Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 24

WOMAN'S PAGE.’ THE EVENING D. C. SATURDAY, Avoidance of Look: of Precision BY MARY MARSHALL. There was something almost too easy | hat, ornaments and a single neutral about the one-color ensembles that so | tone for stockings, gloves and hand- many women have been wearing. It is|bag you cannot go far wrong, but your Jjust a little too easy to acquire one’s |color scheme may not be very inter- | esting either. | possibilities of an apparently more im- promptu assembling of their costumes. |One very well dressed woman I know deliberately wore a pair ol brown shoes | with gunmetal stockings and an oxford igray suit to get away from the look of precision and premeditation that an | all-gray ensemble might produce. But Jone must have innate good taste to succeed in such departures. The sketch shows a combination of | grays and greens in a sports ensemble | of the more. casual sort. Caracul, krimmer and Persian lamb lare spoken of as the most important | flat furs of the season, and all these |are of the lamb family. Broadtail is {very young Persian lamb and Ameri- |can broadtail is made from certain |more ordinary varieties of lamb, ! sheared and otherwise modified: White lamb has now ascumed im- | portance for the sports type of en- semble. A two-piece suit of gray |tweed has a simply fashioned collar | of white lamb and I have seen a most |attractive separate scarf of white | lamb—in oblong shape, worn about the Ineck and crossed over mn front much | as one would wear a cloth or silk scarf. DAILY DIET RECEIPE PINEAPPLE AND CARROT. Canned pineapple, 4 siices. Grated raw carrot, 2 tablespoons. Salt, '3 teaspoon. Lettuce leaves, 8. French dressing, 5 tablespoons. Pineapple- juice, 1 tablespoon. SERVES 4 PORTIONS. Scrape and grate a young, terder carrot. Season with salt. At time of serving place pine- apple slice on crisp lettuce on four ‘ndividual salad plates. Mound carrot in center of pine- apple. Mix pineapple juice with French dressing and dress salad. DIET NOTE. Recipe - furnishes fiber, much lime, iron and vitamins A, B and C. Can be given to children 8 years and over. Can be eaten by adults of average or under weight. If non-fattening French dressing were used could be eaten by those wishing to reduce. A CASUAL ENSEMBLE IS ACHIEVED | BY MEANS OF A GRAY TWEED | SKIRT WITH MATCHING COAT WITH NATURAL LYNX COLLAR, | A LIGHT GREEN CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSE AND A BOTTLE GREEN VELVET BERET. color harmony that way. If your flute has only two stops and those in the | same key you can hardly play out of | harmony: and yet your music will be- | come rather tiresome. So if vou limit | yoursell to one single tone for frock, ! MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. i i ir. |their natural shape and groom them Coiffure for Growing Hair. |Er Bl b e oto tae Dear Miss Leeds—(1) I am letting them arch gracefully. (4) Nail biting my hair grow. but since I used to have | is a nervous habit and the only curre s | it cut in a wind-blown style, it is still | greater self-control. If you are below very short. How can I dress my hair | par physically you are more likely to be | now? (2) I have dark blue eyes. a dark | nervous and fidgety than when vmxr$ olive complexion and_blue-black hair. | health is good. You must try to build | What are my best colors? (3) I have|up physical fitness and at the same been plucking my eyebrows, but find it | time make up your mind that you will very unsatisfactory because of the small | keep your nails pretty and unbitten. black dots that remain when I pull out | Paint ‘the nails with tincture of bitter the hairs. What can I do? (4) I stopped | aloes to remind you not to bite them. LOIS LEEDS. A Question of Fat. Dear Miss Leeds—I am 17 years old, 5 feet 6'2 inches tall and weigh 140'2 pounds. My measurements are: Bust, | 34; waist, 28; hips, 26; thigh, 20; calf, 15; ankle, 9: shoe, size 5'2D. Do you | consider that fat? All my friends kid | | me about being so fat. JACKIE. Answer—You are only about 10 pounds over the averags weight for your age and height and your calf and ankie are the only measurements that are tco large; the others are excellent. A good exercise for reducing these parts is to rotate ths foot at the ankle 50 times a day. LOIS LEEDS. Large Anikles. - | Dear Miss Leeds—My ankles measure biting my nails during the Summer | 10 inches and my calf is 13. People holidays, but have begun again since I | say that my legs are thin. but I think came back to collegiate. How can I |my ankles are too largz. I am 16 years, break this habit? . |old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weigh 114 Answer—(1) A good way to make hair | pounds. PEGGY. like yours appear neater is to wear one | Answer—You should gain at least 10 | That at least is the opiaion of some | | women who are now deliberating the of those knitted silk bandeaux. Part your hair on one side with long bangs that show below th> bandeaux. Let a peunds. Your calf is only half an inch smaller than th> average. Your ankle measure is two inches larger than the Jock of hair curl in front of each ear. | average. Perhaps you did not measure Tha band of silk will hide the stubbly | it correctly, at the narrowest point, not ends of back hair. When th2 back hair | over the bones. Since you are under- bacomes long enough, fold it over and | weight the thickness of your ankles is it flat against your head: (2) probably due to their bony structure ght red, rust. dark blue with medium | and thick tendons rather than to fat. collars and cufs, bright blue, | If such is the case there is no way to (3) When you pull a hair it reduce them. They will seem in better aks off just above the surface of the proportion if your ca'ves become fatter. . leaving the black dot you complain | I shall be glad to mail you my diets and You may have these hairs per- reise suggestions for underweights if nently removed by electrolysis. If | vou d a stempod, self-addressed en- u do not wish to'do this I would ad- | velope for them. LOIS LEEDS. vou to let your eyebrows grow in | (Copyrizht. 1928.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzl l ex yo: (Copyright, 1928.) i familiar of the devil, SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. 2 ST, oW — | i i i hotspittle—like a not they’ll eut if off him, like they done my tonsils. (Copyright, 1928.) NANCY PAGE Joan Goes to Sunday School With the Lacey Girls BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Sunday morning bright and early the Lacey girls came to call for Joan. They had asked Nancy whether Joan could not go to Sunday school with them. Aunt Nancy feared that a Jittle girl 3 years old going on 4 was too young, but they assured hor there was a nursery Sunday School. Joan begged so hard to be allowed to go that Aunt Nancy agreed. Joan and Uncle Peter had a great time on Saturday night when they talked over the new adventure. And when Joan returned she found Aunt Nancy and Uncle Peter both interested in her account of the doings. They had learned not to curtail a child’s account of its doings on the plea they were too busy to listen. Mrs. Lacey had outfitted her three daughters in chinchilla coats. One was tan, another soft green and a third soft b'ue. They all had coilars and cuffs of beaver. Their hats were simple affairs of felt trimmed in ribbons of same color. and muft which Aunt Nancy had made for her. She used astrakhan. The old- fashioned tippet was made from a straight piece with one end slipped through a slit made in body of scarf. ‘The muff was a straight piece gathered, padded and lined. The cap was made of a straight piece attached to a circle of astrakhan which made the back of cap. (Copyright. 1928.) AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Some one told me recently he could not see where witch hazel got iis name. He seems to me an altogether unimag- inative sort of fellow; indeed, hs is worse than that—he is downright dull. The hazel part is obvious enough, for not only are the leaves like those of hazel, in a superficial way, but the downy nest of nutlets is a little like the involucre that wraps a filbert. ‘The witchery of witch hazel is a thing that vou either perceive or you do not. In the latter case, I have little hope of making it plainer here. Nothing about a witch can be made plain. You think you see her and the next minute it is Just a cat sitting in a doorway. Or you are not noticing her and suddenly she has taken something from you—money, wits, faith or heart. The witch hazel begins to bloom, with the perversity of witcheraft, in No- vember and sets its sced the following Summer. Surely that is proof enougn that the plant has something ncther- world about it. As a cat may b2 the so witch hazel flowers are in league with Winter and the powers of darkness. The petals of witch hazel are but four—a perversz number in the sym- metry of flowers. These who take stock in numerology will have noted that three and five arc holy numbers in flowers: six and ten, being multiples, are also sanctified: something odd and unexplained has happened in the evo- lutionary line of a family that produces flowers on the plan of four. One may walk the Autumn woods for hours now without chancing on a single blossom. Yet you may have passed close to the witch hazel in full flower and never noticed it, so elusive is its green gold. Even its aroma scarcely desorves the name of perfume, for it is neither what one would call a beauiiful_scent nor is it constant and strong. Indeed, in the chill wide airs of Autumn afternoons one will scarcely smell it even with onc's nose to th> flower. Only the warmth of a room at | home will bring it out. Billy broke his leg an’ got took to the Joan was wearing a new cap, tippet | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Strange Case of the Man Whose Marriage Is Too Perfect—A Genius Who Has Solved the Mother-in-Law Problem. DEAR MISS DIX: Iam a bit worrled for fear that my home environment is too perfect, too good to last. Three years ago I married a splendid girl with a good education; pleasant, quiet ways, unselfish habits, good-looking, neat. industrious and always considerate of others. She is a splendid cook and house- keeper and is also a great help to me in my business, as she handles my book- keeping and correspondence, and, having worked in a law office, she is able to advise me on matters of a legal nature. We have a fine baby and she is a { model mother. | We have never had a cross word between us and my worry Is, can it last? { Shouldn’t we have a family quarrel once in a while? | an atmosphere as perfect as this? i Answer: You are certainly a trouble hound if you are out hunting for something to worry over in an existence as the one that the gods have vouchsafed you. | Evidently you would join in the chorus of the old song that says, “Sprihg would be but dreary weather if we had nothing else but Spring.” Blue skies and roses and sunshine have begun to pall upon you, and you want a few squalls and earthquakes and things to shake you up and put a little thrill and excitement into life. 1 have long believed that the real reason for the family spat was the | unconscious need of people to break the monotony of domestic life. A good fight | somehow crisped their nerves and made the blood run quicker in their veins. Somehow, they got a kick out of hurling insults back and forth, and in scenes that ended in tears and make-ups. For unless husbands and wives enjoyed these domestic scraps, there was no reason whatever for their taking place, as they could always have been so easily avoided by either party's exercising the slightest self-restraint, or handling the situation with a particle of tact. Instead of doing so, however, they wpuld deliberately provoke each other to mortal combat and drag out into the arena topies that inflamed each other as the red flag of the toreador does the mad bull. | Then they would go to it hammer and tongs. But what a sad commentary it is on matrimony that you feel there is some- thing unratural and abnormal in your marriage when it is only what every marriage should be, and you have only the peace and calm in your home that | every home should possess! To begin with, you picked out the right sort of wife, an intelligent, educated, sensible woman who went into marriage intending to do her part and be a real | helpmate to you. Apparently you are the same type of a man that she is of a woman, so why is it strange that you get along amiably together? If you had wanted some one to keep you irritated and in a family row all of the time, you should have married some selfish little flapper who would have run you in debt with her extravagance, and dragged you around to a party every night. ‘When a man picks out the type of wife he wants and does his part toward | making marriage a success, he takes matrimony out of the gambling class and | makes it a sure thing. Why should husbands and wives quarrel? If we can get along with | strangers, why not with those to whom we are married? Of course, no two ! human beings can agree on every point, but any lady and gentleman can discuss any subject without losing their tempers, or saying mean things to each other, and any two reasonable human beings can reach sbme satisfactory compromise. So I should say that your happiness can last just as long as you want it to It will Jast until you get tired of it and through sheer parversity stir up ROTHY DIX. last. trouble. . . EAR DOROTHY DIX: I claim to be one man who has solved the mother- in-law problem, and I pass on my tip to other men. My mother-in-law used to come to see us very often and she not only interfered with everything we did, but she would complain about things until she made my wife discontented and miserable. I stood it with patience for a while, then I said to her: “Mother, I want you to feei that you are always welcome in our home, but from now on when you come you must keep silent about our affairs and let us run them just as we see fit. When we want your advice we will ask for it. If you cannot comply with these conditions, it will be better for us all for you not to ; come to see us any more.” That settled mother-in-law's butting in, and since then we have got along | together beautifully. A MARRIED MAN OF TWENTY YEARS. Answer: A Danitel! A second Daniel come to judgment! Wiser words :har{’ Ilgcse were hnevi"er gpokcr;dmd I h:vehno doubt that many another poor roubled young husband could save his home by presenting just such an | ultimatum to his mother-in-law. 8 o o i For the interfering mother-in-law is seldom deliberately malicious. She does not really want to break up her daughter’s home, nor alienate her from her ! husband. She doesn’t even intentionally make trouble. i She is just a conceited, bossy woman who thinks she is incarnate wlsdom! and who has a mania for running things, and she feels that she has a perfect | right to extercise her authority in her daughter's house. Generally she feels that she is even doing her son-in-law a favor in giving | him the benefit, free, gratis for nothing, of her unsolicitcd advice, and thxat hgf should be grateful to her for telling him where to get on and where to gat off, and what he should wear and what he should eat, and how much he should | spend, and whether he should smoke or not, and for generally managing him | :rg:l L};‘i_.;nng’alrs. Hence, it seems to her highly unreasonable for him to resent But, after all, mother-in-law isn't a bad woman. Generally her heart is the right place, and she can be appealed to by just such a (rll;)k showdown ;2 you had with your mother-in-law. Make her see that she is ruining your !ll:gplkx;;s }I:yr hficr mtarle{enlce and .;he VAHI, nine times out of ten, let you alone er fingers out of your pie. And if von't, y e go'il' d;,wr FH ¥ pi she won't, you are quite right to _ But what a pity mothers-in-law can't attend to their own their marricd children alone! It would save so much misery. DOR‘O‘;‘.I-’IK‘:' i‘)‘ig{ - O x EAR MISS DIX: I have been a widow for a number of years. 5 lntercstfidnilx; :mydlhmg"m particular, ecause sucl ngs do not appzal to me. I don't care to'do anything that brings me before the public. I have an offer of it to accept it, or to go into business? it ymfi%‘l’\’x’r&:. o ny woman to marry unless she is very strongly I am not though I belong to several societies, Answer: I do not advise a attracted toward the man and f NOVEMBER 17, | organized, a palpable nuisance in the Is it safe to continue in| TOO PERI 0! 20, Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. November 17, 1856.—What the local | newspapers ‘Tefer to as “rowdyism” is| very prevalent in Washington and is recelving “but slight check, indeed,” as| The Evening Star expresses it today. So bold have the perpetrators of this rowdyism become, it is claimed, that they “now seek shelter under cover' of the fire department” to such an extent “as to render that, as at present ! estimation of thousands, producing { much more mischief and doing more damage to the public interest than the department in the discharge of its legitimate duties prevents.” “In nine cases out of ten,” The Star reports, “Investigation resulfs in fallure to prove criminality against the actual members of the company, and it is rare, indeed, that others running with the engines, who are actually the cul- prits, are punished. In the meanwhile, | the nuisance is hourly becoming more | unbearable. . . | “The great mass of the firemen of | ‘Washington doubtless deprecate the ap- parent utter impossibility of preventing | fire riots as heartily as we do and also | comprehend the absolute necessity of putting an end to them in some way or other.” | WINS “MESCAL Two hundred and eleven readers of The | Evening Star were so much interested | in the “Mescal Ike” comic strips cos-| tume party of Saturday, November 3, that they sent in votes for the best| costumes, and A. L. Rowell, 2934 Four- | teenth street northwest, has received the prize for his letter. The artist who draws “Mescal Tke” and his friends| is sending him the original drawing.| which was announced as the award.| Other Washingtonians whose letters re- | Ney V] 1IKE” CONTEST deed quite an accomplishment. On ac- count of his age. Pa could not compete for anything in the way of cutent and owing to his small stature, he was out of the running for anything in the way of grandeur. It would not become one of his mental powers to affect craziness. Obviously, he could not im- personate Ramona, or Sir Walter Ra- lexgh, or_the Big Dipper, or even Santa Claus. But by very clever planning, he expanded his girth to the size of a hot dog stand, increased his height to equal that of anyone else at the ball, made himself into a walking puzzle that would do credit to Sam Lloyd: and by these means increased his visi- bility and importance several hundred per cent. Therefore, let us give him the prize for cleverness. “As to the craziest costume: I admit that, as one gazes over the brilliant and locoed assemblage of freaks who present themselves among the cos- tumes at the ball, it requires some shrewd calculation to select the craziest one from among them. However, 1 suggest Jed Butts in his impersonation of Col. Lindbergh. Without going to too many details, the result he achiev- ed is a good cross between Andy Gump and a deep sea diver. For a sawed-off runt of his dimensions to | attempt to disguise himself as the | The ‘Washington police, it is asserted, have failed signally to suppress these | fire riots. Many persons are of the' opinion that sooner or later this city | Wil be compelled to adopt the system already successfully used in Boston and Cincinnati, namely, of abandoning en- tirely all volunteer fire companies and creating a paid fire department for protection of public and private prop- | erty. In those cities, according to reports received here, such a thing as a fire engine runners’ riot is un- ! known, since the paid fire department has been organized and the volunteer | companies disbanded. § ‘While such a reorganization of the! fire department in Washington would doubtless be unfair to many volunteer | firemen and to whole companies that never take part in or encourage such | riots, many of the most prominent and | public spirited citizens of the National | Capital believe the time has about ar- | rived when all volunteer companies | must be replaced by a paid department | which will be absolutely under the | control of the city government. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. | | | | Quiet Hide-and-Seek. One Mother Says: While I am working busily in the | kitchen I often play a game of “Guess Hide and Seck” with my little boy who does not yet go to school. “Guess where I've hided?” the little one will ask. I guess that he is in the flour bin, in the broom closet or the cup- board and finally correctly guess him to be in the oven. Oh, how hz laughs when I can't find him! Then I will have my turn at hiding and sonny will guess me to be in the refrigerator, and 50 the game goes on, a merry quiet one. (Copyright. 1928.) Home in Good Taste | tume ball. blonde giant who shrunk the Atlantic Ocean—such an attempt certainly en- titles him to the nut prize. “Now as to the cutest costume: This {1s a very delicate matter, and I ad- | question to a popular vote. L. Rowell. iepisl i 3 | F.| ceived special attention are George Luippold, Army Medical School; Mar McNicholas, 3527 Center street north- west; Nellie Parmele, 548 Shepherd | sireet northwest; E. Marshall Grinder, | 314 Tenth street northeast; Jean Pauly, 1819 F street northwest, and Edna Zevely, 69 Rhode Island avenue north- | west, The winning letter is as follows: “Dear Mescal: As a fellow-product of the opening spaces of the gilded West I am only too glad to come to your as- sistance in the difficult and somewhat delicate matter of choosing the winners and awarding the prizes in your cos- “Without doubt the cleverest costume is that worn by Pa Piffle. To begin wwh, it was so cleverly conceived as to mystify such an astute judge of human affairs as yourself, which is in- The Sidewalks ie | JU mire your strategy in submitting this Since you so kindly assisted Miss Sally in carry- ing home her costume, and for other reasons, you could not award her the | prize without appearing to be preju- diced. You could not give it to any- one else without violating your better dgment. But by trusting the matter to the intelligence, taste and eyesight. of the public, you could be sure that Miss Sally would get the prize without en- | dangering your reputation as a fair, open minded and unblased judge. “As to reasons, I present 12 reasons | why no one else should get the prize. | They are costumes Nos. 1 and 3 to *# inclusive. I present one reason wrv Miss Sally should get it. It is com= tume No. 2. If any one questions the decisions, let him look for himself! And in case any one should overlook the costume outside, I am mailing you a little reminder of your attempt to judge the get-up of Zeb Boggs and Muley Bates. ““Hoping that the outcome of the vote will be satisfactory, and that a large number of readers vote, I am, very westernly yours, A. L. ROWELL.” of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. The question put before the readers, | “Are Washingtonians Friendly or In- hospitable?” has evoked an instant re- sponse. That opinions differ will be obvious as one reads the following among many letters received. “Dear Sir: Your call for a round table on whether Washington is hospitable or inhospitable gives me an opportunity to voice something that is near my heart. | ‘I was a stranger and ye took me in.’ | About a month ago I came alone from a | Midwest city—not especially fair but ‘fat and 40’ Not overburdened with | this world's goods and not even appear- ing so, but in that short time have been an invited guest at dinner in four dif- ferent homes where I was entirely un- known a short time before; have had auto rides in the family machines of three different parties; have been reccived ot church as one for whom they had been watching. At the Business Woman'’s Council I was in- troduced around with as much cordiality as would be accorded a re- turned missionary or a visiting presi- | dent of the Ladies’ 4 Aid Society. Your { previous cor- respondents who found Washington inhospitable must have been fat men. ‘Nobody loves a fat man.' I have been in cities, large and small, throughout the country for more years than you can BY SARA HILAND. All you have to have is a regular than without him, and evidently this is eels very sure that she will be happier with him not your case. E 1t is very difficult for a middie-age: Shin Birangar At T ged woman to adapt herself to the ways always the wife who has to do th along with another. She is the one who has to change her habits, and ellfeelftlx‘::g point of view, to do the things she doesn't like to do, and leave undone the things she likes to do, hz_ordcr to make a poaceful home. I do not think that the sacrifices she is calied upon to make are justified unless sha gets an exceptional man for a husband, of whom she is very fond and whom she finds very congental. a-marrying, because you are lonesome and I think you will be far happi of a matrimonial onc. e 1t you go into business, you will have som and occupy your thoughts at night. You will h:fi.\mtl things, the excitement of building up an entorprise, :xlvl.:\‘?o&gz fi?flgu?fi' the t’hrfll m‘r s;‘cccss. And if you get tired of it you can y messiness of divorce. (Copyright, 1 SOpORRE DR BEDTIME STORIES Comfortable Bed. Still Rusly the Fox Squirrel jour- neyed on. He had many adventures, | It's bad business to marry just to be i and don't know what to do wnn’ yourself, you embark cn a business career instead g to keep you busy all day he interest of planning new , the satisfaction that goes BY THORNTON W. BURGESS when his eyes closed and he was asl It was a very comfortable bed inss:w??é of the fact that it was not very elabo- rate. Rusty began to dream and his but the life of any of the litile folks of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest is very largely made up of ad- ventures. They have them every day. So at last Rusty came to a country where the nut crop had not failed. It was many, many miles from Farmer Brown's and Rusty had been very many days making the journey. But as he feasted on hickory nuts, beechnuts and dreams were very pleasant dreams, dreamed that he found a wmdlm!l.{'je every tree of which was a nut_tree, Every tree was loaded with nuts. Theare were all kinds of nuts. It seemer as! if all the Squirrels in the world were there. But there was no quarreling, for there were nuts enough for all. 3 Now, that is the nicest kind of a dreaAm that a Squirrel can have and !Rus..y was right in the midst of it, having the most wonderful time, whon suddenly his eyes flew wide open and Le was wide awake. There were no nuts to eat and no Squirrels. Instead, he was in a strange place. For a moment old-time scrap basket to make a pillow like that shown in the illustration. Bits of this and that from old dresses, ap- rons, etc, which may have bern put aside with a view to eventually burning up, will come in mighty handy. The sky is nothing more than a piece | bf medium blue chambray, the roof is brown-striped cotton material and the trees and grass are of green-and-white- striped cotton. The chimney is good old-fashioned red calico and just think what a tiny bit of a scrap you need, and the flow- ‘ers_are of flowered chintz. The “trick” of the whole thing is the picket fence of white cotton sheet- ing, and if you do not wish to take the time or have not the patience to cut and fold such tiny stripes you may | | 1 he couldn't remember- where he was. Then it all came back to him sud- |denly. He knew something must have wakened him. His heart began to beat a little faster. He pricked up his ears land listened: There was the sound of claws on the outside of that tree. Could 11t be that it was the owner of this bed? Was it another Squirrel? Was it just some chance visitor? All these though*s ‘went through Rusty’s head as he lay | there listening. |, What to do! Should he remain hidden 1 there, or should he rush out now? This { house scemed like a deserted house. overstep the bounds of economy and use a narrow folded bias binding for this portion. You may F.ve some of this left, anyway, so you won't have to spend much money. The door and shutters may be etched on the house in black and green thread. (Copyright, 1928.) —se Liver Croquettes. Use two cupfuls of finely minced or ground-up cooked liver seasoned with salt and pepper. Add four tablespoon- force me to tell, but have found in Washington a sincerity, hospitality and generally friendly and helpful spirit which I have found in no, x’o;th;ar ;;;n"ce.. After that we feel much better. Another letter: | south of the Avenue, it seems we are going to have ‘the City Grand.’ At the same time we cannot help but admit that the friendliness which Henry W. Grady sought, as he left New York for Georgia in the 80s, is not as easy to find in Washington as it was in the days preceding 1914. Perhaps, too, the social sea of the old town may have something to do with the situation, for all the old-time ‘sets’ seem to be quite well mixed up, and no more do you see the sharp lines drawn for the diplo- matic, official, congressional, Army and Navy, or the residential folks. So when you step out these days it seems as though it might be well to use a bit of social armor and remember that times have changed since you did or did not wear the olive drab. VOX POP.” The above letter contains an inter- esting, if brief, history of the city. Another letter: “Dear Sir: I also read ‘The Side- walks of Washington,' and have read both of the letters of ‘Are We Hospitable or Unfriendly>’ My dear sir, I want to tell you I was born here 52 years ago. I am also a saleswoman. I also have to go through the city and meet people. I want to tell you that Washington is the most unfriendly eity I have ever been in. This is my home. These are my people (so to speak), but they do not care what bacomes of th= neighbor if cne says to another, ‘I have lost my work.” They look at you with such a face as much as if they had spoken, ‘What's that to me?' or if you tell of a :‘1:2{ person it is ‘You go. I haven't . “Yes, my dear sir, Washington is the most unfriendly, most inhospitable city in the Union. From one who was born here 52 years ago iast August.” Here is another one: “Dear Sir: I, too, read the article in your “Sidewalks of Washington.” Also the comment made by another person about the people of Washington being, to say the least, un- friendly., In my many years' residence “Dear Mr. Fisher: Somebody seems to be perplexed as to whether Washng- | tonians are friendly or inhospitable to| the stranger within the gates. And| when I contemplate the situation I do | not think we are either, as a genenli rule. “To get a good view of the old tow and its life one has to go back at leasi | 25 years—then we had about 200,000 population. Now we have a population of about 600,000 and things are a lot different since mother was younger. We have the hurry in many places that we did not have then. “You have only to go back 20 years to our citizens’ associations, when The Star reporter was an institution. Then he wrote a column. Now in the rush and demand on space a part of our old Washington life passes. “The real change in our life set in with the war. In those days folks came from all over creation and even L'Enfant sitting up by the pearly gates must have wondered how we were going to take care of them. Then it was that Mr. and Mrs. Cave Dweller and the others who had arrived later were swallowed up. “You could walk Fourteenth street for five blocks from the Avenue north and not meet a soul you had seen be- fore. And in the 10 years since, the situation in this particular has not , improved much. Then came _the passing of Con- necticut avenue, its widening, with 'the | disappearance of | the trees, and the | modern Rip Van i Winkle, as he comes back, has to 1E RIP VAN WINKLE .n Washington I have found them to be the opposite. And have had many nice ‘visits’ on a strest car or perhaps in some park. Found both old snd voung courteous and with an answering amile. Always return after a little out- ing thinking and saying ‘How many | nive, friendly pcople I have met today.” “Sincerely yours, “MRS. L. G.” We believe that Mrs. L. G. has a smile for every one she meets. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Bran with Cream. Pried Sausages. Brown Bread. Coffee. DINNER. Consomme Julienne. Roast Pork, Cranberry Sauce. Brown, Gravy. Celery. Mashed Potatoes. Cauliflower au Gratin. Lemon Sponge Pie. Coffee. SUPPER. - Welsh Rarebit. ‘Toasted Crackers. Preserved Peaches. Lady Baltimore Cake. Tea. BROWN BREAD. One cupful rye meal, ope cup- ful Indian meal, one cup! white flour; one-half cupful mo~ lasses, one tablespoonful shorten- ing, little salt, two cupfuls warm water, one-half teaspoonful soda. wonder what it is all about. | “But, then, you | must remember that in the old| days The Star had 20,000 circulation, | and today has over ! 105,000. That is] the index. No more will we hear the ! late lamented Henry B. F. Macfarland ! Steam 3 hours. CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN. Soak two small caulifiowers 1 hour in salt and water; drain well and cut off stems quite close; put them head downward into pan boiling water, add one teaspoonful salt and one-haif tea~ spoonful sugar to each quart water. Boll until tender, drain i Certainly there was no fresh odor to!fuls of bread crumbs, one tablespoonful | tell us of the ‘City Beautiful.' Instead, and place in baking dish, the Across. Deljvers up. . Hurried. . Shot from ambush. 25. Maid loved by Zeus. Wife of Geraint. . 1100 (Roman). . Canadian province (ab.). . Prefix: ‘again. . Cheer. . Instrument clouds. Roman_date. Printer’s measure. Openings. used in observing Great fair. Note of the scale. French King. Increases. System of eating. . Thos> in office. . Engineering degres (ab.). . Kind of metonymy. . Verbal. . Gre=t lake. . Is ill. . Gave payment. . Unit of force. . Shelter. . Japanese girdle ornament. . Pastries. . Unit. . Chart. . Township (ab.). . International language. 14 ‘show that any one had been there re- HE_FIRST MADE QUITE CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS NO ONE IN THAT HOLLOW TREE. acorns, he decided that the journey had bzen worth while. “Now,” said he, talking to himsel‘f. for he had no one else to talk to, “I must find a place to live. At least, I must find a comfortable bed. I think 1 shall stay here. This looks to me like a very good land. I imagine there are some very nice people living hereabouts. I hope I shall find as nice neighbors as I left back in the Green Forest by Farmer’s Brown's. Having eaten all the nuts he could hold, Rusty set aboui exploring in quest of a home. After a long search, he found a tree that was hollow and had a nice entrance fairly high from the ground. He first made quite cer- tain that there was no ane in that hollow tree. Then he ventured in. There was a bed or dry leaves. It wasn't much of a bed, but it d Rusty curled up on it. He didn’t intend “I like to stay with Aunt Het becaus® |to remain long, because he first wanted she aint educated an’ don't know it|io make sure that that didn’t belong ain’t sanitary to sleep in your under- [to anybody else. clothes if it's cold.” full and a full stomach makes one Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. (Copyright, 1923.) sleepy. Hardly had Rusty curled up But his stomach was | | cently. | “Probably it is just some one who has happcned to climb this tree,” thought Rusty. “If it is any one who {doesn’t own this nest, I've got just as }much right to it as he has. I think I'll keep quiet. Perhaps I won't be dis- covered at all.” So Rusty remained perfectly still. But you may be sure that his ears were pricked up all the time. And you may be sure that he kept his eyes fast on the little round opening by which he yhad entered. So he lay there for some time and nothing happened, excepting that now and again he heard the sound of claws on the outside of the tree. Chicken Scrapple. To one solid cupful of cold roast or stewed chicken, picked from the bones, add one C“f.‘“' of rich stock made by simmering the carcass in water. Season highly with salt, celery salt, white pep- bed. | per and a few drops of ‘onion juice, and thicken with four tablespoonfuls of white cornmeal, adding left-over gravv or bits of dressing, as you wish. Cool in a greased square dish, eut in thic 1 8lices, dust with flour and brown in a little savory fat. of grated onfon, one egg or one un< beaten egg yolk, and one and one-half tablespoonfuls of finely minced green p;rpcr. i liked. Mix thoroughly. If only the yolk of the egg is used at first, slightly beat the egg white and add that at last. The addition of a little melted fat is an improvement. Form gxt:) ;n!lls. roll in flour and fry in deep, ot fat. My Neighbor Says: Butter used in making cake may be creamed quickly and eas- ily with a wooden potato masher. A colored woolen stocking cap may be dried in the Winter with- out fear of the colors running if it is pulled over a two-quart glass jar and placed on the register. When putting little girls’ bloomer dresses away in the closet, pin a piece of white tape at either end of the padded ger on which the dress is hung, and to this tape pin the bloomers. If a drop or two of ammonia is placed on a clean cloth and the cloth rubbed over eyeglasses they will shine, woman of 25 gets snappy when she misse! with the improvements planned for AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. a | ! | : | ' “Amy cla’'ms to b2 only 25, but no her tea." flower uppermost. Place one heaping tablespoonful butter in scucepan and blend with it one heaping tablespoonful flour and one-half cupful water, one-half | cupful milk, season with salt, pep- per and red ‘pepper and few drops lemon juice, boil 3 min- utes, add one-half tablespoonful grated ; pour this over caulifiower and sprinkle over top one and one-half teaspoonfuls grated cheese. Put in hot oven and brown slightly. LADY BALTIMORE CAKE. ‘Three-quarters cupful sugar, one-fourth cupful butter; one- half cupful milk, one-half tea- spoonful vanilla, one and three- fourths cupfuls flour, whites three eg beaten, two_ teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in two layers and fill with following fill- ing and frost with vanilla icing: ‘Three-fourths cupful sugar, one- fourth cupful water. Boil till it spins a thread, then add to white two_eggs beaten stiff. one-fourth cupful chopped walnut meats, three-fourths cupful dates and one-fourth cupful raisins.