Woman's Home Journal

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Title: Woman's Home Journal
Description: Official Publication of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Issue Date: Volume XVII (Issue no. 23) April 15, 1947
Publisher: National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Language: English
Subject: Women's periodicals.
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Place of publication: Manila
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It contains no rubber. “Krene” is a registered trade mark of National Carbon Company, Inc., distinguishing its brand of plastic products. It's Smart To Wear A "Krene" Apron Now on Retail at HEACOCK’S-O-s-riSas WELLINGTON Dept. Store —Escolta "Krene” helped win the war, with: “Krene” powder bags “to keep powder dry” “Krene” wing covers for planes. Shut out ice — rain "Krene” head-wound mask “Krene” aerial delivery containers Exclusive Distribution in the Philippines by PACIFIC MERCHANDISING CORPORATION— 209 Rosario, Manila WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL (Official Organ of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) •. Board of Editora Trinidad Fernandez-Legarda Paz Policarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. Benavides • Managing Editor Minerva G. Laudico • Associate Editors Paciencia Torre-Guzman Soledad H. Leynes • Advertising Manager F. A. Fuentecilla THIS FORTNIGHT’S ISSUE For our cover for this issue we have Chito Delgado Neely, daughter of Atty. Francisco Delgado of the War Damage Commission and Mrs. Rosario Delgado, well-known Manila club woman. The photograph is by BOB’S and the strapless gown from SAX’S. Macrina Leuterio-Ilustre, author of one of our short stories in this issue used to be a mem ber of the staff of the pre-war Manila Tribune magazine. Her husband was on the art staff also of that magazine. At present she is con nected with one of the Manila dailies. When pictures of the new congresswoman, Mrs. Remedios Ozamis Fortich appeared in the newspapers when she arrived in Manila, her name and her. face looked familiar to us. Then we remembered seeing her pictures in the al bum of our sister who studied in St. Scholastica College. You will see a close-up picture of hers on our cover for the next issue. In the photo graph on page 4, she is the lady in black vestido, seated next to Secrcetary Garchitorena. How the Secretary got into what was supposed to be an all-women affair, Mrs. Guzman, our associate, is not here to tell for she is in Ba guio (this is also the reason why we are doing this column). Had Aurora (Baby) Zablan carried out her intention to play an April 1 joke on us, her article on Miss Roberts would not appear in this issue. You see, (Continued on page 34) VOL. XVII No. 23 APRIL 15, 1947 Contents This Fortnight’s Issue ................................... 3 Congresswoman Fortich Advocates Religious . Instruction ................................................... 4 Women And Peace ........................................... 5 By Hon. Proceso Sebastian Of Promise Me.... (short story) ........................ 6-7 By Macrina Leuterio-Ilustre In The Hands Of The People .......................... 8-9 The Happiest Boy In The World .................... 10 By Manuel A. Viray Exposition Of Arts And Industries Depicts American Women’s Advance ................. 11 Daintiness: A Must In Womanly Traits.......... 12-13 By Lina Flor ’Seems To me ..................................................... 14 By Pia Mancia Friendly And Enthusiastic ............................... 15 By Aurora Zablan Club Women’s Bulletinboard ........................... 16 Friends In America ........................................... 17 Fashion (Double Spread) ................................. 18-19 Household Notes ............................................... 20-21 Cooking ............................................................... 22 Child Care............................................................ 24 The Boy And The Crocodile............................. 28 By Maximo Ramos Silhouettes ........................................................... 30 Story Of A Woman............................................. 31 By D. Paulo Dizon The “Woman’s Home Journal” is edited and published by the Women’s Publishers, Inc., at 1055 Soler, Ramon Roces Bldg., Manila, Philippines. Telephone: 8-64-23. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office on July 10. 1946. Subscription Rates: 1 year (24 issues) P6.00; 6 months (12 issues) P3 00; 2 years (48 issues) P11.00. For foreign countries double these rates. At the presidential table above taken during tne Manila Hotel Luncheon tendered in honor of Con gresswoman Remedies Ozamis. Fortich by the League of Women Voters, are shown with the Congress, woman, Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Judge Almedia-Lopez, Mrs. Antonio Villarama, Secretary Garchitorena, Mrs. Cuaderno, Director Asuncion Perez and Mrs. Henares. CJNGRESSWOMAN Remedios Ozamis-Fortich, appearing be fore a select group of some two hundred women leaders in Manila at a Manila Hotel luncheon re cently, stressed compulsory reli gious instruction in the public schools as the Christian factor for peace and democracy. Our lone woman legislator is also concern ed with juvenile delinquency and, like the divorce question, the era dication of this blight upon our youth occupies pages in her agen da. She pays tribute to feminine leadership in our land and has vowed the belief that although she is but a single voice in Congress, she hopes to forge ahead with the help of the women and the varied forces they represent. She looks forward to the women to point out to her what steps she .may over look in the carrying out of her role not only as ambassadress of her sex to the law making body of the nation but as a factor for getting things done for the wel fare of many foremost among them the women and children. Coming from a family of poli ticians, Mrs. Fortrich is modest to a fault. She calls herself a “neo phyte” in the political arena, a statement which we beg to con tradict. Mrs. Fortich stands as a symbol of the little woman who bears the brunt of election cam paigns, electioneering and all the travails that go into the selection CONGRESSWOMAN FORTICH ADVOCATES RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION ONLY WOMAN IN CONGRESS HAS A HEAVY AXE TO GRIND. COMPULSORY RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, JUVEN ILE DELINQUENCY AND DIVORCE ARE AMONG HER LEGISLATIVE WORRIES of the people’s representative to the government. She is a party woman and the party’s candidate, regardless of whether he is a kin or not, gets her whole-hearted support. “My family,” she ex plains, “are not politicians by choice. Politics has become to us a moral obligation no less which has evolved through years of looking after the welfare of the less fortunate.” The new Congresswoman was paid tribute to by one woman leader for her social justice. At the time the statement was made, the little working man. My fa mily has direct contact with the lowliest laborer, we work side by side with him, we know his needs, we understand his problems, we share his joys and sorrows, we are always on hand to answer his cry for help.” Discontentment, more than suf fering, grudge bitter and just that eats one to the very core—. these, according to Congresswo man Fortich make the rebellious rural millions. Her program of social justice, then, is very sim ple. It is plainly based on the golden rule “Do Unto Others What You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” A little brotherli ness, a little concern on your part for the welfare of others—these go a long way towards fostering peace and understanding especial ly where the forgotten man is concerned. Mrs. Fortich values her seat in Congress with her life. It was her husband’s seat, until a tragic fate robbed it of its distinguished occupant. The late Congressman Fortich, better known as “Gover nor Fortich” was a public man all his life. The circumstances of his death speak more than ever of his valor, his courage and for getfulness of self when situation demands it. A Moro was running amuck in the streets. If no one could stop him, Governor Fortich could, so he went down his house and out into the street to put rea son into the misguided character. The insane Moro didn’t give him a chance. The late Senator Jose Ozamis who met a hero’s death in the hands of the Japanese, was the only brother of Mrs. Fortich. To illustrate the sense of humor and laudable calm that is characteris tic of the family from which Mrs. Fortich springs, this anecdote is told of the last joke narrated by Senator Ozamis on the day he was taken to Fort Santiago from which he never came out. The Senator story tells of a friend of his who was accosted by a Jap anese official who propounded the question as to who will win the war. The fellow naturally an swered that of course the Japan ese would win the war. •Where upon the Japanese worthy, ac cording to Senator Ozamis, stood up in rage and said “You liar, you.” Friends who mourn his passing never fail to repeat this (Continued on page 27) details were not forthcoming. A day or so later when we dropped in on her for her photograph we came upon the explanation quite inadvertently. She was snowed under by papers all pertaining to the administration of her domestic interests at the homeplace. Her estates are vast and she attends personally to the management. “I do not want to be an idle rich”, she elucidated. “It has ne ver been my practice to lie idle living off on the fat of the land while some middle man managed my interests to the exploitation of WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAGE 4 THE Honorable Proceso SebasWoman and (Peace ■ tian, Chairman of the Philippine delegation to the UNESCO has made recent observations are Mr. anent the activities and civic at titude of the Filipino women and has set forth graphic recommen dations on how the women can help promote and keep the peace. He does not mince words which is fortunate because it makes the message deliver its purport with a jab. The womenfolk can now do more than look and feel worried about the “evitability” or ‘inevitability” of World War III. Very appreciative, Mr. Sebas tian notes that (1) the women in this part of the globe have be come more internationally-mind ed, (2) the enlightened ones have an abiding faith in the UNO as an international organization de signed to give effectiveness to the One-World idealogy, and (3) the women are disposed to join the rest of the world in an ef fective universal organization for other women have ti the maintenance of a lasting and enduring peace by fostering mu tual understanding among peoples through the media of education, science, art, and culture. In the present set-up what role Because of her sex, because of her tender and lov ing nature, because of her attachment to the home, of her influence in the family and in society, the woman of today is particularly adapted and quali fied to play her role in engendering lasting and enduring peace. the women expected to play? < Sebastian has this forthright i answer: “In the past there had been ; isolated efforts on the part of the . women to uplift and save man- ; kmd. Joan of Arc saved France . from the invaders. Florence Nightingale aroused the conscience , of man against inhuman treat ment of the sick and the wound ed. Madame Curie’s discovery is saving lives. Like tlwm many ti*d to help mankind within their respective ■ spheres. But theirs were indivi dual and isolated efforts. “What the world needs today is concerted, collective effort to avert war, and to establish peace Two pictures taken of an International Women’s League gathering attended by prominent women among them Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Dr. Adela Planas Paterno, Doha Julia Vda. ae Ortigas, Mrs. Sycip, Mrs. Paz Cuerpocruz, Mrs. Purita Kalaw-Ledesma, Mrs. Mona Lisa Steiner and a host of representatives from van. ous women’s groups. Women organizations and the women themselves who compose them are, according to Senator Sebastian, a great factor for peace. influence in j society, the gates. Miss McPhee was a dele gate from New Zealand; Miss Maud Karpeles an observer from England. Madame Rajkumain Anrit Kaur was one of the able delegates from India. From our Philippines, it is my pleasure to tell you that the Republic was proud to have been able to send an able woman representative— Dr. Alzona. I was never so proud in all my life as when, sneaking out of the General Committee Room I entered the Conference Room of the Social Sciences and beheld Dr. Alzona, in regal Filipina attire, preside with dignity and with skill over the sessions of the Sub-Commission on So cial Sciences. “My message to all the women of the Orient is brief. First, I would like to see all the women in this part of the globe to give their full and unqualified support of the UNESCO individually and collectively. I look up to the women to help stir the hearts of men and enlist their wills in the cause of peace and justice. “Second, I recommend that the women’s organizations in this country make an effort to send representatives to all international congresses to which women par ticipation may be asked, like the Inter-Asian Relations Conference at Delhi. Aside from the benefits that the country and these’orga nizations may derive from such international congresses or con ferences, the contact with differ ent women of other countries will not only give our delegates a wide and more comprehensive outlook of international affairs but will also foster better understanding among peoples. “Third, another UNESCO Dele gation will have to be sent on Re public at the UNESCO confer ence which will take place in Mexico. I have recommended that we send not only delegates but technical assistants, advisers and observers who are authorities in their respective fields. I am in favor of giving the women or ganizations of this country due representation in the mission, either as delegates or as advisers or technical assistants. I feel con fident that the women should be given more voice and should as sume greater responsibility in the on a lasting basis. Because of her sex, because of her tender and loving nature, because of her sweet and peaceful disposition, because of her attachment to the home'' and because of her the family and in ____ woman of today is particularly adapted and qualified to play a most important role in engender ing lasting peace. “The women not only want peace, they abhor and detest war. It is not surprising th^t they should abhor war, for although mankind as a whole suffered from the last global conflict, it was the women who suffered more and who, even to this day still feel the direful consequences of the last war. True, our men went to the battlefields and many of them never returned, or if they did, they returned maimed or crippled. If they died, their homes were left fatherless, husbandless. If they returned a cripple it is the women of the home who must bear the burden of family sup; port and maintenance. Many mothers have lost their sons, many girls have lost their sweet hearts. Men did suffer; but cer tainly the women suffered a lot more. “In the establishment of peace therefore, in making that peace lasting and eternal, in looking for a solution that would minimize if not completely prevent war, our women should and must be reck oned with. It is a healthy sign November to represent the that the women the world over ............... are showing themselves equal to the situation. In the United States the appointment as dele gates of such women of ability and international prestige as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Nehr Pandit of India and others augurs well for the future. Mrs. Roose velt is Chairman on the Commis sion on Human Rights; Mrs. Pan dit is Chief Delegate for India. In the UNESCO, Mrs. McCor mick of the New York Times, a most able and cultured woman was one of the American dele- next UNESCO delegation.” APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 5 Short Story llllllllllllllllllllllhi Oh Promise Mej By MACRINA LEUTERIO-ILUSTRE Not moonTHIS was love then. light and roses, nor the faster beating of heart as the hour of meeting approached. Nor yet the anticipation, as one dressed with care, of the look of desire that would surely come into his eyes as one comes into view. How young were one’s ideas of love when in love! Was it only five months ago, when in a fit of temper, she had walked out of the office because a colleague jested too free ly with her. In the brief period of her present married life, she could laugh now at the girl she had been—the girl who led what she saw now was not quite “the complete life”—for all her gay friends, the parties she wen to, the organizations and women’s groups to which she belonged. What would they say now, she wondered, if they could see her in her present surroundings. The girl who had such good taste in dress and interior decoration soithat her friends asked her to go shopping with them and got her advice on how to brighten their homes, now lived in what practically was backwoods. She giggled and then glanced at the man sleeping be side her. She knew he would not waken yet. Through the open window she baPPenin£ to could see the sky still dark with s®ei”g you ! night’s blackness that she knew a11- . , , would in one fell swoop soon Whatever she might have change into soft dawn before a£ainst men> Renato surely could breaking into the golden bright- not be included in the list of the ness of morning. And when the bated- He bad been her mothers first shafts of sun would dart into favorite because be was so Polite was the time and ful1 of fun and respect for zould stir. y°un& and 01dHow well she had come to know She .smiled then. “Where have him in five short months! And y°u been? I have not seen youyet before they were married, she f°r weeks.” had known him for well-nigh He grimaced then. “Months,” seven years. But he was then just he corrected. “This shows how another pleasant young man, very important I am to you. You have deeply in love with her, perhaps; not even missed me. I have been still, not so very important in her away for five months, and you life. say weeks only. But never mind. But now! She drew her breath May I treat you to a coke and a sharply at the emotion that en- hamburger sandwich? gulfed her. He was so dear—so She smiled once more. How dear, with his kind, thoughtful like him was to offer hamburger ways, his solicitude, his humour, sandwich instead of the usual their room, that when Renato wi his gayety, his serious moments. She who had lived such an inde pendent life for the last four years with a married sister, bereft of a mother’s tender care or a father’s love and devotion, now savored to the full of what it A WOMAN NEVER COMES TO REALLY KNOW A MAN UNTIL SHE IS MARRIED TO HIM— BUT THE HEROINE OF THIS STORY WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED IN HER HUSBAND meant to be the center of some one’s world. Their meeting at the corner of Quezon Boulevard had been quite accidental. One moment she had been burning with rage at men who had changed so much since the war! Was it perhaps because during the Japanese Occupation feminine charm had been cheap and men had become more fami liar with hostesses that they had come to look on all girls as easy preys to their jokes, their wolfish thoughts! Ugh! The next moment Renato had been standing by her side, ex claiming with obvious pleasure, “But this is such good luck! Nothing but good luck has been 7 "3 me this day. But you is the best luck of cake and ice cream. Renato be lieved in dreams, but he also had his practical side. No fripperies for him. She had not known then — but fate was hanging on her decision. She had gayly nodded and he had taken her to Helen’s Coffee Shop where he told her the ham burgers were good, and the salads perfect; Over hot spicy hamburger, he told her he was tiled of city life. And that he had accepted the job of clearing one hundred hectares of land in Davao for an uncle. And now it was planted to corn, or a great portion, at least. “Pioneering, no less,” he had smiled cheerfully at her. “I have a cozy bamboo shack, with a stream close by to swim on early mornings. We also had had our troubles with monkeys, wild pigs, mosquitoes to remind us of the hardships of breaking into virgin land. But you will be surprised. I have such.civilized conveniences as electric lights, running water on tap, ice, radio, the newest books and magazines. I get my morning papers from Manila in the afternoon, by plane and then by truck. That is how I came. Just five hours away from Manila. That’s magic for you.” It was then that she said, “1 wish I had been a man. Then I could go with you. It seems such a nice clean life.” She was not prepared for the change that came over him. One PAGE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL moment he had been a bantering young man. The next, he was completely serious. For blood had rushed to his face, making him actually so uncomfortable he had to swallow twice before he could speak. And such an intense look came into his eyes that she had to lower hep own. "Do you mean that ?” he said in a very low voice. Under the spell of .the moment and feeling quite like the heroine in a book, she had nodded shyly, her own heart beating so fast she thought she would choke. He was breathing fast too as if he had been running fast for a long time. Then he looked at her with all the love in his eyes. And suddenly she was angry with her self. How could she have ever taken for granted his love for her! And since that moment there had been no let-down in her hap piness in his love. How kind everybody had been when they learned she was getting married. The women’s organizations gave her chinaware, silverware, table linens, towels, bed sheets. Her friends had rallied when they learned she was actually thinking of pioneering in the wilds of Min danao and gave her practical, useful things as well as the tok ens of the amenities of life which they felt she would miss. So far, everything had been per fect. Renato had asked his uncle for a week in which to get mar ried before going back to Minda nao. And his uncle had respond ed by sending a generous check and the joking comment that Re nato was now less of a risk as an investment, since he was taking a wife, a step that steadied any man. Not that he needed steady ing. But a footloose bachelor was apt to have restless moments. She and Renato had flown then to Mindanao. If life had been fun before, it was more so now, with Renato. He delighted in taking her around, and in buying things for her. He was both practical and beauty-loving. Thus, he had bought her denim overall, rubber shoes, but he had also bought her lovely dresses, cozy housecoats, and shoes. It seemed his .weak ness was beautiful ladies’ shoes. And was she glad she had a love ly pair of gams! She adored his way with wo men. He was nice to them, jok ed with them, talked to them, danced with them, but was never, never ribald with them. Not that this meant that he never had his affairs. In the dark of the night, with her in his arms, he would tell of... the other women. She never got jealous of them. After all, she won, no? Who was it had written “It is better to be a man’s last love than his first?” If he had ever worried that she would find life dull in the wilds, that was gone now. Their place was really deep in the country, half a day’s trip from the prov incial road. But it was fun liv ing with Renato. He took her everywhere with him. She had practically no house hold drudgery on her hands. For there was an orphaned niece to cook and wash for them. Also a young man to do the heavier chores of the house. For the rest, there were his clerks, his accountants, foremen, planters and the gang of workers who cleared hectare after hectare of cogon land. She adored the stream near by which supplied them with fresh fish, crabs and shrimps. Now and then the men would shoot - a wild pig that was bothering the young plants. This supplied them with meat for days. But Renato did not depend on such chance supplies. He had the men work at a vegetable garden, a poultry, and a piggery. His latest project was raising herds of cat tle. Every Saturday he would take her to town where they would stay at a hotel, take in a show and attend church the next day. He often told her how easy, for them to go to Manila, if she wanted it. And as he had told Then use Cashmere Bouquet Face Powder. It’s as fine as sifted star-dust. It clings to your face for hours. And there are tempting shades to match the warm natural tones of your skin. The exciting perfume will not escape quickly, for Cashmere Bouquet has added "Mousse de Chemme" to make a better face powder for you. Make your loveli ness complete with Cashmere Bouquet’s perfumed toiletries for "The Fragrance Men Love.” her that first time they met in Manila, they received their Manila papers the same day, along with the newest books and magazines. So they had not lost touch with civilization. The nicest thing about Renato really was his even temper. Used as she was to the volcanic tem pers of her brothers, she now found it a gladsome change to live with a man who never lost his temper, never even raised his voice. And now as she waited for him to waken, she thought of the hap py secret she would share with him. By next year, there would be three of them. She hoped it would be a boy who would grow up to be like his father... dark maybe but so pleasant to look at. She must have fallen asleep again. For the next thing she knew there was the soft pressure on her lips that was Renato’s good morning to her. Her eyes flew open. Renato was smiling down at her. She touched his face with her open palms. She knew how he loved that gesture. Then she shivered at the cold firmness of his cheeks. “My, have you had your swim already?” “Oh yes,” he laughed, and turned out ' all workers in the fields too. Oh the fun city peo ple are missing staying away from God’s own country. Look at those waving fields of corn! Smell that breakfast! Fried eggs, fried chicken. Come along!” He smiled fondly at her. “You used to be the early riser. What is the matter now?” At that she brightened visibly, remembering her secret. Renato however beat her- to it. He was ever a quick one to get to the hang of things. “Don’t tell me,” he asked her, “that you are giving me a Crown Prince?” She laughed at his way of say ing it. “Nothing else but,” she replied gayly. Then panic assail ed her. Renato had said Crown Prince. Then he was expecting a boy. Memories of her married friends whose husbands had been visibly disappointed when their first-born had turned to be a girl came’ to her. Would their little one be the rift of cloud to darken their blue sky of happiness? “I hope it will be a boy,” she falter ed. Renato quick witted as ever brushed away her fears. “Dear,” he told her then, “boy or girl, it will make no difference to me. That matter lies in the hands of God. Let us be thankful for whatever He may send because all children are gifts from He aven.” And that was when Selina knew that she really was among the world’s happiest women. For not only was her partner for life kind and good, besides being an excellent provider. He was also a most reasonable man. DO YOU want him to whisper, "Darling, you’re the song in my heart?" APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 7 The Terms of the Charter, Recently Signed By President Raxas, Places The Control of the Philippine National Red Cross Ill The Hands of the People President Roxas signing the Charter of the Philippine National Red Cross, while Mrs. Quezon, Chairman, looks on. Prior to 1917 there were several attempts to render public service by civic-minded people in the Philip pines. They worked in the spirit of the Red Cross, but did not use its name nor see any recognition by the International Red Cross. In 1916 and 1917 an organized attempt was made in this direction, and the “Philippine Chapter, American Red Cross” was granted a Chanter by the American National Red Cross. This organization functioned with increasing strength and efficiency, and earned a good reputation for service to the people. Prior to 1935, President Quezon sought to effect the independence of the Philippine Chapter from the American Red Cross, but since the Commonwealth Government had no treaty-signing powers, the provisions of the International Red Cross could not be complied with. At that time, however, the name of the organi zation was changed to “Philippine Red Cross (American National Red Cross).” In common local usage, the parenthetical part of the name was omitted. It was agreed at this same time that Red Cross independence would occur simultaneously with na tional independence on July 4, 1946. The war so disrupted the Philip pine Red Cross, however, that at the request of the Central Execu tive Committee made on 24 March 1945, and supported by .the then Commonwealth Government, the American Red Cross agreed to con tinue its financial and advisory as sistance after July 4 and until, the new Red Cross was strong enough to direct its own work. In May, 1942, the Japanese occu pation authorities abolished the Philippine Red Cross (ANRC), took over its assets, declared it to be in dependent of the American Red Cross, and named it the Philippine Red Cross. They also chaiiged the Red Cross flag by printing the word “Philippine Red Cross” on the white background. This organization was stated to be a government con trolled agency, and,' of course, it was never recognized by the Inter national Red Cross. With the liberation of the Philip pines, the American National Red Cross undertook the reestablishment of the Philippine Red Cross (ANRC). As the assets in cash and property had been expended and destroyed, the American Red Cross accepted responsibility for financing the re-constituted organization un til it could carry this responsibility alone. This process has Included the training of Filipinos for positions of key responsibility, and' a gradual turning over of management and di rection to Filipino personnel. We are now at the point at which the Philippine Red Cross (ANRC) is ready for independent status. It has competent staff, trained profes sional workers, a nation-wide chap ter organization, active volunteers, a varied program of health, safety and welfare programs aimed' at the be nefit of the Filipino people, and has just concluded a successful fundraising campaign which -will provide adequate financial backing. The following steps were required in order to complete the conversion of the Philippine Red Cross from an American Red Cross Chapter to independent status: 1. The Geneva Red Cross Treaty and the Prisoners of War Conven tion which require signature by the President. 2. The Senate ratification of ad herence to these Treaties should follow. 3. The Congress should enact the Act of Incorporation. 4. When advised of these actions (channelled through the American Red Cross), the International Red Crois will recognize the Philippine National Red Cross. 5. An appropriate Red Cross In dependence Ceremony will be held, signifying to the people of the Phil ippines and of the world that the Philippine Red Cross has been ac corded full recognition and status in international Red Cross affairs. It is to be noted from the terms of the Chapter that its basic philo sophy places the control of the Phil ippine National Red Cross in the hands of the people, whose will is expressed through their chosen Chapter Delegates. The Red Cross movement is a people’s movement, and we have felt that democratic processes should prevail in their di rection of the organization. Six members of the Board of Governors are appointed by the President, as suring close liafson with the appro priate Departments of the Republic. The remaining twenty-four members are chosen by the Chapter Delegates and by the elected Governors, thus assuring non-political administra tion of Red Cross affairs. We know that this philosophy is consistent with the President’s views concern ing political influence in welfare work. The Charter in other ways, follows the usual pattern for sound Red Cross organization; it has been endorsed by the National Headquar ters of the American Red Cross. When the independence of the Philippine National Red Cross is proclaimed, the American Red Cross will transfer to it, gratis, all the as sets in cash and property of all classes, Which are in the custody of the Philippine Red Cross (ANRC). A definite commitment to this effeot was made by the Central Com mittee, American Red Cross, in a resolution adopted on 26 December 1946. Below we arc publishing the char ter of the Philippine Red Cross which was signed by President Roxas on March 22, 1947. Less than an hour after this, Mrs. Aurora Aragon Quezon, chairman, sent a cable to Geneva, Switzerland, of ficially applying for recognition of the PNRC as an independent or ganization. When this has been accomplished, the Philippine Nation al Red Cross will proclaim its in dependence in a fitting ceremony tentatively scheduled for April 15, when this issue comes out. Our readers will remember that the first step towards the PNRC independ ence was accomplished when Pres ident Roxas, representing the Phil ippine Government, signed the Ge neva Red Cross Convention and Prisoners of War Convention on February 18, 1947. CHARTER AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RED CROSS WHEREAS, there was developed at Geneva, Switzerland, on August 1884, a convention by which the na tions of the world were invited to join together in diminishing, so far as' lies within their power, the evils inherent in war; WHEREAS, more than sixty na tions of the world have ratified or adhered^ to the subsequent revision of said convention, namely the "Convention of Geneva of July 29, 1929 far the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field (referred to in this Charter as the Geneva Red Cross Convention); WHEREAS, the Geneva Red Cross Convention envisages the establish ment in each country of a voluntary organization to assist caring for the wounded and sick of the armed farces and to furnish supplies for that purpose; WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines became an independent nation on July 4, 1946 and proclaim ed its adherence to the Geneva Red Cross Convention on February 18, 1947, and by that action indicated its desire to participate with the na tions of the world mitigating the suffering caused by war and to es tablish in the Philippines a volun tary organization for that purpose as contemplated by the Geneva Red Cross Convention; WHEREAS, there has existed in the Philippines since 1917 a Chap ter of the American National Red Cross which must be terminated in view of the independence of the Philippines; and ' WHEREAS, the volunteer organ izations established in other coun tries which have ratified or adhered to the Geneva Red Cross Conven tion assist in promoting the health and welfare of their people in peace and in war, and through their muPAEG 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL tual assistance and cooperation di- public of the Philippines proclaimed rectly and through their interna- its adherence on February 18, 1947; tional organizations promote better b. For the purposes mentioned in understanding and sympathy among form all the duties devolving upon the peoples of the world: Now, the Corporation as a result of the therefore, adherence of the Republic of the Philippines to the said Convention; c. To act in matters of voluntary Be it enacted by the Senate and ov-v xii iiuvvLcrQ vuiunvary reUef and accord au>" tho]_itieg of porce3 35 a medium of communication bePhilippines in Congress assem bled: Section 1. There is hereby created tween the people of the Republic in the Republic of the Philippines of the Philippines and their Armed a body corporate and politic to be Forces, in time of peace and in time the voluntary organofficial- war> ®nd to act in such matters ly designated to assist the Republic between similar national societies of of the Philippines in discharging the °^er governments and the Govern - obligations set forth in the Geneva ment and people and the Armed Red Cross Convention and to per- Forces of the Republic of the Philform such other duties as are in- ’Pprnes; cumbent upon a national Red Cross d- To establish and maintain a society. The headquarter of this system of national and intemationCorporation shall be located at the relief in time of peace and in National Capital of the Republic of time of war and apply the same in the Philippines. * *’ ’ Sec. 2. The name of this Corpo ration shall be "The Philippine Na tional Red Cross” and by that name viduals neutralized in time of war shall be left to military authority. The red Greek cross on a white ground, as has been described in the Geneva Red Cross Convention is not, and shall not be construed as a religiious symbol, and shall have equal efficacy and applicability to persons of all faiths, creeds, and beliefs. The Philippine National Red Cross shall have jurisdiction over the entire territory of the Philip pines. Sec. 3. That the purposes of this corporation shall be as follows: a. To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armed forces in time of war, in accordance with the spirit of and under the condi tions prescribed by the Geneva Red Cross Convention to which the Remeeting the emergency needs caused by typhoons, floods, fires, earth quakes, and other natural disasters and to devise and carry on measuvxiiu ivcu viudo oiiu uy vuwv iieunc; . . , shall have perpetual succession with minimizing the suffering the power to sue and be sued; to caused by 4511011 disasters; and own and hold such real and per- e- T° devise and promote such sonal estate as -shall be deemed ad- other services fin time of peace and visable and to accept bequests, do- in time of war as may be found de nations and contributions of pro- sirable in improving the health, perty of all classes for the purposes safety and welfare of the Filipino of this Corporation hereinafter set people and as do not infringe upon forth, to adopt a seal and to alter the functions of government. and destroy the same at pleasure: Sec. 4. Regular membership in the and to have the right to adopt and Philippine National Red Cross shall to use, in carrying out its purposes be open to all the adult population hereinafter designated, as an em- in the Philippines. Any contribution blem and badge, a real Greek cross to the Philippine National Red Cross on a white ground, the same as Annual Fund Campaign shall enhas been described in the Geneva title an individual to membership Red Cross Convention, and adopted for one year. by the several nation ratifying or Junior membership in the Philadhering thereto; to ordain and es- ippine National Red Cross may be tablish by-laws and regulations not authorized under such rules, reguinconsistent with the laws of the lations and. policies as shall be pre Republic of the Philippines, and scribed by the Board of Governors, generally to do all such acts and Sec. 5. The governing powers and things as may be necessary to carry authority shall be vested in the into effect the provisions of this Board of Governors, a body of.thirAct and promote the purposes of ty members, six of whom shall be said organiaztion, and the corpora- appointed by the President of the tion hereby created is designated Philippines, fifteen of whom shall as the organization which is au- be elected by the Chapter delegates thorized to act in matters of relief in an Annual Meeting, and the reunder said Convention. In accord- maining nine shall be selected by ance with Article 21 of the Geneva the twenty-one members of the Red Cross Convention, the delivery Board of Governors already chosen, of the brassard allowed for indi- least one but not more than ’ * ‘ ...................... ' three of the Presidential appointees shall be chosen from among mem bers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The term of office of all members of the Board of Gov ernors shall be three years. Any member of the Board of Governors who has- served two consecutive full terms of three years each shall be ineligible for membership on the Board for at least two years. The six appointed, the fifteen elected, and the nine selected members first chosen under the provisions of this Act shall, by lot, divide themselves into three groups equal in number, with terms expiring at the end of one year, two years and three years, respectively, that thereafter onethird of the members shall be cho sen each year. Vacancies in the board of gov ernors caused by death or resigna tion by the board of governors at its next meeting, except that va cancies among the presidential ap pointees shall be filled by the pres ident. The president of the Philipines shall be the Honorary President of the Philippine National Red Cross. The officers shall consist of a chair man, a vice-chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, and a counsellor, all of whom shall be elected by the board of governors'from among its mem bership. The officers shall be elect ed for a test of one year and may be re-elected. The election of of ficers shall take place within sixty days after all the members of the board of governors have been chos en and have qualified. A meeting of chapter delegates shall be held within the first sixty days of each calendar year to elect members of the board of governors and advise the board of governors on the activities of the Philip pine National Red Cross. The power to ordain, adopt and amend by-laws and regulation shall be vested by the board on governors. The members of the board of governors, as well as the officers of the corporation, shall serve without compensation. The com pensation of the paid staff of the corporation shall be determined by the board of governors upon the recommendation of the manager. SEC. 6. As a national voluntary organization, the Philippine Na tional Red Cross shal be financed! primarily by contributions obtained through personal solicitation cam paigns which shall be organized by the board of governors and con ducted by the chapters in their re spective jurisdictions. These funds raising campaigns shall be conduct ed Independently of other drives for funds. SEC. 7. The board of governors shall establish rules and regulations for the organization of local units of the Philippine National Red Cross to be known as chapters. Said rules and regulations shall fix the relationship of the chapters to the corporation, define the territorial jurisdiction of the chapters and al locate the number of chapter dele gates to which each chapter shall be entitled. In fixing such alloca tion, consideration shall be given both to the size of the membership of the chapters and to the size of the populations in the territories served by the chapters. For the purpose of electing members of the first board of governors the Philip pine Red Cross is hereby authorized to allocate voting delegates for each of the existing branches of the Phil ippine Red Cross and to take such action as may be required to bring about the election by said voting delegates of the fifteen members of ■the board of governors required by section 4 hereof. SEC. 8. Upon its (^organization the Philippine National Red Cross society shall be authorized to as(Continued on page 26) Mrs. Aurora A. Quezon (shown here with her daughter-sec retary, Nini Quezon Buencamino) has been largely responsible for the realization of her late husband’s dream—an Independent Philippine Red Cross. APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 9 ‘ ‘ The Happiest E>oy In The World ’ ’ THE RIPPLE of excitement ac companying the publication in the United States of the works of a Filipino writer has not yet died down. News has come that a few months after Esteban Javeliana’s “Without Seeing the Dawn” will be published by Little Brown and Company, Alan Swallow, an up-and-coming publisher will put out N. V. M. Gonzalez’ volume of short stories, "Seven Hills Away.” “Seven Hills Away” is a collec tion of 12 short stories, artistic ally and psychologically unified to picture the life and death in an island, in this instance, Mindoro. Several American publishers have turned it down not because of its By A. VIRAY intrinsic merit but because a book of short stories is very hard tn sell in the United States. It is a tribute to the taste and judgment of the Filipinos that in our country a volume of tales can command a, greater sale than in the United States. That Alan Swallow, who is putting out books also in association with a respect ed publishing firm, William Mor row and Company, is enthusiastic over Gonzalez’ book -and will do his best to promote its sale by instituting a Short Fiction Club, is gratifying. This writer is sticking out his neck by saying now that in less than six month’s time, a thousand copies of “Seven Hills Away” can easily be sold. This does not make it a best-seller, but I ven ture to predict that every Filipi no who- has seen and read books by our more eminent writers like Salvador P. Lopez, Manuel E. Arguilla, Arturo B. Rotor, Carlos Bolosan, will find reading the book a fully satisfying experience. Alan Swallow is a Denver (Co lorado) publisher to whom Gonza lez wrote regarding the possibil- N. V. M. Gonzalez. iiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijmiiiHiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: They’re made to thrill baby’s palate, and specially homogen ized to help baby's tummy with the digestion iob. / • From the very same orchards and gar dens that supply Libby’s world-famous foods for grownups, the fruits and vege tables best suited to baby’s menus are carefully selected and specially prepared. By a special double process—strain ing plus homogenization—the foods are made extra smooth (which pleases baby’s inexperienced little tongue so much!) And —extra easy for that inexperienced little tummy to digest! Listen to the coos over Libby’s luscious fruits. Watch Libby’s yummy soups and vegetables and desserts disappear! Libby’s menus will get a big hand from the high chair at your house. Libby, M?Neill & Libby, Chicago 9, III. SJKAJNJED and homogen ized tafy food LOW TO L/OOY'O TOO PffffflTLOM FRUITS • SOUPS • VEGETABLES • MEAT COMBINATIONS •-DESSERTS ity of having himself included in the anthology entitled, “American Writing.” Unfortunately-it was going to be a book for and by Americans. This did not deter the local author who asked Swallow if he could put out “Seven Hills Away.” For the record Alan Swallow has four fields of interest: (1) For the Swallow Press and Wil liam Morrow and Company, Inc., a joint imprint—Book length vol umes of poetry, short stories, lit erary criticism and scholarship, anthologies, experimental fiction; (2) For William Morrow and Company, Inc. (producer and dis tributor of Swallow Press books) —Popular fiction and non-fiction of all categories; (3) For the Den ver imprint of Alan Swallow — shorter collection of poems and of short fictions, -some experimental writing for the avant grade trade, to be produced in fine press limit ed editions; and (4) For Sage Books, Inc., a regional publishing house located in Denver—Manus cripts of any type which need spe cific regional exploitation. “Seven Hills Away” will be published under the Denver im print of Alan Swallow. Right now, the following fac tors will govern the easy sale of the book in the Philippines. The need of more materials written by Filipinos for use in the public schools, even if it were in Eng lish. Filipino writers like Gen eral Carlos P. Romulo have gain ed a considerable audience in the Filipino reading public. Its printing may well start the be ginnings of a serious, financially stable endeavor to have the (Continued on page 29) PAGE 10 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Philippines, Please Copy Both cultural and commercial in its many aspects, the annual Women’s biternational Exposition of Arts and Industries in New York City is a colorful dramatiza tion of American women’s pro gress in industry and the prof essions. Basically, the exposition de monstrates the part women play in American industry, and the con tribution made by industry to the social, cultural and economic well being of women. The annual theme is chosen to reflect the feminine trend in specific fields, covering the fundamental con cerns of the home, as well as aviation, politics, science, art, and other professions and interests.. The 1946 exposition was built around the theme, “Hands Around the World,” to convey to other women of the world the sympaty and friendship of American women. Hundreds of nationally-known industrial firms display the latest equipment, devices and products serving women in the home, and professionally. Scores of national women’s organizations participate with special programs A bril liant array of hand arts and crafts represents the skills of women all over the world. Dis tinguished speakers in many fields of women’s interests dis cuss important topics. In the 25 years of the exposi tion, audiences have totalled more than 1,500,000; more than 2,000 industrial firms and 1,200 women’s groups have participated; and 5,000 individual exhibits have been stagedt tne 23rd, held in November, 1946, a new kind of living was conjured by and for American women, test ed in the recent fires of battle, and molded to the new and greater concepts of the postwar world. Each year the scope of the exposition widened, the present title having been adopted in 1942, when the event was key ed to the activities of women in the United Nations war effort. Thirty thousand square feet (2,800 square meters) were util ized for the November exposition, with a specially constructed stage. Hundreds of nationally-known in dustrial firms install elaborate booths displaying the latest equip ment, devices and products serv ing women in the home and in their professional life. Scores of national, religious, social and pan triotic groups demonstrate their public services. A brilliant array of hand arts and crafts represents the skills of women all over the world. Numerous exhibits de pict the cultures of the various countries of origin. Museums and art galleries co operate by lending outstanding works of art to the exposition. Comfortable lounges and restau rants are provided. Distinguished speakers in many fields of wom en’s interests are heard. Colorful folk dances and elaborate style shows are presented from the stage. Leading artists of the ra dio, screen and drama offer en tertainment. The exposition often culminates with the awarding of honors to members of youth pro grams for training in good citi zenship. The foregoing is a brief over-all view of the scope of the Women’s International Exposition of Arts and Industries, which is said to be unique in its dramatization and visualization of women’s interests. In the 25 years of the expositions audiences have totalled more than 2,000 industrial firms and 1,200 women’s groups have exhibited; and 5,000 individual exhibits have been staged. Each year a central theme is chosen the exposition, around is actua‘117the7toryV of American which the exhibits and general women between the two world Program are built. These themes wars. The first exposition, staged have kept pace with the rapid in 1922, modestly “Women’s Activities primarily featured the of new fields to women, lional opportunities, and facilities offering training and instruction. SCOPE OF EXPOSITION WIDENED ANNUALLY Tn the span between the initial and the most recent expositions. The display of antique and modern bed quilts shown in the above picture was exhibited at the annual Women’s International Exposition of Arts and Industries held in New York City, of which hand arts, typical of various sections of the United States, form the largest part. (USIS) EXPOSITION OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES DEPICTS AMERICAN Each year in New York City a vast auditorium is the scene of a colorful spectacle which dra matizes and presents objectively the progress of American women in the industrial field, their in terests, needs and aspirations. This annual week’s demonstration is the Women’s International Ex position of Arts and Industries, sponsored by the Women’s Na tional Institute, a national orga nization with educational ser vices reaching millions of Amer ican women. The exposition, both cultural and commercial in its many as pects, demonstrates the part women play in American industry, and the contribution made by in dustry, in turn, to the- social, cul tural and economic well-being of ticity to the front ranks of busiwomen. It has kept pace with ness and the professions. She WOMEN'S ADVANCE the changes and , evolutions in those fields for the past quarter of a century. Prompting the idea of such an exposition was a New England woman of culture and wealth, Mrs. Julia Almira Kimball. She possessed both vision and the sympathetic understanding of hopes and ambitions of less fortunate cirthe women in cumstances than her own. In her lifetime of 89 years, Mrs. Kim ball saw American women emerge from their age-old role of domesearly urged the formation of a national enterprise dedicated to their advancement, both in the home and in business. The history of the exposition labelled progress of women, including the • Exhibit,” fundamental concerns of the home opening voca—shelter, food, health, and’ rai ment—ahd following the feminine trend, in aviation, education, pol itics, science, medicine and arts. In the 1946 exposition the theme, “Hands Around the World,” (Continued on page 23) APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 11 NOT so long ago, I wrote an article entitled “What Traits Do Men Admire Most in Women?” To gather enough material for this article, I had to approach several men among my acquaint ance whose judgment of women I rather respect. Nine out of ten of them included among the traits they admire in the opposite sex that of personal daintiness. This is not very surprising. We all know that “dainty” is a very feminine adjective. Indeed, I’m most certain no man (that is, if he were truly masculine) would want that term applied to him. It would be tantamount to calling him a “pansy” or some such term which fosters doubt as to his vi rility. The most a man would allow to describe his personal way of attirement and appearance are neat and well-kept, or perhaps natty. Tell a man he’s dainty and he’s most likely to put up his mitts and invite you outside for the modern version of what the cross-word puzzles describe as “affairs of honor", namely, a duel. There’s another reason why daintiness is a trait in women that men admire most. Men are generally affectionate and ro mantic in nature (for all their pretense at being otherwise) and these two traits make them a natural sucker for being sus ceptible to daintiness. Of course men are also susceptible to such things as in the order of their importance: (1) flattery and (2) good figures (and I don’t mean mathematical figures, mind you!). But I think it is safe to say that the third in line is their suscept ibility to daintiness. No matter how unkempt or un tidy and careless of his own looks and attire a man might be, he will unfailingly admire a woman for being exactly the opposite about herself. This is of course rather unfair, as most wives com plain, but since when were the standards between the two prin cipal sexes ever fair and just? Thus while we might find many a man clingging doggedly to an old and much.used jacket and to a pair of ancient bedroom slippers or to a battered old hat and such other items of mascu'ine attire, just because they have be come most comfortable through long periods of habitual wear, he will resent his wife or mdther or sister for going about the house dressed in shabby and ill-fitting old dresses—specially when he happens to bring home a friend he wants to impress. And while a man might keep DAINTINESS; G TI/IuaI 9n Womanly JhailA By LINA FLOR putting off having his hair cut or neglects to cut off his nails or keeps a three-day’s growth of beard or goes on using the same pair of socks for a whole week, this same man will be see thing inside if not openly critical should the important woman in his life neglects to comb her hair for a day, smear lipstick untidily over her lips over old coatings of lipstick, have dirty shoulder straps, forget that her feet, too, need a bath once in a while. While total lack of personal daintiness is offensive in a man, it is downright unpardonab’e in a woman. There is absolutely no excuse for it anymore, now that war is over and we are no longer forced to stint on the use of soap and toilet articles and a fresh change of clothing every day. No matter how busy or harrassed a housewife might be the whole day, she can if she will only exert her utmost find enough time to make up for it before retiring at night. Habits of personal daintiness need not entail a lot of hours and expense. You can be just as dainty on the same principle with just a cake of sweet-scented but inexpensive soap and plain water as the woman of better means with all the luxurious toilet articles at her command. The main thing is to make it a habit, this keeping yourself clean and fresh and sweet as soon as your household or office cares are over for the day. It should not mean a habit you only exercise when you are going out (if you are neither working or going to school) or whenever you’re ex pecting company. It should be a habit—period. In fact, it should be more than that. It should really be what men want it to be in us: a trait. But then, it just follows that once it has become a well-set habit, it becomes a trait. It is during the hot season that our daintiness is brought to a real test. And it is also then that a truly dainty woman be comes more appealing and at tractive. There’s nothing more refreshing on a very hot sultry day than the sight of an unruf fled, dainty woman, going about her business “as cool as a cucum ber”, as the old simile puts it. It is enough to bolster up your morale. There are two things pertinent to keeping dainty that Filipino women have not as yet adopted fully: the hair brush and the deodorant. Very few Filipina? own a hair brush; if some of them do, it must have been a gift included in an elaborate toilet ensemble which the owner uses more as an ornament on her dresser than for the purpose it is intended. Besides, the brush that goes with the average kind of PAGE 12 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL will go to the trouble of taking a ' bath, changing clothes, putting on make-up, manicure, perfume, and what-not, we neglect to take into consideration the importance of hair-cleanliness. All we think about in connection with our hair is fixing it up in the latest styles of coiffeurs. And, what’s worse there are women who, having hac their hair “done up” for them at beauty salons for step fees, wil keep on wearing the same hair do for days and nights, protected (Continued on page 25) look, . One small mirror serves two movie starlets as they fix their make-up. toilet set is not of the practical sort fitted for the purpose. You have to buy a really good brush with stiff bristles that will wea ther the hundred-strokes-nightly ritual that is prescribed for the healthy and well-kept hair and scalp. While most Filipinas still do not use the hair brush regularly to keep their hair and scalp clean and fresh-looking, there is an other thing that adds to the la mentable state most of our heads of hair is in: the majority of our women use either coconut oil or cheap brillantine or some other form of hair-dressing in great excess. This, coupled with the fact that ours is a very dusty and hot country indeed makes hair daintiness remain at a low par— even while the rest of our body can pass for good grooming. I have heard men talk dispa ragingly of women they have danced with, not in connection with the style of dancing itself but in connection with their (the women’s) lack of hair-daintiness. “To look at their beautiful coiffeurs, you’d think they were princesses—take a good sniff at some of them and you’ll need smelling salts to keep from faint ing!”—is but one of the graphic accounts I’ve heard. The trouble is, while most of us MATCHING LIPS AND FINGER TIPS A fashion "must” that Revlon makes possible with a “SUPER’ Stay-on lipstick... sleek as satin, miraculously lasting and keyed to every Revlon fingertip-tone. The new Revlon MATCH-BOXES, love ly gift items contain one bottle, of Nail Enamel, one Revlon Lip stick which harmonizes perfectly with the shade, and one miniature Adheron. 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She has under her care all the orphan cliilden of sisteis who had died ’Seems to me that the fact that two women, both brave fighters, but also ardent lovers of peace, have been mentioned as candi dates for the Nobel prize for 1947, is not to be scoffed at. There is Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with her indefatigable fight for international unity, social justice and race and sex equality,—we all know her. Of Sister Kenny, the Australian nurse who sacri ficed her private love for the love of humanity, let us allow Rosalind Russell who has “done” her on the screen speak for her. “I don’t believe there ever was a woman who packed more drama into 60 years of living than this courageous nurse. Hardly a day has passed in the last four years that I haven’t dreamed of bring ing her life on the screen. “ ’You’ll ruin your career,’ they told me. ‘You’re crazy to think of playing a role like that!’ “Crazy to want to play a role spilling over-with romance, con flict and adventure? Crazy to want to play one of the greatest stories ever screened?” Then she went on to tell what Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt most people didn’t, know about Sister Kenny. It’s exciting read ing—what they didn’t know. “They didn’t know about a wedding gown packed away in a cedar chest for forty years. They didn’t know about a tall Austra. lian Army Captain who waited— sometimes impatiently—for a girl called Liz—a girl who loved him dearly but who wasn’t destined for marriage. “They’d never been held silent for hours at a time by the sharp, witty tongue of Sister Kenny as she told a true life-story, as dra matic as anything in fiction. They didn’t know that there isn’t an ounce of bitterness in this amaz ing woman's entire make-up. There isn’t room for bitterness with so much courage and deter mination. “As an Australian nurse she would have had to give up her profession to marry. ‘Every time we planned to wed’, Sister Kenny told me, ‘another paralysis epL demic wquld break out and I just couldn’t quit. So I’d keep putting off my marriage until later, and I ...I never could bear the ca lendar!’ “That’s the Sister Kenny we brought to the screen. A woman with two loves in her life... one for a man, one for her work. She has no children of her own, but the children of the world are hers.” Incidentally, Sister Kenny’s life brought to my mind the story of a Filipino lady principal of an elementary school in Bataan. The oldest in the family, when her father died leaving a half-invalid wife, she took hold immediately of the household problems. She was engaged to be married, but she forewent the joy of married life seeing that upon her frail shoulders depended the education and support of her younger bro thers and sisters. She worked (taught school) and saw them through college,—and now they^ are all successful in their chosen careers—one is an obstetrician of note, another a dentist, a third one a chemist, a fourth, a teacher, the fifth, a woman-lawyer and leader in her office and com INVITATION TO LEARNING A Symposium of Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate and Mark Van Doren Published by the New Home Library, New York. Distributed in the Philippines by Philippine Education Company Reviewed by Pura SantillanCast rence “Generation after generation has found pleasure in discussing books that form the subject of this volume. They are the books that have nourished Western thought—same of them for more than two thousand years. It is scarcely necessary to say that their vitality lies in their perti nency; the problems they treat are the problems that confront every individual, whatever his century may be.” Twenty-seven books are dis cussed in this exceptional work, discussed in a lively radio sym posium of three alert-minded writers of note, Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate and Mark Van Doren. The dialogues are spontaneous—and, in a manner extemporaneous, as they are not rehearsed—and as given in the book a stranscript from the di rect recordings of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The book starts from Aristotle, discusses his Politics, later his Ethics, then through Machiavelli, Plato, Montaigne, Pascal, Rous during the years, she sees to the needs of two old aunts who know her kind heart, even of a stray “find” or two among the unfor tunates of society. When some of my more “ful filled” friends oomplain to me of frustration and futility I always think of this modest counterpart of a Filipino Sister Kenny—and keep my sanity. She would tell them, kindly, not at all superior ly, for that is not her way, if they should go to her for advice: “The cure for the sense of futility is actual usefulness. And frus tration, my dears, is only imagi nary.” seau, Henry Adams, Tolstoi, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Arnold, Dante, Milton, The Bible, Da Vinci, Gibbon, Hegel,—the divi sions being by subject-matter. It is really . a comprehensive survey of human knowledge ranging from politics, ethics, autobio graphy, to fiction, drama, cri ticism, poetry and philosophy, religion, science, history. Verit ably the works discussed are classics “in1 the special sense that the ideas and visions which they contain are present in our thought even if we have not read them. For they are present in all dis cussion, and determine' in some measure the character of every person’s thought.” Well thought-out, even if ex pressed with the greatest na tural spontaneity, are the answers and opinions given in the sym posium. To the person who has read the books discussed these answers and 'opinions can come as a pleasant surprise opening new vistas and horizons—new points of view. To the reader to which these books_are yet unfa miliar ground, the symposium is an invitation to an experience well-worth having—to a real vi sit, by reading the books men tioned, into a world of visions, deep feeling and profound thought. For Invitation to Learn ing is a real invitation which the reader, if he is wise, accepts with gratitude and with pleasure. PAGE 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL “If you, not knowing much the ‘factual side’ of Miss Roberts were asked to prepare an article about her, what would you write about?” I asked Adina Rigor, my roommate. Promptly, she answered, “Her friendliness.” And that exactly is what I am going to do. Firstly because I do be lieve friendliness is her most sa lient characteristic and secondly —because I must confess I don’t know much more about her or what she did before December 26, 1946. She arrived in the Philippines to be our National Student Y. W. C. A. Secretary on “loan” from the National Board of the YWCA of the United States in December last year. But my ac quaintanceship with her friend liness began in November of that same year when on opening a blue envelope postmarked San Francisco and addressed to me in an unfamiliar small, round handwriting, I pulled out a note which read—“I am looking for ward with eager anticipation to meeting you and having the pleasure of working with you and the rest of the Manila Y. W. C. A. staff.” The note was signed Augusta Winn Ro berts . Augusta Winn Roberts. Even her name has a friendly ring in it. I asked- a lot of questions about her than—how did she look? How old was she? What did she use to do? But I got no enlightenment beyond the fact that she was coming to revive Student Y. W. C. A. work in the islands and that she was ably qualified for the position, having had so many (the exact figures did not interest me then) year’s experience in the field. So, I waited and each day found me more and more at wait ing curiously. When she finally arrived, I was in Baguio. It was the second day of the National Collegiate Student Conference. I was sitting under the pine trees atop a hill with members of a discussion group immersed in dis cussing the day’s topic—“Youth Faces the Political Horizon”. When word was sent up to me she had come I ran the hill as fast as my legs could carry me, down and across the road, into the hotel and down to the living room and saw, first of all, a friendly smile. That smile held my gaze so that even now I can not recall exactly what she wore. I only remember a small, rather silly.looking hat with two big berts’ friendliness is of the lat ter kind and that, I believe, is ?/hy she easily draws people to her. I remember the bienvenida party the Y. W. C. A. gave for her and our three other Y.W.C.A. secretaries who arrived from the States at about the same time ,ie did. Each gave a short talk at the program given in their honor. When her turn came, I turned to Ardie Sucaldito, a stu dent Y-er and whispered, “That’s she. That is Miss Roberts.” She nodded. Augusta Winn Roberts smiled, started to speak. Each word was said in her warm, firm ay. A few were emphasized with the half-closing of her eyes or punctuated by a nod of her head. But all rang with that enthusiastic quality. Not many sentences afterwards, Ardie turn.FRIENDLY and ENTHUSIASTIC By AURORA ZABLAN Augusta Winn Roberts, YWCA National Student Secretary. radio phonograph listening in silent enjoyment to recording of Marian Anderson’s sonorous so prano voice, to the tranquil me lodies of Debussy’s “Claire de Lune”, to picturesque Chinese children’s songs... No one who is so friendly can help but be a lover of music too. Augusta Winn Roberts is no exception. Not an exceptional pianist nor a lyrical singer—but a lover of fine music all the same. Her winning ways have won her friends among both young and old. I dropped in on her for a > chat one night, and in the course of our conversation men. tioned the rather strange posi tion I found myself in on return ing back to school after gradua tion five years ago. “I could not tell whether I be longed with the students or the faculty and members of the ad ministration,” I remarked, really confused. “I can appreciate your feel ings,” she answered. Then, she told me of her first job as a student Y. W. C. A. Secretary on a college campus in the States. “At first I also felt somewhat of a misfit on either side” she said. “Which side did you finally take” I asked hoping to. find a solution to my own predicament. I found it in her reply. She said, white flowers and a whisp of a ed to me and in jubilant whisper “I did not take sides. I made veil on it .sitting askew over a said, “I like her! It’s a case of friends in both groups.” curly red head, and a friendly love at first sight!” Sometimes her adventures in looking face with bright eager I have watched her address friendship brings her laughs too eyes. She looked very fair to three other groups afterwards as in the case of the little childme. Maybe because she hardly and always, that friendly light ren in Vitas, Tondo. She went wore any make-up—hardly, ever beamed and beckoned to her lis- to visit our Y. W. C. A. Club does. teners. house there during her early I introduced myself. She She has been in the inlands days in Manila. As soon as she brightened up a little bit more, but three months and already she stepped out of the Station wagon, took my hands and gave it a has a group of students from va- a troop of these little children tight, friendly squeeze. Then I rious universities in Manila band- immediately gathered about her, led her out and up to the stu- ed and happily working together and stared rather curiously, per dents on the hill and introduced to help solve campus problems, haps at her red head, her all around. It did not take discussing family relationships, She looked back at them, her long to become wrapped up and learning together some more smiled and came out with one too in the discussion with the about everything from cooking of the three Tagalog expressions students. to music. she knew then. “Magandang The following day, I saw her At least once a week she has hipon!” she called out and ex walk out to the hill again and one group of these students meet- pected a chorus of replies from this time, with her arms linked ing at the apartment she shared the faces about her. But the with those of two other women with Mollie Heath Conn, our Na. children only tittered, student delegates and a few more tional Y. W. C. A. Girl Re- Confused, she turned to Tomas, following. I was frankly amazed serve Secretary. I peep in, and our driver, and asked: “Which is at the way the students took to truly the picture of those stu- shrimp and which is afternoon?” her in so short a time—and also dents seated on chairs, in cushions And then burst out laughing at definitely pleased. Afterwards, I on the floor talking to her, to the realization of her mistake, got used to seeing her chummy, share a cup of ice cream and _ really friendly, with various other cookies with her is one to warm PerhaPs you wonder how one groups at the conference. the heart and banish all doubts J50 *ruly fnendly can help not Friendliness is a contagious and misgiving about the “strain- ^ac^s a^ou^ herenough virtue. But friendliness ed” Fil-American relationship. ’ tell you. Augusta coupled with enthusiasm, is more At another time, one may find inn Po‘)erts wdl talk to y°u directly so. Augusta Winn Ro- the group gathered around her (Continued cm page 32) APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 15 The Indang Women’s Club. Cavite reported the following of ficers : President — Mrs. Guadak’.pe de las Alas. Vice-President -- Mrs. Nieves M. Catuncan. Secretary — Mrs. .laria B. del Rosario. Asst. Secretary—Miss Gaudiosa Costa. Treasurer — Mrs. Paulina A. Quiniquini. Asst. Treasurer—Mrs. Maria C. Suna. Members of the Board: Mrs. Avelina C. NakaiMrs. Eligia L. Monico Mrs. Juana 0. Costa Mrs. Carolina C. Sealtiel Mrs. Daniela V. del Rosario Mrs. Anacleta P. Pio de Roda Mrs. Gregoria E. Diokno The above photo was taken during one of the monthly meetings of the Pasay Women’s Club held at the home of Mr, and Mrs. P. Lopa. on Robert street. The guests of honor were Mrs. Good and Mrs. Gonzales. A program preceded the selection of the Outstanding Mother of Pasay, Mrs. Galvez. Mrs. Petronila Ocampo Mrs. Cresenciana Ocampo Miss Lucila Salazar Miss Adolfina Penaflor Miss Josefa Espineli The club wafc reorganized in October, 1946 and the first acti. vity undertaken was the raising of funds for the reopening of the town puriculture center. The center was officially opened last January. The latest report received from the Balaoan Women’s Club, La Union sent by the president, Mrs. Hipolita R. Meibom, and secretary, Catalina A. Lopez, in formed us that upon the receipt of the circular letter of Mrs. Henares regarding Clean-Up Week they called on their Sanitary Inspector, but apparently the other officials of the commun ity were not in a position to un dertake the celebration. The members of the club, however, observed Clean-Up Week the week following the designated date. At • present the members are undertaking some “kitchen work” which consists of preserv ing fruits, such as tomatoes and pineapples and making pickles and tamarind wine. At a program in the Bulaan Institute, a private high school of the town, the club members participated in the Rigodon de Honor which was the main attraction of the night. We are publising here a com plete list of the officers of the Balungan Women’s Club, Pangasinan: President—Miss Jazmin E. So liven Vice-President—Mrs. Pilar Bercasio Secretary—Miss Teofila G. Palacol Treasurer—Mrs. Maria C. Jime nez The following are the officers of Maasin Women’s Club, Leyte for this year: President — Mrs. Luz Enage. Gonzales Vice-President — Mrs. Rosario Labata Secretary — Mrs. Matilde Pajao Sub-Secretary — Mrs. Nativi dad Gonzales Treasurer—Mrs. Dolores S. Ca lapre Sub-Treasurer — Mrs. Beatriz Fernandez Business Manager—Mrs. Rosa linda Y. Soliven Asst. Business Manager—Miss Nicolasa Palpal-latoc Auditors— 1. Mrs. Gloria Peralta 2. Mrs. German Agustin 3. Miss Mercedes Orallo Reporters:— 1. Mrs. Josefa Nicu 2. Mrs. ApoIonia Bascos 3. Miss Victoria Belvis Members of the Board: 1. Mrs. Juana Luna 2. Mrs. Adolfo Castillo 3. Mrs. Isabina C. Peralta 4. Mrs. Maxima Bascos 5. Miss Ana Privado 6. Mrs. Laurencio Consolacion 7. Mrs. Maria Guioa 8. Miss Balbina Revita 9. Miss Angela Agustin 10. Mrs. Brigida Velicaria Auditor — Mrs. Wenceslina Es pina Members of the Board: Mrs. Teofila Gonzales Mrs. Maxima Fernandez Mrs. Donata Gonzales Mrs. Cecilia Monteclaios Mrs. Blancaflor Uy Mrs. Leonila I’iao Mrs. Eufracia Delima Mrs; Lourdes Avena, president of the Solana Women’s Club, Ca gayan reported that Clean-Up Week was observed in their municipality. There was very good cooperation among municipal employees, puericulture center nurse, and sanitary inspector dur ing the celebration. A recent election was held and the present officers and directors of the club are the following: President—Mrs. Lourdes Avena Vice-President — Mrs. Dominga Cepeda Secretary—Mrs. Angeles Avena Treasurer—Mrs. Lolita Uy Members of the Board: Mrs. Paula Borja Mrs. Leocadia Battug Mrs. Josefina Carag Mrs. Feliciana Carag Mrs. Imelda Hernando Mrs. Sixta Durian Mrs. Vicenta Lasam Mrs. Marta Beltran, president of the Woman’s Club of San Mi guel, Bulacan likewise reported that their club participated in the Clean-Up Week celebration and every member of the organization showed considerable interest in the improvement of the health condition in that town. The following are the officers and members of the board of di rectors of the club: President—Mrs. Marta T. Bel tran Vice-President—Mrs. Mercedes Cruz Secretary — Miss Fidela Do. mingo • Treasurer—Miss Luz Carlos Members of the Board: Miss Aleja Baltazar Mrs. Rosa Tecson Mrs. Salud Galicia Mrs. Lourdes Capulong Mrs. Estanislawa Santos Mrs. Estanislawa Reyes PAGE 16 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FRIENDS IN AMERICA They concealed these items in the noils of their hair, hems of gar ments and other unexpected places, even the garbage cans in order that they might reach the Americans without detection of the enemy. “Our boys fought along with yours and suffered in the death Again, we are reprinting a lengthy XvTfte-)up on Mirs. Legarda and Miss Evangelista. This time it is from “The High Point Enterprise” (North Carolina). Their picture was likewise published with the following caption: WOMAN’S CLUB VISITORS— Distinguished visitors from the Philippines, along with Mrs. Karl Bishopric of Spray, state pres ident, and other state and district officers of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s clubs, attended yesterday’s meeting of the High Point Woman’s club at the Sheraton and are pictured here shortly before the Filipino women told a story of suffering and de vastation and asked help from America in their vast rehabilita tion program. Left to right are Mrs. Trinidad F. Legarda, pres ident of the National Federation of Women’s clubs in the Philip pine Islands and head of the Na tional Council of Women in that country; Mrs. John L. Rothrock, lobal club president; Mrs. Karl Bishopric ’of Splay; Miss Merce des Evangelista, executive secretary of the Philippine Federation of Women’s clubs who was in. terned in a concentration camp by the Japanese, and Mrs. Curry Loflin of Asheboro, who heads the Women’s Clubs in the seventh district. The article follows: FILIPINO CLUBWOMEN CHAL LENGE AMERICA TO AID IN VAST REHABILITATION PROGRAM Mrs. Trinidad F. Legarda and Miss Mercedes Evangelista make plea for help before High Point Women’s Club while in IL S. for International Assembly. A challenge to club women of High Point, the North Ca rolina Federation and to women throughout the United States to aid in the rehabilitation program of the Philippines, which bore the brunt of the war with the Japan ese, was brought yesterday after noon when two prominent Filipi no women addressed the High Point Woman’s club at its Novem ber meeting at the Sheraton Hotel. Mrs. Trinidad F. Legarda, president of the National Fede ration of Women’s Clubs in the Philippines and also head of the National Council of Women in that country, along with Miss Mercedes Evangelista executive secretary of the Philippine Fe deration, told a story of suffer ing, destruction and death in their country which drew the heartfelt sympathy of their audience. They made a plea1 for help from women of America in this mammoth pro ject. Placing emphasis from time to time on the love of the Filipinos for Americans and their devotion to the cause and ideals for which their youth fought side by side under General Douglas MacAr thur, these two courageous women told of their work in concentra tion camps where American troops were incarcerated by the Japanese. They told of constant smuggling of money, cigarettes, candies and foods to American boys by Filipino women and girls while others entertained the enemy to divert their attention. march of Bataan but today, those of ours who survived have no G. I. Bill of Rights ba help them back to adjustment to normal life. We feel that is not as it should be but it is merely a case of misunderstanding the situation,” the national women’s club pres ident told her hearers. Introduced by Mrs. Karl Bishopric of Spray, president of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s clubs of whom they were guests wh»le in North Carolina. As the former “Miss Philippine lsiands” beauty queen, Mrs. Legarda minimized this honor, pointing out that beauty of soul and mind are so much more important. “We Fi lipinos are no different from you women and there is a common bond between us. America gave the Philippines its first real chance for an education in the real sense of the word and it is from this country we have real ized what it means to live in a democracy. The success America has achieved along this line can not better be shown than by what happened at the outbreak of the war with the Japanese. We need ed no coaxing and did not hesitate to show on which side we would fight, and long before war was declared we realized our country and America would fight together. As soon as the enemy came, we saw that life would not be worth the living and resisted with the Bataan death march as the re sult." “Thanks to the brilliant military leadership of Gen. MacArthur and his promise of re turn, we survived,” Mrs. Legarda said, continuing with details on the ovation given MacArthur and his troops on their return when every home, however humble, threw open its doors to them. She told of the American flag the women made and pointed out that it was this flag that was hoisted on the flagpole to replace that of the Rising Sun on July 4 when America gave the Philippines her independence. It was given into the hands of MacArthur to be re turned to his country, a gift of the Philippines to America.” “We have many problems after a four-year war and loss of our buildings, homes and archives are one of the major problems.. A country over 300 years old has no records on which to build. Moral destruction is more diffi cult to work with, however, as delinquency among our children has increased a thousand-fold and our educational system has been distorted by the Japanese," she pointed out. “We want to thank you for your past generosity and urge you to continue to give as , (Continued on page 23) At the inauguration of the Manuel L. Quezon Post of the American Legion at Vallejo, California. Miss Mercedes Evangelista, executive secretary of the NFWC, was the guest of honor. Others in the above photo are Mrs. Wright, Commander People, Col. Wright, Commander Luis Lopez of the Navy, and Mrs. Pedro Gamatero, president of the Filipino community in San Francisco, California. APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 17 • Right: Cast of the operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, presided over by the beauties. rhyl elect orna dies; perl.i THE CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY TOOK ONE WEEKEND OFF TO TAKE STOCK OF ITS ASSETS IN FEMININE PULCHRITUDE. Above: Alice Velasco, elected the “Pearl of the Orient” stands regal at the steps of her throne. She carries a train which grows from the panuelo of her lace-embossed white terno. FESTIVITIES AT THE CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY Left: Evelyn Soriano reigned as Ruby. Her lerno is in rhy/ie with her title. • Above right: Gloria de Villa carried the title of Emerald and elected Sapphire. Her terno shows the latest in side bustles ornate with sequins. • Above left: Gloria de Villa carried the title of Emerald and dressed herself to suit her name. Here are sequins very pro perly utelized. The Topaz was Josefina, (’abreza shown above. She wears a three-tiered terno of sheer bouffant all trailing with vines loaded with dash and glitter. STIVITIES AT THE CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY Left: Evelyn Soriano reigned as Ruby. Her terno is in ae with her title. > • Above right: Gloria de Villa carried the title of Emerald and ed Sapphire. Her terno shows the latest in side bustles te with sequins. Above left: Gloria de Villa carried the title of Emerald and »ed herself to suit her name. Here are sequins very’ pro■ utelized. NOT one, not two, not three, but .nany, are the able as sistants available to Mrs. Lady of the House in her backstage role as Cleaner of the House. In addition to soap, with which no doubt even the veriest beginner has a speaking acquaintance, there is an imposing and competent array. Whether the cleanly con sideration concerns wall, floor, woodwork, drain, toilet bowl, sil verware, cooking utensil, window shade, furniture, porcelain, lino leum, or plumbing fixture, there is a powder, a paste, or a liquid which will make the task take less toll of energy and do it bet ter. Doing a multitude of jobs and doing them well is the wellearned reputation of the general household cleansers, perhaps the most frequently used of these ef ficient cleaning assistants. Take any one of these powders to scrub sinks and other plumbing fixtures, plumbing hardware, cook ing utensils, and stubborn soil on painted woodwork and walls, floors of linoleum or tile, paint ed furniture, work-table tops— anything needing a mild abrasive action. At least one of them does further duty for mirror and win dow cleaning. A good cleanser removes dirt and stains thoroughly and quick ly without too much effort, but on the other hand, is fine and soft so that it does not scratch, mar, or dull the surface on which it is used. It will wash off, or wipe off, quickly and completely after use. It will not collect in and clog up drains and pipes. It will leave no unpleasant odor. It is kind and gentle to hands. In short, it cleans thoroughly with no unpleasant after effects. I’reperably it is packaged with a perforated top so that it is con venient to use. An attractive con. tainer, a container to match a color scheme, a preferred odor, or experience in effective results may further guide a choice. Outstand.ng also in the variety of tasks which they make easier for the homemaker are the che mical cleaners, the scrubless way to eliminate greasy dirt. These powders, disiolved in water, dis solve grease and dirt, breaking them into liny particles easily rinsed away. Removing dirt from painted surfaces, outside or in, becomes only a matter of washing them with the water in which the powder is dissolved, with a soft sponge or cloth, and rinsing with clear water. Likewise for the porcelain of ranges, refrigerators, sinks, and other plumbing fix tures, for woodwork, for lino leum, for tile, for wood and ce ment floors. USED in dishwater, all of these compounds eliminate the hard-water or greasy scum, save soap, and make dishes, glass ware, and silverware sparkle be cause no soap film is left on them. Make scouring greasy or burned-on pots and pans easier, too. In the laundry, they soften the water, thus saving soap, time, and labor. They make detamishing silver a simple procedure. Despite their efficacy with dirt, these cleaners are mild, kind to hands and harmless to the sur faces on which they are used; one of them serves as a pleasir/- water softener for the bath. A cousin of this group, one might say, has the removal of wax as its particular chore. Wax comes off floors, woodwork, or furniture without scrubbing or other harsh methods by washing with water in which this powder is dissolved. It’s especially help ful and labor-saving for a clean up of floors before rewaxing. Scrubbing a toilet bowl is a dis agreeable performance which may be eliminated forever from a homemaker’s chores by means of a bowl cleaner which chemically removes stains and unsightly dis colorations and soil. It freshens and purifies not only the bowl itself but the trap and the pipe connections where no brush can penetrate. Toilet germs and a cause of toilet odors are flushed away. Homemakers whose sew age disposal systems depend upon septic tanks may use this prep aration safely. Its presence in sewage does not injure the tank nor inhibit the action of the bac teria responsible for proper li quefaction of the sewage. For drains, a drain-keeper-open provides that oft-mentioned ounce of prevention. For if a drain be comes clogged, it exacts its full messy job, and all too likely a plumber’s bill plus decided incon venience. Regular treatment pre vents this inconvenience and also, perhaps still more important, keeps sewer germs and filth at -a minimum. Should a drain be come clogged, this same prepara tion will boil out the accumulated grease and dirt and help to open it. Free from unseen dirt and from germs as well as from the dirt which is seen are surfaces wash ed with an ultra-refined liquid bleach and cleaning compound. Used in the kitchen and the bath room, it disinfects, deodorizes and removes stains, leaving glassware, silverware, dishes, sink, tile, enamel, porcelain, linoleum, bath tub, lavatory toilet bowl, floors, and woodwork hygienically clean. For laundry use too, this bleach gives the added protection of sanitation for all white and colot fast cottons. Hospital-clean, too, are surfaces washed with a household disin fectant. Especially valuable in A FORMULA Soda 66.937' Scotti SmutliM, Zd the. way ta take cod Uu&t ail If you are weak and debilitated and need'a good emulsion of coci liver oil, remember that only the best is good enough for you. If the best emulsion costs a little more, but really does you good or makes you well in half the time, it is.cheaper in the end, for you don’t have to buy so many bottles. Millions of people all over the world buy Scott’s Emulsion. There must be a good reason. Accept no substitutes-demand the genuine Scott s Emulsion \ Cod Liver Oil. 29.022°; : Givei in.■ I 2.007 • |% Solution of T’vpopho-phites of Lime no. ^^«iP*enL^-7^%G^OuvonnK^Jo2->^^^PR^c<^indIlegibte^db^h^ioanU^'h‘‘™2‘2j^J PAGE 20 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL room, kitchen, bedrooms, in wash ing and scrubbing garbage pails, and other sources of possible con tamination. AS COLD cream cleanses faces, so a creamy paste dis solves and lifts out grease and dirt from painted, varnished, enameled surfaces, from linoleum, even from hands. Because it con tains no abrasive, this paste can not scratch or mar surfaces. 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Just spray the liquid on, then wipe it off, or wipe the window with a cloth moistened with the liquid and then a fresh cloth—it’s as easy as that. Or the chore may be accomplished with a chemical ly treated mitt without water or other equipment. — By GLADYS SCHAFER. STAINS The best stain removal pro cedure is never to let the stain happen. But when a garment or fabric furnishing acquires a stain, the first rule to remember is that originated by Max Jactor HOLLYWOOD * It gives you a smooth*, flawless, beautiful new complexion ...makes you look lovelier, more interesting, more exciting...instantly. Try it. is negligible. More than that, cially niee for linens and fine eotyou’ve added protein to the stain, tons). Clothes treated this way and that must be removed. The may be ironed without pulling or safest thing to do is to hurry the sticking of the iron, which garment to a professional cleaner; weakens the fabrics and causes he will determine the nature of tears. This same product also the fabric and of the ink before gives the clothes a satiny, dirthe selects the stain remover to be resisting surface. used. Silk becomes limp with age. A LAUNDERING NOTES little starch will perk up your Women who never before have pieces of old silk lingerie and washed and ironed men’s shirts will also prevent them from stickare taking over this job these ing to your body during these hot days in order to economize, days. These new shirt laundresses, and Sparkling whiteness results those who have been doing it for from giving white garments or years as well, will find that copy- linens a dip in bluing water, ing these professional tricks aids Bluil1g now comes in three forms in achieving thoroughly clean, _,iquid, flakes, and balls (powgleamingly white shirts. First of der). The liquid comes in nonall, rub thick suds on soiled dripping bottles. The flakes are collars and cuffs, roll them inside dissolved in the soap suds, while the snirt, and soak for fifteen the powder balls are dissolved in minutes. Then, just before wash- the last rinsing water. No mat ing, scrub with a soft brush. Be ter what kind you use, be sure sure to use enough soap for a to follow the directions that two-mch suds that will stand up come with the product, and in the throughout the washing. If you cases of f]akes and powder balls, use bluing flakes, dissolve them be sure to dissolve them comdirectly in the suds; if liquid pletely. bluing is your preference, add a drops to the last rinse water. Try hanging clothes on hangers Starch is a wonder-worker in to dry them. They will occupy prolonging the freshness of less space, have less wrinkles, dry clothes, and may be used on every more quickly and more uniform fabric except heavy denim. Iron- ]y. Pin clothes by the heavier ing is made easier by add.ng to parts to prevent strain, handkereach quart of light starch a chiefs, unfolded, by the edges, quarter of a cake of a special ditto in the case of towels. Dry waxlike preparation (this is spe- colored clothes in the shade. Today's Most Flattering Make-up J JUDY GARLAND J V\ V MGM sm« / APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 21 COOKING STRING BEAN SALAD Mix cooked string beans with a little diced crisp bacon and some chopped pickles. Marinate in French Dressing. Drain. Serve in lettuce cups with bottled salad dressing and garnish with chop ped hard cooked eggs, peeled shrimps, or meat cubes. PICKLED BEET AND EGG SALAD Hard-cook eggs, allowing one egg for each person to be served, the night before and let stand overnight submerged in the pickle of the beets. To serve: slice each cucumber, onion and pepper. Sea son. Heap lightly on a platter and garnish with asparagus tips, tomato wedges or chopped hardcooked eggs. HAM AND VEGETABLE SALAD 1 /i cups cubed cooked ham 1 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup chopped sour pickles 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper Try A Hearty SALAD For Lunch WHEN the heat gets you down and' you don’t feel like cooking or eating beef, pork or fish, try one of the hearty sa lads the recipes for which we shall give you presently. These may consist of cooked or raw ve. getables with pieces of left-over or canned meat or fish added to supply the protein. We prefer adding salted eggs most of the time, for these may be bought al ready cooked at the corner store, and they supply the desired salt iness that our family likes. POTATO SALAD 3 cups cooked potatoes, sliced or cubed 3 tablespoons grated onion 1 tablespoon lemon or calamansi or lime juice 1 tablespoon prepared mustard (optional) 1/2 cup chopped pickles 4 eggs, hard cooked, sliced or chopped 1/3 cup French Dressing Cooked Salad Dressing (bottled) Salt and pepper to taste The potatoes should be cooked with their skins on, then peeled and sliced when cold. Mix po tatoes, onion, lemon juice, pickles and eggs lightly. Add the French Dressing and mix. Chill if possi ble. Add mayonnaise or bottled salad dressing to moisten, and season to taste. Serve in lettuce cups and garnish with sliced to matoes. VARIATIONS: Use chopped olives instead of pickles. Or add about 2 cups shrimps, previously boiled, peeled and marinated in French Dressing, or flaked tuna fish, or chopped cooked ham or luncheon meat. egg lengthwise and arrange on a bed of shredded lettuce. Flank each side with 3 or 4 slices of pickled beets. Serve with bottled mayonnaise. Pickled Beets: Cook 1’,•> cups beets until just tender. Slip off skins. Combine 1 cup vinegar, *4 cup water, ¥2 cup sugar, a litttle all spice, a small piece of cinnamon stick, a few whole cloves, and salt, in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes and add the beets. Simmer for 5 minutes longer. Allow to stand overnight. Whole native onions may be used instead of beets. SALMON SALAD 3 cups canned salmon 1 cup diced cucumber 2 tablespoons grated onion 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon fine salt 12 asparagus tips, if desired 3/4 cup cooked peas 1/2 cup cooked or bottled salad dressing Combine all ingredients, using enough cooked salad dressing to moisten. Grated onion, may be added if desired. Serve on a bed of greens and garnish with stuf fed olives or radish roses. Here’s an appetizer salad, good to serve with cold meat or salted fish and eggs: SOUR CREAM VEGETABLE SALAD 1 cup sliced cucumber 1 cup sliced tomatoes 1 cup sliced onion 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon fine salt 1 cup evaporated milk Add vinegar to milk and stir until milk becomes thick. Add the sugar and salt. Combine the vegetables and mix thoroughly W A R NIN Gt& Mothers! ,„ S,ZE ' There is only one genuine Chas. H. Fletcher's Castoria—the laxative that i$ specially prepared for the tender systems of babies and children. Sb, Mothers, please beware of substitutes! They may be injurious to your children. Always look for this signature........................ before you buy! Then, you can be sure you're buying the genuine, the original. CASTORIA rcnaawt lack 100 CM* c*m«ta*i a«.?» t*. Sanna, 0.114* cm. Antia. 0.1146 cm. Rochall* Un, 1/2 cup green pepper, finely with the sour cream dressing, chopped Raw cabbage contains 3 times Drain salmon thoroughly and more Vitamin C than cooked cab sprinkle with lemon juice. Flake bage. Here’s one way of serving into small pieces. Combine with it raw: COLU SLAW 4 cups shredded cabbage (raw) 1/2 cup salad dressing (bottled) 2 tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice 1 tablespoon grated onion 1 teaspoon sugar or more Salt to taste Pepper Crisp shredded cabbage in ice water if necessary. Combine sa lad dressing, vinegar or lemon juice, onion, sugar, salt and pep per. Drain the cabbage and mix with the dressing. Serve garnish ed with rings of green or red pepper to give it color appeal. If desired, the pepper, finely chopped, may be mixed with the cabbage. SUNDAY NIGHT SALAD BOWL 1 small head American lettuce 3 cups diced cooked potatoes 1 cup thinly sliced celery 1 onion, chopped 4 slices bacon, diced and cook ed till crisp 2 tomatoes, cut in. wedges 3 deviled eggs 1 green pepper, cut into rings Line bowl with lettuce leaves. Mix together the potatoes, celery, onion, bacon and salt. Moisten with mayonnaise or bottled salad dressing. Pile lightly in the bowl. Garnish with tomato wedges, de viled eggs (salted eggs may be used instead) and green pepper rings. BRAISING is one of the best methods of cooking meat and vegetable into delicious tender ness. The meat is first browned in a little fat, then a little water, and sometimes some vegetables or tomato juice or a mixture of water and vinegar, is added to the meat, then the pot or the kettle is co vered tightly and placed over a low fire so that the meat just simmers in its own juice or in the little liquid that has been added to it. Adobo is a good example of braised pork. The not-so-tender cuts of beef or pork which are less expensive are good for braising, but the best cuts for this method of cook in are those with bones, like the tail or the ribs. Here are two re cipes worth trying: BRAISED SHORT RIBS 1! 2 kilos of short ribs, beef or pork PAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL EXPOSITION OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES (Continued from page 11) FRIENDS IN AMERICA (Continued from page 17) had a dual significance: It was meant to convey to oth er women in the world the friend ship and sympathy of American women. It also saluted the work of one of the newest projects of the Women’s National Institute, the International Federation of Hand Arts. This group was or ganized in 1941 after leading psychiarists had suggested creative hand work as a means of encour aging women to find peace of mind, and to lessen nerve tension. Furtherance of Hand Arts A Chief Objective A principal objective of the In ternational Federation of Hand Arts is the “encouragement of the exchange of ideas, of patterns and of techniques of the hand skills of women of this country with women of other countries, for the reconstruction and preser vation of hand cultures for the be nefit of future generations.” Groups of women throughout the United States interested in the renaissance of hand arts organize chapters to join the Federation, which now numbers 500 members. The only obligation for member ship is the preparation of exhi bits for the week of the exposi tion, and the willingness to leach 3 tablespoons flour A little lard 1/2 cup water 1 cup tomatoes, canned or fresh 1 small carrot, chopped 1 onion, sliced 1/4 cup celery tops 1 clove garlic Salt and pepper to taste Have short ribs cut in pairs by the butcher (he can do it better than you). Dredge with flour and brown on both sides in a lit tle lard (the purpose of brown ing meat before braising or boil ing is to seal in its juices by sear ing the surfaces and to give the sauce an attractive brown color). Place browned ribs in a pot or kettle with a tight cover, add the water, tomatoes and other veget ables, mashed clove of garlic, and seasonings. Cover the pot or kettle and simmer for about two hours. Taste and add more seasonings if necessary. More water may be added during the cooking but not more than half a cup at a time. If the cover of the pot or of the kettle is tight, only very little of handcrafts to others. American hand arts, old and new, formed the largest section of the recent exposition. The va rious nationalities groups provid ed colorful exhibits of the hand work of women in other countries, an exchange which the Federation of Hand Arts hopes to foster on a large scale in the future. The finest collections of early American quilts, hooked rugs, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, spinning and weaving were on view. In the newer arts, carvings, ceramics and pottery, hand-paint ed fabrics, metal jewelry work, miniature dolls and furniture were shown. Among the individual versatile exhibits were metal jewelry made by a woman with the drills and other tools used by her dentist husband. Another object of inter est was a statue of “Buffalo Bill,” famous character of the pioneer days of the American West, made from a pair of old gloves, a coat hanger, metal strips from an airplane, and 4,000 inch es (102 meters) of crepe paper. With twigs from a discarded Christmas tree, another woman produced miniature doll-house fur niture with painted, upholstered the liquid will evaporate. BRAISED OX TAIL 1 ox tail, cut in 2-inch pieces 2 onions, sliced 1 carrot, chopped 1 celery stalk,' chopped 1 cup tomatoes 3 bay leaves, crushed 3 whofe cloves Salt and pepper to taste 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 cup hot water Saute ox tail pieces in a little hot fat, turning until all sides are brown. Add the onion, carrot, celery and flour and brown all to gether. Add the hot water, the tomatoes and condiments. Cover and simmer for two or three hours until very tender. Lift out the tail pieces from the broth and set aside. Strain the broth and return to the pot. Add the ox tail pieces and the brown sugar. Bring to a boil. Some like to add a little red wine just before serv ing; others, such garnishings as fried sliced saba bananas and boil ed potatoes. we need so much and in return Their clubhouse in Manila, all paid we give you our love and good for at the outbreak of the war, will,” she said in conclusion. was destroyed along with all its Miss Evangelista, herself an equipment, by the enemy after it inmate of a Japanese concentra- had already been mortgaged to tion camp, preceded the national raise money for work in the conpresident on the program, told of centration camps with American the death of Mrs. Escoda, na- boys, along with Filipino soldier, tional president of the Philippine These women continued to fight federation during the war, along in any way possible to sabotage with her husband at the hands of the cause of the Japs and tried the Japs for their resistance work. (Continued on page 27) cushions. Through such means as the comprehensive Women’s Interna tional Exposition and other effec tive techniques for putting into motion any idea or cause which it may sponsor, the Women’s Na tional Institute hopes to prove an outstanding objective: that “wom en in the home, in industry, in the arts and professions; women of all nationalities, races and creeds, can work together in a democratic state in understanding, good will and friendship.” APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 23 CHILD EVERY mother should know what to do in case of sud den illness or accident in her household. If there is a course in first aid given in your locali ty, better take it in order to be prepared for any emergency. CONVULSIONS Convulsions seem to be com mon among other women’s chil dren. Jusi the other evening our neighbor came running to us ask ing for help. Her youngest, only a year old, was having convul sion. What should she do? For tunately, our father-in-law who is a doctor was still awake. A let ter from a relative in the prov ince gave us the sad news that her nine month old baby was al ways having convulsions. What causes convulsion in a young child, and what should be done to help him? Convulsion is a frightening thing to see but in most cases it is not dangerous in itself. It is only a symptom, a manifestation of some other condition. Call a doctor at once but if you cannot get him right away and the child is feverish, give him an alcohol rub to bring down the fever. Use eaual parts of alcohol and water, water alone if you have no alco hol. With your wet hand rub each limb of the child for a min ute or two, then his chest and back. The convulsion is usually over and the child asleep before the doctor arrives. In most convulsions the child loses consciousness, the eyes roll up. the teeth are clenched, and the body or parts of the body are shaken by twitching movements. The breathing is heavy, and there may be a little froth at the mouth. Sometimes the urine and bowel movement are passed. Convulsions are brought on by irritation of the brain, from a number of different causes. The causes are different at difU ent age periods. Tn the newborn h-«by they are usually due to iniurv to lhe brain. During the first y°ar they may be a sign of tetmv To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.-rConfucious, quoted in “Your Life”. Before you flare up at anyone’s faults, take time to count ten— of your own.—Springfield Union & Republican. FIRST AID which results from insufficient Vitamin D. In the young child be tween the ages of 1 and 5, the commonest cause is sudden fever at the onset of colds, sore throats, and grippe. Fever coming on so quickly seems to irritate the nervous system. Epilepsy is the name given to convulsions that occur repeatedly in the older child, without any’ fever or other disease. Nobody knows the real cause. Every case of epilepsy should be investigat ed by a doctor familiar with the disease. CUTS The best treatment for scratches and small cuts is to wash them with soap ard pure water on a p:ece of sterile absorbent cotton. Then rinse the soap off with plen ty of dear water. If the water is not pure enough to wash wounds with, keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide to use instead of water. An antiseptic is less important than careful Washing. The one that has been commonly used is tincture of iodine, half strength (3‘/2 per cent). It has two disad vantages—it stings and it burns raw flesh. Mercurochrome, on the other hand, does not sting, but many’ doctors feel that it is too weak a germ-killer to be relia ble. Tincture of metaphen, 1 to 200, is generally considered a good antiseptic. If you do use iodine, buy the half-strength solution and keep the bottle well stoppered. The al- is elevated, oohol evaporates, leaving a much stronger solution. Buy a new bottle whenever the old one looks as if it has evaporated consider ably. Never put an airtight bandage over iedine. It will keep the io dine itself from evaporating off the skin and cause a burn. Any bandage over iod’ne should be held in place by narrow strips of adI'esive, so that there is plenty of <•'’31106 for t’’e air to reach it. Don’t put iodine on wet skin, or use it with any other antiseptic. For large cuts that gape open, consult your doctor. Wounds that might be conta minated by any street dirt or soil that contains manure should be reported to your doctor. Manure often contains germs of tetanus. ANIMAL BITES Get in touch with the doctor promptly. Meanwhile, first aid is the same as for cuts. The impor tant thing is to keep track of the animal to be sure that he is not developing rabies. If the animal does develop rabies, or if he can not be traced, the doctor will give rabies inoculations. BLEEDING Most wounds bleed a little for a few minutes, and this is good be cause it washes out some of the germs that were introduced. It’s only profuse or persistent hemor rhage that needs special treat ment. I’leedirg of the hand, arm, foot, or leg will stop sooner if the part Have the child lie down, ard put a pillow or two under the limb. If the wound continues to bleed freely, press on it with a sterile gauze square un til it stops or until the doctor ar rives. If a wound is bleeding at an alarming rate, don’t wait to find the right bandages. Stop the bleeding with pressure immediate ly and wait for someone else to bring the bandages. Elevate a limb if possible. Make a pad of the cleanest material handy, a clean handkerchief dr the cleanest piece of clothing on the child or yourself, and press the pad against the wound. Keep pressing until help arrives or until bleed ing stops. Dcn’t remove your original pad. As it is soaked through, add new material on top. If by chance you are in a situa tion where you have no cloth or material of any kind to press against the wound that is bleeding alaimingly, press with your hands on the edges of the wound, or even in the wound itself. NOSEBLEEDS There are a number of simple remedies for nosebleeds. Just hav ing a child sit still for a few min utes is often sufficient. To avoid his swallowing r. lot of blood, have him sit ap with his head bent forward, or, if he is lying down, turn his head to the side so that his nose points slightly down. Keep him from blowing his nose WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAGE 24 Eon children’s prickly heat, Mennen has put out a dusting powder with a base of bicarbonate of soda. It is called Quickool and is available wherever Mennen products are sold. Prickly heat bothers mothers more than it does babies until it dries up and becomes itchy. You can pat the rash with a bi carbonate of soda solution on absorbent cotton, several times a day (1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a cup of clean water). Another treatment is dusting with cornstarch powder (even the old folks know about this). More important is to try to keep the baby cool. Don’t be afraid to take off his clothes on very hot days. He will not catch cold. When the day becomes cooler lhte in the afternoon, you can put a sleeveless shirt on him. Most Filip jio babies are over-dressed for our climate. After a baby has gained 10 pounds, he can wear just a sleeveless I shirt and a diaper, and only a diaper or a pantie during summer, j Give the baby cold water to drink several times a day during summer. And don’t keep him indoors. If you have a i house with a yard, spread a blanket or a mat on the ground which is shaded and allow the baby to play there, naked, if you like. | Toddlers and pre-school children should go around stripped to the waist when inside the house. This will reduce your wash ing and keep the children cool. Rings Divorce Bell or from pressing and squeezing it with his hanky. Cold applied to any part of uhe head constricts the blood vessels and helps to stop hemorrhage. Place something cold against the back of the neck, or the forehead, or the upper lip. A cloth wrung out in cold water, an ice bag, or a cold bottle from the icebox will do. If the nosebleed continues for 10 minutes after all these meas ures, get in touch with your doc DAINTINESS: A MUST IN WOMANLY TRAITS (Continued from page 13) by a hair-net, because they hate to spoil the lovely effect long after the special occasion for which it was set in the first place had passed; they think it a waste of money to pull the nice coiffeur apart the following day and give their hair the proper brushing and shampooing it deserves. The smell of dirty hair that has been plastered over and over with sweetish cheap brillantine can be most offensive. Once I rode in a crowded vehicle with my little boy, aged five. He had to stand on the seat between me and another woman fell->w pas senger, because there was not even enough room for him to squeeze in, sitting down. His height is high enough for his face to be close to the woman’s head. All throughout the ride, my lit tle boy kept squirming uncom fortably.- I had to speak to him tor. Nosebleeds occur most frequent ly from blows on the nose and from colds and other infections. If the child has repeated hemor rhages from no apparent cause, he needs to be examined by a doctor. If no disease is found, it may be necessary to cauterize (bum) the exposed blood vessel that is al ways breaking. The proper blood vessel to cauterize can be discov ered right after a bleeding. sharply more than once to quiet him. Then, as soon as we got off, he told me the reason: “That woman’s hair smells awful, Mommy!” Out of the lips of babes... I’m only thanking my lucky stars that my little boy had enough inherent and instinctive sense of chivalry not to have spoken his thoughts aloud while still on the bus! But there you see, even the youngest of males are terribly sensitive and susceptible to fe minine daintiness or the lack of it. Some women refuse to shampoo the:r hair more than oime t week because they contend that frefuent shampooing destroys the natural hair oils and will causa their scalps to become dry. This need not happen. What will pre vent the natural hair oils from drying up is a regular scalp exerON THE STAND in Los Angeles, ac tress Aileen Pringle tells the court that she and novelist James M. Cain, author of “The Postman Al ways Rings Twice,’’ were “temper amentally unsuited to each other.’’ After testifying that Cain built “dungeons instead of castles in the air" she was granted a divorce from the noted writer. (International) cising. Il is easy; you just put all ten tips of your fingers into your hair, next to the scalp, and, with vigorous circular movements as if you were scratching your head, let the scalp tingle with the sensation afterwards. Use coco nut oil when you do this if you can’t get hold of the more cxpen- just the same, I keep on the safe sive and special hair oils. Do it side by putting on a little dust the previous night when you in- of powder deodorant on my sanitcnd to have a shampoo the morn- tary pad every time 1 change. A ing after. Of course if you can afford it, the best way yet is to have a hot oil treatment at the professional beautician’s salon twice a month or at IcasA once a month. But I’m just pointing out. that even at girl can't be too careful... Speaking of sanitary pads and since we are already on such de licate and feminine subjects, let me add just another observation which has a lot of bearing on our original subject. It is a wellPAINS EATING Formula. Phillips' Milk of Magnesia: Each Fl. Or. represents 34 to 40 graine of Magnesium Hydroxide in the highest quality. Tablet: Magnesium Hydroxide. Gas pains and many other common ailments are often caused by too much acid in the stomach. Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is the ideal remedy for such ailments. Quickly neutralizing the acids, it re lieves the pain, restores proper digestion—enables you to enjoy better health. PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA TABLETS Handy In the convenient tin when indigestion heartburn attack* suddenly. Also in bottles of and 200 for home use PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA home and on practically nothing, you can do something about your personal needs. I mentioned deodorants. Some women think that deodor ants are only for those who have “B. 0.”, or offensive body odors. But the question is, how c’ > you know that you don’t have such? You must remember that the skunk probably is not aware of his smelling far from sweet. It’s a case of the olfactory nerves be ing so used to the smell of one’s self, they become “fatigued", or quite useless—unless it be for some alien bodies other than one’s self. So, as I say, one can’t be too sure that one does not have “B. 0.” To be on the safe side, use a j >od deodorant, either in cream, Bquid, or powder form. Specially during these hot days, when one perspires so freely and excessive ly. There are so many good deo dorants in the market nowadays and not so very expensive as to make them inaccessible to the average, purse. Personally, I use the powder kind. My hands perspire prufusely, too, and I find the powder deodorant handy, (no pun intend ed). Also, I find it nice to use on sanitary napkins. Of course most sanitary pads on sale are ad vertized as being so specially treated as to have their own deo dorizer manufactured into them, and I use one of these kinds. But APRIL 15. 1947 PAGE 25 known fact that most Filipina girls think it is bad to take a bath during certain days of the month. There are all sorts of superstitions connected with this practice—or should we say “non practice”? Some say to take a bath while one has the “blues”, one can become insane or have consumption or leprosy or I don’t know what else. I have consulted many doctors regarding this, one of them an American specialist on women and children’s diseases and they are all agreed that taking a bath will not be of harm provided it is not tub-bathing or sea-bathing. If it is but a shower bath and specially a quick one, there is no harm whatsoever. As a matter of fact, most doctors recommend more strict personal cleanliness during such monthly periods, and how can a woman be properly clean unless she takes a bath re gularly even on such days? It has been estimated that in deeds. Young girls don’t have to be: their ' youthfulness, and freshness and vigor make up for whatever breach of daintiness they might be guilty of. there are more dainty women than young girls. That personal dain tiness seems to increase in per centage as the age group of twenty to fourty-five is reached. This is perhaps true because of the fact that as women gbin bet ter sense, they realize all the more how important it is to be dainty not only in looks but also But a wise mother of a grow ing daughter ought to teach her female offspring the simple rites of daintiness as early as possible. So that the latter might not have any difficulty later on in life in getting used to the general, idea. Brought up to be a dainty young miss, she will mature into a na turally dainty woman. 2J*II 11111111J (13! I !!ll LI! 1UII1I *! 11111111111H11111!! JI' 11111! 1111111H H! 1111111111111111 lllll* SUMMER SESSIONS CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY E The administration of Centro Escolar University has an si nounced the opening of special civil service review classes for E teachers during the month of May. The classes will be conducted E by competent instructors. = The regular summer classes in all Collegiate departments s will open on May 12. Special classes in Tagalog for* teachers E will be offered as usual under Prof. Lope K. Santos, Mr. Benigno E Zamora and Mrs. Teresa. Sianghio. E The following departments will be open during the summer: E graduate school, colleges of education, normal, home economics, E liberal arts, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, and commerce. E Subjects to be offered in the Collegiate Department — By E arrangement. E The regular Summer classes for High School and the consi servatory of Music will begin on May 2, 1947. = The subjects to be offered are the following: E First Year—Literature, Algebra and History E Second Year—English, Geometry, History and General E . Science E Third Year—Mathematics, History, National Language and = Biology = Fourth Year—English, Physics and National Language E ENROLLMENT BEGINS APRIL 27, 1947. E FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, See or write the Secretary I CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY Mendiola, Manila rjlllllllllllllllllllllllljlimilllillllimililliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii. President Iloxas speaking after signing the treaty of Geneva and the Prisoners of War conven tion. This was the first step towards PNRC independence. IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE (Continued from page 9) sure all the responsibilities of the Philippine Red Cross and to suc ceed to all the right, title and inter est of the Philippine Red Cross to property of all classes, within the territory of the Philippines in ac cordance with the resolution of the central committee of the American National Red Cross dated Decem ber 11, 1946. SEC. 9. The corporation shall, at the end of every calendar year submit to the President of the Philippines, an annual report con taining the activities of the corpor ation and showing clearly its exact financial condition, the sources of all receipts and the purposes of all disbursements. SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit, collect, or re ceive money, material, or property of any kind, falsely representing or pretending himself to be a member, agent or representative of the Phil ippine National Red Cross; or for any person to wear or display the sign of the Red Cross or any insig nia made or colored in imitation •thereof for the fraudulent purpose of inducing the belief that he is a member or representative of or agent for the Philippine National Red Cross. The use of the name Red Cross is reserved exclusively to the Philip pine National Red Cross and the use of the emblem of the red Greek cross on a white ground is reserv ed exclusively to the Philippine National Red Cross and the medical services cf the armed forces of the Philippines as provided in Article 28 of the Geneva Red Cross con vention. It shall be unlawful for any other person or entity to use the words Red Cross or Geneva Cross or to use the emblem of the red Greek Cross on a white ground or any designation, sign or insig nia constituting an imitation thereof for any purpose whatso ever. As used in this article, the term person shall include any legal persoon, group, or legal entity whatso ever nature, and any person violat ing any section of this article shall upon conviction therefore be liable to a fine of not more than ope thousand pesos or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both at the discretion of the court, for each and every offense. In case the violation is committed by a corporation or association, the pe nalty shall devolve upon the presi dent, director or any other officer responsible for such violation. SEC. 11. All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby re pealed. SEC. 12. This act shall take ef fect upon its approval. We women do talk too much but even then we don’t tell half we know.—Lady Astor, quotted in “The Christian Science Monitor” . It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what i< charming, they give up thinking what is charming.—Oscar Wilde. • * • If spring came but once in a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PAGE 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FRIENDS IN AMERICA (Continued from page 23) to play the role of mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts for the American troops, Miss Evangelis ta pointed out. “With 28,000 of our own boys dead from one concentration camp in Manila, known as the Flanders field of the Philippines, we would like to proceed with the work of rehabilitation but cannot do so without your help,” she said in conclusion. Mrs. Karl Bishopric, the state president, in introducing the Phil ippine clubwomen, expressed pleasure at being able to enter tain them in her home as her own son had been entertained in a Fi lipino home while stationed in that country. She urged clubwomen to help the Philippines in their pro gram of rehabilitation and asked that they use their influence with their congressmen to bring these Filipino veterans under the G. I. Bill of Rights. “Those men, many of them amputees, were in our army and were fighting while our men were being prepared and I don’t see why they couldn’t be shown the same consideration our men have been shown” she as serted. Mrs. John L. Rothrock, local president of the Woman’s club, presided over the meeting, which was opened with the club collect CONGRESSWOMAN FORTICH (Continued from page 4) narrative everytime they refer to the Senator’s last days. Congresswoman Ozamis wears deep black. In her bereavement she finds surcease in keeping busy. She was most gracious when we asked her for her speech during the luncheon, which we are here reprinting for the bene fit of those who are most inter ested to know what the Congress woman’s plans are regarding her sphere of action in her new role as legislator. Here it is: “First of all I would like to ex press my appreciation for the pri vilege of having this opportunity to discuss with you one of the current problems which is of ex treme interest to all of us and one which is closest to my heart. You represent feminine leadership and feminine intelligence in the and recognized the visitors pres ent, in addition to the speakers and Mrs. Bishopric. These in cluded Mrs. T. Fred Henry of Salisbury, state treasurer of the North Carolina Federation and Mrs. Cirry Loflin of Asheboro, director of Sevehth district women’s clubs, along with Mrs. J. D. Ross of Asheboro and Mrs. Rouse of Salisbury, who accom panied them to High Point. The department chairman, Mrs. J. F. Hayden of the ’education department, and Mrs. T. M. Lee of the fine arts department, were presented and told of plans for their respective programs during the year, reading the depart mental rosters and inviting other members to affiliate with either department. At the conclusion of the pro gram, Mrs. Rothrock presented both the Filipino visitors and Mrs. Bishopric with gifts of nylon hose as a symbol of High Point’s in. dustry and a token of apprecia tion for their visit here. Coming to High Point to attend the Inter national Assembly of Women in South Kortright, New York, these remained to personally thank and ask further aid of club women in this country in behalf of their country. DIS1 HANDS wear CUTEX, the most fashion able and widely-used Nail Polish in the world. Made with a new formula ii five new exciting shades in handsome novel bottles. CUTEX is long-lasting... does not chip•• .doesn’t crack...and gives your hands that distinctive look. Ask for it today... and follow the Style! compound wear ingredient to make it the longcstI wearing polish Cutex ever had! Philippines. Your various organ izations have done much to con tribute to the welfare of this coun try which we love. “It was by accident that I have come to occupy my present offi cial position. Notwithstanding the accidental nature of my appoint ment, I want to express my earn est desire to represent not only my constituents in Bukidnon but also to furnish, in so far as Izam able, feminine influence in the lower house of Congress, for all the Filipinos. You must appreciate that I am a lone woman in that assembly. Consequently it is ab solutely essential that I have the close cooperation of you leaders of feminine thought. “The women have always been entrusted with the care and up bringing of the children and with it the responsibility of making it as the center of family life. It is to be regretted that with all the responsibility that is imposed on our sex we have had so little to do with the formulation of laws and political policies of this 'country. If we are trusted to raise our future citizens, handle the (family’s finances, it seems but just that we should have a great er part in the sociological and po litical development of this nation. I do believe that the feminine viewpoint can be of great help in formulating political thought. “When I accepted the respon sibility of being a representative, I had absolutely no political com NOW CUTEX contains a new mitments other than that I am, by heritage and belief, a member of the liberal party. I am here in Manila to carry out the duties of my position in accordance with my personal beliefs. Naturally, I am giving a great deal of thought to political and sociological ques tions with which we are confront ed at the present time. “Foremost in my mind is the need for legislation covering the teaching of religion in our public schools. I am sure you will rec ognize that since the end of the war there has been a consistent divergence from this viewpoint. Juvenile delinquency presents a (Continued on page 29) APRIL 15, 1947 PACE 27 Children’s Corner and said, “Now, my friend, 1 might as well tell you that I do not have a gold ring.” “Then why did you promise me a gold ring?” asked the boy. “And furthermore,” said the crocodile, not paying any atten tion to what the boy said, “I might as well tell you that I am about to make you my dinner.” “What are you saying?” asked the boy in alarm. “You—eat me who set you free?” “That is exactly what I plan to do,” said the crocodile. “That is unfair,” said the boy. “Unfair?” said the crocodile. QNE DAY, while walking along the bank of the river, a lit tle boy heard someone crying. He looked around and saw a croco dile with a rope tied around its neck. “What is the matter, Croco dile?” asked the boy. “Can I help you?” “Cut this rope,” said the croco dile, “and in return I shall give you a gold ring.” The boy cut the rope and said, “Where is the gold ring?” “We’ll have to go down to the mouth of the river for the gold ring,” said the crocodile. “Na turally I do not carry gold rings with me when I go around. I have neither a finger to put it on nor a pocket to put it in. Jump on my back and let’s go and get the gold ring.” The boy sat on the back of the crocodile and they started on their journey. When they reached the middle of the river, the crocodile stopped When You Feel Listless THE BOY AND THE CROCODILE A MORO FOLK TALE By MAXIMO RAMOS turn. When I had cut the rope, the crocodile, swimming nearer to Common Sense Prescribes ENO It's surprising how quickly a dash of ENO in a glass of water helps put the sparkle back into you when you feel listless, logy, headachy or dispirited from excess stom ach acidity. An extra dash helps relieve that stuffy feel ing due to eating too hur riedly or too heavily—or to faulty elimination. Keep a —, bottle of Eno handy in your home or office. It costs so little. Buy Eno at /our farmacia. MAKES A SPARKLING FFFERVESCENT DRINK “Not every boy has the privilege . of becoming a crocodile’s dinner every day.” “It may be so,” said the boy, “but I want to live a little longer. Let us ask three others whether you should eat me or not. After all, I did you a good turn today when I set you free from the rope trap. ” “All right,” agreed the croco dile. “We’ll ask three others.” Soon an old basket came float ing downstream. “Basket, Basket,” called the boy. “Please decide our quarrel.” "What is it?” said the basket. “I saw the crocodile caught in what should he do but say that he the bank. a rope trap,” said the boy. “He Was going to eat me? Is he right “I can not hear a word you are asked me to set him free and or wrong?” saying,” said the monkey. “Come promised to give me a gold ring “When I was new,” began the closer.” in return. When I had cut the hat, sighing as only an old hat can The crocodile swam a little closrope, what should he do but say sigh, “I served my master long er and the boy began: that'he was going to eat me? and faithfully. I shaded him from “I was walking at the river-bank Now tell us if he should do that.” sun and rain. But when I became when—” “When I was new,” said the old, he threw me into the river, “I still can not hear you!” the basket, "I served my master well, and here I am on my way to my monkey interrupted the boy. But when I grew oil and could grave in the ocean. People are “Come closer, Crocodile.” no longer hold my master’s rice, very cruel,” he ended his little “Y’ou should be able to hear us ’’e threw me into the river. Here speech and floated on down to the now,” said the crocodile, having I am, as you can see, floating to ocean. “Let the crocodile eat the come nearer. my grave in the ocean. Go ahead, boy.” “I can hear you a little now, but Crocodile,” finished the basket, re- “Did you hear that?” said the I can not hear you enough,” said suming his journey, “eat the boy. crocodile laughing. the monkey. “Come a little People are very cruel.” “I believe,” said the boy, “I closer.” “I will eat him, thank you,” re- might as well make up my mind The crocodile swam nearer the plied the crocodile. “Now, what about becoming your dinner. But bank and said, “Monkey, tell this do you say to that?” he said, have one more chance. Let us go boy that I should eat hin), and turning to the boy. to that monkey sitting on the tree that’s enough.” “It seems bad for me,” said the at the bank of the river. What- But while he was speaking the boy, “but we hate asked only one ever he says shall be followed.” boy jumped off his back and ran fellow. Let us ask this hat.” “Remember that the monkey is away. "Thank you, thank you, As he spoke, an old straw hat the last one you will ask,” said Monkey,” said the boy. “You saved floated down the river. the crocodile. my life.” “Hat, Hat,” called the boy. “I know,” said the boy. He “You are entirely welcome,” “Please say whether the crocodile turned to the monkey and shouted, said the Monkey. “I merely tried is right or I am.” “Monkey, Monkey, should the cro- to repay my debt to Pilandok, your “What’s your trouble?” asked codile eat me?” father, who saved my life from the Hat. “What are you saying?” the the crocodile the other day. "This crocodile was caught in a Monkey shouted back. “Come “Some day I will eat both the rope trap,” began the boy. “He closer. I can’t hear you.” boy and the monkey,” said the asked me to set him free and “He is asking you for permis- crocodile angrily and went away. promised to give a gold ring in re- sion to become my dinner,” said PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL works of other writers published. There is now pending, I know, the following: Bienvenido N. Santos’ novel, “Hurt Men,” Edilberto K. Tiempo’s novel, "They Called Them Outlaws,” Carlos A. Angeles’ poetry volume, "Thunder in the Tongue,” Oscar de Zuni ga’s “First Harvest.” At no time has the stirrings for published works more active than now. Recently the Barangay Writers’ Project, collaborat ing with the Philippine Associa tion of Women Writers, celebrat. ed an unofficial Writers’ Week in an attempt to focus the needs of Filipino writing and writers. It is significant that after that initial impetus, Javellana’s - and Gonzalez’ books are going to be published. It is to be hoped that this movement will constantly be before the Filipino reading public and will not die. For, as a real istic speaker in the forum during Writers’ Week said, a negligible number only reads Filipino works in English. I have come across numerous students who turn to our better Filipino writers in English for their readings. Their enthusiasm is infectious and this may well be taken as a tribute to the resiliency of the Filipino mind, which, though it has for a . CONGRESSWOMAN FORTICH (Continued from page 27) real problem. The latter, I believe is due to the lack of the former. I am not in favor, except in ex treme cases, of drastic punishment of our minors when the crime for which they are to be punish ed is due to our fault. We do not help their moral development and we hold them guilty for lack of same. Had they been properly equipped, the cause for the pun ishment would never have arisen. In short, I am strongly in favor of compulsory religious education in our schools. I feel that it is just as important to engender Christianity deep in our children as it is to teach them the essen tials of democracy, for democra cy and Christianity stand side by side. It is axiomatic that when one falls the other is weakened. We must never lose sight of the fact that the Philippines is the outpost of both Christianity and democracy in the Far East. The best bulwark against the invasion of political and sociologi cal theories contrary to our short period of less than a de cade learned the English lan guage, can command the intri cacy and subtle nuances of the King’s English. The Filipino writer has used English as an instrument to portray the pat terns of our lives, in cursive peace and in violent war. N. V. M. Gonzalez is no mean exception and as I have said he has a feathery, delicate touch, a psy chological insight, and an almost flawless sense of narrative that form the basis of his reputation as a writer. It will be remembered that his "The Winds of April,” a tjovel was a prize-winner in the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Contest, sponsored by the late Manuel L. Quezon. Asia Magazine, review ing the book, said: “Mr. Gonza lez... is a Filipino whose future works bear watching.” A. V. H. Hartendorp, editor of Philippine Magazine, declared “The book is alive and true and contains pas sages of great effectiveness and THE HAPPIEST BOY (Continued, front page 10) beauty. It is a book of real literary, psychological, and Phil ippine interest.” Francisco Arcillana, who was then literary critic of The Herald Mid-week Magazine asserted: “There are touches of beautiful writing jn it, Yeally beautiful writing, restrain ed and quiet”; while Mrs. Pura Santillan-Castrence, book review er of the Manila Daily Bulletin said 'that '■‘The readier gets an insight into the struggles of a sensitive yet essentially sensuous soul which, amidst ugliness strives to produce beauty, amidst sordid necessity and almost painful liv ing, finds little to complain about because it possesses an inward fire, illusions... and a hope. Here is an abiding faith, a belief in one self and in one’s creative ability, which conquers everything, pov scheme of life is education. The best part of education is the in stilling in our youth of the prin ciples of x Christian life. May 1 again repeat that I am a lone wom an in the Congress. I am but a single voice. I need, therefore, the fullest cooperation from you lead ers in order to carry out my re sponsibility to its fullest extent. I am always ready and-1 seek your suggestion and advice. I feel that it is only by working together that we can hope to accomplish the po litical and sociological reforms which we women think are desira ble. I regret that I have nothing more to say on this occasion, I am but a neophyte. I do not feel that I am qualified to formulate a comprehensive legislative pro gram for your consideration at this time. However, I speak from the bottom of my heart when I implore the women to give the benefit of their advice and counsel so that we may all work together for the benefit of our Republic.” ILOILO Cosmopolitan Drug Store LEGASPI Southern Drug Center DAGUPAN. PANGASINAN Farmacia de Venecia ILAGAN. ISABELA Farmacia Sta. Teresita CEBU Hotica Boie DAVAO Mercantile Corporation of Davao erty, disappointments, misery. All this is merely sensed, as the author would have it, foi' through out, even at the most poignant parts of the narration is a remark able matter-of-factness which neither explains nor demands commiseration... Mr. Gonzalez has definitely ‘a way with words’ which the reader feels more and more as he reads along. There is an ease and fluency about his manner of using them which is soothing.” Gonzalez is in his early thirties. He was born in Romblon, Romblon, but has spent the greater part of his life, commuting be tween his beloved island of Min doro and Manila. In my notes, I find that he stayed in Wasig from 1918 to 1928. In 1928-1929 he re turned to Romblon. After that, up to the present, he has divided his time between staying in Calapan and in Manila. 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ECIJA Farmacia Rodriguez APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 29 themselves the Veronicans. A year or two later, Poetry Magazine, which was then edited by Harriet Monroe published his Notations. This was not surprising since Villa and Bolosan had broken into it. One of the stories in “Seven Hills Aw%ay,” a piece called “Far Hori zons” was published as “At An chor off Mindoro” by Frontier and Midland, a literary quarterly pub lished by the University of Mon tana and edited by H. G. Merriam. Merriam called “Far Horizons," “simple, honest, affecting... Its style has a Biblical quality.” The last story in “Seven Hills Away” is “The Happiest Boy in the World”! This may well fit as a title to this article. When the news came from Swallow it was a quiet Thursday morning. Preoccupied with his work in the weekly magazine he edits, Gonza lez said: “You are on time for good news.” Quietly he told me about it, and I shook his hands.' He and I have been going around together for over a decade and I have wat ched his progress steadily. The first time I knew him he was al ready considered as one of the bet ter writers in the Philippines. Dur ing the war we were thrown to gether and many was the time we spent in a coffee shop, discussing literary problems and creative writing. Before liberation, he went back to Mindoro taking with him his family, and I didn’t hear from him until a year later. We took up where we left off and were again engaged in a profound strug gle about the importance, function and techniques of writing. As I was saying, you could see that here was a picture of “The Happiest Boy in the World.” We went to the Philippine Education Company, and later he asked me if we could go to some cheap eat ing joint and celebrate, but I told him to follow his original plan. Royal Fashion Note WHILE on her way to South Africa with her parents, Princess Eliza beth wears an attractive outfit modeled after the royal naval uni form. She wore the ensemble dur-, ing her farewell visit to ships es corting HMS Vanguard, the battle ship that is serving the royal family as a luxury liner. (International) “Go home and tell your wife. My God,” I said, “but I am more excit ed than you are.” I say now that you will like “Seven Hills Away.” It will give you the same excitement I expe rienced. ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir | SILHOUTTES | FdiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiii.i <t.ii;.ii;uii'i.i;iiiaiiiiiiH= The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. There exist limitless opportuni ties in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will al ways be a frontier.—Charles F. Kettering. iiiiiiniiin!i:"r;innniiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Relieve V INDIGESTION Diarrhea AND OTHER STOMACH DISTURBANCES METROCOL •POSITIVELY• RAPIDLY • SAFELY* JPonmda:. LEFT: The top for the long and short of it. Be it a long dress or a short day time number this top can’t be beat. The longtorso bodice flares into a peplum that calls for a three-tier colored banding. Repeat decor in minia ture for false pocket. BELOW: Two themes as dif ferent as the poles. One is con servative but definitely suave. Have a bow tie and a bracelet, the chunky kind. The drape and the uneven hemline here connive to make an otherwise uneventful white dress very impressive. iimiiijiiu.niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii PAGE 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Story Of A WOMAN By D. PAULO DIZON Nobody knew what happened to her that so suddenly changed her ways. Indeed, something must have happened to her. The change in her ways took place within a day; and in the eyes of the people in our town, that was sudden enough, and this woman of whom this story is mostly concerned was the last one the town expected to change. That was why she became the talk of the town for sometime, but only for some time. Conjectures were varied -is to the cause of her sudden change. Some people said it was nothing but sheer affectation, but others believed she was converted on ac count of some secret disease, and others advanced the guess that she wanted to get married for a change. The story of this woman, Na talia (whatever her family name was nobody ever bothered to ask her, nobody cared to know; there was hardly any need for it, in sofar as the people of the town were concerned, for she was never addressed as Miss So-andso, the way Miss Katigbag or Miss Espinosa, the new school teacher and puericulture center nurse, respectively, were address ed; she was referred to simply as “that woman”), was a story of •misunderstanding. None in our town could boast of having known this woman. She stayed in our town for more than five, six, or seven years, but nobody ever came to her nor tried to see through the surface of things, none bothered to find out who she really was; not even those who had had wordly pleasure with her who grudged her the money that she rightfully deserved for the temporary pleasures she had given them. The people of our town had the surprise of their lives when on a Good Friday morning this woman Natalia came to church completely bereft of all colors; I mean, she was for the first time since she came to town without paint on her face and lips, dress, ed in a simple vestido, the kind that farm women wear. She had \ discarded her high-heeled shoes in favor of simple wooden shoes. She was surprisingly very beauti ful and very young and even looked more innocent than the truly devoted ladies of the town. One did not notice any touch of affectation in her deportment, and in her simple beauty she looked natural. It took the peo ple some time before they could convince themselves that this charming woman was the woman Natalia. When she crossed the churchyard necks were craned and eyes strained in their effort to follow her. She took a seat in one of the last pews. Old maids who tpok notice of her nudged each other, and tongues started in their natural function. Old maids began to feel a sec ret envy in their hearts, for they knew .they could not stand stiff competition with this woman as she appeared now in the way of winning any of the few remain ing eligible young men of the town. Already, many a man’s eyes were furtively focused on her. Oh, she was truly charming now. She bent her head as if in innocence, and did not dare to meet with her own any of the eyes that were longingly cast on her. This woman Natalia came to SOOTHES * CURES CALMS • COOL S METRO DRUG CORPORATION APRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 31 our town one evening. Nobody noticed her coming except the driver in whose rig she rode from the railroad station to the house she came to stay. And when she was seen walking through the throughfares of the town the next day the people sighed as if in resignation, knowing that such women inevitably came and left; they were a part of the life of the town, and one would say they were the sign of the town’s pro gress, no matter what their ways. They knew right away what she represented. They could see that easily from the paint on her face and lips and in the way she deported herself, and in the high heels of her shoes. To the peo ple of our town she represented what was rotten of the city. That much they knew because there had been other women like WORKING STUDENT MAKES the GRADE “I’m an office worker and go to school in the evening. After a back breaking day, I felt like I’d been thru a wringer and often Imissed classes. “Then my doc- J tor recommended VITAEWINE. With the first bottle. I increased in weight. Now I feel as sprightly after office hours as at 7:00 in the morning. And I’m even a candidate for class honors’*. (Sgd.) LUISA M. GARCES Do you feel Jagged out after a days work? Doctors recommend the delicious tonic VITAEWINE It will re store 1 o st v i t a 1 ity and fail ing energy. In these days of highstrung act ivity, the human body burns up more energy than it re ceives. Recharge it, pleas antly, easily with VITAE WINE. At your druggist or from METRO DRUG CORP. 880-882 Rizal Avenue "Ask your Doctor—He Knows Us!” FRIENDLY AND ENTHUSIASTIC (Continued from page 15) about anything—the Y. W. C. A., music, painting, dramatics, leader ship training, sunsets, lumpia, fur niture, even about the weather— but hardly about herself. Don’t think I didn’t try to do so. I did and I learned that she hails from Atlanta, Georgia, at tended Agnes Scott University (which she describes as the Phil ippine Women’s University of the South) and Columbia University where she majored in Sociology. Also that she did case work for the Family Welfare Association her who came to town and left later, and they knew from ex perience that as long as the town existed it was inevitable that such women should come and go. Early in the afternoon on this Good Friday the streets leading to the town church were filled with people in their traditional mourning. There was no laughter this solemn day for the people of our town, much less loud gossips. It was a day for penitence, for mourning, for prayer, for the atonement of sins committed. At three o’clock that afternoon the Seven Last Words were go ing to be interpreted, and a ser(Continued on page 33) Big Baby's Birthday THE SMILING LADY giving you her tub version of “September Mom” is Jean Marie Strohl of Montrose, Pa. On the day she was bom she made headlines by weighing 18 pounds. Now, one year later, che rubic Jean tips the beam at 39 pounds. She’s still too young to worry her pretty head about those "spare tires.” (International') before she joined the Y. W. C. A. as Student Secretary when, I do not know. And nothing more. Other questions yielded no further results. I found myself talking about my own doings instead. At one time, I frankly asked her exact age and told of at tempts at guessing it. She laugh ed then narrated the story of how a group of members of the HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS By MAX FACTOR , JR. (Famous Make-up Advisor to the The Screen Stars) SUMMER BEAUTY HAZARDS Are you one of those women who do your utmost to be as beautiful as possible throughout ten or elev en months of the year—and then spend the weeks of your summer vacation apparently doing every thing you can to wreck all of these rest-of-the-year beautifying efforts? Many women obviously do con duct their beautifying activities on just such a schedule. At the begin ning of their vacations they will pre sent a perfectly groomed appear ance. At the end of such a vacation they will come home with their complexions seriously flawed by in expert suntanning; their hair dried and faded from careless and unpro tected exposure to the sun; their hands and arms rough and grimy; their nails broken; the skin of their noses peeled, and their lips rough and chapped. Improvement While there still is an abundance of such vacation-time wreckers of glamour, it must be admitted that they are not quite so frequently evident as was the case even a few years ago. As the years have gone by .many women have learned, oft en the hard by-bitter-experience way, how to emerge from the pleas ures of a summer vacation looking at least as attractive as they were when they went into it, if not more so. But, there are still a few who have learned no- such thing, and it is for the benefit of these that we must repeat some sound, time-honcred beauty advice. First of all, consider the sunburn problem. With the wearing of play suits becoming more and more gen eral, sunburn is not a problem con fined solely to summer weeks spent at the beach, although burning at the beach is more violent and dan gerous than any other kind. Take It Easy For years on end women have Y. W. C. A. Vitas Homemakers’ Cooperative tried the same thing and guessed all the way from eighteen to fifty. One of those guesses must have been right, but which one, I never found out either. Strangely enough, however, one does not get curious about her at all. Not unless one has to write her up. I suppose. One just takes her as she is—a sin cere, friendly and enthusiastic American lady, helping in the construction of a new Philippines. She gives openly of her friend liness. One takes it and does not ask for more. been advised of the importance of acquiring skin tans gradually. The first reason for this is the simple one that .a skin which is burned suddenly, rather than tanned grad ually, is going to be very sore. The second is one concerned only with your command of good looks. Even if your complexion is one of those which is not greatly susceptible to a painful degree of sunburn, the fact still remains that a gradually acquired tan is always more attracfive than one acquired too quickly. Many women ,and particularly some very young ones, still need to be reminded that a summertanned skin should be uniformly even in color tone. Women who carelessly allow one leg to acquire a much deeper shade of tan than the other, or who present any other skin tone discrepancy of a comparable sort, must inevitably face a problem in appearance. Badly mis-matched leg tanning will require either that the lighter of the legs be made darker with make-up, or that the darker one be made to seem lighter through this same cosmetic medium. The former of these two procedures is generally the most simple to achieve. Suntan Oil Never overlook the merits of using suntan oil. Use of such oil makes for attractive tan color tones, and keeps the skin from becoming drv and rough. Don’t over-expose your hair to the sun. Too much sun will fade hair and make it dry and brittle. Oil treatments will help prevent or cor rect such a condition. The hands and arms can be pro tected with suntan oil, hand lotion, or skin scream, and any of these same unguents will help prevent nose peeling. Also, use lip pomade to keep the lips soft when they are being exposed to the weather. PAGE 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL BACK FROM SIBERIA AFTER EXILE A POLISH RED CROSS NURSE and doctor examine a little girl who, with her mother, had lived and traveled eight weeks in a boxcar from Siberia to Lublin, Poland. They were among two million Poles who ?re being repatriated after spending seven years in exile. Examinations such as this one separate the sick from those who are well. {International) STORY OF A WOMAN (Continued from page 32) mon on the Life, Passion, and Death of Christ was going to be delivered by his Reverence Fa ther Santiago, who had been or dained only a few weeks ago. This was going to be Father Santiago’s first time to deliver a sermon, and the people wonder ed if he was as good a preacher of Christ’s words as was Father Tomas, whom he came to succeed. Father Tomas, who died as a result of a fall from the choir loft while supervising the repair of some termite-eaten beam, had been a very eloquent preacher, and the people of our town still remembered how on several oc casions they were moved to tears by his touching sermons. Father Tomas was responsible for the fact that our town was almost entirely a Catholic town. And now the townfolk expect ed much of Father Santiago. They did not wish to loss their faith through the lack of an effi cient preacher, for they knew like a flock of sheep who were deep down them that they were likely to go astray if left with out the guidance of their shep herd. Besides, they wanted to be proud of a priest who was their townmate. Father . Santiago was a part of the town, too. The town church was disconcertingly packed, almost to a point of suffocation, and the congre gation was morbidly restive. But they seemed oblivious of their personal discomfort as they LA TONDESA, INC. R-3U3 Trade & Commerce Bldr. '123 Juan Lunn, Manila Tdl. 2.96-10 raised their eyes toward the pul pit, listening tensely to the beau tiful voice of Father Santiago. His words were simple and clear and touching, and the congrega tion understood them all. They understood the very significance of the young priest’s soothing words. The sound of his voice speaking the simple and beautiful words were as soothing as a caressing breeze of the morning. Father Santiago paused. Pull ing a handkerchief from the sleeve of his habit, he wiped his forehead. His eyes lingered for a while among the multitude of faces, and then he fixed them on one particular face lone, amidst the crowd. He stared down at that particular face long enough so that the congregation also look ed in the same direction. There followed an uncomfortable silence. When Father Santiago started talking again all faces were turn ed back toward the pulpit. The young priest then made allego rical allusions to the story of Magdalena. And so on. The congregation was so car ried away by the soothing voice of Father Santiago it did not no tice anything else. While he went on recounting the life and passion and the Seven Last Words of the Lord, whose wooden image now hung on a huge cross at the altar, the woman Natalia wriggled her way through the thick crowd to ward the door. She came to our town unnoticed, Full Cream Sweetened GOOD FOR BABIES AND HEALTHFUL FOR ADULTS. Prepared by COOPERATIVE FACTORY OF MILK PRODUCTS, BEDUN, HOLLAND Exclusive Distributors: IPEKDJIAN MERCHANDISING CO. R-312 Ayala Bldf. Juan Luna St., Manila Tel. 2-74-46 There is a monotony in the af fections, which people living to gether are apt to give in to; a sort of indifference in the ex pression of kindness for each other, (which demands that we should sometimes cc-11 to our aid the trickery of . surprise. — CHARLES LAMB. If I valued myself on anything, it is on having a smile that child ren love. — N. HAWTORNE: Quoted in A Diary for the Thank ful Hearted, compiled by Mary Hodgkin. He who thinks he can do with out the world deceives himself; but he who thinks the world can not do without him is still more in error. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. and now she left just as unno ticed. For sometime afterward the people wondered about the mystery of her coming and her goingi but only for some time. Later, you did not hear them mention her name any more, you did not hear tltein wonder as to what became of her, and you did not hear anybody mention missing her. Others of her kind were bound to come and fill the gap she had left; they came and they left, leaving no more im press than the brief existence of a flame, to the life of our town. A.PRIL 15, 1947 PAGE 33 VICTOR IN 9-MAN SENATE PRIMARY THIS FORTNIGHT'S ISSUE (Continued from page 3) Linda Welch, 3, starts putting Mite, a four-week-old bulldog through a feeding at Akon, Ohio, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welch put the puppy on a special formula after the dog’s • mother died and the puppy was two weeks old. (AP Wirephoto) this was the date we set for the deadline of that article, not realizing then that it was going to be April Fool day. Fortunate ly for our readers, Miss Zablan, who understands about deadlines because she had worked on a ma gazine herself, decided to forego her joke on us and sent the article posthaste to our office at the very last minute. We hope that when times be come better, an exposition simi lar to the one described on page 11 would be held here in the Philippines to show the progress of Filipino women in arts and in the professions. This exposi tion could be national with par ticipation from all the provinces, or it could be regional to show the progress of women of one section of the Philippines, that of the Ilocanas, for instance. We believe that properly carried out, such an exposition woul be very interesting and educational. Right now we are thinking of the fine pieces of handicraft that are in our possession. There is no doubt that some of the pieces cannot be duplicated anymore. Most of them were the labor (industrial work) of the grandmother of our husband )vhen she was a school girl during the later part of the Spanish regime. Then there is the almost complete set of text books used in girls’ schools at the turn of the century, left to us by an aunt of our husband. One could get a clear picture of the education of a girl during her time by just perusing the books, the industrial work, the pictures that she stored in a large trunk that was left untouched in a bodega for years. Latest bulletin about the cele bration of the Philippine National Red Cross independence tentative ly set for the 16th of this month says that President Roxas will be the principal speaker on that occasion. The next day there will be a convention of the chapter delegates to elect the board of directors and discuss matters concerning their districts. We shall publish a detailed report as well as pictures of the indepen dence celebration in our next issue. In the meantime, read the charter of this national organization and you will find many interesting facts about it which we bet you did not know before.—Soledad Hojilla Leynes. After winning the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate in a nine-man contest in Kentucky, John Brown, an ex-bomber pilot, is pictured with part of his family in their home at Lexington. (International Sounphoto) CHOICE By Alma Robison Higbee I always said I would seek and find A man of Bteady heart and mind, Who owned & meadow, perhaps a stream. Who never heard of a rover’s dream; A man with a roof and an open fire And' fallow acres for his desire. But when he came he was gay and young With bright coin words to fit his tongue, He owned no acres, he owed no man, One of the fiddle-footed clan, With never a roof to shelter him, He heard the call of the far hill’s rim. No roof can hold me, nor meadow clover, My heart must follow a lonely rover. PAGE 34 WOMAN’S ROME JOURNAL SuJbAchibQ Jbo the Saturday Evening News; JhiA 9a Jha. 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