Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 26

WOMAX’S ‘PAGE." Poise in Decoration Is Important BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. @ of a pendulum. THE RAN Perfect poise lies exacly in the mid- | of the swing well to think of ie of the two extremes It ATEN 3 OF GOOD T. this in connection with the decoration of old and modern homes, for in be- tween the extreme severity decoration of the old-fashioned 2 ultra-ornateness nd the of utili; of tion of the some of the periodic decor mid-Victorian erathere is a 1nean which combines usefulne: beauty Just now we are so fortunate as to be e < happy mean than for n to the iany a long vear, exquisite simplici ture in simple direct lines tion in the revival of a of ntiques nd propoi We are returning furni and we are including modern conveniences without overelaborateness of design. We are combining with these two de- sirable elements beauty of color in decorative schemes in a way that makes color of prime importance whatever the fabrics may be, whether In buying furniture for a new home or in adapt- a ing what these ctually costly or cheap. three be kept in mind. 1i I it Finishes, Inlays, Furniture should be el simplicity. It shou cracks of glued or ni of inlaid tri decoration. hed or nd-carved self, is impor Ete. egant ald m, or The have we have to present need: elements should always in its no 4 amentations. t should either be of plain wood fin, with wood ant, for either it is gen- uine ‘or it is finished to reproduce the beauty of the genuine as much as pos. Inlays can sible.” Graining in wood, burling, etc., » things to accent. sometimes be cleverly 1i 19, nishing of the me W wood 8 to semble one handsome kind and leav- indicated by re. AND AUSTERE LIES SIMPLICITY STE IN DECORATION. ing paris in a contrasting fini this there is a certaln beauty tive of marquet In all of these things we are picking out the best of the furniture of the past and intro- dueing it in such ways that true fine- ness of style can be had whether large or modest sums are spent. Carved Furniture. When it comes to carved furniture, it is wise to leave it alone unless you can get genuine hand-carved pleces. There is a fascination in the lack of perfection in symmetry in hand carv- ing. While this sume thing is true of spool and s turned work, they can be reproduced well. So also can work that does not come _directly | under the term of carving. There is a wide distinction between hand-carved and hand-made articles. The poise of fashion is between extremes, and is markably good. It is easier to find wide array of choice pieces at mod- erate cost than previously. Good Balance. Furnishings also assume a better poise, though they swing more readily at a touch of fantastic in vogues. For instance, the grotesque is sanctioned in many things, but it is recognized as grotesque, and the things are used to accent conservative styles rather than to be in line with them. At the moment there is a trend toward over- ornateness in lamp shades, however, that should be guarded against. Sim: plicity should be the keynote. It rep- resents poise. When we come to the color schemes. that are being introduced they de- serve an entire story. Beauty can be had by its use that surpasses former appreciation of its possibilities. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Covyright. 1926.) AR ACROSS. Swiss district. Bags. Eternity. . Ringer. . Break. . Symbol for nickel. - Mislaid. 16. Attention. 17. Connect. Become 20. Prefix: two By A6 trbuE 3. Ourselves. . Loiter. reek Jetter. Small mark . Neophyte. . Preposition. Smoothes. . You and me . Pull along . dnited States coin. Perform. Extremities Greek letter. Reproduce. “and ridge. Metric unit of area. Alleviated Prejudiced. DOWN. 1 Packed Approach, Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. X SEEE B . Summit. . Upon. . (Compass point. . Wholly. . Obstruct. Kind of dog. Metallic vessel. . Prison, Period of time (plural). Hypothetlcal force. . City of Chald Bovine animals . Expression of pain essively. Climbing plant. Australian bird. . Eudured. . Unites Single spots. Petition. . Epoch. . Initials of a State. . Three-toed sloth. i “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks. i s said that the old |(A_personage vi | Dismissed his - A man of —4—. | For making him drink —5—. | 1. A county town in England. 2. Famous in history. 3. Doctor. | 4.Distinction 5 common medicine containing opium. 't vouch for the ca |1t the earl objected to taking -5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, December 5. While Venus is in benefic aspect tomorrow, according to astrology. there is a strong adverse rule. Mars and Saturn are in evil place. This is a time for public activities on the part of women who are o exerclse greater interest in politics and good government than in previ- ous years. There is a promising sign for women’s clubs and for re form organizations which they will project in the coming months. Mars is in a place threatening the | peace and safety of 4he people every- | where. Crime is to reach such limits of daring that citizens will rise s in an army of combat, astrologers prophesy. Warning is given that in Congress and in the State Legislatures there will be bitter contentions and many sensational occurrences. The day is rather menacing to the affairs of older men and women. The youth movement may overturn more traditions. Great fluctuations will disturb Great B astrologer foretells. The violent death of a European ruler and the suicide of a 'foreign financier are forecast. Again a new toxin for influenza prophesied as a result of a new ep demic, which may prevail in the Win- ter month: f public opinion tain, a London of this limerick, but | {he very probably took the action de. | i scribed. If you can't supply the miss- ing words, look for the answer—and another “Puzzlick"—here on Monday.) ‘ Yesterday's Puzzlick.” | There was a young fellow named Phil | Who cour There followed, of course, G'a charmer named Li A suit for divorce— von sre he is courting her still?! (Wewsrbit, 1826) Health will now be a matter of na- tional concern, and this anxiety will precede some sort of an epidemic, as- trologers forecast. Secret diplomacy is to be a matter of anxiety all through the Winter, for the stars will encourage subterfuge and double dealing. Persons whose birth date it is ma haye rather a strenuous year in which quarrels and disputes take place. Children born on that have adventurous and stormy live: These gifted ones often pay for talents, but are likely to make world fame. (Copyright. 1926.) DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY R. E. DICKSON. Friday night. Women must be crazy. I got the surprise of my life at breakfast this morning. I was hav- ing a fine time with some of my mother’s hot biscuits and some jam, which Joan’s grandmother brought = ’.‘-‘l . ” '\(;,q 5 ) PN and I w thinking what a world it was after all, when Joan's grandmother said, “We three had a wonderful idea on the v hom2 from the movies last night. We didn’t get to tell you on account of the way you yelled because you didn't get to go to that card game.” I said, “What was the idea—to go to another show tonight?” and T took | another biscuit. She said, “No: we are going to take the baby to see the rest of his grand- parents and all his aunties and . “Now you've spoiled my breakfast. Did it take all three of you to think that up—taking a baby, who is not vet 7 weeks old, on a 500- mile trip just to see a lot of rela- tives?” My mother said, “I came 500 miles just to see a lot of relatives, if that's the way you want to look at it.” sald, “Yes, but vou aren’t a bab; and Joan said, “Well, you are.” 1 said, “All right. all right. How are vou going to take that poor little fellow on a train? Put him in a upper berth and let him roll out’ My mother said, “We will carry him in a basket.” I said, “Like a puppy Do vou think T have no pride?” They all id at once, “Everybody carries a baby in a basket on the train.” I sald, “You don’t have to tell me I'm dumb. Here I'm going to be late for work because I've been sit- ting here trying to argue with three ‘women." o that's all settled. I may as well like it. They said they were going some time next week. I said, “When are you coming back?” Joan said, “Good heavens; I haven't left yet.” Baked Caulifiower. Take a large caulifiower, wash it and put it on in salted boiling water to cook until tender. Carefully re- move with a skimmer so as not to break it. Put on a platter, flower side up. Have ready a white sauce, and with a spoon dip the sauce over it. Then grate a generous amount of cheese over it. Dot with bits of but. ter and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven. Send to the table on the same dish, garnished with watercress or parsley. pEm—— The famous.collection of glass flow- ers in the Harvard University Mu- seum contains 3,600 models of flower- Ing plants. Mahogany Desk for P, | AR DOROTHY DIX: good salary doing the sort of wol to marry me. for me to have the luxuries and the g are tied down with bables, that they | swaps a good job for a wedding ring | do you think? | point of view. There are husbands who wouldn't at 10 cents the bunch, but there are lil luxury and still feel that they had a bargain. be not to be married at all. Your problem is one that many ¢ married and ready to sa her, and who is draw exchanges a mahogany desk for a broc romance pales and the hard sledding has been used to having her own places of amusement and to wor | ng As is witnessed b store, who recently married, three came back asking for the testimony of o you do well, Clara, to consid, your job tor a hushand. For one thing and eat it, too. If ybu marry you m unless you are willing to do housewor happy home, unless you love him enc longing for good times and pretty clot It is a dishonest thing for a girl to cheerfully the conditions of life which So don’t marry your man unless the game. and ambition into learning to be a invaluable office woman. vou would rather have baby arms matched pearls For the wife and mother is never only coin that is current with her, paid at all. DEAR MISS DIX: in a comfortable position in life. now, but latcly I have met a young wi wife of whom I have always dream experience in life, do you think it v physically and emotionally, is nearly same age. woman of 26. s still a boy at heart and he belongs tastes and ideals formed. business of life. The question for birthdays you have formed little fu: peculiar habits chiffonier to the other? Are you finic to your club, where you can have all don’t make any woman mi and can eat what the question. BY WILLIAM Children vs. Parents. Here is a parent whose trouble is typical of the modern famil. “My three sons are 20, 17 and sometimes do so—to feel I'm trying to do my part. Then it seems to do | no good whatever. Children seem to resent any talks or information morals, coming from parents. least this has been my e Certainly there is a wide: ing of resentment among children A evaded the duty of providing proper instruction about the sexual side of life. This sometimes amounts pretty severe criticism of parents children_who have made serious mis takes. Much of the feeling is justi- fied, too, for there can be no ques tion that many parents do fail ignominously in this sacred duty. Yet children who harbor such resentment shotild try to temper their feelings by reflecting that this sin_of the par. ents is seldom willful. It is a sin of omission, not one of commission. Few parents would deliberately conspive t subject thefr own children to tl viclous teachings children without proper home instruction usually get in regard to sex. In extenuation of the shortcomings of parents in this vital matter we plead ignorance. The parents themselves received no such good home instruction from their par- ents. They had to “pick it up” wherever they could get it. Perhaps they had a better chance of picking up clean, truthful knowledge in thelr day than a child has today: and then again perhaps not; it depended largely upon conditions and environment. But it is not merely Ignorance of o DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Will Business Girl Be Happy, Giving Up a I am a 24 I love him, but he earns very little more t ‘When I look around I see that the gi are shabby and look 10 yvears older than I do, and I wonder if tl for whom women might give everything that the Also there are domestic women who find their only happines pans, and who are better off married to any sort of a husband than they would And there are other women who love their freedom better than they ever will any man and who will always, in their secret souls, prefer a key ring to a wedding ring. are contemplating now, for it is no longer true that eve . 8" to the first man who pops the question to Nor does every girl pine for her own little home and her own gas range. The modern young business woman who has worked up to a good position ng down a fat pay envelope is wondering what she is going | to get out of matrimony that 4vill pay her for all that she gi oney and to dre said that out of every five gir Don’t marry more than all the money in the world. Don’t marry him unless you feel that | and quick washed it out of her mouth 1 am a mah 46 years old, cultured willing, or is the difference in ‘o happiness? Answer: You cannot count age character, of disposition, of health and spirit. At 46 a man who has not spent himself in for at 26 a woman has come to her: u to ask yourself, Mr. had, but what the it upset vou to have any one move If you have, then don't ask any woman of any age to marry you. But if you can read your paper in is set before you without (Copyrigh PERSONAL HEA on | whose parents have sidestepped or | ots and Pans?—Should Forty-six Marry Woman of Twenty-six? .vear-old business jwoman and earn a A fine young man wants han I do, not enough 0od clothes that 1 now have. ‘s of my crowd who have married ve to drudge in kitchens, that they he glrl“wl'lho doesn’t make a poor bargain. Vhat = i X CLARA. k that I like. Answer: It depends upon'the man, and most of all, upon the woman's corth the price if they were selling vise husbands who are priceless and orld holds of ease and b - in pots and ther competent young business women ¢ girl is dying to get s up if she »m and a scrubbing brush. 1f she is head over heels in love the girl lets sentiment overrule prudence and she marries the man. only, alas, frequently to regret it. For when sets in the woman who ng well and to going to in a crowd, instead of within the shut of matrimony | walls of her home only too often rebels against the restrictions of matrimony. the manager of a large department s in his employ who get their. old jobs within two years. long and earnestly before you exchange is certain: You cannot have your cake wust pay the price of matrimony, and 'k and make a man a comfortable and ough to sacrifice uncomplainingly your hes, you have no right to get married. m: a poor man and not to accept his income places upon her. you are a good enough sport to play Don’t marry him unless you feel that you can put as much effort good cook as you did into being an unless you feel that his love is worth around your neck than-a string of paid in dollars and cents. Love is the and if she doesn’t get that she isn't DOROTHY DI .. widely traveled and I have never wished {o marry until oman who comes up to the ideal of the ed. But she is only 26. From your @ for me to marry her, provided she is ur ages an insuperable barrier to LATE LOVER. in terms of years. It is a matter of Also of sex, because a woman, much older than a man of the alway Therefore, I see no incongruity in a man of 46 marrying a ipati in the same age self. n is still young. He as the woman of She is mature, fully grown, with She is ready to settle down and begin the Bachelor, is not vears have done to you. Have you accumulated “wa your brushes from one ky about your eating? how many Have ys?" Does end of the Stick ies catered to, and herself to your whims. n any chair that happens to be handy asking any questions, pop DOROTHY DIX. our little pecu ht. 1 LTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. | sex matte: [ tion of the | children proper instruction. ignorance of the way about such teaching. It in which to go is years old. I try to keep in touch Our schools and c J ¥ 3 s colleges today are with them, but they resent any ref- just nowhere on 3 3 3 v jus this funda W erence to their morals, ete. Yet F i aspect of education. Show me a com- mon school, a high school or a college | which is giving a fair course of in [ struction in the psysiology and hy- ziene of sex. You can’t find one UThe schools dare not touch the sub- Ject, because of the ignorance of pa ents—parents are quick to resent a tempts to establish such teaching as a part of the ordinary common school lcourse. And I am bound to admit | that parents are not entirely without | Rood cause to resent such attempts, because for the most part such at- tempts are very badly planned. Heaven knows how hard it Is for a father to handle this business of in- structing his young son, and it must be infinitely harder for a mother to teach her daughter. You children who feel resentment toward parents who have seemed remiss in imparting | knowledge of sex would not feel so bitter, I am sure, if you knew how much anxiety and anguish of mind parents suffer in battling with th problem. Especially would you solve mother if you could look into | her heart. Qfi{ck Potato Soup. Slice Lwo potatoes very thin, cover with hot water, add a little salt, and cook quickly. When tender, mash quickly and add one pint of milk, let boil up, season with one table- spoonful of butter, pepper and salt, and serve in hot cups. Add a spoon- ful of whipped cream on top of each cup. “OH, MAN! OH, CANE! HA WA~ waLe! Tusv wuar g sPoRTI A_CANE we was HoPING M WOULD SAY —By BRIGGS. $AY MomacE Just AKE A Loox AT THAT CANE - T 1S A WoNDERFUL You WOULON'T BeuEve T BuT 1 ONLY PAD TEN BUCKS ROR That STICK- -_TRY YouR WEIGHT om 1T.. L |SVT IT A wonpeR T o) |0 SWELL WORKMANSHIS, ,/v—s...- on (T 7 DID You NoTICE 7 =7/ swer TLL TEL You wweRe | You Cani Go AnD GET | YOURSELE OnE-- TEW | Tuem 1 SENT You- You Go Down UERE WO BLocks: (., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, '1926. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY Say! What yer fink? Christmas is comin’ in just a little bunch ob days! (Copyright. 1926.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Last nite I had a grate dreem that I was a millionair on account of having invented a new kind of a tooth powder taisting like lemmin- ade when it got wet, and I woke up thinking, G, if I bleeved in dra:ms it mite be true. Giving me a ideer, and I went downstairs in my pidjammers and nobody wasent up vet, and I found a bottle in the kitchin saying Lem- min Extract on the label, and I took it up to the bathroom and wun- dumped part of it in the bettle of ved stuff my sister Gladdis cleens her teeth with, thinking, If Gladdis likes it maybe 111 get 1. pastented 2ud sell it around@in drug stores. And I waited around till Gladdis put some of the red stuff on her toothbrush and started to brush her teeth, and she made a fearse face saying, My stars, Ive taist in my mouth this this stuff would declare it ony stars thats with water, got the wers morning, I thawt take it away but I makes it werse, my awful. After a wile me and her and pop was eating brekflst, pop saying, I ran out of my tooth paste this morn- ing, Gladdis, so I tried some of that stuft of vours, and yee gods I thawd T was polsoned, you have a strange taist in flavors, I must say. Now thats queer, Gladdis sed. Wich jest then ma came in, saying, Who on erth had this bottle of lemmin extract up in the bathroom? Lemmin extract, pop and Gladdis both sed. Proving they reckonized the sound of the taist, and pop sed, Benny? and Gladdis sed, Benny, ware are you, he was jest heer a quarter of a second ago, ware is he? Wich by that time I was half ways out the frunt door on my way to skool unusually erly. SUB ROSA BY MIMI Thrifty Thelma. Thelma was all right as long as she ran around with a lot of different boys. No one noticed her little failing then. ‘While she had a host of men at her heels, she seemed just like every gay, bright, popular girl who ever had a good time. jut when she met Tony the Great and decided to concentrate on him— then it was that her slight peculiarity became manifest, not to the outside world but to the young man himself. Thelma developed hablts of thrift that would have amazed the president of a thrift club. 1t nearly howled over her startled sweetheart, who had thought of his future wife as a nice, normal sort of kind with a girl's usual inability to understand anything about mathe- matics. “Heavens, dear, don't buy vour cigarettes there,” she would beg him when he rushed into a corner drug store to get some smokes. ‘“Just a few blocks farther on you get coupons, and we'll need them for lots of things it we're going to furnish a home ever. Thoughtful little girl, Tony sur- veyed her with great pride. What a wife she would make. However, when a few evenings later, she remarked casually, “You do smoke an awful lot, don’t you dear? Must cost an awful pile to keep you in clgarettes,” he was alarmed. Her further suggestion that he try to cut down slowly because every penny counts almost annoyed the ardent lover. Then she started refusing invita- tions to dances and theaters on the ground that all money spent on amusements was foollsh in their present circumstances. Tony asked himself serfously whether a _thrifty girl friend was as congenial as a spendthrifty one. Thelma stopped looking her smart- ! est—for she was determined to have a good store of cash put by when she married. She saved first on clothes, then on hafr waves, then on manicures. She began to look like a 1920 model. Tony got so he didn’'t dare suggest the movies without first explaining that he'd saved enough all week to make such a big event possible. How long do you think he stood it How long do you think any pleasure-loving male would stand for the rigid economy which our Thelma practiced. Just a few months—and presto. | Thelma rubbed her eves, looked around, and wondered what she had been saving for. Her Tony was calmly galivanting around town blowing in all his cash on another girl—a girl who dldn't ask him whether he'd gone without lunch in order that they might go to a dance once a week. Gold-diggers are not the type who hold men forever. But neither are thrifty Thelmas. A girl must learn to strike 'the | happy medium—must not discourage occasional extravagances—must never let herself begin to look like a wreck, | in the effort to save a few pennie: Economy is wise and. necessary after marriage, but too severe doses of it before marriage will drive the prospective bridegroom away from the altar. (Copvright. 1926.) Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries directed to this paper provided a stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. —-e Millinery Cupboard. Many girls find it is more con- venient to keep their milinery all to- gether in a cupboard rather than in several hat 'boxes, the hats can then be put away or lifted out with less likelihood of their being crushed than when they are in a box. When the hats are placed on the shelves, it is best to protect them by resting them on =ilk pads. Many girls llke to have these small cush- ions scented. Tissue paper tightly wrapped round the hats will help to keep them from dust, but if light mus- lin curtains are hung from a vod in- side the cupboard for protection from dust the tissue wrapping is unneces- sary. F THE SPIDER WOMAN BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. John Henderson marries Helena Ford without telling her that he has tired of her. When they return from their honeymoon Natali Helena’s younger sister, is mas ried. On their trip to Havana John and Helena meet a charm- ing widow, Nina Price. John shows every sign of being attracted by her. Helena admits to Natalie that she is sure John doesn’t love her, and Natalie advises her to fight for him if she cares enough, In an effort to hold him she begins to weave a web about him, dut it seems to do no good. In the Spring after their marriage, he departs on _a business trip for the coast and plans io stop in Denver, where Mrs. Price lives. On his arrival he calls her up and she invites him to her home for dinner. Afterward they sit on the porch and she tells him something of her life. John is interested in her and stays on in Denver. All Nina's friends enter- tain_him. LITTLI CHAPTER XXX. The Garden of the Gods. Any one who has seen the Garden of the Gods by moonlight never for- gets. It is like an enchanted king: dom remote from the rest of the | i i“AND YOU CARE — JUST A LITTLE? world, and the party reached there just before dark, so that there a strange, cerie light over everything. After the long drive, the sand- wiches and cakes and pickles and olives tasted marvelously and there Growing Taller. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 18 years old and feet inches tall. When 1 walk beside a tall person I feel so tiny. Do you think that if I took exercises far an hour every morn- ing I would gow v legs are too fat, but I suppose I would have to reduce my weight in order to im- prove their shape. (2) I have a very muddy complexion. How can I clear it? (3) Is eating toast every morning healthful? (4) When I powder my @ 2 face it becomes scaly. count of the soap I use? it grow halir? drink coffee. Do you think this is better than cocoa to drink? (7) How can I reduce a double chin and cure excessive olliness in my halir? MARGY M. Answer—(1) You should weigh be- tween 115 and 119 pounds. Your height depends upon the growth of your bones, which, in turn, is depend- ent upon the internal secretfons of your ‘body. Exercise can help you in two ways: first, by developing an erect carriage that will make you actually taller than slouching posture: second, by increas- ing the general health or tone of your ble conditions_for growth. have only an hour a day to give to physical _culture, 1 would suggest your spending 15 minutes both night and morning in stretching, bending and general setting-up exercises; use the other half-hour for a brisk walk in the fresh air. postpre at all times. for Practice correct A good exercise he purpose is to walk around the upstairs with an orange balanced on your head. Take plenty of nourish- ing food and sleep at least elght hours every night. My leaflet on “Care of the Legs” will tell you how to re- stamped, self-addressed envelope for it. (2) Muddy complexions usually in- Constipation and lack of Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I am a very lucky boy. The new dog Mamma uldn't keep terday has got nine puppies under the house.” (Copyrighi, 1 i was hot_coffee poured out of bottles into little folding cups. John had made arrangements to g0 on to the coast the next day, and he had a strange regret about going He had had such good times with these people. Never in his life hac he enjoyed himself so much. And Nina, of course, had been responsible for everything. He could neve: thank her enough. Darkness fell, and the moon rose Stars began to twinkle out, and the effect was magical. The party began to break up int twos and fours. Nina and John, &« if by mutual consent, moved off int: the soft darkness. And as soon & they were out of sight of the others she tucked her arm in his. Tor a time they did not talk, and then she said wistfull “I wish you weren't goin He tightened his grasp of her sli: arm, and then because it seemed to be the thing he wanted to do, his fingers slid down and caught hers ir a tight grip. 1 wish so, too. But I really must “it has been sweet, hasn't it?" “Sweet,” he echoed, “why I've never had such a good time in my life You've been adorable to me, Nina. | can never forget it.” “I don’t want you to forget it,” she said with sudden passion. “And don't want you to go. A little bell like a note of warnin: seemed to tinkle in John's brain Time after time during the last feu days he had asked himself whethe or not he loved Nina Price, but | had never been able to answer his on question satisfactorily. There were times when he was sur that he did, and others when he fe! that he was carrled away by the 1 mance of it all. And now it was nigh and there was a moon, and they were in_the Garden of the Gods. His heu was swimming, and it was hard to curb his impulses. “I don't want to go,” he said sud denly and reached for her. She wa his arms, lying limp like a chil breast. Again he caught the faint perfume of her hair, and as he looked down at her, he saw that her eyes were closed, her long lashe were resting againsi her cheeks. Moonlight is delusive, and in tha: moment, she looked like a tired littie In his right senses he knew she was not young, and yet ther something of perpetual youth about her. She had never known love or romance, and she had stayed voung because she hoped some day to attaf it. How sweet she was! He stooped and touched his lips to hers, and she flung up her arm sud denly and wound it about his neck. “You'll come back?" she murmured “Of course, I'll come back,” he heard himself saying, eagerly, passion ately. “I'll finish up my work in San Francisco, and return here I can. “And vou care, just a little? “You know T do,” he said hotly and | kissed her again. His brain was whirling. e did n stop to think bevond the fact tha life was short and unhappy at best After a time she stirred, and | released her unwillingly. But as the walked held h marri ck to rejoin the others, he tightly in his. Hi o had heen a mistake, and he MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS loved Nina Price. He had known the while that sooner or liter ti would happen to him. But now | had a reason for speaking o Heler (Cony i) (Continued lay's Star.) enough raw fruits, salads. and fres! veegtables in the dally: diet may responsible: al<o, late hours and wrong _cleansing method Ask my “Daily Beauty Prog whe vou write again, as this leaflet ' il a tell you just how skin every day. (3) it. You should eat brown bread in preference to white. () The soup be at fault, or perhaps you fail se it off thoroughly and d vour skin well. Use a little cu cream as a powder bhase ) Ye cold cream prevents chapping il will not grow hair if used aceordin to directions. (6) Since yvour com plexion is muddy and vou are i clined to be stout, I would sugze-t that you use a cereal heve the morning with,a little su no cream. in place of the coffee or to_care for Yes, if 3 Is this on ac-!some protein and fat. (5) Is cold | energy-producing cream good for a chapped face, or will | breads, cereals, potatoes, corn, suga' (6) In the morning I |honey, sirup, 0 if you had a|far as duce your lower limbs. Please send a | dried in the ordinary wa dicate lack of sufficient fresh alr and | There are even { exercise. | bracket fungi the showy, reproduc cocoa. (Please d for my leaflet= “Care of the Hair" and “Beautifying: Neck and Throat,” which will giv: the information you desire. LOIS Carbohydrates. Dear Lois Leeds: Kindly what foods come under the “carbohydrates." ANXIOUS READER Answer—Foods that are classed o carbohydrates may also contais They are th: foods, such « LEEDS advis term starch and gluc LOIS’ LEEDS (Copyright. 1926.) BY D. C. PEATTIE. Fungi. The mushroom season is over, «- the edible spectes s con cerned; but for the botanist, at least body so as to make the most favora- | this is open season on fungl. Whi'~ If you|flowers bloom and fruits are to e sathered it is difficult to take mucl Interest in the lowly fungus. Now when more ephemeral beautles have vanished, there are the curlous bracket fungl to be found on ever dead tree or limb. Some are whit: and fleshy; others seem like ol leather or wooden shelves, and som« sit down, stand up and walk | times, when we find one belongin; to the rarely observed family calle the Tremellaceae, we are rqm{ndml o blobs of wobbling red jel Thes Tremellas (how well pamed!) mal- strange specimens, If pressed an leavine The: in alcohol some specles o bracket fungl the color of sulphur. and not a few are indigo blue! One and all, they are one livi mass of spores. If you place then: on paper the spores will generall: drift in a fine rain, in a few minute:. showing curious colors. It would seem that the lower the plant in th- scale of things, the greater its ferti ity. These millions of spores are prol: ably blown, unseen and microscop!« on every forest wind, seeking just one chink in the armor of a tree, read: to eat into its vitals. For beneath th fve part of the plant, are vast network nothing but a moldy smear, have to be preserved | of pale, devouring strands, tunnelin:; through the wood. Luckily these fungl are not usuali true parasites, but asprophytes tk devour only dead things. = And such they are the buzzards, the cavengers of the plant world, slow burning up the trash, turning it back to precious gases like nitrogen arnd carbon dioxide, or converting it intn mold. lileo, in the seventeenth centu | was the first human being to see the sunspots. the rings of mountains of the moon. aturn and the