Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1921, Page 70

Anne Rittenhouse Writes of New and Complex THE SUNDAY STAR, D. O, OCTOBER 23, 1921_PART % Sleeves of Paris BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. the back, an odd manipulation of the it is used in afternoon gowns; it has,a small, Inconspicuous top sleev: 3 3 3 o that armhole. The onlookers speak of it | capel ‘(a proportions and = gives | reaches nearly to the. elbow. and serves as a foundation for a tlaring, PARIS, October 20, 1921. UCH has been said about sleeves. More will be said. as something new and thrilling. some- thing to be copied immediately by the American dressmakers to stimu- late a buying public. And yet that D ISCUSSION of Slfirts Changes to Talk of Sleeve Fashions—Parisian Dress- makers Show No Lack of Imagination in Latest Creations, for They Study womey & continuous chance to adjust it, backward and roll it upward. when the arm is lifted its generous drapery" falls backwerd to show the gorgeosk lining and a well-turned circular flounce made of cream net covered with ruffles” of black and white Tom Thumb fringe divided by bards of silver embroidery; the in- They have grown to such|very thing was in some old fashion proportions, they have cre- | Plate or in a costume preserved by & arm; at least it should be well turned |side of the flounce wiil be of orange as wide wleeves are treacherous cov- | colored chiffon run with bands of gold ated such unusual stimulation in the imaginations of the dressmakers that they compel one to forget skirts. And that is well. Surely the world is a bit weary of skirt discussions. This one particu- lar garment has been in the limelight for several years. It has played the museum. It was merely lifted by a clever dressmaker to be applied to a modern gown. The American dressmakers who are anxious to create for themselves are slow in learning to take advantage of the wealth of anclent material which has been garnered by libraries and museums for their research. It can be stated without humilia- tion to the dressmakers of Paris that all the sleeves of the season have Muszum Collections and Then Combine the Old and New—The Sleeve That Is | | Taken Off—No Attempt to Outline the Arm. : ' } T —— sleeves for pantalettes and her panta- lettes for sleeves.” These and several other noveltles in the way of covering and uncover- outer edges of the sleeve finished with deep borders of Chinese yellow, and the buttons may be of embossed erings for a bare arm. These .ltalian affairs are usually somber in their coloring, which means | that they are part of the frock. It is when the lining is put in that gay- ety begins. Soft brocade covered with flowers, or landscapes, or battle scenes are used. A colorist who is making the rileeve may prefer daffodil yellow chifion, Scarlet velvet, or purple satin for the lining. brafd. This gives the general cffect, you see, of a gorgeous oriental ruffie at- tached to a tight bracelet above the elbow. The latter fashion fs used for tho evening and the top of the arm is left bare. The former fashion is used for morning and afternoon, the top of the arm being covered by the fab- ric of the frock. role of an exacting star, jealous of all b taken from history. We are|ing the arms were shown by the man- e other parts of the costume, demand- | neirs o all the ages this winter.|nequins to the French women when ftaly furnished a wide-flowing | 'O CArTy out the idea of the brace-| wonderful things, these mnew ing the spotlight and compelling the | Their present procession Is like a [they came into town in September sleeve In her history of clothes, and let sleeve there is a fashion for'sleeves! i constant attention of the audience. pageant from history. One could|to put their mark in a final manner L B For a bit the skirt is in abeyance. It may not be in the background for write a book on the sleeves that the peoples of the world have produced since Adam grew ambitious for some- thing more than a figleaf. o e . TH ¥ gorgeous arm coverings of the early ages were created for man. They were made for women when that sex began to rise In power. Much that man has worn women wear now. Few of the fashions of the world were created for women, not' even skirts. They simply began to filch | ! i | hunt and led crusades and sacked and | | burned cities in clothes that would upon fashion. We, the Americans, are shown everything and we get what a few buyers bring to us, and on their judgment must rest the accepted American fashion, but in the autumn the smart Frenchwomen make keen and canny selections from all that is oftered, exploit it as the release a corroded faucet? It sticks S0 fust that I am afraid it can never cet or any other brass apparatus soak | renewing it from time to time. Am- monia has the property of disolving copper salts, and in a short time the verdigris will be softened and the jolnt will be released roung Housewife—-My husband has the habit of making notes on his shirt cuffs with a pencil when in a { washing the shirt cuffs without first doing something to get the pencil marks off. When once set with heat i these marks are extremely obstinate her husband 25 cents ever made pencil notes on his cuffs! time he | | whipped gour cream. Mix well as you making a charlotte ruawe filling with gelatin? I wish it firm easough to be cut m slices and served with cream. one egg white; beaut untll dry, then zelatin which you have desolved in a very little cold water and melted over steam. Beat constant{y a8 you ladd the melted gelatin. 2Wwrn into| |a mold lined with sponge cuke and |set in a cool place to stiffen. Constant _ Reader —Kindly ’publish recipe for both gingerbread angl gM- |dos molasses, three-fourths cup . of granulated sugar and three cups of bread flour which has been mixed axmd sifted with one teaspoon of soda, owe minutes in a moderate oven. | Ginger Cake.—Cream together one In the Public Eye Mrs. James R. Mann from their mates long, long ago, and Answered Letters. e T oren add eac ; Troubled Housewife— How can T|° A.MCan vou give me a recipe for T BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Quite apart from the conspicuous ; be loosened. Answer. — Charlotie \lusse * Filling | political importance of her husband, Answer: To release a corroded fau- | made with Gelatin—Whigs one pint of | ggml i e A G ! rroded fau- | made with Gelatin—Whiy: one pint O familiarly known as “Jim” Mann, and one of the seniors of the House of Ilhc Stff joint thoroughly with strong | stir in two-thirds cup dflql’owd;l’?d Representatives, Mrs. James Roblert ammonia and leave it on for a while, | Sugar, one teaspoon vanfla. und a |, o | v o | 2 while, | SUgaT, onc (edspoon vanfa, i ed|Mann of Chicago is to Le accounted one of the leading women of the tional Capital. For more than seven- teen ycars, Mrs. Mann has been a member of fhe official world and from the first has been a dominunt figure. There are four states which are so hurry. I am holding a_shirt back |&er cake. from the laundry till 1 see your | Answer: 'Soft Gingerbread. —¢ Melt | well represented in the resident sec answer printed in the paper, as 1 am | three tablespoons of either lard, .sau- |tion of Washington that the members afraid they may not come out with |€age fat or bacon in one cu® ofiform a powerful social contingent, washing alone. bofling water: turn this into & Wix-|especially when allled with the po- Answer: You were right in not | ing bowl and add one cup of Baaba-(ljtical wing, &nd these are Massa- chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and {1llinois. Mrs. Mann is most fervently for Illinois and she is a much sought st by opulent hostesses from her {to remove. Before tvashin; ‘ou | easpoon of sait and one and one- i nfTh U5 SO should Femove them 'With & Sofi | hall teaspoons of ginger. Bake in & |iil, Rnraslisd el craser. 1 know of a wife who fined |sheet in a dripping pan for thirty|g % BIC CIR oS CREACT Mrs. Mann is essentially of an in- tellectual type. with a profound lov | M. L. S—Kindly publish rccipe for {Cup of granulated sugar and one ectual 1 3 ON THE LEFT, JENNY SHOWS | Russian salad dressing. & { scant cup of butter; add one cup of .0,'}“-1 and always shapes her days THE LO. LOOSE SLE "VES ROL { _Answer: Russian Salad Dressing.— | molasses, yolks of four eggs, one cup what she ady give at leust thres or BA o 7 | Put three-fourths cup of thick may- |of sour milk in which two teaspoons four hours to the subject which en- 3 But she has been con- ED BACK AFTER THE FASHION OF onnaise dressing into a bowl and add {10 it two chopped pimentos, one table- of soda have been dissolved, two and of bread flour mixed one-half cups wrosses her, s\dered one of the most accomplished A TITIAN PORTRAIT. ON THE 1 t ) % i 1 RIGHT 1S POIRET'S LONG. BRO- ) spoon chopped chives, six tablespoons |and sifted with one teaspoon each of |politicians in a state where women & 2 HLE 5 )chili sauce, one poon chow chow | ground cinnamon and ginger, andhave reached u hieh point in state- CADED SLEEVE SHAPED LIKE \ b | (chopred capers may be used Instead). | the stifly beaten whites of four eggs |cnaft and can argue and propound TOVEPIPE AND EDGED WITRH (] lone teaspoon vinegar. one teaspoon | Bake in loaf form in a moderate|in the most logical and convincing lcold water and one-fourth cup of oven for about forty-five minutes. way. 1Mer interest has alwavs been FUR. o i AROUN D THE CITY & vou don't look out, just start from the | rattlers—that had been killed by ] {centered in her husband, and her ac- { tivities, being imp reonal and rathe: {unol\Mtrusive, have been nene the less Ar. Mann, as all the world is an efthusiastic gardener, re-23. the idea. | With that fdea firmly fixed in the; ago, before their eurly ~ ! or on iud the imagination may run riot.| home,. Hyde Park, became incorpe- A 1 intended | ¥ cap; v join hends. | rated into Chicago, he had sent its Fhave kept at it through the centu-| n oue such - is uo doubt that the French ! - = - fame Wroadcast’ by the reckless wa {ries. . . 1 — dlceve: Di L Sout a ds gners live up to this principle. | T F vou like a river with silver ripples | Nevada desert—and the water is hot. he planted flower seed in all the | No ‘man felt his valor lessened in| / L se more than three colors in to it. and big ships fast asleep in |1 €an't get used to a snow-covered [waste places hnd made the grass | other ages by wearlng the plumage i e © although they may start! f. v e "0 HF ©L Aals ! | moantain that steams like a teakettle | plots alwng the sidewalks bloom 1k« |of a gorgeous bird. He rattled a! i e et oy it Rithy T;U.unu.nf demure as black | ¢ Sunday sunshine, and 4 COUnUY, on boil. In a morning’s walk we sec|the walls of Babylon. Mrs Mann. Sword and killed men and rode to the L Beois nieby y n | selvet. ‘The lining may be of Capu. road with blossomy weeds on the | dozens of lizaris, and vesterday I|accustomwd for years to flowers tu red crepe de chine, the wrist and |gide, and 2 goat that il butt vou if | counted seven dead snakes—four |be gathered in acre lots, found ditficult tv be content with the mex i bring a blush of shame to an effemi- > i mine WaIhavEloveryent: ittt 5 ; {nate man today. Clothes makers 5)\ Cupital and follow the way the British | ingtun’ could F e e B L L {sought a man's tavor, What a woman | . = [took that time in bistory, and walk | food—cooked by a Chinese man named | V. and Mrs, Mann are a o } -i TR Yo . | Yat, who wears a blue cambric shirt!mo iruble’ o b = | jortance. The countess of Jersey P l H lth {and walk until you come to a fence. _ a blu most desiruble’ guests to SHORT JACKET OF GREEN CLOTH milled her own cows in a dun-col. | ersona ea CPVICE ! it i: o wire fenco that corrals the| 220, Sks, to his auede Ourjed from the oficial set, 25 b WITH SMART CUFFS OF TAN orcd, homespun Tobe which she and| e By WI B e e e e ne |chambermaid s a Jap youth swho|witty ind Socially inciined and ! . c . her handmaidens wove In the stone H = = s 2 DOlLS : f anecdotes and small talk. CLOTH LINKED WITH JADE BUT- DT hanamaiqens wovs 102 usband | y LLIAM BRADY, M. D. | there used to be homes, and which lets :‘h‘“ler-m‘-l‘:\'lr“";{flm Lfeeth are white a&) Mann loves W travel. und in the yeus TONS. | went forth with his knights in velvet icie You know that when it COMES 10 BTOW- | pr1 1loen e a W o e mens | Prior to t orld war she . 2 ~ | } Noted Physician and Aathor you know that when it comes (0 Erow- | full-bigoded squaw whose government | Fiilund “conipromised every otn: more than a few months. but one |and steel coat of mail, in pearl-sewn ! sleeves and embroidered shoes. i S — on Jack Tar. And at the gate in the S nothing | house is in the back garden and Mer cear rvith the fads and w {flock of papooses tumbling around {might have just rolled out of the Mr: fakes a long brauth of relief that it| When women realized that some of; o= P01 ! 1s there, even if for a little while. |these glories might be for them @ ('Mlfl{;l lerters fence a guard will tell you in 3 i 5 & in When the sleeve came into the spot-| well as for the lords of creatiof they e i e e {Indlan collection at the museum. Mr. Alann ind Mght, It came gently, timidly, some- | went into battle for them with the / e aer I S e ervbody takes a daily bath oflg ¢ nirlwind of ‘what in the manner of an ingenue.|vigor and single-mindedness they . gl lady. but I can’t let vou in- |mineral steam. The arid surface IS|i.j1a plantfng. and A L side. If you want to get to the water | du& up and a lattice built over thel i "0 oyjored the results of b Exercise Vs. Rowdyism. | resembling toclal service, it seems to| take the path around.” | Jand o box Placed over Mt |with genuine pleasure. ~The nes ha social servie 9 S it v : e ongres; Ane I half the money squandered for ;‘{:,u[‘;,,,‘J’“‘)_;;r__""h:hl‘.)"&w""g“‘fim“:: So you follow the path until it|You %o in and shut the door and the |summer, e e T e fancy office filing sysiems, salaried|They are wasting thelr efforts on | Drings you to the silver river that ‘;fi,”u"fllfi“.";fl,‘,,‘,“’,:,’.’fo,‘f:;‘" you ,f"‘.’;"lncg',d the :;o}: eivilized parts of Asi clerks to murse the files and card-|Sti€IDIs at Ccuring” the disease.) ripples to green country on th cross- |{ake ‘a Plunge in & cold bath” and|but. plan, as they would. they woull ercas they should devote them-|uhorc, and wherc the big ships are | come out looking as fresh as u sum- |a1%ays druw up before geiting hoi. TAKE OFF YOUR SLEEVE IF YOU indexers to keep them supplied With|selves to the bu data, modern thing in the chief” the railroad vards, or otherwis ! ting himself entered in the files as in- this great in to a tempting freight car profes- ay of “malicious mis- in get- ness of prevention. | “Older bovs with no suitable pluce | ek an outlet in the pool-! asleep and everything is silent. except launches flivvering off with a sonie the is | equivalent for a strike-out in a ball Tendow unfortunate ou ring the bell—to find out | about’ the wheels, you understand. ut another nice guard tells you he an’t Jet you in, so you keep on and boY'S | ciable, y game of his own. A village boy steals second base where the play mer dawn. 1 wish you and the crowd were here. Yours, as cordially as if She was such a timid little person and her voice was so plainively low i woman was doing things at a desk. I in some part of Egy land of the Pharsohs bas & D inatfon for bLoth, and Mrs ulisr M on called social service, were appro- < 2 A I really knew yo S avehase and muinte- | fooms. the bowling alleys, the dance | fues that breaks the ripples into 7 Y2EATE B. CARTER™ {has studied the histors and liter e ¢ s And older girls with no place; foum. And when you have been e 4 sert Lo = B 2 D g 1d 3 = Sl ure of pt fn the aiLL e |nance of suitable playgrounds, the nd # substitute in the dance | qhure Jong enough to wish and wish S 5 centl has Leen i P et b vorthliths s for that which they should by | you owned a river to live by ¥ou NI day after a newspaper was on | considerabl B3 102 If a Woy has no place but the streets 1 , the zyvmnasium, the |y, pack and travel until vou get to X 4 and dialects. a oy bas : swimming posl and the skating rink | JU7H RS 808 (FOELENC SRR 101 the street and the men who had 308 9UTEHS, is hound to comm Il publicly owned and conducted | i iz building, where many wiiel {put-it there had gone home to rest |, o.ts T n upirt sMeanors So0ner or z n a mauner as clearly and efficfently | g0 round. | the best brains ever, a little old. old ion Conn aking windows, or the post office or the town hall is | ST iS04, 4 garden, gay with au- = ‘ ¢ ) such things as fruit from An-| conducted. e AT ent Sl olu time |lady tribped aloug a quict corridor |theip pur tonios fruit stund. or doing some-! A stone heaved through a valuable | fligranic angd, as the door looks so- | until she came to where a kept-in | ANGRH tentatious display. only son a few pefinanent impress on nevertheless perform every ob tarved lad in the big town steals . corrigible and all that sort of thing. on until You come to a commons, Tun | and hesitant that it wasn't until the § in' the same feal, It had no memorles of its past glor: Sleeves do not study history, so they todk the leading part ‘in the drama of clothes with am air of hesitation. They had a hard fight in front of them, for they had a powerful rival fm the short sleeve which had flaunted ftgelf in the publiceve und had held the public heart for two vears. The publlc is treacherous when it comes to fashion it does not ‘liké-to turbed. Between the public walked with care observed the long sleeves. It was not willing to_forego comfort. nor was it willing 'to ‘be behifid fashion. Therefore it hesitate A YEAR ago the long sleeve made Its appearance. Those who wrote et It were quickly chided for their work in trying to serve the public by foretelling an event. i ‘As ‘a matter of business, too quick an incoming of the long sleeve would have been disastrous to those who beld long gloves. The world who be unduly dis- two fires, the when it first dnnces had discarded long gloves for) the evening and the incoming of the ghort sleeve had produced a chance to. sell thousands of them for the day hours. As gloves are still discon- tipued for the evening and long sleeves for the day were looming over ¢he horizon. the glove people had a penlc at the flist announcement. -1t- may have been for a kindly peason that the dressmakers held off | thoir amazing and compelling long sleeves for several months. They offgred them, the seers knew they w coming, the canny segment of the public began to take stock in' tkaw, ‘and under those conditions the %l'b. e took its position in the spot- Uphe, ith much _hesitation and y. - @y last June it had galned con- fidence. It appeared in many, many pe. The August collection shown 0 Americans in Paris saw it domi- ate the field. Today the short sleeve duy Rowns is the exception. - Yo Mack of imagination has ham- sref the Invention of the new seves. The French study history and go to the museum for inspiration with the enthusiasm which has been urged upon the. dressmakers of New York by the diréctors of the Metro- politan Museum of Art. Over here whei ople are viewing new clothes they dre thrilled by a queer bit of embroidery, an odd twist of the-cuff, & curious. opening down On the other hand. ! have ever shown when' they were aroused to fight., Observe the way ‘they got the vote and helped ta run: the great war and aided in prohibition in.the United States. “Thes north will never win this war- until the southern women are dead or in prison.” was'the sav-, | age. comment of a Unlon general in the civil war, and.something of the same remark was -made in-America, when there.arose a hope that prohi- | bition could be banished from the; Constitutlon, “Not ~while mothers} and wives are alive,” was the retort of_a senator. More attention has been given to the detachable sleeve than to its sis- ! ters in fashion, for we are a novelty- loving people and this idea is the one striking novelty of the season. It Is the first time for centuries that a woman could have several pairs of | sleeves to one ROWN. | "'The tashion was begun by the de- mure, dark sleeve attached to a sep- arafe lining, which pushed its way i through the long &armhole of the frock. That was an old trick in the | history of the world. It was also |invented for men. Women of the hour liked it because it gave them a | chance to change the sleeve as well |as the lining when time ‘and the cli- | mate demanded it. But there was { naver any sparkle of color or splen- | dor about it. | . e ‘E\'EN when the sleeveless gown of last spring made. its’ appearance in America it was worn over white and cream shirt walats and -instantly became a costume unfit for the city streets. It was a forerunner, how- ever. of a fashlon that was.to descend upon the fashionable world quite sud- denly. 5 In the August collections the nov- elty was sprung by the dressmakers lof sleeves that had nothing to do | with the frock. They were not at- tached to A lining; they were af |tached to the sloulder by a series of snaps. The lower: part of.the arm- hole was left to itself. Other sleeves were merely gorgeous ruffies, attached to jeweled bruce- lets above the elbow. When a man saw. lace ‘pantaletts under one evening frock and the gaudy gorgeous ruffles on the arm, he said: “Good.: - Another move {n Y. . ARE HOT! CADED SLEEVE WHICH CAN BE of these foul WORN WITH DIFFERENT FROCKS, | When T was IT 18 CLAMPED ON THE SHOUL-| \here there DER. — THE SEPARATE BRO. leading fashion and impress its influ- ence upon Europe. That is the vital reason why the two separated coun- tries do not dresw alike. America takes its fashions from its commer- clal buyers. Europe takes its fash- fons from. the women of position whether or not they belong to ancient families. I'N the bewlldering confusion of new sleeves the observer never finds one that attempts to outline the arm from shoulder to hand. The sleeve may. be tight at the wrist, although even this is an exception, but it be- gins_always. in a lavish display of material. The average sleeve is wide at the hem and sometimes it is ugly. The American women have Induced French designers to change the sleeve which is extra wide over the hand, yet not large enough for artigtic ‘beauty, by linking the oben- ing together with ornamental but- tons run through gayly. embroidered buttonholes. This trick does atot: de- stroy the outline of the wide sleeve, metimes when rimes 1 nothing there I think how perpetrated a kid. and how fortufate 'open country raised in a small town | village remotely PATOU TRIMS A SLEEVE WITH A’ A . woman can' use her yet it'is not considered inartistic by LARGE, POINTED PIECE OF FUR.. | Tony’s bananas and beats Tony in the | ensuing rac e vacant lots or surrounding the small afford the country boy every opportunity for wholesome play if wild with golden rod and sumac bushes and some purple thistles go- |ing to pod. Lumbering across it is | a lovely dusty road with ruts in it | and ide is a boy leading : il has wholesome ~inclinations. A ! e e ground in a big cify is a rarity:| spots on his grimy whiteness and n If the city provides space for| chewy Ilips. And horns! . often the place is too far from| poy tells you he would butt the life e boy who needs it most. The city| out'n you if he was to let go, and. street is the school for criminals. | peing us how the law is so far away. Swimming should be as popular as| you try to vamp the voungster with dancing. and boys' and girls of any | & nickel, which he doesn’t want, be- jage seeking diversion should find 2| ing the fort of boy who runs to fr {swim »s artractive as the dance is{kles and the humorous grin that is made for them. Here is a question| Irish, along with sparkly eves that for real soctal service workers to!are go-braghish blue. And when consider. We have had too manv|you have heard of ‘the deeds of the lig;v‘; and ponderous reports| goat, which you can see for your- e as_the result. | tag off in another direction that { When playgrounds suitably ar-| brigngs you back to the bricks, where iranged and comfortably equipned to|vou can look into a back yard and |attract boys of all ages and girls as| watch a mce dark woman feeding well are about ome-half as common | two big, strong-winged, red-wattled {as burlesque cabarets, shows and| turkeys that gobble up thelr dinner 'idnnl‘e resqrt8 now are. then nerhaps | as the dark woman's family is going thers won’t be 80 many or such scan- ! to gobble in turn, come Thanksgiving dalous data for the army of social|and Christmas. And then your walk I service retainers to digest. brings you to a quiet, littie street Think this _over when vyou seellined with trees big enough and voung men who use the cigar store| green enough to start a forest—the or the poolroom of a certain type as| ones planted by a 16ng-ago mayor, a “hangout”™ Phink It over when| and which stand today. &0 many vou see pitifully painted girls en-| sylvan sentinels to guard the fact ®aged In the occupation of street! that there was a time when we were walking. not a politically denatured people. And_then vou strike into the road QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. ! the British took when they wanted to take the town—and that brings you Getting By. back to the prosaically neat place Pleawe tell me what T can take to| you call home. clea» up albumen so it will not be| And that will be all, for one time. Q‘X,s;-o\'ered in the urine test. (K. L. 3 * X ¥ X Answer.:Sometimes 48 hours in!Y' bed and'a bread and milk diet re- duced to the minimum will turn the trick—but it s hard to get by the insurance examiner. Tobacco Habit. Three years ago, by using your ad- vice 1 succeeded in breaking the to- baceo habit and have néver desired or craved it since. Now what I want is your help in reducing. I am |inches tall, 36 years old and weigl 1200 pounds. (S. A. L.) x Answer.—Repeat. your request and inclose a stamped envelope addressed to yourself. Birthmarks Not Inkerited. Are birthmarks transferred from: generation . to generation? (Mre. 0. N.) Answer.—The ordinary red or pig- mented marks are not. Defects or anatomical peculiarities, .such as Lare-lip, -supernumerary fingers, webbed toes, and the like, seem to!about her—"not even common sense.” occur frequently in certain families. * k¥ k. Copyright, National Newspaper Service. “DEAR AROUND THE CITY:—I — Dessert for Children. ! A simple dessert enjoyed by.chil-|ghape and feeling like Alice dren consists of apples cored, and: wondcsland of the west. each cavity filled with sugar, nutmeg, | dr ratsins. _ Add one cup of hot wnterl and bake in a slow oven. This may | a little butter and two or three be: varied. by.placing-a meringte on!Salt Lake deserts, I seas soldier by his cap. Also by his cruiches.: And he was waiting his turn to board a car at an hour when clerks were rusking home from work. A worian ahead moved aside with the laudable intention of giving him her chance at & seat, but he waved her back. 2 “Much obliged to you, but I am all right. I am getting so handy with these sticks that I'd about forget 1 wasn’t born with them if kind folks would fet me. He said it with a humor that im- plied her ability to comprehend, and she acqepted it in the right way, and that was all there was to it—only: It taught her a lesson in common sense, And common sense is agood thing to keep in stock—unless you happen to be like the lady who minutes. s And the | ,» and nothing but endless talk | self is the finest goat in town, you } OU ‘could tell he had been an over-! bragged she had nothing common d the earth could hold such awful magnificence a8 these moun-: tains and deserts For two days, while ‘going through Wyoming and, saw nothing but the top of each apple when done and | dead vblcanoes and alkall and e cooking in & slow oven for seven|brush and stretches of grayish -:nri: 1 am in & water hols in the woman had iuvited her into a big| leather chair and said. somethiing about the weather that she found courage to_tell why she came. in the telling she blushed—and let me tell you, neighbors, if you havi never seen a gray little old, old lad blush, you have missed a beautifu | thing. What she wanted was to ask 1f the person who wrote about old songs would be kind enough to publish a little thing that she composed for {her babies. She never expected fo isee it in print, of course,\because Jit was ot intellectual, but it had pleased her baby so— ! “It was such a long time ago that my voungest would be fifty years old if he were living. I had only thetwo —both boys—but do you know, my dear, they seem nearer to me ‘than i people who still livg, and after 4 read iof the old songs I thought pérhaps | some voung mother would dike to {sing to her own babies the little old . verses I sang to mine. 1 composed many, but it was a long time ago, my idear, and memory plays us tricks when we get near the great day. But i1 can recall this one that my little one specially loved.” The kept-in woman looked over the i {happy in passing a happiness on. And it is because the kept-in wom- an knows that you, also, will share her desire to please a little old, old mother whose youngest baby would be fifty years old if he were living, bere is the little song she—composed: This little pig.went to market, This little plg went to market, “This little pig stayed home, Th's little pig had roast beef, Also, i L4 | inches extra. | inches up on each end. { This little pig had none, This little. pig cried wee, wee, wes, 8ll the way bLome. It 18 true, children, that'“memory plays us tricks as we near the great ! day”"—but the heart is true to love, for ever, and ever and ever. * % k% G«NJANNIE LANCASTER: I am not in the old song class, but in lrndln; the long-ago ballads which | you' hand out jow and then there seems to me that there was more real isentiment and ‘story’ interest in the verses of yesterday than the usual ragtime melodies of today. I. just thought I'd like to tell you. I “BETH WILSON PORTER.” «Dz-:'.u\ MISS NANNIE: When I was a girl; way back in the late | sixties, we'young people used td meet Kk % X am one.of your readers aud Bope soujat jesch olfers homes and sing, one will be interested to know that I have 6 Sust fnished & 4000 mile trip o e of our favbrites being a song about n this I never|not sure that is the title. For more “The Honeysuckle Glen, though I am years than I like to count a snatch of that old melody has come to me at times, and since reading of the songs sent in to you I am hoping you will find some kind ‘neighbor’ who will recall the words and have you print them. ELEANOR M'K." NANNIE LANCASTER. { 1| sauce. sogial or pol trsive, whole-hearted wzy. Things You'll Like to Make. Brouded Leather the new winter frocks leather trimming looks very ing, especially in white or red on -t dark X. Cut kid into one-half- Braid three strands (four page of verse and promised the lit-' inch i s fle"old, old lady that her song should ¢ or six strands look cven prettier’, be printed. And she went away | For the girdic measure the length of i braid needed, then allow twen Open the braid ten Knot each side; leave two and a half inches unbraided on_each end. Make &nother knot on each side; leave the rest to hang as tassels. A narrower braid finishes the lower edge of the higii coliar. You may use this braided leather trimming to fl{llsh the cuffs the under sleeves also. of —_— Cranberry Whip. Mix one cup of thick, unsweetened cranberry sauce with one and one-heif cupe of boiling water, then rub through a stratner. Heat to the bofl- ing point and sdd one-fourth cup of granulated taploca, Cook, stirring constantly until the tapioo ia clear, 534 one cup of sugar, remove from the fire and coo] slightly. Then whip in the stifly besten whites of the eggs. Chill and serve plain with & custard Menu for & Day. Breakfast. . Creamed potatoes. Bak P etet e Coftes. Lunchaeen, Fried hominy, Cold tongue, cottage chesse. French pastry. Tea, Dinner, Cream of tomato n::. Crackers. ‘eam cheess, Roast lamb, Mint and currant Jelly, Creamed peas and. Baked swee t Lettuce with ..% Pumpkin pie.