Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1926, Page 30

WOMAN’S Preserving ‘Individuality’ PAGE. - “How Mothers Are Educating atd Training Their 'Children—Some Are Permitted to Develop : According to Own Bent. Some parents davote a good deal of |1y, very often all they succeed in doing time and thought in the attempt fo |is to make the 2-year-old child selfish, train their children according 1o a set |while they weaken in the i-.vear-old pattern which they econsider ideal |child the sense of responsibility and They often forget that each child |nidopendence. A better way is to say has its own individuality. They do|to the 2.vear-old child: “No. that is not allow their children to express | Philip's, but perhaps Philip will lend themselves in their own way, with|You his toy for a little while. the result that the children’s tastes| The child who is always made to and developing talents are gradu-|&ive up is likely to grow up into a Ay discourazed by lack of sympathy | mMan or woman who relies on the judg- and co-operation | ment ..!x others Instead of upon his “ro! arly dayvs of habyheod | ©Wn judzment. <k - a r;:lfi‘l‘-”l‘:ui’\‘i’:!]u\li'\\ q.“m;d'l‘.hu--l‘ Every one loves Mrs. X's children. spected. If one hoy shows a decided |They have such perfect manners, Thterest in Books and pietures while | Which seem to come naturally to them. his brother delizhts in imitating the | Another mother whose children are Rardener And Working In # small|not as welt behaved asked Mrs. X the marden of his own. vou should give [Other day to tell her the secret of their h elop. each ac ol behavior :f;:;,,‘,:'\f,,\',,i“w‘,l\:'“":.\ll:,.’ ek | “There is no secret ahout it,” she If your little girl loves drawing zhed. “only from the very begin- What she calls “pictures.” hut what I have always insisted on their T e ey <l Seribbles. ddn not |observing the little courtesies of life dlscourage her efforts with ridicule, [toward each other. In so many fami but irv te get at the thought he- [les it is not thought neccsaay to say hind the inadequate expression of | Please’and ‘Thank you' to eash other. her pencil. You swill probahly be sur- | Books and tovs and even gloves and e e the' very definite thousht | handkerchiefs are borrowed without Lt et | first askinz permission. I do not let £n0; reelingishic cpronys I my children do that sort of thing, g=awing. N intuitive and ave Meither do I take liberties with them. hildren are very intiitive and 4t | phay knock before they come into my QHIGk (tol sense Elaictip Lo bedroom and 1 knock before I go into standing. or an impression that thes are being foolish or incompetent They will withdraw their confidence immediately and either tha occupation that has heen ridiculed or pursue it in secrecy. 1t may he a great grief to a musical mother that her little daughter displavs no | taste for the piano, but will devote | hours of leisure to creatinz orizinal | doll clothes. Under these circum-| stances it useless to persist in trying to make the child a musician. | It is far better to make her a - cessful dress designer. expressing herself in her own way and luter ve- | drop ceiving expert trainins dlent can | be fostersd or repressed by a parent but it cannot be created Each child should be carefully watched during playtime and in quiet mimnutes to see in what direction his or her talents lie. When an idea | of any particular preference has heen | obtained the child should he encour- | aged to develop along those lines. If a child shows no preference at all| new hobbies should he introduced and the child then be helped to observe. fhink and experiment for himself. It matters very little whether a child’s preferences are varied and short- lived. Each preference will teach the boy or zirl some new experience: each will aid toward the u te discovery of the carveer or calling/ that will bring happiness and suc- | cess. Home Study. Experienced school teachers know when there has been an interest shown at home in a child’s studving and they will tell you that even if such a child is not as bright as| some of the others, he or she will| get along better and have a clearer understanding of the various sub- jects if a home interest has been shown. Very frequently a child is interrupted in the vecital of the dav's happenings school, and sensitive children rarely risk a1 second rebuil A child learns hy teachinz A fact learned and repeated once or twice 1o others Hagers lonz in the memory That is why w should encouraze ehildren to tell us what they haye learned at school. so that they will make more rapid progress and he happier in the bargain Unimaginative Children. “My children en't a serap of imagination. They actually object to fary stories,” said a mother the other dav. Then she added: “They are rather selfish. 1 fear.” Matter-of-fact children are fre quently accused of | 2 selfish when they are really nothi of the kind They are simply lack in imagina are unable to enter ather people. Any thing that comes outside the scope of | thelr experience simply does net exist | for them. They cannot imagine others | heing in pain or want unless they | themselves have been in the same pre- | dicament, and as the chances are that | they have never experienced these | things, they are unable to sympathize with those less fortunate than them Ives ™ Since most of the sufferi the | world 1s caused by lack of imagination | vather than by lack of desire to help is important that faculty should be Asveloped in matter-of-fact children. | There is no need to force fairly stories | on children unless they like them. | Sven matier-of-fact children like act ing. <o they should be encouraged to take part In little plays, whereby for | the time being thev become other char- acters, and they should read and hear About other countries and their ecis 1oms. and be encouraged to picture the ltves of the inhabitants tion, so that they into the feelings ¢ A Child’s Possessions “It's mine! “No, it isn't, it’s mine. Mother, make Charlie zive me my | pencil hox. | - is called upon to | this Kind. A | How often moth sertle little disputes of child's possessions are very dear in| him, and it is worth while neticing | that the instinct of acquisitiveness is very strong in young children. Some parents, shocked at the appar- ant selfishness of the 4-year-old child who claims a toy as his, make him give it up to the 2.vearold child teach him te he unselfish.” Incidental Persistent rumors come from Pa that fashionable Frenchwomen are tiring of the hob. From the num her of times that we have heen told that the mannequins of this, that and the other noted French dressmaker are letting their hair grow it is a wonder that there are any short haired mannequins still to be found. Yet the barbers are kept husy m- ming hair already bohbed and bobbing other hair that has never heen cut hafore. And there seems to he ahout as large a demand as ever for small- sized hats—hats that are larze enough only for the hobbed head. Some one explained the other day. Almost all the Parisians whe have had their hair bobbed took the pains to have curls or puffs made of the hair they had cut off. And these bits »f artificial hair they wear every now and then in the evening. Hence the rumor that they are all letting their hair grow long. Probably there are women going back to the long hair of yestervear. but probably no Jarger number than those having their hair cut for the first time. Meantime there are ways and ways of wearing shorn locks. The bushy cut that was the original “bob” is of course pretty passe. It looks al- most as old-fashioned now as a ratted pompadour. Some women have their hair parted in the middle and brushed straight back on either side More generally becoming than this method of arranging short hair is the “rooster shingle.” There is some- thing very boyish about this. The | distike | be made warm and comfortahle on New Rooster Bob Gets Approval BY MARY MARSHALL. their room. and we always observe the little ceremonias of morninz and eve. ning sreetings. These are all very trivial things. 1 know. but they make up the little courtesies of life. without which children become littie bar- barians.” Jealous Tendencies. Jealousy brings almost more suffer- ing teo its victim, and incidentally to other people, than any other failing. Mothers should regard the smallest signs of an envious or jealous dispo- ition in their children as a danger no iznal and hasten to correct it. They | %€lf to eat than she heard a crying should teach the little ones from the |#nd sighing and saw a young man start to rejoice in the good fortune of | Standing at the door. { others. Very umwise is that mother| ~For whom are the fire and food who, when some kind person gives|and couch?’ he asked. Jackie a present, exclaims to his little sister: “Didn't they zive vou any- thing. darli What a shame!’ Children often are jealous of their parents’ affection and are sometimes encourazed in this. How much hetter it would be if mother taught the little ones that love has no limitations and | explained that she had quite enough| love to hestow 1n equal share nn each members of the family! Thus, if the seeds of jealousy are eliminated he- fore they have pushed through the virgin soil. the child will have a het- ter opportunity to zrow to perfect maturity. Convaleseent Children. Most mothers admit that it is on right treatment during a child's con- valescence that a quick and perfect recovery depends. Many children milk in 2 liquid form, but} thev will often take it if it is flavored and colored with any of the harm- less colorings used in cookery, or if it is offered in a pretty dish. Re- garding all food, dainty morsels placed in somethinz unusual in the orm of glass or china often will be eaten when it would be left if offered on_ordinary dishes. A convalescent | child never should be asked what he | she would like to have to east, but | snitable dishes should be prepared and offerad the most attractive form, and If refused there should be no un:! due pressure of the matter. Argu-| ment and fuss are very weakening in illness Convalescence is a boring time for a child.” writes one mother, “but 1| have found weary little eves lizhy up| and Al with animation if something alive has heen placed in the room. A healthy Kitten or dog may into a room f serious illness st and | the child will he zreatly entertained | in watching the slightest movement of the animal ven a small hird will provide interest. and when the little patient is well enough he should | a | couch, where he can look out of the! window. Picture books and puzzles are always welcome, but the puzzle: must not be too complicated. Any- thing that involves too much brain work is very bad for a child whose vitality has been lowered by illness, and friends and relatives should keep this in mind when purchasing little gifts to while away the time of con- valescence.” Corn Soup. One can corn, two cups milk, two| tablespoons flour, one slice onion, two} cups hoiling water, two tablespoons butter, one teaspoon salt. The corn is chopped and then simmered in the hoiling water for 20 minutes. It is then rubbed through a soup strainer. After scalding the milk with the onion this Is removed and the flavor Is com- bined with the corn mixture. The whole is bound with the flour and hutter. creamed and cooked together but not hrowned. After adding salt| and pepper Popeorn. the soup is served with Cranberry Pie. One and one-haif cups crarherries one-half cup water, three-quarters cup sugar. Place the cranberries in an agate saucepan. Add the water and ! then the sugar and cook for 10 min. | minutes. After cooling bake in one crust with strips of paste diagonally across top. . EW HAIR ARRANGEMENT, SHOWING HAIR CURLED IN PUFF ON TOP OF HEAD AND OVER FOREHEAD. forehead in front in a manner that is very generally becoming. nair is cuf closely enough at the sides, but is allowed to remain long enough at the top to permit its being ar vanged in a sort of puff from front to back. The longer hair at the top of the head gpwes forward over the To zo from an ordinary shingle to this fashion you would have to let your top hair grow out quite a bit. Meantime the sides and back are fairly short. (Copsright, 1926.) b jthe girl turned again to the tahle it | frame. {the Virginia THE COLOR CUT-OUT A MILLER'S DAUGHTER. ' ] Mysterious Writing. The miller's daughter had just wished for the reward in order that she might have a fine dowry, when a great surprise came to her. A coz fire was burning inside the summer house on the king's grounds and there was a little taile all set with dainty food. There was writing carved into the stone of the fireplace, and this is what it said “Of comfbris here partake, but of thy speech beware But she had roner seated her- For myself,” she answered. For an instant his face bore a troubled look, then he vanished. When too, was gone and all the other com forts This eldest Aress he daughter. to the miller's is brown. with a Her shoes and own with blue ribbons blue apron and collar stockings are bre about her ankles (Copyright. 1926.) MODE MINIATURES England contributes to us a new practical idea in the form of a moth proof. dustpreof, airproof, damp- proof bag—used hy the cautious, wise woman or man for the storage of fur garments, overcoats, or any article of clothing. It is like a giant pocketbook, made of eretonne or brocaded silk with rub. berized lining. mounted on a metal Several things can he stowed away in its roomy interior, the frame locked, and the bag hung away in the clothes press, It is the safest protec tion for expensive apparel at any sea- son., and, of course, particularly de- sirable for the storage of Winter gar- ments. MARGETTE. WINTER C. PEATTIE. BY D. 1 am sorry for the persons who have never had the Joy of gathering’ fag. Rots. ve, six, pick up sticks, chant the children, but few citv-bred | children of today know anything of | the delight of really picking up sticks. | 1 see the country hoys and girls up in | hills gleaning the twigs that the Winter wind has flung to the forest floor, and 1 am glad to watch the continuance of a custom that is | as time-honored as civilized or even | barbaric man. The first children sent | to gather faggzols were the sons and daughters of the caveman who dis covered fire There is a widespread misbelief that a faggot is a stick of wood. But an. cient usage and modern dictionaries do not allow us =0 to use the word. A faggot means a hundle of sticks, and to say you have gathered faggots means that you have gathered several bundles. Fagzot fishing or that, quite gathering, like hiking, is an_ nccupation aside from the healthy exercise, is conducive to a reflective mood. With the gleaning of the forest floor comes a philosophy of contentment and Cheer. It goes well with the season of crisp weather and roaring fires. As you work. you may find chinquapin nuts or hickory nuts or hazel nuts and slip a few in your pocket. Ga little checkerberries, which you would pass by without seeing if vou were merely walking by, look up at you as vou bend down to pick up a twig, and it you love the tang of wild fruits, vou will stop and nibble at the win- tergreen-flavored store. When you have worked in one spot Jlong enough to allow Nature to forget its suspicion of man, rabbits and squirrels will frisk near you. Slowly as you heap your arms with the jolly bundles of wood, quiet Nature opens her heart to you, full of content and cheer. i “Puzzlicks” —— PuzzleLimericks A religious lady of —1— w very devout during —2 But once when her —3— Said “Let's g0 to a —4—. She said, “Yes, but 1'll have to —5—, 1. County in southeast England. 2. Period of fasting and repentance. 3. Man who is paying marked atten- tion to a woman. 4. Theatrical production. 5. Be sorry for. (Note—The reason for the very human answer made by the lady of southeastern England will be apparent when the limerick has been completed by placing the words, indicated by the numbers, in the corresponding spaces. The answer and another “‘Puzzlick” will appear tomorrow. Meanwhile “Happy New Year!) Yesterday's “Puzzlick A certain old man In Sasketchewan Will make up conundrums to catch you on, 1f you fall to guess right He will squeal with delight, If you do, he'll get wrathful and bat one. . L (Coprrirht. 1926.) EVENING STAR, What's the Matter With Parents? Dorot “The Trouble Is That Enough, They Don't and They Won'’t EVERYBODY nowaday and so little influence with them other day. A Speaking from the standpoint of “The trouble with our parents is that no confidence in us. They have zot it Keneration of youngsters that ever wa are hellbent for destruction. And so t on everything we do. WASHINGTON, D. C., Be Friends With Us FRIDAY, hyDixi They Don't Trust Us Get Our 1926 Slant (¢ ilves a Maodern Youngster's Answer, is asking the question: “What's the matter with parents . that they seem to have so little authority over their children lad answered this question for me the his own age and generation. he said they don’t trust us enough. They have into their heads that we are the worst s on the face of the earth and that we hey put the worst possible consiruction “It's mot true, you know. We ar that were ever born. want 1o dance and laugh and skylark We are full of health and high spirits e just like all the other girls and hoys nd fun, and we nts did before Just exactly as our us when they were our age, but we are not a bit more wicked than they were “'But because you can't govern ci lock them up and feed them on bread disinherited, as they did in the good ol know what to do with us. “And we voungsters, on our pa methods in managing children, just a: running their offices and their homes. Why don't they put us on our honor sode, and 1 don't know anything that than just to know that his father expected him to 5o straizht and heli that he couldn’t be crooked. “I know plenty of girls whose m and accusing them of being bad and o and if anything on earth will break It hurts her for her mother not 1o bel she has the reputation of a wild wem of being one. “INJEXT. I think our parents ousht { and realize that many of the t really wrong. they did in their youth only with a “They are horrified at our joyri worse than going riding in a side-bar They are onlx. different. hildren with the hig stick any more or and water or threaten them with hein Id days, our fathers and mothers don't rt, wonder that thev s they apply new effic don’t they try trusting ave some. We have ou would do more to keep a boy don’'t try eney systen new in us? own aicht | eved | pothers are always suspicious of them of doing things that they haven't done down a girl's morale, it is just th ieve in her, and then she thinks that pan she might as well get the fun out o try to get our point of view on things hings we do that shock them ar They are just the same things that 1926 slant on them ding in automobiles. but how is that buggy. as they used to do? \What is the difference between dancing in a cabaret to a jazz band and dancins in a ballroom to the strains of the ‘Beau now, and they used to sit at home a { course, girls don't wear morality isn't a matter of red-flanne) modest or not depends on the custom used to leer at ladies’ ankles when th when girls wear knee-length skirts we than we do their hands or arms just a part of the female anatoms ) “And pretty in the davs when 4 maiden kept her | the movies sav. it was delicinusly wick Kissing is about as common as shakin is no more kick in Kissinz 4 stran mistake of all t acquainted with us. We would mothers if they would let us. hut he criticize us and tell us what three ply i we do is? GRUT the greatest You can't tell your plans to a person who vou cold water over them. and that is w when they try to confide in them. Anc to the house If you know vour father them or knock them. "here are lots and lots of girls whose parents won't dates with boys or have hoys come t that they are protecting the girls and they haven't enou that all they do is to make their girls pick up hoys on the their dates at corner drug stores and “And when parents have forced a girl to lie and b aplen diplomac ve taken the protection of her ¢ to her in handling us they could n “There is such a difference in be to do it and having vour father talk it o And then the hoyv grinned. “The he said, “is that they need to he (Copyrig The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Les much the same thingz i< to be said ahont I'll tell the world that ought tiful Blue Danube'” We nd have a twosome in the o in and that looks to me as if we sort of chaperoned ourselves better than they did b many clothes as they used 1o underwear, and whether a thing I have heard old men tell how they he wind blew their skirts about. Now hovs never notice their less any me < aren’t ohscene any me they are kissing. Perh ps ps sacred for the man she married. as ed and thrilling 1o kiss. but now, when | = hands. there is nathing to it. There | 1 than there is in kissing vour sister. | hat our parents make i in not heing like to be friends with our fathers and we can we be if they do nothing diots we are and how wron, Kr hat most parents 1 you aren’t going ta hri and mother are going to make o the house to see them. The: | h sense to r | reet and | get in bad all the way and. them and de home away from her, have done If our parents would only use some | they nake us eat out of their hands. ing ordered to do a thing o with you like a good scout chief trouble with parents, as I see it," up to date.” DOROTHY DIX ht. 1926.) forbidden | (Copyright. 1925.) o e wvorable, and are, in| effects, decidedly practical. ra-| ther than emotional. You will feel jsuch a degree of self-confidence and selfassurance that you will not fear o tackle those tasks that have hither- jto dism vou, and huoved up. as | vou w °, With @ proportionate con {rention of your ewn ability, much will {be accomplished that. on other le: propitious oecasions, would appear to Across. . Manner of procedure. . Huts, Particular locality. German river. Playing cards. Roman emperor. A continent (abbr.). Before. Staff. . Conjunction. . Author of the “Four Horsemen." French province. Fear. Unruly crowd. . Conjunction. Matter in the aeriform state. The sun god. Spanish definite article. Marsh. Hebrew month. Prefi: again. Edge. . Donated. . Reckoning table. Stupid; dull. Point of the compass. Indefinite article. God of Babylon. Negative. Basement. English king. Down. The head. Enploy. Qotten up. Street (abbr.). Engineering degree. Company (abbr.). . Printed notice. Leans over. Wrath. Those who keep score. Public conveyance. Fabulous bird. Color. Book of the Bible. South African assembly. Ancient. European country. Provoked. Finish, Swedish eoin. Arabian name. A province of Central Luzon, Phil- ippines. Middle. French coin. 41. Twice. 42, Particular thing. 44. City official. 10. 14. 16. 19. 20. 21, 22, 25. 27 29, 31 34 36. 37. 39. | 47, Insect. |45, Western State (abbr.). 30. Cereal grass. . African antelope. JANUARY HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Words may lead us into strange One of these is the conclusion iquor is ‘a perfectly innocuous | state of liquidity, so to speak—a sim- ble liquid. For that is the meaning | that is written in the syllables of the word, its original significance! “Liquor” comes from the middle English “licour” through the Latin “liquor” from “liquere”"—meaning sim- Iply “to be liquid.” So liquor means | simply to be liquid, and its original significance is still preserved in mod- | ern speech in uses which we regard as secondary meanings of the term, For [nstance, in the terminology of the cook, the jelly or broth of soup is its “liquor,” and in the parlance of the pharmacist, the word names a so- lution of medicinal substance in wa- ter. It might be a point scored for the anti-prohibitionists to advise our law- makérs of the absolute-harmlessneas of “liquor.” e (Copyrizht. 1926.) 1. 1926. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDRE The Dark Stairway. The very words of New Year bring a train of genuine thoughts doing one's bhest, of turning new leat and accomplishing day of over a all previously without effect. We may laugh at the idea of doing differently. broken. However, it Is wiser to de- termine to do better than to be sat isfied with things as they are, if we could wish to improve them. One thing that few women are wat- | isfied with is their correspondence. They wish more letters had been vritten to loved ones at a distance: that friends might have had some word from them, letting them re- alize that rememhrance followed them wherever the; went or how far they journeved. Then. too, for their own sake they could wish that thev were better correspondents, for letters sent mean letters received, and it is one of the jovs of modern the | many things one has planned to do | because resolutions are so apt to be | BY LYDIA LE BARO One Mother says life to hear frequently from one's Sinee our closed stairway was ver: friends. poor] ited at the hottom, the chil- Convenience An Asset. dren were continually getting nasty| Having letter-writing materials tumbles. 1 painted the lowest step|handy is one of the greatest aids to Siese il S writing letters. It is most disturhing hite. There have heen no more mis. [ WrILAE letfers, 1 ls most dotteb teps, hecause it is readily seen in the | ready and then find that the right dim light. size of note paper is missing, that | (Convrizht. 1026.) the pen point is fuzzy and there is 10 penwiper: that the letter i= fin- ished. the envelope sealed and di- rected and stamps are lacking. etc. ‘Then one is apt to jump up, pen in hand and hurry to get the necessary things. with the result that ink drips and the frock zets spotted. This fis discouraging. It is one of the easiest things to happen, however. Seasonable Suggestion. the HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. 1t during coming year we would actually enjoy our corre spondence we must make ready for it. Could any than now, thank-yvou mas gif desk, see time be better for this when there are many letters to send for Christ It vou have a Writing that it is properly fitted two vizes—letter and note paper envelopes to match each. Quill are decorative accessories and and pens use. There should be stationery of at least | FEATURES. Keeping Up the Correspondence WALKER. ful. too. but nothing quite equals a £moothly running fountain pen. | There should he writing fluid espe i cially adapted to the fountain pen if | that is the kind used, or ordinary ink { of zood quality. A large hiottinz pad |on which to write should he aug |« 3 st = Tt Trented bt small Hiettore, Te you tave | ONE 1S APT To JuMp TP, PR 112, each with a small sheet calendar RESULTS WHEN WRITING MA for one month in the vear pasted in | TIRIALS ARE NOT WITHIN one corner. vou will always know the REACH {date. An ink eraser. as well as a pen cil eraser and well pointed pencils | they should all be tozether. Let me +is often difficult to achieve is- | should ba handy. If the desk has |suczest that ink eradicator he kept in the decorations and fur | Digeon holes no letter holder will be | handy for emergencies. If you do not et vers emall hedroom. |needed. but if not, one is essential. [have it and an ink spot zers on vaur £ Sy It should have two sections, nne for | frck take it out as quickly 45 pos s this can he accomplished | answered and the other for unan- | sible. Time sets it. Soap and water tintinz the walls a pale, neutral | swered lerters. Letter scales will he [will take nut some ink ie ef ¢ and then using a cretonne { found tremendously helpful fleac fous, Corn meal, Prench Shert: itk calon. foe e Siindow = g talcum powder and other dry asents MAek RTAMEDeRii i AR NEiTan s caloT Substitute for Desk. | will heip decidedly if put on while the £ the TatiE If vou do not have a writing desk |ink is wet. Moisten the agent if the In the bedroom shown the walls are | @ table can be fitted up satisfactorily. | spot zets dry. These are the. sim 2 gra auched with vellow | Or if You are in crowded quarters and | plest ink-spot removers. ['se the dry varmith. The cretonne has a | cannot spare the table for this pur- |agents first if much ink is spilled k hacksround patterned with | pose. the equipment and stationery (for they prevent the fluid from showy flowers in tawny vellow, pea- | can be Kept in a good sized box, but | spreading. cock blue and orangered. A few of the waller pieces of furniture have | heen ain peacock blue and the < D S D the Most of Your Looks of black and vellow striped denim. ——— =Rl oo e orange 1 found again in the | amp shades, and the apricot tint in | BY DOROTHY STOTE. the bedspread and dresser scarf. (Covyrizht. 1926.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. be impossible of achievement. Take advantage to the utmost of this condi- tion. and make an effort to do those things that have been in your mind for some lonz time, but which vou have hesitated to essav before for fear of failure Children born tomorrow will, accord ing to the sign, enjoy normal health ; during infancy and have an exuber-| DTar AN . {ance of vitality, which, in later vears,| A lace dinner dress ix a very com {may tempt them “to hite off “more | venient frock to have, but for the than they can chew.” Discretion must | woman wha is stout it should be very {be taught them, as the lack of pru-| o F dence. overconfidence, may bring ( different from the one chosefl by the ahout’ results that will he resretted. | slender woman. In the case of the | Temperamentally they will be open: | tormer, hoth slip and lace should he hearted, frank and truthful. It will he difficult to induce them to study con- | the same color. If the lace is one {scientiousiv, as their matural inclina-| hue and the slip anether, the stout on will be inimical to indoor 1ife or | woman will seem stouter. endear them to all. even if they LETITIA. gain or not he productive of advantage. material (Copyright. 1926.) { If tomorrow is vour birthd: the kevstone of vour character is vour great love for vour family. You take | responsibilities very seriously and all your actions are based on the ef- fect that they will have on your loved ones. This is a valuable asset, as, be- ing ambitious for others. it forces you to strive success and acts as a spur that leads you on to victory. For the ones you love vou would attempt anvthing. and this, more than any- Johnny Explains What puzzles you another may thing else, has contributed to vour ! Explain and make as plain as das. present position, as. left to yourself, —Peter Rabbit. as your individual wants are simple. you would be satisfled with very little, You are whole-hearted. generous and vnselfish. These traits have won for you a legion of friends. none of whom is envious of vour success or fortune. On the contrary, they he won for you an unusual degree of loy alty, fidelity and devotion. Peter Rabbit wasn't kept a prisoner in Johnny Chuck’s house so very long, after all. - You see. Bowser the Hound happened to wander over that way, and Reddy Fox didn't wait. As soon as Peter heard Bowser's great voice as he started off on Reddy’'s trail he Well known persons born on that [knew that it was safe to go out, and date are: James Woife, British gen-|out he went in a hurry. Charles Parker, manufacturer:| Once safely back in the dear old clergyman: Justin Win- | Briar Patch his curiosity became i and historian: Edward 8. | zreater than ever. How did it happen Martin, journalist and author; Missthat there was a closed door just a BLIGams Ahman sieatat little way from the entrance to (Copyright, 1026.) Johnny Chuck’s house? Who had put it there, and what for? What had happened to Johnny and Pally Chuck asleep 'way down belov ever see them again, or had they been smothered as they slept? Peter asked all his friends, but none of them knew anything ahout that closed door in Johnny Chuck’s house Some of them didn't even believe that there was such a closed door. And so |all Peter could do was patiently to wait for the coming of Spring, when Jack Frost would leave, and he, Peter, could dig through that door of earth and find out what was behind it. That is what he had made up his mind to do But he didn’t have to. One day in March he happened over that way and there sat Johnny Chuck on his doorstep. Never had Peter been more glad to see him. “Oh, Johnny!" he cried. "I was afraid 1 never would see you alive again Johnny looked surprised. he demanded. “Because some one. I don’t know who, filled up vour hall o that no air could get down to vou and Polly," explained Peter. “How do you know?" Johnny suspiciousiy. Peter hung his head for a moment. Then he confessed. “I was in there,” said he, and told how he had gone Into get away’ fram Reddy Fox, and “Why?" demanded “The only can pass is ‘out.’" etiees,, boya Would he | BEDTIME STORIES BY THORNTON W. BURGESS how he had bumped his nose against that closed door and then found that he was barely out of reach of Reddy’ black paws. He was quite honest in telling how great had been his curi- osity ever since. Johnny Chuck chuckled chuckled and chuckled. He “I closed that door myself.” said he. You should have seen the look of surprise on Peter’s face. “When and what for?" he cried. “After Polly and I had gone In for the Winter,” replied Johnny. “Did you suppose we would go to sleep for the Winter with the door wide open?’ “I never supposed anyvthing ahout it,” confessed Peter. —I still donY understand it."” “There isn't replied Johnn. much to understand,” “1 simply closed that door by packing in earth from the inside. I knew that it would freeze solid when Jack Frost came. Polly and 1 don't need much air when we are asleep for the Winter, and there was plenty down there for our needs. With that door shut we knew that we were not likely to have any un- pleasant visitors. This morning when 1 decided to come out, all I had to do was to dig that earth out and so open the door. 1 knew that Reddr Fox couldn't get in on account of those rocks at the entrance, but with the door open there would have been nothing to prevent Shadow the Weasel from cominz in and killing us as we slept. So I simply closed the doc That is all there was to it." “Oh,” said Peter, “that is all." Johnny Chuck nodded. (Copyright. 1926.) Oyster Omelette. te! Four eggs. one-half teaspoon salt, one pint oysters, one tablespoon hot water, one tahles m hutter, one and one-half cups thin white satce. Pre- pare the omelette hy separating the whites and volks of eggs. Add sea- soning and hot water to the volks and beat. Fold in the stifiy beaten whites and then the drained and haived oysters. Cook until a delicate brown and serve on a platter with the white sauce poured around it.