Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1925, Page 24

Initials for All Kinds of Lingerie BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE TRIMMING MBI Any one who has tried filet crochet will tell you that nothing can be picked up, or droped more easily than that dainty kind of fancy wor It s a boon to those who seek beauty and practicality in garments, two elements sought by every woman who puts handwork into her gar ments. If a thing is not beautiful it does not satisfy that something in the heart of woman that has been there since the beginning of time. 1f it is not practical, her innate com- mon sense rises and protests that it is not worth the time and effort put nto it. Especially is this true if she one of the housewives or business or college women to whom time is s premium. 1ler so-called “leisure” hours are short and filled to over- flowing with little personal duties. Yet to even the busiest there are scattered moments throughout the day when just the right task seems not always at hand, nor to be found on the instant—that is, unless you have some filet crochet handy. It can be made in fineness to sim- ulate the needle point filet, and for durability it is even better. Indeed, it is an investment of time, wisely made, to put one's moments to ac- count with a crochet hook and well chosen patter; It is usually the e that filet crochet will outwear the ma- terfal on which it is used and serve as adornments for as many as two or three garments that succeed each other. Most practical of all filet crochet, for lingerie, are the initials to be used for both trimming and marking. In these days of laundering outside of the home, marking is a necessity. It isfimportant that any trimming BEDTIME STORIES Smarty Is Caught. The emarties. vou will alwass find, Most often are to danger blind —Old Mother Nature. Smarty Chipmunk was a very €mall person, but he didn’t feel small. He felt big. Yes. sir, Smarty Chip. munk felt big. Ie felt quite as big as any grown Chipmunk. He felt quite ‘as big_as his father, Striped Chipmunk. You see, he had it in that foolish little head of his that HE WANTED TO RUN, BUT HE COULDN'T. he was so smart that mo one could teach him anything. Some children ere inclined to be that way So he sat on the sunny bank, which really was about all of the Great World with which he was acquainted. He listened to the excited warning cries of his mother and father and inside he chuckled. He was sure that they were just trving to frighten him. He had looked up in the blue, blue sky and had seen no danger there. e had sat up and looked all around and nowhere had he seen an enemy. So he thought himself very smart not to be fooled, and there he sat very well satisfied with himself. His father, Striped Chipmunk, and his mother, Mrs. Chipmunk, kept making little short rushes toward him and then back to the entrance to their home. All the time they were calling o him to run. Suddenly they stopped calling. Such a look of terrible frizht as was on their faces. They stood T should be ahways snd kina With heart of geld and mnnaers nice §But charming people seem to have Jittle=wickedness D MARKING ED WITH THE USE OF LINGERIE CAN OF FILET IM BE TIALS. on underwear be such as will not be harmed by soap and water and re- peated rubbings. The feature of laundering “to perfection” is one of the things to make filet initials in underwear exceedingly desirabl Suited to all Fabrics. As to the materials in which filet initials are suitable, it would be hard to mention any of the underwear fab- rics in which it could not be used. ilet has a style of its own which makes it seem “at home” in either silk, cotton or linen, and in light or heavy weave. As trimming to front and pocket of pajamas, it is very at- tractive. For nightgowns, step-ns, a variety of uses s to make it popular. There are several ways of finishing the edges around a filet insert. One of them is just to turn in a narrow hem on the wrong side. as you would in a square patch. Another is to buttonhole the edges. The goods should always be cut away from the underside of a filet insert in order to allow its la appearance to show to best advantage. Also, filet looks much more delicate when over skin than over another fabric. About Directions Directions will be available shortly for letters that have appeared. Watch for the announcement as to when they will be ready. Perhaps you are clever enough to copy from the illus- tration, if you are impatient to be- gin. But if vou prefer printed di- rections be on the lookout for word when they are ready. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS perfectly still. It was just then that Smarty Chipmunk heard a faint rustle just back of him. He turned quickly. There, cloge to him, was some one he had never seen before, and the sight of whom now frightened him so that he couldn't move. A pair of eves glared at him without blinking. They were not very big eyes, but they were the most cruel looking eyes Smarty Chipmunk ever had looked into. They were the eves of Mr. Black Snake. Now Smarty Chipmunk never had seen Mr. Black Snake before, but he didn’t need to be told that this was an enemy. All In a flash it came over him that mother had seen this dread- ful danger at first, and that had he heeded her warning he would not now be sitting there so filled with terror that he couldn’t move. He wanted to run, but he couldn’t. He wanted to scream, but he couldn’t. All he could do was to sit there and stare at those glittering, unwinking eyes of Mr. Black_Snake. Mr. Black Snake moved a bit nearer. That movement seemed to give back to Smarty Chipmunk his volce and the power to move. With a little scream of fright he started to run. But be was too late. Mr. Black Snake’s head shot forward like a flash and Smarty Chipmunk was seized in @ pair of wide-open jaws. He was caught. Yes, sir, Smarty Chipmunk was caught by Mr. Black Snake. He felt Mr. Black Snake's sharp teeth. They didn't hurt very much, for Mr. Black Snake's teeth are small. But they did hurt. Smarty tried to struggle, but it was of little use. Mr. Black Snake glided away with him. Smarty gave up hope. How he did wish that he had heeded mother's warning. How he did wish he had been less sure that he was so smart. He knew that he hadn't & chance in the world to escape from this dreadful enemy who had caught him. A moment before he had been having a lovely sun bath: now he was being carried away to furnish a din- ner for an enemy he hadn't even known existed. He could hear Striped Chipmunk and Mrs. Chipmunk crying. He could hear the feathered people of the Old Orchard screaming. Never since he had first put his head out- side the doorway of his home had he heard such a racket. But all this nolse didn't help him any. At least he didn’t think it helped him any. He was being carried away in spite of it. and he had no hope at all. But actually all that noise was helping him. At least it was bringing help to him. Little Smarty Chipmunk was in a tight place, but it wasn't quite as tight as he thought it was. (Copsright, 1925. by T. W. Burgess) Rich Lemon Cream Pie. | Heat a quart of milk and stir into it one-third of a cupful of cornstarch wet with a little cream, let this get hot, stirring all the while. Beat up the yolks of five eggs with five table- spoonfuls of sugar, then add the milk and flour to this. Cook together for | one minute after they come to the simmer. Remove from the fire and add the grated rind and strained juice of a large lemon. Bake in open shells of puff pastry, and as soon as the custard is set, cover it with a me- ringue made of the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, with three tablespoonfuls of sugar, brown lightly and serve cold. What Tomorrow Means to You BY MABY BLAKE. Cancer. ‘Tomorrow's planetary aspects are unfavorable, and after midday become decidedly adverse. Great care should be exercised throughout the day, and no risks, either physical or commer- clal, should be taken. It is not a fa- vorable opportunity for travel or change, nor is it an ideal occasion for the assumption of any new obliga- tions, either moral or financial. It is, however, a day on which prudence suggests following the even tenor of your way without attempting any de- tours or short cuts. Above all, it will be necessary to maintain poise and equilibrium, so that, tuken off your guard, you may not run the risk of saying or doing things that you may afterward regret. Stop, look and listen. A child born tomorrow promises to experience a considerable amount of sickness during the infantile period, and its safe emergence from this anxious time will depend, more so than in the generality of cases, on the nu- trition and attention it may receive. Its disposition will be rather brusque and at times both peevish and modish. Association with others of Similar age will do more than anything else to rectify this condition. It will be am- bitlous and painstaking, not much ad- dicted to outdoor sports, but more keen on study and research. It will in all probability attain material su cess, not without showing, however, lack of consideration for the rights of others. Is June 23 your birthday anniver- sary? Lack of steadfastness of pur- pose is your outstanding handicap. You conceive plans, both practical and brilliant, but fail in execution. De- talls and the work attendant upon the successful development of any project bore you and often compel you to give up the race when it is only half run. You have good underlying princi- ples and a very keen conscience. Your character, however, is wanting in strength. So long as temptation does not assail you your conduct is irre- proachable. When it does, however, Yyou too readily yield to desire. MODE MINIATURES Few things flatter feminine loveli- ness as graciously as pearls, and so fashion’s insistence as to them is our constant delight. First it was the nat- ural pearl in its many guises, then the tinted and now the rainbow hued pear! that Paris accepts with such unbound- ed enthu: m. The myriad delicate colorings which their luminous surfaces reflect are those niost often repeated in the dain- ty frocks of this Summer-time season —mauve, soft yellow, pale green, pink and hyacinth. And because these beads are so very light weight they offer further inducement for warm- weather wear. NARGETTE. HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN “His nibs” is unmitigated slang for “himself"—usually in more or less sarcastic vein with the implication “the great man himself."”” It is traced back to the old English word “neb” for face which came from the Anglo Saxon “nebb,” originally the beak or a bird or tortolse and later extended, in a somewhat figura- tive sense, to signify the face or per- son. With the slang phychology in mind, it is easlly comprehensible how the contemptuous minded should have made this “his nibs!"” An early recorded use of the term, though in a gentler vein than its popular usage today, i8 found in the following except from the old Chi- cago Herald: “When the President's carriage ar- rives in front of the church, Albert Hawkins on the box, wearing a big bearskin cape as black as his face and driving the two big lumbering ‘seal browns,’ there is gathered about the doors of the sanctuary a crowd of two or three hundred awaliting the arrival of the gentleman whom Tim Campbell of New York immortalized himself by speaking of as his nibs,” MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Sliced Oranges. Rolled Oats with Cream. Fish Cakes, Chill Sauce. Graham Gems. Doughnuts. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Creamed Eggs. Succotash. Rolls. Strawberry Shortcake. Iced Tea. DINNER. Baked Slice of Ham in Milk. Delmonico Potatoes. Boiled Spinach. Apple and Celery Salad. Baked Rice Pudding. Coffee. SUCCOTASH. One quart of green beans, boiled about two hours, with two slices of salt pork and a level teaspoonful of sugar. Then add a generous pint of corn cut from the cob and boil one hour more. BAKED HAM IN MILK. Use a slice one to one and one-half inches thick, without much fat. Lay flat in pan, Mix one level tablespoonful sugar (white or brown) with one level teaspoonful of dry mustard. Spread on top of ham and rub it in_some with back of spoon. Put it in enough cold sweet milk to come nearly to top of ham and bake in moderate oven till ten- der, about two hours. If the liquld cooks away, add more hot milk or water. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Sift together one pint of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder (level), chop in two tablespoon- fuls of butter. Wet with milk for a soft dough (about one-half cup usually). Bake 12 min- utes. Split and butter and put the following between and on top: One cupful of crushed strawberries, one cupful of su- gar, one beaten egg white. Beat all together until firm. Trim the top of cake with whole berries or some cut in halves. Aren’t Men Funny? Dorothyl)ixl Discus the Oddities of the Sterner Sex “Of Course, Mr.. Man, You Possess None of These Peculiarities of Your Sex, But Don’t You Know Men Who Do?” ARE.\"T men the funny things? Ispecially in their relationships with women. all women. Consider this, for instance: been born of the masculine sex, every Just because he happens to have man considers himself the superior of The dullest, the most ignorant and loutish man looks down upon the most talented and brilllant woman. The, Men never belleve that women succeed by honest merit and hard work. Y always attribute & woman's achievement to luck or pull, Men are often lavishly generous to women, but they are seldom just. They love to give women things, but they h: honest due. to pay them what is their Often the man who will load his wife down with dlamonds will not give her a five-dollar allowance of pocket money of her own. Men balieve that 500d enough to marry, enough for a woman. only a woman who is as pure as the driven snow is but that a man with any sort of a lurid past is good In his heart every man believes that he does a woman such & favor by marrying her that she should spend the balance of her life kow-towing before him in gratitude. All men believe themselves wors out chromos than living pictures for ipers of beauty, but they oftener pick wives. When a man is courting a girl, he tells her how beautiful and wondertul she is in order to ingratiate himself with her; never thinks it worth th: but after he is married, he while to continue to flatter her, although he knows at by doing so he can keep her eating out of his hand. An honorable man, who would not play any other scurvy trick on earth. will persuade a girl to leave a good home and a devoted family, and glve up all other men for him, and then dump her down into h own house, and never do one single thing to try to make her happy and contented. _ Before marriuge « man will spend from five to seven hours a day telling a girl how much he loves her, and after he is married to her never mentions the word love to her again as long as she lives. . . BEFORE marriage a man can remember woman'’s birthday. the day they first met, the books and music she likes, the flowers she prefers and the different dishes she relishes. After marriage she has to remind him of every anniversary, and he gives her a check at Christmas because he does not remember any of her tastes. To have a happy, contented wife means peace and happiness in a man’s home and mion the trouble to how to do so Few men ever do any active thing to make their wives happy. in his pocket, yet not one man in a thousand will take ork™ his wife, although every man who isn’t an idiot knows Most of them seem to think that just being married to them is picnic enough for any woman. A man will trust his wife with his name, his honor and his children, but he will not trust her to handle a few dollars of housekeeping money. When the wife goes away for a week, the house becomes like & pigsty. The sink is piled high with dirty dishes. Solled clothes and old papers litter the floor. Everything on the place seems to be permanently lost. Taking care of one small infant on a Sunday afternoon will reduce an able-bodied man to a nervous wreck, yet men persist in belleving that their wives lead lives of inglorious ease, and say they wish they didn’t have anything to do but stay at home and keep house, and takelcare of the children. There is nothing that women admire so much in men as brains. prefer women of only moderate intelligence. Men A dull man, who does not keep up with the times and who cannot talk intelligently, bores a woman to tears, but men are fascinated by the babble of women who haven't two ideas to rub together in their heads. A MAN picks out & girl for a wife because she is pretty and dressed like @ fashion plate, and then he feels that he has been stung because she isn't domestic and economical and willing to wear cheap clothes. Every man believes that he selected his wife for himself, but she knows why he happened to pick her out. Many men marry silly, simple, soft-looking little girls because they think they will be easy to manage. It is only after marriage that they find out the less sense a woman has the more mulish she is. The bigger a man is the easier he is to henpeck. who are domestic tyrants. ‘The older a man is the easier he is to befool. It is the little men ‘The rich, old man of 75 never doubts that the girl of 20 marries him for love alone. Men sing sagas about the ennobling influence of good women, but too often it is the evil women who hold men in the holiows of their hands. Every man believes theoretically in plain, sensible clothes for women, and that they spould not use cosmetics, but it is the painted, dolled-up girls who get all theattention. No man wishes to be flattered by a woman, but he certainly does like to listen to the truthful Jane who tells him how big and strong and wonderful he is. Of course, Mr. Man, you possess none of these peculiarities of your sex, but don’t you know men who do? DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1926.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. Across. . Give little room to. . Goods cast overboard. . Tie up. . One circult of a track. . Hurry. . City in New York. . Beveled surfaces for joints. . Sharp tasting. . Plant with edible leaves. . Girl's name. carrier (abbr.) . Daily no! . Subject Feminine sutlix . Point of the compass (abbr.). 1925.) Answers to Yesterday's Puzzles. [TIO/ADIME[AIS [T} (O JID AITIA] [GIANMIT | US BEO MNP | INJIMP llE/ARIL | (PlAL1 D] 34. Steamship (abbr.). 35. Point of the compass. 36. Express in speech. 39. Takes food. 41. Disgraces. 43. District. 45. Kind of fish. 46. Long time. 47. Man's name. 48. Revolutionary general. 43. Tries to persuade. Down. . Chew with force. . Decay. . Collection of beehives. . Goal of a pligrimage. . A presérve. . _Heroic. 7. Large thin piece. 8. Artificlal manner. 9. Disordered. 14. Three-toed sloth. 16. Salver. 18. Runs off in drops. 21. Kind of tree. 23. Elevate. 26, Serve. 27. Rellef organization (abbr.) 28. Domestic animal. 29, Abound. 30. Believing. 31. Emphasis. 32. Melted. 33. Stem. 35. Anesthetic. 37. Personal pronoun. 38. Wind up. Since. . Cry convulsively. . Fish eggs. Spinach-Poached Egg. Cook two quarts of spinach in a very little water. Drain and chop very fine. Season to taste with but- ter, salt and pepper. Keep the spin- ach hot while poaching six eggs and preparing one cupful of medium-thick white sauce in the usual way. Place the spinach on a hot platter and on this arrange the poached eggs. Over each egg pour a spoonful of the sauce, sprinkle with paprika, and serve at once. If preferred, these may be served individually. —_— Prices realized on Swift & Company s of carcass beef.in W, C. or week ending Saturday, June 20. ghipments sold out, raned trom 11.00 cintp o 15:00 cents per pound and averagod 18. ccote per pound.—Advertisement. Pop dident know wat to get ma. for her berthday and I advised him to get her 4 parrit, wich he did, and today was her berthday and pop had the parrit up in my room in its cage and he dident know weather ma would think it was a all rite present or not, and after suppir, he sed, Well mother, wat do you think I got you for your berthday? . O, tell me, dont keep me in suspents, wat is it, Willyum? ma sed all ixcited. Its something with wings, pop sed. and ma sed, O, I know, its one of those fancy berd pins I was admiring in the joolers window, O Willyum how thawtful of you, how did you ever remember? I dident, T meen your neerly rite but not quite, T meen I got you a berd but its alive, in fact its a parrit, pop sed. A parrit, wat on erth will I do with a parrit? ma sed. As the best is vet to come, theres @ 20 doller bill tied erround its neck, pop sed. Wich there wasen't ony pop Jest thawt of the ideer, and ma sed, O Willyum how wonderfill, that will Jest pay for one of those fancy berd pins. Thats wat I figured, pop sed. Ware is it, I'm jest dying to see it, ma sed. Not saying weather she ment the parrit or the 20 doller bill, and pop sed, Il get it. Wich he went up in my room to do, and all of a suddin there was a fearse yell up there sounding like somebody getting bit by a parrit and pop came down carrying the cage with the parrit in it, and he had his hankerchiff tied erround one finger, saying, The 20 doller bill zzent fxactly erround his neck but I hope it will be jest as welcome. And he handed ma a 20 doller bill all mussed up like a 20 doller bill somebody had tried to put erround a parrits neck, and ma took it with a glad ixpression and gave pop a kiss and put some iodine on his finger. HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. For the truly feminine bedroom there can be no mode of furnishing more appropriate than the fine French forms. The elegance and refinement that appeal to the feminine love of beauty are ever apparent in the art of French designers, whether their creations are for madame’s personal adornment or to make her home a pleasing background. This group of Louis XV furniture, for instance, would furnish a sleeping room which a princess of the blood might well envy. The bed is of tulip wood with inlays of olivewood, satin wood and rosewood. The ovalback armchair of carved walnut is uphol- stered with Aubosson tapestry, and the night chest is of satinwood with intricate inlays and a marble top. (Copyright, 1925.) Color Cut-Out LITTLE BO-PEEP. Meet Little Bo-Peep. Here is little Bo-Peep come to play with you. You have always heard of Little Bo-Peep, of course, but you never dreamed that she was such a dear, sweet little girl as this, now did you? Her eyes are big and blue, her cheeks the very faintest pink, like the first apple blossoms in the Spring, and her hair is just as shiny and gold as you can make it. Be very careful when coloring her lips not to spoil her looks by getting outside the line of her mouth with your crayon. Color Bo-Peep's slip and her stock- ings a delicate pink. Her slippers should be made to look like black patent leather. Before cutting her out mount her on a plece of heavy paper—the cover of a magazine wiil do very nicely. (Copyright, 1925.) Thin Corn Bread. Mix together one and one-half cup- fuls of cornmeal, one-third cupful of sugar, one scant teaspoonful of salt and one and one-half cupfuls of flour. Beat together two eggs, add one and one-third cupfuls of milk and stir into the dry mixture. Add two tablespoon- fuls of meilted butter and beat well. Stir in two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder and pour the batter into well greased pans, spreading it one inch thick. Bake for 20 minutes in a quick oven. Shoulder Flare in New Fashions BY MARY MARSHALL. Flares up-to-date may do any of three different things. They may start just below the knees and extend outward for the very few inches that remain of frock or coat; they may start just below the hips and give the skirt the outlines of an inverted morn- ing glory, or they may follow the BLACK TAFFETA FLARE FROM SHOULDER. IT IS EDGED WITH QUILTING, OUT LINED IN COLOR. COAT WITH example of the speech of your popu- lar politician, and come straight from the shoulder. This “from-the-shoulder” flare is something that at present is seen less often than it is talked about. The rumor seems to have gone abroad that when Winter comes we shall all be going about in coats that flare from the shoulders. One maker of such apparel says that it is strongly in the favor of this type of coat that it permits of being wrapped—if you know what he means by that. ‘ou see, it has heen the diversion of many women who strive to follow the fashion to liold their arms and hands in a wrapping position as they walk here and there. Recently dressmakers tried, for the sake of diversity, to get away from this. But apparently women like tn walk thus. And of course they can- not go about wrapping themselves if there isn't something to wrap themselves with. The slim coat with a wrap that starts below the hips or below the knees, very smart ag it may appear, cannot be wrapped. There are some women—and vers ‘well.dressed ones among them—who will welcome this coat with the low- placed flare for that very reason But the women who want to wrap themselves as they walk will be in clined to the coat that flares from: the shoulder. Among some of the silk and georgette or chiffon coats already being worn you will see some cut according to this new silhouetts The sketch shows what vou m ght call an “advanced model” of this de scription. It is a light-weight coat of black taffeta, with a deep border of quilting outlined in colored stitching (Copyright, 1925.) T My Neighbor Says: Moth balls packed in little bags, made of mosquito nett and hung about vines and keep away rose b bottles are recom mended for storing foodstuffs, as then any signs of mold may be easily detected During the hot weather lighten your ironing by folding neatly ~without ironing all Turkish towels, night clothes and sheets. Wash an angora sweater in warm water with a little white 80ap and rinse it in clear water of the same Wring it out in a Tt shake and lay on a ¢ in the shade to dr frequently so it will dry e To remove obstir from white each stain with peroxide; then put clothes in tub and scak overnight with some kind of good washing powder and a cupful of peroxide warm water. This will n harm clothes. It removes tea stains from white tablecloths To clean a panama hat put an ounce of oxalic acid (poison) in sufficient scalding w cover the hat. Put the hat and hold it down hoa st so that it is covered Leave for fiv inutes, then take it out with a stick and dry in the shade IN THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luther Burbank. Looking Over the Garden. “It is time to walk about our Sum- mer garden, Mr. Burbank, and be sure | able, that all is in good condition.” I pointed out. “Yes. Our Spring-sown plants are all up and our roses and peonies are in bloom, and the iris are still making @ glorious show, but there are already little enemies at work that must be looked after,” he replied. “For one, the elm beetle must be sprayed with arsenate of lead, because after the larvae begin to ceme down spraving will no longer help matters. ““Then there are rose bugs, which are best attacked by picking them off and heartlessly dropping them can of kerosene. There is also & rem- edy known as melrosine, which is said to be very effectual. “The vegetable garden seems to be the happy hunting ground for all man- ner of insects and pests,” I said. “Yes. There are aphis, or plant lice: cucumber striped beetles and flea beetles, worms and caterpillars, po- tato bugs and cutworms, but, fortu- nately,.there are remedies for all of these troubles. Nearly all chewing or biting in- sects, such as the worms and bettles which feed on foliage, may be killed by arsenical poisons, the chief one be- ing Paris green. “It is generally used as a spray. made up in the proportion of one pound of the Paris green mixed to a paste of 150 or 200 gallons of water, with about one-half pound of lime added to prevent injury to the foliage. If used on potatoes, the mixture may be made a little stronger. “It also may be added to Bordeaux mixture instead of water, and in this | tain in a| cessary. Ir ripening frut nical poisons are not advis ebore may be used when ar. Le spray.” “To what class do all the plant 1 and mealy bugs and red scale belon T saked “They are all sucking insects, as well as the cabbage worms and cu rant worms, and not all are killed b poison, but by direct contact. and for this there is nothing better than kero. sene. made into emulsion w water in the proportion of onefift: or one-fourth kerosene, “If used too strong, it n the plants. but if sprayed on in sunlight the kerosenc cvaporate rapidly that it does no harm “In the warfare against victory depends on surprise and in the ear their campaign. Their should be studied, and when the habits are understood and their prob able first appearance known man march may be stolen on them : they are thus more easily routed and destroyed.” re all these remedies app! orchard work, Mr. Burbank “Some of them." replied bank, “but in my own o ing is very rarely used. as the mair object is to produce varieties that a immune to insects and to fung fruit trees should be selected, if poss: ble, that are more or less immune by those growing fruit. “Just as with human beings, pre vention is better than cure with plants and trees, and if plants are kept in a healthful condition they are generall less liable to be attacked by insec by disease.” (Copyright. 1925.) spider an ¢ injure in ' T asker Mr. Bu hards spray PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Very Slight Improvement. When grandma was about thirty she had half a dozen bad teeth and a bad toothache every little while to add to her trials. Her dentist was not a bad dentist, but he would not be considered a good dentist today. However, he never had the chance the dentist today has, for in grandma’s time the dentist was sort of a last resort and conditions were pretty far gone by the time a case came under his care. Well, grandma had two or three painful sessions in the dentist's chair, and then, partly from fear of the dentist, partly from a desire to be free of trouble and pain, and partly from the commercial enthusiasm of the dentist, grandma had all her teeth extracted—of course, they were only pulled in those days when pulling was about a shilling a tooth or less in wholesale quantities—and upper and lower plates of “false” teeth were made. This meant an enormous ex- pense, often as much as $15, but grandpa was game and no doubt the poor man was a little worn with the long vears of anguish. If grandma and the dentist were willing to sacri- fice from 12 to 20 sound teeth along with the 12 or 18 “bad” ones, grandpa was in no position to protest, for no doubt it seemed to him that all teeth were doomed to decay shortly anyhow. It is unnecessary to contrast grand- ma’s experience with the experience of the average young woman of to- day. I merely want to raise the ques- tion how come. And as this is my corner and I am employed to fill it. T'll answer the question myself. If my answer doesn’t seem just right, why, vou tell me (as briefly as possi- ble) what the right answer should be, and if your ideas seem reasonable (strange to say, I sometimes find other folks’ ideas quite reasonable) i'll be glad to pass them on to our readers. Here, then, are the factors to which 1 would ascribe the vast improve- ment in the conservation of the teeth: (1) Advertising, (2) education, (3) publicity, (4) propaganda, (5) more ad- vertising. Although I do not believe that the now popular habit of brushing the teeth has any direct bearing on the improvement in the condition of our teeth, I should give the people who advertise toothbrushes and various dentifrices most of the credit for the happy change that has come about, for I think that such advertising has had the cffect of keeping people's attention upon their teeth, impressins upon them the value of sound teet persuading them to go early often to the dentist for proper ca of slight cavities which were former overlooked or neglected. The dentists themselves are entitle to much credit for their personal public educational work: the instru tlon of chiidren in the regular use « the toothbrush, for instance, though of no direct value, in my opi ion, does unquestionably do for young ones what advertising by toothbrush and dentifrice concern has done for older folks, that is. teaches the children to desire to have their teeth looked after by the dentis I wish we could say that persor health betterment in general has kept pace with the progress we have in the care of our teeth, but, ala- personal health betterment has lacked the necessary advertising. (Copyright, 19" “““The dear, dead days of long ago.’ of which the poets sing, may have been ‘dead,’ but they couldn't have been as ‘dear’ a& a night in a modern cabaret.”