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WOMAN’S PAGE. LIFTED BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR. SHE SHOOK HER HEAD. CHAPTER XXXIII. Jessica Soores. Jessica flicked the ash from her cigarette into her empty coffee cup. The gesture was almost vicious. What an idea! She was to be de. tained here by force, and not only that but Mark expected her to look on at the antics of a couple of middle-aged lovers. He would keep her a prisoner, and then have his inamorata Vvisit th my “opinion? ave I to do with your household arrangements? I'm amazed at your consulting me. “You put the idea into my head,” k said defensively. oh, did 17 Then by all means go right ahead with “I just thought it might make it nicer for you to have another woman here at the place.” “And you weren't thinking of your- self at all. That's funny She threw back her head and laughed. How slender her throat was when she arched it like that and how scornful the sound of her merriment! “I have no wish to force' her on id angrily. *“Of course you ieve it, but I realize that your position here isn’t particularly gratify- ing. I'll do just as you say.” “Oh, by all means invite her. least I'll be amused. “I don’t know what's so amusing about it.’ “Middle-aged lovers are always amusing. Of course they never know it. They're as blind as bats. But their efforts at love-making are alw screamingly funny. By all means in- vite Miss Martin to come up for a visit. 1 shan't even mind if you tell her I'm a prisoner.” Again she laughed, and Mark felt a sudden fury surge up in him. ain | he had an impulse to seize Jessica b; her slim shoulders and shake her until she cried for mercy. She had made him feel ridiculous. With a quick movemen he rose from thé table, pushed back his chair and strode out of the house. His wish to invite Irene here had been killed in him. He could imagine Jes watching them with bright, am eves. He ‘could imagine her urging them to go off alone together and laughing up her sleeve she did so. ‘The prospect was cer not allur- ing. Once out At of doors, however, his mood vanished. The day was too lovely for petty squabbling. He walked down to the stream and stood watching the rushing torrent for a while. Then he decided to go fishing. He returned to the house, and found che small table cleared of its break- fast dishes. Out in the kitchen, Mrs Morse was sing, a balad. Jessica was nowhere to be seen. He went to the door of the kitchen and ask ere she was. s in her room,” Mrs. Morse returned with a sympathetic shrine for the poor peasants, truly symbolic of its people rough-hewn out of stone, with Christ figure crudely carved in the Vandals have often tried to e cross, but failed because of ve weight. and is It is the Nourishing~ easyto digest ~make them in six minutes with Pancake Flour M AFRAID I'M NO GOOD AT SUCH THINGS she asked | | ceeded in making Mark uncomfort- MASKS | have look. She liked Mark and thought Jessica needed a spanking, but of course it wasn't her place to say so Mark got out his fishing tackle and fussed_with it lovingly as men do. Then he went to Jessica’s door and knocked. She opened it alm ‘Want to go fishing? She shook her head. “I'm afraid I'm no good at such things.” mmediately. It would be somcthing to do.” She stood there regarding him with a superior expression. As a matter of fact she was wondering whether to take a chance on it or not. It might be fun, but now that .she had suc- able, she did not want to be friendly with him in any way. She had ac- tually succeeded in getting him furious zs she had sald about his love aff; Young as she was, she knew quite well that a man can’ stand anything better than he | can stand ridicule. Mark was no ex- | ception to the general rule. She had succeeded in getting under his skin and if he did ask Miss Irene Martin to come up for a visit, would make things just as uncomfortable as she could for both of them. (Copyrizht. 19 (Continued in tomorrow's LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. 1 My sister Gladdis and Mr. Parkins | was in the frunt room after supper | showing each other new Charleston steps, giving me a ideer for a riddle, and I sed, Hay Gladdis, why is a gerl | doing the Charleston like a staircase | after a fearse cyclone? I give it up cheerfilly, why? Glad- dis sed, and Mr. Parkins sed, Yes, why, Mr. Bones, why is a gerl danc the Charleston Jike a staircase after a cyclone? Because her steps are twisted, I sed. Being a pritty good of a riddie, and Gladdis sed, Very clever, and now we’'ll ixcuse you, if you don’t mind Meening for me to get out, wich I did, and was sitting on the bottom step in the hall wondering wat to do, and ma and pop came down on their way out together, me saving, Hay ma, hay pop, why is a gerl doing the Charleston like a staircase after a big_ixplosion? Being the same riddle ony with a ixplosion insted of a cyclone, and ma sed, I dont know, why? and pop sed, Yes, thats the question, why? and I sed, Because her steps are twisted. The boy is rite, pop sed, and ma sed, How does he meen, O yes, after an ixplosion, hee hee, thats quite a riddle. Gladdis is doing the Charleston in there rite now, why dont you spring it on her, ma? I sed, and ma sed I bleeve I will, it would be quite appro- priate, ony I seldom remember riddles rite. And she stuck her hed in the door saying, Gladdis, wen is a gerl doing the Charleston like some twisted frunt steps? and Gladdis sed, M stars, mother, that wasent even funn the ferst time wen Benny came in heer with i Wat, ware is that boy? ma sed, and pop sed, The little devil, ware is he? Wich by that time I was half ways up the 3rd floor steps and they was too bizzy going out to come up after me. Valentine Planked Meat. Put through the meat chopper two pounds and one-half of veal and add one-half a pound of cooked ham, so that the two will be mixed. Season with one-half of one green pepper minced, and, if you wish, with two tablespoonfuls of scraped onion. Add salt to taste. Arrange the chopped meat in the form of a heart on a greased plank, place this beneath the broiler in the nge, and broil | for one to two hours, basting now and then with a little butter. A large plank and a thin heart calls for a shorter period of cooking. sarnish before bringing to the table with a border of duchess potatoes with small heartsshaped islices of bhked beets over them. | their | are the 'T want candy:” 7 _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. DorothyDix May Admit She’s Wrong, Ask Husband’s Advice, | Use Tact in Requesting Favors, Keep Silent on Home Failures. Gives Four in Vital it Command- ments for Wires Be the first to make up .\;r life. When you_have made When you have done wrong, have ;:(-ne-rnslt‘yl two-edge sword that cuts both way ,_l)sz('ausei woman who admits her fault and is sorry ashamed to say quarre Pr.de does not a mistake, acknowledge it. nough to apologize. That is s nothing more can be said to for it Also nothing makes his wife as to forgive her you are sorry. rate in domestic man feel so noble and superior and tender toward | He adores making that superb gesture. i Often it is good policy for a wife to take the blame for mistakes which | she really hasn't made. Men never like to admit to a woman that they sen wrong and no wives are better loved than those who offer them. slves up as scapcgoats for their hushands’ weaknesses. husband’s advice to take it unless you want Always ask your You don't have doesn’t hurt you. to, but it ses him and detail of they whose men are really petty tyr: s who desire to control every wives’ lives, but all men crave the public acknowledgment ths heads of their houses and the ones in supreme authorit word is law. " Therefore, if you want to keép peace in your home and ward off criti- | cism, never fail to ask your husband if you shall have the bedroom papered in blue or yellow, or what he thinks of vour joining the bridge club, or | what dancing school you shall send Mary to. Few He will be sure to repiy to do as you please and not to bother a busy @ man with such trif But all the sa and de °d to b sorious if you h glves you a pe “I followed your UsE diplomacy in handling vour on the man you have married sit down and stu and put up a “Keep-Off-the-G sign on all of hi he will be tickled pink that you consulted his wisdom | nd he would have been a little miffed and cen 't done Resides which, asking your husband's advice | alibi if things turn out badly. You can always say: | advi I did exactly what you told me to do.” | i a husband. As soon as you get a close-up | his little peculiarities little prejudice: Don't do the things that irritate him. Don't drag into the conversation the subjects that you know beforehand are as good for a family row as a nickel is for a ginger-cake Never make an unpleasant communication to a tired and hungry man, or ask him for money. Wait until he is rested and fed and is in a soothed and complacent humor. Whether he raises ructions over your mother coming to pay a nice long visit or extends her a hearty welcome, or whether you get the new car or not, depends upon the subtlety with which you chose the time and the place and the mood in making your communication. Don’t make jokes at your husband’s expense and hold him up to ridi- cule. A man may forgive his wife many things, but not for making him a figure of fun. Don't boss your husband publicly. Defer to him before other people, no matter how much you henpeck him at home. ‘When you want anything done, plant the seed of suggestion in vour husband’s mind. Let him think he thought of it first, and after many days you shall come back and sit in the shade of the tree of your desire. Use | as much tact in dealing with your husband as you would in handling an | employer if you had a good job, and you will never find yourself in the divorce court. | ® * x % | "THERE are foolish wives who believe that they should tell their husbands everything they do and think, and think they think, This is a mistake. Don't tell your husband the things that would worry him unless it is abso lutely necessary that he should know them Don't spoil his evening at home by telling him of the naughty things that the children have done, and that you have promised Mary that father would give her a good scolding, and fold Jimmie that father would whip him. Use your own brains and settle your own problems as you go along. | Satdieds | Don't tell your husband about all vour little tiffs with your family. | Long after you have forgotten what vou got mad with them about you will | be surprised to find out that he doesn’t like your people and resents the way they treated you. Don't be forever telling him that mother said you should do this and mother said vou should do that. The reason most men hate their mothers-inlaw is that their wives have always thrown mother in their teeth don’t tell your husband of your mistakes. When you get stung at the bargain counter tuck it away the back shelf and say nothing | about it. Throw your pan of heavy biscuit into the garbage can and be | mum on the subject, but when you effect a brilliant saving and your biscuits | are light as thistle-down, blow your own trumpet, | Most husbands take their wives at their own valuation and when they | boast of °s they have won in the matrimonial lottery it is because | the woman has had sense enough to boom her own stock. DOROTHY DIX. And (Copyright AND BE HEALTHY Dinah Day’s Daily Talks on Diet 1927.) The Right Food Is the Best Medicine “I want a penny! T want a penny! baby should get its meals on the dot When the baby is old enough to feed himself, his meals should be run by schedule—also his bath and sleeping hours When the child is still older, the | rigid schedule of regular meals should still govern. If it is necessary nourishment between breakfast and mid-day dinner and between dinner and supper for young children, this feeding should be served religiously at a stated time. There should be no haphazard summoning of the pre. chool child for a piece of bread and Jam or an apple. “The poor little dear gets hungry. Our meals are so ir- regular,” evcuses indulgent mamma. Well, if the grown-ups have to eat their meals at irregular hours, the children should not. Their health and well being will pay for the extra trouble of giving them their meals by schedule. If the older children need a lunch after school, it should be served promptly at a _stated time. They should not be allowed just to nibble on any old thing the ice box afford: and at any time up to dinner hour. They will kill the appetite for the regular dinner and not put into their growing bodies the very necessary nourishment they need so much. Irregularity of mealtime can be a source of indigestion. It can be a reason for underweight. And we all know that irregularity of meal time and constans stuffing can also be a source of overweight. This was the song of a thre old, lustily rendered in the where T waited for my train. He wailed the refrain over and over. His very young mother, and his grand- mother, too, admonis not ,now—you've had enough. We's going on the, train in a min- ute.” The young man’s fingers and mouth had been dutifully wiped from their sticky candy residue just before he started on his song. I'll say this for his elders: Though he whined for 10 minutes, they didn't give him any but distracted his attention by show ing him the pictures in the paper. That was something: for to have sucumbed to his cry would have been his victory, but a loss in moral stamina and in appetite training. The point I want to bring out is that a small infringement of the infallible rule, “Nothing to eat between meals,” makes it harder for the child. Such a course spoils the the ycungster’s appetite. It spoils the good habit of mealtime regularity. A child of three shouldnt have candy of any description at any time. Older children should only have the simplest _candies occasionally, or sweets, at the end of a meal. Never before; never in between times. From | infancy, children can be trained fo be regular at mealtimes. This is one of the first rules of health. A breast-fed or a bottle-fed ar- station to serve extra Baker's Breakfast Cocoa The Household Choice for many Generations A delicious, pure and wholesome food beverage, made only of high grade cocoa beans, carefully blended and prepared by a perfect mechanical process, no chemicals being used. WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. Canadian Mills at Montreal Booklet of Choice Recipes sent free Madeby the millers of Pillsbury’s Best Flour In have buildings. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927. KITTY McKAY NA WILCOX PUTNAM. BY MR! 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