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WOMA N’S PAGE. Leather as Material for Presents BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. It is surprising what attractive glfts can be made from scraps of leather and kid and from old dogskin, mocha and long kid gloves, using the bLest and strongest parts only. The leather and kid should be cleaned so that it looks fresh and new, but this can be done easily with cleansing agents thst come for the purpose. The parts of gloves that are most solled and worn are tips of fingers and thurnbs, and palms of gloves, and these ghould be discarded. The ar- ticles described take little time to make and cost almost nothing. They are just the things for last-minute should not begin where the flap folds, but about half an inch below that. The flap is the same width as the | purse for this distance after it turns over. The purse should be lined with kid, if for a man. Either silk or kid can bo used for a woman. Leather makes change purses for men, but both kid and leather are right for | The kid can be white gold or silver, or any fancy kind, for women. The purses make nice presents for children, especially if 1hey contain a few coins. A fastening for the flap of the purse can be put on at a harness and leather shop for a trifling sum. Card Cases and Folders. Card cases can be made in much the same wa; A card case and a change purse make an attractive set for a woman. If they are in a fabric and ornamented with kid silhouettes, the zift assumes an expensive character. though costing but little. You will vemember that the hunting scene d the basket and butterfly designs e offered recently to readers. 3 X were demand women. tv offer them now. + a change purse and a bill- for a_man's present. connection with the silhouettes, sible remind you that the directions | variety of uses for them and also tell how to use them for fabric and paper silhouettes. 17 these directions are wanted, nn‘immndiar:‘e quest should be sent in, accom: ik by a selfaddressed and mped envelope, directed to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST 13 GS AND HAT D BY EVER WHO gifts when Christmas allowances are low and time is short. H Tags for traveling b can be made from two scraps of leather. Cut out the center of one of the rectan- gular pleces, leaving a border of the Jeather. This forms a frame a card slipped between the two leather portions, which are hand stitched together on three sides. One end is left open, so that the owner's card can be slipped in. The name is clearly visible through the cut-out | part. If this cut portion is lined with | mica, the card is protected. A strong plece of paper treated so that it 18 transparent can be substituted for the mica. It is better than nothing, though not nearly so serviceable as | the mica. Strap for the Tag. Run o stitched double strup of | leather with a wee buckle on one end through a slit in the back of { near the top and stitch throu straps to hold in place.. Or put cross-band of leather over the strap 80 that when the tag strap is slipped about the handle of a bag it can be fastened there securely. Change Purses. A length of either kid or leather about 3 by 6 inches can be converted into a purse by folding up one end to form a pocket, and stitching down the The other end should be cut edges. pointed or be rounded. The shaping BEDTIME STORIE Queer Performances. You'll find that there will always be A reason for whate'er you see. —Sammy Jay. It is because Sammy is always look- ing for the reason for things that he knows so much about what is going on on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest and in the Old Orchard. If Sammy sees a thing he wants to know the reason for it. He isn’t sat- isfied until he finds out that reason. “There is no use in seeing a thing it you can’t find the reason for it,” says Sammy. “You don’t learn any- thing from just seeing things; you must understand them.” Undoubtedly Sammy is right in this. ‘There is no knowledge without under- BUT 7 THEN REDDY JRNED AND TROTTED AWAY TOWARD THE GREEN FOREST. _ standing. So when Sammy is puzzled by a thing he keeps stu studying until he finds out all about it. Now it.happened that there was a light crust on the snow. Sammy had stopped in the top of o tree in the Green Forest where he could look out over the Green Meadows. He saw over toward the edge of the Old Pas- ture, but out on the Green Meadows, W\.“r\g in the mornin Is a thrilling thing to do Its not your body only But your mind awakens too. Sliced Oranges. L HEON. Escalloped Corn and Tomatoes. Buking Powder Biscuits. Apple Turnovers. Tea. BAKED jutter enamelware Dreak into this as many eges as desived, being careful to shape. Do not too hot. Sprinkle eggs with salt and pepper, place small piece butter on each yolk and put into oven. Lake few minutes until whites are firm, or longer if desired. These have a delicious flavor. ESCALLOPED CORN. Take 1 can corn and 1 can tomatoes. Put in bottom of baking dish layer of tomatoes, which sprinkle with salt and pepper, then layer of bread erumbs, with bits butter, and so continue until dish is full, with layer crumbs on top. Bake one- half hour in moderate oven. SNOW PUDDING. Three tablespoons cornstarch, % cup sugar. Dissolve corn- starch in little cold water, add sugar and stir into 1 pint boil- ing water. When cooled a little add whites 3 eggs beaten stiff, little sait and flavor to taste. Beat 10 minutes and pour into molds. Custard—Yolks 3 eggs, 1 tea- spoon cornstarch, 2-3 cup sugar and little salt. Beat all to- gether, stir into 1 pint boiling milk; flavor to taste, cooking until it thickens. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS a red spot. “That's Reddy Fox,” sald Sammy to himself. “It must be hard hunting for Reddy these days. What is he up to now, I wonder. That's a queer performance.” Reddy was too far away for Sammy to see clearly what he was doing. He had jumped up in the air two or three times, and it certainly looked queer. Sammy watched for a few minutes, then, spreading his wings, he flew over to where he could see more clearly what Reddy was doing. Reddy was so intent that he just didn't notice Sammy at all. He ran along on the snow for a short distance with his nose down as if he were following a track. He wasn’t, however. Then Sammy noticed that his ears were cocked forward as If he were listening for something. Once or twice he stopped and seemed to be listening to something under the snow. Suddenly he jumped up in the air and, with all four feet bunched together, came down hard on the crust. The crust cracked. Sammy could see it cracking. Instant. 1y Reddy began to dig furiously down, breaking through the crust and mak- ing the snow fly. He buried his head in the snow. In a moment he pulled his head out, shook it and blew the snow out of his nosc. He looked dis- appointed. But he didn’t waste any time. He ran forward a few steps and jumped again just as before. Of course the higher he jumped the harder he would come down, so he seemed to be jumping as high as he could. Those four black feet of his were bunched right together, and this time when he struck the crust he broke right through. How he did make his forepaws fly! The snow came out between his hind legs in a cloud. Then once again he lifted his head, looking disappointed, blew the snow from his nose and went on to do the whole thing over again. Sammy Jay stood on one foot and scratched his topknot with the other. “Now what,” said he, talking to him- self, “is Reddy Fox up to? I must look into this. I have never seen him do that before, but he did it just as if he had done it often. There must be a reason. Yes, sir, there must be a reason. Reddy Fox never does a thing without a reason for it. He can't be doing that for fun. I guess if I keep watch I'll find out what his reason is.” But just then Reddy Fox turned and trotted away toward the Green Forest. He was through with jump- Ing and breaking the crust. Sammy was disappointed. He knew it would be of no use to ask Reddy what he had been about, for Reddy wouldn’t tell him. Sammy flew down to one of the places where Reddy had been digging. He looked all about very sharply with those bright eyes of his. But he didn’t see anything to explain why Reddy had done this thing. Disappointed, Sammy flew back to the Green Forest. “I'll watch,” sald he. “What Reddy has done once he'll do again. Sooner or later I'll find out what it all meas. It's a queer performance. Yes, sir, it's a queer performance.” (Copyright. 1026.) ——————— Alcoholic beverage control in Tur- key has been placed by the govern- ment with a Polish group which has made a first payment of $8,000,000 for { the monopoly rights of the country. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY | Say! Poor old Santa Claus must be 1h a pitty bad way. He's up on the corner ringin’ a bell an’ askin' ever'- {body to put a penny in the pot! (Copyright, 1926.) '|LITTLE BENNY ; BY LEE PATE. Me and pop was taking a wawk before suppir and we met Mr. Simkins and him and pop stopped and started to tawk to each other about polliticks and wich is the best safety razor and diffrent things, Mr. Simkins saving, 1ts bin a bewtifill day for this time of the year, hasent it? If ‘we had weather like this all the time T wouldent care wat time of the yeer it was, pop sed. The joke of i is, the weather man predicted rain for i this evening, ha ha, he sed. It is to laff. ha ha. I wonder how | those weather men get their jobs, 7 | gess they fest put on a stupld ixpres- {slon and go In and ask for it, Mr. { Simkins sed. | Wieh jest then Mr. Rorer came | saying. Good evening, wentiemen, has bin one perfeck day, am I r Simkins and I have Jest bin giving it credit for that very thing and pan ning the weather man for predictine rain, pop sed, and Mr. Rorer sed, O, the ‘weather man, if the rest of n werent eny hetter fitted for our johs than that berd, the country would soon be in a bad way, say, T thawt I felt a drop of rain then. So did I, by George it is starting tc sprinkle, pop sed, and Mr. Simkin sed, Well can vou beet that? and I sed, G, the weather man was rite al a time after all, wasent he, pop? It you gessed often enuff you'd be rite yourself sooner or later, pop sed, and Mr. Simkins sed, Nobody can ges rong all the time, even a weather man and Mr. Rorer sed, Sure, if those ber dident hit it on the hed about once : munth there would be no sutch thing as luck. And me and pop quick started fo home to keep from getting wet. DIARY OF A NEW FATHER up this BY ROBERT E. DICKSON. Monday Night. ‘When Joan is here, she says she could cheerfully kill me because I am 8o hard to wake up in the morning, but since she left, I have been waking up at 5:30 without even being coaxed by the alarm clock. I was at the office this morning at 7:30, and thought I would write another letter to Joan before the day's work, but the boss arrived five minutes after I did, and he sald he was glad I was there because he had a lot of work to do on a contract that had developed over the week end, and he and I could get an early start on it. And he wasn't through with me until half an hour after closing time tonight! That's the reward of in- dustry, 1 guess. But there wasn't anything to do this evening, anyway. I had dinner down- town, but I didn’t enjoy it, and I came home right away. I stopped at the neighborhood movie house to see what was playing, but I could tell from the posters it wasn’t any.good, so I'came on up to the apartment and wrote a letter to Joan. Then I turned on the radio, but I couldn’t get a program worth listening to, and then I played solitaire for an hour, but I couldn't win one doggone game. I don’t want to be single again. ot Onions in White Sauce. Peel the oniors and cut off the roots, dropping them into cold water as fast as they are peeled. Drain from the cold water and put into a saucepan with boiling water to cover generously. Add a teaspoonful of salt for each quart of water. Bolil rapidly for ten minutes with the cover par- tially off the saucepan. Drain off the water and cover the onions with hot sweet milk. A quart of onions will require a pint of milk. Simmer for half an hour. Beat together one table- spoonful of butter and one level table- spoonful of flour. Add one teaspoon- of white pepper. Gradually beat in which the onions are cooking. When smooth, stir the mixture, into the onions and milk. Let the dish cook for _ten minutes longer and- serve. ;.':.!;."lse_n RV cansi o S ful of salt and one-fourth teaspoonful ' about half a cupful of the milk in Man She Respects, D America. select my wife for me? you. Just the only woman. nality, somehow. made him pick her out for a wife. than if he followed mother's counsel. husband’s needs. she was suitable. .. AR MISS DIX Answer: Perhaps you might up by the kitchen window. gust of passion. he: DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Will a Man Get a Better Wife If His the Picking >—Should a Woman of 30 Marry a Mother Does But Doesn’t Love? SAR DOROTHY DIX: My mother wants to pick out my wife for me. She says that no man knows anything about women, and that any girl can fool a man, whereas women are wise to the tricks of other women and are better judges of them than any man can be. She says that in Continental Europe, where she comes from, and where . mothers pick out their sons’ wives, there is far less divorce than there is in Do you think she is right, and that when I marry I should let her FRITZ V. Answer: It seems to me, Fritz, that a wife is pretty much a matter of personal taste, and that the man who is going to have to live with one should have the privilege of choosing the girl who fires his fancy. Happiness in marriage doesn't depend upon getting a wife who is thrifty and economical and industrious and a good cook, although all of these qualities are highly desirable in your life partner. the intangible something that makes some one particular woman just it for Just your predestined mate. There is something about her that appeals to you and that makes you love even her faults better than you would any other woman’s virtues. may not be beautiful, but she looks good to you. but somehow you never tire of listening to her babble. tic, but even her heavy cake and soggy pies and the fact that she never vep her accounts straight are just funny because they are part of her But above and beyond all these is She She may not be brilliant, She may not be very | And this personal appeal is something mother cannot possibly understand because no woman reacts to another woman's attractions as a man does. In fact, women rarely like the same women that men do. woman is seldom popular with men, and it is nearly always a mystery to every mother to her dying day what her son saw in the girl he married that A woman's Mother’s selection of a wife for her darling boy would invariably be the nice, domestic girl around the corner, who was such a good cook, and so kind to her old grandfather, and who would have such a nice, tidy little fortune some day. Son’s cho.ce is, like as not, a bobbed-haired flapper, who knows more about dancing the Charleston than she does about keeping house, and who has never had an unselfish thought in her life. Of course, mother has reason on her side, but the son has inclination on his, and his chances for happiness are better if he follows his own desires . For there is always the chance that the flapper will flap over to the right side, and that she has more Intell.gence and heart than she seems to have, and that she will make the sort of a wife who fills the whole measure of her But there is no chance whatever that a man will ever get a thrill out of his marrfage to a woman he espoused just because his mother thought DOROTHY DIX. .. I have a chance to marry a man who would make me a splendid husband and give me a good home and a fine position in soclety. I like him and respect him, but I do not love him. Do you think I could learn to love him after I married him? I am 30 years old. ESTELLE. never be romantically in love with the man, for romantic love is a wind-blown orchid and not a perennial that grows But I see no reason why you should not come to feel for the man a warm attachment that is far more satisfactory and enduring than any passing A man who marries a woman he doesn't love seldom falls in love with because circumstances of marriage tend to alienate a man from his wife, whereas all the conditions of marriage focus a woman’s thoughts and interests and desires on her husband. i ‘Therefore, it is far more safe for a woman to marry a man and trust to falling in love with him than it is for a man to marry a woman for whom he has no speclal fancy. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1926.) EVERYDAY QUESTIONS Answered by DR. S. 'PARKES CADMAN uestions from readers are l’uwrnd daily by Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman, president of he Federal Council of Churches of Christ America. ~Dr. Cadman seeks to answer quiries that anpear to be representative of the trends of thought in the many letters which he receives. Otuchenville, Ohio. What is the prevailing religion of Greece today, and how did it arise? Answer. — The Christianity of the Greek Orthodox Church is the pre- vailing religion of Greece today. It arose after the declining Roman Em- pire found it necessary to have_ two capitals, Byzantium and Rome. Here the decisive tendencies of the eastern and western peoples of the empire took shape and ultimately created a schism in the church. This schism did not originate, as is often stated, in a quarrel about the faith, but from opposing conceptions of civil authority, aggravated by di- versities of language and modes of thought. Recent events indicate a gradual reconciliation of the eastern and west- ern branches of Christianity. I ad. vise my correspondent, who is a high school girl, to read Bishop Mandell Creighton’s “The Church and the Na- tion,” page 20 et seq. Malden, Mass. At the age of 57, with only moder- ate health and a job that pays me about a living wage and no provision for myself or family, how can I feel grateful for all my many blessings when my neighbor, richly endowed mentally and physically, can with no more effort than myself earn a large income and become a power in the community? Why should this be so? Answer. — If the hindrances you name constituted the whole of life you would have reason to complain. But so long as happiness and gratitude are purely relative states of mind, you are liable to err in this appraisal of your neighbor’s prosperity. Were he to expose his inwardness it might show that he is indeed miserable. Neither a large income easily earned nor prominent social standing inevitably produce contentment. In at least 50 per cent of such cases known to me the results are personal dissatisfaction and domestic difficulty. What are your neighbor’s intellec- tual pursuits and moral ideals? How does he use his superior talents? Does his family afford him any more satistaction than you get from yours? I do not ask these questions accusing- ly, but to remind you that the poor who will not be degraded by their pov- erty are frequently more in love with life than the well-to-do. 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If some natural handicaps imposed by ill health or moderate ability are beyond society’s reach, this condition should stimulate right-mind- ed people to attempt the reconciliation of separated groups by social justice. Soclety can never be, as some thinkers would have us believe, the sole interpreter of your needs. The claims of religion that you have a divine dignity and destiny must also be considered. These claims have in- troduced new ethics into human af- fairs with dynamic force from above. The churches everywhere are en- deavoring to keep it in working rela- tion with you and others situated as you are. Help it along, sympathize with its aims and methods. Do this believing that so long as you are honorable you are free, and that in your freedom you can strive for the cultural wage which gives yvou and your loved ones a chance in life. The inequalities which baffle you also challenge the best wisdom of statesmen and soclal experts. But they furnish openings for that co- ;)p:‘lt‘u!ion which is humanity’s finest ralt. Pittsburgh, Pa. What is your definition of a mali- clous person and who in your judg- ment was the most malicious person in history? Answer—TI should define a malicious person as one who takes positive pleas- ure in causing pain and distress to others, and who is actively engaged in that pursuit. Pleasure as a feel- ing frequently obscures the nature of the proceeding which arouses the pleas. ure, and for that reason malicious people are often unaware of the vile- ness of their propensity. Voltaire was a mocker; it was his pleasure to be such, no matter how many people he harrowed. But his motive was not malicious in the ac- cepted sense; it was rather the joy of the cynic. The truly malicious are found among those who inflict the greatest sufferings on the world—the conquerors who have put whole popu- lations to the sword, the plotters who have sacrificed everything and every- body to gain their ends. I cannot select ‘“‘the most malicious person in history,” since ‘there are sadly too many candidates for that infamy, but notorious characters will readily occur to you, whose delight was in torturing and mutilating other people’s souls and bodles. Shake- speare portrayed the type you have in mind in Iago, Dickens in Daniel Quilp and Wilkie Collins in Count Fosco. (Copyright. 1926.) DELICIOUS and wholesome dessert, approved by three gen- erations of discrimi- nating users. Contains plump raisins, Grecian currants, spices from the Orient, and numerous other choice food elements. gum%udding’ P SN DR g PACKERS OF % \ BONED CHICKEN Established Big Bad Lands of South Dakota cover 2,000 square miles. The weird scenery of the Bad Lands is due to erosion of sandstone and clay. Mesas like jagged peaks, hundreds of feet high, are cut into fantastic shapes by the constant washing of rain and snow. Huge pinnacles of clay are capped with sandstone as the one in the foreground. This spot is seldom visited by tourists. SUB ROSA BY MIML She Doesn't Need Advice. That's what Rosemary writes me— that she’d like to have some excuse for keeping up a friendly correspond- ence with me—but she honestly doesn’t need any advice. She can’'t understand why so many of her friends are constantly per- plexed about this and that problem. Everything seems to her so beauti- fully simple. She does what she wants todo—and everybody is pleased. She is pretty, well dressed, with a host of admirers. She doesn't trouble her head about all the grave moral| problems of the day—for she finds that by following her own inclinations she gets the best results. Other girls fret about whether they should smoke or drink. Rosy finds that by doing both she makes just as much of a hit with the boys as she would by abstaining from the two habits completely. No matter what comes up in her life, she is supremely confident of her own ability to settle the question. She assures me triumphantly that 80 far everything has worked out beautifully for her. The boys like her—her mother disapproves of her, but sighs resignedly. She has more good times than any other girl in town. She hopes I'm not going to preach at her, and tell her that she’s headed for an evil end. I am not. Only I'm worried about her future. For I can’t help wondering whether she’s really going to have as much fun in the years to come as she has had already. You see, she is so supremely con- fident now that she is due for an awtully hard knock. She takes no one's advice—and yet at sixteen her judgment must lead her into plenty of mistakes. For instance, she may have decided that because her smoking and drink- ing haven't detracted from her popu- larity, those two little pastimes haven't done her any harm. Yet she’s mot in a poition to Judge—she’s too young—she can't see things all around. For those two habits may have got her in wrong with older people—hostesses and mothers of eligible boys. She may have built up a reputation for being a bit speedy—a reputation which will give her a hard time when she yearns to step out socially in the right direction. All the little things which she does now, and which seem to be successful experiments, may be leading to trou- ble for her in’ the future—trouble which she’s too voung and self-confi- dent to think about. Iam not wishing to be a kill-joy—T am not anxous for her to ask my ad- vice, just to show how wise and old I am. But I can't help thinking that other older people may put her wise to a few things which she can't see clearly, blinded as she is by youth and popu- larity and the dazzling joy of having a dozen admirers. If any one of you has come to the conclusion that you don't need any advice on any subject—having satis- factorily solved the problems of the universe all by yourself, it's time for you to take pen in hand, and ask for help. Because it’s likely you have got into that dangerously confident irame of mind where you'll commit some folly that will spoil things for you in the fu;;lre. on’t take any risks. Even if you think you're the wisest kid under );he sun, ask somebody to O. K. the idea before you go too far with your own plans. (Copyright. 1926.) Mimi will be directed to this addresse answer any inquiries provided a stamped, Inclosed. ad to Daper, d envelope it —e To Remove anr.r Tar splashes on cars and motor cycles can be removed quickly with eucalyptus oil. The oil, when applied with a soft cloth, immediately softens old and dry tar splashés and effective- ly removes them without in any way injuring the surface which the tar disfigures. During the cleaning proc- ess, the tar-stained cloth should be dis- carded for a new one as soon as soiled. ‘The ofl should be applied liberally and the cleaning commenced at the bound- ary of the stain and proceed to the center. oA Christmas Requirement FEATURES. THE SPIDER WOMAN BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. John Henderson ‘marries Helena Ford without telling her that he has tired of her. Whey they return from their honeymoon, Helena's younger sister, Natalie, marries. On their trip to Havana, John and Helena meet 2 charming widow, Nina Price. John shows very evident interest in her. Helena admits to Natalie that she is sure John no longer loves her, and Natalie advises her to fight for him if she cares enough about him, dut it seems to do no go In the S8pring, after their mar- riage, he departs on @ business trip to the Coast, and renews his friend- ship with Nina, who lives in Denver, Nina encourages him to make love to her, and he returns to New York de- termined to ask Helena to free him. Before he can say anything to her, she tells him she is in love with some one else, which, of course, is not true. He tells her about Nina, and she 1ffects a matter-of-fact attitude that irritates him. She tells him, also, that she thinks she had better go sut and stay with Natalie until they can decide what to do. CHAPTER XXXVIIL. At Mrs. Ford's. After he had read Helena's brief | note John fell to thinking about the country. It was hot in the city and DORRIE WAS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Natalie’s porch would be cool with its green and white striped awnings. Even if he were late for dinner Nat-| €| alie would fix him up something. But then perhaps she wouldn't be very cordial to him. Perhaps he had bet- ter go directly to Mrs. Ford's. She knew nothing about the coming sepa- ration. The more he thought about it the more he wanted to go, and when Min- nie appeared in the doorway with the information that dinner was ready he sprang impulsively to his feet. “I think I'll go out to the country, Minnie. It's a shame, too, after you've cooked dinner and have every- that's all right, Mr. Hender- Minnie returned, showing her white teeth in a grin. “I can use everything I've cooked for tomorrow night.” He looked up trains and saw that he could just make one if he had any luck at all. He decided to go to Mrs. Ford’s rather than to Natalie's. He could telephone Helena from there later. It would convince her that he had no desire to pursue her. His spirits mounted as the train emerged from the tunnel and sped out across the Jersey plains. The air blowing through the car was already cooler than it had been in the city, and the country was green and beau- tiful. At Manhattan Transfer he changed for another train, and almost before he knew it he arrived at his destina- tion. Dorrie rushed down the steps to meet him, flinging warm young arms around his neck. She had been water- ing the lawn, and the whirling spray of water made a cool swishing sound. It was all very pleasant and just as he had expected. “You're just in time for dinner,” Dorrie told him. “We're late tonight because we were over at Natalle's. How did you happen to come here in- stead of going to Natalie's? Mother, here’s John. Isn't it great? John stooped to kiss Mrs. Ford's sweet faded cheek. It made him feel l1lka a dog to hear her words of greet- n { thing ready.” g. He sat in the kitchen and told her about his trip, answering questions as she dished up the dinner. He paid no attention to her suggestion that he o out to the porch. He wanted to be where he could talk. In an effort to| hold him, she begins to weave a web | Dorrie was here. there and every- where. - Carrying plates into the din- ing room, fixing iced tea in a tall glass pitcher. A “We're not really having dinner, John,” sald Mrs. Ford apologetically. “I do hope we have enough for you Dorrie and 1 have taken to eating supper on these hot evenings and hav- regular meal in the middle of Do you mind?" Not a word about his having burst in on them unceremoniously. They showed only too plainly how glad they | were to have him. And the supper was delicious. Jellied consomme, tomatoes out of the garden stuffed with chicken salad little hot biscuits, jelly and spiced peaches, He drank quantities of the iced tea flavored with mint and lemon and. when he was ready to light his cigar. felt stuffed to repletion. He offered to help with the dishes but they laughed at him. “It doesn’t take a minute after suct a light meal,” sald Mrs. Ford. “Why don’t you stroll over to Natalie's Helena didn't say anything about your coming down tonight. She'll be sur prised.” “I didn’t know whether I could make it,” John offered in explanation. “First day back at the office, you know."” “Of course, I'd forgotten that. Well, you go on and Dorrie a~d I will stroli over later, It's good to have you back, John.” He wondered what she would think if she knew the truth. Somehow he could not help feeling that Helena wouldn't have ceased to love him if he had not been so indifferent. Ile certainly could not blame her for what had happened. It had been just a little over a year since he had come out here to dinner with the idea of telling her that he no longer loved her. Why hadn’t he done it? (Copyright. 1926.) (Continued in tomorrow’s Star.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. The School Age Child. ‘When young son and daughter trot off to school the importance of their daily diet is paramount. Once the children are out from under the juris- diction of the mother for long hours, and play out for the most of thelr time at home, the mother is apt to relax her vigilance over what they eat, with the result that the five years of careful feeding are forgotten and the child thinks that now he can eat how and when he pleases. Too much munching between meals is the cause for many of the nutritional ail- ments of this period, especially when the child has pocket money and can buy candy when he pleases. Five to Six Years. BREAKFAST. Cereal and cream, four to six table- spoonfuls. Two or three slices of bacon or one BE. Buttered toast. Orange or grapefruit. Juice from one whole orange or one-half grape- fruit. Stewed fruits, prunes, apples or baked apple. One cup of milk, or cocoa made with milk. LUNCH. 1. Variety of vegetables with slice of buttered toast, whole wheat or graham bread with jelly. Milk to drink or cup of cocoa. 2. Rice and tomatoes with slice of bacon. Cooky and glass of milk. 3. Fruit salad, whole wheat bread and butter, plain cake and milk. 4. Macaroni and cheese, slice of bacon. Milk to drink. 5. Cottage cheese, stewed fruit, milk to drink. 6. Vegetable salad, bread and but ter, milk to drink. (These combinations are not arbi- trary, but merely suggestive.) DINNER. Soup—Milk or vegetable or clear broth. Meat—Lamb, beef, chicken or fish. Vegetables—Potato and one green vegetable (two or three tablespoons of latter). Or lettuce and vegetable salad. Bread and butter. Desserts—Any simple dessert, pud- dings (rice, cornstarch, bread, farina, geletin, junket, custard), or stewed fruit and simple cake or cookies. Glass of milk to drink. When the child attends only the morning session of school the “din- ner” is preferably served at noon and the lunch described at night. When he attends both sessions he should have the lighter meal at noon and the dinner menu at 6. If he needs extra nourishment he may have a lunch after he comes from school of fresh fruit and a plece of bread and jelly or a glass of milk. Grapefruit-Tomato Salad. Remove the tops from some firm tomatoes and scoop out all the pulp. Mix the tomato pulp with the pulp of two grapefruit, one stalk of diced celery and one chopped pimento. Fill the tomato shells with the mixture, garnish with nut meats and serve with mayonnaise dressing. SNATCHING up a cup of coffee with one hand and struggling into your coat with the other, you gulp breakfast, finish dressing and make off helter-skelter for the train, trolley or bus. Do you call that the best way in the world to start a business day? Not on your life! Take time to eat your breakfast leisurely. Perhaps you won’t get the earlier train. But a good breakfast with plenty of good coffee is worth more than all the hurry and worry in the world. 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