Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 31

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Day Beds and Modern Substitutes BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. B The ture that - Led is an article of furni- every person should know about who has to transform a cham- ber into a living room for daytime use. or who has to have an extra sleeping place in an apartment. Some | dax heds are indeed handsome furnish ings, others are so simple that they cannot legitimately come under the term. A day bed s not a converted | eot. but a real piece of furniture. | While it is possible to simulate a | day bed by ing fitted covers for both head and foothoard of a meta’ @ot bed. these coverings dn no more than act as dlsguises for single beds. It is fortunate that such disgulses are possible, for they are inexpensive | and often serve the need admirably. However. day heds are not cots in disguise, but fine and well recognized articles of furniture with a_back &round of historical interegt. We see them in the French it de repose Which was and still s an exquisite ar- ticle of furniture. Lit de Repose. The early lit de repose was a com- promise hetween a chalse longue and n sofs. One 15 generally high and gracefully shaped, with slightly curved side o those found | in high-bucked “The other end might have a back, but it was apt to be much lower. With the two ends having backs, the lit de repose was not unlike some Is of sofas. except thit the latter had some sort of continuing backs joining these frregularly shaped ends. \Vhen end | made to de repose was a chaise longue, and could be called by elther name cor- rectly. : Old English Day Beds. Later on these pieces of furniture assumed somewhat different propor- tions. Both ends were given the same height, usually low, and in Eng- Jand were known as day heds. They were made to fit particular spaces in rooms, and hence differed in length. A favorite place to have these day beds was beneath wide windows; the | two endpieces, coming up by the case- ments of the windows, gave a con- tinulty of line, adding to architect- ural harmony. Such day beds were considered correct in living rooms. Day Beds and Substitutes. This cursory glance at the evolu- n of day heds helps us to under- nd that they are historically cor- rect when used in modern living rooms of today When a cot must be resemble a day bed in a simply furnished combination cham- ber and living room, the best that can be done is to copy thegddea as closel ‘possilile. The material for the ering. especlally when head and foothoard must be concealed, should not be dainty figured stuff but a plain, dark fabric or self-toned brocade. This adds a dignity and a substantial character to the furniture and makes ft les ke a bedroom plece. Somethimes a handsome, dark background, hand-blocked linen or cretonne with brilliant colored design can be used If the room is decorated there was but one end plece the lit in chintz effects. 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JONATHAN Cooke Captures Rum Ships. BALTIMORE, October 30, 1776.—~ Rum ships from the West Indies, with clearance papers indicating Newfound- land or Halifax as thelr destination, but belleved to he making for New York, are engaging the attention of America’s naval forces along the At- lantio Coast. Capt. George Cooke of the Maryland ship Defense reports to the Maryland Counecll of Safety the recent capture of one such vessel the chief ftem in whose cargo was 40 hogsheads of rum. At last reports Capt. Cooke was on the lookout for two brigs and three achooners from Dominfca with rum probably intended for the British army in New York. shall endeavor to be In their way,” says Capt. Cooke, “and hope vou'll be no way nneasy should I stay rather longer out than you expe Rum Plot Fo WIHITE 20, 1776 the An; led in Camp. | PLAINS, N. Y., October | A plot to smuggle rum into | 1 camp_has been broken up. and an army officer who was en gineering the conspiracy has heen dis- charged from the service by a court | on the bench and Col. A. RAWSON, Jr. aroused a few days ago by two wag- ons which passed headquarters under the direction of Lieut. Ethan Sickles. Col. Reed stopped the wagons and { found a sutler or camp peddler con- cealed in one of them. Lieut. Sickles, when questioned, could offer no ex- planation of the sutler’'s presence, in- sisted that a certain barrel contained soldlers’ clothes, and that a keg of five gallons of rum belonged to his regiment. Not satisfied with this statement, the adjutant general started an inves. tigation, from which he learned that the alleged barrel of clothing con- tained leaf toba , and that the rum belonged to the sufler, whose purpose clearly was to sell his tobacco and rum to the soldiers. The Incident came before the court- se of the United ates of America vs. Lient. Ethan Sickles.”” Col. Jonathan llolman was Reed w the Sickles was stripped of nd discharged from the service of his country. The members of the court were one col- onel, one lieutenant colonel, one ma- jor, seven captains and three lieuten- ates, guilt martial, whose members were 13 of his fellow officers Adjt. Gen. Reed's suspiclons were BEDTIME STORIE Danny Is Suddenly Bashful. | It's funny how vou sometimas shrink From dofng what ven plan and think. Danny Meadow Mouse. All the way home from the seashore, through all his adventures, Danny had | planned and talked about how he would rush in and make himself known to Nanny. He had pictured | to himself how she would squeak for | joy and perhaps rush out to meet him. But now that he was here on his own | doorstep, so to speak. he hesitated He had doubts. Yes, sir, Danny had | would do if T were in vour place, David Brearley was judge ad (Coprrizht. 1026.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS tongue. Be aure she has had a good dinner and then break the news to her little by little.” “How am T going to break the news to her little by little?” demanded Danny. “I don’t know, but that's what 1 re- plied Peter. “Give her my love and break the news to her little by little that you are at home. Peter turned and hopped away. Danny watched him out of sight. hen he looked up at that snug little nest in the bush. He saw just how Nanny climbed up there. Three or times he started and then turned The truth ix, Danny hadn't felt so bashful since he first went courting Nanny. Never in all his ing life had he felt more shy than he did right now. And all the time he vas possessed by a dreadful fear that perhaps, after all. Nanny wouldn't want him. Then the thought occurred to him that perhaps the sudden shock of fov at finding him alive would be too much for her. Had Peter been there he could have told him that he needn’t worry about anyvthing of that kind. Rut Peter wasn't there, and Danny did worry, “Perhaps.” thought he, “Peter is Hght, and it would he better to break it to her little by little. Yes, sir, 1 elieve that would be the way to break the news to her. If she should come along now and me sitting here it #AREN'T YOU GOING TO CLIMB UP THERE?" INQUIRED PETER, doubts. Perhaps Nanny wouldn't be glad to him after all. Perhaps she would even wish he hadn’t come home. All his confidence in himself somehow seemed to ooze right out of his toes. “Aren't you golng to climb there?” inquired Peter “I—Ithink I'll wait a bit,” squea Danny. “After all, that is Nanny house, and if she shouldn’t be at home 1 wouldn’t want to go in there. And it she is at home I don't want to | frighten her. 1 think I'll wait here a little while. Don’t you think that would be quite the right thing to do?" “Oh, certainly,” replied Peter, turn- ing his head aside to hide a grim, for he knew exactly how Danny feit, You see, Peter had staved away from home longer than he should have and he had had tc 1ke peace with little AMra. Peter. Certainly, if 1 were in veur piace. T would wait. T would find out what state of mind Nanny is in before I made myeelf known. Take dvice and walt until you are sure good dinner. You nach dulls a sharp Whe has had know, a full up ! e | her little by little. would be a dreadful shock to her. might think I was a ghost or some thing. I really think that Peter is right and that T ought to break it to her little by little. 1 must go off and sit down by myself and think. I don't | know how one goes about doing such but I really must break it to Nanny little by little. I wish I could If only I could sing, it would be | T would sing off in the distance and keep coming a little nearer and a | little mearer until she realized that ft That would be breaking it to But I can't sing, was 1 so what can I do?” Danny looked over his shoulder very thoughtfully at his short tall. Sud- denly an idea was born. It was born right there and then. It was born of looking thoughtfully at his short tail. Candy for Small Children. Take one can of condensed milk, two cupfuls of corn flakes and mix thoroughly. Put into a shallow pan nd sprinkle with coconut and put in the oven to brown. Do not ha the oven teo hot or the mixture t thick, as the milk will not dry out sufficientl. This i ‘an excellent candy for small children. She | | i | 1l THE EVENING What Do You Know About It? Dally Sclence Six. 1. How long Is a lunar month? 2. How many lunir months in a year? 3. Why was the lunar month the first form of calendar unit used by most races? 4. Why is the lunar month not used now? 5. What Is the importance of the lunar month in navigation? 6. How long is the solar year? Answers to these questions in Monday’s Star. The Dark of the Moon. to take place in the mysterious nights STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why the Tyrant Father Is Foolish to Try to Rule His Modern Daughter—Can a College Girl Be Happily Married to a Farmer? D at home. EAR MISS DIf: Iam a young girl and I have an awfully strict father, whe never lets me go out with the boys or have the boys come to see me He won't even let me have girl friends. I am_just like a jail bird, and watched until it drives me mad. The worst girls I know have the strictest parents—because they are watched all the time. YEARNING FOR FREEDOM. Answer: I get hundreds of letters like yours, my poor little girl, and I Tt is not unnatural that in the past | feel like weeping over every one of them, because between the folly of youth many magical events were supposed | and the pigheadedness of age so many young lives are being ruined. So many young hearts are hot and rebellious at the tyrannies their when the moon is dark. Even Fred-| parents try to impose upon them, and so many fathers and mothers lie erick the Great, issuing an order that | awake at night worrying over the children they cannot control. all Prussian farmers must grow 1t is useless for me to point out to you, my dear, that when you meet potatoes, recommended that they be|boys on the sly that you are hurting yourself worse than you do your father, because you are putting yourself in a false position. planted In the dark of the moon. Gradually people have become en- lightened about the moon, and a eloser view of it, with telescopes, removes some of its portentous mystery. recently seismologists and geologists interested in earthquakes and vol- canic activity, have been seeking to account for the strange creakings and strainings and burstings forth of the earth’s old sides, and they are in- clined, some of them, to lay part of the blame upon the tidal pull which the moon exercises upon the earth. Now what do you know about that? Answers to Yesterday's Questions. 1. Dust i found at sea, though not 80 much so as in most land air. 2. Forest air is pure because it is less dusty and because trees give off oxvgen. 3. Though at nights plants give off carbon dioxide, which s poisonous, there need be no fear about leaving them in the room: the unnoticed leak- age of most gas pipes, and the fumes of the ordinary furnace, give off as much carbon monoxide (far deudlier). as a whole roomful of flowers would do. 4. Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air in propor- tion to the saturation point, which in turn is determined by temperature, high temperatures having greater ca- parity to hold water vapor. 5. Charcoal s dangerous as a fuel for houses because it gives off an odorless but deadly gas, carbon monoxide; ordinarily there is not enough. of this gas to be dangerous, but in small, tightly closed rooms fa- tal amounts get into the air. 6. A bad-smelling gas s put into illuminating gas because the com- bustible gas is a deadly gas having no odor: the bad smelling gas thus gives the only warning of a leak. DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY R. E. DICKSON. Friday Evening. the gate. Mother- in-law said it was all foolishness to pay a girl to do the work “in a dinky little apartment like this” when we had a relative on the ground willing to do it, and for me not to be sllly, and did I think I was a Poor Hilda got So T gave Tlilda a week's her that was the end millionare? pay_and told of that. I thought the house was when Iildax and I got it all for Joan to come homie, but It w: anything to what it is now. Mother- indaw went at it today and made a new apartment of it. ~And she told me to be careful of muddy shoes and tobacco ashes, or she would brain me. And not to smoke in the bed- room, where the baby is. % I thought she was going to have a fit when she found the kiddie kar I bought for the baby. She dld, too, but not the kind 1 was afraid of at first. She just laughed untll 1 thought she would burst a blood ves- sel. BEverything I've got for the haby somebody laughs at it. I tried to get some pictures of the baby In the sunroom late this after- noon. Joan held him in her arms right next to ths windows where it was light, and I shot a whole roll of films. 1 don't know just what alibl to use, but T will need one. T had the camera focused for 100 feet when I was barely across the sunroom from them, and I don't expect the pletures, if any, will be photographic marvels. After eating some of mother-in-law’s ple for dinner tonight, I don't think her visit is going to be an imposition, atter all. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE P. My cuzzin Artle slepp at my house last nite, and we was layving there waiting to go to sleep and I had a ideer, saying, Hay, 1 tell you wat, and he sed, Wat? and I sed. The last one dressed in the morning s a old woman, and_he sed, All rite, that'll be vou, and I sed, How can it wen its going to be vou? - Being a good anser, and this morn- ing we both woke up at the same time and jumped out of bed and started to get dressed fast as enything, me being ahed till it came time to put on my other oe and I couldent find it enywares, ving, Hay, wares my shoe, wares my other shoe? How do I know. do xou think Im a fortune teller for shoes? Artie sed. And he hurry up kepp on catching up to me and kepp or running around looking for my other shoe, ing, Hay, thats a heck of a note, res my other shoe, G winnickers this in no fair, wat happined to my other shoe” Wats vou asking me for, shoe nerse, Artie sed. Well good nite, holy smoke, ware is it I sed, and Artie started to tie his other shoe, saying, Why dont you look out fn the hall? Wich I did, and my other shoe was out there jest behind the door, me say ing, Hay, you put it there, no fair, fowl. Well it T did I must of bin wawkin in my sleep, Artie sed, and I sed, You was not, wen did you ever wawk in your sleep? and he sed, I dont know, how can I tell wat I do wen Im asleep? Im dressed, I won, he sed. Aw go on, your full of prooens, I sed, and he sed, Then your full of apple sauce. Being the end of the subjeck. . Cake Decoration. Tostead of putting the regular candle holders on your child's birth- day cake, put a lace paper doily over it and glue bright new pennies to it and fasten the candles to the pennies with a drop of glue. If you cannot secure new pennles, brighten up some old ones with copper polish. Im no ! with peroxide of hydrogen. thing A girl needs the background of a home and her family to give her dignity, and boys have lttle respect for one who picks up acquaintances on Yet | the street and who keeps her dates at the corner drug store. Nor do they trust the girl who deceives her parents. They feel that the girl who will lie to one will lie to another and that she is lacking In the high principle and honor that are the hallmarks of a lady. T also might point out to vou that when you cut school to spend your time with a boy you are spiting yourself instead of your father, for you are depriving yourself of the benefits of sorely all the balance of your life. For fust to be pretty isn’t enough for a girl In these days. ou are a young lady and out in society you will pass you up for the girls who can entertain be intelligent also. When find that intelligent men the education that you will need so She has to them. There is no place for the Dumb Doras nowadays. But T see your point of view, too. .I know that you are at the time of life when y torture to you to sit at home while all u crave pleasure more than you ever will again and that it is the other girls are having good times. I know how you resent not having any personal liberty and what a cruel, unfeeling tyrant your father seems to T marvel that a man wh; realize that the young nowada thinks he keeps up with the times does not &row up in forcing houses that malke them at least five years older than their real age and that they should be treated cn that basis. The girl of 18 is now as sophisticated as her mother was at 23. knows more of the world and is better fitted to take care of herself. She Also 8he is more hard boiled than her mother ever gets to be. T marvel also that a man refuses to recognize that the heavy-father method is played out and that you cannot rule the modern youngster by force. If you lock the girl in nowaday she doesn't sit down helplessly and weep. She climbs over the transom. She doesn't listen to a curtain lecture and profit by it and humbly bow to her parents’ superior wisdom. I marvel that parents do not realize that children must be dealt with on a new platform, and that, while they cannot be driven, they can be led. They can be cajoled along the straight and narrow path, and if they feel that their parents are giving them a square deal and are willing for them to have a reasonable amount of pleasure they will willingly submit to the restraints that they could not be coerced into enduring. T wonder that parents do not see that Friend Father and Friend Mother may have an unbounded influence over their children, but that the tyrant father and mother who try to bully them into doing right have no influence whatever. .. EAR DOROTHY DIX: The girl is college, has two year: the highest intelligence score given ¢ plished planist and violinist, xnd spe: The man is fine t education. Ile is a poor farmer. they could be happy together with and culture? DOROTHY DIX. vears old, a graduate of a teachers’ teaching experience. While at college she received the college. She is brilliant, an accom- ks three foreign languages. pe of individual, but he has not even a high schaol They love each other, but do you think difference in education A, H. such a wide Answer: has drawn them together is over the Not a chance, T should say. When the physical attraction that woman would be bored to death with the man who could not speak her language nor eater Into her thoughts, and the man would resent her superiorit v over him. No man long loves the woman he has to look up to, and no woman's love survives looking down on her husband. (Copyright. l BEAUTY CHATS A Few Suggestions. Here are a few suggestions so easy to remember and carry out that even the busiest woman may follow them. The first Is about superfluous halrs. These are unsightly and quite un- necessar If you have the time and money you can have them taken out permanently with the electric needle ress, which may mean one to half ; and If you haven't, you pull out all of the worst hairs tweezers and bleach the fuzz ‘The only vou mustn't do yourself is to pull hairs from a mole or wart; vou n get a doctor to remove any such ial blemish easily, hairs and all. If you use tweezers, first rub the skin with peroxide, and, once a hair is out, rub the place with peroxide again. It not only makes the skin antiseptic and does away with any can with DOROTHY DIX. 1926.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES | danger of infection in the hair follicle, it_also bleaches the new hair which lies in the follicle and which will grow out in time—that is. it will be weeks hefore the new hair becomes visible. And, eventually, using peroxide will kill ‘off the superfluous growth and will thin out and make quite incon- spicuous the light fuzz around the upper 1ip and in front of the ears. Speaking f peroxide, do you know its value in preserving your teeth, par- tlcularly if you are threatened with pyorrhea? After you have brushed and, no_doubt, think your mouth and, no doubt, you think your mouth is free of germs for the moment—pour about a_spoonful of peroxide in a glass, add a spoonful of water and use this as a rinse, holding it in the mouth for two minutes. You can feel it fuzzing and when you examine your teeth you'll see how it has fuzzed around each gum—it only fuzzes when in contact with dirt or germs. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright 1926.) Floor covering. Behold. Confusion. Drunkard. Polint of the compass. High priest of Israel. Negative. Likely. Concerning. Eternity. Negative. Babylonion deity. Hang down. Center. Resist authority. Highest point. A welght. Be il Encountered. Fondle. Not even. Metric unit of square measure. Patriotic organization (abbr.). Existed. Indefinite article. Married. Encountered. ‘Work at with ‘steadiness. Acquire. A cent. Until. Mountain in Crete. Prussian watering place. Hebrew month. 551 (Roman). Concealed observer. Point of the compass, Does again. Welrd. " Trudges. Proposed internatlonal language. Act of selling. Peculiarity of a language. Act. Automobile. Preposition. An element. Male child. Climb (dialect). One that devours. Saltpeter. Peruses. Obtained. Tiny point. Made an offer. Human being. A shallow dish. A grain. One, indefinitely. Adjudge. Troublesome plants. Graduates. Not dry. One thousand and six (Roman). American author. Vehicle. Mimie. Observe. Exist. Pronoun. Archaie pronoun. —.— The culinary force of a Chicago hotel was obliged to use 1,100 pounds of eggs and mushrooms in making an omelet for a party of vegetarians, says the Dearborn Independent. 30, 1926. SUB ROSA BY MIMI. Frowns Are Permanent. That's a good thing to remember when you are puckering the old fore- head with irritation or worry er an- noyance—that the frown after a while becomes a permanent fixture on your fair face. And did you ever see any girl or woman who was really at- tractive in spite of the two creases between the eyes? You did not. Thet pucker destroys. something in a woman's face—something of charm and freshness and pep and youth. Even if she has a disposition like an angel the woman with the pucker glives people the impression that she's an f{rritable sort of female. It takes her seme time to live down the unpleasant impression created by her telitale wrinkles. Her critics say to themselves: “Yes, she. seems to be good-natured and nice, but she’s got a nasty frown out- lined on her face. Wonder if that came from temper or sour disposi- tion? Wonder if she flies into awful rages or becomes suddenly irritable over petty details.” T nce the old pucker starts to appear we do everything in our power to re- move it. We read advertisements of smoothers and wrinkle erasers and send eagerly for the remedies which will make us look calm and placid and beautiful again. But alas, we seldom have success. We watch that horrid old frown settle back into place with a trlumphant snap when the ‘'smoother” is re- moved. ' We sigh and pity ourselves, wonder- ing why we should be afflicted with this particular disfigurement, when so few of opur friends have the same trouble. ever once do we consider that we're to blame for thé ugly blemish. Never once in a hundred years do we go after the real cause of the trouble and remove that. I1f we'd only take as much pains not to frown we do to erase the traces of our frowning we'd improve complexion and disposition in one fell swoop. If we'd get over snapping angrily at the telephone operator and the stupid clerk in the department store and the conductor who gives us the wrong transfer, we'd get over the frown which accompanies all these unpleasant little speeches, and be- hold, our foreheads would remain clear and beautiful. A woman who looks irritable ptrives against a tremendous handicap. Boys avoid the girl wh forehead shows traces of irritation and 1l temper. They don't know that they don't like Irene because she has a permanent frown. They explain vaguely looks kind of “sour” and *hard to please” and they don't fall in love with her easily. She rather scares them awa; It's more important than you girls probably realize just now—that nasty lttle pucker up there over the nose. In 10 years, though, when you're beginning to sag a bit and the ugly lines are showing up in all their un- pleasantness, you'll wish you had ot only avoided frowning ~when you were voung and 20, but you'll wish vou had avolded the cause of frown- ing, too. Why not erase the cause and the frown right now, while there is time? MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. that wsne When Children Are Sick. One Mother Sa When children more work for she thinks that it is fair to slight as many duties as she can. Indeed must be neglected, but I am ve ful which ones I neglect. I take par- ticular pains with the sickroom meals. Always there is a dainty tray cloth, some ftresh flowers and a little surprise served with the simple food. When health 1s low, impressions made are deepest. Children will never for- get such attentions. (Covyrizht are sick, it 1926.) What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are adverse until noon. They then change rather abruptly and become favorabie, and this condition remains undis- turbed for the balance of the day. The usual early observdnees of a Sunday will dissipate the baneful influences of the morning and should create the proper degree of receptivity for the stimylating vibrations that will -be ex- perienced after midday. Happine: peace and contentment will be induced by congenlal companionship and in every sense the day should prove to be a “day of rest and gladness.” Children born tomorrow will during infancy be subject to numerous ail- ments, and only a perfect system of nutrition, combined with wholesome environment, will enable them to over- come these ills and attaln that phys- ically normal adulthood which the signs bespeak for them. In disposi- tion they will be patient and gentle and." although suffering much, will neter complain. They will attract and, as they grow up, will develop a per- sonality that will charm by reason of its kindliness and unselfishness. These children will be truthful and sincere, keen, so far as their physical condition will permit, for all outdoor sports and recreations, but never neglectful of their studies, in which, fired by an all- compelling ambition, they will always excel. Success, in a large measure, can be safely anticipated for them. (Covyrizht. 1926.) —— Gold is contained in all sea water, but in such small quantities that no process has vet been devised for re- covering it profitably, says the Dear- born_Independen exactly | FEATUR THE MILLION QUITE SUDDENLY BETTY, OF HER LI CHAPTER LIV. The Right Man. Amos Craig avoided Betty's room. He was afraid that it might be neces- sary to bring up the subject of k broken engagement if he visited fer. And then one day he passed her *dom and the door was ajar. He cotldn’t avold speaking to her. Sho was almost ready. was sitting in a big chair by dow. She still looked so wfite and frail that it almost broke his heart to look at her. And yet she seemed more like the pale little nurse he had fallen in love with so long ago—the little nurse who had cried bewause she couldn't bear to see a child cut. The smile that she gave him was very real and his eyes kintled. But he spoke quite professionall “Almost out of the woels, aren't you? I'm glad. Miss Marshall tells me you're going home for 4 good rest. You centainly deserve it." Strange, the things people can say when their minds go on thinking quite differently! Amos was thinking how white and slim her throat was above the rolled collar of her neglige, of how he had once kissed her lips. What a little, girl she wa: And then, perhaps because these things had been in his subconscious mind for so long, he suddenly found himselt beside her chair, drawn there by a force so irresistible that he could not resist it. b “Betty!” he spoke her pame and then found it impossible to continue. “Yes.” she said very softly. “Listen. Betty,” he found himself saving. “Is there any chancs for me? I couldn't have bothered you again if I hadn't known you were free, and I never will again if you once say there is no chance. You see, I've zone on hoping. Perhaps, because I know that I love vou so much I couldn't fail vou in anything. I haven't anything to offer you, I know that. We'll be poor for a time. But we could share things. and. dearest, 1'd take care of you. 1 love you so much. Once before I told you this and you may not want to to les've and HER ae win- | ES. DOLLAR WIFE By HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. OWN FREE IPS TO HIS WILL, TURNED ran‘t help it. T want yor I can't promise vou an even ‘that we'd always be hap ife is like that. But there's alwa the chance that vou wouldn't be un in mv thin | happy at the same time and then 1'd | be there for i to lean on, and if 1 head on your bred ired could put m when I was He stoppe he had been talking nonse She would probably more than she ever was very white and & a mouth full of drexm was tense. In that D we of the fact that ravir moment “You say you have nothing to offci | me?" He shook his head, staring down & o. “You're not being quite fair to your self, are you?' “What do you mean hy tha vou love me."” ant you,” he burst oufe eed you. I want you now, now ‘want to share my dreams with you want to build my life around you Oh, T know I'm a Inuatic, but I've cared so lon s pro! ably the reason why I can't take no for an answer, and you sce 1 can't help knowing you are free.” He stopped, aware of the fact t he had, after all. brought up the sul ject he wanted to a but she only smiled at him “I am free,” she said simyly awake at I You see- But before she could h Amos had lifted her up in his arms. Ile was burying his face against her hair Perhaps it was unethical f physician to behave in qu « seemly a fashion with a patient, but Miss Marshall ‘was gossiping in t diet kitchen and they were quite alone. Quite suddenly, Betty, of her own free will, turned her lips to his. She clung to him a moment and then she laughed shakil; “Isn't it funny.” 1 never knew (Convright_ 1926.) d. “and she gasped, “that hear it now. I'm afraid you won't Floor Linens. Table linens and bed linens are familiar words to the housewife's ear, but floor linens are something new. They promise to be permanent, how- ever. If the advantages of linen in other uses have appealed to you, you will be interested in the use of floor linens, One of the first facts that will at- tract you is that linen rugs are moth proof. Be sure though to buy russ that are made of pure flax. without any fillers of wool or cotton. Linen {ruks will not cateh fire from dropped matches or cigaret stubs. A small scar is sometimes made, but it can be { quickly gotten rid of. Linen rugs are very easily cleaned. |and this fact will appeal to many | housewives who are continually beat- ling rugs or sending them to the | cleaner. Stalns can be removed with { cleaning fluids. but soap and water ! should not be used. There's one- fault to note about linen rugs. Linen will not retain dyes very well. and a linen rug should not be used in a place where it will get continual tramping, such as in a public restau- rant, etc. Linen rugs are made of the strong- est of all fabrics and are natural long-wearing. They are made so that they can be reversible, and when one side begins to show wear by revers- ing the rug the life of it can be Our Children No Audience. come things | There are mothers for. You know they will not without an audience, and when we do not want them to act we give them ne audience. We turn our backs and edge them away with a cold shoulder. When the little 3-year-old begins to whine for what he wants grant him no audience. Leave him the whole room if you can do so safely. Answer him once and consider that matter settled. If he keeps on, “Will you, mother, will you,” or “Can I, mother, can 1" for a few minutes at a stretch look at him silently and turn your back. When you can't stand him any (always where you can see him) and keep silent. He is not to have what he whines for. If you happen to have the sort of child who loves to dramatize things and who comes rushing into the room with , “O mother, you ought to see what Mrs. Smith did. It was awful. You'd be surprised. She's terrible, Slammed the door right in Mrs. Brown's face. She did. What do you think Offer no audience. Remove any | trace of response from your face and keep on being busy. The gossipy child will cease to-magnify the things things he hears or sees, cease to in- them _ dramati (Mrs. because it was a door that you had to bang), cease to think that dra matics will claim your attention, which he craves. The stubborn, willful child, who stamps and says, “I won't.” is not to have audience either. Most of the time that is what he is looking fdr. Most grown people think that a child’s saying “T won't” is about the last straw—that it is the indication of complete breakdown of respect and | authority. It isn't. It is usually | nothing more than the child’s demand | for attention. He is ready to have | a session with his mother any time she will lend him her time and at- need not give children the audience | act | longer put him in a room by himself | THE END. WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. lengthened. Many people are using i V select rose and green, which for the bedroom and parl Linen’ rugs I heavy bod, on the floor. A rug that w buckles up w 1l wear out qu the fabric is woven close tight yarn, 1. has no pile | gather dust o1 hold it. Linen i | absorb div that's a | point in it Linen rug color, though S0 sther wor. are usually one tone a few mixtures h been placed on the market. consider this in keepin modern tendency to he color scheme in a room. Othérs think | this feature unfavor It is really {a matter of personal taste. All linen rugs made of real flax are harsh_at first, but they and almost silk-like with wear | Linen rug economical hecause | they are not expensive, and they I | unusually long lives. Some peopie still prefer a thick pile in their ru feeling that a rug should he soft and springy. Many others have heen wen | by the attractive features of the linen | rug and are using them with satistac tion. All sorts of rugs will have their devotees, but vou take a look at a linen rug vourself. in ve th th singl By Angelo Patri | And when the forms you that | on some wild adventure or joining the Navy s the continent or mar etheart of the hour, look a mly with just t | boredom and” say, That sounds all right bout taking the car down | your mother at the station. | just about make the train. pick up vour sweetheart (or your pal we/ come back. Taik your |over while we have some music. | just set for some good music te | adolescent is about to child in et zoin to r We e You « plans I'm ight If he can talk it out with some chum, he will be all right. If you grow excited about it and wave your |arms and argue, he will continue to j claim audlence, and the more he gets the more he needs. Just take things | with calmness, and when you would discourage any phase of growth cut down on the audience and emphasi the other thing by lending it your It is that, the child is aski for, not the whim of the minute. 1 with discrimination, your audience t your child is a powerful force for good. Like petals from the bloom of Time The colored days Float past. And one E»y one theyll lightly come And Bvry me at last. REneey tention, dnd he quickly knows that “I won't” will bring it. Try ignoring | him and see how surprised he ia.