Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 36

‘STAR, - WASHINGTON; D. (., THURSDAY, 1995, FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES on her nest. She had three precious eggs she could not leave. But she wa: none the less watchful, and she ha been the first to wee a strange cat So she had given the alarm. At once Plunger had darted down toward that eat, whistling shrilly. With a bound the strange cat started away as fast | as her legs could take her. Plunger foljowed: her far enough to wee that she was not likely to return. Then he returned to perch on the edge of the cartwheel platform on which he and Mrs. Plunger had built their | nest “f2n’t it splendid to have some one always on the watch like that?” de- manded Welcome Robin. “Big as the Plungers are and flerce looking as | those hooked bills and great claws maka them, there isn’t a thing In the world to fear from them by any one who' wears feathers or fur. But I'm glad I'm not a figh. Yes, sir, I'm glad I'm not a fish. Everybody t6 his own | taate. 1 prefer worms myself, nice | plump earth worms.” | Bt Menu for a Day BREAKFAST. Oranges. Hominy with Cream. Scrambled Oatmeal Coftee. S WO MAD THE EVENTNG MARCH 12, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Widow Who 'Refused‘[.‘to Loan Money to Admirer. Shall She Fake a Drink When Others Do? Wife Who Hates Tobacco. BY THORNTON Directions for Removing Ink Spots W. BURGESS BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. : Plungers Respected. How great would be the waste €011 0f us agreed in taste. —Welcome Robin. Plunger the Osprey and Mrs. Plunger are thought much of by their neigh- bors. They are respectéd and looked up to, and at all timea are welcome. No one has other than good words for them. When the little people of the Old Orchard and the Green Meadows and the Green Forest found that, Plunger and Mrs, Plunger were going to build a new home not far from Farmer Brown's there was great re-| Joicing. “Once upon a tima 1 wouldn't have believed that I ever would. have a good word to say for a single mem- ber of the Hawk fAmily,” sald Wel-| come Robin. “That was before I knew Plunger and Mrs. Plunger. They are fine people. With them about I ong the many kinds of spots moisten the stain) with any one of that accidentally get on othing Rone| the following: Cornmeal, talcum pow- Is more frequent than that caused by |der, French chalk, magnesia, fuller's Ink. It is wheif ik spdts come that|earth,” &tarch -or any white powder we could wish ‘afl.hiks Were made of | that s absorbeat. As the powder (he same cgmppngs; . Then we should | gets. discolored by ~abtorbing the known justiwhat ta do- and what to | ftuid. brush it away It may be work- avoid. Unfersunately there are sev:,| ed (into the weave of the goods with eral inks With whith*tn Feckon, sucl’| an orangewoofl, ‘stick or any blunt s P W Instrumént to Wasten the process. | MY DEAR MISS DIX: f am.a.widgw in the forties, and have been going with.a widower for two years. A few months ago he asked me for a king dnk spots in milk Is another | 10an, Which, on account of fliness and extra expense, I wae unable to give Sinipia ramedy. If the article spotted [Pim. This made him very angry. and he claims that if I had cared for him is &0 large as to prevent the staln|] Would have obtained the money somehow or some way. Since then I have | being immersed in milk. an absorbent | found out that he wag in the habit of taking money from women before he pad may be put heneath the place | Went: with me.. Po vou'think 1 did wrong In refusing to give him meney and the milk poured on Slowly. As|Which I couldn’t afford to_give? ANNABELLE. the pad gets. saturated it must be changed. This method is frequently sufficiit. 3 The, one_ imperative thing to do when ink is spilléd, whatever it is oni, fs to act quickly. Freth stains van be removed much easier than old is¢ especially if the fluid dées not even get dry before some agent is oot applied n not worried at all of unexpected s Of course, therc are ex¢epions to all rules, and there may be in-|visits from bther members of the stances—such as & woman heing in business, and s, to a degree, having the | Hawk fam They all know better HOW IT STARTED status of a businéss.man: or a woman being rich and having money that|than to come around where Plunger BY Answer: Of course, You were right in refusing the man the money. and that he should reproach you with your failure to provide for him is a sublime'| exhibition of nerve. 3 You lose nothing in losing such 4 self-seeking friend as he is, for the man who is willing to graft upon. a poor widow is the most miserable and contemptible of his sex. A-self-respecting robber even daesn't hold up his woman friends. Fashionable Colors "Onyx Pointex” pure silk, with lisle tops Style 255—Service weight . . . . Style 355—""Sheresilk”, chiffon weigh "Onyx Pointex” all silk Style 350—Setvice weight . . . . Style 450—"'Sheresilk”, chiffon weigh: and soles. ;1.95 she can easily spare—in which it might not only be right, but kind and (and Mrs. Plunger are nesting.’ generous, for & woman to lend, a man money, and In which a man should | s’ plpes up Kitty the Catbird have no more shame in borrowing ftom a woman than in borrowing from Hawks will keep away, and another man. - A are others who will keep In the great majority of cases, however, the man who borrows from Those eyes of Plunger's are women _has résched the lowest, degree of panhandling. He is the sort of | wonderful. We won’'t see much of man that other men know &4 d:dead beat, and when they refuse to be|Black Pussy in the Old Orchard as sponged upon any longer ‘Ne becomesa parasite upon women. |1ong as he is about. And the same is f;‘;‘i“; “the there away JEAN NEWTON. 32.75 ‘“Argus-Eyed.” The peérson who is always on lh!' watch, whom nothing escapes, is sald to be “argis-eyed.” The implication | is usually that one is of a suspicious nature, and this element is quite in | keeping with the origin of the ex- | pression. | ‘The term comes to us from tie par- |lance of mythology, Argus being the |ereature of a hundred eyve< who never {'went to s'aep with more than two at la time. He is familiar chiefly as the tool of the goddess Juno, who was al. | ways suspicious of her husband, Jupi- ter. him. It was his zealousness in watching To, Jupiter's mistress, whom the god, surprised by ‘his wife, had turned into |a helfer, that at last brought Arg |to grief. Jupiter, troubled at the dls- And, worse still, he préys ypon womén's hearts as-well as their pocket- | W books, because hé makes love to them and uses their affection to victimize | - them. ', i~ ! VY Perhaps ‘it is beciusd it reverses the natural position of the sexes when.the woman becomes the providér for the man, instead of the man for the woman: but for'a woman to give a man money is the quickest way in the world for her t6 kill his affection for her. At leading stores “Onyx’® Hosiery “Pointex” is to be had only in "Onyx” Hosiery. The name is marked on the heel of every stocking. LUNCHEON Cheese SoufMe. fiashed Brown Potatoes Lettuce and Cucumber Salad Cookies Tea 3 I have known many cases of working girla who have slaved and denied | themselves evérything to help the young mén to whom they were hetrothed &0 through college and study a profession or start in business for them selves. | have known many women who -supported worthlass husbands. d who used Argus to watch|] have known many poor men who married rich girls, but 1 have never s known a man who stayed faithful to the hand that fed him, if it was a| woman's hand. | Perhaps gratitude is the most dificult of &1 the virtues to achieve Perhaps no man ever achleves it when it involves his humiliation to a woman. But, however it is, it is a dangerous thing for a woman ever to Rive a man money It is pretty certain to make him hate her, instead of tress of lo, who, in the gulse of a|love her. DOROTHY DIX. heifer, had been given by Juno into v ok 1 :_:‘r‘_““;‘::‘-" A"r‘;l;:':\‘l‘:-of"[‘:":‘:z\“"‘ EAR MISS DIX: 1 am a yoong girl, and would like vary much to have | Leaping f he h Iy tawer: you decide a certain question for me. When I go out with a bunch of | e ey qower | boys and girls who drink, should 1 join them, or just sit there and look at |to earth, Mercury, disguised as a shap- % % them? Generally, boys never care to go with a girl unless she is a good | herd @ his flo 3 3 | herd driving his flock, charmed Argus | (B€H WONDERING. with the music of his Pandean pipes. |In vain, however, did he try to lull |the watchful eves to sleep, until finally, with a supreme effort, he re- lated to Argus the story of how the |pipe upon which he played was in- * |vented. The fantastic story, sccom- as indelible ink, printing ink, india|panjed by a plaintive me|nd,\)rrom the | nk and the whole range of Writing |instrument, at last caused: the hun. fluids. Some of these inks are Drac- |dred aves to close at once-and as tically impossible ; to.. get. out and | \rzus nodded forward for a moment others .cam he_removed with little | Meroury cut off his head! DINNER Baked Stuffsd Haddock Riced Potatoes. Creamed Carrots. Sliced Tomatoes Fig Pudding OATMEAL GEMS. One cupful of oatmeal In one | cupful of sour milk. Let it soak 1 over night, then add one tea- | spoonful of soda and one egg | well beaten, one-half cupful of | sugar and flour snough to make a ' flavor" L ‘a wonderful fdinner Enjoy the real luxury of selected hill-grown teas. -BANQUET. Orange Pekoe cons 00 more, Serve it iced for dinaer. A 3 & ek AT your. srocer's. in orange ca e for booklet amp ‘WE WON'T SEE MUCH OF BLACK Lo PUSSY THE OLD ORCHARD CHEESE SOUFFLE. AS LONG AS HE IS ABOUT. Thicken one cupful of scald- ed milk with one teaspoonful of cornstarch wet with a little cold milk and add one-half cup- ful of rolled crumbe. Beat the volks of three eggs and add one cupful of grated cheese. Combine the two mixtures, sea- son with salt and paprika, cook until the eggs are set, cool a little, fold in _stifiy-beaten whites, bake in hot oven and serve at once true of Mrs. Plunger. Have you ever noticed that even Farmer Brown's biddies pay no attention to Plunger and Mrs. Plunger, while they run as fast as their legs will take them when another member of the Hawk family appears in sight. 1 have been told, though I can't say that I quite believe it, that Creaker the Grackle and Mrs. Grackle have even built their -nest- among the stieke of Plunger's hig nest and have raised a family there.” It is true, WHEN INK IS SPILLED, DO BE DISMAYED, ,BUT BE TO USE SOME AGENT MOVE THE SPOTS. NOT QUICK TO RE- Answer: You buy the attention of hovs too dearly, my dear, if vou have to do things to get them that you know to be wrong, and there can be | no question about a young girl drinking being wrong.® When I was a young girl an old Tounder once said to me that the first test that men applied to a girl was to offer her a drink. If she refused, they knew she was straight. McCoruscx & Co. more, Md. 7 Imgorters, Blenders and Packers ANQUET O TEA , In this package comes a perfect Lenten dish ee== Simple, wholesome, deli- cious! What more could you ask for in a Lenten dish? Everything youneed, except water isin the pack- age to make the finest pancakesyouevertasted! Aunt Jemima pancakes with the old-time south- ern flavor! Have ’em every day during Lent. Therefore. [ implore you. my dear child, to turn down your glass and | refuse to take a drop of any intoxicant, Dangerous as drink has alw trouble; if the spot is on white ma- e e been to women, with their peculiarly high-strung nervous temperaments, in g e these days of poisonous and adulterated liquor it is fatal to them both morally and physically. Formerly a girl had some protection if she took | & little light wine or a drop or two of a cordial. but even that safeguard is gone mow, for much of the overnight booze is simply knockout drops. and the very smallest quantity of it may make a girl unconscious or irre- COLOR CUT-OUT sponsible for her conduct Oneof the well-tested methods of | LITTLE SNOW-WHITE. | 7 removiiE Iifk marks from white goods Do not be afrald that you will be criticized for not drinking. On Is as follows: Immerse the spot in lukewarm Awater and let the water ewith theough the goods. - Change the water from time to time as it gets the contrary, the very boys who urge”you to drink will admire you the more for not doing so, and you will win the respect of every one whose opinfon is worth having. Men always speak of the girl who drinks with a covert sneer. She isn't the sort of a girl they want to marry. and other discolored. . After .putting through =everal waters, hold the spot under persons look at her with pity for what she is and what she is likely to become a faucet of running cold water to further force the jnk out. If instant attention is given the spof, the ink Don’t drink, and don’t anything but souse parties. and intentions. FIG PUDDING One-fourth pound of fixs chopped fine, one-fourth pound of bread crumbs, one-fourth pound brown sugar, one-fourth pund snet, one-fourth pound candied lemon peel and citron, nutmeg and five eggs. Mix thoroughly, put into mold and steam or boil four hours of happened quite true broke creaking voice. It was the | Creaker himself, who had to come along just in time to over- liear Kitty the Catbird. “Mrs. Creak- er and I have done that more than once. We would do it again this year, only the new nest of the Plung- ers is not big enough. Perhaps an- { other year. when they have enlarged | it, there will be room for us Just then there was a shrill whistle | from Mrs. Plunger, at once answered by Plunger himself. Mrs. Plunger was take out to! |7 their evil attentions | DIX | The DOROTHY promised not may disappear entirely & Potassium Permanganate. If this process is-not sufficient two others may sucrveed, it First dissolve onasquarter teaspoonful of potassium | permanganaté- im-one- cup of coid water and have ready another cup containing _one _teaspoonful oxalic acid and one-half cup water. Stretch the cioth over the top of.a bowl, hav- ing the spot come as geat the center as possible. Drop the first (potassium permanganate) selution on the spot nsing a medicine drepper, a gla pen or a clean cork for the purpose. Let the solution remain. g™l the place turns browg:” THei ifimediately pour lukewarm water over the spg i Nak| ‘pse. theep Al sQudeR R drop it on the spot until all trace of the brown-stain moes. Then pour clear cold -water through the eleth. These processes should be repeated until the spot disappears. Usually not more than four repetitions are needed, though sometimes as many as be required. The material | must be well wathed with soap and water after the treatment has been given it, to keep the fabric strong and unharmed 1 have seen large and had spots entirely removed from a white linen handkerchief after proc- regret the boys who won't You are better off without YOUR BAKING comes out RIGHT with DAVI BAKING POWDER [DEAR DOROTHY DIX: T married on hope. My husband ~only me, but my mother, that he would stop smoking, but he didn't He smokes more than ever. New Year eve he wrote a resolution not to smoke any more and I put It away, but the next day he broke it. He lies about smoking 16 me. What can I do about it? I hate the smell of tohacco. | It turns me sick. TROUBLED. I cannot ge to sleep - I'm never resteda Fully — 1 count so many S]‘\ecpv My mind 1e gnting woely‘ Answer: woman whe | man whose only vice is thit he smokes is going a long dist { way to hunt up a grievance. ‘-8he sbould be thankful that she hasn’t got | wope Teal trouble instead of:an imaginary ane. If he drank. or gambled {mvasstmmoral. ior stingy.‘or.grouchy, or was a philanderer. then she might |'‘complain; but when there is no cloud on her horizon except a puff of tobaceo smoke, believe me, she i -the Jucky lady. You complain, sister, because your husband didn’t give up smoking when he married. Consider for a minute vour selfishness in making such a request and seeking to deprive him of a perfectly innocent pleasure. Lifa isn't so full of joy that.we should lightly take from any one a thing in which he or she finds solace and comfort And a man dces find that in tobacco, and the wise woman doesn’t make any hullabaloo about it. On the contrary. she settles her husband to pipe or cigar or cigarette in an easy chalr and lets him smoke to his heart's content, and there is no better way of nailing a mam to his own fireside. So my advice to you, Troubled, is to conquer your distaste for tobacco | and quit nagging your husband about smoking DOROTHY DIX essing as described. The entirs work’ (Copyright.) took only about 25 minutes. Smaiter . KZ naturally. Please réiember that this Humph, 1t seems to me that any is married to a nce out of her | { Eeatman s e PR BEAUTY CHATS sy eov4 Kent Forses. white goods. Oxalic acid is a polgon, and should| be clearly marked, and..put out of . e | reach of shildren sUEiATieR! inasben Dry Shampoo Powder. | huy corn meal, sifuing off the vers . eve g % ot S od ¥ hag so aible place even fox: g?_mm It for any reason you ¢annot3ham- | ine qust settles, and then using the Ink on Rugs, Ete poo m‘»‘ :..en‘.:n‘:‘_llls ;Oodg::_'wu:zh!m.m part to rub through the hair. i~ 5 nice, there ar 5 £ useful | This ‘brushes off so easily that I pre- Colored materials may be processed s v o $n much the same way wm: remov- 4 dodges that you shguld “!‘0‘\‘}’0"‘ to] fer*it to. any nther metirod ¥ : i | 1t 1= possible also to make a mix- 1 ke it fluff: ins ink spots, The work must be | - o Rk : done Tapidly. Forimstance, an ink Keeping House. | One is to make up some dry.sham-| ure of bay rum and water. or toflar y 3 | poo powder. water and to \ #pot on an Oriental’ig:er on carpet Now ‘it i poasible to will often yield if treated as follows Put a pad of “White blotting paper Snow-White was & willings worker. She very soon learned how te keep the houss neat and-trim for the saven' plain water, enoush |take corn starch, sosk 1t in strong | v o soak a wad of cotton. which can he eoffee or.strong fea (as stromg as you | rubbed through the hair, cleansing | can make it) then pour.off-the liquid when the powder setiles, and let the | rest dry.. It can be sifted’ through | and taking off the oiliness. The aleo- | hol will make the hair dry quickly so | vou cannet catch cold. and it will not | bring on premature gray hairs unless | = used 00 often. | ‘« r Another idea is to tie back all the | hair except a little around the edges | and to wash that with soap and water | | ] 1 and cloth, rinse the same way and dry. This part that shows will be fluffy and will make the whole head | of hair seem fluffy, and you cannot| catch cold from so little water, NOW COMES RINSO, the new kind of mép, which does the wonders for the weekly wash that Lux does for your fine silks and fluffy woolens. You don’t have to stand over Rinso while it washes. Gently, safely it loosens all the dirt —does the hard work of washing by itself. You do just the lighter work of rinsing. That’s why-it’s called Rinso. Ask for the big new -package. Lever Bros. Co., Cambridge, Mass. Gently loosens dirt— you just rinse the clothes clean or white absarbenimaterial under. the spot. Dropf a Mttia. of the potassium permanganafs; An the. stalp and im- mediately f8liaw .this "#olution with the whter.q Thén follow with the nxalic abid, And rinke quickly. Rapid- ity coumgs| whenjramoving ink spots from those thifigs’ which are dved, Jest the golor ba {rupaired. » For this reason it Ye wise fo try ather agents first. Sometimes it Js considered ad- visabla o omit the- potassium solu- tion and use only .the oxalic acid Here ars ather less precarious methods of removing ink: that-are recommended 10 nse first, especially on carpets and tugs. Sprinkle the freshly made and moist spot (af little dwarfs, Every day when they had gone away to work sha.made the seyen little beds -and awept and|.p.. : se gloth and will come dut a fine, cleaned the tiny house. When they | ool v i veq” sowder. which can | came home every evening they found [\ L™ ivied through the hair and a white cloth on the table and their | o b " Uh ot leave it white and seven little plates and mugs in place. [ guud! Plorward as plain whita pow- | while their meal was all ready to be|qlr 505, served. ¥ % S - But the shampoo powder can never | The little Snow-White was so sweet {, Ut the shampoo powder can never and so willing that they soon grew | % : Siae hair. though it is a great improve- to love her, and they all lived very ; happily together ¥ |ment over the ordinary dry powder i |s01d in the shops. It is also possible Color this little dwarf's suit vellow | 10 use powdered orris, which does not \‘ and his beard black. His pick should ' cling to the hair like the ordinary On a recent trip from South Ameri {Ba &ray and the basket brown | varieties of powder. [ca to England two liners kept to- i (Coprrigh And it is even better, 1 gether all the wa think, to ¥ does the £ i j you just the -d Do you like the head, tail and bones? ®%en why pay for them when you tay fish. Porty Fathom Fillets have no bones, " Just real meat. You can eat every nce you purchase. hey’re fresh too—and clean. The largest producerofocean fishin Amer- ica guarantees them to your dealer. BAY STATE FISHING CO., 30 Fish Pleg, Boson, Mass. Every piece wrapped by us in vege- table parchment paper bearing’the Forty Fathom Trade Mark and sold to you like a yeast cake, i Why not usé them during the Len: ten Season? Your dealer will have a fresh ship- meat tomorrow. Ask him. 2 T‘I'he Flavor Is Roasted In! Insist upon it at your grocer’s! 'WHITE HOUSE COFFEE