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\ WOMAN’S. PAGE. aking Doll Houses for Christmas BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. W i allll il [l I T T RNy R GO RCIRERS: L= e S b e =1 i T OF A CLOSET. HAV: THE LOWER houses. narrow strips of leather or heavy SHEL A FASCINATING DOLL HOUSE, MAY shelves | be cut and the pieces used for three | doors themselves, hinging th ML the v 1 kid. HINGITON, -D.--C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1925. 19, FEATURES. - 23 SUB ROSA BY MIMI ‘Why Must You Choose. [ Marjorle writes in great agitation that she has been very keen about the same boy for a year—has seen | him very often and has always liked | being with him more than with any | one else. But now, she confides, she | has met another youth—older, wiser, | more sophisticated—who attracts her | awfully. He seems to think she's| pretty nice, too, and would like to rush | her about a bit. 7 H | But she still likes her first play- mate very much and she hates to see him go out of her life forever. | Which shall she choose? Which man | must she give up? The answer is ‘neither.” There is no earthly reason why she shouldn’t have a darn good time with both of | them. owhere in her letter does she state that either of the swains has | made any arrangements about a wed- ding—and, in fact, she sounds much | too young to worry about permanent | intentions. | What fs this passion for select- {ing one “steady,” pinning all your faith and hopes on him—missing all i the gayety and joy of a “rush” by several people—and then perhaps getting the well-known air when it's too late to start collecting other ad- mirer: 1f a girl is unfortunate enough to ! get fond of a man who Insists on her seeing no one else but himself— { though he is in no position to con- { sider marriage—there is some excuse { for_her cutting out all other men. | But in the majority of cases, men aren’t so seltish. They realize, if they | have any sense, that no wideawake | girl is going to isolate herself from all other male companionship for the sake of a boy who isn’t sure he wants to marry her. And so they're apt to be breadminded about her other dates and good times. It's the girl who conceives the bril- liant idea of making one boy her “steady.” She feels that he'll under- stand how greatiy she cares, when he {sees her cutting out all her other { admire: e i another man comes along, who s rather attractive, she sternly puts him out of her mind else Ihas a tremendous upheavel, tells the { first man that all is over, and elects the new candidate as her “regular.” W h Is all quite unnecessary— unless, of course, she's indulged in zood deal of conversation about the | future—has made rash promises and | vows, { If she's just had the ordinary boy nd girl “crush,” there is no need {for a great renunciation scene when Ue girls almost as| The doorways may be curtained and | another chap attracts her away. 1ses that come ready the doors omitted. W nelmaydne | _Shie foan tipertectly el Hremaln s I king egs- | sf ated by pieces of looking sg | friends’ ‘wit! 18 e Shaaae e e O ative | Flied <o the tnade of the heume. o | heedn’t_immediately begin planning d top re-| by windows cut from fl.u\n:umn\.l;”"p“ wedding march with the new form the ; These should have pane e s and | love. o woga | HaREIngs. Wit waiantes e AN BT other words, e o 5 : { vounz vou mustn't take all your oo Walls and Floors. iear(-throbs us serious indication of Left-over picces of wall paper either | life-long devotions. plain o with small designs should | if two men ask you to marry them, tinish the walls inside. The floor cov-{ then you've got to choose between S ng should suit the type of room.|{them. If they simply make pretty LS oot ble oilcloth in small ‘tile effect is|speeches at vou and sigh deeply and : 5 t the thing for kitchen and bath- | eifectively, then there's no need for aulne. roon floors and for tiled walls. Bits | vou to come to any decision about of carpet mav completely cover the | either of them for vears. Wait until loors of other rooms. Or hooked, | vou're asked before you start choos- doll iided or crocheted rugs may be|ing, l<more, | used. large enouzh nearly to cover | up any | the floor or they may be small and be ! Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries UD ANV | iged as scatter rums | airected (o, e paper provided a stamped ting the Doll’s Furniture. e ine imac) ns given for a The furniture can be bhought from { I edqually well 10 | low prices up to any sum you wish | 1 to pay. ome women deftly make : ettt Gomod oo, el | MOTHERS s the firsi |extra heavy cardboard. Be sure the v N _ Divide this and | size of the furniture sults the size of bl eavy rd | the rooms and the dolis for the house. . ner © or three rooms. A closet that has the lower parf | e H top and 1de into a doll house will be found | tor nd brace 1 ¥ useful for linens, If it is entirely | v board hent lled with shelves. 1f not, the upper ¢ © these walls | part may be used to hang little coats ar ngs. Or wood ‘,)n»z Xl“l“ l]w while the shelf just above | « 1wl be ued | the doll house makes a fine Mac 1 gl I ¥ s shoes, i o { BEDTIME STORIES * "iomroy B W. BURGESS . Danger at the Dam. fajled to find even a hint of danger. # s SR ST so Paddy decided that it was safe to 1 e ! | 80 ahead and drag those logs over v i the Beaver. |the dam. But that he might run as| : litde risk as possible he decided that | o Boaver | 1iale4 of dragging those logs across iiPad mall Beaver | the middle of that dam he would dy | ¢ Waen b It was ane of it near the end where Reddy dr:]m! Paper Tapers. sae | im by Motier | was. 5 One Mother says B ha By this time M Paddy and the | 2y little son likes to be helpful, o :i o it to "] ©r voung Beaver had arrived with | when I run out ef the usual small hild hey will logs. Mrs. Paddy suiffed when ! jobs 1 let him make tapers. They feach it Euon explained why he had delayed | save matches at the Kitchen range, | lepded In dragging his log over the dam.|and making them amuses him for There isn't any danger here. said | hours. He cuts strips from paper she. “You illy. For goodness |about a foot long and half an inch sake. how do vou think Yowler or|wide. I give him a bowl of water to Old Mlan Coyote or Buster Bear could | moisten thumb and finger before he Hde out on this new dam? It is too | begins to roll the strips. He rolis the new and the top is too narrow for | paper, starting at one corner, into a any enemy to hide on it. 1 am going | slender tube, then twists it into a to take my log over right here in the | taper by folding it down sharply at middle.” one end. Paddy didn't have time to protest (Copyright. 1925.) | before Mrs. Puddy had scrambled out and begun to drag her log after her. Now right close at hand was a tree NUMEROLOGY which was one of the supports of | the dam. You remember, 1 told you | how Paddy had built that dam so as | BY NEYSA McMEIN. (x; mn‘l«t' use r.lw veral tr 5. A I\mh‘\ of this particular tree extended 1t right over Mrs. Paddy. Just the faint. | A New Hat. est of sounds The next ins the water, slapping her tail, the Beaver as she did so What did it mean? Puddy had discovered does to be too sure. ered that she had made a great take, and she shivered as the tho how very near to losing her life had been. You see, there wus da {at that dam, after all. The sound which Mrs. Paddy's ears caught. causing her to look uy been the faintest of stratches mad claws. She had looked up just in t) see Yowler the Hob Cat out on that limb above her. No one had thought tr along the dam. Yowler had waiting up there all the time. 1t she had dived the water dange: Only that that it n . where here was nothing ust climb out enf into b i « then \wl"‘ Sy burl (When a d\oughtf’ul eve to wait. Then| T cast . ¢ ., using his Save and eyes wna NG er . 10:\% se, ticularly his ears and nose, | e 4 Mother Na had intended he | di.....rous past ould. He discovered that Reddy Fox | I must admat I run around there - from _the seldom see vhere the logs were cut. Padd N o fenr of Reddy. Reddy wasnt| [My principles and enough to he dangerous. In fact, acts ree. to tind Reddy there. was there no danger Paddy was \s long as Reddy was to be feared from that direction. Reddy w fraid of hoth Yowles Bob Cat and Old Man Coyote, J should either be about that end the dam Reddy would not sit there | tly as he was now doing. l’udd}; <hed he could be as sure about the afety of the oher end of the dam i he was ahout that end. J1is eyes ap@ his ears and his nose sed her to look up. | into with nal Mrs ever She had discov- | mis- ught she nger tiny had had ie by time creeping look up in the been If it hadn’t been that he had to change his hind I swam | position to get out on that limb very \is nearly grown « . He | lik he would have caught Mrs. 15 towing @ poplar loz for that | Paddy. As it was, she escaped. (Conright. 1825.) ew near the dam Paddy | watehful. Wh they | = —— —— T suppose it is because we have been | deluged lately with such brilliant red fand green and orange felts that the {black hat is so important this year— jas well as so chic. This is quite un derstandable, too, as black hats har monize so well with dresses of any icolor and style. Almost any woman ! can wear them, for they are apt to | look well with every type of face and ! color of hair. The ones beginning to | shine in New York are small—with perhaps a bright cockade on one side, | or two or three gay little feathers. Larger styles of black hats are a bit more difficult to wear. For years | T've longed to own one of those big | droopy kind and every time I've set | out and determined to get one my mil- {liner has talked me out of it. She | says this sort of hat goes best with lovely afternoon dresses, and on blondes, that aren’t at all my type. And 1 suppose she is right, for I | work here in my studio all afternoon, and if I do manage to get to a tea, it's always late, and so I go in some kind of a business dress. So what'I did buy was a smallish black velvet with a brown velvet bow at the back—and 1/ must say it does credit to the lady who designed fit. | " Besides being so generally becoming. black hats are always smart and never go out of style, and—what is most im | partant—vou don’t get tired of them So, if you can only have one hat this | season, by all means have it black | preferably black velvet. (Copyright. 1925.) Casserole Rice and Bacon. Wash one cupful of rice. Cook two cupfuls of tomato juice and pulp until 1 tender, and press them through a vegetable sieve. Place all the ingred- ients in the casserole, having fivel slices of uncooked bacon on top. Add one cupful of boiling water, two tea- spoonfuls of salt and a little cayenne pepper. Cook, covered, in a slow oven until the rice is done, then remove the cover and let the bacon brown. Serve hot from the casserole. A covered bak- ing pan can be used instead of the casserole, but more water must then be used on account of the increased amount of evaporation. | women, which regards a wife as a mere household convenience, a slave to do "DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX 1 Shall She Marry Man Who Rejects Modern House- \ hold Conveniences?—If Romance Fades —So Soon, Isn’t It Better to Marry for Money? D SAR MISS DIX: I am a young girl engaged to be married. The other night, in talking over the cost of furnishing a home with my fiance, I suggested that I would want the kitchen to be furnished with modern conveniences, an electric stove, a kitchen cabinet, washing machine, etc., as these are wonderful savers of energy and time. My Intended did not agree. and said that his mother cooked on an old cookstove when she was married and that what was good enough for her was good enough for me, and that he did not think that I was any better than she was, if 1 was as good. In my business life my employer gives me everything that is necessary as a time and labor saver, and I consider that my husband should be just as thoughtful of my welfare. Now, what T want to know is, am I unreasonable in my what are my chances of finding happiness with this man? demands? Also, DOUBTFUL. Answer: 1 do not think vou have much chance of being happy if vou marry a man who is as narrow and hidebound and reactionary as your flance shows himself to be. You are a modern, up-to-date, intelligent, independent woman, who naturally expects her husband to treat her as an equal and go 50-50 with her on the pleasures and perquisites, as well as the burdens, of matrimony. Your sweetheart belongs to the old school of thought about her husband’s bidding and put up with any conditions of life that he imposes upon her. It has not even entered his mind that it is any part of his duty to do anything actively to make you happy and to try to lighten your labor. And you do not have to be a female Sherlock Holmes to be able to deduce from these premises that when the modern young woman and the prehistoric | man come in conflict there will be trouble a-plenty. When your flance tells | you that what was good enough for his mother is good enough for you, he ows his utter selfishness, for I will wager that he doesn’t think that what was good enough for his grandfather is good enough for him. He doesn't want to work with the sort of tools that grandfather worked \vith. He doesn’t want to put on his hat and trudge across the town when he | has something to say to @ man, as grandfather did, instead of using the telephone. He doesn’'t want to write his letters out painfully in long-hand, as grandfather did, Instead of picking them out on a typewriter or dictating | them to a stenographer. He doesn’t want to do away with tractors and steam | shovels and electric welders and all of the millions of mechanical conveniences :;:r lightening labor and speeding up work just because grandpa didn’t have em. How outrageous, then, that he should b LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The back of pops morris chair got broke this afternoon axsidently, and | after dinnir pop started to sit down| in it and pritty neer went over back- | werds, saying, Wat the mischiff, wats | all this? i G, look out, pop, I sed. Thanks for the timely warning, did you brake this chair? pop sed. | Sir? No sir, I sed. Well who elts would do enythin: like this but you, do you meen to tell me you dont know enything about this? pop sed. Sir? I dident say T dident know | enything about it, T sed. | O, then you did brake it, pop sed, and 1 sed, No sir, but I was heer wen | it got broke. { The plot thickins, pop sed. Out with it, he sed, and I sed, Puds Sim- kins broke it. How? pop sed, and I sed, jest by sitting in it, and pop sed, Teil that to | the marines, Puds is a stout boy but | he cant make kindling wood out of morris chairs jest by sitting in them. But he dident sit down in the ord- nerry way, 1 sed. The dooce he dident, how meny s has he got? pop sed, and I sed, Well he ony has one ordnerry way but me and him was having a sitting down contest to see wich one could sit down the hardest by jumping up in the air ferst, and nuthing happened wen I did it but wen it came Pudses tern the chair dident seem to be able | to stand it. A sweet story sweetly told, and T will fllistrate the moral of it with the id of my slipper, pop sed. Wich he did. COLOR CUT-OUT COSETTE'S CHRISTMAS. | e e willing to deprive you of your \.u( uum cleaner and percolator and toaster and all lhepolher household (}m\'enienoes that take the curse off housework. I'or too many years women submitted to this and let their husbands have all the domestic aids, while lh'ey drudged along without any mechanical help, but that time has gone by, Women have come into their own, and they are never again going to break their backs and frazzle their nerves doing the drudgery ctri 27] s dol gery that a rent will do for them. £ e You are a sensible girl to settle thi: married, and you are quite right to pre: equipped kitchen or no kitchen at all. et your ultimatum of a modernly DOROTHY DIX. '.‘\l‘. MISS DIX: A friend of mine says that after vou have been married five vears all husbands look alike, whether you married a man you were in Jove with at the time or one you just liked and respected. This being the case, isn't it wise for a girl to take the man with the most money? Then when romance goes she at least has the consolation of an shment. IMIST | | | | | question of fair play before you gef | | | | | | i Answer: 1f marriage were merely a business proposition. a woman would be justified in selling herself to the highest bidder; but marriage isn't a commercial deal, and no women make such a sorry bargain as those who | marry for money. _ Because money is not legal tender for happiness. It will not buy the things that a woman really wants, and it has such an uncanny way of slipping out of the grasp of those who desire it most. Somehow there seems to be a pecullar curse on women marrying for money, as you will realize if you think over the number of girls you have known who have bartered their youth and beauty and their hearts for a bank | account and then had the money for which they had paid so dearly snatched away from them. Your friend's assertion that all husbands look alike after five vears is not true. We hear of the unhappy marrfages, but little is said of the happy ones. There are thousands upon thousands of husbands and wives who not only after flve years, but after 35 and 45 and 55 years of matrimony still are figures of romance to each other, still ure lovers and stll live in a little | heaven of their own making. 1 And suppose love did last only five years. Suppose it lasted only one | year. Even that is better than no love at all. Those who have known even for a day the ecstasy of loving and being loved, who have even glimpsed the glory and the circling wings, have had something that the sordid soul who marries for money never ha DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: What can I do to keep my aunt off the ballroom floor? She 13 60 and fat. and has wattles which move up and down. She wears young girl dresses, and no one h: the heart to tell her that her silver stockings are slipping down and forming wrinkles around her ankles when she is dancing. Now, I want her to have a good time and dance all she likes at home, but not at our junior parties. And when she has been to a party, aunt is as cross as two sticks for a week after. What can I do about it? PAULINE. Answer: I am afraid that there isn't anything that you can do about it. | Pauline, because when an old woman gets the illusion that she is 16 nobody on earth could convince her to the contrary. She is deaf. dumb and blind | o all reason. 2 e | I don’t blame you, my dear, for being mortified at the spectacle your | aunt cuts when she arrays herself in debutante clothes and cavorts around | like a dancing elephant among you slim and nimble youngsters. She is a| figure of fun, and it is a pity that she hasn't enough sense of humor to realize that every one is laughing at her In all the world, there is nothing so ridiculous and so pitiful as the women who won't accept their age, but who affect a synthetic youth in young clothes and deportment. They make the ribald jeer and the discerning weep with their flapper | frocks and their Kittenish ways and their babble of the firtations with bo}s‘l who might be their grandsons. | And yet they might be so attractive if they would only be as old as the are, for there i5 nothing sweeter or lovelier than a dignified, intelligent, broad-minded, jolly old lady. But her place is on the sidelines, not with the cake eaters on the floor. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1925.) Solves the Evening Dress Problem BY MARY MARSHALL. You make the remark that it seems |is amazed that you could hold such to you that more and more women an erroneous impression. are” wearing evening dress. There| “Certainly, fewer and fewer women | re dressing for dinner,” says this | woman emphatically. *It's been s | different since the war—since it was 50 hard for most people to have good servants. Why, there's Mrs. Jones— she would have felt quite disgraced | when she was young ever to have ap-, ! peared at dinner in a day-time frock. | It was a tradition in the Jones family A Jones husband would have felt that |he had almost insulted his wife and daughters to have come to the dinner | table in his business suit. And now. it isn't that the Joneses are actual any worse off—only they are less formal. More than half the time they don’t change at all for dinner.” H | On the other hand, of course, there | are hundreds and hundreds of voung girls in every town who like to dance | in the evening. The young men who | take them out probably never think of | wearing evening clothes. but the girls | have acquired the habit of wearing {little dance frocks and they wear these | | evening frocks with the nonchalance | | and savoir faire that was once poss | sed only by women of social distinc- | tion. In those unsophisticated days | the voung working girl changed into a freshly ironed lingerie shirtwaist or maybe wore a ‘“peek-a-boo,” bead- | trimmed _chiffon waist with her well- | pressed blue serge suit, and felt all dressed up when her young man came to take her out of an evening. | Some women find much comfort nowadays in the type of frock that is called a dinner frock. To be sure there are very elaborate dinner frocks —but then there are those simpler diner frocks that are as easy to wear as any day-time frock—perhaps even | easier. Why, a woman could even| {drive ‘her own car wearing one of | |these simple little dinner frocks. ually they are not very low-necked | —sometimes even they have long | {sleeves. Oftener, however, the ab- sence of sleeves’ distinguishes them from an afternoon frock. shows a little frock of this desmpuon,' The sketch | | Tt was made of crepe satin in one of the new wine shades, with a metal em- { broldery girdle and a gold chrysanthe- mum on the shoulder. (Copyright. 1925.) Fig Tapioca. Soak overnight two-thirds cupful of tapioca. In the morning add three cupfuls of cold water, one and one- half cupfuls of light brown sugar, two-thirds cupful each of diced figs and English walnuts and one table- spoonful of vanilla extract. Steam for an hour in a double boiler. Stir in the vanilla extract and turn into & serving dish. Chill and serve with plain or whipped cream. A_TYPE OF DINNER FROCK IN HIGH FAVOR THIS SEASON. HERE IT IS OF CREPE SATIN WITH A GIRDLE OF METAL EMBROIDERY. A'GOLD CHRYS- ANTHEMUM 1S POSED ON THE LEFT SHOULDER. seems to be an increasing demand for frocks of this description. By all means, says one, while the other one | itism. | other: | sonal appearance. The Cruel Landlady. To forget the loaf and lose the money was a double misfortune, and Cosette burst into tears. “What! Have you lost the money?" cried the woman angrily. “Or per haps you have stolen it.” she added | “No—no, T have not stolen it,” in- sisted Cosette through her sobs. But the landlady did not believe what she sald and might have beaten her had not the stranger taken a coin from his pocket and, concealing it in his hand, said, “I saw a coin on the floor—it must have fallen from her pocket.” Then he searched about the floor and bringing up the coin in his hand gave it to the landlady. This dress belongs to the blondé stepsister. It is of bright green with a tan collar. The doll's hair is yel low and her dress pale pink. (Copsrizht What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Sagittarius. Tomorrow's planetary though not displaying avorable conditions, reveal a quies- cent influence that is exceptionally propitious for all observances and rec. reations of a Sunday. They denote a | spirit of contentment and a feeling of | self-satisfaction. During the after-| noon, but for only a brief space of | time, there will be sensed a transitory | mood of grouchiness. This, however, need not cause any disagreement, if vou maintain poise, and do not stress the importance of vour own feeling Children born tomorrow will be nor- | mally healthy. Care should, how- | ever, be taken in their teens that they | do not overtax their strength, or take | foolish chances, as the signs denote | that accident alone can interfere with | their regular physical development. In nature and disposition they will be very sensitive, and will resent, with all the vehemence of their little min any act of injustice or sign of favor- | They will also be self-conscious and this will make them rather timid and retiring. In order to counteract | this tendency. they should be com- pelled to assoclate freely with pl: mates of an age similar to their own. If tomorrow is your birthday, you Possess a Griselda-like patience, and | constancy and truthfulness are your | most outstanding characteristics. You | have, of course, a degree of self-con- fidence that is merited by your own sterling worth, and though never bla- tant, and always forbearing, are never disposed to take a lower seat than that to which you are entitled. You are able to accomplish a great deal, as there is nothing slap-dash about your work. On the contrary, you are thor- ough and extremely methodical. You are never satisfied with superficiality, | but go to the bottom of things, and never attempt any task until you are | satisfied that you are equipped to do | 0. You then go straight ahead. and | often succeed in accomplishing what apparently more brilliant, have led in doing. { You are both punctual and punetili- | aspects. al- any actively fa | ous, and are very careful of your per. | Your tastes are do- | mestic, although you have many in- | terests outside of your own home. You | are affectionate, but not demonstrative. | ‘Well known persons born that date | are: Jolin Wood, soldier and politician: | Samuel J. Kirkwood, statesman; Cal’ | vert Vaux, landscape architect: Ro-| meyn B. Ayres, soldler; Arthur H. Wellington, engineer; Cyrus Townsend Brady, author. | (Copyright. 1925.) | T | Orange Cream. Add one cupful of orange juice and half a cupful of orange pulp to a plain ice cream mixture. Flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla and a table- spoonful of lemon juice and freeze. 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Man's nickname A hypothetical force THE WIDO BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR whenever she turned Martin, who sat at patient until Fay Carson is not attractive to men She 'reads @ hool extciing the charms of ‘@ young widow, and decides to muis Guerade as ‘ome during her vacaiion. partee, and om him to N gnd gives 2 approves of her type is attention 1o Lisie Norris fate would have it, Mr. M. publishing house vith whie Jle Dean time 10 from m as he looked that he had not married That Ker ruse has been dix ay but several. Was ther makes: o cloan Uroasc of evcryshing 11 man in e world who B o I R i e she |oould go wunithels of emotio really is. Dean's prejudice ‘agains: her | as Fay could? Was there an that Dean is no longer intersst w he thy ch: g, playing upon Dreane Gee eora. alfoush she hax prom: with a hundred subtle, feminine ledifo keeplche musterpllenc. The ne. and the next instant capitulate T ahmdal i Eay realizes that she creature of clinging tenderness ke e i he pace 11 % then e asanr Mherer twere ke Dean Hamplon comidh (o Neriveaciss when he wondered where she carries her off wn his car. Fay fares learned it a Had her short Tum “with pitying her, and he iells % of playing the role of fascinating Fiat eilouatiaer woman of the poise, or had it b the time, needin bring it to the st Dean had been married to Fay six months and she was still a creature of bewildering contrasts to him. There Y had been times alone with him when world given her this n buried in her- all only experience to CHAPTER LIV Another Dinner Party A vear later, Mrs. Dean Sage Hamp ton, nee Mrs. Churchill, nee Miss F Carson, was entertaining at her home | Jyo 1iq® ol SIS M e girl, but in Shadow Valley - there had been other times when she The long g t Elittering | 1,9 peen as she was now, brilliantly with silver and crys ind bright | e ceinat well poised. entirely sel with flowers, was set f but aside | jocured. What a wife she was! Evel from Dean and Fay there was but|gince they had opened the house at one familiar face present, that of Mr. ghudow Valley they had had a house Martin of the publishing firm of M ful of guests, and Fay was in her ele tin & Scott ment enterta K ¥ wore white. a simple. ¢linging | there had been no dir wisp of a frock that made her seem unv of the guests Poppy It more than ever slender. The dress ang if any of the old crowd were was sleeveless, but the k was cut close to her w rlish throat with a line go severe that on any one but Fay it would have been highly unbe- coming. Above the severity of the neck line young Mrs. Hampton's head, with its crown of amber hair, was lifted proudly. But beneath her straight, golden brows her amber eyes were sparkling. and she handling her guests with all the finesse of a spending the Summer there neither Dean nor ¥Fay knew anything about it, nor did they care. Fay gave the signal to rise, and as she did so her glance met Dean's icross the table. It was only when he could force her to meet his gaze di rectly that he could reach the Fay b loved the best, and as he looked at her now he saw exultantly a wave of hot color rush up into her face. woman of the world. He turned away, content. To their On her left was the vice president |friends Fay Hampton was the best of a well known railroad. He s | dressed woman in their set, the mos vastly entertained her de |fnscinating hostess and the most |eagerly sought after guest. Any | rty that included Fay was HOME NOTES WREN. | fluence the-most stupid persons could appear tolerable. But to her husband there were times ike tonight. when she seemed like & ittle girl § | hou sure to be 4 success, and under her in BY JENNY l ing at life, when ail he: 1 [ e seemed but One can imagine very frivolous pretty alrs and lady adoring these hanging shelves |Eraces assumed for the occasion. He for’ her room, because they are so Knew that he had but to take her in “practical,” and a very practical little \zm arms u:!ll't;n‘xl_u_\»\l ’ly\ n-“ s, .vld 1oy being thrilled by their frivol. he would find the real Fay, the simple, feh & unaffected little girl who trembled b | neath the fire out of a whole only him. £ his kisses, and who. world of men, loved The frivolous lady would use them to hold her squat, fat bottles of (The End.) (Copyright. 1925.) Lessons in English W. L. | BY GORDON. Words often misused: Don't sa kind of trophles were on dis, . “kinds."” | "Often mispronounced: History. Pro | nounce his-to-ri, the o as in “no,” and { not s his-t | Often misspelled: Grammar. not mer | Synonyms: Safe, secure, sure, pre | teeted, invulnerable, impregnable. Word study: Use @ word three times | and it is yours. Let us increase ou | vocabulary | each aay. by mastering one wor Today's word, Fervid; burn- ing, ardent, intense. “His fervid | Wwords impressed the throng. — e flirtatious | zarette | French scent, her naughty fan and her bad, tempting c box. The practical little lady w Steamed Pecan Bread. uld prob. | Mix together and sitt one cupful eaciy Z books, but, of {of cornmeal, graham or rye flour anc B A T e ot chatéest | White flour, three-fourths of @ table- Volumes containing all the most en- |Spoonful of baking soda and one and dearing little tales and verses. one-half teaspoonfuls of salt. Mix “But ahichever role these shelves as- | three-fourths of a cupful of molasses sume, you may be sure they will play [and two cupfuls of sour milk or but- T nits setiously and quite tatisfac. |termilk. Pour the wet mixture into o ey, “ary decoratively, |the dry mixture and stic untll well e : mixed.” Add one to one and one-halt | cupfuls of coarsely chopped pecans and put into well greased molds, filling them two-thirds full. Cover and steam Jthree to three and one-half hours chooses them as a Chris reputation of being a dear.” mas “clever old (Coprright. 1925.)