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A Gay Two-Piece Frock for Tots
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M ix This Cough
Syrup at Home.
Quick Relief
Easily M ixed. Needs N o Cooking.
Hara's an old home mixture your
parents probably used. Bu», one«
tried, you'll always use It, bemuse It
gives such quick, pleasing relief for
coughs dus to colds.
And It's so easily mixed. Make «
syrup by stirring 2 cups of granu
lated sugar and one cup of water a
few moments, until dissolved. No
cooking Is needed. Or you can uso
corn syrup nr liquid honey. If desired.
Now put 2(1 ounces of Plnex (ob
tained from any druggist) Into a pint
bottle, and fill up with your syrup.
This makes a full pint of truly splen
did cough medicine, and gives you
about four times as much for your
money. It keeps perfectly, tastes
fine, and lusts a long time.
You cun feel thlsalmple horn« m ix
ture tuke right hold of a cough. It
loosens the phlernn,soothes Irritation,
and helps clcur the air passuges
Eases the soreness, makes breuthlng
easier, and lets you get restful sloop.
Plnex Is a speclul compound of
proven Ingredients, In concentrated
form, well known for Its quick action
on throut and bronchlul Irritations.
Money refunded If It doesn't please
you In every way.—Adv.
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rusting ruins of wrecked tanks.
"Now
somebody," said
Eric,
"ought to do a magazine piece about
these Russian women
Look at
them out there— back working al
ready—clearing things up.
The
women of Russia! Probably the en
gineer and fireman on this train are
women.
Look at all the women
we've seen in the factories. Those
women out there don't shrink from
hard work!
They're practically
keeping Russia going!
The mag
nificent women of Russia!
We glide through a wood as
heavily blasted by artillery fire as
those in the Somme in 1918. Only
a few shattered, branchless trunks
protrude above the shell holes. Here
the Red Army's excellent artillery
had to blast the Germans out of ev
« • l i n e d Is I m u w t n or d o o b l. m e w , back
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W I i . i i « « m a -tom arl, ..-t.l m u m *, gmlr,iul. ■uff(M-«l-
ery inch of ground.
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p r ,.,-rlb . II* . iMtMl . . t i l l , rrt.li,-,it— k ,,„ « n for
The colonel tells us that these
• vhiL,t,.m .l 1. r . l l . r - no-h-ln— Ils . tluw . In l u l l a n .
German fortifications were built
Jnt.I.C. No l . i . l l v . Il- Il an . bring.
fort In e
J iff, or itoubl. y„ur mnn,-, bark oo n lu r n of bold»
when they cut the railw ay line,
Ui u. tfl. .1 .If dronglBt.
completing the encirclement of Len
ingrad—in late 1941 and early 1942.
3-8 yri.
This encirclement was only broken
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by the Russians late in 1943.
Due to unusually large demands and
We now pass a railw ay siding
current condlllons, slightly more tim e Is
where the heavy machinery of a
-Moles U h Wartk llvla«"
required In filling orders (or n lew of the
factory stands loaded on flat cars. It
most popular pattern numbers.
is a form er Leningrad plant, return
Send your order to:
ing from its w artim e exile in the
Standby e l DR R SCHIFFMANNS
36-52
Urals.
Thou.ondi e l A S T H M A D O R I I a d (.
SEW ING C IR C L E P A T T E R N IfE P T
AltkoMfitsI f * " J « b l . , ^ . U „ r .
As we drive from the Leningrad
«■••y io utr ASTHMA-
709 M inton St., San Francisco, Calli.
station to our hotel, we get a good
IX ) R S rnh. aronunc lu m n help red t x t the
Enclose 25 cents In coins (of each
4X<>ny of bronchial awhma. aid in relieving
look at the city. It is a beautiful,
pattern desired.
about sixty-five sable skins to make
Uixroacd breathing A S T H M A O O R powder
spacious, well-planned town, built
Pattern No
■
Size —
a coat, and these pelts are sold at
Figure-Molding Frock
more convenient tor home use and Fur chd-
over two hundred years ago on the
«Jren A S T H M A lX )R cigarette« and pipe m u
prices ranging from $50 to $600
Name-
L
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SPECIALLY
created
for
the
1 mre lot pocket or pur«e Sold
dfuggiM»
shores of the Baltic.
each. Only one or two sables are
larger figure is this flattering
everywhere under our money-badi guar jo tee
A d d re s s —
As part of a drive toward West
born in a litte r and it sometimes
side button dress. Princess lines
ernization and modernization Peter
takes a hunter two weeks to find and
are figure-molding and graceful,
the
Great
built
his
new
capital
on
k ill a single animal.
Wild sable
and tend to make you look tall and
the shores of the Baltic, giving Rus
pelts sometimes bring $500 each.
slim. Shoulder shirring gives a
sia
a
window
on
the
civilized
outside
The darkest and silkiest made up
world. There is in its beautiful, soft feminine touch. A frock to
into a coat bring as high as $45,000.
clean architecture little suggestion wear everywhere.
P ractically all of them are sold in
• • •
of
Russia. The architects were all
New York. In normal times, also
Pattern No. 8951 comes In sizes .16.
French
or
Italian.
The
city
might
London and Paris. Very few in the
38. 40. 42. 44. 46. 48. 50 and 52 Size 38.
be part of Paris except for its short sleeves. 4% yards of 35 or 39-lnch
Soviet Union.
m aterial.
churches
and
except
that
its
public
I get a brief attack of social con
buildings
and
palaces
are
painted
Two-Piece Dress
science. Here this half-starved na
lemon yellow, the color of the czars
tion is forced to put skilled fa rm
A S SWEET as can be is this ex-
It is. of course, now run-down and
ers to raising useless animals for
1 * quisite little two-piece dress
dilapidated.
Yet; somehow, we all
the cream of the foreign luxury m a r
for a tot of three to eight. Scal
When outdoor work and chilling winds
felt
we
were
back
in
Europe,
in
ket so that Russia may buy useful
lops make a pretty trim on the
leave muscles aching and sore—take
a
gently
cultured.
comfortable
machines.
dainty jacket — the skirt is at
»he tested way fo fas», happy relief.
world.
The mink farm is orderly and
tached to a bodice for comfort and
Jus» paf on Sloan's Liniment, warm
Russians, proud of Leningrad's
clean, and the sturdy farm ers seem
ease.
Make it in taffeta, for best, in
war-suffering,
are
always
annoyed
away »hose muscular pains. No slow,
;
to know their business thoroughly.
gay cottons for school wear.
if you mention the fact that the tow n
painful rubbing. You’ll feel »his "heaf
if I
The supervisors, both men and
• • •
is less damaged than London. Actu
treatment”
penetrating
immediately,
"
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women, are “ agronomes.”
They
No. 1440 Is for sizes 3. 4. 5. 6.
ally the beautiful old central part is 7 Pattern
and 8 years. Size 4. dress. 2*t yards
stimulating circulation, relaxing tight
have degrees from agricultural
almost intact, except for broken win of 35 or 39-lnch; bodice,
yard; ’ «
schools in veterinary science.
muscles. Your hqpdy way to solid
l
dow glass and nicked cornices Shell yard for collar.
A visit to what K irilov calls a
comfort.
or bomb craters are rare.
meat factory, which is. however, not
In Leningrad we are put up at the
Mink Industry was found to have
a stock farm but a packing house.
Hotel Astoria, one of the relics of
become
big
going
business.
Platypus Odd Animal That
Since it is food, we are again garbed
czarist grandeur.
E ric has what
in rumpled, slightly soiled white. It
-
could
be
no
less
than
the
form
er
Carries Poison in Feet
enough to the battle lines to hear
differs little from an American
a gun. A Soviet "front trip ” usually Romanov bridal suite and we in
packing house, but they show us
spect this with awe.
There is a
consists of a trip in a de luxe Pull
One of the strangest creatures in
something they say is a Soviet in
man in the general direction of the large dining room, a spacious sitting nature’s realm is the duck-billed
vention. The cow, instead of being
lines, a perfunctory interview with room and a thundering big bedroom platypus of Tasmania and Austra
FOR Q U IC K RELIEF FROM
slugged with a hammer, is struck
the sector’s commanding general, with matching double beds covered lia. The male is as poisonous as a
just at the base of the skull with a
The rooms are snake, but it carries its fangs in its
Tired Aching Muscles • Sprains
inspection of some abandoned G er in silk brocade.
javelin, tipped by an electrically
man trenches, and at the end, cham done in the lavish style of czarist feet instead of its mouth.
charged needle. This stuns but does
SfiFf Joints • Strains • Bruises
pagne and vodka at the officer's days, and there are several pieces
The platypus has fu r like a
not kill.
Her heart continues to
ft.
mess. This tim e they hope it will of porcelain bric-a-brac, thick with mole’s, the feet and b ill of a duck,
pump out blood after her throat is
china cupids tickling each other or lives both on land and in the
be d ifferen t
cut and while, suspended by the
E ric, Joyce and 1 traveled in else pinching the gilded bottoms of water, and lays eggs yet suckles
horns, she moves down the dis
what, when we left Moscow, was a angels.
its offspring. The biff, more pliable
assembly line to be skinned.
Opposite our hotel is St. Isaac's than a duck's, is something like
private car at the end of the train.
I say "she" advisedly for Soviet
I t was clean and comfortable. Its Cathedral, but there is no hint of soft rubber.
beef consists almost entirely of
It
re a r contained a long table and Europe in its architecture.
worn-out old m ilk cows, calves, or there, of course, was the Intourist squirms with Byzantine ornament
an occasional bull whose romantic steward, laying out the sliced stur
over which float onion-shaped spires.
fires have burned to embers. A l
It is Russia, and back of Russia,
geon, uncorking the champagne
most no cattle are raised to m atu and opening the cans of caviar.
the Eastern Em pire of Constantino
rity purely as beef. Here it is the
ple, and back of that Bagdad and
But
just
before
dusk,
the
train
end product of the dairy business,
the temples of Asia.
was
halted
at
a
junction
and
a
ra
m
as it is over most of Europe.
Before the war most of Russia s
In the Soviet Union tenderness shackle boxcar was hooked on be
hind.
Two anti-aircraft machine highly skilled precision workers
makes little difference since, due to
guns were bolted on its roof. Some lived here and it was the center of
the lack of refrigeration, almost all
straw was also piled there and on Russia's precision industries, which,
red meat is prepared as smoked
this sprawled the gun's crew—half however, were only about 10 per
• i
sausage. During our entire stay in
a dozen Red A rm y boys. The Soviet cent of the whole. Leningrad also
the country, only twice were we of
Union was taking ijo chances with made tractors and comparable m a
fered steak.
the safety of the titular leader of chines. Most of this factory equip
We were surprised at this plant to
American business.
ment and the people who worked at
find that the basic wage was only
T hirty or 40 miles farther on we it were loaded into freight cars and
500 roubles a month—instead of the
are halted again at a siding to let hauled halfway across Russia to the
customary 750. However, the fact
a troop train pass us on its way to Urals, Siberia, or the Chinese boi
presently comes out that workers the Finnish front.
der, where they are now operating.
who overfulfill their norms (almost
By Western standards, they look
We are taken to Leningrad’s citv
all of them do) get an extra divi
shabby. They have been haphaz hall and there meet the official
dend, not in money but in meat,
ardly piled aboard this rickety train. architect of the city — Alexai B ar
which is infinitely more important.
Everything seems improvised. The anov. On ttje wall is a huge map
Joyce and E ric return wide-eyed
equipment is battered, a little rusty of future Leningrad. Some of this
from today’s trip. They visited a
and considerably lighter in con grandiose plan had been built be
© if ,
large Russian m ilitary hospital, a struction than ours.
fore the war; most of it is still only
section of which is devoted to the
In many ways Russia is like M ex on paper.
rep air of genital wounds. They have
Leningrad's intellectuals contin
ico.
Both peoples have been basic
N ..
here developed a surgical technique
y®'4
ued with this planning during the
to treat men who have had their ally agricultural, with no great apti
blockade,
as
both
architects
and
tude
for
industry
and
still
less
ex
vitals blown away in battle
r r STAYS F R E S H
perience. The general poverty of people were sure their town would
Although visiting Soviet doctors
Russia is no less than that of M ex never fall. Like everything in Rus
FO
R W E E K S ... you
have free access to Allied hospitals ico except that it is a cleaner pov sia, it is very impressive in its blue
on the Western fronts, it is most
CA/Z S A K E A T A
erty. Also the standard of health print stage.
difficult for Allied medical observ
is better in Russia and this has cut
On to the new Palace of the So
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ers to visit Soviet field hospitals.
the infant m ortality rate. Russian viets, the hub of the future city.
This is not entirely because of the doctors do not have the problem of
We drive down a wide street be
traditional Russian suspicion of for
persuading the peasants to accept tween rows of six-story concrete
eigners. They are a proud people,
what
medical
care
they
are barracks - like workers’ apartments.
and conceal their weaknesses. Their equipped to give. In Russian v il
Suddenly the city stops. Beyond the
general standard of medical care lages the people aren't asked; they
last apartm ent are the open fields
cannot compare with that of the are told.
of a collective farm , whose build
Western countries.
The compartment I share with ings we can see in the distance. But
They spend freely on the more Joyce is a little larger than an near us is not a shack, a shed, a
spectacular branches of medical re American
Pullman compartment bungalow, or an old fence. We have
search, but under this top crust, the but lacks all the ingenious contrap emerged into open fields of grain
average Russian doctor has less tions with which Western nations and potatoes.
training than a good American make lim ited space useful. There
Here a city follows, not the con
nurse. So when permission to visit is no washbasin. Nor toilet. The tours of the land nor the desires
• New Fast Rising Fleischmann’s D ry
M Russian hospital is refused by the only mechanical device is the bolt of the people, but a blueprint on a
spoiled dough because yeast weakened
Y e a s t is h e re ! I F Y O U B A K E A T
Soviet method of delay and post on the door.
before you could use it. W ith N ew Fleisch
drawing board. Suppose those peo
H O M E —you’ll cheer this quick-acting
ponement, the real reason often is
The train comes out onto level ple in that six-story concrete work
mann’s Fast Rising, you can start baking
baking discovery th at stays full-strength,
that the Russians know the foreign ground and we see ragged women, ers’ barracks had been able to
any tim e— finish baking in "jig tim e.”
potent for weeks on your pantry sl^elf
er would learn nothing new except who plow barefoot through this mud, choose, would not some of them
Just dissolve according to directions on
. . . lets you turn out delicious bread
the meagemess of their equipment. have planted little potato patches in have preferred modest bungalows
the package— in a few minutes i t ’s ready
quickly—a t a moment’s notice.
F o r the general poverty of the coun clearings of the debris of concrete here in the outskirts?
for action. Keep New Fast Rising Fleisch-
No more being “caught short” on bak
try extends to medicine. Yet even pillboxes, barbed wire, and the
mann’s D ry Yeast on your pantry shelf.
(TO BE C O N T IN U E D )
ing day without yeast in the house . . . no
G et it from your grocer today.
IN S T A L L M E N T F IV E
though Soviet doctors have less
traiifing than American doctors,
"This morning," say« Kirilov, .*1 their people probably get better
» * climb into the waiting Zees, medical care than do many A m eri
“we visit fur factory." In his bright cans in the lower income groups,
lexicon, a factory is any place who cannot afford good doctors and
where something is produced. This yet are too proud to go to charity
one turns out to be a collective mink clinics. And Soviet medical train
farm. It was once a village. The ing has made great strides in recent
houses still stand along the mud years.
street. The biggest, which probably
Today I visit E ric and Joyce at
belonged to a thrifty kulak who was the embassy and am invited to
liquidated in the thirties, is now the lunch. Never have simple, vitamin-
administration building. The com stuffed dishes like canned pineapple
munal kitchen and dining room is and tomato soup made with con
in the second biggest house A nurs densed milk tasted so good.
Afterwards Joyce and I follow
ery school is in a third.
In the director’s room is the usual E ric up to his room.
He brings out a list. "This is the
picture of Stalin, the usual carved
furniture. The director is a lean, itinerary they've worked out for the
gentle farm er. His face and neck Urals trip. It's too long Lots of
are weather-beaten.
So are his places I'd like to see. but my cham
hands. So are the faces and hands ber meeting starts the twelfth and 1
of his assistants. These are rugged, absolutely must be back for that."
Just before Johnston left Am er
intelligent farm ers such as you
might find in the F arm Bureau O f ica. the Soviet Ambassador prom
ised his Russian trip would include
fice of Lyon County, Kansas.
This director gives us some statis both an interview with Stalin and a
tics. His collective has 1,200 hec trip to the front. The latter is now
tares (hectare-2H acres), of which going to be delivered, only we are
anim al cages occupy about forty. It to visit not the German front but
raises minks, silver foxes, sables the Finnish.
It is necessary first to go to Len
and martins. Mink pelts bripg al
most $12 each, and at a wholesale ingrad. The reporters are excited
price of about $800. you can buy the because Eric has agreed to take half
seventy necessary for a coat, which a dozen of them along. So fa r none
w ill retail at about $2.$00. It takes of them have been able to get near
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