Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1926, Page 38

WOMA N’'S PAGE. Well Dressed Woman Well Gloved BY MARY Gloves are coming hack fon. Of churse, htey have neve really out—bhut well dressed women have been much more inx about wear- into fash. been BRIDE'S GLOVE OF WHITE SUEDE WITH A SILVER LAME TURN-OVER _CUFF IS SHO IN THE CENTER. IT IS BROIDERED IN ORANC SOMS WITH GREE) ABOVE THIS I8 A GLOVE WITH CUF MOIRE SHOWING A JAPANESE SCENE EMBROIDERED IN COL- ORS. BELOW IE A BEIGE KID GLOVE WITH CUFF LINING AND BRACELET IN BROWN KID. ihg gloves during the last 15 years than was considered quite proper at & somewhat earlier date. Going glove- less in.the evening, and even in the daytime, was one of the numerous tashions that owed their origin to the war, and war conditions. It was a matter of economy. Moreover, gloves were one of the little accessories of the wardrobe that took time and at- tention, and in those war days women considered it their patriotic duty and privilege to simplify their dress as much as possible. Besides, capes were BEDTIME STORIE Pa Sticklebach. Motherhood has all alonx, o find much glory “TPsnéluckleblvk. 1t any one had told Reddy Fox that he would spend his time watching a little fish less than three inches long, he would have laughed. But he did just that thing. Whenever he had hothing else to do he went over to a certain little pool on the marsh, where he could watch, down in the water, Pa Stickleback and his nest. You will remember that on his first visit there he had seen Pa Stickleback bring Mrs. PA STICKLEBACK KEPT GUARD IN FROY OF ONE ENTRANCE. there. She ien't called back. because she doesn't Reddy saw her go into nest wh Pa Stickleback had built. and after 4 while come out and swim away. That is tie last he saw of h: it Pa Stickleback didn't swim av Goodneas, no! He posted e one en- trance and the way he guarded utiful to see. If another anywhere near, might be twice ck. those spines stood right at the Stiekleback Ma sti deserve the name. to get Kleback was really handsome 4 se6. he Wd put on his very prettiest s when he went eourting AT tickleback ! and quite well up He was very trim, and had very big eyes. strange Ta on the sid very alert The joy of life is hurd to kill. Its roots ¢go deep mn peepl&‘s hearts. Cola winds may freeze its bloom — but soon From sturdy roots a new joy starts. P quite | He was| MARSHA i often worn and bare hands were hid- den and protected under them. Now, of cousse, there is no earthly | excuse why women shouldn't wear gloves and the oid feeling that the well dressed woman ought to be well gloved is coming back. The glove as |an adjunct of the evening costume | has not yet become a fashionable necessity. Most women hope that it | will not. | Some well dressed women insist on wearing perfectly simple, untrimmed |gloves. But the highly ornamental {glove ix increasing in favor. Cuffs {cdged with eskin are found on {%ome of the new gloves. Velvet art- {fully cut sand stitthed appears on ot Gold kid makes the devices that adorn some of the French gloves for Autumn. Among other sub- stances used to adorn up-to-date gloves vou may see metallic thread | smbroide, fine bead work, petit- point work, hand crocheting, inter- {lacings of silk braid, hand-painted | decorations, and metal buckles in the shape of 2 nonogram or single initial. Heavy favric gloves have never ceased “to be worn by many well dressed women in Europe; and they lare gaining favor over here, espe- clally for severely tailored wear. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Prunes with Lemon, Oatmeal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Rice Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Creamed Cod in Potato Cases. French Rolls. Sliced Peaches with Cream. Cookies. Russian Tea. DINNER. Vegetable Soup. Baker Halibut. Mashed Potatoes. Spinach. Tomato and Cucumber Salad. Hot Apple Ple with Cheese. Black Coffee. RICE MUFFINS. Press one cup boiled rice through sieve and add one cup milk, two beaten eggs, one-half cup melted butter and one and one-half cups flour mixed and sifted with three teaspoons bak. ing powder, one-half teaspdon salt and one tablespoon sugar. Beat thoroughly and bake in hot buttered muffin pans about 26 minutes. COD IN POTATO CASES. Boil and mash 6 good sized potatoes, add 1 egg, 1 gill milk, salt and pepper to taste and beat until light. Pick and scald 1 pound boneless salt cod, drain and scald again. Now press fish until dry. Put 1 large table- spoon butter in frying pan and add 2 tablespoons flour. Mix and add 1 pint milk. Stir till it thickens, and add pepper to taste. Grease pudding mold and iine bottom and sides with potato. Add cod to cream and flll center. Cover top with po- tato and bake a nice brown. It may Ue served in dish it was baked in or turned out. PIE WITH CHEESE. Line deep pie plate with rich ple crust. Pare and quarter small apples and place a row around edge of plate and work toward center until crust is cov- ered. Mix 3 cup sugar, 1 rounding tablespoon flour: salt- spoon cinnamon and nutmeg, little salt and sprinkle over ap- ples. Turn enough sweet cream in to cover apples. Bake with one crust in moderdte oven. Serve hot with cheese. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS He was on the watch every instant. You see, Mre. Stickleback had left some precious eggs in that nest, and he didn’t intend to have anything hap- pen to them if he could help it. Once Reddy saw another Stickleback ap- proach. It looked to him very much like Mrs. Stickleback. In fact, he was quite sure it was Mrs. Stickle- back. But Pa Stickleback rushed at her as flercely as he had at any of the other swimming folk who had ap- proached. You see, he knows Mrs. Stickleback through and through, wherein he is more fortunate than some folk. If he could talk to you, he would tell you that he wouldn't trust Mrs. Stickleback one single lit- tle minute. He would tell you that she would like nothing better than to get a chance to eat those eggs; and that is a fact. So after Mrs. Stickleback has lald the eggs, Pa Stickleback is through with her. He doesn’t want her hanging around, and he doesn't let her hang around. Now I have told you that there are two doorways to that little nest. Pa Stickleback kept guard in front of one entrance, and with his fins he kept a_iittle ‘current of water going right through that little nest, in one entrance and out the other. That was to keep the water clean and pure. If an egg got washed out, he would hast- en to push it back in. Pa Stickle- back was on the job every second. The wonder was that he got enough to eat. But he did. At the same time he managed to keep those eggs from all harm. Reddy never went over there, no matter what the hour of the day, that Pa Stickleback wasn't Iright there, looking as if he had a tchip on his shoulder every minute, i\'nu know, that is just a way of say- 1 Ing that he looked as if he were all ! ready to fight every minute. He was, too! And proud! Why, Pa Stickle- {back was as proud of that nestful of ,eges as anybody could be. He might i be anxious for fear .some harm would come to them, and worried for fear ! they wouldn't hatch, and tired of all ithe time kecping on watch, but he certainly was proud. He was so {proud that you only had to look at {him to know it. H (Copyright. 1926.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDO! “I confess that I do not know.” Say 1“1 wamit.” i Often mispronounced—Contrast. { Accent noun on first syllable, verb on last syllable. I often spelled-—Gray is prefera- ble ty mrey. Syronyms—Purchase, buy, secuve, re, acquiré, obtain. Word study—"Use a word three times and it is_yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | Impending: close at hand; imminent. “We could see that great danger was impending.” Perfection Marmalade. Pare three pounds of carrots, soak {until soft, then mash fine. Make a sirup of grated rind, juice, and pulp of three oranges and two lemons, and four pounds of sugar. Boil for 20 minutes, then add the carrots and one cupful of chopped nuts. Boil un- til thick. e LD Teed water for drinking purposes is En rded in Germany as being m)url-.m Words often misused—Don't say, | -THE EVENING SONNYSAYINGS BY PANNY Y. CORY I ain't runnin’ cause I'se scared— but ‘at ol’ bird's all swellin’ up, and I fink he’s going to bust pitty quick! (Covytight. 1926.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are quite favorablé, and although super- stition gives “Fridays” a bad name, this one, at least, from an astrologi- cal standpoint, is exceptionally au- spicious _for both business and per- sonal affairs. There will be sensed courage and seclf-confidence and se- renity of temperament will prevail— all good auguries of success. It is a valuable opportunity for business ventures, for travel or for marriage. The signs clearly foretell that those who wed tomorrow will draw a prize and not a blank, in the great human lotting, and that all such unions will be fruitful of everything that makes for normal happiness. Children born tomorrow will have a hard time of it during infancy and their various allments will cause much worry and anxlety. A success- ful outcome can only be hoped for if they are properly alimentated, and on this will depend, more than any- thing else, the attainment of normal adulthood. Their characters will, in their earlier years, show signs of stub- bornness and self-will. ~This, al- thdugh to be deprecated in children, may be converted into valuable as- sets of determination and will power at maturity, if properly directed. They will display an avidity for in formation and learning which will urge them to study with assiduity. They will also possess great ambi- tion and are destined to achieve a considerable degree of success. 1f tomorrow is your birthday. your judgment is miraculously reliable and it seldom fails you. deliberative attitude is assumed by you at all times and, althoguh many of vour friends credit you with intuition, your opinions are only formed after care- ful thought—backed up by common sense, of which you always earry a large stock on hand. You are studi- ous, serlous-minded and clever. While not adverse to the lighter side of life, you derive much more real enjoyment from *solids” than you do from that which is “light and fancy.” You pos: sess an undercurrent of satlirical humor that, while never intentionally severe, makes your friends careful never to have it directed against them. Your disposition is a loving one, and your ideals are always high, while you are generous to a foe. Your good discernment and excellent judg- ment will only allow you to love one who, corresponding to vour ldeas, will make you very happ: Well knowh persons b date are Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College; William I. inglish, statesman; John LI. Starin, merchant; Charles H. Perkins, inventor and manufacturer; Emory Upton, soldier; Charles F. Aked, clergyman. (Copyright. 1926.) HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN, n on that The elegance, culture and colorful existence of the eighteenth century Venetian found expression in the fur- nishings of his home as well as in the magnificence of his palace, the grace of his gondola and the beauty of his island city. Shown here is a lovely little Vene- tlan commode and two Venetian chairs, all perfect copies of very old pleces. They ate decorated with bril- {llant flowers on a background of leaf | green. The modern lamp which completes the picture so harmoniously has a base of Itallan yellow alabaster and a shade of pleated green taffeta edged with pale gold. A group such as this might furnish perfectly the entrance hall to the very smart apartment, or might bring ar- tistic excellence to a wall space in a living room furnished otherwise with stately mahogany pleces. (Copyright. 1926.) | ‘Beggars Should Not Be Choosers.’ | When pecple want to pick and | €hoose or are very exacting in & mat- {ter in which they are the veécipients iof a favor they are sometimes told. | “Beggars should not be chookers.” | Also when a matter over which we have no controi turns out perhaps | more or less favorably, but not ex- actly as we should have arranged it for ourselves we may say, in thank- fulness that things were not worse, that “Beggars can't be choosers!” This saying, with its significance al- ways of “Be thankful for what you t,” 18 a very old one, appearing rst in the ‘Proverbs” of Heywood, which printed in 1546, was the first collection of English colloquial say- ings. A time-honored use of the say- ing which we frequently find quoted is that of Beumont and Fletcher, the famous Seventeenth Century dra- matists, who said in Act III, Scene 3 of their play “Scornful Lady,” which is still read by lovers of old English rama: “Beggars must be 4Ce0rrishih- 20208 STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Qualifications for a Husband—Shall Mother Who Loathes Housework Take Back Old Job and Hire a Nurse. DEAR MISS DIX: Our forum is'to diséuss the question: B What are the qualifications of a good husband? Will you please tell us what you think? MRS. F. 8. J. Answer—Well, Mrs. F. 8, J., T think that the first qualification of a good husband is the ability to make a good living. 5 Perhaps this sounds rather sordid, but all of our happiness and well-be- ing In life depends upon our being properly fed and housed and clothed. Our physical needs come before our spiritual ones, and I have observed that the women who were hungry and cold and ragged and shabby, and whose children were crying for bread, and who lived in terror of the rent collector, didn’t seem to take much interest in whether their husbands were their real soul mates or not. So I put being what is called “‘a good provider” at the top of the list of desirable qualities in the husband. It doesn't take riches to make a happy home. You don't have to live in a palace. A man doesn’t need to give his family imported cars and Paris finery, but he must be able to give them a settled roof over their heads, enough food and freeedom from anxiety. No man who doesn’t-do this is a good husband, and no man who does is a total loss as a husband. Next, I put a good disposition. Being pleasant to live with. A man may have each and every one of the standardized virtues. He may be honest and honorable, moral, sober, industrious, and yet be the sort of- a husband that makes his wife wish that she had died on her wedding day. There are good men with tempers so vile that their wives live in dread of saying or doing something that will provoke an explosion. There are ad- mirable citizens who grouch and gloom around home until they make the domestic atmosphere such a dark, pessimistic blue that every one who is forced to breathe it becomes a victim of melancholia. There are men who take every bit of the heart and spirit out of their wives by their ceaseless nagging and fault-finding. And there are other men D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. A Children's Medicine Chest. who are jolly and good natured, and optimistic and smiling, and veritable rays of sunshine in their homes. It is a man’s disposition that his wife has to live with, and that makes or mars her happiness, and therefore it is of the utmost importance to her to pick out a husband with a good one. Next I should put liberality. cost of a family, No tightwad husband who begrudges the no man who doles out nickels and pennies to his wife, and wants to know what she did with that quarter he gave her week before last is a good husband. The man who won't go 50-50 with his wife on the money proposition, and ‘who isn't willing to give her as her right as liberal an allowance as he can for her personal use, hasn't any right to get married, and ruin some woman's life with his parismony. Furthermore, this liberality should extend to granting a wife the right to her own opinions and views instead of trying to make a rubber stamp of her. Next T put chumminess. A woman marrles to get a fireside companion, not to be left to hold the fort alone while her husband fares forth to his own amusement. Neither is she lured into matrimony by the idea of sitting up and watching a man read a newspaper, or listening to the radio. Nothing comes nearer to making matrimony a grand sweet song to a woman than a husband who really likes to talk to her, and who takes her along with him because he wants to instead of because he has to. Then I put sympathy and understanding, and last, but not least, I put being interesting among the desirable qualifications of a good husband. The woman who is married to a man who can distinguish between temper and nerves, and who has a line of conversation that doesn’t bore her stiff, is blessed among her sex. EAR MISS DIX and T am ph, housework. servant, .. sapped. Before I was married I was a hig! I~pricod stenographer. DOROTHY DIX. .. 1 am married, and have two children, aged 5 and 1, ysically worn out with taking care of them and doing my My husband earns a fair salary, but not enough to keep a ®o 1 have to take care of the children, and do the cooking, and cleaning, and washing and day by day feel my strength and vitality being I can get my old job back, and I feel that T would be a new woman if T were back at office work Instead of being a household drudge. come back, and that I would not be such a bundle of nerves as My husband is not averse to the plan, and with m: I feel that my strength would am now. I can get a competent woman, and still have enough left to have something besides the bare necessities of life. Shall T continue to ruin my health by doing housework for which I have no aptitude and which is killing me, or shall I do the work I like, get well in a congenfal atmosphere, and leave my children to a servant? TIRED. Answer—Unquestionably, your first duty is to your children, and your One mother s Children should be taught early to be particular about their personal toi- let articles. We put a regular medi- cine chest in the bathroom at a height convenient for them to reach, and on each shelf put a covering of a different colored oilcloth. Each child was then given one shelf of his own, on which he keeps his mug, his tooth- brush and other tollet articles. The child’s name is put on each mug as a further aid in keeping them sepa- rated. What Do You Know About It? Daily Science Six. . What is a lesion? . What ds septicemia? . What is sclerosis? . What is clephantiasis? . What Is the rause of epilepsy? . What is digitalis used for? Answers to these questions in tomorrow’s Star. Medieval Medicine. The doctors of the Middle Ages in- herited a few good traditions from the sical and Saracenic physicians. For the most part, though, th pretty superstitious, even when not out-and-out quacks. One remedy much used by them for almost anything was the mandrake. It was believed, ho ever, that to touch the mandrake would cause a man to die in fits. There- fore dirt was dug away from Its roots, a slip noose slippad over the roots and the rope tied to a dog’s collar. The dog was then whipped; in his efforts to get away he usually tore the roots out of the ground, when, if we may believe the old books, the man- roblem hangs upon the kind of a woman vou can get to take care of them. t you find one who is trustworthy, the children will probably be better off with her than they are with vou in the overwrought and nervous state into which you have gotten. A cross, irritable mother doesn’t make the atmos- phere in a home in which children thrive. We make a mistake when we assume that all women are by nature do- mestic, and that they will be perfectly happly and contented in their own homes, amid their pots and pans. Not every woman can content herself doing housework any more than all men could content themselves being car- penters, or bakers, ot doing any other of the fundamental work necessary to making a home. And T think these undomestic women, who will always loathe brooms and gas ranges, and who will wear themselves out doing work that they find distasteful and that bores them and gets on their nerves, are wise to stick to the occupations they like and for which they have a talent, and hire some other woman to do their houséwork. As for the children, very often the money that the mother carns gives them advantages in the way of living conditions that more than make up for her not personally cooking their oatmeal and washing their pinafores. .. EAR MISS DIX: is very fickle. Just stops. 1 think he is getting tired of me. DOROTHY DIX. .. 1 have been going with a boy who is very nice but he He goes with a girl until he gets tired of her, and then he What do you think I should do? SALLY. Answer—There is nothing you can do, Sally, to hold a man after he is tired, because you can't argue with tirednes: It just is. Nobody knows what it is In a girl that attracts a boy to her, and nobody knows why this charm ghould cease to conjure. you. But T am always warning The only thing you can do is to save your face by getting tired of the young man first. Drop him before he can drop s against the folly of letting a boy u have this advantage of you. Why let him monopolize you and keep all other boys away, when he can walk out and leave you flat? woman to have to do that after she is married. before she is married. It is hard enough to a It is folly for her to do it DOROTHY DIX. (Copsrizht. 1926.) 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN A. RAWSON, JR. Enemy Advances to Battle. BROOKLYN, August 26, 1776.—At 9 o'clock this evening. 10,000 British troops under Gens. Cornwallis, Clin- ton and Percy, with their commander- in-chief, Gen. Howe, marched from Flatbush to the eastward and then north in the direction ot Jamaica Pass. This movement at such an hour fore- tells an early morning attack on the American left flank and probably in the rear of out advance lines—a ma- neuvre which had not been antici- pated and which threatens disaster. The fortified American camp is on Brooklyn Heights above Brooklyn Ferry on the East River, Gen. Putnem commanding. About two miles south of the camp a densely wooded ridze runs from the Bay to Jamalca Pass, a distance of about seven miles. For the protection of thelr camp from surprise attacks, the Americans have established advance positions just north of this ridge, with comparatively open, level %_round between them and the camp. 'he enemy has placed its advance lines south of the ridge with Gen. Grant in command at their ex- treme left near Gowanus Bay, and Gen. De Helster's Hesslans are at Flatbush Pass, near the town of Flat- bush. Gen. Willlam Alexander of New Jersey, better known as Lord Stirling, faces Gen. Grant on the American right, and Gen. John Sullivan of New Hampshire is opposite the Hessians at Flatbush Pas a little to his left. Stirling's andj Sullivan's positions are none too well intrenched..In num- bers alwo they are pitifully weak as compared with the forces they face. Gen. Washington has left the placing of the regiments largely to Gen. Put- nam, and It is feared that the latter may have spread out his troops along too long a line, considering the num- ber against him and the distance from the camp. But, what is still worse, Jamaica Pass, five miles east of Flatbush, is undefended. The 10,000 Britishers who have set off tonight with only their field kits, leaving baggage and camp equipment behind, are headed for Jamaica Pa: They will find there no opposition. They have ample time before morning to reach Jamaica Pass, turn westward on Jamaica Road, and cut between the American camp and the advance lines of Stirling and Sullivan, and separate the latter from their base. The Americans have no cavalry. Their only men who can serve as mounted scouts are the few officers who happen to have horses. In artil- lery, their front lines have six small cannons against 40. (Covyright. 1026.) ER b i iy Deaths from motor accidents have increased 50 per cent since 1920, two- fifths of those killed being children under 15. with Bedford Pass Milani’s adds another joy to life! drake “uttered loud shrieks." Now what do you know about that? Answers to Yesterday's uestions. 1. The Ainus are a race of very hairy people living in the northern part of Japan, and probably the ab- originals, not closely related to the present Japanese. 2. Polynesians are a race occupying many of the South Sea Islands, who probably originated in Asfa, but are of uncertain relationships. 3. Bantus are a race of dark Afri- can tribes 4. Malays are a brown-skinned race occupying southeastern Asia and many of the East Indian islands. Pygmies are found in southern Africa. 6. The Cro-Magnon race is now ex- tinct; it existed in prehistoric .times, had a very fair culture for its time and was not entirely dissimilar to the present white races. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Me and my cuzzin Artle was wawking along jest wawking along, and some man wawking ahead of us took his hat off to wipe the top of his head with his handkerchiff and .puts his hat back agen, me saying to Artie, G, did you see that guys hed, it was so bald it dident have a hair on it. Not even a single hair? Artie sed, and T sed, Not even a half a one, and Artle sed, Aw go on, and I sed, Well 11l prove it, lets go pass him and tip our hats to him and he’ll tip his back and then you can see. Well G ‘wizz, wy will he, we havent got eny erls with us, Artie sed, and 1 sed, Well, he mite not think of that, he mite tip it jest out of serprize. Wich he dident, jest looking at me and Artie s if he thawt we was crazy for looking up in his face and tipping our hats at him, and pritty soon he went in a house and I sed, Now I ean prove it to you, Ill ring the door- bell wile he's still neer the door and he’ll open 4t himself and then you can see. And T quick went up the steps and rang the bell and sure enuff the man opened the door himself, proving I had a gond ideer. ony he still had his hat on, proving you never can tell about ideers, and he sed, Well Well? Rir? I ged. You rang my bell, dident you? he sed, and T sed, Yes sir, 1 jest wunted to_see if it was werking. You better go and see a docter and see if yoar brane is werking, the man sed. And he slammed the door agen and me and Artie keep on going, Artie still doubting it. Corn Pudding. Take elght ears of fresh corn. With a sharp knife slit each row of corn in the center and scrape with the back of your knife. Add the yolks of three cggs beaten, one generous tablespoon- ful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful each of sugar and salt, o little pepper, and last of all the well beaten whites of three eggs. Fill a pudding dish with this and cover it with milk, which will take from half to a pint. Bake in the oven for cne hour. Wavy—Curly Glos.gy Iiglr By Edna Wallace thqusands who ses me_daily now how my hair waves anc 10T ol oAty Srary Eirs mnd Fomen curt, Fi'and goman o el Would fike 1o have blr like 1 never go to a hair dresser. 1! have pevar had & Marcel wave. T simpls | ,DDX)’ & hair dress which exyerl made jor me. Neither you ror T will probably ever sée_anyihing else to compare. It| makes the bair curly, keeps it-in place | and gives it a lovely sheen. | This hair dress ig now known as Edna, Wallace Hopper ve Sheen. - All | toilet counters supply it at 78¢ per bottle It will bring you added loveliness more than ansthing eises 1 know. My nclosed with every botile, | costs ot nothing if it doesn'i| Dlease. ‘G0 iry It at my expense.—Adver- Tisement. FEATURES, Precautions to Avert Accidents BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. a finger that gets cut or a foot that gets scratched “if nothing more. T remember one physiclan sald that if people would always put thefr feet into slippers when they got out of bed at night to fix the windows, to turn off the light, or when they sprang out of bed quickly in the morning, ete., that many accidents would be averted. One woman of my acquaintance has always since then sat on the bed and slipped her feet out of her dainty mules when retiring leaving them in exactly the correct position for her feet to fit into whenever she got up. This is cer tainly having things handy, as well as observing precautions. Slippery Morsels. A drop of fat loft on the kitchen floor has been the cause of many an accident. It takes hut a_moment to wipe it up with a piece of soft paper and all daneer is removed. Even a tiny bit of vegetable or any crumbs of food that drop on the floor and are mashed, may be responsible for falls and bumps. _Prompt attention to them wards off disaster. It does seem a pity to let trifles that can so casily be seen to at the moment be the cause of accidents. Trifling casualties can so often be averted in a home by using precau- tions that seem almost too small to mention, yet without taking them dis- comforts and even accldents occur. To drop a pin or two or a needle on the floor is a daily occurrence in a household where there are several persons, but they are not always picked up immediately, because they are not seen right away. Trouble may result. A little lad who was creeping on the floor one day ran a needle into his knee, and had quite a serious time afterward. One mother who knew of this paid her children a penny each for six' pins they found on the floor and a penny each for needles. She, herself, was careful and the bank ac- counts of the children did not grow quickly Ly this, but the floor was kept free from either of the wee pointed bits of metal” Many a stick of candy was enjoyed from the pro- ceeds of searching parties by the voungsters, who were very agile and quick to notice when pins dropped. Preventable Accidents. So often when glass is broken some little splinter of it is not swept up and trouble is brewing. It may be PALE HANDS BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. Leila Marsh. who has alway accustomed to idleness, is left money. Becawsé she is inexperi she is forced to take a position as lady's maid with a rich and beautiful woman, Mona Kingsley. In the fam- ily are Richard, Mona's husband, and Barry, the son. Barry persecutes Leila awith his attentions and Mona amuses herself by humiliating the airl. Richard. who has learned long ago that Mona does not love him, be- gins by pitying Leila, and then dis- covers that he cares for her. Barry finally comas to the conclusion thit he must have Leilg at all.costs and makes up his mind 'to marry her. To his amazement, she refuses him scorn- fully. and later Mona discharges her. During all_this time Mona has been flirting 1with a young bachelor, Ronald Cameron, who is infatuated aith her. She has been leading him on because of her avidness for admiration, but at a Long Island house party he finally persuades her to run away with him. Among the guests is a young girl, Fritzie Lang, who, when she discovers Ronny's infatuation for Mona, shois her scorn openly. This bothers Ron- ny. and on the day sct for the elope- ment he realizes that he is making a mistake. On the way to to the city there is an accident and Mona killed. In the meantime a change h come over Barry. and he gets a job selling bonds. He and Richard go to the cowuntry to play golf the same week end Mona goes to Long Island. They reach home to receive the news of her death. After her discharge, Leila takes a position as assistant to the head of an_employment agency. Mary Brandt, who manages the place, is the same one who placed Leila with the Kingsleys, and is very much in- terested in the girl, and Leila is happy save for the fact that she discovered her love for Richard Kingsley on the day she left his house. Mary is cager in the house. 1 may take the notion to write at 12 o'clock at night, or if | have an idea that must be pushed through work econstantly for 24 hours s more than that. too I hardly ever sit still while I'm work ing. I walk up and down while T dir tate, and I drive right at it. e not nervous, are you? 1 hope not.” Leila smiled. “Not a bit to me. 1t sounds interestine tut remember 1 warned Now, when can you come to ork? I'm starting a new book and it may be necessary for me to take « trip abroad for some material. Could you leave at any time? Of course, Phelps wouid go, too." “I could leave at any time, but you don't know anything about my work. Suppose I don’t suit you.” “You'll suit me ali right. I'm sure of it: s vou're willing to put up tain_hours and my un cer we'll get g we start on Monday? hurry you too much, W Ismerson Phelps’ attitude toward Leila on that first day was his attitude most of the time when he was not working. When he worked he was a regular human dynamo, and as he had told her, he drove her hard. At first his way of working bothered her. but when she grew used to it she became so interested herdelf that cager to keep on as he E times he would stop and ask her opin ion of a phrase or sentence, and his ability to see a plot in its entirety and with a_kind of breathless interest drive toward a definite climax thrilled Lella. She loved all of it. Sometimes she would have a whole day of leisure and perhaps half of another one, and then th would work eight hours at a stretch. stopping only for sandwiches and coffee. Leila liked Mrs. Phelps from the- first. She was a woman in won't to advance Leila and sends her to in- terview Emerson Phelps with regard to a position as private secretary. CHAPTER LIIL Emerson Phelps. merson Phelps interviewed Leila in his workshop on thé top floor. The room stretched the length and width | of the house. A large desk littered | untidily with papers stood under a single window that was as large as the width of the room. A typewriter table | with another machine on it was the carly forties. not exactly pretty. but very distingue. She understood her husband perfectly and never ques tioned anything he did. Leila felt that they were the most ideally happy couple she had ever known. 1Cn|\\'llhl. 1 (Continued in tomorrow’s Star.) LEMON JUICE BEST close by. As Leila entered Phelps rose to his feet and came to ward her with an outstretched hand. His first words were: “I hope the stairs weren’t too much for you. On rainy days they kil me, but T can’t work anywhere but in this room.” Teila shook hands with him smil- ingly. Her breathing was quite even. “I don't mind stairs at all.” Mr. Phelps purposely pulled a long face. “Why should you at your age? Here, sit down in this comfortable chair. T'll be with you in a momen Teila saw that he was finishing letter, and she had a chance to observe him as he wrote. He was not young—probably some. where between 50 and 60. His hair was gray and a littie thin on the top and he had a pleasant ruddy face. He wore glasses with heavy tortoise-shell rims. In a few moments he pushed the let- ter back and turned to Leila. Behind his glasses she could see dark eyes with a_twinkle in their depths. He looked like a person with a marvelous sense of humor. Without any of the usual prelimi naries he plunged into the subject at hand. “Inasmuch as Mary Brandt has recommended you, it won't be nec sary to ask you any questions. You must be competent or she wouldn't have sent you here." i “You know her, then?" “Very well, and Mrs. Phelps swears by her. But the truth of the matter is, I'm not an éasy person to work for. 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