Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1929, Page 7

WOMA N’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929.° Providing Summer Rest for Home BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. WINDOWS THAT HAVE THE GLASS CURTAINS AND THE WINTRY HANG- INGS TAKEN DOWN ARE GIVEN A SUMMERY APPEARANCE BY CHINTZ OR CRETONNE HANGI! It almost seems as if houses them- selves got tired with the strain of hot westher and routine activities. They acquire a sort of jaded look like a dress from which the first newness has been taken. When the wardrobe suffers in such manner a remedy can be found, and | or apart- | the same is true with hous ments. With a gown a ni collar, a touch of cleaning fluid, a flower of just the right shade pinned on at the jauntiest angle, will do the deed. While | the houses or room to be so treated | will take more than one or two touchss, the nature of them is not so far differ- ent. Old curtains replaced by new ones may be a happy thought, but one diffi- cult of accomplishment. A look at the sofa cushions may bring the discovery that they are shockingly shabby. An accustomed eye does not detect these things without special scrutiny some- times. The cover, which once was & Jov, has so gradually sunk into a de- cline that its demise has hardly been marked. New cushion covers are one of the touches within eazy possibility. New antimacassars, or fresher ones on the cl rs, one of the new plant stands of wrought fron with a few gay BEAUTY CHATS Liquid Diet. ‘There are several reasons why you should go on a liquid diet now and then if you want to reduce your weight, or keep your weight somewhere with- in bounds. The greatest reason of all will interest you least—it will be a test, of your will power! an who has been eating all she wants of evervthing she wants and a lot more of it than she needs, three days of a liquid diet will prove a test of will power. It's little use telling you how fine you'll feel after the three days, when you realize how great is your mental and moral strength. Few women are interested in that. So I'll give the more frivolous rea- sons. Three days of a liquid diet will reduce a large waistline by many inches. For one thing. it gives the system a chance to catch up with the food it has to deal with, and eliminate what it does not require. It does away with ‘This Summer the evening wrap has come into its own. Incidentally it has appeared in a variety of interesting forms and has dcne things that no one supposed an evening wrap would think of doing. It has ended its slen- der career midway between waist and knees and sometimes it has stopped short at the hips or has extended only to the girdle or hip yoke. An_interesting development in eve- ning-wrap fashions this Summer has been the reappearance of the shawl used as a wrap over light Summer frocks. It may have had something For to a wom- | Wraps in Interesting Forms BY MARY MARSHALL, NGS. fszenmlums, an old cover replaced by another, which changes the color ac- | cent, these are a few of the minor | | changes that can be rung to give a happier effect, without extravagance or great effort. : To go ahead on the theory held by some, that things themselves actually undergo a perceptible change when put | away to “rest” for awhile, it may be | worth while to relieve the windows of | their hangings which have failed to sat- isfy. windows are cool looking | windows, and cretonne dressed ones re- | freshingly peasant in hot weather. Per- haps a bargain in great quantities of some light bright cretonne or other wash goods will tempt the homemaker to buy it and to cut it into lengths. gauged by the old curtains, and find the relief of Summery windows more than worth the trouble. Such material used in the main rooms need not be of the sort which she would consider for permanent use, but the | informality of such window treatment | s exceedingly well chosen. Of course, if a fine grade of material is selected, | the solution to an all-year-reund cur- tain problem may be solved. but that | | at the moment is not the object. | (Cepyright, 1920.) | BY EDNA KENT FORBES | flatulency, which often accounts for many of those inches around the waist. | It clears the skin. It washes out acids | from stomach and liver. It allows you to use up some of the stored-up fal | 1t shrinks the stomach, which. being | actually smaller, demands less food than | it used to. | I'd recommend a diet of orange! juice, skim milk or butter milk, or hot consomme, and weak hot tea and | coffee. And all the water you want| whenever you like and as much as you | like. But the *food"—orange juice, milk and consomme, should be taken every three hours. Coffee and tea count | as foods if they include milk and; sugar. I'd suggest orange juice at | breakfast time, and consomme at lunch | and dinner time, and milk in between | {at the three-hour intervals. | . And water besides. Two glasses of | hot gater first thing in the morning, now @nd later, as a habit. Keep to the | !liquick diet for three days. ions of old Spain as we do on this side of the Atlantic. Among the new evening wraps that | forecast fashions for Autumn_ cne | should mention those shown by Patou | that are as long as the long evening “ gowns with which they are made to be | | 50 does worn. If the dress sags at the back | the wrap. |, Among the newer evening wraps | there is a tendency to close-fitting | effect over the shouiders, and in this { characteristic at least they suggest the mode of 1880. Many of these wraps | are made of velvet fitting fairly closely [to a line midway between shoulders | and elbows and then flaring the r | of the way to the knees. ¥ . Nothing could be easier to make than the new step-in short drawers as shown in the diagram pattern for this week’s circular. If you would like a copy with directions for making, please send your gtamped, self-addressed envelope to lary Marshall, care of this paper. (Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News, Weather. Medium. i SISSIETY PAGE | Mr. Puds Simkins and Mr. Glasses | Magee have been going around with, | their hair slicked down like sheeks, but | they are expected to come back to nor- mal as soon as they have used up- their | little sampel bottles of Stickdown. | Miss Maud Jonson has posponed her berthday party till the same time next year on account of meezles among the | peeple she wunted to invite. EXTER! Big Cave In! Shorty Judges bed caved in with a ibang late last Wensday nite while he| was dreeming he was falling out of a| aireoplane. I is sald loose slats was, the cheef cause of the axsident and a' investigation is taking place, POME BY SKINNY MARTIN | throw the pacifier away today. | interested in the three s ia glass shade. How to Treet Doors Dont leeve doors open if you found them closed And dont slam them shut with a slam, Never get jam, on' the doornob, Its a terrible waist of jam. BIZNESS OPPORTUNITYS . ¢ Big auction sale Sattiday afternoon PEARANCE AS \WRAP FOR SUM- , “few Davises back yard of Sam e e Crosses famous collection of bottle tops to do with the much heralded Spanish}and corks. Everything must go irre- revival, whtlc‘h by the way uem;l to have E’:rdless of price. Ed Wernick, auc- tered out in Paris entirely. For some | tioneer, x?seuon or other French women never! For Rent. A half um-gg in 8 tad seem to be 50 keen to exploit the fash- poles. See Sid Hunt . { THE FRINGED CREPE DE CHINE SHAWL AGAIN MAKES ITS Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, A pacifier used to be a pretty com- mon object in the mouths of young babies, In fact, pacifiers, one Would think, were used as a decorative finish. Th> babv had one that matched his coat or the smnrn of ‘his honnet and was tied itself with a coquettish bow. Nowadays mothers have become self- conscious about pacifiers. They realize that they are considered an evidence of ignorance and neglect, and so if baby has a pacifier it is kept under cover and handed to him surreptitiously when no one is looking. ‘There is never the least excuse for iving a pacifier. The baby who sucks is thumb has this taksn away from him, and it is a less harmful habit, taken all in all, than a pacifier. The need for a pacifier indicates in most cases the need for food, and no mother is going to give a baby a pacifier when he is starving to death. In a letter before me the mother saye: “My baby has been fretful ever since he was born, but we didn’t know why. We took him to a doctor and he put him on a bottie and now he is better satisfied. Before we took him to a doctor we bought a pacifier to keep him quiet. Now, since he has the bottle he will lie sometimes without crying. at others we have to give him the paci- fier. My friends tell me I should not give it to him. Do you think it is wrxong? The baby gets no air from it." stead’of finding out why the baby I d the mother bought a pacifier! am gure she sees now how short-siy a policy that was. Babies don't cry for pacifiers; tk don't cry because they want somewding In their mouths for amusement; they cry because they are hungry. It makes no difference except in de- gree whether the pacifier is a solid one or the nipple of an ordinary botle. ‘The hablt which it encourages is the sucking habit, and constant s has real and noti mothers know thi: T ing tends to heighten the mouth, which in turn throw out of alignment and causes what k testh.” Conster & th of adenoids, clf is an enslaving one. The child can't be satisfiod with- out something in his mouth. Children 3 and 4 years old run around holding pacifiers in their mouths and dropping them only long enough to eat or when they are asleep. A miserabie habit when {t gets to these proportlons and one most difficult to eradicate. I feel sure you see now, Mrs. C. O. M. And the havit i that your mistake in buying a_pacifier | was & serious one. Next time hunt for the cause of the crying instead of find- ing some artificial way to stop it. And Throw it where you can't get at it, no matter how baby cries. Small babies jump at loud noises. They are prone {0 jump in their slecp. In the tiny baby this is not an unus: condition and demands no spacial treat ment. Babies must get used to the ord nary noises of a household. When bab: is well satisfied and well fed and begins to put on fat, he’ll likewise cease to exhibit these evidences of nervousness. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. If you are in the market for some- | thing just a little different from the | ordinary type of electrical equipment [ for your home, perhaps you would be | the accompanying illustration. At the top is a reproduction of an | old-time student lamp, equipped with Over this could be placed a metal, parchment. or chintz |shade, if a softening of the glow is desired, but if the bulb is frosted this will not be very bright; in fact, it is Jjust right for reading or sewing, At the right is a leafy, wrought-iron side light which would be very attrac- i tive In a sun room against plaster walls, and which would be in harmony with the ivy and other trailing vines which we have in rooms of this type. This might be in a green finish or in biack, with & candle that gives the effect of having been partially burnt. The candelabrum in the lower por- | tion of the picture is especially inter- esting with its wrought-iron base and | small bouquet of flowers beneath the center candle. One of these could be used on a hall console, and a pair would be especially decorative on a mantel shelf. (Copyright, 1929.) _— . Braised Tongue. Take a fresh beef tongue, make a | hole in the little end of it, put a cord through, draw the big and litile ends | of the tongue together and tie firmly. Put the tongue in a kettle, cover with 00d rich stock, season with pepper and salt and boil slowly until tender or for about two hours. Take from the stove and let the tongue remain in the stock until cold. The stock can be used for soup Igter. Then skin the tongue, put into a kettle with a pint of very rich beef stock, one cupful of onion and carot and a stalk of celery chopped fine and fried in a teaspoonful of melted butter and half a cupful of ripe tomatoes. Let simmer slowly for half an hour, then serve. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDRI For Lunch or Picnic. One mother says: Now that the season of picnics is at hand I have had to make sandwiches es & week and my ability as a maker was beginning to lag, for I could not seem to vary them enough. One cday I decided to experi- ment a little, and the resuit was a sand- wich which all the children declared, yummy.” T creamed butter and brown sugar together and added chopped nuts. This, spread on either whole wheat or brown bread, makes a delicious as tell a8 no g sandwich. (Copyright, 1929.) es shown in | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Hazardous Lot of the Unwelcome Stepmother Who May Be Willing to Undertake Thankless Task—Making Peace With Harsh Critic. DEAR MISS DIX—There is a widower with a number of children, ranging between the ages of 6 and 15, who has fallen in love with a girl who is deeply in love with him and who would make him a splendid wife, but one of the children, a girl, is very much opposed to her father's marrying. The man loves his children, of course, but, fecls h» needs a companion and friend, such as a wife would be. The girl is of a lovable nature and would be good to the children, but she is afraid to marry him on account of this girl, as she does not wish to bring friction into the family. The man is well off and in a position to give his family everything they desire. What do you think this girl should dn?M H. M. H. Answer—It takes a courageous, not to say a foolhardy, woman to marry any widower with a houseful of children, for the road of the stepmother is a thorny ona to travel, even under the best of conditions. Managing one’s own children is a difficult and heartbreaking job in this day of the emancipation of youth, when every girl and boy is determined to do his or her own way, and generally does it. Few modern youngsters can be found who do not defy their fathers and mothers and disobey them and talk back to them and who do not think that they know far better about everything than the poor old dodos who brought them into the world. Nor are there many children who show any appreciation or gratitude for the work and worry and sacrifies their parents make for them. Eo the lot of the parent is not an easy one, but fortunately when a baby is born God works the miracle of parental love and fllls the heart of the father and mother with an affection that makes them blind to the child's faults and defects, and that enables them to forgive seventy times seven the sins that the child commits against them, Now, all that the real mother has to suffer for the child the stepmother has | to eridure. She has to put up with all the mischief of childhood, with all the ar- rogance and unreason of adolescence. She has to work and sacrifice herself endlesely for the children. She has to nurse them when they are sick. Keep watch and ward over their manners and morals, She has to plan their perties and get them their pretty clothes and see to thelr good times. She has to do for them all that a mother would do without the mother's love to sweeten it and take the sting out of its self-denials. Worse still, the children rarely repay her with the love that they would give their mother. She is always an outsider. Always under suspicion. They are a littie antagonistic toward her. And generally she has not only to placate, but their mother's family are continually poisoning their ainst her. A hard and tha; . and 50 & woman does well | to think Ic it. In fact, nothing but the most overwt love for a man could justify her in running such a risk. and any man needs be & shefk, indeed, who finds & woman who is willing to take him with a ready-made fam! Aside from the question of her own -happiness, the woman who has an altruistic spirit can find no role in which she can do a nobler work than that of a stepmother, and that, at least, must be some compensation to the one who is dealing with obstreperous and spoiled stepchildren, Certainly there can be no finer work than that of the woman who mothers motherless little children, who shapes and directs their lives, often better than their own mother could have done, because she is a woman of greater intelligence and has had better ad- vantages than their mother had. Of cours~, it is natural for children to object to their father's marrving again, because foolish peopie have made a bugaboo of the cruel stepmother, who mainly exists only in old nurs but if a man chooses wisely and well he is doing his children a great favor by giving them a stepmothe For the step- mother will establish a home for the children where they will be in the natural relationship to their father, and she will almost inveriably b> a far better friend, counselor and guide for them than the grandmother or other female relatives who have had them in charg: Besides this, she leaves the children free to follow their own lives when the time comes, as they couid not do if their father had stayed single on their account. Then the oldest girl would have to stay at home and take care of father and the younger children, instead of marrying, or going about a career, or whatever she wanted to do. And later on father would have to come and live with his married children instead of having his own home. well-to-do widower to marry him. Send the antagonistic girl off to school. which would be good for her in any case, and which wil keep her from fomenting rebellion among the other children, and by the time she has had a vear or two away from home she will have got over her prejudices and perceived the advantages of having a snappy young stepmother. DOROTHY DIX. P e | EAR MISS DIX—My mother hasn't spoken to me for six months because she got mad when I had to wo I called her up on the phone and explain=d v 1 couldn't come home and she didn't believe me and called me a vile name, and ‘she not only hasn't spoken | to me since, but she tells my brothers and si: fit to be spoken to. It isn't true, Miss Dix. I haven't even a boy friend. I have been working ever since I was old enough to go to work and have been helping to support the family. I am so miscrable . What shall I do? ONE IN DISTRESS. 1 have never done anything wrong. | T cry myself to sleep every night. Iam 19 ! Answer—Go to your mother and tell her how unhappy you are and how | innocent, and ask her if she won't make friends. If she refuses, leave home and | go where you can have peace of mind, Your mother must care little for you to | treat you 5o cruelly and to be Willing to belleve the worst of her own daughter. DOROTHY DIX. (Coprright, 1929.) “Reg’lar Fellers” Who Became Great| Fighting was Meat and Drink to Keats But He Became a Poet. BY J. P. GLASS A schoolmate of John Keats, Edward |a student at Clarke's Holes, Jater author of a life of Mozart, | John, he was much larger and more | sald: | powerful But that didn't prevent | "“Jack Keats would fight any one.|John quarreling with him constantly, | morning. noon and night, his brother 'and fighting him. | among the rest. It was meat and| All his efforts for victory were fruit- | drink to him.” |1es. George pinioned him and sat Who would have thought that this | down on him firmly. sturdy voungster, a regular terrier of = Aside from fighting and rough-and- {a fighter, would become one of Eng- | tumble games, he loved rambles in | Tand’s great pocts? |felds_and woods. He made pets of There were various ressons for his | wild animals and birds, bringing home | willingness to fight. He had inherited goldfinches, tomtits, minnows, mice. | from " his mother, who had been | ticklebacks, dance and cock salmons.| Frances Jennings, daughter of a livery | He had three tubs in which to keep his fish. He was_passionately devoted to his Years before, when he was Mrs. Keats, able owner, a hot temper and a arm, sympathetic soul, so that any | | tale of gencrosity, benevolence, daring | mother. lor distress moved him to tears, while, | little more than a tot, without fear or thought of himself, he body should disturb her. John obtained an old sword. Stand- married sturdy | ing before her door, he allowed no one to_enter her room. Keats became a tradition at Clarke's. To his pugnaciousness were added high-mindedness and a splendid gen- ! would use his fists to defend any one | oppressed or distressed. | Frances_Jennings had Thomas Keats, head hostler in her father's stables. From him, John Keats inherited a short, but powerful frame. He was a tartar in any physical com- bat. In fact, he excelled in all sports. Ii was at John Clarke's School at Enfield that he gave an early exhibi- tion of his fearlessness. A big usher boxed the ears of his sickly little brother, Tommy Keats. Without hesitation. , John Keats tore erosity. Moreover, he was handsome as a god. Suddenly bools seized hold of him. He began to write. win immortality. He died in Rome in 11821, only three months after his into the usher, slugging like a prize | twenty-fifth birthday. But he left the fighter. The usher could have put him | world “Endymion,” “Hyperion” and in_ his pocket. other masterpieces of literature. His other brother, George, was also (Copyright, 1929.) Straight Talks to Women About Money)| BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. or more before one becomes obligated for dues or other charges. ‘While the matter of being in arrears is a personal one with many women, they should be equally interested in their husband's standings at their clubs. There is no excuse for any club- | woman being in arrears for dues or i house 'account bills. Being in debt to one's club or clubs is the most serious of all club crimes, and it is serious enough to make one subject to expul- | i | sion, . | A man whose name is posted for be- Of course women in debt to C‘“bs;sm; in arrears is thereby lowered in | present the invariable explanation, | the estimation of his ‘friends. ~Of course, this opinion is carried out into the business world, and sometimes with disastrous results. One can scarcely blame business men for feeling reluc- tant to extend credit to a man who has abused his privileges at a club. ‘We respect a husband more who ad- | “they didn’t realize their bill amounted {to so much.” By neglecting a bill from month to month it grows propor- tionately, and soon its size is almost staggering. In this particular case I should advise the woman who is in love with the | one night at the office, taking inventory. | Younger than | being sick, expressed & Wwish that no- He had but a brief span in which.to | P Because a club debt is a debt of honor as well as a ‘business debt, it should be paid promptly. If one knows in advance that she will be short of funds at the end of any month, it is wise for her to refrain from club ac- tivities for that month, so her house account will be unused. Dues should appear on the elub woman's budget, so that they may he paid_when due without difficulty. At the beginning of cach year or season, it the expense of belonging to. various mits membership at a club is too ex- pensive and resigns, or who anticipates shortage of cash by curtailing his ac- tivities, and assuming no obligations that he cannot meet on time. It is no disgrace, perhaps, to have one’s name posted for being in arrears at a cl but it is a ion on_one's judgment and senss of responsibility. This time of the year is generally less exacting than Fall and Winter. It is a good time, therefore, to catch up on one's club bills, if one has fallen behind. Lag may cost one valued clubs is obviously more than one can bear, it “to resign from one membership, cherished friendships, and even credit and good will in business. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. July 20, 1863—John Lancaster, a boy of 15 years of age, was arrested today and committed to the old Capitol pri- son by order of Provost Marshal Todd on a charge of giving information to the enemy. This is regarded as one of the most important arrests for this of- fense made by the Federal military au- thorities, Young Lancaster at one time was em- ployed in the office of the American Telegraph, but lately had been employed in bearing dispetches to and from the War Department. His father holds an im?‘orunt position at Richmond under the Confederate gcvernment, and his brother, Samuel Lancaster, is an officer on the staff of Gen. Lee. Information was recently given to Capt. Johnson of the provost marshal's office that dispatches intended for the ‘War Department frequently failed to arrive there. He at once began an in- vestigation to learn the cause. Finally he succeeded in discovering that young John Lancaster was in the habit of opening all the dispatches intrusted to him, and, when he found anything of importance in them, would hold them out, and then, when an opportunity | presented itself he would forward them either to his father or to his brother. Capt. Johnson's work in stopping this serigus leak has been highly commend- ed at the War Department. David Jones of Moseby's Cavalry and N. J. Jones of the 1st Virginia €avalry, who have been in the hospi- tal at Alexandria, were sent to the old Capitol prison today by order of Provost Marshal Todd. James Abbott of Rockville and Wil- Ham T. Dade and N. S. Hoyle of Med- leys district, Montgomery County, Md., who foined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war, were among the prisoners captured by the Union Army at the battle of Gettysburg early this month, according to information received here today from an apparently reliable source. . Washington Bowie and Washington Chichester, two young men' of the Cracklin _district, who were arrested and confined to the old Capitol prison on a charge of furnishing aid to Stuart’s Confederate Cavalry on the occasion of its recent passage through Montgomery County, Md.. have been honorably dis- charged. H. B. Cishell, one of the judges of the Montgomery County Or- Phans' Court, has been put on parole to report himself within 30 days upon a similar charge. NANCY PAGE Will You Have Walk of Brick or Flagstone? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Page home was reaching the | point where Nancy and Peter began to | think about the walks around the house and leading up to the front door itself. | Should they have a flagstone walk or a ‘Worth is showing so successfully. The Sidewalks 1t ha; ‘The old Washington lady sat in her rocking chair. Her eyes were half closed as she recalled the stirring davs of 64 years ago. Her son-in-law, daugh- ter, granddaughters and great-grandson eagerly listened to her recital. Substantially she told the story so dramatically recounted by John G. Nic- olay, secretary to President Lincoln, concerning the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward. We quote the late Mr. Nicolay: acted with equal audacity and cruelty, but not with equally fatal result. Going t0 the home of the Secretary of State, PAR R LTTIHETHIE BERRNE R | l‘hnl‘k one? Should the bricks be laid in regular fashion, side by side and two by two, as the animals went into the ark, or should they try some fancy ar- rangement? Just about this time a friend of Peter’'s who was in the brick business told him he could furnish the bricks at a reduced rate or he could give Peter an introduction to a man who was at the head of a stone company. That evening Nancy and Peter pored over books and magazines. They liked the idea of flagstones for the terrace. They believed they could put bright-colored bits of tile in some of the odd corners and joinings, much as small plants are placed to grow | | | { i = pEmnIL i when the flagstone is a walk leading from one part of the grounds to an- other. They considered a border of brick with this flagstone. When they began to consider brick alone Nancy found that there was an infinite number of patterns which could be worked out. They resembled patch- work quilts or crossword puzzles in their arrangements. By placing some of the bricks on edge it is possible to get variations in width which add to the interest of the pat- tern. One of the simplest patterns is the diagonal unit, with bricks laid flat and with the border made of bricks set on_end. By placing the bricks crosswise and lenghtwise and by using long rows of bricks laid flat, with a unit of bricks laid on end, another variation is pos- ysible. Needless to say, Nancy and Petet came to no decision on this first study. > Write of this paper. if yo kng for her leaflet on * s stamped, self-addressed envelo WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFELD. Recistered U. S. Patent Office. When Col. Jake Dixon's famous faro bank was wide open near Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue and keno and faro were lx'w played. who lay ill in bed, he had forced his text of being a messenger from the phy. siclan, with a packet of medicine to deliver. “The servant at the door tried to pre- vent him from going upstairs; the Sec- retary’s son, Fred- erick W. Seward, hearing the noise, stepped out into the hall to check the intruder. Payne rushed upon him with a pistol which missed fire, then rained blows with it upon his head, and, grappling and § struggling, the two came into the Sec- retary's room snd fell together through the door. Prederick Seward soon became un- conscious, and re- mained so for sev- e1al weeks, being, perhaps, the last man in the civilized world to learn the strange story of the night. PANE RAINED BLO LPON WIS HEAD~ dier nurse were in the room. Payne struck them right and left, wounding the nurse with his knife, and then, rushing to the bed, began striking at the throat of the crippled statesman, inflicting three terrible wounds on his neck and cheek. The nurse recovered himself and seized the behind, while another son, roused by his sister’s screams, came into the room and managed at last to force him out. side the door—not, however, until h: and the nurse had been stabbed re: dl; Payne broke away at last, and ran downstairs, seriously wounding an at- tendant on the way, reached the door unhurt, sprang upon his horse and rode leisurely away.” While this drama was being pro- duced, the old lady, then a young girl, was sitting in a park with a “boy friend.” They saw Payne leap upon his horse and ride away, unconscious of his mad deed. “What time was this, grandma? asked her son-in-law cesually “Oh, about 10 o'clock,” replied the old lady. “Ten o'clock!” in-law. Yes,” returned the lady. “And you are the mother who used to yell at me” sald the son-in-law, “when I was calling on your daughter exclaimed her son- BY LOI! Dark Elbows. Dear Miss Leeds.—(1) What can I do for dark, rough elbows? (2) I have a low forehead with a rather broad face and brown, wavy hair. What js a becoming weay to dress it? MARIETTA. Answer.—(1) Scrub the elbows every night with warm water and soap, using a nail brush to work up the lather. Rinse well and. without drying the skin, on it the inside of a freshly cut lefhon for several minutes. Rinse and rub in a lemon cream or a little of the following mixture: 20 grains pow- dered benzoin, 15 drops witch hazel and 4 ounces olive oil. Do this every night. (2) You might try brushing your hair straight back from the forehead. Usual- ly, naturally wavy hair tends to wave in s certain direction, and by noting this and dressing the hair accordingly one may be sure of getting & beccming roiffure. Let the hair on the sides wave forward on your cheeks: cover the cars. LOIS LEED: Dear Miss Leeds.—(1) Sometimes when my eyes feel tired I wash them in borie acid solution. Will this bleach the lashes? (2) Can the eyelashes made to grow as long as you want them with vaseline? Which is better, the white or the yellow? (3) I am 18 years old and 5 feet tall. What should I weigh? (4) How many hours should a schoolboy sleep who is 7}, years old? (5) I have dark blue eyes, medium skir and brown hair. What colors in plain and printed dress materials would suit me? What color in hats should I wear? DOLORES. Answer.—(1) You should have an m specialist examine your eyes. The d feeling may come from unsuspect- ed strain. When using the eye wash drop it into the eyes with a medicine dropper. It will not bleach the lashes. (2) No. Vaseline improves ths growth of the I but if they are naturally short and stubby they will never be- | becomin; and curling. They will be PARIS.—This is one of the beaded princess frocks. with tulle flounces RITA. BY THORNTON FISHER. “Booth had done his work efllciently.[ His principal subordinate, Payne, had | .;idemic of cross-word puzzles, quess “The Secretary's daughter and a sol- | sassin_from | that s a beaded dinner jacket. - of Washington | and stayed that late. What were you | doing in the park at 10 o'clock with a boy friend?" | The old lady blushed. After all, we { wonder if our parents weren't just as ¥ou and I or o “Who was Willilam Penn?” asked a Washington father of his small son, { who had just begun the study of his- tory. h, he the Indian “ stant reply. as the guy that treated was the youngster's in- * ¥ x * During recent years there has been an tionnaires, “What is wrong with this picture?” and “See how many mistakes | the artist has made in this drawing.” | way to Mr. Seward's room, on the pre- | Even friends ask embarrassing questions. | Nothing personal, perhaps. One will creep up unsuspected and fire this one, | “What is meant by this debenture thing |in the farm relief?” The answer is “yes and no” from most of us. Per- | naps it is & good thing that we are | questioned at times, for it must stimu- | late our mental faculties. | ‘The other day a small group was dis- | cussing the Declaration of Independ- !ence. One of them insisted that Wil- | liam Penn was one of the signers. An | argument started. Later we were asked if Mr. Penn had attached his signa- | ture, Our answer was “no.”” At least | not William Penn, the father of the tate now boasting two league base ball leaders. Consulting _historical records, we found that John Penn was one of the | signers. William had a son named John, |and it was probably the son whose { name is among the heroic band who | declared that all men are created with | equal rights. | _“But,” some historian will say, “John !Penn hailed from North Carclina.” And there you are. Perhaps it wasn't the son, after all. Thus does history become intricate. | How many signed the famous docu- ment? Name 12 or even six. There were 56, but the futility of fame is | proved by the fact that most of us are | unable to recall the names of the courageous souls who agreed to hang | together rather than to hang separately. * ok o % And speaking of que: boy | ions. bundles, the mother swered. “Where are the bundles>” t h e -{ youngster inquired. “It's there in case people have bundles to put in them.” “Suppose they don't want to?” “Then they an- don’ { “Don’t what?” At this juncture, the young mother iold her son to look out the window and see the funny policeman blowing | his whistle. MILADY BEAUTIFUL S LEEDS. longer and darker than they would {have been without the vaseline. how- ever. Use the white kind. (3) The average weight for your age and height it 106 pounds. (4) A child of this age | chould have an afternoon rest or nap of an hour, and, in 2ddition, sleep 11 or 112 hours at night. (5) Pretty colors for you include dark and bright navy, dgwood and other medium shades of ue, dark green, 2lmond green, reseda, the sun-tan shades, beige, eggshell, cameo, fig. capucine, orange, warm tans, brown, henna, rust, brick-red, touches of lipstick red, deep cream, black, dull yellow, peach, old rose, dull orchid. A frock of any of these colors would be becoming. When you wear a dark color like navy trim it with bright blue, peach or cream. In prints, a pret- ty combination would be orange and brown on a fig ground; two or three shades of blue; blue, black and white; rose, green and cream; blue, orange and beige. Choose your hats to harmonize with vour coats and frocks. If your costume is a neutral shade, choose & bright color for hat, handbag and neck- lace. If your costume is bright choose neutral color accessories. Medium biue or light sand hats are likely to be most LEEDS. g to your type. LOIS | bal (Copyright, 1929.)