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WOMA N’'S PAGE. Home-Maker’s Faith in Her Ability BY Faith is the corner stone of a home Just as it is the firm foundation on which business is carried on. There could be little business done If buyers did 1ot have faith that those who sell will deliver goods ordered; and those who sell must have faith that the goods will be paid for. Faith is FAITH IN INSPIR} UPHOLSTER THE CHAIR, VARNISH WALLPAPER. ABILITY HOUS v TH WILL SWIFE TO SIGHTLY GARISH THE the underlying principle of charge ac- counts and, in fact, of the whole Tramewc of business, Some persons prove unfaithful and their structures tall, but this does not upset the foundation or disturb the principle. It only proves that some persons are not faithful. They are not trustworthy. Faith and trust go hand in hand. And so 1t is found in homemaking. t takes fa housewife to be- LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. come a real homemaker. But without this stanch element, housework be-, comes drudgery, and the routine tire some. It 1s entirely lacking in delight. In the art of establishing and keeping up a true home, whether it is a big establishment where money is lavishly spent, or a little farmhouse where frugality must be exercised, faith is essential. Ability. In the first place the housewife must have faith in her ablility to run the house, as well as faith in the ability of the wage-earner to furnish sufficient means to supply the neces- sary money. She must have faith in her ability to make ends meet, and | perhaps lap over so that there is a surplus for saving. She must have faith in her ability to fix up the dwelling or the rooms of an apart- ment so that they will be attractiv cozy and homelike; faith in her chil dren, if she is so fortunate as to have them; a faith in her ability to create a happy home for them and for the man of the house, so that all may find contentment under her home- making. Power. When we sum up even these few things we begin to appreciate the vast extent of faith, and to know it as a power not to be gainsaid, or doubted. It is real, just as love is real and kindness 18 real, and happiness is real. To analyze any of them does not bring them closer, nor satisfy, Faith, like these other things, enters into lives that welcome it, and which will use it. It has to be used to increase. It inspires action and works wonders. Faith That Beautifies. Let us imagine a_home that is in- artistic and in which furniture is not, pleasing and wallpaper gaudy. With- out faith a homemaker feels nothing can be done but endure it, and mean- while it gets on her nerves, and then this nervousness reacts on the family. An unhappy atmosphere results. But if the woman has faith that she can make things more attractive, she will succeed. Her ingenuity will get to work. Her interest will be stimulated and she will enjoy seelng what she can do. She will study her rooms. Some walls are kalsomined to soft tones, some can be treated with a toned varnish that will mellow the | paper. The cost is trifling and the { work something she can do. Furni- | ture can be scraped and refinished or | painted, whichever is most appro- priate. Slip covers can be made for | worn uphoistered pleces, and the first | thing she knows her rooms will be |artistic and charming,-for one im | provement will lead to another. He taste wiil improve. Books and maga | zines will be read that suggest ideas {and, strangely, things will turn up to | aid her—if she has faith. BY D. (. PEATTIE. Mushroom Season. After the long, hot, dry Zust comes gent tember, and, with the waning of the sun and the yming of the Autumn rains, the fungi reappear on the ground, on trees. Not nce June have we had in the Dis triet of Columbia, such a display of the little gnomelike plants as we are enjoving now. There is no zest in the world like that in looking for mushrooms. It {8 as gamey a sport as trying to flush a partridge. For where mushrooms zrew last night they jnay bave van- ished this morning, and where today vou find none may be the very spot where vou will find them tomorrow. As_whimsi s pixies, they come nd go before vou know it. Quaint little things, they push up brown caps through the earth for a few hours or days at most, and then. with a puff of wind, they make themselves invisible. And what alluring lors the mush rooms have —the gentler dove nd mauve and creamy browns, or the more gaud cap of lemon \eilov\‘.‘ nge, scarlet and even violet-blue!| netimes a curious veil covers these nge ants, as and thin hridal 1 but somehow mournful, and suggesting, 100, a shroud | Mushrooms, in ‘fact, look “dead.” | lecause they e no green coloring | atter as other plunts have. | his is because they do mnot manu-| facture their own food, but live par- asitically on otk ants, or else | saprophytically—that is, on decaying | vegetable matter. H Do not imagine, though, that this nieans all mushrooms are “un- Ithy™: in fact, they are fairly nu-{ tritious and very delicious, except the | poisonous ones. Of those more shall be said at another time. Mushrooms never produce flowers or seed, but they have the equivalent of seeds—that is, spores. Any school child can see these spores plainly .if Tie picks a mushroom and lays the cap down on a piece of paper, with the “gills” downward. The spores n about 15 minutes will collect in a powder all over the paper, and ften they are of the most splendid volors—blue, purple, red, yellow, jet black. If vou find no spores on a piece of white paper, it means that the spores are white: they will show up it you lay the cap on a plece of black paper. most The trend of fashion is more and | 3n0re toward the idea of furnishing a nome twith individual pieces selected for their intrinsic good appearance #nd usefulness rather than with sets of matched furniture. Of course, the pieces whiga are assembled In any one room 1ust be of the same gen- eral charactar if the room as a whole is to achleve a harmonious effect. These fine Adam pleces, so delicate- Iy beautiful in design. ure a unit in 1he furnishings of a boudoir done in | the French manner and the effect is usually successful. The combination | of commode and separate mirror, by the way, Is now often used in the hedchamber or dressing room to re- place the less graceful dresser. (Copyright, 1925.) ‘With the installation of a broadcast. ing station at Nagoya, Japan, it was tound that most of the receivers were Lrom Americta » - days of Au-| | COLOR CUT-OUT THE GOLDEN FLEECE. | { | Resolves to Gain Throne. Now when Jason became a man he heard for the first time how he ws father, King Aeson, had been killed by a certain Pelius, who stole the throne and would also Jason had he not been hidden in the centaur's cave. Jason, being a brave lad, determined to set all this to rights, to punish the wicked Pelius and to cast him from the throne which was rightfully his own. So with this intention Jason took a spear in each hand and set out for the kingdom of Iolchos, which, you will remember, was the kingdom | of which his father had been king. Color Jason's smock tan and his and sandals brown. (Copyright. 1925.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST Stewed Apples. Dry Cereal with Cream. Creamed Chipped Beef. { Toast. Marmalade. Coffee. LUNCHEON Cheese Fondue. Graham Bread. Fruit Salad. Cookles. Tea. cloak DINNER Consomme. Baked Pork Chops. Baked Stuffed Tomatoes. Creamed Potatoes. Grapefruit and Apple Salad. Raisin Cracker Pudding. Coffee. CREAMED BEEF Put one tablespoonful butter in frying pan. When melted put one-fourth pound chipped beef and fry until well browned, stirring often to keep from scorching. Add one pint milk. When it begins to boil, thicken with one rounding_tablespoon flour dissolved in a little water. Make the gravy a little brown. CHEESE FONDUE Scald one cup milk and add one cup bread crumbs from the center of a stale loaf, one table- _spoonful butter, one-half tea- spoon salt, a dash cayenne and one-fourth pound grated cheese. Stir until the cheese melts, add the beaten yolks of three eggs, take from the fire, fold in the beaten whites, turn into a but- téred dish and bake in a hot oven. Serve immediately. CREAMED POTATOES Slice potatoes, add milk to al- most cover potatoes, a little but- ter, pepper and salt to taste. Let the milk come to bolling point. Care must be taken that the milk does not burn. young | THE EVEN DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Threshing Out the Money Question Before Mar- riage—Will She Be Happy Giving Up a Soft Business Position for a Hard Matrimonial Job? EAR MISS DI T am keeping company with a young lady of whom I am very fond, and who shows great fondness for me. In a tentative way, we have discussed marriage. 1 have some money, and make a good salary, sufficient to keep us both comfortably—in fact, to live on a higher scale than that to which she has been accustomed. She would expect, however, that T provide her with an elaborate home, automobile, means of travel, etc., which is more than 1 could afford. Now she is a professional woman and insists o&b:ontlnuln‘ with her profession after marriage. Her capital and earnings being nearly equal to mine, I feel that under the circumstances she ought to contribute to the joint support of the household, and help provide the luxuries she demands. What do you think? y ANXIOUS JOHN. Answer: T think the 50-50 proposition in rhoney matters goes for the wite as well as for the husband, and that when a woman has money she should contribute her fair share of it to the maintenance of the household. Especially is this true if the woman continues to work outside of the home after marriage and does not give her time and service to keeping the house. his wife, as he the phrase goes—that is, when he pays for running the home, and provides her wiht clothes, etc.—it 15 supposed, that she makes a fair return for these by performing her duties as a house- wife. In the case of the purely domestic woman the husband should not expect her to help pay the bills, and if she has a little income of her own she, should have a right to do with it as she pleases, without his feeling that he has any strings upon it. When a man “support If, however, the woman keeps on with her profession, and servants have to be hired to do the work that a wife would ordinarily do in a home, then it seems to me that she should pay her part of this additional expense, and use her earnings to dress herself. On the other hand, If & woman continues a gainful occupation after arriage, and still does the housework incident to making & home, as many Women do, then it is unfair for her to have to pay any part of the upkeep of the home. She is doing the work of the domestic woman, and deserves 4t least to get her food and lodging out of it, as the_poorest gort of a slave wage. oung couple who are thinking about getting married to thresh out the money question thoroughly beforehand, instead of waliting to quarrel over it after they are married, and I congratulate you on having the good sense and prudence to do so. It is certainly wise for any ¥ ’ It would save a lot of bitterness and profits of the firm each was en assumed. Many @ girl would draw back on the ve if she knew that the man she was about to marry her an allowance. And many a man would fly away found what extravagant demands his bride-to-be woul The ideal way, of course, of settling the family finances is for both husband and wife io put their income into a pool, and have a j(;llnl cl;lecklr:g account. But until men and women get to be far more angelic than t 7jaTs at present this will always resuit in the gredier one getting the Ilo‘:lu share. So, perhaps, it is always safer for both husbands and wives 1o keon U property separate and just to divide up on the spending. DO! X. AR MI DI . D and has a wonderful position and makes big money. But she is delicate. Has never done a hard day’s work in her life, and hates housework. And now she is going to marry @ poor voung man with two small children, because she says she loves him. I tell her she is crazy. What do vou say? 5 ’ ; A TROUBLED MOTHER. ry threshold of the church would never agree to give from the altar when he d make upon him. .\l.)' daughter is 24 years old. She is a college graduate ! Answ I think she is crazy, too. But she is crazed with the sweet madness that we call love, and whether that is wisdom or foolishness nobody W {3 Undoubtedly jaughter is giving up a soft life for a hard one. She is exchanging desk for a gas range. She is giving up pretty | clothes for sh She is giving up leisure to read. to rest, to go about to places, V& a good times for the never-ending labor of a poor man's wife—a sorry enough bargain to those of us who merely look on. i = at this young man she loves, and who loves her, may give her some-{ thing so beautiful and precious that it outweighg all the riches of earth. | He may give her a companionship, an understanding, a sympathy and a tenderness that will give her a happiness which no lonely old mald, no matter how successful she is, nor how much money she makes, ever knows. Undoubtedly, there will be times of toil and stress, when the pinch of poverty comes, when the little stepchildren are obstreperous and demoniacal, jas all children are upon occasion, and when husband is grouchy and cantankerous, as even the best of husbands are now and then. Then your daughter will wonder why she did it,,and think what a fool she was to have given up her good business job for a poor matrimonial one. But there will be other times, when, tired and battered and worn, she will know that however high the price she has paid for what she has received, it was worth it. She will know that she has lived. She has run the full mut of a woman's life and she s broader, mellower, sweeter, even for the sorrow she has known, the sacrifices she has had to make for others. Don’t worry abeut your daughter too much, Troubled Mother; no marriage is a fallure that has a great love in it, and your daughter will be happler struggling with the man she loves than she would be sitting pretty and safe—alone. A A DOROTHY DIX. [DEAR MISS DIX: Tam a girl 19 vears old, earning a salary of $18 a week. My mother takes all of my money except $1, and buys me only such clothes as she sees fit, which are few and plain. But she lets my younges | sister keep all of her money except $5. which she pays for board, and she takes my money and buys my sister pretty clothes. . What do you think of that? DISGUSTED GIRL. i Answer Your mother is very unfair to vou, but there is no reason for | vou to stand it. Pay her a fair board, and keep your own money. Any girl who has sense enough to hold down a good job certainly has intelligence enougk to know how to spend what she makes, and it you make mistakes at first you will learn from experience to be more careful. ‘Anyway, it is your own money, and there is no reason why you should do the Cinderella act in order that your sister may go forth in glad attire. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1025.) '—_———.—————'-———" BEAUTY CHATS 5y bv4 RENT FORBEs. Lemon Bleach. purest obtainable glycerin to the Our Chfldren—By Angelo Patri Soap. Soap Is soap, and some soap is more than soap. It rises to a symbol of arl- stocracy, the. aristocracy of cleanli- ness to which 1 claim all childhood by right belongs, introduced there by & nice cake of soap. I have no favorite brand. There came my way once a lovely one, though. It was' creamy white and bore upon its immaculate and tempt- ing surface a colored picture of Jack and Jill, Jill engaged in scrubbing Jack’'s smiling countenance after his tumble down hill. At least that Is what I thought it was. But there is soap and soap. I re- member a cake of brown biting soap that used to sit on the corner of the kitchen sink. It was sure death to dirt and everything under the dirt. One wipe with a washrag covered with its pungent paste made a new boy of me, a brighter, shinier boy, but loathing soap and detesting the shine of it. T used to squint down the side of my nose to see how the part in my hair looked and to mak sure that my mother had pasted flat | the last shadow of curl In my hair. I could almost do it, too. when my mother changed the brand of soap. My father should have due credit for that act of mercy. It was he who brought home the first cake of nice soap that I ever saw. Mother smiled and sald: “If njce soup will make you | nice, you shall have the nice soap.” 1 would not say that the ni soap did all that my mother hoped for in the way of making me nice. But it did away with my hatred for the washrag and basinful of water every evening. I liked to get down into the soft, sweet smelling suds and swish them into foam and try to gather handfuls of the rainbowed bubbles that floated along the brim. Mother used to have to come and empty the basin before I had quite enough. NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1925. Then, too, I ceased to shine like a burnished jug with two rose-colored lugs. That pleased me. I associated the shine with the feeling that some- how I had gotten into a skin two sizes too small that drew and creaked puckered at my every motion. I used | to wonder what would happen should | it split. Perhaps I should fall out of my skin and then, perhaps I should look like an oyster all blue and cold white and shivery. Loving nfy skin 1 learned to hate that brown soap on that soft, sweet-smelling kind that sat in state on the blue tray on the shelf. Maybe there are lots of little chil- dren who hate to be washed on ac: count of the soap. Try to get the kind that is nice enough to wash a dirt little urchin or urchiness into a_nice little child. The market is full of beautiful soaps. Let the child pick his own and see. i | Mr. Patri will give personal attention to inauries frem parenta o teheol leich ihe care and development of childrer him ‘T care of (his paper, | dressed. stamped envelobe for re: Copyright. 1525.) 5 Neapolitan Sandwiches. Grind three tablespoonfuls of bla ed pistachio nuts to a paste very fine.. Cut three tablespoonfuls of | | candied cherries into tiny pieces and | | mix with a soft icing, honey, or melted | fondant, to make a istency fit for | spreading. Butter four good slices of | hite bread and trim to the same size Spread the nuts over one slice \ { on the next, and cherries on the third. | Pile them up in the same order and place the remaining slice on top. With @ sharp knife cut down through the center, making the slices one-fourth inch thick, each of which shows the layer of color. A sandwich similar to this may be made of brown and white bread, alternating the colors. Any fill ing to suit the taste may be used. i I have been a cook all my life 1 therefore have a natural bond of interest with women who do their own cooking by Van Camp : To you home makers of good tomato soup, I wish to make this announcement. the corner of the sink. But I did like | I consider that the most distinctive feature about this new tomato FEATURES. Filled Cookies. cooky dough by Genoese Lettuce. Soak three anchovies in wate a in them, wipe with a cloth, remove | good recipe. Cut in vounds with i bones and pound the anchovie cake cutter. After bak nd two ounces of butter in a ck with the following fi ping bowl Add the juice of half the whites of tw lenon and rub all thr sieve h. Stir one-half Wash and drain one head of lettuce, | ful of butter to a cream with two cuy cut the leaves into rounds and spread | fuls of granulated sugar. Mix them with the anchovy butter. Cut|oughly with th whites. Add o some toast into rounds and place LSPOOT ch of cinnanic uce leaf on each piece of to: beat minutes, 4 the cookies: soft for i manufactured Afrplane oil is from 1sts 1oy HSEAL BHAND iy LA SO cups toShe pound and every cup delicious S Seal Brand Tea is of the same high quality I feel satisfied with it now and I want you women who know how to make good tomato soup My study of people to find out how they want the tomato fla- vor, together with my years of creative work with tomato sauces, led me to believe that I could originate a tomato soup of superior flavor. Each year for the last ten years I have hoped to complete soup is the emphasis I have given to the natu- ral sweet tomato sugars, and the true appetizing tomato acids, possessed to a marked degree by a certain kind of tomato to taste it and pass your opinion on it. I sincerely believe it is the tomato soup which the largest number of tomato soup lovers want. If you happen to be orie of the women who have written me in prince royal and how his | have killed | lemon. Fortunately, lemons are cheap and plentiful the year around, for the woman who wants to keep herseif looking well can find daily use for lemon juice. Practically every sort of £tain comes off the skin with lemon juice. Tho easlest way to use it is simply to cut a lemon in half or slice off a thick bit and rub this over the hands, digging the finger nafl deep into the julcy depths of the fruit. Wash off the Juice, for it is quite drying, and clean under the nails with the pointed end of a file. As the juice is astringent, it draws back the cuticle around the nails, giving them a freshly manicured appearance and making the edges pink and very smooth and attractive. But as too much juice is drying, I'd {advise rubbing the nalls with a little | cold cream after cleaning and bleach- ing them. wiping off with a soft bit of towel. The hnads can stand sn: amount of lemon, but the complexi of the face is much more delicate, and the juice stings. As a face bleach I'd advise adding an equal amount of rose water and an equal amount of the Lemon juice, full strength, will bleach the arms, but should not be used on the elbows unless they have been previously cleaned with cold cream. A siice of lemon bound over a corn will help remove it, and a thick | {slice of lemon rubbed on the soles of the feet when you are very tired will make you feel fresh again. A marvelous lemon bleach is made by grinding fine entire lemons, juice, rind and seeds, {n a meat chopper and straining to get out the lumps. Betty Jean—A good substitute for a gritty complexion soap is one put up for mechanics’ hands. In any such case the soap will be somewhat irri- tating unless there {s a cream or ofl massage following the cleansing with the soap. > I should think this treatment would rid you of the roughened skin and the fine blackheads. Be sure to closs the pores after the massage by rinsing in very cold water or by an ice rub. i S Edible frogs and snalls are taken to London from France by air every day. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. A Luncheon Quintet. One mother says: Girls of our neighborhood attend Junior High. where there is no lunch service. Five of these girls go to school together, and instead of each bringing her own lunch, one pre- pares for all every day, taking turns. The rule is that these lunches must be simple, appetizing and nutritious, and no criticlsm is allowed. “Eat or leave it” is their terse expression. This lunch plan has been a valuable extension of their domestic sclence course, for the girls admit that achieving variety with reasonable economy is & real problem in house- keeping. * PHistory of Pour Rame BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. DOLAN. VARIATIONS—Dooley, Dowly Doolan, Dulan, Dowling. RACIAL ORIGIN—Irish. SOURCE—A clan nam There is conflicting testimony re- garding the origin of the Anglicized forms of the Irish family name which we know as Dolan, Dooly, .Dooley, Dowley, Dulan and Dowling. Some authorities claim that the name comes from s chieftain who was a descendant of one “Fiacha Suidhe,” a brother of that famous Irish high-king known as Conn of the Hundred Battles. But the greater weight of evidence, howevér, indicates that there are real- ly two names of Dolan or Dooley. There was a Dolan or “O'Dubhlein” clan in what is now the barony of Tullaghagh in Cavan County, and this clan, it is pretty certainly es- tablished, derives {ts name from “Eochaidh Dudhlen,” a chieftain of medieval times. The other Dolan clan is more wide- Iy know under the name of Dowling. Prior to the English invasion it held the territory of Fertullagh in Wi meath. Shepherd Discovers Silver. The_existence of silver in_Peru, South America, was discovered acci- dentally in 1630 by a shepherd tend. ing his flock at Cerro de who was amazed to find stones, under a fire he had bullt, melted, l the development of a more ap- petizing blend of the tomato flavor for this new tomato soup. But always some baffling feature occurred to prevent my personal name. I have found. satisfaction with it as the final piece of creative work to which I would be willing to attach my the last few years, making some suggestions for a new tomato soup, write me fully if I have succeeded or failed to fulfill your hopes and expectations in this new product. To my friends among home cooks Here are 7 improvements in tomato soup — which I claim for my latest work in creative flavor blending [1] It took me years to learn that I could not buy the kind of tomatoss I wanted unless I chose the seed. Now I contract for tomatoes by acreege and fur- nish the seed to the grower. That means I am sure of getting, each season, the same kind and quality of a certain variety of tomato which I have selected as superior to all others in flavor. [2] My next discovery was that I could not hope to use more than 70% of the tomato and perfect the kind of tomato soup which I know you want; 90 I retain only the sweetest, mellowest parts, [3] Next I learned how to take this essence of the sweet tomato sugars and true appetizing tomato acide and cook them to a rich, creamy smooth puréa. But I do my cooking quickly, at a steady even heat. For my new quick cooking process I am indebted to the tulents of Ferdinand Grandi, ' the great French soup maker, whose book giving Van Camp’ 3 cans for 25¢ recipes for 700 soups contains much valuable information about methods of making soup which conserve and protect flavor. [4] This is also the secret of the fine color of my tomato soup. Long stewing drives out not only flavor, but color. [5] Then I add June butter, the product of tender, succulent blades of sweet June grass and as you know, the highest grade butter produced through- out the year. It adds a fullness and creamy smoothness —a feature that heightens its ap- petizing eating quality and satisfying taste. [6] Ikept children in mind in creating this new soup. The mellow part of the tomato possesses the maximum of healthful qualities, including an abundance of all three of the essential vitamins. June butter is also richer in vitamins than butter produced in the other months of the year. [7] And here is a feature you will be delighted with; it mixes splendidly with milk or water. - S TomatoSoup WITH 7 IMPROVEMENTS