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October 20, 1938
PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
Page 3
STRAIT GATE
By RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL
COPYRIGHT D. APPLETON-CENTURY CO., INC.
WNU SERVICE
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
—9—
Sarah Lynn drew Gunnar aside
while tlie Hermod was being
wheeled to the line. "It's a gor-
geous thing to do—and I adore it!
Look at him—almost expiring with
bliss! But, Gunnar, he looks so sick
—he has such a wretched color,
•nd see how he breathes. I mean
—suppose he has a weak heart?"
She put an anxious hand on his
arm.
He looked down at her, his gaze
at once stern and gay, reckless and
reasonable. "Thinking still with fear
of death? You have not listened,
then, while I told you? Life is one
adventure; death is another! To be
alive—that is nothing, unless life is
good. Is he living in that foul
hole? Better death in clean air! We
go!"
CHAPTER IX
The Gate was richly golden,
bathed and burnished in a strong
metallic radiance, and the sun was
sinking into the western sea in a
molten blaze of unbelievable glory.
Pop perched on the edge of his
seat, looking off, looking down. His
unpleasant pallor was enhanced and
there was a pinched look about his
nose and mouth. He was breathing
badly, but his eyes were enrap-
tured. He caught her scrutiny upon
him and smiled at her, drawing a
long, quivering breath, tipping his
head back, relaxing like a swim-
mer about to float on a gentle sea.
The Hermod swooped and swirled
like a gull, dipped and rose again.
Sarah Lynn pulled herself to atten-
tion. This proud dominion over the
fowl of the air and the fish of the
sea was not a bird-like inconse-
quence but a business of infinite im-
portant detail, of levers and gears
and hair-trigger precision. The sea-
gulls, white dots against green-blue,
far below them now, flew because
they couldn't help it, but men flew
because they had conquered.
The taxi-driver was waiting for
them. "Hi, Pop," he said, "you bet-
ter beat it! Lena, she's fit to be
tied!"
The little man tried to thank Gun-
nar but he made only a series of
embarrassed gurgles.
The flier gave him a comradely
clap on the shoulder. "It is good!
Now you remember always?"
Sarah Lynn escorted him back to
the restaurant.
Driving back to Danavale she said
again, "I want to come down in a
parachute. Gunnar."
"Yes. After you have soloed for a
month. Then I will take you."
"Take me?"
"You shall do it from the Her-
mod. I will remove the door, for
your Department of Commerce,
Conrad Jordan has told me, makes
you wear two chutes when It is the
jump of intention."
"Oh? In case one doesn't work?
And it would be too bulky to get
out through the door? But after I'm
once out, it's perfectly simple, isn't
It, Gunnar? Just to wait long
enough to be clear of the ship be-
fore I pull the string?"
"That is all," he agreed. His
mouth looked rather grim.
"Gunnar, did you mind when you
did it?"
"On the ground, before, I had fear
like a great sickness. In the air
It left me."
Le Roy suggested her first flight
alone in secret but she decided
against it. It was due Great-granny
and Uncle Lynn and old Penny if
they wanted to come, and at the
last instant she whispered to her
young brother Bill. Bill's freckles,
standing out like brown polka-dots
on his paled face were the last
things she thought about as she
walked over to the plane.
She slipped round to the further
side, unobserved, and laid her face
against the Chinese lacquer red.
"Don't be jittery, darling!" she
whispered. "I won't even nick your
nail-polish. I promise! I'll take you
up like a swallow and bring you
down like a leaf."
She got into the cockpit and went
through the routine she had re-
hearsed again and again. It had
become an integral part of her men-
tal process.
The assistant sprang aside from
the propeller.
"Clear!"
Clear, oh, clear! Forever and for-
ever, life for the queer dark Dana
girl, shining and clear.
Sarah Lynn pushed her throttle
to the stop and Ladybug went for-
ward with a roar, left the ground
and began to climb into the wind.
Sarah Lynn reached the altitude she
wanted, readjusted her stabilizer to
take the load off the joy stick,
leveled off, banked to the left, build-
ing her own road as she ew. She
exulted. "No matter what comes
to me, if I live to be a hundred, I
can never be as happy as this in-
stant!"
The little ship quivered under her
hands, sprang forward at her touch,
dipped, soared. It was a living
thing, vibrant, sensitive; delicate
and dear; helpless in her care, de-
- . pending upon her courage and skill.
"I'll take care of you!" Sarah
Lynn pledged her plane.
Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away
home!
Mary DafYa Webster went to drink
tea with Lynn Dana, an anxious
pucker between her eyes.
"Ardine is perfectly poisonous
about Sarah Lynn."
He shrugged. "Is it important?"
"Probably not, but it disturbs me.
She's such an exceptionally good
hater."
"Doubtless. What's the basis of
it?"
"Partly disgust at having the ugly
duckling turn into a skylark, and
at yielding first place as Danavale's
center of shocked interest, but chief-
ly on account of Jim Allison. She
has worked it out in her nasty little
mind that Sprah Lynn, by being
the victim tjf- her joke on Gunnar
Thorwald, is responsible for his
complete and final defection."
"And that goes deep?"
"Apparently. In her predatory
fashion," his young kinswoman said,
"she cares enormously. Did you
know he'd been grounded? Yes.
Drinking. Nice lad, to begin with,
and what a mess she's made of his
life!"
Lynn Dana nodded. "Of every
life she really touches. Poor old
Keaton!"
"I don't think he's ever come
fully out from the ether," his cousin
scorned him.
"But as to Sarah Lynn, I don't
see, Mary—After all, the only two
things in the world which matter to
her are flying and Gunnar Thor-
wald. Ardine could no more en-
snare him than she could take an
ax to the plane, much as she would
enjoy both activities. I really don't
see what she can do."
"Well. I don't either, Uncle
Lynn." Her plain and pleasant face
lifted a little. "But just the same,
she sort of worries me."
The parachute jump now held the
limelight in Sarah Lynn's thoughts.
She read and studied and asked
questions and listened eagerly to
Conrad Jordan and the ace, and
Lynn Dana sat in his wheeled-chair
and approved.
"Won't it be pretty bulky with two
chutes, one in front and one be-
hind?" she wanted to know.
"I have said that I will remove
the door," Gunnar reminded her.
"Then you can dive out, forward,
and that's much handier than back-
ing out," Conrad Jordan said, light-
ing a cigarette. "Then you'd have
to push your way, with your back
against the door, against the air-
pressure."
Lynn Dana's amused gaze, slight-
ly grim, went from one calm speak-
er to the other. "If you don't mind,
Sarah Lynn, I'd rather like you to
take whatever precautions suggest
themselves."
"Of course, Uncle Lynn! I want
to be sensible."
Sensible; the small, slight thing
with her clear olive-and-ivory face
and its crowding eyes, her fine, thin
hands relaxed in her lap, planning
this dazzling danger as casually as
her cousins made dates to go danc-
ing.
"The mental reactions are very
different," her uncle's flying friend
said, "in a premeditated jump and
baling out in an emergency, to save
your life. All the breaks are with
you now. You're going at the thing
scientifically, you have no fear and
no nerves, and I prophesy it s going
to be a tremendous satisfaction to
you, at the moment and in your
memories. But I want to tell you
frankly that you'll have some bad
minutes before you go up." He
leaned forward to knock off an ash.
"Never knew it to fail. The most
hardened jumpers experience it,
though I dare say in most cases
it's purely physical and subcon-
scious. I know a young chap at an
airport who does exhibition jumps,
but always before he goes up he
turns deathly pale and his face and
hands twitch. And the minute he
climbs into the ship he's fine."
"Like a soldier in the trenches
waiting the command to go over
the top," Lynn Dana contributed.
"Or, I remember before a big
game, the agony of waiting, of wish-
ing you had elected to play tiddley-
winks instead of football, and the
departure of all doldrums when the
whistle blew."
"Exactly. Tremendous relief in
definite action: setting the body into
directional motion toward a deter-
mined objtctive. Physical action
replaces mental; fear evaporates.
My conviction is that with a normal
mind danger brings a calm and
alertness and a cleverness far be-
yond ordinary experience."
"That I also believe," the Nor-
wegian ace said.
Jordan went on, "There's the
case of an English army officer,
years ago. His chute caught in
the ship and tore, leaving only the
harness on him. He didn't know
it, and the motion-pictures showed
him calmly feeling round the har-
ness and rip-cord, trying to figure
why his umbrella didn't open, al-
most the whole way to the earth."
"Cheery anecdote," Lynn Dana
said a trifle tartly.
"That was an old-fashioned affair,
Lynn. Sarah Lynn'll have two mod-
ern, absolutely reliable chutes."
"Fool-proof," she grinned at him.
"Fool-proof, which is superfluous
in your case," he grinned back, ap-
proving her warmly. Lynn Dana's
study pulsed with approval, with af-
fection for her. Her uncle's life-
long devotion, the cordial friendship
of his friend, the cool comradeship
of the flying boy from Norway What
more, besides a Gipsy Moth, did a
girl need for complete happiness?
Fliers did not marry.
"I have wondered if I'd really
remember to pull the string," she
said, "but I was reading Lieuten-
ant Cramer's account of his first
experience. An old-timer told him he
couldn't keep his finger away from
that ring if he tried!"
Jordan nodded. "Your only diffi-
culty will be to wait until you are
entirely clear of the ship." He faced
Lynn Dana. "She'll have two 'chutes
fastened to the webbed harness
about her body. The main one has
a 28-foot spread and the second a
24. That's on her chest."
"Made of silk"
"Light, but entirely substantial.
Both h^e pull-rings and rip-cords
to unlace and throw up the para-
chutes, and the rings are handily
placed. You'll have everything
clear in your mind a hundred times
over, Sarah Lynn. The thing you
must be prepared for is the scream
and the flapping of the silk and the
report, like a gun, and the violent
jerk when your parasol opens. After
that"—he ground out his cigarette—
"it's really delightful."
"But—I was reading yesterday—
when I'm almost down, within a
hundred feet of the ground—"
"Then you must reach up and
hang onto the big rings above the
sling in which you're sitting, and lift
yourself, and take some of the bump
out of your earth contact."
Sarah Lynn nodded gravely. "Un-
cle Lynn, what about Great-granny?
Shall we tell her, and let her come
out to the meadow and watch?"
He shook his head. "I'm against
it, Sarah Lynn. She hasn't been up
to the mark, lately, and it would
be bound to be a strain—not under-
standing, as we do, the simplicity
and safety of the thing. I believe
you'd better tell her about it after-
ward."
"I expect you're right. But she'll
be furious at us. I must go home,
now, Uncle Lynn." She stood up,
and Jordan and Gunnar rose.
"We must be on our way, too,"
the older man said.
"Yes. But I walk first with Sarah
Lynn to her house," Gunnar an-
swered.
They stepped briskly In the sum-
mer dusk, Lightning bounding ahead
and racing back to touch her mis-
tress' hand with her sharp cool
muzzle.
"So, now you fly, and you make
the great jump," the youth said
soberly. "That is good. The cour-
age you have; the skill you swiftly
learn. I think my grandmother, liv-
ing today, would be also like that."
Sarah Lynn fought back crazy
laughter. Of all the round-about,
detached and diluted compliments!
His grandmother, a girl in her pe-
riod, would be like her.
"I return, next month, to Norway.
I have there the fine offers, one
from the government, one from a
great flying firm. It is wise that 1
go."
She heard herself making a faint
sound.
"But I like well America, Califor-
nia. I will come again one day.
And you, also, should visit my coun-
try."
"Oh, yes, indeed! Cousin Sally
Ann has told me how glorious it is,"
she said clearly and cheerily, and
told him good-by and ran in the
house.
Well, what of it? Why not? Was
there any reason why he should
linger forever in an alien land?
Fliers did not marry.
But fliers occasionally, it ap-
peared, fell in love, achingly, ab-
sorbingly, terribly in love. She
faced it then. "Idiot! You've known
it for weeks — months — always!
What's the use of lying to your-
self. You may as well admit it;
he'll never know."
The nonagenarian was beside
Lynn Dana when he was driving
out to the field for the parachute
jump. She had guessed or divined
what was to happen. "Can't fool
your Gre'grammer!" She sat on
the edge of the seat, the dabs of
color which excitement always
brought on her cheek-bones, her
sunken eyes gleaming.
"I never saw the beat of that
one," Great-granny said complacent-
ly. You keep that ambulance out
of sight, Lynn Dana, or I'll box
your oars till you see stars, old as
you are. Plumb foolishness, any-
way. Sairy Lynn'll come down just
as if she was playing on a feather-
bed."
"Am I running true to form?"
Sarah Lynn asked Conrad Jordan as
they fastened her harness about her.
"No; a bit too calm and not pale
enough, I should say," he told her
cheerfully. Then he looked at Gun-
nar and away again, grinning, with-
out comment. It was the hardy
Norseman who was showing the reg-
ulation jumper's symptoms.
His ice-blue eyes blazed in a face
of "sudden snow; his young mouth
was set in a taut line. "Come!" he
called harshly.
All Sarah Lynn's slimness was
overlaid with her equipment. "I
feel like Iweedledum and Tweedle-
dee both!" she laughed. She was
comfortably casual in her brief
good-bys, making no ceremony of
farewell.
The Hermod, looking oddly crip-
pled with its missing door, took off
into a brisk wind. The flier did not
look at his passenger nor speak.
"I wonder what makes him so
deathly white?" she asked herself.
"Just a detached interest in all
branches of aerial conquest?" She
felt suddenly gay. All her instruc-
tions were etched on her memory;
she was past the traditionally bad
moment of leaving the ground; she
knew exactly what to do to get clear
of the ship, and after that, she had
been assured, the adventure would
take on elements of distinct pleas-
ure.
They climbed to a thousand feet,
two thousand. The meadow fell
away beneath them; human beings
took on the value of playthings-
puppet people with toy automobiles.
There was likewise a toy ambu-
lance.
At three thousand feet Gunnar
nodded. "Ready? Now you go!"
he shouted hoarsely.
Sarah Lynn stood up and made
her bulky way toward the opening.
She thought he was the palest liv-
ing person she had ever seen.
"Fling yourself far from the ship.
Make sure you are clear. Count a
slow ten before you pull the cord!"
His words came jerkily. "Wait! You
are sure? You wish to go? There is
no need, if you—"
Suddenly Sarah Lynn laughed
aloud, filled with a wild mirth which
was heady and sweet. "Still the
fear of death?" she mocked him.
"Life is one adventure; death is an-
other!" She was confident, shining-
eyed, radiant, but as she made a
forward movement his arm shot out
and caught her, pulling her against
him.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
WHAT to EAT and WHY
C. Houston Soudiss Discusses Vitamins
And Vision; Explains How and Why
You Should Feed Your Eyes
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
FOR a number of years, scientists have stressed the im-
portance of a well-balanced diet as a means of maintain-
ing health, promoting growth and preventing disease. Re-
cently, an even more significant development has occurred.
It has been determined that a care fully chosen diet is absolutely
necessary to preserve the general health and efficiency of every
bodily function and that there is
close relationship between a ^ie visual purple is rapidly re-
s™i ,n« <ye,isk,.
rkd elapses before the corrective
chemical change takes place. Dur-
ing the intervening time, many
people find it difficult to see.
That is the condition known as
"night blindness." And it accounts
for the fact that a large propor-
tion of serious motor accidents oc-
cur at night. Victims of this de-
ficiency disease are first blinded
by approaching headlights, then
cannot quickly readjust them-
selves after the oncoming car has
passed. Their ability to drive
safely is subsequently impaired
for they cannot clearly see the
road ahead, and they may miss
dangerous curves, pedestrians or
other vehicles.
Your Food and Your Eyes
Many people regard their eye-
sight as one of the five senses
which operate in
some mysterious
manner of their
own! If they suffer
from indigestion,
they recognize that
it is quite apt to be
due to something
they ate. If they
are troubled with
stomach, liver or
kidney complaints,
they quickly ap-
preciate that pro-
longed dietary indiscretions may
be at the root of the trouble. But
it never occurs to them that what
they eat may affect the eyes just
as profoundly as it affects the in-
ternal organs.
It is not uncommon, during an
attack of biliousness, to suffer a
disturbance of the vision. But that
disturbance usually disappears
with the disorder that caused it.
On the other hand, a deficient diet
may produce eye troubles that
have a far reaching effect upon
health, efficiency, and even per-
sonal safety.
Night Blindness Explained
For example, it has been estab-
lished that there is a definite re-
lation between your vision and the
vitamins in your diet; between
your ability to drive a car safely
at night, and the amount of vita-
min A-containing foods that you
consume.
To understand this astonishing
fact, it is necessary to know that
vision under faint illumination is
accomplished by means of chemi-
cal changes in the pigment at the
back of the eye. This is known as
the "visual purple" of the retina
and one of its important compo-
nents is carotene, which is the ac-
tive form of vitamin A.
The visual purple might be com-
pared to the film in a camera.
When you are in a dim light and
the eyes are suddenly exposed to
bright light, the visual purple is
greatly reduced or bleached. This
change results in a stimulation of
the optic nerve and enables you to
see clearly.
When an adequate supply of vi-
tamin A is present in the body,
A Common Complaint
Unfortunately, the prevalence of
night blindness is not generally
recognized, though it is held that
urban dwellers are more conscious
of it than those living in the rural
areas. This is borne out by the
fact that ocular disorders from vi-
tamin deficiency are less common
in urban than in rural areas.
Children Often Victims
Since the discovery of the close
connection between vitamin A and
the ability to see in dim light, sci-
entists have tested large numbers
of school children to determine
whether vitamin A was present in
their diet in adequate amounts.
It was revealed that from 26 to 79
per cent of the children examined
had incipient night blindness.
The samn deplorable conditions
were found among adults. Mild
to moderate degrees of vitamin A
deficiency were present in from
10 to over 50 per cent of each
group tested.
Yet here is the remarkable thing
—in nearly every case, a diet rich
in vitamin A for a few weeks re-
stored the vision to normal.
A Significant Experiment
An even more striking example
of the power of food to affect the
eyesight is to be found in the re-
port of an experiment in which
breeding sows were given food in
abundance but lacking vitamin A
for 160 days before and for 30
days after breeding. In three lit-
ters of 35 pigs, all were blind. In
another litter of 14 pigs, all were
Candid Camera Pictures Interior of the
Stomach and Other Cavities of the Body
By
RUTH WYETH
SPEARS
s
«r)EAR Mrs. Spears:—I want
to thank you for the clear
diagram of how to hang draw cur-
tains in your Book 1—SEWING
for the Home Decorator. This was
just what I have been needing as
we have casement windows and
4 BOARD
SCREWS (THUMB-TACKS
DOUBLE
CURTAIN
PLAIN
Ay PART OF
JAr VALANCE
DOUBLE
"Tiny cameras which can be
swallowed by the patient and which
carry their own illuminating system
have been used for photographing
the interior of the stomach," Wal-
ter E. Burton discloses in his arti-
cle, "X-Rays: A Way to Better
Health Through Photography," in
Hygeia, the Health Magazine.
Similar methods may be em-
ployed for making interior views of
other body cavities. Furthermore,
other methods have been worked
out so that movies can be made
of the vocal cords, the interior of
the bladder, of the ear drum and
other portions of the body.
Other startling innovations have
been recently introduced in the field
of photography that will greatly
further medical research. Among
them are actual color photographs
of the interior of the eye, showing
the optic nerve ending, blood ves-
sels and other details. The pictures
were taken through the crystalline
lens and pupil of the eye, the pupil
being dilated by drugs in order to
provide a greater working area.
Infra-red photography has the
ability to penetrate the skin and
show details ordinarily invisible.
While an ordinary photograph
shows only surface details, the in-
fra-red picture makes the subcu-
taneous veins stand out almost as
clearly as if they were on the sur-
face.
Infra-red waves penetrate the
deepest pigment. A negro, photo-
graphed with them, appears white,
and although he may seem smooth
shaven, he is seen to have a distinct
beard, because the roots of the
hairs in his face show.
Motion pictures have been made
that show the course of blood flow-
ing through an artery into a capil-
lary, cancer cells that move and
drink, and blood cells that devour
bacteria and other harmful matter.
Time-lapse photography was em-
ployed in filming the actions of
these cells; that is, the exposures
were made at such intervals that,
when the film is projected at normal
speed, movements of the cells are
stepped up 40 times or more.
First Swedcnborgian Societies
The first of the English Sweden-
borgian societies was established in
London four years after his death
and was known as "A Society of
Gentlemen for the Preservation of
Baron Swcdenborg'i Works."
no shades in our living room. With
a pull of the cord my new curtains
shut out the light or the outside
view. I wonder if you would help
me with another problem? I do
not want to make the curtains for
the rest of the house. Thought I
would buy ruffled net ones. Do
you think they would be too com-
monplace? J. T."
Answer: Here is a suggestion
for hanging ruffled curtains that
will make your windows little
different from those of your neigh-
bors and lend no end of style to
your rooms. Double curtain rods
are needed to give the crossed ef-
fect and a valance board is added
to the top of the window as shown.
Here the valance is the sort that
comes with ready made curtains
and the top is folded back to make
it double. In thumbtacking it to
the valance board, do not stretch
it—just "ease it on" so that it
hangs well. If you feel that the
windows need color, the valance
and tie backs may be of plain
glazed chintz that repeats the
strongest color in your room color
scheme. A contrasting valance
may be either plain or gathered.
Let Father and Young Son and
Little Sister help you make the
home a center of interest. Book
1—SEWING, for the Home Deco-
rator contains many useful things
that every one may take a hand
in making. Book 2 shows you
with pictures how to make many
novelty gifts. Books are 25 cents
each. Order both books today and
get the patchwork quilt leaflet pic-
turing 36 authentic embroidery
stitches free. Address: Mrs.
Spears. 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi-
cago, 111.
^Isk Me Jlnother
9 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. What people are considered
the most law-abiding?
2. What is the highest state in
the Union, in average altitude?
3. How high above sea level is
its principal city?
4. What do the letters I. H. S.
stand for?
5. A township is composed of
how many square miles?
6. What is St. Elmo's fire?
7. What sports event attracts
the largest crowd?
The Answers
1. Generally speaking, the Fin-
landers are the most law-abiding.
A police system is not necessary.
2. Colorado.
3. Denver is one mile above sea
level.
4. Jesus Hominum Salvator
(Jesus the Savior of Men), more
correctly IHS, the first three let-
ters in the name Jesus in Greek.
5. A township is composed of 36
square miles.
6. A flame-like appearance oc-
casionally seen during storms and
other atmospheric disturbances is-
suing from pointed and elevated
objects.
7. The world's largest sports
gallery is that watching the an-
nual Tour de France, a 2,755-mile
racc in which the field consists of
around 100 professional cyclists.
More than one million spectators
line the route of the race.
sightless. But under normal feed-
ing, the same animals produced
litters of pigs with normal eyes
and vision. This experiment justi-
fies the conclusion of one of our
most noted food scientists, that
the deficiency of essential food ele-
ments may so alter vital processes
that even pre-natal changes may
occur.
Cause of Other Eye Disorders
Night blindness is not the only
eye disease caused by an improp-
er diet. Xerophthalmia or con-
junctivitis, characterized by ex-
cessive dryness of the eyeball,
has long been known to be caused
by a vitamin A deficiency. It is
also well known that a liberal
amount of this vitamin will pre-
vent that serious disease and will
even effect a cure where destruc-
tion of the cornea has not pro-
gressed too far.
This suggests the tremendous
importance of including in the diet
foods rich in vitamin A—cod- and
other fish-liver oils; milk and oth-
er dairy products; green leafy and
yellow vegetables; and egg yolk.
Experiments with rats, whose
dietary requirements are similar
to those of man, show a close
connection between cataract and a
deficiency of another vitamin—vi-
tamin G. This is found most abun-
dantly in meat, milk, eggs, fruit
and vegetables.
Were she concerned about pro-
tecting the blessing of good eye-
sight alone, that would be suffi-
cient reason why every homemak-
e/ Should plan meals that are rich
Li vitamins. But it is not only
tne eyes which are dependent
upon vitamins, for they have
many other functions to perform.
An improper diet may cause
people to drive automobiles blind-
ly at night so that they are dan-
gerous not only to themselves and
their passengers, but to everyone
on the streets and roads. A de-
ficient diet will also send them
through life with half-efficient bod-
ies, half-efficient brains, half-effi-
cient senses.
That is why 1 urge you t®
learn everything you can about
food, so that in planning meals
you will not only feed your eyes,
your husband's eyes and your chil-
dren's eyes, but will take advan-
tage of the wonderful discoveries
of nutritional science to make ev-
ery member of the family so effi-
cient that they will enjoy the best
of health each day of their lives.
Questions Answered
Mrs. G. C. L.—Yes, indeed, nu-
tritionists do approve of a mid-
afternoon snack for most school
children. A glass of milk and a
slice of buttered bread with jam
or preserves; fruit juice and oat-
meal cookies; or a chocolate milk
shake and graham crackers will
provide fresh energy for late aft-
ernoon play. Without the between-
meal lunch, some children become
so fatigued that nerve strain re-
sults. Take care, however, that
the snack does not destroy the
appetite for the evening meal.
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