Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 36

. WOMA N'S PAGE. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS Too Much Cosmetic. . Dear M!ss Leeds—(1) I think my #kin is going to get old before 1 do. 1 am only 14 years old, but my. com- plexion is all blotches. -T have many blackheads and a fe: pimples. 1 have been using rouge, powder and lipstick for the ldst mqgnth and now T realize why my mother did not want me to use this make-up. (2) T have a great many freckles as 1 swim a good deal. Please recommend a rem- edy. (3) 1 have a light complexion, but T think the sun is turning it dark er. What shade of powder should 1 use? I am not going to use rouge or lipstick any more, but I have noticed that some .girls who use make-up have clear skink in spite of it. (4) Would beauty clay help me? () 1 have straight, light-brown hair. but ‘would like to have blonde hair. Shall 1 use a blonde hair wash or rinse? (6) How can 1 keep my hair in curl longer. I curl it every morning, but it is stralght again by late afternoon. 1am b5 feet 5 inches tall. MIKE. Answer—(1) The face powder will mot harm your skin if you do not use too much and if you are careful to remove it all each night. Use cold cream to cleanse your face, wipe it off and then wash with warm water and pure Castile soap. Rinse thoroughly, dry and pat on a suitable skin lotion. Here is a simple recipe: One-half ounce zinc sulphate dissolved in three ounces rose water and one-half ounce sulphureted potash dissolved in three ounces rose water. Mix the two solu- tions to make one lotion, put it on your skin and leave it overnight. Be careful to eat plenty of fresh vege- tables and fruit and drink five or six glassfule of water between meals daily. Omit candies and rich or spicy foods and pastries from your diet. Girls of your age often have pimples that they outgrow in a few years. (2) T think it unlikely that vou will be able to rid your skin entirely of the freckles, but you may bleach them with a freckle lotion such as you may buy at any drug store. T would ad- vise you to let them alone. however, while you are treating the blackheads and pimples. (3) Perhaps the other girle have ldarned how to use cos- metics better than vou have, or it is likely that their skins are naturally tougher than vours so that they can stand more punishment. Since vou have found out from experience that too much make-up harms your skin, you are a wise girl to stop using it. You might try a medium or ‘natural” shade of powder with a little ivory mixed with it. (4) Yes, T think one clay pack a week for a month or so would help clear your skin. (5) You may use the blonde wash or use a rinse made of dried camomile flowers brewed in hot water like ordinary tea. If you succeed in making your hair hlonde, however. vou will find that it does not harmonize with vour skin tints, It is better to he Satisfied with the natural color. (6) You are mak- ing a great mistake to curl vour hair every day; yvou will ruin it texture and color. If you really wish to keep a nice head of hair do not curl it with hot irons more than once a week. By daily scalp massage and brushing you can keep your hair glossy and fiuffy so that it will still look pretty when it is uncurled. There are curling fluids sold that help keep a wave in longer. Your correct weight is about 120 pounds. LOIS LEEDS. Grace C.—Here is the recipe for the blonde rinse vou ask for: One table- spoon tartaric acid. two tablespoons lemon juice, two tablespoons peroxide, one teaspoon ammonia, two quarts water. The ofl tends to darken your hair., LO1S LEEDS. (Copyright. 1926.) Smart Ways to Defy the Elements BY LYDIA LE BARON Raincoats this season are especially good looking. The “slicke that were just “useful” have now assumed smartness. They are made in several styles and in colors to suit the most bizarre ideas or the conservative taste. Many of them are silk, soft in texture but absolutely waterproof. One of their good points is that they are so light in weight, and another that they fold in so small a compass. They are, therefore, ideal to include in travelers’ wardrobes, and they are equally de- lightful to take along when distances are short but weather is lowering and suncertain for a walk. Umbrellas may be had to match these raincoats de lixe, making an ensemble in excellent taste. Contrast- ing shades in umbrella and raincoat may be equally chic and artistic, but in either event each must be chosen with & view to the other article. If the umbrella is a fancy one, some hue in it may be identical with that in the raincoat, Black umbrelias are not so much in evidence as formerly. The plain dark-ones are more apt to be of navy or midnight blue, of seal or tobacco brown, of battle green or deep purple, More Elaborate Modes. ‘Th¢ fancy ones are apt.ia.have some of thess as background .tones for stripes that go round and round in fascinatingly matched seams. Or the only fancy touch may be in the border. Handles are in a state of transition.* Some sun and rain shades have practically no handles at all be- yond the umbrella section, but the knots are fancy, These are fine for Holly, The fact that holly is still seen in the markets often makes people skep- tical of statements about its extermi- nation. But listen to this: “Holly. Tlex opaca. Practically un- known within 10 miles of the town, owing to a century of Christmas deco- rating.” So runs a phrase in a little book on my desk which concerns the trees of Chapel Hill, N. C., a pleasant town, where the State college is located. On the theoretical map of the distribu- tion of the holly plant Chapel Hill should be right in the heart of the holly belt. So much for the diverg- ence between theory and fact. Yet surely we are not to deny our- selves any holly in our homes on Christmas day. and in the merry days thereafter. Many solutions for the holly question are being offered. Mrs. Britto, wife of the director of the Bronx Botanical Garden, New York, suggests artificial wreaths. On the whole 1 think the suggestion is bad. Several writers proffer substitute decorations — deciduous holly, bar- berry, etc. But the very word *“sub- stitute” is bad psychology, and, any- way. why pick on these poor plants more than holly. On the whole, Mr. Ricker, president of the Wild- flower Preservation Society here in Washington, has the best idea; he| ‘wants us to use preservatives on our holly wreaths so that we can keep them from vear to vear. But I fear most people are not going to be so farethoughtful and we shall have to| deal with human nature as we find it, | not as we wish it might be. Perhaps | 1he best plan of all would be to begin o campaign for education in economi- cal buvinz. A couple of holly wreaths tastefully placed look better and make more cheer than a room ®0 overladen with Christmas greens that you cannot see the charm for the decorations. Cream Puffs. ; Provide half a pound of butter, three-fourths pound of flour, eight eggs and one pint of water. Stir the butter into the water, which should| be warm, set it on the fire in a saucepan, and slowly bring to a bolil, stirring constantly. When it bolls put in the flour, hofl for one minute, ¥tirring all the ‘while; take from the fire. turn into a deep dish and let it cool. Beat the eggs verv light and whip into this cooled paste, first the Yolks, then the whites. Drop in Femt spoonfuls upon buttered paper, teking care mot to let them touch or run into sach other; glaze with | #xg and bake for ten minutes. For &he filling, use one quart of milk, four eblespoontuls of cornstarch, two eggs #nd two cupfuls of sugar. Wet the rornstarch with enough milk to work It into a smooth paste. Boll the rest ©of the milk. Beat the eggs, add the Bugar and corngtarch to these, and Az =o0n as the milk boils pour in the mixture gradually, stirring all the | time, until_smooth and thick. Drop | in a teaspoonful of butter. and when this Is mixed In set the custard aside ‘WALKER. traveling, for they really will go into suit case, though some of the short- handled umbrellas that are purported to do fail by an inch or a fraction of one. The Fashion in Handles. One advantage of these short-han- dle umbrella shades is that they are ready with no special adjusting to raise at a moment’s notice if a shower suddenly comes up. But if you want an umbrella with a real handle these should not be chosen. One does have to hold the arm and hand rather high, it must be confessed. And so all styles have their advantages and dis- advantages. jpeaking of handles, curved handles are all the rage in Paris. There seems to be a breadth of fashion in favor of the longer handle shades and umbrellas. Since handles are practically minus in some models it is but natural that the time for a reaction should be in sight. But whether it comes suddenly or wheth- er the somewhat longer handles oc- casionally shown are but forerunners of a future fashion it is impossible to say. Welcome Smartness. ° ‘'When women wear the gay silk slickers and carry the smart bright umbrellas as they are out in the storms, thev suggest aheer even in the midst of cheerless weather, for there is something stimulating about high spots of color. There is some- thing of panoramic beauty in the flit- ting changes of kaleldoscopic hues that makes the bizarre costuming ap- g:tlln( and good to look at in gray ve. G MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Sliced Pineapple. Dry Cereal with Cream. Browned Fish Hash, Chill Sauce, Hot Corn Cakes. Doughnuts, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Oyster Timbales. Preserved Pears. Creole Cake. Tea. DINNER. Cream of Tomato Soup. Fried Haddock, Tartare Sauce. Hollandaise Potatoes. Boiled Spinach. Fruit Salad. Crackers. Cheese. Coffee, BROWNED FISH HASH. Chop flaked fish, twice the quantity of potatoes (cold boiled). Have some bacon or pork fat or butter hot in frying pan, add hash, salt and pepper. Fry till ‘well heated and nicely browned. Do not have fat enough to make it greasy, just enough to cover bottom of spider. Onion may be chopped with fish or fried before adding hash, if liked. Curry may also be added with salt, or pour on milk enough to show through hash and Jet cook till milk is ab- sorbed. OYSTER TIMBALES. Beat one egg until light, add one-quarter teaspoon salt and one-half cup sweet milk and stir mixture gradually into three-quarters cup sifted flour. Beat with egg-beater until per- fectly smooth, then add one tablespoon olive ol or melted butter. Heat timbale irons in deep, hot fat, dip them in bat- ter and fry to delicate brown. Melt two tablespoons butter, blend in two tablespoons flour, add slowly one cup milk, sea- son with pepper and salt and stir and cook until edges ruffie and fill timbale cases with mix- ture, FRUIT SALAD. Prepare equal amounts chop- ped celery, chopped walnuts and grapefruit pulps. Serve individual beds of lettuce with above mixture in center. Pass salad dressing for those whe want it. Many prefer frult salad without dressing. Tuna Newburg. Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add one tablespoonful of flour and one and one-fourth cupfuls of thin cream gradually, then bring to the boiling point. Add one and one-halt tablespoonfuls of chopped green pepper, one and one-half tablespoon- fuls of chopped pimento, one table- spoonful of grated onmion add two cupfuls of tuna fish. Add one egg slightly beaten. Cook for three min- utes and serve in timbale cases, patty cases or on toast. . The new truck heing assembled at to conl. Then add vanilla flavoring. pass & sherp knife lightly around the puffs, split them and fill with the uxture, a factory near Vienna is the first ve. hicle to be turned out by a European manufacturer using American parts for most of the e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1926. THE GIRL IN THE SECOND CABIN Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Christmas. BiLLs I'M woemep ABOUT_WHAT To GIVE The WIFE FOR A CHRISTMAS WHY SHBULD | WoRRY OVER "WHATI\ &HOULD GIVE MY wife For CHRISTMAS T WHY | ITS SILLY To Taxe T S0 SERIOUS - ; WHAT'LL | Gue Hea? wew FRANKLY | Bon'T MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Albums for Gifts. One Mother says: _ A little invalid girl wanted to make some personal Christmas gifts, so0 her mother bought her three little 20-cent photograph albums. She se- lected snapshots of, herself and places in which her friends were interested, to put into the books. She also clipped bits of verse, which she used to de- scribe the scenes. It afforded her many happy hours of pastime, and made three lovely gifts. (Copyright. 1926.) FOOD AND HEALTH BY WINIFRED STUART GIRBS. Undoubtedly New Yaer's resolutions are, in the minds of some people, old fashioned. One hears various re- marks, such as, “the only resolution I have made is not to make any,” and others of similar character. Per- haps the best resolution to make in regard to food is that we will strive to strike a happy mean; strive to take the matter of our own diet seri- ously, but not too seriously; strive to use the energy derived from a carefully planned diet in such fashion as to get the best possible returns, both for ourselves and our assoclates. In these days of gratuitous infor- mation in regard to food, we may fall into the way of becoming somewhat obsessed with the mechanics of diet- ary making. The “trick” would seem to be, first of all, to acquire the nec- essary information, and second, to learn how_to use this information skilfully. No one enjoys associat- ing with «an individual who makes diet his sole topic of conversation. An invalid may be pardoned for thinking about it with somewhat overdone emphasis. A well person who lets himself become a slave to the mechanics of his diet is & bore to his friends, and he fails to get the best from his food for himself. So to return to our New Year re- solutions, Without being the least “goody goody” about it; one who en- joys complete nutrition himself may like to add a sort of codicil, so to speak, to his New Year resolution about food. He may like to make it his business, quietly and unostenta- tiously, to spread his own knowledge about food. With himself and his family well fed, what would be more neighborly than to resolve to help others to acquire information neces- .| sary to their own good heaith There are many ways in which one may do this. Whether it is by the chance word of advice to a friend or the offer of more systematic help to one’s community organizations, the help is likely to be well received. After we-have told Mrs. Smith how to get Susie up in weight, there comes to mind the question of Susie's teach- er, who is probably the teacher of our own children. The average moth- er might be surprised to find how glad this teacher will be to have the help of mothers in the home. She, the teacher, is working intelligently to carry out her health and nutrition program in the classroom. 1If the mothers step in and emphasize the school program at home on all possi- ble occasions, both mothers and teach- ers are likely to feel the benefit, not to mention those principa volved, the children themselvs (Copyright. 1926.) l’;nln-Cheeu Salad. Have some pecan nuts shelled and carefully picked over, so that there will be no particles of the bitter con- necting tissue with them. Chop them fine and mix with twice their bulk of | cream cheese, adding as much liquid cream as may he needed to enable them to be formed into paste. Season lightly with pepper and salt, and make into small round balls. Core and pare some medium-sized apples, cut them in slices, and lay a slice on each plate on a lettuce leaf. Place a cheese and nut ball in the center of each slice of apple and pour thick mayonnaise dressing over. Serve with bread and butter sandwiches or unsweetened Graham wafers. . Liver Loaf. Parboil four thick slices of calf’'s liver, remove the skin, chop and press through a sieve. To each cupful of liver add one-fourth cupful of bread crumbs, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half tea- spoonful of paprika, a little black or white pepper and two heaten eggs. Mix well together and turn into a but- tered mold. Place in a pan of hot water and bake for an hour. Slice when cold and arrange in a bed of lettuce, with a mayonnaize sauce, to which add finely minced capers and eweet gherkins, % WHAT AR®E You | SAY-Y-Y-Y- GIVING _YouR /) THATS ONE wiFe Tuing + DON WORRY OVER =~ ‘ (VE GOT " ¥~ ENOUSH - To | woray me! | WITHOUT Tuar S FURTHERMORE 1M NOT WORRYING ABOUT . IT- - GeEoRGa | TéLL You T DoEs- ‘NOT- PAY ! T WHEN BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Buying Buds to Say It With. It may be that we consider it a weakness to display our emotions, or it may be that we are innately poetic. In any case, many of us “sav it with flowers.” Around holiday time more of us than ever are letting buds in- terpret for us. Exclusive of funeral decorations, flowers are bought chiefly for three purposes: Corsages, to fill vases and for shoulder decorations. Those that are bought for corsages or shoulders must not only harmonize in color with .the wearer's complexion: they must also match the shade of her gown. Shoulder decorations are more popular now than corsages because the newest gowns cahnot bear very heavy strains. In buying flowers ¢he merit or beau- ty of the blooms should be considered apart from price. Seasons affect the price of flowers naturally, but the cost of blooms fluctuates for many other reasons. Foot ball games or hockey matches boost the price of chrysanthemums. Holidays also af fect prices. 1In one “big town, ' chrys- anthemums that sold for $5 to $9 ten days before Thanksgiving, cost $8 to $12 eight days latel Orchids are in every woman's mind and hopes these day Most of us only see the purple orchid, though there are green ones as well. Two things make orchids costly—scareity and an embargo on the importation BEAUTY CHATS Cosmetios. Don't overdo the - cosmetic habit. This may sound like old advice from a beauty editor, part of whose business is to tell you the proper use of creams and lotions and such things. But the real truth is that vou can overload your skin with even the finest and best creams, 80 ghe pores clog, and, being unable to function, turn black and ugly. And you can. even overdo that most valuable treatment, the ice rub, chapping and making the skin rough as a result of it. The answer is to change the treat- ments every week or so, and, above all, to give yout !‘ll(in a rest. T Suppose normally you use a cleans- ing c‘l"ep::n at night (an excellent habit, especially if you live in a city where dirt fles about), and during the day you find a touch. of vanishing cream helps make the face smooth and at- tractive and the powder clings better. Very well, once a week wash the face with hot water and soap and nothing else at night, and next day powder, but don’t use anything as a base. 1 object to too much vanishing cream, anyway; it is apt to clog the pores. Or suppose you use a flesh-building cream and an astringent as a treat- ment for wrinkles. Once a week use nothing at all but hot water and soap for cleansing and cold water for rins- ing and closing the pores. Of course, WE GO SHOPPING —By BRIGGS. | AS A MATTER | ENTIRELY-~ 1T HASK'T EVEN OCCURRED To ME& THAT (TS © CHRISTMMS Time L, Jim WHAT “ re Yoo GIVING YQUR WIFE FOR CHRIST- MAS-- | CAN T THiNK OF A THING To GvE MiNE | 1 , | J | of orchids. They should be hought | fresh from the florist's ice-box and | handled as little as possible. Roses are just as good buys as they | were. They are temporary victims of their own popularity, but you can go ahead and buy them, secure in the thought that they are in perfect taste. Buy the sort of rose, however, that fits vour purse and your purpose. Ten | roses for the small jar or vase, and | American Reauties for floor v The Red Premier is a fine rose buy Violets! Shrinking nature has af- | | fected their price. They have shrunk in value from about $5 for a bunch of 100 to around $3 for the same | quantity. They still make good buys for age and youth. Though they may be rarely worn these days in corsages, | they may be used for their decorative value when larger blooms would seem out of place. 1f you are very fortu- nate, vou may find lovely white vio- | lets for sale at your local florist’s Ca-nations are always well received, | of « rse. And if you are buying a blossom for dad's or hubby's coat lapel, none excels the bachelor’s but- ton or Kaiserblume for the purpose. When you are buying flowers as deli- cate spokesmen, don’t forget that thelr arrangement is important. lovely blossoms may lose much of their ef- fect when carelesly or inartistically bunched together. If they are to be shipped any distance or carried, box- ing is advisable. Every one has her preference; try to remember it. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. in every case the soap must be the purest and best, a cold cream soap er a castile, or any fatty, vegetable oil soap. T‘;\ls doesn’t prove that cosmetics are bad. Intelligently used, they are great helps in keeping you young and improving your appearance. But every doctor knows that treatments for special troubles must sometimes be varied, and “beauty doctors,” as they are sometimes called, know that, too. Give yourself and your skin a rest occasionally, and the treatment, when you take it up, will be all the more effective. M. B.—The white specks in your nails are limey deposits which are the result of poor circulation under the nafls, Use the buffer every day on your nails and do not allow the skin to grow over the edges, as this re- stricts the circulation. You can bleach these spots with a paste made by mixing together in equal parts pitch and myrrh. As this will be a sticky black mass, you had better apply it at night and wear gloves to protect the bed linen. Re- move the paste in the morning with any kind of oil. A. B. C.—If you will send a self- addressed, stamped envelope and re- peat your request for a cream for- mula, I will be glad to mail it to you. A good grade of olive oil will make a fair substitute for cream. LITTLE BENNY Y LEE PAPE. ' We finished eating suppir and came to dizzert last nite, being coconut pie, being one of my favorite kinds, and ma sed, Its not a very large ple. 1 think there will jest about be a slice for each one if I leeve myself out, wich bleeve me T will because a ple is practickly nuthing but a mass of calories. And she cut it and thats all there was, me not getting the smallest slice but not getting the biggest either, proving theras allways something to be thankfill for and allways something to be uneattisfied about, and by the time I had ate my slice my sister Gladdis hadent started vet, giving me a ideer how to get another slice, and I sed, Hay Gladdis, G, you dint going to eat that ple, are ou‘.’ And why not, pray? Gladdis sed. Well G wizz, you bin looking kind of fat. lately and you know how fill- ing ple is, T sed. ) T dident know I was gaining wate, my stars do I haff to start dieting agen? Gladdis sed. Do you think I bin looking eny heavier, mother? she sed. : Well, your not ixackly falling away to nuthing. ma sed, and Gladdis sed. Well, I can do without this coconut ple, T gess, wen it comes to reducing, theres no time like the present. Me thinking, G, herray, and ma sed, Come to think of it, I bin feeling rather lite myself lately, T havent eaten a bit of ple for munths and I jest bleeve Ill eat yours. Wich she did, me thinking, Aw heck, darn the luck, gosh shang it, G. Oyster Pie. Tut .one pint of oysters with their liquid in a deep baking dish, add one and one-half tablespoonfuls of butter, and heat enough to melt the butter. ‘Add one tablespoonful of cornstarch dissolved in one cupful of cold water, salt and pepper to season, a dash of cayenne, and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Have ready a rich bis- cuit dough, pat to one-half an inch in thickness, the size of the baking dish, and lay on top of the oysters. Bake until the crust is done to & golden brown. ——— Thomas Gee memorial medals for Sunday school attendance were pre- sented recently to six Welsh women, the youngest of whom was more than $6 years old, _ What Do You Know ‘About It? Daily Science Six. . What is ferric oxide What is saltpeter? . What is aqua regia? . What is flowers of sulphur? . What is sugar of lead? . What is sodium chloride? Answers to these questions in tomorrow’s Star. There are many combinations of food that are undesirable, but there is one combination that is a kuockout. It calomel is taken, nothing with vine- gar must be eaten, as they combine to form a poison. Answers to Yesterday's Questions. 1. The most important cereal food first cultivated by the American In- dians is corn. e most important cereal food firs ultivated by the white race is wheat. 3. The most important cereal food first cultivated by the yellow race is rice. 4. The most important grass first brought to Europe by the Arabs is sugar cane. 4§ 5. A pommelo is a grapefruit, § A yam, properly so called, is a potatolike tuber of the yam vines, which are a species of Dioscorea; popularly the name has been misap- plied to the sweet potato, especially a sweet potato of sugary taste. ¥ Salmon Loaf. One pound cannsd salmon, two eggs, one-half cup bread crumbs or cracker crumbs, three tablespoons margarin, one teaspoon minced parsley. Break the cold salmon into bits. Add the beaten eggs. Combine the margarin _with the crumbs and parsley and season with salt and pep- per to taste. Combine the mixtures until there is a smooth mass. Place in a buttered and covered baking dish and steam or bake for one hour. Serve hot with brown gravy. Meat With Spaghetti. Put in your frying pan three table- spoonfuls of butter or bacon fat, add one pound of ground round steak, one onion chopped fine, one clove of gar- lic, one green pepper diced and one can of tomatoes. Season with salt, pepper, paprika and ehili powder. Let this cook slowly for about an hour. Boil in salted water a package of spaghettl. When done, drain and add it to the cool ground steak, and | water. | Sands,” SYNOPSIS. Spencer Trumbull, in order to be near his rl in the Adirondacke {nstead of taking a ealth trip. hires his old college and war days chum. Billy Trask trip in his place and proi A and expenses if he takes his place under the eye and care of Keeler, a male “"T Who fe a stranger to both. and thus ful 1 the orders of Trumbull's father's physician. Kk atarts aboard the Gulf Stream in a :“nrlhl‘hk)n and no sooner is pushed on foch !n‘r n\:;l’m(, ‘.-:md =2 interested invalid. despite her dragon of an aunt, " Miss Grimm. Meanwhile, Keeler makes himself & hero to Sidney Sande. a irl in the second o concealing his ‘Trask breaks hounds and meets s, daughier of an absent-minded pro- who has missed the boat. leaving her to continue hia seientific observations of the .. His achievement leads 10 an axpos. ine of Trask. which Keeler makes worse hy e captain” that the invaiid s v mental case. The captain thre . k put them off when the vessel re . v West. Trask determines to defeat the €iptain's purpose And stay aboard. (Continued from Testerda Trask Tells His Story. RASK was not a coward. He was willing to face the music and listen tune, if necessary. The o thing he would not permit was vou to stay here until T come back,” he ordered sharply after a final glance through the win dow to make sure that it was dark outside. Keeler was on his feet “Why, you can't go Trask! “I'm going. Don't argue. You can sit around and get put off at K West, if you like. I won't. If any one comes inquiring for me tell them I've retired.” Keeler backed against the door and hesitated. “Keeler!” cried Trask sharply “You'd better stand aside! I'm not as easy as I look. I'll stand for no In- terference."” “It's only you I'm thinking of, sir,” said Keeler meekly, vet stubbornly. I'm afraild you're going to do some- thing rash again, Mr. Trask.” “Perhaps. 1 don't know. But that's my affair. 1 order you to get out of my way.” 3 Still Keeler hesitated. There was 0k of deep anxiety in his eyes. “You'll promise, Mr. Trask, to take no chances with yourself? 1I'd never forgive myseif, sir, if T thought— “I'll take no chances that aren't necessary. Come, now, I'm in a hurry.” Keeler drew a deep breath, let it escape slowly and then stepped aside from the door. “Please be careful, as he turned the knob. responsible for you."” Trask nodded shortly and left the stateroom. He did not loiter on the deck. Nor did he make any attempt to use the stairway leading to the second cabin. Two-Round Tommy might be a friend of Keeler's, but Trask had never en- Joyed even an acquaintance. Besides, there might be another guardian at the gate, capable of perhaps more than two rounds of combat. Trask sought no combat at all. Instead, he walked briskly toward the stern of the ship, looking neither to the right nor the left. He went directly to the rail, where he had once before made a sensational disappearance, noted with a swift glance that he was unobserved and then swung over it. This time there was no ery of alarm, no uproar and running of feet on the deck he quitted. With a facility born of his former experience, 'Trask slid down to the deck below, climbed in- board and began at once to make his way forward. Thus far it had been unexpectedly easy. . He decided to follow the policy of going about his business in a free and open manner. For one thing, he did not feel in a furtive mood, and he was convinced that his best disguise lay in an dutward air of confidence and ease. If he encountered Capt. Blodgett himself, he felt sure that he would not even quiver an eyelid or hesitate for a fraction of a second in his_step. His journey took him directly past the stateroom of Sidney Sands, but he could see no sign of a light within, nor any in the adjoining room, where she was conducting the affairs of her father's weather gimcracks. He walked on steadily, nodding occasion- ally to casual acquaintances whom he had met that afternoon, but who knew nothing, he well understood, of his status aboard the Gulf Stream. They could only have known through the girl, and he was certain she had said nothing. Far forward he spied her little fig- ure standing at the rail, and evidently watching the moon streak on the She was not, however, alone. Two young men were beside her, engaged in what appeared to be a desultory conversation. Twice he caught the echo of her laughter. Trask waited for no opportunity to present itself he did not know how long his stolen liberty would endure, He made his own opportunity. He walked briskly over to the trio. “I beg your pardon.” he said. She turned quickly at his voice, recognized him without any display of astonishment and waited. “T have an engagement with Miss he explained to the young instantly out, Mr. a sir,” he urged “I feel sort of men. “I regret very much to deprive you of her company, and I will promise to return her to you as soon as possible. I know you will excuse me."” ‘The young men bowed—and sighed. “We'll go now, if you please,” sal Trask, addressing the girl for the first Stewed Fr.esh. es {10 Minute Sauce) “make” the Christ- mas dinner when served with any meat! i The most delicious, healthful and econom- ical stewed fruit to !: with all meats, hot cold. Always cook cranber- ries and keep the sauce inenameled, porcelain- lined, glass or alumi- num vessels. to an unpleasant | FEATUR BY E. J. RATH. (Copyright, 1926, by G. Roward Wes.) time, and accompanving the words | with an offer of his arm. Rather to his own astonishment, she accepted his_excort without a murmur. JHe retraced his steps toward the after part of the ship, the girl walking silently at his side. The only act of apparent volition on her part was the | withdrawal of her hand from his asm | after they had passed from the sight of the two~youths so unceremonious- 1y _bereft of her company i Not until they reached an alcove near the stern did Trask stop. He howed her to a chair, but she made no move to take it. “I think what we have o say will take a very brief time,” she observed in a cool, quiet voi | “I beg to differ,” said Trask. “It may take at least hajf an’ hour. And | thank you for not dismissing me in the presence of your friends.” “I am not in the habit of inflicting my affairs upon my friends or ac- quaintances. Mr. Trask—if that is your name. Please be very brief. If it i= an apology, don't bother with it 1 prefer not to be annoyed with one.’ “Very well. I'll not apologize. I hall mere! vou some things. | After that do as you please —perhapa.’ | She looked up quickly at the last | word, but waited for him to proceed. | Her lips were set firmly, her eves cool and steady. Ag she stood facing him | he had an impresston that she was | an inch or two taller than usual; per- | haps i& was hecause she held herself with a prim erectness. Tr noted these things with sat | Istaction; he liked her the better for them. He mentally thanked his stars that she did not storm, display any of the customary agita- tion of an Angry young woman. “Suppose,” been- hired for $1,500 to perform a | certain plece of work that, if unusual, was at least not dishonorable; was not of a nature calculated to damage any person, and that only took a fort. night of your time? Suppose you never saw so much money in your life as $1,500. Suppose you were out of a job when the offer was made. ‘Would you accept 1t?” “I don't know," she answered. “Is this what you came to tell me? “Part of it. Really, I think we'll be less conspicuous, Miss Sands, if we sit down. And I shall need at least half an hour.” . Without reply, she went over to the deck chair he had offered and sat. He drew a second chair alongside, imitated her example and began his story. For several minutes Sidney Sands listened impassively. He had placed her where the moonlight partly illu- minated her face and watched her in- tently as he spoke. It seemed at first to Trask that he might as well have poured his tale into the ear of a recording phono- graph for all the response that it awakened in her. Occasionally she looked directly at him, but for the greater part of the time her gaze was seaward. Yet he knew that she was listening intently. He had reached that chapter of his misfortunes dealing with the exploits of his runaway wheelchair, when he thought he detected the first outward display of emotion in her. It consisted merely in an almost imperceptible tightening of her lips. ‘A moment later there was a flick ering of an eyelid. Two minutes after that she began drumming on the arm of her chair, following which she wrinkled her nose. She looked up at, him as he related the mishap of the man who did not fall overboard, then quickly glanced away and began bit- ing her under lip. Presently Trask noticed she had averted her head and that the shoul- der nearest him was shaking. “Please turn around, Miss Sand: he said. “I want your attention. She turned, and the tumult that had made her little figure quiver broke forth unto unchecked laughter. “Oh! Oh!" she gasped. “How per- fectly exquisite! of course— But g0 on—please “Let's shake hands on it first,” he said, gravely. She gave him her hand frankly and he held it as long as the circum- stances seemed to permit. “I felt sure you would not be adamant when you understood the fact: said Trask, feeling suddenly and strangely at peace with the whole world—even with the dragon. “Yes, yes; but—oh, go on. Tell me more—everything!’ He told her mote, and as each frag- ment of the story fitted in with those fragments that were already in her possession, Sidney Sands gave way to a fresh paroxysm of mirth. Once she stood up in her excitement and seemed about to break into a wild dance joy everal times she ‘Captain Ferriss'!" “Tell me every she ex- claimed. thing about him" Trask remembered what he could, even reciting the melancholy tale of Keeler's loves. Parts of it she list- ened to with a serious face and a puzzled wrinkling of her .forehead. On one occasion she uttered what sounded likg a little cry of real sympathy. But generally the laughter was too much for her. ‘When he had finished, Trask leaned back in his chair and watched her. “‘But there must be more of it!" she cried. “Haven't you really forgot- ten something? Tell me more!"” “I'm afroid there is no more—yet.” She sprang from her chair, to the rail, rested her hands on it and looked out at sea. Then she turned | thing he had never seen in or weep, or | he said, “that you had ES. and faced him, her face glowing, her eyes excited What a wonderful adventure!" she said in an awed tone. “And to think —T've heen in it!" “You'd really call it an adventure?” “Why, it great bhig adventure. Aren't vou ter )| excited over it vourself? Oh, please he enthusiastic Trask laughed. The unabashed do light of the adventure girl was some 1 womar before. The sincerity of it was a rev lation “And to think veu that vou never ad any adventures she said reproachfuny. “just at the very time you were living one “Perhaps it was hecause I know an adventure when I sec he offered as an explanation ou will, after this.” she confidently. ‘Then abruptly vou made vour peace with Kent?” He shook his head. “But_you should! She is a distinguished-looking girl." He glanced at her narrowly, Sidney Sands never hlinked “She seems to have heen kind to you,” added Sidnay “Are you laughing at .ne?" manded told me once don't one nodded “Have Mi very but ery, very he de No, Indeed.” “I'm not so sure, blame vou. Anything, =0 long as you don’'t sympathize with me ™ She glanced at him swiftly and he heard a soft laugh “I've been puzzling ove thing,” said Trask. “Why refuse to answer Capt. questions?" “He made me angry. “Is that the only rea “Well—no." “Do _you others?" She pursed her lips and did not answer immediately. Then she turned to him with an embarrassed smile “I scented something out of the or dinary,” she said. “Of course, the whole thing was out of the ordinary What I mean i& that I knew you had an explanation and wouldn't give it, for some reason. Perhaps I 1 pected an adventure, and didn't want to spoil it. You see, T love adventures for their own sake. And. besides that, it didn't seem—well, not exactly square for me to tell.” “I like the last reason hest." “I supposed you would,” she calmly. “That's the reason I savi for the last.” She was laughing again. Trask concluded that she could be slightly Lnnlalh}in‘ when the humor suited er. hat being the case, I don't see why you became angry,” he observed h, that was wholly another mat- ter, you see. When I thought it over, I discovered that my dignity had been offended, and that I had been imposed upon. Even in adventures there are certain”lormulltleu that must be ob- But T wouldn't some- did you Rlodgett's mind telling me any (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Jots From Geography Natives of New Britain, and island northeast of New Guinea, in the Southern Pacific, have no buckets or barrels in which to transport their water supply. As a substitute they plug the ends of bamboo poles and fill these hollow tubes with water. A native is able to carry about 10 of these container: . Grapefruit Pie. For. this provide three tablespoon- fuls each of corn starch and flour, seven-eighths cupful of sugar, fourt cupful of water, two eggs yolks, one and one-half cupfuls of hot water, one-third cupful of grapefruit juice, one-half a cupful of the grapefruit pulp drained from the juice and one drop of butter coloring. Mix the dry ingredients, add the cold water, then the boiling water, cook for thres min utes, stirring constantly, add the egg volks, butter coloring and the grape. fruit juice and pulp, either canned or fresh. When cold pour into a baked shell. Sprinkle with dried or canned coconut and set in the brofler long enough to toast the coconut under the flame. A little hot mixture should be mixed into the beaten yolks before pouring them into the sauce- pan of hot mixture. Adding the eggs directly would make them stringy and spoil the smooth consistency of the filling. You may substitute orange juice and pulp. 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