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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1931., Letters to a Column Conductor Opera Goers in National Capital To Introduce New Evening Modes VERSATILE CABINET HOSTESS Often Tell of Desperate Tragedy aiiiii what a cowardly wretch is th skunk who will take that way ot Wotherspoon wears a smart, medium sized felt hat of the same color. The Quality of Sound Medical Knowledge Shown by Lay Writers Astounds Veteran Authority -Contrary to General Belief He Still Enjoys Communications From Readers By Dr. WILLIAM BRADY IF EVEN a majority of the letters our readers send In dealt with symptoms or ailments, believe me, the conductor of this column would throw up the soft Job that it looks and go back to honest practice for a living, much as he hates Season Opens on Tuesday Evening Under Distinguished Patronage Dinner at Japanese Em. bassy in Compliment to Prince and Princess Takainatsu Scheduled for Next Tuesday Br MARGARET WADE Special to The Eagle Washington, April 11 The opera season, to open on Tuesday, and the large reception by the Japanese Ambassador and Madame Debuchi, on April 16, following a dinner in honor of the Prince and Princess Takamatsu, may be expected to inaugurate the latest carrying on any experimental investigationthat is, in this instance, another horsefly should be similarly submerged and then allowed to revive, if he can, without the sprinkling of salt on his tail, so to speak. If he does revive as well as his lin Miss Janet Large, her niece, who is passing the Spring vacation at the White House, wore a fur trimmed coat of beige broad cloth over a beige gown, with a brown felt hat.

Miss Susan Dyer, also a White House guest, gave a touch of honest work. But it is like that at all. The great majority of the letters I read there's a subtle meaning here are not only interesting but often Inspiring that is, they contain excellent suggestions, sometimes ideas the writers purposely present, sometimes ideas that spring out at me from between the lines and without the writer of the letter being in the least aware of It. Today a reader wrote me about an experiment he did when he was a boy he caught a horsefly and held it submerged in water until 'presumably) the fly was drowned. Then he buried it in common salt for several minutes.

Then he exhumed the fly and presently it was as lively as ever. Diffdently my correspondent wondered whether this might be of any use in respect to the resuscitation of a drowned person who could not be otherwise revived. That might strike some of us as absurd. It had no such significance to me. On the contrary, I think such thinking, reasoning or just idle conjec ture, if you prefer, is a commendable habit or pastime, only one should always use a proper "control" In color to the party by wearing a be coming red felt hat, matching the gown worn under a long mink coat.

Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the junior Senator from Pennsylvania, looked extremely well pleased with the world, taking a walk on Connecticut Ave. early in the week in a modish tweed suit of rich brown. The skirt is twelve inches off the ground; the single breasted jacket to the hip.

The tuck-in blouse is white or egg shell crepe; the little turban worn off the brow of tweed. The last word in this chic utility or semi-sports suit is the large silk kerchief folded scarf fash ion and worn under the collar-less coat. The accessory is yellow, half and half orange and lemon, with the division a sharp diagonal line, along which the square piece is folded to produce the new effect of different ends to the scarf. Mrs. W.

W. Wotherspoon, widow of the former Chief of Staff of the Army, and for many seasons most popular of Army hostesses, like Mrs. Hoover, is wearing the long coatiover matching gown, but in a soft sage green rather than blue. The material is a rough surface wool. Mrs.

CtiHlmiStwiMtri mat xtefilD Mrs. William DeWitt Mitchell, wife of the Attorney General of the United States, graciously and effectively fulfills her duties as a member of the Cabinet circle. But the routine of official life represents only one of her interests. A talented singer and pianist, she gives much attention to music, also to art and science. She is a brilliant conversationalist and thoroughly in touch with the times, spending many of her leisure hours in selective reading.

She is affiliated with civic organizations and is a member of the Colonial Dames and D. A. R. She is an enthusiastic sportswoman, plays golf, swims, rides and shares family hunting trips, hikes and long pleasure tours by auto. Everyday Questions ANSWERED BY The Rev.

Dr. S. PARKES CADMAN Questions from Eagle readers are answered dally by the Rct. Dr. S.

Parkes Cadman. Address him care of The Eagle. Wife Usually Knows When Mate Strays From the Straight Path I faced with such a heartbreaking problem: Go to the most eminent physician you can locate; one who specializes on the disease from which your husband suffers. If he assures you that treatment will prolong your husband's life an appreciable length of time, then cer tainly the risk of disillusion is worth taking. But if treatment cannot do more than alleviate mat ters for a brief time, the braver thing is to bear your sorrow alone.

May you be given strength sufficient unto your needs. HELEN WORTH. Springtime Longing For Real, Honest Friend Dsar Helen Worth With the coming of Spring, my heart longs for the companionship of a real, honest friend and I am asking you to help me find one, because you have once before secured for me a She May Not Care to Share Her Knowledge With Her Children, So Their Only Course Is to Re-spect Her Silence-Let Situation Adjust Itself Interference Not Likely to Prove Helpful Believing that many persons are confronted with personal problems, anxious for advice, but umvilling to seek it from friends or relatives, The Eagle invites its readers to write to Helen Worth, ivho will give each communication close personal attention. Write under own name or an assumed one AND ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAPER ONLY. Advice by Helen Worth Dear Helen Worth We have a very serious problem in our family, and I would be more than glad to have your opinion.

There are two of us grown up children, self-supporting, but living at home. We have shifting his burdens to the shoulders of the mother of his children. No, the very idea is Insane. Murder is easily conceivable as the deed of a sane and calculating mind. Not suicide.

Well, this bereaved woman car ried on. After a month or two she wrote me the letter I say I treasure so greatly. In it she proposes to pay me a handsome fee a hundred dol lars or maybe it was two hundred if I will come to the lonely home and apply certain restorative measures in the endeavor to resuscitate her children's father. Then she goes into a detailed outline of the various measures she wishes me to apply, and every bit of it is so scientifically accurate and appropriate that as I read on, page after page, I begin to feel that perhaps the woman has really worked out a miraculous method of resuscitation is it that I am going off my nut? It Is unique I say the document is weird. At least, it is unique.

In all my ex perience, and I have received some queer letters, I have never read anything quite so impressive as this unhappy woman's appeal. She seemed actually to believe that if I would only give my help we might somehow bring back her husband so that he could finish the job the two of them had courageously undertaken. I wish I could print the letter in full, but I can't do it. I wish I dared visit the scene and learn, if possible, how in the world the woman ever gained the extraordinary knowledge she has of the very best scientific restorative measures. She had everything in her scheme of treatment, everything in its right place.

Carbon dioxide and oxygen inhalations by means of the in-halator; transfusion of blood; intravenous administration of ad renalin along with the new blood: normal saline baths for the important organs; heat by various means; direct heart message; prone pres sure respiration; every imaginable detail was carefully planned. A Wild Fancy As I tell about it now it seems rather a senseless, crazy notion. Reading the actual letter it almost terrifies. I mean one becomes imbued with an uneasy feeling that perhaps one ought to try out the woman's suggestions, go there and disinter the man who has been buried a month or two, attempt to reduce the dislocation of his axis and atlas, and all the rest of it Right along with this feeling there is always the assurance that the whole business is but a wild fancy of a distracted mind. Yet the though'; sticks.

There there was another letter which has had an extraordinary influence on my thoughts for many years. This was from a little girl, 15 or 16 if I recollect I am writing this far from my files the daughter of immigrants to this country. When she was about 10 years old, the oldest of a large family of children, her father ran away and left the family for the mother to support. At 12 or 13 she had gone out to work in a shop. Following the example of the older girls who worked there, she soon began to have "men friends." One night she met a fellow she liked better than any of the others she had known, and he became her "steady," at least he met her somewhere nearly every night and took her places.

She was 16 now. Presently she learned she was to become a mother. She went to her man friend and he agreed to marry her at once. She took him home then, for the first time, and when her mother saw him she recognized him instantly as the husband and father who had deserted his family years ago. Having stated the case just as simply as that, the girl asked md what they ought to do.

Cry that off, and then see how much thinking you will do before you can decide what sort of advice to offer in such a case. Embarrassing Letters Many a letter stirs me more than any book or play ever does. Some of the problems they submit wring tears out of my hard-boiled, cynical eyes, what kind of tears I know, but I can tell you it Is most embarrassing sometimes, particularly when anybody is near enough tp observe. Hut aside from these pathetio notes, a lot of the letters contain thoughts or suggestions that give me not only great delight bul inspiration. I like particularly the argumentative letter which a student writes, or the condescending informative note a dental hygienist sends in when I get too gay about the conservation of the teeth, or the pained scolding a school teacher gives me when I urge parents not to stand for any antiquated abuses in the school room, or the cordial yet nasty communication a big business bozo submits If I venture to tell the truth about a product in which he is commercially interested.

Another type of letter that constitutes a considerable part of the daily mail of this column is the friendly, homely comment of the casual reader who is stimulated by something that has been said in the column, to tell me his or her (I'd say thon, but the dumb-bells would not understand) own experience or observation in reference to the subject. Lack Courage Of course, a certain share of the letters sent in to a department like this are bound to be of the anonymous class. As a rule such communications are unsigned for the obvious reason that the writers lack the courage of their conviction. But I suspect a few may be unsigned because writers lack the intelligence to realize that I never disclose a correspondent's identity; they fear I may mention names and so bring embarrassment. When I began this health column-ing I feared the answering of letters would become a deadly bore aftcc a while.

On the contrary, it is anything but tiresome. Each day's mail bag brings enough surprises, bits of good news, bits of news not so good, and enough stimulation to keep me always keen to begin play lor the day. Mrs. Frederick H. Brooks, whose many activities embrace the forthcoming festival of the Girl Scouts, wears one of the smartest of tailored suits in dark blue with a pleated skirt and hip length jacket which she tops with a blue straw hat showing a brim of several inches slanting from a well-defined crown suggesting a modified sailor shape.

This Is trimmed only in heavy ribbon matching the straw. Handsome Homes Planned in New Residential Section The former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Alanson B. Houghton, and Mrs. Houghton, who are occupying an apartment at 1785 Massachusetts Ave.

for the Spring, have purchased a site on the same avenue, but far to the northwest, where they propose building a permanent Winter home. This residence will be in the Immediate vicinity of the British Embassy, completed last year, and the Hungarian Legation. Another addition to the capital's winter colony will be Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baker, who have begun clearing a 20-acre plot still farther to the west of the new residential section, where they will begin building at once.

This is to be a stone mansion to overlook the Potomac, not fnr from the home of Mrs. Anne Archbald, and in the same general direction as Mrs. Borden Harriman's reconstructed home "Uplands" on the Ridge Road. The present Mrs. Ray Baker, much the junior of her husband, is the former Miss Delphine Dodge of Detroit, whose first husband was James H.

R. Cromwell of Philadelphia. While country homes are Increasing in size and numbers to a gratifying degree several of the most famous town houses are closed, not only for the season, but practically for sale, although not so advertised to all passersby. Two of the largest, noted fqr their past hospitality, are the Perry Belmonts' and the Edward McLeans'. fected my memory you are that same who planned a Jump from the Brooklyn Bridge because of business conditions.

Indeed, often they march before my inner eye, a big parade of nuz zled persons whose problems I have tried to assist in solving. There was "Barnacle Bill," sailor, who agreed to stand by my decision regarding his former sweetheart, and many others. In fact, a veritable host of puzzled persons. Surely an old-fashioned experience meeting would be interesting and educational. Perhaps we'll have a camp meeting week, as it were, with testimony given aloud by those who have put their perplexities into print.

HELEN WORTH. Where to Apply for Personality Courses Dear Helen Worth The Y. W. C. A.

has a course in "Personality." I think a much better name would be "charming manners." It teaches how to be gracious In relations with people, how to walk, sit, modulate the voice, etc. While It may not exactly fill the requirements of Miriam I think it would help her. DOTTY. My dear "Dotty" Thank vou for this information, which should prove useiui to Miriam" and manv oth ers. HELEN WORTH.

Consult Specialist Act on His Advice Dear Helen Worth Won't you please help me in what I find a very unfortunate and perplexing situation? My husband is suffering from a chronic disease and, although he has received years of strenuous treatment and believes himself cured, I am in a position to know that this disease is incurable. We often discuss this subject between ourselves, and I am just at my rope's end, as I don't want to lie to him, and yet, if I tell him the truth, he will become very disheartened and, I fear, desperate. This is my problem: If he continues medical treatment, his life will no doubt be prolonged, at the cost of his disillusion and despair. Without treatment, he can live perhaps five happy years, totally ignorant of his condition. I plead to you to please advise me about this awful problem.

MRS. E. F. My dear "Mrs. E.

Very earnestly has your letter been considered and thought over from every angle. And here is the conclusion reached, after sincere meditation: Every one is entitled to his or her chance to live. Even though the truth will discourage your husband tremendously, he should know it, if that knowledge will help him eventually. Here Is what I should do, were mode in evening gowns. In the addition to the list of subscribers to the opera, the names of "Mr.

and Mrs. Carlos Florio del Mar" gives Society the information that the former Madame Lessinoff, widow of Dr. Paul Lessinoff, had changed her name In more ways than one by her very recent marriage to Charles Delmar, formerly of Baltimore and New York. "Mrs. Carlos Florio del Mar," as the lady In question has her latest carte de visite engraved, was prior to her marriage to the Bulgarian diplomat, Mrs.

Wheeler of Washington and Pittsburgh. Following her widowhood, Madame Lessinoff, as she continued to be called, resumed her Washington residence and purchased a handsome new home on Belmont Road, to which she and her present husband have Just returned from their wed-'. ding trip. Mr. del Mar during the past winter occupied an apartment at the Blackstone Hotel.

Mrs. Francis T. A. Junkln has also been added to the opera sub-l scribera, and will entertain at each performance. The Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, a guest of Mrs.

Junkin in Chicago last Winter, is expected to arrive in Washington next week to pass some time at Mrs. Junkin's new home on 16th which its owner will open for the post-London season. The Countess Alice Szechenyi and Count Bela Hadik, whose marriage is to take place next Saturday in Matthew's Church, were the guests in compliment to whom Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis gave a dinner on Wednesday evening. The additional young people included the close personal friends of the bride-to-be and the daughters of Mrs.

Eustis. Owing to the illness of the bridegroom-elect, who con- tracted a serious sinus affection shortly after his arrival in Wash-! ington, the program of prenuptial entertaining has been greatly curtailed. The wedding ceremony will take place at 3:30 in the afternoon, with a reception following at the Hungarian Legation, the home of the bride's parents. Bank of England Governor Britisli Embassy Guest The British Ambassador and Lady Lindsay were hosts at a midday breakfast Monday in compliment to the Rt. Hon.

Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, who, with George L. Harrison of New York, was a weekend guest of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson and Mrs. Grayson at their home on Wisconsin Ave. The company to meet the London visitor further included Mr.

Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone; the Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Whitridge of New York, Mrs.

William Corcoran Eustis, Miss Monica Phillips and Miss Irene Boyle. Mr. Mellon entertained a large luncheon company on Tuesday in honor of Mr. Norman, with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce as well as Mr. Justice Stone among the guests.

The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson, who passed Easter at their Long Island home, returned on Tuesday and that evening were the quests of honor at a large dinner at the Argentine Embassy. PoId and Dixie Balls Buccessful Affairs The Polo Ball on Monday night in aid of the War Department Association and the Dixie Ball of Tuesday, each proved a welcome opportunity combine amusement and well do-ini? with afternoon dancing at sev eral of the fashionable hotels, adding to the pleasure tne taster vimuus. Also on Monday evening was held a very successful costume ball at the Congressional Country Club, whose first president is the present Chief F.xprutive. It was organized when Mr.

Hoover was Secretary of Com- merce with the charter members re- suited from DUDI1C omciais aim ipadprs of business interests from most of the Eastern cities. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hincs, now head of the club, and Mrs.

Hines led the gTand march of Monday night. Both Easter balls being largely fancy dress there was no display of new ball gowns even among the lookers on giving their support to the polo association or the club. Exhibition dancing on the south lawn of the White House by Girl Scouts and the children of the Neighborhood House classes gave a new slant to the annual Easter Mondav egg rolling, which began at and lasted until 3 o'clock, when a downpour of rain brought the much debated party to a close. One Tailleor Favorite For Wear For daytime occasions in smart- b-tailored suit of lighter ZJJTZrZ bad all Winter, sua noias nrsi piace. Mrs.

Hoover, lamous for dressing to the occasion, but along simple lints she has made her own, attended two Easter services in a dark blue ensemble with long coat, without, so much as a flower in its unfunded lappl. She recognized the call of the sea-son by wearing a straw hat. but in a close shape and a fme straw banded in ribbon to maf-ch. Tr.r the early service at Mrs. Hoovr added a fur t'lf Her shrvs wre mac nx Suri.

hr hosiery and glove beige buried brother it fairly indicates that there is something wrong with your train of reasoning. If he fails to revive, well, then, you have at least something to warrant further pursuit of your theory. In Just sich fashion Dr. Banting conceived the idea which led to his discovery of insulin. A Weird Letter In my files I treasure a strange indeed a weird letter I received long ago from a distracted woman whose husband had hanged himself.

The unhappy victim was left with all the burdens the man had so evaded, together with several young children. I suppose the poor woman was beside herself. It is hard to imagine greater tribula tion. There are few things that disturb my sleep, but this case did, many a night. If one can conceae that a sane person can in any cir cumstances commit suicide, then for Easter to fall regularly on fixed date.

To achieve these results only seven changes are made in the ex isting calendar year. February is given two additional days; the 31st days of March, May and August are eliminated; April is' given 31 days, and December 31 is converted into what is termed Year Day. Ancient nations measured time by tne moon changes because its reg ular phases were easier to study than those of any other heavenly body. Moon calendars were divided into 12 months of 30 days each, and the day and night into 24 hours. But these moon changes required only 360 days.

The Egyptians soon dis covered the error in their calcula tions and added five days to the year without disturbing the 12 month division. Centuries later Julius Caesar con quered Egypt and made its calen dar the basis of his famous reform The year of 365 days and six hours was established, and the leap year of 366 days every for years was in troduced. This Julian calendar was adopted by the Romans in 45 B. who were then the masters of the world. Pope Gregory XIII rectified some defects in the Julian and nis revision was adopted by all Catholic countries in 1582 A.

Germany accepted it in 1700, Great Britain and her colonies in 1752. It is this calendar with which Miss Achelis deals, and I recomnjend her pamphlet to your attention. It is an exceedingly interesting and scnoiany bit of work. That Good Old Spirit) Atlanta, Ga What has become of the old-fash ioned neighborly spirit? It looks ta me as If the American people have lost consideration for others in the rush for money and pleasure. What do you think of this autmobile age? I do not agree with you that the simple virtues of self-denial, con sideration for others and general helpfulness have vanished.

I do agree that in the recent get-rich quick times those virtues have hard sledding. Greed and grab did their best to stifle them. But like hope, they fall to rise, "eternal in the hu man breast." and suffering's resist less appeal calls them to the rescue, Do not judge our country solely by itz rabid automobillsts. True, the cowardly hit-and-run drivers, the roadhog of various breeds, the speed maniac and the joyrider are the scum which floats on the surface of the bubbling pot of our democracy social pests who pollute cur high ways and endanger life and limb, few stiff jail sentences Instead of mere fines would cramp their re spective, styles of reckless and crim inal behavior. But come with me or any pastor having the cure of souls to scenes or poverty, want and bereavement.

There we witness daily an outpour' ing of sympathy and sacrifice which defies description. Do not forget that poorly paid office clerks, ste nographers, bookkeepers and similar groups in the honorable white-collar brigade are setting aside a fixed percentage of their scanty wages to aid in alleviating the want and suf fering of their less fortunate fellow creatures who are unemployed. Self-denial lives in every tene ment-house alley, however mean and takes care of its own there and then. The benevolent fiber of our people is as sound as a bell. Would that their lawfulness and social dis clnline were as healthy! By and large, the inhabitants of North America vie with those of any other continent In their resolu tion to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.

From the White House to the wayside hovel, philanthropy has first claim on their hearts and pocketbooks. This well-nigh uni versal recoenition of one of life most sacred obligations should dis miss your fears for the nation's fu ture. It is frequently careless to fault, but, thank God, it is neither callous nor selfish I Sailors and Ships Ship Cook'g Music Had Charm That Soothed Savage Breast Gorillas Wept When He Played beautiful friendship that of another girl, which shall last as long as life itself. I don't want many friends, and I shall pick character rather than material wealth. I am not an everlasting pleasure-hunter, but can find a wealth of happiness in a stroll through any of the various botanical gardens and parks, or a day at the beach, Just lolling around, talking about nothing in particular and trying to swim.

To me, it seems my life is pretty full, and I am not an unhappy sort of person. I work pretty hard all day alone, and I have my stamp collection to assort at times, and various scrap books to paste up. I am also a lover of good books, and read a good deal. But these things bring me in contact with no people at all and, at times, I feel rather lonely and forgotten. I am not yet 30, belong to a good American family, and have a high school education.

I think I have given a fair idea of the type of person I am and I hope, through your column, I shall find a man friend as fine as the girl I met a few years ago. LOU. Letters forwarded. HELEN WORTH. PILAT of a number of native women car ried off by gorillas centuries ago." May Smoke Only Pipes "Mugs" is the slang name given to fourth-classmen on the New York State Merchant Marine Academy schoolship Newport, tied up at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

They labor under a strange smoking restriction. They may smoke only pipes. Third-class students on the ship may smoke cigars and pipes. Only two upper classes have the privilege of cigarettes. Because of fire danger on the old barkentine-gun-boat, smoking o' any kind is allowed only in a short period after meal time.

Catching tiger eels by torchlight is best done by strategy, according to Joe D' Amour, bos'n on the freighter Irishbank, about to leave the Brooklyn waterfront on another trip to the Far East. "When I was out in Hawaii I often used to go on torch fishing parties near Honolulu," said the bos'n. "At first we used to spear 'em, but later we learned better. "The tiger eels grow to eight feet or so. They have small eyes and big mouths, with teeth like daggers.

They make good eating. When you'd spear 'em, nine times out of ten you'd get a nasty nip somewhere, for they were strong as the devil and would twist all over the place. "One day a fellow went out with some big section of hollow tile with flaps at the end. He laid down in daylight just off shore and the next night we came around with our torches. The eels all sneaked inside the tile to get away from the light and all we had to do was let the flaps close.

"Ever since then, I guess that was a couple of years ago the Glens Falls, N. Y. Can Methodists and Congrega-tionalists unite with Baptist churches without baptism by immersion? The particular Baptist Church to which admission is sought determines the answer to your question. Contrary to common supposition, English Baptist churches did not originally insist on immersion as a condition of membership. By the middle of the seventeenth century, however, the rite was thus administered among the Calvinistic communions of that denomination, and it is now generally observed.

But every Baptist Church is au tonomous in government. this law of liberty not a few such churches in Great Britain and our Northern States receive candidates without requiring their immersion. Some would go farther, and receive by sprinkling persons who had not been baptized at all. One of the fnrpmnst livine The Rev. Dr.

S. Parkes Cadman Baptist ministers received into the Church his own children by sprin- klincr and not bv immersion. But this is an unusual instance, which the majority of his devout fellow Rantists would deniore as tne sur rpnder of a vital principle. The general conclusion would seem to he that while in certain sections the mode of baptism is becoming less imoortant for many Baptists, their main body still holds to it as essential to conscious and voluntary confession of failh in Christ. The Church Calendar Bridgeport, Conn.

Do you think we shall ever have a calendar which brings Easter on thesame day every year? Tin World Calendar Association, located at 485 Madison New York City, has recently published a psjsohlet by Elisabeth Achelis containing a scheme for which the following advantages are claimed: It is said to be balanced In structure and perpetual in form; to stabilize all holidays and place them as a rule on Mondays; to respect religious customs, and arrange Hawaiian eel-catchers use the new method." Most spectacular of the waterfront's routine is the "shape." Also most depressing. It occurs three times a day 7.55 a.m., 12:55 and 6:55 p.m. at every decent-sized pier. Men who want work as longshoremen gather in a rough crescent about a hard-faced, truculent individual known as the hiring foreman. Work is scarce in this field and many of the applicants are semi-starved or scarred internally with the horrible liquid concoctions they take to drown their sorrows.

The men are Irish, Italian, Polish, Germans, Scandinavians, Negroes. Their garments are as diversified as their origin. All Eager to Work Each tries to catch the eye of the hiring foreman. Some call his Christian name, others his last name. Some call their own names to refresh his recollection of previous work.

Some smile, some scowl, some jump into the air on a fellow's shoulders to attract attention. The hiring foreman points to one man here, one there, giving each the brass check which means ad-mittanca to the pier and work. Eventually the quota of longshoremen is filled and those rejected move sullenly away until time for the next "shape.1 under always had a very happy home and our mother and father were always fond of each other, and never was there any dissension whatever. But of late father has taken to staying away from home and never makes any explanation of his absence that is, no more than just saying "business." My sister and I have reason for suspecting that father has taken a fancy to a certain woman, who is in age about midway between his wife and his daughters. We are frightfully shocked and disgusted, but have no idea what to do.

Mother has given no sign of suspecting anything out of the way and, of course, we say nothing. It would be possible for us to take a small apartment and leave father to make an idiot of himself. Do you think we should? WORRIED. My dear "Worried" Give mother credit for some intelligent thought of her own. Husbands rarely go astray for long without the wife's knowledge.

There is a certain psychic bond between people who have been married for many years. And, al though she may never admit it to arnthpr Vilimnn hpinff. tho wife lS another human being, the wife usually aware when her mate leaves the straight and narrow pathway. My advice is to let matters alone. You may both be wrong I hope so.

And if you are not, interference will not help. Do not make yourselves one with the type which rushes in where angels fear to tread. HELEN WORTH. Why Not Tel! How Problems Were Solved? Dear Helen Worth Having read your interesting column for some time, it appears to rr.e that only, one more thing is to make it perfect. (Pardon thi suggestion, but it is made in gx3 fulth and in i fuli sincerity.) Many of the problems discussed are general ones, arid v.

interesting -to all. We have all followed them i read vojr opinJwl and the numerous replies. -nr of th I What1 abTt KJil decisions? Do any of the hundreds of corre spondents ever give you their final decisions? Surely, it would be both educational and interesting to read the concluding chapters of those many problems. This is a strange letter, but some of the problems of the past year contained real tragedy, and surely your readers would like to know the outcome. How did they solve their problems? G.

D. Mv dear G. D. occasionally ione wara uit wquei, dui uu uiwu. 1 And what of your own problem? lUnless increasing jears nave ai- By O.

R. Over the cacophony of cargo handling on the good ship Gertrude Maersk at Atlantic Terminals at intervals sounded the more or less dulcet tones of a violin. The music came from the steward's cabin. Roy Chester, the cook, was caught in the act. He was friendly and in no time at all was reminiscing.

"This fiddle saved my life once when I was booking for a hunting party between the Vuni and the Membere River? northwest of th i Belgian Congo iv Africa," he raid. "We stopped in a rock gully one day, and the two partners in the expedition went off together for gorillas. You know that's about the only section of the world where gorillas still exist in any numbers. Music Hath Charms "I was cooking a stew. I looked up and there were about 30 gorillas in a ring around the camp, watching me.

Big fellows, with hairy long arms. One of them can kill a tiger if he is defending his youngsters. I had no chance. If I shot one with my revolver, I figured the others would get me. "This old fiddle here was nearby.

I reached for it and started to play. First joyfully, then sad. The gorillas began to cry why, of course they cry and then they melted away like snow." The cook had more yarns to tell, of gold and diamonds and animals, but it was looking like rain and it is quite a walk from Pier 39 to the Crosstown car, which is the only means ot city transportation near Atlantic Basin. "Come around again," said Chester. "I'll tell you about the tribe we discovered who had calluses on their finger tips like corns and who talked by clicking them together.

They were said to be descendants I.