Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 53

OMX N’S PAGE.’ “Buried Treasures” in the Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Every home has its buried treas- wres. They may be hidden deep in kome nook or cranny in an old-fash- foned attic, or neatly boxed in a mod TREASURES ARE_SOME- S OF INTRINSIC WORTH, BUT MORE OFTEN ARE SIM: PLE ARTICLE WITH MEMORI THE TI ®ern store room or closet, or they may be wrapped in newspapers and the packets tucked in some safe out uh- suspected spot. Perhaps the treasures are not far away, but lle in a laven- der-scented drawer in a seldom-used BEDTIME STORIE Curiosity. | T would like some more. Curiosity’s & trap That often leads to & mishan —Johony Chuck. Johnny Chuck had lived near to Farmer Brown's Boy for so long that he thought he knew all about Farmer Brown's Boy. He had no real fear of him. He was no longer suspicious of him. Farmer Brown'’s Boy had discov- WAS IT HARMLESS? HE WISHED | HE KNEW. Kuspicious that he will be as easy to 1rap as Jimmp Skunk is, and, good- ness knows! Jimmy will walk into al- ost any kind of a trap. Of course, I wwouldn't think of setting a steel trap. Steel traps are awful things. How any boy can find any pleasure in setting el traps and majing animals suffer 1s beyond my understanding. I guess boys that set steel traps just don’t think. Now, I have an idea that Johnny Chuck will be just curious #nough to go into a box trap.” So Farmer Brown's Boy took a big ox trap, in which he once had caught Jimmy Skunk, and carried it out near the tree where Johnny Chuck had ‘een in mischief. He baited that trap with an apple. He knew that Johnny <huck had a liking for apples, and “hat apples were out of season o far &5 Johnny was concerned. So he went down cellar and got an apple, and h this he balted the trap. Now, Johnny Chuck from his door- #tep had watched Farmer Brown's Boy =et that trap. lardly was Farmer Brown's Boy's back turned when Johnny started out to see what this thing was. He looked it over from all points. He went all around it. He found a piece of apple lying just out- d this he ate. “My ut that good!" said Johnny Chuck. “It's & long time since I've tasted an app { was a prisoner. [ bureau. And there are many that find themselves merely boxed in card- board and stowed away on a high shelf in a much-used pantry or the shelf in a wardrobe. But somewhere | in every home there are Lidden treas- { ures | What magic the things have. and { what actual Intrineic worth many pos- sess, no one except the owner actually | knows, and she (for the treasure is | apt to belong to the woman of the home) generally guards the treasure Her watchfulness with an eagle eye. She knows | is not apparent. however. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN { where to bury the treasure so that it | { will seem to be of no importance should any one come upon it inadvert ently. 0dd Assortiments. Sometimes no one would suspect the things to be treasuves without be ing told. They appear to be nothing more than odds and ends of things, a motley assortment. good for little ex- cept the waste basket. But there is | where you are mistaken. Ask grand- ma or mother to tell you what they are kept for, and & soft and beautiful expression will steal over her counte: | nance, and a wistful look come in her | eves, with just a suspicion of a tremor | about the corners of her mouth, while she gently takes the things away from vour ruthless grasp and restores them to their hiding place. If by any good fortune you can persuade her to tell you the story that lies infolded in the article there is sure to be a fascina- tion ever afterward for vou, 0o, and possibly a bit of the thrill it once | evoked may stir you as it evidently | does the one telling the incident. A wisp of a curl in a jewel box may 1 wouldn't of cared so much about {mamma lickin’ her handkerchief to wash my ear in the store if my Sun- day school teacher hadn’t seen her.” (Copyright. 1026.) LITTLE BENNY | BY LEE PAPE. Me and Puds Simkins was having a catch and 1 was chasing the ball more on account of Puds having made a bum throw than on account of me having made a bum catch, and T saw a glove laying in the street, belng a big glove all made out of leather on the outside, think- ing, G, look at the glove. | have a rightful place among the cost- Iy gems and be no less valued by the owner than the richest plece in the | Jewel casket. Treasured Letters. There are few mothers who do not have hidden among their treasures some little note in uneven, printed let- | tering or uncertain scrawling, prob - penciled, that would not be part | ed with for more than its weight in { An old and faded photograph »ung man, now the father of the family, is probably in this same treas- ure box, and an old brooch or locket may hold its bit of family history. What Adds the Charm? 1t is the hidden treasure of a home that holds mystery . sadness that | is mellowed by time, and joy that is made polgnant by seeing the things occasionally and bringing _incidents clearly to remembrance. While it is a mistake to hoard mementoes, to clut- ter up one’s home and be taken care of, as they have to be at times, still there are some few genuine treasures which a person would not part with under any circumstances, and it is | these that constitute the valuable hid- den treasures of a_home. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS 1 would s0.” Just then Johnny discovered the ap- ple inside that box. His mouth watered His eves shone. He started to go right in. Then he thought better of it and backed out. He sat down and looked at that box for a long time. What was it? He didn't know. It looked harm- less, Was it harmless? He wished he {knew. The more he looked at it the more curfous he became. Why was that apple there? If there was an ap- ple in there why weren't there more apples around outside? What did Farmer Brown's Boy bring that thing over there for, anyway? Why not go in and get that apple and take it out and eat it outside? There couldn’t be any harm in going in and coming right out again. Already he had been part way in and nothing had hap- pened. The longer he hesitated, the more curious he became. Finally he made up his mind that that thing must be harmless and that his curiosity never would be satisfled until he had been in there to get that apple. So once more he poked his head in the trap. He waited. Nothing happened. He took a step and waited again. Nothing hap- pened. He took another step and waited. Nothing happened. He was} now wholly inside. hTe smell of that | apple tickled his nose until he couldn’t | stand it any longer. He sot his teeth | in the apple. Bang! He was in dark- | ness. Something had happened. Tle | He was a prisoner in | that box. Johnny heart almost stopped beating for a moment or two. (Copyright, 1926.) “ . v Puzzlicks Limericks. A cheery old man in a — Once murmured, “This might have bee: Of course, the — Is simply —4—, But it doesn’t come out of my —5—. 1. Vehicle used by undertakers. . Comparative of “bad.” . Cost. . Huge. 6. Pocketbook. (Note—Naturally, the old man in question didn’t say any such thing, for the simple reason that he couldn't say anything. But it's a good lim- erick, nevertheless. The answer and another *“Puzzlick” will be here to- morrow.) Yesterday’'s “Puzzlick.” A tutor who taught on the flute Tried to teach two voung tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor: “Is it harder to toot, or To tutor two tooters to foot®” (Copyright. 1926.) —2a; 3. 4 On the very day of picking the curing begins--fo keep them crisp NLY in favored sec- tions can cucumber pickles grow so crisp and tender. And to preserve their full freshness the pickling must commence on the very day they are gathered. For this reason Libby maintains country picklingstationsscattered through the best cucum- ber growing states. The special crispnessof Libby's pickles w.fl delight you. PrlCKLES SWEET—-SOUR— And I picked it up and Puds came running up saying, G, look at the glove. Look how big it is, it must be a giants glove, 1 sed, and Puds sed, It we knew who belonged to it we mite take it there and get a reward, heh? Maybe we mite enyways, mavbe Whoever belongs to jt will come er- round looking for it, maybe. I sed. Well if they do I get half the re- ward, if I hadent of threw that ball too high yvou would never of ran up heer and found fit, 1 get half, Puds sed. Like fun vyou get half, you get ixactly a therd. thats all vour in- titled to according to law, I sed. O is that so, who made up that law? Puds sed. Some judge, I gess, how do I know? I sed. Wich jest then a man stopped his automobeel saying, Hay, wat are you doing with my driving glove, hand that over. Puds quick winking at me, meen- ing about the reward, and I sed, Did vou drop this glove we found, mister? Do you think Im tawking to heer myself tawk, hand it heer, the man sed. Is there eny name in it to idennify it? 1 sed. Being reward tawk, and the man sed, Hand me that glove or Ill jump out and give You a good licking. Heer it is, T found it, I sed. And I handed it to him and he drove away without even saying Mutch obliged. Being a man with a lite overcoat and heavy evebrows and proving if you got a reward every time you thawt yvou awt to you mite have more to argew about. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Amusing a Sick Child. One Mother says: We all know how fretful and rest- less is a little child who has had a spell of sickness, and it is a task to find enough varfety of entertainment for them. 1 discovered that by stretching a plece of strong twine across a window and hanging several glass crystals or a prism on it so that the sun would shine on them, “light birds” would appear on the wall. Bobby delights in watching these pretty spots. Inexpensive crystal may be purchased at almost any v riety store, (Coprright, 1926.) et Fruit Shrub. This is a variation of the popular fruit punch and makes an excellent luncheon or supper drink for children or for any one who does not care for tea and coffee. Endless combinations may be pre- pared according to individual tastes. One method is as follows: Make a lemonade, allowing five lemons to four cups of charged water. r CLEAR, flawless Fashionable colos.... Surprising strength.... n - VAN RAALTE SILK STOCKINGS —bocause you love DILL-MIXED wice things”’ MaDa 5y T Maxuzs 67 Vaw RasLTs SILK GLOVES, StLx UNDRRWEAR 'Illlnu n\\‘ Ezplains Job_From the Woman's Angle Why Some Women Are Discontented “DorothyDix Discouraged With Home-Making as a Life Work, Because It Ts the One Job on Earth That Men Neither Appreciate Nor Pay For. SWWHY should a domestic woman be discontented with her job?" a man asked me the Sther day. 8 “Listen in on the conversation of some group of married women,” he continued, “and you will find that the burden of their song is a lament over their lot in life. = They are complaining about how hard they have to work end the monotony of housework, and about how much trouble children are, and how much extra labor husbands make cluttering up a house. “‘Apparently not one of them is happy. or interested, or contented with her occupation, or sees in it anything but drudgery. Apparently none of them gets any kick out of what she is doing, or has any feeling that home-making { is the greatest and mpst glorious career that any woman can follow. “Now, I am not contending that doing the cooking and cleaning and sewing and mending and baby-tending for a family is a light and pleasant pastime. It isn't. It is hard and grueling labor. But so is every other occupation by which we earn an honest living. I am not denying that house- work is monotonous. So is any other labor that you do day after day, week after week, year after year. Doing stunts in an airplane, or being a vamp in the movies gets to be just as much a matter of routine as peeling potatoes and washing dishes, if you earn your bread and butter by doing them. “The life of the ordinary man is just as laborious and monotonous as his wife's. He works just as hard at his occupation as she does at hers. There are no more thrilis in keeping books, or selling goods, than there are in sweeping floors and cooking dinners, but he doesn't go about beating on his breast and asking people to pity him because of his job. He is darn glad he has a job, and generally he manages to interest himself in it, and think it the most important job in the world. Now the wife's job, making 2 home, really is the most important job in the world, and on its being well done depend the health, the strength, the moral well-being of humanity. She is the bulwark of the nation and the hope of civilization, and what I can never understand is why she so seldom sees her work in this light, or gets any joy out of doing it SR “IF women have small pride and pleasure in their work," 1 replied, “you men are to blame for ft. It {s because of the attitude that you take toward domestic labor. You have taught women to despise homemaking because you have made it the only work that appreciation or money. has no reward in either “Put yourself in the woman's place. “Could you get up very much pep and enthusiasm over doing any work for which you never got a single word of praise, or ever any sign that your efforts were noticed? Suppose you put your very heart and soul, as well as vour back, into your work. - Suppose vou laid awake at night trying to figure out how you could save your firm money. Suppose you carried on, and stuck to your post through sickness and suffering. Would You feel very enthusiastic over your job if the senfor partner took all of vour good work as no more than he had a right to expect, and found fault with you when you blundered? “Yet this is precisely the way some husbands treat their wives. They have never a word of praise for the nickels their wives sweat and the bread crusts they save, but let wife once indulge in a $20 hat, and they are never done discoursing about women's extravagance. They gobble down in silence the 999 good dinners that their wives have spent hours in preparing, but let the thousandth dinner have a little too much salt in the soup, or the roast be overdone, and they are out with their hammers and cry aloud to heaven about woman's incompetence. “Now a woman's audience is her husband. He is the gallery to which she plays. She cannot seek recognition of her work outside, and if she gets no meed of approbation from him for her neatness and thrift and order, there is small incentive for her to try to excel. D ““" E all need a little encouragement. a little appreciation, a little praise, a little recognition that our work is well done to put fresh heart and courage into us. - Especlally do women need to be bycked up, and when vou find a husband who has intelligence enough to jolly his wife along and tell her what a help she {8 to him, and what a wonderful cook she is, and what a joy it is to come home at night to a well kept home, you will not only find a woman who is a cracker-jack housekeeper, but one who glories in her job. “Another reagon why women hold their job in contempt, and are disgruntled with it, is because they are the only laborers who are expected to work for their board and clothes, and mighty few of us can put any punch into a job that brings in no pay envelope “There are plenty of women married to well-off men who never have as much as a dollar of their very own during their entire married lives. Sometimaes their husbands provide them with fine homes, with good clothes. with Paris frocks, with motor cars and jewels, but they never have a penny for which they do not have to give an account. They get no money for the 12 or 14 hours a day work that they do in the home. “Would any man in the world like that sort of a job” Would/any man | be content to work for his father without wages? Would any man be | satisfled just to get his food and raiment as his whole return for his labor, jand then to be spoken of as being ‘supported?” That is why women are ! discontented with their job. It is hecause men neither appreciate it, nor are willing to pay for their work of home-making." DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright.-1926.) fat and then in cracker crumbs, place on a well greased broiler and let cook over the coals or under a gas flame for each tomato. Do not peel them, but [about eight minutes, turning two or cut them In halves crosswise. Sprin-|three tifles. Serve on slices of toast Kle with salt and pepper, dip in melted or on flat cakes of hamburg steak. That is because Heinz beans are oven-baked. No other way of preparing beans can bring out the full, rich, nut-like flavor. And, what is more, oven baking makes them ecasy to digest and most matritious. So, ask for Heinz Oven-Baked Beans. Let the label be your guide. Beans that are 10f oyen-baked cannot be labeled baked. Oven baking takes longer— but it makes you remember longer how really good Heinz Baked Beans are. - HEINZ OVEN-BAKED BEANS with tomato sauce Broiled Tomatoes. Cut off a thin slice from the ends of Other varieties— HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP - HEINZ COOKED SPAGHETTI MEINZ CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP - HEINZ PURE VINEGARS The taste is the test D. O, FRIDAY. MAY 14, 1926 HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. After all, it is the decorative acces- sorles which mark the successful room, quite as much as the furniture, draperies and floor covering. Not one of the pleces shown Is expensive, vet all are in perfect taste. This group would add interest and sparkle to any informal room, particularly a bed- room or small living room furnished with early American pleces. The lamp has a dolphin candlestick base of clear, light blue glass. The s vhite georgette, decorated with silver stars. The flat little flower bowl is a pale, pretty green and makes a nice holder for the fresh charms of the daffodils. The cigarette box is yellow bird's- eye maple with a dog painted on the cover againat a dark background. The cigarette dish is of silver. pyright. 1626.) My Neighbor Says: Always work a sewing ma- chine steadily and never start or stop with a Jerk. The best to finish off a machine seam is to turn the material all around and stitch back for abdut an inch. This saves tying the threads, which takes up a lot of time, especially if there are many seams. To revive patent leather, rub 1t well with a soft rag soaked in_olive oil and milk, then polish with a soft dry duster. Cream and linseed oil mixed in equal proportions make a very good polish also. : When not in use, scrubbing brushes should be turned bris- tles downward. Thus the water will run out of them, and they will dry thoroughly, whereas, if they are placed on their backs* the water will soak the wood and loosen the bristles. Better results are obtained by ironing all Summer dresses on the wrong side. and they are less apt to fade. Should any article become scorched. hang it in the sunlight, and the stain will generally disappear. One ‘of the best wavs to re- move a fresh ink stain is to saturate the material with ker. osene. Let it stand 15 minutes, then wash out. FEATURES. Our Children—By Angelo Patri Too Hard? Do It. My Dear Boy, My Dear Girl: This little bit is written to vou who are about to enter high school, or who have been in high schovl for this your first year. Whenever you find & thing too hard for you, do it. Until you can face a hard problem and Know that because it can be done you can do it and vou will do it you have mot yet the power of success fn your hands. 1t is all very well for you to pass high on the intelligence test. Those tests were on the things that cost vou very little effort in the main: they did not measure how much of your spirit went into the acquiring of them: they did not measure the pounds of pressure you were capable of putting on a job nor the length of time you could maintain that pressure. You see, there is no way of measur 1 am but saying in a roundabout way that nobody knows the power of your spirit, least. of all yourself. You have never tested it untfl you have faced the task that seemed too hard for you and ac- complished it. You have gone after the hard task and stuck to it, bit by bit. Until it is an open way before you, you do not know the meaning of work, you have no idea of the beauty of living, you have not sprout- ed the wings with which you must one day soar if you are to amount to anything. To have done the set lesson on passing basis is nothing but routine. follow the lcader. do-as-vou'rebid stuff. You have not tasted the joy of studying, the triumph of the scholar, until you did the thing that as ‘hard for you 1o do. The hard thing differs for each one of us. To one it may mean rising on time and getting to the first recita. tion of the day on time and giving a creditable performance. Did you ever think that it was because You did not like the first lesson of the day that you were repeatedly late for it? Well, think about it. It may be your hard place u are falling in French. too hard for you or or the transeription is too difficult for you? Then do ii. | Do that lesson first, when you are | fresh and rested. and tell yourself |that you are going to do it easily | because you are going to loose the power that lies In your backbone full on that task. Perhaps you do not like the mathe maties teacher? e gives too hard problems? Well do them. You see, they can done. Somebody has done them. The teacher has set the | task for you and you are going to gain in power by performing it. Sit down with the idea that the thing can be done and that you are going to know how it feels to do the thing that is hard. You see, the lessons in school are the least part of the idea. Wa build and man schools to raise people, rea people, who can do things. And the way 10 do them. the oniy way, {8 jusr to do them. Kasy things do them relve: and there is no sprouting of the wings of the spirit in them. But the hard ones” In them lies all the glory and power and honor. 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