Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 21

REAT THE EVENING The Frost Bell. LANG, clang! Clang! Clang! Clang, clang! ~ Clang, e 3 Plerre Lang started and held out his e straight, ning and shutting his fingers a: :\P:ukh‘nasplnx something. Y it ‘was nipping cold, though he had not thought of it before. He could feel it pressing through his fingers as they opened and closed. Tt was an old habit but one of his father’s before him—“shaking hands with the cold to try its strength,” his father had called it. When Plerre's hand dropped he knew its strength and what his strength would do this night. warning bell on the hill was true— three periods of two clangs with ono to commence and a long one at the end. That meant killing frost, and for all sthall farmers to be doing what they could. In 15 minutes more it would send out iis message again, and then in another 15 and so on for two hours, 8o that every one in the valley should know. But Plerre hesitated. Back there in the valley bottom was his all; up in the hotel where lights were begin- ning to quiver was infinitely more, waiting. Down below was the prob- able making of 10,000 little melons, such as sold at hotels and stores for @ big price. . He had been doing well the last few years, and this fine crop would make him independent and in a position to marry. Up in the hotel ‘was the sweetest girl in all the world, who had been kind to him and had mised to dance with him this night. n her eyes he believed he had seen more, bafiing to, understand, but that somehow had made his heart - fih:f faster and his feet to walk on At the hotel, though were young men of wealth and social knowl- ®dge, any of whom would gladly throw himself and all he had at Marie's feet. I¢ he didn’t go to her dance her smiles ‘would be given to them. Then she ‘would leave on the morrow; she had d him so. And she would go away ieving him too indifferent to attend the ball. He made a few quick, de- termined steps up the hill. “Clang, clang! Clang, clang! Clang, flang! Clang, clang ‘The steps slackened, and from force ©f habit he threw out his hand again. By 12 o'clock it would be freezing; 8 or 4 would find black death in 'upo-cull on of the carefully nurtured ey. But what of it to him in comparison with the greater stake? What were 10,000 melons and—ah, he had forgot- ten. His mother depended on him. He paid his sister's school expenses. He was helping his brother through an_agricultural college. ‘That cartied his thoughts to a dif- ferent angle of the hotel ball. Marie's father had spoken to him pleasantly. But he was practical, self-made, with ample means. What would he think of a suitor who threw away all. he had and all that was in his grasp to go woolng? What would Marle herself say if she knew about his mother and sister and brother and the melon fleld's danger? Plerre paused and half turned. He could not go. Should he try it and through some miracle win her, she would ask about his melon field, of which they had talked, and would know and scorn him. And her father, too, with the same clear, steady, quiz- zical eyes, would merely smile and bow and point toward the door. Pierre's shoulders squared and his head rose. He was again the man Wwho had been meeting difficulties and conquering them—debts of his father, education and establishing ' himself with the burden of the family on his shoulders, eu!'Ie ‘:lom;ed at Lhelmu:le l;oun -.ng nged his party clothes for roug! 'Irmentlhlhn dirt and smoke would not harm. His mother and sister were not there. They had gone to the melon field to help, of course, and ‘were now wondering at his absence. But no harm -had been done yet. It would be midnight before the frost started in on its deadly work and he had the smudge plles scattered over the fleld in readiness. Never before this evening had he neglected his Some of the piles of wood would have to be shifted a little more into the wind and perhaps the thick cov- ering of the bog hay dampered to make more smoke. It was very close ‘work to calculate wind and wood and hay' to cover the fleld with a dense canopy of smoke through the hours of danger: but that was just what Plerre had done many times. Clang-clang! “Clang! Clang-clang! Cla-ng!” “Hurry, Plerre!” came the volce of his mother as he entered the field. “Where have you been?’ “Started for the ball, you know, mother, and had to change my clothes. Now you and Annette dip water from the brook and throw it on the straw; not too wet—just damp. I'll be mov- ing some of the wood more to the mnorthern side. Then I'll pitch on the damp hay and see that the kindlings underneath are all ready for quick firing. Don't worry. We've got two hours.” “Better not wait too long,” fear- fully. “‘Some of the fires are already being kindled.” “I see., The kindlers are burning up some of the chance they have. We'll wait till the mercury drops a little below 34—about midnight that ‘will be—then fire and keep the smoke over the fleld until morning. We have plenty of fuel and hay for that, bu none to waste on premature alarm. The next two hours were too busy for more than a word of question or advice flung here and there. From 87 the mercury dropped to 386, 35, 34, then faster as it neared midnight. Now, fire,” suddenly called Plerre. *You have all got matches.” As the flickering lights ate into the kindling and blazed up through the wood, changing to dense clouds of smoke at the obstruction of damp hay, Plerressaw his mother and& An- nette running crouching, from pile to plle, carrying burning brands or blazing wisps of hay to save time and there were two others bheyond them—neighbors come to help. At 1 o'clock the thermometer stood at 31; at 2, 29, and from that on until 5 dropping slowly, when i® nearly touched 27. Then it commenced to rise rapidly and at 6 was 34 and above danger. Pierre was blackened by smoke and cinders almost beyond recognition. His mother and Annette were nearly as begrimed. and the nelghbors, who, were slipping away, in much the same condition. Plerre hurried for- ard to thank them. But one of them, a girl, cut his thanks short and with a merry laugh. “We're the ones indebted, Plerre,” she declared. “‘It's been such fun, and then we knew we were helping some, which added to the zest. You see. heard the bell and asked what it meant. Then I remembered your mel- ons and hunted round till I found father. He was more than willing to come. Said he was glad to get mixed in a real game again. We're the ones tq thank you.” *Marie—you” ‘he gasped. ever did—and you look—-' ““Wouldn't wonder if I do,” she con- ceded. “I know you lool What a shame we haven't a camera to snap all of us. But it's been fun. Don't you think so, father? I admit 1 have enj swered her father g y but with his eyes twinkling. * much so that 4've wondering If 1 could get into the game. IU's been so dull at the hotel I'd’&ec;d:‘d to go away, but this fire ny T'd Nke to_see more of this business, What 4o you. ey to my “How ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, NATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926, Ornate Shoes for' Winter Season. BY MARY MARSHALL. It was a false prophet who an- nounced last Summer that ornate shoes were mlnfiuz of fashion. To be sure a number of the smartest women in Paris followed the caprice of wearing very simple shoes.- Even the buckle was. left off for a while. A certain air of elegance, which the French talk so much about, was achieved, but the ornate shoe was not given up. Evening shoes especially are ex- ‘The |« BLACK AND WHITE CALFSKIN IS USED TO MAKE THE PUMP SHOWN IN THE CIRCLE AND RED PATENT LEATHER AND LIZARD SKIN ARE COMBINED TO PRODUCE THE ORIGINAL OXFORDS SHOWN ABOVE. tremely ornate this Winter. Lack- ing the price of these new slippers some women buy plain slippers and, apply the fancy touches themselye: Diamante may be bought by the yard and sewed to the top of black satin slippers or out-steel beeds may be applied to the top and straps. " One clever young woman has embroidered gold brocade slippers with colored silks. The design of the brocade is cleverly followed where the embroid- ery appears. Silver mesh cut in clever angular designs is used to trim slippers of gold or colored kid. Rein- deer dyed in bright colors and trim- med with gold on silver is looked upon with favor. Light colored satin slippers to match the frock are adorn. ed with heads and sequins of gold or silver and sometimes with gold kid. To wear with the velvet evening gown there are matching velvet siippers with gold heels. One of the French shoemakers has been making crepe de chine slippers for elaborate aftew noon wear. Imitation rubles, emeralds AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Apples. Not long ago was National Apple ‘week. A number of apple venders came to my door during the week and suc- ceeded in selling me several bushels, 80 that did the apple dealers some good, and, as I got my money’s worth, it _did me some good. 1 think that growers take pride in sending out only the tastiest and comeliest of their fruits at that time. I think it raises the standard, not only with growers, but with the public. Nobody should put up with mealy, irregular, scabby little runts of fruits. Out in California they have demonstrated that every citrus gfower can be compelled to raise only perfect fruit, or at least camr be ex- cluded from'the market if his fruit is not perfect. Mankind has been at work upon the apple for so many thousands of years that there is no reason for accepting’ an apple that has reverted to primitive imperfections. In the National Museum there are calcined apples found 1in the dwellings, 5,000 to 10,000 years old. Apples were brought to America.with the first colonists, and the apple, like the horse, was swiftly appreciated by the: Indians who came into contact with the white settlers, was carried away and planted, and by the time the pale faces lumbered {into the groves of Kentucky and Illinois, their own apples were there before them, carried swiftly across the continent In savage hands. Our American ap- ple varietles were at first common European strains. Changed condi- tlons. on our continent = quickly brought about the evolution of new varieties, so that English and Amer- ican are entirely different, and few people can be expert in the subject of apple growing in both countries. ‘Thero is one’ name assoclated with the apple that is part of the great body of American folk tales. That is the name of Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chap. man, born in 1775 in Boston. Johnny Appleseed, from 1801 to 1847, wan- dered the wildernesses of the Great Lakes States, barefooted, clad often in nothing but a gunny-sack, preach- ing the Bible in frontier cabins. 8t. John, too, wore gunny-sacking, or as they call it in the Bible, sackcloth, which is the same thing, and preached the Gospel in the wilder- ness. Johnny did wonders for the frontier by scattering appleseed wherever he went, and he lived to see his trees bear fruit over 100,000 mquare miles. Yet he considered that it was sinful to prune a tree or graft one tree on another. He saved many lives by warning the settlers of Mich- igan of an approaching Indian raid. —_——— Cranberry Meringue Pie. Wash and drain one'quart of cran- berries, then cut them in halves, put into a bowl, add two and one-fourth cupfuls of sugar and two tablespoon- fuls of flour, and mix well. Put in a ple plate which has been lined with ple crust. Take three egg yolks und two- tablespoonfuls of milk, beat to- gether, and pour over your cramber- ries, Put in the oven and bake until the berries are cooked. When cooked, place the ple on the stove away from the heat. Whip three egg whites to a stiff dry frost and add three level tablespoonfuls or sugar. Spread over the ple and dry and bake in a slow oven with the oven door open. It will take about twentv minutes to dry. backing you, Mr. Lang—going in with you, 1 mean—on a big scale, say 100 or 200 acres? You're just the man for such an enterprise, I think—or, at least, my daughter declares you are. What do you say?"’ ‘Say, yes,” whispered Marie. " consented Plerre obediently, m&"f»’fl- - and other colored stones are used in regal fashion to adorn some of the metallic slippers. There is a persistent rumor that lower heels are coming into fashion. This change—if it really exists—is laid at the door of the Charleston. Some dancers eay it is practically impossible to perform this dance cor- rectly with high-heeled dancing slip- pers. On the other hand, some of the newest French ‘slippers show heels of enormous height. Reptile skins are used even more extensively than formerly to trim day- time shoes. The smartest arrange- ment seems to be the reptile upper and plain vamp and heel section. The calfskin shoe is here to be worn with the calfskin coat or the coat trimmed with calfskin. Sometimes a smart effect is produced by wearing calfskin hat, bag and pumps with a cloth costume. 4 (Copyright. 1926.) MENU FOR A DAY, BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Bacon Curls. French Toast, Maple Sirup. Coftee. DINNER. Cream of Celery Soup. Roast Lamb. Currant Jelly. Bolled Squash. Creamed Onilons. Delmonico Potatoes. Lettuce, Russian Dressing. Suet Pudding, Lemon Bauce. Coftee. SUPPER. Salmon Puffs. Canned Pears. Rolls. Orange Cream Ple. . Tea. FRENCH TOAST. Beat two egge and add one cup milk, one tablespoon melted butter, one-half salt- spoon salt and grating of orange rind; cut slices stale bread into rounds with biscuit cutter, dip them in egg mix- ture and fry on both sides in butter. Serve with maple sirup. SUET PUDDING. Use two and onehalf cups flour, one cup chopped suet, one teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half tea- spoon cinnamon, one-half tea- spoon ntmeg, one cup chopped raisins, one cup milk, one cup molasses. suet and add raisins. Mix milk and molasses and add to dry mixture, Steam three hours. Serve with lemond sauce. SALMON PUFFS. Remove skin and bones from one-pound can salmon. Chop very fine; add one tablespoon melted butter, one-halt cup bread crumbs, three well beat- en eggs, one tablespoon lemon Juice, pinch salt, dash pepper. Pack in _custard cups or muffin tins. Bake one-hour hour. Berve with white sauce. mber 11 (A).—Two ‘were destroyed by fire Friday night at Namazu, Shizuoka, prefecture. The town hall, post office, post office station and other public buildings were caught in the flames. No_casualties were reported. Detached home of six rooms, glnled-m sleeping porch an ath. Modérn. 13 years old. Two street frontages. Price, $8,500 Easy Terms Qo out Wisconsin to next street ond Ellicott, turn right %5 3 Walter A. Brown 1400 H St. $250) CASH TERMS Less Than Rent 8th & Gallatin Sts. N. Open for - Inspection a From L) 919 15th St. N. W. REAL SERVICE BUYS SUB ROSA Definite Rules Impossible. We simply can't and we simply shouldn’t try to make definite rules about the sort of people we do and do not like. If we establish in our minds certain ridiculous little laws about what our friends should and should not do, we often pass up the opportunity of mak- ing friendships with just the sort of people we ought to know. Jean says firmly that she for one could never pal ground with a girl who was in the least old fashioned about ideas —didn't smoke, swear or drink. Consequently Jean finds it necessary to rule out Deb, who has moved to an apartment beneath her and might be the best pal in the world if Jean would only let her. g But the young, lady with the defi- nite ideas, having' established her rule, refuses to see Deb’s possibilities as a chum. “Deb is prudish about all sorts of things and I'm against prudishness. ‘Therefore, I'm off Deb. We can’t ever be friends,” and she continues to go about with girls like Shirley and Betty, whom she doesn’t like at all, but whom she belleves to be more suited to her type. In the same way may Jean pass up Mr. Right some day. At present she has deelared definitely that she couldn't marry any man who wasn’t a good spender, who didn’t dress well | and who wasn't attractive to other girls. So much does she belleve in her own opinions that she's perfectly capable of sticking to her original determina- tion, even though some one came along whom she instinctively loves and admires. She will pass him up regretfully, perhaps, but while this ridiculous law. of hers remains, she will certainly pass him up. It is the fashion nowadays for girls to draw up a set of rules about the kind of people they are prepared to like or dislike. But it is a foolish fashion. It some- times results in a girl's spending her lite with people she doesn't like at all —simply because they have fitted up to the standards she established in her mind at the beginning. Jean has passed up a friendship with Deb—Deb, who is loyal and sweet and amusing and a whole lot of other nice things. Secretly, Jean likes the girl down- stairs awfully. Despite her carefully arranged idems, she finds her heart warming to the quiet, old-fashioned, older girl. But she has decided definitely that she can’'t get along with Deb's type of person—that, in fact, she dislikes them thoroughly—and, obstinately, dogged- 1y, she sticks to her point. Forget definite rules about friend- ships. Learn the valuable rule that a good friends is the hardest thing in the world to find—and that when your instinct tells you you have found one, your brain must not be consulted as t whether she answers your description of the perfect pal. Let your heart choose your friends and sweethearts —not that carefully cultivated, hard-boiled, modern young brain of yours. Mimi will be glad to an inautri a %o this aer, nrg':v:?ee“-’ atamped: envelode s Inclosed. (Covyrixht. 1026.) o Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one.— Jeftrey. Attention Real Estate Salesmen We have many new houses for sale in different loca- tions. 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This he has done with such weapons as an impassioned ad- dress and a bountiful luncheon, and in spite of the energetic endeavors of the Pennsylvania navy and the river forces of the Continental Army on the Delaware. Although under fire from the American shipe for some minutes, he sustained no casualties. Col. von Donop came from Trenton early in the morning to establish an enemy post her: Mayor Lawrence heard of his coming and advanced with a committee of citizens. Hé met Jots From Geography Inca Bridge on the ancient Indian highway in Bolivia, South America, is built of two hu slabg of ston with pillars of adobe brick at either end. Many of these old bridges have fallen into decay, but some réemain— monuments to the ingenuity of the Incas, who built them to facilitate communication between tribes. the Hesalans between Bordentown and Bustleton, and discharged his impas- sioned address to the effect that if the Hessians entered his .city they |, would draw down upon it the fire of the American ships and thus cause much annoyance to many good friends of George III who live here. Col. von Donop requested the mayor to kindly send a delegation to Com- modore Thomas Seymour, command- er of the American boats, to find out if this could really be true. Then, parking his soldiers in the suburbs, Col. von Donop and his officers went to the mayor's house for luncheon while a delegation of citizens set off for Commodoré Seymour's flagship down the river. While the Hesslans were going to the mayor's luncheon party, they were seen by the crew of an American gondola who promptly opened firg on them. The mayor rushed to the water front, waved his hat, and ordeted the gondola to cease firing, whereupon the gondola trained its guns upon the mayor himself. Col. von Donop hastened down to the river to witness this engagement and became in turn the target for the gondola’s gunners. At length the citizens’ committee returned with definite assurances from Commodore Seymour that he would open up on the city with all his guns if the Hesslans took quarters in it. Col. von Donop thereupon thought of two good reasons why he should not oceupy the city. First, he had no big guns with which to answer the American gunboats, and second, be- sides the Tories in the place wno might be injured in a bombardment, there was the noble head of Col. von Donop which might again be the cen- tral target for flying missiles. There- fore, he marched his men back to Bustleton and the battle of Borden- town was over. (Copyright. 1920.) Apple Float. 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