Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1927, Page 27

«' WOMAN'S PAGE.” Decorative Schemes for Halls BY LADIA LE BARON WALKER. { A Dignified and Attractive Hall Treatment. n Ak were av atment that corresponds tural structure of th that treatment nnot be ove requires an especial | ment of such structure: fable for dwellings. Todav the k of houses are myriad, each with some v be definitely treated h its type. Il Entrance Halls. The entrance hall of very small di ns may be large enough for nothing hut a small stand, sometimes called a card stand bec = function is o hold a card receiver merely or a A front b decorative tr with the archite honse. But whatever may be, one essential ¢ looked and t is dignity. Halls must be digni They should not. howe e cold in their atmosphe but represent a dignified welcome, suggestion of any of the rooms which open from one should xpressed. The hall must prove a suitable en- trance to each and every one of them. | salver for the nt use in taking herefore it must also be neutral in|the cards of callers to the mistress practer, for the hall should he as|to the member of the family asked for. consistent with the living room and [The tiny halls nsually have stairs di the dining room as with the library, | rectly 1 of the front door and yecepiion room, music room, ete. 1t leading to one room i each end. should express this neutral quality | S I« are not uncommon in com- hoth in nishings and in pact farmhouses of the country colo shme, vet it should net nial type. and they are occasionally in individuality. We might call it | reproduced in quaint models of homes the individuality of concord. { this sori. It is necessary to have Types of Halls. | the paper either a reproduction of the Stk st ral A aalbies enuine old papers u:xd on such halls mind, we find that structural differ. ‘[';'_l"”’ toFuBele npECaVACEDIINHC ences in halls make them come under E Various classifications. For instance, | thore is the group of mers s | trance halls, the long narrow ha the wide lonz halls that extend from the front to the hack of houses. the one at eithe spacions halls that suzgest rooms, a<. | times an old-fash’oned sofa with fine indoed, some arc. for there was a|frame can be placed so that it not the livi room hall not =0 | only hreaks the long effect of the hall, ears And then there [ hut also affords a ce to sit ment hall, which is per-f(ortably while waiting. A picture full haffling of all halls 1o | of brilliant colors hung at the end of fully. |a long hall often has the effect of Baronial Halls. diminishing. the length m\}:i of anIS o baronial | brightening what would otherwise be rco e .'",:,',’",',‘.l{l:. rather dark bit. The hall extendingz vhe dining room | the entire depth of a house and the ‘xcept the | hall that is roomy and spacious ™ nxiderable furniture, alway: ced that dignity ix stressed. The L way in which the sken 1y I from this chief central | stairs, by windows and . fer the sheltering roof. | haps open tivep e tha davs when ¢ wt of » how the furniture should be BEDTIME STORIES seen the last of you when T le"t you up in the Old I Now what am zoing to do with 21 don't know what Mother will say when she secs Ivou back. 1 suppose yvou must hav { Tollowed my trail ) then eliml over the W 2 come throu Inave % or mrse, Cubl that thix was so. had guessed exactly With that keen < he had followed « tracks all the way Then when he had reached the wrd he sitated. Finally he decided to over uand inves e that house | where all those birds lived He was |tired and wanted a place to rest in | That Tooked like a good place. It was no trouble at all to climb that wire fence and drop down inside, He was still small enough to get through that little doorway that was made the hens to go in and out. Once | inxide, it had been great fun to scare | the hens. He hadn't killed any. for he | wasn't hungry. You sce, he had eaten |<0 n nv bluebe; <« that he was no longer hungry | fied just to seare the hens. (Copyright, 1027, | | to harmon 3. Sm s Kinds. n bhe plea uging a _consol> above and two chairs, side of the table. Some- Halls of Vario 1rrow veat-d by with mirror « very m is the a hapa the n treat succ In bygone hall was the main being i nd detin its own, a% rooms heg; THORNTON . BURGESS Eyes in the Dark. Trouble Now and 1h hack Wi Boy out of Farmer i They were still ex- cited and were running about in the pyard. In the house all wi il rer Brown's Boy stood in th id- of the floor listening for 3 ANl the hens wer Brown’s henhouse doorway tell him Jut it was so. e what Cubby had little nose of mer home. couldn’t § TROUBI MB WIRE FENCE AND P DOWN INSIDE | Conwention makes us hide ourselves. We 21| must weur d’xsd)u;ses. If everyone unmasked 2t once Thered be some .stru‘.gg surprises. 1 ! tittle | | in the dark—some would Jead him to the felt was no . he was the only living thi henhouse be hitle sound began 1o k in the hoj the Weasel, for < Nhadow the liens hut it wax dark Wit to xoe at favmer Brown's | He had the feel ved ar. Ves he lad. Per eling And then e dis nally ioa \dow aring | sure ened the ly dark in t 150 to make Iin < hring st Wi 5 the i had that 1 e stood still teorner | " THE DUMBUNNIE WHAT DO YoU THINK OF THAT RICH | MRS. DOE_WHO 1AS OPPOSITE. Yo MRS the not thie imper tamiliar, ndeed med It can’t be, vet ward and the A queer ladness, Fa Tiat W himper wounded very “Great s wn's Ro e tonk A step o mper i nd of pl Brown's Boy wall:ed stia corner of the Cubby Farmer + most hesitated no mo tup 1 I that could be w0 eves, Well ot ] 10 under the sun did yon exclaimed However did you 1 thovght 1 bad where from? ns Boy this hen com- | that we RBrown's | Ko he had been satis- | D. €. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, Your Baby and Mine VER ELDRED. WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOW BY MYRTLE W The city dweller looks upon the per. son who is doomed to live in the coun | try. and pities him. The country [dweller 1akes one look at the crowded | manner in which the ity man lives; listens 1o the foe {the di “How he stand it In much the same manner look upon the cereals and plain Ve |etables served aay after day to their | ehild and say, like the country {man fow do they stand it? In a Al desire 1o dress up this plain g | fare =0 that it will be supposedly more appetizing to the child, they ruin his [taste for plain food | The idea that eversthing i [must he sweetened, from water up. [is a false notion of onr own. Suzar {is a food and not a favor. Pliin food [has a Maver which we. who have ‘uvm\n used to highly comy cated edibles, find flat and monotonons, hut to the child who hasx been used to a and food like milk, the taste of cereal ooked, is quite distinetive, decided tlavor ow have. \WEy not thes flavor. which reeable, in- | a it iver | Wil nthusiastic Married Ilat-"Tire Girl I | of Boy of 15 Who Has Left Home. Vv from BEER WIN v from MINOR 1o MAJOI. Lall pliavers, but very distressin | Chanze MINX fo LADY. needed to keep the poor | | a noble ambition for hush leagne o1 sinzers. ts good h in the This is in s Coque f the firm hand of he hae digested it hoat it after aver dignity is the hool Print you noise 1 and does says ps here, adnlts for 1 i DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Juices we k the child enjoy [to him 1s different [stead of endeavor [for nim? | enitn highly | Martha | highty |ix moing to refuss | 20 violently seaszon: [ habic and as hard other habit. ANl this does not {should not e we | med and palatable. | and Be Man b Advice e an Young Happily nything that 1. That to hreak never Mavors o shonld dor to a to a nsed ¢ she it . . | in tove with a givl, but 1| do not | ¢ to talk 1o her | 1 am very deepl similar fecling in her. Don't hoth. . or thing food DA DOROTHY DIN: seem 1o be able to awaken about anything. she Just saye, petizing. 1t is possible 1o Rrow ik 1o h about the news of the to anyth even to o that ) jean’t even read the newspapers and da is always burnt, but that is no excuse | jy And she looks bored to death when | [ for serving a small child food that is | pyself or my husiness. Rhe is also very cold. while T am of a very to eat. Neither docs it mean | pature, Yet she savs that she loves me. Do you think a girl who tin our well. meant desive to plerse | in Jove and engaged to a man would he this indifferent? him we have to drown all food under or ch e flavor with and nse these wetite destroy ‘s natural hen the child refuses meat he has chili sauce or rich He won't eat cahba unless I dressing. And then. with aste, he hegins to complain that evervthing tastes alike, which is true, It ix certainly time enough for this state of affairs when the child i« a man. Meanwhile let him enjoy is @ wholesome food, and don't | pitying him because it isn't dressed a thousand coats of flavor, .Willie Willis BY ROBERT OUILLEN. me that Ked, delica It also she Al 1 think that yvour guardian angel must he workin ve vou from marrvi this girl What in the world do a Dumb Dora and frigid to make you about | Answer, Gee, [overtime 1o try to | vou see in a Jane who i | her, anyway? | There are all h They are so sweet and de so much and ask so little that_they 10 a man. | But this girl isn’t of an affectionate nature. She is cold and self-contered Land that 1ype of woman never makes a good wife. | - | What A man wants in a wife is a_love that will never fail him. that will | never question nor criticize, and that is ax inexhaustible as the love of God. | And for pity's sake, when there are o many intellizent, peppy. up-to-the minute < all avonnd vou, why do 1TwAant to marey an igr t young | woman who hasn't an enthusiasm in h . system? Why, man, she would bove | you to tears before the honeymoon was over. i or taste, unless gravy. it has sald 1o stupid women who atone for their lack of brains by bein w warm and affectionate, they giv | Think of spending money on a woman who would yawn through a play, | and who, when you tried to feed her, would eat caviar and mushrooms cooked | | under ziass with no more relish than it she were eating corned heef cabbage! Who would give a adaisical “thank you™ for the present yo gone broke buying for her! Who would never give a single cheer or show any animation over anything! She'd be a flat tire for sure. And think of the years and yvears and years and years in which you would have to sit up of an evening with a wife who never reads the newspapers, or | a new book or the magazines, who doesn’'t know what's going on in th interesting old world of ours, to whom you can never say, “What do yvon think about so and s0?” With whom you ean never even discuss the characters |'in a novel? Can you think of a drearier fate than tha wife more tiresome than the one whose whole | goes from the kitchen to the nursery, with an the back fence to the neighbors and the bhutcher vour love for her would yawn itself to death in six months, If you want to he happy though married, don’'t ma any woman who Aoesn’'t read and who isn't interested in everything under the sun. DOROTHY DIX. can vou think of conversational repertory asional excur: “ e 5 years old. My father died two years is married again. I do not like my stepfather and cannot ) my sister took me home with her. My mother won't help me in anv way, says I should stay at home and mind my stepfather. Should T stay at my sister's and go to school a& I am now doing. and pay her back when I zet to work, or should I go back to my mother and qua with my stepfather? BUDDY. EAR DOROTHY DIN: 1'm a boy ago. My mothe get along with him Me'n Skinny couldn’t find no ..M;l inner tube for <hot rubbers, but | [the one we used was in the spare lure anyway (Copyrizht. 1027 NANCY PAGE Naney Invites Friends to Sunday Breakfast Answer with your sister, as she is willing to keep you. 1 think it rums the disposition of any young person to he brought up in a home where there is quarreling and discord, and where one's soul is continually/ | filled with bitter thoughts and hatred. But inasmuch as vou have broken away from parental authority and taken your life into your hands, Buddy, let it make a man of you. Let it sober vou and make yon feel that you have a responsibility on vour shoulders heavier than the average boy has. You are the master of your fate now and | You must justify vourself by making something of yourself. hecause without an education you can he nothing. Decide nt to be in life, what trade or profession you want to follow, ing yourself for that, so that you can get to earning money wible, Stay Sunday morning Study ha Kfast 1o 8iX | op what vou w chosen (hix | ana hegin p the henefit of some | ay s who were employed and who never could vited & v oand of her frien during the w ¢ for u see, vou have wished yourself on your sister and her husband, ve no right to éxpect them to support vou. It is kind and generous f them to take you in, and save you from the unhappiness of having to live with your stepfather, but have 100 much pride to want to deadbeat your way. Be as helpful and as pleasant as you can around the house and pay that much of your wa vou go. But keep it in your mind that vour obligation 1o vour sister and yvour hrother-in-law is a debt of honor that vou will pay back in money just as soon as you ean. DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX .. I I it possible to win hack the love of a wife who says she doesn’t love me any | 1o see me two or three nights a week. are separated and yet she consents Do vou think that if she didn't | love me she would he willing to have me come to see her so often and to go to places with me? A LONELY HUSBAND, 1 (hink when love is really dead that it is the deadest of all id that there is no resurrection for it. When we have grown | =0 tired of 1 face we once adored that it has become repulsive to us; when | the kick is gone ont of a thrill; when we instinetively turn our cheek instead of o lips for a kiss, when we come to dread the sound of the footsteps that we once listened for with a palpitating heart, it is all over. Love is finished. ;l'h» ’Dpifludt- is ended and no longing, no subtlety, no cajoling will bring {love hack. | Answer dead things, lock luncheons, Her menu was somewhat more el orate than that used for evers 4 breakfasts, hut not as fuse But many people think love is dead when it is only sleeping. Many | luncheon. She started | pushands and wives think that they have ceased to love each other because | | they ave just temporarily tived of cach other. They have got on each other's nerves. They have lost their allure for each other hecause they have seen too much of each other. But deep down under all of the discontent and distllusion there is still the fire of love that can be blown into a flame again. come to 1 o | T think that such is the case with you and vour wife, Tt she really had ceased 1o care for you, she would not let you hang around her. She would not want to see you or to be reminded of the past. You'd be of all men the least welcome, | 1 should say that the lady has a romantic strain and an exceedingly selfish one, and that at present she is enjoying a second courtship from you, | | and_is getting all the advantages of having a husband without the dis- advantages of having to put up with one The hest way to bring her to terms will be to cease your attentions to | her and transfer them 1o some other woman. When she thinks that some | | other lady is about to get you, she will decide that she wants you also. | DOROTHY DIX. iCopyricht. 19! with well nge juice. of cream onte, meal ned or 1 servin | cooked rolled lof corn fritters, | ple sirup compos in counrse. | With this she served coffee. ‘There was plenty of coffee to go with the vers, and ‘h marmalade as Then ¢ deliciou: large platte, v oand ma- Keep over hot water hut do not let the water hoil, as it will toughen and curdie the cheese, Wl for ‘roquet tes, caulifiower or mixed with diced hoiled o | and cayenne, until served | | | DAILY DIET RECIPE | | Cheese Sauce. ) | | ‘DI NOTE. | Recipe contains much lime and would add protein to any food. Should not be eaten hy one wishing to reduce. Vitamins A and B also present. Millk, Butter, 1 eup 1 table: blespoon <poon spoon n cheese, dash. PORTIONS. Bignd in the flour, »ful not to burn, then blend Stir and cook ney used this recipe One cupful fi teaspoonful salt. one cupful mi tablespoonful melted butter, | he popover pian heated 10 min utes in a hot oven. She heat eggs. ted milk, added flour and salt melted butt They baked for minuies dezrece and 15 min- | Melt th | utes at [ heing ca {in the milk gradually. | i | | ted Americ ayenne pepper, S1 1 enp. Hand-Painted Lace. Buy some pretty lace with a floral design for 5 cents a yard. Color the design and color you wish, using v [ aitions making ing = = (. 19 THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, October 2. i not an important dis 10 stare | vl H‘v'lfl-‘ Tomorrow It 1etrole netary divection, according =y, which that encour in ¥, reads in the ses rest mich ion. There is a sign supposed to incline | s mind 1o psychological speenlation tnd research Are subiect to e increased interest Churches auain tor in spiritunl matters in theve will be veaction toward mysticism and imposing vites affeci | all Protestant denominations, the s foretell ! The ecomin Teader is pre read aupreme moment The new moon of a week ago is supposed stell increase of for cizn trade immense Christmas | Warning Iative tende fossional as swel Conditions of trained workers 1 cont to he most fortunate and the Winter will be a busy in certain trind Hand erafts are impulse which will “chools of every sort Demonstrations in sl reforms are forecast for women ho will advoeate radieal measure in suppressing erime. | South Americ are to | enioy decided | in which the | States vies with Great Brita ophess Persone whose hirth date it vear in which they may ny ambitions, Children hol 1y of sieee They will pros of great re s ced by the stars, which toreshadowlng events of a are 10 and inst a spacn may t pro husiness men. time 1o receive a mew b effective in it i« prophesied. | favor of politi. | on that day have the « throuzh hard work e hest employes. LITTLE BENNY By K PAPE, Paris, France, We v 10 the horse vaces agen today on account of a hed | waiter in i vesterant having told pop | a e named Mootard was going to win, and pop het 300 franks on lmn.? making him o nerviss he couldent | hold the field glasses steddy wen he | tried to look through them. so he nanded them 1o ma saving, Heer, vou | follow this race, Mootard's number is 9 and his jockey has a ved eap, hurry | up and look. their off. | Meening the gl For Peet sake you got up in the sky. look down. look down. | O yes, I knew there must of bin' some’ good reason, yia sed. Now I see | them, now T see them. my goodniss but their plain, she sed. and pop sed | All rite, wares, Mootard? Vat number did you 1 sed, and pop sed. o, ! nd ma sed, well at leest he's not the | t one, because the last one is num- nt L and pop sed them pointed 't care wat he's not. w pep sed, and ma sed. Did you s had a red cap? red, thats it, pop sed. and fhen Im sure he's not the use that jockeys cap Is S0 at leest he wont come t unless he changes, she sed. me in ferst with a slow pro- cession hehind me if you dont find out ware that horse is, pop sed, and Well Im looking as hard as ‘s not_2nd and he's not 3 of that much. and he's nine, 9,9 I don't seem the 4th. eithe to see it Let me have those glasses wile Tm still tly sane, pop sed. And he quick took them and looked. saying Yee gods he's ferst, he's leeding. Moot ard is ferst. Well wat do vou think of that, T never thawt of looking at the ferst one, ma sed. Wich jest then the race was over, Mooiard” winning it. and pop made 00 franks but he dident feel all rite gen tll after he had some wine for suppir. ‘Lessons in English RY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say “a quarter of five” to express time. ¢ “quarter to five,” which means rd five.” Often misspelled: Kiln; note the n. Synonyms: Awkw clumsy, bun- gling. ungainly, unskillful. Word study: “Use a times and it is yours.”” Let us in- -ease our vocabulary by mastering word each day. Today's word: Semblance, likeness, resemblance, ap aranc ‘here was a semblance of ler emerging from the chaos.” word three one BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered. U. S. Patent Office ) 3 < carbons for the purpose. After vou with @ hot iron | This will make | an them word N P Same o aaily {five or seven minutes. While the "'» nee is hot stiv in the cheese. Half | have coloved it. press 0 Alf Parmesan can be used ' on the wrong side. for When ie Nation led the “drys” with her little hatcher, vrocked a few saloons here and there over t conntry, and got away with it, too atis he? | FEATURES. 3 | - ? Across. . Speech from memory. f th an. foot herefo inzle one. Behold. One who utilizes Doctor (b, Pound b aveled. Babylonian deity rines Asiatic sea, trother of Jacob, Prefix: one. Tnit of germp! Pen name of Dic A kind of metonymy Down. truggling agam r example (ah.). Dy, Sticky substance. Consteliation. . Pronoun. Hawallan bird. Make of no effect. v Article of furniture, author | THE MUM hila Gautier was a famous s st and jon st of the 1 v. ‘He was born in INI1 His most famous and perhaps best *“Mademo Maupi His Tittle masterpieces. « an intimate ace yotian lore.) ( Theop] [ entered the shop of a curiosity vender, an antique dealer, a_merch: of all sorts of odds and end in h of a distinetive pape I was tired of the conventional onze things: 1 was hesitating De- tween a porcelain dragon and an abominable little Mexican fetish whe 1 caught sight of a rming foo which I at first took for a fragment of some antique Venus. “That foot will be my cioi 1 said to the merchant. who regarded | me strangely and held out the foot | for me to examine. I was surprised at its lightness. | 1t was not a foot of metal, but. in sooth, a foot of flesh, an embalmed foot, a mummy’s foof. 1 could di tinguish the very grain of the skin; the toes were slender and delical terminated by perfectly formed nail pure and transparent as agates. “Ha, ha: you want the foot of the Princess Hermonthis? exclaimed the merchant, “Ha, ha, ha! For a paperweight! An original idea! An artistic idea: Old Pharaoh would certainly have been surprised had some one told him that the foot of his adored daughter would ba used for a paperweight after he had had a mountain of granite hol- lowed out for her triple coffin, painted and gilded, to preserve her through the centuries.” “How much for this mummy frag- ment?’ 1 asked. “I have only five louis.” “Five louis for Princess Hermonthis! That is ver | little—but, well, I'll take it. Tt is an authentic foot. But for a paper- weight! Old Pharaoh will not he we!i pleased! He loved his daughter, the dear man!™ 1 went home, delighted with my ac- quigition. T placed it upon a pile of papers—the effect was charminz, bizarre and romantic. T went out and dined with friends, thinking how proud I was to have a mummy's foot upon my desk. When I came back, with my brain slightly confused by a few glasses of wine, a vague whiff of Oriental perfume assailed my nostr ‘The heat of the room had warmed t. foot, and the perfume, at once sweet and penetrating, was one that 4.000 years had not been able to dissipate. I soon drank freely from the hlack cup of sleep. Oblivion and nothing- ness, and then dreams began to touch me—I was in my chamber. as it really was, although T seemed still to sleep and see everything. T peered through the room expectantly—but nothing happened. Then my eyes fell upon the desk where T had placed the foot of the Princess Hermonthis. The foot commenced to act fn a nervous manner, contracted itself and leaped over the papers like a startled frog. 1 became rather dissatisfied with my acquisition now, for T wanted my_paperweights to remain stationary Suddenly, I saw the folds of m:; hed curtain stir and heard a thump- ing sound, like that caused by some one hopping across the floor on on» foot. The hed curtains opened, and 1 beheld the the strangest figure imag- inable before me. It was a young girl of a very deep coffee-brown complexion and possess- ing the purest Egyptian type of per- fect beauty. Her eyes were almond- shaped and oblique, with eyvebrows so black that they seemed blue: her nose was exquisitely chiseled. Her arms were encircled by a peculiar kind of metal bands and bracelets of glass the foot of the on ! Add salt, pepper the color fast. " THEN You DON'T_KNOW HER To SPEAK To ? 1 [ DON'T THINK MUCH OF HER! HAD SEVERAL CHATS WITH THE TOVES HCK GARBAGE : ~ 7 MOVE D 1N DUMEF | RABBIT Wtio REN By ALBERTINE RANDALL OH_NO = ONLY To JALK ABOUT eRandalls 'ORLD FAMOU with a strange chuckle. | Steals Mental Thus . Nickname. . Thus. Increase A State (ab.n 3. Within, . Before the Christian era (ab.. sxclamation image. Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. AP EfT[o r|r|miy ™4 |m|z§oim|— WG SINAEIN BIE] »|x|»|~|m{D/C|>»JO |0 M A N T 1 L o T [ c BIBEIR BEE RRE S STORIE MY'S FOOT BY THEOPHILE GAUTIER. was all twisted into wore upon her gure of sreen hair and she beads: her little cord |hosom a little ido! paste, b ng whip with seven lashes, which was an image of Isis, Her brow was adorned with a shin. |ing plate of gold. A few traces of paint relieved the coppery tint of her cheeks. Her costume seemed like that belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy. One digturbes strange circumstance. which me, was that the apparition had only one foot: the other was bru- ken off at the ankle! She approached the table and supported herself upon the edge of the des! She addressed the foot, for it was hers. in the Coptic tongue. Luc . > perfectly well that night, grasped that the foot would not return to her, since 1 had bought and paid for it. and it was legally mine now. “Princess,” 1 exclaimed, “I never kept any one's foot unjustly. Take yours bac I make you a gift of it.” She took the foot. which no longer ted. and put it on with some She walked about the room a . testing it. ‘How pleased father will be,” sl d. “He was so unhappy because of my mutilation. ¥From my birth he had set a whole nation at work hollowing out a tomb so deep that he might preserve me intact until the last day, when souls must be weighed. Come with me to my father. He will receive you gladly. for you have given me back my foot.” 1 thought this proposition natural enough. I put on a dressing gown with something of an Egyptian pat- tern, sor e slipvers, and said I was ready. Before les from her n of zreen paste scattered sheets “It is only 1. #ermonthis took the little idol-figure and laid it on the whers the foot had " she said, “that Juld replace your paperweight.” She gave me her hand and we seemed to fly swiftly through the air. Obelisks commenced to tower in the distance. Then, ere T knew it. I wa led through a moeuntain of granite, and along halls hewn through the liv- ing rock. Soon we were in a vast hall, s0 enormous that the eye could not reach its limits. T heheld the Kings of ancient races seated upon thrones—grand old men though dry and withered like parche ment. All the Pharaohs were there— and Hermonthis presented me to her father. “You are a brave voung man.” he said. “and a_worthy lad to return my daughter’s f What recompense do you desir Filled with that daring Inspired by dreams in which nothing seems im- possible, 1 said: “The hand of yor daughter. What cou be fairer exchange for her foot onished at my e you from,” The Pharaoh was as witty request. “Where he asked. “and what Is your age? “I am from France and I am 27 years old.” I replied. “Twenty.seven vears old. and you wish to marry mv _daughter, who is 30 centuries old™ exclaimed the Pharaoh. Still, Hermonthis herself i eem to think strange. said her fathe chen vou we'll still be preserved. Men do not know how to preserve them- selves anv longer. My daughter must have a hushand who will last well. See how vigorous I vet rems be present on the last day world_with the same hody and the same features which 1 had dur lifetime. Rehold. my flesh is basalt. mv bones are hones of steel!” Suddenl: extended a hand to- ward me. ee bow mighty is my arasn still." he said. and clutched my hand in the Fnglish fashion with a strangth that buried my ring in the fleh of my fingers. He squeezed me so hard that T awoke, and found my friend Alfred <ha me by the arm to make me sleeper!” Alfred exclaimed. “Why don't vou get up?" “Cireat heavens!” T cried. “It fs almost noon. Took for that permit Iy on my d-sk—I must hurry. 1 started to find it myself. but fancy my astonishment when 1 heheld. in- stead of the mummy's foot I had houzhr the eveninz before. the little arean naste {7l left in its place by the Princess Hermonthis! N, ou everlasting Solutions of Today's Word Golf Problems. BEER, BEAR, BEAD, BE! BIND, WIND, WI — six steps. MINOR, MANOR, MAJOR— MANE. MADE, two steps. MINNX, MI LADY—five steps. LADE