Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 37, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 December 1941 — Page 3

Hollywood Artists ° Help ‘Papa’ Look Like Santa Claus Even Santa Claus is coming under the critical gaze of Hollywood makeup artists who are constantly seeking perfect figures. ‘ They believe that something should be done to save his face and figure, pointing out that street-corner Santa Clauses are becoming shabbier and more unconvincing every season. After a lengthy discussion they agreed on the general appearance of what an ideal Santa should have. He should appear about 70 years of age, stand about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weigh between 175 and 215 pounds, chest and waist girth abo z 48 inches. His Complexion shotud ft rwsF ■ wir ■ lY / betvery ruddy. Bushy white whisk- ■ ers and long eyebrows complete his physical appearance. The outstanding requirement of Santa’s makeup is that it must not be obviously false. It is better to have too little makeup, they agreed, than to have it so apparent that even a child can see it at a glance. » For the benefit of fathers who wish to play Santa Claus at their own fireside on Christmas evening, they suggest that a convincing complexion, and facial makeup can be obtained from the average feminine dressing-table. For best results there should first be a general facial application of makeup foundation, followed by a liberal coating of face powder, preferably an olive tint. The cheeks should then be rouged clear up to the eyes. If lifelike eyebrows are not obtainable, vaseline the natural eyebrows and then dust them over with white talcum powder. Careful attention to the eyes will help make Daddy look less like himself and more like Santa Claus. To overcome quick identification, eye wrinkles should be enlarged and accentuated with an ordinary eyebrow pencil. .If there aren’t any natural wrinkles, some can be drawn in at the corners. And just to . make doubly safe, slip in a few furrows across the forehead. Even with the best makeup, however, tall and thin fathers will face an almost insurmountable handicap if they should try to imitate Santa. They probably won’t get away with their disguise, but they can have just as much fun trying as their more rotund friends. ESKIMOS IN ALASKA IMPORT LARGE HERDS OF SANTA’S REINDEER When San Niklaas immigrated to America and became naturalized info Santa Claus, he used a little wagon drawn by a fat pony for his visits. This was all changed in 1822 by Clement Clark Moore who wrote the immortal poem, “The Night Before Christmas.” In this poem Santas equipage was the “miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.” It has remained a sleigh and reindeer ever since. Just as Santa Claus was imported from abroad, his reindeer were also imported to America for the Christmas celebration. Santa Claus, however, was merely imported figuratively; his reindeer were actually brought over here. As a result of government efforts to start reindeer herds in Alaska there are now more than 700,000 of these animals grazing on the frozen tundra of the north. They not only furnish . the animals for Christmas displays and parades "throughout the United States, but they provide an important source of food and income to the Alaskan Eskimos. Reindeer were introduced in Alaska in 1891. Several years later Lapp herders were hired to instruct the Eskimos how to care for the animals which are very prolific, doubling their numbers every three years. Reindeer are caribou which have been domesticated through many centuries. Its flesh has lost the game flavor until now it resembles a cross between duck and mutton, German Introduces Yule Tree America saw its first Christmas tree in 1843, historians,believe, when August Imgard, a German immigrant, set it up for the first time in this country at Wooster, Ohio. The first Christmas tree to be lighted in an American church was put up in Cleveland. Oak Christmas Tree An oak tree served as the first Christmas tree, even though this t honor is usually bestowed upon evergreens today. 1

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play is vitally important. So is a running attack. But an all-around passing attack can be more devastating than anything else, as it also gives the Running game a chance. Frank Leahy, Notre Dame’s master - /minding mentor, was quite willing to tell you

what he knew about a passing attack. After watching Boston College last fall and Notre Dame this fall, my guess would be that Instructor Leahy knows his share. “In my opinion,” Leahy said, “the passing game moves in about this order: First, the passer; second, pass protection; third, receiving. Each detail is important. “To keep a passing game working on the winning side you must have a first-class passer—you must give him protection and you must have speed that can get to the pass —and then hold it.” Notre Dame this year had all three essentials — something they were unable to show against Army in the rain and mud. The greatestpass weakness is weather. “The best passers are born —not made —to a large extent,”. Leahy continued. “They must have a natural aptitude for throwing a football. A coach can improve an average passer—but he can’t make him into a Luckman, a Baugh, an O’Brien, an Isbell, a Parker or an Albert.” “Or a Bertelli?” we suggested. Mr; Leahy smiled, wanly, “Or a Bertelli,” he added. “Giving the passer protection and catching a ball are easier to teach —and learn. We have; developed good receivers in a year. We couldn’t develop good passers in that time. Good passers—l mean the better ones—usually started as kids, something like the caddies who later on make most of the leading pros. , « “Good protection is just as necessary. You may remember how well Dutch Meyer at T.C.U. surrounded Davey O’Brien with Aldrich and Hale—center and tackle. We use more than two protectors at Notre Dame.” There were times in the Navy game when almost the entire Notre Dame line seemed to be on guard around Bertelli who was rarely hurried or rushed, even by Navy’s desperate efforts to break through. Season Oddities There are always wide football ranges, but 1941 was fairly close to the all-time record. For example, the first five opposing teams scored 132 points against Pittsburgh this season. These five teams had averaged slightly better than 26 points a game. Then suddenly Fordham couldn’t score against Pittsburgh. This was the main shock of this game—more than Fordham’s defeat. Baylor,, beaten by Villanova, slaughtered 48 to 0 by Texas A. and M., suddenly turned on a great Texas team, a team that had averaged 34 points a game against teams that looked to be about on Baylor’s level —and gives Texas an even fight. . Pittsburgh never had a chance to get back on her feet after facing such teams as Michigan, Minnesota, Duke and Ohio State on successive Saturdays. But the Panther was on all four feet against Fordham, which has developed the mournful knack of jumping off the cliff once a year somewhere along the route. One answer is that certain teams, such as Harvard, start slowly and begin moving up week by week. Others, starting at top speed, begin falling back around mid-season. Harvard, beaten by Pennsylvania and Cornell in her f&st two games, was a match for anybody at the end of the season. From a Coach Question—Would you like a short tip? You football writers build us up beyond our actual strength, and then a lot of you cut our throats because we lose. A lot of us are not as good as you said we were, even while Winning—and not as bad as many think when we are losing. It’s the average football writer—not the Old Grads—who gets us into most of our I think you know that. Answer —No answer. It’s practically 100 per cent true. The Best Play Question—What was the best single play you saw this year? X Answer — By Bertelli — in the Navy game. All officials working this game agree on the verdict. The Notre Dame passer first dropped back and faked a pass. He then tucked the ball under his. arm and faked a run to the right. He then stopped suddenly and completed a fine pass for a long” gain. By his two fakes he haa upset Navy’s defense twice. He is a first-class actor as well as a brilliant passer.

Kathleen Norris Says:

Real Happiness Means to Live in Peace

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1 enjoy quiet evenings at home. But my husband is socially inclined and likes to be on the go continually. There is always some pretty woman to listen to his line of talk. To me it seems that of a college boy.

By KATHLEEN NORRIS

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live in peace with somebody. That is, if you want to live, in the true sense of living. One such woman lives in a city not far from the country town where I am writing, a comfortably rich woman who, they say, was once quite a beauty and a belle. Her young husband died only a few years after marriage, leaving her with one son. She married again, unfortunately, and was divorced, with considerable bitterness on both sides, for the second husband had wasted not only a large part of her fortune but some of her son’s as well. The son later sued for his share and she hasn’t seen him, as a consequence, for more than twenty years. Two nieces in turn have tried living with Aunt Carry, but with both she made life so difficult that each girl presently went her own way. Now this dreary old creature lives alone in a large mouldering house, quarrelling with her cook, and exacting devoted attention from a handsome French chauffeur of about 24, to whom she says she is going to leave all her money. The Frenchman has been engaged for two years to an attractive American girl, a waitress, but his despotic old employer has forbidden him to mention her or see her. Eternally Complaining. Another dreadful old woman of my acquaintance is penniless and alone, supported by a daughter and son who see her as rarely as possible. She is a strong, husky woman of 60, eternally complaining and criticizing. She says she hates the daughter’s husband, and that the son had no business to marry while his mother needed him. This woman tried boarding-houses for years; the meals, the service and her fellow boarders in all of them disgusted her. Now she has one room, a two-burner gas stove, and a bathroom four doors down the hall, and cries when you meet her because meals prepared and eaten alone are so lonely. Her daughter is not strong and has three small Children, but when Mrs. Vee occasionally calls she sits in the parlor like a stranger. Her son’s wife was in the hospital seven months last year with a broken spine, and paid a housekeeper all that time. Mrs. Vee said she never could forget the way Emily acted when she and Jacky were first married and their troubles weren’t hers, anyway. The women who drift into this sort of isolation in old age always have wonderful reasons for it. They will tell you of them at length. A Flirtatious Husband. I am wondering whether Laura is going to be one of those old women. She is only 31 now, but the letter I have from her indicates that she is already on the wrong track and rather proud of herself for being there. This is part of the letter. It comes from Pittsburgh, Pa. “How am I to deal with a flirtatious husband?" writes Laura. ‘ He is in every other’way a perfect dear, but he does like the ladies! He and I first met three years ago, when both- were unhappily married. My first husband was a man who was all but unbalanced mentally, jealous, unreasonable and changeable to a

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LEARN HOW TO LIVE To learn how to live, you must first learn how to get along with others. One of the saddest stories in the world is that of the older woman who could never get along with her family and friends and, consequently, now finds herself left alone. To really live, says Kathleen Norris, you must learn to adapt yourself to another’s interests as readily as to your own. The woman whose husband likes to go out should try to enjoy going out with him, even though she may prefer to stay home and read a book. If she doesn t, she may find that her husband prefers someone else’s company to hers. degree that almost affected my own mind. » “My daughter by that marriage is with her father; his mother, who had interfered from the beginning with our marriage, used her influence to prove that before the divorce I had made arrangements to marry Cal, my present husband, and generally to discredit me. This caused a break with my brother, who is my first husband’s partner, and lost me many friends. “I have a little girl one year old. Not feeling particularly interested in the sort of social contacts that my husband makes, I enjoy quiet evenings with books and radio music at home. But Cal is socially inclined, and likes to be continually on the go. and, as I say, there is always some pretty woman to listen to his line of talk. To me it seems that of a college boy, and I feel we should have abandoned such nonsense long ago. Always Facing Trouble. “If I plead that I. must stay with Barbara Ann, Cal says we can take her across the street and leave her with his mother. But I do not approve of her treatment of small children. She’ spoils her other grandchildren dreadfully and would spoil mine if I let her. Cal’s sister and I were in school together, but we have drifted very much apart and I don’t care to be under obligation to her when it comes to leaving Barbara Ann for an evening or a weekend, s, “It is very hard nowadays to get a trustworthy maid, for they are all running after war-time jobs and salaries, and I am ,a particular housekeeper and won’t take just anyone. I would rattier do it myself if it kills me. My husband takes no interest in domestic duties. “How can I cure him of his philandering? It is never serious. It is just foolish, and I have given you the wrong impression if you think I am in the least jealous. I am more amused than jedlous. But if there is any way in which I can make him appreciate a good home, a lovely child, and a wife who was willing to make the sacrifices and endure the criticism I did when we were first married, I would be grateful for the suggestion.” Isn’t that a hopeless letter and a hopeless situation? ° What can one say to such a woman? Except perhaps, “Go beat your stubborn complacent head against a wall, break up the stiff little tin compartments in which you keep your affections, learn to live on the terms of others besides yourself!

Phillips- gr WNUSmtai IF THAT TAX-DEDUCTION FROM PAY ENVELOPES IDEA GOES FURTHER Boss—You say you might take a job with us? Applicant—l think so. What is the pay? Boss—lt’s fifty minus. Applicant—Minus what? Boss—Minus what the government doesn’t take out of your envelope. * * * Applicant—l’d have to get more money than that. Boss-More money than what? Applicant — More than there wouldn’t be left out of what I don’t get. • • • Boss—Let’s be practical. How much money do you want? Applicant—Well, on my last job 1 got $55 if. Bogs—ls what? Applicant — If the government didn’t get there first. And I know right now where I can go to work on a salary of sixty provided. Boss—Provided ? Applicant—Yes, provided not too much is extracted. • * • Boss—Come, pome, exactly how much do you want to go to work for me? Applicant — I’ll take fifty-eight E.U. Boss—What’s E.U. stand for? Applicant—Envelope untouched! • * * • Boss—l can’t do that. The best I can do is to put you on at a salary of fifty-seven S.F.A.W.K. Applicant—S.F.A.W.K.? Boss—Yeah. That stands for So-Far-As-We-Know. ♦ ♦ * Applicant—That means my salary is S.T.W.W.W. or Subject To Washington Weekly Whims. I can’t run my house according to whims. I’ve got to know how much I am going to get each week. Boss—You can solve that by buying groceries and paying rent on the Federal 1.Y.H.A.L., or If-You-Have-Anything-Left plan. * * * Applicant—No. You see, what I want is to know how I stand at the end of each week. Boss—l have the same dream, mister. There’s nothing in it Applicant—But ain’t a man entitled to know from week to week how he stands financially? Boss—Don’t talk like a reactionary! Listen, this is my last proposition. I’ll give you fifty-seven dollars and a half S.T.R. & M. Applicant—S.T.R. & M.? Boss—Subject to Roosevelt and Morgenthau. ♦* ■ ♦ Applicant — No, thanks. But I know a feller who might work for you. He’s a beginner. What do you pay a beginner? Boss—We pay ten dollars minus to begin with. At the end of a year if he makes good we advance him to fifteen dollars minus. e • Applicant—That leaves him owing both you and the government mdwey. Boss —Yes. Applicant—l can see there’s no future in working. Boss—Nonsense. One of our best men here started with us on one dollar a week and worked it up to a mere pittance. Applicant—That’s an exceptional case. Boss—Not at all. Look at me. When I began here I worked for nothing. Now my salary has grown to such proportions that everything I get goes to ffie government. Applicant—ln other words, you still get nothing. Boss—Yes, but if I work hard I can double it. (Curtain with a thud.) • » » NOT BAD This department never knew Chief Justice Hughes was much of a wit until it read “Pulitzer,” which tells of the time when Mr. Hughes ordered lobster and got one with a claw missing. “Where’s the other claw?” he asked. “Well, I’ll tell you,” explained the waiter. “They aje shipped alive in barrels and they get into fights. Now and then one loses a claw.” “All right. Take this one back,” replied Mr. Hughes, “and bring me a WINNER!” TAKING NO CHANCES A vitamin in the B group known as “SPAB” will restore gray hair to its natural color, experiments have shown. The element is also used in making TNT, it is announced. We’d hate to get our hair back to a nice raven black and then have our whole face explode just as we were admiring ourself in the mirror. » » » VIEWPOINT The Windsors we wish very well; To love them more we couldn’t; But gala trips in times like these . . Oh, how we wish they wouldn’t 1 ♦ • We know a man whose doctor says he must take a long rest, so he has planned to spend the winter in Wall Street. • » • “Italy Orders 10 O’clock Curfew.” —headline. Mussolini doesn’t want the folks to see things ?nv darker.

Smart to Crochet Your Own Mittens Hral W BE SMART! Crochet these mittens for that outdoor girl. The one laced up the back is “tops” in red., white and blue. The other is worked in one piece. **• • ■ Pattern 2969 contains instructions for making mittens in small, medium and large' sizes: illustrations of them and stitches: materials required: photograph of pattern stitches. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave. New York Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No? Name. Address Out of Order It is because things have been put in the wrong order that the present chaos and disaster is upon the world. The order, expressed in four words, has been: Money, things, man, God. The new order will have to be God, man, things, money.—The Bishop of Exeter.

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Town o/ T. B. There is a small town in Maryland called T. B. The name is derived from the initials of a colonial settler, Thomas Brooke, who became an owner of several thousands of acres of land now included in the present town site, says Pathfinder. The Brooke boundary stones, marked “T. B.” were found within the township, and early residents started to call their town “T. B.” ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? • You need take no chances'. When you. plan meals, just choose vitamin-rich foods. 1 And serve Durkee’s Margarine! Every day of every season, Durkee’s contains 9,000 JJ-S-P- units of Vitamin A per pound! dubieeW VITAMIN A ENRICHED MARGARINE Inward Beauty O beloved Pan, and all ye other gods of this place, grant me to become beautiful in the inner man. —Socrates. How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, BronchiHs A Good 800k z As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.—Milton.