Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1926, Page 31

WOMAN’S PAGE. Fashions Recall Historic Styles BY MARY The name of the De Medicis has again been dragged into the fashion of the hour. One is at first amazed; for there could be no farther cry from THE MEDICI COLLAR IS SHOWN HERE AS IT APPEARS ON ONE OF THE NEW MINK COATS the present mode than of the Renais- sance days in France and Italy when 20 yards of material was needed to make a single dress, and women thought to enhance their charms by wearing peake stomachers and ruffs 80 high and wide that “from behind no head could be seen all.” Yet one American designer has found in- spiration in the fashions of the relgn of Charles IX of France and Queen Catherine de Medici. Such are the tasks that costume de- signers set themselves. For after all the work of originating fashions 1s Just one of skillful reviving, borrow- ing and adaptation. And the more remote the particular fashion is from ARSHALL. the prevailing mode, the more likely it seems of taking root. In the mid- dle of the last century—pre-Civil War days in this country—when women wore fantastic headdresses of loops of ribbon, gold guipre and feathers, abominably tight bodices and out- rageously large hooped skirts—in those days there was talk of a classic revival and more than one trick of fashifon was said to have been bor- rowed from ghe Greek. And now when our clothes much more nearly resemble the Greek, so far as lightness and simplicity are concerned, we hark back to the days of the Medicis. Tt is the Medici collar that is most often spoken of. The furrlers are making much of it, though, as a mat- ter of fact, their version of it nas very little real resemblance to the col- lar made famous by Catherine de Medicl. But it is an interesting ex- ample of present.day adaptation. Whether vou like it or not, you may be sure that a fur collar of this con- structlon is quite new., for it was not found on last season’s wraps. (Covyright. 1926.) My Neighbor Says: In canning it is sometimes dif- ficult to estimate the amount of fruit or vegetables necessary to fill a certain number of cans. The average quantities have been found to be about as fol- lows: 114 pounds of spinach will make 1 pint can. 1 pound chard will make 1 pint can. 12 to 15 baby beets will make 1 pint can. 20 carrots will make 1 pint can. 3 of a pound of string beans will make 1 pint can. 2 quarts of peas will make 1 pint can. | 4 small ears of corn will make 1 pint can. 1 bushel of peaches will give ahout 20 quart cans. 1 bushel of plums will give about 28 quart cans. 1 bushel of red raspberries will give about 24 quart cans. 1 bushel of cherries will give about 20 quart cans. 1 bushel of tomatoes will give about 18 quart cans. Grease your jelly mould with butter before putting jelly in it. When ready to take out plunge the mold into hot water and re- move at once. Jelly treated in this way will turn out without any trouble. 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN Army’s Needs to Be Rushed. PHILADELPHIA," September 25, 1776.—Congress gave its chief atten- tion today to the great need for army supplies of all kinds, especially cloth- ing. The troops have suffered severe- 1y of late hecause of the almost total lack of the simplest necessities, and much sickness has been the result. The soldiers bear their hardships bravely, it is said, but Congress is de- termined to show its appreciation of their patriotism in every way possible. “That those who expose themselves to danger in defending and protecting their fellow citizens may suffer as little as possible from inclement sea- sons,” says one of today's resolutions, all the States are called upon to for- ward to headquarters at once all clothing, blankets and necessaries they can collect. A committee of one congressman from each state was ap- pointed to assemble blankets and woolens, have the woolens made into clothing and forwarded to the army. All white shirts, shoes and stockings now on hand and not already promised elsewhere will be sent immediately to the northern army, and the supply department is ordered to use the ut- most diligence in buying, collecting and getting made as many more of those articles as possible. The com- BEDTIME STORIE A Heron Cousin. ‘Tia well gometimes we are not fated To know to whom we are reiated anny Meadow Mouse Pumper the Bittern looked over at Danny Meadow Mouse and Danny wa a little uncomfortable 2 g ined he saw a hungry look eyes-of Bumper the Bittérn. haps that was just Danny’s imagina- tion. Be that as it may, he took e not to get within reach of that long nec “Did you speak FPumper. to me croaked “I aid,” replied Danny in his funny, | “OH!" SAID DANNY. “YOU CER- TAINLY LOOK LIKE A HERON." gqueaky little voice. 1 said ] hope fine today.” * replied Pumper. *If 1s good as T am you to be desired. What here replied Danny » was making all that—I as 1 heard sing very su crn looked there was v ng hastened to speak again You know, 1 could hear No other two people can ever have Such different points of view As the man who sub- lets 2 furnished Flat And the temant he rents it to. RMe o=t A. RAWSON, Jr. manding officer at Albany is ordered to employ people to make clothing from woolens there and forward it to Ticonderoga for troops who have en- listed for three yvears or for the dura- tion of the war. A committee will go to Ticonderoga to buy sheep, Indian meal, rice, oatmeal and molasses, to contract for other provisions, and make regulations for the hospitals. Tents, camp kettles, canteens and camp furniture are to be collected here for Gen. Washington's army, and the commissary general will soon be placing orders for salt, in order to cure and lay up a supply of ineats for the next campaign. Congressman Robert Treat aine admitted today that the powder supply i8 causing much worry. There has been great success in making saltpetre, he says, but there is danger that the saltpetre will be turned 'nto worthless powder. He calls much of the powder thus far made “‘worthless trash,” as {8 also soma of that re- celved from abroad. A committee has been appointed to procure a_remedy for this situation. Says Mr. Paine: __“It must be a most cruel vexatin in the day of decision for Liberty or Slavery to have the scale turn against us merely through the defect of our own powder.” (Copyright. 1026.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Danny, “and it was such a wonderful song that I just had to come over {to find out who the singer was.” | . Bumper the Bittern looked pleased. | He was pleased. He was so pleased that he just had to hear the sound of his own voice again; and he went | through that same funny-looking, dis- | tressing performance that Danny had seen before. ‘“‘How did you like that?” he asked when he had finished. “It was splendid’” cried Danny. i “Yes, sir, it was splendid. I realiy don’t see how you do it. I don't, in- deed. Pumper the Bittern looked more leased than ever. He was flatterad. es, sir, he was flattered. The folks who are most easily flattered ire those who think they can do something that they cannot do at all. So Pumper was red. “You have an excellent said he. “I don't helieve I've you around here before.™ 0,” replied Danny, “I don't think vou have. I've only been here a short My home is up on the Green May I ask what family you [ that way over across the marsh,"” said ca seen “Look at me!” commanded Pumper. ‘Lo Do_you really replied Danny been told that vour name was Bittern T should have said that you were a Heron.” “I am,” declared Pumper. “That is to say, 1 belong to the Heron family. The Bitterns and the Herons are ali | cousins and they all belong to the | Heron family." | “Oh." said Danny, “yvou certainlv do | 1ook like a Heron and T am glad to | know that vou are one. Do you nest |in trees like vour cousine, the Night | Herons and the Green Herons and the | Great Blue Herons?” 1 can help it." replied Pumper. “Mrs. Bittern and 1 _much refer a nest on the ground. Yes, in- ceed, we very much prefer a nest on the ground.” My. how plump you are!” | As he said this Pumper the Bittern [teok a long step toward Danny. | Danny dodged hehind a little bush of marsh grass. THe peeked out. Slowly { but carefully Pumper the Bittern was | coming his way. and in Pumper's eves was a hungry look. “I'm going home,” sald Danny, and went. T, . Pumpkin Pie. Supply one cupful of stewed pump- kin, one tablespoonful of butter, two £xe, one tablespoonful of flour, one Ptablespoonful of molasses. one-half a teaspoonful each of powdered cinna- mon. powdered) ginger and salt, one cuptul of sugar, one-fourth teaspoon- ful of grated nutmeg and one and one-half cupfuls of milk. The pump- kin should be well stewed and ruhbed through a sleve, then add the melted butter, sugar, molasses, flour, ginger. salt and yolks of eggs. Heat the milk, add the cinnamon to it, nutmeg and pumpkin mixture; then fold in_the stiffiy béaten whites of the eggs. Pour the filling into & pie tin lined with good pastry and bake in a erate oven until browned, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. e Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I guess I got a hundred in geog- raphy unless 1 had it wrong about latitude bein' a body of land sur- rounded by water.” (Copyright. 1926.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow's planetary aspects can- not be classified as favorable. Neither, on the other hand, are they adverse. The conditions call for equanimity and as much restful relaxation as possible. There will be sensed no stiriulating vibrations. Rather will there be ex- perfenced a feeling of indifference and inertia. This should not affect in any serious manner the successful carry- ing out of customary Sunday observ- ances. In the home, however, more than ordinary care must be exercised to avold giving way to fits of depres- sion or dissatisfaction. Children born tomorrow will during infancy enjoy normal physical condi- tions and, but for slight {liness just subsequent to the period of adoles-. cence, promise to develop along satis- factory normal lines., In disposition they will be winsome and attractive. They will possess magnetic personali- ties, which will draw to them all those who are closely associated with them. They will be very observant and learn more in this way than by laborious Without any outstanding they will be endowed with an unusual degree of common sense and this will lead to material rewards that intellectuality might never earn. If tomorrow is your birthday you possess considerable literary talent and your chief recreation is reading. If not developing your gift as a re- sult of conditions, you should strive to discover some means of givin, free expression to it, as it is along these lines that your greatest success will be achieved. You are energeti ambitious and positive, and sometim stubborn. Those who strive to drive you always fail in their efforts. Those, however, with understanding hearts who try to change your opinions by love and affectionate persuasion always succeed. You have a large circle of friends and your presence is eagerly desired for all social func- tlons. Your love is deep and strong and {f you be mated with one born in June or October your home life should be_very happy and contented. Well known persons born on that date are: Francis D. Pastorius, colo- nist; Ebenezer Fitch, educator; James Eastburn, poet; William Henry Mil- burn, “the blind preacher”; Stephen B. Elkins, lawyer and politician, and Irving Batcheller, author. Covyright. 1026 HOME' NOTES BY JENNY WBEK. ‘When you buckle on,your antique- hunting armor and sally forth to search—keep your eyes always open for chairs like the above three—the oldest American types. One never knows where she may find them. Hun- dreds of them traveled over mountain and plain in covered wagons to take up their abode in the cabin of the pioneer—there to give long service and be handed down through many generations. The chair at the upper left is a Carver side chair with rush seat, named after one brought over in the Mayflower by Gov. Carver. The chair at the upper right is a slat-back Pilgrim chair. also with rush seat, dating from about 1650. The chair below is really a chair. table of maple, dating from 1875, (Copyright. 1926.) AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Arrowhead. One goes to the marshes to look for arrowhead, and of all the places around Washington, the watery, blos- somy acres near Dyke are the best, though merely to see arrowhead you are not obliged to go so far. Sagit. tarius, in the sky, is that bright con- course, means the same thing. Sagit- | taria, in the sky, is that bright con- stellation known as the Hunter of the South, because a starry arm Aappears raised to bend an astral bow and shoot o cosmic arrow Resplendent, and at the same time frailly beautiful, are the three gleam- ing white petals of the male Aowers. But as for the female, they are, in- credibly, utterly inconspicuous and homely, and hide themselves away at the bottom of the inflorescence. Yet it j& not the flowers of Sagittaria that I love, but the strange, the almost unearthly leaves. Some are like slen- der arrows, but others more like great battleaxes, and in one pateh of arrow- head one may often observe every imaginable change in leaf form that i8 poesible on u fixed basic plan. Many an unwise botanist has described “new species” of Sagittaria because he found some strangely fashioned leaf: but in the curiopsly fascinating family of the Allsmaceae leaf shapes confe d leaf pes go with no more rea- son than fashions in dress. AR Yesterday’s ‘“‘Puzzlicks.” Six Sikhs asked the steward to fix Them a nice little stew at 6:06; But the wind blew a gale And they rushed to the rail, For six Sikhs were seasick at 6:06. Sweden Drops German. German is steadily falling off a: language taught and used in Sweden and in its place the English language is gaining a supremacy that is notice- able. In Stockholm radio céurses in English are given every week andata recent church gathering the King wel comed the delegates from all parts the world in Englishe about DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX What Are the Chances of Marriage for a Young Widow With Two Boys—Suggestions to a Young Couple on Financing Matrimony. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: 1 am a widow of almost a year. My husband was a good man; too good, in fact, for he allowed me to get anything 1 wanted and run into debt. He left me no money. As I have two boys, 8 and 10, that I must support, I have taken a business course and have now my first position in an office. I am 30 years old, good-looking. marry. I love to keep house and I want to Do you think there i{s anywhere in the world a man who would take me with my two little boys and be good to them and me? Or do you think I would be better off to forego all thoughts of love and marriage and to work at the thing I have chosen to do and bring up my boys as best 1 can? A WIDOW. Answer: 1 think that the wisest thing any of us can do is ¢o look life straight in the face and try to see our situation just exactly as‘it is. gain nothing by ling to ourselves and trying to deceive ourselves We with rosy dreams about what we would like things to be instead of accepting things as they are. So I think that you will do well just to recognize the fact that a poor widow with two small boys is almost insuperably handicapped and has a very small chance of making a desirable marriage. A young widow, unincumbered by olive branches, may marry when and where and as often as she chooses, for the woman of 30 is in full flower of her mature beauty. But when she has children it is another story, and no matter how deftly she tries to weave her spell they flv from her. want to assume a ready-made family. of living few men feel that they can afford to underts another man's children. Few men Indeed, in these davs of the high cost e the support of And when those children are boys at the very age at which they are mischievous and unruly and when it takes the patience of Job and &ll of a father's devotion te his own flesh and blood to stand them, you can easily understand why there would be few men heroic enough or enough love- maddened to undertake the job. Of course, miracles do happen, and it is possible that some noble, altruistic. man with a well fllled pocket may come your way and fall ‘enough in love with you in spite of your incumbrances, but that is a hundred-to-one shot on which it will be folly for you to place your hopes. ' So my advice to you is to put all thoughts of solving your problem by marriage out of your mind. The chances are too great against any fairy prince coming along and rescuing you, so dig in and save yourself. Concen- trate all Your energies and ambitions on your work and on trying to rear your children properly, and you will find a happiness that you will not get in marrying for a home. For you will have your own Sself-respect if you: stand on your own feet, and you are bound to be filled with contempt for yourself if you sell yourself for a meal ticket. And, after all, your pull will not be a long one, for in five or six years your boys will be old enough to support themselves and help you. .. S5 DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: We are a young couple who are going to be married ry soon. We have talked over such things as personal liberty, children, whether or not the wife should work and money matters. our future so that there will be as little place for friction as possible. We want to plan Will you please give us a few suggestions about handling the financial side of matrimony? B. AND M. Answer: Permit me to congratulate you, B. and M., upon the good sense you show in the safe side xyln[ to settle some of the vexed questions of matrimony on the altar instead of leaving them up in the air where you can reach up and grab them every time you want a fight after marriage. Believe me, nothing would do more to promote domestic peace and harmony than for every young couple to follow your example and find out before marriage just what rights and privileges each intended granting the other. And you are particularly wise in settling the money question, which causes more quarrels and heart burnings and bitterness than any other one thing in domestic life. For there is nothing that gets on any man’'s nerves s0 much as having his wife continually nag him about money, and there is nothing that kills a woman's love for & man as quickly as having to go like a beggar to him for every cent she needs to run the house. So I say to every young ma Don’t marry until you have made up your mind to deal fairly with your wife about money and give her a definite allowance on which to run the house and for her own personal use. Don't marry any girl you are not willing to trust with a few dollars and who hasn’t sense enough to handle money. And I say to every girl: Before you marry any man find out just how he stands on the money question, and if he balks at the idea of making you an allowance and letting you run the household finances, 4 “No" good and hard. A tightwad husband is the meanest husband on earth and the hardest to, get along with. Having, then, the full intention of dealing fairly with tite girl you marry, 1 think that the best way to divide up the money is this: your living expenses—food, rent, light, amusements, charities. Wife the money to cover these. Budget Give the Then give her a definite allowance for her own personal use, to be spent for her clothes and whatever else she chooses. The husband should have delicacy and decency enough never to inquire what the wife does with her money, and she should have honesty enough not to exceed her allowance and make debts on the outside. The husband is entitled to a similar private allowance, and the balance should go into a sacred savings fund that neither should touch except in dire recessity. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1926.) BEAUTY CHATS More Paris Notes. In Paris this Autumn everything is line. Color, which ran riot through our clothes all Spring and Summer, in not important. The line is the things; therefore colors are dark, and black is preferable, for black sub- merges the detalls of a costume and accentuates its outlines. ‘This means all sorts of changes, which few women realize are im- portant. For one thing, it means the complextion must be flawless, for any dark color and black most of all, brings out the tiniest blemish in the skin. You can’'t be sallow, you can't even be pale. You can rouge, of course, if you happen to approve of rouge and know how to use it—and this new hectic pinkish orange goes wonderfully well with a black dress. But yop can’t rouge or powder a bad skin into a good one. You must be tall, or seem so, and vou must be slim—you simply must be slim or you'll wok particularly bad in the new clothes. Reduce! Fortunate- ly black nfakes you look pounds and pounds less than vou are, and the new are of felt, by the way a few black velvets for v: riety—make you look taller. They go up into absurdly high crowns, usually in the back, and they are draped and tucked. There are no dressy hats, all of them are tallored—for again, line is important, and fancy hats obscure line with trimming. BY EDNA KENT FORBES The new clothes are not stiff, though they have a trimness that makes them seem tailored when they aren't. 0dd pleats and particularly godets in the skirt give them a move- ment even more swinging than last Spring. They outline the figure now, especially round the hips and waist. There is no longer any disguising a bad shape. M. H.—Odorous or perspiring feet should be treated with ol The feet should be thoroughly washed, thor oughly massaged with olive oil, then covered with a pair of old socks to protect the bed linen. They should be washed every day with warm water to which a little boracic powder has been added, should have clean socks every day and the socks should be rinsed in water containing boracic powder. Shoes should be dusted in side with boric acid powder, and when one pair has been worn for a day it should be given a day to air Chicken in Ramekins. Use one and one-half cupfuls of cold chicken, one cupful of white sauce, a few gratings of nutmeg and some buttered bread crumbs. Mix the chicken thorouchly with the white sauce. Add the nutmeg and empty into buttered ramekins. Cover with buttered bread crumbs and bake until brown. Cold beef, lamb or veal may be served in the same way. Méking the Most of Your Looks [ BY DOROTHY STOTE. Dear Ann: The right-hand style with its long collar and pleat will help to give her good proportions, while the other will make her seem long-drawn-out. "Yours for recognizing differences, LETITIA. (Copyright. 1026.) C.,” SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926.\ SUB ROSA BY MIML Connie's Courage. How many of us would have Connie's courage? Very few, I'm afraid. We would all seize our chance of happiness as it lay before us—not pass it up because we feared future unhappinesi Connie met David at a college dance. She was small and dark, very vivacious, rather speedy, decidedly modern. Dave was tall, blonde, serious minded, full of ideals and aspirations for bigger. better things. He disapproved of what Connie stood for, he disliked her crowd, hated her habits, but adored her thoroughly, nevertheless. People were amazed when they started to go together. Nobody could understand the match. Dave started to make Connie over. FEATURES, THE MILLION DOLLAR WIFE By HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. He made her cut out her cigarettes. |" He refused to take her to the gay adored. And because she in love with him, she gave up her favorite sports. It was only when he asked her to marry him that she put her foot down. She would not do it, she told him fdrmily. Tavid decided there was another man and he went away, and she never loved any one as much as she'd cared for_him. Why did she torture herself by refusing to marry the man she loved? Simply because she wos unwilling to take a brief spell of happiness for the years of unhappiness which must come to them inevitably. She was a wise girl #nd she knew herself thoroughly. She knew that the sort of life David hated would always appeal to her. Fundamentally she was the type he didn’t like. She felt she always would De. She hated the things he liked doing. Enjoyed them cnly for his sake. She coull go on enjoying them for his sake, while they were ooth young and thoroughly mad about each other. But she knew that with marriaze, as they grew used to each other, what seemed to her delightfully quaint in her boy friend would begin to seem priggish ani dull.. What seemed to him.adorably pert and fresh in his sweethemit would take on a new color in his wife. He would never like her friends. They bored him insufferably and she loved them. She went to sleep listening to his chums—they seemed the stuffiest crowd of men she'd ever known. So she had the courage to give him up, although her love was very real. She acted wisely. She gave up the few brief vears of mad happiness, but she also gave up 40 more years of plodding along with a mate utterly unsuited to her. She did a difficult thing, but it would be better for all of us if we'd have the nerve to follow her example -—to give up the man whom we know to be utterly unsuited to us—to give him up even though we feel we love him dearly. Connie's courage, in the end, earned her a happy married life, while eowardice on her part would have spelled years of boredom. (Copyright. 1026.) Mimi will be glad to anewer any inquiries directed to this paper provided a stamped. addressed envelope is inclosed. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One mother says: : “I used to be annoved because Jack’s friend Bobby never seemed to know when to go home and was in- variably around at dinnertime at night. It suddenly occurred to me that Bobby’'s mother might have the same trouble when Jack wus at her house, for our meal hours did not coincide. I put a time limit on Jack's visits and aimed to have him leave before he becamg a nuisance. Such habits are beneficial to the child as well as to the mother.” (Copyright. 1926.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking and thinking, and 1 sed, Hay pop. Who me? pop sed. Meening wat, and I sed, Can I go out till 1 haff to come in? Wat did T tell you at suppir time? pop sed. anl T sed, You sed I had to stay in tonite. And wy did I say that? pop sed. On account of ma saying 1 was kind of bad today, I sed, and he secd, Ix- ackly, you have a truly remarkable memory. Meening it wasent eny use me ask- ing him if I could go out. so I started to think of other questions to ask him, saying, Hay pop, do you think a little chicKin that was hatched in a incubator would try to follow the in- cubater around afterwerds on account of not having'eny hen to follow? 1 dont know, Im sure, Ill haff to look that up, pop sed. And he kepp on smoking to himself and after a wile T sed, Well pop. wat do_you call that sticky stuff in trees” Do you meen sap? pop sed. Yes sir. I sed. Well pop, if T hap- pened to get mad at Reddy Merfy and called him a big sap and then quick told him T ment tree sap, would he have eny rite to get mad? 1 sed. ‘Wat was the very ferst question you asked me? pop sed. Do you meen about weather if I could go out? 1 sed. and he sed, Yes, thats the one, I couldent think of it, well, the anser is yes if the proposi- tion is taken advantage of immeeditly. Meening if T hurry up and went. Wich T did. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: ;;he called Friday.” Say Pronunciation: Economical. ;’e" lu pronounced as in “he,” or as n “let.” Often misspelled: Literary; ary. Synonyms: _ Pretension, pretense, assumption, affectation, disguise, pre- text, semblance, subterfuge. Word study: ‘“Use a word three times and it is yours.” , Let us in- Don’t say “on Fri- IT WAS GRATIFYING PE! Betty Amés nurses Jim Cornell through pncwmonia, and they fall in love. Dr. Amos Craig is in love with Bet'y and is Rurt at the news. Jim is the type of man who is al- ways talking abou* what he will do when he makes his “million,” and Betty soon realizés that she must learn to dress smartly and also like the people he does. She is some- what at a loss with the smart pco- ple who are his friends and, al- though she is dazzled at the future he keeps talking of constantly, she is often hurt at his criticism. One night she is forced to break an en gagement with him because :he is called on a case. He is furious and shows it openly. Later he asks her to promise him she will never take another night case. He does mot seem to realize that sh needs the money to dress as he wishes her to, but she gives him her word. They go to lunch and Alice Griffith, a girl Jimmy had once been in- terested in, comes up to their table. Jimmy asks both girls to go driv- ing, but Betty is forced to refuse. She is hurt that he is willing to go alone with Alice. CHAPTER XXIV. A Clever Woman. That afternoon Alice played her cards very cleverly. Instead of be- ing flippant, she was wistful. Instead of chattering gavly, she introduced a certain serious note into the conver- sation, and after a time she said sweetly: “Jim, I'd like to feel that we could still be friends. After all, we've known each other a long time, haven't we? And although I know you mever had any particular feeling about me, we've always had good times together. I'd like to know Miss Ames better, too. She seems like such a sweet girl, and so different. I suppose having a serious career like hers would make her more thoughtful than the rest of us, who are always dashing around after pleasure.” Jim turned to her beaming. He was completely deceived. What a good little scout Alice was agmr all! And to think that she actually saw and appreciated the fact that Betty was_different! “She is unique, isn't she?”’ he said eagerly. ‘“Mrs. Arrowsmith, a friend I met in Atlantic City, was talking of it just the other night. There's a certain_air of breeding about her. When I marry her and dress her up like a million dollars she’ll knock ‘em dead. “Clothes do malke a difference,” TO TAKE ALICE ANYWHERE BECAUSE JOPLE ALWAYS STARED. Alice sald graciously. “Well, T do hope you're going to be very happy. Jim. You deserve it, if any one does. But in the meantime, you haven't answered my question. “About being friends, you mean? Why, of course, Alice, why not? Betty isn't narrow. Wait till you know her better, vou'll see.” In that moment his eye did not take in the beauty of the girl besida him, they were turned inward on his own thoughts. How sweet Betty was. She had a trick of widening her eyes, those greenish eyes with their changing tints, and at such times sha was irresistible. Then, too, in spite of her career as a nurse, there was an innocence ahout her, a freshne: j that made her seem untouched by th sordidness of the world. And she loved him so! At times it made him feel unworthy because of the way she poured out her devotion. Some day he would show her how much he cared, she'd see! Alice stirred at his side and the perfume she used drifted to him. At the same time he realized that they were passing the casino in the park, and he suggested suddenly: ““How about some tea or a Plsm of ice cream?" They passed up the steps and en- sconced themselves at a table beside the railing. The light through the green and white striped awning threw a curious color over Alice’s dress; it made her face look luminous under her shadowy black hat. ’ At the next table two men and two girls were sitting. They glanced at Alice with vejled eyes, taking in the beauty and simplicity of her taste The men were frankly admiring, so much so that Jimmy could not heln noticing. and a feeling of pride surged up in him. It was gratifving to take Alice any where, because people always stared. Alice could certainly wear her clothes well, she was a stunning looking girl no one could gainsay that fact. She smiled at him from under the lacy brim of her hat and. quite on impulse, he made a suggestion. “How about dinner tonight on some roof garden. Betty is on a case, y know, so I won't be able to see her. Alice’s heart leaped. “It would be lovely, Jim. You're sure you really want me, and that Miss Ames wouldn't mind?" Jimmy warmed to his invitation. “Of course she wouldn't mind She'd be tickled to death.” “All right then, T'd love to go. Tt makes me feel that vou really meant what vou sald about being friends= and I'm so glad (Copy (Continued in t. 1926.) Monday’'s Star.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1926.) Beverage. Those who went befors. = Kind of fish. Skein. Intrigues. French King. . 8cotch musician. Silver (symbol). Pronoun. Normal. Proposed international language. Brother of Odin. Bottom of the foot. . Rabs out. . Tavern. . Unit of electrical resistance. Anclent device for foreing gates. Racing town in England. Disorderly. Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. [PTHT 1 [L JOTSIO[PTHIETR]S] jolAIRINBIO WL | IVIE] Down. Pointed weapon. . Exist. Powers engaged In legitimate warfare. Man's nickname. Prefix: again. Civil service (abbr.) A bone. Plotters, Swedish eoin. . Plant. Hebrew month. . Mother. Giant King of Bashan Toward the top. . New England State (abbr.). . Having the form of oar. 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