Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1927, Page 44

pamiire: WOMAN'S PAGE: How to Cut Down Large Mattress BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER » If a mattress for a single bed is Teeded and the homemaker has a fattress for a double bed, she can cut the large one down without any great A LARGE MATTRESS WAS CUT \ IN THE _MANNER RIRED TO FIT THI LE BEDSTEAD. @ifficulty. It is not necessary to do over the mattress, provided it is in good condition. If the mattress that is to be made over is very large, and the single bed for which it is intended afterward is narrow, she may be able to get a second mattress from what remains after the first one is finished. But it will have to be for a cotsized bed. Do mot expect to have two mat- tresses from one unless one of the eniall beds is very or the sec- ond mattress i When cutting down first measure the width bed. With i S narrow the mattress, of the r pencil draw a from head to dicating the width reqired. Or & basting thread can be run down one of the lines of the tick As there: is a uniform length for odern beds, the mattress will only ave to be made narrower. How to Cut Ticking. Allow for a % or % inch seam, and with a sharp knife slit the ticking from top to bottom. After the first in- cision with the knife a sharp pair of shears can be used for the cutting, if preferred. Continue to cut down the rides and across the other s mattress ti g The next step is to separate the hair as evenly as e, doing it mhout one inch beyvond the cut portion of the ticking. This allows the hair to be pressed back into the mattress &s the side is sewed on again. Unless this is done the edge of the mattress may not be as full as the rest of it, for hair mats together, and in separat- jng it the hairs will pull apart un- evenly, thinning the edges. A strip of ticking cut the same size ks the side already on is now sewed Though age hasnt stiffened me Muscle or bone, It seems that my face isnt Holding its,own! §raen -~ the sheath of alily bud.. 50 slim and dainty is this girdle of crepe de chine. Four shining panels of elastic and three tiny bones in front give it that wee hint of persuasion the youthful figure needs. No. 576 | machine “feed” hy ve: made into 2 thin one. | . instead of | using the pencil, to indicate the width. | e of the | | play with eny they along the entire length of the top raw edge of the ticking on the mattress. Have the seam come on the right side, if the mattress is bound. thread and a needle that easily. Use two or three running stitches and then a back stitch down the entire scam. Sew the piece in this same way at the side ends. Turn the mattress and seam as at first. Push | the hair tnto the mattress as the seam- | | ing progresses. | the cut-off ma Fill in v portion if o remove hair that thick whe tt spot comes, and a would make the edge to there is too much hair a Bind the seams to match the edges, and the small hattre completed. If the rest of the mattre: fits_any for which it would needed, finish it in the same way Felt Filling. It the fllling of the mattre folt, cut it even with the e mattress instead of allow width. Cut the felt layer by Ia that the shears will not be h well as to save strain on hands. It a large mattress is too long for o bed. as often happens when antique bedsteads are replacing old ones (for lengths of old bedsteads often are 1 than modern ones), rip off the en end of the mattress and use it the mattress has been cut down to the rvight size. Then no new ticking will be required, for this end can be put back. Or if a-mattress is just a little too wide this same use can he made of the ripped-oft Vever cut more than i3 ne Sometines the lo done by machine if the mattress re on two tables between which the sew ing machine stands as the woman sews, It will be n v to help ¢ gently pullin the ticking along while sewing LITTLE BENN BY LEE PAPE. I wrote a letter to Skinny Martin today, being Deer Skinny, I gess you are wondering | how I like Europé by ‘this time. I like it all rite ony of corse there is no place. like home, of thats wat the Europe kids proberly think too. ony of corse Europe is home to them so they dont axually | know wat their tawking about. | You awt to see the big loafs of | bred over heer. They are longer than I can_stretch with my arms and even longer than you could stretch with vours, and u know your stretch, Skinny. The Kkids over Paris, France. ony co without eny paper rapped around them or enythinz. Maybe Frentch peeple are more use to germs than wat we are. table manners as wat we do. They push a lot of their food on th with their knife insted of pick up delicate with ony their f way we're sippose to. T hold their faces down closer to their| plate. It dont maké them look o | poetick but they scem to be injoy- ing it more. They aint eny elevater men over heer because you werk Frentch cle- vators yourselt by jest pushing a button to wat floor you wunt. I think its a big improvement, but enyways if eny elevater man happens to tell you he’s coming over heer to look for a job you better discourage him because he’ll ony be di pointed. I dont know eny Frentch kids In- timate, because every time I try to altho all 1 do is play in my naturel way. Well, it will seem like home agen wen I get back and can push fellows around without having them fall over. Your trusty frend Benny Potts eskwire. DAILY DIET RECIPE Cream Filling. Hot milk, two cupfuls. Flour, one-quarter cupful. Cornstarch, one tablespoonful. Sugar, three-quarters cupful. Butter, one tablespoonful. Esgg, cne. Salt, one-quarter teaspoonful. Vanilla, one teaspoonful FOR 12 ECLAIRS Mix flour, cornstarch, car and salt thorough! ir in the hot milk. When well mi cook in double boiler and stir until mixture thickens. Cook 15 or 20 minutes. Add the but- ter, Remove from the fire and mix in the beaten egg gradually, stirring vig- orously to avoid lumps. Cook again over hot water until egg is thickened. Cool. Add flavoring. DIET NOTE. Recipe contains protein in the milk and egg, carbohydrate in the flour, cornstarch, and sugar fat in the but- ter. Is a very concentrated food. Lime, iron and vitamins A and B are skl e AR hair' from | thin | after | heer carry them home from the store | Frentch peeple dont have the same |« y Im too ruff | present in it. 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Thus it removes th ly imbedded im- wl g natu THE EVENING A Brooch Clasp. lern woman likes to be dif- man- Th erpied precions laces. tive ¢ mi lia eff of a piece of ¢ stone— carne- i es an color scheme, 1927.) . dade or lanis la tive addition to (Convright NANCY PAGE Breakfast Tables Call Cheery Linen Cloths for BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. home the breakfast nook ie woodwork was gray, th vered with a pale green Mrs, ber of color ¥or one * sturdy Belgiin gingbam in inch of green and white. She n inch hem, had this hem- had three rows of ma- stitching placed close to- stitehin; tho ground and peasant figures in black was used with cloth. & For another scheme she chose tow- eling“with white ground and narrow line of green in a plaided arrange- ment. The hem was turned and stitched. In the row of squares above the hem she embroidered a name. In the re- maining squares of the row she out- lined a prim little flower. With this linen shé used breakfast china of Swedish ware in the prim- rose pattern. The soft greens and yellow were delightful, indeed. (Copyrizht, 1927.) Cheese Salad Dressing. ash up one cream cheese, add one- half a cupful of salad oil and beat with an egg beater. The mixture will curdle at this point, but after adding four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one-half a teaspoonful of salt and a little table sauce, onion juice, a bit of garlie or grated horseradish, continue to beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Use this dressing in the e or any other salad dressing. it salads it is icularly delicious if whipped eream i Years Younger New, Easy Wa; uickly R Tell-’l‘ale Wrinlgltg, liing{ anedm L‘i’n:: enlargedporesandsallow, muddy complexions. The way js prepared 1Gr nature t0 give its ity abundance of nourishment and vigor to the ‘work of building up the tissues, Weak or saj ging facial muscles are tightened and strength- encd. The skin is rejuvenated—facial contour shows an amazing improvement and the face looks younger. Read following guarantee. lines, wrinkles, sallowness or other a Liemishes do riot show a marvelous improve- ment—if your mirrordocs not reveal a smooth, glowing, youthful com- plexion, merely return the unused portion of the jar to your dealer. ESUET ioney or sale at all good drug and department stores. TS TMSSUE CREME Aston had worked out a num- | | prince TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1927. .. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES THE ONE-EYED PORTER BY VOLTAIRE ‘Voltaire. born in one of the grea wrota philosopl 1694, died in 1709, French' writers. ' Tl6 say and narrative, pambhlets, o His influence on n thought has been very great. ‘he present story first apveared in’ 1746.) Anybody who was not blind could see that Mesrour, the porter, had | only one eye. He was born that way; !but he was so contented that he | never thought to wish for another leye. To be sure, he was only a | street porter all his wealth was {in his strong shoulders, but he was | iappy. ~ He had a good appetite, and e could always toil for the money vherewith to satisfy it. Every day to represented a new and separate istence. Now it happened that one day he \w a grand princess pass by in a plendid carringe. Although she had ne more eye than he, he noticed in spite of that that she was ve tiful. Since the lack of an e Mesrour's only difference from other people, he fell deeply in love with the princess. Since he was blessed with more lezs than eyes he set out to follow the fine carringe as fast as | those legs would v him. At that time it was the fashion for adies to travel without attendance, nd to drive their own carriages. Mesrour kept running along beside the wheels, now and then turning his | one eve to ¢ at the beautiful princess surprised to ob- | serve such ag one-eyed man. | While the porter was thus proving | that no exertion was too great for | one in love, a beast, pursued by some ilmn(rv , cime running out of the woods and across the road. This | frizhtened the princess’ horses so that they took the hit between their th and dashed with the carriage nd its fair occupant toward a steep precipice. a A rmed even than the pri M i ri , Mesrour sped after his terri- ied beloved. Quick as a flash he cut the traces, allowing thé horses to make the fatal plunge by themselves [and leave the carriage safely behind them. The lady, fully as white as her horses, escaped with nothing worse than a bad fright. “Whoever you may be” said the princess, “T'll never forget that you saved my life. You may have ever you wish for your reward, “It would be more reasonable, Mesrour, “for me to make you such lan offer. Still, with but one eye my offering would be less than yours. | A single eye, however, looking at you ig better than two which do not have that privilege.” This pretty compliment made the smile, for a compliment is no whit lessened by coming from a one-eyed man. , “I ‘wish I could give you another eve,” she said. .*“However, I'll let you be my escort.” So she stepped down from her car- riage and continued her journey on foot. Mesrour took his place beside her as her squire. Yet he offered her his arm in vain—she said it was too dirty, and would not accept it. Now the princess had vel small feet, and shoes s! smaller, so_ that she was in no way equipped for a journey afoot. ‘What is the use of gold-embroidered slippers on a stony road, where there is no one to them but a porter with only one e The princess proceeded as well as she could, saying unkind things under her breath about her shoemaker, and tearing her slippers to shreds, so that she soon cut her feet and risked spraining her ankles at every step. They had gone on this way for per- haps half a mile, when the princess fell on the ground, overcome With fatigue. Mesrour, since his help had been deelined before, now hesitated to offer his stance lest he soil her silvery whi His hands were sinewy and horny, while hers were Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Mamma's' promised to try an’ re- member to call me ‘Bill' instead of ‘Honey’ whefi the gang is playin’ in our yard.” (Copsright. 1027.) 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Her hair was flaxen, his was black and wiry. But Mesrour, for all his having only one eye, was not unaware of - the pretty picture the princess made as she reclined on the ground. So ab- sorbed was he in admiring her beauty that he forgot he was nothing but a porter and had only one eye; he thought no more of the distance t fortune had placed between his loved one and himself. The princess was alarmed at find- ing herselt alone with this porter, who now became ardent. At the same time she was grateful for mot being quite by herself, for night was coming and she would otherwise have been' terribly frightened under its been shade. ¥ Down surprised -the lovers—for in night. it being quite dark, and f\;‘eesrm::r having become voluble in his deep love, the princess had quite for- gotten that her admirer was only a porter with one eye. Imagine her as- tonishment, in the light of day, to see that the arms of a young man of noble stature were protecting her! He was handsome and stalwart, and had two good eyes. s “Where am I, and who are you? asked the princess in surprise. “You are,” he answered, “‘with the poor wretch who happily -saved your life and fell in love with you.” The princess was as pleased as she was astonished. Approaching a splen- did palace, she read this inscription on the gate: “All who are unworthy withdraw, for these doors open only to the master of the ring.”” Mesrour drew near, and read also, but he saw more, which said: *“Knock, and fear nothing.” He knocked and®the doors flew open. The two lovers entered a vestibule of marble, amid wonderful singing and music, to, find a banquet awaiting them—a magical banquet, laid twelve hundred years before, and still fresh. All the servants gathered round to kiss the master of the ring. Now there was a_devout Mussul- man who, being unable to go to the mosque to wash, had water brought to him by paying the priest a small fee. He had just performed his fiftieth ablution to prepare himself for ver, when the servant, a damsel, threw the holy water irreverently out of the window, It descended upon an unfortunate wretch named Mesrour, sound asleep against a millstone. The one-eyed porter awoke well drenched. Mesrour was quite his old self, dirty clothing and all. Any one could see that he had returned from the land of enchantment in which he had found himself with the beautiful princess. Now he recollected that the night be- fore he had imbibed a great amount of brandy, which had dulled his senses and warmed his imagination. And somehow he felt a great deal of gratitude to the llquor for the splen- did_dreams it had given him. +He returned gayly to his work, probably intending to earn enough money to purchase the means to his fino princess—more brandy. Any other man would have heen in de- spair, but not Mesrour. But this por- ter, you see, lacked the eve which looks only at the seamy side of life, and he was happy. 2 Lessons in English BY W. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not say “it is generally said” Say ‘“commonly Often mispronounced: Capitulate. Pronounce second syllable “pit,” not “pitch.” Often misspelled:Tavoc: no k. Synonyms: Embarrass, bewilder, confuse, abash, disconcert, chagrin. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Tedious; causing weariness, “It is a slow and tedious process. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I don't know whether modern girls do more kissin' because they're bolder | or because men don't chaw so much.” _(Conyright. 1927.) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 6, 1791—The three District Commissioners appointed by President ‘Washington to lay out the'new Fed- eral city today ordered Andrew Elli- cott, first District surveyor, to meas- ure and mark off lots in readiness for the first public sale. They were to be located about the sites where the Capitol and President’s house were to be built, and also on the Kastern Pranch and in the vicinity of Ham- burg, a subdivision near the Potomac River east of Rock Creck, which had been divided at an earlicr date into building lots by its owner, Jacob Funk, a German resident of Frederick, Md. The District Commissioners were Thomas Johnson and Daniel Carroll of Maryland and David Stuart of Vir- ginia. October 6, 1800—The indignation of members of the- new Anti-Federalist, or Jeffersonian Republican party, was aroused by the appearance at the polling place in Georgetown today of a file of U. S. Marines under command of a sergeant, during the balloting for members of the Maryland Legislature. Congress had not yet assumed full Jurisdiction over the District, and Georgetown was the polling place of ion district, s, who won in George- town, claimed that the Marines were only looking for enlisted men who had been ordered to keep to their barracks. October 6, 1802—Center Market and the New Jersey Avenue Market were taken under control of the city gov- ernment. October 6, 1855—Because George- town’s trade was declining, a_sugges- tlon was made for amalgamation with the City of Washington under the name of the City of George Wash- ington. Sour-Cream Jumbles. Cream one-half a cupful of shorten- ing, add one cupful of sugar gradu- r, then one beaten egz. Mix and sift together two and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-half a teaspoonful of bak- ing soda, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der and one-half a teaspoonful of mace. Add alternately with one cup- ful of sour cream to the first mixture. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla and three-fourths cupful of chopped pea- nuts. Beat well and drop by spoon- fuls onto a greased baking sheet. Bake in a medium oven for 15 minutes. Potato Puffers. To one pint of potatoes left from | dinner add one teaspoonful of salt and | two csgs. Beat this well and then add one cupful of flour and a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix evenly, then wet your hands, take up a little of the dough, roll into long fingers, and drop immediately into boiling-hot lard. Fry as you would doughnuts and serve hot with butter and sirup. quarrel. heard. .. FEATURESY BEDTIME STORIES Bad Matter Made Worse. Mountains out of mole hills When neighbors tattis what they know. ~—Peter Rabbit Now, Peter the Rabbit and little Mrs. Peter thought no one knew of their You see, they had been so busy quarreling over there in the dear Old Briar-patch that they hadn’t no- ticed any one about. or part of it, But that quarre] had been overheard. You’ll find that almost always it is only part of a quarrel that is over- Somehow people who are lis- tening In never seem to get the whole thing. So it was that Sammy Jay arrived just in time to overhear the “ISN'T WHAT TOO BAD?" ASKED TOMMY TIT THE CHICKADEE. ast part of that quarrel. He heard little Mrs. Peter tell Peter Rabbit that if he left the dear Old Briar- patch he need never come back again. That was all that Sammy heard, although he sat around for some time afterward, hoping to overhear more. When he finally flew away Peter Rab- bit was still in the dear Old Briar- patch, so Sammy said nothing of what he had heard. But the next day when some one told Sammy that they bad seen Peter Rabbit early that morning up in the Old Pasture Sammy remembered the quarrel. He remembered how sharply . Peter had talked. “Isn't it said Samm:; Isn’t what too bad?" asked Tommy Tit the Chickadee, who was the one who had seen Peter in the Old Pasture. hat Peter should have been driven away up to the Old Pasture,” said mmy. “Who says he was driven away up to the Old Pasture?” demanded Tommy Tit. “He has been up to the Old Pasture lots of times and he wasn't driven there, either.” “Well, of course, he may not have been driven up to the Old Pasture, but he went there because he was driven out of the dear Old Briar- patch,” said Sammy. “Nongensge!” retorted Tommy Tit. “Who drove him out of the dear Old | Briar-patch?"” “Little Mrs. Peter,” replied Sammy. 'She told him he could go and he need never come back.” 1 don't believe it,” said Tommy. “Who told you any such story as that?"” “Nobody,” retorted Sammy Jay. happened to be over in the Old Bria patch and heard just what little Mrs Peter said. She said it as if she meant it, too. It's a great pity, isn't it?” Sammy tried to make his voice sound as if he really felt very bad over it. “I wouldn't advise you to tell that story around much,” replied Tommy Tit. “I know Peter and I knowlittle Mrs. Peter, and I know that if she told Peter that he needn’t come back there is something more behind it all. My guess is that Peter went of his own accord. He went because he wanted to go. I'm going over to sec :m]e Mrs. Peter and find out about So Tommy Tit headed straight for the dear Old Briar-patch, while Sammy Jay started to spread the news through the Old Orchard and through 67,000,000 of these absorbent rolls that's what women'bought | last year | The absorbent soft 23] White Toile t pope’ Scatt paper company Ch, Yoo Shester. P Yl - . (CHES. BY THORNTNO W. BURGESS the Green Forest. Soon all the feath- ered people were gossiping about Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Peter and their troubles. With every telling the story grew, as such stories have a way of growing. To hear some of those little people talk you would have thought that Peter “Rabbit was the most abused person in all the Great World. By the time the story reached .[!nnper the Hare over in the Green Forest it had it that little Mrs, Peter had driven Peter out against his wiil and had turned the deaf ear to his plea to be allowed to stay. It was a regular scandal, was that story, by the time it reached Jumper the Hare. You see, each one who repeated it added a little something to it without meaning to. That is the trouble with %0ssip and gossipy neighbors. . Spinach. Prepare by bolling, draining and mincing the spinach, mix it with hard- boiled eggs chopped fine, and mold it in a deep dish. Garnish with heart leaves of lettuce or olives and egg cut to represent daisy petals. For baked spinach boll a quart of spinach in a cupful of water, drain and chop. Put into a baking dish, add a well beaten egg, cream sauce, and bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven. 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