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WOMAN’S PAGE. Can a Woman Make Over a Shiftiess Mant iDorothyDix‘ Answers “No” Emphatioally —Soys “It Can't Be Done” There’s No More Heartbreaking and Impossible Task Than Trying to Put Backbone Into a Lazy Husband—Love and Respect Lost in Attempt. A GIRL sald the other day: young man and initiative. DOROTHY DIX. “When head at Lazine goes to the bome. “Whether indolent worm, or whether they are afilicted with some their ‘cnergies, 1 do not know. “l am engaged to be married to a fine who has but one fault. He's got pleaty of ability He is utterly lacking in energy but he has been for years in the same position, where he does just barely enough’ work to hold his job. “Hls motto is ‘Never do anything today t you can put off until tomorrow,” and he could give any Mexican points on manana and still push him off the cactus fleld. He never answers a letter under three weeks, and when I am golng with him anywhere he is always late com- ing for me, and I have to wait, and walt. and walt, until I am in a red-hot temper when he does ar- rive. “What he needs is somebody to ke continually behind him, and P and prod him Into making a success of himself.” “My dear,” dertake the sald 1. “don’t you un- job unleas you are out hunting for tréuble, and have a cosmic urge for making a martyr of vourself, for, believe me, no woman ever undertakes as heartbreaking a task as does the one who sets her hand to making over a man. “In the first place it can't be done. Nature iand habit have both zotten in their deadly work before she has ever taken & shy at the! task. a man is born tired the do-nothing sign is set on his fore- rth, and no mere wife can eradicate it, though she skin him alive. 4 clothful people are the victime of the hook- | soul disease m\z paralyzes “But 1 do know that laziness is an incurable vice, and that you can do nothing with the people to whom no achievement is worth the effort to whom labor is the ultimate curse of the world, and whose only to loat life. t kind of a n through supply him with the optimistic women have essayed this no w supplement his backbone with her “ jacked up all the time, that on She slgn the th 1d no wife, no matter how much of & human dyvnamo she i power he meeds to n never loves a woman well enough to work for can make him a go-getter. Many impossible feat, but_they all fail, for % can transfuse her own pep into the veins of a flabby husband, or own_spinal column. %", S for a woman making anything of 2 man by trying to Keep him is ¥ “ffect of a wife keeping continually after a husband and trying to spur him on is to make him hate her. . thorn in the fiesh. ioathes most. She Is the nagging of his consclence. another fallacy. Forget it. The She is the outward and visible She is a perpetual reminder of his own shame in being too weak and inert to do a man's “No man's nag him about his shortcoming: important figure in the outs! wife shall admire him, that she shall wp to her standard of manhood. part. “Therefore, you society &F cannot picture of a wife who is a spur in an if he has done this, and why he h the achievements of other men. “No domestic happine: utual admiration soc are loved are who to e n who y those in who the admire him, an love survives having A man may suspect e world, but his vanity »d, urging him to take the hazardous jumps. rning to come home at night to a wife who is aiways asking him asn't dome that, and throwing up to his wife tell him of -his faults, or that he cuts no demands that his believe in him, that he shall measure a man finding much comfort in the his side. roweling him on to gréater Nor can you imagine a is predicated upon husband and wife holding instead of an anvil chorus, and the wives are most adept at incense burning good work. A man must have some if his wife doesn't he hunts up some other , which is an elemental fact in mascullne psychology that to bear in mind. a man's inspiration, which on of s to the al _practice to be. women find that they soon r women do not love long making a vertebrate . {s the way women camouflage their man out of mush, is something feminine love of meddling in other people's business. is neither as diverting Putting aside the difficulties of the task and its boome: nor as successful as ng lose interest in the undertaking. where they do not respect, and no woman respects the man who has not strength to stand alone, but who has to lean on a woman, nor can she respect the man who is just too inert to hold his own among men. “To a woman. just plain laziness, lack of energy, slothful self-indul- gence in ease are the unforgivable the breaking of all the is married to a man whe ., my dear,” I said to the girl, tdea of making him over. Marr: made over.” sins. She could more easily condone Ten Commandments. And when she finds out is afrald of work, love flles out of the “don't marry a shiftless man with a hustler who doesn't need to be DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1923.) Adventures of the Fedwell Family Father Slimkins Finds That He Re‘quires a Diet for Diabetes. BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS, Food Specialist. *1 wonder where Mrs. Slimkins i #aid Mother Fedwell. ‘She has not been to our neighborhood teas for two weeks." “Here she {s now ums, “but she looks very sober. hope nothing is wrong." It was a very sad-faced Mother Slimkins who joined her friends, and who, even before they asked, sald: Sam is 11l and I'm so worried.” Under the sympathetic questions it all ne out. The doctor sald that Father Slimkins had dlabetes. “It is hard, of course sald Mother Tedwell, “but you must not lose heart. Don’t you know that a won- derful treatment for diabetes has been discovered? And even before that the selentific folk had worked out such a careful diet system that the person with diabetes may really be sald to have his case in his own hands. “Of course, I shall not dare to pre- scribe, nor to give any real details, for only your physician can do that. I will tell you, however, how to go about planning Father Sam’'s food. By this time Mother Slimkins was Yooking quite cheered. said Mother Eat- I BEDTIME STORIES A Log That Is Alive. i not too trusttul of your eyes Lest you may get & sad surpri —0ld Mother Five times Danny Meadow Mouse Jeft his hiding place on the bank of a river and started toward a great, tig, old log lying on the bank in the sun. Five times his courage failed him and ho ran back. He had heard or seen nothing to frighten him back, but the feeling that he was right out in the open had been too much for him. But each time he had tried it be had become a little bolder and had gone a little farther. At last he made up his mind that it would be qulte safe to run over and examine that old log. An old log ture. PLOWLY THAT GREAT _LOG MOV- ED TOWARD THE WATER. I¥ing on the bank Iike that must be Lollow. . At least it must have & hol- Jow in it big enough for a tired little meadow mouse to curl up in and take 8 nap. So once more Danny started to_scamper over to that old iog. He had almiost reached it when the most astonishing thing happened. Yes sir, the tnost astonishing thing hap pened. What looked like four stubs ©f broken branches on its sides began to move, and then that whole log it- self began to move. It was walking on_those four stubs! If you could have seen Danny then you would have thought that his fun. &y little eyes were golng to pop right licious in flavor, “l knew you could help me, and Sam and I together will pull him through this fight, T know. “I am sure you will,” sald Mother Fedwell. “Powdered bran must take the place of bread: saccharine the place of sugar. You can get many of the dla- betic preparations at special health shops. Bran muffins must be made after a_ carefully supervised rul cheese, bacon, game, fish and meats and eggs may be used with reasona- ble freedom; asparagus and caulifiower are among the vegetables. “One thing {s most Important; learn all the dainty ways of serving you can, for Sam's appetite will flag at oiher Simu other Slimkins was so cheered at finding that the case was not hope- less, and that there was really a great deal which she could do by way of helping her husband back to health, that she went away almost happy. The chiet thing which Mother Fed- weil had accomplished was this cheer- to study the problem in all { A diabetic diet is a study in itself, but the rewards are large. By Thornton 'W. Burgess. out of his head. He was too aston- ished to even be afraid. Never in his iife had he heard of a log walking. But this log was walking. And in his funny, furry little head Danny had no room for anything but pure astonish- ment. There wasn't éven room for fear. He stopped right where he was and simply stared and stared and stared. tomatoes and spinach | are necessities; egg plant, cabbage, ' ing of her friend and the {nducing her | ts detalls. ! | pudding was in that household taboo! { sprinkled on the bottom a THE The Weakly News. ‘Weather. Genrel. Sisstety Page Mr. Charles (Puds) Simkins was presented by his father with a .lite Eroen suit last week and even If you | don’t think mutch of it you haff to ad- mit you can see him coming twice as far away as you use to. Intristing Facks About Intristing Poeple Shorty Judge can add and subtrack rite in his hed with his own nind faster than other fellows can do it on paper with o pencll. When asked how he does it he repiled modestly, “Darn if 1. know.” Leroy Shooster has a ant that ways 260 pounds. Amung_those who have saw her are Benny Potts, Artis Allx- | ander, Sid Hunt and Reddy Merfy. | Pome by Skinny Martin Funny Sites A guy with a hat too big for him Is a comical site to see, But comebody with too small of a hat Seems even funnier to me. Letters from the Peeple Deer Sir, Should a gentleman wawk | on the outside or between 2 ladies? | The outside, unless the one ! nside looks t00 insulted. ' | Somebody Wants a Chair. Betty Cut-out's eyes were sparkling with fun when she came to school with a handful of letters. On the front of each one it sald: “To Santa Clays.’ “They were written by the sick chil- dren at the hospital, but the nurse gave them to me instcad of putting them in the mail box,” she =ald. the cripples’ heepital wanty & is IB'Q"I. Betty Out-out is Tolew. 1 eotai 1’ 4 l‘::l‘u“bdy‘;-fl‘ rom & gl Messure in from the- inch on and draw straight line 3% inches dewn from the top for the acx. “Then widen the line to the edge for the seat. The chair lefs are cut from & rectangle 13 inches 4 31 inches : ( MATE with your ruar strip for the top with the dotted line halfway betwsen lines. The are g inches apart and each is 1 inch wide. the legs in the center to make a squars. Fol the top Balf of the top adge inside and the seat in place. (Copyrigh Cooking for Two. Qne of the most satistactory de ruit betty. most_ commonly known form of this dessert is the ap- ple puiding known as Brown Bett; and, excellent as this is, it h: ber of equally toothsome rel To begin with & story: Once there was a man who did not llke bread pudding. Moreover, he would not eat bread pudding. Fpr years there had existed a famlily tra. dition that this man could nat be be- guiled with such names as queen of puddings, that he could always detect the presence of bread in the most carefully compounded and decorated pudding and that, In short, bread His wife merely looked wise when this fact was {mpressed upon her mind by the man's mother. One day she served a pudding which she made after this fashion: ‘Buttering a quart baking dish, lh? er o carefully buttered crumbs. Over this Slowly that great log moved toward the water. Danny thought he must be dreaming. He really did. Who- | ever had heard of a log that could walk? Stralght down the bank . to | the edge of the water that great old log moved, and there stopped. Dan- ny dldn't move. He forgot that he was right out in the open. He for- got that there might be sharp eves to see him. He forgot everything but the wondor of a log that could walk. Truly this Sunny Sonth was a strange place. Wwas a strange pla v stzange things In it. ey anny looked out on the wi where ho had seen two other. loges floating. They had disappeared! ‘Thoy 'must have floated away, thought Dann; aw how . It didn't seem to be moving enough to have floated away those two logs. A sudden thought popped into Danny's head. it be that these queer logs could swim as well as walks Danny 'wished the big log he had been watch- ing would walk again. He no longer had any desire to get any nearer to it. If there was a hollow in it he didn’t care. He didn't care to hide in it. No, sir, he didn't care to hide in a log that might walk off with him. But that old log was more interesting now than it had been before. So Danny forgot everything else and re- mained right where he was, watch ng. (Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgess) To Make Beef Tender. A stew made of the particularly tough but well flavored &lm :;Ibeef from the lower part of the shank will be tender in a shorter time if a dash of vinegar is added to the stewpot. A well known practice of hotel and club chefs is to marinate a steak that is likely to be tough by rubbing it with a mixture of vinegar and a little oll, one part oll to three or more parts of vine- gar. Some cooks immerse such a steak in a mixture of oil and vinegar and leave it there two hours or more, then they wipe it dry and broll it. The re- ault is & steak that is tender and de- i L} she poured a layer of home-canned blueberries; then another layer of crumbs, and 8o ‘on until the d full. The top layer was of buttere crumbs. For molstening, she used the rich juice of the berries pouring it over the pudding in sufficient quant! ties to show & distinct juiciness around the edges. While the pudding was in the oven it was watched care- fully, the top layer <being merely browned and the consistency of the | whole being developed to a nicety, so that it was neither dry nor soggy, but jyust as & self-respecting pudding should be. . ‘While the pudding was hot, this wise woman served it to her spouse, handing him at the same time 'a creamy hard sauce of powdered sugar and butte! After the second portipn had fol- lowed the first, and was by way of being converted into energy for this man who did not like bread pudding, the wise yvl(e asked the man how he lked i T have only on was the rep enou atter. A :lnrfl to wise wives Is sufficient! Quite seriously, these fruit betties offer an excellent way of using stale bread, of introducing fruit into the diet and simple variety into the home dessert problem. Any Jjuicy fruit may be used. The proportions of fruit and bread are purposely not given, for the dryness of the bread makes It & mat- ter for changing the quantity of fruit in proportion. Another simple but ynusual dessert is & date whip. . % For this, steam fifteen dates; have rel the stiffiy beaten whites of two e mash the dates, add a half cup- sugar and a quarter tablespoon of Jemon juice; fold the sweetened and flavored date pulp carefully inte the beaten egg whites; place in buttered baking dish and bake until brown. Plain boiled rice makes a good des- sert if it is sprinkled with granulated sugar which has been mixed with ground cinnamon to suit the taste. Place the sugar on a flat dish and & fork stir in the cinnamom, ns at a time, until the mix. the desired flavor, critleism, dear” it has not gquite fow ture { feet together. TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A. JAPANESE RAISIN This is arother tree from Japan, China and the Himalayas, which in this country is as yet seldom found in cultivation. It is probable that very few of the readers have seen this Japanese raisin tree outside of Washington and in this city there are but two trees known to the writer. The tree {llustratsd 13 op- posite the eouthwest corner of the White House lot, In the little triangle with the Millet-Butt memorial. The other tree is on the Bouthwest shore of tho tidal basin. These are very fine representatives of the species, for It is a small tree, not over thirty feet high 1t is the only known species of this genus, a member 0T the buckthorn fam- ily, Rhamnaceae, which includes the purple haws :of the southern United States, the buckthorns, and the Ca ifornia lflac, all trees of small stature, grown chiefly for EMMONS. TREE—HOVENIA DULCIS. its handsome. somewhat shining foliage, a small round.shaped tree with light yellow brown back. which is checked into thin, rough plates, The deciduous leaves are 4 to 6 inches long, alternate, broaly gt shaped, sharp pointed, usually heart shaped at the base, toothed or nearly entire margined, bright green, smooth and sometimes pubescent on the ve beneath, on long stems. The fiuwers are greenish in many-fidwered clusters In the axils of the leaves or on the tiy of the branchlets. The smell fruits are three-secded, and are undoubtedly the source of the name ra'sin tree. In this country tree has proven falrly north as Boston, where th in the Arnoid Arboratum. thrive best in a sandy loam and will probably be occasionally used by our landscape gardeners for planting in pubiic parks or in limited areas where @ small, individualistic and handeome tree is desired. Christmas Entertaining CHARMING decoration for the Christmas table is a centerplece composed of five roses arranged in glass holders in a large glass bowl mounted upon an ebony stand. A few sprays of leaves should float in the water and the stems of the roses should be split up for a quarter of an inch, then peeled irregularly for about two Inches to enable the flowers to absorb enough water. Ar- ranged in this way five roses make & handsome centerpiece, for the dinner table. If you are obiiked to keep the roses for several hours before the dinner, place them In a pitcher so that the water comes within an inch or two of the flowers and this will prevent withering. To make popcorn nut cups or bon- bon dishes, first make a sirup of sugar and water, then bofl it until it pine a thread. Use just enough sirup to hold the popcorn together and stir it In well. When cool enough to handle, shape It over a buttered form, using any shape desired. Handl may be made by running fine wire through the popped kern and tastening them to each side of the cups. Coloring the sirup will make the basketa especially attractive. Clear Soup With Garnish. E Procure abdut three pounds of veal and ef bon raw. Break Into small pleces after removing the mar- row. Place in an open pan, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Skim and occasionally add a spoonful of cold water.- Skim until all the scum Is removed. Add six pepper- corns, two small leeks, half a turnip. two small carrots, two large onions, bouquet of herbs and half a stalk of | celery or one-half an ounce of celery seed tied in a muslin bag. All the vegetables must be sliced, as this makes it easier to extract all the Juices. Stmmer for about four hours, strain and leave until the next day, then clear the soup With raw lean beef minced, strain, flavof and garnish and serve very hot. For this soup you may use any of the following gar- nishes: Savory custard cut into small shaps jullenne shreds or into small stars or Pea shapes, tangerine orange peel cut into shreds, macaroni boifled and cut into lengths, vermicelll or Itallan paste in stars and letters boiled green peas and carrot cut into shreds. a poached egg slipped into each plate cooked vegetables cut into | of soup just before serving. or a dice of fried bread sprinkled with cheese. Roast Pig Instead of Turkey, First scrape and wash the pig, then rub dry with a clean cloth and dust the inside with salt and pepper. Stuff and sew up the Incision. Fasten the Before putting the pig in the roasting pan, place a wedge !{n the mouth to keep it open to celve an lgple, orange or lemon a garnish when served. Use a rack of wood or metal in the roasting pan to 1ift the meat out of the dripping L\:“Icel during the cooking process. t the pig in feet upward. Baste often unless you use a covered ro: E4 Slash the skin around the neck before putting the pig on a platter, so that the molsture may evaporate and the skin keep its crispness. To carve & roast pig, hold it firmly by sticking carving fork into the meat near center of the backbone. Remove ead first. Next take off the ham by a circular cut sround the joint. Cut off slices of meat parallel to the backbone. Cut down to the bone and then turn the knife to free the lower edge of the slices. Next remove the fork and carve each ham as og of lamb would be treated. Repeat for the shoulders. Parsley Stuffing for Roast Pig.—Mix together thoroughly two quarts of very dry bread crumbs, three onlons chopped fine, one bunch of paraley minced, one stalk of celery choped and pepper and salt. Moisten only a little with clear soup stock. Add one tablespoonful of canned tomato soup. Do not molsten the stuffing enough to make it in the least soggy. Braised Chicken. Take three ounces of well washed and dried rice, and one large onion peeled and finely chopped. m the onion until it colors, then the rice and fry with the onion in just enough fat to prevent the ingredients from burning. 6 oniop should be nicely colored. ‘Place fn a stewpan and add about one and one-half pints of cold stock. Any small pieces of onfon which may have hecome black while {rying should be skimmed off. Add salt and pepper, cover, bring to & boil and simmer gently for t one and one-half hours, adding more stock if necessary. The rice should be soft and absorb the stock, dbut should fot be mushy. The rice forms the center of the dish. Take a good. tender chicken, skin it; and cut it into joints. Place in the f{rying pan two ounces of finely chopped onlon, two slices of tomatoes, ome-third tea- spoonful of powdered thyme, and some pepper and salt. Fry until col- ored, then add the chicken joints and fry just to color them. Place in a stewpan, cover with good stock, and bake covered for one hour. Strain off the gravy, thicken it, and, if nec- essary, brown it slightly. Arrange the joints of chicken round the rice and pour th very "savory dfan ‘and may ve mads with rabbit or ko pheasant as well as '!'.k. rt Pastry for Mince Ples. ake four ounces of flour, th ounces of butter and iard mixed o pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of bak- ing powder, 'a little pulverized sugar and about fwo tablespoonfuls of cold water. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Rub in the fat with the finger tips until the flour becomes like bread crumbs. Make a well in the center and add jus: enough cold water to make a stiff paste. Roll out rather thin on a floured board, and do not handle the pastry more than is necessary. Cut out some falr sized rounds with a cutter. Havp some patty pans ready greased, line/ them with the pastry, fil| | Bith mince meat, wet the edges, put on the top cover, press weil together, and decorate with the prongs of a fork. Make a small hole in the middie of cach pastry cover to let the steam out. Dake for al t twenty minutes In a moderate oven. This makes four individual ples Wwith half a pound of mince meat. I Puddings and Cakes. Rich Plum Pudding.—Cho, ¢ fin one pound of beef suet, add three fourthe ’f & pound of flour or bread crumbs, vne pound of Sultana raisins, one pound of currants, washed and picked: one- surth pound of mixed candied pee, chopped fine; half a teaspoonful of -nixed epice, " the rind of one emon, three-fourths’ pound of moist brown sugar, four eggs, and a scant teaspoonful of @alt. Over all pour half 4 pint of cold milk and stir it in. Put all aside to sweil and blend until the next day, then put the mixturs Into it'into & pan of belling water asa bei ing water or six\ hours at leus‘x. Keep a ?:'I: days, then boil again for two hours before serving. _ English Christmas Cake.—Take three- fourths pound of butter, one-fourth pound of brown sugar, one pound of dour, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow- Jer, “one-fourth pound of raisins, two sunces of sweet almonds, four ounces of candied peel, three eggs, spice. nut- meg, and ginger to flavor, and sufficlent milk to make it moderately molst. Cream the butter, and sugar together, add the eggs one at a time, and the fruit gradually. Sift in the flour and baking powder at the last and beat thoroughly for five minutes. Bake in a moderate oven for about three hours, decreasing the heat for the last hour. I time is limited, and you have no cake on hand, buy a loaf cake of good grain and preferred flavor, cut it across into half-inch layers, and with a sharp knife or cooky cutter make it into shapes appropriate to the occasion. Ice and decorate. s Cakes— Make a daisy in the center of a Christ- mas cake formed of small candies stuck in the icing while it is molst. _Use lemon drops for the center of the dai and for the petals the candy beans that come in various colors. Place a row of candies around the edge of the cake. Noodles are very heipful to decorate children Christmas cakes. While making the icing for the cake, slowly boll the noodles in water to which has hann added a couple of drops of cclor- 1 whith will blend with the color ieme ©f the table decorations. Allow W uly auer bung co.ured. When tue cake been I and while it is soft, place a name, decoration, or an expres- slon of good wishes worked out by means of the colored noodies. Something unusual in the form of surprise boxes may be given to the children ag their party. Place in the center of the table a teddy bear hold- & large cornucopia in his paws. In s oornucopia, which should be made of stift cas rd, place numerous little flfll with ribbons attached, a ribbon n{ow each plate. Fill the cornu- copla the_top with vomm. hiding the gifts. Very small of cats, birgs, dogs, other things can bs Mm"b‘-"m‘ few cents. A good idea would make a paper cornuco Tor onch ohild, ot to” bo. opaaca omiit arriving home. * Thie should contain candy, nuts, popcorn, and a small toy. Serve ice cream in white paper cups made in the form of buckets, by paint- ing a colored band around the top and bottom. Sugar cookles nfl be sprin- kled with coarse granulated sugar and an an may be in dolls and animals. More than per cent of the orig: inal’ l\l‘yn!r of coal in the United States is still unmined. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Noted Physician and Author. Varicose Uleer. An ulcer is a raw sore. A varicose ulcer is such a sore on the leg of one |Who has varicose velns. Unnum- {bered thousands of people with varl- cose ulcers keep their ulcers for years on end just because they imagine the ulcers cannot or should not be healed. Now it does seem strange that any- body should fmagine that an ulcer should not be healed, doesn’t t? 1 mean It seems stran if you haven't any such trouble yourself. Yet in this great army of unfortunates with vari- cose ulcers there is one division of sadly uninformed sufferers who actually fear to have their ulcers healed. Kead this letter: “My Dear Dr. Brady: “I have a large varicose ulcer on my leg from the ankle half way to the knce. pain and itching from ft. I doctor strongly advises me to have it cured, says it can be cured, and that after it Is cured a rubber stocking should be worn. But dozens of people tell me that If 1 get it cured it will g0 Lo other parts of the body and that won't live long. Please tell we which Is right. Another mystery 1 despair of sol ing is, why do folks employ a physi cian, presumably paying a fee for his advice or attendance, and then weigh his advice against the gratultous ad- vice of “dozens of people” Every varicose uicer can and should be healed. In a few cases, however, long neglect or maltreatment, or self treatment, which amounts to the same thing, leads to the development of cancer in the site of the uicer; then |the chance of cure becomes proble- matic. In saying that every varicose | I suffer a_great My family o i l ! 5 Your Home and You BY HELEN KENDALL. Starting and Stopping. This is the story of a chocolate cake and it has something to do with Christ- mas giving—so listen! Once upon a time a young music stu- dent living in a boarding house was invited to the home of a friend, where she ate some delicious chocolate cake made by the friend’s dear old mother. She raved about the cake, with the re- sult that the next week the old lady made a speclal chocolate cake for her and sent it to her. As a gracious ex- | pression of thanks, she sent the lady a ticket for a concert, free tickets being | distributed to the students. i Well, so far so good. But the next week the elderly lady, overcome with kindness, probably in gratitude for the concert, sent her another cake. So she | sent another ticket, so the old lady sent other caké, and she sent nothir ticket, and the old lady sent another cake, and it would probably | __FEATUR BRADY, M. D, ulcer can be healed I do mot mean to imply that 1 know of & specific cure or remedy or method of ~treatment. The treatment must be determined by the individual requirements in each case: I have nothing to send to reade about this. I mean to say merely th every varicose uicer can be healed by proper surgical treatment, such as any good physiclan ie competent to apply. And by surgical treatment 1 do not inean any kind of operation necessarily, hough {n some cases a little intelii- zent operative traxtment starts the heal- ing process in a long indolent ulcer, for ‘instance, the skilful (painless) trimming down of exuberant granula- tion tissue (proud flesh) which Is pre- venting the film of skin from growing in around the edges of the ulcer. An | ulcer heals by a growth of skin over it from the edges, much as a pond treezes over with a fAm of ice. Iodin in Drinking Water. I notice you are an adwocate of the use of jodin in drinking water In this district. Flease furnish me the formula to be used, either in drinking water or A otherwise, for the purpose of preventing | | goitre and other effects of an fodin shortage in the water or diet of adults and children.—D. D. L. ] Anpswer. Each child and adult may | take one or two drops of common | tincture of fodin in not less than a pint | of water once a week the year round | except two months in summer, or if here is_already a slight en.argement of the thyroid gland (goitre), a child over six years of age may take one drop of the tincture of fodin In not less than & pint of drinking water y ES. the spring, Tincture of fodin i3 the common brown liquid so much used a8 first-ald disinfectant for wounds; 1t vas formedy spelled lodine. Certain cities are mow butting minute Guanti- ties of fodkn (n the municipal water supply for a fow weeks each year, to insure a_sufficlent fodin ration the people. Hochester, N. Y. adopted” this excellent plan.’ 1 e will heip to keep Ho ik ¢ 'Rochester fo (Copreieht.y D Cranberrie The most tasty and de- licious of all relishes with any meat course! day for six_weeks now and again packaged P The new and better way to buy shelled ecans—select Ealvrs—in glass jars or tins. Guar- anteed fresh— A appropriate at 0U'DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE .(')?’l'u.)f;‘nt;(;u Goffee IT IS MADE » JUST DISSOLVE IT AND‘ DR&N‘A iT. “ A GREAT CONVENIENCE /AND OH, 50 £00D! ECANS Nwes? DELICIOUS food con- fection, wholesome and any season. Economical and satisfying. have been going on yet if the girl had not taken things into her own | hands. realized that while her | tickets cost nothing, cakes were expen- | sive, and that the old lady probably wanted to stop as much as she did, but [didn't know how! So that week she 1sent no ticket—only a note of thanks— ! and the next week she got no cake., Which was what she wanted, of course. Now the moral of this ‘applies to Christmas. If you have done some one s favor and that person sends you a lit- tie remembrance at Christmas time, ac- cept it graciously, but don't send a gift fnoreturn! It often starts a give-and- take momentum that is very hard to stop. 1€ you are exchanging Eifts with ome relative because of long habit When you both want to stop and know it, don't be afraid to be the first tc drop out. Your relative will devoutly Dless you. Gift-giving that has become habit is often a real burden. [ clous act_deserves another— t stop there. s B et n “many small debts of grati: tude are paid in the form of a gift, and ' %e are wise we will not embarrass the grateful one by giving her another debt to pay. — Cabbage Salad, Nuts and Peppers. Chop one hard cabbage very fine. Chop one &weet green pepper and one Swett red pepper, being careful to re- move the seeds. Mix with half a cup- ot of coarsely ground pecans or wal- puts and the cabbage. Combine with Sooked salad dressing and garnish with Strips of green and red pepper. Menu for & Day. BREAKFAST. Preserved cherries. Dry cereal with cream. Baked eggs. Fried bacon. Popovers, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Vegetable hash. Hot corn cake. Rice custard. Cookles. Tea. DINNER. Boiled corned shoulder. Boiled cabbage and turnips. Bolled potatoes. Buttered beets. Squash ple. Coftee. S AND BACON., EZG?HGCB of thinly sliced for each ogE used Ar- crisp bacon in groups S?“;"‘m‘" and break an bgg on each group. Bake in hot oven. RICE CL%STARD,c Beat 2 egss, % cup of sugar and 1 fecipoon of butter to- gether. Add 1 cup ot boiled Fice and 2 cups of hot milk. Stir thoroughly. Sprinkle with nut. mmeg or add vanilla and bake in 2 pan bt water till brown, SQUASH PIE. Pwo teacups of bolled that ‘has been put through the colander, % teacup of brown sugar or 1 cup of white sugar, 3 eggs_ 3 tablespoows of mo- jasses, 1 tablespoon of melted scant tablespoon of flné on; Fry bacon uash .easpoon of cinn Standard for half a century The COFFEE that grew up with you EMEMBER—years ago—when you used to go to the store for that delicious-smelling coffee? To-day, sealed in a can of Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand Coffee, is that tantalizing aroma you re- member from childhood. Thirty thousand better class gr. =rs keep it for you wherever you live or go in this country. Let’s get acquainted all over again! Your dealer will introduce you to a 1, sold in bulk. 2 or 3 pound can. Never Lovers of tea, too, will find a & Sanbern Seal Brand. Tea. X Get it at your dealer’s in the handy canister. Chase & Sanborn's SEAL BRAND -~ COFFEE