Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 12

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Colored Porcelains in Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE VOGUE FOR COLORED POTTERIES AND PORCELAINS CAN BE DEVE Pottery and china in decoration are coming more and more into vozue. The uses of them may be known to some of us, but there are also many not acquainted with their purpose and treatment. There is a definite object with which they are used. It is 2 matter that requires thought and When these are exercised, stunning effect can be achieved. One thing of interest that you regulate their uses in accord It is not necessary tha pleces be of the expensive sort. Yet one may pay a good price if a real art treasure is desire Perbaps vou are who have some colorful pieces of china oF pottery tucked away. Now is the time to bring them out and dust them. ‘The leading decorators in this country and abroad are using colored porce- lgins. A recent English exhibition featured them. Interesting Schemes. You may be interested in the color scheme of the one shown in the illus- tration. It is an idol of one-toned pinkish orange against a green blue tapestry hanging. Think how vividly this would brighten a corner, what a note of color it would give to a room otherwise lacking in it! Such colored figurine: an alternative to brass: Very often they are less expensive. If highly giazed, a porcelain piece lights up as well as brass and catches what reflec- tions are given as brightly. To those who have an eye for color these pot- teries and porcelains wlil make a strong appeal. Charming effects are possible when hangings of contrasting color are employed. This serves not merely to “‘cs ‘ement” the color of are used as the porcelain piece but to accent t.he' shape of it. In looking back one can see that this vogue has been some time on the BEDTIME STORIES | He Drops 4 Hint. {4, bint, e ko a planted sesd:, o ever': aced. o mllnene BILLY " POSSUM. ; Peter Rabbit stopped near the foot of Unc' Billy Possum’s hollow tree. Unc’ Billy happened to be sitting im his doorway. At sight of him Peter had a sudden thought. It popped into his head that Unc’ Bllly himself was| from the Sunny South and that he| &nd OI' Mistah Buzzard had long been | the best of friends. Of course, Unc’ Billy would know what kind of a WD MORNING, UNC' BILLY, 6AID HE. lace O' Mrs. Buzzard would choose f‘a nest. Peter wasted no time. VGood morning, Unc' Billy," said he. “You are looking fine this morn- ing. I don’t think I have ever seen ¥qu looking finer. nc’ Billy grinned down at Peter. sfh feel fine, Brer Rab 8it.” he said. “If Ah felt any finer wouldn’t know what to do with myself. Now, yo' all, Brer Rabbit, Iqok a bit thin to me. Yes, suh, yo' k thin to me. 'Pears like you must running around too much, t was Peter's turn to grin” “I have Efl running around _considerably, lly,” said he. “I've been look- img for the nest'of OI' Mrs. Buzzard. d T've looked and looked and looked tl my legs ache and my neck s “And haven't yo' found that nest, Brer Rabbit?” inquired Unc’ Billy. sPeter shook his head “No,” he nfessed. ‘“No, Unc’ Billy. What s ore, no one else has, and if_ there 18 any tree top in all the Green Forest certainly t hasn't been looked through for m nest I'd like to know where that tfee 1s.” }Unc’ Billy chuckled. He chuckled ehd he chuckled. He chuckled so long that Peter began to et suspiclous. “&Vhat Is the joke?” demanded Peter. 1“Is there a joke?” asked Unc' Billy, etending to ldok very much sur- sed. i“If there isn't, what are you chuckling over?” demanded Peter. i Again Unc’ Billy began to chuckle. r Rabbit,” said he, “Brer Rabbit, ? all certainly do tickle my risibili- s. Where else besides the tree tops have vo' all been a-looking?” i “Nowhere else,” replied Peter. **Where else should we look?"” i“Ah can't say where yo’ should I§ok,” chuckled Unc’ Billy. “But if Ah to go looking for Sis Buzzard's it wouldn’t be in any tree tops. Yo suh, it wouldn't be in any tree sops." SLOPED IN MANY INTERESTING WAYS. way. The use of figurines for decora- tion on dressers is not new, although more favored now than ever. Bril- liant birds and parrots for dining room centerpleces have been welcomed s attractive. It is perhaps the dec- tive success of these and other sim- modes that has made the recent vogue so marked. The use of suitable pieces of the same kind in ltving rooms is the very latest mode. To Be Considered. There are several things to be taken into consideration in the schemes which you adopt. Be sure that your pottery or porcelain is of a color either to bring out the best shades in rugs and hangin. 3 or to supply an agreeably contrasting color, of which you feel a definite lack. Your freedom of choice is wide. Remember that if the corner is dark a yellow is pref- erable to a blue for the porcelain. Any tone with a pronounced mixture of yellow, such as salmon pink, will also serve. If a room has much color and light, a black or dull toned figure against a softly toned background will be pleasing. Centering the Interest. In interior decoration, as in a plc- ture, something is required to center the interest. In many rooms a fire- place is the point where the eye tends to rest. A colored pottery piece above or at either ends of mantel will in- crease thq interest. If a room lacks center of interest the brilllant color of a porcelain piece may serve to fur- nish it. Atmosphere is a thing hard to de-’ scribe in itself, but very definite in its appeal. All of us have been in other- wise charming rooms which yet were wanting in that final touch.” Among the concrete things to give that subtle spirit of charm are these colorful por- celain figures. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter stared hard and long at Unc’ Billy. Could it be that the Buzzard nest wasn't in a tree top at all? Peter remembered that Whitetall the Marsh Hawk didn’t bufld in a tree. He remembered that there were sev. eral feathered familles whose nests were on the ground. It didn't seem as if O' Mistah and Mrs. Buzzard, who spent so much time high in the air, would make their home on the ground. No, sir, it didn't seem as if they would do that. But it might be. No one so far had looked any- where except up in the tree tops. Unc’ Billy Possum had dropped a hint worth following. He, Peter, would begin his search all over again, and this time he would forget the tree tops altogether. “I guess I'll be g(l)]\'lng along,” sald Peter to Unc’ i Unc' Billy's shrewd little eyes looked more shrewd than ever and his grin was a broader grin than ever. “Must yo' hurry, Brer Rabbit?” said he, “Yes,” sald Peter, “I have some im- portant business, some very important business to attend to. Good-bye, Unc' Billy. ‘Good-bye, Brer Rabbit,” sald Unc’ Billy. “I hope that impo'tant busine: won't take you up in the tree tops. He chuckled as he said this. “It won't,” replied Peter, and away he went, lipperty-lipperty-lip. (Copyright. 1925.) HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN The decorative treatment of the over- mantel is always a problem worthy of careful thought. Its prominence makes it necessary that it be dignified, inter- esting and In harmony with the spirit ! the room. Here s one that gives a final touch of color and romance to a iving room furnished with sturdy early American pleces. The rich colorings of the old map may 'make it a splendid background for the shipshape little clipper model. The dolphin candlesticks are well chosen to complete the group, as they are re- productions of old Sandwich glass sticks with opaque white bases and turquoise blue tops. In the brave old days of the clipper ships seafaring men painted dolphins on their clothing chests to insure fair weather, white- caps apd blue siies, 5 Me and Puds Simkins and Leroy Shooster and Sid Hunt was wawking to skool this morning and wishing we wasent, me saying, Aw G, gosh shang it, dont ever do enything elts but go to_skool? Yeh, G wizz, wat good does all this going to skool do us if all we haff to do is jest keep on going? Puds sed. Sure, good nite, thats a way It seems to me, G winnickers, we no sooner come home from skool one day than we haff to wake up the next morning and go agen, Leroy sed, and I sed, It would be a good thing for this werld it all the skools bernt down at the same time and all the teetchers got too sick to teetch. Wich. Jest then Sid Hunt wispered, Cheese it, Miss Kitty is rite in back of us_lissening. Miss Kitty being our teetcher, and 1 quick sed loud as enything, O well, I'm glad vacation is over, vacation is all rite in its way but yon cant com- pare it to skool, and Puds Simkins sed, Thats a way I feel, there's nuthing like & good free education and L wish I'd of had one long ago. Sure, we're lucky we got a good skool with a good teetcher and every- thing, thats a way I feel, Leroy Shoos- ter sed, and Sid Hunt sed, April fool, nobody aint in back of us, haw, haw. Being a derty meen trick, and us fellers pushed Sid Hunt erround a wile and then I started to yell, The heck with skool, wat do 1 care, herray. Down with teetchers, wat do I care, herray, Leroy yelled, and Puds yelled Skool be darned, wat do I care, herray. ‘Wich jest then we noticed somebod: rite in front of us, being Miss Kitty, and she terned erround to look at us, being wat made us notice her, us thinking, G, good nite, heck, and this afternoon after skool she red out the names of the ones that had to stay a half a hour, including me and Puds and Leroy and Sid Hunt, me and Puds and Leroy feeling mutch better on ac- count of Sid having to stay too. COLOR CUT-OUT A Happy Marriage. One Eye and Three Eyes both tried very hard to pick a branch for the Prince, but it was of no use. Finally the Prince became disgusted and was about to leave, when he discovered Two Eyes behind the door, where her sisters had hidden her. Little Two Eyes picked him a beau- tiful branch, and then he asked her, “Little Two Eyes, what shall 1 give you for it?” ‘Oh, sir,” she cried, “I suffer hun- ger and thirst, sorrow and want from morning till night. If you would only take me with you and free me I should be so happy.” So the Prince took Little Two Eyes with him to the Palace and before they had even reached the Palace he was deeply in love with her. Little Two Eyes loved him, too, and they were married immediately and were wonderfully happy from that time on. This handsome suit is of red velvet trimmed with black braid. (Copyright, 1923.) What Tomorrow Means to Yo BY MARY BLAKE. ‘Tomorrow's planetary aspects are, as they should be on a Sunday, quite benign, and the only adverse period occurs in the early afternoon, but it is of so short a duration as to not to call for special mention. You will sense a feeling of pleasant relaxation, which the day's observances and exercises will foster, rather than discourage. The asmosphere throughout the day will be charged with good emotions, and generous, forbearing impulses will prevail to the extent of shutting out all that is petty, annoying, or provocative of anxlety. Children born tomorrow will be physically erratic. Apparently in the best of health, they will, withdut warn- ing, fall sick. Even before there has been time to get anxious or become worried they will have recovered. Careful alimentation will be very much in demand, if these children are to reach a sound and healthy major- ity. Their characters will be impul- eive, and just as readily as they will be apt to displease by violent out- breaks of temper, so, just as quickly, will they cause sincere affection by their boisterous outbursts of love. Their lives will lack continuity or set- tled purpose. At times they will be lazy and indifferent. At other times their study and application will amaze a8 much as it will delight. If tomorrow is your birthday you worry too much. Little, insignificant happenings disturb your equanimity, and cause you to lose your temper and control of words and actions. You are as a result of this weakness and lace ot poise prone to be morose and groucry. The best antidotes are buoy- ancy and cheerfulness. Try to treat your le—3 worrles in the same splen- aid way in which you handle your big troubles! Do not let a sting hurt you more than a bite! Do not allow the trifies of life—that are so soon forgotten—to stunt your natural, kind, generous and sympathetic impuises! You are very thoughtful of others— especially of those dependent upon you, or on whom_you are dependent. You are methodical, and your extreme love -for’'a place for everything and everything In its place causes a lot of the spleen from which you manifestly suffer. Marriage should cure you of your superfussiness, especially if the unlon is based on a 50-50 ,understanding, as such a partnership, to be fraught with success, must learn to overlook many small things, while magnifying the beauty of the happenings that are 'worth while. (Copyrisht, 1930.). Should Mother of Girl 15 Allow Daughter to Have Dates?—The Selfish Daughter. The Jobless Fiance. JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: I have a daughter 15 years old. She is very large and mature-looking for her age. No one belleves that she is under 17. Here is my problem. She wants to go around with the boys and girls of her set, and the boys beg for dates with her. She still has two more years of high school and four years of college ahead of her. Would she stay more contented through these six vears of school if I let her have company occasionally, or never permit her to? I want to do everything to make her happy, but it breaks my heart to see my baby become a young lady so soon. She confides all of her little secrets to me and I fear that she may grow away from me if I permit her to begin going with boys. A PERPLEXED MOTHER. Answer: On the contrary, that is your one and only chance of holding her confidence. If you act the stern parent and deprive her of what she considers the rightful pleasures of her time of life, she will ring down the curtain of silence between you and you will never be able to lift it again or have another prep Into her heart. We tell our secrets only to those who will sympathize with us, who will enter into our plans and help us carry them out, and who will see things from our point of view. The reason that daughters so seldom confide in their mothers is because most mothers feel it their duty to take a superior attitude, and criticize, and reprove, and gencrally throw cold water on every- thing the girl wants to do. Of course, 15 is young for a girl to start having dates, and that is why it 18 & good thing, when parents can manage it, to send a girl away from home to a girls' boarding school, where the boy proposition is more or less eliminated for a year or two. However, this s not always possible, and then the parents should have intelligence enough to face the situation as it exists. They should recognize that they cannot keep their own daughter from doing what all the other girls in her community are doing without making her feel that she s a persecuted martyr and allenating her from them. Also, they may be very sure of this, that watch her as they may, she will outwit them, and that if they do not let her have dates openly she will have them on the sly. If they do not let boys come to the house she will meet them on the streets, and the more they try to keep her away from boys the boy crazier she will get But if mother will be reasonable, the girl will be reasonable. If the girl is permitted to have dates at the week-end, she will be willing to forego them during the school week. And if mother makes things pleasant for the boys and girls who come to the house, she can see that the girl associates only with the right kind. Let a child feel that you are with it, that you are trying to make it happy, and vou can lead it almost anywhere, but let it feel that you are against it, that you are trying to thwart it, and you cannot drive it an inch. The iron hand in the velvet glove is for parents’ wear in these days. DOROTHY DIX. .« e EAR Do‘no'r:-n Enf: How can I persuade my father not to marry a woman in whom he is interested? She holds an executive position in an office. i3 educated and clever, very much devot S o0 y voted to my father and 10 years I think that he should not marry a woman who is employs ployed, because she probably has an independent disposition, while he is used to women being dependent. My father has been wonderful to me and T don’t want to lose him. He bought me a house when I married, has just given me a new car and is always doing things for my comfort and pleasure. He has his business, and golf, and & competent housckeeper to look after him, and my husband and I have dinner at his apartment twice a week, and £0Jo the theater with him whenever we can do so conveniently. He is always at my beck and call, but, of course, he is not interested in my sort of pleasure, &s he is not a soclety man. Don't You think he might give up getting married to please me? E. M. P. . . Answer: Of all the selfish and spoiled children in the world, you are the prize baby. Take the blue ribbon. It belongs to you. It seems to me that any woman who has a father such as you have, one so kind and generous, would want him to do anything in the world that would enhance his happiness. I should think that you would be glad to know that he had found some woman to love and who loved him, and who would give him the companionship that he so sadly lacks now. For, according to your own statement, you leave him to spend most of his evenings alone, while you are off enjoying yourself with your own friends in your own way. Do you never think of that, and that it must be pretty dull and drab to a man to come home after a long day’s work to empty rooms and to a solitary dinner, and to have no company save his own thoughts? Business ffiz“u are well enough in their way, but & man wants something more than He wants love and companionship. He wants tenderness. He wants a woman to make a real home of his house, a wife to fuss over him, and scold him, and be interested in everything he does. And ghis need grows greater s a man grows older, when he clings more and more to his own fireside and needs more and more a fireside companion. And as for your father picking out an independent woman for & wife, why, that sort are the most interesting that are to be found. Don't try to break off your father's marriage. Give him your blessing. You certainly owe him that for all his goodness to you. DOROTHY DIX. JDEAR MISS DIX: 1 have been going with a man for 15 years. e claims he 15 very much in love with me, but he never keeps a job or makes enough to get married on. But he is alway have, and that I had better hold on to it. My patience is about exhausted with this man. any use in my wasting any more time on him? telling me what a fine job I Do you think there is SARAHL. Answer: I think the man gives yvou one piece of good advice. That is in reference to holding on to your good job. Cling to it with both hands and get rid of him. He is a ne'er-do-well that you will have to support if y Look out for a man with more pep to him. (Copyright, 1925.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925." 42. Beast of burden. 44. Preposition. 46. Prefix meaning in. 47. Engineering degree. 48, Vexed. 49. Garrett. S Across. Blows struck with the hand. Bweet flower extract. Prefix meaning together. New England State (abb.). Greek letter. To act. One of Jove’s sweethearts. Egyptian sun god. Prefix meaning again. Anxiety. Thus. Part of to be. Thoroughfare (abbr.). Deed. Conjunction. Japanese statesman. In past time. Indefinite article. Exist. . Hewing implement. 36. Stiffness of a limb. 39. Note of the diatonic scale. 40. You. 41, A State (abb). 1. 5. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 18. 21. 22, 24, Down. Marks of wounds.. Behold. Country under protection of an other. Note of the diatonic scale. Part of to be. Crials. Printed notice. Perch. Exists. Portuguese coin. Quadruped. Engineering degree, Prefix meaning the beginning. Steamship (abbr.). Three-toed sloth. Preposition. River in Europe. Act. Player. New England State (abbr.). Turkish title. Visual organ. Like. = Three-masted vessel. Man's nickname. Egyptian sun god. Greek letter. Hypothetical force. Babylonian deity. One hundred one 1. 2. 3. 4 6. 6. 5 8. 13. 14. 15. 17. 20. 24, 26. 27. 30. 31. 32 33. 34. 35. 37. 43. 45. 46. 28. 29. 3 Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. OS] AIC] gg Emm@ CIOMMNABTE /L IIWIE | IKINJOJw|S] IN S ATMIRAME @fl * URIMURISANE Question of Sufficiency. e “Yes, I am wondering whether I can raise enough to take care of the exceptional appetite the outdoor exer- clse will give me” SUB ROSA BY MIMI. Weekly Letter. Dear Girls—Hamburg we found to be the dreariest place in the country, and why anybody should want to live there is more than we can imagine. Of course, it has a couple of rivers, and some nice broad streets, but it is as dull as the home town on a Sun- day evening. ‘We had been invited to stay with some friends, so after a dreadful night on the sleeper coming from Cologne, we were met at 6 a.m. by the head of the family in a vivid purple car. It made us both feel as if we were in a circus parade, to drive along in this dazzling vehicle, followed by the curious stares of the populace, who glanced first at our conveyance and then at us—tired, dirty and dishev- elled. We came presently to our stopping place, a lovely white house, cool with shade trees and most heavenly quiet. After a bit of intense sleeping, we wandered down to thte dirty old Elbe River where nobody but the lowest classes ever swim. However, the water looked so tempting and the day was S0 hot that we succumbed to the call of our baser natures, rushed back to the house and got the car and set off up the river for a cleaner stretch of water where we might have a swim. Arriving at a comparatively re- spectable looking beach we found only a few thousand people there—all in the most fantastic and abbreviated costumes.ever seen on the stage or any other place. We donned our bathing suits in our closed car, and then emerged looking quite respectable and ladylike. The swim was delightful—and the Elbe didn’t feel quite as dirty as reported. On the white sands we stretched ourselves, blissfully anticipating a sunbath, when the gruff volce of a horrible official dragged us from our reverie. “See here,” he howled in fluent Ger- man, “this is a decent beach, and you cannot sit around on this beach with bathing suits on.” “But for the love of Pete,’ tested. “We look perfectly respect- able. Look at that female over there,” and we pointed to an elderly lady who was attired {n two yards of gingham, tastefully draped, and caught up with safety pins. *“Why do you let that awful sight appear on your blessed beach?" “Oh,” as he glanced at the offend: ing gingham creature approvingl “She 1s a nice woman, and she wears a decent dress—made of gingham. You are very bad to appear in bath- ing_sults.” Now I ask you? What we sald to that dear old officfal is not here to be set down, but it is a pity he could not have undarstood the fluent Eng- lish we flung after him as he tottered off down the Leach with the parting admonition tha! if we did not put on nice dresses {n 0 minutes, he would have to arrest 1s. So we carefully put on short, sleeve- less linen jumpers over our bathing suits, and behold we were respectable once more. With best love, MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDEEN. we pro- MIMI Removing Stains. One mother says: Spots on tablecloths are inevitable when there are children in the family. I have found my embroidery frame very useful in removing stains from table linen. I adjust the frame over the stain, and set it over a bowl, while J pour boiling water on the offending spot. Canned Red Peppers. Wash one peck of red peppers, a slice from the stem end of each and remove the seed. Cut in thin strips, working around and around the pej pers with scissors. Cover with boil- ing water, let stand two tes, drain and plunge into ice-cold *water, again drain, then pack solidly into pint jars. Bofl one quart of vinegar and two cupfuls of sugar for 15 minutes. Pour this over the peppers, c keep in a cool place. These for pimento and cheese sandwiches. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapes. Hominy with Cream. Baked Beans. Fish Cakes, Chili Sauce. Brown Bread. Coffee. DINNER. Cream of Asparagus. Roast Chicken, Cranberry Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Caulifiower. But/rfly Salad. Lemon Meringue Pie. Coffee. SUPPER. Tomato Rarebit. Toasted Crackers. Pear Sauce. Sponge Cakes. BROWN BREAD. One cup rye, one cup graham, one cup corn meal, three-quar- ters cup molasses, three-quar- ters tablespoon soda in one pint sour milk, salt. Steam three and one-half hours in covered peil. CREAM CAULIFLOWER. Soak a small head of caull- flower in salted water for one hour, then place in boiling salt. ed water and cook until tender. Drain and press through a sieve. Scald one quart milk with one-half onion and a chili pepper and strain. Stir one- third cup flour in one-third cup butter, add the flavored milk gradually, stir and cook uptil thick, season with pepper and salt, add two cups of the pre- pared caulifiower and one-half cup of cream and serve at once. TOMATO RAREBIT. Melt two tablespoonfuls of drippings, add half an onion, grated, and one chopped and seeded sweet green pepper and cook 5 minutes. Add one can strained tomatoes, one teaspoon- ful salt and a dash of table sauce and simmer 10 minutes after the bolling point is reach- ed. Place over boiling water, add one and one-half cupfuls grated cheese and cook and stir until the cheese begins to melt, then add three beaten eggs and cook until thickened. Serve at once on hot boiled rice. Tea. | FEATURES, Velvet Hats With Supple Crowns BY MARY MARSHALL. lliners tried to do all sorts of |our hats. But save ¢ a few womes things with enormously high crowns. | who always hasten to wear the latest They made hats with peaked crowns | fashions regardless of becomingnoss, A NEW HAT OF CONSERVATIVE SHAPE IS THIS MODEL OF WINE-RED VELVET WITH NAR- ROW BRIM, WHICH TURNS UP IN FRONT. IT IS TRIMMED WITH A SHADED FEATHER OR- NAMENT AT ONE SIDE OF THE CROW and pointed crowns, and they arranged flowers and ribbons, bows and feath- ers right on the topmost pinnacle of these crown diversifications did not make much appeal. 8o the milliners ‘went back to a crown shape much the same as that which has been favored for several years—a shape that very nearly follows the lines of the head. So it happens that the crowns qf hats this Autumn show little or G change. It is the arrangement of brim that gives novelty. However, ¥ some of the milliners in Paris tha round crown is regarded as slighti, passee. Reboux, it is sald, actually re- fuses to make round-crowned hats, save for a very Influentlal customer who s equally stubborn. However, the squared crowns of Reboux are only slightly square and are as supple as can be. They are quite different from the hard square crowns that milliners urged twelve months ago. You cannot go wrong In selecting a velvet shape of small or moderate size for your every-day hat. Large hats do not seem to survive the frosts in Paris. These wide-brimmed hats are gone but not forgotten— gone for the cold weather to a great extent—but ready to be revived with the return of warmer weather next Spring. Velvet in combination with other materials is well thought of. If ‘wide brims are worn at all in Paris they are usually wide only at front and side—turning up abruptly in the back or dwindling to nothing. The sketch shows a hat of con- servative shape, in deep wine-red vel- vet. It turns up in the front and is trimmed with a_feather ornament at the side of the crown. (Copsright. 1925.) Our Children—By Angelo Patri Proving Things. Every now and then I catch a glimpse of the justification of the creed that is bullt upon the assump tion of original sin. It does seem as though some children were born with the spirit of evil strong within them especlally on rainy days or just be- fore snowstorms. 1 wonder if that notion was not born the morning be- fore a big storm? Anyway, there are times when chil- dren are perverse and would tempt the patience of an angel, if there were any about. I watched one not long ago. He was five past and what his Scotch grandmother termed “a maist thorough-going bairn.” His mother had set him to pasting pictures in his scrap book. She pa- tiently showed him where to put the paste and how to place the picture. With an inscrutable face he plastered the paste on the front of the rooster. “No, no.” sald his mother. “Now won't stick.” And with all haste she washed the submerged cock and plac- ed it once more face down on the table. Calmly, but with a determined | gesture, Boy smeared paste on the| upper side once more. His mother started toward him In expostulation once more, but Gram said, “Don’t. Turn your back. Let him prove his own job. That is the only way that boy 15 going to learn any thing. It will be hard for him, but you will have to let him go ahead and learn!” So Boy laid on a generous coating of paste, laid the rooster on the pag slapped him vigorously with his flat hand, and, as the rooster came up fast to it, looked surprised and not 1t | exactly pleased. He pulled it off with the sticky fingers of the other hanc and it once more stuck fast. Anothe: attempt and still it stuck and now bore no resemblance to the once proud cock of the walk. With a grimace of disgust Boy rubbed both hands down the front of his blouse, rubbed vigorously until there was nothing left but sticky crumbs. Then Boy tried to pick up his scissors, bu the fingers of his hands were stuck fast together. Consternation seize him. He wiggled them loose only t have them stick again. He looked ap | pealingly into the face of his kindl | gram, who eat placldly knitting seemingly unaware of hig troubles. “Well, well. Got all stuck up, did wou? Where is the rooster? Dear me. That's too bad. Better to wash uj now? I'd go to the bathroom an wash off that paste if I were you Use plenty of warm water.” By and by Boy came back splashed and smeary and somewhat abashed. ow clean up your table. You've got it very pasty. Ask Mary for = | wet rag. Oh, ves, you have to clean up the mess you made.” By the time he had cleared things up as well as he could and had asked | for and gotten help in the doing, bd was ready to submit to a good w “I think next time he will k which side of the paste,’ aid gram, time. You'll huve to let this lad prove things | | Wette “nim in “care” of this paper. inclo self-addreseed. stamped envelope for rep) WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Milady’s Plumes. The vogue for feathery trimmings on gowns, wraps, hats and accessorier has brought ostrich again prominently to the fore. The popular willow plume, of course, we have always with us. It retains its constant favor because of its delicacy of form and infinite pos- sibilities. But for the rest, many fan- tasies appear in the feathery fashion world. For instance, on a gorgeous evening gown is seen a band of os- trich trimming made to resemble sea weed, while on a hat may appear tiny flowers of ostrich. The plumes and “tips’ (tips are small plumes) are used to_trim the dressier millinery. It's hard to tell about a plume when you go to buy, for so much of its ap- pearance depends upon the way it is curled. The curling is done by hand, and with a special knaife. If your plume has been given a very tight curl, for instance, it will appear much narrower than one which has bgen given a “full” or broad curl. Then, too, the length of the plume may be deceptive, because of the way the head is curled over. But before buying you will want to know just how much is feather and how much is curl. The way to take the width of a plume is to lay it out absolutely flat and then measure the total width at a point just above the center. To obtain the length, stralghten the feather out and meas- ure from where the “flue” begins on the stem to the tip end. The flue is the feathery flare or firnlike expansion on the quill. It does not always occur to the owner of & beautiful or valuable plume that she can have it curled at differ- ent times to keep up with the moda of the moment. This gives the effect of having several plumes of different sizes, and s a conceit well worth catering to, as well as an economy, if you happen to have stored away in your hat boxes an ostrich feather that has gone out of style. Sometimes the uncurled feather used, but {t is never so elegant cr beautiful. It is, however, more durge ble, and certainly much less troube to_keep in good condition When a milliner says that a plums 18 “two-ply” or “three-ply,” it is sim ply another way of saving that it is made of two or three layers of featl ers. If a plume is three-ply, the inner filling is usually composed of shorter length feathers, which may come from the tall or the soft under- the-wing feathers of the bird. The best feathers come from the back and above the wings of the ostrich. There {s a reason why the long. sweeping willow plume is relativel expensive. It is because the grace sweep which we admire so much wa obtained at the price of a long and tedlous hand process, which naturally Increases the cost of the feather to the wearer. In a willow plume eaah tiny feathery fiber is increased length by having knotted to it sowh! lengths of fibers of just the Cuma kind. This takes a long time anf much skill. Then, too, ostrich feathers are pro pared for the market in diffieren waye. By treating them with ncil, and glycerin the feathers may ba made to appear much thinnes. Feath- ers treated in this way are known a8 “burnt ostrich,” and are generally used for aigrette effects or in some novel way. Parking With Peggy “A thing of beauty is a jey—until she says she's hungry. Apple and Batter Pudding. Peel, core and slice four = five apples, and leave them while you Yub four ounces of dripping into one-half pound of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder; add to this five ounces of sugar, and beat to a stiff batter with a little milk. Mix the sliced apple with the bat- ter, and pour the batter into a hot greased baking dish; put back quickly into the oven, leave the gas moder- ately high for a quarter of an hour, then turn low, and leave for another 40 minutes, when the pudding should be done. “Puzz’i’cks" Puzzle-Limericks A fellow who lived on the—I1—— Saw a fish that he wanted to———23—, But how to—8—7 “Ah,” he sald, “T will—di—o So he sat down and dropped him & — 55— 1. River in Germany. 2. Have dinner with. 3. Ask; masculine pronoun, third person singular, objective (two words). 4. Mark letters on a surface; last word of line above two words.) 5. Plece of string. (Note: The German's system was probably quite effective. ~ What it was, In the form of a_complete limerick, may be found out by placing the right words, indicated by tha numbers, in the corresponding spaces. The answer and another “Puzilck™ will appear on Monday.) Yesterday's “Puzalick” A certain faith-healer of Deal Once eaid: “Although pain isn't e, It I sit on a pin And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I Zas:r 1 feel™ (Copsright, 1984.% <@ Frittered Apples. Peel, core and slice one and one- half pounds of good cooking apples; place them in a medium-sized pie dish, then make a batter as follows: Mix four ounces of flour with ene teaspoonful of baking powder and two ounces of white sugar; warm one ounce of butter and beat into it one egg and two tablespoons of miik; grad- ually of'* this mixture into the flour, then contine to beat until the batter is perfectly smooth. Pour it over the apples, and bake in a moderate oven for haif an hour. e John B. Radcliff, a thirty-second de. gree mason, living in Dexter, Kan. has eight sons, all of whom are mem- bers of the Masonic order.