Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1926, Page 30

WOMAN'’S Use of Scallop We live in a season of scallops. We scalloped have scalloped gioves and blouses, scalloped peckets and scal loped capes, scalloped hats and scal A STRIKIM 3 NEW VOGU! ALLOPS 1 BHOWN IN TH FROCK OF BOIS DE ROSE CREPE DE CHINE SCALLOPED IN DEEPER SHADE COMBINED WITH PLEATING. ter all toped purses. and at one of the E weddings Lride and bridesmaid wore frocks elaborately scalloped. ceurse. it « very simple device. cen the most primitive of prehis designs shows a knowledge of this for ‘namentation. The problem is to know just why the scal- 1op ve flowered forth into : present time. scallops ruled wher: find cmbroidery. pic of table em invariably scalloped and =o were cmbroid- [ the other things that men embroidered. There were so lied linzgrie hats in those duys. made of white linen or lawn embroid Not -ver Doilies sroidery wround the er sved bureau c ams and i BEDTIME STORIE The Crowing Stranger. nt to attain u really w to_gain er Rabbit. Poter Rabbit can be persistent when sets out to he. He is the most D can think of when his course. in was 0 Curic Old Orel cowed from there. sperty-lipperty-lip, anger crowed as Peter the Green the e had just off Peter wen Twice the was scampc of | dspreads, pillow | - | of | of many colors. PAGE. in Present Styles ered in white, and they also had scal- loped edges, sometimes with a frilling of narrow lace peeping from beneath. We «till have ome scalloped (able linen, but it is with the dressmakers nd wrapmakers that the scallop has taken on mort importance. Silk or cloth frocks frequently show !Ca_! loped edges on the skirts. Sometimes a jumper is scalloped alcng the edge nd is worn with a skirt similarly scalloped. Capes, short and long, are frequently scalloped, and all sorts of ‘trlmmlllx devices are finished with & | seallop. I This is not a difficult device for the |amateur dressmaker who wants to bring her clothes right up to date. Of course, it requires precision. Once you bave decided on the size and curve of your scallop it is not difficult t0 produce it in stiff cardboard, from which it may be marked on the mate- !rial where you want it to appear. The sketch shows a frock making eftective use of this method of trim- ming. (Copsright. 1976.) What Do You Know About It? Daily Science Six. . What is the largest the Union? 2. What is the s the Union? What is the second smallest State in the Union? . What is the largest State enst of the Mississippi? . What States have boundaries with no irregularities—that is, are perfect rectangles? . What States border on the Ohio River? (Answers to these questions in Monday's Star.) te in nallest State in THE EVEM Willie Willis | BY ROBERT QUILLEN. /M““u\m/fl\ “Mamma has been gone two days, an’ 1 wouldn't care much if there wasn't so many funny noises at night with just me an' papa here.” (Copyright. 1926.) LITTLE BENN BY LEE PAPE. Sundey morning I was laying in bed feeling glad I dident haft to go to skool til the next day and sorry I had to go even then, and ma stuck her hed in the door saying, Benny, don't for- get you haff to take a bath this morn- ing for being too sleepy %o take it last nite. I bleeve Tm too sleepy to take it this morning either, ma, 1 sed. You get up out of there and take a good cold one, that will wake you up, ma sed. Well G, ma, will you tern the water on for me so all Ill haff to do is get Too Hot. Nothing is more difficult than to s vey a straight line for a long dis- tance, allowing for the earth’s curva- ture and for the erratic irregularities of the compass, which does not by any means point north exactly, but is de- flected if there are any nearby de- posits of magnetic iron. Through bad surveving, the Government recently admitted, Ssome States are now in pos- session of land they should vield to nelghbor tes. North Carolina has suffered more than any other State in this way, but there is one little jog which North Carolina seems to have bitten out of South Carolina. Tradi tion in the Tarheel State has it t a rich old woman owned that bit of property when the survey came through. She asked which State her house would be in. “In South Caro- . madam,” replied the surveyor: . put me in North Carolina lady, who was accustomed to | having her way: “it's so hot down in South Carolina!" rite in? I sed. I think your pampered enuff with- out having a valley drawing your bath for you like the prince of wales in disguize, now get up out of there in dubble quick time or Ill show you whose who and wats wat erround heer, ma sed. And she went down stairs and pritty soon pop stuck his hed in saying, I dont doubt you need the bewty sleep, judging by your present appeerance, but jest the same is that eny way for a future eitizen and tax payer to be waisting a lovely Sundey morning? I haff to take a bath, pop, will you tern the water on for me? I sed. ‘Wat do you think this is, the golden age of Rome? pop sed Meening no, and he went down stairs and pritty soon I herd my sis- ter Gladdis going pass and I called out, Hay Gladdls tern the water on for me in the bath tub, will you? Who was your slave last yeer, arent vou ashamed of yourself? Gladdis sed, and I sed, Im ashamed of you. Winning the argewment, and I Now wht do you know about that? wers to Yesterday's Questions. 1. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the moon's passing between the | observer on the earth’s surface and the sun. An eclipse of the moon is caused “Iv_\' the earth’s passing between the | sun and moon, so as to throw a | shadow on the moon. 3. The intervals of time between | total solar eclipses are of different | lengths, but have been calculated to | a nicety for centuries in advance. 4. When the sun passes between the earth and some other heavenly | body it is not an eclipse: the planet | or_star is said to be occulted. 5. The moon is the only heavenly | | body that ever eclipses the sun. | 6. The earth casts a cone-shaped shadow into space for about 1,000,- 1000 miles. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS a feathered stranger. Peter caught his breath. He knew from what Blacky | the Crow had told him that this must |be the one there had been so many | rumors about. He certainly was hand- ome! He was one of the handsomest all the feathered folkk Peter ever had scen. Peter fairly gasped when he looked at that long tail. You know, | Peter always is interested in tails. be- | causge his own is such a funmy little | “My eve! My eve! Can it i ped Peter. “Whoever heard of ‘a bird with a tail like that? My my. my. my. what a ta Just then the stranger stretched up on his toes, stretched his neck and thawt, Aw G, wat the heck, Ill show them, jest for spite Ill get up and tern it on myself. Wich T did. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Colds. Just now every one seems to be having colds. Handkerchiefs are of paramount interest, and sneezes and coughs are the universal pass- word, | Colds arrive usually not only by the germ route, but because a pel son's skin is unable to react nimbly to changes of temperature. A per- son takes a hot bath and goes out into the cold air and his skin, re- laxed by the warm water, does not contract and withstand the cold The result is a chill, a lowered re- sistance and the cold germ gets in its_deadly work. Children who are swathed in woolens until their bodies are almost always at the point of perspiration, catch cold every time they are taken out in_the cold. The mother pleads that she gives the child plenty of fresh air and good food and yet he always has a cold. She makes this an excuse Sometimes to keep him in the house when what she should do is keep him at a better temper- ature in the house, by the use of lighter garments, and then the change to cold air won't cause chills and colds. { Children who are accustomed to cool baths from early infancy or to showers instead of tub baths can go all Winter without a single cold. The | crowed. It reminded Peter more than ever of the rooster up at Farmer | Brown's henyard. After crowing. the! | stranger stood for a moment, listen- | | ing, as if he were listening for a reply Then he began to strut and to sho off. Peter had to confess that he had | considerable to show. He wore a coat | Peter didn't blame | him much for strutting. | ““But what is he strutting for?” mut- | tered Peter to himself. “He doesn’t reaction of the cool water on the skin keeps it functioning actively so that rapid changes of temperature are met by equally rapid changes in | the mouths of the skin; closing or | opening to accommodate themselves | to the various temperatures. Adults s children with this ability can go from hot houses to cold streets and back again and suffer no discomfort. It is always the mollycoddled child who is kept bundled to the nose or ING STAR, | her tastes are too unformed. 7 WASHINGTON, ‘D. €., SATURDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Shall the College Man Marry the Uneducated Girl Who Fascinates Him?—Seven Love Questions | Answered for Six 18-Year-Old Girls—Advice to a Widower ‘on Selecting Wife No. 2. 1.am a college undergraduate having my first love affai My sweetheart is crazy about fine clothes and her desire in life is to have an uproarious good time. She has very little education and a dislike for) book-learning and any form of intellectual pursuit. : On the other hand, I am keen on education and intend to devote my life to a profession that will require continuous study. This girl attracts me because of her lack of formal education. I am afraid that a college girl might | turn out a femme savante, more interested in things of the mind than in domestic life. What do you think FRED J. EAR MISS DI Answer: T think, my dear Ired. that a college undergraduate having his initfal love affair need not lie awake at night wondering what sort of a wife any girl will make. There will be so many others before he is ready to marry that he will have forgotten the very name of his first flame, and he won't be able to tell for the life of him whether it was Mary or Rose or Sally. Cr perhaps it was Jane. These calf-love romances are a part of the college course that every boy | @oes through, and they are highly educational if you merely skim the surface of them as you do certain studies. For from every girl you can learn certain things about women that will be useful information for you to have the balance of your life. But, on the other hand, remember the warning of the poet who said “My only books were women's looks, and folly is all they have taught me. In answering your question, however, I can but warn you against the danger in marrying a woman whose taste and ideals and aspirations are so totally different from your own. The most important thing in marriage is congeniality. The only husbands and wives who do not come to bore each other and get on each other's nerves are those who are interested in the same things. Try to realize how tired you will get of a wife who knows none of the things that you know, to whom you cannot even talk, except #s you would to a child, because she cannot understand anything that is cutside of her range of limited experiences. Think how weary you will get of having to listen to her eternal babble about household matters and the buck-door gossip of the neighborhood! Think how lonely you will be with a wife who cannot enter into any of your plans and aspirations! Think how ashamed you will be of a wife who is ignorant, mistakes in grammar,” who asks fool questions that show ,her education, and who is a laughing-stock among your friends! There is a very genéral idea among men that every unintelligent woman | is domestic, and because a girl doesn't know anything else she must know how to cook and manage a house. Never was there a greater mistake. The girl who is too inert and lazy, who is too pleasure-loving and self indulgent to go to school and acquire an education, is+«a loafer by nature, and she will make a slouchy and slovenly housekeeper, who spends her time gadding the street instead of working in her home. It is the intelligent educated woman who. brings all of her mentality to bear on her problem. tha makes the sort of a wife who is a real helpmate to & man. DOROTHY DIX. . | L DEAR MISS DI ‘We are six young girls nearly 18 years old and we beg | you to answer these questions for us | First. Are we old enough to know what real love is? H Second. Will a boy kiss a girl whether he loves her or not” Third. Does a boy respect the girl who lets him kiss her” Fourth. If you love a boy, should vou let him know it? ¥ifth. How can a girl win the affection of the boy she loves? Sixth. Do you think petting parties harmful” Seventh. If boys do not respect girls who indulge in petting parties, why do they go with them” S-A-L-M-O-H. who malkes lack of 1 | | Answer: What a lot of questions! They comprise the whole of the law and the prophets of a girl's sentimental life and it would take a Solomon to answer them. But here go my guesses at your riddles, girls' First. No girl of 17 or 18 knows what real love is. She is too immature, She doesn't know what she wants in a man She hasn't the faintest idea of what kind of a woman she is going to| develop into herself. The things she is crazy about today she is tired of | tomorrow. What she mistakes for an eternal passion is just a passing fancy. | She plays with love as a girl child does with a doll, but it is no more the real thing than a wax doll I8 a living baby. Second. Of course, a boy will kiss a girl if she will let him. Kis 18 no | md’ilcm{?n pohatever of affection on a man's part. Its a pastime. rd. No boy respects a girl who lets him kiss her, unless he is to her. He thinks she is an easy mark. R e Fourth. Never let a boy know that you love him until he asks y B 3 sks you to marry him. Keep him guessing. That way you pique his interest,' and save your own face if he never comes across with a marriage proposition. Fifth. There is no known recipe for winning the affect! a ma It 1:514 matter of luck, of propinquity, of congenialit Sng e Sometimes a man can be chased down and caught. Sometimes he c tolled into the matrimonial fold by Zood food. Sometimes he can be fonteq lfyl;lob:r‘mrrlflnxt: ondtem:’s. _D‘m!tli)mes he falls for being flouted, and sometimes r being flattered and cajoled, but there is no guara; a ay: LI e R guaranteed method that always Sixth. hPe'i_l;‘nz parties are dynamite. Don't do it Seventh. There are two kinds of women in the world for they go on wild parties with, and the ones they marry % (i)g);{(;"‘l‘e}{l‘\' Il;;\?“e’ R e EAR MISS DIX: I am a widower of 43, with a little gi 2 ) girl of 12. love with a girl of 18, and the only reason I have not proposed tfl :’:r ‘l: because of my little daughter, who opposes my remarrying. Have I not a r ht to some happiness? Would I be happy with this girl? FORTY-THRE 5 Answer: Marry by all means, Mr. Forty-three, but don't marry the girl of 18. She is too young for you, and after your first infatuation for her was over you would find that you had nothing in common. She is still a child and would bore you with her childish chatter and her desire to do all the young things that belonged to her time of life. Also, she would tire of you and look upon you as a fossil. < A widower must consider his childrep when he marries, and no girl| of 18 has the wislom and the patience to deal wisely with a stepchHd almost as old as she is. By all means marry, but pick a woman around 30 for a wife if you want to be happy. DOROTHY DIX. Y| (Copyright. 1926.) UGH TEISS‘ OF TODAY BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR Martha Dennison. ar 41. faces the fact that ‘her husband dnd her (100 children, Arthur and_ Natalie, have drifted away from her. She drifis into a_friendship irith an atiractive bachelor, Perry Mac- donald, who ai first pays her conapicuous attentions and then later falls in love atatie. Arthur has made a fool of Mimi. @ dancer, and Natalie something strangely Yogical about Martha's remarks, something that beat upon that guilty feeling in the back of his mind, something that im- pressed him In spite of his impatient | desire to ignore what Martha was { course, I'm getting the thin | a poor sap if T bought modern furni | peramentally, APRIL 17, 1926. SUB ROSA Furnishing Home for Herself. You girls who are busy this Spring planning and buying new things to %o into the beautiful white cottage with green: blinds, or the four-room- and bath with latest improvements apartment—are you selecting house furnishings please yvourself and| him? That sounds like a silly question. Esther, who's to be married in June. would ‘answer me indignantly: for Jim | ing to to and me. Do you think I'm vun a hotel?” But Esther's one of the very - whom I'm writing this article. She and all her friends have taken courses in interior decorating. They know just how a room should | balance—just what colors to choose for rugs, hangings, walls and wood work. But very few of them know definite Iy just what sort of home they them selves really want. They know what they should want and they go in search of it. -~ “What sort of furniture do you in tend having?” Esther was asked. “Oh, early American, of course. she answered lightly. “I'm going to keep the whole apartment much in that period as I possibly can.” “But you hate those old things we protested. “You used to beg your mother to get rid of them when you had them in your room. You were <o glad to get rid of your canopy bed! And you always sald you hated maple!” " “That was when [ was younger. explained in a superior man- Gow I understand things bet rly American furniture is smart. All the girls are go- ing to have it. Why, I'd feel like zirle [ Still we know that in Fsther's | heart there is no true appreciation of Antiques. And when she looks at her home completely furnished. there will be no real delight. She will have the satisfaction of sring the other girls praise and aim. she'll be comfortable in the knowl- edge that she's done the right thing. Nobody can her home isn't in good taste. But she won't have that contented feeling that com: living with things we love. Gertrude was another victim of her friends’ opinions. Her ideal bedroom had always been of softest gray and reen—fragile pale gray furniture and soft green walls and hangings. But she was afraid of what people would Al her friends . were happy. with {against modern stuff. other people’s herself with which vielded to surrounded old oak, So she ideas and some really beautifu she didn’t appreciate And she told me long after she never woke up in that quaint old room without a feeling of resent- | ment_at having her dream room. In time she came to hate old oak more than anything else in the world. Although people came from all over to see her lovely things, to prai and admire, she was never really happy with them. Never mind if the other girls think your taste is bad. Néver mind -if you'll be out of the picture with the sort of furniture you crave. Select the things that please you and him the most. Furnish home for yourselves, not for girl friends. (Copyright. 1926.) that n cheated out of | vour ! (Mimi_will be glad to answer anv in- auiries directed to this paper provided a | stamped. addressed envelope is inclosed. ) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Aries. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are Zood until early in the afternoon. They then change and become rather dubious. During the early part of the day the signs. although good, are not actively favorable. They indi- | cate, however, that the usual events | of a Sunday will be fraught with, beneficent results. Later on, great| self-restraint must be exercised, as the temptation will be ever pre to find fault and beome unduly i cal. There will also be sensed an nrge to look disparagingly on the ! well meant efforts and good inter tions of others. This attitude, unle: | eftectively curbed. is prone to cause | disagreement and a feeling of resent- | ment on the part of those who have | in their own way striven to please. | Children born _tomorrow are de- | stined, according to the signs. to| pass through the infantile period | withh little or no trouble. All their | baby ailments will be slight and need | fon either worry or alarm.! eens” they will not. be so | fortunate and great care will be re- | quired to steer them so that they may attain phys normaley. Tem- | they will be nervous | !of double-dealing and —_—— ! Making the Most of Your Looks BY DOROTHY STOTE. Dear Ann The Spring snit for certain the tall woman should characteristics The coat should be fairly long, coming below the hips, and the skirt, insteas of being straight should be full, so as to break up that long, thin line. A of which Yours for the right clothes. LETITIA havi makes for smartness (Copyright 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN A. RAWSON, JR. Maryland Lets Eden Stay. POLIS. Md., April for the present because of the revela- tions contained in the intercepted t addr ed to him by the Bi ministr; The Maryland Council of | . — ! but v. Robert Eden will not be deported | | omiged pr | him—that is, that he w fety has received from him a letter | which it looks upon as giving b parole, in effect, that he will not leav the province before the conventior assembles, and that he will endeavo: to promte the peace of the provinc in the meantime. . Eden. when called upon by a 2 from the council for an explanation of his conduet, expressed re willingness to permit an exami- on of his private letter files. He resented with much spirit the charge regretted that he could not show the committee a | copy of his letter to Lord George Germain, red to as containing information very useful to the King. He explained that this letter had been with other of his personal effects. However, he produced two which the latter had refer- | sent away | letters | from Lord Dartmouth which contain- | ed no damaging evidence against him, also two ietters from his brother, one of which took him to task for his American sympathies. Gov. Eden refused flatly to give his parole as demanded by the counci after stating his refusal he isely what was asked o 1l not attemp to escape and will refrain from acts wostile to the cause of American il erty. He saye “Whilst I act in any degree as go ernor of this province I cannot give ny parole to walk about in it as « prisoner at large under any obliza ion whatever. But then he announces his “resolu tion of continuing in my station as long as permitted, or the ostensible form of the established Government can contribute 10 preserve the peace of the province. You shall find me here, and willing to continue acting in the same line I Lave hitherto done. o long as Maryland can reap an: peaceful benefits from my service.” The council is disposed to allow Sit Robert his own way as to his man ner of meeting its requirements. He is regarded as a man of the highest personal honor He did not attempt o escape when he had the oppor- tunity. His reference to the “osten sible form” of his Government is re garded as his admission that his office is now no more than an empty formali The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1926.) | know I'm here, 80 he isn't showing off | the baby swathed in blankets who self over for me. My, but he does think a lot of | develops no ability to meet changes himself. T don't know that I ever have | of temperature withoutout -suffering. saying, ard do dominate the situation | himself. ‘“‘As for my friendship with Perry and highly strung. They will do| i oimont done. ihe ‘same thing in her everything they attempt, whether it i1 tuation for Lucien Bartlett, a married o um ohn Denniton learis oit thia Hiany WHEN LOX PETER FAIRLY G HE LOOKED AT TAIL SPED THAT Meadows toward the Old Orchard. second time Peter ere, and he could tell just where aoice came from. “He is in the ©1d Orchard, just over the Old Stone Wall.' said Peter to himself, and er than ever. ached the Old Stone Wall he was careful 10 make no noise. He found a low place and peeked over the wall. There, just beyond the bushes which grew along the Old Stone Wall. rvight in front of where Peter was, was MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Left Hand or Right Hand. One mother savs: My little girl had great trouble in tefling her right hand from her left. “inally, I put a pocket on the right de of each dress. This solved the peoblem vight 2w * -4 was almost | seen any one who appeared to think | more of himself." | It was just then that Peter disco ered a shy little lady in brown. who | also had a long tail. but not as long a | tail as the handsome stranger’s. She | looked to Peter very much as Mrs.!| CGrouse might have looked with a long | Peter understood then. She would | | shyly glance at the strutting stranger, | and then appear not to have noticed him at all. “He was showing off for her."| thought Peter. “I'm going to | | right out and find out who they are.” | | He didnt do anything of the kind. | He heard a rustle of leaves, and, look- | | ing #p. he saw Reddy Fox stealing | | along close to the Stone Wall. Appar- |ently the stranger heard the rustling leaves at the same time. He stopped | strutting. He gave a little cry of | alarm, and, with a whirr of stout | | wings, the two strangers went into | the air together and disappeared over | the trees of the Old Orchard. As for | | Peter. he dived head first in’ between two big stones of the Old Wall, where he knew Reddy couldn’t reach him. (Copyright. 1926.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Out of Seven Senses. This expression, which is so fre- quently heard in everyday speech, ! would hardly point, at first glance, to| literature for the source of its origin. Yet that is where we find it. It is in “Fifth Book of the Work of Rabelais,” the sixteenth century satirist, that we find the first re- | corded use of the phrase in this form: “It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.” A later literary use of the expres- sion is found in the old Spectator pa- pers. In number 616 of the papers, dated November 5, 1774, we find it in this interesting form: “Huzzaed out of my seven senses.’” And coming nearer to modern times, Sir Walter Scott, in Chapter XXXIV of “Rob Roy,” referred to belng “scared out of his seven senses.” To be frightened “out of seven senses” is, of course, to be “knocked tail instead of the kind of tail she has. |, e SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Bloodroot. In the soft mucky ground among the alders the bloodroot has come up near my house, and these days every one who lives even just a little. way out of the city has seen it, rising pale and starry from the earth. No mat- ter how early I get up I always find the bloodroot blossoms wide blown. But in the last light of the April sun- sets they generally close up—little white balls of flowers. They tell the time of day as surely as the distant biowing of the evening whistles does. Bloodroot they call it, this stainless white flower. If you break the stem you will soon know why, for a pale red juice exudes swiftly from the plant and stains your fingers orange. Brightest of all are the colors that flow from the rootstock itself, and it is said that Indians smeared their faces with this stali before they took the warpath. Almost more lovely than the flow- ers themselves are the bloodroot leaves that shoot up from the earth beside the flower stems, and stand curled like banners yet furled. Slow- ly they open out, pale green and thick, with a faint bloom on them and a feeling like the touch of soft { leather. After the flowers have come and gone the leaves will grow larger and larger, and then in late Summer will die away and all tracé of the blood- root's position will be lost, so that if you want to find the root stocks in the Fall you will have to mark the spot now while you can find it. The bloodroot is our only native repre- sentative of the beautiful, curlous poppy family. Vegetable Chop Suey. Boil one cupful of spaghetti in sait- ed water until tenler. Drain - and rinse with cold water. Add to this one large onion chopped, one can of tomatoes, one-half a cupful of chopped celery and one-half a_cupful of chopped meat, either fresh or left- over. Put in a buttered baking dish out.” The allusion is to sight, hear- ing, taste, smell, feeling. understand- ing. speech. (Copyrizht. | and bake for one-half an hour. Stuff- ed olives are a good addition. This serves four persons. ¥ i e vealizes for the first time in hie life that he ia responsidle for his family, but when he attempty to’ discipline then. iith farshness they defy him. He blames artha for her friendship iwith Perry. and she ‘retaliates by saying that he is fo biame for having neglected them all. CHAPTER XLVIII. The Last Straw. After her outburst Natalie flew out | of the room, a proud, defiant young figure. As Arthur's ‘door had' slam- med behind him, so Natalie's slam- med behind her, and Martha and John were once more alone. John was not only furiously angry, but eager to take out his resentment on some one. It enraged him to have Martha realize how helpless he had been in his attempt to handle his son and daughter. They had humiliated him, sneered at his reproofs. He had ‘been no better able to cope with the situation than if he had been an out- | sider. But back of John's fury, his help- less irritation, was another feeling, a feeling very much like guilt. After all, wasn’'t he to blame for every- thing? Hadn't the children been right in their atraignment of him, hadn't Martha, been right when earlier in the afternoon she had attempted to make him see the thing from her stand- point? This feeling, however, was still in the back of John's mind. He was not ready to admit it. His present feeling was one of bitter defeat, and because he could not, justify himself with Martha he flamed out at her. “This is your fault. After all, you are the children's mother. I have other things to attend to; my business takes up a great deal of my time. You should understand that and take such matters off my mind. If you had handled them from the beginning these things would never have hap- pened.” “That's not true,” Martha returned. “My place was with the children when they were younger and I could man- age them. Since they have grown up they need more than my influence, they need yours. When have we all four sat down to dinner together? ‘When has there been any family feel- ing among us? For years both Nat- alie and Arthur have seen your neg- lect of me, and have doubtless been sorry for me, pitied me. But pity doesn’t engender respect, and that's why I have lost them. But I haven't lost them as you have, John; I think they still care for me; I'm sure of it.” John dil not answer. He wus still too angry to speak, and yvet there was .|and admiration. If you had given me Macdonald,” Martha went on, “T think vou forget that I am still a young | woman. I'm not old enough to sit by | the fire and knit, and be content with memories. These are the best years | of my life, and you owe me something | in return for what I have given you. ! You owe me love and companionship | these things I would never have | sought for them outside.” ‘““And now,” she went on, her green- ! ish gray eyes very bright. “now you have lost my love just as y lost the love of the child: | time, perhaps, you will realize that | you have thrown something very | precious away. Oh, it may not be to- | day, or tomorrow, but some day when | you are older and less virile; some | day when you will crave the things | that once I was so eager to give you. I'm sorry for you, John, sorry because | you are ‘so entirely seif-sufficient. I'm | not self-sufficlent, I'm human and get lonely. You think I'm weak because I'm not able to stand alone, but some day you'll understand, and then you'll remember these things that I am tell- ing you. That's why I'm sorry for you, becausé when that time comes, you'll be lonelier than I have ever been.” i Her voice trailed away, and very softly she went out of the room. He could hear her walking down the hall, | and then the sound of a door opening and closing. Doors shut him away | from the three people who were near- | ot to him, but not doors of wood. | Their hearts were closed to him, and he had no magic key with which to unlock them. He was alone indeed. (Copyright. 1926.) (Continued in Monday's Star.) Baked Beef Liver. Liver is improved by soaking in skim milk for several hours. Cut one and one-half pounds of beef liver in one-half inch slices. Dip each slice in flour which has been sifted with salt and pepper.. Sear in meat drip- ! pings or bacon fat. When all the liver has been browned, arrange-the slices in layers in a shallow baking dish or casserole. Put a few slices of onion between the layers and cover the top with four or five pieces of thin bacon. Add one cupful of stock, cover and bake in a moderately hot oven until tender. Uncover the dish during the last 20 minutes of baking. The liver may be baked in one piece then carved before serving. | the more stubborn you | differ from those held by you. your | poti be good or bad, with their whole heart and soul. Early environment will play a conspicuous part in these children's welfare and, if properly zuided and counselled. they will de- velop into good and intelligent citi- zens. If tomorrow is vour birthday vou | are very self-willed and, at times, obstinate. The more you are opposed become. This glaring defeat has ‘very frequently operated to your material . disad- vantage. Such a condition is most unfortunate as vou possess a high, zrade of intellizence, are laborious and persevering. If you could only reallze that others can safely lay claig to some knowledge and are! fully” entitled to the opinions that | they profess, although they may progress in the world would be ac- celerated. Your home life, inasmuch as vou, are so self-opinionated, cannot be ex- | pected to be very harmonious or happy. If, however, your mate were born in July or December a pleasing combination may exist. ‘Well known persons born on that date are: Henry P. Tappan, educa- tor: Sanford E. Church, jurist and tician; Beriah Magoffin, ex-gov- | ernor of Kentucky; John Henry | Dolph, artist; hard Harding | Davis, author. (Copyright. 1926.) subjce‘ts For verse, Id not mention And to sing of spring Flowers is Wild animal. Repose. Round up. Diadem. Enough. Worry. Be merciful. Relations. Falsehood. Young hosg. Enemy. An artificial language. Insect. Fish. Brownish. . Strained. Japanese admiral. Kind of game bird. Rub out. Part of Germany. Thick. Pieces of statuary. Down. Had a morning meal. Eternity. Confusion. Stitches. Toward. Street (abbr.). Existence. ‘Auditory organ. “Puzzlicks” 'uzzle-Limericl A Turk by the name of —1— Took liquor by means of a —2—. To one who asked —3— This Turk made —4—: To drink is forbidden, 1. The first name of the mander of the faithful.” 2. Common table implement. 3. For what reason. 4. Answer. . 5. Foolish person (colloquial). Note.—This is not only a clever limerick—as you'll admit when you have completed it by placing the right words, indicated by the numbers, in the corresponding spaces—but it also provides a loophole to the celebrated eighteenth amendment, if one is de- sired. The answer and another “puzzlick” will appear on Monday. Yesterday's “Puzzlick. A gluttonous man of Peru Once dreamt he was eating his shoe, He awoke in the night In a terrible fright And found it was perfeetly true. Fol Inhabitants of southern South America. Locality. Three-toed sloth. Peruses. . Electrified particle. Mesh work. . Hole in the ground. Mountain in Crete, Tpon. Lob. Brother of Jacob. Swedish cofn. 0ld form of began. Mirnrced oath. To soak. Engineering degree. A Xind of shot. L 40, 41. Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused—Don't sa: “his reserve fund grew smaller Some critics approve, but “became smaller” is preferable. Often mispronounced — Heinous Pronous hanus, the first syllable as “hay,” the u as in “us” Often mispelled—Homeopathy. Synonyms—aAllure, induce, lure, lead draw, pull, attract, entice. . Word study—"“Use a word three times, and it is yours.” ‘Let us il 'rease our vocabulary by masterin one word each day. Today's wo Prestige; moral influence due reputation. “No one without popular prestize could have acce piished it.”