Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1925, Page 27

WOMAN'S"PAGE: Beauty in Trellis and Lattice Work BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. CED TRELLIS HOUSES. Trellises and lattice work have two distinct purposes. They may serve a decoration or they may act a screens. In both instances they add to the attractiveness of a place. Within the last few vears lattice work has been gradually increasing in favor, This is fortunate, for many an otherwise plain and even house has been transformed intb an | residence by the felicitous use of trellises, and premises that would otherwise be unsightly have been beautified by well placed lattioes. The ultra‘modern object of a trellis is ornamental. In this it differs f the old-fashioned purpose, which w apparently for the support of climb- ing rose bushes, clematis, Virginia creeper, or some other plant that re quired training in order to appear to best advantage. A trellis without a vine was considered a bit incomplete. Together the trellis and the vine formed a decoration which certainly was used to advantage in country resi- dences and quaint farm houses. To- day roses may, or may not, lend their Hm fragrant charm to trellises. The net work of slender crossbars may have no gyine or tendril on it. Nevertheless it lends decoration. It is sufficient unto itself This does not mean that trellises without vines are preferable to those with them. It simply indicate: change in emphasis that is featured. It is the trelli Plus the ros vine, it is more ornamental. But has passed bevond the place of u subordinate object. To Beautify House. Tt is well, therefore, if you have a house with walls that are stark, to consider putting up trellises. If the | house is too high for the width, use trellises to break the height. Accept the cross lines. If you use a section of the same width of lattiee as the uprights to cross the house between the windows of the first and second story, and have the supporting ends of the trellis as near the ends of the house as the style of the dwelling per- mits artistically. the zood effect will be apparent immediately Sometimes the lattice extends all the way across the house and sometimes it is wiser to have it end between the windows or just beyond the window frames When Houses Are Wide. It the house it too wide for it height, the space may lend itkelf well to perpendicular trellises. There m: be one, two or even three su on one side of a dwelling, but one or two is the usual number. One spread- ihg fan trellis may serve the purpose admirably, or a wide perpendicular trellis may be in three divisions of straight or slanting cross-bar sections having two unlatticed sections sep ating them. The top is apt to be tent-shaped, BEDTIME STORIES A trellises | | | ADD DECIDEDLY TO THE ATTRAC- with the two bars extending from the outside uprights, meeting in a point over the middle latticed portion. Such a trellis should be tall, if its object is to add height to a wall, and there should be no joining of one trellis to another except where the lattices be- long to a single trellis. Fan-Shaped Trellises. The fan-shaped trellis is the most difficult to construct, but it is decid- edly ornamental. If the spread is very wide, such a trellis has no very decided effect upon the proportions of a wall, because the width offsets the | height and the balance is preserved. For this very reason, fan-shaped trel- lises may be used to advantage on des of houses that have excellent proportions, but against which a trel- lis looks well. If the spread is slight, compared with the height, the wall may appear higher than otherwise, while a_low-spreading fan trellis a. cents width. On Front of House. When a house is built with the side toward the street, the decorative ele- ments of the front entrance are miss- ing from the most conspicuous point The plan of the house may fit a lot better, or the sunlight enter the rooms where it is most desired by such a side position. When houses are so placed, trellises are a decided advantage, for they break the monotony of the side wall which is on the street. Double houses frequently have en- trances on different sides of the build- ing, which leaves a long stretch of wall, broken by windows only. When the architecture of a house is as de- scribed, lattices may transform an ugly exterior into one -with-genuine charm. Lattice Screens. In turning from ornamental trellises to lattice work, we find that a main purpose is a screen around a clothes vard, a cellar way or any part of a lawn' that is given over to utilitarian purposes. Such a lattice is like an ornamental fence, but much more pleasing. A fence forms a more definite divi- sion of the property, while a lattice with its open construction is meant to separate portions of grounds from oth- rs, all of which belong to the same s ate. A lattice also is frequently used to screen an end of a veranda, to protect it from the gaze of passersby or from other houses too near to be agreeable Lattice fences are also used as back- stops to tennis courts, especially when they d_partly as protection from s. When put to such purpose, lattices are much simproved by having crimson ramblers growing over them, or some vine that has foliage and flowers that beautify the background. BY THORNTUN W. BURGESS Freak Wasn't Smart. The smartest follk you find_are they Who face new dangers every day eter. Rabbit. Peter Rabbit found the little white Porcupine. He foundshim right where Jumper tMe Hare had seen him the day before. In fact, he was in the very same tree. And he was white There was no doubt about it, he was white. His sister, who was with him, was dressed just as a young Porcu- pine should be dressed. But this little fellow was white, and he had pink GRUNTED THE LIT- > PORKY WITH THE sir, he did so. He had And he didn’t seem to care eyes. Yes. pink eves at all about his white coat or his pink eyves. He didn't seem to care about anything but filling his stomach, and that took.a lot of filling. Of course, Peter hurried back to the edge of the Green Forest, lipperty-lip- perty lip, as fast as his long legs would take him. He wanted to find the white Robin and the white Red Squirrel to tell them of the little white don of Prickly Porky the Porcupine You know Peter dearly lov: to be a carrier of news. He thinks it most as much fun to tell things as it is to find out things. Of course, the white Robin and the white Squirrel made a journey into the Green Forest to see the white Porcu- pine. Peter showed them the way. Of course, both wanted to talk with the white Porcupine. But the. little Porky was not at all polite. He wasn't at all interested in anything but that stomach of his. He didn't even know he was a freak. And when they told him he was a freak he didn’t care. He said so. “You ought to care,” declayed the with a-good brown m:x. 1AEH |den in his coat. | 1 white Robin. “You will find that if you want to live you will have to be a lot smarter than your relatives who haven’t white coats.” “Humph,” grunted the little white Porky with the pink eyes, and went Fight on eating. “You see,” explained white Red Squirrel, “your white coat makes it easy for your enemies to see you, and that is why you have to be smarter than vou would have to be without a white coat.” “Humph.” grunted the little white Porky with the pink eves, and this time he rattled the thousand little spears hidden in his white coat, and went right on eating. The white Robin and the white Red Squirrel at last gave up. “He's tupid,” said the white Robin. *“He's ust plain, everyd stupid. With the young | that white coat and such stupidity he won’t last long in the Great World.” Peter Rabbit, who had listened, scratched a long ear with a long hind foot. Then he scratched the other long ear with the other long hind foot. Then he stroked his whiskers thought- fully. “Do you know,” said he, “it has Just popped into my head that having a white coat doesn't make any differ. ence to that little Porky. You fellows with white coats have got to be on the watch every minute because those white coats can be so easily seen by enemies. But why should that young v _care if he is seen? It makes no difference to him. Who is there who will touch him? You heard him ttle the thousand little spears hid- ] T guess those spears are just as sharp as the spears of any of his relatives, and no one wants to find out how 'sharp they are. He probably won’t be any smarter nor any more stupid than any of his rela- tives. It really doesn’t make a bit of difference to him that he is a freak. He is one freak who doesn't have to be smart.” It turned out just as Peter had id. The white Robin and the white Squirrel had to be very smart, indeed, all their lives, but the white Porcu- pine didn’t have to be smart at all. So vou see there is such a thing -as be. ing too well protected. By the way, when one of these little people who shouldn’t be white at all is all white it is said to be an albino. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) Inverness Eggs. Boil four eggs for 15 minutes. Strip them from the shells and cover them with forcemeat or sausage meat, brush them over with beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry in smoking hot fat for five minutes. Serve hot What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Gemini. During the early part of tomorrow and until about noon .the planetary aspects are quite benign, and should exert a salutary influence for all ex- ercises or recreations assoclated with the observance of Sunday. There- after, however, uncertainty >“revails, and there will be experienced a feeling of depression and a decided tendency toward irritation and disappointment. 1t is very easy, although by no means expedient, to give expression to such sentiments in the unrestrained at- mosphere of the home circle. In order to avoid hurting the feelings of those who, by home ties, are so closely asso- ciated with you, it would be well to curb the impulse to be “nasty” and cultivate the desire to be “nice. Although the child born tomorrow will have during infancy its share of illness, it will overcome all its weak- nesses and develop vigorous strength s thie years roll by, Itaidispasition will be very outspoken, and an underlying sense of truth and justice will form the fundamentals of its character. It will not be lacking in courage, either ysical or mental, and will never be ared to sacrifice conviction for expediency. It will be a careful thinker, and after arriving at a defi- nite conclusion will never hesitate to express an opinion, although it may run counter to popular or friendly current: It will have a commanding personality, and is destined to become a leader—either in society, business or_politics. Is June 7 your birthday? If so, your impulse often guides you. You have a very alert mind, and are quick to see a point, and have frequently dem- nstrated your ability as a debater. If things go well, you are an indefati- gable and a tireless worker. You are however, easily discouraged, and apt to lose heart. Your hold on your friends is great, as your loyalty to them is never ques- tioned, nor is your desire to help them, when they need it, ever doubted As a lover, you are exacting and con- stant; you give yourself with heart and soul, and become terribly discour- aged if your love is not returned, with compound interest Well known persons born on this date: Edward Winsl loyalist; Al- fred Pleasanton, soldier and railroad president; John A. Darling, composer; John Satterfield, oil operator; Susan E. Blow, kindergartener; John F. Goucher, clergyman and educator. (Copyright, 1925.) Color Cut-Out ALADDIN'S LAMP. Locked in the Earth. The magician placed a ring on Aladdin’s finger. ‘“‘This will protect you from any dangers you may meet with,” he said. At the foot of the stairs everything was as the magician had said it would be. After fastening the lamp securely to his belt, Aladdin filled his pockets, his sleeves and both arms with the beautiful fruit that grew all about him. i ve me the lamp! Give me the lamp!” demanded the magician when he saw Aladdin coming up the stairs When Aladdin refused because his hands were full of fruit, the magician became very angry, threw another pinch of powder in the fire and the earth closed up once more, locking Aladdin in its blackness. This beggar's disguise should be colored gray. (Copyright, 192! Frankly, don’t you sometimes grow a little weary of ivory and gray wood- work? It is safe, of course, and ex- cellent ‘in many rooms, but why not experiment a little with color? The very old New England houses had col- ored woodwork and painted pine floors in many cases, so you will not betray the spirit of your home if it is dear and old fashioned by trying the same expedient. In this old-time parlor the walls are covered in an ivory-grounded paper with a little design in dark gray. The woodwork is vivid peacock blue, with | the panels under the windows and the doors painted ivory and the moldings blue. The floor is a very dark gray. (Copyright, 1925.) ‘Wearers of shoes now prefer colored kid calf, with patent leather next in favor, according to British ' leather dealers, 3 ¥ b 2405 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Shall He Marry the Too Critical Girl>—Should a Man With Moderate Prospects Marry the Lipstick or the Broomstick Girl? JDEAR MISS DIX: /1 am engaged to 1 am afrald to marry because she criticizes everything I do. She corrects my g0 to a show not to talk, and when I made her a present she almost threw it in my face and told me that if I couldn't give her something better than fault with my voice. that not to give her anything at all. think we would both be miserable if we got married. Don’t you? Answer: faults and weaknesses. Perhaps it is good for our souls to be told of our shortcomings, but It is too much like being flayed alive, and none of us would care for that as a part of our dally lives. nobody enjoys it. Personally, importance or not. You try to tell a story and they say that the event you are describing didn’t happen at 4:15, as you said it did, but at 4:25, or that it took place They puncture your little balloon just as you are soaring up, everything fall flat and lifeless by correcting your grammar or your pro- nunciation, and you finally get so that you are afraid to speak in their presence. As T said, none of us like persons who criticize us, hate it in our husbands and wives bec: bear the knowledge that those we love do not admire us, us so_inferior to themselves that they This is particularly galling to a man. wife, at any event, he is an oracle; that she respects his opinion and looks up to him, no matter what a cold and callous world may turns critic, he is very apt to take his wounded vanit will poultice it with soothing flattery. Therefore my earn: the critical lady and mar) that you don’t need polishing up to suit her taste. . . . EAR MISS DIX: may like us at fi Why is this? they drop us as Answer: 1 think vou are aversion to school teachers. up as wives that one of the constant that just about the time a girl gets enough practical experience in teaching to make her valuable she ups and marries If the men in your vicinity display a must be because you are in some peculiarly.crude and uncultured community. One can understand that an uneducated man might not care for a wife who was more cultured than he was, or that a low-browed boy 1 high-browed girl. And, of course, no man wants to be instructed by a woman. he want a woman to pose before him as an intellectual or try to show off what she knows. Surely ypu are not boys who take you out by delivering relativity, or ask them what they think of Birkson's philosophy, or expect them to spend a pleasant evening and come again if you read Browning to them? 1f you do none of these thin find_that the spinster's retreat teacher. EAR DOROTHY DIX: but no wrist watch? broomstick? If I prosper, could I expect the broomstick type to change to the lipstick Should there be no prosperity, could the lipstick type become reconciled type to the broomstick? Answ the broomstick. She will adapt herself to either, as your finances may determine. women are fools, and selfish women who never love any one only hopele: but themselves. 1 have seen many a rich, pampered girl who had never swept a floor, or cooked a dinner, or counted the cost of anything, who fell in love with poor men, and married them, and became managing of wives. 1 have seen many girls who belonged to poor families. advantages of education or culture, and whose early lives were spent in hard toll, marry men who rose to power, and place, and wealth; and I have seen | these women come out of the kitchen, roll down their sleeves and take off tireir -aprons, and take their place in the world with the air of one born to the purple. So I have infin s34 the adaptabllity of the American If you select one wlm her nothing she cannot do. B (Copyrizht. If parasols do not become an im- portant item in the Summer fashions it will not be because they have not been offered in tempting and charming guise. At warm Summer resorts and at places where Spring skies are fair and Spring sunshine bright women have shown their fondness for these coquettish accessories. Did you ever stop to think why it is that a parasol has ever been and remains one of the most flirtatious AT TOP, PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE PARASOL WITH HAN- DLE PAINTED IN SAME DE- SIGN, AND TRIMMED WITH RUFFLING WHICH MATCHES THE PRINTED FROCK WITH WHICH PARASOL IS CARRIED. BELOW THAT, ONE OF WHITE GEORGETTE PAINTED WITH FRUIT DESIGN IN BRIGHT COLORS, WITH WOODEN HAN- DLE CARVED LIKE A BASKET | OF FRUIT, PAINTED IN NATU- RAL COLORS. THEN ONE OF UNCURLED,_BLACK OSTRICH - MOUNTED ON CHIFFON, AND AT BOTTOM ONE OF PLAID SILK IN PASTEL TONES. and feminine of accessories, while umbrellas present such a matter of fact and sedate appearance? It is an interesting subject for speculation. Some of the milliners in Paris, who have been advocating the -wide. brimmed hat for warm weather, add variety to the mode by having gay little parasols to be carried always with the small sort of Summer hat. Nowadays one cannot shop far with- out finding parasols worth comment. Truly the vogue for mannish modes cannot be quite so. far-reaching as some critics imagine when women are buying lace parasols. One of these of moa feminine . appearance - shows lovely white lace over a light pink I am sure you would, S. R, and you are a wise man to take the tip the lady has handed you in time to break off an ill-advised marriage. Nothing in the world wrecks the happiness of a home more quickly than having a critic on the hearth, who is always turning the spotlight on our I think that there is no one more disagreeable than person who thinks that he or she knows it all and who feels that his or her bounden duty is to set you right on every point, whether t advice to v a girl who likes you as you are, and who thinks Why do men just naturally dislike school teachers? We are two young school teachers, and we have discovered that though men mistaken in thinking that On the contrary, men are so eager to snap them but are just nice and human, you won't awns for What type of woman makes the best wife for a man who has only moderate prospects, the man who has an alarm clock Should he choose the girl with the lipstick or the In picking out a wife, choose a girl who has plenty of good. hard sense and a big heart, and if she has these two requisites it doesn't make a particle of difference whether she is handiest with the lipstick or Lure of Parasol Colors and Designs BY MARY MARSHALL. a young woman whom I love, but who She finds pronunciation. She tells me when we Evidently T am not her ideal, and I S. R. It is too painful a proces the it is of any spoil the point by interrupting you to in August, 1923, instead of July, 1924. and make and we particularly anity 0. We can't and that they think are trying te lift us up to their level He likes to think that to his ause it hurts our do. And when she to some lady who ou is to break off your engagement to DOROTHY DIX, . soon : PROSPECTIV ut our profess PINSTER! % men have an complaints of the educational board is ¢ objection to your profession, it might be afraid of Nor does foolish enough to try to entertain the lectures to them on the theory of vou because you are a school DOROTHY DIX. . . LAWR The the most economical and thrifty and who had no woman. head and love in her heart, there is DOROTHY DIX. | 1925.) foundation. pink or white linings have been seen. A parasol of light silk embroidered in | large bright floral design and edged with deep silk fringe smacks strongly Black lace parasols with of Spanish inspiration. Printed sil | of vivid design are playing an impor- jtant pa 0l role this season, when | printed silks and crepes are so well liked by well dressed women. The | designs are painted sometime: The sketch shows a white georgette | foundation painted with a fruit design in bright colors. It has a wooden han dl ecarved like a basket, holding paint- ed fruit. Beside it in the group sketched is one showing uncurled Dblack ostrich over a black georgette | foundation. This trick of making the handle match the design of the cover. ing is a clever one carried out in many of the new parasols. The sketch shows one covered with printed crepe de thine with handle painted in the same design and trimmed with ruf- fiing. It is carried with frock to match. (Copyright, 1925.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Miss Is as Good as a Mile. Constantly in everyday speech we meet with this saying to express the fact that to have almost achieveds! something, to have just missed reach- ing a goal, is no better, as far as re- sults are concerned, than never to have made the attempt. It is a far cry from the significance of this say. ing to the medieval tale in which it had its origin. “Amis et Amile” is a French lyric dating from the twelfth or thirteenth century, consisting of about thirty- five hundred verses, which detalil the adventures of the two noble knights, the story of their great friendship and mutual sacrifice. Closer than brothers, and resem- bling each other to a remarkable de- gree, Amis and Amile are in the serv- ice of Charlemagne, where they bat- tle against and overcome the opposi- tion of the treacherous Hardre, and Amis wins for his bride the niece of Charlemagne. Bellicent, the emper- or’s daughter, loves Amile, however, | so darkest clouds gather over the heads of the knights. Amis saves his friend and obtains for him the hand of the princess. In the course of his efforts on be- half of his friends, however, Amis has perjured himself, for which he is punished with leprosy. Amile then voluntarily “sacrifices his two sons that Amis may be cured by their {Dlood. By a miracle then the sons are restored to life—and they all live happily ever after! Whether it was in the thoughts of their resemblance to each other or their great attachment, which made them inseparable, that our modern saying had its beginning we do not know. We do know, however, that there is little similarity between its original significance and the sense in : which we today say “A miss is as good as a mile. One on Daddy. From the Progressive Grocer Magazine, “Why, dad, this is roast beef!” ex- claimed ‘Willie at dinner one evening, Wwhen a guest of honor was present. “Of course,” said his father. of that?” “Why, you told mother this morn- ing that you were going to bring an old :l.mt'lorrhead home for dinner this “What Pop took me down town to get me a pair of shoes today, and after I tryed on about 10 pairs without liking eny of them, he sed, Now this is the last pair Im going to let the man show you, I bleeve in letting every- body ixpress their own individuality in clothes but you havent bin ixpress- ing enything but a vacant mind, your werse than a half a duzzen wimmin, now do you like this pair or dont you? No I sed. Then wich pair do you like, speek now or forever hold your tung, pop sed. The ones with the little holes ir the tips, I sed. Yee gods, t tried on, pop 11l get them agen, the man sed Being a little bit of a short man that would proberly never be eny taller on account of having a mustash- al reddy, and he went and got the ferst pair agen and put them on me, pop sayin, Are you quite sure their per- feckly comfortable? Im pritty sure, I sed. Pritty sure, vee gods, pop sed. and the man sed, If their tite on you you 4t the ferst pair he better say so now because we cant tuke them back after youve worn them. 1 dont think their tite, I sed. and pop sed, Well for Peet sake take u little wawk erround the store and argue it out with yourself. Wich I did, and then I came back saying, I gess they aint tite. How Ive lived as long 1 have with vou erround me for § yeers is a mistery to me, pop sed. Now do those shoes pintch your feet or dont they, yes or mo? he sed, and I sed, No. Im allmost positive. 11l send his mother down with him to get him a pair of shoes, this is wimmins werk, pop sed. And he took me out of the store looking weak and the salesman stayed there fooking jest as weak MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. To Prevent Coaxing. One mother says: When I discovered that the habit of coaxing was becoming frequent and disagreeable in my small daughter I sat down and analyzed the cause. To my surprise, I had to confess that it was my own fault. I had often been overhasty in my decisions and many times changed my mind _entirely when her teasing became insistent, simply because I had not been sure enough of my own attitude in the matter. Now 1 deliberate wisely and stand by my verdict. Already she has learned that coaxing i§ futile. {Copsright, 1925.) SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Pinks. Early June would not be June with- out ths dear, old-fashioned pink. Those who prefer size and show may have its gaudy cousin, the carnation, with its elaborate double flowers, which are generally quite sterile and incapable of seed production. The old- fashioned single pink with its spicy aroma of cloves, its graceful salver- shape, and its single, dainty-colored petals, is good enough for most of us. And while these .old favorites, brought from Europe, are gracing our gardens, several wild species are to be found at this season in the woods of the District. The prettiest of all is wild pink, with flowers more nearly crimson’ in shade than pink, and with five handsome petals ar- ranged like a five-pointed star. From the deep, graceful tube of the flower the slender stamens hang. And there is bladder campion with puffy calyx striped with purple-brown, and starry campion with petals ele. gantly. fringed, both of the genus of the pinks, although their flowers are white. Most curious of all, the night- flowering catchfly, with its large white blooms that slowly open as the dusk creeps on, and may still be seen for a short time at dawn if you are up betimes of a Summer morning. - But they close while the dew is still upon them. Pale-winged night moths visit them by starlight, sending their long curling tongues deep into the tubular ¥x for nectar, and incidentally fertilizing this strange white flower ithat seems as ephermeral as moon- light. It is. much easier to observe the sleepy-catchfly, that opens in bright sunshing for a little while in the morn- ing, and goes to bed by noon. - Like the night-lowering catchfly it gets its surname from a curious habit of en- trapping insects. Just below each flower is a rin black and sticky exudation like (gh:: with which we often paint trees. In consequence it is not pleasant to handle this species of pink, but the rather dirty habit has its valué for the plant. It prevents ants and other nec- tar robbers who would be useless for fertilizing purposes from climbing up the stem into the flowers. One may often see one to twenty crawling in- sects, as well as many+flies, caught in this natural sticky fly paper. Strangest of all, one may generally find 20 to 50 plants’ own seeds stuck fast, to their destruction in the gluti- nous area. o Coffee Dessert, For this will be needed three tea- spoonfuls of very strong coffee, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, one and one- half heaping tablespoonfuls of pow- dered gelatin, one cupful of whipping cream, a little salt, one and one-half cupfuls of milk, three egg volks, some lemon “jelly, chopped pistachio’ nuts, cocoanut and cherries. Rinse out a mold with cold water and coat it thin- ly with a little liquid lemon When this has set, decorate chopped - pistachios,” cherries and chopped cocoanut, pour a little more jelly on these and allow to set. Put the egg yolks into a saucepan, add the sugar and one cupful of the milk, stir over the fire until they thicken, but do not boil. Remove from the tire, add the coffee, the gelatin dissolved in the half cupful of milk, and the salt, Al- low to cool, then fold in the whipped cream, stir occasionally until begin- ning to stiffen, and pour into the pre- pared mold. Turn out and garnish with chopped lemon jelly. —— More than 100,000,000 chicks break through shells each year in this coun. try, ‘accoraing to recent estimate, 4 FEATURES. (Copyright The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle . 1925.) Across 1. Like better. Most level-headed. 11. Excavation 12. Kind of tree. 14. In excess. Projection of a building. By way of. Opportunity. Perceive. Looks narrowly Edge. Melody:. Article. Afternoon occurrence. Serious address. Place. Long narrow object Least. Uttered defiance. A rank. Part of the head. A support. Cheap and rattly. Liquid unit (abbr.) Put down. After deductions Turn. Capital of Norway. Ever (abbr.) Assist. Tapering pieces. 56. Whole. 2 Down 1. Varying appearances 2. Stout cord. 3. Otherwise. 4. Remuneration. 5. Turn back. 6. Feels sharp pain 7. Negative. 8. Vicious. 9. Prefix: half. 10. Operate on the skull Many-Hued Four 0'Clocks. “Our hebbaceous border must have annuals as well as perennials,” I said “Surely,” said Mr. Burbank, “they will make a show the first vear be fore all the perennials begin to bloom and their bright colors will come and go and make the Summer garden beautiful.” ““We must have the annual poppies and zinnias, marigolds, nasturtiums sweet alyssum, coreopsis, pansies, love-in-the-nest, mignonette, salpig- lossis which comes in such wonderful colors, gaillardias and annual chrys anthemums.” “Perhaps not all of these the fir year,” said Mr. Burbank, “but it i a good list to select from, and you might add clarkias, native Califor. nians, of many lovely colors easily grown and they may be sown Also “Has not other name this any prettier and more easily pronounced? “It is also called butterfly-flowe: answered Mr. Burbank, “and poor man’s orchid, and indeed it resembles small orchid§ in its shape and deli- cate coloring. “Then if annual sunflowers are sown now they will bloom form July to November, but they must go at tthe back of the border as they grow about four feet high.” “We are forgetting old-fashioned sultanas,” 1 added, “and petunias, which are blooming now, and ager- atum with its soft, fluffy blue flowers and blue lobelia for a border, and four o'clocks, which I have been try- ing to remember to ask you about “They are very interesting studies in color variation,” answered Mr. Burbank, “and experiments with this _BY WILLIAM The Food Budget. How much of the family income or wages should be spent for food? A mother asks this question, which I am not going to attempt to answer, and she goes on to ask some other questions which are more in my prov- ince. What are the most nourishing and essential foods thdt can be bought for a family of four, on a budget of about $7 a week? -The family con- sists of dad, aged 3, mamma, aged 23, one boy aged 2 vears and—yes, sir, another boy—some people do have all’the luck, somehow—another boy. aged 13 months. Everybody phy: cially well and happy so far, but never more than §15 available for food for the family for a fortnight. At pri ent, mamma mentions, the fam gets 42 quarts of standard pasteurized milk a month, which costs $5.88— quite ar gouge out of the $28 or $30 monthly allowance for food. Is the milk worth that much? For the boys, ves. For dad and mamma certainly not. Pure fresh milk—and even standard pastuerized milk comes under that description— is the most essential and nutritious item of food for all boys and girls up to the age of 12 years, and it is worth almost any price for the young- sters. The average voung child should have from a pint to a quart of pure fresh milk every day. These boys of dad’s and mamma’s are not getting a drop too much milk, even if they divide the whole 42 quarts between them. That leaves us about six simoleons a week for the rest of our eats. Scout around, mamma, and find a meat mer- chant who has enough fancy trade on his hands—soup bones and some of the cuts not preferred by the bontons. Clear soup is poor nutri- ment, but don't serve clear soup: serve it thickened or embellished with rice, vermicelli or other macaroni, any and all kinds of vegetables, or just starch. Make it a point to get all the flavor and all the nutriment out of vegetables, when yvou have vege- tables, by using the water they are cooked in as pot liquor or in soup. A good dish of noodle soup makes a fairly satisfying ‘meal and a fairly well balanced one. For health, good nutrition and these items should have a e food budget; and | pastry noun 22, Kind of flower. Mistake plo Unus Cut dow Kind of poem Left untilled Drun Winds around Unique point of a circl mall beam rike axation dly fa an desert itively anin Domestic en fabric will prove « teur e at »f both Americ and have been under cultivation |more than a century. Having been ssed so much they have nearly all | the colors of the rainbow and are re {markable for their peculiar arrange | ments of these col in the tubular | blossoms. Javing suc h of colors | they make use of 1 of them by ranging them in stripes of -white. son and vellow ‘Also on some of the plants pure white flowers and flowers of col ors without ves and on othe plants half of the flowers will be of one color and half of another:. “The four o'clock seems deter: to make use of all its allo once, and as it shows ation, the exper need not tr to make further color combinations but may create new types of good colors or cc nations and try to fix them so they will come true to pe from the seed.” As our annu: re only Summe visitor they might be planted amonz the perennials, so that they will no be too much missed when they go. I ventured to remark. “And if they are planted from fresh seed,” said Mr. Burbank, “also ranged with e in regard to color they will give joy all through the Summer, and the blooming may be prolonged by cutting back all stalks that have bloomed and not allow ing seeds to form, except those want- ed for next year's garden, and by studying the plants and the causes of success or failure, next year’s garden will profit greatly by this year's ex verience.” (Copyright, 1925.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. Cabbage, raw as salad or relish, or cooked with corner beef or salt pork, when cabbage is in seas in your own vicinity. Peanuts b v the pound, for they are more nutritious than m Cheese, any kind available, except cheese containing unnatural additions a butter substitute provided the children get their proper daily ration of fresh milk. Tomatoes when they are in seasor in your vicinity. Some tomato juice is as good as orange juice for the babies, and tomatoes may be used to improve many dishes Old-fashioned molasses, as a sweet- ener especially for the children, and a good substitute for more expensive sirups and other sweets A bushel of wheat, in lieu of any breakfast food. Serve the wheat cooked two or three hours in double boiler or fireless cooker, or ground coarsely in the coffee grinder and cooked a shorter time. Given a skillful cook, dad may se |lect the cheaper cuts steaks o1 roasts with the certainty of getting the most nutritious meat and a meal that hits the spot abeolutely. I love the little joys e The smell of rain, 1| the sound of brooks,, The taste of crispy toast and jam, The sigl\i of rows 2and rows of books. R Cane