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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. 43) February 15, 1948
Publisher: National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Language: English
Subject: Women's periodicals.
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P2.5O countries double these rates.) WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL (OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUB Si BOARD OF EDITORS Trinidad Fernandez-Legarda Paz Pol icarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. ^Benavides MANAGING EDITOR Minerva G. Laudico ASSOCIATE EDITOR Soledad Hojilla - Leynes ADVERTISING MANAGER Francisco A. Fuentecilla WE resume our cover scheme—showing pic tures of Manila's popular debutantes—with this issue. Oar choice th:s time has fallen on Virginia (known to her friends as “Baby”) Pamintuan, youngest sister of the glamorous Pamintuan girls—Pacita^ Ofelia, Lucy, all married and therefore oui>of the social limelight. The photograph is, as usual, by BOB’s. * ♦ The author of THE BETRAYAL is news editor of tlie Evening News, and in case you have for gotten, his collection of short stories under the title HOW THE AUTOMOBILE CAME TO TOWN, won the first prize in the short story section of the 1941 Copimonwealth Literary Contest. THE BETRAYAL, which we are running in two installments, is a chapter from a novel about guerrillas (and what writer in tlfe Rhillippines has not written or is contemplating writing a book on guerrillas or their activities) •that the author is preparing for publication during his spare hours. * * * We hope our readers, the women especially, will make it a point to read Secretary Ozaeta's speech before the convention of provincial governors and city mayors last month, which appears on page 6. Our lack of civic-mindedness is, we believe, one of our greatest faults at the present, and the fact that there is so much to be done at our own initiative makes this fault graver than ever. And speaking about our lack of civic-minded ness, this is also the cause of the sad state of sanitation throughout the Philippines. We throw garbage just anywhere because we believe that it is not our duty to (Continued on page 34) VOt. xvn No. 43 FEBRUARY 15,1948 CONTENTS COVER: Virginia (Baby) Pamintuan Photo by BOB’s THIS FORTNIGHT ..................... 3 THE BETRAYAL (Short Story) ....................... 4 By Consorcio S. Borje PRES. ROXAS APPEALS FOR SUPPORT TO PNRC.......................................... 5 OUR LACK OF CIVIC-MINDEDNESS .......... 6 By Sec. Roman Ozaeta PROFH/E: Mrs. J. L. Blair Buck............. .•....... 7 A SABER FOR SCOWLER (Short Story)......... 8 Tom Marvin WHY WE NEED BLOOD PLASMA .... .......... 9 Patricia Lochridge MIRACLE OF THE BLUE PINAFORE .......... 10 Alfred Prowitt WOMEN in the NEWS............................................ 11 WHAT DO YOU THINK?...................................... 12 Pedro T. Orata ’SEEMS TO ME......... ............................................. 13 Pia Mancia BOOK REVIEW ...................................................... 13 Pura S. Castrence RE CLEAN-UP WEEK............................................ 13 Message from Trinidad F. Legarda CLUBWOMEN’S BULLETIN BOARD........ 14 DEDICATION........................................................... 15 Sen. Geronima T. Pecson WHAT’S FITTING (Fashion) ................. 17 & 18 Renie, Hollywood Designer HOME INSTITUTE ....•...............•................... 19-22 By CONSORCIO S. BORJE ELENA knew that Paulo was in grave danger when she espied, in the yard of his shanty, the f<x>tprints of the American, papt. J. J. Flint, long wanted by the Japanese. Yesterday afternoon, she 'had gone to the country to gather vege tables, but when day turned into night and she could not pass the line of sentries she accepted her cousin’s hospitality. She and Paulo had a royal chic ken supper (how more abundant it was here than in town!) and then Paulo gave her his bed in the main room, while he laid a mat and pil low for himself in the porch. The last she heard before she fell as leep, Was Paulo making noises on the uneven bamboo floor and say ing Damn, he had yet to feed the pig and count the chickens, and she felt a twinge of charitable guilt that he had to lie out there in the windy porch on a rough floor while she had the warm comfort of his kapok mattress. Once in the deep night, she was half-aroused by the sound of some thing moving in the yard, followed after a dim and remote interval by the clamorous barking of dogs across the creek, and then there was a rattling of plates outside, and Paulo whistling and Polangui, the pig, grumping, and there were tiny shafts of sunlight spearing through ohinks in the wall and splashing on her thick warm blanket. Up to her ears in Paulo’s great blanket bathrobe and dragging his huge slippers, Elena went to the kitchen to wash. Paulo was stoop ing over the fire, poaching eggs, this nose wrinkled and his eyes teary from the smoke. A sooty smudge decorated one cheek. \ “I suppose you dam your socks too,” the girl shouted through the bubbles of laundry soap in the ena mel basin. “Nope,” Paulo shouted back. “My last pair wore out without such help.” With a deliciously scandalous feel ing—“What a charming breakfast companion you are,” Paulo had re marked teasingly—Elena wrecked mounds of poached eggs without salt, an£ a spring chicken roasted without salt on a spit, and smok ing white heaps of rice. They had coffee without sugar. s Paulo’s spirits had revived from his usual quiet melancholy, and be tween recitations of rubaiyat from Omar Khayyam—“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and Thou beside me in this wilderness... This wilder ness were paradise enow...”—he waved a chicken wing around and told stories about himself. It was just then that, leaning over the balustrade, Elena saw the sandal-prints. In a bed of fluff dug up by the fowls the prints lay, one before the other stealthily, the im pression of the toe deeper than that of the heel, like the tread of some prehistoric giant who had come on tiptoe within arm’s reach of the dining table. One print read' the inverted word “Good” and the other print the Inverted word “Year.” You couldn’t mistake those prints. No one wore sandals of that size, tor one thing, and she, as a guer rilla, had given Flint/ the sandals, fashioned out of discarded automo bile Ures, for another. Elena put a hand to her mouth to stifle a scream. “Swallowed a bone?” Paulo in quired solicitously. “Flint was here!” Elena gasped. “You don’t say!” he exclaimed, staring at her. “took!” She indicated the sandal prints. “He was here last night. J thought I heard someone moving in the yard and the neighbors' dogs barking. It was Flint.” “Can you beat that,” Paulo said, staring at the prints. He looked more guilty than dumbfounded. A sudden suspicion entered Elena’s head. Her eyes narrowed. “You don’t, ■by any chance, ^happen to have * know about this, do you?” “Women do get the funniest Ideas,” he countered, laughing easily. “Answer me * Elena said sternly. “Well, suppose I did ” he tem porized. “You did know about it,” the girl cried. “And here you've been talk ing your head off about how much you hated war and—and intrigue, and you’re up to your neck in it, All the time you’ve been laughing at me up your sleeve. Good-bye!” - “Just like a Tyoman," he declared, “to jump at conclusions. Sit down!” She sat down. ' “Now that you know so much,” he said, “no use holding out on you. I surprised Flint in the kitchen a. couple of days ago. He was ill and very hungry. Hie blundered down here. I fed him, gave him a blanket and some clothes, shared with him my few remaining quinine tablets, and directed him to a. hiding place. I leave food for him on this table every night. Beyond that Flint does not exist to me, nor I to him.” Elena could not believe her ears. “But Paulo, you couldn’t!” Elena’s enthusiasm for the guer rillas had cooled considerably ever since the Japs, in the attempt to locate Flint, had killed her father, her sweetheart who was himself a guerrilla leader and had fallen while covering for Flint when they were surprised in their mountain hideout, and' numerous friends and neighbors in town. , Paulo had been a much more outspoken® non-interventionist, but since . he spoke harshly of Japanese and guerrillas alike he lived by himself as much as possible. “That’s right,” he adt’J+tod, npdding. “I shouldn’t. But, damn it, what else could I do?” Elena pressed her lips together Indignantly. “You could talk like that now, but when I was feeding him, you had many unkind things •to say.” “I still think I was right,” Paulo said. “Had he surrendered then, this terrible manhunt might have been avoided. He didn’t care to get his throat cut lying down? Neither did Acong, nor Pablo, nor Don Gi ron, scores of them... Even today, if Flint surrenders, who knows he'll come through, and manjj men yet to die will be saved. But Flint wouldn’t surrender—and try to per suade him I did—and... Hell, I couldn’t let him starve. I don't of fer that as any justification at all. “I don’t understand, ** Elena said. Again Paulo nodded, raither deci sively. “Netlher do I,” he agreed. “It doesn’t make sense. Why for Instance, don’t I try to starve him (Continued on page 30) PAGE 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL President Roxas shown handing a check for Pl,000 as his con tribution to the PNRC Fund to Mrs. Quezon, chairman) of the board. $oxa& Appeals for Support to PNRC TODAY the Philippine National Red Cross starts its yearly drive to raise funds to cover its estimated expenditures for the current year. It calls on every in habitant of the Philippines to give his ardent .and wholehearted sup port to the humanitarian pur poses for which the organization has been established. I am sure that the people in general realize that the Red Cross is giving them invaluable service. , Since its creation as an inde pendent organization, our Red CrosS has been able to render succor to the helpless and unfor tunate victims of national disas ters—thanks to the funds contri buted by our people. During the past year, the Phil ippines has been lashed by six destructive typhoons, leaving in their wake enormbus loss of pro perty and crops. Many lives were lost in these calamities. The Phil ippine Red Cross, always ready to help the distressed, distributed relief and helped ini the form of ^food, clothing and medicine to a total of 248,674 persons. It also handled the distribution of govern" ent relief. In inundated places, 000 families belonging to differ ent nationalities in the form of consultation, guidance and in formation regarding legislation and government benefits; help in actual preparation of, claims for government benefits; aid in pro curing necessary documentary evidences; and assistance in re ferring persons in need to the proper welfare agencies. The Military Welfare Service of the National Red Cross, with its representatives in different mili tary camps and ' hospitals,' pro vided consultation and guidance to those in t^e service, assisted in filing claims for government benefits for those being dis charged, gave, hospital and social service to patients, and provided wholesome recreational activities for the sick and the able-bodied. More than 9,000 soldiers and their families were thus aided yip to last December. This same branch sup plied 2,635 athletic and vocational articles to various army units. To promote a safer and healthier way Of life, the Safety Service department of the organization trained 22,600 men, women and children in first aid, water safety, and accident .prevention. Ap proximately 14,000 men and women as in the several towns of Isabela where 3,000 persons were isolated by the swelling rivers, Red Cross, relief workers cooperated with government agents to rescue the victims by using amphibian trucks, landing barges and bancas to re move them to places of safety. Fire, too, took its heavy toll. Several fires broke out in various parts of the Philippines, the big gest of which were in Cebu City and in Tarlac. In the former, 2,383 persons were immediately given assistance through the Red Cross and in the latter, 2,902 people were aided. ■ -When the Mayon Volcano -in Albay ertipted in early January, last yeas, the Red Cross evacuated the people living at the foot -of the volcano to places of compa rative security and provided them with food and medicines. But the Philippine National Red Cross does not confine its human itarian service only to disasterstricken thousands in times of were given home nursing in struction by the Nursing Service department, the training consist ing chiefly in the care of the sick, the prevention of diseases, and the proper-care of mother and child after childbirth. This de partment enrolled about 2,000 re grave calamity. Even during normal times the Red Cro^s carried on its mission of relief and assist ance to those in need of them. In 1947 it aided no less than 165,Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo was one of the speakers at the luncheon given by the board of directors of the Manila-Quezon City Chapter of the PNRC to open the 1948 Fund Campaign. Others in the picture are Senator Pecson, American Ambassador O'Neal and Mrs. Quezon, chairman of the board. gistered nurses. Because of these continuous acts of humanitarian service, and as a matter of national pride, we should support the National Red Cross. For many years our Red Cross was a mere chapter of the American Red Cross. As such, we were almost entirely dependent on the financial support of ithe mother organization. Naturally, we did not enjoy the right to control its policies. But now, be cause of our adherence lo the Treaty of Geneva oh February 14, 1947, the Philippine National Red Cross has become independent and' must carve its own destiny. It must. establish its own prestige through its initiative, resourcefulness and painstaking devotion. As a Philippine organization, it de serves our moral and financial supj&rt. Every peso contributed to the Philippine Red Cross goes to humanitarian service. Let us not forget that food, medicines, sup plies and clothes entail large out lays from the funds of the orga nization. Men and women, self sacrificing to a fault, must be employed and paid in order that the program of assistance to the victims ■ of inevitable catastrophes may be carried on without in terruption whenever and wherever help is needed. We must, therefore, get toge ther and give the Red Cross as large •. a contribution as we can afford. We must lend it a help( Continued on page 30) VARY 15, 1948 PAGE 5 Secretary ROMAN OZAETA of the Department of Justice Says Rising Tide of Criminality In This Country Is Due To OUR LACK of CIVIC-MIHDEDHESS I take it that this convention * of provincial and city executives is intended to serve as a clearing house of ideas and policies you may adopt and pursue to promote the welfare and happiness of our people- I shall present to this clearing house my ideas on one of the big problems confronting the government for you to test their soundness and validity and to accept or reject them as your best judgment may dictate. * Address of Secretary Oiaeta before the Convention of Provincial Governors and City Mayors, Manila, January 23, 1948. One of the many grave and compelling tasks confronting the government in this postwar pe riod of readjustment and re construction is to fight and sup press the rising tide of crimi nality in this country. During the period from March to Decem ber, 1945, 6,499 criminal cases were filed in the Courts of First Instance; in 1946, 14,865 criminal cases; and from January to Nov ember, 1947, 13,169 criminal cases were filed. We must bear in mind that the number of criminal cases filed in the courts is not the full measure of the number of crimes committed. Many crimes are not registered in the courts either be cause the. perpetrators are not identified or because the necessary proofs against the suspects can not be procured. Nevertheless, the number of criminal cases be ing filed is more than double the number of ordinary civil cases. The prewar records of the De partment of Justice are not now available for the purpose of com parison with the postwar records as to the number of criminal cases filed every year, but my inform ation and my own recollection is that the number of criminal cases filed during the last two years is very much larger than that filed previous to the outbreak of the war. Many factors have contributed and still contribute to this un precedented rise of criminality. During the three years and nine months that the war lasted in this country, law and order broke down, and violence and bloodshed, hunger and privation were the order of the day. The moral fiber of the /masses snapped or deteriorated. Hundreds of thou sands of children of school age grew to adolescence and manhood untutored and unitrained in the duties and responsibilities of ci tizenship; and what was worse, their moral sensibilities were blunted by the * daily occur rences of lawlessnes which they witnessed during those tragic and frightful years. An enormous quantity of loose firearms brought here' by the forces of liberation Crime Takes a Holiday. found their way into the hands of a great number of, calloused and unprincipled individuals. On the other hand, the greater number of law-abiding citizens do nolt seem to have recovered their civic dignity and pride. If not directly victimized by the lawbreakers, they do not feel con cerned by the crimes; they are not aroused to indignation and do not help the agents of the law track down the criminals and put them behind the bars. Some are indifferent while others are afraid that if they side with the victims against the criminals they them selves would be victimized. They fail to realize that by such attitude and conduct they tolerate and abet crimes and thereby place their own safety and . security in constant jeopardy. Let me bring home to you the great handicap that the agents of the law, the prosecuting officers, and the courts of justice encounter in discharging their duties to sup press lawlessness and protect the public on account of the lack of cooperation from the people. When a crime is perpetrated, it is the moral and civic duty of everybody who may have knowledge of it, whether or not he be the offend ed party, to denounce the perpe trator and testify against him. But the sad and lamentable fact is that such duty is commonly avoided, with the result that the criminal goes scot free and re mains at liberty to commit other crimes. Even when the offender is identified and prosecuted, be fore the trial takes place the witnesses are intimidated or other wise “fixed” so .that they either disappear, evade the service of PAGE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Profile subpoena, or do not tell the truth of the court. Result: Either the wise is dismissed or the accused is acquitted and set free to com mit other crimes. As long as crimes pay, they will continue to be perpetrated; and the law-abid ing citizens, because of their lack of civic consciousness and moral courage, will continue to suffer. Just as our buildings^ fac tories, and means of commu nication which were destroyed or damaged during the war need reconstruction and re pair, the moral fiber and the civic spirit of our people which were impaired by the tragedies of Ithe war, like wise need restoration and re birth. It is the duty of every leader^ and every respectable citizen of this country—in the press, in the schools, in the pulpit, in every community gathering—to undertake a systematic campaign to in struct and enlighten the masses on their civic duties, to infuse in them civic dignity and pride, to make them realize that it is to their in terest to obey the law and to see to it that no one violates the law with impunity, that every crime unpunished is a menace to their own safety and well-being, and that all enemies of the law are also enemies of every decent and law-abiding citizen. law denouncing the .possessors of unlicensed firearms whom they may know? Another patent proof of the lack of civic-mindedness, border ing on stupidity, on the part of many of our people is the rampant practice of fishing by dynamite. Everybody knows that catching fish by dynamite is destructive of Mrs. J. L. BLAIR BUCK President, General Federation ot Women’s Clubs of America considers vital. Resolutions per taining to Congressional measures have previously been submitted to individual members for a vote. On world issues, the Federation has given unqualified approval to the Marshall Plan for European recovery; it supports full partici pation by the United States in the United Nations; and it is in favor of an International Court of Justice. An important p'hase of Federa tion work is its scholarships and loins to women students, both in the United States and in foreign countries. Another is the foreign A woman who will figure pro minently in the news in fhe Unit ed States during the next three years is Mrs. J. L. Blair Buck, president of the General Federa tion of Women’s Clubs, which has a membership of some 3,000,000 women in 31 countries of the world. While the General Federation does not dictate the programs of the 17,000 clubs in its organiza tion, it offers program suggestions and publicity on national and world affairs. This year the fields chosen for special emphasis are International Relations, the Amer ican Home, and Youth Conserva tion. The Federation is in no wise connected with the national or state governments, but it recom mends enactment of legislation by the national Congress on bills it and territorial club committee which fosters letter writing be tween the club women of the United States and women in for eign countries. Thjs committee also arranges for the exchange of teachers and students; sends food and clothing to needy persons abroad, and works for the exten sion of federated clubs in foreign countries. Federated clubs are or ganized in countries as widely se parated as Argentina and Finland, China and Poland. The Federation’s headquarters are in an old mansion in Wash ington, D. C. The presidency is a full time position but pays no salary. Mrs. Buck, whose term expires in 1950, is from Richmond, Virginia, and has been active in women’s organizations for 25 years. Her husband is co-ordinathe fishing wealth and resources of the country, and for thac reason the law penalizes such practice. Yet the fishermen themselves, the very class of people who depend upon the fishing industry for their livelihood, feel no compunction in continually resorting to that des tructive and criminal method of catching fish. It is very dififcult tor of Teacher Training of the Virginia State Department of Education and is now on loan to the University of London to work with the graduate school. Mrs. Buck was bom Dorothea Dutcher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attended Milwaukee-Downer Se minary .there, Briarcliff Junior College in New York, and had a year’s travel in Europe. She was in New York studying to be,a portrait painter at the time she was married. She expects to take up her painting again when she has retired from club work. She has two grown daughters and a son. Mrs. Buck is a tall, slender, handsome woman with graying brown hair. She is gracious, out spoken, and business-like. Her large, tastefully furnished office overlooks a courtyard which con tains a magnificent magnolia tree, and she has the use of an apart ment in the headquarters build ing, reserved for the Federation president. As a girl Mrs. Buck was very athletic and excelled as a swim mer. She enjoys the theater, but her favorite recreation, which she shares with her husband and child ren, is sailing. They have an ocean-going sail boat at their sum mer home in Virginia and she acts as the helmsman on their trips up and down the Atlantic coast. In Washington her working day often lasts 18 hours and she spends more than half her time away fgom Federation headquarters, at tending national and international conferences. During her threeyear term of office she tries to visit each of the 48 conventions at least once. In addition to her duties for the Federation, Mrs. Buck is one of the two women members ' of the Citizens Food Committee which is saving grain for Europe.—(USIS) for the agents of the law to catch these violators because they per petrate their crime in the open sea and at night-time. I have been told of a school child living in a fishing district somewhere in Malabon, who was asked by her teacher in the class to describe the method by which her parents and relatives catch fish, and she answered naively that the com monest and easiest method used by them was—dynaanite. We may enact all the penal laws necessary to protect society and promote its welfare and hap piness, and all the officers of the law, all the agencies of the gov ernment, may bend every effort (Continued on page 26) FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 7 Everybody knows that unlicen sed firearms in the possession of unscrupulous individuals are the greatest menace to the safety and tranquility of society. For that reason, the law penalizing illegal possession of firearms has been amended to make the penalty very stiff. Yet how many law-abiding citizens have ever volunteered in formation to the agents of the Scowler Was Often Mad At His Mom, And Showed It Up In Many Funny Ways...Here Is A Story To WaYm Your Heart By TOM MARVIN WE SWEET-TALKED Grunthgr without shame; we worked on her gingerly, like two sappers digging up a land mine. Finally she unpursed her > guard. Ain’t been home for two I years. And his mom works until five-thirty. She winds armatures > at Kraven’s shop. She ain’t home r now.” “Stop saying ain’t! Doesn’t Mrs. Grunther teach you- any ’ grammar? Who watches that kid, ’ then?” . Dusty looked me in the eye. ’ “An old housekeeper.” We just sort of stood there for . a moment. Finally he took his blue gaze off me while he changed hands on the stringer of rock bass. I ■ thought gratefully, Thanks for the . reprieve. “Dad,” he said, “let’s hike up J Main Street on the way home.” . “Okay,” I said. “But I’m going , to have a word with that house keeper, believe me! Why Main Street? Want to show off your [ rock bass to the whole town?” , “I want to show off my old man,” ^Dusty said. I clamped an arm around his , shoulders and we went up Main. Mrs. Grunther raised hob with , him because he’d got fish scales . on his knickers. After his showet he came outside and sat under the Paul’s Scarlet climbers with me, wearing a towel around his neck like a boxer while his tawny hair : dried. ! “Why is he mad at his mom?” • I said. “How does he figure he’s, getting even with her by drink ing Finnegan’s birdbath1? You . sure it’s Scowler who’s the holy ; terror? Or is it h’is mom?” “No, sir, not her, not by a : damn sight. Man, his mom is super. She’s’got yellow hair and • a regular mom laugh. Nothing like Grunt.” “Then why is Scowler mad at her?” Dusty sucked on a blade of ; grass, considering. “I don’t dig that myself. He sort of blames her because his old man never (Continued on page 16) gan’s birdbath. soaked Red’s cat with kerosene last week and tried to set him on fire.” “Because he’s mad at his mom?” “Notice that slingshot?” Dusty said. “Means he didn’t get a let ter from his old man again today. Every once in awhile he gets extra sore about it .and goes over and busts windows in Mr. Reed’s greenhouse. The kid’s a holy terror.” I turned around with new inr terest to look at the holy terror. And I just about turned to ice. “Look out, kid!” I yelled. He was out in the midst of traffic on Pine Street. Crossing catty-corner, the kid and his dog, ” ------ Cars were z'pping by them. But they just kept padding along as if the traffic simply didn’t exist. “Get back, kid! ** I yelled. begun to look something like Sally through the eyes. But what cqnfused me was the mental and emotional changes that those two *n ^at tangled mess, years had brought. You go avfay T>’ mouth long enough to snap that leaving an eight-year-old tad who Dusty might go fishing with me. ” - - - If he promised not to rock the dory. As we headed down Pine Street toward the lake, Dusty said: “Dad, why must you ask the old house- ___ ____ _ ________ keeper’s permission to take your la'zily, never suspecting what his ’ i-.j * , gabbing meant to me, and I caught i a -fresh midwestern sunburn over ■ my Pacific model. We pulled the dory, in and started home. When we hit Pine Street again ~ nodding at a kid approaching us, and said out of the corner of his mouth: “This ’ is the guy that drank the water • out of Finnegan’s birdbath.” ' The kid was maybe seven years 1 old, a tow-headed frizzletop with ’ a smudge across his mouth. He walked calls you Daddy and you come home to a ten-year-old who tries to call you Marty, your foot down. Dusty caught a rock bass while own kid fishing? ‘It ain’t none of Grunt’s business. I don’t dig that. x Not by a damn sight. ” z “Mrs. Grunther has done a middling fair job of raising you for two years,” I said. “I don’t Dusty jabbed me, want to interfere with her schedule just because I’m home again.” I nudged him with my fishing pole. “Strikes me you used a pretty strong word for a ten-year-old kid.” “Grunt?” Dusty asked innocent ly, giving me h‘s patented blue eyed stare. “I been Grunt ever since you hired her and hit for Parris Island. And I ain’t changing now.” We untied the dory and rowed out abaft Picnic Point and dropped our hooks overside... Dusty didn’t notice that I put no minnow on mine. I wahted no fish bothering me. I just wanted to sit on the thwart and watch m.y kid. He’d sprouted in two years; he’d until you put stringerful of he chattered A truck dodged around them., and for an instant I couldn’t see the frizzletop at all. Beside me, Dusty let out a whoop, waving like a semaphore gone mad. Some women on the sidewalk screamed, and began noticing the lad. started squealing, horns blaring, men cussing. drivers Brakes AND then somehow the strolling kid and,his pooch reached the opposite curb. Without glancing back they ambled down- an alley, the boy still strutting. I leaned against a tree, blowwith his arms held sort, inff. And mad. “Where’s that calling her of slowlegged, swinging a sling- youngster live?” I demanded, shot. A sleek coach dog padded “What’s his name? Are his folks behind him. ’ Passing us, the frizzletop flick ed the slingshot in a deadpan salute and said: “Hi, Dusty.” 1 “Hi, Scowler,” Dusty replied. We walked a few steps and Dusty said, “He’s mad at his mom. ” “You don’t say,” I said. “That’s why he drank up Finne- old man is a j.g. in the coastloco?” “That’s Scowler Bond,” Dusty said. “His mom says he’s really Scowler th$ Third. They rented Mrs. Loder’s house last year.” “Boy, - am I going to give his parents a piece of my mind! Righit now!” “You can’t,” said Dusty. “His PAGE 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL At the press conference given by Mrs. Quezon as chairman of the board of governors of the Philippine National Red Cross during which the objectives of the present fund campaign were first revealed, Dr. J. H. Yanzon, manager of the PNRC, said, that in addition to its Reg ular service program, this organization is considering the inaugura tion of a blood donation campaign this year. This is not the first time that the establishment of blood banks from which life-saving plasma can be obtained in times of emergency, has been proposed here. Last year, Dr. Alfredo Baens, well-known Manila obstetrician, upon his return from the United States^ recommended the establishment of a blood bank at the Philippine General Hospital for use in delivery hemorrhages. He said that in the United States the blood bank is part of the standard equipment of every maternity hospital. The following article, reprinlted from the Woman’s Home Companion, tells you why we need to have live blood in reserve and how the American Red Cro&s goes abgut getting people to give their blood. WHY WE NEED donation or contribution has been made, it was announced by PNRC headquarters. Furthermore, all Red Cross cam paigners and solicitors are provid ed with identification cards duly signed by their respective chair men. This is to protect the public from impostors, it was revealed. Approximately 500,000 volunteer oampaighers will pool their efforts TILL IT HURTS BLOOD BLOOD PLASMA, which made a reputation for itself as a great life-saver during the last World War, saved the life of this earthquake victim whose right foot was amputated! She was one of the many victims saved by the “magic-fluid” distributed by the Red Cross. Administering he blood plasma is Dr. Jose B. Cocjin, director of the St. Paul’s hospital in Doilo city, and the lady in Red Cross uniform is Dr. Carolina Sison, Red Cross chapter ad ministrator for noilo and Antique BLOOD and blood products are critically short in America today. Reports such as those above are not unusual hut few of us realize the tragedies behind them. Our supply of surplus war plasma is nearly exhausted and little fresh blood is coming in to our blood banks. When the war plasma is gone—and that will be early next year—the health and livefc of untold thousands of America’s sick and injured will be in terrible and unnecessary jeopardy. Doctors and hospitals are ap prehensive—e ven desperate. Neither nature nor science offers a substitute for human blood. It can’t be manufactured in the labo ratory like the other life-savers— sulfa, penicillin, streptomycin. Doctors know how much is need ed, how little there is in sight. Somehow they must get hold of three million, seven hundred thousand pints of blood within the next year—one pint for every thirty-five Americans. Why do we suddenly need this tremendous amount of blood? And why, needing blood, can’t we get it. easily from millions of healthy adult Americans1? Doctors are using more blood than ever before in surgery and medicine. The war taught doctors its great value in the treatment of wounds, including the wounds of surgery. And they also learn ed that the generous use of blood (Continued on page 27) THE RED CROSS drive was formally launched by President Roxas and Mrs. Quezon last Fri day night (January 30) when they made a joint appeal to the people of the Philippines at a nation-wide broadcast held at the Malacanan Social Hall. During the program, the president handed his personal contribution in the sum of Pl,000. Mrs. Quezon also gave her per sonal donation, also in the amount of Pl.0.00, while Vice-President Elpidio Quirino and Miss Jovita Fuentes contributed P100 and P20 respectively. The sum of Pl,500,000, to be used in the maintenance of vital Red Cross services in the Philip pines 'for the current calendar year, is the goal of the present drive. Of that amount P715.000 will be raised in Manila and Que^ zon City, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo-Lim, while the rest will be subscribed through voluntary contributions and dona tions in provinces and cities throughout the Philippines. The first to be conducted by the PNRC since it attained independ ent status in April last year, the fund drive will continue until Feb ruary 29 in accordance with a pro clamation of President Manuel Ro xas in which he cited the invalua ble services of the Red Cross and called on all residents and citi zens of the Philippines regardless of raoe and creed as well as on all civic-spirited organizations to support the Red Cross drive. The proclamation authorizes all provincial, city and municipal gov ernment officials, including school authorities, to accept fund cam paign responsibilities in their re spective territories. In cooperation with the Red Cross, the Social Welfare Commis sion has set aside February exclu sively for the PNRC drive by with holding permits for any other fund solicitations in Manila and prov inces during the month. AU contributions and donations no matter in what amount will be acknowledged with the correspond ing receipt to be issued after the ■to insure the success of the fund campaign. Of the number, a big majority is made up by Filipinos, while the rest include outstanding foreigners residing in the Philip pines. Members of the interna tional community in Manila and the provinces, aware of the huma nitarian services of the Red Cross, have unhesitatingly accepted vo lunteer positions on Red Cross ■fund campaign committees, it was learned. The PNRC Chairman explained that the Philippine National Red Cross, like other Red Cross organ izations abroad, depends complete- , ly on the people’s voluntary sup port, adding that without the peo ple’s support, the Red Cross can not exist. Referring to the national goal of the fund campaign, she pointed out that it is the minimum amount required by the organiza tion to carry out its vital services for the present calendar year. She appealed to all residents of the Philippines irrespective of creed, color, political affiliation, or fi nancial status to give their share in "this undertaking.” The fund campaign is to be con ducted in a systematic manner to insure as much as possible its suc cessful outcome. Every province and city is under a fund campaign committee. Every municipality is under a municipal fund campaign committee. Some provinces are even organized into four or five districts, each district comprising several municipalities. Each of these districts is under a district chairman. Individuals who can give beyond average contributions are solicited by a special corps of topnotch soli citors belonging to the "Advance Gifts Division.” Other soliciting divisions are the Large and Small Divisions, the Government Offices Division, the Schools and Universities Division, Organization Division, Profession als Division, the Residential Divi sion, the Benefits Division, and the Military Establishments Division. The names imply the fields in which they operate. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 9 HOW CLEAN UP "CAMPAIGN" STARTED MIRACLE of the SPRING came to Cleveland in 1909 without stirring Gates Avenue. In the attractive res idential area that bordered it, householders were digging gar dens, oiling lawn mowers and slapping clapboards with paint brushes. Gates Avepue just went along its slovenly way. Only a block long, its wretched ness seemed to give it greater dimension. Most of its families were poor, and resigned to pov erty. The men worked irregular ly in the steel mills and found mother must be indifferent,” the their recreation in the saloons, teacher said to The drab houses had not even running water; Gates Avenue families carried their pails to the hydrant at the curb. The street itself was unpaved and rutted. The railroad at one end of the block added grime and noise to the scene. There was no street light. Most of the little girls in M'les Park elementary school nearby were gay that spring in new clothes, but the one little girl from Gates Avenue still wore the soiled middy and tattered skirti she had worn all winter. Probably these were her only clothes. Her teacher s'ghed. Such a nice little girl—friendly, industrious. Her face was streaked with dirt and her hair was a tangle; even so, you could see she had pretty features. x So the teacher said, “Please, won’t you wash your face before you come to school tomor row morning? Just for me.” The next itiorning the child’s face was scrubbed to- a shining pink and her hair was combed. The teacher ventured further. “Now, dear,” she said, “please ask your mother to wash out your middy and skirt.” But the girl continued to wear the same soiled outfit/ “Her time in ten years. When the Rev. T. Fleming, young pastor of a nearby church, strolled along Gate Avenue a few days later, he saw the two men at work. He noted the unpaved street and the trash in the yards. His awareness of such firetraps was sharpened by his searing experience of a year before when he had taken part in rescue efforts at the Collinwood school fire in which 173 pupils had been burned to death. “Peo ple who are trying so desperate ly to have decent homes in a place like this deserve help,” he resol ved. He tackled civic officials and finally persuaded the city to pave the street, pipe running water into the houses and install a street light. Then he and other civic leaders put pressure on the landlords to repair the houses. The street acquired a new look. Families became better dressed, and some of the local sots took the pledge. Some families began go ing to church. (Six months after the little girl got her new pinafore, Gates Avenue had become a tidy block Alfred herself, so she bought a bright-blue pinafore and gave it to the ch’Id, who took the gift with eager fingers and raced ? home. Next morning she was a bundle of brightness. She told the teacher: “Mom almost fell over when she saw me this morning in my new getup. Pop was at work so he didn’t see me. But wait till suppertime.” When her father saw, her in the pinafore, he blinked with the realization that he had a pretty little girl. He blinked even more when he found a cloth on the supper table. The family had never indulged in such fonnality. “What’s the idea?” he asked. “We’re going to have to clean up around here/’ his wife replied. “We’ve got to live up to -our doughter.” After supper the mother start ed scrubbing floors. Her husband watched in silent puzzlement. Then he wandered into the back yRrd and began to repair * the fence. The next evening with the family’s help he cleared the debris of friendly homes and respectable in the yard and started spading /citizens. a garden. The transformation Ijecame A week later a neighbor, stirred known as the Gates Avenue Cleanby the activity next door, started up. Reports of it resulted in .sito paint his house—for the first m:lar campaigns in other commu nities. Everywhere Fleming wen,t he told the story. Captain J. J. Conway, head of ' the Cincinnati salvage corps, heard it. For years he had tried to organize fire-prevention drives in his city, but he had made little headway. Now he decided that his drives, to succeed, must have broader scope—“of making our city a more beautifuUand safer and healthier place W live in,” So, in 1913, the, nation’s first or ganized cleanup on a city-wide scale was conducted in Cincinnati, with school children, civ c groups and improvement associations co operating. The idea spread. Fleming left the ministry to devote all his time to welfare work. He joined the National Board of Fire Under writers, promoting the cleanup idea. Millions of pamphlets were distributed, urging cleanup cam paigns—not only to pievent fires but to fight disease and improve liv’ng standards. Many cities and towns instituted annual paint-up crusades. Last spring more than 10,000,000 persons in 7000 American communities turned out to clean <up their neighborhoods in organiz ed efforts. What a tra:n of events to pro ceed from the gift of a blue pina fore to a little girl! and nothing less.” She was viceMONTH WE CELEBRATE XXV^X^XXX • * XJ A AXJ the date of its organization in 1869 until 1892, when she became presDO YOU know that February for his Hiawatha, was born on the and in 1856 became the agent of ident. For casting a vote in the is the birth-month of many 27th. the New York state of the Amer- presidential election of 1872, as, American personages? Only woman personage born ican Anti-Slavery Society. After she asserted, the 14th amendment The 11th is the birthday of during this month was Susan B., 1854 she devoted herself almost to the Federal Constitution entitThomas A. Edison who invented Anthony, whose name will be fore- exclusively to the agitation for led her to do, she was arrested the talking machine or phonograph ever associated with woman suf- woman’s rights. From 1868 to 1870 and f ned $100, but she never paid and the incandescent lamp. Honest frage in the United States. she was the proprietor of a week- the fine. In collaboration with Abe saw the light of day on the She saw the light of day in ly paper, The Revolution, publish- Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Matilda Jos12th of this month, while George Adams, Massachussetts on Feb- ed in New York, edited by Mrs. lyn Gage, and Mrs. Ida Husted Wash’ngton’s natal day falls on ruary 15, 1820. After being a Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and which Harper, she published The Histor the 22nd as you all know. Long- school-teacher for 15 years she had for its motto, “The true re- of Woman Suffrage in four vofellow, beloved children’s poet, organized the first woman’s state public—men, their rights and lumes. She died in Rochester^ known to every high school student temperance society in America, nothing more; women, their rights New York in 1906. PAGE 10 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL WOMEN in the NEWS Miss Garcia was one of 14 Fili pinos who came to the United States in the fall of 1946 on oneyear fellowships granted by the United States Department of State. She completed her year’s study under State Department HELEN KELLER TO VISIT ORIENT NEW Feb. 2 (APIDeaf and^blind- Helen Keller ready to start out on a familiar trail to the East, picking up her war-interrupted work of helping her fellow “prisoners of dark ness.” The grayhaired, alert woman of 67 years will leave by plane on (Continued on page 29) Lolita Corpus Garcia makes good in the United States. YOUNG PHILIPPINE NURSE BLAZES TRAIL FOR HER COUNTRYWOMEN WASHINGTON — Miss Lolita Corpus Garcia, a young graduate nurse and former Manila school teacher, in a few days will launch her studies toward a master's degree in nursing at the Catholic University of America. Miss Gar cia is the first Filipino woman to venture into the high academic field of nursing and when she re ceives her master’s degree next year, she will be the first Filipino girl to receive such a degree. The distinction of being “first” in various fields, is characteristic of the women in Miss Garcia’s family, for her aunt is Mrs. GeronrLma Pecson, the Republic of the Philippines’ first woman senator. Miss Garcia is enthusiastic over her studies, since she feels it will better prepare her for aiding in the establishment of a collegiate school of nursing at the Univer sity of the Philippines. According to Miss Garcia, the university is always making plans for a school of nursing which it hopes to open in the not too distant future. Miss Garcia arrived in Wash ington scarcely a month ago, and since that time has been doing observation work at the Providence Hospital. Miss Garcia will con tinue her work at the Providence Hospital along with her studies at the Catholic University. auspices last June, when she re ceived her B. S. degree in nur sing from the University of Co lorado. The University of Colora do then awarded her a fellowship for six months’ additional study at the university hospital, which she accepted. In addition to her B. S. degree, Miss Garcia earned her certificate for supervision and teaching. • While at the University of Colo rado, she maintained the highest average in her class and received a straight “A” average. The 18 months Miss Garcia spent ■ in Colorado endeared her to the state and its people. "Colorado is my second home next to the Phil ippines!” she exclaimed in an in terview. During her stay there, Miss Garcia frequently was in vited to speak before various civic and religious groups. In this and other ways, she met and made friends with many Coloradans. After completion of her graduate work, Miss Garcia hopes to remain in the United States for another year of observation work. She will then return to Manila where she hopes to have a position in the new school of nursing being planned by the University of the Philippines. Upon her return to the Philip pines, Miss Garcia would like to organize a club for young Philip pine career women, something on the order of the Altura Clubs in America, an organization of busi ness women. Such an organiza tion, she feels, could do rfiuch to encourage women to broaden their interests and to enter busi ness and professional fields. Miss Garcia completed her junior college work at the University of Santo Tomas, and also studied in the school of education there. From 1939 until the outbreak of war, she taught at. the Dr. , Ale jandro Albert School in Manila. She received her nursing training at the Philippine General Hospital school of nursing in 1943. Miss Garcia is the daughter of Joaquin Garcia, who is connected with the Manila Hotel. Helen Keller, deaf and blind since 6he was 18 months old. and a nun visit the war-maimed children in a home in Rome, Italy. This home was established! by ex-king Umberto and ex-queen Maria Jose. Miss Keller and her constant companion, Polly Thompson, toured Europe to investigate the needs of the blind, preparatory to starting a fund-raising campaign for the blind in the United States. Now she is coming to the Orient on the same mission. (Photo by Press Association, Inc. by courtesy of the DAILY PAFICAN). Blind Men Throw Light On Problems—From left: Nicomedes Maligat, flounder and first president of thfe National Protective Association for the Blind of the Philippines; Emilio Santos, piano tuner; Francisco Farro, current president; and Jose Borro^meo. The .group had a prewar membership of 17,000 and a mem ship of only 4,000 at present. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 11 Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful scenes there is, is a Catholic wedding. Not long ago Manilans witnessed it in the Buencamino-Quezon wedding in the Santo Tomas Chapel, and recent ly in the Quirino-Rastrollo nuptial in the Santisimo Rosario Chapel. Everyday throughout the Philip pines wedding ceremonies take place with lesser glamour, but nontheless the occasions are no less significant to the participants. WHAT DO YOU BIHI’s 1. Don’t you think we can lessen divorces and family break downs by inspiring the youth with such ceremonies? I have yet to see a reader or a textbook in the social studies with a picture of a couple getting married or imme diately after the ceremony as those of the Quirino-Rastrollo pictures that appeared in the Ma nila papers on Tuesday morning, December 9. In the same books we find other pictures, not so edifying—such as, pictures of garbage cans, a market, or a bridge. 2. In our discussion of home and family life, such as those of tKe YWCA lectures, nearly always and in most cases we talk only about the difficulties and pro blems of marriage and married life. Don’t you think it would be more positive to talk about the joys and blessings of marriage, of having children, and of living together under one roof? The atmosphere of “problems and difficulties’’ is sickening, in contrast with the up lifting feeling as a result of look ing at the bright sides of marriage. 3. In sermons in church by Catholic and protestant ministers alike, only the shortcomings of man are belaboured, and very lit tle if any, is said about the positive activities of man in the manifold ways of his everyday life. Is it not due to this perhaps —at least in part, anyway—why so many people do not care any more? It is true that we cannot shut our eyes from the many corruptions and frauds being com mitted everyday, but is it not to our advantage once in a while to see the ‘silver-lining”? 4. Of course we cannot mini mize the suffering of our people, not the poor alone but the rich as well. Very often the more wealthy a person is, the more miserable he is. There are many things in life that money cannot buy—con tentment, happiness, good and straight moral character, incor ruptibility, charity, kindness. Have you ever seen a poor couple —poor in the things that money can buy, but very rich in things that mondy cannot buy—trust, af fection, tact, thoughtfulness? 5. Don’t you believe we are growing a little too economicminded and too little concerned with the affairs of the spirit!? DISTURBERS OF PEACE The dissident elements in the provinces are not always the only disturbers of peace. Which of the following bother you in your com munity? Why not do something about it to minimize or get rid of them altogether? 1. Beggars who are apparent ly healthy but obviously lazy. Don’t you think there are beggars because there are suckers? Next time one comes to you, why not refer him to the Public Welfare Office'? Give him the instruction of how to get there, just to have something to say to him other than refuse him bluntly. If you have other ways to deal with them, let’s hear about them. 2. Orchestras or bands that go around from house to house way ahead of or long after Christmas the members of which are a col lection of “odds and ends” and whose music is more a noise .than anything else. How do you deal with them)? 3. Singerg before and after All Saints day, that keep you awake all night for several nights, in whom the old tradition means nothing except as a means of making easy money. How treat them so they will not come back the following nights and so that similar bands keep way from your house? Let’s have suggestions. 4. Newsboys who shout “TIMES, ILANG-ILANG, FILIPINO COMICS...” to the top of their voices at five o’clock in the morn ing when you are fast asleep. 1 wrote the Mayor of Manila about this and he promised action which, up to now, has not been carried out. Why not write a similar let ter yourself to the Mayor, to the Chief of Police, or to the papers’ The author says that a wedding ceremony is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. Photo above shows Benia Eleazar of Lucban, Tayabas, being married to Angel Legaspi (PA) at the Lucena Roman Catholic Church, with PA Chaplain Lt. Arcella officiating. circulation managers ? 5. Firecrackers all day long and way into the night. The Chief of Police of Manila issued an order making it a misdemeanor to ex plode firecrackers. For a while the order worked, but the boys and some adults are at it again. Why not write the Chief of Police about it!? Better, why do not the author ities prohibit the sale and manufacture or importation of fire crackers ? 6. Vocal advertising by bus con ductors and drivers, calling louder than necessary the names of their destination, and more often than is warranted by the' situation. Isn’t there something the police can do to minimize the noise! ? Why is not the label on the bus sufficient, supplemented by reasonable an nouncements at strategic places? 7. Sweepstake ticket vendors who obstruct traffic and confront pedestrians with the tickets every where they turn and shouting at them. Should not this be regulat ed also ? There are undoubtedly other “disturbers of peace” in every com munity. They are there because we, the people, tolerate them. One way to voice our indignation is to write to the proper authorities and to the “public pulse” of the newspapers. One letter may not bring action, but one hundred or a thousand letters and complaints will. Why are not these matters taken up in the schools and in family councils? Write a letter tomorrow—a postcard will do—to the Mayor, the Chief of Police, or the daily paper(s.) Of course, the children must have their play. The sensible thing to do is to establish recreation centers everywhere in., the city or town so they do not have to play with firecrackers. As for beggars, there should be work for them to do, and for the ones too weak to work there should be a poor house maintained by the Public Welfare Office. Don’t you think? As for the others, plain law enforcement is most needed. Why not say so in a letter to the authorities ? PAGE 12 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL LITTLE BITS of fable lessons I learned as a child crop up every so often in my grown-up and mature existence to show me how deeply observant must have been the mind that, first Conceived them. The universality of these fables is, of course, the reason for their undiminished appeal throughout the ages. Here and now, we feel comfortably modern, blase . and all-knowing, then suddenly some thing happens to show how the old, old lessons are still the solid staple of human actuations and thoughts and ways. For instance, steeped in the psychoanalytic processes in which modern minds like to delve, we think we can solve every kink and quirk of human existence by the magical wave and flourish of the psychological wand. Many a time we find, to our bitter disappoint ment, that these kinks cannot be ironed out with mere persuasive talks and emulatory deeds. When the root of the problem is deep ly imbedded in the recesses of complicated human nature, the fruit of that plant “will out,” sooner or later, like the catiady nature in one of Aesop’s fables. In this story, the cat who had been transformed into a lady showed her cat origin as soon as a mouse ran into the room. How can any psychological talk, ing about a man, a poor, humble, uneducated farmer, .whose wife who loved him dearly, requested that, after his death, this simple line should be written on ithe rude cross marking his grave: ‘He done the best he could.’. “The best one can do, the scout way, dear girls, includes some of the finest things in the world. When I reproach my little boy that he should not be cruel to his younger sister 'because that is not the scout way, when I tell my little girl to be helpful to her grandmother as a good girl-scout should—I mean there are things a iboy or a girl cannot do, nay, may not do, cruel things, mean things, because, as a boy scout, or a girl scout, he or she should know much exposure to the elements; this disappears when the thin surface is scotched away and the old, old belief in taking advantage of every occasion, no matter how questionable asserts .itself in triumphant mastery of the situa tion. ’Seems to me, indeed, that op portunism and expediency are the nameless vogue of the moment. To know which side of the bread is buttered, to know how to ploy ball and with whom—these are no matter how eloquent, for exam ple, kill opportunism in a soul and a mind to whom means have the means of “getting along,” and “getting along” with the right people. self, I shall Wo it this once. In a talk given during the investiture of Girl Scouts, these were the points I mentioned: “There is nothing I have to tell you that you have not heard be fore, yet I shall tell it because it is worth repeating again and again. “Every time I come in contact with youth I feel as though there is renewed . strength in my faith in what our country may do be cause of youth’s potentialities. As So earnestly do I believe that something should be done about this state of things that I lose no better. “There is a whole world of ex citing things ahead of you, girls, especially since the world trend is towards equalization of the sexes in all respects. You may enjoy the same rights and privileges as your brothers. You must, also, however, shoulder the same res ponsibilities. It is up to you to live up to the expectation of peo ple in what you can do, to prove to them that their hopes have not been pinned in vain. I look at you now I feel that re- “You cannot have your cake and newal in the strength of my faith. eat it too. If you must have equal “What are these potentialities— rights with the man, do not demand these possibilities in you that I see? They are those that a mo ther sees in everyone of her the old privileges of the woman. Meet man in his own grounds and make him respect you not because always signified but little against/- occasion to wage my little war children, potentialities of great- you exact respect as for a woman, the tremendous importance of the against the current vogue of open ness, of a life of usefulness, de- but because, as a human being, end? The superficial veneer of a and frank opportunism. And dicated to doing one’s best to the you have proven your worth, view on life can stand only so while it is bad form to quote one- best of one’s ability. I recall read- (Continued on page 30) SENATOR CUENCO AS 1 KNOW HIM By CAYETANO M. VILLAMOR (Reviewed by Pura SantillanCastrence) This work is one of love; the author frankly asserts: PI should say with utter candor and since rity that I have a deep personal reason for writing this narrative...” Throughout the narrative where he tells of Mr. Cuenco in his different roles as a leader in action, a department secretary, a provincial governor, a family man, a war-patriot, one feels this great affection and respect. It is a sincerely-written biography, a biit too enthusiastic at times, per haps, and always colored by per sonal feelings and prejudices. The vast amount of material which the author has On his subject is used to advantage in depicting the character, curiously enough, both of the writer and the man he is writing about. Whatever flaws there are in the book, the reader cannot give in sincerity as one of them. The author’s sincerity is almost pas sionate. FILIPINO COURAGE and HEROISM By CAYETANO M. VILLAMOR (Guerrilla Officer, 1942-1945) (Reviewed by Pura SantillanCastrence) I wish this book on guerrillas and about guerrillas had been dedcated, not to Colonel James M. Cushing, an American, but to a Filipino brother-in-arms. The de dication goes to prove, however, how truly together Filipino and American fought the last war for democracy. Composed of many stories, the book is a literal documentation of the guerrilla activities in Cebu and surrounding regions. It is a portrayal of Filipino courage and tenacity, his incredible determina tion in the face of the greatest odds. In that respect, this docu mentation will serve for historical purposes, in the same manner as other war-books. The book needs redirection, how ever, as the huge mass of in formation is sometimes thrown, pell-mell, into the lap of the reader, without much order. As in the same author’s work on the biography of Senator Cuenco, sincerity is the keyword. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 13 Above is a photo of the Most Outstanding Mother of 1946 of the Bautista Women’s Club (Pangasinan). LAGUNA Mrs. Sotera A. Chipongian, out going president of the Nagcarlan Woman’s Club, Laguna, reported the result of the latest elections. The new officers of the club are the following: Mrs. Adela F. Lucido—Pres ident. Mrs. Policarpia V. Arcigal— Vice-President. Mrs. Andrea M. Corcega—Sec retary. Mrs. Laura S. Corcega—Sub Secretary. Mrs. Sotera A. Chipongian— Treasurer. Mr. Esteban P. Veridiano— Mayor-Adviser. Board of Directors Mrs. Dolores G. Monserrat Mrs. Rogacio R. Coregado Mrs. Minerva L. Arcigal Mrs. Rosario R. Luna Dra. Perfecta F. Kampitan Mrs. Concepcion C. Urriza Mrs. Hilaria P. Plantilla Mrs. Leoncia V. Chipongian Mrs. Celedonia C. Dorado CAVITE Likewise the Cavite City Woman’s Club had an election and the new officers are: Mrs. Felisa R. Rosal—President. Dra. P. Bautista—Vice-Pres ident. Mrs. Estella Vda. de Faust— Secretary. Mrs. Dorotea Miranda—Asst. Secretary. Mrs. Elisa P. Reyes—Treasurer. ^irs. P. Perrin—Asst. Treas urer. Board of Directors Mrs. Elpidia Bonanza • Mrs. P. B. Aberion Mrs. Rosario Cosca Miss Zenaida Herrera Mrs. Leona Garduque Mrs. Marcela Juinio Mrs. Felipa de Guzman Dra. R. Bautista-Poblete QUEZON1 And still another club that had an election last month was the Guinayangan Woman’s Club, Que zon. The new officers are: Mrs. Felipa L. Marquez—Pres ident. Mrs. Natividad C. Arana— Vice-President. Mrs. Natividad C. Marquez— Secretary. Mrs. Rosario C. Ramos—Asst. Secretary. Mrs. Concepcion M. Salumbi des—Treasurer. Mrs. Salome C. Pujalte—Asst. Treasurer. Board of Directors Mrs. Julita Olea The Board of Directors of the Zamboanga Women’s Club. Seated, 1. to r. are: Mrs. Dolores M. Rodriguez, treasurer; Mrs. Teodora Aquino, memberMiss Carmen Nieto, president; Mrs. Caridad F. Suarez and Mrs. Felisa H. Apostol, members. Stand ing, same order: Mrs. Filomena M. Macrohon, vice-president; Mrs. Baselisa P. Montojo and Miss Nieves Fermin, members. EVERY DAY SHOULD BE CLEAN-UP DAY Well has the proverb-maker said, Cleanliness is next to God liness. On the occasion of Clean-Up Week (February 16 to 22) I can think of no better thought to convey to my fellow-women than this one, which goes deep under the surface, deeper than most proverbs. If it is true that the environment plays a determining role in the life of human beings — and very few in this enlightened age would dispute that — there is no reason why every week should not be Clean-Up Week. I take it that in observing this event, we are simply highlighting the cleanliness which should be a para mount consideration in our lives, giving it such siginificance as the whole community can grasp in order to instill this virtue upon grown people as well as the young. This year’s Clean-Up Week gains added significance from the fact that now, more than ever, we owezit to ourselves and the community to look to the cleanliness and orderliness of our sur roundings. In this era of not always painless rehabilitation, the government offices and agencies may sometimes Tag behind in their duties of preserving sanitation. But as thoughtful citizens, it is our duty, to ourselves at least, to aid sanitation in every wtfy we can. May every day from now on be a clean-up day, too. TRINIDAD F. LEGARDA (President, National Federation of Women’s Clubs) Mrs. Francisca E. Salumbides Mrs. Elena C. Rufo Mrs. Natividad Epino Mrs. Encarnacion R. Zagala Mrs. Pelagia V. Talavera SORSOGON * The month of January seems to be the election month for women’s clubs. The Pilar Woman’s Club. Sorsogon likewise reported an election: Mrs. Severina de Garcia—Pres ident. Mrs. Carmen de Zamar—VicePresident. Miss Rosa Fajardo—Secretary. Mrs. Baselisa de Areola—Treas urer. Miss Lolita Jalmasco—Business Manager. Mrs. Luz de Inzon—Auditor. Board of Directors Mrs. Avelina de Madrid Mrs. Socorro de Esplana Mrs. Genoveva de Lladoc Mrs. Romualda de Molines Mrs. Natividad de Endique Mrs. Querica Bisnar Mrs. Felicidad de Madrid Mrs. Liliosa Z. Nunez M.rs. Fidela de Arias Mrs. Ana Lloce PAGE 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Mrs. Socorro A. Holazo, pres ident of the Juban Woman’s Club, Sorsogon reported the recent re organization of the club. They have likewisd'signified their desire to affiliate to the NFWC and they have been given all the informa tion requisite to an affiliation. ISABELA The president of the Ilagan Puericulture Center, Isabela, Mrs. B. A. Maggay, wrote to us about the interesting work that they are doing in connection with the child feeding program of the Philippine War Relief of the United States. Through the help of the puericul ture center nurse and the members of the board of directors of the club they are undertaking this work successfully. Incidentally, the puericulture center building, which has recently been completed, is mainly due to the efforts of this group of women. At present they are planning to undertake an intensive food production cam paign and for this purpose they have requested the Federation for vegetable seeds. Their organiza tion is among those listed for priority when the next stock is re ceived. The first shipment of seeds from the club women of America had to be distributed before De cember 31, 1947. MT. PROVINCE In order to expedite the reha bilitation of the woman’s clubs in the Mt. Province, Mrs. Legarda, President of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs has authorized Mrs. Cesarea Romero Gil, president of La Trinidad Woman’s Club, Mt. Province, to reorganize and organize women’s clubs in and around Baguio and in the Mt. Province. Sen. “Imay” Pecson presiding over session of upper house during amnesty debate. * DEDICATION Dona, Concha— Pilar— The first started the feminist movement in the Philippines. The latter pushed it through at the head of a well-organized tried women leaders. To you both, especially; to the women for whose recognition you devoted the best years of your lives; to the Filipino people that finally realized the need of women’s partici pation in public affairs, I dedicate my services. As ever. NENE (Senator Geronima T. Pecson) • Spying Dona Concepcion Felix Rodriguez and Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo Llm among the women in the gallery of the Senate session hall when the new eight senators were scheduled to take their oath of office. Senator Geronlnta T. Pec son, inspired by their presence, penned the above dedication just a few minutes before she signed her oath of office. (See Pictorial Supplement in this issue for pictures of this historical occasion.) Members of the Odiongan Woman’s Club, Romblon. SELL YOUR IDEAS By IBBIE BRYAN HAVE yoiur last few brain, children ’ flopped ? Did you fail to put over your brightest ideal? Maybe you went about selling the ^dea the wrong way. No matter how startling or constructive a suggestion you’ve dreamed up, no one will benefit—including you— unless you’re able to present your ideas intelligently. Chances are you dash t® yo<ur club meeting or greet your hus band with a “hot” idea—so hot in fact that you haven’t viewed it objectively yourself. You start talking in the. middle of the pro blem, revert to the end, and then cut back to the beginning. You’re enthusiastic all right—unintelligi bly so. No matter how good an idea is, your listener has to understand it before he can be sold it. So make him understand it first, see it ob jectively second, and have confi dence in it finally. The next time you^have an idea you want to sell, try outlining it like this: 1. State the problem. Write it' down clearly and in the fewest possible words. What is wrong with the old way, why it doesn’t work, why a change would help. 2. List all the pertinent facts. Good, bad, indifferent, list them all. Nothing is more confidence shattering than to be met with, “What about such-and-such?”— and to realize suddenly that you hadn’t considered that fact at all. 3. Relate every fact to advan tage or disadvantage. On one side of the sheet put the advantageous facts, on the other list the nega tive. The draw-backs must be pointed up too if you hope to sell the idea. 4. Draw your conclusion and make recommendation#. In other words, “Here’s what I suggest should be done about, the pro blem.” Or, “This is the change in procedure I believe to be the so lution.” Begin now to form the habit of taking these four steps before you present any idea. You may have an idea that -will revolutionize your home, your club or your job, but remember—it’s up to you to sell it! FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE IS A SABER FOR... (Continued from page 8) writes direct to him. She just reads him parts of her letters. I’ll bet Scowler wouldn’t act that way if his old man was home. Prob’ly hie old man Would troqpce him. The housekeeper can’t handle him. Her name is Zelda.” Dusty spat out the blade of glass. “A kid ought to have an old man around the house.” “Some kids need one,” I amend ed. “But I think I dig you. I think I’d be doing Scowler’s father a favor if I went over' there and gave those two females a iittle lesson in boys.” I went upstairs and changed my clothes. I could hear Dusty hold ing a palaver with Mns. Grunther. Her squeaky voice filtered up the stairway, complaining that he wore out his sneakers too fast. He went outside, banging the door, and stood around in the yard. After a bit he began to whistle. He scaled the fence and wandered down the alley, kicking neighborly approach. Get the housekeeper on your pidte.. She was mowing the lawn. Her head was wrapped in a red duster; she wore a yellgw silk blouse and blue levis chopped of high on her long slim legs. She was limping as she bucked the mower through the rank grass. One ankle was bandaged up like a blocking back's. Leaning on the fence, I gave her the big neighborly hello. “I’m Dusty Cardinal’s father. Nice day. We thought Mrs. Bond might like this mess of rock bass we caught.” “That’s very thoughtful, Mr. Cardinal,” she said. She wiped the perspiration off her nose by rubbing it on her sleeve. She looked about twentyfive or six, plain 'in the face but sensible. “I’d like to wait around until Mrs. Bond gets home,” I said. “Want to talk with her about Scowler.” “What about him?” she asked. “For one thing,” I said irritably, “he almost got killed on Pine Street. For another, he’s out peg ging rocks at Reed’s greenhouse.” “He skipped.” She shook her a tin can and whistling. I took Dusty’s stringer of rock bass out of the basement ice box and walked down Pine Street to Mrs. Loder’s old house, where Scowler Bond the Third lived. Here I go, I thought, asking for a punch in the nose. I’m a buttinsky. But, dammit, some body ought to take that frizzle top in hand. Not for his mother’s sake, for his father’s. His old man isn’t here to handle it him self. What if the shoe were on the other foot, what if Dusty got out of bound and Scowler’s dad was in a position to straighten my kid out1? Would I want him to? Certainly. Remembering that belligerent tyke dodging traffic on h’s way to wreck Ed Reed’s greenhouse, I worked up a lecture for the house keeper. The first draft wasn’t polite. It spoke plainly about a girl who’d allow a seven-year-old kid to roam while his old man was away on coastguard business and his mother winding armatures. BUT it really ought to be di plomatic, I reflected. Use the THE HENN QUADS DRESS UP FOR FIRST OUTING QUITE GROWN UP NOW, the famous Henn Quadruplets of Baltimore, Md., are dressed in their Sunday clothes as they get their first look at the "great outdoors,” on the lawn of St. Agnes Hospital Escorted by their smil ing mother, Mrs. Charles Henn, are (1. to r.): Bruce, Joan, Donald and Tom. (International Soundphoto) head wearily. “Some policeman will bring him home again. They all know him.” “Policemen!” I said testily. “What would Lieuterthnt Bond say if he knew how the kid’s been be having?” “The lieutenant would be heart broken,” she said. There was my cue; I got extra neighborly. “I’m pretty handy with kids. Anything I can do to help out?” “I’ve tried,” the girl said. “How I’ve tried! But that boy defeats me. He simply defeats me every time lately....” “But it’s not your fault,” I as sured her quickly. Get the house keeper on your side. I leaned over the pickets. “It’s his mother. For some strange reason he’s mad at her and he takes it out in pure cussedness. That’s simple boy psychology.” il put on a conspiratorial air. “We could iron the kinks out of the kid if we knew why he hates his mom. That’s the nub of it. Something’s upsetting the boy that he blames his mother for. Maybe Dusty’s right. Maybe Scow ler’s peeved because his father doesn’t write direct to him. Of course, the lieutenant might not realize the kid’s old enough now to read a little—” She had big, intelligent blue eyes; she got interested right away. “Come up to the. house,” she said. “Where the neighbors can’t tune in.” I walked up the flagstones with her. "Get me straight,” I ex plained. "I just want to be neigh borly. I’ve got a son I hadn’t seen for two years myself.” The living room had a sort of serene gaiety about it, starting with the window shades of red and white gingham checks. First thing I noticed, though, was a picture of me on the piano. “Where’d that come from?” I demanded. “It was a Christmas gift from Dusty.” “But he shouldn’t have given something like that!” “I’m sure he thought it the very finest present he could give. He wants it kept on the piano.” She took the mess of rock bass and limped to the hall door, calling: “Zelda!” A smiling Negro woman materialized from the kitchen and toted the fish away. “Now,” the , girl said grimly, turning back to me. “Now I’ll tell you why Scowler hates me. You caused it!” She whipped off the red duster, (Continued on page 23) PAGE T6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Fashion If you are thin, cover up those neck bones with high neckline as in above, standing collar, or draped scarf• WHAT’S FITTING? By RENIE, Hollywood Designer Haven’t you often wished you could dress like a movie star? They, of course, have the benefit of professional designers who created for them—and jtheir roles—alone. But iff you’ll watch youfl favorite actress, you’ll note that the one outstanding thing about her screen wardrobe is ithat it fits—the role, the occasions, and ny>st of all, her particular figure. There’s no mystery about it. Screen designers know and use to advantage innumerable little tricks of fitting which every woman, career gal or homemaker, can easily copy to make sure every garment is as flattering as possible. Before you buy an article of clothing, do you stop to consider just what it does for your war drobe—not just your looks in the shop mirror? To be really well dressed, you must decide the sort of person you are—or want to be. Consult your own tastes. After all, you are the one who is going to wear the clothes. But get a clear mental picture of yourself— and 6tick to it! Don’t buy a thing that doesn’t fit into your wardrobe scheme, your color scheme, and your life. SHOULDERS are terrifically important. They should be wide enough to make your hips appear slimmer, but take care not to get them too wide. Be careful of round-looking pads. Buy your own if the ones in the garment aren’t right. Press the palm of your hand lightly against the up per muscle of your arm, fingers extended upwards. Your shoulder pads should never extend past the point reached by your fingers. Necklines can do a lot for you. A V-neck, for example, can make a round face look longer, and slim down a thick neck. If your neck is short and thick, avoid turtle necks and scarves. Keep the neck line flat. Be sure a high neck fits closely. If it is round and plain, (Continued on next page) Necklines should not gap. Sports collar, like the above, should hug neck so that it will look trim. Take a lesson from men’ sshirt collars. . .Below: We welcome a moderately long skirt that covers at least the knees. If you only knew how ugly the back of your legj? looks you would cover them un. A deep V lengthens the short neck and is a good choice for a round or square face because it makes the face and neck seem slimmer... Better if with a narrow collar, white lace on navy or brown is always excellent. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 17 Fashion Here are three frocks suitable for the not .so young and not so slender woman... The first in grey (very fashionable worn with red, maroon or gold accesories) has tucks at the square neckline to give fulness to the blouse.. . There are so many beautiful prints in sulk and cotton now available that we cannot resist showing you these two models to copy, the one in the center, sleeveless and With a deep, unusual [neckline and a combination of gather's and inverted pleats in the skirt for a fulness that is becoming to a heavy figure. The third frock has the new bishop sleeves, no gathers at the top, please note, and slightly draped blouse and s+kirt. If you are a large woman, beware of splashy, large prints: choose, instead, me dium, all-over prints as in these two dresses. it should fit * the base of your throat. Take care that your collar, fits closely to the sides of your neck and doesn't gap. Collars that stand away .thicken the base of the neck. And if you’re very * thin, cover up those bones always. Three-quarter sleeves are the most graceful. For a short cap sleeve, be sure your upper arm is pretty, your underwear good, and there’s a neat fit under the arm. If you prefer long sleeves, be sure they are really long and easy—not tight, except at the wrist. A slight blouse fullness in the back gives an inverted line to your skirt that is extremely slenderizing. Make sure, too> that your waist is longer in back than in front by a couple of inches— even if you’re short and have an exact waistline in front. Be sure that fitted blouses don’t pull or draw. A dart in the side of your blouse from the waistline to a point just below your bust gives a wonderful bustline. A neat trick for the problem f-gure is a flared peplum, long enough to cover the posterior and with just enough ripple to dis guise the hipline. If you have a hip problem, never wear a per fectly straight or draped) skirt. A slight flare gives a feeling of movement which disguises size and hides a bad tummy line. The flare should start at the widest line of the hips. A light jacket and dark skirt •will also slim down heavy hips; and if your legs are fat, never wear a tight skirt, no matter how perfect your figure is. Skirts should be measured for length at least an inch below the hollow of the knee in back, for the ugliest line in the world id the back of your knees. Never measure from the floor up. Take the measurement below the knee in back and then even it up. Never allow a dress to be fitted while you stand perfectly still. Move around, sit down, move your arms. A comfortable fit is essen tial. Too-thin girls can look plumper by using fabric in horizontal bands. For example, a two-piece dress with light and dark contrast cuts down height. If you wear a size nine or ten, choose monotones and stay away from fan- . tastic prints or screaming colors. (Continued on page 27) PAGE 18 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL MRS. AURORA A QUEZON, chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross, is the general chair man of the first annual fund campaign of this or ganization from February 1 to 29 of this year. (Photo by feOB’s) EARTHQUAKE Quakes, some of intensity VI, rocked the island of Panay and neighboring areas for several days from January 26 last in what was perhaps' the longest series of tremors in contempo rary history. Streets cracked, buildings collapsed, twenty persons were reported dead, many injured. The PNRC with the cooperation of the PRATRA and the Philippine War Relief Commission, is doing ex tensive relief operations in stricken areas. Below: Very old and tem porary buildings made ox lighj materials collapsed during strongest tremors. Casualties reported 'vere those of persons buried under fallen buildings. Above: The famous bell tower of tihe Jaro church was badly damaged. Bell tower is separated by Ja ro’s main street from the church proper. Below: Streets cracked, some fissures spouting mud, reports said. This fissure is mile long. Above: The street ih front of Secretary Zulueta’s house in Oton cracked as shown in this photo graph. Later reports from Iloilo said this was the only damaged street in the Secretary’s home town. Below: The old and famous Roman Catholic Church in Oton was bad ly damaged. Also ruined are the Cathedral in Ilo ilo and other old and his torical buildings in that province. PAGE 2 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT NEW SENATORS TAKE OATH OF OFFICE Eight newly elected senators took their oath of office before Senate President Avelino last January 26. Senator “Imay” Pecson, shown above signing the oath of office, has been appointed chairman of the Senate committee oni public instruction, one of the important standing commit tees in the upper house of congress, and also vice-chair man of the committee on health and public welfare. (Below) Liberal Senators Carlos Tan, Fernando Lo pez and Pablo Angeles David. Lopez has been appointedby Avelino chairman of the committee on banks and (Above) Left to right: Pablo Angeles David, Lorenzo Tanada, who has been appointed chairman of the eomniittee on justiee, Mrs. Pecson, Vicente Madrigal and Nacionalista Camilo Osias, (Below) Senator Osias, shown chatting with Senator Proeeso Sanidad, received the most applause from the gallery when the senators entered the session hall. FEBRUARY 15, 1945 PAGE 3 PNRC 1948 FUND CAMPAIGN GETS STARTED Mrs. Quezon held press conference at her residence last month during which the goal for the first PNRC Fund Cam- ■ paign was revealed as set at Pl,500,000. Among those in picture are Solicitor General Lim, Mfrs. Pilar Hidalgo-Lim, Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra and Rev. Jurley. (PNRC photo by VANTA). District and zone chairmen of the Manila-Quezon Residential Division of the PNRC fund drive meet to map out cam paign. In above photo may be seen Vice-Mayor Cesar Mirafllor addressing group while R. R. de la Cruz, Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo-Lim, chairman of the Manila-Quezon City Chapter of the Fund Campaign Committee, and Dr. Mariano A. Jimenez listen. PAGE 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT “The International Division Quota is generously low,” declares Mrs. Emmet O’Neal (above) during the luncheon meeting last January 21 of the chairmen of the different committees organized for Manila and Quezon City. Others-in the photo are Spanish Minister Aguilar, Jose Yulo, chairman of the Advanced Gifts Division, and Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo Ltim. Governor Gregorio Santayana of Quezon, chairman of the PNRC fund drive in that province, balls on Mrs. Quezon at the PNRC headquarters. Above photo shows R. R. de la Cruz, director of the Fund Raising and Public Relations, Dr. Yanzon, PNRC manager, Mrs. Quezon,' Governor Santayana and Mr. Virgilio Santos Cruz, chairman, publicity committee, Quezon province. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 5 Philippines’ permanent delegate to the United Nations Carlos PT Romulo arrived last January 24 aboard * Pan-American Clipper and was met at airport by high government officials and friends, among them Manuel Nieto, recently appointed to head Madrid Legation. Photo to the right shows CPR with his son, Carlos, Jr. in their suite at the Manila Hotel. On the same day of arrival, father and son. motored to Camiling, Tarlac, to visit, Gen. Romulo’s old and ailing mother. FOREIGN ENVOYS Four foreign envoys took their oath of office before President Roxas at the council of state room in Malacanang last January 19. The ceremonies were simple but witnessed by high government officials and members of the diplomatic corps. Above photo shows Ramon Fernandez, shipping magnate, taking his oath as minister to London. Above, right: Proceso Sebastian, minister to China, takes his turn in the oath taking before President Roxas. Behind him, in the foreground, may be seen Charge d ’affair Nieto, who has already left for his post in Spain. Right: Jn this picture are seen not only Col. Manuel Nieto taking his oath ’before Presi dent Roxas but also Ambassador Elizalde and Span ish Minister Teodomiro Aguilar. Not shown is Ma nuel Alzate, consul-general to Australia and New Zealand. P4GE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT The two photos above were taken at the TeaMusicale of the American Association of Uni versity Women held at the home of Mrs. A. J. McIntosh. Senator-elect Geronima Tomelden Pecson, former schoolteacher, active social worker, and until her election as Liberal senator, social secretary to Mrs. Roxas, was given a testimonial luncheon at the Manila .Hotel by the National Federation of Women’s Clubs last January 26. In the upper picture she is shown at the microphone, v^hile at the presidential table may be seen Mrs. Roxas, Mrs. O’Neal, Mrs. Avelino, Mre. Legarda, Mrs. Concep cion Felix Rodriguez. Lower picture e’.ows prominent Manila matrons at the bienvenida luncheon given by Mrs. Julieta Abad Rufino for Mrs. Agustin Iaboro, just arrived from the United States. Right: The short and the long of it—meaning the controversial hemline—as seen during the dance of the Circle of Youth at the Officers’ Club in Camp Murphy last January 18. Charito Bahtista, popular Manila deb, fifth from the left, showB version of the uneven hemline. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 7 Circle of Youth (COY) held a benefit ball for disabled veterans last January 8 at the Officers’ Club in Camp Murphy. In picture are some of the Manila debs who attended the dance. Mrs. Manuel de la Fuente made her first public appearance since the appointment of htfr husband as mayor of Manila at the dinner given by the Theater Owners’ Association. Photo below shows the Mayor, Ernesto Rufino and Mrs. De la Fuente. Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. John Cotton cut their wedding cake after simple marriage rites at the home of the James Mclnnes Hen dersons. Bride wore a gown of ice-blue chif fon. (Upper picture, right) Provincial governors and city mayors at Malacanang Palace. (Right, center picture). Reception line at the cocktail party given by President Roxas for provincial governors and city mayors. Left to right : the President, Mrs. Roxas, Vice-President Quirino, Mrs. Ave lino, Senate President Avelino and Secretary of the Interior Jose Zulueta. (Right) PAGE 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT Household Notes Furniture for the Bedroom A sofa during the day, a bed at night. The base i« a papag (with shelves underneath for storage) the mattresses covered with printed fabric, ruffles and pillow cases with plain-colored material. If -you cannot place this sofa-bed under a window, utilize the wall apace behind it by putting up shelves. USE THAT SPACE MAKE use of that odd corner, that unused wall space. Don’t worry about the high cost of furniture. Build your own—right into the wall—and save that space. All over the country people are finding need for extra space for bed, or, maybe, a needed corner for storage. '•More room seems to be the demand of everyone. Com pactness and efficiency js the keynote of all newly-built houses. “Built-ins” are entering both new homes and old. Designers are showing home owners how every room in their house can sport a new built-in. They fea ture units neatly constructed and finished to attractively match or blend with the walls or wood work. The most widely used ma terial for the construction of these “built-in units” is the versatile plywood. Vernon F. Sears, American architect, makes some very inte resting suggestions for built-in units on popular plywood. In The Bedroom . A bedroom that is used only for sleeping and dressing is definitely dated as prewar. Today’s bedroom is also a sit ting room where intimates may be entertained. The new compact lounging bed—open or extended for use in the evening, closed or folded and looking like a sofa during the day—is the most po pular choice among newly-mar ried young people when they buy furnishings for their bedroom. Perhaps in a growing family, the mother and father need a re treat for reading, correspondence, or sewing. One simple solution if your bedroom is large and has space for it is the desk with chaise By ELEANOR ROSS JUST as the dining room is1 tak ing on a dual personality and emerging as an extra sitting room or study, so family bedrooms are gradually becoming all-purpose rooms. Mother and dad often find them selves relegated to another part of the house when sister has callers, and junior usually pre-empts the dining room for study purposes. Then for anyone who has a hobby that cannot be spread all over the house, the bedroom often becomes a refuge. Bedroom Furnishings All of which means that furnish ings should be flexible, combining daytime activities with sleeping facilities. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be a good bedroom or a good alj-purpose room. If you are fortunate enough to have a bed room with a fireplace, then it is easy to make an interesting group ing around it for sewing, reading or just conversation. Two big chairs instead of one, two reading lamps, two tables and a footstool. A loveseat is another good addi tion, because it is small yet serves as a sofa without taking up too much room. All in all, the bed room-sitting room becomes a second “private” living room where visi tors won’t intrude except by invita tion. For those with mental work to do, the bedroom-study is an ideal place. The addition of a good desk and storage space for materials can be made easily, and if the pieces are carefully chosen, they won’t seem out of place. A built-in desk with storage cabinets on the sides is easy to construct. For high school children painted furniture is practi cal, and the fine unpainted pieces in the shops, done oh clean modern lines, are easily tied together with paint. A combination room needn’t com bine everything. If it does, it will only be a jumble. Try, if possible, to keep the sleeping and dressing sections separate from the daytime sections. Set the desk and work stor age space in one corner or at one window, but don’t have it scattered. The conversational group in a bay window, in one corner or around the fireplace, is much more useful than to h^ve the chairs separated by the beds and other furniture. A Sewing Room One housewife made a corner of her bedroom into a sewing room, and she had a large decorative screen to set up in front of the ma chine and work table, if she had to leave it. A man who collected and repaired old books fixed up a corner of the master bedroom and built a desk so large and roomy that the center drawer held everything he waa working on at the moment, so that materials could be put away at a moment’s notice, and the room made spic and span for company. lounge or lounging sofa along side so that a practical lamp will ser vice both, thus saving you electric current or kerosene. Beds, dresser, night table, van ity, all can be built against the wall. A dresser and vanity table How to use that corner. can be made into a combination unit to fit snugly into an odd cor ner where any usual piece of fur niture would never do. By shap ing any unit it could shape the confines of even the smallest of bedrooms. The spaces under beds are usual ly wasted. Why not build cabinets or drawers under the beds? Per haps there is space for a standard single bed under one of the win dows in your bedroom. Instead of .buying a bed, make one or hire a carpenter to build one, just a papag with shelves underneath Buy a mattress for the papag and make a skirted cover for it. You will have a sofa at day and a bed at night.. In Living Room For the living room, Mr. Sears suggests couches, not just built-in seats, but actual sofas, complete with backs, arms and comfortable seats. The hollow construction of these couches permits cabinets to be hidden within the arms, which may also serve as lamp tables. The top of the headboards could be used for books or be decorated ■with knick-knacks. Cabinets and bookcases erected on the wall at any spot from floor to ceiling act (Continued on page 27) FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 19 COOKING Try A Marinade of CALAMANSI WE have become a convert to the practice of marinading (meaning, .to steep or soak, the longer the better) meat, fish or fowl, even vegetables, in a mixture Of something sour, something salty or sweet, and something oily, in order to make it tender and to ?mprove its flavor. Vinegar or lemon juice or wine, oil, salt and spices are usually the ingredients for a marinade, but toyo and calamansi juice, to our taste, cannot be im proved upon, and are inexpensive, CREMA FOR CLEAR SKIN Crema Bella Aurora contains certain ingredients which ad as a temporary ’’black-out” against the formation of pig ment. Next it favors the reten tion of fat globules in the skin which helps to smooth out lines and creepiness. It’s easy to use—just smooth on at night before retiring and let it work while you sleep. After using just one regular sized jar . . . you will find your complexion so improved that you will need no urging to con tinue using Crema Bella Aurora. Sole Distributors: PHIMPPINE-AMERICAN DRUG CO. Botica Bole—95 Escolta comparatively speaking. The practice of marinading/meat or fish in a vinegar and spices mixture is common among French cooks, and how good these cooks are. So, sisters, try soaking meats, (which must be halved and flat tened) first in the marinade mix ture, and after this has evapora ted,-fry the chicken in a little lard * or butter. Dip slices of meat in g toyo and calamansi juice before especialy those cuts that are eating, doubtful as to their tenderness, be fore cooking them and see how much more flavorsome they are. For Beef Fish broiled w vjiwv A mixture of toyo and calamansi m calamansi still very expensive). When they ... juice for about half an hour. Of are plentiful,. try this: Get very or namDurgers. auow me meat course you are ^miliar with the rjpe mangoes and peel the halves to soak for at least an hour. After £lng b*ngW5 +whl<* « s°aked Place in a bowl and pour over browning the meat in a little lard, thls m«tu^ to ^ch plent\°.f them some sweet wine (like musSarhc has been added, before it is catel or sherry)< piace the re. dried in the sun and then fried, frigerator overnight. A friend of usually for supper. ours for marinating but Have you tried marinating dalag to many women rum is Tather (do not remove scales) before strong. Peaches canned in heavy juice is good for thin slices of beef or hamburgers. Allow the meat pour the marinade over the pieces in the pan which is still on the fire and bring to a boil. Remove pan from the fire (after adding sliced onions, if these are to be served broiling it? If not, you hav’e missed someth’ng. Try rubbing a little lard all over the body of the dalag before broiling it. If the parilia is not too .close to the hot coals but placed a little high, the fish will broil slowly and cook thoroughly and brown evenly. The scales and skin will become a delicious, crisp crust you will eat to the last morsel. i with the meat) and transfer steaks or hamburgers to a hot plate. Pour sauce over them and serve while hot. For Pork and Chicken A segment of garlic, finely mashed, added to the toyo and lime juice mixture seems inevitably for pork and chicken, and rightly so, for garlic goes well with these meats. Perhaps you prefer vine gar over calamansi juice. That is all right, too. The pork steaks should be from the leg (piema) and sliced not too thin. It is beter to cook the pork in a little water first, for pork should be cooked very thoroughly before it is eaten. After the water has evaporated, add a little lard and brown the steaks on both sides, then add the marinade mix ture and allow this liquid to boil. In our home, chicken breast is the least popular of all cuts, es pecially when boiled or cooked too long, for then its meat becomes stringy and tasteless. When we have linagang manok (boiled hen), the meat from the breast is usually made into chicken salad. The breast from the chicken or hen tastes better when fried after it has soaked in toyo and calaman si juice or vinegar and garlic for several hours. Parboil the breast And Fruits Fruits improve in flavor too when marinated. In their case, the marinade consists of something sour (lemon or calamansi juice or wine) if the fruit is too sweet, and something sweet if the fruit is tart or sour. Mangoes are just coming into season and therefore not yet very Marinate Fish, Too which must be fried or improves in. flavor after ~ get“ (TJt to * »y‘ tort they syrup and therefore very sweet will taste less cloyingly if mari nated in dry (not sweet) wine. For something fancy, scoop balls out of a ripe papaya and marinate these in calamansi and honey or com syrup (bought- in bottles). Store in the ice-box until serving time. Serve garnished with mint leaves in your best saucers or sherbet glasses. PAGE 20 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL IF YOU are not yet acquainted with “braising” do so right away for it is a method of cooking best adapted] to cheaper intermediate cuts of meat, neither very tough nor yet quite tender. Moreover, meat that is being braised may be left alone for hours without any attention from you, except per haps a peek once in a long while to see if it is already tender or drying up. • Flavor is developed by brown ing the meat evenly on all sides in an uncovered, thick frying pan, -on top of the stove in a heavy pot or skillet, before adding the liquid. The browning should be done slowly over moderate heat to keep the meat from drying on the outside and to give a more lasting brown which will not wash off when the liquid is added. If the meat is very lean a little fat must be added, as in mechado. Flouring the meat en hances the flavor and the rich brown of the drippings and gravy —and a rich brown gravy is an important part of the braised meat dish. Meat which has been flour, ed must be watched more carefully to prevent sticking and scorching. Soaking in a marinade (see other article in this issue about toyo and calamansi marinade) be fore cooking., as in the case of the sauerbraten, adds flavor; so also does cooking herbs, spices or vege tables with the meat. When the meat has been brown ed a rack should be slipped under it to keep the underside from get ting too brown, if not burned. If a rack is not available the meat should be turned frequently dur ing the cooking. If not enough juice has come out from the meat during brown ing a little liquid—not more than a cupful—should be added. The liquid is usually water but it may be stock, milk, tomato juice or sour cream. Small amounts may 'be added during the cooking as the need may arise. As soon as the meat us browned the pot should be closely covered and heat reduced so that the liquid is kept below boiling during the rest of the cooking period. Cooking at a high temperature shrinks and dries out the meat and dissolves the connective issue un til it no longer holds the muscle fibers together; consequently the meat is stringy and difficult to slice. The cooking time must be long enough * to allow the meat to reach the well-done stage, and for the connective tissue to be completely softened. Both points are import ant in making the cuts recommend ed for braising more tender and palatable. This will take from 2 to 5 hours, depending on the size and cut of the meat. The top of the stove is most economical for braising as the fire may be lowered to the sim mering point and left at this tem perature until the iheat is done. The use of charcoal will also be economical—we usually spend only ten centavos’ worth uling to make a kilo of pork or beef tender in three hour’s time. CUT FOR BRAISING: Neck, foreshank, chuck, brisket, plate, short ribs, flank steak, heel of round, rump, oxtail, heart, liver and kidney are excellent.' But 'we prefer cuts with bones, like brisket or. shfirt ribs, for braising * for the meat tastes sweeter. UTENSIL FOR BRAISING. The old-fashioned iron pot (caldero) with a tight cover is the most ideal utensil for braising, but a casserole made of heavy alumi num, provided it has a tight cover, will also do nicely. Even a clay pot (palayok) will serve the pur pose if covered tightly. Now for a few sample recipes: BRAISED SHORT RIBS OF BEEF OR PORK 1 kilo of short ribs, of beef or pork Seasoned flour (flour with salt and pepper) 1 onion, sliced 1 tablespoon vinegar 2 tablespoons ketchup or 1/2 cup cut up tomatoes 1/2 cup water or stock Dredge each piece of beef or pork with the seasoned flour (this is best done by placing flour in large paper bag, adding the meat pieces and then shaking bag vigorously until all pieces are covered with the flour). Brown in a little fat in a heavy skillet. Remove to a casserole or pot. Add remaining ingredients to drippings in the skillet, stirring until wellblended . Bring to a boil, then pour over meat in the pot. Cover and simmer until tender (about 2 hours.) If vegetable, such as potatoes and carrots, are to be added, do so half an hour or so before the meat is done. More water may also be added with the vegetables, as the these absorb liquid. SAVORY POT ROAST - Beef in one whole piece (round, rump or chuck) Seasoned flour A little, lard 1 cup stock or consomme 1/4 cup tomato paste 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 cup finely minced celery or kinchay Small piece of bay leaf 4 whole cloves 5 peppercorns Dredge beef with seasoned flour, then brown slowly and carefully on all sides. Place a rack on bot tom of pot or casserole and place meat over it. Add 1 sliced onion and the rest of the ingredients. Cover and simmer for 3 or more hours. BROWN GRAVY After browning meat, skim off fat and measure. Usd 2 table spoons of fat for each cup of gravy required. Add 2 tablespoons of flour for each 2 tablespoons of fat. Blend fat and flour over low heat and cook, stirring all the time, until mixture is a rich brown. Remove from heat. Gradually stir in liquid, prefer ably cold, allowing 1 cup liquid for each 2 tablespoons of fat and flour. In addition to any juice left in the pot after the meat is cooked, the liquid may be water, stock, milk or vegetable juice. Stock may be made by adding water to the pan in which the meat has been browned and bring ing water to boil in order to loosen up the brown particles that stick to the pan. Season to tapte with salt and pepper, adding a little grated onion if desired. Return to fire to heat and cook, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Keep stirring to prevent lumps. GLAMOR GIRLS Flowers “That set isn’t complete. Where’s the can opener? * 1 FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 21 CHILD Ways To Good BEHAVIOR bringing about desirable behavior, frowning “they”—are waiting to A mother who knows that at 2 pounce on him. years a child is passing through A parent who can get his child a stage when resistance to di- to behave acceptably only by rection is more likely to appear making him afraid of the consethan earlier or later will use this quences of his acts has got the knowledge and exert her author- cart before the horse. “ ity as unobtrusively as possible. Much of the negativism and re sistance noticeable at this age can be traced to the fact that parents tend to say “no, no” too much, thus encouraging the child to exactly the same response. If a Aside from happiness child's home, which pets as in- _____* __ _____ _________ __ surance against trouble, REGU- mother realizes that at this stage LARITY in his routine is prob ably the greatest single help to ward building good habits. A child who has regular hours for sleep and meals and who has a good place to carry on his play, as well as companions and mate rials to make it enjoyable, should not have serious behavior blems. of development exploring, ex perimenting, “getting into things,” are the child’s ways of learning, she will try to make his surroundings such that he does hot have quent adolescents are sometimes ____ __ _ r__ _____ _ ____ to meet with constant warnings genuinely bewildered by the things cipline, for if he’has done wrong, and scoldings. A child desires ap- their children have done. “It isn't he especially needs the encourage* proval. If he is forever getting because he hasn’t punished that ment of his parents’ belief in him. disapproval, his natural reaction be has turned out this way,” they He needs to feel sure that they fe balkiness and negativistic be havior . -■ , , ■ proHowever, here are a few things it will be helpful to remember in trying to prevent problems from arising: KEEP ’EM BUSY Children who are busily busy have no inclination to be “naughty.” Providing a variety of things to do is important, for young children tire of one activity more quickly than most of us realize. If active, romping play is followed by quiet play., a child does not get so tired, either. Children are less likely to quarrel if they do not play at one thing for too long a period, so a mother needs to be skillful in substituting a new activity before the quarreling point is reached. UNDERSTAND ’EM Understanding by parents of what may be expected of children at various ages is a great help in Expecting good behavior often brings it about, because a child is keenly sensitive to suggestion. Requests or suggestions bring better results than order or com mands. If adults stop to think about it, they will realize 1;hat they feel that way, too. Explanations and clear directions that don’t use too many words bring good results. Children res pond much better to positive than to negative suggestions. “Use the crayons gently” is better than “Don’t break the crayons.” AVOID THESE Attempts to make the child"behave by THREATS should be ta boo. Because this method seems to bring results momentarily., pa rents fall back on it without realizing how dangerous it can be. If, for instance, they say, “You will get sick if you eat that candy, and I’ll have to call the doctor,” it is no wonder the child refuses to open his mouth when he is being examined by this doctor, who has been pictured as a sort of bogieman. On the bus one often hears a well-meaning mother sternly say to her mischievous child, “They will put you in jail if you do that!” While a child who is always having such threats thrown at him learns to. dodge them, he never theless gets an uneasy feeling that “they”—a sort of terrible, Fear of punishment may keep a child from wrongdoing for the moment, but later the fear may be connected in his caught doing wrong. If training is thought of as a way of helping a child learn how to make good decisions for him self, his parents will depend less on punishing him for his mistakes than on praising him for the good things he does. Parents of delinsay, not seeing that perhaps it was in part the punishment that caused the trouble. Punishing child for his faults (which may make him sullen and obstinate) is less effective than encouraging some good behavior as a substitute for the bad. Suppose a 4-year-old persists in pulling the cat’s tail. Spanking or scolding him for it ■mind only with getting will ' only center his mind on it (as something ^desirable because it is forbidden.) Finding a more worthwhile occupation (though it takes more of his mother’s time right then than a spanking) dis tracts his attention in a con structive way. Impressing his “badness” on a child is a very poor form of disABANDONED GIRL MOTHERS SISTER PAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL A SAB ER FOR... (Continued from page 16) and a mass of silver blond hair popped out. The hair made her. It transformed her from a sensiblelooking girl into a shockingkly fceauitiful woman. The hair turn ed her skin the color of sun drenched sand and snapped her eyfes to an electric blue. “I’m Christy Bond,” she said. “I work at Kraven’s five days a week. I keep up a house and a garden and sew for the Red Cross. believe he is not bad but has made a mistake. Unless we suc ceed in helping a child to want to do the right thing, we had better change our methods of dealing with his behavior. . PUNISHMENT The mother who does not excited ly punish a child on impulse but tries to think about his problem add make a plan that is reason able will be rewarded by her Child’s appreciation of her fair ness. Punishment is worthless or sometimes even harmful unless it does more than just stop poor behavior. It should cause a child to be thoughtful about what he has done, but it often causes him to be resentful instead. When the consequences of a child’s act can be used as punish ment, the reasonableness of these results is brought home to him. If, through carelessness, he kreaks a toy, doing without it and not having it replaced im mediately helps him to be more careful with toys. If he hits an other child, going without com panionship for a while teaches him what he has forfeited by his behavior. When a child insists on doing things that are dangerous, such aS climbing where he has been forbidden to go, swift, immediate punishment that makes him realize his parents feel strongly about his behavior may be not only ne cessary but also desirable. Even when loving parents get angry and punish impulsively on occasion, they should not feel too guilty * If there is real affection between parent and child, the love that the child knows is there makes up for the angry outburts, if they are net too frequent. It i^when parents have no strong underlying relationship - with their children that hasty, poor forms of punishment may become habitual, with harm to their children’s per sonalities. I paint the fence and mend the faucets and bake the cakes around here. When a box falls on my foot I come home from work and mow the lawn. All the while, I’m raising a son. I was doing a good job of it, too, until you sent that blasted Japanese sword to Dusty 1” “Whoa, back!” I said. “Hold your horses, madam.... ” “You and your Jap swords! Why couldn’t . you let them lie where they fell! Of course Scowler in sisted that his father send him a sword like Dusty’s. But his father can’t. So Scowler thinks I never forwarded his message. That’s why he’s angry with me.” “Take it easy,” I said. “I’ll get a saber for the lad.” “Keep your infernal saber! You wanted to know what’s troubling Scowler, and that’s it. That’s the nub of it. Now you can swing into action. Now you can be a professional father to an unhappy little boy.” Almost forgetting to limp, Mrs. Bond advanced on me. She was one blazing, beautiful blonde. I glanced around for my cap. “You think you’re an expert father,” she said bitterly, “be cause you hired a six-foot child less widow to mind Dusty while you went to war. Let me tell you something! Dusty Cardinal spends more time here than he does at home. He’s here waiting when I get home from work. * He runs my errands, weeds my garden. But he won’t do a tap for Mrs. Grunther. Why? Because I’m a good mother, Mr. Cardinal. Even to Dusty. And Mrs. Grunther isn’t a mother!” I got hold of my cap and said: “Woosh!” While I was backing down the hall she caught her second wind. “Thank Dusty for the rock bass,” she said. “I’m sure he caught them all himself. Scowler and I fish with Dusty often.” Giving her a sickish 3mile I started walking fast down the flagstones. Christy Bond limped to the steps and called: “Dusty takes that Jap sword up into his attic and slices the rafters. Ask him why he slices the rafters, Mr. Cardinal! Ask him!” Retreating up Pine Street I im agined that the neighbors were leering at me. There goes Marty Cardinal, the buttinsky! I told myself. You predicted that you’d get a punch in the nose, and it came true. Dusty was still out somewhere probably kicking a tin can and whistling. In the kitchen, Mrs. Grunther was .rustling dinner, banging pans and definitely not whistling. The telephone in the library leered at me, too. I thought of calling Mrs. Bond to apologize for my brass. And incidentally throw up a belated defense, ’ when I could just talk to her without having id look at that mesmerizing silver hair. Looking at it made me wohder what Lieutenant Bond must be feeling, two years away from it. A woman like that...It had been a good many years since I’d noticed anybody’s hair, except Dusty’s tawny bristles. DUSTY came up the walk, bouncing a tennis ball. Though it was dim in the library he came in there unerringly, calling, “Dad?” “Dusty,” I said. “Son, when you get mad at Grunt.. .that is, Mrs. Grunther.. .how do you blow off steam? Do you drink out of Fin negan’s birdbath?” I tried to make it sound jocular. He bounced the tennis ball on the rug, frowning. Thon he looked at me Sturdily. “Not by a damn sight! I’m going on eleven. I take my biggest knife up in the attic GEORGIA LANGE AppsiriM In Um Coming SmiimI GoMwyn SotuIIomI Production "THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY" I depend on idd Hosiery Where glamour counts most, as with the Hollywood stars, Idol Hosiery is a must. Expertly fashioned to fit. . s of finest textured Nylon woven into sheer loveliness, they’re stockings the stars would naturally choose for their ex quisite beauty and elegance. Take a tip on leg-glamour from Georgia Lange—flatter your legs with Idol. *7lte, 9del Ute tyetnuuMe fyJtvdd Agents: David Naftaly ti Sons Inc., 328 Dasmarifias, Manila FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 23 and carve hunks out of the rafters.” “That’s what I figured,” I said. One trait I’ve taught him, one thing 'I’ll take credit for. He’s belligerently honest. Putting my arm around him I found my pride mixed with shock that he’d been unhappy. In two years his letters had given no hint of his feelings toward Mrs. Grunther. Come to recall, they’d been good morale building letters, never carping, just reporting on his shenanigans and egging me on to slam Nips around. “I’ve called on Mrs. Bond,” I said. “Did you, Dad!?” he said en thusiastically. “Didn’t I say she was super, didn’t I?” “You underphrased it. I hear you’re a frequent caller there.” Dusty thrust out his chest. “Any old time I feel like it. Mom says I got the run of the place.” “Who says?” HIS gaze dropped to .the rug. “I just got in the habit. She took Scowler and me swimming on Picnic Point a lot this summer, and I just sort of got in the habit of saying mom.” “Get out of the habit. Don’t muscle into other folks’ families.” “But she wants me to call her mom!” he cried. “After today, I wonder. Why does Scowler want a Nip saber1?” “Just to hang in his room. He’s too little to—” “To use it on the rafter?” He bounced the tennis ball again. “Yes, sir. Just to hang on the wall. It’s big stuff with the guys in the block.” “I think I can fix him up,” I said. Dusty leaped on me. “Well, for Pete’s sake, go do it!” “But I doubt if Mrs. Bond will accept the blasted thing.” After dinner we hiked across town to Ted Wozny’s boarding house. Ted opened his door and gave me a startled grin before saluting out of habit, forgetting we both were out now. “Ted,” I said. “You got any use for the saber we collected that day!?” His grin broadened. “Marty, I ain’t used it but once. To open a coconut. You’re welcome to it.” Dusty and I walked home with the saber wrapped in newspapers. It was a lulu, a four-footer with a curved handle that dripped with tiny sparklers of some kind. “Now take it over to Bonds’,” I said. “And hustle back. It‘s your bedtime. ” “You go,” Dusty said. "I’m all tuckered out..” .So I tugged on my cap and lugged the saber around to Mrs. Bond’s house. One look at Christy Bond’s tight, unfriendly face told me she wouldn’t accept the blasted saber. She let me into the living room with the gingham shades, but because of that strained face it wasn’t a serene room any more. The lamplight glittering on the saber didn’t sparkle half so lovely as her silver hair. “Let him think his old man sent, it,” I urged. “We needn’t actually lie.... Why not get that tyke downstains right now and we’ll have a talk with him?” For a fraction she almost re lented; her lips parted to say something. And then the blue eyes hardened again and I began to rewrap the saber in the news papers. “Thank you for your interest, Mr. Cardinal,” she said formally, “but Scowler can’t be waked up now. And I don’t want him to posses such a deadly thing as that sword. His father sends him souvenirs enough.” She motioned toward a stack of boxes on the floor near the fire place. “Well,” I said. “If you change your mind—” Back in the hall the telephone rang and she excused herself to answer it. I glanced at the pile of crated souvenirs and tucked my fancy saber under my arm. Christy Bond came back into the living room. “Mr. Cardinal,” she said, a little breathlessly, “can Dusty....is Dusty asleep yet?” “If he isn’t he’ll catch it from Grunt.. .that is, Mrs. Grunther. I’ve been meaning to tell you Mrs. Bond, I hope Dusty isn’t making a nuisance of himself around here. He seems to have found some thing—You knoW how it is,” I finished up pretty lamely. “I know, I know,” she said hurriedly. '“But he’s not a nuisance. He’s a dear, he’s a pal. It’s too bad our boys had to live these years incomplete—” Without warning she started to ■bawl. She sank onto the sofa and turned her face aside and let go. “Easy,” I said uncomfortably. PRESENTS COST RISE EVIDENCE APPEARING BEFORE the joint Congressional Subcommittee as it met in New York to investigate spiraling prices, a representative of the League of Women Shoppers presents evidence to show that it takes about $10 today to buy what about $5 would have purchased in 1939. As Exhibit “A” she brought in two baskets filled with similar foods. (International) “It isn’t that though. It’s tempo rary, can’t be helped.” “It’s not that,” she sobbed. “It’s Scowler. Scowler’s lost!” You never heard a more forlorn ■bleat. A despairing surrender to the strain she’d been hiding behind * that unfriendly face. A mom whose kid was lost at nightfall. “Lost?” I said. “He can’t get, very lost in a town this size.” “But he is! The police just phoned. They can’t find him any where. Mr. Cardinal, what shall I do, what can I do?” “What have you got a buttinsky neighbor for?” I said heartily. “Remember me? Helpful Hank? Get your coat.” Bum ankle or not, she fairly leaped off the sofa. All she need ed to buck her up was somebody on her team. Her black coat was so plain it looked as if it might have been cut down from one of Lieutenant Bond’s civilian duds. In the lamp light it turned her hair to pla tinum . She’d stopped weeping, but her face stayed white and tense. I took her arm.- “Let’s start at' my house.” Because of the gimpy ankle she could only hobble. I put her in rf soft chair in my library while I went searching the house for Mrs. Grunther. “If the dog is missing too, I’m surprised,” Mrs. Grunther said acidly. “She doesn’t usually let that dog run wild like she does Scowler. ” FOR the first time I noticed that Grunt talked with a most un becoming pucker. I gave her a sergeant-look and she tucked the alarm clock under her arm and went upstairs. I telephoned Ed Reed. “Certainly I saw that kid, Manty,” Ed said. “He smashed five panes before I could shag him. He headed for the lake.” “Remember anything else, Edl?” “All I remember, Marty, is what a tough little cookie that kid is. And what a guy with a sling shot.” I backed out the sedan and we drove down Pine Street to the beach. '“Ed Reed shagged him this way,” I said. She seized my arm. “The water!” “As long as his dog hasn’t come home he must be all right.” Just the same, I was thinking about that water too. A thre«. quarter moon lighted the deserted beach and we walked along the white sand calling his name. No sign of him. Or of the sleek coach PAGE 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Escaped Plotters . ONE OF several high ranking Greek officials reported to have been marked for death in a CommunistInspired plot, Stylianos Gonatas, head of the Liberal Party, is shown above as he voted in a recent elec tion. Some 500 persons, purportedly engaged in the assassination plan, were arrested in Athens. Gonatas was Minister of Public Works in the last government, which yielded to the new coalition. (International) dog. Matter of fact, no sign of my dory, either. “Can that scalawag handle a boat?” I said. She shook her head. “Well,” I said. “I’ll bet he did.” We went from dory to dory until we found one that wasn’t padlocked. I handed her in, and we shoved off. She sat shivering in her black hand-me-down coat while I rowed up the channel through the weeds, into the moon lane. “Picnic Point’s closest,” I said. “If he poled through the channel, this breeze might have drifted him that far. Didn’t you take the boy^, swimming over there this summer?” All the way over we didn’t speak. Of course she had all her thoughts and prayers on him. I was thinking of Scowler too, but I had room left over. I laid into the oars, disgusted with me. I’d learned to accept my life; dull as it was, I’d got it in shape and ac cepted it. And I wasn’t going to disorganize it with any foolish ideas. As we beached the dfory she seized my arm again. “Marty! I don’t see your rowboat here.” “Could have drifted off,” I said. "I’ll bet that infernal saber against your gingham window shades that the boy’s here and safe.” I only wanted to perk her up while I searched the Point. But she wouldn’t stay behind. So we roamed the moonlit picnic grounds together. Because of her ankle it was slow hunting. With a tight grip on my elibow she limped along, gritting her teeth. First we smelled the woodsmoke. Then the fat coach dog padded out of a grove, growling fiercely. Recognizing Christy, he yipped crazily, and after that we were all set. Scowler Jay asleep beside his all but dead campfire, head on his hands, like a kitten. He smelled of fish and bilge, water and bon fire and blackberries. When I lifted him he sighed deeply, almost a sob, as kids do sometimes when they've fallen asleep crying. He opened one eye and saw Christy sniffling over him, and he grinned and struggled into her arms. He didn’t hold his arms belligerently bowlegged now; he wasn’t a tough little cookie any more. He was just a frizziletop who had forgotten to be mad at his mom, at least tem porarily . WE ROWED back and carried him home and plopped ‘him into bed without giving him a bath. But he fussed and held tight to Christy’s hand as if the dark had finally got the better of him. “Marty,” Christy pleaded. “Could Dusty come over and sleep with him ? Just for tonight, please ? He thinks so much of Dusty.” When I nodded, Scowler imme diately released her hand. She went downstairs with me and took a flat box off the pile of Lieut enant Bond’s souvenirs near the fireplace and tucked it under my arm. “A present for Dusty for doing Us the favor,” she said. We went out on the porch. “You’ve been wonderful, Marty. After the way I dressed you down. I’d never have made it alone.” “Alone,” I said. “There’s too much aloneness been going on in this world. But pretty soon you won’t need to be alone again. ” Only, I still will, I thought. “Good night,” I said too loudly. Getting down the steps fast, I almost tripped over the bronze mud scraper. When I latched the picket gate she was still stand ing on the porch, framed in the glow, wearing the lieutenant’s hand-me-down. Dusty rolled out of bed willing ly. He put on his sneakers and a thick bathrobe and strapped his Scout axe around his waist. That little-boy trick reminded me again that I’d have to do something about Grunt, who would have made him take it off. From the sidewalk I watched him trudge sleepily down Pine Street and turn into Christy Bond’s picket gate. Then I went up into the attic and switched on the light and leaned against the wall, looking at the rafters and thinking. Those rafters hacked up with Dusty’s biggest kpife made me as miserable as I ever hope to feel. Counting the accusing gouges, I thought,. Dusty, son, you can get all the fish scales on yoUr knickers that you please! And the heck with Grunt. You can’wear out your sneakers as fast as you like, and ditto to Grunt. There isn’t going to be any more Grunt. I went down to the library and lit a cigar. First time I didn’t enjoy a melancholy smoke. I opened the flat box that Christy had given me from the stack of souvenirs sent home by Lieuten ant Bond. It was an aceydeucy set, which is a hybrid crap game that sailors and old ladies esteem highly, although the old ladies call it backgammon. I turned the flat box over. It had come from Wartburg’s department store oh Main Street. From Wartburg’s, right on Main Street. Did all those souvenirs come from Wartburg’s)? I looked around for my cigar, stoked with a jittery match. I was scared—just plain damned deliciously scared. I thought, let’s get out of here. I clamped my cap on my creeping scalp and went outside and started walk ing down Pine Street. It’s been so long since I talked with a woman that way...What the hell do you say? Christy Bond, still wearing the hand-me-down, was sitting in her porch swing. As I came up the steps she said anxiously, “Marty, what’s wrong?” ‘’’You are,” I said. “Christy,’* why doesn’t Scowler get letters from his dad?” The porch swing’s gentle sway ing halted. She looked at me steadily, saying nothing. I said hurriedly, softly, “Christy, why’d you do such a damn fool thing? How’d you expect to keep something like that secret!?” Silence. In the dark I waited for the porch swing to resume its gentle swaying.. I sweated it out, and then the murmuring creak, creak of the swing chains started up again. Christy said, “I kept it secret for two years. I came to a town where no one knew us, where we had no friends who might accidentally tell Scowler.” “But why? Why didn’t you tell him?” She said gently, “He loved his father so. I was going to tell him .when he got big enough to take it.” “That boy can take it right now,” I said. I sat down on the porch swing and she. pulled her legs tip under her to make room. “Christy, listen to me. That’s the real reason he went haywire. He knows you’ve been giving him a fast shuffle about something. He’s bewildered and resentful. No. 5-5 FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 25 And believe me, the kid’s nine- OUR LACK OF... tenths smart to it right now. (Continued from page 7) “Two years,” I said, “it’s—I’ve been going it alone for five.” She said calmly, “I’ve licked to enforce these laws; but as long that part of it. Pretty much. But as the people, either thru ignorit still gets me down when I think aaice, indifference, or lack of of Scowler’s life.” moral courage and civic dignity The screen door opened and out and pride, do not ally themselves came Dusty, still wearing his actively and •militantly with the thick bathrobe. He was half forces <5f the government in the asleep on his feet. He padded fight against,the violators of these over to the porch swing and laws—as long as the people conwriggled in between us and rest- tent themselves, as they do now, ed his head on Christy’s shoulder, in blaming the government for “Scowler’s sleeping,” he said, all the existing ills, merely con“I told him the story about the veying from one gossiping center Dutch kid ' sticking his ■ finger in to another loose tqlks or rumors the dike in the olden days.” of graft aqd corruption arid law“I hope you didn’t make it sound lessness, without offering and gruesome,” I said, knowing what helping to establish the truth of realism Dusty puts into I ■ his any specific violation of the law stories. —we are doomed to frustration. He yawned. “Gruesome? Not Such a deplorable state of afby a damn sight, Dad.” fairs can and should be remedied. Well, I thought, searching for The lawbreakers (except p'erhaps a fresh cigar, I, suppose I said in a few areas now dominated by worse things when I was his age. dissident elements) constitute a He snuggled sleepily against’ very small minority Of the citiChristy and murmured, without zenry. There is no reason why opening his eyes, “How much do they could not and should not be lemons cost, Mom? Scowler and I subdued and their depredations figure on building a lemonade brought under complete control, stand on our lawn tomorrow.” if only the great majority Of deWhose lawn was that? Christy’s cent and law-abiding citizens or mine? would realize that it is their Over the top of his head Christy moral and civic duty and their winked at me. obligation to themselves and’ to THE END their families as a matter of selfARE YOU AN APOLOGETIC HOSTESS? By MIRIAM WE WHO have recovered from that deadly affliction, apologizing to' guests, have some thing worth while to crow’about. How wonderful to give a genuine ly come-right-in handshake to un expected guests, when kitchen steam has mixed your 1 face powder and perspiration into something feeling like biscuit dough! Or when your hair, after a bout at plum gathering, feels embroidered with cockleburs! To lead guests smilingly into a living room with the curtains just down from the dirtier-than-you-thought windows,- and a puppy puddle spang in the middle of the floor! How delightful not to have to waste most of the precious little time good friends have together in explaining away the short comings of your clothes, food, housecleaning and what not! Apologizing hostesses should imagine themselves guests at their own tables, and visualize their enjoyment of a meat loaf after being told it had been as sembled under peculiar cir cumstances and from doubtful POPE CIMINO substitutes. How long would it keep its tempting appearance and good flavor? Why not let guests think the cake frosting is just the way the Lord, or a cookbook, meant it to’ be? That the fallen scuffle was merely an' ordinary accidept, with malice toward ^none, and not worth ruining a whole luncheon party? Apologizers might take a tip in real non-chalance from the old servant who, after watching a horrified host lift a bottle nipple from a platter of beef stew, said calmly, “Well, I wondered where that was!” It might be something quite trivial which keeps a hostess blushing a watermelon pink. But her guests don’t know this. They only know that she is uneasy and apologetic. For some of us, a bumpy log crawling with ants is more Com fortable than the finest down chair of an uneasy apologetic hostess. Let’s leave “Excuse it, please” to telephone operators, and stop apologizing all the hos pitality out of our homes. LEAP YEAR FOR OLYMPIC ENTRANT IN TRAINING FOR THE OLYMPICS in-February, Barbara Ann Scott, Ot tawa, Canada, tries out a difficult stunt at Davos, Switzerland. Miss Scott, 19, is world’s champion figure skater, having won her European title last year in an international contest at Davos. (International) protection to aily themseives and moral regeneration of our people cooperate actively and militantly as a means to suppress, or at with the forces of law and order least minimize, lawlessness^ Charge in their constant war against your municipal mayors and councrimes and criminals. cilors and other intelligent and civic-minded citizens with the duty of organizing periodic meet ings in their respective commu nities to enlighten the people on their duties and responsibilities as citizens, to arouse their civic spirit, and to enlist their aid in the prevention, detection, Or sup pression of crimes. In this cam paign of enlightenment and moral regeneration you are at liberty to call upon the judges of first instance, the fiscals, the justices of the peace, and all other officers of the government, whether na tional, provincial, or municipal, for their active aid and support. Every protection, encouragement, and praise should be given to those who display civic spirit by cooperating with the forces of the government in the identification, arrest, and prosecution of law breakers. And anyone who shirks his civic duty thru pusillanimity, indifference, or selfish interest should be held up to scorn nad regarded as a social outcast. On the morning of April 30, 1830, ' bne Joseph White, an aged and respected citizen of Salem, Massachusetts, was found jpurdered in his bed. Not the slightest motive for the commis sion of the crime could be con jectured and there was no clue as to the perpetrator. A public meet ing was held by the citizens, and a Committee of Vigilance consist ing of twenty-seven members was appointed . to ferret out 'the of fending parties. As a result of such vigilance and cooperation of the public-spirited citizens the murderer and his accomplices were arrested, convicted, and exe cuted. That, gentlemen, is the kind of civic spirit that we should stimulate here. I earnestly urge you, provincial governors and city mayors, to or ganize such a campaign in your respective provinces and cities. Call a meeting of your municipal mayors and councilors and ex plain to them the necessity for such a campaign to achieve the PAGE 2S WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL WHAT'S FITTING? (Continued from page 18) Action clothes must not hamper. Skirts should be full and arm action free. If your legs are good but your bust large, wear shorts and a full shirt. Conversely, if your legs are heavy but you have a nice throat and’ back, wear sun dresses. Now, I’ve told you my tricks— it’s up to you to make your war drobe fit! USE THAT SPACE (Continued from page 19) Tall slender girls can wear wide-spaced, splashy patterns, but if you’re short and inclined to be heavy, choose small, all-over de signs. Choose your bag for size. If you’re a little girl, don’t carry a too- large bag. If you’re tall and slender, don’t pick a too-small bag. When carrying a suede bag, always wear gloves to protect the leather from perspiration marks. Use a good suede cleaner and brush your bag with straight strokes. Then brush with a soft brush. Now, about your shoes. Fit is most important. Coms and callouses are a sign you’re fitting your eyes, riot your feet. Look at the soles of your shoes. If they cabinet that hangs from the wall are worn unevenly, something is Can double as a serving table. If wrong. If your heels seem toithe room very small, a table AvtvnMM /ULaJ projecting from one wall can save excellent utilj^y pieces in this A desk which folds neatly as room, into the wall could also be includ ed in the L'ving room design, as could a radio cabinet. For the dining room, a legless spring under, you’re being fitted too short. Simple plain pumps add length tp your leg and extra bows ™u^h space. A china closet could and buckles can make one pair *’ look like several. If your legs art short, never wear straps. be built into that comer where no store-bought piece could ever fit. INDIAN BEAUTY IN SNOW FESTIVAL FIRST FULL-BLOODED INDIAN girl to represent the Black Hills in the Snow Queen Festival at Aberdeen, S. D., is beautiful Darlene Rose Decory, 17. She has ambitions to become a Hollywood actress. (International) WHY WE NEED.. (Continued from page 9) without charge, he hopes within three to five years. Persuading volunteer donors to give will also take some doing. During the war it was easy to persuade patriotic Americans to give blood again and again to help save the lives of their sons, speeds convalescence. A transfu sion after an operation can cut down a patient’s time in the hos pital by days. ~ Medical science has discovered brothis’^rh^blnds/The "ne7d Was the drama was ob------d vious. The Ameijican people resmuch ponded generously with more than stances in blood; that is a second reason why we need so r - 1 _ ____ ___ *odaZ; 5^«e^iuo7 pin’te “of ‘blood.141*1 In peacetime the need for blood donations is as great—even greater —although the drama is less. More than a hundred and seventy-five. thousand Americans were killed in action from December 7, 1941, 5 to y~J Day. Monuments comme’’ morate their sacrifice^ But more than twice that number died in’ home-front. accidents same period; They ky group, forgdtten. Yet accidents may a part of everybody’s language during the war; now we are go ing to hear more and more of two new words—“functions” and “glo bulins.” Fractions and globulins are the netv products derived from plasma which prevent or modify measles, treat whooping cough, prevent sterility following mumps, treat kidney and liver diseases, arid skin ulcers and anemias too. Needing blood so much, why can’t doctors get it easily? First, commercial blood donors fewer than they used 'to be. irsv, — ~“‘“j happen to are any of uri. It is the Red Cross’s ................... No Jol> to make us realize that a free one can explain why. But even if soufiCe of blood, easily available as many donors were available w^en necessary, is to the ad os before the ‘war, the supply of vantage of us all. When we voblaod they could furnish would not be enough. The great use of blood during the war was made possible by the thousands of vo lunteer donors in every state. Since peace the volunteers have dropped away, even where the bloody centers were kept open. What’s needed now is the same drive to pefsuade volunteers to give and the same organization to make, it possible. In Cleveland last June the problem was pre sented to a special meeting of the important Red Cross central com mittee. As an emergency the blood shortage was as grave as any of thq disasters the Red Cro3s was organized to meet. Would the Red Cross help? The com mittee wps tju’ck to accept the challenge. The Red Cross is tack ling the job, effective at 'once. No one I talked to at Red Cross national headquarters in Washing ton thinks the job is going to be easy. The easiest task 'is thf first— ra’sing money for equipment and laboratories. -The Red Cross ex pects to spend five million dollars to start the program and twenty millions annually to keep it run ning on a full-scale national basis. The hard job—and the longest— will be training hundreds of vo lunteer workers and pa’d techni cians. But medical chief Dr. G. tfoard McQinnes says it can be done. Whole blood, plasma and blood derivatives will be available to everyone in the United States ---- > ov DRESS DESIGN i Dress More Smartly —Learn at Home “9fiSr4 Tiin< Now-, vat last, it’s possible' ' for those with aptitude and latent to acquire a sound,, basic training .for their , ’ own ube or as a starting point for a' commercial Career. Fascinating Field Where Natural Talents May Be Developed It a thrilling to be able to design for yourself and family. And, after you have learned. the fundamental principles and gained experience by practice, your train ing may lead'you into a fascinating career, —even a shop of your own some day. Experienced Teachers Train You I Qualified teachers in design and style crea tion guide' you step by step in this basic trainingl Our ,'Lealrn-by-doing'• method found to be most practical. 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It they are rough or wrinkled, all three of these complexion areas should be regularly, scrubbed' with a stiff-bristled hand brush, with an abundance of soap and water being used4MBuch treatment Is usually especially needed on the points of the elbows. Rough, Tough‘Towels The briskness which should mark such a brush scrubbing process should also be evident in the drying of the hands and arms with a towel. Use the. roughest, hardest kind of a towel, appUed very vigorously, for such drying. Incidentally, such a rough, hard towel is also the most effective kind for drying the body, after a bath or shower. But don’t use such a towel for drying the face. When the hands and arms have been dried, further their softness by applying hand lotion. Be sure to include the elbow points in this application. If the elbows are extremely rough, treat them regularly with skin cream. Face Wrinkles The problem of hand wrinkles, just roughed' upon. Is nowhere near as serious a matter as the problem of face wrinkles. And, as I have frequently, warned in this column, facial wrinkles are by no means( confined to those of an advanced age. Young women who don’t wear the glassed which they, need become victims to them. School-girls who are called upon to do overmuch reading and study frequently puffer from them. And, unless cor rective steps are taken, these originally temporary wrinkjes around the eyes can become permanent mars to the appearance. Do It In Tim^ Squint wrinkles can be eradicated if corrective measures are taken in time. Don’t xbe Idiotically vain and refuse to wear sight-correcting glasses if you need them. And, even if your vision is perfect, prdtect your eyes with,tinted glasses if you expose them to the sun or wind to any great extent. Remembtr that the motion pictures or magazine Illustrations which so often show Hollywood’s beautiful screen stars wearing such tinted lenses are not testimonials to a merely passing fad. The wearing of such glasses by these stars is a time-tested device for the preservation of their eye beauty. Young Women Neck or throat wrinkles don’t often appear on a young woman unless she has suddenly lost a great deal of weight. If wrinkles appear after such a loss of weight, don’t depend upon skin Cream massage to overcome them. Massage with such. a cream will often delay the appearance of old * age wrinkles to some degree, and will sometimes even make wrinkles disappear to an appreciable extent, but this is not an effective treatment for wrinkles which come from too rapid loss of weight. Regaining lost pounds Is the best wrinkle cure for such cases. If you have lost much weight and don’t know why, see your doctor. If you have been dieting to the point of starvation in order to lose weight, go at this process more slowly and moderately. lunteer it will nut be for some submitted to blood'tests until at remote charity—we’ll be giving the last desperate moment—and for ourselves, our families and luckily—one ’was found whose our friends. blood was a suitable match. This too vwas a routine handling of an emergency case—outside of MasHOW will the volunteer plan sachusetts. be set up? Details haven’t y-f our biggest city hospitals yet been worked out but fortunate- have inadequate blood banks, what ly for us all the State of Massa- be expected at a rural hospichusetts has provided a' model tai? Many an automobile accident which may be adopted quickly, happens sixty miles from nowhere. State officials realized two years jf the injured are1 taken to a ago that the method of getting small hospital they may die before blood from professional donors necessary blood is obtained. Any was out-dated and asked the state hospital in Massachusetts, no mat health department to work out a ter how remote, can get lifesaving new one. It seems sound and is, blood quickly. Deliveries are likely to be adopted byi the Red made from strategically located Cross on a national scale. blood -centers by. automobile or if In Massachusetts any man or necessary by plane. If the woman who gives a single pint Red ■Cross plan works out,.that of blood to the state blood-donor will be true everywhere ’ in program is promised all the free America tomorrow. blood every member of his im- Blood and plasma will save mediate family may need for one lives after accidents. The new year. Two mobile blood units’blood products, the fractions and visit each community twice a year to collect the donations. The vo lunteer is registered and may call for help whenever he or his family needs it. One of the units visited the watch-manufacturing. town of Waltham several months ago. Among the thirty women who volunteered to give, blood that afternoon was Mrs. A.. J. Her husband scoffed: “We’ll never need any blood. And if we do. there will be plenty of time to line up our friends.” But she kept her appointment anyway. Three weeks later Mrs. A. J.’s husband was in the local hospital with in ternal hemorrhages from stomach ulcers. He needed two pints of blood at once to prepare for emergency surgery—and would need more immediately after. Rut the hospital discovered that A. J. had the rare type B Rhnegative blood and only one pint could be found through commer cial channels. The surgeon called the state blood bank at Jamaica Plain. Yes, they had the rare blood * in their bank. A Red Cross motor corps driver broke a few speed laws delivering the precious stuff but the blood arrived in time to save the min’s life. This was a routine handling of an everyday emergency case in Massachusetts. Contrast it with a case only four hours away by ajr in a Washington, D. C., hos pital. Young Walter B. arrived with a ruptured appendix and an uncommon AB blood type. ' All day long his .parents stood by helplessly while friend .after friend went to the hospital and globulins, while less spectacular, have as i^ital a role in treating contagious diseases. In a bad measles year a million American school children will spend two weeks out of school. The immediate effect on their studies is not so important as thei after-effects—weakening of eyesighyand hearing. And even com mon ordinary measles can ‘kill— twelve hundred children died of it in 1946. Doctors say most of those. who died could have been saved if their local health departments had on hand a supply of immune serum globulin made from blood plasma. And many of the others need never have had the measles. Globulin innoculations .after expo sure can prevent measles entirely for weeks at a time. They do not (give permanent immunity but they can protect a child until an epidemic is over. Or if given after a child has contracted the disease, the injectibn can, * moderate the severity of the disease, preventing serious aftermaths such as pneu monia or ear or throat disorders. Massachusetts had a. real measles epidemic last year.; But ih forty thousand cases reported there were only fourteen deaths. Why1? The state health depart ment was prepared, thanks to the state blood program, and able to give more than thirty thousand globulin innoculations. Another globulin, made from the plasma of people convalescing from the mumps,' will soon be widely used to prevent the sterility that often follows that disease. Diarrhea is a major killer of PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL infants and children chiefly be cause it robs their bodies of vital proteins. Plasma can serve here too, according to Dr. Frederic Burke, pediatrician at Children’s Hospital, Washington, D. C. When a child can’t take food by mouth, he says, the protein needed for tissue building can be supplied by plasma injections. ALREADy available in some hospitals is a brand-new blood product, fibrin fo^m, which con trols bleeding in surgery. The stuff looks like a pale yellow sponge and can be sewed up in the incision. Because it is pure human protein the swabs are gradually absorbed into the blood stream. Extreme bleeding after a tooth extraction is stopped »immediately when dentists use fibrin foam packs. Brain surgeons also use a fibrin film to replace the injured covering of the brain, eliminating the old use of silver plates. The film, a parchtaentlike tissue, helps the brain covering grow into place and finally dissolves without fur ther injury to the patient. Few major operations are per formed today without a ready supply of whole blood at hand. And many operations once con sidered impossible—particularly those on very young children and very old people—can now, with whole blood and plasma at hand, be performed with safety. No pregnant woman goes into a modem hospital’s delivery room today without first having her blood typed. Blood must be ready immediately for her and her baby should unforeseen complications develop. Fifteen per cent of -all Amer ican mothers • have Rh-negative blood. Some of them during their pregnancies build up antibodies which endanger the life of their babies. With new transfusing techniques, doctors can now save th^ child by replacing the dan gerous blood with a complete new supply. Knowing about all these vital needs and uses for human blood should help you decide favorably when sometime soon the Red Cross in its new role enters your life and asks for blood. We’ll be giving for ourselves. (THE END) blind,” Miss Keller explained. “Because of the war their condi tion has become even more des perate. It is my prayer that I will be instrumental in breaking the chains of their darkness.” In city after city, in troubled nations and occupied lands Miss Keller will appear at public meet ings. She will visit schools and WOMEN in the. NEWS “We must interest government’s about two years ago from Prof. (Continued from, pagp 11) and medical men in The plight of Jose Mossessgeld Santiago-Font. the blind,” Miss Keller continued. People who know the Carillos do ”We must educate blind children, not wonder that Cely has turned March 26 on a year long journey We must train blind adults to out to be a singer, for Major through the Orient, Middle and,support themselves. We must Carillo studied violin and voice, Near East. As always she will have this kind of work for the while Mrs'. Carillo is 'a pianoforte be accompanied by Polly ThOmp- .blind abroad as we are establish- graduate. son, her companion, secretary and ing it at home. Cely is a lyric soprano and her substitute eyes and ears. '“We must .work to prevenj voice is said to register as high “We are going »to help the blindness. That is the most im- as sol. portant thing.” YOUNGEST OPERA SINGER IN THE WORLD • Manila music lovers experienced a rare treat last February 8 when a 14-year-old girl, Cely O. Car rillo, appeared in the role of Gilda in the opera Rigoletto. Miss Carillo is the daughter of. hospitals. She will talk to meh and women responsible for the care of the blind. After months spent in the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, she will return to Japan in September for her visit in 11 years. What does she expect the trip to accomplish!? Tomas C. Carillo who always shows his daughter’s birth certi ficate to doubting Thomases to prove that she is really the young est opera singer in the world. Cely was bom on February 18, 1934, which makes her 14 years this month. According to Major Carillo, Cely started taking voice lessons only Cely O. Carillo, 14-year-old singer made her debut on the stage by singing the role of Gilda in the Opera Rigoletto presented by Jose M. Santiago last February 8 at the UST auditorium. MANY WOMEN AMONG JAPANESE UNION MEM BERS Tokyo: Labor Unions in Japan numbered 26,421 on November 30, 1947, according to a report from SCAP headquarters. Total num ber of members was 5,993,613 of which 1,388,124 were women. WOMAN GETS HIGft POST IN, JAPAN Advances which Japanese wgmen have made in p'olitics received another impetus recently when a woman—for * the first time in his tory—became^ a parliamentary vice minister of justice when Habuki Satake resigned. Mrs. Sakakibara, 51, has been twice elected to the house of rep resentatives from Fukishima pre fecture. Site also has served as reporter for Fujin-no-tomo ma gazine and as secretary general of Yokohama Women’s Association. She is head of the Fukushima Pre fecture Chapter of Christian Women’s Society for moral re form. cfalLD PRODIGY MAKES DE BUT 1,N NEW YORK Nena del Rosario, 12 year old pianist madejier American debut on a nation-wide Columbia broad- / casting system program “Gate ways To Music.” • She played a piece by Bach on a half hour pro gram devoted to music, of, north German composers. CBS s$id the program is tentatively scheduled for rebroad cast to the Philippines. Nena came to the United States a year ago and lives with her parents and three brothers and a < sister in a suburb near New York. She attends St. Gabriel’^ School there and continues piano, studies under Milne Charnby in New York. Charnby is married to Ma ria Osmena, daughter of former President Osmena, who has been living in the United States for over ten years now. SOCIAL WORKERS ORGANIZE THE PHILIPPINE ASSOCIA TION OF SOCIAL WORKERS was fully organized after consi derable deliberation and Consulta tion with the UNO Consultants on FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 29 Social Welfare Work, currently assigned in the Philippines. The PAWS has been organized to pro mote and maintain a professional standard for social work practices; to, provide means and opportu nities for professional training and improvement of the members; and to inculcate public social consciousness which will result in more sympathetic support and ef fective action for social welfare. Eligibility for membership in the PAWS which is open to both men . and women is based largely on professional education and ex perience in (Social work. Member ship in the Association'operates as a voluntary certification through which an individual establishes his professional status in the field' of social work. The officers of the PAWS are Mrs * Josefa Jara Martinez, pres ident; Mrs. Minerva Gusayco Laudico, vice president; Mrs. Olimpia, Ubaldo Lozano, secretary; Mrs. Felicidad A. ‘Silva, treas urer; Mrs. Flora A. Palomar, Miss Agapita Murillo, and Miss Carmen Montinola, board mem bers. 'SEEMS TO ME (Connitued from page 13) “And now let me get onto a favorite topic of mine—right now what I have to say may have no particular, no immediate meaning to you, but go home and mull it over and see what you can make of it. “I am thinking of values, the values generally accepted for worthwhile achievements like suc cess, reputation, popularity. Our accepted gauge for these are money, power, position. Are these, do you think, the right standards? Would a man or a woman be suc cessful in your eyes simply be cause he or she sported a car, lived in a big house, had numerous servants'? Or because he or she is an Assemblyman, or a Senator? Or he or she is a Mr. This or Mrs. That in our society? “Would you not. prefer to Con sider successful the man or the woman who deals honestly with his fellowmen, who is kind and thoughtful, who- is helpful and courteous, unselfish and humble? Would you not say. that the p'oor farmer in the little story I told you was successful because he had done the best he could for every body around him, and.that some of our big politicians and. social leaders, some of oUr big men and women are not because they are, U.N. WORKER HAS EYE ON TURKEY IN CONTRAST TO the people of France, who wfre cold and hungry, Fol lette Marie, a United Nations attache from Paris, enjoys the Holiday season hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lyons, Binghampton, N. Y. She was one of 175 U.N. workers who were guests of typical American families in three New York Stale towns, and at the moment she is par ticularly interested in a second helping of turkey. (International) in their turn, doing only the best thing they can for themselves with' out thinking of the other fellow? “If you believe this, dear girls, as I so solemnly do, you will see what values you have to change as you go through ^ife, fighting the wrong ones other people place upon things. But being girl scouts, you will go on fighting, for the cause is good and worthy, and you are good and worthy, yourselves. ” As, it seems to me, this spirit is rampant everywhere, it is mire or less taken for granted. If/you do not “indulge,” you are dubbed impractical, -unrealistic, or, at worst, an escapist. Seeing the disease clearly, but not subscribing to it, is to them, who do indulge, akin to folly and surely a sign of some illness. Such a person is “crazy,” “queer”—or otVier equally uncomplimentary ephitets. ’Seems to me, as a mater of'fact, that the adjectives, implying what they do, are complimentary. PRESSDENT ROXAS... (Continued from page 5) ing hand that it may the better carry on its noble functions. We should spare no effort to make of this organization which is truly national in scope and universal in function, an entity worthy of our pride, our honor, and our prestige as a people. In normal times we do not think so much of the Red Cross. We take its functions for grant ed. We feel that it is not ouf conce^. that it should carry on. But when catastrophes strike, such as the last typhoon or the recent earthquakes which dis rupted public utilities, and de prived thousands of our people of their homes and gravely affected their means of livelihood, the first throught that occurs to us is, “Notify the Red Cross.” But the Red Cross needs no prodd’ng. The Red Cross is on the job night and day, taking great risks to save lives, to restore property THE BETRAYAL (Continued from page 4) into submission Perthaps because I know he can’t be starved into submission. Which Is no excuse at all for not trying. And certainly no reason for feeding him. It’s in sane.” “You could,” Elena suggested afiter a long thought “point out his hiding place to the Japs.” “I wouldn’t do that.” “But think, Paulo!” She added, with growing vehemence. “Think of the — the consequences! With undeniable reason you are trying to avoid the war. But you are getand to spread comfort to as many areas as can possibly be covered under adverse circumstances. Now that the Red Cross needs our help, we must not let it down. We would be recreant to our civic duties were we to turn a deaf ear to the pleas of the Red Cross. The direction and control of this hu manitarian entity is in capable and honest hands. Mrs. Aurora Quezon, the Chairman of the Board, called uppn to direct its policies, is zealously and x disin terestedly working to expand the service of the Red Cross. The nation owes her a great debt of gratitude. Solicitor-General Ma nuel Lim, Mrs. Pilar HidalgoTLim and many others who are assist ing in the management and ad ministration of the Red Cross, de serve likewise the full-hearted acknowledgment of the people. They are a constant inspiration - to the great unsung number of hardworking doctors, nurses and operatives that patiently execute the various programs and pro jects of the Red Cross. This unselfish organization me rits the full confidence of . the people. Whatever support we give to this organization, will go out in multiplied benefits to the millions of our under-privileged masses who, by the strange irony of fate, always suffer the most when national catastrophes strike us. I appeal to the entire nation and to every individual to give and to give unstintedly—so that the Philippine National Red Cross may truly be national in ideal as well as in service. Contribute all you can to this worthy cause. However little it might be, it will help to save a life, or give shelter, food or clothing to the victims of disaster. Charity is the greatest of all virtues. Here you have an oppor tunity to exercise that virtue. Give generously to the Red Cross! PAGE 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL ting right into the thick of it! Think of this place of yours —and what it means to you! Think of your ideas. Don’t throw everything away, because of Flint!” “I don’t know/’ Paulo said sad ly. “I dont know. Everything that shad seemed so right so incon trovertible fails into shreds now be fore this situation which I can not justify on saxy logical ground. It goes so against my reason, that ail the explanations I try to make for it feu flat. "I say to myself, You pity him; an underdog, so you’re helping him. But I don’t pity Hint. He doesn’t need pity, and reason dic tates he is a fool. Why should I compound foolishness with reason? That is illogical. “Maybe, it’s because he’s an American, and we had ties of sym pathy with the Americans? But no. I have li'Jtle to remember per sonally of kindness from Americans —or from other whites — except from one or two missionaries. Thinking how shabbily some Ame ricans in Manila had treated me, I have a pretty good excuse for hat ing them. But why should I hold that against Flint? “In fact, thinking back on it, I’m sure I’d feed the fugitive, were If Your Child B? HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D. A GOOD many people have the idea that children are not subject to headache. In this they are com pletely mistaken for youngsters do have headaches, spinetimes, quite sevefe ones. Headache in the child may be produced by many different condi tions, some ef which may be trifling and temporary while others indi cate disorders of the utmost seri ousness. Thus, headache in chil dren should never be neglected or treated lightly. In every case head ache deserves attention and care ful study to discover the cause so that effective treatment can be given. Sometimes, to be sure, a com plaint of headache on the part of a child means no more than an at tempt to escape a distasteful task. Imitate Elders Children imitate their elders. If the parents complain of headaches in order to get out of doing some thing they do not„want to do, the child also is likely to learn to com plain of headache when he is faced with some unpleasant task. Thus, parents should not complain of ill ness in the presence of their chil dren, and certainly should not com plain of illness when none is pres ent. One of the more frequent causes of headaches in children is eye strain, especially the type of eye condition known as astigmatism, due to abnormal shape-of the eye ball. If there is a great degree of eyesight trouble, simple tests will (Qop/rUht, 1847, Kins: he any guerrilla or — or Captain Itoh.” “Maybe, then, it is the thrill of it ” Elena’s voice was edged with scorn. “There was nothing thril ling in what happened to — to Fa ther.” “It’s not the thrill of it. Why should I be thrille^ in prolonging the inhuman agony of this man, in aiding him to barter his life for illusory ideals? Elena, all-that is repulsive to my spirit.” Though the fowls had by now obliterated Flint’s tracks, the sha dow of the American lay suddenly between them, dark and menacing. Across the narrow table, littered with the remains of breakfast, Pau lo sat, his eyes remote, his head wreathed in clouds of tobaccopapa ya-leaf smoke. Tt was as if he had become distant to her all at once, because of Flint, and she hated him as she hated Flint, and she felt warmly for him in his be wilderment, in the hungry restless ness of his spirit, and she loved him, and she did not know what to do about it all. ‘Tauio,’’ Elena said Jeikingly. His wide eyes turned on her, a s’.artled lock in them, as if lie had been abruptly called out of a deep reverie, and she asked dismally, as Headaches usually reveal it. However, the best tiling to do is to have the youngster's eyes examined by a doctor. Caused by Anemia ■ Still another cause of headr.ches is anemia or a lessening of the amount of coloring in the blood. It is a simple matter for the physi cian to examine the blood to deter mine when anemia is present, and, of course, treatment of the anemia with iron-containing preparations and foods rich in iron such as liver, meat, eggs and whole-grain cereals will usually relieve the difficulty. Children often develop head aches because of exposure to sun light and glare, sitting in rooms without sufficient ventilation and lack of rest and sleep. Of course, these things are easily corrected. More Unusual Cause A more unusual cause of head aches is a lack of sugar in the blood. Children are%ctive and they burn up food materials rapidly. Active children need extra sugar. The headaches caused by a lack of sugar are easily relieved or pre vented by giving the child sweets at the proper time. Of course, headaches may be caused by more serious conditions such as tumors of the brain, mi graine, chronic kidney disorders, prolonged constipation and sinus infections. The child’s complaints of head ache should not be ignored, but a doctor should be consulted as soon as possible so that the source of the trouble can be determined. 'sutures Syndicate, Im.) “So you’re going to keep on feed ing him?” He nodded. The little cord-like muscles of (his jaw showed. Her eyes travelled fondly over his face for a moment, and she knew with out conscious thought that she couldnft let it happen to him, too. She couldn’t let it happen to him, as it had happened to them. She knew now what to do. “All right, Paulo/’ she said. "If that’s what you feel about it. Ma ny thanks for last night’s lodging and the swell meals. I’ve got to go 'MidA HUS'4^/ Plus 1—Wonder “Stay On”I Stays on as long as you want It! How Is It possible? Plus 2—Wonder Texture! Rare "pure silk * ’ lustre! Easy “go on.". Plus 3—Wonder Colors! Revlon "Genius Colors." Fashion originals! IN THE FABULOUS "GOOD-AS-GOLD" CASE. *pollth»d gold.toM mtidf Sole Distributors Far East American Commercial Co., Ino., 3rd Floor, Yutivo Bldg., Dasmarlfias. Manila now. Mother will be very worried ” With short running steps 6he hurried across the fields on her way to town. She ran In an eerie halfeworld of mist like an invert * ed cup of cottony white that mov ed with her, discarding and includ ing details of land-scape, such as headlands and trees and the dikes of rice paddies, as they advanced. It was as if she carried her purpose in a sieve, and must, hurry and reach town before all of it ran out. Half-seeing the path worn in the (Ad-Ex-34-E) FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PAGE 31 Crisp, Cool Cottons Are a Good Choice for Summer Days By ELEANOR ROSS BATHE often, brush your hair off your face, and wear crisp, clean cottons. This is just about the best practical prescription possible for warding off the warm weather dol drums, that sooner or later, threaten to engulf those of us who have to stay in town and stick to the bum drum routine, come summer. An all-cotton wardrobe is sound summer sense for many reasons. Cottons today are magnificently styled, are smart enough to go roof-garden dining and dancing, keep the wearer divinely cool, crisp, chic and unruffled. Constantly im proved methods of processing for color fastness, crease resistance and reduction in shrinkage enhance the appearance of cottons and make their care simpler. For Kitchen Duty Gingham house dresses make kitchen duty easier. Seersucker play suits and sailcloth slacks are perfect for rough and tumble out door wear. Beautiful chambray ^nd shirting frocks and suits make going out a pleasure, whether bound for the golf course or for town. -Dance and evening frocks of beau tiful cotton are applause getters, and they range from cotton organ dies trimmed with ruffles and rib bons to rib-hugging crisp pique numbers. Cotton bras, nightgowns and slips wash like a charm and are cool and comfy, as are cotton house coats and negligees. White cottons are a cinch, but unless colored cot tons are color-fast, then care must be taken to avoid running color. Soak an inconspicuous part of the garment, such as the end of a belt, the inside of a pocket, in a glass of lukewarm suds for several minutes. If the water is tinted, work as rapidly as possible when washing garment. There is no effective way to “set” co'ors. If a color is fugitive, it can not t)e made “fast” by' adding salt or vinegar to the water. Remove white or light-colored trimmings. Do not soak. Wash each article sep arately and quickly. Suds should be cool (85-90 F). Squeeze suds quickly through gar ment, avoiding rubbing or twisting. Rinse quickly .and thoroughly, using water the same temperature as the suds. Squeeze out water. Place an old Turkish towel inside garment and roll it in another Turkish towel. Unroll at once-Do not allow colored garments to remain rolled up in damp towels. Shake out garment and place on rust-proof hanger. Dry indoors or in shade. Iron garment while still slightly damp, putting an extra cloth over the ironing board to pro tect the cover. grass, mounting low rock walls, through loose strands of barbed wire In this strange inverted world she was most aware of the Idea that had uddenly orytalllzed into Chai* lenglng Duty. She’ll have to do It. Paulo shall be saved. The town shall have (peace. She topped the spur of hill that walled Annbuc-afl valley from - the Tamaang . olata. The sun’s rays burst through the mist. Tiny dia monds trembled on blades of grass. On the rolling siward lay great sil ver coins of spider’s webs scattered prodigally oh the land last night. On they bushes hung strings of pearls. He shall be saved- The town shall have peace. Along the ridge of the hill she hurried. Upon the massed vapors in the volley her Shadow fell, and around the head of her shadow a halo fell circled by three concen tric rainbows, the biggest one of which overreached the incredibly blue sky that had suddenly broken through a rif t in the mist. He shall understand and - forgive, and he shall be saved. Elena paused to contemplate her halo, while mist flew before the sun and massed in the hollows, and ragged ends of it caught on rockey crags and tree tops. She cast a glance backward at Amibucao, at the notch at ithe foot of Banderaan where her fathers hut had been, and ell she could see were the charred remains of vegetation on the gulch sides where the fire had spread. This sorrow shall cease. She tore her eyes grimly away, and hurried down on the other side of the hill. The cool harvest wind wove around her, and the mountains cast their shadows on the plain, and the reajfers moved like ants among the grain, and, the gulden sea on the Tamaang floor •broke in waves against the rocky feet of the surrounding hills, and the misty white of the cacauaibe traced the long straight road; the winding paths, and the fences. She must hurry, hurry, hurry. She has a duty to perform. She hastened frantically across the rice fields and up the red road that ran up the slope of hill in the town — “Whwe have you been. He len? ' So early in the ’ morning?’’ “Ay, there, onl7 there. Ni, I pass you by.’’ “Yes, ah,’’ — impatient at the distance dhe had yet to go, shutting her eyes to the sight of the cacauate — What was it that Flint had said? — that afternoon oh years and years ago — like the peach blossoms of Arkansaw . . . Golly girl, you’re whiite-sfclnnned... That was the house, now, and her mother and Clara leaning out of the dining-room window, and wasn't that Mr. Watanabe, the interpreter, standing in Main Crossing? “Oh Mr. Watanaibel” He turned, saw her, grinned, and bowed. “Ohayol” “Ohayol” “Helen!” Marla called from the window. "Where have you been?” The girl looked at her unseeingCOMING TO U.S. FOR HEMLINE WAR BRITAIN'S LEADING anti-long skirt crusader, Mrs. Gilian Greenwood, wife of a member of Parliament, kisses her daughter goodbye in London as she starts for the U. S. to carry on her “hold-that-hemline” campaign. British women are seriously fighting the new style on the ground that it wastes needed materials throughout Europe. (International) Best-Dressed Woman in Town By ELEANOR, ROSS attention to folds, pleats, tucks ai ONE of the best-dressed women J we know isn’t at all wealthy. In ' fact, she has to manage on the pro verbial shoestring, yet she is al- ' ways a fashion-plate. Her secret: She buys very, very carefully, con fining most of her purchases to basic clothes, eschewing dated fads, fluffy ruffles, much extraneous trimming in favor of fine fabric and simple but well-defined lines. The same thing goes for hats, for shoes, for coats. Every two years she has a tailored suit made, and through the years has built up a good suit wardrobe, always having three suits in hand. Care o^ Wardrobe j Now to our part of the story, i which, of course, is the care this i wise woman takes of her wardrobe. ] For wise buying and proper upkeep i is the secret of always appearing ' beautifully dressed. ' i Her closets boast a full comple- i ment of hangers, varied types of suits, for coats, for blouses, dresses 1 and for skirts. When clothes are < doffed they are placed on hangers and set where a current of air will 1 freshen the garment. < Before a garment is replaced in ; the closet it is gone over to take 1 care of any rips, tears, loose fasten'- ; ings or whatever. Spots are re- 1 moved at once. Then the garment is | given a good brushing, with special < ---------------------- , r------,------ and seams, and replaced in the closet, ready to be'worn again without that last-minute frenzied' going-ovqr that has wrecked the'day of many a woman. Frequent Washing Dresses and other , garments that are washable, such as blouses, are washed frequently, long long before ' dirt actually shows. Washables are washed with care. Water that is just comfortable to the elbow is just about right fpr washing “fine” fabrics—rayons, nylons, sheer cot tons, and especially woolens. For the pretty neckwear, jabots and such that give suits such a lift, and for fine laces and lacy summer gloves^ half fill a screw top or mason jar with warm soapy water, place the collar dr dicky or gloves in it, cover tightly, and shake. Rinse with clear water in the jar and blot in a clean Turkish towel before dry ing. Our friend has another good trick for dealing With suede, be the arti cle a bag, shoes, or belt. First the dust is brushed off, then the article is wiped with a piece of Turkish towel dampened with just a little cleaning fluid. Then the leather is held over the spot end of a boiling kettle or steam iron for a moment, and turned to reach all parts. Shoes are allowed to cool and dry before being replaced on trees. PAGE 82 WOMAN’S BOMB JOURNAL ly, and hurried to Mr. Watanabe. The interpreter took, a peek into her basket and exclaimed delightedly, “Bananas I" “Bananas,” she agreed. “Mr. Watanabe—” The.lnitenDreter agitated' (his brush mustache, and his nostrils moved, as if he were about to sneeze. “May I have one? * “Take all you want,” Elena said hastily, and went on, “I came to tell you about Hint. Paulo Gray can tell you whdre he is hiding. ” TO BE CONTINUED IN THE NEXT ISSUE tid-bits they weren’t asked. * * * From Princess Alexandra Kropotkin’s Writings Sleep On It My New York tipster on superof beginnings as a hotel exhibit women’s activities, the enterprise has ifow> become a real world’s stitions says^ the^ thing to do^for ,fair, fOrty_june nations par”” ticipating, two thousand women serving on the various committees, and an impressive list, of support ing organizations. Fiord D. Cunningham, a Long of thjpgs waiting to be initialled, Island housewife, showed me how y°u begin to suspect our desire she 'used ordinary kitchen techni que to produce a new decorative plastic. She said, “I was teach ing a class of boy-scouts to decorate picture frames, cigarette boxes, pottery, etc., with simple sculptured designs. Decorating like that for gifts was a hobby of mine. All the plastics we tried were tricky to handle and t6ok too long to set. I wanted a plastic that would shape as easily as pie dough—so I experimented in my kitchen until I made some.” She calls her new plastic DecoRen, rolls it out on a bread- board with an old wooden rolling pin, stamps It with biscuit cutters, exactly like cooky dough, applies it to glass or ceramics or plywood panels, then paints and glazes it. Mrs. Elise Saenger, wife of a prominent European doctor, had no intention of launching herself the 14th of February is this: have a cake baked especially for you to put under your pillow the night before Valentine’s Day. Break the cake in four pieces— mumble some magic words (if you know any) then arrange a piece of cake comfortably1 beneath each corner of yo-ur pillow. You’re sup posed to dream of the man you’ll marry. Medieval stuff, yet I have no doubt a wide-awake bakery could sell lots of Valentine dream cakes. I get these superstitious angles from my friend, Claudia de Lys, who lectures and writes on the subject. Her East 56th Street apartment is crammed to the ceiling with files of notes on folk lore beliefs from all over the world. Vhe first volume of Claudia’s big book on popular superstitions, already published in French, will soon be out in an English edition. Our very first Valentine poem is said to have been penned by the French duke, Charles of Or gans, twelve years before Colum bus discovered America. Charles sent the valentine to his sweet heart from the Tower of London, on an art-craft career when she *where he was locked up at the made her first artificial flowers, time, having been taken prisoner at the Battle of Agincourt. . . . According to ancient custom, all valentines at least should be plentifuly decorated with touches of red—“the color of the heart.” ♦ * * Women’s opens at in New of handFeminine Fair On November 3rd the (International Exposition Grand Central Palace ^rk City for a week art and fashion displays, speeches, lectures, concerts, folk-dances and patriotic exercises. From small after she and her husband escaped to this country at the outbreak of the war. Says Mrs. Saenger: “I have always loved orchids, but as a. refugee I couldn’t afford them. For consolation I started odds and ends of velvet and chif fon together in the form flowers.” Well, let me tell you, Elise Saenger’s flowers made of gold leather, fur, felt, silk, colored beads, all sorts of materials, are so handsome they’re absolutely unique. A few friends ordered them, and pretty soon she had paying customers, customers of such fashion fame as Hattie Car negie and John-Frederics. Of similar interest are the hand arts shown, by hundreds of other women at the Exposition,, women from Norway, Palestine, France and almost everywhere, but not quite. A few countries didn’t R.S.V.P. last year, so this year for monograms has become a nationwide craze. "Sure, my child, they all want monograms now,” says Mama Greenhut. "During the war my business grew fifteen times big ger. Why? I can only guess .May be when life is so uncertain they Eke to make their belongings as' MonogramsNo Crowns I know a jam-packed little threeroom apartment in an old brown stone house on East 56th Street, where you can hear more famous names reeled off by the minute than any Broadway columnist could quote legitimately in a matter of years... In the small front room, amid towering piles of linens and silks, Mama Greenhut chirps as merrily as Jier canary birds. “Ma ma,” as everyone calls Mrs. Re gina Greenhut, is New York’s fore most embroiderer of monograms. Staring at the incredible heaps personal,as they pan.”. It has been fifty years since Regina Greenhut left her native Austrian village, yet her accent ife still delightfully old-world, and the work of her hands retains 4hat exquisite skill developed by the women of Czechoslovakia. From minute initials- on a handkerchief to applique letter, foot-high on a bedspread, each monogram is an individual creation. Here are sturdy huckaback towels being monogrammed for . Mrs. Henry Stimson, wife of our Secretary of War........ A million aire sportsman has left dozens of pairs of socks, each ( sock to be monogrammed. ... As a token of thanks for past favors,, a Warner Brothers executive has just invited Mama to a first-night feel lively . . keep lively Taken regularly, MILO—the delicious chocolate - flavoured Ionic food — helps to build energy and youthful vivacity. MILO is made from pure conn . try milk and malted cereals, fortified with ((essential vitamins, containing calAA cium, phosphates and important mineral salts. It invigorates, soothes and helps to induce sound, restful sleep. MILO the Fortified TONIC FOOD A NESTLE'S PRODUCT FEBRUARY 15. 1H8 PAGE 33 opening. ... A golf expert wants tune, is returning again to vogue, golf clubs on his ties and socks Paris dressmakers have been and underwear. ... I see a showing some of their latest model pyramid of neckties, in rainbow hues, monogrammed with the initials, D. R. They are the neckties of Damon Runyon. ... I ?ee a fragile, frivolous pair of .feminine panties with “Lulu” em broidered across them in outsize letters. . . . There’s only one mo nogram job the Greenhut workshop refuses to take on. No royal crests or crowns. ’ MThe time for crowns,” chuckles Mama, “is past and gone." Her prices range from twentyfive cents for one small letter on a hankie to ten dollars for an elaborate tbree-letter monogram. Higher still for applique mono-, grams. Mama’s personal taste in clines toward the simpler types of work. She’ll try to discourage you from ordering splashy jobs. ABE LINCOLN Fights A Duel 8 By PAULINE BLOOM ABE LINCOLN, was shy with himself the author of a shabby bit, women. He did not drink or smoke, of bad writing and bad taste. But he was one addicted to the Shields promptly challenged him writing of anonymous letters, a habit which almost changed the course of history. 1 Long before anyone suspected his coming greatness Lincoln wrote to the Sangamo Journal a the dueling grounds he slowly letter signed “Rebecca” in which pulled the 5-foot blade from its ZTm of “thHame X eol£ '1° poked f™ at *h‘. S,Ut,e. “abbarf. stretched out .his proall over, perfectly matched. As far as the trade here knows, that’s the top price on record for a coral necklace. The range of pinks is extremely - - . wide. Visiting the offices of Luigi J^P • ’ - , • ,, . . _ Lincoln’s bier mistake wa. Mazza, wholesale gem importer, I was escorted to. a large safe in which several compartments were ,, r packed with coral necklace., «uh •»the eoTeapondence The fourth depute. _ a ___ a hndcrA-Tbndc’A nf rliiTnsv in- CAainn gowns embellished -with coral ornaments. I believe coral’s new popularity will catch on here, and I have scouted out the following facts for you: For about fifty cents you can buy a small string of spiky little coral beads called spezzari—or you can pay as high as thirty thousand dollars for a string of light pink in an individual Envelope. After ohing and ahing over dozens of beautiful strings priced from fifty bucks to half a grand, I inquired how many different shacks are kept in stock. “Always at least seventy-five different tones,” LI * . II—— “Customers often send us a sam ple of dress material, ordering a Pink For Luck . Want to ward off the evil eye? Want to adorn yourself stylishly with something forty-five million years old? Wear coral. This lovely pink stuff they fish out of the ancient Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas, endowed, so they say, with strange powers of for- string of coral to match. Matched ALEMAN'S MOTHER HONORED MOTHER OF PRESIDENT Miguel Aleman of Mexico, Senora Tomasa Ale man receives the key to San Diego, Calif., from Edriiund T. Price, presi dent of the city’s Chamber of Commerce. Senora Aleman was in San Diego on a visit and shopping tour while her son was being honored and entertained by President Truman, in the East. (International) to a duel. The challenged party being privileged to name the Weapon, Lincoln chose “cavalry broad swords of the largest size...” At Auditor, a small, ] ladies’ man named Shields. Under the same nom de plume he wrote a second and a third letter, full Of a quiet, penetrating wi£ whioh meticulous' digiously long arm and clipped a hanging high on a tree. Everyone was struck- by the absurdity of a broadswords duel between two such ill-matched op ponents. With great good hhmor Lincoln offered his adversary his hand and suggested a game of old Lincoln’s big mistake was in re vealing the identity of “Rebecca” ____ ______„__________ to Mary Todd, who promptly took sledge as a means o^ settling the letter, a hodge-podge of clumsy in- Seeing how one small unkindvective, was followed by a crude ness, feeding upon itself,. could bit of verse which fatally broke grow into a monster, Lincoln de Shields’ patience. termined never again to write It took more than physical anonymous letters and never courage to assume responsibility again to speak unkindly of anyast seventy-live for a11 the le,tters- Despite his one. His imagination and wit then said Mr. Mazza. £T0WinJ= reputation as a 'literary became instruments not of injury, stylist, Lincoln had to'proclaim but of healing. coral is a favorite fancy among the smartest of dressers.” It is true, I know, that many women of taste, the Duchess of Windsor for otne, like to wear certain shades of coral which are particularly becoming to their complexions, and have long done so, whether coral happened to be fdbhionable at the time or not. If an Italian mother can possibly af ford it, she will hang a bit of coral on a ribbon around the neck of her child for protection against evil, and in Italy many grown-up men and women carry a small coral charm. Our word coral is derived from the Greek words, kore and aloe, meaning Maiden of the Sea. Nice! Harvard’s authoritative profes sor, Alexander Agassiz, estimated some underwater reefs of coral to be -forty-five million years or more of age. Finest deep-sea coral is obtained along the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia, Dalmatia. Genoa fishermen started taking it from Africa as far back as eight cen turies ago, but for the last six hundred years it has come to - us chiefly from Torre del Greco, near Naples. Center of the coral-finishing in dustry is Leghorn, where Amer icans troops are now stationed. The world’s greatest school of coral carving is at Torre del Gre co, and Japan also has coral car vers of notable skill. help keep our towns clean—why, there are basureros to sweep- out the garbage and they are being paid, are they not? As Mrs.sLegarda says in . her message to our clubwomen (in connection with Clean-Up Week, everyday in the Philippines should be clean-up day. otherwise we shall never make’, this countif- of ours clean. * * ♦■ The Philippine National Red Cross Fund Campaign is still go ing on, hence the two articles we are running in this issue. Tly President set the example to th nation by giving a large check ti the PNRC funds when the cam., paign started on the first of thi^ month. In addition to the two articles , about the fund campaign we aret reprinting an article on blood plasma to acquaint our readers^ with its uses. The PNRC, ns mentioned in the introduction to this article, is .planning a cam paign for blood donations so that a blood bank may be established, for use in emergency cases. So if you have blood to spare, give some of it, for who knows that you—or members of your imnieM diate family—may need it in the future? PAGE 34 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL MISSING PAGE/PAGES