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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. 24) April 30, 1947
Publisher: National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Language: English
Subject: Women's periodicals.
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Place of publication: Manila
extracted text: OMAN'S 0 M E, ourna ylpril 30. 1047 AT Al.I. I EAIHNG Dill G STOKES HUMAN MILK! THE SUCCESSFUL NUTRI TIONAL history of S-M-A babies is due to the remarkable similarity of S-M-A to mother's milk. It is es sentially the same as human milk in percentage of protein, fat, carbohy drate and ash, in chemical constants of the fat and in physical properties. S-M-A IS RECOMMENDED for normal, full term infants in the early weeks of life when supple mentary food is required for the breast-fed infant. It may be given to infants of any age whenever mother's milk is unavailable, of poor quality or insufficient quantity. Distributors: American Factors(phil.')Inc R-3<>7 Alters Bldg.. I’-il Area, Manila TUNE IN ON KZKII EVERY SI ND. GilT XT > S-M-A is derived from the milk of tuberculin-tested cows. Part of this milk is replaced with animal and vegetable fats, including biological ly assayed cod liver oil. Milk sugar, Vitamin A and D concentrate, caro tene, thiamine hydrochloride, potas sium chloride and iron are added. (I'Hll.l'KOM) Supplied: 1 lb. tins ivith measuring cup. WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL (Official Organ of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) • Board of Editor! Trinidad Femandez-Legarda Paz Policarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. Benavides • Managing Editor Minerva G. Laudico • Associate Editora Paciencia Torre-Guzman Soledad H. Leynes • Advertiiing Manager F. A. Fuentecilla VOL. XVII NO. 24 Contents APRIL 30, 1947 This Fortnight’s Issue ................................................. 3 THIS FORTNIGHT’S ISSUE • CONGRESSWOMAN REMEDIOS OZAMISFORTICH should have graced our cover issues ago, but this was one instance where the spirit was willing but the photographers wouldn’t co operate through no fault of their own. The news photo flashes taken of the woman solon certain ly weren’t cover material. Finally, Mrs. Fortich hit upon the system of making the studio print copies of her close.up by the dozens and much against her will, she took to lugging these photo graphs in her handbag and carrying them whereever she went. This way we were able to make her come across when we pursued on time be fore she enplaned for the homeplace for the Holy Week. She autographs her pictures with plain “Remedios”. She has three children, two girls and one boy—all very fjne specimens of the citizens of tomorrow. “I have to work hard, I have these children to bring up properly.” Our lone Congresswoman is mother first, law maker afterwards. Had the government body not gone up to Ba guio to hold some of its deliberations there, we doubt if Manila would have bothered to flock up there they way it did especially during the Holy Week. The planes made record flights of as many as nine a day with every reservation taken up weeks in advance. We had no such reservation but the FEATI can and did make room for the press. There are many angles on Baguio, a daring one could be on how money flows from the vacationists’ pocket, but we chose “How is Baguio” and gave it a civil answer. Almost every one who went up came down with at least a set or two of Ilocanowoven things. This industry is flourishing all right. But we (Continued on page 34) Baguio........................................... 4 Looking At You ......................... 5 A Song For Iniang (Short Story) .............................. 6 Conrado V. Pedfoche “To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time” .......... 7 Eulogio M. Dua A Great Day 8 The Reconstituted Philippine Red Cross................... 9 Birthday Party (Short Story) .................................. 10 Manuel A. Viray Book Review ................................................................. 11 Pura S. Castrence Women In the News 12 Filipino Nurses At International Convention .......... 13 Woman’s Way (Featurette) ....................................... 14 ‘SEEMS To Me ........................................................... 15 Pia Mancia Clubwomen’s Bulletin Board ................................... 16 Baguio Beckons (Pictorial) ................................... 18-19 Summer Fashions by SAX’S ....................................... 20 Household Notes .... ................................................. 21 Cooking ..................... . 22 Child Care ...................................................................... 24 Marriage Is a Long Way Off (Short Story) ............ 30 Hamlin Hunt Visiting Nurse ............................................................... 28 Silhouettes .................................................................... 34 Phn;«^oman m ?°Te J°urnal" is edited and published by the Women’s Publishers, Inc., at 1055 Soler, Ramon Roces Bldg., Manila, Telephone: 8-64-23. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office on July 10, 1946. Subscription .nates. 1 year (24 issues) P6.00; 6 months (12 issues) P3.00; 2 years (48 issues) P11.00. For foreign countries double these rates: Igorrot-weaving is flourishing. No vacationist leaves the Pine City without making purchases of these textiles. HOW IS BAGUIO? IIRE kind to Baguio,” called D back a Pine City resident in parting. We can not fathom just why she had to think of this cute little phrase to add to the usual “good-bye, come again.” It was to a group of writing people she addressed this and that, we thought, meant something. May be she had cause for apprehen sion, too. Come to think of it, maybe Baguio City is not quite half-ready to accommodate vaca tionists after the fashion of a by gone era. And this ravaged city is not to blame. . Hense, the hitherto rhetorical question “How is Baguio?” has currently become more than just a phrase uttered for the sake of small talk and amenities. When people ask this question they want a detailed answer and no fooling. Baguio is fine, is wonderful, is deliciously cool, you answer, doubtless reminiscing the smooth Post-War Baguio Is A New Story. See Pages 18 And 19 one-hour airplane trip, the sooth ing quiet of the surrounding hill side, the clean-blowing mountaii air, the prospect of rest if only for a weekend and the decided lift which a change in altitude al ways seems to bring. And so you find yourself on Session Road. It is a very short road now, this Escolta of the City of Pines. The crumbling ruins of its edifices stand ghostlike over the hastily rehabilitated estab lishments which are mostly dress and haberdashery shops, eating places, a drug store, a movie house, Chinese stores, a hotel—the “El Monaco” to be exact, a night club—the one and only nightclub in that vicinity, a bowling alley and a garage of cars for hire. This is your world for the dura tion of your vacation. Your bed room is the hotel. Your dining room is a restaurant a staircase away or an eating nook a few doors down the road. Your eating nook is aslo your sitting room; here friends gather and talk for hours on end. The marketplace is still where it has always stood. So does the church. Speaking of transportation fa cilities, Baguio has far better and more numerous cars now for hire than ever before. They charge only five pesos by the hour and that’s something you have to bear in mind when tempted to general ize about prices in this costly high land resort. A five-peso meal, however, leaves very much to be desired although it goes without saying that the meal is far more substantial than a handful of strawberries which costs the same. There is a Chinese restaurant which has caught the visitors’ fan cy. Maundy Thursday it was filled to the rafters, people being told to wait for hours for their food. There’s one restaurant that can feed you on short notice though, only its tables are never empty. Hence consider yourself one of the favored few if you have a cou sin or a brother who can put you up. That he has only a barong-barong to share with you is enough blessing, taking into account that food certainly will not be your problem. There was the adventure of two newspaper girls who wan dered from eating nook to eating nook one noon hour, their better halves having temporarily for saken them to attend a Buaya luncheon. Every place .was filled so as a last resort they hied to the El Monaco nightclub which also serves meals in the daytime. This, too, was overflowing with, of all people, the Rotarians. To their dismay, they realized that they must inflict upon a house wife-friend living somewhere on Session Road the very tortures they know so well when hungry company descends at half past one at noon. All your hard-earned pesos go into lodging expenses, what with a hotel room costing at least twenty pesos a day per person, meals decidedly not included. The hotels are still makeshift. A pre war Baguio hotel room costing less than half the current price had its own bath, tub and all, and all the running hot water you wanted. Not the Baguio hotel room of to day. Bath is reached by queuing. Your room, though, has tap wa ter. The two faucets to the wash basin are still labelled “hot” and “cold” as of old, but here’s the catch: one faucet is cold all right. The other marked “hot” keeps its promise only after it has made up its mind to do so. It yields warm water only after the tap has been kept running for about ten min utes. This method is not highly recommenced because many times during the day taps in Baguio run dry. .But of course there’s the room boy who can fetch a glass of hot water in the record time of say, half an hour. So much for the hotel room. It has a bed with a mattress and so long as the Sandman does not fail you, you won’t be sleepy-eyed to miss the beauty of the surrounding scenes which is still Baguio. The burned pines are still charred and the flower-covered homes that dotted the hillsides are missing, but homes for government official dom have been put up and they are very comfortable inside, al though outside their gardens are still mere plans. The army com pounds are best kept, Camp John Hay is a dream. The mission and the colleges run by the Sisters are tending their gardens and the riot of blooms surrounding them is a sight to behold. President Roxas, during his brief stay in the Pine City over the Holy Week, took cognizance of Baguio’s needs and has taken steps in this direction. He called the Malacanan landscape adviser, Louis P. Croft and from all indi cations the latter is now at work on plans for Baguio City. To date, plans for Baguio’s re construction include: (1) the es tablishment of a sanatorium simi lar to the famous health center in Monrovia, California where the late President Quezon found add ed lease on health. This will be built some ten kilometers outside the city. Tuberculosis patients look forward to its establishment (Continued on page 31) WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAGE 4 Looking At You Your Character Is Reflected In Your Posture. Take Stock Of Yourself, Then, And Make Plans To Do < By Yourself And ’Ey The World You Live In. WERE you to sit on some Good adjustment and hence vantage point and watch smooth sledding in this best of the world go by, the procession all possible worlds can be attriof humanity, as it passes by in buted mostly to good health, review, would be an open book. While there are many factors For one thing, looking detached- that go into the building of good ly at other people’s gait, their health, exercise is stressed by carriage, their bearings, you will authorities as the factor that be able to tell who is happy and sets the ball rolling. It assist; who isn’t; who is well-adjusted in conditioning the muscles henci and who carries a chip on his its indispensahility to the health shoulder; who is battling against plan. Eexrcise should be fun. It a cruel world and who is taking should not be something that everything in stride. one does willy-nilly. It is said that your character The first and Pomary warning is reflected in your posture. A to PeoPle who look uPon exercist slouch is easily evasiveness, insin- as something that you take 01 cerity. A head shooting forward leave or as a distraction that yov much ahead of the body calls to splurge on when in the mood mind the turtle and his ways. and foreS° entirely when not The question mark posture is just that. Reminds you of all the doubting Thomases. The selfish and the grabbing betray it in their posture somehow, in much the same way that carelessness an indifference reflect them selves in hundred ways in one’s mannerisms. Whereas she who walks like a queen can not fail to have a per sonality that is smoothly balan ced and a life that is well-orga nized. She values herself highly because she has not done any thing to cause self-reproach or self-indignation. With her all’s right with the world. No wonder, she walks as God’s chosen child. religiously everyday. And it is not necessary to join a gym or an expensive health club although these are not objectionable if they encourage you to perform your The Arm Swing promises to give you a good shoulder line, one unburden, ed by the cares of the world. Looking at you now in this pose doesn’t augur much, but let the re sults justify the means. daily dozen with zest because of the stimulation that company gives. At home and just as you wake up, a space on the floor is all that you need to keep in trim. A carefully worked out system carried out before an open window and ten minutes each morning will launch you on a very health ful plan that will yield results. Exponents of moderate daily conditioning erercises that can be carried out in the home are only too emphatic in that in order to make our bodily organs function properly and operate smoothy and naturally, enable us to sleep soundly, exercise is necessary. Doctors do stress this especially for those over 30 or 35. Of course there is no age limit to conditioning, and everybody can benefit by it. The daily dozen exercises which even school child ren are familiar with are recom mended for general conditioning. Corrective exercise for develop ing good posture are numberless. For the benefit of the women who may be afflicted with a Sway Back, Bulging Tummy, Broopy shoulders and Overluscious Curves, we have asked The Wall Climb is easier to execute than walking on your head to achieve a good reversal of the blood stream. feeling like it, is, as doctors’ ad vice runs: “Exercise regularly but moderately. ” Most people who are cooped up in offices or tied to busy desks forego exercise entirely for weeks and months on end and then go on an outing one weekened and indulge in the most violent exer cise imaginable as if to make up for past negligences. Both ex tremes, doctors would tell you, are unwise, if not actually dan gerous . For the Sway.Back, try this. There A successful system would be are other things it corrects. Read in- to plan one’s daily conditioning structions. exercises and execute the plan the artist to draw sketches which will serve as guides to the in structions here given for the cor rective exercises mentioned above. —P. T. G. 1.—The Sway Back This condition sets in when the lumber region of the spine curves too far inward. To correct: stand about four inches from a wall, feet about four inches apart. Bend the knees slightly and out ward by rotating from the thighs so you feel as though coccyx or “tail end” of the spine were being drawn down and under. Keep the heels down. Press the small of the back flat to the wall, slowly straighten the knees, counting eight. Hold the position, drawing in the abdomen, chest high, and breathing naturally— and count eight. Relax. Repeat four to eight times slowly. Practice until the Perfect Posi tion can be held without effort. There will then be no difficulty in mastering the Perfect Position without the aid of the wall. (This exercise has been found to correct constipation and hence it is high ly recommended for that trouble.) 2.—The Weak Tummy The- Wall Climb here illustrated is excellent for reversal of the blood stream, for prolapses and weak abdominal muscles, also for the sway back and for general relaxa tion and circulation. Lie down side ways next to the wall. Swing the body into position with the legs up the wall as though sitting on the wall—arms relaxed at sides. Then, relax knees to chest. Walk up the wall as high as you can. Walk up the wall as high as possible until you are resting your shoulders, legs straight (Continued on page 14) APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 5 A Song For INIANG By C. V. PEDROCHE THEY had been a happy couple and when Iniang died, Nory, her husband, missed her so, indeed. Iniang was a pretty woman with a small nose and long straight hair. She had little freckles on her cheeks which she tried hard to hide with rouge and powder. Nory was thin and curly-haired. The most striking thing about him was his nose which was rather sharp and well-formed. He had a penchant for white camisa de chino and khaki pants which he would fold under the pillows after the day’s work so that in the morning they would look neat and newly-pressed. Nory was a good husband. He had a passion for little household details which otherwise his wife could not look after. Such things as corner shelves for the books, fancy picture frames of bamboo which Nory himself fashioned, clothes hangers, and the arrange ment of empty bottles inside the lancena. He had a collection of these small bottles of all shapes and descriptions, of catalogues which he ordfered from big depart ment stores in America, and books which he seldom read. Iniang was a good cook but Nory was a better one. As long as he was not busy at all in the house doing something else he would attend to the kitchen. Of course it was Iniang who went to market. There was something else he could do well—design his wife’s dresses. He was good at this sort of thing and he had a collection of the latest styles which he kept in a paper-bound album with a cover which he himself illustrated with fancy cubistic flower-designs. Iniang would invite her friends and show this to them. Nory was something of a tailor, you know, both his father and mother having been in that trade. He made his own pants and polo shirts. He was a good husband, indeed, and Iniang worshipped him and was rightly proud of him. They were very happy for many years. Their first unhappiness was when Iniang’s first child was bom dead. Poot Nory had been preparing for the child for a long time. He bought a bolt of diaper cloth, one roll of absorbent cotton, Not even a paid nurse, Iniang told her friends, could do what her dear Nory did to her during her confinement. Why, she said, with tears shining in her eyes, he even washed my hair! And then Iniang was with child again. This time Nory was very careful. He would not allow her to work at all. She must rest, she must eat well, sleep well. To give the child, he said, more strength to survive this time. Oh, but Nory overdid his care. He performed the household chores all by himself. Everything —even the washing of the dishes and the cleaning of the yard. Careful now, he would say. Re member the precious burden—we don’t want to take any more chances. By the time the baby was about ■to come, Nory sent all the longkept diapers to the laundry and dusted the hope-chest where he kept all the things which he in tended for the first one. All at once, he thought again of the man a can of Mennen powder and a few other necessities in prepara tion for the coming childbirth. And on top of this, he fashioned out of plywood a hope-chest for the future heir. It was a beautiful box, no doubt copied from one of the many catalogues in his book shelf, with a stand to hold it above the floor. He painted this box with two or three different colors to make it look attractive and gay. Despite this, however, an un fortunate thing happened while he was making it. A curious neigh bor, seeing Nory working on the box, remarked, rather out of turn but without any unkindness in tended: It looks like a coffin to me, my dear fellow. Now that the man had said it, Nory thought that it did look like a coffin. Even after he had paint ed it with gay and attractive co lors, the look persisted. But Nory was not one to let this hamper his style. He kept on working until it was finished and he carried it up to the balcony to dry in the wind. THE child was bora dead. That was their first unhappiness but if Nory felt it, he did not allow it to bother him for long. He had work to do and he’ went about his household pottering as usual with greater efficiency and zeal. It took Iniang several months to recuperate from her confinement but these were months which gave Nory one more opportunity for service and tenderness. There was nothing his wife could want which Nory was unable t<o give her. He cook ed for her the most appetizing foods she could think of, tended her, and prepared her first bath of lukewarm water perfumed with vinagre and gogo bark. After this ritual, Nory went under the house and built a smudge over which he threw some dried lanzones peelings. The perfumed smoke coming up through the bamboo floor would now cleanse Iniang of the last traces of her confine ment and waken her sluggish| blood into life once more. He was most tender to her after that and was ever near her to ministrate to her littlest wish. who remarked about the box look ing like a coffin. He could not help thinking of this. He shut his eyes and tried to shake off the thought but there was nothing he could do about it. He thought of the first one, lifeless and livid, and suddenly the grief which he had kept in his heart for almost three years sprang into his eyes. When he looked up from his dust ing, he found that he was crying. When he heard his wife coming up the stairs from the first floor of their house, he wiped his eyes hurriedly, but his wife saw him. It’s nothing, he said in answer to her unspoken question, a mote must have gotten into my eye. SHE came to him solicitously and bent down to kiss him. In the evening the first pain came. I think, Iniang said, my time is nearing. Towards morn ing she. stood up and went down to the kitchen to drink. Ordinarily she would have- shaken Nory up and asked him to fetch her a glass of water but she found him snoring so softly by her side she just did not have the heart to wake him. When she returned, however, she found him sitting in his Bed, looking around. PAGE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL “GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still aflying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.” —Robert T. Herrick SEVEN spinsters in a row! That’s the record in our family. I am sure my unmarried aunts and cousins will wring my ears blue when they read this. Why do I have to poke my nose into their pies? Why can’t I mind my own business? But this is for their good and for the rest of their tribe, the tragically un lucky unmarried old maids. My “tias” and “primas” were young and beautiful once. I saw their maps in the old dusty fam ily albums and I am convinced that even if one uses the presentday standard in judging pin-up girls, they were not hard to look at. 'TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME' Beauty and brains? They had both. Their only failure is they have not been able to make the two ends of their matrimony lines meet. The tragedy: They are now wasting their precious remaining What is it now, sweet? he ask ed. Nothing, she said, I just went down for a glass of water. I felt thirsty. How about the pains? False alarm, I think. But I feel all out of sorts and I would not be surprised if it comes today. The child never came. Iniang died in the afternoon. The doctor said it was her heart. A few days later, Nory was cleaning up the house. It was the town fiesta and it was a day after the funeral. Suddenly jazz music broke in upon Nory’s quiet preoccupation. A band was play ing under his windows and the song was Roll Up the Barrel. By EULOGIO M. DUA yeqrs sloshing diapers in the sink and knitting socks and sweaters for their nephews and nieces, children not their own. And what is lamentable is their nonchalance. They simply ignore the “crime” they had committed against church Nory stood up and went to the window. Please, he said, please stop it. My wife has just died. Will you play a sad song for me? Not a dirge, just a sad song. The band leader consulted with his men and finally they broke into a slow sad rendition of You Are Always in My Heart. After the song Nory gave them a peso but the band leader refused to accept it. It is our contribution, he said. May we share in your bereave ment? Nory knew then that everything was not yet lost for mankind. He went quickly back into the house because he did not want to show the men the tears in his eyes. and society. Why do they refrain from mar rying? Was there a shortage of men during their time? Were the men less dashing then ? Less romantic, less venturesome ? There must be a reason or two for this social discrepancy. Let’s snoop around and read their pri vate diaries. Let’s pore over their old love letters. You don’t like to fall on the same stone, do you ? Then profit from their experience. LET’S learn a lesson from Tia Corita. My notes reveal: She is an unmarried maid of 45, 5foot-2, at present a school marm with the proverbial goggles. She belongs to phylum “selecta,” class "idealista,” the truly ge nuine choosey, selective type. In her high school and college days, she was the “sweetheart of Sigma Chi” but... She wanted a Hollywood-made Prince Charming. Specifications: Must be “tall, dark, and hand some, willing and able.” But be. ing a botanist by vocation and an idealist by inclination, she made it a habit to place each matrimoni al specimen under her powerful imaginative miscroscope and mag nified even little defects, deformi ties, and shortcomings of our gal lants. Result: Imperfect suitors turned about face, faced the mu sic alone, leaving Tia Corita still a spinster at 45! Our next “spinsterial” specimen is Prima Toyang. She’s an an. tique. Age, 42, still straight haired, never had a manicure, ne ver had a rouge. She belongs to a phylum I may dub, “religiosa,” class “conservativa,” the pious, conservative one-man woman type. My underground study of her life reveals that there were four con tenders for her hand, who offered and tempted to 'middle-aisle with her but she had been “delivered from all evils.” To her, there was only one “saint” who was worth his salt and that was Ciriaco, Acoy for short. Since her Acoy is now out of circulation, having been deca pitated by Nips (May he R.I.P.), my poor “prima” had been biding her time, waiting for the duplicate copy of Ciriaco but no “homo sap” of Acoy’s type ever showed up to cross her path again. Poor Prima Toyang, she never realized that there are more big fishes to land if she only knew how. She ought to have gone to other meadpws and made hay, much more hay while the sun was still shining. There is however, a ray of hope for if life begins at 40, she has started only two years ago. And then there is Auntie Maring, a typical misplaced, mal-adjusted member of the spinster club who up to this writing, is ably rub bing elbows with the local “abogados” but unable to land a bet ter-half for herself. She is in an odd position. She has many friends both in the lower and up per strata of society. She is look ed up to by everyone in the com7 munity, being the only woman lawyer in the pueblo... BUT Dan Cupid, who had been unkind this time, shuns her. Local Romeos are afraid even to approach her balcony. She is too much for the town’s dude. She is a “sour grape” to the indigent dashing lads. To them, she’s not only unapproachable but indeed beyond their reach. The sugar ty coon, the rice magnate, and a cou ple of big shots of the town, who (Continued on page 23) APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 7 A GREAT DAY For The Philippine National Red Cross And For The Filipino People April 15, 1947 is a date to be remembered in the history of pub lic service in the Philippines, for on this day the independence of the Philippine National Red Cross from the American Red Cross was proclaimed amidst formal cere monies held on the lawn of Malacanan. Said Mrs. Quezon, chair man of the executive committee, about the recognition of the PNRC as an independent Red Cross society: “One of the great est and most worthwhile achieve ments of the Filipino people.” The proclamation of independ ence which was read by Emilio Abello, chief of the Executive Of fice, was preceded by an invoca tion by Monsignor Mariano Madriaga, bishop of Lingayen, after which Manuel Lim, as chairman of the committee on PNRC Independ ence Ceremonies and First Na tional Convention and member of the Central Executive Committee of the PNRC, and Commissioner Robert C. Lewis of- the American Red Cross, Far East Theater of Operations, representing Mr. Ba sil O’Connor, chairman of the board of directors of the League MRS. AURORA ARAGON QUEZON, PRC chairman, was among the first to donate to the 1946 PRC national fund drive. She is shown here endorsing a check of Pl,000, while Red Cross officials look on. From left to right are: Winthrop H. Swett, fund raising supervisor; Glen A. Whisler, PRC manager; Mrs. Quezon; Philip Ryan, ARC official; and Dr. J. H. Yanzon, PRC assistant manager. President Roxas lauded the services of American officials of the Red Cross. of Red Cross Societies, and chair man of the ARC, gave short re marks. After the reading of the inde pendence proclamation, the flag ceremony which was the highlight of the occasion, and in which Mrs. Quezon was the chief participant, followed. Vicki Quirino, daughter of Vice President Quirino, who was dressed in Filipino costume and escorted by three Red Cross workers in uniform, handed the Philippine flag to Mrs. Quezon, who placed it among the flags of G4 member-nations of the Inter national Red Cross Society. Mr. Joseph 0. Bessmer, offi cial representative of the Interna tional Red Cross at the ceremo nies, transmitted the latter’s hopes that our young organiza tion may accumulate the vital for ces of its people and all its re sources and enthusiasm in the at tainment of the lofty objectives before us. President Roxas, who was the chief speaker for the occasion, promised continued government cooperation with the young orga nization. He lauded the American Mrs. Quezon is shown above receiving from President Roxas a parchment copy of the proclamation of independence of the Philippine National Red Cross during the colorful ceremonies held at Malacahan. Bishop Mariano Madriaga of Lingayen who gave the invocation at the start of the program is also shown vn the picture. Red Cross for the services it has rendered to the local agency and credited the former with the speedy progress and expansion of the PNRC. “The independence of the Philippine Red Cross,” the President said, “does not in any way mean that it shall be divest ed of international responsibility and prerogatives. We are a sig natory to the Geneva International Red Cross Convention and as such we owe certain international ob ligations. ' For this reason, while taking justifiable pride in being able to serve the greatest inter ests of our people in a complete ly independent status, we should never be. oblivious of the fact that we have international commit ments to be observed and adhered to.” A three-day national convention of the 109 PNRC delegates from its provincial chapters opened at San Beda Hall on April 16. In her keynote speech, Mrs. Quezon said that the convention was call ed to allow the people, through their representatives, an opportu nity to discuss the program of service offered to the nation by the PNRC and to work for its im provement and gradual expansion. Mr. Lewis of the ARC paid tribute to the PNRC. He said: “We all know that by the end of the war your society had been stripped of nearly all. There was one great asset, which could not be taken from you—faith and belief in the Red Cross move ment. With that as a starting point you have rebuilt until now you stand as a highly respected independent Red Cross society. You have every reason to be proud of your accomplishments.” Glen A. Whisler, PNRC adviser, said that the measure of Red Cross strength is taken by the yardstick of active volunteer par ticipation. PAGE 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL THE RECONSTITUTED to useful advantages. Military ceived training as volunteer safety ex-servicemen and their depend- Welfare Service representatives instructors from Philippine Red ents in filing claims for govern- of ^be pRg assist ailing veterans Cross safety experts. After sament and military benefits; giving —sometimes at their bedside—in tisfactorily passing the safety counsel and advice in relation filing- their claims against the courses, these trained instructors to personal and family problems government or the Army, or in in turn teach the gospel of safer to the service-connected civilian other ways, such as writing let- living among the people in their population; guiding families go- ters for therri( or in working out respective provinces, ing through a period of readjust- ways towards a solution of their Also in line with the health ment occasioned by the last con- probiems. Through arrangements and educational programs, the flict; assisting servicemen and made by the PRC Military Wei- Nursing Department of the Philtheir families in preparing wel- fare Service, local movies, train- ippine Red Cross issued certififare reports,'which are very help- films, Filipino stage plays, cates to 4,885 graduates of the ful in determining the nature and and iately USO shows, are shown home nursing course. With a extent of the assistance they jn army camps and hospitals. view to promoting and assuring need- „ , , lr, . a high quality of instruction to The Military Welfare Sei-vice To promote safer and healthier of the Philippine Red Cross con- living among the people of the (Continued on page 26) NOT long after MacArthur’s liberating forces raised the American and Filipino flags in Manila, another banner, the Red Cross banner, found itself waving over the prefabricated huts housing the national headquarters of the Philippine Red Cross on San Rafael street. To the newly liberated people who had just emerged from the devastation of war, sorely dis traught and in dire need of help in the solution of their many problems, the Red Cross emblem meant a great deal more than temporary relief from the op pressive burdens that the war had left upon them; it meant, and does mean, a reassurance of peaee, of goodwill and brother hood among all human beings, and a good deal of other things. The Philippine Red Cross, like all other Red Cross societies throughout the world, is an ins trumentality of service, through which those who are in a posi tion to help' may assist those who are in need of help, such as the victims of natural disasters, dis abled veterans, ex-guerrillas, exservicemen, PA men and their families, war-widows and orphans, war-brides, men and women who are in one way or another con nected with the armed forces, and the civilian population in gen eral . The services of this orga nization are given free, without discrimination as to color, creed, social or political standing. The reconstituted Philippine Red Cross formally opened its doors to»the people on March 25, 1945; since then firm and wide steps have been taken towards the revitalization and expansion of its program of service to the people of this country. The re cords at the PRC national head quarters will tell you the rest of the story. Since the reconstituted Phil ippine Red Cross started opera tions after liberation, upwards of 30,000 families have been assist ed in various ways by its Home Service Department alone. This department assumes the obliga tion of assisting servicemen and tributes no little amount of assist- Philippines, the Safety Services ance to the Philippine Army and of the PRC has trained more its men, and to disabled veterans than 10,800 men, women and confined in various military hos- children in first aid, swimming, pitals, in the way of recreational, life-saving, home and farm acvocational and welfare services, cident prevention. In May last PRC Military Welfare Service year, the first national safety field stations provide recreation school ever conducted in the halls and craft shops to hospi- Philippines was held in Iloilo, talized PA men; in this way, the where more than one-hundred selong and dready hours of hospital lected young men and women life are brightened up and put from all parts of the country rePresident Roxas congratulating Mrs. Quezon as chairman of the PRC executive committee; PRC representative distributing rice to indigents; the PRC comes to the aid of homesless men, ieomen and children in typhoon-stricken area in Cagayan valley. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 9 where the players were synchron izing a staccato rhythm. The colors of the girls’ dresses flared brilliantly. The backs of the young men were smoothly bobbing and turning from my sight. Involuntarily I whipped out a cigarette to quell the gathering tenseness which the infectious music and young laughter had aroused. I saw above the broad shoulders of a slick haired young man a pretty triangular face with high cheekbones, bee-stung lips and large laughing eyes, and framed by dark curly hair cut two inches above the shoulders. She was wearing a green dress with padded sleeves. I thought she was smiling at me as she moved a hand in greeting before she was turned around, but I heard Pedro say softly, “Hi, I-sabel,” while he put the gift beside the other packages on the long rectangular table with the marble top. “She is pretty,” I said. "You should have seen her mother. Placed side by side, you would have thought the two of them were sisters. The same eyes, fine bone structure, full lips, naturally curly hair.” “Why, where’s her mother?” "She died last year when the mine and Alberto’s.” “|I won’t eat her/’ I laughed, “you are like one of the Allied Powers, selfishly trying to insure the frontiers of its spheres of influence.” The music stopped. I noticed that there were only about twenty people in the hall. They formed small islands of conversation. They were talking and laughing. The young men were smoking. “At least I may dance with her, may I?” “Don’t talk about power po litics to her. She’s just naive." “You mean waif,” I said as we went over. Pedro introduced me and she said “You’re the archi tect going to the United Nations convention” and I said “Yes m’am” solemnly so that Pedro had to say “He is impish. Don’t let his mock solemnity frighten you” and I asked for a dance as the maraccas teasingly preluded a rhumba. “She dances pretty well,” I commented when I joined Pedro. “She is not so simple minded. She laughed over my jokes. She is gay.” “Must be because of the party. The spirit of rejoicing in parties is very contagious. Besides it’s her birthday.” BIRTHDAY PARTY PEDRO’S FRIEND handed over through the window of the taxicab a small beribboned pack age with a soothing blue wrapper. “Give her this,” he said. “I will,” Pedro said, his words fragmentized by the wind as the taxicab whisked us from the loneBirthday Parties Are Puzzling Things: Flowing Happiness Sometimes Hold A Cruel And Treach erous Undertow. By MANUEL A. VIRAY ly street curb. It was almost seven and we were in a hurry since the birthday party was sup. posed to start at six. The early evening dark was opaque. Above us, to the west, there was a wide swath of clear sky sprinkled with unfortunate stars. Thick black clouds were slowly hemming in the stars with vicious nebulous ness. The taxi rolled smoothly, turned around the rotonda and veered to the right. The big green house was ablaze with lights as the car whirred to a stop. Sounds of shuffling feet moved with the rhythmic drum beat that dominated the oornphaoompha of the bassoon and the fretful restlessness of the flutes. The laughter of the young match ed the gaiety of the hanging gay crepe paper converging from all sides of the white ceiling into the center lamp. Only a few girls were sitting the dance out. The rest had their left arms, some de licately, some intimately, around their partners’ shoulders. The so loist of the orchestra was now capering with wild abandon on the narrow platform of the dais Americans hit Bocaue. The Japs killed her.” “Oh”. “Maybe she is still alive. I heard though, a rumor that they killed her, along with two guerrillas in San Francisco del Monte.” | did not say anything. “Don’t get any ideas.” Pedro jolted me from my concentrated attention. I was assiduously fol. lowing the movement of the pad ded shoulders of the green dress. “Besides, she is a good friend of “She seems to have forgotten the family tragedy.” “Maybe.” We leaned against the window, quietly smoking ci garettes, the white dimity cur tains and night wind brushing our faces. ‘It would not have happened, you see, had it not been for an unfortunate occur rence. Her father is a major in the army. You know how it was during the occupation. He es caped to the mountains, too. Commanded a guerrilla outfit. Left his wife, I-sabel, Roberto— that’s her brother, at an evacua tion town. Naturally the Japs looked around for her father. When January came around, they became frantic and failing to capture the major, they asked his wife about his whereabouts and she said she didn’t know. While they were talking, Roberto crept downstairs and fled^ but not PAGE 10 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL before they had noticed the rust ling sound.” Somebody nudged Pedro by the arm and said “Let’s get some punch.” Pedro disregarded the invita tion and continued: “‘Who was that?’ asked the Japs running to the door and seeing the vanish ing shadow. ‘That’s my son.’ she said unafraid. ‘He’s only sixteen. Boys are frightened, es pecially with you around, you know how it is.’ They told her: ‘Maybe he warn your husband.’ She said ‘No’. But they took her in. Roberto did go to the moun tains and told his father about the incident.” The orchestra was now play ing a modernized polonaise. “The town mayor who was a good friend of the family told the Japanese he himself was guar anteeing the conduct of the towns people. He worked for the re lease of Isabel’s mother and she should have been set free along with two other suspects on Christmas Day in 1944, mind WHISTLE STOP refined, but nonetheless sympathyBy Maria M. Wolff arousing because they are so true. Published by Random House, Inc., ,A rather unfamiliar and un New York savory aspect of the story—broReviewed by Pura Santillan- ther and sister are deeply in love Castrence with each other—is very - artis tically but feelingly told in de. When Whistle Stop came out, licate scenes where only subtly Sinclair Lewis said: “I suspect is the real relationship suggestthat in Whistle Stop we may have ed. Paradoxically, this seems to the most important first novel be the only refined part of the of the year, and that in Marita story,—for it is a harsh story. Wolff we may salute a young Yet, for the rough material author whom everyone must handled, the author managed know. Her story is equally with a great deal o£ feminine notable in its portrait of hard- artistry to not shock unduly even boiled contemporary small-town when she is talking of tough life, and in its creation of a loose human vices, selfishness, cruelty, woman whom you rather want to lust, revenge. She pictures, see go on being unrepentant, and gently enough, the bewilderment of a man who is cruel, shiftless struggles and conflicts in the and drunken, yet bulkily and human heart. She is unusually sympathetically a real human good in the analysis of feminine being. They are ’ very exciting, psychology, and the inconsistthese people.” ences of her femal personages The picture presented of the are very understandable, even townspeople is not 'very pretty, when the complications to which but breathes of pulsating reality, they lead are sometimes terrible, of a life fully and excitingly An Avery Hopword Award lived. The people are real peo- book, Whistle Stop is definitely a pie, in all simplicity as well as well-written story revealing true complexity, with real, human social conditions in a small problems, mostly ugly, stark, un- American town. you.” I lighted another cigarette, while the danciqg went on. “But at the time a new unit of the Japanese came to the town. They commandeered all the big houses including Alber to’s place which adjoins the major’s place. As luck would have it, while some of the soldiers were busy digging the earth on which to put up a kitchen # shed, they found a box of ammunition and two Springfields. The Japs suspected both families of trea cherous intent and activity. A day after the bullets and guns were found, Isabel learned from Aling Tasia, who usually brought food to Isabel’s mother at the garrison, that the latter had been taken to Manila for further ques tioning. Nobody knows what happened to her. Since Alberto is also a guerrilla, Isabel as sumed he should have dug up the bullets and rifles. He knew, she believed, all about the capture, since intelligence sent to the mountains was carried out in a fast manner. Even the major knew about it.” A tall gangling youth with rest less eyes and thick eyebrows tapped Pedro from outside the window. When lie turned around, Pedro said, “Hello, Bobby.” He introduced me to Roberto as the music stopped. Isabel raised her hands and said would we please go to the dining room. As I sat down, Roberto, who was at my left whispered, "Has Pedro introduced you to Teresa.” I said no and as I turned to my right, Roberto said “Tessie, may I present my friend Herminio.” I smothered a whistle while Roberto jabbed my ribs. She was breathtakingly beautiful. You know how it is. I could not keep my eyes off her even when Isabel, as Pedro accented her name, blew out the candles on the cake. I danced with Teresa a great deal until the party was about to break up. "Why don’t you open, your gifts,” cried a girl in the congerie, where I-sabel was sitting down. The party was not the formal kind since I noticed that everyone seemed to talk to every body else with that familiar tone so common in a small, select party. I-sabel went over to the table, where the orchestra play ers were busy scooping their ice cream and munching cakes and sandwiches. “It’s beautiful,” the girls cried over a make-up set. I-sabel opened a plastic hand bag. Somebody said "There’s a zipper at the side. I wonder what it’s for.” Isabel unzipped the handbag and pulled out a cute umbrella the handle of which was white ivory and measured the length of the bot tom of the bag. “Tricky,” I said. “Maybe you can find a jeep in the umbrella,” Roberto said. “Bobby!” I-sabel said archly but in fun. “It’s frcyn Lita.” She turned to look for Lita who was at her side very much pleased. I-sabel kissed her fond ly to the sound of an approving chorus. “I wish I thought of buying that” said a sallow young man in blue slacks, but Roberto glared at him. She then picked up the beribboned package. Unlike the other gifts there was no card outside the box. She opened it. On top of the velvet were a gold necklace and a ring. Before the card slipped, she said “It’s from...” She strangled the sound in her throat. Impulsively she swept the package away and sobbed-. She almost tumbled for ward had she not gripped the marble edge of the table. Her hands were ashen. “It’s from Alberto,” said the sallow youth who had picked the card up. Isabel fled from the hall into a room, her handkerchief over her mouth, trying to stifle her. cries. Roberto looked around. “Al berto is not here, is he?” he said angrily. “Who brought this in?” . I looked at Pedro involuntarily but he didn’t say anything. I knew that glassy look in his eyes all too well. A few minutes later, we left. At the next street corner we were able to board a jitney. We were the only passengers. “I don’t understand it,” I said. “Alberto and Isabel were en gaged . ” "Oh. You mean they quarelled and he was returning the ring and necklace.” “You can’t blame I-sabel for believing Alberto was directly responsible. for her mother’s execution. She can’t love a rtian who has killed her mother.” “Blood is stronger than love, huh. But why didn’t you own up? You brought the gift.” “I didn’t know Alberto would pull a thing like that,” he-said. Thomas Hitchcock’s advice to his sportsman son, Tommy Hitch cock, Jr.: “Lose as if you like it; win as if you were used to it.”— Newsweek. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 11 PHILIPPINES DR. ENCARNACION ALZONA, first and only Filipino woman delegate to the UNESCO, was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 25th commencement exer cises at the Philippine Women’s University on April 19. Mrs. Aurora A. Quezon, honorary president of the PWU Alumnae Association, performed the inves titure of the hood on Dr. Alzona. Mrs. Quezon herself is a holder of a Doctor of Laws de gree, also honoris causa, from the same university in recognition of her philanthropic movements and humanitarian services. The -degree was conferred on her in 1940. MRS. JOSEFA JARA MARTI NEZ, former executive secretary of the YWCA, was awarded a diploma of Master of Arts in Social Work, honoris causa, for distinguished and meritorious ser vices in social work, at the 40th commencement exercises of the Centro Escolar University last April 20. ANGELINA A. ARCILLA top ped the list of 37 candidates who passed the examinations for phys icians given by the board of me dical examiners last February. Miss Arcilia obtained a rating of 84.38 per cent. Fourth in the list was another woman, MRS. TRINIDAD L. CONCHU-DE LA PAZ, who obtained a rating of 82.31 per cent. ENGLAND PRINCESS ELIZABETH, heir to the British throne, symbol of a war generation bent upon great reforms and one of the world’s most popular girls, celebrated her twenty-first birthday last April 21. She was scheduled to broad cast a speech to the British Em pire, on this occasion. Legally, she became responsible for all her actions like every other ci tizen and she may now serve as regent in the event of the king’s absence or incapacity. She will continue most of her studies, with special attention on constitutional history. During the past weeks, Princess Elizabeth has been very much in the limelight because of her rumored engagement to Prince Philip of Greece, nephew of the Princess’ cousin, Lord Mauntbatten. UNITED STATES WOMEN in the NEWS Margaret Truman with her father. Note resemblance to Madame Galli-Curci, famous Italian singer. hailed as another Galli-Curci, whom she resembles in appear ance and voice. A Washington music critic said that Miss Tru man’s voice has the same warmth, the same natural impulse to sing, the same beauty of quality that tugged at the heartstrings of all Americans 25 years ago when Madame Galli-Curci was the rage. Margaret, it was revealed, start ed preparing for her musical career at the age of 7 and has been taking voice lessons during the past 7 years. MARGE HURLBURT set a new women’s international speed re cord of 337.636 miles an hour over a standard three-kilometer course, flying a clipped-wing Corsair. Miss Hurlburt, who is a school-teacher by profession, bat tered by 45 miles an hour the former record of 297.271 set by Jacqueline Cochran in 1937. 3APAM 65 women filed papers among 1,500 approved candidates for the House of Representatives in the nationwide elections scheduled for April 25. The list includes 27 among the 39 present women members of the Diet. Mrs. Neruko Narushima, wife of a former Diet member, di vorced her husband in order to qualify as candidate for the post vacated by her husband. Narus hima, democratic candidate for the Japanese House of Representcandidate in his place, but the purge directive forbids a purgee’s relatives from running for public office. Mrs. Narushima solved her problem by divorcing her hus band. Japanese women with babies on their backs shouted “Down with the Yoshida Cabinet” as they mounted the speaker’s platform at a mass rally sponsored by the Society for the Protection of Women’s Rights. Participating in the rally were 1,500 women who afterwards marched along the streets, demanding the forma tion of a democratic government. NEW WOMEN MEMBERS of U. S CONGRESS TWO newcomers, one a Re publican and the other a De mocrat, are among the seven American women members of the House of Representatives in the 80th United States Congress Two of the new women members of the United States Congress, Representative Katherine St. George (left) and Representative Geor gia Lusk (center) are shown with veteran congresswoman, Repre sentative Mary Norton (Tight). (US1S) which convened early in January, 1947. The two new members represent widely different geographic areas of the United States. From the small town of Tuxedo in New York State comes Mrs. Katherine St. George, Republican. Active on her large farm, she has an inti mate interest in American coun try life, as well as a special con cern in veterans’ legislation and foreign policy. The new Democrat, Mrs. Geor gia Lusk of New Mexico, comes from the vast southwestern sec tion of the United States. A former teacher and state superin tendent of public instruction of New Mexico, she is deeply inter ested in advanced public educa tion and health measures. Colleagues of the new Repres entatives have established mile stones in the political history of American women. Dean of the group, Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, the first Congresswoman elected by the Democratic Party, is serving- her 12th term. The other woman Democrat is Helen Gahagen Douglas of California. Other Republican Congress women are Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, a veteran in le gislative service since 1925; Frances Payne Bolton of Ohio and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, both selected the first time in 1940. The growing interest of Amer ican women voters in world af fairs was responsible for their unusual activity in the 1946 na tional political campaign in the United States. Women party leaders concur generally that in no previous campaign had so many women of “outstanding minds, character and background” participated in election activities —either as candidates or as sup( Continued on page 21) MARGARET TRUMAN, daugh- -atives from the district of Chiba, ter of the president of the Unit- was purged from the electoral ed States, made her radio debut lists due to his wartime activities, as a singer recently and was Friends urged his wife to be a PAGE 12 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FILIPINO NURSES at International ONE of the important inter national conventions to be held soon will be that of nurses from aJl over the world who will meet first in Washington, D. C. on May 4, and then in Atlantic City, New Jersey, beginning May 10. The Filipino Nurses Associa tion, which is the national nurses’ association in the Philippines, is sending six official delegates to the convention—Mrs. Genara S.. de Guzman, president of the FNA, Marcela Gabatin, first vice-pres ident, Mrs. Conchita Baradi Ruiz, executive secretary, Atty. Julita V. Sotejo, chairman of the edu cational section of the FNA, Librada Javalera, and Basilia Her nando. Mrs. Vitaliana Beltran and Mrs. Vicenta Ponce have been appointed alternates. The convention is under the auspices of the International Council of Nurses which was founded by Ethel Bedford Fen wick, SRN, of Great Britain. The current president of the Council is Effie J. Taylor of the United States; The first vice president is from South Africa, the second vice president from France, the third vice president from Eng land, and the executive secretary, from the United States. About 5,000 delegates are expected to attend this nurses’ convention, which is held every four years. The 1947 congress will be the first in 10 years, the last one having been held in 1937. No congresses were held during the war. The International Council of Nurses is composed of national nurses’ associations from various countries. The Philippine Na tional nurses’ society has been affiliated to it during the past 18 years, which is a credit to the local organization. Prior to the congress to be held in Atlantic City, the Board of Directors and the Grand Council will gather in Washington, D. C.' on.ijfay 4, for purely business meetings. Each member country is entitled to send the president of its national organization to this meeting. The president, treasurer, executive secretary and chairmen of all committees of each national organization mem ber! will make their reports (in mitfrig) at this meeting. Resolu tions from the national organiConvention Philippine Association Sends Six Of Its HighRanking Members To World Comifab Of Nurses Mrs. Genara S. M. de Guzman, president of the Filipino Nurses Asso ciation, is shown in the above picture giving advice to two new mem bers. Mrs. de Guzman as president of the local national nurses’ as sociation will attend the business meeting in Washington which will precede the Congress in Atlantic City. zations should be on the agenda at this time, and after approval by the Board of Directors, will be transmitted to the Grand Council for adoption. The elec tion of international officers will take place at the meeting of the Grand Council on May 7-9. Re ports from the board of directors will also be submitted, general policies and work for the next four years will be outlined, also on these dates. The Grand Council is composed of the international officers, na tional presidents and 4 official delegates from each member country. On May 10, all official dele gates will leave Washington for Atlantic City where the congress will be held. While attending this congress, the delegates will be the guests of the American Nurses’ Association which will provide the necessary transporta tion and accommodations. Miss Sotejo, who is also a law yer, will preside over one of the meetings on May 12 in the Gen eral Assembly Room of the Con vention Hall. The speaker will be from Belgium and the opener and leader of the discussion will be from Finland. The subject to be discussed will be Professional Education. Mrs. Vitaliana Beltran will open and lead a discussion on morale (Ethics of Nursing) on Three other delegates to the nurses’ convention in the Unit ed States: Atty. Julita Sotejo (top) Mrs. Vicenta C. Ponce and Mrs. Conchita B. Ruis. May 15. A representative from the Netherlands will preside, while the main speaker will be from France. The Filipino Nurses Associa tion was organized in October 1922 through the efforts of Miss Alice Fitzgerald, who in 1922. was sent to the Philippines by the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation at the request of Governor General Wood to study nursing and health conditions. Today, the FNA has members scattered all over the Philippines, all doing their share in making the country a healthier place to live in. Former presidents of the FNA include the following women, all leaders in their chosen profes sion—Mrs. Rosario M. Delgado, Mrs. Socorro S. Diaz, Miss Ro sa Militar, Miss Cesarea Tan, Miss Maria Tinawin. The delegates to the forth coming International Council of Nurses’ Congress besides being the officers of the national or ganization are also leaders in their profession, as may be ga thered from the records of some of them. Atty. Julita V. Sotejo is the principal of the Philippine Gen eral Hospital school of nursing, chairman of the educational sec tion of the FNA. She graduated valedictorian from the school of which she is now the principal and topped both the board and the civil service examinations for nurses. Later, she graduated va ledictorian from the Philippine Law School, and placed sixth in the 1937 bar examinations. A Rockefeller fellow, she obtained her master of science degree in 1943 from the University of Chi cago. Miss Marcela Gabatin is acting chief nurse of the bureau of health. -As pensionada in 1941, she specialized in public health nursing administration in the United States, getting her CPHN title from the University of Ore gon in 1943 and her B. S. in public health nursing from Co lumbia University in 1945. Mrs. Ruiz graduated from St. Luke’s Hospital in 1928 as salutatorian and topped the Civil Service Examination for Nurses in 1934. She copped second place in 1941 when the Public Health Nursing Administration examina tion for pensionados was given. While in the United States, Mrs. Ruiz took post graduate work in Public Health Nursin at Teacher’s College, Columbia Univ ersity, New York in 1933. Be fore this she worked as private nurse in the Emergency Hospital, Washington, D. C. and as staff nurse of the Riverside Hospital, New York. From the United States, Mrs. Ruiz sailed for Pa ris and Brussels, Belgium in 1933 (Continued on page 26) APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 13 Woman's Home Journal Featurette WOMAN’S WAY THE OTHER DAY I was surprised ■ to find out that all my neigh bors are also earning money to sup plement their husbands’ incomes and thus meet the still very high cost of living in the city. But while I go out every day from Monday to Saturday, they stay at home and make their money there. There’s my next door neighbor Aling Pacing. Her husband is a gov ernment employee and she has sev en children. Add to these two facts the information that this family is also a liberation fire victim and has therefore to start from scratch. With the help of her sister, a childless widow, Aling Pacing has opened a .sari-sari store. Although the profits are small they take care of at least the food and other everyday house hold expenses. The rent and other big items such as clothing, shoes and the older children’s school fees are paid for from her husband’s salary. Because of very stiff competition (there are five such stores as Aling Pacing’s on our block, two owned by Chinese), my two neighbors have to work hard and think up of new items to sell every day. They open their store as early if not earlier than the others to catch the trade of passersby, they comb Divisoria for lower prices and for goods that are different from those sold by their competitors. Lately, they have added viands (ulam) to their usual ‘line.” You can buy any of the three or four kinds of foods that they sell in any quantity to 6uit your purse or your needs. If you like to buy only the sabao (soup) but not the laman, they will give it to you. Just across the street from Aling Pacing is another woman who earns money through her cooking. She cooks foods only for lunch and she has regular customers who get two or three kinds from her every day, from Monday to Saturday. Her fam ily eats for lunch and supper what ever she has prepared for her cus tomers. She confesses that she does not make any profit on her “rations” for most of the time her capital (the money she spends for the market ing) just returns, but we reason out that neither does she spend any money for the meals of her family. Living on the same street as this woman but a few doors away is an other housewife who pays the three hundred peso rent on the accesoria that her family'is occupying with money that she makes by receiving boarders in her home. Most of her boarders are employees in nearby stores and bachelor professionals who live in quarters devoid of cook ing facilities. Housewives who have cooking spe cialties find it very easy to earn money at home. News about the ex cellence of a food product gets around very quickly. There’s the woman in 'our hometown who makes very good chorizos. She earns more money selling them than her hus band who is the secretary of the mu nicipal board. This woman’s chori zos even are sent to Manila by plane. A woman in Negros makes noth ing but barquillos, which are now sold in cans. Another specializes in pancit and fresh lumpia, which travellers who stop in her hometown never fail to buy and take to their destinations. Here in Manila, several women oc casionally make money at home by baking cakes for such occasions as weddings, birthdays, graduations, parties. Believe it or not, one woman in San Juan specializes in lechon —pig suckling, chicken, pavo, capon, pork leg. She has a big yard so she had a pit dug in one corner and here, with the help of her two boys, she makes lechon every Sunday morning. Last Christmas, she receiv ed 27 orders for lechon, 20 for suck lings, 7 for capons! She had to hire about 20 people to help her. There was a woman who used to I earn money by darning other peo ple’s tom clothes. She had such a way with her darning that the mend was almost Invisible. Being a widow and with no children, she started by darning the clothes of her nieces and nephews. Word got around that she was a wizard at this kind of work. Soon other women, at first just her relatives and friends, later even mere acquaintances, sent her difficult-to-mend clothing and house hold linens and paid her well for her work. She is dead now and ma ny miss the kind of service that she used to render. It is to be ad mitted that fine darning is an art that is fast disappearing—very few of us moderns have the patience re quired by it. After reading this article, take stock of yourself. Do you possess any specialty, in cooking or sewing, for Instance? It may mean money to you. Perhaps your husband and your children and your friends who have tasted it have praised your bibingka or your puto to the skies. Why not make and sell them? If at present you have no special ty to speak of, learn one. Can you do a fine seam? Learn to make pin afores and play-aprons for little girls, overalls and playsuits for lit tle boys, with cunning hand embroi deries or appliques. Buy one wellmade imjiorted pinafore and take it apart, then use the pieces as pat terns. Doing things yourself instedd of paying others to do them for you is one way of saving money or beat ing the inflation. How do you know you can’t make a thing unless you try? —Soledad H. Leynes LOOKING AT YOU (Continued from page 5) (counting eight). Slowly slide the heels down the wall, keeping the knees straight and allowing the spine to lower the body ver tebrae, until the back is flat on the mat again (counting eight). Release knees to chest. Repeat four times slowly. The important point in this exercise is to keep the coccyx or the “tail-end” of the spine up as long as possible, so that the small of the back (lum ber region) is gently forced out wards. (because of the position of the pelvis in this exercise, it is excellent for a uterus which is tipped forward). 3— The Droopy Shouders. Round shoulders can be overcome by learning to expand and develop the muscles of the chest, to con tract and strengthen the back and shouder muscles. The “arm swing” is excellent for correct ing this condition. Most import ant, it raises and confirms the contours of the bust. With your back about three to four inches away and at right angles to a door, sit cross-legged tailor fashion on the floor. Extend both arms above the head with a gentle swing, keeping the elbows straight—palms facing forward. Stretch and reach back as far as you can after each swing. Do this three times, then relak and drop the arms to the side. Repeat com plete movement eight times—not too fast. Don’t dare let the head poke forward. 4— The Over-luscious Curves. "The Spine Roll” will make your spine more flexible, and straighten out those over-luscious curves. Take position against a wall, bend the body over with the hands touching the floor, knees slightly bent, in a relaxed post tion. Gradually straighten the spine, rolling slowly up the wall, vertebrae by vertebrae. Continue until the body is in an erect Per fect Position, coun£ eight, relax. Repeat this exercise eight times. Bragging may not bring happi ness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest (Harper). Don’t marry a girl because she Truck garden of Mrs. Matias Ruam in Barrio Gumareng, Piat, Cagayan..Mrs. Ruam is a member of the local women’s club, one of whose projects is gardening in connection with the Food Production Cam. paign. This garden supplies the Ruam family not only with fresh vegetables but also with a little income, for what they cannot eat, they sell. looks sensible, because a sensible girl has snore sense than to look sensible. The Recorder. PAGE 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL a multiplication of self rather than an aggrandizement of self; it promotes the intimate union demanded by love through union of will. This other self is the object of my efforts precisely be cause he is another self. What he desires is my desire, what offends him offends me, what thwarts his happiness thwarts mine, for we are one.” And in that, for me, lies the joy, but also the pain of friend ship. When a friend comes sharing a bit of happiness or good fortune, the heart opens up in the glow of the sharing. But deep sorrow, the complicated entangle ments of life, the puzzling why of existence, the inevitable unfair nesses which come as part of daily living—these strike one with a sense of utter futility, a realization of inadequacy, almost of cruel frustration. One allows the friend to talk away his sad ness, his disillusion, his confusion, his hodge,-podge of psychological twists, in the hope that the out. let of expression may serve to dissipate somehow the pain, the chaos, even the frustration. Per haps the dreary recitation would be as an anodyne deadening all active sensation, all spiritual suf fering. Perhaps, even, some form of sublimation would present itself whereby a rechanelling of ener gies, thoughts, deeds, creations may serve to fill the gap of un satisfactory living. One does not know. What one does is that, futile or useful, friendship is a truly lovely gift from Heaven. 'SEEMS TO ME By PIA MANCIA THE Town Hall directoi vited the Filipino of art exhibits. This sounds a bit nobbish, it really isn’t. One just feels a growth from within, a groping, yet not a groping, be cause there is deliberate spon taneity of movement something definitely THE Town Hall director has in- crystallizes an opinion more than truly, I am grateful.” vited the Filipino women carefuily threshing out the pros * * writers to take part in the meet- and cons of the question. Even ings in any one of the three cana- if it were only a matter of think- ‘Seems to me, but, cities: speaker, moderator, inter rogator. Seems to me this is a good idea. Of course many of us who write —or think we do—are really only b’-ave in print. We are a shy lot. Anything but speaking before a public, please. We would prefer to write three, four, even five, articles to making one little bow before a criticizing audience who, we fear, would be so disillusioned after hearing us that it may not read us anymore. Still we cannot gainsay the fact that the Filipino writer—and even the woman writer who has, often enough, been relegated to the background by our men critics— is coming to his own bit by bit, and his voice is getting to be a more and more potent factor in the shaping of public opinion. People are becoming conscious of the significance of the written word, and with the post-war im portance being given to the world wide dissemination of information to foster international under standing there will be greater and greater roles to be played by the writers. Add to this fact that of the towards higher— _____ __ , course, ing aloud, such a weighing clari- this is only a fancy, that one of fies issues and makes always for 'the greatest gifts of God to man better understanding.______________________________- ■ We so-called women-writers (the “so-called” is purely mine), should really do something to merit the attention we are getting. Why, even the President is cognizant of our existence—witness the fullhearted support he is giving the awarding of prizes for writers which is being sponsored by the Philippine Women Writers’ Asso ciation. Also,—thanks. to the con tinued efforts and zealous work of Mary Kalaw-Katigbak, able presi dent of the Association,—Rotary, so I hear, is going to give a year’s scholarship to one of the deser ving woman writers. It will be recalled that Rotary was partly responsible for sending Julie Palarca to the United States last Selfish love year. Writes Julie, from Colum- the substantial nature bia University: “All this seems ality of the thing or person loved to be a dream—taking notes for except as it belongs to or is a a lecture from such people as part of the one loving. In con. Paul Gallico, Martha Foley,— trast to this is beneficent love they were simply glorious names which includes the true love of to me before, who are so real friendship and the love we have now. And the books I can read, for God... It does not aim at the concerts I cannot- attend— assimilation, but rather sees in even for these I am grateful—the the loved one another self. It is is the friend. Perhaps this thought—altogether an obsession with me—has been born of the fact (for which I am very hum bly grateful) that I have been unusually fortunate with friends. Or, perhaps it is the influence of Emerson, whom I swear by, and whose exalted view of friendship is almost unearthly. Or again, it may be because, recently, a kind priest, concerned, it appears, over my spiritual state sent me a Companion to the Summa of St. Thomas of Aquinas in which there is a beautiful, almost ethereal description of true friendship. It bears quoting: “There is a difference between having friends and owning friends, has no regard for or person oft-repeated coming-to-the-front of the women all over the world which has appreciably affected also the status of the Filipino woman. Her voice is definitely listened to now, more than at any other time, in matters of nation al import. She is taking part in important conferences, and does these affairs honor; she is in many a worthwhile movement, ready with her practical suggest ions; she is really so ubiquitous that one wonders how she ever “does it.” All right, then—considering all these facts, the women writers cannot just plead shyness, or dis inclination to get into political wranglings, or desire for indepen dent movement as “creative art ists” when they refuse to express their vocal opinion in matters af fecting their country. Short of moralizing, I would remind them that it is really part of their civic responsibility and duty to give well-thought-out views on many WITH THE FRAGR MEN LOVE. Men are funny creatures. They are attracted by Tittle things—a rippling laugh, a sunset smile, a lingering perfume Cashmere Bouquet brings you a soft scent in its finest imported talc. Shower your body with Cashmere Bouquet Talc after your bath. Let its coolness ripple down your skin, leaving you fresh and dainty for hours. Now you can feel new confidence in your beauty, thanks to "The Fragrance Men Love.” pressing questions of the day. In- ■ cidentally, there is nothing that ■ APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 15 We are quoting herewith the latest report of Mrs. Gregoria F. Patag, Secretary of the Morong Womap’s Club, Morong, Rizal: “The Woman’s Club of Mo. rong, Rizal held a Benefit Ball under the management of Mrs. Esperanza Angeles, the President of the Puericulture Center on the night of February 1, 1947. The activity was indeed a great success. It swelled the fund of the Club for the maintenance of the Nursery Classes and the Pue riculture Center. The factors that contributed to the success were the two orches tras hired by the Club namely the Maxifeli and the Keenwood String Circle; the systematic or ganization of the work assigned k to the different committees as Music, Refreshment, Invitation, Entertainment, Light, Transpor tation of visitors; the splendid spirit of the active members of the Junior Woman’s Club in the sales of tickets in Manila and in the neighboring provinces of Ri zal and neighboring towns and barrios of Morong; the ever help ful attitude of the patrons. That grand ball was attended by a good crowd from different towns and from the City. In conclusion, Mrs. Amparo de Francisco, the most able and spirited President of the Morong Woman’s Club wishes to express her thanks to Mr. Vicente Gar cia, the Division Superintendent of Schools for Rizal for granting us the permission to use the school building, to Mr. Eugenio Aquino, the District Supervisor of Morong for endorsing our written permit favorably to the Superintendent, to all members of the Senior and Junior Woman’s Club particularly Mrs. Emilia Mateo, Mrs. Estelita Atendido, Miss Juana Francisco, Miss Felisa Bambo, Miss Marcelina Tunque, Miss Rosario Fernando, Miss Filomena Garcia and others who helped a great deal in the per formance of their tasks.” * * * Mrs. Luna V. Garnavillo, Sec retary of the Dipolog Woman’s Club wrote to us about the glad news of the reorganization of the Dipolog Woman’s Club, Zam boanga. They reported im mediately to the Federation and ! informed us that luckily they J still have in their custody their Membership Certificate. Some of the recent activities wherein the club actively partici pated were the Red Cross Fund Campaign, the raising of funds for the Puericulture Center of Dipolog, and for the provincial capitol. Their present activity is campaign for the Boy Scout Fund Drive. The newly elected officers of Asst. Secretary—Mrs. Gertrus D. Talento. a program designed to comthe “fanaticism and ignorance hinder their . physical and progress.” Members of the Women’s Club in Balawan, La Union. the club are as follows: President—Mrs. Juanita Pin toy. Vice-President—Mrs. Carmen R. Azcuna. Secretary—Mrs. Luna V. Gar. rovillo. ident of the Cuyo Woman’s Club, Palawan who informed us that now that the war is over and they have survived it’s ravages the women of Cuyo again reunit ed and formed the old Cuyo Woman’s Club. It appears'from CLUBWOMAN'S LITANY By Mrs. Charles Bednar The Woman’s Club teaches me to give graciously of what is mine. To pour my strength into three great channels of life: My family, my church, and my world. It demands that I feed my family physically, mentally, and spiritually and urges that I courageously serve my church with steadfast heart. But added to that, my club directs me in service to my world. It shows me the larger view that lies over the horizon outside of myself. It teaches that I am a necessary part in a pattern devised and perpetuated by women of all classes and creeds who believe that all the best in America is a priceless heritage worth working for and defending. What do I owe a club with principles such as these? Not lethargy, not acquiescence to lesser demands, and not ef forts beneath my abilities. If I am a true clubwoman, I will give unstintingly of what is mine. Sub-Secretary—Miss Nemesia Bustaleno. Treasurer—Mrs. Sagrario Frias Board of Directors: Mrs. Vicenta B. Saile Mrs. Elvira Recaido Mrs. Luzbella Leyson Mrs. Angelina Bernedo Mrs. Trinidad Araneta A very nice letter came from Mrs. Rosa F. Guardiano, presa letter addressed to the club from Dr. Salvador Ibanez, Chief of the Cuyo Hospital, that the most important and pressing problem in the community is teaching the mothers regard ing the proper care of their babies and especially availing themselves of the hospital services. For this purpose they are now planning a celebration of the National Hos pital Day on May 12 which will be featured with a baby contest The officers of the Paclasan ’oman’s Club, Paclasan, Mansay, Mindoro, are the following: President—Mrs. M. P. Fabella. Vice-President—Mrs. Rosario . Correa. Secretary—Mrs. Consuelo M. Treasurer—Mrs. Petronila D. Noche. Asst. Treasurer—Miss Consuelo Torrifiel. Members of the Board: Mrs. Petra Dimatulac Mrs. Mercedes M. Corpus Mrs. Leocadia S. King Mrs. Juliana Cahoyon Mrs. C. Cabrera Mrs. Demetrio Dimatulac A letter, from Dr. Nina Nico las informed us of the complete list of the officers of the Caloocan Woman’s Club ' President—Dr. Nina Nicolas. Vice-President—Mrs. Anastacia Lui Hernandez. Secretary—Miss Concepcion Rey Hipolito. Treasurer—Mrs. Eleuteria Du que. Public Relations Officer—Mrs. Armando Malay. Adviser—Mrs. Paz Cuerpocruz. Board of Directors: Mrs. Marina Lerma Bayle Mrs. Anita Ang Mrs. Constance Herrera Mrs. Paz Cuerpocruz—Hortorary Chairman During the Clean-Up Week the members of the community were duly informed by the club and a good response was received from all. According to the letter of the PAGE 16 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL INSTALLATION CEREMONY FOR WOMAN'S CLUB (The new officers to be installed stand facing the Club in a semi circle. The installing officer ad dresses them from the side of the group. The officers stand with the incoming president in the center of the group and the former officers on each side.) INSTALLING OFFICER: The-----------------Woman’s Club has set forth clearly the scope of its work, its objectives, purpose and goal. We can serve our com munity, our country, our state, and our nation more effectively when we work together and, with one purpose in view, unite in self development and in service. Let us say in unison our collect. CLUBWOMEN: (in unison) COLLECT By Mary Stewart Keep us, Oh God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-find ing, and leave off selfrseeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face —without self-pity and without prejudice. president each house tidied up considerably and every yard is commendable with dug-up pits for rubbish. Smoking up these holes fumigated the environs and the riddance from mosquitoes and insects will surely encourage housewives to keep up the prac tice. The club has received con siderable support from Mrs. Paz Cuerpocruz, a member of the Board of the NFWC and an honorary chairman of the club. MAASIN WOMAN’S CLUB President—Mrs. Luz EnageGonzalez. Vice-President—Mrs. Rosario Labata. Secretary—Mrs. Matilde L. Pajao. Sub-Secretary—Mrs. Natividad F. Gonzalez. . Treasurer—Mrs. Dolores S. Calapre. Sub-Treasurer—Mrs. Beatriz Fernandez. Auditor—Mrs. Wenceslina Es pina. Board members: Mrs. Teofila Gonzalez Mrs. Maxima Fernandez Mrs. Leonila Piao Mrs. Donata Gonzalez Mrs. Cecilia Montesclaros Mrs. Blancaflor Uy May we never be hasty in judg ment and always generous. Let us take time for all things; make us to grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us t<o put into action bur better impulse, straightforward, and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create dif ference, that in the big things of life we are at one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great common human heart of us all—and, oh, Lord WE have been hearing so rarely from Mrs. Pilar H. Lim that every letter anyone of us receives from heV is very wel comed. We know, though, that the^NFWC is always foremost in her thoughts and so is she, not only among the NFWC women, but among the Filipino women in general. The latest we have from Mrs. Lim is a letter she sent to Mrs. Henares from her home in 1330 So. Wilton Place, Los Angeles 6, California. , March 28, 1947 My dear Couching: It has been my pleasure and privilege to work for our Federa tion although so far away. Those projects and those campaigns, in which all of us Filipina club women worked together, some times rewarded by success, other times disappointed by either in difference or even failure, have been to me fountains of comfort and courage during the grim war years and now that the war is over they have become my inspi ration and the springboard from which I have launched a more gigantic campaign—that of sec uring aid from our American sister clubs. As you already know the North Carolina Federation of' Women’s Mercedes Evangelista, executive secretary of the National Federation of Women’s Club, who went to the United States with NFWC President Trinidad Legarda, is shown in the above photo’arriving in San Francisco. To her right is Mrs. Roberto Regala, wife Of the consul-general there, then Mrs. Estela Romualdez Sulit and Mrs. T. Baja. The others in the picture are the Regala children. iiiisix is AMERICA Clubs was the very first to send our Federation material aid, and recently the California Federation made it a state project to collect used clothing and funds for re building our headquarters. Mrs. Legarda and Miss Evangelista were very instrumental in secur ing this project and we are all so happy that the majority of the clubs have enthusiastically res ponded. This is due mainly to the dynamic leadership of Mrs. Clara O’Neal who fortunately for us was appointed chairman of the project. So enclosed is the bill of lading of almost two tons of clothing both used and new which have been donated by numerous clubs around Southern California. As the boxes came pouring into my home, I felt that through all ruin and suffering, there was still abundance of good-will, warm friendship and the spirit of service and help specially here God, let us not forget to be kind. INSTALLING OFFICER: When you join the------------------Woman’s Club you agree to con tribute generously your time, energy and thought, realizing (Continued, on page 23) in the United States. The Amer icans deeply appreciate the cour age and loyalty of the Filipinos during the war years and there are only a few of them who don’t understand what a difference it would have made had Bataan and Corregidor not made the heroic stand that is now an epic in his tory. We all hope that our Federa tion will find in these clothes a source of material aid and spiritual balm and I know that with you and Trining and the wonderful women in your Board of Directors, the distribution will be efficient and equitable. Please give my love to all of our clubwomen, tell them that I am always thinking of them (tho I am a terrible correspondent) and that sometime soon I shall be back home. My best to you and yours. Affectionately yours, PILAR H. LIM APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 17 BA G UIO If it’s the soothing quiet, the cool, clean-blowing mountain air £<nd the wondrousness of creation that you go to Baguio for, the charred pine trees and the housing shortage should not bother you. As the photographs here show, Baguio is as you taJce it. Reading the pictures counter-clockwise, we begin with the plane photographed just as it was about to land on scenic Laon-Laan. This, we are told, is a good 1,000 feet below Baguio City. The Teachers’ Camp is forlorn, with only the former P. M. A. barracks to show skeletal remr.'ns Cabinet Hill is spruce, spick and span. The new construction looks like story-book houses. The Amphi theatre and the abode of General Moore offers a view which makes up for all the charred ruins on Session Road. The American Embassy is a sight for sore eyes... BECKONS stark white against the green of the mountainside. The Guest House where the President rnd his entourage took up quarters is big and rambling. The surrounding grounds are perfect for outdoor entertaining. Burnham Park is still sorrowing over the past The water in the lake isn’t beautiful anymore and the grasses grow in careless abandon The Baguio Church looks un touched. As of old, it overflowed with worshipers over the Holy Week.. Note the crosses on the churchyard, landmarks of Liberation. Session Road came to life when hordes of Manilans jammed Baguio Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Here the pedestrian lanes are made use of religiously. The ruins of the Roces Mansion is but one graphic example of the thousands of other edifices of beauty and grandeur which were lost in the war. '' '' SUMMER FASH IO NS Miss Alice Velasco, recently elected Pearl of the Orient in connection with the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of Centro Escolar de Senoritas, models on this page four interest ing summer creations. In the large picture, above, she wears a pure silk Ceil Chapman "original featuring the very fashionable hip-drappery. In the smaller pictures, from top to bottom, she wears a two-piece all-wool suit, showing the new Bolero style— very appropriate for cool Baguio days or for ship travel to the south; a Henry, Rosenfeld original in pastel-colored cotton with rick-rack trimming; a Sax original teen-ager, in white Luana with dainty lace ruffles, just right for graduation or summer parties. (All models from SAX’S Inc.) (Photos by Mayflower Studio). BEFORE our house was burned we used to get mad at. the outmoded pieces of furniture that cluttered up our sala and bed rooms and yet we could not throw them away for they were still in very good condition. Now—we yearn for them, and our favorite pastime is remodeling them and putting them into new uses, alas! only in our imagination. You are very fortunate if your house has not been burned dur ing the liberation and how much we envy you if you possess some extra pieces of old furniture. The new furniture, locally made, that we see in the shops here in Ma nila, are not only very expensive but made in pre-war styles and scales that are out of place and out of proportion in our smaller, temporary home. The less expen sive ones are so badly made, out of the cheapest of materials, that it is not worthwhile buying them. The imported ones, of chromium and imitation leather or of steel, are too elegant-looking for our taste and too expensive for our purse. We very much prefer the army camp chairs that fold up and can be put out of the way when not needed. We see these folding chairs even in the “best” of homes. Good old pieces of furniture, made over, are very much better than inferior new furniture. If you can get-hold of some real antiques, thank your lucky star! These pieces are usually made of first class wood that resist white ants. The very old ones have no nails; if their legs have become wobbly, a little glue will make them steady again. Remove the old varnish and just polish with a good furniture polish to bring out the patina. Do not be afraid to put a piece of furniture to some other use. A wooden trunk, for instance, when slip-covered, may be brought out into the sala to become a sofa. An old iron bed, the broken celojia (still expensive to replace) of which was covered with boards from an empty box, became a couch in the sala of a friend’s new home. She made a thin matress filled with estofa (strips of cloth from a dressmaker) to place on top of the hard boards, then covered- the whole bed with a plain-colored, beruffled skirt. Fat pillows covered with brightFrom packing box to blouse closet. Box was covered inside and out side with wallpaper or cretonne, the top and the front hinged so that they can be opened, as shown, and a rod inserted at top. flowered chintz make this “couch” very comfortable. We are not ashamed to admit that in our own house, the up holstered sofa in the sala used to be the front seats of an auto mobile. The cover of the backs was a skirt—red roses on navy background. The seat of the sofa we covered with a cotton material in plan navy. Our coffee table in front of the sofa is an antique, and used to be a jeweller’s work bench. The small bench in one corner was an indispensable part of most bedrooms in our mothers’ time—holder for pillows, blankets and folded mats during the day time. The vase on the tall rat tan round table covered with a chocheted tapete is really a re. doma. That small basket with the trailing vines (there’s a small bot tle filled with water inside the basket) used to hold Grand mother’s hechos. Many of our visitors refuse to believe us when we tell them that our modern bed is really a papag—and a broken down one at that when it was given 'to us. The mattress on top of the papag is also a gift, and torn at several places. We covered the mattress with a silk-like army tarapal which needs only wiping with a wet cloth when it gets dusty. What make the bed look “modem” are the shelves (of white pine, from an empty box given to us) in an intricate design against the sawali wall at the head cf the bed. Very decorative on the shelves are our display of empty beer cans (one in gold, one in gold and blue, one in red and yellow), empty shampoo bottles (the new ones are beautifully de signed), a small pail of soap flakes (cost—Pl), two or three squat wine bottles (now empty), large tumblers with flower de corations, pocket books and ma gazine digests, boxes that used to contain dusting powder, cans that used to hold cookies and candy. The magazines from abroad al ways carry pictures of rooms from which you may get one or two ideas that can be carried out in your own home. We are look ing for an old wall clock because we want to use the case as a mi niature cabinet to hold small bot tles of spices. We got this idea (Continued on page 27) WORKING STUDENT MAKES the GRADE “I’m an office worker and go to school in the evening. After a back breaking day, I felt like I’d been thru a wringer and ! often [missed 1 classes. i “Then my doc. tor r e c o m m e nded VITAEWINE. With the first bottle, I increased in weight. Now I feel as sprightly after office hours as at 7:00 in the morning. And. I’m even a candidate for class honors”. (Sgd.) LUISA M. GARCES Do you feel jagged out after a days work? Doctors recommend the delicious tonic VITAEWINE It will re store lost v i t a I ity and fail ing energy. In these days of h i g h - strung act ivity, the human body burns up more energy than it re ceives. Recharge it, pleas antly, easily with VITAE WINE. At your druggist or from METRO DRUG CORP. 880-882 Rizal Avenue "Ask your Doctor—He Knows Us!" APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 21 6 strips bacon 6 slices Spanish onion, 1/2 inch thick each 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons onion juice Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon water Saute parsley in butter and add to beef, suet, crumbs, and season ings. Shape into 6 flat cakes and wrap each cake with a slice of bacon. If you have a broiler, lay onion rings in pan and place a pat rice mixture. Put tomatoes in a deep skillet, add 1 teaspoon salt, a little pepper and the sugar. Place the stuffed peppers on top of the tomatoes, cover and sim mer for 1 hour, basting occasion ally. Serve with string bean sa lad. The above beef-rice mixture may also be used for stuffing cabbage leaves. If liked, sauer kraut and water may be used in stead of the tomatoes. This dish improves with re-heating. on one half of each circle, moisten edge with water, and fold pastry half over filling, pressing edges together with fork dipped in flour. Prick tops to allow escape of steam during the cooking. Brush with milk or with glaze mixture made by mixing 1 beaten egg yolk with 2 tablespoons milk. Bake in a hot oven for 30 min utes, or until browned. This re cipe will make 8 large turnovers. The pastry may also be cut smal ler, about 3-1/2 inches in diame. ter each, or into oblongs which become squares when folded. When you see ground beef, d> you think only of sopa de picadillo and fried beef patties? Cheer up, for there are many o*T.o> ways of using the economical hamburger. Here are a few, start ing with the basic recipe for HAMBURG PATTIES 1/2 kilo ground beef 1 teaspoon fine salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper Lard Combine ground beef and sea sonings. Handle as little as pos sible and avoid pressing the meat firmly together. Shape into 6 or 8 patties. If liked, moisten with a little tomato juice. You do not have to use egg or flour or bread crumbs to bind the beef— the patties will not fall apart during the cooking. Place a little lard in a skillet and when hot add the patties. Turn when brown on one side. Do not overcook as ground meat dries out quickly. Remove pat ties from the skillet. Pour a lit tle toyo into the skillet and heat. Pour over the patties. If desired, garnish with fried onion rings. VARIATIONS: Add 1/2 cup of milk and a little minced onion to the above mixture. Mix lightly with fork. After shaping into patties, coat each with fine bread crumbs and pan-broil. When cook ed, add 1/2 cup boiling water to fat in the pan and pour over the patties. Add 1 cup cornflakes, crumbled very fine, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and 1/2 cup milk to the ground beef. Mix lightly, form into patties, and cook as in above recipes. BROILED HAMBURG STEAK with Onion Rings 1/2 pound ground beef 1/4 cup ground suet (beef fat) 1 cup soft, fine bread crumbs HAMBURGER Economical and Versatile ty on each ring. Broil 5 minutes on each side. If you have no broiler, pan-broil the patties first, then saute the onion rings in the remaining lard in the pan, being careful not to break the onion rings, then on seiwing, arrange patties on top of onion rings. BEEF DOVES 1 cup ground beef 1/3 cup uncooked rice Salt and pepper Cabbage leaves Tomato Sause (1 small can) Mix beef and rice and season. Parboil cabbage leaves for 2 min ute? in boiling water to cover to soften them. Drain. Place a table spoon of the beef and rice mix ture in each leaf and roll up as you do lumpia. Tie with a piece of thread, if necessary. Arrange these roll-ups in a sauce and pour tomato juice over them. Simmer for 1 hour. Serves 4. HUNGARIAN STUFFED PEPPERS 3/4 pound ground beef 1/4 cup minced onion 4 peppers, medium sized 2-1/2 cups stewed tomatoes 1 teaspoon granulated sugar 6 cups boiling water 1/2 cup rice 1/2 bay leaf, crushed Salt and pepper to taste Add 2 teaspoons salt to boiling water and add the washed un cooked rice. Boil until done. Combine meat and rice and season with salt, pepper and bay leaf. Saute the onion in a little lard and add to the beef-rice mixture. Parboil seeded. peppers for 5 minutes, then fill with the beefSPAGHETTI AND HAMBURGER Cook spaghetti according to the directions on the package. Drain and set aside. Saute about 1 cup minced onion in a little lard or butter. Add 3/4 pound ground beef, and when the meat is browned, add a small can of tomato sauce. Add the spag hetti, mix well, and heat tho roughly. Serve immediately. If desired, the beef may be formed into small balls and browned, then cooked in the to mato sauce. The spaghetti is added to the mixture and heated through. This makes a far more attractive dish. For MERIENDA To celebrate a special occasion with a merienda, here are a few recipes for “eats” you will want to serve: TURNOVERS 2-1/2 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour 1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup cold shortening 1/3 cup cold water (about) Sift flour once, measure, add salt, and sift again. Cut in short ening until pieces are about the size of small peas. Add the wa ter, a small amount at a time, mixing lightly with a fork. Handle as little as possible, in wax paper or in a damp towel and chill thoroughly. Roll out to 1/8 inch thickness on slightly floured board and cut out 6-inch circles. • Place filling Wrap clean Fillings: Canned or bottled mincement, jam, thin slices of American cheese, or ubi jam. SUGAR COOKY STARS 2-3/4 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour 2 teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add the baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, creaming until light. Add the eggs and beat well. Add vanilla. Add flour, in small amounts, mixing after each. Chill. Roll 1/8 inch thick on slightly floured board. Cut with floured cooky cutter in star shapes. Decorate, using colored candies. Bake on ungreased bak ing sheet in hot oven for about 12 minutes. Makes 3 dozens. FAVORITE CAKE (2 eggs) 2-1/4 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour 2-1/4 teaspoons Calumet Bak. ing Powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 3/4 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Cream but ter throughly, add sugar gradual ly, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add flour, alternately with the milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 8-inch layer pans PAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL TO THE VIRGINS (Continued from page 7) are all very married would like to play with her, make her only a “querida.” But Auntie Maring knows her onions. She preferred to pursue Portia’s path to the last of her spinning days and beat the proud men in their own game. Now for Cousin Consuelo’s case. She belongs to a class of avid man-haters, who lost their faith in Adam’s ilk. In her dairy entry for January 1, 1920, I co pied the following new year’s res olution: “To avoid the company of men. Man is faithless. Man is heartless. Man is a heart breaker. He is ungrateful, inconsiderate. My dog, Bantay is more faithful, INSTALLATION CEREMONY (Continued from page 17) that only by cooperation can we hope to achieve our goals. You have indicated your faith and trust in these members by elect ing them as officers for the ---------------------------- Club of the ------------------------------------ . Will you pledge to them now your loyalty and ‘ assistance ii» the fulfillment of their duties? If so, please indicate by raising your right hand. (MEMBERS RESPOND BY RAI SING RIGHT HAND.) (INSTALLING OFFICER IN TRODUCES EACH INDIVIDUAL BY NAME AND TELLS WHAT OFFICE EACH IS TO ASSUME. in moderate oven (35 to 30 min utes). Spread with Lemon Fleck Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. LEMON FLECK FROSTING 2 teaspoons grated orange rind 4 tablespoons butter Dash of salt 3 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar 3 tablespoons lemon juice Cream together orange rind and butter; add salt and part of su. gar gradually, blending well. Add remaining sugar, alternately with lemon juice, until of right consis tency to spread. Beat until very smooth. more grateful, more friendly, much more loyal and understand ing. Bantay stays with me. Ban tay loves me, adores me, worships me, never leaves me...” Now I understand why Cousin Consuelo, is a withered flower of 50 still loves candies and spends more of her precious time petting and fondling puppies in their kennels. There you are ladies, the tragic of my unmarried relatives. If you are in the same boat, it is high time you make up your mind at this crossroad. Why wait for the dead? Why waste your precious time on dogs? Why look for your equal? Why sb choosey? Princes marry peasants and ladies marry rogues. Take love as it comes along and remember what Poet Robert T.' Herrick said to the vir gins to make much of their time: “.. be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime You may forever tarry.” MAY ADD ANYTHING ELSE DESIRED. CONTINUES, AD DRESSING THE NEWLY IN STALLED OFFICERS.) In accepting this trust you have accepted at once a privilege and a challenge. Yours is the respon sibility of planning, of sei-vice, of fellowship. As competent leaders you will meet the challenge and strive diligently to comply with eveYy call and duty. “Study to show thyself approved.” We cannot serve until we know. With knowledge we can do our part. With love for our work we can put forth every endeavor to accomplish the end for which we seek. Do you as officers accept this task? NEW OFFICERS: (in unison) We do. NEW PRESIDENT: We accept this task with gratitude for the opportunity for service. We believe in the importance of the work. We pledge a fair por tion of our time in acquiring in formation and rendering service to our community, co-workers, and associates, in order to achieve a better life for all. INSTALLING OFFICER: I do declare you regularly instal led officers of the----------- :---------Woman’s Club. (ALL SING CLUB SONG) (Adapted from Installation Ce remony for Federation of Woman’s Clubs by Mrs. Sue Stewart Brame, Jackson, Mississipi.) 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There is a further claim: married people of both sexes provide fewer candidates for insane asylums than others. H. G. Beigel: Marriage— Fables, Facts and Figures. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 23 CHILD THE hardest question, accord ing to Dr. Benjamin Spock, for a doctor to answer, in a book or in his office, is how much cov ering to put on a baby. All he can give, he says, is some rough guides, for no two babies are alike. Here are his suggestions: A baby under 5 pounds hasn’t a very good system for keeping his body at the right temperature, The best place for such a baby is the hospital where he can be giv en expert care. Between 5 and 8 pounds he doesn’t usually need to be heat ed from the outside. He can take care of himself in a comfortable room, say 68 to 72 degrees, with one or two light wool blankets, and his cotton sleeping clothes. By the time he weighs 8 pounds, his heat regulator is working well, and he is getting a layer of fat that helps him stay warm. He can sleep in a room 60 degrees in temperature, in cool or cold weath er with only a thin wool blanket MILKMAID SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK A’Nestle' Product over him. Babies and children who are reasonably plump need less cover ing than an adult. More babies, according to Dr. Spock, are over dressed than underdressed. This is not good for them. For if a person is always too warmly dressed, his body loses its ability to adjust to changes. He is more likely to become chilled. So, in general, put on too little rather than too much and then watch the baby. Don’t try to put on enough to keep his hands warm, because most babies’ hands stay cool af ter they are comfortably dressed. Feel his legs or arms and neck. HOW MUCH CLOTHING? The Less Your Baby Wears The Better For Him Best guide of all is the color of the face. If he is getting cold, he loses the color of his cheeks, and he may begin to fuss too. FRESH AIR A baby should get plenty of fresh air. Babies, like older child ren and grownups, who are out doors a good part of every day look more healthy, have better ap petites, have more protection against chilling. Every baby weighing 10 pounds or more should be outdoors when it is not raining or when the wind is not cold for 2 or 3 hours every day, preferably with very little clothing on him so that he will get the full benefit of the sun’s rays. The best time to have the baby out is in the middle of the morn ing when the sun is not yet very hot or in the middle of the after noon before it becames cool. If you can afford a baby carriage, you can push him around and get some exercise yourself. If you have a yard, you can park him in it for more than three hours at a stretch, even put him to sleep there if it is shaded. SUN BATHS Direct sunshine contains ul traviolet rays which create vita min D right in the skin. So, on general principles it’s sensible for babies and children to be in the sun for part of the time. There are three cautions to ob serve when exposing a baby di rectly to the sun’s rays: (1) Avoid burns by exposing the baby’s body very gradually; (2) exces sive exposure is unwise even when the skin has been gradually tanned; (3) a severe sunburn is just as dangerous as a heat burn. When you put a baby out to sleep' in a carriage you must take into account how much sunshine he will get on his skin, especially if you are putting him in a new spot in a season when the sun is bright. You can begin exposing the baby’s body to the sun as soon as he weighs about 10 pounds. This means that, he is plump enough so that he won’t get chilled when he is partly undressed outdoors. In cooler weather you may be able to expose his legs alone. You will have to wait longer to ex pose his face, until his eyes are no longer bothered by the bright light. This varies in diffeent babies. When you expose his face, turn him so that the top of his head is toward the sun. Then his eyebrows will shade his eyes. Begin with 2 minutes and in crease the exposure gradually—2 more minutes each day is fast enough. Divide the time between the back and the stomach. Dr. Spock would not advise going beyond 30 minutes of full ex posure in summer. Don’t get the baby over-heated during his sun bath—put him on a table or on a pad on the ground where the air will cool him, not down inside his crib or carriage. When the sunshine is intense, a baby should be in the shade all the time for he may get enough reflected glare to give his tender skin a burn. A baby who is old enough to sit up and crawl around needs a hat in a sunny .place. TRAVELING WITH A BABY Do not travel with a baby un less it is very necessary. If you must, choose the shortest route or the fastest means of transporta tion and the best accommodation that you can afford. Find out from the transportation company what conveniences will be avail able to you, particularly in re gard to preparing the baby’s for mula if he is bottle-fed. If you are going traveling over 1 or 2 feedings, wrap 1 or 2 bot tles, well refrigerated, in 15 layPAGE 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SAFE COVERINGS IF you can afford them, all-wool blankets are better than those of part wool and part cotton, for the all-wool ones give the most warmth with the least weight. Best of all-are the knitted ones (shawls) which are thinner and can be wrap ped more easily around the baby when he is up than a thick, heavy blanket. Avoid coverings that are heavy and relatively airright, such as solid-feeling quilts, for the baby might be suffocated with them.. All blankets, quilts, sheets, should be large enough. to tuck securely under the mattress, so that there is no danger of their coming loose and working up over the baby’s head. Waterproof pads and sheets should either be large enough to tuck in securely or should be pinned or tied down at all corners so that they will not come loose. The malttress should be firm and flat enough so that the baby’s face cannot get down in a hole. It is better to use no pillow in a crib or carriage, unless someone is constantly watching the baby. * * * When putting on shirts and sweaters with small open ings, remember that a baby’s head is more egg-shaped than ball-shaped. Gather the sweater from hem to the neckline into a loop, slip it first over the bz<ck of the baby’s head, then stretch it forward and bring it down past the forehead and nose. When taking it off, pull the baby’s arms out of the sleeves first, then gather the sweater into a loop as it lies around his neck. Raise the front part of the loop up past his nose and forehead, then slip off toward the back of his head. ers of newspapers, each bottle se parately bundled so that you need not unwrap the other. If you are traveling for several days, it is more complicated. Un der difficult circumstances, the easiest way is to shift the baby to an evaporated-milk formula about a week before starting, so that he will be used to it. Bring along a day’s supply of empty sterilized bottles and nipples, as many cans of evaporated milk as the baby will need feedings on the whole trip, and a quart of steriliz ed water in a sterilized bottle. You will also need your funnel, measuring spoon, hottie and nip ple brushes, can opener, etc. An electric bottle warmer will be very handy. Keep all these things in a basket with a cover, separate from the baby’s clothings. Disposable diapers, if you can get them, will be a great help. Also, tissue hankies for any wip ing job. With a small child, don’t forget to have handy his favorite toy, and a few new playthings of the kind that take a lot of doing to keep him busy and amused. It is better to keep a small child from drinking water of doubtful origin and eating un usual foods. Bring your own wa ter in a thermos. When buying food in public places, avoid partic ularly cakes and pastries with moist fillings, milk puddings, cold meats, cold fish, cold fried eggs including sandwiches and salads that contain them. These are the foods that are most easily con taminated with poisonous bacteria if carelessly handled or not prolaw - originated by A4ax factor HOLLYWOOD * It gives you a smooth, flawless, beautiful new complexion...makes you look lovelier, more interesting, more_exciting.'..instantly. Try.it AVAILABLEAT ALL LEADING BAZARS AND DRUG STORES INSOUCIANCE A friend of ours who has re turned from a visit to Hollywood tells us that the technical people out there—the cameramen, carpen ters, and so on—have a rather de tached attitude toward the stars they work with on the set, that they don’t look upon the glamour ous performers with the breath less awe that a steady reader Miss Louella Parsons might sup pose. He told us, specifically, about an actor in a mystery mo vie who was called on to crawl through a dark, earie attic, light ing his way with a pocket flash light. The property department had done a thorough job on dust and cobwebs, and the actor took quite a beating on his way through. When the take was run off, it was found that the beam perly refrigerated. Better stick to hot foods, fruit that you your self can peel (oranges, bananas) balut and boiled eggs, puto seco and other foods that are not geasy. of light from the flashlight was too faint to create the proper ef fect, and the director saw he’d have to shoot the scene again, with more juice. He called in the electricians and put the problem up to them, and they decided to run an insulated wire up the ac tor’s trouser leg, across his back, of and down his right sleeve to the flashlight, thus providing juice enough for a more powerful bulb and a strong beam. The actor was thereupon told to sit down and wait until fresh dust and" cobwebs had been installed. When that had been done, there came, from the shadows beyond the wet, the head electrician’s order: “O.K., boys, plug in the actor.” (THE NEW YORKER) Somehow, when we see a woman who has been married and. divorc ed a number of times, we are re minded of the man who was al ways failing in business. E. W. Howe: Quoted in Post Biographies of Famous Journalists. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 25 Republic of the Philippines Department of Public Works and Communications BUREAU OF POSTS Manila SWORN STATEMENT (Required by Act No. 2580) The undersigned, A. C. FABIAN, business manager of WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL, published bi-monthly in English at Manila, after having duly sworn in accordance with law, hereby submits the following statement of ownership, management, circulation, etc., which is required by Alct No. 2580, as amended by Commonwealth Act No. 201: POST-OFFICE ADDRESS 1065 Soler. Manila 1055 Soler. Manila 1055 Soler, ManNa 1055 Soler, Mania 1055 Soler, Manila 1055 Soler, Manila NAME Managing Editor: MINERVA G. LAUDICO Business Manager: A. C. FABIAN Owner: WOMEN’S PUBLISHERS. INC. Publisher: WOMEN’S PUBLISHERS, INC. Printer: RAMON ROCES, INC. Office of Publcation: ----- —........... If publication is owned by a corporation, stockholders owning per cent or more of the total amount of stocks: RAMON ROCES URSULA B. UICHANGCO-CLEMENTE TRINIDAD F. LEGARDA (ASUNCION A. PEREZ M. PAZ MENDOZA-GUAZON Bondholders, mortgagees, or other security holders owing one per cent or more of total amount of security: NONE In case of publication other than daily, total number of copies printed and circulated of the last issue dated April 15, 194,7: 1. Sent to paid subscribers ......-.....................................-........... 3,972 2, Sent to others than paid subscribers ......................... 10.896 Total ...................................................... 14.868 A. C. FABIAN Business Manager before me this 10th day of April, 1947, at Maexhibitmg his Residence Certificate No. A-8951, Subscribed and sworn to nils, Philippines, the affiant issued at Manila, on January 15, 1947. DOMINGO H. SORIANO Notary Public My commission expires on Dec. 31, 1948 THE RECONSTITUTED PRC (Continued, from page 9) Cross is Disaster Relief. At va rious times and places in the Philippines last year, there struck disastrous typhoons and fires Lately, the Mayon Volcano blew her top off again. In each of these disasters, the Philippine Red Cross cooperated with relief agencies of the government in alleviating the suffering of vic tims. In 1946, the Philippine Red Cross distributed to public and private hospitals 20,000 units of dehydrated blood plasma, under be given to laymen and laywomen throughout the country, PRC nurses held, sometime in January this year, a conference and re fresher course under the direct charge of Miss Felipa T. Javalera, PRC nursing service adminis trative assistant, who specialized in Mother and Baby Care and Family Health last year in the United States. The Philippine Junior Red Cross in the Schools counts with a membership of 286,585 boys and girls. This program also embraces the promotion and maintenance of goodwill, friend ship and understanding among the youth of all nations, the fu ture citizens and leaders of the world. This is made possible through the exchange of interna tional correspondence albums. And through the production pro ject of the Philippine Junior Red Cross, the youthful members learn the meaning of sendee when the articles they themsel ves make are donated to lessfortunate children confined in orphanages, assylums, and other institutions. Above all, this pro ject awakes in them the sense of goodwill. One of the most importat actiivties of the Philippine Red FILIPINO NURSES AT INTERNATIONAL (Continued from page 13) to attend the International Coun- in Public Health Nursing in cil of Nurses’ Congress together Schools of Nursing of different with two other delegates of the private hospitals in the city. She Filipino Nurses’ Association, has served at one time or another Returning to the Philipipines, she as head nurse and assistant inobtained her Bachelor of Science structor at St. Luke’s Hospital, in Nursing in 1938 from the the Maternity and Children’s University of the Philippines. Hospital (Bureau of Public WeiMrs. Ruiz has been a lecturer fax*e) and Baguio Hospital. She specified conditions that the plasma would be administered, free and without discrimination, to any patient in need of it. Like wise, 176,000 ampules of mor phine sulphate, donation of an American drug firm to the Amer ican Red Cross, were turned over by the Philippine Red Cross to the Department of Public Health and Welfare. To this same de partment, the PRC also donated 17,000,000 bandages and surgical dressings. Through the Philip pine Junior Red Cross, the gifts of the American Junior Red Cross, consisting of 96,000 edu cational gift boxes and 12,000 education and health chests, were distributed to children in public and private schools; some of these gifts were distributed to inmates of the Jala Leprosarium. Later, POO,000 worth of school supplies, also gifts <of the Amer ican Junior Red Cross, were do nated to the Bureau of Public Welfare. In summing up the significant accomplishments of the Philip pine Red Cross, it may be men tioned that by the end of 1946, the Philippine Red Cross achieved the following: Filipinized the leadership of the organization through gradual transfer of the administration and management of the organization, and its va rious departments, to Filipino hands, most notable step taken being the election of Mrs. Auro ra A. Quezon, widow of the late President Manuel Quezon, as chairman of the Central Execu tive Committee, the highest governing body of the PRC (Mrs. Quezon is the first woman to head this organization); the appointment of Dr. J. H. Yanzon as the first Filipino manager of the PRC; and the establish ment of thirty-five chapters and twelve sub-chapters through which the Philippine Red Cross brings its services to the people through out the Islands. The success of the recent fund campaign of the Philippine Red Cross, the first since liberation, deserves special mention, in that it indicates the willingness and the readiness of the Filipino peo ple to support and maintain a Red Cross society of their own. Moreover, this success is one of the decisive factors leading to the independence of the Philip pine Red Cross from its mother organization, the American Red Cross. The Red. Cross banner proudly waves over the PNRC headquarters on San Rafael Street in Manila. PAGE 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL was Nurse-Supervisor from 1935 Mrs. Vicenta Ponce, seconi to 1941 of the Community Health vice president of the Filipino Nur Service Center in Manila and ses’ Association, is also the offi suburbs and took charge in train- cial delegate of the City Healtl ing nurses for field work. Later, Department, in which she is th< she was detailed as Nurse-Super- chief nurse. visor of the Urban Health De monstration Unit and held the po- Mrs. Ponce graduated fron sition until liberation when she the Mary Johnston Hospital ii became chief nurse of the 71st 1920. From 1920 to 1940, sh< Evac. Hospital (U. S. Army), was connected with the Bureai She has been Nurse-Supervisor of Health and the Philippi™ of PCAU 20 and the Bureau of General Hospital. In 1937, shi Health until she took over her was sent as official delegate o present work as Executive Sec- the Bureau of Health to the Japai retary of the Filipino Nurses’ Educational Federation Confer Association. ence. WOMEN IN THE NEWS (Continued from page 12) porters of candidates and poli- European editor of the American cies. In the 48 states of the magazine, Forum. Her family re Union, 300 women ran for both turned to the United States when state and national political posts, she was two years old. In her with 15 seeking concessional pre-Congressional career, Mrs. seats. St. George was prominent in As a result of the congressional state political affairs in New elections, seven American women York, and with her interest in are members of the House of public matters, has combined faRepresentatives of the 80th Unit- mily life. She has a daughter and ed States Congress which conven- two granchildren. ed early in January. Two of these The new Democratic nominee, are newcomers in the national le- Mrs. Georgia Lusk of New Megislative body, one a Republican xico, comes from the vast southand the other a Democrat. Their western section of the United freshness of viewpoint will be re- States, where individualism in inforced by "the seasoned ex- living corresponds to the ruggedperience of the remaining five ness of the desert and mounwho are incumbents, some of them tainous terrain. A former school veterans in congressional service, teacher and the wife of a western FEMININE BLOC ALMOST rancher, Mrs. Lusk was elected EVENLY DIVIDED state superintendent of' public The entire feminine con- instruction in New Mexico first gressional bloc is composed of four in 1939> ar*d aSain >n 1942. Republicans and three Democrats. The state of New Mexico has The 79th Congress, which set a been of national interest to new record with its feminine American educators because of membership, had six women De- the unusual problems arising mocrats and five Republicans. from its complex population, Nominees of opposite political which is Anglo and Spanishparties, the two new Congress- American and American Indian, women also represent widely dif- Actively promoting advanced eduferent geographic areas of the cational legislation in her own United States. state, Mrs. Lusk as superintenFrom the small town of Tuxedo dent secured recodification of in the rural region of the Rama- New Mexico school laws, free po Mountains in New York State textbooks, a retirement program comes Mrs. Katherine St. George, f°r teachers, and rural and comRepublican. Active on her large munity health improvements. She farm where she has been success- is the mother of three sons, all ful in the breeding of sporting of whom were in military service dogs, she brings to the new Con- in the war. The eldest was killed gress an intimate interest in in action in the African Theater. American country life. She also is concerned with veterans’ legis- DEAN OF WOMEN LEGISlation and American foeign po. LATORS licy. The two feminine newcomers in Mrs. St. George, slender, blue- Congress have as their colleagues eyed and blonde, was born in women members who have estabEngland where her father was lished milestones in the political history of American women, millions of workers in the United Dean of the present congressional States. group is Representative Mary T. Helen Gahagan Douglas of CaNorton of New Jersey who is lifornia is the third woman De. serving her 12th term, having m0Crat in the 80th Congress, been elected to the 69th Congress serving her second term. She in 1924, and re-elected to each was a singer and dramatic subsequent Congress. actress preceding her political The veteran feminine legislator career. She made important conhas a number of important tributions to California legisla“firsts” in her political career: tion through studies of the Mrs. Norton was the first woman state’s great migrant farm-labor to be elected to Congress by the problems. In Congress Mrs. Democratic Party, and the first to Douglas has been a member of the become chairman of a con- Foreign Affairs Committee of the gressional committee. As head of House of Representatives. She the .District of Columbia Com- also serves as alternate delegate mittee, she served* as unofficial of the United States to the Gen“mayor of Washington” for six eral Assembly of the United Nayears. In 1937, Mrs. Norton was tions, appointed by President appointed chairman of the Labor Truman. Committee. In this capacity she ln the Republican group, Conchampioned the epochal Wage and gresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers Hour Bill, which created a large of Massachusetts is another vemeasure of financial security for (Continued on page 27) HOUSEHOLD NOTES (Continued from page 21) from a magazine. Another ma- just wasted spaces. Why not put gazine idea we would like to up shelves on them to take care carry out is to use an old picture of your books, magazines, sewing frame as a serving tray. box or basket, writing equipment, The complaint of most house- and many other things that have wives nowadays is the lack of to be out of the way when not space for this and that in their used. Shelves can take the place respective homes. Do you realize of tables. that a door can be fitted with Windows are also “wasted shelves to hold odds and ends spaces.” Now that barred windows that are scattered here and there are the rule as a precautionary because they lack a home of their manners, you can combine safety own? The inside of a door open- with usefulness and beauty, ing into the bathroom or bed- Instead of the usual perpendiroom may be converted into a cular bars, use horizontal shel“medicine cabinet” with half a ves, maybe 4-6 inches apart, sup dozen shelves or into a “clothes ported by boards of the same closet” with porcelain or metal width as the shelves. Cover the hooks nailed in a row. Place a outside with wire mesh. Then slanting, narrow shelf at the bot- display your best glasses, small tom for shoes and slippers. pots or vases, deoorative objects, Walls, according to one inte- in the squares. rior decorator, are most often * * * fte/ieve V • indigestion Diarrhea ANO OTHER STOMACH DISTURBANCES _ 'withMETROCOL •POSITIVELY-RAPIDLY • SAFELY • Made in U.S. for METRO DRUG CORP. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 27 A member of the Codet Nurse Corp of the United States serves a patient his lunch. The Cadet Nurse Corp, now that uxtr is over, finds itself a vital home front factor. UiAifinq TIjuAAs THERE are approximately 25,000 public health nurses in the United States, working in crowded cities, small towns, or re mote country districts. They may be employed by the school or the county; they may be in dustrial nurses or part of a city Health Department. Or they, may work for a Visiting Nurses Asso ciation, as privately financed public health agencies in the United States are usually called. Women employed by these Vi siting Nurses Associations are graduate registered nurses with specialized training and exper ience in the field of public health. Many schools of nursing in the United States offer post-graduate courses of theoretical and prac tical training in public health work. Three institutes in the country now offer a basic prof essional curriculum leading to a degree preparing their students fro practice in the home, the hos pital, or public health agency. Nurses, also may acquire the ne cessary additional training on a part-time basis while on the job. Services Extended to All Who Are Ill Visiting Nurses Associations are privately financed, and they extend their services to all who are ill regardless of the ability of the patient to pay. Financial support for their work is provided in a number of ways. Part of their funds may come from fees paid by individual patients. A number of insurance companies contract to pay for the care to certain types of their policyholders. Money may come from foundation endowments and part from county or state Health De partment funds set aside for the purpose. About half of the money used by these voluntary agencies is received from contributions from individuals or from the Com munity Chest funds for charitable purposes collected in annual drives. The job of the visiting nurse is important both to the com munity and to the nation. Her services may include general me dical and surgical nursing, ma ternity nursing—including pre natal care, child and orthopedic nursing. Often, she must also counsel a family on problems re lating to physical and mental health. Educators in Public Health The visiting nurse plays the role of educator in the field of public health, instructing families in the fundamentals of home nur sing or teaching infant care. By group teaching, expectant mothers may be given the opportunity to receive scientific information, ask questions, and share in the dis cussion of mutual problems. The visiting nurse knows that health begins at home and that wellbalanced and nutritious meals are essential in keeping the family health up to par. Therefore, she helps promote better health by guiding families in budget and diet planning. The visiting nurse often acts as the go-between for individuals and other community welfare ser vices. From her personal and in timate contact with indigent fa milies, she may, through her knowledge of other community services, supply the guidance needed in cases out of her own field, or she may notify other agencies of cases needing their specialized attention. The visiting nurse likewise plays a vital role in helping private doctors and public health officials ward off sickness, and is indispensable in the control of tu berculoses and various communi cable diseases. First Association Established in 1886 The first Visiting Nurses Asso ciation in the United States was established in Buffalo, New York, in 1886. The success of the work of the Buffalo agency encouraged other areas to set up similar es tablishments, and by 1912 there were about 800 agencies in the United States using visiting nurses’ services. To coordinate the work and set up standards for these scattered health programs, leading Amer ican nurses met at a convention in Chicago, Illinois, in June, 1912, and founded the National Orga nization of Public Health Nursing —the NOPHN—the headquarters of which are now located in New York City, The general purpose of the NOPHN is to promote high standards of efficiency in public health nursing and to act as an information center. To accom plish this, various publications are made available both to mem bers and non-members. Its monthly magazine Public Health Nursing contains the latest in formation in the field gleaned from nation-wide sources. In ad dition to this regular periodical, it issues, at nominal fees, pam phlets and bulletins covering all phases of public health work, in cluding administration, mental hygiene, communicable diseases, industrial nursing, and nursing education and supervision. The NOPHN has grown stead ily in strength and scope as the field of public health work has expanded. It has kept step with the rapid developments in pre ventive medicine and the signific ant social and scientific move ments of the time. During the war, the NOPHN helped to organize public health services in parts of the country where the influx of war industries had created great and sudden over population with its attendant evils of inadequate housing and hospital care. PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Need for Services Increased Peace has not brought any lessening of the need for public health nurses. Thousands of dis abled veterans require and will continue to require home nursing, and the end of the war has in creased rather than relieved the nursing shortage in the United States. Retirement of older nurses, ad vantage taken of educational op portunities offered veterans by many demobilized nurses, rest pe riods found necessary for others, and an increased marriage rate are contributing factors in the situation. The NOPHN estimates that an additional 40,000 public health nurses will be needed in WOMEN IN THE NEWS (Continued from page 27) teran among feminine lawmakers, having served continuously since 1925. Besides being an expert on veterans’ affairs, Mrs. Rogers, a grayhaired and energetic woman, is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A member of the Committee on World War Ve terans’ Legislation in the 79th Congress, she was sent to Europe in 1944 on a government mission to confer with Army and civilian officials in the war-stricken coun tries. She also attended the Inter American Conference on Prob lems of War and Peace held in Mexico City. One of Mrs. Rogers’ outstanding achievements in war time legislation was her author ship of the bill creating the Women’s Army Corps. Frances Payne Bolton of Ohio, also in the Republican group, and elected first in 1940, has a keen interest in public welfare as well as international relations. As a member of the House Foreign Af fairs Committee, she made a note worthy wartime tour of 20 coun tries of Europe and Asia in 63 days. Particularly concerned with public health and nursing, Mrs. Bolton sponsored the Cadet Nurse Corps legislation, which provided for the training of thousands of young women to meet the critical shortage of nurses during the war. In her home city of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Bolton • endowed the School of Nursing at the Western Reserve University, which bears her name. An unusual business career was the United States. The NOPHN Committee on Postwar Planning has developed an integrated program for nation wide action in the field of public health. Its main points are: (1) Maintenance and develop ment of nursing services; (2) A program of nursing edu cation; (3) Channels and means for distributing nursing services; (4) Implementation of stand ards to protect the best interests of the public and the nurse; and (5) An information and public relations program. The role played by the visiting nurse will be a vital one in this entire program. the experience of another Re publican Congresswoman, Mar garet Chase Smith of Maine. Prior to her political life, she was an executive for printing, publish ing, telephone and woolen com panies in Maine. First elected to Congress in 1940, Mrs. Smith has been the only woman member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. As a committee member, she visited the Pacific War Theater in 1944, and in 1945 went to Hawaii for a spe cial inspection of the naval area. FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN ELECTED IN 1947 As a whole, the new women Representatives are considered typical of the high quality of the 38 American women who have served in the United States Con gress since the election of the first Congresswoman in 1917. She was Miss Jeanette Rankin, Re publican, of the western state of Montana, where woman’s suf frage was granted in 1914, six years before the national consti tutional amendment provided equal voting rights for all women in the United States The nation’s Congresswomen not only constitute specially equip ped legislators, but are looked upon as reflecting the viewpoint of average American wives and mothers. Only four spinsters have been elected to Congress, while the majority of Congresswomen have reared families and made homes. 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FOOD PARTICLES-STOP STAGNANT \ ( SALIVA ODOR5-REMOVE THE CAUSE ) \__ OF MUCH BAD BREATH J CA7F/i--TMIM(S TO GOtGMe OCWAC CMAM ( COLGATE'S SURE DOES ] fQSgBSxSffi I A JOB OF CLEANING J •^g^^N^AN^POUSHINGj^ W CLEANS YOUR BREATH WHILE l IT CLEANS YOUR TEETH APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 29 Sometimes friendship was very deflating, Cory reflect ed, as she walked down the rasp berry-colored hall of the old-fash ioned apartment house where she lived. “Until this dinner party tonight, I felt like somebody, or anyway, like myself. Now I feel a crumpled-up sprinster. That’s what I mean about friendship, or how does Ellen do it?” Outwardly it had been a pleas ant evening like hundreds of oth ers she had spent at the subur ban homes of her married friends. There had been cocktails, and long dresses, and dinner, and conversa tion with highballs later. Cory had exchanged rather shy “Hi’s” with Ellen’s two children; Ellen had sat beside her while she did her hair, which she wore short#?'. J and brushed smoothly over her nicely modeled head, and said, “You know darling, Ben’s a real person. He’s not spectacular, but he’s genuine. You could do worse. but it wasn’t always possible. The sight of her apartment soothed her. Its walls were offwhite, and its decor consisted of a few good modern pieces and some old family heirlooms—well, somebody’s family heirlooms — from the auctions. Her colors were odd blues and purples, and there was a Rivera drawing of the volcano that had suddenly bloom ed in a farmer’s field, ancient and terrible magic grown from an un known seed. She had bought the drawing when she was in Mexico the spring before last, but she had to turn her mind from that, because of the reason for her going.' It had been to forget Varian Krees, or at least, to get oves him; she didn’t even now, really want to forget him, inconvenient as re membering was. It was Varian who stood in the yvay of her marrying someone like Ben, and becoming what her friends called a complete and happy woman. WlaMiijaq& Qa G. And I happen to know that he’s terribly—well, interested in you.” “How do you know?” Cory asked. “I can just tell,” Ellen said. Co ry sighted. People were always telling her that the man they had invited to be her dinner partner was terribly genuine as though she were apt to turn him over and look for a label. Of course, she already knew Ben Tillot. They had met at Ellen’s some half-dozen times when El len had insisted to her husband that they couldn’t let poor Cory languish alone in the city on this night and Cory had been unable to sound convincing about having other plans. And Ben was very nice indeed. He was, Cory thought as she was going down stairs to the sound of cocktails, a composite of all the nice people asked to meet her, because she was Cory Kennedy, who was almost thirty and not married yet. He was between thirty.five and forty, wore glasses, had a small mus tache, dressed carefully, and had a guaranteed durable set of prej udices and opinions that served in lieu of ideas. At the same time, he was kindly, generous and de cent. If she married Ben, she would become, in the eyes of her friends, When A Girl Is Almost Thirty. Unmarried And Not Interested In The Eligibles Of Her Set, She's A Failure In The Eyes Of Her Friends. Cory Couldn't Tell Them That In Her Heart She Was Already Married. By HAMLIN HUNT a success instead of a failure. It was a strange conviction women had that if another woman was unmarried she was a failure and must be miserable.. Cory usually felt she had a fascinating life, but going to dinner at Ellen’s made her wonder. She couldn’t even slap them down with a dazzling career, like Marcia Allen’s. Marcia was also a college classmate, and unmar ried, but she was in the fashion business, so she always wore mar velous clothes, went everywhere. Cory preferred her own career, with its carefully selected jobs, but she felt it would be unkind to tell these people—most of whom seemed a little disappointed in life—that she earned four or five thousand dollars a year in her casual way, lived as she pleased and could take a trip on the spur of the moment. So she sat there and was El len’s spinster friend, who did some sort of office work in the city, and seemed to be a quiet little thing, not bad-looking, ar.d with a sort of a sense of humor. Ben sought her out, and had even bought her a gardenia and esorted her home. She said good night to Ben downstairs in the mock-marble fo yer, instead of asking him up to her apartment, as he obviously hoped she would. He was more per sistent than was his custom, and finally said, “Then it’s dinner on Friday? I’ll call for you at the office, or herd?” “Here,” she said. “Good,” he said. “I’d like to to have you to myself for a little while. We never seem to have any time alone, do we?” " I don’t suppose we do,” she said. Lately she had been making it a point to see that they didn’t, because she could tell Ben was about to ask her to marry him, and she didn’t know her own mind about him. She preferred to get out of situations by avoiding them, She thought: He might still come back someday. She began to settle back into being herself, and at home. She kicked off her shoes and put on a pair of sheepskin-lined slippers. She tried to undo the feeling of failure the evening had given her by using all her favorite ruses. She got a book of poetry and a new murder and put them on the stool beside the bathtub. She poured a tumblerful of sherry and set it beside the books, the cigarettes, matches and ash tray. She filled the tub to the brim with hot wa ter, and eased into it, and devot ed the first few minutes to cold cream, bath salts and expensive soap, and the next hour to more intellectual pastimes. But when she got into bed the feeling swept back over in a gigantic wave, and she felt worthless and inconsequential. Look at poor Cory, she thought, using the words of all her wor ried, married friends. What will become of her? She woke the next morning and got ready to work with the same feeling of despair still clinging to her, thinking: My seventy-sixth job. Maybe I’m not the steady, reliable kind? Though, when she was feeling better, she made a wonderful saga PAGE 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL of her seventy-five previous jobs. She had met some fascinating people, and done a lot of interest ing work, and she changed jobs with a purpose, for she had her own philosophy about working. “I work so I can stop working,” she said honestly. “Sometimes I love what I’m doing, but after a while tired of the same desk, the same view out the window, and then I know it’s time to take a trip, if I can afford it, or else time to find another job.” She had no dependents, and she could take chances. So Cory had worked in all kinds of offices, and for all kinds of causes. In time, she had come to have spe cial qualifications that could al ways keep her employed at a good salary—she could edit man uscripts, run a fund-raising cam paign, and put a book together. That was how she had met Va rian Krees. Someone had sent him to her to help him with his book. She had come down in a rattling elevator one night after six and seen him waiting in the lobby, hunched against the wall, newspaper in one hand, cigarette burning—you had the feeling he could wait for days in just that way, comfortable in his gray suit and crepesoled shoes, and choco late in case of emergency. He looked up at the sound of the elevator. “Miss Kennedy?” he said. “Yes,” satd Cory. "Jim Banks sent me to look WOMEN IN THE NEWS (Continued from, page 29) gress the benefits of varied prof essional achievements. The precongressional jobs of women mem bers have included, in addition to home-making, law, journalistic work, the theater, playwriting, and commercial fields. Among earlier Congresswomen, college graduates and non-collegians were about equally divided, but in re cent years high-ranking univer sity graduates have predominated. The feminine legislators add smartness and a touch of color to the usually somber congressional scene, as well as dignity and sin cerity. What the Congresswoman wears is not important to the service which she renders the people, but the inquisitive eyes of the American press and of other women are invariably turn ed to the garb in which the you up,” Varian said. “About a book. We’ll go and have drinks and dinner, okay?” “Why not?” Cory said, equally direct. They went to a small bar, and had wonderful old-fashioneds, and it was nine o’clock before they went on to shrimps and steak somewhere else. Varian was what he described as a photographic historian. He traveled, and took pictures as he went. When he came home, he gave lectures, or sold his photo graphs, and* whenever he had a photographic exhibit, he won a prize or two. “I’m just one step removed from a hobo,” he told Cory. “1 make a living. If I didn’t, I’d still roam. Now they tell me the time’s ripe for another book, so 1 I thought I’d get you to nelp me. After that, I’m planning to try to find out what really makes In dia tick, and take pictures of the pieces.” There was no satisfactory place for them to work. Thousands of photographs and notes on scraps of paper were unhandy to deal with, so Cory stored them all in her bathroom, which was very in convenient, and they worked at her apartment. At first they worke d on occasionel evenings, and week ends, but Cory became absorbed and gave up her job to work full time. “Can you afford it?” Varian asked. feminine lawmakers appear on the opening day of Congress. Usually they choose well-tailored black costumes, brightened by a frivolous hat, costume jewelry or contrasting accessories. While the achievements of feminine legislators in the war time Congresses of the United States served historical purposes, women' members of the incoming Congress also will face critical questions and duties. In addi tion to its mounting responsibility in foreign affairs, the United States through coming legisla tion must solve many domestic issues. Congresswomen are ex pected to press for action on vital questions affecting the public welfare—labor, veterans’ affairs, housing, price control and exten sive social legislation. BOTICA BOIE 95 ESCOLTA MANILA Formula: Inf. Senna, 15; Pump. Seed. 2.2: Worm Seed. 1.1; Sod. Bicarb., 0.9; Roch. Salt, 2.8; Flv. s. c. 90 cc. : Ale. n. m. t. 3%. “Oh, yes, thanks. 1 like to rian said. “That’s owning your make money in lumps, and 1 work and not having it own you. have a little saved. When I get Most girls don’t seem to know paid for this job, it’ll be another about it, though.” lump, and I may even take a trip “Most girls don’t earn enough myself before I go back to an- to be able to afford to take other job.” chances,” Cory said. “I’m just “That’s the way to do it,” Va- lucky, that’s all.” HOW IS BAGUIO (Continued (ton page 5) soon. (2) The Teachers’ Camp which is still in ruins will be put on its feet soon. Unlike the old teachers’ camp which came to life only in summer, the proposed one will be utilized for classroom pur poses during the school year and be used by the teachers in sum mer. When Kennon Road is once more opened, the high cost of liv ing now in Baguio might drop. Kennon Road is the shortest cut to the lowlands and the flow of products up to the mountain city SAFETY^ EFFICACY 2 proven advantages — SAFETY & EFFICACY — have made WAT. SONAL CASTORIA the leader among Castorias. In the twentyfive years that WATSONAL CASTORIA has been on the mar ket, we have not received a single complaint as to its SAFETY & EFFICACY. Mothers have com plete confidence in WATSONAL CASTORIA because they them selves took this castoria in their babyhood days. They know that WATSONAL CASTORIA stim ulates digestion and establishes REGULARITY in bowel move ment. Moreover, the action of WATSONAL CASTORIA is so mild that it can be administered to newly born babies without danger. _ INSIST ON CAstoriA The Children's Friend [WAT50NALJ will be greatly stimulized with in creased transportation facilities. Vacationists, though, do not find the still-closed Kennon Road an ■impediment. They either suffer the rough bus ride through Naguilian or take the plane. In short, people will go to Baguio as long as they want to, regardless of anything that may be said pro or con as to conditions currently obtaining in the mountain resort. Baguio is there, it beckons to the world once more. APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 31 “I’m lucky, too,” Varian said. “It’s a great thing to know what you want." “Isn’t it?” said Cory. A curious silence fell between them, as between who have pro tested a little too much. Neither looked at the other. Cory pasted a photograph into a space on a typed page. “It would be even greater if two of you wanted the same sort of thing,” Varian said. “But one is usually pushing or pulling the other where he doesn’t want to go.” Cory put her paste brush down. “The door’s wide open,” she said. “I don’t want to go through it,” Varian said. “I war.t to stay on the same side with yo>-. Maybe it did worry me a little to find out but I’m getting over that. Cory, I’m crazy about you.” She didn’t move. She couldn’t speak. Finally, in a whisper that did not sound like her at all, she said, “Are you? I thought I had the feeling all to myself.” “Did you?” he said. And then, as though wires had been clipped and freedom let loose, they moved together, blind ly. “So this is what it’s all about,” Varian said, when she was in his arms. “It’s simple when you find out, isn’t it?” “Simple as pie,” said Cory. “I’m so glad you got here at last.” She cleared her life for Va rian, cutting off other men and dates, even friends, doing only what was necessary and what she and Varian wanted. She thought about the future very little. This was love, wasn’t it? She was old enough now, and sure enough of herself, to welcome love with both hands and without fear. Sometimes she felt as though she and Varian had been married for years. She couldn’t remember what it had been like before Va rian came: she didn’t want to imagine what a future without him would be. Yet when he got a sudden as signment to India, with a chance to fly to that country with a group of government officials, who were going to investigate famine causes, she had to think about it. “May be we could waive the three-day laws, and have a few hours as legal man and wife,” Varian said, harassing through a mound of legal documents, pass ports, and papers of all kinds. He looked worried and tired. “If you want to do it that way, I’m willing. I love you, and I want you to be what you want, and have what you want out of life. For myself I’d rather have the day or more it would take to ar range a wedding—just being to gether, just being happy in our own way. But it’s for you to say, Cory.” She felt as pale as a mushroom, and as footed as one in damp earth, unable to move. She had known, she supposed, that sepa ration would come, but knowing in your head, and having it hap pen in your heart, were two dif ferent things. It would be wonderful, to be Varian’s wife and to wear his ring, and have the world know that they belonged together for ever. But wouldn’t it be more wonderful, in a realistic way, to have as much time with him as she could, and not spend that time signing papers, and stand ing before frosted-glass winSOOTHES • CURES CALMS•COOLS METRO DRUG CORPORATION A Harvard Choice EDITORS of the Harvard University “Lampoon” picked this unnamed Ohio Wesleyan co-ed as most beau tiful from portraits of nine anony mous campus lovelies. The pictures had been sent to them by the editors of Ohio’s “Bijou” with a request that they choose the prettiest girl in the group. (International) dows? “There’ll be time enough to get married when you come back, won’t there?” she said. He looked at her, and she saw with surprise that he was pale, too, and damp, as if from great strain or effort, and that his hands shook. “There’ll never be time enough for me to be with you, Cory,” he said. “And I'll be back as soon as I can get here.” “I know.” Said Cory. “I won’t say I’ll be waiting. But when you At all leading Dealers OFLYO • KILLS HOUSEHOLL INSECTS • WILL NOT STAIN • NON-POISONOUS Distributors: MARSMAN TRADING CORPORATION Drug Dept. Tel. 2-73-09 975 Boston St,, Port Area, Manila The League of Women Voters is the recipient of a letter from United Nations Department of Public Information offering the facilities of its section for Non Government Organizations in the dissemination of information about the United Nations. These faci lities offered include publications, visual aids, film strip, radio ma terial and posters. The League is planning to cooperate in every way in the aims of the United Nations because they are bene ficial to a small nation like the Philippines. come back, I’ll be myself again.” They had never had a more beautiful time together than dur ing their last hours, for they were parting so sure of their love for each other that there was no bit terness or grief in their parting. It was only after Varian had been gone for some weeks that Cory realized how much she was suffering in his absence: she seldom heard from him, for com munication was bad, and she woke at night, listening as if she could hear him shouting at her across space. Sometimes now she wish ed she could see his ring on her hand, so that he would seem real again. She hated to get his book off to the publisher, because his manuscript was the last tangible bond between them. She was thinner, and paler, and friends asked her, “What’s wrong, Cory? Haven’t you been well?” Among themselves, she knew, they speculated on what had hap pened to her: may have guessed at the truth, but it was only after a long time that they stopped asking about Varian. “I’m not going to talk about it,” Cory said. “I’m not going to say we’re engaged, or that we’ll be married when he comes back. I’m not going to say anything, and they can think what they like because that’s anyway.” So she kept her own way. job and found it interesting, and one day something seemed to hap pen to her suddenly: she burst through her shell of grief and was suddenly aware of herself as a member of a fascinating group called the human race. There what they’ll do silent, and went She got another were a lot of people she liked, and a lot of things she was inte rested in, and she was alive, and had work to do. And no matter what came of it, she had had love. She had loved to her utmost, and been loved in return, and no one could ever take from her the PAGE 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL safety of heart that love had me? given her. And that evening she had one It was hard, as time went on, of those silly experiences that when people began treating her sometimes happen to girls who like a spinster again. Sometimes live alone and haven’t even a Cory wanted to shout, “Why do roomate to call on for assistyou think you have everything ance. out there in Bronxville? I’ve got Cory had gone to bed with her a man, too. I’ve got a home, and hair done in bobbyupins when the a job, and memories, and books, doorbell rang, and she answered and I can choose my own clothes, it. It might be a special delivery and sit in a hot bath for two letter. hours, reading, if I want to! But this time it was a young Why are you always saying, man with a bottle in his pocket, ‘Look at poor Cory.’ There she who claimed to be looking for a is, still single1?” Helen McMartin who was supI’m wronging Ben, Cory thought posed to live in this building. He about Thursday of that week. sat down 50 readily, taking out There had been no word from his bottle and offering to share there was nothing to look forward its contents with Cory, that it to but more of the same empti ness. He’s as nice as he can be, she thought. I’m delighted to have a date with him tomorrow night. I may even marry him. How can I possibly know that Varian will come back or that if he does he’ll still want to marry To Write Fashions WEARING a leopard skin coat and dark goggles, Doris Duke, one of the world’s richest women, arrives at La Guardia Field, New York, from Honolulu. She announced that she would leave soon for Paris to lo fashion writing for a national magazine. {International^ place of Helen. “She isn’t here, and I don’t know her,” Cory kept saying. “Don’t know her, eh?” said the 'young men thoughtfully. Well, have a drink anyway.” Finally, thinking to speed him on his way, Cory had a drink. That was a mistake. In spite of her attempts to get rid of him, he fell asleep in the armchair and she grew desperate. Should she arouse the apartment house, call the superintendent, call the police, and generally make a scene? She would be compromis ed if she did that, anyway. So she decided to let him sleep where he was since it was impos sible to rouse him, and in time, even went uneasily to sleep her self, wrapped in a quilt, and staying firmly on top of the bed. In the morning, she woke the young man, gave him coffee, and put him out ruthlessly. “Go and find Miss McMartin,” she said. “An I don’t ever want to see you again.” “You won’t,” he said. “It’s the least I can do.” But she could never be sure. Drunks had a way of stumbling back where they had been before, and now she could add one more dread to her list of miner dreads. So Ben looked very good to her Friday evening, and she made him canapes and good Martinis, and whipped up a bright fire in the fireplace and welcomed him as she hadn’t for a long time. “This is the way it could be every evening,” Ben said. “You know what I want to ask you, Cory. You’ve been putting me off. I’m not so stupid that I can’t tell that. But tonight I wonder if you haven’t changed, and whether I haven’t a chance1?” “May be you have.” Cory said. “I’m lonesome, Ben.” “So am I,” he said. “And I think you’re wonderful, Cory. I wish you’d marry me.” She was silent for a long time; letting him hold her hand. She even let him kiss her and found it pleased. She was human, and she like men, and she liked being loved. She looked down at her ringless hands, and thought about Varian. It seemed as though she had not thought of r.im for days, and there was the shock of dis covery, n6w, in remembering him who had left her nothing of him self that could be seen or touch ed or acknowledged by anyone in the world but herself. Ben would give her a ring but if he did she could never have Varian. Suddenly it seemed like no exand self-pity fell away, so that she seemed herself again — Cory Kennedy, spinster, but member of the human race, nevertheless, with all a human’s hopes and sense of possible defeat, as well. Who was she to give in to lone liness, and marry for company? Why, she was Cory who knew what love was all about and who might get a letter, any day now, from Varian* or whose doorbell might ring any evening and there Varian would stand, in a crump led tweed suit, with a bundle of photographs under one arm. FOR SMART THINGS : = ^11 WASHINGTON. — The Depart* ment of Agriculture recently an nounced the allocation of 1,250,000 hundred-pound bags of milled rice for U.S. civilians during the second quarter of 1947. This is approximately 40 per cent of the total allocable supply of 3,183,500 bags during this period. It is three times the quantity received by ci vilians in a corresponding period of 1946 when supplies were ex tremely short. Allocations for the second quar ter of 1947 also include 1,504,700 bags for commercial exports and shipments to U.S. territories, 250,000 bags for exports, imple mented by the Production and Marketing Administration, to the Philippines, and 178,800 bags for U.S. military and war services. And if he never came, still she was Cory, and content to stay that way. “I wish I’d marry you, too,” she said gently. “I imagine it would be. nice. But I can’t and it’s late and I’m hungry.” After a long minute, Ben stood up. “Well, we’ll go to dinner, then,” he said. And all her married friends would probably .go right on say ing, “Look at poor Cory!” APRIL 30, 1947 PAGE 33 This is the dress that goes places because it has more lives than a cat. Without the long full sleeves it is a neat casual number gay with applique of bright blooms. Or any short sleeves may be worn to achieve jumper-dress look. THIS FORTNIGHT'S ISSUE (Continued from page 3) can not say the same for the 6trawberies and the everlasting flowers. They are there all right but as if by device, they are few and far between and prohibitive ly priced. But the Manilans did shop all right. There was the First Lady and her entourage shopping at high noon Maundy Thursday. The shops are quite well-stocked in the way of goods which the way of life up there requires. The new houses built for the government officials are dandy affairs. We were asked to the Speaker’s house which stands side by side with that of the Senate President’s. These are two-story homes with superb appointments. The gar dens, though, are still mere plans but the gardeners are now on the job and very soon the place will be a riot of blooms, orchids in cluded. “Looking At You’’ p. 5 is an Go patriotic in red, white and outgrowth of a rather pleasant blue, . white for the dress, red discovery that many women, and blue for the stars and stripes. al though they don’t easily admit it, so execute some form of exercise in their own way and derive there by beneficial results. It is all in really putting a system to work, SINATRA ATTENDS U. N. SESSION taking pains to make it work and then reaping the benefits. Our inveterate home-maker, Mrs. Leynes, has cooked up ideas on how to bring in the money even if one stayed at home. She has always had an admiration for capable women who raise families and help their husbands besides. So when she read in a magazine that women abroad are actually earning money at home, she lost no time in passing on the word about our own women who are do ing same. Our fictionists Pedroche and Viray have each one of their choice outputs for this number. Pedro che once more sings the tender story of life—and deatfi. Viray starts out with a gay birthday celebration and brings in a sur prise undertow in the only sub tle way he knows. The Independence of the Philippine Red Cross has come and has been inaugurated. This is a his torical event and the Woman’s Home Journal is proud to rec ord this all-important happening (pp. 8-9). —P. T. G. The clinging sheath of a long dress frothy with lace. Take care to have the decolletage right in order to justify use of Another evening attire plan ned with exotic whimsey. Glit tering sequins for the lopsided strap are echoed in the em bellishments for the drape. fabulous choker to match. with bracelets THE BOBBY SOXERS* IDOL Frank Sinatra (left) is shown with Jo David son, sculptor, as they attended a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at Hunter College, in the Bronx, N. Y. Sinatra said he repre sented the National Conference for Christians and Jews. The teen-ager* who attended the meeting were instructed to refrain from swooning or screaming, and they obeyed. Not even a sigh was heard. 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