Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1924, Page 36

RE you making a home, or run- ning a house? There is a great difference between these two occupations, yet to be able to run a house well is one of the es- sentials of home making. For this reason every woman should study household management in all its ‘branches, sparing no effort to be- come efficient. Much of the comfort of the home Mepends upon the housewife's sense of punctuality and order, her knowl- edlgo of catering and ability to pro- vide appetizing and varied meals, her practice of wise economy With- out exercising false economy, her artistic taste and her capacity for making her suroundings beautiful and therefore cheering, and her in- sistence on rigid cleanliness. Some women are so busy running their house that they seem to forget that it is a home. They spend their energy in worrving over details, giv- ing themselves no treedom to read or think. The housewife who places work as more important than the happiness of her family should re- member that such affairs which ab- sorb her time and strength are im- portant only as far as they minister 1o the comfort and well-being of her- self and family. For instance. while punctuality and order are necessary in every home, the woman who makes a burden of of being neat and does not like any one to leave even a book on the table for a minute will never make her house a home. Then, at meal times, the real home maker does not persist in advertising her efforts, and refrains from repeat- edly asking various members of the family if they are pleased with the results. Any appreciation should be expressed spontaneously. Above all, it is by her love, sympathy, and broadmindedness and by sense of con- fidence and unity which she main- talns between herself and family that a wife and mother succeeds in snaking her house that happlest spot on carth—a home. ™ Save Time and Strength. who study the scientific w2y o Save time and strength and the efficient wuy to save money find that their housekeeping takes on a new interest. One housekeeper, with twenty years experience, after study- ing efclency principles is now sav- ing two hours a day over her old sohedule. Another housekeeper, after Jearning more about cooking, reduced Ter food bills one-half. There are few households in which some im- provement may not be made that will vield minutes, if not hours, that can be used for some other plece of work or some longed-for pleasure. Some housekeepers have time to do all sorts of Interesting and pleasant things, while othérs seem to be con- stantly tied down to routine drudg- ery. It is not always what there is 10 do €0 much as when and how it is done. Try it for a month and see. Ask These Questions. Are you doing your work a little Better, or easier, or more scientifi- cally than you did it last year? Is the food better prepared? s the family health better? 18 each member of your family as happy and as comfortable as you can ‘make him or her? Is there co-operation among the members of your family? Are they being trained in promptness and courtesy? Do people like to work for you? Are you doing your work with the fewest motions, the fewest steps and the least fatigue? Ts all your furniture or equipment %0 placed as to make your work as sasy ae possible? Are vou using as much labor- saving equipment as vou can afford? Ts each day's schedule intelligently planned? Are vou familiar with the methods of work and the habits of women who are more successful than you are? Do you read and study printed ma- terial that might help you to do Your work more easily? Are your surroundings and environ- ment s attractive and satisfactory as you can make them? Do vou keep an accurate record of how much it costs to run your home each month? Could you purchase food material and household supplies more eco- nomically and still live just as well? Do vou know how to prepare food mo that none of it is wasted from haing badly sezsoned or undercooked or burned? Can_you Intelligently and appe- tizingly use up left-overs in clothes and food. Do you have time to enjoy your friends and gain new ones, or are you “ j room always tob tired to make the effort? An experiment conducted recently by means of a pedometer showed that in performing the ordinary dutles necessary in running an average pri- vate home, including the care of a baby, & woman walks eleven miles a day. It also was shown that this dis- tance could be greatly reduced by means of such step-saving devices as tea wagons, kitchen cabinets and other devices. As everything in a house must be cleaned, the more possessions you have the more cleaning is to be done, of course. Much of the fatigue of housework is caused by stooping and kneeling. By using a vacuum clean- er, long-handled mops, and dustless floor polishers, and by having shelves and ovens at a convenlent height, much labor and fatigue are saved. Furniturc should either come right down to the floor or leave enough space for the vacuum cleaner to work under it. There should be plenty of in china and glass closets. Crowded closets, where one thing has to be lifted out to get at another, waste time and cause the breaking of articles. All surplus glass, china and sllverware should be put away un- til wanted. Crowded kitchens make work. They should contain only the necessary equipment. Study ~ the movements you should make during the course of a day's work in order to find the best positions for all working apparatus. The amount of time wasted in unnecessary pacing to and fro, and the lifting and carrying of articies is almost unbelievable un- til one comes to study the matter. There is a good deal to do in any well-kept house, but by intelligence, method, and correct planning the time taken to do the work can be reduced to half that which is generally spent, and the work will be done better. We often spend large sums of money in order to live uncomfortably. Labor-Saving Bahy Methods. Too often mothers care for their babies in a difficult manner because “baby equipment” {3 so very ex- pensive and fs so quickly outgrown. The mother of one heavy, lusty baby has solved the problem by purchasing a substantial metal tea wagon. With a soft old blanket for & pad, baby Is placed on the wagon for his bath and for dressing. This is so much easier than holding the baby on_ the mother's knee. Towels and clothing may be hung over the bar at the end, while the lower tray holds the powder box, pins, brushes and needed extra articles. The bath over, everything is re- moved from the wagon and baby's basket is tied onto it. Here he is placed for his nap. Here he lies con- tentedly when his nap is over, his mother working about where shé can constantly ses him. Tt is an easy matter to push the wagon from one room to another or to the cool porch in_warm weather. This tea wagon has saved a great steps and much carying of a Leavy baby. and when no longer needed for this purpose, it may revert to its original use, which Is to carry dishes and food back and forth from the dining room to the kitchen. Housework for Instraction. In almost every community there are ambitious young girls, members of families with limited incomes, who are glad to do housework for a few hours a day in exchange for instruc- tion in typewriting, stenography, musle, drawing, embroldery, or in composition and English. One young mother made an exchange by which she got her dishes washed, her sil- verware cleancd, the rooms kept in order and many other tasks accom- plished daily. She taught her little helper stenography, for she had been an expert stenographer before her marriage. Soon she had more volun- teers as_kitchen alds than she could use. She continued to exchange teaching for housework for some years. The age of the girls she emploved was, on the average, sixteen years, and she says that In every instancs the girl was far superfor to the or- dinary helper. In talking about the experiment she emphasized the fact that a girl ambitious enough to do housework in order to fit herself for a position was pretty sure to be & good helper. A definite understanding must be had with the girl as to the nature of the dutles she is to perform. Her work should be arranged by schedule, and certaln tasks performed at cer- tain stated times. If that plan is followed, the results will be much better than they could possibly be with an elastic system of doing the work. Such an exchange of work is more satisfactory when it is a purely co- operative arrangement—that is, when the girl works with her instructor. Principals of grammar and high schools and busines colleges often know of pupils who would be glad to do such work in exchange for in- struction. Adventures of the Fedwell Family Mother Fedwell and Mother Eatums Talk With Mother Slimkins. By WINIFRED STUART GIBBS Food Specialist The neighborhood tea party was in full swing and the mothers were chatting about the pleasure of the children in using their various Christ- mas gifts. Skatesand coasters shared the honors with cameras and radio, for all the gifts had been selected with great care and with the thought of the particular hobby of each child. Mother Slimkins listened, and then maid, somewhat timidly: “Of course, the nicest thing about Christmas is the children's frolic, but 1 must tell you both something. I had talked so such to Sam about the wonderful things you accomplish in your kitch- jens that he asked me whether I wanted some of the labor-saving de- ‘wices you told me about for my Christmas! *I was simply delighted and so sur- ‘prised. You know, Sam is really get- ting well, thanks to yvour advice about dfet, and it was a special joy to re- alize that he was taking such an in- terest in housework and food. You mes, his company has given him a substantial increase in salary, and he 1o0ld me that he wanted to make this first prosperous Christmas a sort of celebration of health.” “Good for Father Slimkins!" cried «he others, in unison. “Tell us about #he new kitchen equipment. “Well, the first thing was a new Hesk—not a fancy one, but a business- Yke affair—that will help me to turn he kitchen into a real private office, [Fors Loan plan and direct the work f the whole house. Sam was a won- derful help sbout that and gave me any number of suggestions. It's sur- prising how much men know about Wwome things!” Thére was another shout. “Bless their hearts!” was Mother ¥edwell's comment. “Of course they do! I don't believe in not going to them for advice simply because it might make them puffed up. That's Mra. Old Fogey's idea; she maym she makes it a point not to let her hus- band get conceited. I say we should Jewrn all we can from the dears, and Wwhy shoulda® they know more about #ystematizing work than we do, I'd Mke to know, they've been at it lots Jonger? What else did Sam give you? “Well, for one thing, he made a Xitchen cabinet for me. Of course, should have liked one of those beau- ties like yours, but we could not buy anything so_expensive just now, al- thauil; we both realize that later it will be money well spent. My home- made one is modeled after Mrs. Fed- well's, alth Sam added touches , of his own, used it only two be surpri: l ! I finish. And you may not believe it, but the peace of mind that is one of the results has actually had its ef- fect on that nervous indigestion—I have almost got rid of it.” “Indeed, I can believe it,” raid Mother Fedwell. “I knew it was just 2 quesiton of planning your work 50 as to give you a feeling of having & margin of time. You sce, it is just one more proof of my pet hobby— that is, that almost evervthing we do in the home has an effect, either for good or ill, on nutritio “There isn't time to give vo - tailed description of my cabiner sed other things," said Mother Slimkins, but suppose You all come over for dinner next week, husbands and chil- dren and everybody, and we'll explain everything. I just wanted to contrib- ute my little bit today, in return for all the suggestions you gave me, and that is, I can prove that the way in Wwhich we do our work has a lot to do with our digestions and with the £00d that we get from our food.” Chocolate Marshmallow Roll. Molt one square of chocolate over hot water, add four €g8s and half a cupful of sugar, and beat over hot water until lukewarm. The mixture should be light and foamy. Remove from the fire, beat until cold, add half a cupful of flour sifted with half a teaspoonful of salt, half a tea- spoonful of cream of tartar, third teaspoonful of bak'l::du%r:\el: Fold over and over and turs inte 5 dripping_ pan lined with gresses paper. Bake In a moderate oyen far ten minutes. Turn out on & sheet of paper sprinkled with powdered sugar spread with marshmallow filling, rolf up like jelly roll, Daper tightly around the cake and lewve until cool. Spread with plain chosg: late frosting. Cut in diagonal siices, The marshmallow filling: Put thres ounces of marshmallows In a doubig boiler over hot water. When soft. ened, add the white of one egg. one and one-half cupfuls of confectioners sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and beat over boiling water for seven minutes. Remove from (he fire, 2dd three ounces of marshmal. lows, cut In small pieces and fold r over until the mixt cool and will hold its shape. ~ T° 1® A Useful Pillow. Practical and pretty cushions for porches and automobiles can be made from black ollcloth in any shape. Round ones are pretty, made with a three-inch plece sewed between the two oovers tfld{lvo a cushion effect. 've a touoh of color, use croch. 'wool flowers or applique design: ds and ends To of velvet and satin and place in the center of the cush- the and run with & te at one fon. Cut slits an inch from cuter edge of the cushion ribbony The Weakly News. ‘Weather. Posserbly better proberly werse. Spoarting Page An ixciting imitation polo game took place last Sattiday between Benny Potts and Sid Hunt, Sid using his fox terrier Teddy for a pony and Benny using his black and wite dog Yardo, the ony serious axsident being some man laffing so hard he choked and had to be hit on the back by some other man Skinny Martin Is the best swimmer In the nayberhood, proberly on mo- count of getting a lot of exter prac- tice waving his hands so mutch wen he argues. Sissiety Page All the members of sissiety was there last Wensday at the block party for the benefit of the orfan home for orfans. Among those present was Mr. Leroy Shoosters cuzzin Raymin who &ets 2 dollers a week spending money Jest to spend. and he did a lot of tawking and wawked erround a lot looking at things with Miss Mary Watkins and Miss Loretter Mincer and other sissiety gerls, but all he spent was 12 cents by axual count. Pome by Skinny Martin. Bewtifill But Dum. O izzent it wonderfill in winter How the berds fly South through the air? But if they ony had a little education They'd take free rides on & boat going there. Lost and Found. Lost—One 2nd hand golf ball mark- ed 8. C. in red ink. Finder can have the use of it every other week for a munth. See Sam Cross. Nutrition Nuggets Remember that evolution has prov- ed man to be what he is today be- cause of his environment and because of the foods he has eaten. The fact that the whole course of human events is Influenced by diet should stimulate us to bend every energy toward train- ing the children to choose the right foods. The melting point of a fat is sup- posed to be an Indication of its d gestibility, although this has not been absolutely established scientifically. According to this theory the lower the melting point the greater the ease of digestion. Beef fat melts at 5 to 50 degrees C; lard at 35 to 40 degrees C; mutton' fat at 50 to 55 degrees C, and butter at 30 to 35 de- grees C. Next time the doctor savs you need iron eat spinach, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, grapes, prunes, apples, figs, peaches, “cherries, watermelon and olives. Is not that more attractive than getting your iron from bottles of_medicine? Remember that the hardness of 1ittle children’s bones depends on their having a good supply of lime in their food. Lime is obtained from oranges, figs, prunes, olives, grapes, apples spinach, lettuce, radishes, potatoes, carrots and asparagus. Next time vou are puzzled to know why a particular dlet causes trouble in your own stomach or intestines or kidneys, while your neighbor can apparently eat these foods with im- punity, remember that there is proba bly a slight difference in the stru, ture of the walls of the digestive organs. Polsons formed by indiges- tion are able to pass through the walls in one individual, while in the other the structure is such that the poisons are absolutely prevented from getting into the blood. Moral: Study your own constitution. The common symtoms of auto-in- toxication are low appetite, irrita. bility, poor ciroulation, suscentibility to colds and tonsil infections and sleeplessness. Absolute cleanliness of the intestinal tract 18 the best safe- guard against auto-intaxication. Do not allow children to have cook: ed fat; give them instead fresh but- ter, cream, and, for older children, nut butter or nut meal. With these natural fats give plenty of vegetables that carry fat soluble vitamin, that is, the leafy or green ones It has been established that ohl dren follow uniform habits of eatin that is, they either habitually eat too little, a® In the case of delicate children with small appetites, or else they habitually eat a normal dlet. This means that any attempt to re- form the diet of delicate children must be continuous over a considera- ble perfod. It is not enough to coax the child to eat a good breakfast or luncheon or dinner today and then to trust to luck. Constant vigilance is the price of complete nutrition. One of the chief advantages of an itemized food expense account is that it makes available a check on the family's dletary habits. The pages of such a record should show at a glance whether there is too much or too little of a certain food being con- sumed. The home dietitlan can then govern herself accordingly. If you are responsible for the feed- ing of children be careful not to allow yourself to express a dislike for any food while within the children's hearing. One such word may be the means of turning the child away from a food that is absolutely essential to his growth and development. In any program of child feeding be careful to watch the results of any changes made in the diet, It Is not sufficient to plan a diet, no matter how wholesome it may be, and then dismiss the matter. Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Dry Cereal with Cream. Deviled Beef. Toast, Marmalade. Coftee. LUNCHEON Corn Chowder. Crackers. Fruit Salad. Crackers. Cheese. Tea. DINNER. Cabbage_Soup. Lamb Chops. Mashed Potatoes. Canned Peas. Cottage Pudding. Lemon Sauce. Coffee. DEVILED BEEF. Cook two tablespoons of chop- ped green peppers and one tablespoon of chopped onion in three tablespoons of butter, blend In one tablespoon of flour, season with one teaspoon each of salt and lemon juice, add slowly one-half cup of tomato liquor and stir until smooth. Cut rare roast beef in one- fourth-inch slices, reheat them in the sauce and serve on toast. FRUIT SALAD. One cup of Malaga ‘rape: one cup of pineapple, one cup sliced apples, one cup of ch:rned Eng- lish walnuts, one-half cup of seeded raising and one large orange, cut fine. Beat together two eggs, three teaspoonfuls of sugar, one of cream, three ta- blespoonfuls of lemon juice, a pinch of salt. Cook in doube boiler. When cool add one-half pint of whipped cream. Stir in the fruit and serve on lettuce leaves. COTTAGE PUDDING. Cream one cup of light brown sugar with three tablespoon- fuls of melted butter. Sifi one scant pint of flour with two tablespoonfuls of cream of tar- tar and butter, then add one unbeaten egg, one cup of sweet milk and beat all together. Bake and serve with lemon sauce. Lemon sauce: Mix one teaspoon o’l wr:-lun:h ‘with one cup of ated sugar, add one ':t..bai!lnl' ‘water and boil fifteen mhn‘fi Qfl add juice and grated ri half a lemon. ol We Lose Friends Why Owr |DorothyDix] Says Friendship Is & Debt as Well as & Gift We Lose Our Friends Through Being Self- Centered or Tyrannical, by Grafting on Friendship, and Through Change and Development of New Tastes and Ideas. «q WONDER,” sald a woman the other day, “why it is that we lose our friends as we grow older? When we are young we have hosts of intimate friends, but by the time we are middle-aged we re lucky if we have one or two friends left whom we love and trust, and who love and trust us.” Most of us have this same experience. One by one the lovely intimacies fade out of our lives, the clinging hands let go, the.fest that marched in step with us drop out so gradually that we scarcely know it, untlil, at last, there com: left. We have only acquaintances. ‘We lose our friénds for many re: a day when we suddenly realize that we have hardly & friend ons, chiefly, perhaps, through egotism. We gét so absorbed In ourselves and our own affairs that we have no leisure or thought to give to other people, even to those who were once near and dear to us. A man is obsessed by his business, by his struggle to get money. A woman's world is bounded by the four walls of her home, and those within it. 80 the visit that would hi They are too self-centered really to consider any one else, and e kept allve a friendship is never paid: the note of congratulation at a friend's success, or of sympathy over some misfortune that has befallen him {s never written. It is pitiful to think how much friendship is lost for the lack of ten minutes’ time, and a postage stamp. We lose our friends because many of us look upon friendehip as a graft, instead of as a speclal miracle of grace that has been bestowed upon us. Because a man has granted feel free to exploit him. WE lazy to find for ourselves. Wa do automobile, and to make a free hotsl of his house. for us. until to save himself he lets us the privilege of his friendship, we feel that he should lend us money that we are under no obligation to pay back. We consider that he should get us good jobs that we are too not hesitate to ask the use of his We abuse his friendship us go. That is why some cynic has sald that if the Lord would dellver him from his friends he would protect himself from his enemies. We lose our friends by making friendship a grinding tyranny. Women are especlally given to this, for there are very few women in the world who do not honestly believe that if they love you, it gives them carte blanche to boss you. Therefore, your wom: friend supervises vour visiting list, and demands that all of your friends shall be her friends also, and that you must only like the people that she likes; also that you must call in her doctor and go to her dentist and patronize her dressmaker and milliner and raise your children according to her schedule, and treat your husband the way she treats hers. By and by vou get tired of being told where to get on and where to get off and nagged into doing things that you don't want to do, and weary of having to apologize and explain to one who has no authority over you, and =0, as painlessly as possible, you perform the surgical operation that bound you to one who was once your Friendship is often bored to death. we get, the more we like to talk about ourselves. cape us. for this, but our friends cannot . . Siamese twin. 1t is sad, but true, that the older Strangers won't stand . . TTHE fact that they love us and are Interested in us gives us, we think, an excuse to monologue to them by the hour about our own affairs are successful, we boast shamelessly of our triumphs. tell over and over again the sad, sad story of our lives. 1 we If we are failures, we It we have children, we talk endlessly about the smart thing the baby sald, and Johnny's foot ball record, and Mary's beaux Now, true friendship is full of sympathy, it is patient and long suffering. But human endurance has its limitations, and there comes a time when, for sheer self-preservation, we have to drop the friend who has degenerated into nothing but & ten-inch auger. We still love Thomas, and Sall: . and Matilda, but their friendship isn't worth having at the price of perpetual boredom. We lose our friends through the that life makes in us. nevitable change and development We grow apart because we have different interests, and our tastes and ideas and habits are formed by a different environment Nothing is a sadder experience than to meet again, after a long lapse. of years, an old friend of whom vou have been very fond, and to whom you find you have nothing to say after you have thrashed over the little sheaf of old memories. It is the common belief that the most enduring friendships are those formed in early youth, but this is not true. The friends to whom our hearts cleave, as David's did to Jonathan's, are the friendships of our mature years those we make with the men and women whose hearts and minds answer ours when our characters are formed, and we know what we demand in human companionship. Friendship is the most beautiful and the most comforting thing in lite, but for it we have to pay a price, for love the gift (Copyright. the debt. COOKING The small household has, it is true, a problem peculiarly its own. It fs acknowledged by all experienced per- sons to be more difficult to cater for two individuals than for a larger family. As in most cases, however, there are compensations. One of these is the fact that, owing te the small number of indtvidual tastes to be considered, it is easier to construct a simple diet plan and, in the vernac- ular, “get away with it." In a program whose dominant note is simplicity cereais play a very im- portant part. Their generous supply of energy-giving elements, their min- eral substances, their body-building material, their mild flavor and their Jow cost make them one of the real foundation stones with which to con- struct an all-round diet. The main points to remember in preparing cereals are six, and these, simple as they are, must be thought of as vitally important {f the dishes cooked are to offer food in its most digestible form. These are the points: 1. Have water bolling. 2. Add salt, a teaspoon for each quart of water. 3. Sift cereal in slowly, particu- larly the fine-grained varicties. 4. Cook directly over fire until thickening begins. Place kettle containing the par- tially cooked cereal in the outer part of a double boiler or in a larger kettle. 6. Different varieties require vary- ing quantities of water, a general rule being two and a half times as much ‘water as grain. These points taken care of, an- other convenlence Is a table showing the varying proportions of water and time for cooking: Rolled oats, 2 cups of water; cornmeal, 6 cups of water; hominy, 4 cups: farind, 2 cups; rice, 6 cups; time for cooking, at least one hour, the longer the better, except is always love DOROTHY DIX. 1924.) FOR TWO in_case of rice, which should rapidly for twenty minutes. There are many altractive vari- ations of the standard breakfast por- ridge, and the housewife will do well to bécome familiar with these. She will then be ready to ‘“compose’ others to suit her particular family's taste. Prominent among thess variations stands cereal molded with fruits. Any of the grains may be made more appetizing and attractive by the ad- ditlon of fruits, raw or cooked. When the cereal has been cooked it may be placed in a small bowl or oblong bread tin and allowed to cool. Then turn it out on a serving dish and sur- round with a border of stewed prunes, apples, apricot sliced bananas or fresh fruit in season. Fried mush is delicious, and is pre- pared by slicing the cold molded cereal, dipping each slice in flour and browning In a frving pan with butter or dripping. Any of the vege- table cooking ol may be used for this purpose A good way to coax children who ‘do not like"” cereal to eat it is to serve it hot with cream and the ad- dition of chopped dates or raisins, The proportion fs about one-half cup of chopped fruit to each two cups of cooked mush. The fruit adds materfally to the food value of the cereal. A simple home dessert is made from reheated cereal. Chopped fruit, beaten egg and milk are added un: til the pudding is of the proper con- sistency, the top is dotted with bits of butter, and the whole browned in the oven. Care should be taken to add the milk in just the right amount, so that the pudding will cook to an even consistency and be neither soggy nor dry. Delicious breakfast gems are made from cold cooked mush. Stir in a very little sugar, milk mnd beaten egg to make a soft mixture. If light gems are desired sift a teaspoonful of baking powder with a half cup o flour for each cup of mush and com bine before adding liquid. boil Cultivating Taste for Good Cookery By Winifred Stuart Gibbs, Food Spectalist. In yesteryear the processes of cookery were looked upon chiefly as something which should contribute toothsome goodies to our palates’ de- leotation, and not infrequently to our stomach’s undoing! Today these processes are valued for what they are, means toward improving the flavor of food, it is true; but above and beyond all that, they are recognized as helps to com- plete nutrition, lacking which we are not, as we are well aware, properly equipped to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased an inscrutable Providence to call us! Therefore let us train up the youngsters to an early aoquiring of a trained taste in culinary matters. Let Betsey understand that if she clamors for fried potatoes when of- fored baked she is depriving herself of a dellcious morsel. Suggest deli- cately to Tom that apple pudding offers a far greater enjoyment than dces rich pastry, and both ohildren are headed for a lifetime of auto- matically choosing well cooked ishes. o Now, those of us who rejoice In a trained taste, whether it be in regard to music, literature or culinary mat- ters, know that the exact moment when this training began is lost in obscurity. Therefore, let us not lay the flattering unctions to our souls that “just this once” it will not mat- ter if we let the children follow their own untrained ideas in the realm of menu_making. Before we know it the chicks are turning cold stares on the milk and vegetables and choos- ing coffee and pancakes instead! A small girl of our acquaintance was_told by her mother that she would not care for mince pie. Where- upon the child steadfastly replied when offered this delicac do not Iike it!” Whoops of derisive incre- dulity on the part of her audiences finally sent the little girl to her mother, with sobs: “Sammy says I'm a nut 'cause I dom't ltke mince pie, and that I can’t tell ‘less I taste it.' So the mother said: “You shall decide sz:ur-om it you find that I am mistaken you shall have a large piece of minoe pie for dinner today.” ‘The result was that while there was no active dislike of the overrich deseert. on the Dart of tha little girl, the first fdea of indifferance lingered, and she never hankered after it un- duly. The moral? Oh, it is not a univergal adoption of this particular motherls tactics; she knew the chiid, and acted according- 1y: but the moral is to be careful that the children are led along safe paths when they are first beginning to choose or order for themselves, 8o that they shall early come to truly “like” that which they need rather than the food which 'is certain to store up future retribution for diet- ary sins. e Soup for Principal Dish. Heat a quart of beef stock to the boiling point, then add two cupfuls of canned tomatoes, one green pep- per chopped fine and sauted in a tablespoonful of butter with a small, finely chopped onion, and a teaspoon- ful of meat sauce or the same quan- tity of grated horseradish with one teaspoonful of vinegar. Season the soup to taste and simmer it for fif- teen minutes, then thicken it with a tablespoonful of butter rubbed to a paste with two tablespoonfuls of flour. While the soup is simmering, boil half a cuptul of rice in plenty of salted water untll tender, then drain it and rinse with cold water. Strain_the soup, add the rice, and serve In a tureen with the croutons, which are merely little squares of fried bread floating around in the soup. ' SAVE THE TROUBLE OF COFFEE MAKING-USE Fliastiy tors Coffee IT /S MADE JUST DISSOLVE AND DRINK IT. A CREAT CONVENIENCE AND OH, SO GOOD COLOR CUT-OUT One day when the snow was very deap Billy Cut-out came running into the house crying, “Betty, quick! Come out on the hill and watch the ski champion perform Betty quickly bundled up and hur- ried to watch a man on long, light runners, such as you see in Betty's hand, go sailing down the hill of snow. Just before he reached the bottom he gave a great leap. The skis carried him sailing through the air like a bird, and he landed grace- fully quite far from the foot of the hi “Would you like to try my skis? asked the man, smiling at Betty Cut- out’s round eyes, when she ran to look at him. “Oh, ves, If you please” returned Betty, clapping her hands. She slip- ped her feet through the straps and shuffled along a few steps, while everybody laughed a' her awkward- nes Betty's play coat is brown. Her soarf, hat and hose are tan. Make yell skis and groen stripes on the scarf and gloy (Copyright, 1924 My Neighbor Says: To remove a gas mantle without breaking it pass a hat- pin through the loop at the top and gently drop it inte a glass tumbler with the pin resting on the sides of the should be turned around six months where there Constant turn- causes them to every is much wear. ing in this w wear evenly To cool a hot place it In a vess salt water. The white of an egg dropped into a pot of soup will gather to it all the impurities. When it curdles remove it. Mend clothe: starched one: fore sending them to laundry, so that when they are returned, clean and nicely folded, thera will be no need to disarrange and crumple them for mending purposes. It is an excellent plan when a fire burns hollow to insert a few lumps of coal between the bars to prevent the structure from collapsing, and then to place a little smaill coal and coke on the top. This will be found a more economical way than the usual one of poking the fire vigorously. Poking re- sults In most of the red-hot cinders falling out of the grate. sh in a hurry el full of cold especially New Walls for Old Ones Simply mix arbo with water and apply over the old wallpaper and the new walls are yours, No fuss—no worry and no delay. Try just one room— it will convince you. Sold at: the best paint stores. ll;dh_mfiuiogpwbk. . King's New Discovery stops coughing quickly by stimulating the mucous membranes to throw off clogging se- cretions. It has a pleas- ant taste, All i FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES Yowler’s Cousin, Who Is Call- ed Yowler, Too. Impatienca many lives has cost, Aod prizes without number lost —014 Mother Nature. Who could that terrible fellow be who had climbed the tree .after Whitenose the ¥ox Squirrel? Danny Meadow Mouse wanted to know. Ie felt that he ought to know. Who- ever would try to catch Whitenose would surely try to catch Nanny and himself, if there was a chance. So it was something more than {dlo curios- ity that urged Danny to watch from that little doorway to his home. For a while he saw and heard nothing. But he was sure that the stranger was still in the tree up which he had chased Whitenose. The branches of that tree were cov ered with long masses of soft, gray moss, such as is found only in the Sunny South. Because of that moss Danny couldn't see into that tree, though he looked and looked and looked. But Danny oould afford to be pa- tlent. In fact, he couldn't afford not to be. He had to know who this probable enemy was and how he look- ed. So Danny sat in his doorway and continued to walt. At last he saw the long, hanging moss in that tree move ever mo little. Some one was coming down that tree From the lowest branch a dark form Lounded lightly to the ground only a few feet from whers Danny was sitting. There it stood for a moment, giving Danny a splendid chance to see just what it looked like. Instantly Danny knew that he was looking at a cousin of Black Pussy the Cat. There was no doubt that this was a member of the Cat family. His coat was mixed gray and reddish- brown, with faint blackish spots His chin and throat were white. He was whitish underneath, and this was marked with black spots. His head was round and savage looking and there were a few long hairs on the tips of his ears. He was much big- ger than Black Pussy, and had much longer legs and much bigger feet. But it was the tall on which Danny fixed his eyes. It was a stub of a tall, and as he stood there he kept that stub of a tail twitching. He stood there only for a moment or two, then bounded away lightly. Danny drew a long breath. He never had seen Yowler, the Bob Cat, up home in the North, but his cousi Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, had t By Thornton W. Burgess. him about him and he knew that this geranger must be one of Yowler's ‘That was a Bob Cat, as sure as 1 ve whispered Danny te Nanny Now we do have to watch out I Buess it won't be us easy to fool this fellow as it was to fool Black Pu ho Cat from’ Farmer Brown's. M., m glad he Aidn't find us! 1 guess he 1s just like Yowler the Bob Cat who lives in the Green Forest up home. I wonder if they call that fellow Yowler. I'll have to ask e A BOB CAT AS SU S WHISPERED DANNY TO NANNY. Whitenose when we see him again.” late that afterncon Whitenose the Fox Squirrel returned and the first thing Danny asked him was who was who had chased him up the tre. that morning Yowler t Bob Cat, sometime called Wild Cat, and who, I hav been told, is properly called the F nx.” replied Whitenose promptiy how 1 hate that fellow! Iis it forever sneaking about, and he is s soft-footed thal one never knows when he is near. You want to watcl out for him. 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