Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1928, Page 40

BY THORNTON FISHER. We were sitting together in a Pull- man last Saturday, coming from New York. The last flush of day was rapid- Iy receding and dusk had begun to obliterate the familiar objects of the American landscape. Meaningless sign- boarde scampered by and silhouetted iarmhouses rushed past in the envel- oping darkness. Lights studded small villages and the stars came out. “I suppose you'll be glad to get back ew York,” suggested our dis. aguished appearing young seat com- ion, whose thatch was prematurely sraving. No, I'm going home,” was the re- Joiner, ‘Oh, vou live in Washington?" the neer queried. Yes." Well, Jusi ot believe me. I'm going back as soon as I can.” he said. “I've o have speed and motion. I'm to North Carolina for some golf and then back to the big town.” S exclaimed vour corre- well. if the following inci- nt is § Il bet 100 to 1 on a crippled turtle against Man O War. 1 happened to grab a taxi at Forty- fourth street and | Madison avenue and directed the driver to take me 10 the Pennsylvania Termin at Thirty - fourth siréet and Seventh avenue. It then 1:35 pm. and my train was s-haduled to leave t ‘Can you WD B ARRLSTED RERE FOR ASSAULT STEe ) 0 said h Y. ‘Su ! Twenty-five minutes hrough a maze of traffic only . not including traffic blocl ¥. if a Washington taxi driver ¥as to take more than 7 minutes to Y us from Twenty-fourth street Pennsylvania avenue to Eleventh et and the Avenue, we would report if he wasn't stopped by a obstructing traffic. d h that off.” Well, you haven't the traffic situa- 1 we have” said the stranger. it we are speaking of speed, not ations.” said we. “All right,” he eountered with other. “In the vicinity of Times Square alone. we have 75 theaters. Now you tell one.” “Huh," we turned, “if you at- trmpted to take them all in at the rate of even three a week, in order to see all the shows playing in hem it would re- busy sides. how many @o vou honestly see?” e “Yeah,” we continucd, aroused with civic pride. movie in Washington last week, or- chestra seat, too, for 50 cents, which 3 ou feliows $2 to see on t there is nothing like our sub- v system.” Positively there is nothing like it,” we came back. “For that, we cele- brate Thanksgiving in a large way. Why, if a gray-uniformed ex-prize: fighter ever pushed a Washington citi- m in the small of his back and blurted. ‘Step lively there, you, and wash yer step.’ he would be arrested for assault and battery, and maybe THE CHEERFUL CHERUB Id rather wlways fail in life b And die unnoticed 2nd in need And keep my high 2ims in my hear Than am at srmll things and succeed R0 - | sed. Well Benny No, * | sed, thoroughly | 1 saw a | disorderly conduct, who kno one of our strect car conductort call Pennsylvania avenue so that it sounded like ‘Pish-if-capooza Ifnook, |we'd send him back to the kinder- garten to learn the rudiments of Eng- lish. What's next you've got?" “Well, I've traveled pretty much over the world.” said our companion, “and I'm for the big town. Yessir, I've| traveled. “When were you in last?” we inquired sweetly. ‘m—I'm—to tell you the truth, I'm | ashamed to confess that I've never been in Washington,” he replied. Just then the gleaming dome of the | Capitol was discerned in the distance. Five minutes later we puiled into Union | Station. Our erstwhile companion re- mained in the car which was to take him South. “I'm going to drop off and see you on the way home,” he said, as we| shook hands and parted. | | LITTLE BENNY ‘Washington I was going a errand for ma and Puds Simkins was standing in frunt of { his house, me saying, Come on around [to the store with us, will you? Like fun, Puds sed. All right, dont, I sed. And I kepp on going and Puds came running after me, saying, All rite, Il go. Proving one way to win a argewment by not argewing, and we went in store and Mr. Wite sed. boy Meening wat did we wunt and he looked at m: nd look- ed at Puds and Puds sed. I dont wunt enything, I came with him. | Meening me, me not saying enything | on account of not being able to remem- | ber wat ma sent me for, and Mr. Wite wats it to be? | Holey smokes I cant remember wat |she sed to get. T sed, and Puds sed, Maybe she sed to get some of these {lime drops, has she got a cold or eny- | | thing? H I dont think so, I sed. and Puds Maybe she wunted some of these hard gumdrops. Him proberly jest say- | |ing that because he wunted some him- iself, and Mr. Wite sed. Was it xodmv.! | was it too | kid_shoe: | No. I sed. and Puds sed. How about | these lickerish sticks, I wouldent be ser- prized if she wunted about a duzzen | of those. Why dont vou get some eny- ways, and if thats wrong you can bring | them back. - | Sounding like a ideer. and Mr. Wite | mentioned some more things sutch as | |ink and sticking plaster and sorbent | | cotton, and Puds mentioned some more isutch as chewing gum and spice drops jand_peppermints, and jest then I sed, | G. I know. and Mr, Wite sed, Good. (wats the anser? and I sed, I awtent to be in heer at all, wat she wunts is little round shert buttons. Then go and get them for her, you | | little dope, Mr. Wite sed. | Wich I did. Puds coming with me | | but not cheerfill. | th paste, was it stuff to clean 2 e o _ After the Money || ot e SRR i | If any man has saved a dime, invest- ment men will learn it, and they will chase him all the time, to get that coin, | dad-burn it! There are so many bonds and stocks, so many shares and leases, he is 5o pestered in his walks, his ner- vousness increases. Smooth salesmen | trail him as he goes o'er certain stocks | enthusing; the more he hears the less | | he knows, it all is so confusing. Unless | {he has a dauntless soul, he'll fall for | | salesmen sunny, he'll fall for some one’s | rigmarole, and fool away his money. It | takes some courage to resist those smil- ing-faced attackers, who tell him how | they wot and wist they'll multiply his | smackers. 1 am a chump in many| ways, an easy one for fieecing; but cotn | I've earned through toilsome days I guard with zeal u I know I| am not very wise, concerning money | matters: left to myscl{@he faker's lies | would tear my roll to tatters. I know | not where to place a scad so it will | bring another; the good investment and | the bad—I can't tell which from t'other. | To have my bundle where it's sllevlnr‘ this I wisely hanker; and so, while others stew and chafe. I see the village | banker. I've been his customer for| years, on him I am depending to save | me from the bunco steers and strata- | gems unending. To watch investments | is his trade. o tear cheap fakes asunder, o know which stocks will make the grade, and which will go to thunder. | And s T lean upon his breast and weep upon his collar, and ask him where 1 should invest my hard-earned silver dollar. He tells me where it'’s safe to tread, and where my coin will double; and I go home and go to bed without a | care or trouble, WALT MASON, (Copyright. 192K ) | stis ‘Whenever one becomes a little too sanguine about Nature conservation, and begins to feel that, after all. hunting, trapping. picking and uprooting do not seem to leave permanent scars on Na- ture, it is time. one of these Winter days, to take yourself to the National Muscum and see some of the animals that have become extinet. There one may see preposterous birds | of the Indian Ocean that allowed them- selves to be clubbed into oblivion, and dainty quadrupeds of South Africa and Australia. hunted into eternity. But we need not look so far afield or look askence at the peoples of other continents, who persecuted these ani- mals out of existence. We have in our own consciences the wholesale murder of the most useful, most beautiful, and most wonderful of all extinguished things Passenger pigeon. I paused to admire some stuffed specimens of these birds only the other day. There gleamed the metallic lights on the wings that would never beatl again—indescribable greens and blues and rubies, like an opal shining through mist. There stared in glassy fixation the beautiful, pale. ruby eyes. It was the passenger pigeon, but dead, stufled and glued on a museum twig. Perhaps storms, discase or starvation diminished the flocks t once dark- ened the sky with their numbers and filled the air as with a sound of thunder. But the chief blame must be laid at the door of the Americans of the nineteenth century, whose watch- word was waste. After a big day's pigeon shooting, the much lauded pioneers used to drive in droves of pigs to feed on these lovely creatures. Today. instead of the pas senger pigeon in the sky and the wild p2a under foot, and have pigs and this- tles on the earth and English sparrows in_the sky. The hunters have tried hard to crawl out from under the blame of the pa: senger pigeon massacre. But on their own admissions, many famous hunte: formed bands for the comercial ploitation of those birds and, notified by telegraph, thev pursued the last persecuted flocks from State to State. By 1898, it 1s certain, only a few pigeons were left. The last one certainly seen was followed for hours by a North Caro- lina ornithologist, who could not pro- tect the poor thing. but could only love and follow it on what may have been the last day on earth of this magnifi- cent, martyr species. Cream of Spinach Soup. Wash in several waters two quarts of pinach. Throw the leaves into a hot kettle, closely covered. and cook for about five minutes. Drain, saving the liquid. “Chop the spinach fine and press through a sieve, then return to the kettle. Add a tablespoonful of grated onion and one quart of milk. Rub to- gether two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour and add to the soup, stirring constantly until smooth and thick Press this again through the sieve. Add ‘one teaspoonful of salt and a dash of white pepper. Serve with croutons. Jellied Cranberries. Boil together one pound of granulated sugar and one-half a pint of water, 2 constant. When boiling add one pound of cranberries. They will soon heat through and burst. Stir frequently until well cooked. mashing with a spoon any of the berries that do not readily burst. It will take about 15 minutes after they begin to boil. Turn into a mold that has been previously rinsed in coldwater and not dried. This will %keep well if covered, and is good to serve with game. Pineapple Jelly. Chop fine one pint of canned pine- | apple. put it on the stove with one cupful of sugar and one cupful of cold water. simmer for 20 minutes, then add one-half a box of gelatin and strain. When it begins to thicken, Stir in one pint of cream whipped The juice of the pineapple may be used in place of the cold water. Peach Bavarian cream may be made the same wa —giving children harmful, caffeine- laden drinks! They prefer this wholesome, healthful taste treat. Doctors say 'it's good for them— and for you, too—for every one needs this nourishing, easily digest- ed hot food-drink these cold days. Try this Prize Recipe: In bottom of cup mix two or three teaspoons Toddy and one teaspoon water; fill cup with hot milk: or hot water and one or two tablespoons evap- orated milk, stirring_briskly, Your grocer sells Toddy in handy 22 1b. 11b. 2 Ib. cans for home use Write today for free folder “En- Joy Life” giving reducing and weight-gaining diets; recipes for candies, cakes, etr. Toddy. 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I would not want to have it dyed again for any- thing because I felt self-consclous about make it darker with the gray showing only in places. My hair is quite brown in the back and at the sides and it is | very healthy Some time ago you had an article o | giving the recipe for a spe {1t. Would this be s | ALMOS Answer—1I think you refer to the tea rinse which is a hair tonic |tends to darken the hair gradually. could not make your hair dark again, but I think it would check the graying process among the hairs that are now { predominantly brown. If your hair is |a chestout brown you may use the henna_rinse. Both these rinses are ;maue like ordinary tea that one drinks. If you do not wish to go to the trouble and expense of keeping vour gray hairs | dyed, Ahe only alternative is to allow | your hair to be its natural color. fore long it will all be gra th and you will site skin. even with the c her public.” Toilet Soap. 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I have been taking yeast three times a day for two months, but have gained no weight I have eruptions on my face, too. I avoid meat and all protein foods for I | have heard that they cncourage acne, | which is similar to ‘my trouble. The | things T should cat to gain weight are injurious to my complexion. Every night and morning I wash my face in warm water and medicated soap, rinse it in bran water and finish with an ice rub. Please advise me. SUE. Answer —Forget about your complex- ion for the present and concentrate on building up your weight to about 120 pounds. 1t is very foolish to omit protein foods. You need to eat meat or o meat substitute once a day. Strive for a well-balanced diet, including a quart of milk cach day. 'Omit pastries | end candy, but eat plenty: of fresh truit and vegetables. When you have | gained your normal weight your com- | plexion “troubles will right them: | Please send a stamped. self-addressed envelope for my leaflets on “How to Gain Weight” and “Complexion Ils." he latter gives the right local care of the skin. What you need is good. nourishing food, not 'y 4 OIS LEEDS. (Conrizht, 1028 Parsnip Souffle. Pare and boil five parsnips until tender, then rub them | through a sieve. Season with one- | half & teaspoonful of salt, a little pep- | per, and a little nutmeg. ' Dredge with two teaspoonfuls of flour. Mix thor- oughly, then fold in the stiffly beaten | whites of four eggs. Turn into a but tered fireproof serving dish, place in | medium-sized | Be- | a pan of hot water, and bake in a|free from lumps and add ' moderate oven until a delicate brown. | - o Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND, Something novel for the nursery al- ways brings hope to the mother whose hief alm it is to make the child feel that the room is its own little realm. In the room as shown in the sketch patient rabbit on one side and a itten on the other guard a pillow little anima are made of cotton mat with fee 5, nose and mouth etched in a ¢ to match the predominating shade in the spread. The pillow is the regulation small- sized one, and the rabbit and kitten are basted to its ends. The pillowcase is open at both ends and snaps together at the back, thus making a very simple matter to keep the entire set e al Another interesting feature in the ‘oom s the recessed cuphoard, which 5 built in a space which was once oc- cupied by a door. This merely closed on the wall of the adjoining room, affording an attractive arrange- ment’ for the nursery French Mustard Dressing. Stir a teaspoonful of flour into a teaspoonful of melted butter, and add boiling water to make as thick as white sauce. Cook a minute or two, then add a teaspoonful of sugar, half teaspoonful of salt. and two tea- poonfuls of dry mustard. Stir until vinegar to k as salad dressing make as th Sister. “Mary, do you know that Helen is| playing with the hoys?” “Why, yes. What of 12" “What of it? She's a girl. next place, she is 13." “She 15 a girl and she is 13. She yhas a very good time playing with the boys and girls. It is good for her health and her soul. Whats the trouble?” | “I never allowed you to play with |the boys. A tomboy. A girl ought to | | have gentle manners and look like a | well bred child. Look at her.” | Mother looked, and, try as hard as she might, a smile stole round the | corners sf her eyes and spread and | spread until she laughed outright. Helen was playing hide and se th the boys. Her brother was “it He was standing by a tree, eyes closed and counting. Up on the bough above | his head hung his sister, suspended by one leg and one arm. She had sli ped off the rounded limb of the tree and | | was breathlessly hanging there rea ! to let go and dash for home the mo- | ment Brother turned his back and | opened his eyes, which in good time he did. “Home free!” yelled Helen, | dropping from her perch. | | Brother leaped back to the tree. ' | Helen crashed down on him, a leg | | each side his head. Down they went !in a heap. Up they got in a twisting, squirming struggle to push each other | from the goal. ! Brother lost his temper and gave Helen a smack. She took advantage of the pause in the struggle to touch home, and then slapped back. Brother had es because the T the was coming in. nced a triumphant war dance. vi. 1 got home free!” uncovered, her bobbed locks stirred in the breeze. Her cheeks were red and her eves legs and arms fi nced like a young warrior. You think that's nice? You think that's the way to train a girl. What kind of manners will she have? 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