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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 947 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3C My OPINION Still. Riled With--Christmas Spirit Utile Girl Who Asked, 'Is There a Santa Is Happy at 58 Contract Bridge By Ely Culbertson By MARTHA CARR '1 Dear Martha Carr: THERE Is a girl In our crowd we want to eliminate but don't know what to do about it We don't know a great deal about her, but she smokes Incessantly and can't speak sentence without cursing. None of us acta like that She will come to our table at Watch Words In Front of Your Child TO the children their parents are the flneM, the chief people on earth.

What they think the children think; what they do the children do; whom they praise the children copy. Forgetting this attitude of the children, parents often talk before them in a way that influences them in directions the parents actually deplore. The actions of a local politician come up for discussion. The children are doing their homework in the next room, and nobody is giving them a thought. "Well," says father, dousing his cigarette.

"You have to hand it to him for being smart enough to get his while the getting Is good. He's got the best house, the finest car and, I'll bet, the biggest bank account in the town on a salary that wouldn't support his garage much less the rest He's a crook, all right, but you have to hand it to him. He's smart" noon time and alt down I IT required some very bland false-carding on the declarer's part to bring home the game contract in today's deal. South, dealer. Both si3es vulnerable.

KB42 K53 874 JU32 By Virginia Irwin A Stiff Corretpond'ent of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. JUST 50 years ago a little girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to a New Tork newspaper. The Sun, asking this simple question: "Is there a Santa Claus?" The answer to that question, in an editorial which said, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," first appeared on the editorial page of The Sun in 1897 and since then has probably been reprinted as the classic expression of Christmas sentiment more times than any other newspaper article ever printed in any language.

4 4 i i i 5 vaT Vy- and eat with us, then leave when we do. My girl friend and I are new here and don't want to get in with the wrong kind of girls and give a bad Im- preesion. What can we do so as not to hurt this girl's feelings, and still not have to put up with her company? A. B. a8653 493 107634 4- 10972 AK1065 AKQ9 NORTH I SOUTH a.

V' 4AQJ107 MQJ6 QJ2 The bidding: South Wt 1 ipada I'm 4 (piiles I'M 3 diamond oubia Xortb ru I'M -j I 7 Perhaps the girl doesn't realize why it is the crowd tries to avoid her, but she is lonely and comes to sit with you because yon are newcomers and she feels you may perhaps be more welcoming. If you and your friend will eat in some other place for a week or so, or if this is not possible, manage either to get a table for two, or see to it another couple always eats with you, you should be able to get out of this situation and bo feelings hurt Dear Martha Carr: I WOC1D LIKE to know why it is a boy will tell you one minute that he's fond of you and then the next minute you find he's quit you. A certain boy and I have broken up twice in the last four months. Each time he has come back wanting me to make up. I still like him.

Lately, however, I have discovered be baa been drinking and to my embarrassment several friends have said "I saw your boy friend the other night and was he drunk!" What do you think I should do about him? SLIM. Ah, ine! Men were gay deceivers ever!" When a boy tells you he is fond of you, however, it is quite likely that he is right at that moment But in another day or week, or when he's away from you, he may decide he is just as fond of some ether charmer. It is natural for young boys and girls, too to be fickle. I think you will be wise, in this instance, to stop Today the eight-year-old girl who inspired the famous Christmas editorial, is a gray-haired grandmother. Her name now is Mrs.

Edward Douglas and she is principal of New York Public School 31. But though the years have brought their changes, she still remains in spirit the little girl who 50 years ago begged to have her faith upheld In Santa Claus. "Isn't this beautiful?" said Mrs. Douglas softly when, on a tour of the school building, she. led this reporter into a classroom where children, were in the midst of a Christmas party.

Each room in Mrs. Douglas's school, a sorry building squeezed between the sagging, squalid, wash-line-strung tenements of New York's lower East Side, will have had its own party, complete with Santa Claus, by Christmas. And today there will be Mrs. Douglas's own party for all of her 670 pupils. As we went from room to room in the building the music of child voices singing Christmas carols filled the air and Mrs.

Douglas explained her feeling that Christmas) must be "a children's time, regardless of religious denomination." Many of her children are Jewish, many Italian and Puerto Rican. She told of one Jewish merchant in the neighborhood who gives a party for her handicapped pupils every Christmas and who has always supplied a Christmas tree for every classroom, although he has never had a Christmas tree in his own home. She told also how at last week's assembly a Jewish teacher spontaneously led her class in "Silent Night" and how the spirit caught on until the whole school joined in the singing. In the 50 years since as, a puzzled little girl, she wrote her letter to The Sun, Virginia Douglas NOW same father wouldn't touch a nickel that was not his by right of labor well performed. But his tone, his half-laughing remarks, the almost covetous overtones of his speech reach the ears of the They are going to store that expe-' rience, going to be influenced by it sometime in their lives unless there is some stronger experience to outweigh it And there are very few experiences of any sort that outweigh those set by father and mother.

"Praise good men" ought to be engraved on the floors of every school, every home in the countryif not visibly, then invisibly written there by the actions, characters, words and manners of those within them. It is not possible to implant ethical principles in children while deriding them outspokenly. "Speak, that I may know thee." FOB THIS BEASOX fathers and mothers, all professional teachers, all actors on the stage or screen whose work or actions are likely to Influence the lives of children should be above and beyond reproach. I have no patience with the teacher who complains because the parents do not wsnt her to plaster her face with paint, pluck her eyebrows and disguise her mouth with red wax. Nor with the one who complains that the parents of his pupils object to his drinking and betting on the horses.

Anybody that wants to, can do any and all of these things. But teachers, because what they do becomes the pupils' law of life, should not do them. Nor should anybody in charge of children praise those who know no law but their own law, no will but their own will. Speak in praise of good men. East's bidding was none too astute.

He should have doubled two spades for a takeout, and he should not have doubled four spades. West opened the diamond nine, and when East put up the king. South, without the flicker of an eyelash, dropped the jack. East then shifted to the club king, but when his partner gave him a low card in the suit went back to diamonds, laying down the ace. On this lead South dropped the diamond queen with equal celerity and East fell! For all he could tell.

South was really out of dla-' monds and therefore it seemed imperative to try for at least one more club trick. South promptly ruffed East's second club lead, overtook the spade ten with the king, and ruffed dummy's last club. He then laid down the two high trumps remaining in the closed hand, after which he crossed to dummy with a heart, drew West's last trump while discarding the diamond deuce, and claimed the rest of the tricks with hearts. There was nothing remarkable about South's technique but, it should be observed, his false-carding in the diamond suit had to be done with considerable smoothness so that East's suspicions would not be aroused. One thing was certain: If South played the diamond deuce on the king and the diamond queen or jack on the aces.

East would definitely place the missing diamond honor where it really was, and would of course give his partner a diamond ruff for the setting trick. South saw that he could get back the diamond trick he was having to squander if he' could avoid the fatal ruff. longing for this particular boy to return to you. If he has begun to drink too much you might as well spare yourself any embarrassment by keeping away from anyone with such poor judgment and so little self-control. If he want to make a spectacle of himself there is no reason why you should be a part of the spectacle.

Find sortie other boy with more sober ways and perhaps a dash of more constancy, too. .4. MRS. VIRGINIA O'HANLON DOUGLAS WHEN EIGHT YEARS OLD, SHE WAS GIVEN A FAMOUS ANSWERi "YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS." say so. It Is certain that none of her grandchildren will ever write to a newspaper to ask if there is a Santa Claus.

Their grandmother will always be on hand to quote from the famous editorial and explain to them how she knows that there will always be a Santa Claus "to make glad the heart of beginning of a new era," said Mrs. Douglas simply. "I have been happy." For her own Christmas, when she finishes the Christmas festivities for her in P.S. 31, Mrs. Douglas, who is a.

widow, will visit her daughter, son-in-law and six grandchildren in their New Jersey home. And although she does not her Santa Claus letter 60 years ago. Not with nostalgia, but with a sort of fervent thankfulness for all the wonderful Chrlstmases she' had known, Mrs. Douglas delved back into the Decembers of her childhood and spoke of the dolls her mother had dressed for her. "I grew up in a lovely time, the IN ANSWER TO I'll be glad to send you my New Tear's Eve and Leap Tear Party leaflets if you will send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

IN ANSWER TO Why worry so much about this situation? Tou should be able to date and remain friends with both boys. Simply let them know that you aren't In favor of steady going, prepare to have fun with the various boys in the crowd, will be glad to see 'them at any time. IN ANSWER TO Tou are acting far more eelf-eonscious about this matter than it warrants. Speak up with a cheerful Hi" next time you pass the boy In the halls" at school. Tou may surprise a return grin from him, and the ice will be Children's Christmas Books By Angelo Patri 3 finally broken.

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That wonderfully fluffy, light Angora yarn is being made again, thanks to the enterprise of a relatively few people, mostly women, who are raising Angora rabbits in this country. The fur from these rabbits is spun into an entirely domestic yarn for making such pretties as baby bonnets, baby bootees and mittens, socks and even sweaters for older girls. The yarn, not widely distributed as yet, is in notions departments. Santa tflaiu ia wining AS HE DOES ONCE A YEAR CAN YOU THINK OF A IETTER PRESENT Tkea to naka tomaaae HEAR! With an AIX-Dr-OM PAR. A VOX AID.

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Oa.CaeJ has found a constant source of inspiration in the answer to that letter. At 58, she gfows with a sort of radiance of a woman who has known a full and happy life. Her blue eyes glisten in a face that has an almost flawlessly soft complexion and she walks with a step as light as the cne that must have carried her to a corner post-office box into which she dropped Overcoming Deficiency Of Hormones By C. A. Dean, M.D.

THE hormones, or chemicals manufactured by a i a glands in the body (thyroid, ovary, pituitary, etc.) may be deficient in various people by reason of glandular deficiencies, old age, or operations. The missing or deficient hormones may be replaced by taking these chemicals by mouth, by vein, in suppositories (to be inserted and dissolved in body cavities), by ointment (rubbed into the skin and picked up by the blood stream). Since 1938 another method has been tried, that of implanting pellets. This means that tightly compressed hormone crystals are implanted (placed) under the skin or in a muscle. These pellets may be thrust through the skin by using a big needle, or a small incision may be made and the compressed crystals then deposited In the desired area.

These crystals are then absorbed slowly by the "blood stream, and produce their effects for a period of three months to one Although this is an advantage over other methods of administration, many factors have to be worked out such as standardization of dosage, area of choice, 'and the rate of absorption. Question: Will It hart a man to work In an office 12 hours ft day If he enjoys it? Answer: Twelve hours work In an office every day is definitely not advisable, whether or not one enjoys it. This routine would promote fatigue and monotony, which, when long continued, will do harm to the body, and increase the likelihood of nervous tension. Moreover, working 12 hours a day in an office prohibits a person from getting adequate sunxhine, fresh air, and rest; each of these is essential for good health. For the above reason one may develop nervousness or irritability.

Also, one's resistance to the various respiratory diseases may possibly be lowered. The long, continued tension, particularly in older persons, may show its mark also on the heart five-pound bird. Sal Cl.trlaafar far PAKAVOX 'S610 Olive St. CHRISTMAS is almost here and the children must have their gifts. This is their day, a day of fun and gladness, of peace on earth and good will toward men, particularly in the homes where children are reared in a knowledge of what good will means.

Gifts delight th hearts of children. They are not particular about the cost of them, just so they have the fun of receiving them, opening the packages and being surprised. The surprise is part of the fun. It can be a doll that was expected, a wagon that was hoped for, but the kind and color can be a surprise. There should be, as there was In the Wise Men's gifts, something of value and something of pure luxury, something that has no utilitarian use but a spiritual uplifting value like a book, a jewel, a bit of beauty.

MY FAVORITE among these Is a book. A book can mean so much, can be such a real source of comfort, can be such a friendly bit of belonging that no Christ- mas stocking should be without It The toy soon will be worn out, lost or forgotten, its usefulness over very soon. But the book, once read, remains a lifetime in memory, affecting the thinking and behavior of the child down through the years of his life. One reading of a good book is only the start Its owner will read It again and again. There will be certain bits of it to which he will return again and.

again for refreshment and entertainment That book is knit into his being, as no other thing he owns ever can be. I am thinking, of course, of a good book, not any bit of print. One of the books that has lived through years of reading by gen- PLEASING CHRISTMAS GIFTS For the Woman Who Sews SEE BOSTON FABRICS 112 LOCUST ST. CH. 1244-124S CAN COMPLETE YOUR.

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Some think it should be one that educates the child by teaching him facts. I do not belong to that group. Christmas is a time for fairy tales, Imaginative stories, dream tales, heroic, gorgeous ones "Robinson Crusoe," "Robin Hood," "Treasure Island," Then there are beautiful stories like "Little Women," and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The older group of children can have any book their elders read, according to their taste. To be acceptable the book must be one the child would choose, not the one the adult thinks would be good for him. This is not lesson time but Christmas time, when Dlcken's "Christmas Carol" is in order.

UJLKlUDJ7LCL oUonal or College ass Saw aW AaSr tSBSBSS Entrance Examinations. Letters Intended for this column must be addressed to Martha Carr at the St Louis Tost-Dispatch. Mrs. Carr will siot give advice on matters of a purely legal or medical nature. Those who do not care to have their letters published may inclose an addressed and stamped envelope for personal reply.

Social Problems By Emily Post THE following is a situation I never have heard of before: At a bridge party recently, Mrs. A tells me she and another woman tied for high score and had to cut'the cards to see mho would get first prize. Mrs. A lost, but was under the Impression that she would be given second prize. Instead of this, the prize was given to the player with the second highest score.

Mrs. A asks whose right it was to receive this prize. Had I been the hostess, I certainly should have considered Mrs. A. the sharer of the top score, of higher rating than the player with second highest score.

DEAR MRS. TOST: Will you please tell me the correct way to notify friends and business associates that I have legally changed my name? Answer: Send out an engraved (or printed) card, somewhat larger than your ordinary visiting card, announcing By permission of the Court Mary Jones Smith has taken the name of Mary Jones Brown DEAR MRS. POST: While at a party the other evening, cne of the women guests went around selling tickets for a raffle to the other guests, some of whom were strangers to her. told her I thought this was in poor taste, but she disagrees saying that since the rrocefds were going toward a worthy cause, it was perfectly all right to do what she did. Answer: Great as the temptation is to help a cause of special appeal, such a collection mode at a small private party is sot only in poor taste but very unfair to the hostess.

DEAR MRS. POST: When my grandmother died, she left zne her engagement ring which happens also to be my birth-stone. I never have worn the ring since it is much too large for my finger. Now, however, I am planning to announce any engagement and wondered whether I could use this as my engagement ring. My fiance, of course, would have it made smaller and replace some of the missing stones.

Answer: This ia a matter of concern to you and him alone. It ia very usual for a bridegroom to reset a stone of his own family and not unheard of to do this with a stone of her family. DEAR MRS. POST: My husband, as chairman of a dinner and dance, is wearing a tuxedo. As he will be busy most of the evening with his -club duties, I am joining a group of friends mho are not wearing evening clothes.

Would it be best for me to wear day clothes, too, or what? Answer: Many of the new dresses can serve equally well for day and simple evening dresses. One of this type would solve your problem perfectly. Reeteeabla Tarmt nnrn Ovr GradvaUt Hava fnfaraa Over AWARDED 500 Celegei UnlvanJtJei WRITE TODAY FOR FREE ICCKLf 7. SI Jtmsr'cos Scnoef, f. O.

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niKSTii 8 Youve Ever Known 'Cause we're wishing you a III I Custard Recipes Baked custard recipes often call for scalded milk. This scalding is not necessary and will not affect the texture or taste of the custard; it is recommended to speed the baking, alnce custard is always baked at a fairly low temperature in a pan of hot water. If1 This Question of Bugs. MANY years ago a small insect figured out a way to have all his meals served in bed. The solution was pretty simple.

First find someone with ft bed and use him for the meals. Bedbugs are still working this racket and while it suits them just fine, it's pretty tough on the guy who is furnishing the bed and board. Bedbugs will enter a house through cracks, via the laundry and other delivery service, or will ride in on someone's clothes. A well contented bug is about one-fourth inch long, a little on the flat side and is a reddish color. After he has had dinner, he expands considerably and turns a bright red you guess why.

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