Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1925, Page 42

WOoM Prepared Fillers AN’S PAGE. for Wall Plaster BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. CRACKS IN WALLS SPOIL THE CF housewife dislikes the ap- of cracked walls and ceil- These do not atways indlcate that the plaster is loose. It may be that the plaster in which ungainly eracks appear atively new. This may be due to the plaster being dried too quickly. In fact, this is a common fault. = Sudden changes of temperature, such as come in early Spring and late Fall may affect plas- tering. Often for no special reason that can be found, plaster cracks. If the break comes over a radiator it is only natural, for the heat is stron and moisture greatest there. Whatever the cause, these lines must be eliminated if the room is to look el Every pearan ngs There in s aquir, aning is dc are sure to be broken plac me walls of the house that.re-, patching when the Spring house ne. Perhaps some door- knob has pushed repeatedly against a wall and the plaster has crumbled. During the renovating a wooden door stop with a knob a trifle longer than that on the door is to be screwed into haseboard. It will prevent this »ening again, but will not stop the need of mending the hole already made. Something must be done about it. Places Need Plaster. angle in a wall or a jut may been knocked hard at some time, and plaster near it have defaced. Such a place is con- cuoug and disfiguring. It must be nded ; In Kitchen closets w quefftty have mouse holes in them - should be stopped up and the the unwelcome visitors And so we could go through & long list of places where walls are apt to be broken and which should be mended when the house is cleaned. The question is what shall the home-maker do about it? Two Filllng Amemetes. Fortunately simple remedies are at hand—two, in fact. One is plaster of is and the other is patching plas- The first dries almost instantl is not easy, therefore, to make a good a job of the patching as by the An have and the edge hecome m frec = TARM OF INTERIOR DECORATION. latter means. Patehing plaster is the newer and improved aid. espect for the man or woman who wishes to do his or her own renovating. Like plaster of paris, this patching plaster comes in powdered form in packages, and needs only to have water added to make it ready for use. Outfit and Instructions. The equipment for the work s small—a trowel, for mending large cracks, and a putty knife or brush, or small ones: a sponge, to wipe |away superfluous particles, and a board or pan, to use when mixing the powder. Your outfit is complete with these articles. Put some of the patching plaster on the board or in the pan and gradually add cold water, stirring constantly until you get the right consistency a very thick, creamy mortar, the spot to be plastered. Fill it with the plaster, using the trowel, knife or brush, according to the size of the spot. - Smooth the plaster carefully. Since it dries comparatively slowly an | done b, amateur | Fill Cracks in Boards. The patching plaster can be put to {many other uses besides that of mend. | Ing plaster. It can be used to fill nall { holes in wood and cracks in floors { where boards do not join neatly. It is easier to use than putty and has the added advantage of drying in about n hour, so it does not hold up work. An amateur is always {0 such & hurry to finish a job when once the work is begun! Tinting Plaster. The plaster may be toned with art- ist’s paints so that it matches the col- or of the wall or the woodwork, and 50 do away with the need of tinting afterward. One process is saved. It must be remembered that wet paint Is darker than dry, so allow for this when you think you get the correct shade.” It is wise to let some of the toned plaster dry and see If it is the act color desired before patching with it. Ramble Around South America BY RI Twenty-Second Day. JULIACA, Peru, February 16.—REarly. bhefore you folks were up, rawled und the barren ankles of Misti, glistening in the first ravs of we morning, and since wonders have not ceased. by noon we were on the other side of these ing upwird to the America—Cru above the sea by the raiiroad. It ig bitter cold up here clouds. Perpetual snow has everything white, and_the demon siroche stalks the plain. Siroche is the dreaded sickness of the mountains that is caused by the rarity of the air at high altitudes. My heart has quickened its backbone of South ro Ao, 15,000 feet the highest point reached bove the clothed A SoN of e SUN [ pace, my lungs feel vacant, and it is a real labor to breathe. The slightest ex- ertion is fatiguing—yet otherwise 1 feel fine. However, I haven't really got siroche, You should see the Harvard Univer- sity professor across the aisle! It is no joke, believe me. Seasickness has noth- ing on mountain sickness. However, like most things that don’t kill you, it is good for you they say, but that is poor con- solation at the time. Yet up here on these plains of the Andes—amid the highest vertebrae of Amel the Four Corners of the Earth, where dwelled the Children of the Sun. The people of this sky world seldom venture lower than 11,000 feet above sea level, and when they do descend lower the &crawny hand of the white man's plague quickly gathers them in. What a strange and remarkable race the ancient Incas were! With the sun for a God and the Tain- bow for & banner, they built-a great na~ tion and a marvelous elvilization, y Andean giants and strain- | backbone—was Tavantinsuyo, | PLEY, Yet they could not read or write. The quipu knotted cord, was their only means of recording their thoughts, and even the quipus was a mystery to all but a few specially trained readers. They built great highways, suspension bridges, aqueducts, mountain _terraces, fortresses and temples of incredible rich- ne nd splendor. Yet they were with- out the knowledge of iron tools or any of our modern mechanical apparatus. | They had no beast of burden except the llama, a small, weak animal. The horse was unknown until Pizarro came. As & matter of fact they believed the first Spaniards they saw were part of the animals they were riding. Of the old Tnca race but few traces remain. All that he retains of his former splendor is his language—Quichua. The Spaniards succeeded in taking every- thing else away from him—his country, freedom, religion and wealth—but they could not make him speak Spanish. The train has stopped at Juliaca. This little junction is 12,550 feet above the Pacific. I pass out into the bitter dark- ness of a plaza. The plaza has a wind- mill in the center instead of a statue of Bolivar. Around me are huddled the present-day descendants of the sun— stolid, silent and stupid, seemingly a part of this great dreary plateau. They seem as joyless and sullen as this bleak and bare highland. It is dark and raining and cold. Juliaca eeems the most dreary, dismal spot on earth. 1 wandered around in the chilling dusk alone. The Harvard pro- fessor is a prohibitionist—and I pre- ferred to cry alone in the wilderness. 1 walked over to the only hotel and got a room. The only thing grand about it was its name. No lights, no fire, no windows. 1 searched and found the proprietor. Have you a fire where I can warm myself?" 1 asked. No fire in Juliaca,” he said. Then there is no way for me to get warm?” “Go to bed,” he answered. P £ words are now broadcasted by using the rezular typing-te'ezraph instruments, with radio substituted for land wires, and secret wireless has become an actuality. Typed ny | Wet | time is allowed for a good job to be | { prevail i you or your plans looms up, are able to | Pop was =moking and thinking and ma sed, Willyum, this strap came apart and theres nuthing more use- less than a sewing machine without & strap and 1 wunt you to fix it rite away wile I think of it. Im bizzy, pop sed. Blzzy doing wat? ma sed. 0O, planning and scheming, pop sed, and ma sed, Now Willyum you fix this strap immeeditly, heers the little thing that joints it together, all you haff to do is put it back in the holes it ony awt to take 2 minnits. Yes, I know, its one of those things that ony awt to take 2 minnits but reely take 2 hours, pop 'sed. Il tell you wat Il do, TIl do it Sundey afternoon, I never know wat to do Sundey afternoons and fts an ideal time to fix sewing machine straps. O well enyway, I allmost forgot, Mr. and Mrs. Hews partly ixpect us over there tonlght because we owe them a visit, so we mite as well go, we have nuthing elts to do, ma sed. 1 have something elts to do, 1 haft to fix that strap, lets have a look at it, pop sed. And he began to start to fix it, taking him about half a hour and_sticking his finger three times in 3 places, and jest wen he got it done he sed, Say by the way, this is the nite the Hewses sed they were going to the theater, we could- ent of gone there enywa: 0O, is that so, I forgot, ma sed, and pop sed, Let me see that strap agen a minnit 1 will do nuthing of the kind, you jest wunt to brake it agen, ma sed nd she quick went out with it, pcp calling after her, If I get blud poisoning ware that darn thing stuck me I hope you wont be able to collect a cent of insurance Wich maybe she wouldent What TemorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE, Aries. Tomorrow, according to the planetary aspects, looms up adversely, but condi- tions soon improve, and in the af noon the signs are quite favorable, re- verting to a negative state in the eve- ning. Little or nothing of much im- portance should be essayed during the early hours, but thereafter, and until sundown, energetic efforts along con- structive lines will bring the desired results, especially in fields of endeavor that are related to business. In the evening simple recreation or quiet read- ing will provide the best antidote to| any harmful Influe and prevent a period of introspection or gloomy re- flection, to which there will be a marked tendency. The infant that pearance tomorrow will be lusty and healthy, and will cause no worry or anxiety on the ground of fliness. It may not be able to pride itself on any ph: cal prowess, but it will grow up to be wiry and possess endurance. It will have winning ways, and by its cheer- fulness and disregard of trouble will often 1ét in rays of sunshine where, otherwise, only gloom and despair would It will not be very ambitious, | but at all times will be a plodder. Any- thing it learns or does will be learned or done thoroughly, and not with that air of superficiality which is so often mistaken for brilllaney.” It will be both loyal. ‘and sincete, -and its affections |- will be permanent and Rot transitory. If tomorrow 1§ the anniversaty of your birth, you &re strong-willed and @etermined, and wheriever opposition to makes its ap- crush and destroy it by the strength of your character. Your convictions are very compelling, and you never hesi- tate to voice them if the occasion to do so should arise. You do not seek a fight, but once one Is thrust upon you the issue is never evaded, and “side- stepping™ is an art that.is unknown to you. Your standards are very high, but in spite of this_the *holier-than-thou™ at- titude is at no time assumed by you, and you are reasonably tolerant of peo- ple’s foibles and weaknesses You love deeply, and the vehemence and strngth of your love beget an equal return. In your home life you are not alone yourself, but bring enjoyment and happiness to those who compose your family circle. Well known persons born on this date are: Benjamin H. Day, founder of New York Sun; Lew Wallace, soldier, lawyer and author; Louise Chandler Moulton, novelist and poet; Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist; Fanny Davenport, actress. and George Ariiss, actor. (Copyright, 1925.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Scot Free.” This expression, meaning to “get away with something,” to escape with- out paying a penalty, is a remnant of medieval days. cot™ §s a perversion of the An- Saxon ‘sceat,” which meant “to pay.” And in the days when our lan- guage was still in the making each man had to pay to his immediate su- perior his “lot” or tribute. Hence the old legal term “scot and lot.” If a man chanced by fortune's favor to get off without paying his tribute he was said to be going “scot free.” And the expression, altered as it is in meaning, has come dowa to our day. Moth Bags. - Many people object to the use of moth balls on account of the dis- agreeable odor. When packing away woolen goods or furs for the Summer, try this plai Buy the required quan- tity of cloves, sew up little bags of chgesecloth or any thin materlal, fill them with the cloves, then place these little bags among your clothes. This plan is just as effective as moth bails and much more agreeable. Black netting makes a very practical piece bag. The con- tents can be easily seen through it. ‘When ironing ruffled curtains with inside picot edge pull out the edge instead of ironing. This is quicker than ironing and the edging looks just as well. Always have a separate lining made for a serge dress so that it may easily be removed and ‘washed. Have three drop lights in your kitchen. One over the sink, one over the stove and one over the Kkitchen table. These give plenty of light where needed. To remove the coating from the inside of a vinegar cruet, crush half an eggshell and put the fragments in the bottle; then add some warm, S0apy water and shake vigorously. The sharp edges of the broken shell cut the coating and the cruet . will sparkle.. If badly coated repeated the proce: with another half-shell. Knives should never be dip- ped in hot water, as it loosens the handles. Place the blades upright in the water in a pa and thus -keep-the-hang Wise Girl Who Investigated Her (Fiance’s Past History—How Can a Young Wife Forget the Old Jazz Life? EAR MISS DIX: Do you ‘think a man is justified in breaking his engagement to a young woman because she made some investigations absut him? friends who knew agreeable and had good manners. This girl met a man. who was a perfect stranger through some little about him, except that he was pleasant and Arter the girl became engaged to him she asked & friend who lived in the city that the man did ¢o call upon him. that there was no such firm as the The friend did so, and found one the man sald he was connected with, nor did any one know the man at the address he had given. But the man became furious, and wrote the girl an insulting letter, saying that he was glad he had found out her disposition before they were married, and that he wanted nothing to do with = suspicious woman. Don’t you think the girl should be thankful to be rid of him? Answer: PUZZLED BRAI 1 do indeed. The man who Is not'willing to have his record investigated is the man who has something to hide. Any decent and honorable man wants the woman he is going to marry to know all about him Any woman who does not comb the history of the man she is going into a life partnership with and who is going to hold her happiness In the hollow of his hand and be the father of her children abuses the privilege that anybody has of being a fool. Even when a woman marries a man whom she has known from her childhood up—who knows his parentage, and his heredity, and whether he is moral and sober and industrious or not—takes enough chances at making a good match, for men have a way of developing unexpected quirks of disposition after marriage that you never dreamed they had concealed about their persons. But the woman who marries a man of whom she knows nothing, who puts her hand in the grab-bag of matrimony and takes something, sight unseen, gets such a long shot at happiness that she doesn’t even deserve our sympathy for the almost certain misery she brings upon herself. Marrfage is the most important contract that anybody ever makes in life, the most binding, the har iest to break, and yet it is the one that people A woman will not buy a new dress until she decides Just exactly the color and style that suits her taste, and until she shops all over town for it, 50 as to be sure she is getting her money's worth. go into most lightly. will marry a man without ev uncongenial to them. If a girl had a thousand dolars that she was going to invest in a lot in a distant city she would hire some lawyer to hunt up the title and see If it were clear and had no mortgage on It. without even writing a letter to find out what sort of incumbrances are on If a girl Is going to buy a pet dog, she will look into its pedigree and assure herself that it comes of good, healthy stock; but she will marry his past. a man without ever finding out anyth lisease and contaminated blood may flow in his veins. AR MISS DIX: T am 22, and ma nice home and everything to make me happy. As a girl [ had a gay, wild time. with a jolly crowd, and lived onl we married and settled down. stayed settled down. L love my husband. him, reading his paper of an evening and the scuffe of feet on a dance floor, and I am wild to be there, too. I know 1 have chosen the better part marriage, with a good, steady consort, but the seeds of those days of jazz How am I to weed them out? are in my system. Answer: 1 offer you two prescriptions, my dear. your mind fixed on the thought that a good home and a good husband are worth all the cabarets in the world, and that varnished-haired jazz hounds bode a ‘woman no good, while a steady, rellable husband is something to | To a woman, everything is as she thinks it is, and you can make yourself satisfied or discontented, just as you will. tie to. The wild life is a curse to any woman. beauty, of her sanity, of her fine moral character. gay parties enjoy it, but did ycu ever watch an old woman trying to have a Bood time, trying to fill her life with excitement and amusement? It is the saddest thing on earth. thorns under a pot in her eve, and she tags young people life that'is no longer hers who have lived good, quiet lives. My second preseription would be a brief excursion to your old gay life out how the punch has gone out of things you used to enjoy and how flat fall some of the things that used to thrill you. repeat a past pleasure, and there is no quicker way to cure ourselves of the thing for which we crave than just .. EAR MISS DIX: makes me tired. your old-fashioned ideas, running the world today. are Answer: they are mistaken. and prominent law beginning to put on middle-aged fat. how to run things, and people don't put their affairs in the hands of boys and girls. And how far could you run things, Flapper dear, without the money ftches that mother takes for you? 't earn enough money in a year to pay your bills for a month, it's fathers who supply the high-powered cars that the boys take you out in, and the money on which they give vou a good time. We are useful in our places. that your father supplies and the s could older ones. °r findir.g out whether he suits her In a single particular or whether he has any of the characteristics that will make him @ desirable husband. Nine-tenths of the unhappily married women are those married to men for whom they have simply lost their taste and who are 1 flirted, and sang, and danced my way for gayety And we settled down with a bump, and have 1 love my home. It is belladonna instead of thrills which puts the sparkle . trying to steal from them the joy of The only happy old women are the serene women The way youw elder people eriticize us vounger ones You should know that back number: So many other flappers and jelly beans think, my dear, but I don’t_seem ta hear of any varnished-haired boy being elected President or to Congress. All the bank presidents, and big merchant: yers, and doctors now are either gray-haired or bald, or But she But she will marry a man 2 about his family or what sort of Can you beat it? DOROTHY DIX. .. ed to a good man I love, and have a Yet, listen: Then my man came along and But sometimes when T glace at I close my eves and hear jazzy music I am glad I am safe in the harbor of SORRY. The first is to keep It robs her of her health, of her Young girls who go on Her laughter is as the crackle of for you to go back now and then for You will be perfectly amazed to find It i< virtually impossible to to indulge ourselves in it. DOROTHY DIX. . . ou, and others like you, with it's flaming youth that is FLAPPER. It takes time and experience to learn You And Don’t despise us DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) WHEN WE GO SHOPPING || BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. * Colonial. The recent of interest in the styles and types of furniture used by our forefathers has led to much questioning as to just what is meant by the term “colonfal.” any- way. AS a matter of fact, It is a very broad, often misused term, and consequently ‘the cause of much con- fugion in the average person’s mind. But what it does not mean fis “primitive"—an lidea that seems to be entertained in the minds of a great many people. We are wrong when we think of it as merely sym- bolizing the cottage life—rag rugs, chintz curtains and rough-hewn fur- niture, The furniture made in that period seems to have .expressed accurately the needs and living conditions of the settlers in the new world—a thing that cannot always be sald of fur- niture. It was very good furniture, indeed; strong, sturdy, useful and possessing a sound structural merit to boot. Its chaste proportions, fine turnings, restrained carvings and fit- ness to purpose Is just what makes it so popular today, equally adapt- able to our modern living conditions and those of & century and a half ago. In the strictest sense of the word, colonial specifies the furniture made before the Revolution. = After that time it is known as eariy American. Colonial furniture is that made by the first and second gederations of original settlers—chiefly those of Dutch and Englsh strain, who, it will be remembered, composed the bulk of the population ‘in the colo- nies in the first century of their his- tory. Some people like to differentiate still further and speak of ‘“seven- teenth century colonial,” “eighteenth revival Delicious New England Fish Cakes in five minutes century colonial,” “nineteenth century colonial,” and en of “late seven- teenth century,” “early eighteenth century,” ete. But It is far from the actual condi- tions when we imagine that “quaint- ness” and “Puritan simplic rately describe all the furnishings| of that period. Some of it was very palatial, indeed, such as the mag- nificent landscape wallpapers that can be seen in museums, Chippendale furniture and Persian rugs. It is easy to account for the difference be- | tween the Northern and the Southern styles—the New England settlers be- ing all for chaste simplicity, while the Southerners, representing the richer English class, introduced a colonial architecture and furniture more pretentious and eclaborate than anything seen 2mong the New Eng- land craftsmen, As the furniture of the period was naturally modeled from that brought over in the cabins of their sailing vessels from England, some of it re- flects the William and Mary inspira- tion, some the Queen Anne, much of the Dutch, since the English Sepa- ratists fled first to Holland and after the Revolution, because of our friend- ly relations with France, quantities of French furniture were scattered throughout the colonies To Mend Umbrellas. It your umbrella gets torn, catch the edges together with a needle and thread. Open the umbrella so as to stretch the cloth and put a plece of mending tissue underneath, then press down with something warm enough to cause it to adhere, but not hot emough to destroy it. Over this put s plece of court plaster. This mending s waterproof. “Jack says the unkindest cut of all is a shingle which shows the ears.” The Prince. On the third day evervthing hap- pened as it had on the previous days. The old women took their places, and before night the entire roomful of flax was spun. When they arose to go they said “Tomorrow will be your wedding day and we will be at the feast. If you remember your promise all will go well with you, but if you forget, mis- fortune will surely come to you. When the queen came that evening she was more delighted than ever. She could not do enough for the girl who was so beautiful, but above all was such a wonderful spinner. led her down out of the tower and dressed her in fine silk, rich velvet, and many jewels. 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