Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1926, Page 18

WOMAN’S PAGE. Goose for the Christmas Dinner BY LYDIA LE BARON ‘Goose is the especlal meat for Christmas, just as turkey is for ®hanksgiving. Since these two great feast days of the year come within one month of each other, it fis fortunate there are two such deli ¢lous, large birds, one for each day. The dinners need not be allke so far 48 the chief dish in the menu is con- cerned. The correct dressings for the two birds differ also as well as the $auce. A goose i fred with mashed potato highly seasoned with onion and thyme, pepper and salt. With it is served apple sauce. Turkey has a dressing of bread crumbs with poul- try seasoning and is accompanjed with cranberry sauce. Turkey is®such a favorite with New Englanders that it is frequently served in place of goose Ifi that section of the countx 18 a substitute, however. menus goose is chosen Menu for Christmas Dinner. Saltines t Apple sauce. Sweet potatoes. Cauliflower. Celery. Christmas salad. = Bread sticks. Ited nuts, Olives. Plum pudding. hard sauce. Fruit. Nuts. Raisins Candy. Demi-tasse coffee. #All dishes in the menu are familiar except the salad. This is one of the most decorative of dishes, and deli- clous, too. < Christmas Salad. Place a slice of canned pineapple on lettuce leaves. Stick a peeled banana in the round hole in the pine- apple. In the top of the banana put a piece of red pimento to resemble the glowing light of the candle. Fasten a curved slice of a sweet pepper into the banana near where it goes into the pineapple. Put the other end into a nick in the edge of the pineapple. This forms the handle to the “candle stick.” The effect is of a- lighted Christmas candle in a candlestick. Dot the lettuce with mayonnaise. Menu No. 2. Consomme, Roast goose. Mashed turnip. Bolled onions. \ Salted nuts. Stuffed olives. Orange salad. Crackers. Plum pudding, golden sauce. Fruit. N Raisins. ’ Apple sauce. Squash. Celery. offee. The golden sauce is made by cream- | ALKER. SAU MAY OF "HRISTMAS AND THE LAST CTION TO GOOSE ing one-half cup butter with three- fourths cup sugar. Boil one-fourth cup milk with the yolk of one egg just long enough to set the egg. It must not separate. Pour gradually on to the creamed butter and sugar, stirring constantly. Flavor with lemon juice and a dash of mace. Just before serving fold in the well beaten white of the egg. 150 YEARS AGO TODAY Story of the U. S. A. BY JON Army Crosses Delaware. NEWTOWN, Pa., December 25, 1776.—Washington's Army is tonight crossing the Delaware River about nine miles above Trenton. Col. Glover’s fishermen from Massachu- setts are managing the boats and struggling against terrific odds through the masses of ice which are coming down the stream in increas- ing volume. The regiments had their evening ade before 6 o’'clock, but instead of returning to quarters were marched toward McKonkeys Ferry. It is fearfully cold and raw and a snowstorm setting in. The wind is northeast and beats in the faces of the men. It will be a terrible night for the soldiers who have no shoes. Some have tied old rags around their feet; pthers are barefoot. One of the officers says he has heard none of them complain. They are ready to suffer any hardship and die rather than give up their liberty. Their countersign, “Vietory or Death,” tells of the stern determination in every man’s heart. They are on their way to Trenton, ATHAN A. RAWSON, JR. to the river, which might then be im- passable for a retreat because of the ice. The crossing began about 6 o'clock. The general had planned that the en- tire body with their artillery should ba on the Jersey side by midnight and the nine-mile march to Trenton begun by 1 o'clock, allowing time for the at- tack to begin at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, but the river ice has en- dangered the whole program. This delay alone would have disheartened a less determined soldier than George Washingtop. To increase his difficul- ties, the snow turned late tonight into a blinding sheet of hail and sleet, and the men began to report that they could not keep their powder dry. But there will be no turning back under George Washington. ‘While Washington was crossing at McKonkeys Ferry, Gen. Cadwalder was to have crossed from Bristol with the Pennsylvania militia and Gen. Ewing was to have crossed at Tren- ton Ferry, to prevent the Hessians from escaping from one end of Tren- ton while Washington was entering the town at the other end. Both Cadwalder and Ewing were thwarted and they know full well that they must win a decisive victory or the Hesslans in Trenton and the enemy troops in Princeton and other nearby camps will be able to drive them back BEDTIME STORIE Merriest Merry Christmas. Christmas joy without alloy 1 wigh for every girl and boy —Peter Rabbit. Sammy Jay thought that Spooky the Screetch Owl was fooling him when he told about having looked through windows at night and seen the young spruce trees and young hemlock trees of the Green Forest made very beautiful in Farmer Brown's house and other houses. Sammy couldn’t belleve it. And, of oourse, he couldn’t keep it to himself. So he told Peter Rabbit about it, and o Hlary PETER STARED. he told Jumper the Hare, and some others. They didn't believe it either. But Peter couldn’t get it out of his head all that day. So when the dark ness of night came Peter scampered over to Farmer Brown's house. Very carefully he made his way around the house without seeing anything un- usual, until at last he was opposite a window of the front room. The room was lighted and the curtain was up Peter gasped and stared. All_that Spooky had sald was true. Never had he seen such a beautiful tree as seemed 1o be growing right in that room. It was covered with lights and wonderful, shiny things. He stared 80 that he forgot everything else. He <D v GASE AND didn’t even suspect the presence of | since gone back by the river ice. At midnight all de- pends upon Washington's ability to form his lines and cover the nine miles to Trenton by daybreak. (Copyright. 1926.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS right behind him and turned to see Reddy also staring at that tree. You should have seen Peter disap- pear. It happened there was a hiding place quite near, and he was in it in a jiffy. He didn’t want to leave, be- cause he wanted to see that wonderful tree in there. Of course, you know what it was. It was a Christmas tree. Even Reddy Fox forgot to hunt. He Just sat himself down and stared and stared. He could think of nothing else. Perhaps the Christipas spirit had crept into Reddy’s heart, for, you see, this was the night before Christmas. Early the next morning things be- gan to happen. They began to hap- pen just as soon as Farmer Brown's Boy was through his breakfast. They were delightful things. They had to do mostly with eating. You know, in Winter no greater happiness can be given to liftle people in feathers and furs than to provide plenty of food for thém. This is just what Farmer Brown's Boy did. It was his Christ- mas gift to his little friends of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, the Old Orchard and the Old Pasture. He didn't forget any of them. He even went way over into the Green Forest to carry some special tidbits for Lightfoot the Deer and Mrs. Lightfoot. He went up in the Old Orchard and left some food for Old Man Coyote and for Reddy Fox and Mrs. Fox. He left it right on their doorsteps. Of course, he didn't forget the dear Old Briar-patch. That was one of the first places he visited. It seemed to little Mrs. Peter, who seldom leaves the dear Old Briar-patch, that never had anything tasted so good as the feast he left there. In the Old Or- chard there was something in every | tree. At Jeast, seemed that way. Of course, this wasn't quite true, but there was something in a great many trees. This was so that Happy Jack Squirrel, and Chatterer the Red Squir- sl Rusty the Fox Squirrel, Sammy Jay, Tommy "Tit the Chickadee, Yank Yank the Nuthatch, Drummer the Woodpecker, Dotty the Tree Sparrow and all the other feathered folk who were wintering over there might eat without having to wait for others Bob White was not forgotten, you {may be sure. Neither were Mr. and it Mrs. Grouse, for Mrs. Grouse had long to join Mr. Grouse Reddv Fox until he heard a little gasp | in_the Green Forest hif the things Ta like to say, in this small place— And so I'll say it very lovd : A MERRY CHRISTMAS, I'“’m\f\ ™Mce. L ¢ Christmas as : Christmas spirit was all through the Green Fo and all over Green Meadows, for not once did atch any one else. Not day was th a single the only reason that / of Mother Nature's children hunt is so that they may have food. !On this day, when there was plenty for all, none even thought of harming another. And T am sure that if they could have made him understand, all | the little people would have wished Farmer Brown's Boy as Merry a | Christmas as he had given them. (Covyright. 1926.) . s Raisin Pie. | When making raisin pie simmer the raisins for three hours over a very |Tow fire, then add thickening, a pinch | of salt and one-half a teaspoonful of | vanilla, together with one-half a cup- | ful of sugar if a very sweet pie is de- sired. The long, slow cooking brings A0 a delicious flavor to the raisins. { i days and the first ‘month of the ye: ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D.. 0., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1926 THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, December 26. Saturn is in benefic aspect tomorrow, according to astrology, while the sun is adverse. This is a day of promise to those who live by agriculture and they may be assured of benefits from sources that are unexpected. This should he a rule of much bene. fit to mining interests and the sway now appears to presage speclal ad. vantages in the coal trade. It has been long predicted that the Winter would he severe, but the prev- alance of freak stc will add to its discomforts, astrologers again foretell. Tt is read as a day for quict family association, Much round-the-world travel is fore- told and an American tourist party is 1o occupy much space in the news s prophesied, because of ary experience Hospitality is to be more gener n than usual, all through the holi- astrologers predict. . Weddings are to be numerous and among them will be several uniting fortunes greater than any possessed by a prince and princess, Return to distinctly feminine tynes of beauty will be noticed with the changing fashions. The psychology of clothes and cus- toms, stressed by occult 5, has been demonstrated in recent yea ing to astrologers, who welcome a re- turn to less masculine modes. Persons whose birth date it is should beware of possible robbery in the cqm ing year, which will bring many new experlences. Children born on that day may be nervous and high-strung, but gifted and fortunate. They may be exacting regarding their food and raiment. (Copyright, 1926.) THE DIARY OF A NEW FATHER ieain L Y ROBERT E. DICKSON. Letter from the new father to Joan: “‘Dear Joan: I have enough grief to think about without paying any at- tention to your brilliant brother Bill and his silly talk about how easy it would be for me to put new pistons in a car. 1 don’t know one piston from another. Besides, we haven't got any car, and vou're the only one who has decided we are going to get one. “Now listen to this: The boss told me today he might decide to put me out on the road—make a traveling salesman out of me! I told him I couldn’t go away for a whole week at a time and leave my family, and he said, well, lots of men did, and think of the opportunity; I'd make a lot more money, with commissions and all, and he sald I must know the firm's line pretty well by this time, 'd been working in the office long enough. So I told him no, I doubted if T did know it well enough and he'd better not send me out and maybe lose some business, and he said that was all right; they'd give me a few weeks' special training anyway. “Now isn’t that just my luck? I don’t want to~zo out on their darn road. Just think, not seeing you and the baby for a whole week at a time— sometimes longer. “He is going to let me know Mon- day or Tuesday what he decides. “‘The baby would forget who I was, with me being away from home so much. “I'm worrfed sick. I wish next week would hurry up and come, so this suspense would be over. B. ~Do you think the baby would KITTY McKAY BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. It's not so much the gift, as the thought that goes with it, and I could be arrested with the thoughts that go with some of my Chritsmas gifts, Is It Better for a Woman to Marry, Even If She Is Not Violently in Love?—Curing Boy’s Vanity AR MISS DIX: D That's my cas Answer: things that you re matrimony a flower-strewn pathway. The average married woman has envelope for her labor. up and ends it long after members are So far as material things are investment when she marries, unless financially and who is kind and gen , | different. sacrificing herself for him. In such a who sat down every day to a banquet » paid in dollars and cents. Any woman me spinster from the bottom of her heart. And there are the children. Eives to many a woman whose marriag They flll her empty heart. They give for and glve a meaning to her life that Furthermore, without doubt, mar brings out all that is best in people, a hay th n the single woman who has neve others. she has. hundred-to-one shot at happiness; but will make a killing. D How can I curb his egotism? . . ZAR DOROTHY DIX: Answer: boys are so ruthless in dealing with as impress the virtue of humility on your confidence and developing in him the make failures of men and women than to achiev: the mark to our aspirations. never do anything worth while. curb on a child's vanity. has no union hours, but begins her day Without Curbing Ambition. Is it best for a woman to marry or not to marr mean, of course, when she isn't violently, head-over-heels in love, but just likes a nice man fairly well and realizes that he is most likely her last chance. , and T don't l‘nnw what to do. BACHELOR GIRL. Mr. Punch said long ago that getting married was one of the egret if you do and regret if you don't do. find In thefr husbands the Prince Charmings of their dreams. Only a very few To very few is to work 10 times as hard in her home as the single woman works In an office or store, and she draws no pay She works literally for her board and clothes. She s toil before the rest of the family is bed. concerned, & woman iakes a poor she gets a husband who is well off nerous. But the spiritual values are A woman may love a man so much that she finds her highest joy in case a_ woman is happier married to a man who half starves her than she would be if she were a millionaire old maid Jjust for one. Nor do wives require to ried to a4 man who is a perpetual lover pities every They are the consolation prize that God e is a bleak and bitter disappointment. > her something to hope for, to strive the unmarried woman never has. riage is a developer of character. It nd as a general thing the woman who been through the experience of wifehood and motherhood is more unselfish r had to give up her own desires for But whether it is best for a woman who isn’t particularly in love with a man to marry or not depends altogether upon how much sporting blood If she stays single, she plays safe. 1f she marries, she takes a always the chance that she DOROTHY DIX. there s I have a young son who ig always boasting about what he is going to do. There is nothing I dislike so much as a braggart. A WORRIED MOTHER. A little wholesome ridicule is perhaps the best remedy, but his schoolmates will probably deflate his swelled head, as there is nothing that vanity, ' But your problem is not quite so simple as it seems, because in trying to son you run the risk of killing his self- inferiority complex that does more to anything else in the world. For we can only achieve the things that we believe we have the ability ‘We have to be “sold” to ourselves, as the commercial saying goes before we can sell ourselves to others. Our’ belief in our own powers sets The timid, the fearful, the self-deprecating And so I think parents make a great mistake in putting too severe a It may offend your good taste to hear Johnny boasting that he Is going to be President when he grows up, or a 1 mobile that was ever made, or that he But how do you know what fate and abilities are hidden in that tousled you may be sure, that he will never in himself. millionaire, and ride in the finest auto- is going to be a general in the Army. has in store for him or what powers little head of his? And of one thing be anything if you destroy his faith Old-fashioned parents believed it their duty to keep their children's faults ever before their eyes. and John how awkward he was and to remind Tom of his dullness and Jim of his carelessness, with the inevitable faults. could not overcome, and they surrend a fight. The self-conceited are hard upon the go-getters. result that they intensified all of these They made the children believe that they had handicaps that they ered to fate without ever putting up their fellow creatures, but they 'are DOROTHY DIX. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS Dear Miss Leeds—WIll you please publish ways of reducing the body from the bust down to the knees. Where shall I write for the leaflet on reducing that gives menu suggestions? Tam 30 years old, 5 feet'51% inches tall and weigh 170 pounds. 1 must re- duce. E. L. M. Answer—You should weigh no more than 138 pounds for your age and height, but do not try to lose weight so rapidly that you will lose your health, too. I shall be glad to mail you my leaflet on “How to Lose Weight” if you will write for it, in- closing a stamped, self-addressed en- velope and addressing me in care of this newspaper. There is no charge for this service. You need both dlet- ing and exercise to trim down your fig- ure. Begin by cutting down your| breakfasts to one orange and two slices of toast. FEat a light luncheon consisting mostly of fresh vegetables like lettuce, spinach and carrots, with bread ard butter and a glass of milk. For dinner have clear soup, lean meat, potatoes or rice, creamed cauliflower or cabbage, string beans, bran muffins, clear tea or coffee with- dut sugar, applesauce and’ ginger- bread. Taeke only one helping of each dish. My leaflet gives other menu suggestions. You also ne bending and trunk-twisting exercises for reducing walist, hips, thighs and abdomen. These are contained in my leaflet on “Beauty Exercises" that I shall be glad to send you when you write for the reducing leaf- let. Be sure to ask for both leaflets. LOIS LEEDS. ‘omplexion Problems. Dear Miss Leeds—WIill you please answer the following questions as soon as possible? (1) I am 12 years old and am bothered by pimples on my face, back and arms. I also have blackheads. Should I steam the skin and then use a cleansing cream? (2) Is it all right for me to use talcum powder on my face? (3) I have eczema on my fingers. What should I do for it? (4) How can I reduce ankles, legs and insteps?. KATY. ‘Answer—I answer all letters just as soon as I can, but even so I must ask all my readers to be patient and walt thelr turn, since there are hun- WELL WHERE | Have o seent?) ony You GET LAYEB/. PA e - AND LATER EACH Year! - ey AS \ CouLD BELEVE ME \mM Gowe To BUSINESS = ALl Busiiess< AL ey s SOMETHING ELSE - A DAY JoB- s N\ Now Dow -t START HOPPING \ GoT PACK AS 300N GET OUT OF ThiS SANTA GLAUS MY JoB - I'LL @0 GUT AuD GET, WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND. - IF You Knew Some OF THe ALWAYS THERE CRIT|C17_E|' PEOPLE GIVE BiG PARTIBS ' NOw) AND STAY UP LATE AMD | HAVE TAND AROUNDP AND WauT Tl THEY Go B BED- AMD THEN WHEN | COME HOME | dreds who bring questions to me and I can answer only a few each week in the space allotted to me in the pa- per. Of course, those who inclose stamped, self-addressed envelopes re- celve my replies sooner. (1) The con- ditlon of your skin seems to show that the cleansing methods you have been using are not thorough enough. Every night, lather the affected areas with pure soap, warm water and a bath brush. ,Rinse off every particle of soap in clear warm water. Next, bathe the pimples in hot boric acid solution and if there are any large ‘“ripe” ones, prick them with a sterilized needle and gently press out the pus. Bathe again in fresh boric acld water, dry and rub in a special acne cream like the follow- ing: 1 dram ichthyol, 2 drams zinc oxide, 2 drams starch, 3 drams petro- latum. Wash off the cream next morning. Take a cold or tepld sponge or shower bath in the morning and follow by a brisk, hard rub-down with a coarse towel to stimulate your skin. (2) Face powder is preferable to talcum because it is ‘inted o match one’s skin and it adheres bet- ter. (3) Have a doctor presci.ve (reac ments for the skin condition. (4) Walking, esthetic dancing and swim- ming provide fine exercise for de- veloping shapely lower limbs. My leaflet on *“‘Care of the Legs” gives speclal exercises for reducing these parts. Please send a stamped, self- addressed envelope for a copy. LOIS LEEDS. —By BRIGGS. IF You Teumw R ] IVE A SoF T CHRISTMAS- - THAT LL STOP YovR Com- PLAINING- Tverg THame Deas- HERS' S A WICE MOT BREAWFAST rom veu 1M HEATING Jom@ wATER Fon ?-ao:nvsn BAG SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. anyfing, but T can feel how lumpy my stockin is. Oh golly! He's been here! He's been here! (Copyright. 1026.) LITTLE BENNY “BY LEE PAPE. Pop was smoking in back of the sporting page and I sed, Hay pop, you awt to of saw the fearese fite Puds Simkins and Glasses Magee had this afternoon. I dont see half the things 1 awt to, I reely ‘must make an effort to get around more, pop sed, and I sed, Im thinking of writing a ac- count of it and sending it to the paper, pop. Was it a reguler fite, in rounds and everything? pop sed, and I sed, Well not ixackly, but they had to stop for breth every once in a wile and I could make the rounds every time they got out of breth. ‘Wich I did, this being it und 1 Puds called Glasses a 4 eye hippapot- amist, Glasses called Puds a dubble jointed balloon. Puds dared Glasses to take his glasses off. Round 2 Glasses called Puds a big empty bag of nuthing. Puds called Glasses a goggle eye candelope and dubble dared him to take his glasses off. Round 3 Glasses called Puds a swelled up hunk of cheese and took them off. Puds seds Is that so and put up his fists and started to jump around. Glasses put up his own fists and kicked Puds in one shin. Pudds butted Glasses in the stummick with the top ‘side of his hed. Glasses called him a big coward and butted him in his own stummick with the top side of Round 4 Puds grabbed a hold of Glasses and started to act like a wressler. Glasses grabbed a hold of Puds and they acted llke 2 wresslers, both yelling No fare, wats_you doing, no-fare. Round 5 They never fafled to tell Mary how homely she was | his own hed. ‘They rolled around on the payment hitting each other with everything but their hands on account of all their hands being bizzy pulling each others hair, Puds yelling, Have you had enuff? and Glasses vellin, i pologize and Ill leeve you go. Round 6, last round Flatfoot the cop came around the corner and everybody ran, Puds and Glasses looking glad of the ixcuse. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Good and Poor Teeth. ‘The baby's first teeth are watched with pride and curiosity and cared for in proportion to their preciousness. The later teeth get no such attention, teething then having become a more or less commonplace event. In fact some mothers are actually gullty of glving the teeth no care at all on the ground that a baby's teeth don't need to be washed. Just why she should think this impossible to fathom, but the question is asked daily, “When is it necessary to wash a child’s teeth?” he has any to wash! The cause for good or poor teeth Is too often attributed to inheritance. ‘While inheritance does affect the shape, size and general color of the teeth, just as it also affects the length or shortness of the nose or .the stature of the person, the kind of teeth one possesses depends entirely on the diet of the mother before the child is born and during lactation, and the child’s dlet the first year. One can trace the effects of en- vironment to the following extent, and make it seem inheritance. The kind of food the mother is used to feeding her family in many cases is exactly the same kind of* food the mother has heen used to getting in her own home. .If such food has been inadequate to build good, strong, white teeth, the mother will have poor teeth and so will her baby, be- cause she will continue to eat poor food herself, and she will feed it to her children. Naturally such a family will continue to be cursed with crumbly, easily decaying teeth until one of the offspring discovers the sublime relation bétween food and teeth and changes her method of liv- ing and feeding her family. In order to provide the materials for strong teeth the mother must eat foods containing lime and phosphorus, and such foods are milk, green vege- tables, unhulled or whole grain cereals and fruits. Mrs. Eldred has a leaflet on the and abnormal symptoms of teeth: infants. Send a self-addressed ask for leaflet No. norm; st o, HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Calling Him Santa Claus. One of the querles we receive at this holiday season is “How did Santa Claus get his name < “Santa Klaus,” as it originally was spelled, is really a Dutch corruption of the name “St. Nicholas.” And St. Nicholas was a very popular patron saint of the chu In ancient times in England the “feast” of this saint, as the anniversaries were called, was elaborately celebrated on December 6, the supposed day of his death. It is the nearness of this date to Christmas day that originally led to the connection of the two and the fable that ‘Santa Klaus" brings the presents on Christmas! Every country tells its children its own version of Santa Claus, but the most popular and the most widely adopted one we have from an old cus- tom of the people of Friesland, who years ago used to send around to the houses on St. Nicholas eve a man dressed in imitation Episcopal robes and miter to impersonate the saint, in- quiring whether the children had been good or bad, and leaving toys where a good report was given! Merry Chrisf mas! @ovyrisnt. 1028.0 In in England in Coffee troduced ith century. the sevents Obviously+as soon as | FEATURES. e e e e ——————————————————————e e e THE SPIDER WOMAN BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. John Henderson marries Helena Ford without telling her that he Aas tired of her. When they return from their honeymoon, her younger sister, Natalie, marries. John has become interested in a charming widow, Nina Price, on their trip to Havana and Helena confides to Natalie that she is sure he no longer cares for her. Natalie advises her to fight for him if 8he cares enough, and Helena, fecling that she is the right woman for him, decides to try. She turns herself into @ spider woman weaving & wed. She first tries indifference, but it seems 1o do no good, for John departs on @ business trip to the coast with the idea of visiting Nina, who lives in Denver. She encourages him to make love to her, and on his return he plans to esk Helena to free him. She beats him to it, however, and asks for her freedom first. She tells him she has ceased to love him, and when he leaps to the conclusion that she cares for some one else she lets him believe it. He is planning to go dack to Denver as soon as he can get his affairs in hand, but Helena's attitude toward him. hurts his pride. Bhe goes to stay with Natalic and is there when Nata- li’'s bady is dorn. One evening she dines with John, presumadly to talk over their affairs. Her i piques his interest, and towaerd the end of the evening, out of a clear sky he makes love to her. She repulses him indignantly and leaves the apart- ‘ment. Later she tells Natalie about it. CHAPTER XLVIIL A Change of Heart. After Helena had left John returned to the apartment. His brain was still whirling. What had possessed him to do such a thing? He knew only too well that she no longer loved him. She had told him quite frankly that she was in love with another man. And she had trusted him, too. She had come to the apartment at his sug- gestion with the idea of -talking busf ness, and he had behaved like a cad. For all that, his pulse were still leaping. He had wanted her there, strange_and incredible as it might seem. He had never wanted to hold any woman as he had wanted to hold her when he had snatched her to him. What did it mean? Had he fallen in love with her all over again? But it was more than that. He hadn't loved her during the first days of their en- gagement as he loved her now. What had happened? The thought of Nina flashed across his mind. He hadn’t really pledged himself to anything. Suppose he were ;o t{'y to win Helena back. Was it too ate? He slept very little that night. Through the long hours he tossed back and forth on his plllows. In the morning he was tired and had a dull headache, but he hadn’t changed. He still wanted Helena. He felt that it would be heaven to take up their life where they had left it. Only it woudn’t be the same. Helena had changed beyond recognition. And it didn’t make him feel any better to'have to admit that Mark Sands had changed her. It was her love for him that had wrought a miracle, On his way to office that morning he stopped at a florist’s and had some flowers telegraphed out to Helena. Long-stemmed roses, with a small bunch of violets and lilles of the valley at the bottom of the box. Later he felt like a fool for having yielded to this impulse. Like most men, he dreaded ridicule. He could picture Helena and Natalie laughing at him. But for all that he was thrilled, too, and excited. No matter how much she hated him he wanted her to have the flowers. He had written on the back of one of his cards: “A peace offering. JOHN." He wondered if she would acknowl- edge them or if she were still too angry with him. His guess was that he would never hear from her. But he did hear. Late in the after. noon she telephoned him. Her voice ;va.q light and casual, almost laugh- In, “Your flowers are gorgeous, John. I took them up to Natalie's room and she insisted that I call you up. She said I was to tell vou that she has never had so many roses at one time in her life, and that you are an ex travagant old dear, and she is very grateful.” Not a word about the card. She had simply handed his offering over to Natalle. Doubtless Mark Sands kept her well supplied with floral gifts. And, of course, his meant noth- ing to her. For the rest of the day he was in a towering rage. His secretary hardly knew what to make of it. Usuall Mr. Henderson was the ecasiest person in the world to get along with, bu: this afternoon he was impossible Nothing pleased him. And when he HE WONDERED WHAT HE WOULD DO WITH HIS EVENING. kept her after 5, viciously dictating letters that could have walited till morning and finding fault with a couple of small typographical errors that at any other time he wouldr have noticed, she was almost reduced to tears. At 6 o'clock he told her she could go, but he himself stayed on at his desk, jabbing a pen in and out of h desk blotter, swishing papers about on his desk. He wondered what he would do with his evening. He hated the idea of spending it alone. He realized that he kad been unfair to his secretary, Miss Blake. He knew she lived in Brooklyn and that it took an hour on the subway to reach her home. But he didn't care. “e was like a perverse child who has jeen hurt and wants to hurt some one el because of it. (Copyright. 1926.) (Continued in Monday The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle 1. Rigidly exact. 9. Depend. 10. Type unit. 11. Odor. 12. Boundary. 16. Forceful. 17. Compass point. 18. Indian lodge. 20. Fashion. 21. Irritation. 24. Stagger. 27. Pertaining’to bees. 30. Pertaining to Icelandi¢ literature. 34. Revolutionists. 35. Danger. Degree of fineness. Kind of nut. In the direction of. Extend over. Yet. Down. 1. Intended. 2. Figurative use of a word. . Partly parasitic plant. 4. Raise the spirits of. 5. Belonging to me. 6. Beverage. 7. Not orderly. 8. Rubbish. 13. Inlet. 14. Island (abbr.). 16. In this place. 19. Masculine nickname. 20. Steamship (abbr.). 22, On the sheltered side. 23. Unintelligible speech. 25. Measure of type. Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. out of 29 large I - Children's Buseas (Covyright. 1926.) 26. Third note of the scale. 28. Through. 29. Cretan Mountain. Cover with hangings . Unaccompanied. Round, pointed solids. . Negative conjunction. 40. Hush. “Puzzlicks” le-Limericl There once was a, man named —1- A dark, disagreeable 3 After killing his —3— He took his own —4— That man wasn't black, he was —i- 1. Leading character in one Shakespeare’s plays. 2. Person. 3. Most men have ohe. 4. Animation of the body. 5. Color of the spectrum between green and orange. (Note—Here's a complete criticism of one of Shakespeare's most famous characters, boiled down to the five lines of a limerick. If you can't sup- ply the missing words, look for the answer Monday, together with an other “‘Puzzlick. of Yesterday's “Puzzlick.’ A bright little maid of St. Thomas Discovered a sult of . “Well, well! Said the maiden: ‘What they are I can't tell, But I'm sure that these garments aren’'t mamma's.” (Copyright, 1926.) Fruit Cocktail. Cut an equal quantity of diced ean ned pears and diced canned pineapple. then mix the two fruits. Shred very fine the thin green skin of two green peppers, and add to the fruits, mixing lightly. There should be just enough of the pepper to show all through the paler tinted pineapple and pear dice. Border the cocktail glasses with sprigs of water cress or chervil, then half fill with the slightly sweetened fruit mixture, and top with thinly sliced green peppers. Serve very cold. Child labor is on the increase in 34 Industrial cities, the 's B Y