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WOMA N'S PAGE.’ Tolerance Toward Furniture BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ROCKING CHAIRS LACK GRACE, BUT SOMETIMES HAVE TO BE TOLERATED BECAUSE THEY ARE COMFORTABLE. There is something a bit incongru- ous and amusing in the idea of toler- ance in connection with household ef- fects, yet is it not true that tolerance toward furniture is something that * “every home-maker has to show about . furnishings. mome article that does not fit in with her other furnishings, but is too com- fortable or too much needed to dis- card? There are very few persons who have absolutely nothing in their homes but articles that are in correct accord. After all, such a state of per- fection would savor too much of a new house in which the things were not assimilated, but matched, with the element of coziness eliminated. There must be a settled quality in furnishings that produces an effect something like the mellowing of a hu- man character in which the good pre- vails and the less desirable sinks into insignificance. We know the mem- bers of our own family have faults, and that our friends certainly are not without them, vet this does not make us wish in any way to get along with- out their intimacy. Instead it makes us tolerant toward them, just as we wish others to be tolerant toward us. It is something of this same quality that enters into our viewpoint about furniture and furnishings that do not fit in with our schemes for the rooms of our homes. been under consideration. Each one ends by saying, “Oh, but it's so com fortable!” 'And so it is tolerated. Per- Laps guests note its misfit, but they, too, join the tolerant group when they sit in it before the blazing open fire. The family actually apologizes for it sometimes when they see strangers eyeing it, but this does not undermine the resolution to have it remain just where it 1s. Incongruous Bookcase. Nor is this the only misfit of furni- ture in the quaint and historic old home. There is a fine mid-Victorian piece of black walnut with exquisite burled wood on its rounded sides that houses an extensive library. This is n another room. It is an old book- case, but not an antique like the other things. Parting with it is the last thing the family would consider. Where would the books go if not on the ample shelves? It is tolerated with such a grace that it almost seems to fit in with the other things. It is theNibrary that interests visitors, not the bookcase. But if it did, it is a beautiful example, fine in workman- ship of a decorative era noted for its uninteresting pieces. Out of Their Element. And so we could go through most of the homes of readers of these | Comfortable Furniture. \pages and find that somewhere are ‘There comes to mind one dear little Plymouth farmhouse furnished in choice old furniture, cherished heir- looms of bygone days when cabinet- work was the earmark of excelience. Yet right in the quaint living room, with its spinning wheel by the hearth, its ladder-back chairs stiff against the wall, its tripod candlestand, its Chip- pendale chair. Gov. Winthrop desk, mahogany tip-table, etc., there stands ®r morris chair! It dates back to the early days of these chairs, but it is absolutely incongruous with the other Yet it is cherished, too, not because of its grace of line and form, but solely because of its luxuri- ous comfort. Not one of the family would dis- pense with it. The subject has often BEDTIME STORIES Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Pete. Mrs. Peter and Mre. Pete were both up in the Old Pasture, but hadn’t met. | Mrs. Pete, “for Pete Mrs. Pete was quite néw to the Old Pasture. Perhaps it would be better to ‘say that the Old Pasture was quite new to Mrs. Pete. She had brought there by Little Pete, who now was little no longer. In fact, he was fully as big as his father, Peter Rab- bit, and looked just as Peter had Jooked at his age. still SMe had been a little he had mentioned Mrs. Pete and then ‘she had been filled with g osity “Where is Mrs. Pete inquired for the second time. As before, she she’s around somewher aid no more, but be rough inspection of the b It was a big bramble-tan; t through with little v were the work of Old Thumper. Following along one ese little paths, Mrs. Peter pres- e to a mossy old log. It log. one end entirel bles. This end w within she neat, trim-looking she heen | [ startied when i enybody | th b | been able to find Peter Rabbit. articles of furniture that are toler- ated. Moreover, they are liked for one reason or another. That they do not “belong” with the other things is apparent, but also is it clear that they are cherished. It is this attitude of the home-maker toward her furnishings that makes a home free from any taint of a display room for handsome pieces. It is, in part, this attitude that lends th> c atmosphere. If a home is furnished in a haphazard way, nothing can make it correct. But if jn with things that do agree and which are fine in type there are found occasional mis- | fits that serve a purpose admirably. the tolerance shown them forms part of the comfort and cozy atmosphere cf the true home. BY THORNT W. BURGESS Rabbit was the handsomest rabbit | that ever lived.” “Well, he wasn't” interrupted little the handsomest rabbit that ever lived. Right then little Mrs. Peter knew | that she and this young rabbit were zoing to be the best of friends. She hopped nearer and they touched poses. It established friendship. Mrs. Peter squatted down close by the old log for a little gossip. Of course, she But his mother | wanted to know all about Mrs. Pete; thought of him as little Pete.| where she had met Little Pete, where | they had been living and what their plans were. Sitting there gossiping, sha quite forgot her own troubles. he quite forgot that so far she hadn't She forgot the fright she had had from the two bear cubs. As for Mrs. Pete, she was just as pleased. She had | been left alone more than she liked while Little Pete had been exploring. It was good to have some one to talk to. It was good to feel that she had a friend. So it was that Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Pete took to each other. They knew that there never wouid be any trouble between thm. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE, The Weakly News. SISSIETY PAGE. Miss Maud Jonson was observed out | ,curi- with holes in her stockings Wensday | itternoon. In reply to remarks by sther members of sissiety she answered Little Pete replied care: | ihat she s one of the peeple who look zood in enything, and that eny: that dident like it V8 could lump it. Last Sattiday Miss Mary Watkins who i8 allways doing something good for charity was coming home from e baker store with a loat of bred and she saw some mixed sparrows and |pidging In the street and she broke oft 50 meny peeces of bred to throw . |them that she thawt she mite as well brake off the rest and give it all to them, Wich she did, the berds appri “iating it much more than Miss Wag- »ed and looked 10N | kinses mother. | 1 suppose,’ Mrs. Pete. sut 1 don't | am Mrs Pete and 1 am| replied Mrs. nd who." inquired Mrs. Pete, “is Such a funny the face' of Mrs. Peter funny question,” she sai ast =aid that vou “What looking voung said she, “I am Mrs. that to do with “Haven't | he were Mrs, | unkle who sings in a quire, Lew Day rabbit i POME BY S NY MARTIN. The Invention of Spelling. O weather you write in pencil Or weather you write in ink, Dont you think marvelliss To the thawts you think? RISTI AR | INTRIS' PLE. I.ew Davis has such a nature ice he can hardly wisper tries, proberly taking after his loud | saving personly he intends to be som: sefill and less sis: huckster or a t nouncer. 't seen any At | U scen any lit-| around here sccond or two Mrs. Then she began to said she, I quite fo Tete isn any longer. called him Lit 1 always shall Do you know, is the living image of his 1 used to think that,Peter that | either | for dignity and a low, short curtain | insures the sleeper’s privacy. | | | | even if | "u:l"r is admitted.’ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. ©. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 5, 1816.—Rev. Dr. liam H. Wilmer of Ale: was_elected today the fi St. John's Episcopal Church, Si and H streets northwest. The was erected this year from de: the celebrated architect, Ben Latrobe. It is the second ] uilding to e erected on Lafayette Square. John ‘loe, who resides in the Octagon House, corner of New York avenue and Lighteenth street, was the largest contributor to the mew church. He also presented it with a massive serv- ice of silver that belonged to the old church of Lunenborz, Va November 5, 1832.—A new city ordl- nance was enacted today, requiring on ever: application for a tavern liquor license the signatures of six property holders residing in the neigh- horhood of the premises for which,the application is made. The only require- ment up to this time has been the pay- ment of the license fee. A short time ago the Franklin Temperance Society, composed chiefly of printers, was or- Still earlier the Temperance hington was organized, with Judge William Cranch as presi dent. November 5. 1845.—The city council adopted a joint resolution today pro- viding for the first official Thanksgiv- ing day celebration in Washington. November 5, 1862.—Gen. McClellan was today ordered to Trenton, being relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac, which was given to Gen. Burnside, November 5, 1877.— Richard M. Bland of Missouri introduced in the House today his famous biil for the free coinage of the standard silver | dollar as legal tender. | HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. gns of amin H. Space conservation continues to be an important consideration in all furniture design these days. Small houses and small apartments make it so. Shown here is a practical sugges- tion for a long, narrow bedroom. A deep window recess at one end was utilized for a builtin bed, designed along modernist lines. The space at side was used for clothes presses, with drawers below fo? shoes. At either end of the bed are built-in Shelves for books and a convenient reading light makes this a most de- lightful place to lounge as well as a sleeping corner. The draping of this bed is worthy of note. A valance carries out the | curving line of the bed at the top. and is softened by a small ruffie of | gray-blue silk to match the bed- spread. A pair of side drapes makes | (Copyrizght. 1927.) Everyday Law Cases Is Evidence of Good Reputation Admissible in Civil Suits? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Jacob Hays had a grievance lgalmlll Tom Perry. Hays had a note for 3650. made by Edward Page and indorsed by Perry. A month before the note fell due Per- ry recuested Hays to surrender the ip- dorsed notes, giving him a_check for | $650, signed by Page. Having the as- rance of Perry that Page was finan- cially sound, Hays returned the se cured note, The check proved worthless and | Hays learned that Page was practi- cally a bankrupt. He demanded that Perry make the check good, but Perry | refused to do so, and iays sued him | on the grounds of false representa-| tions, | At the trial Hays produced ev dence tending to show that Perr. representations were deliberately false and frandulent, in that he knew at the time he made the statements that | Page was actually insolvent. The evidence on this point was con- flicting and to combat any damaging effect it might have Perry desired to | show his good reputation for honesty and fairness in all his business trans- actions. But the court refused to allow testi- | mony of this nature, in acordance | with the following well established rule ividence of good general character is inadmissible by way of defense in | civil actions in which a party is| charged with a specific fraud, because the character of every transaction | must be ascertained from its own cir- | cumstances, and not from the charac- | ter of the parties. Where the question of character is directly in issue in a civil case. however, evidence of char- | & | | (Covyright. 1927.) | | WHO REMEMBERS? | | | BY DICK MANSFIELD. | Rezistered U. S. Patent Office. [ Peter | huckle. | 1 always e Pete and T suppose my $id Hunts fox terrier Teddy caused « 1ot of ixcitement Thersday by hav- g a fite with a strange police dog, heing a exter loud fite on account of When diabolo was a favorite pas- e for Washington youngsters, and 3 fents being hetween them so they conld give all their attention to mak ¢ ing noise. Low you'd throw ‘em high as the housciops and then skillfully catch oy { happiness for you in such an arrangement. | your cards on the table and tell him that if he won't play a fair game, here | lett her. i minder of your trip. But why should { prompicd the Indian to collect scalps, . WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. Rule 1. The object of this game is to change one word to another word | by a series of Rule 2. Only one letter can be changed in each | “stroke.” Rule 3. h *“stroke’” must result in a new word which can be found in a current dictionary or in another tense or the plural of a dictionary word. S If you can heat “par” one stroke you score a “birdie.” If you are un- usually good and knock two strokes off Old Man Par, credit yourself with an “eagle.” Some wise Word-Golfer may some day crack out three strokes less than par. This is the Word-Golfer's heaven and he hands himself a “pterodactyl”—the ravest of all birds. A word-golfer who can score a| “pterodactyl” is entitled to start his month going and let it rave for days while the gallery applauds. Get out your pencils Word-Golfers and assault Old Man Par. Go from WASH to LINE in four shots. ing machine salesmen. Go from HAM to FRY in four shots. that it will get black around the edges. Go from MALE to LOVE in three shots. can cut the time on this if she wants to. PRINT your “strokes” he: WASH This is not a boost for the wash- If you leave it on much longer than Any girl who knows her stuff MALR (Copyright, 1027.) DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How to Deal With a Tyrant Husband—Why It Is Unfair for Young Wives to Put Their Mothers Before Their Husbands. EAR MISS DIX: T have been married less than a year. At the time of ‘my marriage I had my home partly paid for and nicely furnished, and a new car paid for. 1am a good housekeeper, cook, etc., and try in every way to please my husband. When we married my hushand simpiy hung up his hat in my house, as the saying goes, but he grumbles continually about the expense of the home; never wants me to take my car out unless he is along: never wants me to go-down town without his consent; has never bought me a rag of clothes; does not allow me to spend as he spends for cigarettes and dvinks. At the time of my marriage 1 had money in the savings, but in the short time I have been married I have spent around $1,000 in the upkeep of the home and car, clothes and doctors’ bills. If T continue this way in another year 1 won't have a cent of my own, then what will I do? My husband jsn't even honest and truthful with me, and what is marriage without faith? M. H. Answer: T should think that the only thing for you to do would be to leave while the leaving is good and before there are any children to complicate the situation. Such a marriage as yours is no marriage at all. Tt is peonage. You are not a wife. You are a slave. You are a poor simp who has been taken in and robbed In a confidence game, and the sooner you get out of it with what little you have left, the better for you I never heard of such a ridiculously unequal bargain as you have made. Consider it. You furnish the home. Your husband begrudges the upkeep of it. He won’t even supply the money to buy the food he eats himself. You own o car that you bought and paid for yourself. He dictates to you about when you shall ride in it, and forbids you to ride in it when he is not along. You are a mature sensible woman. He demands that you ask his consent to go down town. Such nerve is monumental. Tt is grotesque. It is something to laugh over, but it is also something to flee from, because it vou don't, it will get you it you don’t watch out. Tyrants have a way of breaking the spirit of those they domineer over so that they get so cowed that they are afraid even to make a fight for their liberty. Marriage is a partnership in which a man and a woman go 50-50 on every proposition. At least they should go 50-50,.and every woman has a right to demand that her husband give her a square deal, and if he doesn't, she has a right to withdraw from the firm just as any man would withdraw from a business partnership in which he saw that he was being cheated. Evidently your husband does not love you, or he would not treat you as he does, so what profit is there to you in making all of these sacrifices for a man who simply regards you as an unpaid servant? There can be no If you submit now, you will hecome more and more a household drudge. You will find yourself with fewer and fewer liberties. You will grow shabbier and shabbier. and when he has taken all of your property from you, and you have gotten out of the way of making a living for yourself, you will find it more and more impossible to rebel. My advice to you is to have a showdown with your husband. Put all of is where you quit. DOROTHY DIX. o s . DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a young man married to the most adorable girl in the world, but my problem is that of the man whose wife sacrifices him to her mother. For instance, I come home on Friday nights with plans for a week-end trip, but they all go blooey if my wife has a date with mother. Or wife leaves me to walk the couple of miles home from the station at night because she is taking mother out riding. All little things, but it is mother first, and it is the fly in my ointment, what to do? WORRIED HUSBAND. Answer: A very wise woman once said to me that when her daughters got married she gave them her blessing and said to them: “Remember that your husband comes first with you now, and not mother. It is his wishes you must consult. It is his advice you must ask. It is his opinion you must be guided by, not mine. Go to vour new home now and be a good wife and don't come running back to mother too often.” I have often thought that if more mothers would brace their daughters up with the same counsel there would be fewer unhappy marriages, and the alvorce courts wouldn't be kept so busy. Because it is not in & young hus- band’s nature not to be jealous of mother-in-law when he sees that his wife puts her before him, and considers her pleasure before his own. Lifelong antagonisms and family quarrels and estrangements grow out of | this situation, which is both tragic and pathetic because its results are so | fatal, and its causes so trivial. For it isn’t that the young wife really loves her mother better than she does her hushand; it’s just because she has the lifelong habit of looking up to mother, and considering her an oracle and obeying her, while her husband is in her own class and she treats him as an equal, instead of a superior. Also by being extra nice to mother she is trying to atone to her for having The trouble is that a bride needs the wisdom and the tact and the experience of 60, while she has only the foolishness of the flapper. This being the case, the mother should have enough sense to efface herself and to teach her daughter how to handle her husband. And the cardinal point in that is not to wound his self-love. So if mother were unselfish, as mothers seldom are about their children, she would say to her daughter: “Love me, my dear, but don't rub it in on your husband. Don’t rouse his jealousy. Make him always realize that you care for him more than you do for anybody else. Pay me attentions, but do not let them conflict with doing anything for him. Break any date you like with me, I will always understand, but your husband won’t. “Play with your husband, for in that way you will keep him as a comrade. Fall in with all of his plans if you want to keep him as a chum. Never be a spoil-sport. And, above all, for his sake and for my sake, because I want to keep friends with him, never say, ‘Mother says we should do so and so.’ or ‘Mother doesn’t approve of this or that.”” 4 The reason why half the sons-in-law in the world shun their mothers-in- law is because their wives throw them in their teeth until they get fed up on them. If you try to tell your wife these things, Worried Husband, she will probably resent it, but perhaps she will read these lines and they will give her a tip. Anyway, if she wants to keep you I advise her to paste this motty upon her mirror, “Husbands first.” DOROTHY DI e e DEAR MISS DIX: T am a man 6 feet and 1 inch tall, and weigh 175 pounds. I am very much in love with a girl who is 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 95 pounds. She is everything I could wish in a wife, and we are well suited to each other in every respect, except that we are not matched physically. Does that make any difference? DOUBTFUL. Answer: Goodness me, no! You don’t pick out a wife by her size. Besides, nearly all big men have a weakness for little women. They prefer the pocket Venus to the Amazon, and precious things, you know, come put up in small packages. DOROTHY DIX. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY DR. MEHRAN K. THOMSON Did you ever write your name in a large, impressive-looking book at some noted shrine. Lincoln’s home In Springfield, 11L.; Shakespeare’s birth- place in Stratford-on-Avon, Washing. ton’s headquarters in Morristown, N. J.? Have you ever paid a dollar for a 10-cent article because it was called a souvenir—a set of cheap aluminum salt and pepper shakers, a tin tray with some house or monument stamped in it? Why did you do it? The obvious reason for buying souvenirs is to bring back home a re- breaker. In other words, we like to be reminded of our skill and power. But there is a more subtle reason why we buy souvenirs, carve our names on some rock or monument, and, if no such opportunity is pre- sented, decorously inscribe our John Hancock in some great big book. In doing these things we identify our- selves with the great man. We share in the great man’s greatness or we share the immortality of the great historic event. The nearest most of us will ever come to being a Shakes- peare is to visit his bitrhplace and write our names in the big book. There is no more space left on the walls of that historic place for carv- ing initials. And even if you are keen enough to find a suitable place not vet mutilated the guards will prevent you and point to the big hook, which you care to be reminded of the places you have visited? Of course, it is a means of impressing yourself and your neighbors. The same motive 4he modern hunter to display the head of a moose shot by himself, the angler to stuff and mount a seven-pound bass caught by his skill in outwitting a poor fish, the professional man to acquire a lot of degrees and to frame his diplomas of Latin parchment con. spicuously in his office, the social but- terfly to gather diamond rings, fra. ternity pins, photographs and other evidences of her prowess as a heart- seems to be placed there for the pur- pose of safeguarding the shrine. We buy souvenirs of famous places and carve or write our names in his- toric shrines because we want to iden- tify ourselves with the glory of the occasion. Wae cherish thess memories and material tokens as evidence of our skill and pvw'rfnd prestige. st SATURDAY. NOVEKMBER AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Walking quietly through the woods in Arlington County, Va., in search | of ferns, 1 heard a rustling in the Jeaves and stopped short. One must do this if he wishes to see any wild animals. To move torward the spot whence comes a sound is practically certain to frighten any animal into precipitate flight, but by remaining perfectly motionless one may not only | persuade an animal out of its natural | fear of man, but even pique its curi- | osity. so that it will show itself. 1 know of no moment quite so' de- | lightful as the instant when you know that something is going to peer out at you., Will it merely be a rab- bit or squirrel, or is there.a chance that it will be a belated raccoon, | hurrying home from night life, or the handsome, dangerous head of Master | Skunk taking his serene way home. On this occasion it proved to be| threa quail, old male birds, walking along, almost protectively concealed by their coloration, so like the Autumn forest floor. This is the mo- | ment at which, had I been a “sports- man.” 1 would have fired, and the pretty living things of a minute ago | would have become bleeding, lifeless feathers. | But because T am not a_sportsman T stood motionless, intently looking. But to my surprise they did not fly | away, though they were well aware of me. They stepped along in a lively fashlon, all the time speaking to each | other, a soft little peeping, gabbling, whispering sound of warning or en- couragement which I had not sup- posed that they ever used, having heard only their Bob-white note. One step I took, and from the ground, in a roaring whirr of feathers, rose not cnly the three old quail, but six others that 1 had not been able to see, though I had been looking at them all the time, they so resembled | their surroundings. | 1 walked to the place where I had | een them, and found half a dozen allow pits scooped out of the sandy | soil, where they had dug themselves | comfortable holes to rest in, leaving | the imprint,of their little toes in the | sand. | NANCY PAGE Not Too Early to Make In- dividual Christmas Cards. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Every stationery store told the passers-by in no uncertain terms that | now was the time to order Christ- mas cards. Nancy saw the signs,| looked at the cards, priced them and | came home to think. She felt that most of the cards, cven the expensive ones, were com- mercial looking. It did not require much thought to select a card and have one's name engraved. She did not believe that was the real pur- pose of Christmas cards. She nad kept some of the last year's crop. She went home to look them over. The ones which stood out were those which showed some individu. ality. There was one which was a photo- graph of all the Larkin family, even to the mewest baby. One family was simply foolish over their cat and it was the cat which sent the greeting in the name of its adoring owners. A simple line drawing of the home of the Kilgars was another delight- ful card. Nancy liked the crude drawing on another which located the home by means of streets and intersections. This showed the new abode of the Whites. The open fireplace at the Norris sounded the hospitality of the family. Nancy made up her mind that the Pages’ card would be just as indi- MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, One mother says: n I bought my wee son a whip. It was bright red and I thought only how it would please the little fellow. But I soon found it brought out un- zuessed cruelty in his masculine na- ture. He began to lash his hobby horse, his sister’s dolls and even their pets evincing the keenest delight in the process. The whip was left out one night in the rain and spoiled, thus temporarily solving a serious problem. Im free as lnng as my mind is free — It seems that whenever I see life clear I find that the problems that hindered me Simply Fashioned Evening Frocks BY MARY MARSHALL. ——————————————————————————————————————————eeeteeeeeeeeemee s Evening gowns this season are tre-| It you have of quently considered primarily as a|course, vou e wearing e background for brilliant jewelry. And|is, if you can have Yf:;n’; ,Lflil"m'f'r’:: because of the revived interest in|substantial settings that fashion now rubies, emeralds and sapphires, the |demands. The insignificant little all-white, simply fashioned evening |chains and brooches that used to be frock has come into prominence. worn are no longer smart, Jewelry precious stones, True. You may wear a green eve. | 'bundantly. | is a necklace or chain of some sort. | just come from Paris | are must be large enouzh nowadays to be seen from a_distance. Much has been said about the pass- Ing of imitation bijouterv. The ten- dency may be in that direction—es- s ara concerned. imitation _colored worn and most ®ood-looking jewelry is still ffectively. vening fewelry gets now include & of slipper heels. Rings are lly used but sparingly, bracelets And almost always there A brooch on one shoulder or at the uncture of the shoulder strap and frock is effective on the simply con- strueted frock. What of earrings? They are very much worn, certainly, and word has that earrings becoming smaller or at least shorter. The reason for this is that cars are being shown more freely than nas recently been the case. - Women who have permitted their hair to grow n wear it drawn back so that only the top of the ear is covered and the new bob is quite short over the ears— that is, if you have good-looking ears. A little bright green apron with trimming and patch pockets of red ind green print. You can tell at & nce that it came from Paris. Yet if you follow the diagram and direc- | tions we have made for you you can MPLE ENOUGH MAKE AT HOME IS THIS STRAIGHT- LINE BLACK VELVET FROCK. THERE 1S A FOLD OF THE VELVET AROUND THE BODIC! TO GIVE A BOLERO EFFECT WITH AN OPENING LEFT FOR | A LACE HANDKERCHIEF, AND A SHIRRED PANEL OF VEL- VET APPLIED AT THE SIDE OF THE SKIRT. TO ning gown with emeralds, but the brilliance and enchanting color of the emeralds are much better emphasized if you wear them with white. These robes-bijou—as the French call them—are sometimes of black, but the black frock is better suited to show the beauties of pearls and diamonds ihan the colored stones. MILADY B BY LOIS Round Shoulders, Hollow Back. Dear Miss Leeds: Will you please tell me how to correct round shoulders and a hollow back? I am 19 years old and five feet two and one-half inches tall. R. R. D. Answer.—If you are underweight, your poor posture may be due to an undernourished condition. A girl of your age and height should weigh between 116 and 120 pounds. I advise you to do three things: (1) Build up your general health, (2) practice cor- rect posture at all times and (3) take special corrective exercises daily. The correct way to stand is the easiest— that is, the weight is balanced in such a way that the least effort is required to hold the body erect. Stand as tall as you can, wtih chin up, chest ele- vated, adbomen in and the curves in your back at shoulders and waist shal- low. The correct way to sit is with | hips pushed well back in the chair, chest elevated, abdomen flat and feet | parallel. The inverted bicycle exer- | cise 18 a good one for helping correct hollow backs. Lie on your back on the floor, double up your knees on your chest and then kick up vertical- ly with each leg in turn, stretching the heels upward with each kick. Re- peat 10 to 20 times. For the round shoulders, stand or sit erect, place your hands on your shoulders, elbows bent, and then rotate the arms at the shoulder joint, describing wide circles in the air with the elbows. I would advise any girl of your age who finds that she has developed postural de- fects to join a gymnasium class where she may obtain suitable corrective exercises under the supervision of a trained teacher of this branch of physical education. LOIS LEEDS. Treatment for Whiteheads. Dear Miss Leeds: [ am troubled a great deal with whiteheads. Otherwise my complexion is normal. I cleanse it thoroughly with cold eream and give it hot water and ice treatments, but the whiteheads continue to grow worse. Should I go to a skin spe- cialist? I am 16 years old, five feet six inches tall and weigh 110 pounds. I am very athletic, am never ill and have excellent resistance. Is there make one just like it. Don't forget: the stamped, self-addressed envelope. (Covyrizht. 1927.) DAILY DIET RECIPE Wholewheat Raisin Loaf. Wholewheat flour, two cupfuls. Salt, one teaspooniful. Baking powder, six teaspoonfuls. Melted butter, two teaspoonfuls. Milk, one and one-half cupfuls. Seeded raisins, one cupful. MAKES ONE SMALL LOAF. Mix together the flour, salt and baking' powder in a bowl. Add the well-beaten egg. Add the milk and the melted butter. Mix thoroughly. Add the raisins. Stir well. Pour into well-greased bread pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in hot oven. Fills small bread pan, 8 by 4 by 21 inches. DIET NOTE. Recipe contains phosphorus, lime and iron. Because of the action of the baking powder the vitamins are damaged. Recipe furnishes protein and carbohydrates. Can be eaten by children over 8. EAUTIFUL LEEDS. any reason why I should gain weight? Answer.—You are about 16 pounds under weight, which is a bad sign at your age. Your body cannot develop normally while this condition exists. Although you may be free from iliness j now, I cannot believe that your tance is good. A large degree of lerweight predisposes to various especially pulmonary disorders. Nervous energy may keep you on the g0 now, but you will have to pay the piper in the end. At your age a girl should take regular exercise, but she ould be careful not to overtax her strength. The whiteheads are a warn- P P ing that your physical condition is below par. Local freatments alone cannot cure them. You may get rid of the larger ones by opening them with a sterilized lancet (or needle) and pressing out the white substance. Bathe them in boric acid afterward. You may pat on the following lotion every night at bedtime: Two ounces rosewater, 60 grains sulphate of zinc and one ounce olive oil. LOIS LEEDS. Thread-Like Warts. Anxlous Stenographer.—Have a hysician or skin specialist examine the “thread-like warts.” If they seem to spread through the use of your wash cloth on different parts of your skin. they may really not be warta at all, but some form of skin affection. LOIS LEEDS. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE Y WILLIAM BRADY, D. e Cancer. From our 'present knowledge I be. lieve these three assurances are war- ranted: 1. No one need worry particularly about getting cancer because his im- mediate ancestors have had cancer. 2. No one need worry about catch- ing cancer it he happens to have the care of a person suffering from can- cer. 3. Cancer may eventually develop in the site of any prolonged irritation. We don’t know. precisely what causes cancer, but we do know that prolonged local irritation is a predis- posing factor, and it is well for every one to understand this. Understand- ing it, the wise individual will surely not worry about it. He will take whatever step may be necessary to stop the irritation. For example, a trifling little dry pimple or warty lump on the cheek, frequently cut when shaving or re- peatedly irritated by foolish attempts at cure by acids, caustics and the like. This is a familiar site for epithelioma (skin cancer), the cancer developing after many yvears. How would the wise individual deal with such a lesion? He would have the wart or lump painlessly, cleanly and safely re- moved by his physician. ‘The most frequent situation of can- cer iu men is the stomach. We can- not speak so confidenly of the effect of prolonged irritation here, but the authorities with experience find that cancer of the stomach often develops at the site of an old ulcer. In women the most frequent situ- ation of cancer is in the neck of the womb, the cancer developing in the site of scars left by repeated lacera- tions occurring in childbirth. It is one of the hateful things about this dis- ease that mothers of large families must so often become its victims. Rough, broken, jagged, neglected teeth of crude dentures often incite cancer of the lip, cheek or gum. In- telligent folk will not harbor such conditions in the mouth. The oft-repeated slight burns or local irritation by tobacco smoke is a well recognized predisposing cause of cancer of lip, tongue or throat. The (rlq%:m of clothing on moles, warts or other minor blemishes some- times produces cancer. Amateur or quack treatments, instead of proper . medical treatment, add considerably to the irritation and predisposes to can- cer in the irritated spot. Cancer of the breast is as common among unmarried women as it is among married women and as ftre- quent in childless women as it is in mothers. The prolonged irritation from scars left by abscess or by fissures or cracks about the nipples seems to be no more productive of cancer than the prolonged irritation of friction or pressure by unhygienic clothing or supports. Cancer of the breast is not uncommon in women between 30 and 40 years of age and sometimes occurs as early as 20 years. The only sensible course for any one who has a suspicion that he or she is subject to any such chronic or prolonged irritation is to submit the question at once to his or her phy- sician. Worry, suspense, anxiety or procrastination from motives or reti- cence, false modesty or reluctance to think of such a thing as cancer ia surely a foolish policy in any circum- stance, (Copyright, 1927. . Macaroni Custard. _ Cook one cupful of macaroni in boil- ing salted water until tender. Cook one medium-sized chopped onion and one chopped green pepper in one- fourth cupful of butter or margarine until soft. Pour one and one-half cup- fuls of scalded milk onto one cupful of soft bread crumbs and add the osion mixture. Add three eggs well beaten and one teaspoonful of salt. Pour over the macaroni and bake in a greased baking dish placed in a pan of hot water, until firm, having the oven moderate. Solutions of Today's Word Golf Problems. WASH, WISH, WISE, WINE, i, LINE. HAM. HAY. PAY, PRY. FRY. MALE, MOLE, MOVE, LOVE. ’ {