Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1921, Page 23

BY EL FEATURE PAGE. Seen in Wasrington Shops, ENORE DE WITT EBY. P With Christmas over. the shops are looking forward to Palm Beach and arraying their shelves in shimmering silks and light crepes suitable for wear under balmy southern skies. Sport costumes feature all of the new Shades, but the smartest are either Wwkite or black, or a combination of the two, and some of the most origi- FORMAL EVENING GOW WHITE VELVET AND SEQUE nal are made of ribbons or of silk braid on a crepe background. Even- ing mowns for the fashionable winter resorts are usually semi-formal, but! tant, by a Spanish shawl, Never have we seen such gorgeous creations as are offered by the local shops at pres- ent, for shawls are the latest fad, and to be fashionable mylady must surely have one. SPANISH SHAWL OF BLACK SILK SPRINKLED WITH POPPIES. A beautiful model is shown in the accompanying skeich. The material is heavy black satin crepe, with the lustrous side turned in and the dull- finish one embroidered in brilliant scarlet poppy-like flowers intricately twined-in green leaves and gracefully carling stems. At the lower edge the deep black silk frings which finishes it is first knotted into a wide border and the remaining encs dangle at ran- dom with a saucy air of Castilian bravado. New chapeaux for warmer climes are also being shown in the millinery establishments, and within a few short weeks they will probably make their appearance on the streets here. Of course, there are many charming models of georgette and of straw, but ribbon hats are the most interesting at present, for they are ideal for be- tween-season wear. Sketched is a restaurant hat which would attract attention anywhere. It is made of chain-mail silver cloth and trimmed with jet beads. and additional orna- mentation is furnished by the large circular black earrings suspended at each side. The shape is difficult to describe or to classify, for it is neither Russian, Oriental nor Egyptlan, but rather a combination of the three. There is & small toque, bordered with radiating lines of graduated jet beads, and over the center of this passes an oddly shaped band of silver cloth, which forms a frame to the toque. and is also adorned with rows of jet bead: The evening gown pictured is an ample of what Paris considers comme il faut” for formal wear. The latest edict from our foreign dictator is to the effect that all smart ap- parel shall be black and white again, for it has been satiated with the daz- zling brilliancy displayed during the Tested Recipes. Roast Chicken. Select a plump young rooster welghing not less than three pounds. Singe, draw and truss it for roasting, season with salt. Cover the breast with a large, thick slice of fat bacon. On the bottom of the roasting pan place one sliced carrot, one sliced onion, a bay leaf and half a cup of fively chopped bacon. Place the chicken on the vegetables, spread over two tablespoons of butter and bake In a medium hot oven one hour. Baste frequently. The sweet pota- toes should be peeled and placed in the pan with the chicken and basted at the same time the chicken is basted. When nearly done remove the bacon from the breast and allow the chicken to brown. Remove the strings and place on a_ hot platter with sweet potatoes. Pour off the fat in the pan and add to the liquid remaining half a cup of milk mixed with two teaspoons of flour. Boil up once, season and strain. Pour part of the sauce around the chicken on the platter and serve the rest in a saucc boat. Garnish the chicken with watereress. Egg Plant, Martha, Slice two large eggplants length- wise in quarter-inch thick slic Do not peel. KFry the slices in butter until they are a light brown. Heatl two cups of tomato pulp in the but- ter the eggplant was fried in. Placc alternate layers of the eggplant ana tomatoes in a deep carthenware bak- ing dish until the dish is full. Add enough good beef gravy to fill the dish, sprinkle over the top fine bread rumbs mixcd with grated che Bake ono hour. ~ Serve in the same ish, California Lettuce Salad. Wash and remove the outside leaves from two heads of fancy let- tuce. Break the leaves into short Dieces, place them in a clean cloth. gather up the four corners and thor- oughly shake to remove the watcr. Sprinkle the lettuce with a little finely chopped mint. Place in a salad bow! garnished with watercress and serve on the side a good French dressing. California Frult Pudding. This is one of the best puddings that I know of made without suet Beat well three eggs and beat into them three-quarters of a cup of sifted flour, three tablespoons of sugar, two teaspoons grated nutmeg. one table- spoon grated orange rind, one tea- spoon grated lemon rind and one cup ilk. Beat smooth. Now add two- ds of a cup of seedless raisins. hirds of & cup of chopped seeded raisins, half a cup chopped figs, halt a cup of chopped blanched almonds and one-third of a cup of butter broken into small bi Mix well and fill a buttered mold two-thirds full. Boil for two and a half hours. Do not let the water stop boiling after the pudding is placed in the kettle. Denver Frozen Pudding. A frozen pudding served at the hotel in Denver would be nice for those who do not care for the hot puddin; This is made by soaking one cup of macaroon crumbs in two cups of thin cream for one hour. Adg to the soaked crumbs hzlf a cup of sugar, one-third of a cup of orange juice and one-third of 2 cup of cider. Place in a freezer and freeze to a mu Add two cups of stifily beaten cream. Place a laver of chopped seeded raisins in the bottom of indi- vidual molds or cases. then fill with the frozen macaroon mush. Sprinkle the tops with macaroon crumbs and browned sliced aimonds. Pack mounds in half-cracked ice and rock salt for two hours. Serve with this sauce: Orange Marshmallow Sauce. Cut up half a pound of marshmal- lows and cover with half a cup of orange juice. Cook two cups of sugar with two-thirds of a cup of water until it will spin a thread when dropped from the tip of a spoon, and pour slowly into the stifiy beaten whites of three eggs. Beat until creamy, and when cool add the soaked marshmallows. HAT OF SILY WITH JET. & touch of distinction may be added in ornaments for the coiffure, spangled tulle fans, and, last and most impor- }a touch of grace as well R CLOTH mmnunl | lengthen jprismatic brillianc early winter and fall. Only a sugges- tion of color will be allowed, perhaps in the form of a gay corsage, perhaps in a single sparkligg jeweled medal- lion, or, again, in a trailing panel of bright chiffon. The-model shown chooses the first- named trimming to relieve the se ity of its classically draped white velvet folds. Two large roses are placed slightly above one hip and give s of color to the gown. Sequin panels hang at each side of the rather short skirt to its line, but they add for they are crys tal white, and mereiy form a bit of frosting for the duller surface of the velvet. 1HOME NUR SING Ay HEALTH HINTS BY M. JESSIE LEITCH. Pure Air to Breathe. “I think this room will do very nicely,” said the nurse, pausing on the threshold of a pretty modern-day bed- room and surveying it thoughtfully. “But I don't want to put my daugh- ter in this room,” said the mother, who, in fashionable attire, stood with the nurse at the door. “The east room has been newly decorated, and is very new and pretty. Marjory would like it best, I think. Oh, dear, how care- less they are in these finishing schools! To think of having fever just now, too, when I was planning her coming-out clothes and a big ball for the New Year! It is quite too the petulant little mother swept across the hall with a trailing fragrance and a swishing of silken garments. “There is no fireplace in the east room.” the nurse said. “And that is one of the reasons why 1 would like to have my patient in this bedroom.” Fircplaces and Fresh Alr. “But what has a fireplace to do with convalescence from fever?’ said the|, pretty mother in wonderment. “It has a good deal to do with the ventilation of a room, and the result of air contamination upon health is fairly well know: the woman in ®lue and white linen replied. “Air contamination! The air in room seems perfectly good to And poised on the white enameled threshold like a brilliant butterfly, the woman sniffed the air almost angrily. “There is only one window in this room and mno fireplace. The room is pretty, but rather small. and the bath- other bedroom opens room. That in itself is a considera- tion, since it means that the patient need never be altogether alone while I am preparing bath water. I shall always be within hearing. How to Improve Ventilation. *Then the matter of ventilation is solved, because the room has two windows. They are opposite each other, thus making possible a current of moving air, which is very desirable fn any sick room. Then the fireplace itself acts as a ventilator.” The murse spoke quietly. . Back in the rejected room the fash- fonable mother gazed at the fireplace respectfully. “I hadn’t realized that fireplaces 'were so important. They have always appealed to me as being chiefly orna- mental and a trifle sentimental,” she “Fireplaces,” said the nurse, re luseful as ventilators, because the heat of the fire causes the air around it to lbecome lighter. So it rises through land out of the chimney. This leaves & vacuum, which the colder, and therefore heavier and denser, air rushes in to fill. A large lamp placed in an empty fireplace does the same thing, with much less dirt and work, sometimes a large lamp is used in s sick room fireplace instead of coal r wood fire.” *Then We hall order & large lamplead Toom is three doors away, while the|a little easier to slip into, slit it in into a bath-|front for a few inches and close it <o that Marjory will not be with the rattling of coal and coal shovels, not to mention pokers and shakers and ashes and the crac- kling of paper and kindling in the morning,” said the mother. “This is one of those ornamental fireplaces. There is no chute for the ashes, So they have to be taken out by hand.” “Then I think we should have a large lamp, and we will get exactly the same result by placing it in the empty fireplace,” said the nurse. And so the problem of ventilation was taken care of. Things Youw’ll Like to Make e House-Dress [ LISTEN, WORLD! BY ELSIE ROBINSON. ITS A PITY SOME OTHER FOLKS DIDN'T SAIL UNDER JHE PIRATE PLAG. @ I have always wanted to say a few words in favor of pirates, and at last my chance has come. Ralph Paine has written a book, “Lost Ships and Lonely Seas” wherein -those lusty scoundrels riot to thelr hearts”content. Among other diverting characters, he presents one, by name Jamieson, who, after a bustling career under the Jolly Roger, settled down in Boston town to a mellow old age. There it was said of him that “he had trav- eled extensively, and his wide fund of information made him a most en- tertaining character. His observa- tions on the character of differemt nations were very liberal, with a play- umorousness quite free from big- and narrow prejudice.” All of which makes me regret more | than ever that some of the estimable ”-3 An apronette house dress is very convenient for the housewife. Cut a plain one-piece slipover dress. (If with snaps or buttons) Cut a bib apron of checked or plaid material that has the same predominating color as the plain material of the dress. Make long sash ends on the apron. Make two groups of slits at the back of the waistline of the dress. Bind the slits. Sew two buttons on each shoulder. Make two buttonholes on each shoulder of the apron. Button the apron to the dress; run the sash through the slits. You can have two such aprons to each dress. An apron- ette house dress is very becoming and easy to launder. FLORA. (Copsright, 1921.) Caulifiower Au Gratin. ‘Wash and trim one caulifiower and boil it in salted water until der, when done drain well and shape it neatly; mix two tablespoons of grat- ed cheese with one pint of white sauce, butter a baking dish and put in it three tablespoons of the sauce, upon this place the cauliflower head upward; cover with the sauce, whcih has, first been nicely seasoned, and sprinkle the surface with fine bread crumbs and one tablespoon of grated cheese; place one tablespoon of but- ter in pieces here and there on top, bake fag fiftacq minutes, members of our commonwealth did not also serve their time under the pirate flag. How greatly such service might have enriched their personal characters and their contact with their fellow men! Not, mind you, that I extol brigandage or butchery. But I certainly do extol a lot of things that go with a life like that, and which, most unfortunately, are often omitted in a “respectabfe” program. ‘What an excellent thing it was for those pirates that they were never quite comfortable or safe, mentally, morally or spiritually? It kept ‘em hopping. And by that same token it kept them growing. It's a bad thing for a human to_be too comfortable, He goes soft. He also goes selfish and in time intolerant toward any- one else who is not as safe and com- fortable as he. It's bad for our bodies and minds to be too comfortable, and it's_infinitely more dangerous for us to be too sure that our souls are saved. Therin lies bigotry, that un- pleasant vice from which the Pirate Jamieson was exempt. We can’t really be very choosey or bossy concerning the morals of others if we - have doubts about our own souls’ salva- tion. What a pity that some of our very best people can’t undergo a little of that wholesome doubting! How much more companionable it might make them! What a pity that they don't have to duck jail now and then, as the pirates did! There are worse schools for humor and humility, tol- erance and democracy than jaiis—or pirate ships! T, Endive Salad. Take one guart of finely-shredded blanched endive, one cup of tender well chopped celery stalks, one hard- boiled chopped egg, one cup of chop- ped Eglish walnut meats, the juice of one lemon or orange useasoned with sugar and white pepper and salt, mix all togeather well and place in a serving dish and pour over the mix- ture enough thick. sweet cream to moisten all nicgly. THE EVENING -STAR; WASHINGTON,- D: C., THURSDAY, O0ld Man Coyote Has an Empty Stomach. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. An empty stomach sharpens wit And courage grows because of it. —0ld Man Coyote. 01d Man Coyote doesn’t like winter. No, sir, he doesn't like winter. You see, it is only once in a while that he is lucky enough to get his stomach really filled. Most of. the time he is hungry, and no one likes being hun- sry when there is nothing to eat. So now that winter had come, with snow and ice, Old Man Coyote could think of little but his stomach and how he was to fill it. When he was asleep he dreamed about it. When “1 OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IF 1 USE MY WITS,” THOUGHT OLD MAN COYOTE. he was awake he spent almost every ainute hunting for something to eat. And Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse and Peter Rabbit and Mrs. 3rouse and other little people who | re much on the ground had to be nore watchful than ever, for there was no knowing when and where H1d Man Coyote might suddenly ap- sear. And all the time that Old Man Coyote was hunting he was thinking. There nothing like hunger to sharpen wits. Old Man Coyote's wits re never dull, but nmow they were sharper than ever. He couldn't af- ford to miss a meal and he didn't in- tend to because of dull wits. So the By Lucille ‘MERRIAM LINDSAY MANU- FACTURER. DRIZZLING rain slanted against the windows. The house was hot and smelly. Mer- riam Lindsay had spent some of her precious few remaining dol- lars for coal. and the first furnace ro of the sgason was refusing to be :hecked. She was curled in an un- :omfortable heap on the sofa trying o get a much needed rest, but too nany unpleasant thoughts nagged. She thought about her John, plodding patiently about town in the rain trying to find a job; about the visit her father's lawyer had made that morning, in which he explained that here was still no word from that long missing gentleman; about a doleful letter from her Aunt Alice that fairly dripped prayers and sor- rows and tears; about unpaid bills and unmended ' stockings ~and the nawn tickets she had hidden in her bureau. Raxs, her Cairn terrier, was yowl- ng cause the rai run 1 zhe wouldn't let him that n. And the beef stew, she hated. had burned. She was far tor miserable for tears. So she just gloomed and gloomed and Zloomed. Bronze curls tumbled, cheeks pale, her frock far from immaculate, she contemplated the worn sole of her shoe. And automatically tucked both feet under her and cuddled still as a mouse as the doorbell rang. “I wouldn't go to that door” she thought, “even if the Prince of Wales ar Doug Fairbanks or old John D. nimself were callin The bell rang again. An impatient nmbrella handle tattoo added itself to the racket. Rags almost barked his head off. Merriam continued to hide on the sofa. But, of course, her curiosity overcame her as she thought she heard the visitor retreating. She tiptoed to_the curtain. A gray eye winked solemnly at her. “Open that door and let me in. 1 stand here freezing, wet to th’ skin-in-in- = Philip Sheldon, instructor in Latin in the Boys’ School in the next street, who looked even more youthful than he was, entered with a grand flourish. “You're looking frumpy,” he in- formed her cheerfully. “Very seedy. Don’t blame you for not coming to the door, but I have an important chemical experiment to perform and need vour distinguished assistance.” “Shelly.” she protested, as he began pulling packages from' his pockets, “you're trailing sugar all over my clean house. “And nuts!” he answered calmly. “Woman, I crave fudge!” Merriam capitulated. She ran up- stairs to smooth her hair and don a clean frock. The kitchen resounded | Brides Will Be Brides isconsoiately in the kitchen @wc@eeerk in the B! hungrier he grew the sharper his wits_ became. As long as the snow was not too deep for him to travel easily he got along fairly well. Though he almost never felt that he had eaten all he could eat, he did get enough to keep him from starving. In fa he got enough to keep him in good condi- tion. But when the snow became 8o deep that he had to wade through it his real troubles began. In the first place, he couldn’t run, and you know Old Man Coyyote depends very much on the swifthness with which he can get about. In the second place, wading through the snow soon tired him. In the third place, he could travel only a short distance, and, you know, he is a great traveler. That meant that his chances of find- ing enough to eat were just that much smaller. Lastly, he left tracks wherever he went, and that made him nervous. So while the snow Man Coyote seldom is home in the Old Pasture. he spent most of his time in his home and came out only when his stomach had been empty so long that he simply couldn't stand it any longer. Then he ate such berries as he could find on the rose bushes and the junipers and managed to dig up some frozen apples under a wild apple tree. He didn't care much for these things, for you know he 4 cater of meat, and meat was wh wanted and needed. But, as he said to himself, “Food is food, and anything is better than nothing. T'll take what I can get and be thankful for it. These are hard times, but hard times never last for- ever.' A hungry Coyote who refuses anything he can oat because he doesn’t like it deserves to starve. Between times, as he lay in his home, where he was at least warm, he planned where he would go and what he would do when the snow had settled or become crusted over so that he could get about on it. And he dreamed day dreams of a full stomach until his mouth would water. And mostly those day dreams were of certain lit- tle people over in the Green Forest— the beautiful twins of Lightfoot the Deer and Mrs. Lightfoot. One of those twins would keep his stomach full for several days. To ca®ch one would be worth many days of hunger. “I ought to be able to do it if I use my wits,” thought Old Man Coyote. “It will be worth trying, anyway.” Then he would plan just how to cateh one of those fawns, and impatiently poke his head out to see if a crust had yet begun to form over the sno (Coprright, 1921, by T. W. Burgess.) was soft Old went far from In fact, Van Slyke. written, with a flourish. “Just Fudge!" “We have to tie them with red strin, and then they're ready for the market,” she began cxcitedly, after she had kissed John. “The big platefuls sell for a quarter and the little ones for 15 cents, and there's a wicked profit heldon, swathed in one of Merry aprons, extended a sticky hand. “Old cooky wax!" he chided, on in—the packing's fine! John did not react to their merri- nt. He was wet and cold and hun- He felt humiliated to have Shel- don, who was from his home town, hnow things were going wrong. And it seemed to him that he had married an almost criminally frivolous wife. Life seemed a terrible drama to him, and they were treating it like.musi- | cal comedy. ‘Merry's been elected president, vice president and all_the rest of it laughed Sheldon. “You and I are the shipping clerks. Silence in the kitchen. Tow could the dear, blundering youth know that Merriam was helf-sick with worry be- ause John considered it beneath h dignity to acecpt a job as shipping sdell factory cjaculated,” as_John id T do " 1 Merriam. _with sparkling eyes. “Nothing! But you gave me an idea. It's just dawned on me that I've been so sorry for him that I've been too plum saintly You've made me rambunctious, Shell so beat it right now, for my well known temper is about to explode on my sulking brute. Run! ‘And Shelly ran! ‘Whew %o stalked 2 vay. Another episode of this story im to- morrow’s Star. -~ Oat Mealies. Varieties in small cakes are always acceptable, and the following will be found a good recipe for an oat cake that is sure to be liked: Take one cup of coarse oatmeal, one-half cup of flour, four tablespoons of sugar, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, and mix them well together. Rub three table- spoons of butter into the oatmeal mixture and add one teaspoon of bak- ing powder and enough milk to make a stiff dough. Dredge a baking board with a mixture of flour and oatmeal, turn the dough on it and roll out quite thin. Cut into triangles or stamp into circles. Place on a but- tered tin and bake until crisp in a moderate over. The trimmings from the dough from which the cakes have been stamped can be rolled out again and cut into thin fingers. The mealies are best when served hot, but can also be ecaten cold, in either case being spread with butter. with Rags’ excited barks as Sheldon fed him sugar. And Merry found her- self laughing as her guest galed her with accounts of the exploits of his unruly puplils. ‘What's been the matter with you two snobs lately?” he demanded im- pudently. “Never home when T call. Or else I see a whopping big limou- sine outside and dassent come in to shame you before your swell friends.” “Oh, Shelly!” Merriam confided, glad of a sympathetic listener, “we'r> just having more trouble than there is! You can't trouble! job_is lost, and—-" “Yyou're thinking of taking in floo‘:s e to scrub and elevators to run? interrupted flippantly. think what heaps of My dad is lost, and John’s Gouraud’s Oriental Cream “Why, how did you know I was trying to think up something to do?’ Merriam Q’They always do,” Sheldon was calm. “Every dear proper little wife whose husband is out of a job dinvents some simple device that makes a family for- tune or discovers she is a great singer or painter or sculptor or ‘Don’t make fun of me.” Merry was tragic. T'm such a stupid. Not a thing smart about ma I can’t play piar.o enough to play in the movies or give lessons. I hate to sew. I can only cook four things, so I can't take in boarders. I can’t do a single useful thing.” “You make fudge.” “That's no use.” She stirred it dole- fully. “No use! he yelled. “Look me in the eye! How can you say it's mo use ‘when I” he thumped his chest grand- ly, “who am a village schoolma’am, with 192 sweet-guszling boys in per- fect control, can force each and every rascal ih the lot te buy all his fudge froth Mistress Merry. Quite Contrary, Fudge Manufacturer?” “Shelly!” she shduted, “could 12" They began at once. At 7, when John, disheartened and they bedraggled, opened the_ door, were still at it. The house fairly breathed sweetness. shelves, dining table, sideboard, were stacked with pasteboard picnic plates, each fudge fllled and covered with an Tables, pantry CALVERT “COFFEE CHOICE of 7he MARKET BUY . FROM OUR GROCER inverted "plate, on Which Merry had il DECEMBER 29, 1921. | l * Menu for a Day. - BREAKFAST. _Baked Prunes. Cereal ‘With Sugar and Cream. Fried Eggs. Baking Powder Biscuits. Cofree. LUNCHEON. Cheese and Nut Sandwiches. Apple and Date Salad. Little Cakes. Chocolate. DINNER. Soup. . Baked Fish. Hashed Brown Potatoes. Cabbage Salad. Wafers. Orange Charlotte. Coffee. Cheese. HOME ECONOMICS. BY MRS. ELIZABETH KENT. Some Sandwich Hints. Bread for sandwiches should be a day old. If bread of two days is uscd, crusts must be trimmed very closely Fresh bread is not desirable from any point of view. It is difficult to cut, wasted inevitably in the cutting. and not wholesome. Brown, graham or whole-wheat bread for sandwiches may be very conveniently baked in the cylindrical one-pound baking powder tins, when only the end crusts need bet cut off. and the regular slices are very dainty. White bread, however. does not bake well in these tins, and must be cut with a round cutter for circular slices, with con- siderable waste. S Butter for sandwiches should be left in & warm room for-a couple of hcurs and then creamed. The slight waste caused by creaming. which works out come of the water from the butter, is more than made up by the evenness with which the soft creamed butter can be spread with- out waste or danger of tearing the thin bread slices. With evenly baked loaves, each slice may be buttered on the loaf be- fore it is cut, but usually it saves both butter and time and makes a hetter matched sandwich to cut the loaf into thin slices, and then to but- ter and fit like slices together. Tt is practically always advisable to cut off the crusts, and most convenient to do a sharp knife down the four sides of the pile. or it may be fiv i sides, with an uneven loaf. to remove the crusts evenly. All such crusts and broken fragments should be ~aved for bread crumb: should not be softened on Some of it always melts and give: sandwiches an oily, unpleasant flavor and soaks into the bread, making it of a disagreeable consistency Sandwich bread should be cut very thin, spread smoothly to the cdges and corners. and filled evenly. so that the sandwich is neat and trim. (Copyright, 1921.) get -them. keep them. creatures live. out. or bedding, too. x ‘You can now rid any room in the house of these obnoxious insects— quickly, easily and without danger. Wonderful; hafmless Flyosan docs it. Merely. spray Flyosan into the joints of the bed and everywhere the It will bring them Spray them again and the bedbugs become dead bugs. That is all there is to it. As Flyo- spray.it on the scams of the mattress Its - pleasant, aromatic odor is . You can use Flyosan freely. Itis - COLONIAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Reading, Pa. WOMAN"S BY LAURA If You Don’t Like Varnished Floors. Several of my readers have written to say that they don’t want a var- nished surface' on their hardwood floors, and would appreciate an article on a wax treatment. Assuming that the floor is new, or has been recently scraped down so that no finish of any sort remains on it, or at least that it has no varnish or wax upon it, proceed as follows: First apply two coats of a mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and tur- pentine, with enough Japan drier in} it to make it harden over night (to] get the right amount of the drier., mix equal small amounts of the oil and turpentine, add a little drier and try out the mixture on a few inches of floor space as a ‘test). This mix ture brings out the grain of the wood and prevents subsequent grease spots from showing on the floor—as they would If wax were applied without previous oiling. Now and then a reader writes me: that she has put oil and turpentine on | her floors und that it has left a sticky surface: but when I come to investigate I find that she has put it on over an old waxed surface, and, of course, the wax prevents the oil from being absorbed by the wood. It ma: be applied, however, if the wax is al- most entirely worn off the floor. The next step after putting on the two coats of oil and turpentine (dry ing well \after each application) 'is to apply a good grade of wax polish in the following manner: Cover the entire floor with it, putting it on not too thickly with a’cloth and leaving it in this way overnight to harden. The next morning apply a second coat of the wax, again leaving it a while to harden—but this time only for a few hours. All good wax polishes have turpentine in them (usually they are composed of bees- wax, parafin and turpentine) and the turpentine dissolves the surplus wax, thus rendering the coating uniform. | After the second coat of wax has ‘dried for a while, the first polishing is began. Do this with a weighted brush, rubbing with the grain of wood and finishing with a woolen cloth tied over the weighted brush. ~After this first waxing, your floor will not nced another coat untll almost a year, except an a casional rubbing with the weighted brush to keep up the polish. At the end of the year apply a sqcond coat of wax just as vou ap- pled the first, leaving it on over- night to dry and spread evenly, rub- bing on a little more the ncxt morn- ing, then polishing with the weighted | brush. ' If certain portions of your floor re- eive more wear than others and lose their wax polish, apply a little warm wax to these worn-down parts tliroughout the vear as follows: Set v a pan of boiling x is slightly melted, then rub a little of this warm wax on_the worn spots of the floor with a soft_cloth, polishing immediately. Wax floors which have been whit- ened by water should be polished with a woolen cloth which has been varmed In the oven. In homes where there are children ér eiderly people ,who might receive accidents from siipping on a waxed floor it is best simply to apply thel oil and turpentive (with the Japan drier as above mentioned). not put- % any wax on the floor. The oil’ hair or feathers. " EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPING PAGE. " KIRKMAN. and turpentine gives a soft, velvetry finish which is more highly admired by some housckeepers than a pol- ished wax surface. Children do so love to cuf things up! Well, here's something it will be a pleasure to reconstruct Let Bell choose, one of the many nicely colored pictures which will be found in any of the magazines. Let her mark it off and cut it into small irregular pieces. After. the pleces have been mixed up, Bell must put them together again to form the orig- inal picture. 1t will not be as easy as it might secm. 5 R. L. RIBLE. t, 1921.) (Cops Things for Boys Materials Necded—Cotorcd-and white ardboard and paste. By cutting from colored and white ardboard the required shapes for the diffcrent parts of a design, catehy posters in color may be made. Sketch on thin paper must show distinct line for cach cutting edge. Trace from this sketch the parts nccessary for eachh color, cut out and ‘mount in proper places. The tracing and cut- ting must be done well and fitted ~losely. The color key shown above #xplains itself. The pennant may be made up of class colo LE ROY CRIGLE (Copyright, 1921.) 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