Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 22

'WOMAN’S PAGE. THE 4 EVENING FEATURES. Fine Points in Buying Furniture BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. | | i p | pr Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. May 4, 1864.—The 56th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, reached _this | city tonight from the front, having been | mustered out of the service in pursu- | jance of an enactment by which the Government allows the time they were | in the State serviee to go to their credit on the three months’ term. Under this | plan the time when the different com- | | panies of each regiment were mustered Into service is averaged and the regi- | ment is mustered out from the date of | the average. ! The 56th Pennsylvania Regiment was one of the earliest Reserve regiments to | be raised. It comprises 15 companies. | The employment of steam as a motive power in the Navy has produced a vast and sudden change in the means of | | engaging in action on the seas, caus- | ing an entire revolution in naval war- fare and rendering necessary the im- naval tactic | This nece: y seems to have been supplied by Comdr. Foxhall of the| United States Navy, after much labor. | His work, which has recently come mll[ of the hands of the publishers, and has ! already been adopted by the Navy De- | partment a5 a textbook for the Naval | Academy, was used a few days ago for | the first time by Lieut. Comdr. East-, man in maneuvering a half squadron | of vessels of the Potomac flotilla. It| gave the utmost satisfaction. The ves- deployed from column into line and layed from line into column with the ecision of companies of a veteran regiment forming in line of battle. ‘There was a rumor afloat in the ci tion of them, attached to Gen. side’s command, had been attacked by Confederate guerrillas while doing guard duty on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad and that some of them were killed or wounded. i After due inquiry it was discovered | | Historic Cruelties Nero, Roman Emperor, Who He Might Ma BY J. P. Tidings of the suicide of Nero (37-68 | D.), the last of the Caesars, caused Rome to overflow with joy. It mattered mediate adoption of new measures in ot that he had acted to forestail a not suspect the plot, sending him a | terrible for his many | crimes. They were so numerous and so hor- rible as to thwart imagination, but | none surpassed that which grew out of | his infatuation for Poppaea, wife of his friend Otho, whom he could not marry. since_his mother, Agrippina, would not permit him to divorce his own wife, Oc- tavia. Poppaea, beautiful and beguiling. but | utterly without principle, aspired to be | Empress. Insidiously she brought Nero | to the point where he was willing to ! murder his own mother. How to get rid of Agrippina was the | quesion. To_ poison her would be diffi- | cult, since she had fortified herself by | the habit of using antidotes. Assassina- tion by the poinard would be impossible to conceal. | Anicetus, childhood tutor of Nero, | now commander of the fleet and a mas- ter of iniquity, who had long hated Agrippina, provided a clever idea. He punishment of Great Rulers Had His Mother Slain That rry Poppaca. GLASS. aged to keep afloat until her own ad- herents rescued her. She pretended to Nero that she did message that, by the favor of the gods, she had escaped shipwreck. But the guilty Emperor and his advisers could not believe in her credulity. They feared she would start an insurrection. The villainous Anicetus again sprang to the fore. Cleverly he announced to the public that Agrippina’s messenger | was an assassin sent to slay Nero. “Death to the murderess!” he cried. “Let me hasten to her punishment.” At her villa on her Lucrine Lake | Agrippina awaited the return of her messenger. Suddenly Anicetus, with | Herculeus, commander of a galley, and Oloaritus, a marine centurion, burst into the chamber where she reclined | upon her bed. Agrippina_arose. She well knew her impending fate, but she stified her agi- tation. “If you come from the prince.” she said, “tell him I am well. If your in- tents are murderous, you are not sent by my son. The guilt of parricide is foreign to his heart | more experience you have with people | other words, | prejudices out of their s Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Open-Mindedness. About the most damning thing you can say about another is to impute to him'a lack of open-mindedness. Since this derogatory remark is so often usedg in these days of social clash and fac- tional disputes, it may be worth while to consider how to go about creating an open mind. In the first place, it would seem that the acquisition of an open mind is a matter of time. Narrow-minded or close-minded people are those who are young—young in the sense of lack- ing ‘experience. In other words, the and their perplexities the more you realize that finalities are very evasive things. What is a finality in one sit- uation is far from being a finaltly in another. Life may be an educator; it may also be a miseducator. Some people have to live out the bigger parts of their lives in order to live down the bigger part of their miseducation. In they have to get their stems. Gelting experience is a slow method. And by itselt it does not guarantee re- sults. ~ In fact, some people are mot open-minded simply because they are adults with experience of the wrong type. Some shorter method, if possible, is needed to help experience make the best of its opportunities. There is such a thing as trying to put urself in the other fellow's place henever you discover his lack of open- mindedness in some particular situa- tion. In so doing you make some strides 1nto the field of introspection. Nothing can take the place of obser- vation plus introspection. In other words, size up your narrow-minded neighbor a thinking subject as well as a behaving object. After practicing on your neighbor a while, turn this double-barreled search- light on yourself. You may discover that this- rumor was unfounded. It |proposed to build a ship which, in the was learned, however, that yesterday open sea, would fall apart and sink. morning, while a detachment of col- | drowning her. Only the elements would Her gesture was futile, she saw, as Oloaritus drew his sword. She pre- sented her person to receive it. At the that your neighbor's lack of open- mindedness is only your own. | same moment Herculeus felled her with WHICH IS WORTH BUYING. ‘When buying furniture or anything that should be expected to last many years it is unwise to buy for tempo- rary use and expect to get something better to take its place as soon as it/ can be afforded. The temporary article is too apt to become the permanent, never satisfac- | tory and always suggesting to the mind of ‘the homemaker the wish for its change. Every homemaker knows this sensation and it is not an agreeable one. ‘The wise thing is to wzit until the | right thing can be purchased. Then | get something that will always be a| pleasure to own, that will be a joy to, look at, because it not only fulfills its right_function, but it is fine in work- manship and material and beautiful in | cate inlay of genuine contrasting wood. | earlier in the season. line and color. It takes time to make | selections of such articles. _ Part of the pleasure in studying | the pieces that are in the stores, in ac- | quiring the knowledge of just what| make inquiries graciously and intelli- | membered to do two things. Perma- value is, and why there is a difference | in the price of two articles apparenuy' alike. There may be fundamental dif- ferences, such as genuine hair being | used for the stuffiing of overstuffed | that personal attention is given by the | fumiture instead of floss or a mixture | firm {o collecting fine piecos. Expenses | two things the hair dresser told her | of materials which supply a similar | softness for a time, but which, after| theirtemporary excellence has worn | off, are anything but satisfactory. | Then, too, if hair is used, it may b»‘ curly long hair or it may be short hair. | Each is “genuine,” but the former keeps | its springiness and comfertable quality | and can be used continually when the | furniture, mattress, etc, have to be' BEAUTY CHATS ‘Women and Lunch Parties. | T always want to scold when I go t0 | eat toast instead of bread and whether | lunch parties (especially the all-women | type where conversation is intimaie and not kept up to any general intelligent level) when some woman says: “My dear, fancy you being able to cat souffie and stay so slim! How do you do it?” The lady then, after a motion of resist- ing, changes her mind and takes a quite generous helping of the souffie. Or, ‘having nobly passed this course by, she | reaches toward the little silver bowls | of sweetmeats and nibbles chocolates and mints and nuts while getting down to the real intellectual feast of the y—methods of staying thin and | w impossible all of them are. | | A fine store will explain if you ask. done over. Short hair mats down, loses its_comfortable quality and is practi- cally worthless when the time for doing over articles comes. 1 have used hair as an example which is quickly explained and understood. There are all sorts of other differences, according to the type of article being purchased. For example, finely inlaid furniture is costly. Even an exceed- ingly fine line of inlay scarcely more than a hairline brings up the cost legiti- mately. There are replicas of this nar- | row lining that can be made by finishes of furniture. A mahogany finish can have the line given a light wood, such as a satin wood, finish. The wood is all the same, no time is required to cut away the wood and fit in the deli- | So learn the reasons for valuations. | A store, carrying a cheaper reputable also explain_provided you line, will gently. Also find out whether th> standing of the store is the reason for putting on a fancy price. This some- times happens. The reason may be then may be great. Often it will found that the finest stores ask no more than others for the same quality of article. If necessity makes a temporary buy- ing of an article absolutely essential, put as little money as you can into the piece. This tends toward quick re- placement. (Copyright, 1929.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES hour and a quarter at a lunch table discussing weights, figures, whether to it wasn't betier to be plump and con- ceal it with the new style of clothes, which allow curves, and which method movie or stage star was employ- ing to keep her weight down! And there were such millions of things to talk about! If you are like my luncheon compan- ions “(only you're not!), diet and say nothing about it. vied ones whose figure stays eternally slender and graceful, only don't tell how you do it! Pretend it's a divine gift, if you like. Meantime, don't nibble fat- tening dainties, and take helpings only | a third or half the size of those on the Be one of those en- | ored troops was changing position, the be blamed. men were attacked by a small party of | pounced upon them, but were driven off. | Confederate guerrillas are at work 1 | | the neighborhood of Manassas and y !terday a wood train was attacked, the al kers were frightened off before i they did any damage. Persons arriving from the front to- | day report heavy firing early this morn- | ing on the Union left. NANCY PAGE Permanent Waves Need Perpetual Care. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy has had a permanent wave | She hated to give the time required for setting after each shampoo. She talked with the hair dresser, who said that Nancy could | work out her own method if she re- nently waved hair is apt to get dry and | frizzy unless it is given some ofl treat- {ments and unless brilliantine is lightly | brushed over it almost daily. When Nancy promised to do those | | | | | | i | | | i i i | | | i : | » }' to shampoo her hair when necessary | or else just wet it thoroughly. As it, dried she was to push her hands up through it, giving it a brushing with warm water occasionally as she pushed it up. She might dry it over a steamy tub or in a steamy room, since that brought out the curl. The effect after this treatment would be that of a wind- | blown bob. It would not lie in regular | waves. At night time Nancy put a loosely meshed cap over the bob, holding it in | place. This kept that effect of care- | | | | kilts and yellow curls. Nero himself Jured Agrippina aboard | | Confederate guerrillas, who suddenly | the ship, but when it foundered she |thrust followed. BEAUTY OF LINE AND FINE WORKMANSHIP DISTINGUISH FURNITURE | bravely lcaped into the sea and man- | The Sidewalks BY THORNTON FISHER. Newspapers yeterday printed the story of the passing of Tom Dorgan, known | to the public as “Tad.” Though only | 52 years old, Tad was one of the old- school comic artists who not only kept | abreast of the modern procession, but frequently led it. Certainly he was a peerless leader in the devising of slang and wise-cracks. | Tad’s genius in portraying the foibles and nonsens> of the man in the street !and exposing fallacies and bunk will (o m: long remain a worthy target for aspir- | ing young cartoonists to aim at. | Many of his portraits were of the gutter type, & type singularly free from | puse and applesauce. This may explain why the artist's pictures struck a true note almost invariably. Tad was reared with “gas-house district” kids, where ragged sweaters and caps were far miore valuable as utilities than lace collars, | By throwing a rock at a dude they considered that they were contributing to the cause of de-bunking the public. It was our privilege to know Tad for 20 years. For nine years he was prac- tically a recluse in his Long Island | home, where he wa *>d the summons to | quit. The failure o1 his “bum ticker.” as Tad called his afflicted heart, was the | cause of his death. Tad’s mission in | lifo—though he would have denied the “mission” allegation—was to entertain the public. And he entertained them | when _he himself was facing the last bell. He sang when his heart must have | rebelled. | Probably no man was batter known on | the Main Stem than Dorgan. He was | once offered a job in vaudeville, but re- | fused to consider it. Whether s e | work did not appeal to him cr he was reluctant to display a crippled right hand is a question. Tad was an invol- untary southpaw. An accident when a | youngster deprived him of part of his | right hand and he learned to draw with | his left. | He, seldom left his home save for | short automobile rides. Physicians had warned him against excitement. Oc- | caslonally he would listen over his radio to the broadcasting of a sporting event, but this was turned off when he be- | came too enthusiastic. Before he was confined to his home Tad staged a base ball game -between nine_cartoonists and nine writers, all I went to a party like that today. | other plates. Diet is eating small | Generally I can avoid them and plead amounts of everything or larger that my days are full from 9 uniil 6 at |amounts of certain carefully selected least. Today eight women spent one !non-fattening foor | Greater Sleeve Oinamentation ! BY MARY MARSHALL. ‘Whether women will accept elab- | dresses of the fussier sort that some orately trimmed sleeves as part of the | women consider more feminine than the general mode is doubtful. but there is | simpler sports type of thing. And when no denying the fact that sleeves are | sleeve trimming appears it is almost more often trimmed in some way this | always between elbow and wrist. Trim- scason than last and that the tendency | ming of this sort is becoming to wrist is in the direction of greater orna- | and hand. For some reason or other | mentation. Some women, of course, | hands that appear below rather ornate | settle the question, or, at least, evade | cuffs usually look more interesting ana | large hands appear smaller because of this elaboration, Among the newest models T have seen there are several with sleeves close to | | the elbow with a flare of material be- | {low. A lovely wedding dress of white | | net has flaring flounces on the skirt | | and the same idea is repeated in flares | of the material from the elbow falling | away from the arm to below the wrist. | Two new figured chiffon frocks of the | garden-party sort have circular ruffies | from the elbows that split at the front | so that when the arm is bent they | | appear to be pendent drapery from I the elbows. 4 At the request of a number of read- 1 ers we have prepared a diagram pattern of a little girl's French drawers—of the | sort that are almost universally worn | now by little girls for warm weather. | | 1f you would like a copy of this cir- | | cular with a sketch of the finished gar- | | ment T will gladly send it to you on | receipt of your stamped, self-addressed | envelope. Brown Sugar Cookies. | Mix four cupfuls of dark brown su- | gar with one cupful of melted butter | or other shortening, four well beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of salt if lard is | used, seven cupfuls of flour, three { teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Make into a ! loaf and place on ice over night. Next morning slice thin and bake in a hot | oven. | My Neighbor Says: To clean reed furniture, take it out of doors when the sun is warm. turn the garden hose on it and let it dry thoroughly be- fore taking it into the house. This will remove all dust. Bath salts may be scented by adding a few drops of oil of lavender, sassafras, rosemary, orris root powder, extract of jasmine or essence of musk. Any of these are good and are easily obtainable at any well stocked drug store. To remove paint from cotton clothing soak the spot in a solu- tion made of equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. When the spot disappears wash the garment in soap suds. When making uncooked frost- ings with powdered sugar add a little more than the recipe calls for. Sugar is likely if left un- covered to absorb moisture, SLEEVE OF CREPE DE CHINE | TRIMMED WITH CIRCULAR RUF- FLE. SLEEVE FROM BLUE CLOTH FROCK TRIMMED WITH SILK PLEATING. GATHERED RUFFLE ON PRINTED CHIFFON SLEEVE.| CUFF EFFECT OF BEIGE FROCK.! TWO LITTLE DOWNWARD-TURN- | ING CUFFS. BOW OF SILK TRIMS | CUFF ON A TERSEY SPORT FROCK. | SLEEVE HAS CUFF TRIMMING OF PLEATED LACE. CREPE DE CHINE SLEEVE SLIT AT SIDE. it, for the Summer by adopting the fashion for dresses with no sleeves for indoor and country wear. The little jackets that are the invariablé accom- paniment of the sleeveless frock cling to the traditional straight lines. Long 1 when they appear in dinner are also quite plain, though many of them of sheer material are made snug. Tt i< the long-sleeved daytime dresses, of the sports sorf. that show the ndency to elaboration - the afterncon n o to fully careless hair. of whom were well known to the read- The hair dresser spoke to her about ing public. Crowds attended to see their favorites in action. It turned out to be one of the fun- nlest games on_record, although we do | not think that Tad wrote any of the | lines or devised the “business” for the performance. One of the players was Jim Corbett, and| we don't know| whether Jim rated as a cartoonist or a | writer balls, hits, runs and errors were | soon lost in the Al melee. One writer alone took six | strikes before he was called out. A Y cartoonist came up | and knocked the ball between sec- | 74 ond base and shortstop. Reach- | ing first base, he decided to elimi- | nate second from his itinerary and scampered past the pitcher to third. | Ancther player rapped the ball and| reversed the order of the game by rac- ing to third instead of first. It was just one of those “nut” affairs and no one enjoyed the novelty more than Tad, who captained his team. ONE WRITER TGOK. SIX STRIKES- (STRIKE. X leman and vinegar rinses. She said they were good for hair which was fine and inclined to snarl. They gave a luster to the hair also. She told about a patron of the shop | who had dry scalp and falling hair. She had mixed up 2 ounces white vase- | line, 1 ounce olive ofl, 4 ounces benzo- | ated lard, 2 drams oil of bergamot and | 20 drops oil of lavender: The lard and | vaseline were melted, the olive oil added | and the other ingredients added when | almost cold. This scalp food was gently | massaged in, and her patron already saw improvement. Veal Croquettes. Mince some cold roast or boiled | veal. Add one-fourth as much of minced oysters scalded in their own | liquor. Season with a dusting of red pepper, salt, a flavor of onion and a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Stir this into half a pint of drawn butter made thick with flour. Mold the croquettes, roll them in egg, then in cracker | crumbs salted and peppered, and put them where they will be coid. When chilled, put them in a frying basket {Em hot fat. Two minutes will brown em. Long, Long Day in School. Bankers are presumably honest. Em- ployes in a bank presumably work. Banks generally have a five-hour day. I am for a five-hour day. I think five | hours is plenty for any one to work for anybody in one day. Schoul teachers, doctors engaged In the practice of a specialty, dentists, politicians holding salaried jobs, employes of the munici- pal public works, and numerous other classes, must agree more or less that five hours' work is a day At any| rate, they gencrally call it a day. ¥ I've heard all of these hon- est, s and others orating about | the onerous and tedious duti have to fulfill after office hou then, it is only human that we s wish to make a noise like an honest laborer when we know very well we are trying to get by with the least possible amount, of work. Recently a number of readers have written me from the same town asking about the seven-hour day the school authorities are trying out. I know nothing about such a day. This is 1929, and even in that nearest approach to slavery in our era, the retail grocery trade, I doubt if an ordinary person can stand such a day very long without sacrificing health. School children who are kept at it for seven hours a day are in grave danger, and parents who submit to any such an ignoble experiment betray & singular callousness toward the welfare of their children. If any school a&u- thority or superintendent countenance such an innovation he must be quite hopeless indeed.* All real educational authorities are striving to shorten th- school day in the interest not. only of better health, but of better education, JABBY | | “After looking over them kitlens T sse why the fellows are all kiddin' Tom about bein’ a cat’s-paw.” (Copasisht, 10290 | | | ‘ Strikes, [ PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. | individual’s capacity to give attetion | some hours longer. a blow from a club. The fatal sword | (Copright, 1920 of Washington Somehow we mnever thought of Tad| without thinking of O. Henry. Both| enjoyed the same environment; both | depicted a side of life peculiar to a vast horde; both were human in their ! contacts and interpreted a phase of existence common to millions. A Here is one on the local Police De- partment. Some time ago we wanted ake a picture of a Washington cop- per. Accuracy demanded that we draw the correct number of coat buttons. A police official was called on the tele- phone. “How many buttons has a pol ce private on his blouse>” we asked. : Why," replied the official, “he has— | has—wait a minute—four, I think—or maybe its five—no, its—just a min- ute—-" | He spoke to one of his aids. “Say.' how many buttons do the boys wear on their blouses?” The answer apparently | wasn't satisfactory, for he said to us “Hold the line a minute 'til I find out. Finally, he told us the correct num ber. How many buttons has a police- man? We forget. | A Policemen and detectives are sup- posed to develop camerw eyes, at least in the books. That they do is evi- denced by the number of criminals they pick up daily. Most folks are careless observers, and not until they are asked specifically about a certain object with which they should be familiar do_they prove the truth of the statement. What is the general shape of a mail box? | Sketch roughly a traffic light device. | 1t should be comparatively easy to do | this. The majority would flunk in. the | est. ® o e It has been said that women are more keenly ob- serving_than men. SHE SAwW HER FUR | Last Winter a conT= ~ |Washington woman discov- L] ered that her fur coat had been stolen. ~ Save for color, most fur coats look alike to | m e r e man. The lady happened to be walking along one of cur thor- oughfares when she passed a wom- an wearing a fur! coat. - It was the| stolen onme. The victim of the theft called an officer, | the coat was restored, and what be- came of the unfortunate wearer is not recorded. | | | Leéssons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused—Do not say, “I seen her yesterday.” Say, “I sawh” Often mispronounced—Tepid; e as in “let,” not as in “me.” Often misspelled—Marvelous; pelled cll. Synonyms—Selfish, greedy, avai grasping, gluttonous, voracious, tiable. Word study also ious, insa- Use a word three times and it is your: Let us increase our | vocabulary by mastering one word each | day. Today's word—Expedient (noun); | suitable means for an end. “Why T sort to such a perilous expedient?” It is possible that a man or woman of university age may stand a seven- hour school day two or three days in | the week. It is beyond belief that a boy or girl of grammar school or high chool can stand any such long hours | of restraint or attention. When the is exhausted there is nothing gained | by further restraint or pretense of | study. | I believe T am a fair average case. | I know my capacity to give attention has never been anything remar! cut of the ordinary, and it been more than four or five day, though under rest Ay, course, make a pretense of working I don't care a hoot what anybody thinks about it, I feel I have done a very good day's work when I have kept plugging steadily and honestly for four hours, and an_e: ceptionally fine day's work if I have kept at it five hours. When I say “work” of course I mean it humorously. I don’t mean honest muscular exertion. I mean using one’s wits to get a living without honest work. Probably the average schoolboy or schoolgirl of 10 to 15 years has an at- tention capacity of three hours or less. Few high school pupils can maintain attention for four hours, five days a week. What possible benefit can ac- crue from holding such children under restraint two, three or four hours & day after attention capacity is ex- hausted? I should say that the school system where a seven-hour day is even tenta- tively on trial is very poorly advised in the important matter of hygiene or health. (Copyright, 1929.) In other words, a person has to take a clinical picture of his own mental make-up. And he must make frequent check-ups to prevent the ingrowth and overgrowth of hasty judgments. If you can avoid hasty judgments, you will cultivate an open mind. (Copyright, 19 WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. | | ) | | Tast been worn by her mother, and they | | When the “shake and roll trolley” | plied between Riverdale and Fifteenth | and H streets northeast, via the Balti- more pike, and was never on time. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Maybe modern girls is healthier, but ii a girl had a figure in my time it looked like the figure 8—not the fig- ure 1.” (Copyright, 1929.) DAILY DIET RECIPE Cauliflower Hungarian, One cooked cauliflower, dium size, Two tablespoons butter. One tablespoon minced onion. One-half cup crumbs. Serves 4 or 5 Portions. Break caulifiower into flower- eltes and steam or cook it in very little water so that it will be absorbed at end of cooking period. Be sure it is well drained. Put it in round shallow vegetable dish. Put butter in frying pan, add onion and bread crumbs. Cook quickly, stirring all the while until materials are browned. Spread this over caulifiower and serve hot. | me- Diet Note. Recipe furnishes lime, iron, vitamin A and B, as well as bulk. Can be eaten by normal adulls of average or under weight, and by those wishing to reduce if butter and bread were omitted at meal where recipe appeared. | SONNYSAYING BY FANNY Y. CORY. | t They done well when they named | them pants “shorts.” ' (Gopyright. 1929. | medivm | er |in_using the tweezers. | tie lotion. PARIS.—No Summer wardrobe can hope to get very far without a printed chiffon dinner dress. Philippe et Gaston’s model with straight lines of beading on the corsage appeals to me for its unpretentious simplicity, plus beauty. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES The Little RITA. Match Girl. BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. (Hans Christian Anderson, 1805-1875, was a Danish novelist and story writer. especially | famous for his fairy tales, which delight | old and young alike.) It was late on a bitterly cold, snowy New Year Eve. A poor little girl was wandering in the dark, cold streets. She was bareheaded and barefooted. She certainly had had slippers on when | h he left home, but they were not rnucd good, for they wete so large. They ha fell off the poor little girl’s feet when she was running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling rapidly by. One of the shoes could not be found at all, and the other was picked up by a boy, who ran off with it, say- ing that it would do for a cradle when he had children of his own. So the poor little girl had to go on with her little bare feet, which were red and blue with the cold. She carried a quantity of matches in her old apron and held a packet of them in her hand. Nobody had bought anything of her during all the long day; nobody had even given her al copper. The poor little creature was hungry and perishing with cold, and she looked the nicture of misery. The snowflakes fell upon her long yellow hair, which curled so prettily around her face, but she paid no atten- tion to that. Lights were shining from delicious odor of roast goose e streets, for it was New Year Eve—she could not forget that. She found a corner where one house projected a little beyond the next one, and here she crouched, drawing up her feet under her, but she was colder than ever. She did not dare go home, for she had not sold any matches and had not a single penny. Her father would beat Besides, it was almost as cold at home as it was here. They only had the roof over them, and the wind whistled through it, although they stuffed up the biggest cracks with rags and straw. Her little hands were almost dead with cold. Oh, one little match would do some good! Dared she pull one out of the bundle and strike it on the wall to warm_her fingers? ' She pulled one out—"rish,” how it spluttered, how it blazed! bigger and more beautifully decorated than the one she had seen when she peeped through the glass doors at the merchant’s house this very last | Christmas. Thousands of lighted can- dles gleamed upon its branches, and colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop windows, looked down at her. The little girl stretched out both | her hands toward them—then out went the match. All the Christmas candles rose higher and higher till she saw that they were only the twinkling stars. One of them fell and made a bright streak of light across the sky. “Some one is dying,” thought the little match girl, for her old grandmother, the only person who | had ever been kind to her, used to say, “When a star falls a soul is going up to Heaven."” | _Now she struck another match against [the wall, and this time it was her | grandmother who appeared in the circle of flame. She saw her quite clearly E“d distinctly, looking so gentle and | hap) | rieh Dy. randmother!” cried the poor little thing. “Oh, do take me with you. I know you will vanish when the match goes out. You will vanish like the warm |stove, the delicious goose and the beauti- ful Christmas tree!” She hastily struck a whole bundle of matches, because she did so long to keep her grandmother with her. The |light of the matches made it as bright {as day. Grandmother had never looked |so big or so beautiful. She lifted the {little girl up in her arms and they | soared in a halo of light and joy, far. | far, above the earth, where there was no more cold, no hunger, no pain—for they were with God. In the cold morning light the poor little girl sat there in the corner be- tween the houses, with rosy cheeks and a smile on her face—dead. Frozen to death on the last night of the old yea New Year day broke on the little bod: still sitting with the ends of the burned- out matches in her hand. She must have tried to warm herself. people said. Nobody knew what beautiful visions she had seen, nor in what a halo she had entered with her grandmother upon the glories of the New Year! The match burned with a bright, | clear flame, just like a little candle, | when she held her hand around it. was a very curious candle, too. The littie girl fancied that she was sittint in front of a big stove with polished brass feet and handles. There was a splendid fire blazing in it and warming her so beautifully, but ‘What hap- pened? Just as she was stretching out her feet to warm them the blaze went out, the stove vanished, and she was left sitting with the end of the burned- | cut mateh in her hand. She struck & new match, and it burned, blazed up. and where the light fell on’ the wall it became transparent like gauze, and she could see right through it into the room. The table was spread with a snowy cloth and pretty china. A roast goose, stuffed with apples and prunes, was Steaming on it. And, what was even better, the goose hopped from the dish with the ving knife and fork sticking in his and it waddled acr the floor. 1t came right up to the poor child, and then—the match went out. and there was nothing to be seen but the thick, black wall. | She lighted still another match. This time she seemed to be sitting under a lovely Christmas tree. It was much It | | A list of words appears below. There is a space after each word. Further down is a group of 12 words, each simi-, | lar in meaning to one of the words' above. - |~ Write the correct word after each | word in the list. Allow 4 minutes, (1) Narghile (2) Girasol (3) Shako (4) Sofa (5) Student (6) Carafe (T) Carrousel (8) Anchorite (9) Marionette (10) Aria (11) Gramaphone Second list—Puppet, scholar, decanter, melody, busby, hooka, phonograph, couch, hermit, fire-opal, merry-go= round. . These meanings do not have to be identical, but they must have a close similarity. Answers. (2) fire-opal, (3) busby, (4) couch, (5) scholar, (6) decanter, | (1) merry-go-round, (8) hermit (9) ! puppet, (10) melody, (11) phonograph. (1) Hooka MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Fashions in Eyebrows. A recent fashion note states that the new vogue for hats that show milady’s forehead will stimulate interest in beau- tifying eyebrows. When hats came down over the eyes nothing could be seen of the eyebrows. Most eyebrows may be improvetl by the removal of the few straggling hairs that are usually found growing down on the upper eyelid. The very thin, arti- | ficial-looking eyebrow is not modish and the tiny d must is very hard to keep neat, hairs grow in very quickly be tweezed out every few days. A happy between this and the thick, unruly eyebrow may be obtained by ex- sing ‘moderation and artistic taste Before the plucking is done, a little cold cream may be rubbed into the roots or a warm-water compress may be applied. The hairs should be re- moved one at a time with a quick jerk. | They should be grasped by the tweezers | close to the root. Be careful, however, not to pinch the skin nor to take hold of more than one hair at the time. Do not work too long on one part of the eyebrow, but remove a few hairs from the left and then go to the right eye- brow for a while. Some girls think that plucking these hairs affects one’s eye- sight, but there is no foundation for/ such a bellef. Of course, if one's eyes | are inflamed or sore, the slight pain| due to the pulling out of evebrow hairs may cause further irritation in that region. After the plucking apply an antisep- The hairs should, of course, ba frea from dirt, powder or paint before | the operation is bagun. To be beautiful evebrows should not only be nicel shaped, but ghey must be glossy ane | sufficiently dark to give an accent. hen the hair is light, the eyebrows should be about two shades darker. The nightly application of an oily substance like vaseline or olive oil will gradually tend to darken the hairs to a certain extent, but when they are extremely light some sort of eyebrow coloring may be used. Strong black tea may be used for the purpose. Mascara is sold for darkening eyebrows and eyelashes. The eyebrows should be brushed daily with a small eyebrow brush, in order to stimulate their growth and keep them well groomed and clean. The mascara must be removed at bedtime. Particles of dried soap or face powder should not be ailowed to collect on the hairs. Dull, dark eyebrows may be made glossy by brushing with bril- liantine after the make-up has been ap- plied to the face. Thick, bristling eye- brows may be thinned out and then moothed down with liquid vaseline,