Speedy Torpedo Boats Protect Nazi Minesweeper
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A German minesweeper, protected by two speedy torpedo boats, plows through the waves of the North
sea. The instrument at lower right is a paravane, a device for detecting mines. The anti-aircraft gun crew
is all set for action. Minesweepers are an important cog in Germany’s 500,000-ton navy.
Gas Masks Stage Comeback in European Fashions
Here’s how you would look If you were forced to don a gas mask for safety’s sake every time you heard
the drone of an airplane engine. Gas masks are standard equipment in war-torn Europe, with special masks
designed for babies, children and even household pets. War-time kits, complete with mask and emergency
rations, are carried by civilians in danger zones.
Plaque Commemorates Illinois Citizens
Florence Gray of Chicago, student of the late Lorado Taft, one of
America’s most widely known sculptors, puts the finishing touches on a
plaque commissioned by the citizens of Dwight, 111., to commemorate the
sixtieth anniversary of the Keeley institute, and pay honor to the three
men who founded the organization.
Gunners in Action on Polish Battlefront
Radiophoto
A German anti-aircraft gun in action somewhere on the Polish border.
With rear lines protected, German aircraft opened aerial combat by
bombing 16 Polish cities. This photo was flown to Berlin from the front
and radioed to the United States.
Boys Will Be Boys
With obvious delight, A. W. Gab
rio of the Grand Army of the Re
public takes a few hot licks at an
ice cream cone. Mr. Gabrio, 93, of
Hazelton, Pa., was one of the vet
erans at the national G. A. R. en
campment at Pittsburgh.
‘Tiny’ Takes Over
I
Gen. Edmund Ironsides, former
director-general of England’s over
seas forces, was recently named |
chief of the imperial general staff
to succeed General Viscount Gort,
who became commander-in-chief of
Britain’s land forces. General Iron
sides is affectionately called “Tiny”
by British Tommies.
Urge Children
To Help Clan
Own Activities
© INDIVIDUALITY
should he recognized. 1'iir
cuts should allow children
to develop own tastes with
out imposing their own.
Too much supervision dulls
the edge of enthusiasm.
By RUTH ARNOLD NICKEL
*‘I JUST ran in to tell you that I
* won’t be at the meeting, to
morrow,” said Mrs. Mitchell, as her
neighbor came out on the porch to
greet her. "I'm going to take Lil
lian to the museum.”
“How nice,” commented Mrs.
Gracie. giving her a chair.
“Well, it’s rather a hot trip,” Mrs.
Mitchell admitted, "and Lillian isn't
very enthusiastic, but I think she
ought to take advantage of such
things. Besides, she never knows
what to do with herself during vaca
tions. I simply have to arrange a
program for her, or she would waste
her time or mope. How did you
manage to get Gladys interested in
so many worthwhile things?”
Mrs. Gracie smiled. “Gladys? Oh,
she and I take turns in choosing
special undertakings now. I used to
insist that she work out certain proj
ects. When she was 12 years old—
that was two years ago—I decided
that the time had come to teach her
all sorts of things. She had learned
to sew a little and loved to make
doll’s clothes, but I wanted her to
make something useful. I bought
some fine white cloth and started
her on a slip.”
“Gladys never wore the slip, said
Mrs. Gracie ruefully, “at least not
until I had made it over. She dis
liked working on it. This started a
kind of struggle between us.”
“But she sews now, -doesn’t she?”
"Yes, she sews beautifully,” said
Mrs. Gracie. “When the slip was
finally finished, I said nothing more
about sewing. I didn’t want to fix
the dislike that I had started. Then
the next summer she begged me for
a pink tennis dress. It was early in
the season and the ones she liked
were too expensive. Then she said,
‘Mother, I think I could make one, if
you’d help me with the binding
around the neck.’ I tried not to show
my delight! We found a remnant of
goods and she made the dress with
very little help from me; you see
she wanted it. She read the direc
tions and made it carefully.”
“But that implies that mothers
shouldn’t try to direrct their chil
dren,” objected Mrs. Mitchell.
Imposing Their Own Views.
"I wondered about that,” said
Mrs. Gracie, “and I talked it over
with Tom. He had been trying to
improve her reading, but when he
brought books home from the li
brary she never seemed to care for
them. Then we concluded that we
weren’t accomplishing our purpose.
“Maybe you are right,” said Mrs.
Mitchell. “Tell me what you did.”
“We decided to stop imposing our
tastes upon Gladys and let her de
velop her own. We had kept her
too busy. As I thought about it, I
remembered my own early summer
vacations. I had regular work to do,
but I was allowed to create most of
my own pleasures. I remembered
long hours of reading—discovering
books that I learned to love, hours
of play, and gardening in the back
yard. Whenever I got bored, I be
gan to look around for something
new and interesting to do.
“I told this to Tom and he remem
bered the same conditions with re
gard to his own childhood. We de
cided that we had been supervising
Gladys too much. So we planned
to be ready to share experiences
with her part of the time, but to
leave her many hours each week
when she would be entirely free.
“Gladys had to do some house
work, of course, and that kept her
busy in the mornings. During the
first week she seemed a little bored
in the afternoons. Then one day she
asked me to teach her to knit a
sweater! The next week she began
voluntarily looking for something to
read and before long she was inter
ested of her own accord in some of
the very subjects her father had
hoped she’d like!"
“But wasn’t she ever idle?” asked
Mrs. Mitchell.
“Yes, she used to lie in the ham
mock on the porch sometimes for
hours. One day she said to me,
‘Mother, I love to lie and look up
at the sky in the summertime. In
the winter I'm too busy to think and
get things straightened out in my
mind.’ ”
“Gracious!” said Mrs. Mitchell,
rising—“I think I’ll drop the muse
; um outing. Perhaps if I drag Lil
lian there on a hot day when she
doesn’t want to go. she will dislike
! it.”
“I’m afraid Gladys would,”
laughed Mrs. Grade sympathetical
ly. “She often joins me in my en
thusiasms if I don’t try to force
them on her. But she’s an individ
ual, too, and I can’t expect her to
be exactly like me. We take many
trips together and take turns decid
ing where to go. A museum trip is
always the result of an urge to see
some special thing. Both of us en
joy it, but I am always careful to
bring Gladys home while she is still
interested, and before she gets
tired.”
National Kindergarten AssociaUon
IWNU Service.)
Star Dust
★ Screen Cinderella
★ Athlete Gets Lead
★ To Have—ISot to Hold
- Blv Virginia Vale -
ANT a Cinderella story?
It concerns Kathryn
Adams, who didn’t win a
"Gateway to Hollywood” con
test. She did get first place
in the eliminations for her
part of the country (Minne
sota), however, and got to
Hollywood.
But he lost out there, and was
all set to go home. The story goes
that Gregory La Cava, the ace pro
ducer-director, saw her walking
across the RKO-Radio lot, and asked
her to take a screen test. She did,
so sure that nothing would come of
it that she even told him that she
didn’t like the script provided for
her, and he let her write her own.
And—she was given the second
lead in "Fifth Avenue Girl,” the
latest Ginger Rogers release, and
may go farther than the girl who
won out in that contest in which she
was an also-ran.
-*
Major Bowes and his staff looked
forward to a let-up in the number
of amateurs they’d be auditioning
during the summer months, but in
stead of diminishing the number of
applicants increased. They lay it
MAJOR BOWES
to the New York World's fair—It
seemed as if most of the people who
went to New York for the fair didn’t
care so much about seeing it as they 1
did about trying to land on the
"Original Amateur Hour.”
The arrival of cooler weather
hasn't lessened the number of ap
plicants—and auditions continue, at
the rate of 600 per week.
-*
Gary Cooper has been enjoying
himself at Southampton, Long Is
land, among the debutantes and the
sand dunes, visiting his wife’s fam- j
ily, and resting up from the exer
tions of "The Real Glory”—which,
incidentally, has the conquest of the
Philippines for its background. Da- I
vid Niven worked in that picture
too.
-Si
It’s Clayton Moore who’s to have
the lead in “South of Pago Pago,"
after all. He’s a newcomer to the
screen, but has the athletic back
ground which seems to be the main
requirement for the role. Moore
hails from Chicago, where he was
Inter-city swimmer, pole vaulter,
basketball player, boxer, and prac
tically everything but a ping pong
champion, apparently.
-*
Paul Laval, the orchestra leader,
collects batons used by celebrated :
conductors. He has 71, formerly |
the property of such famous leaders
as Toscanini, Bruno Walter and
Mascagni. But they’re to have, not
to hold—when he’s conducting an
orchestra he doesn’t bother with a
baton, just uses his hands.
-*
There seems to be something
about being on the radio that makes
a man want to drive the oldest car
he can get his hands on.
Jerry Mason, who is ‘‘Sr. Blodg
ett” in "The Life and Love of Dr.
Susan,” has one that first saw the
light of day in 1930. He arrived at
rehearsal the other day all out of
breath—his car had broken down
and had to be towed to a garage,
the first time that had happened,
and he’d driven it 85,000 miles. “I
knew it wouldn’t last,” he remarked
sadly.
And James Melton drives around
Connecticut, where he lives in sum
mer, in a red, four-cylinder car dat
ed 1910. He wears a cap, goggles
and a duster.
_ »:
ODDS AND ENDS—Joan Crawford
is said to be considering a return to
the stage as a night club dancer in a
play called “Gods of the Night”—it all
depends on uhelher she can get a vaca
tion from picture-making . . . John
Trent, former transport pilot, isn't al
lowed to fly while he’s at work on one
of his “Tailspin Tommy” pictures . . . j
Richard Rarthelmess will play John
Car field's brother in “Underground”
, . , Rarthelmess was one of First Na
tional's leading slurs—now First Na
tional has been merged for years with
Warner Brothers, and Barlhelrness
hasn't been on the lot for five years
. . . Barbara Stanwyck may find herself
back on the stage this fall, and in a
musical show at that.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
OP? SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
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GREEN
BIAS BINDING
lAND LOOP ^
Patchwork pot holders hanging in a row.
A GREEN and white kitchen is
** as fresh and crisp as a lettuce
leaf. I stepped into one the other
day with white walls, green floor
and green organdy curtains. Ev
erything was green and white, and
over the stove hung a set of patch
work pot holders like a row of
bright green and white tiles. All
of us love old quilt patterns. For
those of us who do not have the
time to make quilts, here is a mod
ern way to put your favorite de
signs to use.
Perhaps you were put to bed as
a child under this eight-pointed
star? The sketch gives the dimen
sions for the patterns for the two
triangles used in making it for the
pot holder. Piece eight small
squares of two triangles; then
eight oblong blocks of three tri
angles. A layer of sheet wadding
is used for padding. The backing
for the holder is white. The three
layers are quilted together by sew
ing just inside the white triangles
of the pieced top.
Have you sent for your copy of
the new Sewing Book No. 3? Ev
ery homemaker will want a copy
for it contains useful ideas for
home decorating; as well as origi
nal ideas for things to use as gifts,
and to sell at bazaars. You will
be delighted with this new book.
The price is only 10 cents post
paid. Send coin with name and
address to Mrs. Spears, 210 S.
Desplaines St., Chicago, 111.
A C V ^ IT A Quiz With Answers
1 "L / Offering Information
ANOTHER f on Various Subjects
__- ---
The Questions
1. Are zebras black with white
stripes or white with black
stripes?
2. White persons constitute what
per cent of the people of the Brit
ish empire?
3. Why do people generally walk
in circles when lost?
4. In what cities would you find
the following districts: The Loop;
The Barbary Coast; The Bowery?
5. In what wars did the United
States draft troops?
6. What country is designated by
the sobriquet Cousin Michel?
7. Are animals other than horses
spoken of as thoroughbred?
8. What is the difference be
tween a dove and a pigeon?
9. Are there white elephants?
10. Here is the first line of a well
known poem: ‘‘O, young Lochin
var is come out of the west.” Can
you give the second line?
The Answers
1. The basic color of a zebra is
white, and his stripes are black.
2. Fourteen per cent.
3. Because one leg is shorter
than the other.
4. Chicago; San Francisco; New
York.
5. Civil and World wars.
6. Germany.
7. Other animals eligible to be
recorded are spoken of as pure
bred.
8. A dove is a pigeon.
9. White elephants are merely
light-skinned Asiatic elephants,
and may occur as the offspring of
normally colored parents. This
type is revered in Siam, and kept
in the royal stables of the mon
arch.
10. "Through all the wide Border
his steed was the best.”
m - ,
Man’s Imagination
Imagination is the organ through
which the soul within us recog
nizes a soul without us; the spir
itual eye by which the mind per
ceives and converses with the
spiritualities of nature under her
material forms.—Hudson.
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