Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1926, Page 27

Pl R s WOMAN’S PAGE, Bloomers and Knickerbockers BY MARY MARSHALL. Ths woman who first dared to “put T the jdea of trouser-like gar. ents for women and gave her name ® the immortal “bloomer” was looked TDAY VERSION OF RS 1S NEATLY OR TW MODIK THIS NOR . BLUE FLAN WOR NEL FOLIK WITIL SHIRT. A wpon by many women as a bene- factor of her sex. She was righting Just one of the many, many wWrongs that engaged the attention of puffragists of those days. It didn’t seemt to Amelta Bloomer and her fol- Jowers as if women could be soclally and politically emancipated and go on wearing skirf Such an idea seems ahsurd to us— but it probably would not if we had to wear the skirts of those days. To ynany women then the bloomer or Fomething of that sort seemed like the the only sensible substitute for the monstrous skirts that women wore. But fashions—as not infrequently hap- pens—worked out the problem that had heen troubling the reformers, and she worked it out in a much more at- tractive manner. The skirt that women wear today is no more like the skirts of Amelia Bloomer's day than were the gar- ments she deviged. In fact, to those Victorlan eyes the present-day skirt would doubtless have seemed con- siderably more offensive and less modest. However, the short, scant skirt of today is worn by practically every woman, and the old idea that skirts are one of the trials of sex has vanished. In fact, the short. light skirt of today seems like a much more comfortable garment than the long, straight trousers that are essential to all formal dress for men. The knickerbockers that were brought into popular some sea- sons ago were of course an enor- mous improvement on the old-time “bioomer” and doubtless woyld have gained more lasting place in wom- en's wardrobes if skirts had not been #0 Ught and short. You really hear much less about “knickers” than you did a year or so ago. The girls who took up with the fashion and decided to wear them to business, and did so for a few da have almost forgotten that little inc dent. Practically never are knickers worn for golf nowadays. They sur- vive for the most part for mountain climbing and the more strenuous sort of hiking. My Neighbor Says: Bedspreads which have grown shabby may give long and valuable service as sound- ing_cloths for the dining table. It a chicken is well rubbed inside and ont with a cut lemon before cooked it will make the meat white, juley and tender. 1t is always a good plan to place the piano a few inches from the wall of a Toom, espe- clally if it is agalnst an out- side wall. The dampness com- ing through often ruins the tone of an inatrument. If you make your own 8Soap, use an egg beater to stir it after it is all put together. It will take much less time for the stirring. When a custard ple shrinks from the crust it hus been baked in too hot an oven. The oven should be hot for the first elght or ten minutes in order to bake the pastry 8o it will not become soaked with liquid. Then reduce the heat or the custard will boll. A slice of lemon rubbed over the hands whitens and softens the skin. To clean rhinestone buckles moisten prepared chalk with cold water. Dip into this a dry, clean toothbrush and rub the atones until all dirt is removed. Then brush with a dry brush. The stones will look beautitully bright. 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN A. RAWSON, JR. General Directs Defense. BROOKLYN, August 25, 1776.—All hae been quiet today on the Long Is- Jand front. Ameri Army officers are wondering why Gen. Howe ha not already given battle. is walting for more troops from his transports or for a more favorable Avind, with the ald of which his broth- sr's navy can oceupy the East River nd cut oft the Brooklyn camp from weadquarters In New York City. It e has been waiting for more soldlers, | he got them today when two brigades nder Gen. De llelster arrived &t the fQdessian camp in Flatbush. Gen. Washington came over from ‘headquarters and inspected the Amer- jean breastworks und outposts with Gen. Putnam. lie reserved his com- ments for a letter which he sent back to Gen. Putnam shortly after reaching headquarters. e admonished Gen. Putnam in the test terms to put an immediate stop to the consta sniping which he had ohserved the picket lines. Random firing that nature, he said, nplished no good purposes, but, on the contrd wasted ammunition, discouraged de. serters from' coming over from the enemy and made it difficuit to distin- guish hetween a false alarm and a real attack. Such unsoldierlike. tactics,the Perhaps he | general pointed out, are quite different from the sending out of well organized skirmishing parties to annoy the en- emyv and set traps for their foragers. The general instructed Putnam to use the militia for duty behind the breastworks at the rear, “whilst your | best men should at all hazards prevent | the cnemy’s passing the woods and | approaching your works. The woods | should be sceured by abatis where nec- essary, to make the enemy’s approach as difficult as possible.” Most of the militia are green troops who have never been in action and are | without further training than they { have picked up at home on the vil | luge common under officers as green | us themselves. Thelr spiit in present- |ing themselves ~for battle service ngalnst the best trained troops in the world is bevond all pralse. Other reg- iments of the Continental line, notabl several from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, are comparatively ses soned troops under skillful officers. With only 8.000 effectives on Long Tsland with which to meet 20,000 Brit- ish regulars and Hessians, there must he no mistake in the placing of the | regiments. The general's assignment | of tha militia to duty at the rear is no affront to the militia, but only the |x'rm(n|!10n of a stern military neces- sit EVERYDAY QUESTIONS Answered by DR. S. WASTIT ON; D C. I have heard it disputed that Mme, Rlavatsky believed in the relncarna tion of human personalities in human Dodiek. What is the truth about it Answer—The truth Is that she did #o belleve and teach. Transmigr 48 the popular Oriental theory of the Interchange of souls throughout cre. tlon, a dug or & serpent being reborn 4n & man or & woman. 1n nearly all ancient lands there has been upon this gssue an exoteric or popular theory for the many and an esoterfe or hidden doctrine for the few. Mme: Blavatsky taught the esoteric Hide of reincarnation, confining it to a guocession of human bodies, WES 2 N, Ma Noting with great interest certain ¢ your sermons and answers to ques- fons which I have bes ileged to hear or read, I am prompted to ask ¥ou the following questions 1 When a child 18 born is its soul & hew creation or has it existed in @ome previous form or state 9. When does the soul inhabit the odx: s it before or at birth or when ntelligenca first develops in the child? 8. What fs your idea of Heaven; achere 1= it, and in what form, shape for condition shall we, do w0, enjoy it? 1t shall T sea God.” earth, 1« for a m! would not be room part of the people who have inhabited it. Therefore, is it not possible that our place after death may be on some one of the celestial bodies that are in number as the sands of the desert? It is not credible ghat these are barren of sentient life, otherwise of what use are they unless 1t is to support this earth —one of the st of them—Iin space, which s un- hinkable. Answer—1) I have long thought hat the soul is God's specific gift to very human being. The purents pro- redte the body. the Creator imparts hat vital spark from His central flame which we call the soul. Its pre @xistence in some previous form is a eontroverted issul which I do not re- gard as having practical interest, () The method of the soul's en- grance into the body is a mystery en shrined in the larger mystery of con- sclous and intelligent life itself. Be- yond this I know question (8) The passage vou quote from the Book of Job has no reference to life beyond the g As the sequel of the drama plainly shows, the patriarch e: s his conviction that he wiil ., vet be delivered here on earth from his aMictions. no answer to your | PARKES CADMAN { Heaven {s that future state of the !1lessed in which their desires and the Eternal Will are a complete unity of | thought and afm. St. Paul teaches { that we shall there enfoy the fullness {of redeenied personality, and that all the necessities of perfect fellowship | will be matisfied | T see no reason to discount your | speculation that the stars of space are |the residences of the departed. Science declares that many of them do not have the conditions which the |life we know requires. But why | should God bufld a universe with jcountless orbs in it and permit one |#lone to be inhabited? What would be our opinion of a monarch who founded a city large emough for 7,010,000 residents and then allowed only one house fn it to be occupled? Many thanks for your letter. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohlo. Why fs the seventh day not ob- served by Christlans as the Sabbath of the Lord when the New Testament refers to it so clearly? Answer—The Fourth Command ment requires the observance of the Sahbath for the service of God and the physical and spiritual renewal of man. St. Paul taught that this and other ceremonial practices of Judalsm were a_shadow of better things to come (Colii.16), and that to insist upon their maintenance s a return “to weal and beggarly elements” (Gal., |iv. 9. The early Church observed the first day of the week as the Lord’s Day in memory of Christ’s resurrection (2 xx.7; 1 Corxvi?. In Roman 5 every day ix regarded as of equal value. Nevertheless there was a dis- tinction made in the though tice of the apostolic church. The Lot {the Sabbath by : las the day in which to fu the two | purposes already mentioned, vir., the service of God. and the physical and spiritual renewal of man. No_ objec- tion was reaised at the time, and it wsa only after the third century that the two days were confused The tendency toward Sabbatarfan- tsm appeared In strength about 300 vears ago. With some minor execep- { tions. the church as a whole has set s seal of aproval on the Lord's day | as embodying the spirit of the Fourth Commandment. Tts observance also magnifies the victory of the risen and | living Christ and extends His reign in the earth. The poor may be always with us, but the miser is closer. ¢ stians .setting on the cerbsi SUB ROSA BY MIMI Fighting Over Him. We are still recelving letters on the. subject of the impossibility of a true friendship hetween two girls who both love the same man. Most of my readers agree with me— that it's pretty hard to be fair and just in an affair of this sort. Peggy goes %o far as to say that she would give up every girl she knows if she could get the man she wants by 80 doing. Her best friend would become her worst enemy if she found her a rival. There’s danger in Peggy's open atti- tude of belligerency, though. She may be willing to quarrel with her friends over the affections of some man, but will it do her any good? Sometimes the flery young thing who does Lattle to save her boy friend from the clutches of another girl only succeeds in making a fool of herself. Just suppose Peggy's Arthur, who been going around with her now for about two years, should come over one night to find Nelly, Peggy's South- ern friend, visiting lher. Suppose Arthur fell madly at first sight—never thought of Peggy again, never took his eyes off the newcome! Peggy, true to her word, would at once overwhelm Nelly with a torrent of abuse. She’d tell her flatly that Arthur was her man—that there was to be no nonsense about any other girl Which would probably have the ef- fect of embarrassing and hurting Nelly dreadfully. Maybe, if she were fond enough of Peggy, she'd even promise not to see Arthur again while she was up North. What would happen then? Arthur would surely get wise to the fact that Nelly was dodging him. And sooner or later he'd be bound to find out why. Then Peggy would be in Dutch for fair. For the chances are a hundred to one that Arthur's feeling for Peggy was too vague and indefinite to war- rant any such display on her part. Sie admits he’'s never mentioned marriage—never been particularly sentimental. Then what a fool she will look if she wages war against the first girl who dares to take Arthur away from her. Arthur will only despise her when he finds that she’s been making trou- ble between him and the girl he's really in love with. Any feeling he had for her at all will vanish when he gets the news, Men hate interference of that sort. Peggy will lose any chance she had of making the man of her choice care for her. It's a natural impulse to want to keep what is yours—but be sure a man 1s yours first before you make open and strenuous attempts to keep him. HOME NOTES If one has an imagintaion it 1s sure- Iy a shame not to use ft—and what better place to let one's imagination piay than in one's own, delightful, personal garden? One pleasant and imaginative con- ceit for the garden is this huge um- brella imitative of a mushroom, under which cluster mushroom seats. The umbrella is of canvas painted brown 1 top and pale green underneath. he seats are fron, similarly painted. Can’t you imagine yourself strolling up the grassy path which leads from the white picket fence to the grassy plot where the glant mushrooms grow? Don't you fancy you would feel quite like a fairy-tale person en- Jjoying the garden delights in such a setting as this? LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Me and Spuds Simkins was wawk- ing along and we came to Sid Hunt »ne with his fox hd Teddy was bark ing like enything, he saving to Sid, Wats a matter with _him? Matter with him? Nuthings a mat- ter with him, Im educating him, Sid sed. Go on, you dont haff to educate a dog to bark, thats natural, Puds sed, and I sed, Sure, most people haft to educate them not to. Y Im not educating him to bark, Im educating him to add and subtract, Sid sed. Go on, T sed, and Puds sed, Your dreeming, and Sid sed, O I am, am I, well jest look at this, it you know so mutch, count 2, Teddy, count 2. And he took a_hunk of pretzil out of his pockit and held it in front of Teddys nose and Teddy started to bark and as soon as he had barked wice Sid quick stuck the hunk of pretzil in his mouth, saying, Correck, good dog. Aw, good nite, wats you giving us, that some education, me and Puds sed. Its more than vou could do it you was dogs, Sid sed. Now IIl show vou how he can subtract, he sed. And he took out another hunk of pretzil saying, 2 from 5, Teddy, quick. And Teddy started to bark agen and Sid quick stuck the hunk of pretzil in his mouth jest after the 3rd bark, saving, Perfect, good dog. Aw, aw, education, aw, me and Puds sed, and Sid, All rite now jest for that I wont show You how he can divide. We wouldnt give you a chance, we wouldnt stay and watch him, G wizz, education, good nite, me and Puds sed. And we keep on going and Teddy started to bark agen but we didnt even tern erround. terrier Tedd, Lessons in English BY W. i. GORDON. Words often misused—"Ca notes power, “ma, permission. may do It it you can.” Often mispronounced — Converse. Soun and adjective are accented de- You jon first syllable, verb on last syllable. Often misspelled—Griz Synonvms: Sneer, jeer, taunt, scoff, | mock, gibe, sarcasm. Word study—"Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by ering one word each day. ~Todav's word: Fabulous—fictitious; incredible; faise. 'u'vfo must not believe such a fabulous o Women Who Have Important Tasks in the Government Service RY ALICE ROGERS HAGER Miss Helen Chatfield. Filing has become such a routine element of office procedure that the average business man gives it no more thought than he does his office furniture—unless he suddenly devel- ops his trade tremendously and the MISS HELEN CHATFIELD. filing system he has been using breaks down. Then, in the resulting con- fusion and delay, with loss, perhaps, staring him in the face, he looks to the expert to reorganize the system and rescue his business, At the time the first liberty loan drive was begun, in the early davs of the war, there was in tha Treasury no filing system prepared to meet the enormous demands of this new and huge addition to its regular work. It was a serious situation, as there was only a short time in which to make the necessary preparations. But there was a woman in New York who had won for herself an enviable reputation as an expert in the or- ganization of financial files for corpo- ration law firms. It should be only a step for her to turn from the build- ing of a file for the financial affairs of a great corporation to the building of one for the public debt. So Miss Helen Chatfield was sent for, and un- der her proficient guidance the new system was planned, developed and maintained throughout the difficult war days. - She is still with the division of the public debt, loans and currercy sec- tion, and has charge of all the filing in that section of the Treasury. And she is frequently called upon by out- siders in a personal capacity or by other branches of the Government to help them in an emergency. Among these have been the finance commit- tee of the Senate and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Her title is head of finance records and files. It is anything but dull work, and to one with a sense of order an ex- tremely fascinating task to execute a plan so simple and so complete that the voungest file clerk can learn it readily, and vet that every smallest bit of information, correspondence and every statistical table is avail- able at a moment's notice, in an office where such things run necessarily ipto the thousands. Miss Chatfield was born in Brook- Ivn, Y., and took her filing train- ing in special courses. in New York City, with library work to supplement them. Then she went into her first law office to study as an assistant to one of the best trained women in fil- ing. This led her directly into other firms that handled the organization of corporations, and it was this in- tensive specialization that so well fitted her for the work she is doing in the Government service. WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MR! What Is an Antique? Just what is an antique? It was made a long time ago, but how long ago? These questions become still more puzzling when we read that the anclent Romans bought antiques, and fake antiques, from the wily Greeks. Today we consider an article antique it it dates before the Georgian period in England, the fall of Napoleon in France or the ending of the Revolu- tion in America. Yet some do not | agree to even that. Our Government answers the ques- tlon in a very definite way. It has ruled that anything which 18 100 years old or more i antique, and not subject to duty. So if you're buying any stuff abroad this year it's worth your while | to find out whether it has passed the century mark. Be careful, though, because a clever dealer may fool you abroad about the age of an article, but he can’t deceive the experienced appraisers of the Customs Department. If you're buying paintings or sculp- ture you'll generally find that an an- tique is one that dates back to early Christlan times or before. In painting there are definite periods, starting with the Italian primitive painting and end- ing with the impressionistic and fu- turistic art of today. Few of us have the means to purchase genuine an- tique painting or sculpture, so we don't have to answer the question about them: “What is an antique?” BEAUTY <CHATS Relaxation. 1 wish I could make all my readers, especially the thin and nervous ones understand the value of relaxation. But we all live such busy lives that | few of us have any time for rest ex- | cept our necessary sleep at night, and { most of us are cutting that down to a minimum. It you can possibly take 20 or 30 minutes in the middie of the day to lie down and relax completely you wiil find it of immense benefit to your health and your looks. The most rest- ful thing is to lie flat on your back with your shoes off and your clothes loose and your eyes shut. If you are very mervous, or if you feel § wasting time you may not be able to do this. In that case spend the half hour reading a book or a magazine, something that will amuse you and rest your mind. 1f you are very busy you might com- bine & beauty treatment with this short perfod of relaxation; perhaps then you wouldn’t feel you are wast- ing time, For instance, if your skin is full of eruptions, rub a medicated ointment on it and let it stay on the skin and do its good work while you are Iying down. If you have a dry or wrinkled complexion, rub on flesh building cream. If you need an astrin- gent either for wrinkles or coarse pores, rub this on the face while you lie down. It is an excellent time, for instance. to use the white-of-egg Women’s Safety from loss of charm under trying hygienic conditions secure this way. True pro- tection—discards like tissue CORES of women's disor- ders are largely traced to- day to old-time “sanitary pads,” insecure and unsanitary. Eight in 10 better-class women today employ “KOTEX.” ‘Wear lightest gowns and frocks without a second thought, any day, anywhere. Discards as easily as a piece of tissue. No laundry. Five times as absorbent as ordinary cotton pads! Deodorizes. Ends ALL fear of offending. You get it at any drug or department store simply by saying, “"KOTEX.” No em- barrassment. In fairness to yourself, try this new way. Costs only a . HARLAND H. AL few cents. Twelve in a package. KOTEX No laundry—discard like tissue N. It you're buying American antique furnilture, prints, glassware, hook rugs, ete., you have a difficult problem facing you. In our colonfal lite most things of any artistic or decorative value were brought over from kng- land and France. So In answer to the question as to what an antique is we should have to say anything that's not American. However, we regard anything as an American antique that was in use in the colonies before the Revolution. If we believe some deal- ers, though, the Mayflower made at least 20 trips with nothing aboard but furniture. Antiques, it they're real, are never useless ornaments, because our forbears wouldn't have wasted their money on them. Often a modern reproduction will the requirements of an antique vthing but age. Some of these reproductions have the advantage of being better adapted to modern homes and needs than their originals. Strict- Iy speaking, we can't call them an- tiques, but for practical purposes they are every bit as good as the real things. For practical purposes in your home you may buy a reproduc- tion and pay.less for something as good as the original. Antiques may_vary as widely as shop windows. But this much is set- tled—an antique is old, charming, in kood style forever, lasting, useful and an article whose value is calculated in more things than worm holes, stains and a weather-beaten surface. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. astringent, or a medicated mud pack, or any such long-drawn-own beauty treatments. 1t you are to nervous to relax when vou lie down, spend the first five min- utes of your 20 minutes in taking exercises. Stand in your stocking feet and bend over half a dozen times to touch the floor with the finger tips, and do bowing exercises, bending the bhody front, back and to each side. Try arm exercises as well and,deep breath- ing. If possible stand on a hassock or low stool, on one foot, and swing the other leg back and forth. These will tire you so you will like resting auietly. 0. T.—The mixture of ammonia and peroxide would not hurt the skin if You used it every day unless it was found to be too drying. You will know this, though, before there {8 any harm done, because the skin will become very senstive to the touch. It is best to be satisfled with less haste, and pply the mixture two or three times a week to the hair. If there is a burn- ing sensation afterward, use olive ofl or a cream to sooth the skin. - Conditions are reported so bad in via that not only merchants but mers are facing fallure. L AMOUS " JOET ..how they're kept free from corns What Do You Know About It? Dally Science Six. . Who are the Ainus? . Who are the Polyn . Who are the Bantus? . Who are the Malays? . Where are pigmies found? . Who are theCro-Mangans? Answers to these questions in tomorrow's Star. ans? Fatal Measles. Fvery race jn the world seems to have diseagps t are ‘“natural” it; that is, endemic and always pres- ent among some members of the race, but not necessarily fatal. In fact, as the weaaer individuals are elint- inated by death, the survivors tend to build up a race with considerable natural immugity to local diseases. Negroes have considerable immunity to malaria, coming from Africa. The white race has buiit up an immunity to diseases that may once have been highly fatal, like chicken pox and measles, but have since hecome mild. Yet when Asiatic cholera got into Europe from Asla, it had a 90 per cent mortality, and the bubonic plague carried off half of Europe in the seventeenth century. In the same way, smallpox, brought by white men, killed more Indians than all the wars, while measles, intro- duced among the Eskimos of Green- land, proved fatal to most who caught it. Now what do your know about that? Answers to Yesterday’'s Questio 1. Vuleanized rubber is rubber fired with sulphur. 2. The advantages of vulcanized rubber are hardness and durability. 3. Plantation rubber is that de. rived from trees cultivated in planta- tions, contrasted with the wild rub- ber trees. 4. The Indlans were the first to discover the use of rubber; Columbus saw them playing with elastic balls. 5. Mackintoshes are so named from Mackintosh, who first produced water- proof_garments of rubber cloth. 5. The first use of rubber in Eu- rope was for pencil erasers. (Copsright. 4926.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CRILDREN. My children have a lot of small ks to do around the house during the Summer months, but to bhe con- tinually calling them =ounds like nag- ging. Therefore, T put a slate on the wall of the kitchen, and on it I write varfous things that are ta be done, with the name of one of the children after each one of them. This saves my calling constantly, as 1 can just jot down tasks as they occur to me. The children erase their tasks as they are done and strive to have a clean slate at the end of the week. HOW IT STARTED BY JI “Red Tape.” It you have ever had to collect money or adjust inconsequential de- tail of business with a large corpora- tion, you have doubtless had occasion to complatn of the “red tape.”” which I8 our popular expression for need- less, as it seems to us, insistence on formality and complicated procedure. The most endless red tape, however, is that to which they are subjected who must deal with governmental or municipal departments. If you had some business at the City Hall, and had been sent from one o the other of the usual scores of clerks, and had been asked to sign the usual 57 varieties of blanks, and were about to expostulate, “Why all this red tape?” vou might have noticed that each en- velope that was being sealed, every folder that an important-feeling per- son looked into, was tied with red tape! It 1s in the fact that official govern- ment papers are kept in folders tied with red tape that this expression had its origin. And to any one who has had to transact such business it is | obvious how the term and its popular significance came into generul use EWTON. .« “A corn is hardly a luxury for anybody. . . . Butfora dancer it is agony. . . . It putsa Spanish Inquisition® in her shoe. “When I notice any sugges- tion of callus on the toe, I imme: diately apply a Blue-jay plaster. So t}}at‘s why I never have a corn.” So writes graceful and beautiful Evelyn Law, famous Ziegfeld dancer. v v Small wonder that legions of emi- nent dancers, screen stars and athletes-consider old Blue- jay part of their “working kit!" For over 26 years it has been van- quishing corns to the tune of tens of millions annually. . . . Blue- jay keeps fit the feet of the famous and the foresighted. . . . Soldat all drug stores. M Blue-jay THE SAFE AND GENTLE WAY TO END A CORN oms e FEATURES. = e Daily (Coprrigh Village in France—scene of one of Marlborough's victories. Man's nickname. 9. Conveyance. 10, Rehold. 12, Water. Unit of square measure. Ruilds. Title of address. 18, Happen. 19. Consume, 1. Not even. 3. Gulllike bird. . Island near Greece. Container of a writing fluid. Toward. Covered portico. ote of the scale. Winged mammal. Pound (abbr.). Oratorical. 13, 17 Down. Evfidoer. Southern State (abbr.). Set. Hurt. In so far as it is; in the capacity of. Ourselves. Outpouring. Openings. Unit of capacity (abbr.). Our Children Floor Work. TLittle children love to lie on the floor, flat down on their fronts, <o they can kick their heels high and cushion themselves on their soft places. They delight to lie on the floor and write and draw and build, and they should be allowed to do so. During the hot weather if the cellar is light, or if there is somewhere ahout the place a floor of concrete upon which they may sprawl and write, vou will find it a most enchanting place for the children under 10. They will lie there for hours chalking pic- tures on the cool, gritty surface. A rather rough surface is good for little children to draw on. It offers a certain pleasant resistance to the soft chalk, and lines that would wobble beyond the bounds of beauty are strong and firm enough done in the rge on the concrete. A landscape can be worked out on a floor, and when one is very little one deals in big spaces and large gestures. One is built that way in the beginning. The fine lines and dainty forms must come after adolescence, when the finer ad- justments are possible. Little folk must make large sweeps and big masses. It they are allowed to do so their’ later drawing and writing will be the better for it. Block buflding is much hetter done on a big floor space, such as the back area or the cellar floor or the garage space. One can have a. little mat to Kkneel on, or lie on, and o keep one’s knees from being scraped raw in the | building proce: The building pro}- ect can be much lary more extensive if it can be leff from day to day. It ia far more interest- ing to build a village than just one house that tumbles down as fast as it goes up or has to come down be- cause the dinner is to he served on the site of the building. Of course, a village can be built un- der a tree, but that means wet weath- er holds up the job. If it IS going on under cover the weather will not mat- ter. Sun or rain will not prevent the game. During the vacation period the children need some center of interest that draws them day after day. A floor space given over to construction and be far | Cross-Word Puzzle t. 1926.) Three-toed God of love. Cease. Neutralizer of an acid. The same. An uncle. Hawaifan bird. Negative. Rested. Exist Befors the Christian era (abbr.). By Angelo Patri |of some sort or other fills this need | nicely. ! If ‘there is no concrete floor to he | used for chalk drawing and block building, perhaps there is a room somewhere in the house on which a plece of prepared cloth can he tacked | This cloth is used exactly as a black | board is used and lasts for a long ime. Spread on the floor it gives the I children a fine play space. A damp rag cleanses it and the game goes on | "It costs very little to give the chil- dren healthy and valuable occupation during the hot weather. If there s a flat surface somewhere it is easy to do the rest. Don’t overlook barn floors or back porches or attics. Find some place where the children can do a bit of floor work that can remain as long as they want to keep it. It will solve the difficulty of keeping children bu for many a warm afternoon. (Covyright. 1 ) Stuffed Eggpiant. Cut three medium-sized eggplants in halves and cook until tenderin boit ing water to which a teaspoonful of sait has been added. Drain and scoop out the center of each with a silve spoon. Drain and chop half of the pulp that has been removed, add one cupful of tomato sauce and the same amount of sweet corn and one ar one-half cupfuls of minced ham. Se son with a tablespoonful of butter and one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper | or a little papri Fill the halved | ezgplants with this mixture, cover | with buttered crumbs and bake in a {hot oven for 15 minutes, or until | nicely browned. Nut Muflifis. Sift one and one-half cupfuls of flour with three-fourths teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat one egg until light, add three fourths cupful of milk and stir it into the flour mixture. Beat well, add half a cupful of broken walnuts, then stir in three tablespoonfuls of melted but- ter. 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