Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 18

WOMAN’S PAGE. To the average mind it seems a bit extraordinary to use metal in hot weather. The fact that it has been done throughout the centuries in ori- ental countries, where the weather is hottest, does not commend it to our taste. The fact that Paris does not hesitate to put it on the best of her new gowus is one reason that Ameri- cans take it up. One has to be careful in choosing the welght of metal to be u: Heavy bands of gold braid are not suitable for hot days, even though they are used on fabrics as fragile as black chiffon. Thick silver galloon is not commended, although it appears on wraps of white broadcloth, of white crepe de chine and georgette crepe, in the Viennese-opera-with-music-by- Strauss style. What one should use is 2 thin trac- ing of metal embroidery, something that flashes in and out of the vision, something not too blatant, a flicker- ing tracery of gold and silver. This was once used on silk jersey by Chanel and other DParis designers, who created American sport clothes. It was used last winter on silk fiber sweaters. One should not really call these garments sweaters, for the name does not define. Jumper blouse is a better name. That is the name the English give it. They were the first to use it and see its advantages over the average blouse. France glorified it by sprinkling tinsel through it and the idea is worked out with any kind of em broidery put on summer frocks. T fine tinsel threads give color without welght. They run through lace with admirable effect. The sketch shows a frock designed by Charlotte, who makes dozens of frocks for American women and ! American shops. It is of midnight blue crepe de chjne with sil lace wrought with gold and silver em- broidery. The lace is as fine as a cobweb and the metallic embroidery does not add appreciably to its weight. It is an admirable invention of the French to reduce the weight of metallic trimming so that it may be worn by women who will not per- mit heaviness in their summer clothes. They get the glitter without discomfort. It also provides us with an unusual decoration for thin ‘summer gowns and it enlivens lace. (Copyright, 1923.) GENUINE Somerugslook like real wire grass, but when used break up and pull apart Jike straw. Every genuine Crex rug has the name “CREX” in the binding which guarantees it to be firmly woven twisted wire grass, the only material known that produces a gen- uvinely serviccable floor cov- ering combining good taste and least possible cost. GRASS RUGS ey FoUDS MACARONI DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA al flour- n gluten a rlch%ct Full half-pound package mfl 10§ b Metal Embroidery Is Featured BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. ! BEAUTY CHATS GOWN BY CHARLOTTE OF PARIS, OF MIDNIGHT BLUE WITH SIL- VER LACE. GOLD AND SILVER EMBROIDERY ADDS TO THE ME- TALLIC GLITTER. THE LACE CAPE I3 TRIMMED WITH PINK SILK ROSES. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. Keeping the Hair Fluffy. In the late winter and early spring many women write to me complain- ing of olly halr. This is probably be- cause the halr gets very little ex- posure to sun or to outdoor weather during the winter months. The wom- an who has suffered from too much oil should take ‘advantage of this part of the year to bring her hair to such good condition that she will have no trouble next winter. For one thing she should go with- out a hat whenever possible. When she shampoos her hair she should choose a warm, sunny day and dry it outdoors. It would be an excel- lent thing (f she could go about part of the day with her hair brushed loosely back and hanging in & braid | down her back. This is excelient for the hair itself and restful to the scalp. She should not ba afraid of sunlight. Some women feel they must cover their hair immediately with a hat, or put up a parasol the moment the sun comes out. Too much blazing hot sun, of course, will not do, but the i If you find the Kraft name on it you can rest assured that it’s great; the best cheese you can buy; that it is full cream, rich and { Once every hair can stand an enormous amount of heat and direct sunshine. iliness is a morbid condition of the scalp, and too much shampooing only does it harm. Some women say they must shampoo every week to keep the hair fluffy. This is much too often. two weeks or once every three weeks is quite enough. If the hair becomes greasy in the mean- time it shoud be kept fluffy with spe- claly colored powder. Directions for coloring powders were given re- cently. B. P. F.—Your scalp Is in need of a good tonic which will also act upon the coloring. I do not think the treat- ment you mention can restore gray halr to its natural shade. Patricia—If vou take a blood puri- ! fier it will clear your skin. A simple old-time remedy for this is made from flour of sulphur and molasses, merely rubbed together until it looks | like a paste. The dose is a teaspoon- ful three times each day for three days, then omit it for three days and repeat the dose again for another thres days. After you have taken as much as nine days of these doses, walt about ten days before you take any more, and If the skin Is clear you should not continue with it. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AR Menu for & Day. BREAKFAST. Blackberries. Cereal. Minced Fish on Toast Waflles. LUNCHEON. Egg and Lettuce Salad. Your Home, and You . BY HELEN KENDALL free. Sliced Pineupple. Sponge Cake. A Week at a Time. ea. * One thing that every home wom DINNER. knows i that it fsn't the work B‘hfr;_m: of I‘elcfil:lnn-m.“ does but the things she ‘leaves un- Spinach. " Bolled Potatoes. 2 done that fatigue her. The heavenly feeling of satisfaction that comes after getting some on thing thorough- ly finished up, whether it is the family mending basket, the ohildron's sum- mer underclothes or a kitchen cup- board cleaned out and rearranged. This rests a housewife more than hours of repose after working at tasks even thén uncompleted. Haven't you often been haunted by Cabbage_Salad. Cheese Relish. - Cherry Pudding. Coffee. HBigtory of Pour Name MYERS VARIATIONS — Mysr, Meyer, Mayor, Lemaire. RACIAL ORIGIN—German, also Nor. man English and modern French. SOURCE—Descriptive of occupation. This group of family names fs pe- cullar in that it has two separate and distinct origins, in words of dif- ferent languages and having different meanings. In the course of centuries changes of spelling have taken place, bringing about such an Intermingling that today there iy no sure method, barring definitely known history of an individual's ancestry, of telling trom just which source his name de- veloped. One of these sources is meler, a Ger- man word, meaning farmer. AS prob- ably a larger number of German fam- {ly names than of any other ruce has been taken from occupational sources, and as the occupation of farmer was just as widespread, and probably more 80, In the middle ages than it is Miers, now, you can readily see how the name “must have developed simul- taneously throughout Germany, and how it has been brought wholesale into this country by German immi- grants. Tha other source Is the old English word meyer, which today is mayor. The modern French form is “le maire,” or when it is used as a family name, Lemaire. Inasmuch as farmers were more common in old Germany than mayors were in old England, and since Ameri- can names come from Germany as well as England and other countries, the chances are that the bulk of the Myerses in the United States trace their names to German rather than English origin. In this case the ac- tual spelling is of no certain value. Ilt as been changed around too many times. LISTEN, WORLD! [ | BY ELSIE ROBINSON, Diles of sheets with frayed hems that g0 back to the shelves week after weck because you haven't timg to at- tend to them? Or a darning basket from which only the absolutely must- haves emerge, leaving a famillar col- laction of stockings too good to be thrown away and too badly worn to be darned quickly? The worst of it is we all know these blots on the *scutcheon of our housekeeping could be wiped out in a few hours, if we could only get at them! | A very wise man wrote a book on rs ago, and he recom- Jog. Y00 want ACTION watch me!* now there, that wears us out and g us nowhere Realizing this, a certain home wom- an I know has worked out a scheme of devoting her time week by week to some one special thing, and doing it thoroughly. One week, for ex- ample, is “linen-closet weck.” Every moment she can spare, after the rou- tine work is done, she devotes to sorting out, mending, rearranging and replenishing her bed and table linen. It will not have to be done again for many weeks. nother w she calls “under- ery undergarment is darned, reinforced and de or bought, as needed. over, one: | closet week,” when i the house is over- i and “cushion week.” when | pillow or cushion is beaten. leleaned or recov Sirce T was high enouch to sample | V700, o1 Ten the varnish the rungs the kitchen chairs T have heard of the value of system. Nystem was the big | idea, the main hunch, the vital vit mine in the successful carcer—so they told me. With system the world was Al the veran- eeping porch red with fresh cov- perhaps the fur- newly painted. By spending 2 h feature of the home, it surprising to see how much can ccomplished and how long it will accomplished. It is much better wholesome. 3 varieties: American, Pimento, Swiss, sold the slice, pound or loaf. 8 VARIETIES IN TINS Beautifys. Complexion INTEN DAYS Nadinola CREAM The Usequaled Beautifier ug..dtu-—l Guaranteed to remove tan, freckles, pimples, sallowness, etc. treme cases. Rids res and tissues of impurities. Leaves the skin clear, soft, healthy. At leading toilet counters. At Pre-War Prices, Twe Sizes, 80c. and §1 00 NATIONAL TOILET CO., Paris, Tenm Heeps perfectly for mo: in any climate without ::: least possibility of becom- ing flat or unfit for use. Wm. Qraham Egerton Pl e For Burning Eczema Apply Zemo, the Antiseptic Liquid—Easy to Use From any druggist for 35¢, or $1.00 for large size, get a bottle of Zemo. ‘When applied as directed it effects ively removes Eczema, quickly stops itching, and heals skin troubles, also Sores, Burns, Wounds and Chafing. It penetrates, cleanses and soothes. Zemo is a clean, depend- able and inexpensive antiseptic liquld. Try it, as we believe nothing you have ever used is as effective B i SPRAY i ITKILLS P MOSQUITOES JAll l)o:lvléj's’ Sell It tobacco PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Noted Physician and Awthor. It Isn’t Fit to Eat. A reader takes the pulpit today: “You medical writers seem to be entirely ignorant of the fact that is used in any other way than smoked. Do you never come in contact with chewers, or is tobacco innocuous when used in this way? In our vicinity (and I imagine similar condtions obtain in other parts) but a small minority of men working In the factories do not chew. At the height of prosperity Goodyear em- ployed 30,000. Their factory weekly announced that their private supply store was selling 10,000 packages of tobaocoo & day. Perhaps half of the men bought their tobacco outside the factory. Of course, a good many of the employes were women, none of whom, it seems safe to say, chewed. In view of these facts it would seem that chewing is a very prevalent practice and, since you have Issued such convincing talks on the smoke nuisance, I belleve & great many readers would appreciate a discussion from an unprejudiced health expert on_chewing. Perhaps we should have hung out placards informing all comers that 1his meeting was to be for men only. Still forewarned is forearmed, and perhaps it would be as well to admit cigaret smoking, er, females; for those of them who do not adopt pipes eventually may take up chewling. The chewing habit arises de novo in very rare instances, though as a general rule it is acquired by degrees from nibbling bits of tobacco while smoking. ‘Whether chewing is more injurious than smoking I do not know. If I were to hazard a mere conjecture I should say smoking is much more injurious. The difficulty In forming an opinion lies In the uncertainty of our knowle of the effect of to- bacco. That oking is injurious and in many cases fatal of course every physiclan knows, but whether the in- jury is attributable to nicotine or some other substance in tobacco, or to carbon monoxide formed in the proc- ess of combustion, we are still un- certain. If the injury is due to the small but appreciable amounts of car- bon monoxide in tobacco smoke, that would rather favor chewing, so far as toxic effects are concerned. But sside from the question of polsoning, out of mere decency any man should be ashamed to chew tobacco if he as- sociates with clean people. It scarcely possible that scores of employes In a factory or shop could chew while at work without expectorating more or less. Alas for the brutish fiith of some workingmen! They expectorate in the running oil or cutting mixture in machine shops, thus contaminating the mixture and infecting their helpless assoclates with bolls and other skin and wound infections. Such men ought to be hazed Into s realization of their un- endurable flithiness by the men who have to work alongside. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. ‘Tuberculosis. Is there any risk involved in wisit- in dear friend who I8 in bed with tuberculosis, when the visitor is twenty-four years old and goes about twioe & week, staying half an hour each time?- L. A Answer.—Not if the patient is in- telligent and properly trained (as in a tuberculosis hospital or Banato- rium), and the visitor remains outside of :.ht five-foot barrage during the Dandelions. Is the weed called dandelion good to ! eat? Has it any particular medicinal value?—Mrs. D.C. G. Answer.—It is an excellent source of iron and vitamins, and a very appetizing relish for some persons. The Eye-Opener. Which s better for a man of twenty-seven years to drink, a glass of warm water or a glass of cold ‘water before breakfast each morning? —L E. M. Answer—A man aged twenty- seven should take cold water, one or several glasses, each morning. Popular Myth of Methers. 1 have been going without corsets for several weeks and I find I quite like the new freedom of movement and the comfort—but mother says 1 will get out of shape and never again my youthful figure unless I keep corsets on.—H. F. Answer—And yet, how few moth- ers have managed to retaln youthful figures, though always wearing cor- sets! The youthful figure will rematn with you longer if you do not resume corsets. Train your own muscles to support you for life. Moles and Cancer. I have two moles on my face which I should llke to have removed. Does removing them lead to 8. A. F. Answer.—Not when this is done by a physician or surgeon. It is only the bungling efforts of unskilled per- sons to remove such blemishes that may predispose to cancer. (Copyright, 1922.) Now is the time to get your bathing suit ready. Here is a brald-trimmed bathing suit, the braid of which is put on in a very attractive design. It simulates the waves of the ocean, appropriate, indeed, for a bathing suit. The blook lines at the bottom of the sketch show you how to ar- range the rows of braid. The suit itself can be modeled after any of the one-plece slip-over designs. This braid-trimmed bathing sult can be made in any combination of colors. FLORA. (Copyright, 1022 Prices Swift & Company sajes of le-ll wllh‘lfiwl. ‘D, C., fot week ending Saturday, June 1T, on ahi ments sold_ out, froi 13 canla o jre conte pox pousit ad averages 1438 ceats per Violin lessons at 8 ocents each are avallable to-the puplls of ome Lon- don school. mine—without it I might as well be |\ a palaeozolc squid. Which s all very lovely, provided you are born with a card flle mind and the dlsposition ch need a “lick and a and cancer?— of & nicely olled eggbeater. I wasn't. So, for the sake of those who are similarly out of tune with the infinite, I write this. I am well aware that it is against the spirit of the times | and gives the lle to about 999.99y | nifty volumes entitled “How to Suc- ceed.” Nevertheless, I'm going to say It, so le's go! I'm not systematic. rstem and hav it when I do onn b has a certain valus L encrgy and for those wio lika to dis- | tribute themselves in pigeonholes ivs | an excellent idea. But system alon never yet won the game for any one, and it never will. No matter how elaborate or efficient, system |s not and cannot be a substitute for imagi- nation. I think we make a mistake In teach. Ing our young people to regard regu: larity and order quite so highly— without showing them those at- tributes which are infinitely more powerful than regularity and order. We lead them to believe that system will work a magical hocus-pocus for them which land them forthwith in the milllonaire class. Then, when patlent, orderly drudgery falls them, they become bitter at the supposed injustice of the whole Industrial sys- tem. Let us teach them the value of inspired Irregularity, of dar'ng initia- tive that overturns establiched or- ders and dispenses with rules and regulations, of individual cdventures instead of collective programs. Why do the same thing in the same way every time? Why not try a new way? What were your brains given to_you for? Only by rebellions and departures! will you achleve the big success and keep life adventuresome, Use system as an occasional useful tool, but keep it a tool. Card file other people's ad- dresses, but keep yourself on the move. (Copyright, 1922.) Easy Desserts. Here are some good dessert recipes for a busy day. They are all de- lclous and none of them especially difficult to make: Orange Sherbet.—Mix together the juice of ten oranges and one lemon. Add two cups of sugar, three cups of water and half a package of soaked and dissolved gelatin. Add a little grated orange pecl, and, if de- sired, the unbeaten whites of one or two eggs. Strain and freese. Prune Souffie—Stew half a pound of prunes and mash through a fine sieve. Add half a cup of sugar and fold in the stifly beaten whites of four eggs. Bake In a buttered bak- ing dish in a moderate oven and serve with whipped cream. fo it's the | Creamed Ham and Rice on Toast. Wash one-half a cup of rice through several waters; drain, then add slow- v to rapfdly bolling water. Allow four cups of bolling water to one-half of rice. Boil for twenty min- drain through & colander, pour water over the rice and let irip. Put it in a covered pan with # teaspoonful of melted butter et it stand in a rather cool oven for about ten minutes. This method makes cach kernel of rice dry and fluffy. To make the sauce, melt one tahlespoon- ul of butter in a saucepan, stir in one tablespoonful of flour and when perfectly smooth add one and one- half cups of milk slowly, stirrin constantly. Cut one-fourth pound o Amerlcan daliry cheese in small pieces nd add it to the white sauce. Stir over the fire until the cheese is melt- ed. Reason with salt, according to the saitiness of the ham to be used. Cut some_triangies of bread about one- fourth inch thick and trim off the crust. Toast quickly and arrenge on a hot platter. Put a layer of minced cooked ham on the toast, add a layer of the rice. Pour the sauce over all. Sprinkle with paprika and garnish with parsley. Will serve four persons and is deliclous. The Housewife’s | Idea Box Way to Sweeten Lemonade. On a warm day what is more re- freshing than a nice cool drink of lemonade! To get the best results in sweetening it dissolve the required amount of sugar in a little hot water. Allow this sugar water to oool. have found that thié will sweeten the lemonade much more efficiently than Poverty Pudding.—Mix one cup of | any other way. THE HOUSEWIFE. milk, one egg well beaten, halt a cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one tablespoonful of Jelly or grated chocolate, and two cups of flour sifted with a teaspoon each of cinnamon and baking pow- der. Steam for three hours and serve with sauce. < Trifle—Fill a deep glass dish near- ly full with layers of lady fingers, macaroons, and some delicately fla- vored. preserve. Pour over it, with one teaspoonful of vanllla, orange Juice gufficlent to soak the cake. Make a custard of the yolks of four eggs, one pint of milk and three table- spoonfuls of sugar. Pour over the cake, Cover with a meringue made of the whites of the eggs and three tablespoonfuls Of powdered sugar. Set in the oven to get a faint tinge of yellow. Snow Pudding—Half of a box of g:lllln is dissolved in one pint of iling water. Add two cups of sugar and the juice of two lemons. Strain and put into a cool place until it begins to stiffen; then add the whites of 'two eggs, well beaten. ‘When perfectly mixed put into mold. Make a soft custard of the the yolks of the two eggs, one pint of ‘'milk and sugar and salt to taste. Pour around the pudding when served. (Copyright, 1922.) MONDAY, JU | i l NE 19, 1922, - Settle By Lucille The Wife Who Wouldn't A Sequel to “Brides Will Be Brides” . FEATURES. Down! Van Slyke. The Rift Within the Loot. HE Treasure, who was “cul- 1ud” and young and neat and marvelously cheerful, arrived at the back door of the Pump- kin Shell promptly at 8 o'clock on & Tuesday morning. She was simply too good to be true. The day previous she had plowed joyously through a perfectly enor- mous washing of clothes belonging to Mr. and Mrs. John Munro Lindsay, Master John Richard Lindsay and Miss Fredericka Leland Lindsa ise you Is,” the Treas- ure had sung she had left on Mon- day, “that each and every Monday, the sky being blue and you being willing, 1 does contrac’ to do your wash clean. Each and every Tues- duy, rain or shine, the sky having been blue on Monday, I does agree to rastle with all yo oni! I'se no use at all for tho dawdles with a dab of washing like you all and I admires steady places, I do Merriam Lindsay, dazed by th quisition of such a paragon, wandersd about all Tuesday, occasionally pinch- ing herself to make sure that she was not dreaming. For the little bronze-haired matron’s bete nolr had been the laundry problem. “I'se livin' easy, Pork chops are rellg. e ‘Lasges is flowin’ all the day— The Treasurs sang _softly to the pleasant click of her flatiron. “Slhorely does admire doing off these handsome romplings,” she confided when Merriam went to the kitchen to prepare the babies' luncheon. *“I do declare I don't know when I has seen a more magnicious collection of romplings.” The clothes bars were stacked with her morning’s achievements. Merriam wanted to pat her or hang a rosy wreath upon her dusky brow, but cautlously forbore and strove instead to act it she had been long accus- {omed o such laundering par excel- erice. “And don't you sofl your pretty lit- tle fingers washing up your little dab of lunch di the Treasure con- tinued. “I'll polish those off for you in betwixt times whilst my iron Is he‘arflnz. You just go rest your sweet seit Merriam did just that. Cuddled on 11 1 kin pio her chintz-covered hammock ou the side porch, she luxuriated in the peace that had descended upon her prone - to - be - turbulent _household g our tasks up intoCurled on the braided doormat, guard- *vour i lishable bundles.” 1f you ean see(ing the house, lay Ragsy, her Cairn z"“‘;fi Q!'r"gh* throuely 1o the eompletion of a Job. terrier. In the nureery upstairs the or the Steady {¥ou can do it with half |twins sank Into the depths of the , but 1f {is putting in half touches, now jlongest nap that they had ever fought {to the winking of the last eyelash. Throughout a blissful afternoon Mer- riam drowsed over a new novel, nib- bled bonbons and played fine lady generally—a rare enough game for lh;r in these servantless days of her ife. “To think that every Monday and every Tuesday I shall feel this well served wayl” she thought dreamily. “And every Thursday there's dear old Susan Sue to do the mending—poof! ¢ an't mind drudging the other days. Life will be something like, now that I have the Treasure for that awful tubbing and scrubbing and starching and ironing.” , BY GLADYS HALL., Edith Roberts’ Ambition. The day I met Edith Roberts she wore a jade-green, feathery hat, & “chic” black frock and high-heeled slippers. Ses I to myself, ses I, “She'll be frivolous. She'll talk about fads and fancles, jass and the novels of Robert W. Chambers. Shell be a Serious Young rown. ‘cute’ She'll say that she likes to play soclety ladles on the screen.” But she didn’t and she wasn't—I was wrong again! She iz a most serious young person. She believes in sociclogy, psychol- ogy, metabology (she didn't say so, but I'm sure she does), spiritism and most of the ologies and lsms. She belleves In prayer, too, and long-ago dreams come true and old-fashioned things. She says that she owes her career to her mother—that it was absolute- ly predestined and _foreordained. “Mother always said,” Edith told me, “that nothing could ever mean so much to her as having a talented daughter, and by ented’ she meant Edith Reberts Is Pe FAVORITE RECIPES s OF WOMEN Ne. 6—~BY LADY NANCY ASTOR. 014 Virginia Batter Bread. One cup sifted meal; one tablespoon lard; one teaspoon salt; pinch of soda. Mix in bowl with enough boiling 1| water to make a mush. Thin with one cup of sweet milk. Beat in two eggs. Butter the baking pan and pour mix- ture in and bake thirty minutes. {Copyright, 1922.) ICED "SALADA” Teaisreallyamostrefreshing, economical and harmless summer bev - TRY IT. It is easily made and the flavour is unique. Diary of a Professional Movie Fan At § o’clook she went to the kitchen to give her laborer her well earned hirs. That dusky damsel continued ironing. “I've just a couplo of more towels to press off,” she murmured cheer- fully. “I don’t mind ever working a few minutes overtime when I'se working for quality li you. T oouldn't take a penny extra. prides myself on doing a completeous job, I does. You just run along and dress those pretty babies! Bless their souls, hear now how they's a-splash- in, $rerriam “ran along.” singing gayly. She had two spicky-span clean romp- ers over onc arm, two spicky-span clean sets of undies over the other and the snowlest of white socks tucked under her elbow. Moreover, she was herself already garbed In immaculate garments that were pristine from the treasure’s magic touches. “Johnsy,” she whispered excitably to her husband half an hour later, as that young gentleman appeared on the threshold, I simply feel that I must be dreaming! Do you hear that humming in our kitchen, do you? That's the treasure! She's worked almost an hour overtime and simply won't take a cent extra. She's a perfect joy. Just watch her go out She takes off all her work clothes and puts on neat and tidy street clothes. Honestly, 1 never saw anybody so particular.” The treasure appearcd to bid the Lindsay family what formal good evening. “Next Monday morning, the sky be- ng blue,” she glibly sang her slogan, “Romabel will be at vour servi in their tub!” presently a some- madam; that is, if my two dayy’ trial work has pleased you all Good evening, Master Dicky: gvod even- good evening, ing, little Miss Ricky I bid you one Mr. and Mrs. Lindsa: ood evening! Around the pebbled side path she tripped, & neat fishnet bag over her arm, from the top of which pro- truded her work shoes that were efficiently parked on her carefully rolled working clothes. At her hcels trailed Ragsy, snifing curiously. “Run along baock to vour pretty missy,” crooned the treasure. But Ragsy did nothing of the kind. Ho cocked his ears and sniffed some more. And suddenly he made a mad )leap for that fishnet bag. He set his teeth into it and he held outo it And when the treasure tried to met it away he simply shook it violently Out from the folded work c poured a stream of rice and Out tumbled a fine napkin, which rolled the tenderest tidbits | that had been stowed in the Lindsay | icebox. Out jingled silver spoons. and with them came Merry's very best silk stockings. The treasure simply bolted down the road. “Mercy me!” gasped Merriam. from the porch. “Whatever is all that?” John put a comforting arm about her as Ragsy sat down to demolish the tidbits. “That, my dear,” he quoth, with a wicked twinkle in his eyes, as he pointed to the torn fishnet bag, “is what the poet has so aptly phrased ‘the rift within the loot’!” (Copyright, 1922.) v’ Star.) the stage, too. cause she didn’t know, then, about But that's only be- the screen. Anyway, she used to pray that I would be an actress when I grew up. I think she had wanted to be one herself, but they thought differently about such things ITTLE CIORIES lJG‘BflS)Tn??f: A Meeting That Wasn’t by Chance. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Far. far more often than you dream Things are oot as or what they seem —3Mra. Whitefoot Whitefoot, the Wood Mouse, kept away from that new home which he and Mrs, Whitefoot had made in tha old home of Melody, the Wood Thrush. Never had Whitefoot done anything quite so hard to do aw keeping away from that home and Mrs. Whitefoot. Dozens of times he started in that direction to have Just a peep at that home from wh he had bcen driven, but each tin hie remembered that Mrs. Whitefor had told him to Xkeep away from there, and that Jimny Sku har advised him to do just as Mrs, White- foot told him to do. For several davs and nights in didn’t get 60 much as a gilmpse of Mra Whitefoot. He wondered littde “WHA — WHA — WHAT'S THAT™ BTAMMERF i T HE HA how she was getting along. He won- dered if she n't miss him a wea bit. Ha wondered if sho founid plenty 1o eat. These were only a few of the things that he wondered about He was still very but not unhappy. quite #8 unhapp. fore hi o from her would thir met her Iy, I ai you were whe: said he, rath crossly. “This is just a chance mee ing. If T had known you were ove kere T wouldn't have come at all” Little Mrse. Whitefoot chuckled tu hermelf softly. That meeting hadn't been by chance at all. The truth is she -had planned that meeting. Sh had been watching for Whitef: when he started out to hunt for his supper, and then she had hidden be- hind that stump eo th; Whitefoot would be sure to meet her. “Thank you, my dear. for this fat ,” said she, sweetly. “It was most thoughtful of you to drive hir straight into my paws. “But—but—but I di; this wa 't mean tn stammered Whitefoot. “T didn’t know u were there I've just tul you, it was just cha 7 Little Mrs. W if she hadn't ¥ heard tefoot acted Just as a wonl he said T am very hungry, for of late I haven't had much time to hunt for food,” she chattered on. “It was Just like you to be so thoughtful of me. Iam sure this bectle is going 1o be the sweetest beetle that I have eaten for a long, long time. Don't you think, my dear, that when you have found your own supper it would be nice to come over to the house? “Wha—wha—what's that?” stam- mered Whitefoot as if he hadn't un- derstood. when mother was young.” “1 asked you if you don't think it % “Speaking of the stage,” I said,|would be nice to come over to the "acr:'"you ambitlous in that direc-| house after you have found your supper.” Miss Roberts shook her poised,| ‘‘Do—do—do you re mean that? dark head. “I'm a one-thing-at-a- itefoot, eagerly. cried Wh time person,” she sald. “I belleve “Wh that & person s capable of doing only one big thing at a time andl|s doing it really well. 1 believe in| concentration. ~ As svon as you scat- | ter vour energies and interests you| rob ‘them of their vitality. After 1 have done something really worth while on the screen then it will he | time enough to think of the stage.|happer I've had quite a few offers,” she|fool. hite anding. added modestly. “How do they make vou feel?" “They give me confidence,” said small Edith. “I work ever so much harder after I have had some mark of favor. To be in demand creates self-confidence where it never was belbre.” I wanted to tell you what she thinks about spiritism, but shall have to let it go for another time. Even | or do. The was foot were beyond his un But finally he wisely d: the most of his opportunity. go over there right now,” said he “But you haven’'t had your supper yet!” cried little Mrs. Whitefoot “I don't want any supper.” olared Whitefoot. “I'm not hungry. I was chasing that beetle just for fun. 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