Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 23

" both sty 1 WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925. Plain and Striped Awning Fabrics BY LYDIA I BARON WALKER. ADD DECORATION 1] ROOMS SUCH MUC LNEEL 1G D Awnings tures of a F fort for e bee nized th s are not only decorative fe; n veranda theit own awnings t that nny during enjoyed the irawn ind have shut when the The point of first deration is the kind of awning material to buy. S0 many varieties nowadays old 1w stripe.”” T are | in white, reen, dark blue, ete I e exclusive ings of cont stitched on form stri folds of the shades weather is with us. awnit even edg etwork again, the mented, but trasting color. Novelty borders, not so orna re bound with the con- in Awnings. These plain_awning cloths lend themselves n ¥ to variou schemes which th ome decorator can copy. If she does not wish to go the trouble of appliqueing the of cloth, she can rule straight lines to form inch bands or those a little wider to outline edges, spacing them far h above the s to allow a width of the awning between the band and the rim bands can then be painted the contr: Great care must be used to inting from overlapping Such ragged e indicate Prof immediately n amateur, s crisp and ecise. Paint. wnings is alone. It who interlacing Decorations in This matter of not left to the -often done by t decorators carry out designs with bands that would form bu done in stitched han. ner-piece designs can be be stores carrying such patterns. ones similar to the Greek fret are rec- ommended for use on awnings. paint lings Painted Stripes. Awning cloth with stripes painte on the plain material can be bough at a che: n that paid for fabrics with v stripes. me grade of awning know 1t this will wear torily. If aw yv-look om_ the to sun rain t )€ inting origi perience t sons satis get dull and constant expos which they ar the stripes, whether the nally painted or not, to fresh, spick-and-span desirable from the decorative point. The paint must be v thin and liquid so that the fabric is not unduly stiffened, er were give OUTSIDE OF HOUSES AND HTFL ’ LIVABLE THAN THOSE PROT 4 vou wish to recover awning new awnings, rip up the | s on it and use it . There are very few e work is not at all diffi- ugh the material heavy. See rregular curved or dental ut with precision. In striped terial the st Generally part of es the dark color is the design. Curves the s lower portions. White tape or the shade of the stripe in the awning is used for binding. the Momemade Awnings. Where the man of ndy with tools, mes of wood can strips of wood. Two extension for the “arms” have a cross- piece of the width of the window fas. to the ends. Other strips ex- vom the joined ends make thenuse angle pieces. This frame is then screwed or to the outside of the window nt. The frame should come a below the line of the middle sash ndow frame. The valance kes the awning appear to| than it really is. The awn- in e tacked to this frame which painted the color of the Such awnings protect rom too much sun as well as ready-to-put-up awnings on metal 16 recial advantage of the awning is that it is ad- It can be lowered when aised when days are cloud storms or the house is simple awning fra be constructed fro lower frames ion eded, in hea high! when the wind is For Porch. . can ceranda or porch that has no roof ve an awning top made that feld it from sun and keep off | n. It will be necessary to have £ wood form posts to support | Across the top of these hore than 6 feet apart, of wood Is fastened. are as high as the awning ome at the rail. A strip of stened to the house should be higher than the front one to for a good angle to be made the awning is up. If this is not the rain will not drain offi The height of the angle de- pends upon the width of the veranda. A wide veranda needs a much higher an hese posts and cross-pieces muy be painted like the house or the trim. | Well Protected Porch. When making the awnings allow ifficient width for the valance to fall well over the cross-plece, either the curved edge is decorative. re any pillars or angles that arities where the awning aterial should be care- cut fit. This is especially eded when mosquito netting or wire t is to be secured to the floor and the supports for When protected by an! overhead and netting at the| an open porch {s transformed o a veritable outdoor room, a sleep- ing porch, a breakfast room or a liv ing roc as the case is, and the cost 1y be little. IN THE GARDEN As Reported by Elizabeth Urquha Overcoming Difficulties. “Now that we have our fences draped with trailing vines, what else may be done to the back yard before planting the flowers?” I asked. “It all depends on the s vard,” said Mr. Burbank a very small enclo: geat built against perhaps a path of leading to it, or placed is a view of the garden “These wping made of flat rocks, if possible, or cem ent, or pieces of hroken cement side walks, or of bricks laid in grou “Over the seat may he a ple arch with curved or flat* top, on which roses or honevsuckle ma be grown, or, a light frame work can be built for awning in Summer, fur- nishing shade and privacy.” “I have read of-one sm den,” 1 re a little pe long, covered enough to the h for Summer eve- ning suppers served on a narrow table swung from the beams head. Japanese lant lighted the scene and the city rs had the joy of out of ds den at the same time from neighboring win- dows.” “All this of the t even e may have a end wall with epping stones where there st on, may v gar- s built about 8 1 and near la, with wist ns and much more sible,” said Mr. Burbank, “and in planning the arbors and pergola, a bit of water somewhere must not be forgotten. It mizht be a sunken bath, or a little homemade cement pool, or even a little fountain, which is not as out of reach as it sounds “Now we are beginning to make our back yard really beautiful, but what are we to do with the clothes lines and the ashcans and the garbage barrels?” I asked. #The clothes lines must be reck- oned with,” agreed Mr. Burbank, “and if they must be a part of the garden they must be a part of the general harmony. If they be on a revolving ost, it can be placed at the back or hind a hedge or trellis covered with vines, or if the lines are stretched on posts, the posts may be painted dark green and at the base of each, climb- ers can be planted and trained to gscend to the top and sometimes al- be | feet | over- | WITH BURBANK rt and Edited by Luthur Burbank. | lowed to run along the wires a little way!” | "*Gr, as you sugsested for the fence posts,” I ventured, “boxes might be | planted n: rdens. You with trailing turtium, like , geranium little hanging ee ingenuity grows by exer- said Mr. Burbank, “and the nfl' problem is not hopeless all. t even garbage the ashcans and the barrels?” 1 said doubtfully because hoth offender: be put in a corner and cleverly con- cealed with a little trellis or a shrub h large leaves or a clump of plants with good foliage.” )ne more ‘suppose’,” T said. posé the back yard is paved brick or cement, what then? “In that case,” Mr. d, “the beds for vines and would have to be agains fence, and tubs or potted plants placed on the paved grounc; or a boxed shelf about four feet above the ground could be built along the sides, filled with soil and planted with flowers. Under the shelf, pots of ferns or other shade-loving plants could be placed.” “Well, I think our scene is set now for the company of Summer flower: (Copyright, 1! “Sup- with Layer Fish Pie. Grease a casserole. To serve four persons, have about one pound and a half of fresh fish, either flounder, hake, haddoék, cod, or pollock, in slices or filets, freed of all hones and skin, one onion cut in very thin slices and cooked, without discoloring, in | one or two tablespoonfuls of vegetable | fat until softened, and one cupful and la half of pared and sliced potatoes, parboiled in boiling water for about eight minutes and drained. Set a layer of fish in the casserole. Add a cer of potatoes, another laver of fish, the onion, a few bits of butter {or a sprinkling of vegetable ofl, and the rest of the potatoes. Sprinkie on a teaspoonful of salt and about half a | teaspoonful of black pepper. Add hot ln]\ll: just to cover the potato. Let bake for about one hour. the casserole, form good | ime shape at the top as at! nailed on top of the clothes posts and | Burbank { the | MENU FOR A DAY BREAKFAST Grapefruit Oatmeal with Cream Spanish Omelet Toast Rice Waflles, Maple Sirup Coffee DI R Roast Lamb Green Peas Mashed Potatoes Aspuragus on Te Orange Bavarian Cream Coffee SUPP] Creamed Mushrooms on Toast Olives Lemon Sponge Tea Tarts SVANISH OMELE * Four eggs, four t. fuls of cold water: pepper, salt, two tablespoonful. of butte Melt the butter in a clean frying pan. Beat yolks of egs, ndd the water. Beat white and fold into volks. Fry one one side until brown, set in hot oven to brown the top. Serve with tomato sauce on hot platter. blespoon- ORANGE BAVARIA CREAM Soften_half box of gelatin in half cupful of cold water, then e over hofling water until olved. Beat the volks of two add one cupful of sugar, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt and one cupful of hot milk, d cook in a double boiler until the custard coats the spoon. Remove from the fire, add the dissolved gellatin and the grated rind of two oranges, let stand five minutes viin. Chill, add the juice oranges and one cupful heavy cream beaten until stff. Turn into a wet mold and place on ice until firm SPONGE TARTS Cr one-quarter cupful l butter with three-quarters cup- | | ful of sugar and add the'grated rind of half a lemon. Beat three | egg volks, add three-quarters | | cunful of sugar mixed with four tahlespoontuls of flour and one- quarter teaspoonful of salt, and beat thorou Combine the mixtures, beat until very light, stir in gradually one aad a half cupfuls of milk, add the one and a half_tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, fold in the stifly beaten || exz whites. Turn into gem | | lined with paste and bake in a moderate oven until firm in the center. LEMON am of ; MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Calling Children In. One mother says: “I had a hook put on the porch and in this I hang their blue-and-gold school flag when- ever I want my youngsters to come in. Their playmates know the mean- ing of this flag, too, so that if my children fail to see it promptly. they are sharply reminded, “Your mother wants you.' ithe Ben—ny Me and Puds Simkins had § cents between us and we was going erround to Mommy Simminses to buy a ice creem cone between us and I dropped one of my cents on account of holding it too loose and it rolled a wile and then stopped, us seeing ware it rolled to but not ware it stopped at, and we started to hunt for it, and after a wile Puds wispered, Hay, I bet that guy has got his foot on it and he's just waiting for us to go so he can pick it up. Meening some tuff looking kid standing there looking at us with a red swetter on and one foot out as if there was something under it sutch as a cent, and I wispered to Puds, Bump into him as if it was a axsident and we'll see if he is or not. You bump into him ferst, Puds wis- pered, and I wispered back, No, your heavier than I am. Wich he is, and the next time he got neer the tuff looking kid he gave him a bump but not mutch of a one, and the kid sed, Hay, look ware your going or go ware your looking, either one of the 2, cant you? Sounding even tuffer than wat he looked, and me and Puds Kepp on looking, Puds wispering to me, Its your tern, give him a good bump. Wich I started to give him a fearse one from the back, only I changed my mind at the last second and ony zave him a easy one easier than wat Puds had gave him, and the kid sed, Hay, the next one of you 2 guys that bumps into me Im going to give them a bust in the jaw. Me saying, G, I slipped, and the kid sed, O is that so, well the next one of you 2 kids that bumps into me Im going to give them a bust in the Jaw, see? Me makipg secret faces at Puds meening it was his tern agen, and Puds starting to look nerviss, and all of a suddin jest then I found the cent sticking half ways out of a crack be- tween 2 bricks and me and Puds quick kepp on going. Proving if you act hasty its a good thing to be a little carefill at the same I overlook my past mistakes, Excuse them ana condone ther,— Or, if’ they hurt my self-esteem, With firtaness 1 disown them. . Serve "31 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How Can She Cure Husband of Reading Habit? What Are the Intentions of a “Steady” of Three Years’ Standing? JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: T have been married a year and my husband and T are very happy together. He treats me with the utmost consideration, 15 very affectionate and I am sure s the most unselfish man in the world But he has one fault which frritates me very much, and that is his fondness for reading. He gets so absorbed in a book that he doesn't even hear what I say to him, and when I speak to him sharply about it he says that he was right in the midst of a chapter and couldn't stop. If you could SUgKest a way to break him of this most annoying habit it would make our evenings very pleasant. HOPEFUL. Answer: It might make your evening pleasant, Hopeful, to spend it in sllly chit chat about *he nelghbors, and whether the Browns could afford the new car they have bought, or in scandalizing your friends, but how about your husband? Have vou anything as interesting to say to him as he is finding in the books he is reading? Can you give him as great an inspiration as some great writer does? Can you fill his mind with knowledge as does the printed book? If you can, then break him of the reading habit. But if you can't, then consider how selfish you are to ask him to give up his books for mere twaddle. It 1s a great mistake for people who have such different t: vour husband have to get married, and one wonders why a man and a woman walt untll after they are married to find out that they have so little in common and that the things that one likes to do bore the other to extinction. You should have married a nice, gabby chap, who loved the sound of his own voice, and who never read anything more than the sporting page and the headlines in the daily papers. If you had,#ou would have had a lovely time gossiping together and going out to the neighborhood movies in the evening. Your husband should have married some woman who loved to read as he does and who would have asked nothing better than to sit across the droplight with her own book and her own fascinating world of letters. Since, however, you have made the mistake of getting out of your own class, the only sensible thing to do Is to effect a compromise. Let your husband talk to you for an hour after dinner, and after that you leave him in peace with his book. for breaking a man of the reading habit, that is a practical You could just as easily break him of the dope_habit. e craves his favorite bra stes as you and impossibility. nd of literature as an addict does drugs. In it he finds stimulus, dreams that lift him out of himself, a nepenthe for every fll. His craving for reading Is never satisfied. He hungers and thirsts for it and he seizes instinctively on every printed thing and devours it as a starving man would food. It is so hopeless to cure your husbhand of the reading habit that I would urge you to acquire it yourself, so that you might be companionable, and he would cease to grate on your nerves. You can learn to like to read if you want to. And once vou acquire the book habit you will find out that it has opened up to you the greatest joys and pleasures in life. Try it DOROTHY DIX. . EAR MISS DIX: I would certainly ltke to be able to make a hit with the weaker sex, which is apparently too strong for me. I am a student who goes In for athletics, dances, am ready for a good time, can talk fluently and I own a car. I have plenty of dates, but there is always some fellow that the girls like better. What is it that girls want and look for in a man? RALPH. Answer: It seems to me that vour accomplishments quite fill the bill of the requirements of the modern flapper. Especially the car, as most girls consider that a motor car is like the mantle of charity that covers very nearly any disability a man might have. You speak of girls as belonging to the weaker sex. Perhaps therein lles the reason for your failure to win one. There is nothing that women resent so much as being patronized, and having a man pose before them as a superfor just because he wears trousers instead of skirts. Chivalry and reverence for womanhood is a line that never fails to make a hit with women, and it is particularly effective in college, where girls who have given the boys a close run for the honors don't take very kindly to the tin-god stuff Girls don’t like boys who are fresh and famtliar, who are such cheap skates t they have to be pald with a kiss after they take them to a 30-cent movie or who make love to them the first time they see them. That's too sudden, and it isn't convincing. Girle don't like boys who are egotists and whose conversational repertoire consists of a monologue about themselves and their belongings. Nor do they like boys who brag about their conquests with other girls. They know that thefr own scalps will be exhibit No. 526 the next time the youth parades his victims for the entertainment of another girl. Girls don't like sissy boys, nor do they like boys who pretend to be bad men. Common decency demands that those who can't be good shall at least keep quiet about their sins. Girls don't like boys who are hard to get along with and who always have to be flattered and jollied to be kept in a good humor. Perhaps among these things that girls don’t like you will find some explanation of your lack of popularity. Girls don't 4emand much of hovs, goodness knows. If they are even reasonably well mannered, and intelligent, and pleasant, girls will put up with their shortcomings for the sake of having a beau. It is a great graft to be born of the masculine persuasion! DOROTHY DIX. .. B EAR DOROTHY DIX: I have been keeping company with a voung man for three years. We have very good times together and are together four evenings a week, yet he has never told me he loves me. What do you think his intentions are? JUST TWENTY-FOUR. Answer: None, my dear. Absolutely none. A man who sees a girl four times a week for three vears and never tells her he loves her is never going to pop the question. He isn't in love with her. She is just a good pal, nothing more. And some day he will come along and tell her that she has been the best friend a fellow ever had, and so she is the very first he is £oing to tell the good news to, and that is that he is going to be married to the dearest, sweetest, most wonderful little girl in the world. And he just knows they will be such good friends! DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Coprright, 1925.) o, o e W s 2 s 7 Wi & Sanctified person. Concealed himself. Angry. Tassel. The choicest part. Article of belief. Before, One who evaluates. Each (abbr.). Space for combat. Prying device, Money brought to England by Danes. y City in the Punjab, India. | Provided with oars. Part of the stomach of an ox. Hebrew prophet. Sea. Angelic beings. Own_ (Scotch). Continent (abbr.), Altitude (abbr.). o Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. Article of apparel. More attractive. Tune. Possessive pronoun. Epoch. Girl's name. Girl's name. Clear of charges. Greek letter. Malt drink. Instrument for measuring heat. Caused by itself. River in Switzerland. Part of a curve. To deface. Suffix forming adjectives country. Water (French). Falsehood. Town in Southwest France. The whole. British officer involved with Benedict Arnold. Plac ere mone; Cincinnati Chicken. Split lengthwise a pork tenderloin, leaving the halves joined. Pound the meat of each side until about a haif- inch thick. Spread with the following stuffing: One cupful of bread crumbs, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, a lit- tle pepper, a slice of onion chopped, one teaspoonful each of chopped pars- ley, pickles, capers and lemon juice, and a tablespoonful of olives peeled and_chopped. Mix into this one-fourth cupful of melted butter and one beat- en egg. Arrange the stuffing so that of 31. 33. 35. s coined. it will heap in the center, and sew or tle the edges of the meat together so that it will resemble a plump, boned bird. Bake with careful basting until well browned. My Neighbor Says: Always sonk raisins before putting them into breads, so they will not absorb the water from the bread, making it dry. If vou have’ trouble making custard puddings or pies, try this way: Heat the milk in- stead of using it cold and beat the eggs, white and yolks, sepa- rated, the whites not beaten sUff. and set the pudding in a pan of hot water, Vinegar may be made from the parings of apples or other fruit, the easler way belng to cover them with cold water, boil down as for felly, then let it drip through a coarse strain- er. To each gallon of juice add a cup of sugar or sirup, put it In a crock in a warm place and fermentation will take place. Milk which has been burned should be poured into a jug and set in cold water. When cold the burnt taste will have a peared Heads of cabl kept several days by first wrap- PiZE in a wet cloth and then in several thicknesses of newspa- pers. Do not let the cloth be- come dr; Use a vegetable brush in cleaning celery. It gets down into the grooves and prevents the dirty-looking celery which one often sees served e n on the tables of particular house- wives, When baking apple ples try inverting a pie plate over the pie if the crust gets too brown before the apples are done. Decorators as well as collectors have taken a flattering interest in silhou- ettes of late. They are charmed by the fine point and contrast that these little black and white profiles give to old-time decorative schemes. There is an amusing version of how the silhouette received its name; Sl o r Fi nance to Lou taxed the nobles so heavily that they were forced into all sorts of economies. Extravagance in dress had to be curbed and e simple frocks that resulted were sald | to be made “a la Silhouette.” Just at that time little profile portraits came into vogue, so they, too, were jestingly sald to be “a la Silhouette” because they were mere shadows of portraits Some silhouettes were cut from black paper, but many of the finer ones were painted, some even with colors. (Copyright, 1925.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Gemini, Tomorrow's planetary aspects are not very favorable for those exercises or recreations that are usually asso- ciated with Sunday. They betoken a disgruntled frame of mind, a dissatis. fied mind, and ever-present tendency to carp and criticize, which, if not curbed, will lead to loss of temper and bitterness of spirit. After sundown, the conditions very quietly change, and become benign. Good enjoyment, especially in the family circle, will be experienced during this period, if you have been able, in the earlier part of the day, to exercise restraint, and neither do nor say anything that leaves a “nasty taste in the mouth.” The child born tomorrow will not display, during infancy, that robust- ness or good health with which, in order to inspire confidence and fend off worry, it should be endowed. These physical conditions and weak- nesses can all be outgrown and lived down, if proper care be exercised and the right sort of nutrition given. Its disposition will, in its early days, be very much affected by health condi- tions, and it will be trying, fretful and peevish. As, however, its physical status improves, so will its disposition reveal an improvement, and, in course of time, it will, although serious, be contented and non-rritating. It will possess an unquenchable ambition, and if allowed to prosecute a career in strict conformity with its tastes and bent, will achieve more than moderate success. If tomorrow is your birthday, yvou are endowed with a very pleasing personality, and possess charm of manner and a remarkable intelligence. You, however, are just as prodigal of your abilities as of your means, and, relying on former successes, never attempt to make any provision for the future. You are always willing to reveal all you know, and hold nothing in reserve for those occasions when your keen mentality would be of great avail. In the same way you dissipate (this word is not used in its generally accepted meaning) your sub- stance, and either will not or cannot foresee the occasion that will one day arise when regret will be in vain. Well known persons born on this date. are: Morris L. Keen, inventor; John S. Stearns, temperance reformer; Henry W. Grady, journalist; Richard Mansfield, actor; George G. G. Bar- nard, sculptor, and Queen Victorfa of England. (Copyright, 1925.) HOW IT STARTED " BY JEAN NEWTON. “Pell-Mell.” To do something pell-mell is to do it in indiscriminate haste and confu- sion. ‘The expression is commonly used in every-day speech, but the per- son Is rare Who understands the allu- slon with the knowledge of how it started. The expression comes to us from the old English game of pall mall or pail mail, which was introduced during the relgn of Charles I and subsequently became very popular in England. It was a game in which a ball was driven with a mallet, taking its name from the Italian “pappa maglio,” “palla” meaning ball and “maglio” hammer. In uick pronunciation pail mail became ‘pell mell,” and it was from the fact that under certain circumstances in the game the players would rush head- long at the ball that such heedless, basty activity became ta be described as “pell mell.” And though the gasne which brought it into existence has served its time and passed out of {he i FEATURES. Ramble Around South America BY RIPLEY, Sixtieth Day. AMERICAN Pan-American Line, March 28.—Once again I am aboard ship. It is a white ship fiying the American and belonging to the ited Government. It is a rare and ant feeling to find yourself an American boat. I fee already. We are passing mouth of Guanat forts of Sao Cruz and Sao are leaving Rio de Janeiro of January—so-called by erer, Gonsalo Coelho, who the bay on January 1, 150 ing it the estuary of a called it by the name it now bears Hyman and Mori, the little Japa- nese captain, called to say bon vc age and Sayonara. The little Nippo nese was effusive and polife and shook m hand several times and he bowed low and hissed. “You no get Spanish shawl, sir?” he inquired. *I send vou from Japan. Best Spanish shawl made in Japan. I send you from Kobe me honorable pleasure to accept shawl, please, sir, good-bye, please,” he said as he clambered down the gangway. (And I bet he keeps his word.) I walked out on deck to watch the ast of Rio. Slowly this earthly para- dise faded into nothingness—Sugar flag States pleas aboard at home out_through the past the Joao. We “the River its discov- first_saw and think- great river, BEDTIME STORIES 0ld Orchard Champion. A champion you sc Tntil you see him { jom know a foe —Peter Rabbit. It was Scrapper the Kingbird who first saw King Eagle high up in the biue, blue sky, and at once gave warn ing. All the birds stopped their chat ter and silence fell in the Old Orchard Most of agem got.out of sight as much possible. Only Scrapper the King bird remained out in the open. He kept his perch and watched the speck which he knew was King e grow larger and larger. Now, there was little for the feath ered folk to fear from King Eagle. In the first place, he never had been known to visit the Old Orchard, and there was no reason to think that he would visit it now. Then, again, none of the feathered folk in the Old Orch d were big enough to tempt King agle to try to catch them. He wouldn't waste his time with such small folks as those living in the Old Orchard. So there was no real r son for this hiding and sudden silence. It was due to just a natural fear of one so big and strong and with such great claws and such a_hooked bill. You know that King Eagle has won- derful eyes. From so high up in the sky that he can hardly be seen from the ground he can look down and see evervthing, even so small a_person as Danny Meadow Mouse. So it was that as he was passing high above the Old Orcl¢ird he looked down and saw something that interested him It was Peter Rabbit. In order to see better, Peter had come out from the shelter of the old Stone Wall and was sitting with his head tipped back, staring up at King Eagle. You see Peter had seldom had a chance for a good look at King Eagle and he was making the most of this one. King Eagle also saw that none of those two-legged creatures called men were about. He knew that his two babies in their nest up on the Big Mountain would enjoy a Rabbit break- fast. So King Eagle began to swing in circles, and every time he came around he was a little lower. He was watching_Peter Rabbit. and he was watcher Farmer Brown's house to see that no one appeared there. Peter was so interested in watching King Eagle that he never once thought of danger. Tt didn't enter his head that King Eagle might come down there in the Old Orchard. So he was startled so that he felt as if he had almost jumped out of his skin when Scrapper the Kinghird suddenly screamed, “Run, Peter! Run!" He had just sense enough to make a fly- LEGION, [ e |1 hear |bonny voy Do | == Tue LAST VIEW Loaf, Corcovada, Tijuca, Gavea, those artistic contortions of some primeval cataclysm, solved into a silvery ist red to fall like a cur- tain over a window of heaven. I am going home. As T turned from the rail after gaz- ing long at the blank curtain of sky whe: on had flickered the most 1 travel picture in the world, a voice—a familiar voice. “I wuz athinkin’,” he continued, “of Haig and Haig and Ferguson, my Scotch friends that 1 had 1 so0 ab- ruptly in Sao Paulo a week ago. ‘I wuz athir " he continued, in’, vou wud like to know that there verra, verra, pretty L ahoard. in' French and : noselle Florelle? ure enough. The little French girl that we met itop the Loaf of Sugar a few days th re Hoot going to have Mon,” I said arm and led me inside, hummin song of Lauder's all the while, hut suddenly stopped as a sign stared us in the eyes a He' took garettes-Candy-and Be Purchased at the Bar” It seems as though we are home be- fore we start. “Cigars-( Soda May BY THORNTON W. BURGESS ing leap for the dear, safe old Stone Wall, and = he did heard the whistle of mr rushing between stiff feathers and he heard a scream of ippointment. King Eagle had shot down like a thunderbolt and had just missed Peter. At the same time there was another scream. In fact, there was a succes- sion of screams. From the safety of the old wall Peter peeped out. There rapper the Kingbird actually attacking King Eagle and trying to drive him away, all the time scream- ing hi& at the top of his voice. ymeow he managed to keep above King Eagle, darting down to strike him on the back or between the shoul- PETER WAS SO INTERESTED IN WATCHING KING EAGLE THAT HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT OF DANGER. ders. He actually pulled one or two brown fegthers out. Peter saw them floating down through the air. King Eagle twisted and turned and did his best to get rid of Scrapper, but couldn the time they kept ris- ing highe" ¥ 1d higher, until Scrapper was no ‘e than a speck to his friends i@ he Old Orchard. At la they savflliim leave King Eagle and start dcff for his favorite perch in hard. King Eagle kept on his way ahd seemed glad to go, judg- ing by the way he hurried. All the feathered folk in the Old Orchard flew to meet Scrapper sqd tall him how wonderful they thought him, and Jenny Wrenn was one of the first. But the champion of the Old Cachard paid no attention to them. Straight to his favorite perch he flew and began to catch flies, just as if nothing at all had happened. (Copyright, 1025, by T. W. Burgess.) WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Chinaware. Every home-maker these days real- izes the supreme importance of using only sanitary dishes on her table, but perhaps few know just what the word “sanitary” includes when applied to china or how to go about making the selections in her buying which will insure this quality in her tableware. ow, the sanlitary property of a dish is insuted only through the thorough “vitrification” of its body and glaze. This, of course, can be brought about only by intense heat. u know how crazing and discol- oring can ruin the body of any dish. 1f the composition and firing have not been just right, the glaze is likely to contrast_more than the body of the dish, and the surface will then break into hundreds of tiny cracks running in all directions. This is called “craz- ing.” If you put fruit juices or any colored liquid into such a crazed dish, some of the color will speed into the cracks, This crazing must be guarded against if vou would insure having sanitary dishes. To prevent it the dishes must have been subjected to such a high temperature as to bring the clays almost to the melting point, so that the tiny particles are all fused as one. In that case the body of the dish s no longer porous, but-is as solid as glass. Of course, the purpose of a glaze on an article is to make it impermeable to liquid, as well as to add to its beauty, but in the case of high-fired china, even though the glaze becomes injured, it does not absorb grease or dishwater, because of the thoroughly vitrified body. You can tell the difference between a dish that has the true china body and earthenware or semi-vitreous ar- ticles if when a chip or break occurs you apply mdrop of ink to the broken picture, the expression “pell mell” has survived in modern speech. surface of the dish. The Ink will sink into the porous earthenware, but it wil) not penetrate the body of the true china. ‘This means merely that the body of the earthenware inside the glaze is porous. It is protected as long as the glassy coating is unharmed, and there is no chance of liquld seeping into the product unless the glaze is cracked or chipped off. Then, again, if the clays have not been thoroughly mixed, there may re- main blister or uneven marks which show on the surface of the dish and furnish a harbor for dirt and danger- ous bacterla. These can be detected by looking the china over carefully and by passing the hand slowly over the surface to feel any unsmoothnass. The shape of the dish has something to do not only with its convenience but with the ease of cleaning. Cor ners, fantastic knobs and handles and over-elaborate and raised decorations sometimes form repositories for accu- mylated dirt and grease and add to tie burden of dishwashing. ———. Compote of Bananas. Make a sirup of half a zupfu} of sugar and half a cupful of water. Peel and scrape two or three bananas, then cut in thin, even slices. Add to the sirup and let boll all over, shaking the pan a little to cook all the slices evenly. A little lemon or vanilla ex- tract may be added, or thin lemon or orange rind may be cooked in the sirup. Skim the bananas to a plate ‘when soft. When all are cooked, but keptin whole slices, boil down the sirup a little. When cool, add the bananas and serve. She Was Miscast. From the Boston Transcrpt. A New York theatrical manager who had just been divorced from his wife was asked what had caused the separation. His reply was character- istie. “She had no conception of the part,” he sald. {