Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 46

The well managed house is a curi- ous mixture of routine and vari The home that Is run according t tine alone is 80 monotonous that it de Ppresses those who live in it. It wears the homemaker by its eternal com- monplaceness. It becomes irksome to the husband., who alwavs knows just what to expect for breakfast, for din ner, for supper each day of the week, and just what will be the drder of evenings. It jars on the children not to be able to deviate from & plan. Pleasures are no respecters of routine and they have to be enjoved when the CERTAIN ROUTINE SUCH MEALS A DAY, W. D DUSTING, IS UNAVOID- BIU'T IT SHOULD BE MAN. OT MANAGE THE HOME- AGED, > MAKER opportunities come. Company breaks into routine. The unexpected guest is not so warmly welcomed, therefore, and entertaining does not enter very strongly into the home life where rou- tine must not ba interfered with. On the other hand. the household where routine is totally disregarded is WOMAN’S PAGE. Where meal hours are not heeded or where the meals are not served punctually, there is uneasiness which is disturbing. If the work is done in A haphazard way and at times that suit the worker, with no regard to the rest of the household, the home is in a ferment continually. The prac | tice of doing everything on the spur of the moment does not tend to make the domestic machinery run smoothly Where Happiness Lies. And =0 we find that in“the running of a home, comfort and happiness lie between extremes of routine and chaos. There must be enough of rou- | tine to balance the deviatlons from it to give stability and enough variety to give zest. There must be three | meals a day and 21 meals a week. but | there mayv be pleasant surprises in | differing menus. Thefs must be laun- | dry work, but not invarfably on Mon- | day. If we can gather our friends | | about us over a week end, and this in- | terferes with washing being done on | Monday, it can be done on Tuesday, at least occasionally, without upset- ting the customary routine. | | Occasional Tardiness. | | If members of the familv sometimes | have to be late, do n let every one | feel uncomfortable about it either be- cause the food i= not eaten when it is | at its prime, and is either cool or not | done to the proverbial “turn,” or be- | cause you. the housewife, are annoyed by the work not getting done at the customary time. It is only when such occurrences tend to become habitual that they endanger the desirable rou- tine, Pleasures Add Zest. It is the unexpected that brings the most zest to life: the chance to do something long wished for: the seeing | of friends who we thought were far a the turn that business takes that brings in greater income or af- fords biggzer opportunities for develop- ment: the joy of having matters go well with those dear to us when the outlook was unfavorable, etc. Such events not only bring happiness, but | they are very apt to upset routine. Perhaps an entire day is “off sched ule.” perhaps meals are interfered with. but what does it matter? The routine can be resumed while the bhig- ger things must be taken when they come, when the time for their ful- filment is ripe. It is, in an atmo- sphere of routine tempered with an understanding of the importance of variety that housekeeping reaches its highest level. “puzz’;cles" Puszle-Limericks A wondrous faith-healer one —1— Had to keep all his patients —: While he hid his —3— With a riotous —4 Which has falth couldn't heal, strange 1o —5— 1. Division of time. 2. In check (two words). 3. Small inclosure. 4. Most people have a number of them. 5. Relate. NOTE—"Physician, cure thyself.” probably what a number of patients said to this faith-healer on this par- ticular occasien—and that the quota- tion was quite appropriate will be apparent when the limerick has been.| completed. Another “Puzzlick” and the answer to this one will appear here tomorrow. Yeserday's “Puzzlick.” There was a young lady of Lawrence Whose language came gushing in torrents, Tiss told by her teacher: “Your manner, dear creature, somewhat chaotic, for routine is the balance wheel of good housekeeping. | BEDTIME STORIES The Secret Storehouse. Happy Jack Squirrel knows the truth of this. He knows that the Is more than your scholarship war- rants. (Copyright 1926.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS peek out and watch for Happy Jack. He hadn’t yet seen Happy Jack, but he felt sure Happy Jack was some- where ahout. Peter had heen sitting there only a few moments when he heard a rustling. Peter peeked around only wav to keep a secret is to keep | it That is why he i& very careful | never to tell where his storehouses | are. Happy Jack wouldn't tell his | hest friend. People are queer. They mean ta keep a geeret, but they can't A secret s the slipperiest thing in | tha world. It is forever slipping out when vou think yeu have it all hottled up The only way to keep a sacret is to keep it and not share it with anv_one. This is why Happy Jack wenldn't | tell Peter where he was storing away | PETER CAUGHT A GLIMI oF A GRAY COAT. Kory s e knew that if those ould tell Peter, Peter would tell » else. He wouldn't mean to one else, but sooner of later would let it So Happy Jack tell Peter where he wias an't z those hickory nuts. o thing that provoked Peter was o would see Happy Jac of a hollow tree trunk t o ground. He would en snd with a nut in his mouth an pretty soon he would come out W out the nut Yet. though 1 fnside several times, he ¢ & s je nut. It was a most tantaliz fps mystery. If Happy Jack suspect ed that Peter was spying on him, he didn’t say a word. e just went on about business of * finding hickory nuts and storing them aw Now, it all aggravated Peter very ol indeed, but what could he do about it? It seemed to him that those hickory nuts must he in that hollow tree somewhere But, though he look- ed and looked and looked, he couldn’t that lay at . find a single nut. Finally Peter gave up. It was getting late in the after. noon and he knew that Happy Jac wouldn't work much longer. So Pe bade him good-by and went off to see what the other Squirrel cousins were doing. It w n't until afternoon of the next how Peter returned to see day tha Happy Squirrel was ge along. he approached that ed 1o Pet to letting Happy ing. What he really did was to sneak up, which is never a nice thing to do Now Peter came from a different girection from the one in which he had come before. He presently came to & stump. It was an old, partly rotted, hollow stump. Peter sat down behind this stump to rest. Then, too, it was a good place from which to ¢ hickory tree it occu steal np auietly, | Jack sat | than and the stump and discovered that right on the other side there were some ferns growing. One of these ferns moved ever so little. Peter caught a glimpse of a gray coat. He knew it instantly. It was the coat of Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. Then Peter made a discovery. Those ferns grew up around the end of a long, hollow, | fallen tree. Peter held his breath | and watched. Presently out of the | farther end of that tree he saw Happy Jack Squirrel pop. Happy | up. looked all about, then scampered away. Peter remained where he was. Happy Jack appeared presently with a nut in his mouth. He looked ahout in all directions, then disappeared in the end of the hollow fallen tree. In great excitement Peter waited. Pres- ently Peter saw those fern leav right close to him move. Happy Jack A come out at the other end of that SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Well, there! 1 got my shoes pitty well blacked fer him-—if drandpa’s they hadn't been brown in the first place I could ob done a better job. (Copyright, 1826.) THE DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY ROBERT E. DICKSON. Thursday night. Joan feit rotten all day, she said when I came home tonight. She certainly looked pretty bad. I told her I thought she had come home from the hospital too soon, but she said, “Nonsense.” 1 sald: *““We'd better get Hilda again: the work is too much for you 8o soon,” and she sald, “Nonsense" again. So I “Now, listen here. You wouldn’t take my asked you to stay at the hospital another week. I gave in, and now it's my turn to have my way.” All of a sudden Joan got awfully pale and sort of fell back on the lounge, and I ran over to her and couldn’t think of what to do, so I called the doctor. I tried to get our obstetrician. but couldn’t, 5o I called our pediatrist and he came over. He sald: “This is a lttle out of my lin u should have——" And I sald: “It's a long way eut of my line, brother, so it's up to you,” and finally he sald Joan needad rest; she seemed to have been worrying over the baby, though she needn’t—not with him in charge—and she wasn't getting enough sleep. T sald: “That _settles that, then,” and I called Hilda, but wasn't home, so I am going to stay home myself tomorrow to do work. Joan says I won't be any earthly use to her. advice when T Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Knock-Knees. Knock-knees are the result of rickets in practically every instance. Rickets cause the bones to be so soft that the welght of the child 1s sufficl- ent to “bow” them when he stands or walks. Tt is not bacause a child walks too early, as most children who walk very early are strong enough The bow-legged children the late walkers, the g children who resent dragged to their feet and made to walk around, because they are not ready for it. A child with a tendency to rickets should not be urged to walk. His fet should be corrected and should include cod liver oil, sometimes plain. sometimes phosphorized (if advised by the physician), and he should have plenty of air and sunlight Some mothers become very much worried about the position in which their babies' legs fall naturally, that is turned In and rounded. With voung babies this Is a_perfectly nor- mal way for the legs to be, as they were bent into this position before birth. This is not a case of bow- leggedness, but a natural one. Tt is after the baby begins to walk and his He was under the ferns. Peter | waited until Happy Jack had returned | the way he had come. Then, when | Happy Jack was out of sight, Peter refully peeped under those ferns. etween the roots of that old stump | ind which he had been hiding was | a hole. It was quite a good sized hole. | Peter peeped down in it. It was more | half full of fat hickory nuts. Peter had found the secret of Happy Jack's storehouse. Happy Jack was running through that hollow tree | hiding the nuts in this snug little storehouse between the roots of the old stump. (Coprright. 1026.) EY are only twodaysold | —these tender cucumbers! And not a trace of their fresh crispness is lost. On the very day of picking they are rushed intobrineatourmany country pickling stations. Then long months of skillful handling— | longseasoninginspicedliquors | —are needed to bring them to ! your table with that tempting crispness, which you like best. 9 o I ~ BOTTLED PICKLES—CANN BULK PICKLES A delicate task for months to mae them so delightfully crisp PICKLES legs round out, instead of being sturdy and straight, that one may feel real alarm. If the diet and cod liver oil are he- zun as soon as this tendency to how- leggedness is noticed there is every chance that the legs will outgrow th howed condition. If the child's diet and his general health are not {m- proved the bones become hardened in that position and there fa little hope for the child to outgrow the deformity unless the mother resorts to braces or n operation to stralghten them. It is vitally important then to begin the curative treatment before such a condition becomes permanent. ED PICKLES THE EVENING' Children or Husband —Which Comes Firats Nothing Will Separate Him From Wife More Quickly Than to Regard Him Merely as “The Children’s Father.” 'WE have a theory that children form the strongest tle that binds a marri Sometimes this is true spiritually and baby hands wield a magic that makes an indissoluble bond between a husband and wife. couple together. Very often it is true physically, for misery of an unhappy marriage for the sake of the helpless young creatures that they have brought into the world. But children separate their parents just as often as they unite them, and if the true co-respondent in many a neither & vamp in slinky clothes and long jade earrings, nor a varnished haired jazz hound, but a bald-headed, pink infant with its fist in its mouth and whose {nfluence was exerted by inarticulate sounds. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DorothyDixflm,. e Plends for Father—"the Reypister.” many a man and woman endure the divorce case were named, it would be meaps of gurgles and goos and other For in many a marriage the first rift within the lute comes with the first baby. The firet cloud on many shape of a feeding bottle. who steals his wife's heart Many a om him. A domestic horigon is the size and the man finds in the cradle the fatal rival Many a man is driven away from his own fireside and into the company of gay ladieg by a small atom of humanity that yet is, somehow, big e: him out. nough to fill the whole house and crowd P to the time of the baby's ari peaceful and joyous. The man rival, everything had been happy and had been cock of the walk, with the household revolving around him. He had been the center of the universe to his wife. She had dressed herself t striven to please him. She had been o0 look beautiful in his eves. She had pal and lover to him. But with the advent of the baby all was changed. The man found him self depesed as king, with none so po longer considered his taste, or his happiness, or his pleasure. her sole thought. or as to do him reverence. His wife no The baby was She no longer dolled herself up, because baby tore at her chiffons. was never willing to go anywhere of an evening She answered at random when he talked to her because she was baby. listening for baby's cry, and she was himself because that left her free to She 'cause she couldn't leave frankly glad when he would go out by indulge in her child worship. How inevitable that he should grow indifferent to a wife who shows him every day in every way what a sec Thousands of men who would have the end are alienated from their wives by their wives' obsessing passion of motherhood. For to many women their husbands are merely their children's father. They do not exist as either men o Still less do their wives feel that there is any necessity of cajoling, charming, amusing or considering them. Their business in life is to work clothes and college educations and extravagant youthful fancy may ask. They are pitiless in the sacrifices ECAUSE fresh country air is good up their homes every Summer mountains or sea, leaving husbands the city, with no comfortable home awaliting him. Because the fashionable schools, and live in a works her husband to death. Cruelest of all the wrongs that they exact. . .. children ondary place he occupies in her heart! been good, loving. faithful husbands to r husbands, with any rights as such. and provide the children with food and automobiles and whatever else their They are ruthless in their demands. for children, thousands of women shut and take their broods of youngsters to to toil through a hot Summer alone in to come to at night, no good dinner want fine clothes, and to go to smarter neighborhood, many a woman these women. who are all mother and no wife, do their husbands ix the way that they monopolize their children, and make a sort of close corporation In some indefinable way it is always Mother, who is always trying to get things out of father for them. who always sides with them against which excludes their father from them. mother and the children against father. Mother, father. Often mother criticizes father to the children and cheapens him in their eves. Surely life holds no bitterer situation for a man than this: To have toiled like a alave for his family; to have worked while they played; to have gane shabby while they were resplendent, and then to ha robbed of his wife's affection by his children and defrauded of his children's love by his wife, To get neither love, nor gratitude, nor appreciation. cash register that they punch for all To be just the human they can get. It is a wicked thing that a woman does when she permits herself to love her children more than she does her She cheats him when she does it and husband, and to put them above him. fails in her duty as a wife. And it is a foolish thing she does and short-sighted, because in a little while her children grow up and marry and go about thei it she has lost her husband's love. (Copyrix 150 YEARS BY JONATHAN Paul Jones Bags Big Prize. CAPE BRETON, Nevember 12, 1776.—Capt. John Paul Jones of the United ‘States Navy has prepared for the marine committee a report on his recent adventures, including the capture this morning of the British ship Mellish. His cruise in the Al- tred is for the purpose of rescuing American saflors who are imprisoned in the Cape Breton coal mines, but he is always on the watch for British supply ships. He writes: “Gentlemen: I had the honour of writing to you from Rhode Island, 30 ultimo, with an account of my late cruise, and coples of my letters down to the 30th of September. 1 sailed from thence first current, and have met with contrary winds and strong weather for some time past I have not, however, met with any mate; disaster. “I took the brigantine Active last night, from Liverpool for Halifax, with an assorted cargo on private ac- count, and this morning I fell in with and took the ship Mellish, of 350 tens, from Londen for Quebeck, with a carge consisting entirely of clothing. The prize is, I believe, the most valuable ship that hath been She was taken by the American arms. made some defense, but it by the hest accounts 1 can learn, was worth 6,000 pounds Sterling when she left England. 1 found 60 men, women and children on board the Mellish, several of whom are persons of distinction. 1 have taken them all on hoard here, and Story of the U. S. A. r business, and then she is left desolate DOROTHY DIX. ht. 1926.) AGO TODAY A. RAWSON, JR. shall now endeavor all T possibly can to effect the principal part of my duty and relieve our ill-treated fellow citi- zens at Cape Breten. The loss of the Mellish will dis- tress the enemy more than can be easily imagined, as the clothing on board of her is the last intended to be sent out for Canada this season and all that hath preceded it is al- ready taken. The situation of Bur- EOyrie's army must soon become un- supportable. “T will not lose sight of a prize of such importance, but will sink her rather than suffer her to fall again into their hande. T send the Active into port, and she conveya this. There are among the prisoners 40 seamen =oldiers, with their officers. “J am, with much esteem and re- spect, gentlemen, your much obliged, very obedient, and most humble se, vant, J. P. JONES” (Covvriht. 1926.) = B “That new boy bmags so much | Split Pea Soup. about his father! Why, my papa could spit through his teeth when Soak two cupfuls of split peas for several hours. Strain, pour on fresh water, bring to a bofl, and beil for |three minutes. Strain again and add two quarts of water, three ounces of fat salt pork, and salt and pep- per. Cook untll’ the peas are thor- oughly broken up, the time required | varying with the dryness of the | vegetable. 11t may be necessary to add a littlél water from time to time, although the soup should be some. what ceoked down when it is to be nsed as a hearty dish. Stoke the furnace but why yourself? And the furnace door is closed. That'’s the way to feed SWISH, swing, crash, rattle, bang! a furnace. But is itt Take time to eat your breakfast leisurely! Plenty of time and Shovel coal, yes. breakfast. Eat it! Chase & Semborw’s Seal Bran of Chase & Sanborn’s Seal Brand Coffee to make your breakfast all the finer. (Chase&Sanborn's SEAL BRAND COFFEE he way to feed yourself? plenty of coffee. Plenty But don’t shovel your a 1eais of the same high quality FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926. " Answer to yesterduy’s Puzzle. he wasn't but 7 years old." FEATURES. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1926.) LITTLE BENNY My cuzzin Artle was going to stay at our house for suppir today, and me and him was sitting on the frunt steps and pop came home, saying, Ah there, younger generation. how have you bin amusing vourelves this bewtiful after noon, {f its not too persinil a question? We bin having a contest to see wich one could write their name the most perfeck, I sed. > Good. that sounds like an instruck- tive as well as an amusing pagstime, theres nuting so sattis feckly legible signature, signed to a large check. pop sed. Well these was jest signed. they wasent signed to envthing spehil, 1 signed most of mine uphill and Arte signed his downhill, wich is the beat way, pop? 1 sed. Well, thats a very delicate point, &ome authorities bleeve in signing the ferst name uphiil. the middle inftial on the level and the last name down | hill, pop sed | Envways, pop. we couldent decide | who won hecause we bhoth thawt we ,each won, will you be the judge. pop, | we wrote them 'in chawk on the back | fents. T sed. Wat back fents? pop sed, and T sad, Ours, and pop sed. Yee gods. the fants that T had painted ont 2 munths ago Artle, did you have eny Intentien of remaining heer for suppir? he sed. « Yes sir, Artia sed, and pop sed. Then {changa vour mine. Renny, did you have even a faint Ideer of leaving the house after suppir? and I sed, Yes air, and he sed. Ranish it. Down. 1. Taro root. Beard of grain. Make complete. Floats of logs. Away. Chinese.monstary unit. Errors in printing. . Pocket linen. 9. Curved line. 10. Comprehend. . Esgyptian goddess. 16. Historical time. 19. Cry. Amount of surface. outing. Across. 23. Name of a lake. Meening T conldent. on aceaunt of 1 24. Bumps into. having to stay out in the yard rubbing 4. Senseless repetition. 27. Name of a month (abbr.). out the chawk till it got dark. 1:‘- 31:’1?!11 30. Brawl. E —— . ged to. 31. Kind of fuel. ; . 12. In the distgnce. 38 Tongsueriodiof Ume: Shrimp Sandwiches. 13. Exist. 135. Decree of’ the Sublime Porte. Pound some shrimps and add lemon 14. Lack of concern. 37. Opera star. juice and pepper. Mix in some 17. Suffix of agency. 39. Feminine proper name. | mayonnaise ~dressing and spread 18. Pork fat 40. Chart. | thickly between slices of buttered 19. Send aw 41. Fasten. | brown bread. A little lettuce or chop- 22. Ome who accepts a wager. 42. Mineral. | ped watercress placed on top of the 25, Crafts. 43. Masculine nickname. | shrimp filling s an improvemant. 26. Initials of the United States. 28, Perfod. 29. Tiny. 30. Payment. 31. Proper. e o 32, Light beer. i i ways Delicious 36. Highway. 38, Cheer. 39. Freedom. 44. Large vessel 45. Eager. 46. Before. - 47. Copy. 48, Level headed. 49. 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