Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 44

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921, - . FEATURE PAGE., Children's Shoes with extended soles to save thetoes Properly Built Properly Fitted The School Shoe Shop Features Sizes sizzeto § o fl Sizes lizfie’z to 2— 2_5_ ARTHUR DURT co 1343LUFst Pull Out A Hair! Examine It. See a little bulb at the end? That must be kept healthy. ED.PINAUD’S HAIR TONIC is nature’s greatest aid in promoting and retaining healthy, beautiful hair. Buy at eny Drug or Department Store . ED. PINAUD Bidg. NEW YORK | Quoty of R | Koo 2 RESINOL Soothing and Healing Improves bad Complexions - Iry it Dontleta Sore Throat Wisdom To relieve Sore Throat theseat of the disease, mmu_tguu’: P e T R LINE taken upon the first s sppearance may save long sickness. Usea lit{ln Sore 'l'hro.t‘"'o‘ Jack Frost’s Busy Night. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. + This truth [ fain would make most clear: The strong from me have naught to fear. | —Jack Frost. { Paddy the Beaver was ready for the coming of Jack Frost none too soon. The very night of the day ;Paddy finished his work on his food pile. his house and his dam Jack Frost arrived. He came silently and he worked fast. Paddy was asleep at _the time. You know he had worked so hard for so many weeks getting yready for winter that he was very tired when he entered his house late .in the afternoon and curled up in his snug bedroom for'a nap. He was so tired that he slept until the night was . far spent. It was just before daylight that ;HE HAD PINCHED BOBBY COON'S NOSE WHEN HE POKED IT OUT OF HIS HOLLOW TREE. Paddy awoke, slipped down through his subway into his pond. swam a short distance down near the bottom and then started up to the surface. Instead of poking his head out of water as he expected to, he bumped it. Yes. sir, Paddy bumped his head. Of course, he knew instantly what he had bumped it against. It was ice. Paddy’'s pond was frozen over. “Jack Frost has come and I was ready just in time,” thought Paddy as he tried a couple of times to break - SPILT MILK, ICHARD SLOCUM was rather like Longfellow's immortal heroine, in that when he was good he was “very. very good.” When he was good he was indeed good! Merriam Lindsay, crimson with em- barrassment, stood walting for Rich- ard as he tried in vain to keep their opponents, the Putnam Grahams, from quitting the foursome. He was gen- ulnely distressed that Putnam lrfd Lella's quarrel had left Merriam in such an awkward situation. “Leil's a scorpion when she gets going—" he drawled with tact when he came back to her. ®*Enough to make a confirmed old bachelor like me gloat over his single blessedness, eh? Which shall we do—play a cou- ple more holes or quit?” He glanced at his watch. “Seems a pity to stop; it's only 3—" He made things seem so normal that Merriam breathed a sigh of re- lief. “Let's play,” she assented. And then, homest soul that e was, she looked straight at him. “But I wish you'd begin right away telling me why Mr. Trowbridge is so worried about where dad is. I couldn’t sleep at all last night,” her voice trembled. “] was a_brute——" Richard was contrite. “I didn’t._ mean to frighten vou. But your father took a wad of traveler's checks when he started, and merely left two or three ad- dresses with approximate dates when Trowbridge could get letters to him. He's stayed three months longer than his original plans. Which, naturally, bothers even so good a lawyer as Trowbridge, because he didn’t really give Trowbridge full powers to act in case of emergencies.” “Are there any?" “Heaps!” Richard was grave. “Your respected dad is about as business- like as you are,” he grinned boyishly at_her. 3 Merriam managed 2 wan smile. She had gone on with her game au- tomatically; she was reaching for a putter when he smiled. She kept her wrists steady; she holed her ball y e.” she announced her scare. Richard bungled. L =z “Seven for me; honor's yours.' She gestured toward a bench in the clearing beyond. I “I guess I can’t play after all,” she decided. “Let's send the caddies back and just keep driving irons and balls to_play back with.” It seemed to Richard he had never seen her in a more amazing mood. He had expected hysterics from the high- strung little creature, not this gentle perplexity. He pulled the bench into the shade for her: he leaned forward, poking at the turf as he talked, try- ing mot to look at her too often. Merriam herself stared straight ahead at the lovely woods; tretch before them. “I suppose your dad never talked finances to you because he thought you'd never have to bother your little head with such things. But I do think he ought to haye explained his principal investments to you. I sup- rose they looked like dead certain things to him.” “And they're not?” “Some of them look like spilt milk right now. It's no use crying over them. Some of them will probably come out all right in the end. But Trowbridge is in a devil .of u hole. He's hard put to to dig out the house- hold checks to send to your aunt. That house of your dad’s—"" “Costs enough to keep. fifty like mine going,” Merriam was unconsci- ously bitter. “Exactly. Well, what Trowbridge thought was this. That if we didn’t get some word from your dad soon the only thing to do was to put the house in the market for rental.” “Dad would hate that!” “He'd hate debt more.” Richard was cqnecise. Don’t worry. Probably old Fredsy will drop in some day when we least expect it and laugh at his ‘spilt milk’ like the dear ol sport he is.” Merriam’s throat contracted sharp- ly. A sudden wave of longing for her father and homesickness for his dear | e said, “what a piggy Y’ Her impulsive woirds began to tumble recklessly. ‘“T've scarcely thought about dad all these months since I've been married. I've been a horrid, neglectful, nasty, mean daughter to let him go t: ing oft all alone to the ends of th ! Do you kmow how I feel? As though I'd been floating along in some sort of dream, as though I were just waking up.” “Unfortunately,” Richard’s was hard, “T've been ghastly wakeful while you were dreaming.” He hur- ried into safe channels as_she looked quickly away. “What Trowbfld{e wanted was this. He thought maybe you'd run up and explain things to voice Brides Will Be Brides By Lucille Van Slyke. the ice and couldn’t. “He must have come early last night and worked hard and fast to make this ice so thick.” Then Paddy dived and swam straight to where the Laughing Brook enters his pond. He knew that there he would find open water, for it takes very cold weather and much of it to freeze running water. There he poked his head out and drew a long breath. It was sharp and clear, that air he filled his lungs with, and it made him tingle all over. Then he looked at his pond: it was one great sheet of clear, glistening, smooth ice. Paddy looked over at his house. He didn't need to go over-to it to know that Jack Frost had been busy there, too. ~Paddy chuckled. ‘“Jack Frost has frozen hard all that mud I cov- ered my house with,” said he, talk- ing to himself. “He can't freeze it too hard to suit me. Now I shall feel guite safe. He certainly has been usy.” Paddy was right; Jack Frost had been busy. All through the atilly night, for this time he had come without rough Brother North Wind, he had worked fast and hard. The Smiling Pool was frozen over just as was the pond of Paddy the Beaver, LISTEN, WORLD! "BY ELSIE ROBINSON. . It's nearly winter in Californla. That is, the calendar says it's nearly win- ter, but you'd never find it out by ask- ing the landscape. The violet beds are in bloom all around the houses in the country, banking each little home in with a wall of budding fragrance. (I remember the coming of the win- ter in New England. We banked the houses there, too, but not with vio- lets. When the first numbing of the frost began at night we would gather and above the ice stood the roof of {in the fallen leaves and heap them Jerry Muskrat's house. Jack Frost hadn’t had so much work to do there, for Jerry's roof was chiefly of rushes and there was not such a lot of mud to make hard as at Paddy’'s house. He had frozen the ground until it was 8o hard that even the sharp hoofs of Lightfoot the Deer left no mark. He had covered the quiet places on the Big River with ice and made a ‘beautiful shining fringe of it all along the Laughing Brook. He had crept through cracks in Farmer Bfown's henhouse and made tie hens crowd closer together to keep warm. He had found Peter Rabbit and made Peter jump and skip and scamper about. He had pinched Bobby Coon’s nose when he poked it out of his hollow tree. and Bobby had decided very promptly that he didn’t want to go out, but would sleep instead. All over the Green Meadows and the Old Pasture and through the Green Forest and the Old Orchard went WJack Frost that night, and there wasn't a crack so small that he didn't find it and blow his cold breath through it. He had come to stay and he meant that everybody should know it. It was a busy night for Jack Frost. Yes. sir-ee, it was a busy nigght for Jack Frost. And when morning came some were giad and some were gad, and all knew that the days ahead were for those only who were stout of heart. (Copyright, 1921, Ly T. W. Rurgess.) your aunt. Help her get the house ready for rental. She'll need the kind of explaining that a man can’t manage—will you go?” ‘“When?” she asked meekly. ext w 3 ‘'Why, wbat would John do?” she asked. Richard laughed. “Just what he did all the vears be- fore he married you? Shift for him- self. It won’t hurt him. I'll run up there in my car or,” he added hastily as Merriam shook her head, ::“n't‘lkl.bl t{la night train, 2. nk you're a v daughter if you don't go.” o e rllfln‘l. 'llone :l; nrlemll that Mer- ‘pped her "‘“dlyn'n‘".". and {n his for a “Rich, you dear,” she stammered. “to take so much . Il gor trouble. Of course Macaroni and Eggs. Break half a package of macaroni into inch leggths, put it into a dish Wwith four tablespoons of butter and pour over it sufficlent milk to cover well. Place it in the oven and stir it occasfonally. It should swell a good deal In the .cooking. When three parts cooked lift out the macaront, season it highly with grated Par- mesan cheese, salt and pepper, pour over it one cup of good, rich brown sauce, set it in the oven again and let it cook until done. When per- fectly cooked. put on it four poached eggs, rinkle with grated cheese, Kltm‘lk and chopped parsley. Serve ot. Molded Ham and Rioe. Mash smooth two cups of cooked rice with two tablespoons of mayon- naise dressing. Mix with one and a fourth cups of chicken liquor. Mold into shape and garnish with bits of :oll:d rice and small pleces of pickled ee {high around the house to keep the basement warm. Dead leaves and withered cofn stalks. dry grass, the empty shells of summer’s growth and beauty—we would rake them up and pile them close around our homes. It made for .cozy wintering. But, some- how, I prefer the violets. Banking your house with violets, or banking it with dead leaves—some- how that reminds me of the way folks prepare to meet their winters. Winter comes to all of us, the winter of our lives, Soon or later spring and sum- mer depart. Soon or later the fires of autumn fail, the days grow gray, the chill descends upon our dreaming. We cannot escape it—but we meet it so_differently. Some of us. most of us, I fear, try to shut out the winter bitterness by walling ourselves in with the mem- ories and prejudices of our past years, growth, the withered stalks of our our dead accumulations about us, guarding our hearts against the stress and change of the passing seasons. But others of us bank our hearts with violets! Let gife wind howl, let the walls shake, let the changing year upset the ordered warmth and comfort of our rooms, as it surely will. What do we care if we have ringed our spirits with young growth, with budding dreams, with ever-root. ing hope. Banked in with violets. that is the best, I think. [ HOME ECONOMICS. i BY MRS. ELIZABETH KENT. | | Christmas Decorations. weave A RSy round. the Guristmas heartn; The sileat snow possessed the earth And calmly fell our Christmas eve. Holly and mistletos are the tradi- tional Christmas decorations. Mistle- toe 18 & legacy from the Druids, who worshiped 1t when they found -it growing on their sacred oak. It s a far cry from the stern druldic sac- rifice to the mdéstietoe kiss of our time. Holly seems to have been the evergreen chosen by the pretty su- perstition of very ancient Teutoni times to hang indoors as & refuge for woodland- spirits from the rigors of the winter. Both of them. carry us back over the centuries to the early days of our race and should re- mind us of the kinder thought of the world we have through Christianity. We can make our own wreaths, but let us have some Christmas wreaths. Ii Holly and mistletoe are not to be had we can use the ground pine and the bittersweet, and we can make long festoons of these, too, to make our Christmas rooms keep holiday. Poinsettia — that atrange Mexican plant which takes its name from the Our 10-Day Sewing Machine Selling Event now at its height— Buy Now! 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Sets of tablecloth and nap- kins of heavy crepe paper, with poin- settia design, can be bought, and are very pretty for the big family Christ- mas dinner—and aave thé linen, The tree is the chief part of Christ- mas decoration, and, whether we use a small artificial tree on a table with homemade trimming, or set up a spruce that touches the celling, the great thing is to let the children help. Do not forget the true story of the little boy whose grown-up relatives had a most glorious Christmas eve trimming his tree, while he lay up- stairs alone and cried himself to sleep. (Copyright, 1921.) —— Sugar Biscuits. Take one tablespoon of lard, one cup of sugar, two eggs and one cup of milk and beat to a cream. Add three cups of flour in which has been sifted two teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix into a smooth batter and drop from a teaspoon into a baking tin. Bake in a hot oven until a delicate brown. Carrot’ and Raisin Pudding. Swiss Jelly Roll. 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