Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1925, Page 10

10 WOMA N’'S PAGE. . Ways to Open the Summer Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ONE OF THE FI Many people have Summer homes to which they go regularly and know from year to year what their Sum- mer destination is to be. It is more especially to them that T am talking today, and whether the Summer home be a shack in the woods or a house of pretentions does not greatly matter, so far as the purpose of the article is concerned. There are certain things which all houses not lived in_the entire vear have in common. They all have to be closed at the end of the season reopened at the beginning of the next. The time of reopening is at mand with many of us. Some can afford the luxury of sending a maid ahead of the family 1o see that the place is in readiness, but it is up to a great many house- wives to do it themselves. Although it is one of the least congenial tasks of the season, it may be made quite enjoyable. Certainly much of the strain of culinary preparations can be relieved with a little forethought if the place is within a day’s journey and there is no one at the other end to prepare the first meal of the Sum- mer season in the cottage. Picnic Basket. In some cases, therefore, the prep- arations for opening the Summer home begin while you are still in the Winter one. You may know the dif- ficulties of getting that initial meal in the “half-opened” house. Do you also know the contrasting pleasure of sitting down to a tempting meal of roast meat, even of hot gravy, well prepared vegetables, home-cooked; delicious salad and a tasty pudding desert? Somehow, after you rise from such a meal the oncoming tasks seem not half as hard as they did before you sat down to it. But how is the meal to be so expeditiously contrived ? This charity to yourself began at home. You roasted the meat, sliced it and prepared the vegetables before you left. They were packed in a cake tin, or any tin box with a tight- fitting cover, that could be put into a picnic basket or handbag. Some of the vezetables were put separately in cans, some in glass jars. The let- tuce was kept away from the hot meat in a container. Rice pudding or chocolate blanc-mange was in an- other. There was even cream into which some chips of ice had been put. Bread, butter, salt and sugar 3 AS IN THE OPENING HOME IS TO SEE THAT THE BEDS ARE AIRED AND MADE UP. were none of them omitted. Unless the weather is unfit, the Lavender Shades OF THE SUMMER time during the eating. of the ‘meal should also serve for airing the bed- ding. While one member of the fam- ily is setting out the spread, which seems no less than a feast to the hungry, another one or two are fling- ing open windows and dragging bed- ding outdoors. If there is opportu- nity to do nothing else before night- fall than eat and do the airing, at least you will be able to go to sieep in fresh beds after a good meal. Early Arrival. However, every effort should be made to reach the Summer home be- fore the day is far advanced. So much more can be accomplished when this is the case. Perhaps there is some one to whom you can send a post card to see that the water supply ig all right That is the first emenml.s\Such u thinkable things can happen to a water supply, especially if it is one dependent upon @ pump, that a little forethought is invaluable. Even faucets of the best have their eccentricities. It will give You & great sense of luxury to find this matter attended to when you arrive. Tour of Inspection. A tour of inspection of the house should be made. A good precaution is this: Be sure to see that anything that may have been used to stop up the open fireplace chimney is immediately removed, lest a fire be kindled, when paper is plugging the chimney, and cause more of a conflagration than is intended. Friends May Help. A house in which no one has lived during the Winter has a strange feel- ing of being untenanted and lacking that something which human occu- pants alone can give. If you have never tried having a “house opening house party” it would be an_interest- ing experiment to do so. The very talk, laughter and good fellowship which enter with a group of congenial Souls seems to go far toward making the place immediately livable. Also when several go together on some of the necessary household errands it makes a “lark” of a necessity. If a salt or fresh water “dip” s in order the host or hostess in bathing suit can delay his going to the beach for a quarter of an hour and do some of the less congenial tasks to which such attire as bathing suit seems most ap- propriate. The fact that a bath imme- diatelv follows seems to “take the curse off” of what preceded. All in all, a cottage opening house party may be one of the most successful house parties of the season. in High Fashion BY MARY MARSHALL. Mauve, violet, lavendar, hellotrope— all colors found in the range of pale purples—are spoken of often in con- nection with the fashions of the mo- ment. Fuchsia, cyclamen, thistle hloom and other colors of a more vivid cast, produced by us blend- ings of red and purple, likewise hold a strong place in the current fash- shion goes through very in- phases in this matter of fon: teresting CHIFFON OVER CHIFFON _SLIP. RAW HAT VEILED IN LAV- INDAR - FLOWERED CHIFFON WITH BAND OF PLEATED VIO- LET RIBBON. JABOT colors. For a while all the reds of a_ yellow cast were in high vogue. We wore henna, rust, chow and sim- ilar colors called by a dozen different names. Some of these are still worn, but the pendulum is steadily swinging over to the reds with a purplish cast. For many years iavender was re- garded as particularly suitable for the white-haired woman. Together with gray and white it was looked on as the only really suitable color for an n old-time grandmother to wear. For some reason or other it came to be regarded as fit for half-mourning. These things doubtless did much to rob lavender of its appeal to younger women. Mothers rather hesitated let- ting their young daughters have frocks of the color. “It seemed so old. Now this prejudice seems to have been overcome. At any evening as- semblage of well dressed women now- adays vou will see an interesting sprinkling of those dressed in the lavender type of colors. Count noses and you will see that they are for the most part voung or middle-aged. The older woman chooses a color with a bit more vigor. The grandmother of today cénsult- ing her dressmaker regarding a new evening frock says: “T really am a little too old to wear lavender.” But she wouldn't hesitate to wear emerald green or flame color. The sketch shows a charming frock | of a vouthful sort made of lavender chiffon. There is a jabot front. The hat, of cream straw, Is covered with lavender-flowered chiffon, and banded with purple velvet ribbon. (Copyright, 1925.) Sardines and Chesee. ‘Warm some samidines in the oil from the tin, add pepper, salt and juice of lemon. When hot, lay the sar- dines on a hot dish, sprinkle grated cheese over them and pour white sauce over them. My Neighbor Says: A good way to test whether | | a_ fern requires water is to give the pot & sharp tap. If it sounds hollow it needs water, but if a dull sound is given out the soil is wet enough. . Give your ollcloth or linoleum a coat of varnish and it will make it look like new. If you wish to keep your silver salt shakers in good con- dition remove the salt from the shakers after each meal. Salt left in shakers will cause the tops to corrode. Paint the ice chamber in your refrigerator with alum- inum and it will make it look bright and clean. Those who sleep in cold rooms should get two pairs of cotton blankete, cut one-third oft from each pair, sew these two-thirds together, hem the end of the others. Then you have three nice long ones that can be changed and washed as easlly as shects and are so much warmer. When your tablecloths get worn, make napkins out of them! from your long roller towels make dish towels; from the bed sheets make pillow slips; from long curtains make sash curtains. { gar with one teaspoonful of salt, one- THE EVENING What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Gemini. The planetary aspjects of tomorrow are rather complex, and while they are not adverse, they are not, on the other hand, very favorable. Foru- nately, it is a day that is not usually devoted to business or professional pursuits, and if the usual customary exercises and occupations of Sunday be indulged in, there is little cause for worry, or opportunity for dis- couragement. In the evening, there will be experienced a tendency to cavil and find fault. If happiness in the family circle be desired, this temptation to cause unhappiness and promote discord must be overcome and self-control exercised. A child born tomorrow promises to have a healthy infancy, but will, in all likelihood, suffer from a serious illness Jjust after adolescence. The outcome will largely depend on the strength of the constitution that, by proper care, has been built up in its early days. In disposition, it will be rather querulous, argumentative and peevish. These outward failings will not, however, detract from its other sterling characteristics of honor, straightforwardness and integrity. It will not attract many friends, but the few it will have will make up in quality for what they lack in quan- tity. Much material success will not be the lot of this child, and it will do better in a subordinate, than in an_exalted position. You, if your birthday falls on May are rather frivolous, ambitious about little things and rather con- ceited. It would be more to your ad- vantage to spend more time on im- proving your mind and_less on your personal appearance. You could, if you so willed it, learn quickly, as you have much natural aptitude. You, however, display too much Interest on_externals. You are not very constant in your affections, neither as a friend, nor a lover, and vou change both very quickly, according to your whims and fancies. You choose a mate because outward appearance appeals to you. Well known persons born on this date: Walt Whitman, poet; Joel H. Shedd, civil engineer; Willlam Rocke- feller, capitalist; James Jeffrey Roche, poet; Will H. Low, artist; Cynthia H. ‘W. Alden, journalist. (Copyright. Parking With Peggy 1925.) “If we must have ‘blue laws.’ let's enforce them against these saxophone ‘blues’ player: Pop was smoking to himself and ma was darning stockings, and I sed, G, pop, C ma, you awt to see Persey Weevers nose. Wy, ware is it? pop sed. Its ware it belongs, ony its got a big swelling on one side and it looks all out of shape, you awt to see it, I sed. Perhaps I awt, but we cant ixpect to see everything, although Id like to see the Grand Canvon one of these days, and they say Niagara Falls is a grate site, pop sed. You awt to see his eye, too, pop, its all black and blue and funny looking and one tooth is loose and he's got a big scratch on his chin, you awt to see him, I sed. My goodniss, was he in an axsident? ma sed. I bet he thawt it was a axsident all rite, you awt to see him, ma, I sed. Wy awt I, for land sakes T dont in- joy sites like that, wat on erth hap- Dened to him? ma’ sed. O, T jest hit him a few tim Wats that, do you meen to say 3 bin fighting? pop sed, and I sed, Well nobody aint going to call me a pie face shrimp, and I bet he wont do it agen, either, you awt to see him. O well, maybe you will, T sed. Maybe I will wat? pop sed, and I sed, Maybe you'll see him, his mother sed’ she was going to bring him er- round and show him to you tonite. Which she dident, ony if she had the shock would of bin partly broken enyways. Hot Slaw. Slice one medium head of cabbage in very thin shreds and boil rapidly for 20 minutes in salted water. Drain thoroughly. Mix one cupful of vine- fourth teaspoonful of pepper and two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir into the cabbage. Stand on the back of the stove in a covered saucepan until thoroughly heated. Serve very hot. Rice Cakes. Half pound rice, four and one-half ounces cottolene, one quart of milk, four eggs, one-half pound flour, one teaspoon baking powder, a little salt. Soak the rice, boil soft, drain and mix with the cottolene; let cool, add the milk, salt and eggs. Sift In a quarter of a pound of flour with a teaspoon of baking powder. Bake on well-greased griddle. IF its windows a view The smzllest room seems unconfined. hola STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why Men’s Mothers and Wives Are Natural Enemies—Why Do Young Girls Prefer Older Men?—How to Make Herself Fall in Love. EAR MISS DIX: Iam 25, and I am soon to be married to a young man to whom I have been engaged for four years. We get along perfectly together, are devoted to each other, and have every chance for happiness, except that I must live with his mother. She has had her life blighted by an interfering mother-inlaw, but it doesn’t seem to have made her any more tolerant of me. Our ideas are diametrically opposite, and in four years' acquaintance and honestly trying to be friends { cannot understand her or like her, and I am sure she does not like me. She's not old, or financially dependent. 1 cannot bear the thought of going into their home and causing trouble. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Should I try to make the best of it? APRIL. Answer: It you do not like your husband’s mother before marriage, there is small chance of your coming to care for her when you are brought into dally and hourly contact in the home, and you are headed for trouble it you undertake to live with her. Any man who asks his wife to live with his mother does both of them a cruel injustice, because he makes a situation that would try the virtues of two female angels, and which no two merely human women should be expected to cope with successfully. Men don't understand what a home means to a woman. It is literally a woman’s kingdom. It is the one tiny spot in all the big world where she is monarch of all she surveys; where she is the head, the authority; where she can exercise her taste and carry out her own ideas, and any stranger interferes with this at her peril. From the time a little girl child begins playing with toys and has her dollhouse, with its miniature tables, and chairs, and beds, and cooking stove, she dreams of the real home she will have one day, and plans just how she will furnish it and run it. The joy of having her own home is one of the main things that a girl marries for. It is the love of home that makes working girls set up light housekeeping, instead of living comfortably in boarding houses. It is this instinctive, not-to-be-suppressed yearning for one's own home that makes it impossible for two women to live together in peace, especially when they are daughter-in-law and mother-n-law. The mother-in-law cannot give up the running of her home to another and sit down in silence while she sees her daughter-in-law incompetently doing things that she did expertly. The daughter-in-law cannot be happy doing things her mother-in-law’'s wa) instead of her own. So they quarrel and make themselves miserable, and make the poor man who loves them both more wretched still. In cases of poverty, mothersiinlaw and daughters-in-laws are often forced to live together, but why they ever undertake such a foolhardy experiment when it is not a financial necessity nobody knows. No mother who has an independent income should ever risk her own or her son's happiness by living in the house with his wife, for if she lives apart she has a thousand times better chance of keeping on amiable and affectionate terms with daughter-in-law than she does if they live under the same roof. Possibly the mother may feel that she cannot be separated from her darling boy even by a few blocks, but the physical separation is as nothing to the soul separation there would be it she and his wife are at enmity with each other, and he is torn between them. Don’t go to live with your mother-in-law, April. Make your sweetheart see that he is doing both of you a wrong by not setting up his own home. G Faut DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: Why do girls seem to prefer older men to boys of their own generation? I am in love with a girl 18 years old, intelligent | and holding a good position. I will not be in a position to marry until 1 complete my education and build up a good practice, say, five years from now I have a rival, who i about 35 years old and who is doing a good business, and I am afraid that he will win the girl away from me. SOCK. Answer: I think you have answered your own question. The man of 35 is ready to marry and has something definite to offer the girl. A school boy has nothing, not even the certainty that he will still want to marry the girl after he has finished his education and studied his profession. The chances are that five years from now vou will smile when you think of the calf love that vou had for this girl, and that you will have entirely outgrown her. If your education really educates you, you will see life from a very much broader standpoint than you do now. your tastes will have been cultivated and improved and you will desire a very different type of wife from the one that you would pick out today. i Chief among the women who help men are those who refuse to marry them when they are 20 years old, and in time to come you will look upon the man who is vour rival today as the one who saved your life. Young girls are always, flattered by the attentions of older men because it makes them feel grown-up and sophisticated, and that they can compete with older women. A man of 35 also has an ailure for a girl of 18 because she thinks he is worldly wise. She looks up to him as she does not to a boy of her own age, who, she knows, is just as foolish and kiddish as she is. DOROTHY DIX. « s e e EAR MISS DIX: A man who is a very fine gentleman and who would make me a good husband wishes to marry me. But while I like him and | respect him, I cannot fall in love with him. Can vou tell me how I can make myself love this man? DIXIE. Aanswer: No. The human heart is an unruly organ, and nobody knows how to make it behave itself and love where it could love with profit, and refrain from loving where love is disastrous. Indeed, Cupid seems to take a malicious pleasure in making his vietims love the wrong ones, so that girls set their affections on poor young chaps. who can only give them bread and water and kisses to live upon, instead of on the fat, bald-headed, rich widowers who could feed them on lobster a la Newburg and give them limousines to ride in. And poor and ambitious young men pick out for wives fluffy-headed little girls without a second dress to their backs, instead of marrying the sensible girls with good dowries that their mothers have selected for them. You can say that a man is good, and kind. and moral, and upright, and that every day in every way he will make vou a perfect husband, but you can’t Coue yourself in love with him. You can admit all of his virtues, but that won't make you thrill at the touch of his hand. You can think how well oft and comfortable you would be if vou were married to him, and then vou will shiver when you think about having to kiss him. There is no recipe for falling in love. You just do it, or you don’t, and that’s that. Respect isn't such a bad thing to marry on, however, if you haven't a romantic temperament. If you are sentimentally inclined, it is a dangerous proposition. In Continental Europe marriages are almost universally arranged on the respect basis, and they work out very well. But consider vour own tempera- ment well before you try the experiment. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1825.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) Flesh of sheep as food. Organ of audition. Yokels (colloquial). Native mineral. Preposition. Guided. College degree. Approaches. Man's name. Metric unit of area. Ireland. . Reigns. . Unit of length. Utilizes. Preposition. . Coin brought into England by Danes. MAY 30 lllliilfggs 1925. Instead of being considered a make- shift, the attic bedroom should be made one of the most appealing rooms in the house. Because it is low-ceiled and has quaint dormer windows it can be furnished with simple pleces of the cottage type and made gay with a bright, old-fashioned color scheme. The room sketched has walls of cream-colored plaster board. The prim old furniture is walnut, waxed to a soft glow, with the exception of the little chair, which has been painted buttercup yellow. The floor is black and there is a mustard-colored linen rug. The drapes display yellow sunflowers on a back- ground of greenish blue. The bed- spread is sheer vellow voile and there are old blue glass lamps with shades of clear yellow chintz. (Copyright, 1925.) MOTHERS AND THEIE CMILDEEN. For Thirsty Youngsters. One Mother Sa An all-consuming thirst is sure seize the children on every outing—even the circus. Providing for this demand has united family effort in saving and cleaning catsup, vine ar and medicine bottles to provide water contalners. On each trip every child’s pocket is supplied with its bot tle of drinking water. This s much better than doing without water when thirsty or drinking from questionable sources. SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Tulip Trees. “The noblest of the American for- ests,” is what Poe called the tulip tree. Certainly, wherever you see a clean, straight, splendid shaft of a tree soaring high above all others, you may be sure, anywhere in the District_ of Columbla, it is a tulip tree. The whole year round the tulip tree is stately, graceful, and delight- ful to behold. But this week the first of its wondrous flowers have begun, all over the District, to burst their imprisoning buds. It is the flower that name of ‘“tulip tree.’ nothing could be less tulip, some resemblances are certainly startling. The thick, upright, curving golden petals, with the tinge of orange or red at the base, are undeniably like a tulip. But an examination of the flower reveals the truth about the tulip tree—that it is really a magnolia, or at least a member of that family. It is, in fact, the noblest, hardiest most useful of the whole magnolia tribe. No other of that family ranges so far north. It is found even in northern New York. One can never look at the tulip tree without a certain thrill, remem- bering its immense antiquity. It is found in fossii form in the most an- cient rocks which show trace of flow. ering plants at all. Once its vast range extended over a large part of the world. Until the great glacial period (geologically but a_short time ago) tulip trees were abundant in Kurope, but the glaciers destroyed them completely. There remains to- day of the tulip trees’' ancient king- aom but the eastern United States and a part of mountainous western China. explains the and though related to a HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Sheeps’ Eyes.” To say that he is casting “sheep's eyes” is a popular characterization of a lovesick swain. Naturally, it is as- sumed that the reference is to the vacuous and seemingly helpless ex- pression that is the sheep's! We learn however that this is merely a coin- cidence, the phrase having had its origin in an ancient Welsh wedding custom. Beginning centuries ago it was long the practice among the country people of Wales for the bridegroom at a wedding to present the bride with a sheep’s head. A substitute, when the young man’s means did not permit of this, was two bright buttons called “sheep’s eyes.” It is now long since this custom went into oblivion, but we have a relic in the expression “sheep’s eyes' applied to lovers or those who act as if they might be thinking of going together to the altar! Rhubarb and Pineapple Marmalade ‘To one pound of rhubarb and pine- apple pulp add a pound of sugar and boil for 20 _minutes. . Luminous cloudlike object in sky. . Used in navigation. . Golf stick. . Drinking place. Sainte (abbr.). Spherical object. Point of the sky directly under foot. Girl's name. So, if my thoughts range far and wide No marrowness can cramp mind. R‘Tom" Comparison of magnitude. A drink. Young child (Scotch). Speaks imperfectly. Color. Demented. Unicellular organism. To acquire knowledge. Satlors. Old or refuse metal. . Weighing machine (Scotch). Identical. A motion of water. . Exhibition of products. . Exposed to the atmosphere. Allows to fall. Inhabitants of Northern Africa. A collection. On the face. Marks of injuries. Exclamation. Edible roots. Part of to be. Bleat. . Divinely supplied food. Lyric poem. . Reposing. Bent tube for drawing liquids by Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. MIAICHT InTe TP TATA ] jolrleJille ] L] [CluE JlIME (TITILE] L] [Alr il s|alo A |s] [t IN]STvISTISIROIR] olole P [T|c HIRA INlo] S| ™ Rlaclc R MALCE] T IOk 2 [YPTT IOl WE Y E [ IElole o] | { FEATUR IN THE GARDEN ES. WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luther Burbank. Campanulas and Larkspurs. “We have several members of the campanula family in our garden,” I sald, “and &s some are coming into bloom they naturally want to be no- ticed.” “They are all worthy of notice,” sald Mr. Burbank, “from the blue- bells of Scotland to the chimney bell- flower (campanula_pyramidalis), and are quite as suitable for experiment as the columbine, for they are easily crossed. ““The plants of this family, like the columbines, are both biennial and perennial, growing wild everywhere, even in northern Canada and in some parts of Siberla, so in whatever lati- tudes the grower is working he will be unhampered by climate. “The plants generally are white, or lavender and purple, but rarely yel- low, although the campanula caly- canthema bears pink flowers.” “Does not the chimney bellflower bloom very late in the year?" “Yes, and for that reason it may be grown in tubs or large pots, and should be taken indoors when frost threatens. It grows from four to six feet and is very decorative. “Here 1is another garden child claiming attention—the larkspur, or is it delphinium? Personally I prefer the more musical name of larkspur.” ““All larkspurse,” satd Mr. Burbank, “are delphiniums. but the latter term is generally used to designate the hardy perennial larkspur and its charming hybrids. “The perennial Jarkspurs are a fam. ily all by themselves and will bloom two or three times during the Sum mer if cut down after each blooming. This keeps the plant busy, of course, and, although a perennial, it should be renewed every two or three years. “The delphinium has larger blos- soms and leaves than the annual larkspurs and has been developed into a great number of varieties, ranging from white to deep blue and pink, and the blossoms from a closely sat panicle on a stalk, to a loose, gracetul The Queer Baby. To every one it seems most clear That eversbody else is queer. —O0ld Mother Nat Welcome Robin's babies grew as only bird bables can grow. Every day brought more feathers and every day made it more and more clear that one of these babies wasn't 1 least that is the way his father and mother regarded the matter. He was queer, and if he was queer, of course, he couldn’t be right. He was queer because his coat wasn't like the coats of the others. Instead of being dark it was white! Yes, sir, that young Robin was growing a white coat! “TUT, TUT, TU CLAIMED. HERE?" It is funny how people seem to think that there is something dis graceful in being different from other people. Welcome and Mrs. Robin | tried not to have that feeling about this white-coated voungster. but just the same they did their best to keep their neighbors from knowing about it. One or the other was always near | the nest and when any other of the | feathered folk chanced to alight in the tree the white baby was covered | by father or mother wings. But such a secret cannot be kept for long. Jenny Wren was the one who found this one out. She is so small and she moves so quickly that it sometimes is difficult to keep track of her. She had noticed that that nest TUT!" SHE EX “WHAT HAVE WE BEDTIME STORIES branching variety, and sky bi color, known as Belladonna. This 1 one of the older varieties and greal: improved ones have now been pr duced.” “When asked. “The annual larkspurs were planted early in the Spring, but the delphin fums are either from old plants b division of the roots, or from seed sown last Summer—September being Bood season to plant. “Bone meal Is one of the best fe tilizers and may be dug around ti plants when cut down. Some old den soils are badly infested with cc worms, millipeds and thrips, hence new soil is best for delphiniums ar for most plants.” “Tell me something please, of the wild larkspurs. I have heard th the California native species var greatly in color.” “Yes,” sald Mr. Burbank, “they are most Interesting, from the dee orangered varieties to a rare lemo yellow, and all are overtopped i height' by delphinium Californica which grows in the coast canvons and sometimes reaches seven or eight feet. The flower, however, is smalle than any of the others and unattra tive in color. “I have used all of them in experi ments both by crossing and selection but my chief work has been with the hybrid larkspurs and was carried o by means of selection some vears ag Out of more than 5,000 seedlings on one was selected to become the ar cestor of the new varieties.” “Were vou seeking to create an spectal variety?” I asked. “No, but was anxlous to produce vigorous, compact plants which woul resist disease and insects and be flowers of greater size and brillia of color.” “These hybrids must have near reached perfection,” T said. “No plant,” sald Mr. Burbank, “ir ever so fully developed that it has r within it possibilities of still gre improvement.” (Copyright, 1925.) were these planted?” | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS gan to suspect that there was some thing worth looking into there. ¥ know she is a busybody, full of cu riosity. So one morning when M Robin’s back was turned, Jenny Wre slipped up and peeped into the nest ‘Tut, tut, tut, tut!” she e: ‘What have we here? As I liv poor child hasn't & colored feather o him! How queer. How very queer I've heard of such a case, but I've never seen one before." Mrs. Robin flew at Jenny Wren anc drove her away. But the mischief wa done. That lively tongue of Jenn would soon spread the through the Old Orchard. as that couldn’t be kept. Not two minutes later Mrs. Robin heard Jenr Wren telling Mrs. Chippy, the C ping Sparrow about “Tut, tut, tut, my dear, ¥You neve have seen such a sight in vour life declared Jenny. “T tell you that youns Robin is as white as the Ducks Farmer Brown's dooryard. There isr a colored feather on him. I'm sorr for the poor thing, for I don't belie: he'll live long. He will be o easy t see that he’ll soon be caught by on« of hi= enemies. You should have see Mrs. Robin fly into a rage just be cause I happened over there for o neighborly call.” Mrs. Robin knew now would happen. And it began to hap pen right away. That apple tree ir which was her nest became the mos: popular tree in the Old Orchard There was a steady procession just wha | feathered folk to stare at the wh young Robin and talk about it. The even came over from the Green Fores to stare, and make remarks, and wor der what would happen to it. and ir quire it it had a good appetite o acted at all strange. Poor Mrs. Robil was driven almost cr: At leas: that is the way she felt. And it was much the same with Welcome Robin They didn't at all enjoy being the parents of a queer child, and queer i what everybody said that young Robin was. Perhaps it was because they that he was queer and that he w have a hard time when he went into the Great World that they fed him the fattest and choicest worms They intended that he should have a fair start even if didn't have a felt seldom was left by Welcome or Mrs. Robin at the same time, and she be- | BY WILLIAM More Water. A few physicians not particularly in- | terested in the booming of health re- | sorts still believe mineral waters have value in the treatment of certain dis ease conditions. For a while it was quite the thing to ascribe the miracles wrought by mineral waters to their radio activity or radium content, but that lost its interest when people be- gan to learn that all natural waters are more or less radicactive, contain more or less radium. I am inclined to | agree with Dr. Jesse Feiring Williams. professor of physical education in Teachers’ College, Columbia Univer- sity, who tells us that much of the supposed value of mineral waters lies in the comfortable surroundings, the | outdoor activities, the exercise, the ness to proper diet when visiting or staying at the spa. The use of mineral water away from the health resort is therefore frequently disappointing. As Dr. Williams tersely puts it: Persons in good health do not require special waters; persons with disease should consult a physician. A question asked every day is, how much water does one require, and in what quantities and at what times should one take it? The daily quantity needed for good health varies greatly with different conditions of weather, climate, physical activity. I an average can | glasses of water apart from the water taken in or with food. It is a good habit to drink at least a glass of water on rising in the morning; a glass with breakfast, another glassful in midfore- noon, a glassful with lunch at midday, another glassful in midafternoon, a glassful with evening dinner, an. other glassful at bedtime. That makes nearly three pints of water in the day. aside from water in or with food. Many of us need much more ‘water than that in the Summer time or when we are working or playing. Some old theories about the ill ef- fects of drinking cold water before a meal or while at a meal or immediate- ly after a meal no longer receive seri- ous consideration, because physiology has taught us that water taken in such circumstances improves digestion and has no actual Il effect. Particu- larly s it advisable to drink cold water freely at or near a mealtime if one feels at all thirsty. A great many elderly folk, or feeble ones, like to drink a pint or o of hot water on rising or in the half hour or 80 before breakfast in the morning. They find that this helps to regulate the function of the bowel. It is at any rate a harmless habit, and if one pre- baths, perhaps the patient's attentive- | diet, | be mentioned at all it is six or eight fair chance. (Copyright, 1025, by T. W. Burgess.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. salt in or on our food anyway. and the addition of the sait does not ad anything to the physiological actic of the water. If a liberal drink of water, hot or cold, is taken first th: on rising, and the impulse to e the bladd is restrained until afte breakfast, this often proves effective in opposing constipation. When the diet includes a considers ble proportion of fresh vegetables ar fruits one needs less additional wate When the diet is largely meat needs relatively more water. (Copsright. 1925.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Oatmeal with Cream ‘recamed Ham on Toast riddle Cak LUNCHEON. Fruit Cocktail Roast Lamb, Brown Gravy Mint Sauce Delmonico Pojatoes Tomato Salad mel Pudding. Coffee. DINNER Fruit Salad Baking Powder Rolls Creole Cake Tea. BAKING POWDER One quart of flour, spoonful of baking powder, one teaspoon of salt. one-half cup of melted butter. one egg and milk to make a dough that can be handled. Mold thoroughly, place in pan and let rise five hours in a cool place, and then make into rolls with the hands. Bake in a very hot oven. ROLLS four tea- CARAMEL PUDDING. Three tablespoonfuls tapioca (pearl), one quart cold water, pinch of salt, one cup brown gar. Bake a good two hours, irring often when first put in. Serve with cold custard sauce made of two cups heated milk, to which add one well beaten egg mixed with three tablespoonfuls sugar and a pinch of salt; flavor. HAM ON TOAST. Cook together one cup of finely chopped boiled ham and one pint fers hot water to cold in the morning it is perfectly healthful to take it hot. Sometimes more or less salt is added to the water, but that is often objec- tionable, since most of us get too much of cream. When hot, stir in quickly 2 well-beaten eggs and a little pepper. Stir constantly. Serve on toast.