Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 30

Linen Container a Treasure Chest BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. men who have who have never had that sure > familiar with the m “double damask.” It signifies a high- de of linen woven so closely that t is given a satin appearance on both sides. Of course, there are different zrades of double dam but the de or the Jowest is tinished If there is a in re kept house design it equal be versible cha i wdapted to or instance, may ige up in your lap f beauty, and no o ix uppermo: n—and if the Napkins w vithout would lack kno except are hem. noticeable. Some of the beauty of the blue shimmering flax flowers seems to b transmuted in the highest grade of making it of rare excelience try. It is strong and durable, ing from one genera- another. Most housewives boast some of mother's linens and frequently some of grandmother’s «nd this suffices to indicate its w ing qualitles. iinen of this sort you should know some of the characteristics, so that you can choose it wisely ‘What to Expect. If you decide to get less expensive goods, you will not expect the same durability in it as in the other, which oes to prove that, in linens anyway, the best is the cheapest. This does not mean that it costs less (and it is apt to be the immediate outlay that tion to BEDTIME STORIES A New Acquaintance. ' Peter means is that son il ake oth vou re are, Peter has tried it. He ought to kno He alw: remembers the times that he has guessed right and fails to re- member the times when he gue: wrong. So, from his point of view, it is always worth while to try a guess. “Evening Grosbeak,” said Peter to nimself over and over. “Evening Gros- beak. Now, it is funny I have never seen Mr. and Mrs. Evening Grosbeak. Yes, sir, it is a queer thing. But for that matter, I've never seen Piny but once before. They're a queer lote SAID HE, “THEY GROSBEAKS, OF those Grosbeaks. They come down here in the middle of a bad winter and spear and we ¢ not are somewhere around. He nust mean by that they are in the Green Forest. I'll have a look, anyway."” So away scampered Peter as only Peter can scamper. Lipperty-lip- perty-lipperty-lip he ran. “In a hurry?” asked his cousin, Jumper the Hare. Peter stopped abruptly. seen 'em?’” he asked. “Have I seen who?" fumper, indignant Peter felt foolish. “1 guess 1 thought you read my thoughts,” said he. “What I want to know is, have ou seen the cousi iny the Pine Grosbeak? Ho are some vhere around the CGreen “Have you demanded here in ar- | But if you would have | deters homemakers from getting the 1 best), but that restocking will he de | ferred and beauty will be lasting. ’ Wearing Qualities. One of the secrets of the enduring | uality of the best linen is that it anufactured from long e are fewer ends to it. the fibers are vel the th is woven. 1 to all durable goods, fo ¢ threads adds enormously e to w is the cle It examined linen closely vou will discower t weave in the finest linen. When clc weaving is combined with fine and | even threads the linen is of tie high st grade. But sometimes the thre ire not so fine and yet the weave is very close. This m! s nat conducive {ish that comes w Another ness of the you have never do it now Rough Places. When linen w mean one of rough it may gZs—either t the thread is | not spun evenly: . there are un { even places in it ually the latter is the reason. These uneven place. are caused generally by threads being short, though it may mean that the akes’ b and get fuzzy cretion. It is when 2 woman know select linens that she he gets the best, and : hould not demand the | qualities of the lower grades, when she does buy them. In no home is finest n used for all purpos or on all occasions, but a knowled: of the subject is helpful in making purchases suit needs. | e wearing LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. | Pop was smoking to him | noticed the initials on his watch fob, | being W, P. for Willyum Pot | me a ideer, and I sed, | of yours. | " The dooce, ware, | time for me to be told about my mail, | ware are the letters? pop sed. | On your watch fob, I sed, and he | sed, Wat, yee gods, dont tell me your | going to grow up to be a practical | joker and bring diskrace to my gray | and missing hairs. | No sir, shall I try it on ma? I sed, {and pop sed, No, that wouldent be a nice thing to do, 11l try it on her. Wich he did wen ma came in, s ing, Theres a cupple of letters for you in_the closit, mothi | " In the closit, why in the closit, and | how is it T don’t know enything about | them? ma sed. Im jest telling you, pop s Their | in the closit on your suitcase, he sed, { and ma sed, Well my lands for good- s sakes who put them in there and at kind of a sistem is this? | "And she opened the closit door, | saying, There is not, enything of the | kind, and pop sed, Did you look on the side, the last time I saw them | they were rite on the side of your | suitcase. On the side? My suitcase izzent ! on its side, ma sed, and pop sed, No, | but the letters are, and ma sed, Wel! ! then they must be nailed on, I never | lissened to enything so redickuliss | in_my life. , Your intials, ma, P. P. for Pawleen | Potts, thats the letters he meens, I sed, and ma sed, Wat, for land sakes, is that rite, Willyum? and pop sed, Dont ask me, Im in conference. Meening in back of the sporting page. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS scratched a long “What cousins?” ear he Jumper thoughtrully. | asked. | “The Evening Grosbeak | Peter. Jumper s |1 know of,” | look ltke | Peter was “stumped. {is. He didn't know what they looked {like. ~“Why—why,” said he, “they look like Grosbeaks, of course. Jumper grinned in tie most provok- ing manner. “Of course,” said he. F “Which Grosheaks?" It was Peter's turn to grin. “Eve- ning Grosbeaks,” he replied, impudent- ly. With this' Peter kicked up his heels and start He didn't know ! where he was going. It didn't seem | to be of much use to stay in the Green Forest, for surely Jumper the Hare | would have seen Mr. and Mrs. Gros had been in the Gre had an idea that thc sbealis belonged in the Green For , but it might be that they were sutside for the time being. So, after a hasty look about through the Green | Forest, Peter scampered over to the | Ola Orchard. He was hopping along | through the bushes that grew along \ the Old Stone Wall on the other side | of the Old Orchard when he heard a | voice which was not familiar. “I've never heard that volce before,” said Peter to himself. “I wonder who it can be?” He peeped out. Pecking at a frozen apple on one of the trees was a’ bird | he never had seen before. He was |1 y vellow, but with a black cap, | black head, and partly black wings. The remainder of each wing was white. | He was about the same size as Piny the Pine Grosbeak. Peter guessed who he had found. He was sure of it when he looked at the bill. It was a thick, stout bill. Peter hopped right out. “Excuse me,” said he, “are you Mr. Evening Grosbeak?” The stranger stared down at him. “What if I am?” he demanded, after a minute. “I just want to know,” said Peter, “because if you are, I'd like to make vour acquaintance. I know Rosebreast the Rose breasted Grosbeak who comes up here in Summer, and I've met vour cousin, Piny the Pine Grosbeak, who is down here now from the North. That is, he Is_your cousin if you are the ak.” The twinkled. “Well, you're Mr. Rabbit,” Said he; “tha e “Call me Peter,” sald Peter. . All right, Peter, it is,” replied his new acquaintance. 0ok his head. ald he. “What do they as the saying 1f and 1 , giving | Hay pop, 1| know ware ‘theres a cupple of letters | this is a sweet THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER THE DAILY HOROSCOPE’ | Thursday, December 30. | | | | Mercury and Uranus are in benefic | aspect; tomorrow, according to as- | trology. Mars, Saturn and Neptune | are adverse. It is an auspiclous rule for the lighter interests of life, for sending | out invitations and for various forms | of hospitality Acquaintances -begun | tomorrow should bring romance or at | least long frif hip. 1 as a ravely favorable | sway for all forms of advertising zm(l‘ ity n for recognition in busi- society will be keener than | in the coming year, but fame, | fter being hard won, will be evanes | nt, it is foretold. | Scholars are to receive much recog- | nition, and to be aided in attaining | their high ambitions in the coming | vear. Wealth is to be poured out wisely | for the common good and the fact that. knowledge is power will be consist- | | ently kept in the foreground. | Under this planet government, | | the aged m I at modern ideas. | but they must accept the changed con- litions, for there are to be more star- v 1 stand- irds of life than taken | place, it is prophesied. | Architecture is to occupy attention s never before in America, astrolo- | , for public buildings of | wre to be erected. all that pertains to the of life now will receive the | s, and 1927 is to be 3 hievement in the United , most_blest of countries. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of constant advancement | in the coming vear. knterprise will be crowned with success and there should be settled prosperit; | Children born on that day probably | will have fine executive ability. These | | subjects of Capricorn often are able | to become the heads of hig business | enterprises. (Copyright, 1926.) SUB ROSA BY MIML Doing Small Thing Well. It is one of the commonest faults of | | the girl of today that she is so anxious | 1to be a * mer” in every sense of | the word, that she very often tries to | do the big thing and succeeds in doing | it rather badly, when she might much | better have undertaken the small | | thing and done it very well. | The schoolgirls, for instance, want !to do the big thing. Lvery day a | crowd of them gathered atter school | {in a certain expensive French pastry shop for a treat of some | laide, one of them, trof | tries to keep up, although s | barely enough casheto cover expenses. | | Still she doesn't want to lag behind in | tie race. So when one of the girls| inaugurates the idea of a party fur-| | nished by each member of the group | once every two weeks, Adelaide agrees | heartily with the suggestion. There- | after she attends the various func-| tions given by her friends. | Jean gives a lunch at a nice restau- | rant on Saturday. Mary's mother gets | all the girls theater tickets for a mat-| |Inee. Adelaide watches with a sinking | | h Her parents have no money—what | shall she do when her turn comes? In| the end she decides on an after-school | tea at the French pastry shop. e is | rather ashamed of this prosaic idea, but it is the only thing she can pos- sibly afford. Still she determines to do it up brown. And to that end, she| orders the most expensive and dainty of sandwiches, several different kinds of pastry, tea and ice cream. The whole thing costs her a for- tune—it takes her weeks to recover from the blow. And the worst of it is that her tea wasn't a grand success. It was almost a fizzle. Because she had selected such an expensive place for the scene of her big party she had to cut out a lot of little extras which would have made the thing just right. She was nervous and flustered dur- ing the entire course of the affair, be- cause she was terribly worried over the money situation and so anxious to impress her guests as being a gen- erous hostess that she literally trem- bled with apprehension. The result was a badly managed tea party, an unhappy hostess and an un- comfortable group of guests, all of whom knew or sensed that Adelaide had gone beyond her depth in provid- ing this treat for them. If she’d had the good sense and| good taste to invite them to a simple affair in her own home, how mniuch more smoothly she might have run her party. With her mother's help and the | money saved from homemade dain-| | ties she could have done the small charming pleasant afternoon to re- | | member—also saved herself endless i and expense. ° ! Learn to do the small thing grace-| fully and well—don’t strive to be mag- | nificently regal in all your entertain-| i (Copyright. 1926.) » will be glad to answer any inquiries atrerd o this paper provided o stamped. addressed envelope is inclosed, Risotto. One cupful grapejuice, one cupful strained tomato Jjuice, one onion, one-half cupful mushrooms, one cup- ful cooked rice, one tablespoonful but- ter, one-quarter cupful pimentos. Cook the chopped onion with the butter, then add the pimentos and mushrooms cut very small, After cooking for a few minutes add the tomato juice and seasoning _and cook for about 10 more minutes Have ready a baking dish containing a lay- er of rice sprinkled with cheese. Add a layer of sauce and then another layer of rice and cheese and & on until the dish is almost filled, being careful to have a layer of cheese on top. Bake in a hot oven. Ham Muffins. Mix one-fourth cupful of oil short- ening with one cupful of milk and one egg in a bowl, then sift in one cupful of white flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-half a tea- spoonful of salt. Add three-fourths cuptul of graham flour without sifting. Add three-fourths cupful of cooked, chopped ham and bake in muffin pans for 20 minutes, Serve hot with maple syrup. Forest.” "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES—TFlannels Is Flannels to Pa. WELL ' WELL! GO\NG TO fALM BEACH Hey AL? GREAT PLACE Bay ' DON'T FORGET YOUR You'LL [ THaTS A HoT one! AND HE SAD TD NEED ‘em! FLANNEL YEP, WE'RE ALL PULLIN' WELL, HE KNOWS FLORIDA BACKWARDS, 3O HE KIDDING ME ! THERE N 1 SUPPOSE T DOES BLOW UP CoLD DOwWN, AN'T | thing perfectly—and given her friends | 2. Fashionable Folk by dJulia Boyd o o hsl:’rotrul,m:tfl. prscnih e Pebd, in uirrel with 2 foy- McNaught Syndicate, Inc., N. Y. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1926.) 1. Distinguishing trait. 9. Anger. 10. Unclosed. 11. Indecisive score. 13. Normal value. 14. Plunge Into heavily. 16. Is present. 19. Kingdom near Assyria . Classify. 2. Archaic pronoun. . Spanish gentleman . Continent. . Protuberance. 30. North Central State. . Narcotic. . Period of fasting. . British street car. . Submit respectfully. . Flat, circular piece. . Desserts. 42. Prefix; half. Expression of rejoicing. . Prefix; under. . At this time. Masculine nickname. . Periods. Part of the mouth. Thin coating of metal. Down. 1. Letters. 2. Tear. 3. Amount of surface. 4. United States coins. Answer to Y;:sterday's Puzzle. m A mle[nlcle e lRelalofllls] nE pnn nEnn [s[o/nillp[a[T]alclo[N]]A] «[n[elwill vielwilllir] vlo] PaLM BEACH en? WELL TAKE ALONG PLENTY OF FLANNE AL! THAT'S oNE PLACE You'lL NED ‘Ett Boy! 5. Enlist in. 6. Chilled. 7. Surmount. 8. Confining within bounds. 10. Arabian sultanate. . Energy put into a machine. . Fermented beverage. . Ponderous volume. . Provided for' scantily. . Hereditary sovereign. . 1, compelled. 25. Roster. . Fine rock material. Bequeath. . Possessive pronoun. . Legal clalm on property . Band across a shield. . Australian bird. . Stanza. . Line attached to fish hook Funeral ceremony. Operatic melody. 48. Misfortune. 51. Likely. “Puzzlicks” uzsle-Limericks. A grouchy old man of —1— Once was hit with a brick by a —! Sald the man, “Oh, what —3— To wallop that —4—! Be darned if I don’t!"—and he — . City in Spain. . Child (colloquial). (Not Most of us have felt the same way about it when a youngster did something we didn’t like. What way? Well, complete the lmerick and you'll see. The answer and an- other “Puzzlick” will be here tomor- row.) Yesterday’s ‘“Puzzlick.” A dentist extracted a tooth For a_nervous young patient named Ruth She crled, “You are ruthless!” He said, “You're one tooth less"— Which, we'll have to admit, was the truth. (Copyright. 1926.) BY POP MOMAND YEH, T WANT TO GET SIX SUTS OF RED FLANNELS FOR FLoRiDA LSe? 29, 1926. ’ MENU FOR A DAY., BREAKFAST. Preserved Pears. Oatmeal With C: Fish Hash, Chili Hot Corn Cake Coffee, Welsh Rabbit on Whole Wheat Breas Spiced Apple Frult Cookie Onion Soup. Brofled Beefsteak Baked Squash. Delmonico Potatoes Stuffed Celery ach Rice Pudding Coffee, HOT CORN CAKI One cup pastry flour, one-half cup corn 1 :aspoon cream of It tea spoon_soda, one-half teaspoon salt. Sift all together and add to following: One egg, one tablespoon' sugar, two-thirds cup milk, one heaping teaspoon of butter (melted). Bake in cak tin. BAKED SQUASH Cut squash in pieces four inches square, place in baking pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and brush over with melted butter and little molas- ses. Bake about an hour, or until soft. Keep covered the first half hour. Serve in shells. PEACH RICE PUDDING, Steam one cup rice with three cups milk until rice is very ten- der and soft. Add one-h spoon salt. Take cover of let steam escape, leaving dry and separate. Stir care- fully with fork. Keep it hot until time to serve. Then place on shallow dish, make several slight hollows in it and slip into each a whole canned peach or apricot. Mix sirup of peach with equal amount cream. Add sugar to taste and serve as a sauce. Nutrition Nuggets. Next time you wonder which are the foods that especially “make the wheels go round” in your body re- member that they are milk, eggs, oatmeal, whole wheat bread, and {cheese. Not that these are the only foods that perform this office. There i8 one special mineral, however, that acts on the body, and that is phosphorus. The foods named are especlally rich in this salt. If you would like a short cut as to which foods provide more than one vitamin, remember that the three earliest known vitamins, A, B, and C, are all to be found in raw cabbage, tomatoes, pineapple, sweet potatoes and lettuce. The simple fact that vitamin A is spoken of as necessary for the growth of children does not mean that it is not equally necessary for helping the grown-ups to maintain their health. been fulfilled, but their daily health must be maintained, and this is the office performed by growth-promoting vitamins in the case of adults. ‘How can we be sure, ''says some one, “that we have enough food. An ap- petite is a general guide, but must not be taken as the final word.” A constant normal weight is a fairly dependable guide. It has been pointed out that, while it is not practicable for the average busy housewife to make calculations as to number of calories provided for her family, she can easily find time to make a special study of the diet of some one who is evidently not eating enough. If there is a delicate child in the family, one who is underweight and one who gives over signs of being malnourished, make a special dietary table for him, keeping your eye constantly on the number of calories of energy required by one of his age and physical con- dition. Although it is not advisable to let the children become self-conscious about their appearance, it is a good plan to remind them that their health habits will make a great difference in their looks. Take the matter of teeth alone. Every child can be trained to be proud of white, firm teeth and he ! should be taught that these may be | achieved and retained only by proper | diet. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON Words often misused: Don't say “I have no doubt but what we will | go.” Say “but that.” Often misspelled: Synonym. Synonyms: Accusation, complaint, | charge, imputation, censure, offense, insult. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering |one word each day. Today’s word: Implous; _irreligious; wicked: pro- fane. “He believed that divorce in itself was implous.” e Stud books, In connection with the breeding of race horses, are said te have originated in the mind of Jo- seph Butler, who about 150 years ago had charge of several famous racing stables in England T P This tart, juicy fruit sauce is included on all menus. Try it as they make it: Stewed Cranberries (10 Minute Cranberry Sauce) 11b (4 cups) cranberries, 2 cups boiling water, 134 to 3 cups sugar. Boil sugar and water together 5 minutes; add cranberries and boil without stirring (5 minutes is usually sufficient) antil all the skins are broken. Remove True, their literal physical growth has | FEATURY Jon’s Cradle-Bed ~———————— By SHIRLEY RODMAN WILLIAMS —~ IT is not only that, if we let sentiment rule and rock the baby to ! sleep, we will be slaves to his dominance but we will be indulging in a practice which is positively harmful to the child. Have you ever imagined yourself going to sleep while enduring a proportionate motion to that of a baby being rocked or jounced to sleep? I'm sure I couldn’t endure it. If a child is tired he only becomes more so by heing moved or handled. If he's excited handling only augments the tension. If he's ifl he needs absolute quiet and absence of stimuli so that he's better off left alone. In fact, there is no time when a baby f’ benefited by anything but the quietest handling and the more he is left untouched except for feeding and necessary care the healthier he will be. < ‘WEE Jon goes to sleep in great-grandmother’s cradle But, of course, it's a bed-cradle now. Where there used to be rockers are casters instead, So great-grandmother’s cradle’s been turned to a bed.. But I wish it had rockers somehow. 2 &\ I think, when the Dusky Man throws out the shadows, Jon would like it to go rock-a-bye, Whflethesuhcoumbedandtholitdzsmpeep It wouldn’t take long just to rock him to sleep If I'd sing him a wee lullaby. But mother says Jon'’s not a rock-a-bye baby, And we wouldn’t want him that sort. We turn off the light and he goes to sleep so And that’s how we help him to be strong and grow, EAT AND BE HEALTHY Dinah Day’s Daily Talks on Diet The Right Food Is Nervousness. Nervous tension and mental irrita- bility depend very much on physical health. “I'm so nervous I could scream,” says Mrs. Jones. This condition may be due, not at all to real trouble, but to polsons stored in the body, with their consequent derangement of bod- ily functions. “I'm so sensitive. upsets me dreadfully. I feel every- thing so keenly,” complains Mrs. Brown. This, of course, may be due to mental instabflity. Instead of ap- proving of her symptoms and en- couraging them, Mrs. Brown should be doing everything possible to con- quer them. A properly nourished body will aid the recovery of proper mental poise. All the factors that go to make up The least thing right living—fresh air, outdoor exer- | cise, sunshine, proper clothing, nour- ishing food and mental hygiene—work together in overcoming mervous troubles. In the great majority of cases the real cause of nervousness is not a weak or diseased nervous system. Nervousness may be caused by wrong eating which fills the blood stream with poisons. Constipation harbors the waste products. The toxins are reabsorbed by the blood and the cen- tral nervous system is disturbed. For a while hordes of people were psychoanalyzing themselves or having a professional do it, in order to find out what ailed them. Of course, men- tal outlook affects bodily wellbeing materially. Temperament does affect digestion. We all know from actual experience that if we are nervous and worried, whether the cause be real or fancied, great or small, our appetite suffers. When one is in an upset state it is not well to burden the di- gestive apparatus with heavy food. Instead of trying to force the stomach to take care of acheavy dinner of meat and potatoes, an easily digested plate of hot cream soup and graham crackers will prove nourishing and not burdensome. The mind and the body are interde- pendent. It is not well to degenerate into a nervous wreck. Sane mental outlook, induced by interest in occu- pation, and a happy disposition, coupled with normal health, ward off nervous instability. McCollum shows that young rats suffering from under- nourishment are extremely nervous. all huddled together In vast empty space, endles time and much weather! How lonely we are— who so mnly an find, To share all cur thoughts, -Speed and Security| HI 0 W . from the fire when the popping stops. Prepare a plain 2-egg before folding, one Stewed Fresh Cranl each end of omelet with the cran- berries, dust omelet with pule~rised s , and brown This is an individual Eatmor the Best Medicine Well fed rats are contented and s rene. Personal experience shows tha! when we are very tired our nerve are more quickly put on edge thar when we are rested. It Jim Davis i« suffering from undernourishment he gets tired very quickly — physically and “nervously.” He has no reserve force. His nerves are frazzled. His nervous system itself is not diseased He just needs a general building up. If Ned Brown suffers from chronic constipation he is harboring pofsons which will affect his health. He ma: suffer from ‘mervousness.” The state of high nervous tension is the result of poisons polluting his blood A cleansing laxative diet would benefi: Ned Brown. 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