires V2 yards 35 or material. No. 2 style, long sleeves, 21b yards. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address " SNAPPY FACTS 1 f ABOUT fe RUBBER Th flrst known robb.r hoi wot manufactured in England in 1827. Collapsible rubber boats ecruipped with paddles, bullet-hol- e plugs, sea- - anchor, water, etc., are being pro-duced ior fighting U. S. airmen. In- - flated in 1 0 seconds, this boat forms part of the pilot's seat and stays with him when he hits the water. An Omaha, Neb., tiro salesman hauled into court befor ration- - j InQ for parking his car near a hydrant first talked himself out of the $2 flno, then sold two new tires to the fudge, two to th cop who arrested him and two to the court attendant. Production of War tires is definitely tied to the production of reclaimed j. rubber. It is estimated that the coun- - try has refining capacity to process 360,000 tons of reclaimed a year. Rubber authorities timat that 900 million tires have been crapped since World War 1. rg:g!g B.EGoodrich For All Occasions. DESIGN is more successful for an dress than the classic shirtwaist! In this button- -front version you also have a dress which can be slipped on in a twinkle and a dress which may be effectively decorated with a row of handsome buttons and a stun-ning belt. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1648-- is de-signed for sizes 14, 16, 18. 20; 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measurements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) short sleeves, requires 4 yards material; 2'2 yards Superb Blouse Styles. 'TpHE newly popular round neck- - line is featured in our No. 1 style . . . won't it be pretty in soft voile or flower sprigged challis? The No. 2 style is the classic shirt-waist, with long or short sleeves make it in broadcloth, flannel, pique or rayon crepe. SAVE YOUR SCRAP I HELP GAIN fTO RAGS, and PAPER OLDS'MISERIES Forcolda' coughs, nasal congestion, muscle aches get Penetro modern medication in a . mutton auet base. 25t, double supply 354. m THE NAVY pH they say: ) "SCUTTLE BUTT "for gossip I jmtm legs for master-at-arm- s I t " CHI PS "for carpenter's mate v;t CAMEL itfor the Navy man's favorite cigarette The favorite cigarette with men in the jf Navy, Army, Marines, and Coast Guard p i fP 'tffyy' is Camel. (Based on actual sales records f 4 if'yC'- '; in Canteens and Post Exchanges.) , 'iii? may be quickly relieved with soothing, medicated, d Resinol. Try itl You find them announced in the columns of this paper by merchants of our community who do not feel they must keep the quality of their merchan-dise or their prices under cover. It is safe to buy of the mer-chant who ADVERTISES. ''M E 0S' ! TIME "Iposg ,R0MSARPSS1 FeXTRA VITAMINS pTuse M.EISCMM4NWS VBAST'I V ANO REMEMBER... 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Unique also is the habit of decorating it with stolen articles, all of a certain color. One such bower, evidently con-structed by a bird that liked blue, contained, among many other blue articles, a blue hair ribbon, a blue railroad ticket, a string of blue glass beads and 178 blue bags, belonging to a near-b- y laundry. . fv. (v. p.. f... (v. f. r. (X. fv-- p.. fx. (v. f. (v. fv. fv. fv. - . - - o-- n-- O-- O-- O" cv P ipA quiz with answers-offerin- T&$f information on various subjects The Questions 1. Who are the hoi polloi? 2. What kind of an animal is a loggerhead? 3. What city in the United States uses the same name twice? 4. What is the total continental area of the United States? 5. When intact how tall was the Great Pyramid of Gizeh? 6. How great is air pressure at sea level? 7. What is the difference be-tween a fog and a cloud? 8. Who was the first admiral of the United States navy? 9. What would you fill a barrel with in order to make it lighter? 10. What is the first name of the prince of Wales? The Answers 1. The masses; the populace. 2. A large turtle found in the Atlantic ocean. 3. Walla Walla, Wash. 4. The area is 3,026,789 square miles, 52,630 of which are water surface. 5. The pyramid was 481 feet tall. 6. More than a ton to the square foot. 7. It is a difference of height from the earth. Fog is a cloud on earth. A cloud is a f5g in the sky. 8. David Farragut. 9. Holes. 10. There is no prince of Wales. Only the oldest son of the reigning king has that title and he loses that title when he becomes king. Suffice to Say, It Was Some Sort of Catastrophe "Fire! Fire!" As the shrill cry rang out, a woman dashed out of a house wav-ing her hands. One passer-b- y ran to the fire-alar- and another en-tered the house. "Where is it?" he asked, after a brief investigation. "I can't smell any smoke." "Oh, I didn't mean fire. I meant murder!" "Murder?" A policeman who had heard the commotion came running and entered the discussion. "Who's been murdered?" "Oh, I didn't really mean mur-der, either!" gasped the woman. "But the biggest rat I ever saw just ran across the kitchen floor." anor Roosevelt PRESIDENT'S SPEECH It was very interesting to get a glimpse of the new congress and to watch the reaction to the President's speech on the floor and in the gal-leries. Because of my partial deaf-ness I do not always hear every word of the speech, in spite of com-plete concentration. However, I find that with every speech that is worth-while, one should read it several times in order to better understand its full meaning. The President's uncle, Mr. Fred-eric Delano, went into the Capitol with me and as we went up in the elevator he remarked that each mes-sage seemed to have an increasing significance, beginning with the first one when we were facing an unparal-leled economic struggle in this coun-try, to the present one when in spite of our greater hopefulness in mili-tary fields we face an unknown fu-ture for which we will have to find a new solution. WAR IN 'MINIATURE' I called on Mr. Alexander Wooll-co- tt one afternoon and he certainly has found an ideal place in which to work, in New York city. It is high up, with a wonderful panorama of the city on every level all about him. Afterwards I had a few minutes to stop in to see an exhibition of war satires and miniatures by Arthur Szyk at the Seligman Galleries on East 57th street. This exhibition is sponsored by the Writers' War board. I know of no other minia-turist doing quite this kind of work. In its way it fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts today. I cannot say you would enjoy the exhibition, but I am quite sure you would find it extremely in-teresting. ... CHILD CARE IN BRITAIN In the late afternoon I met with a group interested in child care in the Civilian Defense Volunteer of-fice of Greater New York. I do not know whether I had much that was helpful to tell them, yet I feel that in some ways we are doing as much for the care of small children and older children in this country as is being done in Great Britain. Neces-sity drives the British to have more day nurseries and resident nurseries and possibly better ones. But I think we probably have more pos-sibilities for recreation for every age, even though we have not yet begun to use them to the full extent that we will in time. They are doing more all the time in Great Britain with the 14 to youngsters who are out of school and not yet of draft age. But the pressure of war needs has made this program develop rather slowly over there, and I think the basic fact that we keep our children in school longer is of great assistance to us. TRIPPED BY NEW WAR RULES Like every other family, we in the White House are trying to adjust to the new war rules for civilians. I had not read my paper the other evening and so I went out to a con-cert in the way in which I would or-dinarily have gone. To my horror the next morning I read all the rules and realized I had unwittingly broken one of them, using a car for pure pleasure, even though I went to a war benefit. Friday evening I dined with a friend but luckily it was near enough to walk both ways. During the day it was possible to walk to my only other engagements outside the White House. One morning I had promised to speak to a group of young people Who are doing salvage work. I also had an appointment out at the naval hospital. Fortunate-ly the two dovetailed very nicely and I think this is the last time I shall have to use a car in Washing-ton for anything aside from taking bags to the station, until the present emergency is over. As far as food goes, I find the ad-justment to those regulations is very easy and I do not think we will have to resort to the substitutes which one of my friends in Great Britain tnld me about. In spite of the strict rationing, she wrote that she was entertaining some 32 extra persons nearly every week at meals, which required good deal of planning since there were only three or four ration cards in her family. But she had a cottage with a garden in the country and has been able to bring up from there a variety of vege-tables. Their growing season is longer than ours, which makes a great dif-ference. Besides she found she could serve as a main dish stuffing, well seasoned with herbs grown in her garden and covered with a rich brown sauce. TALENT IN ARMY There is undoubtedly a great deal of talent scattered throughout our armed forces today, but I doubt if any young man in any army wrote as many rhymes and sent them around at Christmas time as did Private Peter McLaren Forin of Buffalo, N. Y., who is in the Cana-dian army. I think it speaks well for our fighting forces when a pri-vate can send General Wnvell a Christinas poem and get an answer and that answer also comes back to him in rhyme. WONDERFUL SPIRIT dropped in for lunch A few people one day and then I put in a full after-noo-of work at my desk. My friend, Mrs. George S. Huntington, short visit. It is is with us for a wonderful to see the spirit in which, despite having undergone many op-erations and the need of a cane, she has achieved walking. Sue manages number of blocks and to go quite a conveyances. As a re-sult to use public she is not cut off entirely from what she wants to do even during the oeriod of present restrictions. Hunted Camels in U. S. Early settlers of the American West (1870-'80- ) relished the meat of the wild camel. Camel steaks were a favorite dish. These wild camels were descendants of a herd imported from Egypt for army use in 1856. Turned loose because they caused horses to stampede (camels have a strange odor), the camels multi-plied rapidly until wiped out by American hunters in search of the meat. Bird Cannot Walk A curious formation of its feet won't permit the chimney swift to walk upon ground. Nor can it rest in trees like other birds. With its sharp claws the swift clings to the side of an object, gaining addi-tional support by pressing its tail against the perpendicular surface. The brown-colore- d bird flies con-tinually in daylight. It even eats while in flight. Nine-Lea- f Clover Archer Herrick of Saco, Maine, has succeeded in growing a nine-lea- f clover. He also has a collec-tion of four, five, six, seven and eight-lea- f clovers. Uncle fthilSX As We See It Other people have prejudices; we have convictions and opinions. Don't rest on your laurels unless you are prepared to see them will. Youth goes into the world to find what he can bring back from it. Isn't That Too Bad We love those whom we help, but not always those who help us. Those men who believe t'Jere should be a tax on bachelors are invariably married. Your dog is willing to go to the depths for you, instead of trying to "make you over" into another kind of a person. Functions of Blood Our bodies are collections of liv-ing cells numbering billions. Each cell carries on its work apd func-tions it is a tiny factory and constantly needs supplies and also a means of carrying away waste products. Blood does this double task. Fresh, arterial blood carries nourishment from our heart to all the cells; veinous blood carries away the waste. |