Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 24

w OMAN’S PAGE. Home Brings Out Fine Qualities BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Love is the foundation on which every true home is built. A man and a woman are married because they love each other. Whether they live in a spaclous house or in one room of a boarding house, wherever they begin | firm after all. hands, but of qualities, and the corner stone is this all-important and vital element of love. So long as love remains home is sanctuary. It is & place where under- standing is mutual, where mental rest as well as physical is found, where common interests cement lives th- er, where thoughts of life are always inclusive of those others who compose the family. It is not a place of irk- some restrictions, but of common weal, where each membeyr wants the best for every one. If this sounds iralistic it should be remembered that lov> is ideal as well as real. It helps one to see the finest qualities, even where they are small or well hidden, and this is the ideal ele- ment. It helps to bring out these finest qualities in one's self and’ in others. This is the real element. 1t is not to be expected that home life will always run without ripples of troubles and occasional whirlpools of disaster. What is to be expected is that these will be passing phases that do not wash away the foundation of love, although they break against it. It is only when disloyalty, self-in- terest, distrust and other disintegrating elements get to work that the founda. tion crumbles. In this present age there is a marked tendency for hus- bands and wives to help in this de- struction by rushing into divorce suits instead of waiting a bit and trying to see if the distressing circumstances are not temporary only and that love is Many a husband and many a wife finds out after the sepa- ration has been granted that the old love exists, Occasionally there are re- marriages of divorced couples, giving HOME 1S A PLACE WHERE BOTH‘ PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REST SHOULD BE ENJOYED. life together, there a home is estab- lished. 1Into whatever quarters they | move afterward, this establishment of | evidence that this is true, but apart from these few exceptions the sorry persons wend their lives to the end with a knowledge of their mistake and no power to rectify it. Since love is the precious and beauti- ful foundation on which a home is built it should be cherished as the valuable thing that it is. It is worth suffering long and yet being kind to hold it and not to allow ome's self to act unseemly, for thereby misunder- standings rise and enough of these bring disaster to a home. love moves also. It is not made with (Copyright, 1920.) WORLD FAMOUS STORIES SOMETHING BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (Hans Christian Andersen, 1805-1875, was a Danish writer, famous through all time for his delightful fairly tales, which nearly always contain some idea or lesson which he wishes to impart.) “I want to b2 something!” said the eldest of five brothers. “I want to do something in the world, T don’t care how humble my position may be. I'll make | bricks, for they are q?lbe indispensable things.” | “But that somethihg will not be| enough!” quoth the second brother. “That is journeyman's work and can be done by a machine. No, I would rather be a bricklaver, for that is some- | thing real. That brings rank—a brick- layer can keep journeymen. I shall become a master bricklayer.” “That’s nothing at all,” said the third | brother. “Many people in this town are | above the mere artisan. Even & master | bricklayer is a common man. I shall| be an architect, and enter into art and | speculation. I shall stand high among those who have great minds. That's what I call something!” “‘But I don't care at all for that some- thin said the fourth brother. *“I won't sail in the wake of others. I Wwill be a genius and create some kind of a building that is altogether new— something to fit the climate of a strange country, perhaps. I call being a genius something.” “But supposing your climate and ma- terials are bad,” said the fifth brother. “Someone must tell you all where you make your mistakes. I shall keep out- side of reality—I shall observe, and criticize whatever you produce. To every work there is imperfection, and I wiil find it and find fault with it— that will be something.” | And the fifth brother kept his word, | and everybody said what a fine intellect he had, and certainly it appeared to be something. The eldest brother manufactured bricks, as he had hoped to do. He mad~ a very respectable living at it. Some of his bricks were imperfect, but he had a use even for these—he gave them to an old woman, named Margaret, who ‘was poor. With these imperfect bricks —and occasionaly good bricks, which the eldest brother threw in for good measure—Margaret builded her a house on a rampart near the sea. The s#cond brother became a brick- layer. He became a master and hired | Jjourneymen to work for him. He built & street full of houses, and those houses | enabled him to build a small house of is own. There he lived with his pretty oung bride and was very, very happy. ‘The third brother became a famous architect. He designed some of the houses that the second brother built of the first brother’s bricks. He had the handsomest house of them all, and that ‘Was something! ‘The genius of the family—the fourth brother—wanted to invent something entirely new. He thought of & plan for an extremely original building, with a special top floor on it for himself. But his plan was impractical—the building toppled while he was in the top floor compartment—and he was killed. But he had a grand funeral and a monument was erected over his grave, and perhaps that was something. All three of the first three brothers died also, and there was only the fifth brother surviving—the critic. The fault-finder had outlived them all. By this he got the last word, which is always necessary to a critic. At last the hour of the fifth brother came, and he found himself at the gates of Paradise. There the souls always enter two by two, and if one arrives alone he has to wait for another to come before he can enter the pearly gates. Who should arrive to enter with the fifth brother but Margaret, the poor old dame who built the house on the rampart by the sea, from imperfect bricks given her by the eldest brother. “Such a .contrast!” exclaimed the Aifth brother, “that such a wretch should happen along to enter Paradise with me! Who are you, woman?” “I'm a poor old woman of very humble family,” was the answer. “I lived in the house on the sea wall. “Well, what did you do on earth?” de- manded the fifth brother. “What did replied sadly. “It would be an act of mercy only if I were allowed to slip through the Golden Gate.” “How did you leave the world?" asked the critic. “I hardly know,” she answered. “I was very sick and miserable during my last years. I could scarcely get out of my bed. For the past few days I had been confined to my bed—besides, it was very cold in the Winter outside, and the ocegn had frozen over so that hun- dreds of young people were enjoying themselves with ice sports near my hut. I couid sometimes see them from my window, and I would watch them. “Then suddenly I saw a white cloud rise up over the horizon. In the center of the white cloud I saw a black spot, which grew larger and larger. Now I knew that to be a sign, a bad omen. It meant that an awful tempest was com- ing end that there would be a spring flood and the ice would all break up. “Those young people on the ice would have to be warned! For perhaps none but I knew the sign or how to inter- pret it. I shuddered. I would have to warn them, but how? I could hardly leave my bed—and if I crawled I could never be in time, and besides, they might pay no attention to me. “At last I had an inspiration. T decided to set fire to my house. The young girls and boys would all see it and come running—perhaps they would come to save me from the flames. So I did that— I set fire to my bed, and the flames leaped up and soon the whole hut was ablaze. I managed to crawl to the door and saw that all the young people did indeed come running. I was just in time, too, for the storm broke about them, and the ice began to break up immediately. “I suppose I was too old to bear all the excitement and the extreme cold, so I came up here to the gates of Para- dise. I am told they sometimes let in poor old creatures like me. Now I have no house down by the sea—though I don’t suppose that makes any difference here, one way or the other.” ‘Then the gates of Paradise opened, and an angel led the old woman in. She left a straw behind her, from the bed which she had set afire to warn the young people—and that straw had been transmuted to the purest gold. “You have seen what this old woman brought,” sald the angel to the critic. “What do you bring? On earth you accomplished nothing. You did nothing but pick flaws in the accomplishments of others. If you could have made only one brick, however, poor! But it is too late now—I cannot help you.” ‘The old woman then spoke up and said: “It was his brother who gave me the bricks with which I bullt my humble hut by the sea. Could not all the bricks his brother gave me allow him a little credit also? His brother was merciful. Let him come in on the strength of his brother’s good deeds.” ‘The angel said: “Stay, then, but re- member that you owe this admission to that eldest brother, whom you most despised. You can stand without the gate to reflect upon your life. Perhaps you will yet accomplish something, though ,at the very gate of Heaven.” “I could have said that in better words,” thought the critic, but he did not find fault aloud. For him, after all, that was something! Caramel Nut Pie. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a shallow utensi], then add half a cup- ful of sugar and cook until dark brown. Pour into the caramel one and one- half cupfuls of creamy milk. Let boil until’ the caramel is dissolved in the milk, then empty into a double boiler. Beat the yolks of two eggs. Dissolve one and one-half tablespoonfuls of corn- starch in a little cold milk. Add this and one-fourth cupful of sugar to the egg yolks. Beat all together, then pour into the caramel mixture. Cook until thick. Remove from the fire and add one teaspoonful of vanilla. When cool add half a cupful of English walnut meats, chopped, and pour into a baked . Beat the whites of two eggs and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar. you accomplish for the progress of man- o “I didn’t accomplish anything,” she Spread over the top of the pie and bake in a moderate oven until a light brown. ‘Wheatsworth CRACKERS e Graham Style Whele Wheat BA:N Over-eating is over-heating. 1 for Strengthening nutrition is con= centratedbyNature you in Whole ‘Wheat. Individual Service Packages at All Restaurants Size Packages at All Grocers e Carpel Co., Th rpel 2155 Queen’s Chapel Distributors Wi N.E, Washington, D. C. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. 2 P'liteness is somefin’ fierce! Tommy is actin’ like he neber seed any ob us before, an’ I feel all stiff an’ starchy. (Copyright, 1920.) NANCY PAGE Nancy Answers Magazine Advertisements BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The postman had just brought two new magazines and Nancy settled her- self down for hour or two of en- joyment. Before she sat down she hunted & pencil. Then she leafed through the magazines. Having found a serial story which interested her she read that. Then she looked at special A B2 A articles. She found one on budgeting. In that were some figures on cost of bringing up children. She wanted to save that, but since the magazine was | new she did not cut out the article at the time. Instead she made a notation on the cover—page 26, budget—cost of | children. As she went through the magazine | she made similar notations for every article which interested her. Later when the magazine had been read by the family it was an easy matter to | clip the things she had checked. Also, she learned that it was not so easy | for maids to throw away magazines when they were trained to look for pen- cil notations before throwing them out. She found an offer of a booklet which she wanted. She read over the instruc- tions, “Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope,” it said. In writing her re- | quest she was careful to put street and city address on letter. She signed her name as follows, “Nancy Lee Page.” ‘This was at bottom of letta on right. Below this on left she wrote in paren- theses (Mrs. Peter Page). She wrote her address on an inclosed envelope, using the word City below the street number. Then she realized that this envelope was going to another city and would be mailed out from there. If she saild “City” it would never reach her at all. She wrote another enve- lope, putting the name of the city and | the State under the street address. And, of course, she received the mate- rial for which she wrote. DAILY DIET RECIPE WHOLEWHEAT BISCUITS. ‘Wholewheat flour, two cupd. Baking powder, four teaspoons. 8alt, three-fourth teaspoon. Shortening, one tablespoon. Milk, two-thirds cup. MAKES ABOUT 12 BISCUITS. sift flour, baking powder and salt together twice, but do not throw away the bran that is left in the sifter—combine it with the flour. The sifting is only to lighten the flour. Mix in solid vegetable shortening. Stir in milk, making a stiff dough. Lightly pat out one-half inch thick on a floured board. Cut into biscuits and bake about 15 or 18 minutes in a hot oven. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes some protein and starch. Lime and iron pres- ent but the vitamins have been damaged by the action of the baking powder. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight and by those wish- ing to reduce if used in great moderation and in place of slice of bread. | an enormous difference in the way you | THE EVENING STORY ‘When Latchstring Is Out. ALIA DARTMOUTH looked up from her packing to regard her neighbor with a questioning frown. “I may be all the kinds of an idiot you say, Ida, but I've always ured that since God gave Harry and me a heavenly spot like Lakeside, we've no right to be stingy with it.” “I wouldn't call it being stingy to glose my doors against people who ‘merely make a Summer convenience of me and scarcely think of me at any other season.” “It isn't quite as bad that, dear.” 11 right, but you wait and see what happens this Summer, since you've al- Lud);. indicated that your latchstring out.” In spite of what she was pleased to term her friend’s annual croaking, Mrs. Dartmouth went blithely on with her work, singingly happy with the knowl- edge that she soon would be in her be- loved little home on the shore of beau- tiful Lake Penewee. She loved every blade of grass, every tree, every wild flower that grew on the place. She reveled in her daily dips in the lake's limpid waters—two or three dips if the weather was especially warm; delighted in the morning rows along the 700 feet of frontage she and Harry owned. She even rather enjoyed those storms which sometimes swept over the lake from the North, sending the oc- cupants of Lakeside Cottage porchward to cover the furniture against the on- coming rain, And then she adored the flivver and the motor boat, both kept purposely for the various necessary trips to the vil- lage which was 2 1-10 miles distant. She called the flivver Libbie and was sure Lindy couldn't possibly care more for his We than she did for the little car which the Dartmouths kept stored in a | farmer’s barn all Winter. Lalia kept the little cottage locking like a glorified doll house, with bright, cheerful drapes and gay painted furni- ture which she gave a fresh coat the first thing every Summer. ‘Taking it all in all, she was so proud of the place that she never could resist saying to each friend and acquaintance as the time drew near every Summer for | their exodus to Lakeside, “Oh, you must drive down. You've no idea how we've improved it since last season!" Strange as it may seem it wasn't al- ways the best friends nor the closest acquaintances who availed themselves of these wholesale invitations of Lalia's and when she came home one Fall tell- ing of entertaining the Meachams, whom she barely knew: the Bordens, whom she never had seen before, but who were cousins of some people she had known in childhood, and the Mat- tinglys, whom she scarcely ever saw any more, but who were passing through on their way West and were wishful of a night's rest in the country, not to men- tion the saving of a hotel bill, her neigh- bor and very best friend took her to task about it. “You're tired out instead of rested every Fall when you come home. You | aren’t doing right by yourself and your family to accept so much responsibility, let alone reaching out for it the way | you do.” Lalia had chuckled, replying with | mock seriousness, “All right, dear old Pal, next Summer, the moment things get too much for me, I'll send for you to straighten them out.” | This morning, with the Dartmouths | almost ready to leave, Mrs. Sterns re- | minded her friend of her promise of the | Fall before, and Lalia laughingly re- | newed it. “Not that I expect to need you, Ida, darling,” she said laughingly, | “but you know I am always as good as my word.” When she reached Lakeside Lalia was filled with renewed woneer at the beau- | ty of the place. As she was hurrylnx‘ the porch chairs and tables into their accustomed places, more joyed than | ever to be there, the telephone smoze] her ear rather discordantly. BEAUTY CHATS Things Not to Neglect. You must never neglect little things,, it you want to look attractive and| well dressed. These things cost little | in either time or money, but they make all the difference between carelessness | and prettiness. Never forget to start the day by drinking one or two glasses of water as soon as you wake up. Either hot or cold. Of course it is better hot, and to make sure that it is hot, some wo- men put the water in a thermos bottle at night, so it is ready by the bed to drink when they wake up. This flush- es out the stomach and kidneys and liver, washes away acids and makes| feel. It also keeps the skin clear. Never forget to remove all dirt and powder and make-up from the face and neck every night before you go to bed. I think that cleansing cream, wiped off on tissue napkins, followed by a warm water washing, is best. If the skin needs feeding, or if there are wrinkles, this can be followed by & massage with cream, with a little left on for the night. At the same time, cream should be rubbed into the elbows and the finger nalls. Result, clean fine grained skin, and smooth elbows and nice look- ing nails next day. Never underestimate the value of very cold water and of ice as a beauti- fler. Cold water rinses should follow every washing, and ice should be used as a massage for all cases of double chin, lax chin and of wrinkle#, when- ever it is practical to use it. It can be rubbed over the face once a day for two to five minutes, without any harm. ‘Your beauty treatments are most ef- fective if done at bedtime. Mrs. H. B—A certain proportion of the hairs will return after you have had the treatment for superfluous hair with the electric needle. These will be weaker than formerly and a second treatment will usually finish tifem. It takes time to treat each hair separate- ly, and an hour may not bring great results, but if you can afford to have the coarse hairs removed this way it would be advisable. Women who can- not have such work done for them, do manage to keep superfluous hair from | grocer’s leading disfiguring them, and no one knowsj| they are troubled with it. Most women | Malt is Puritan, depend upon it; every item he Is sound quality... and priced right. o A ALT —all quality because it’s all -bcrle ‘The Dracons were on the wire. They ‘were that way and were perish- ing to see the much-talked-of Lakeside and fain would stop for a glimpse of it. “Incidentally,’ Lalia ~grumbled mentally, “for a bite of lunch.” Mrs. Dartmouth’s course was obvious. The Dracons arrived and immediately began to amuse themselves taking in the surrounding scenery, while Lalia hurried together things she had brought from home for her own lunch, not yet having had time or opportunity to stock her larder from the village stores or nearby farms. In the midst of it all the Meachams sailed grandly into the driveway in a splendid new car and announced that ey were “simply ravenous.” Luncheon went by fortunately with only a few hitches, the principal one being the emptiness of Ladia's own little tummy. She utrr-uenuy waiting for the combined surprise party to move on, intending the drive Libbie into town for supplies at ore. Not a mention of going was made. Finally Mrs. Meacham suggested that she and Mr. Meacham would remain overnight and have a motor boat ride with Harry after he arrived the follow- ing noon. Immediately the Dracons indicated that that arrangement ap- pealed to them immensely, and as Lalia had pridefully shown them over the house previously the question of hous- ing so many never arose. Lakeside could take care of 12 people comfortably, with its big stack of ready-to-make cots re- posing in plain sight in an areaway. Lalia telephoned for supplies and din- ner was gotten through with, the guests immediately thereafter taking to the rowboats, while their hostess did the dishes. Hot, tired and disgusted, Lalia sat on the front porch fanning herself when a siren rang out and another car drew up at the back steps. It was the Mattinglys, with their new Airedale puppy, which looked and acted ready to eat up anything and everything on the place. Bud Mattingly had learned to run the motor boat the year before, and when he beheld it riding the water at the pier he parked his car and chased out to it, calling gayly to his wife to g\xm'y along if she wished to ride with im That was the last straw for the long- suffering hostess of Lakeside Cottage on Lake Penewee. She went straight to the telephone after the Mattinglys were out of earshot and long-distanced Ida Sterns and the next day when tha estimable lady appeared with host Da mouth on the noon train Lalia took to her bed immediately with a severe head- ache. The village doctor happened to have & Summer cottage less than a quarter of & mile from Lakeside, and when he came downstalrs after having been sum- moned to see Mrs. Darcmouth he told the assembled multitudes that their hostess must remain 1n bed for a day or two. “So Mrs. Dracon can wash the dish- es” Mrs. Sterns announced sweetly, nodding in that lady’s direction, “and Mrs. Meacham can walk up the road a half mile for milk, while Mrs. Mat- tingly and I shell peas and peel po- tatoes for dinner after we do up the | beds. Mr. Dracon will have to drive to | town for supplies, while Mr. Mattingly drives east a half mile for chickens and eggs, and Mr. Meacham goes a mile the | other way for cooking apples. Harry is taking care of Lali “Oh! We were just about to leave,” the Dracons and the Meachams chorus- ed in one breath, while the Mattinglys | disgustedly began the assemblying of | wraps and bags, not to mention the | Afredale, which already had chewed up | one of Lalia's bedroom slippers, a cor- ner out of Harry's overcoat and Ida Stern's best handkerchief. | “Come on down, dear heart.” Mrs. Sterns called out to Lalia as soon as | the coast was clear. “I done me duty | as I seen it and you're going to have | quiet week end at this busy | at least one place. THE END. (Copyright, 1920.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES extract the coarse hairs with tweezers | whenever they appear above the skin, and the finer hairs are left alone or | kept bleached with peroxide. This | method means repeating the effort | :}"hene\'e‘r necessary, but it is better | an using a depilatory, for that | with all hair alke, s Everyday Law Cases Is Bank Liable on Guarantee to Pay for Goods Sold to Another? BY THE COUNSELLOR. John Wilson offered to purchase a large order of raw material from the General Raw Material Co. on 60 days’ :hndlb, but the company informed him at they would not accept the order without an acceptable 'u.ptlnty by a responsible person. Wilson consulted his savings bank and it agreed to guarantee the account and 8o informed the material company by letter, as a result of which the order was shipped to Wilson. The account was not paid and the company brought sult against the bank on its written guarantee. In defense of the action the bank contended that it had exceeded its corporate powers in giving the guarantee and, consequently, it could not be bound thereby. The court, agreeing with the defense, :flsmlmd the company’s case, explain- ng: “‘A bank has only such powers as are: granted expressly or impliedly by its charter and the statutes of the State. A bank is not authorized to become a guarantor except where this is neces- sary to protect its rights and is an inci- dent of the purchase or sale of com- mercial paper. An act done in an at- tempt to exercise power not given it by statute is void and no recovery can be had thereon.” prrme e ‘The whistling swan had become almost exterminated before it came under Government protection a few years ago. Now there are nearly 14,000 of these stately birds in the reserve in Currituck Sound, N. C. t BLOW Black Flag Powder | the pods rupture, and the seeds are | hurled forth into the air. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. / When the famous Schley-Sampson controversy lasted 40 days at the Washington Navy Yard, trying to de- cide who won the battle of Santiago. SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Old-fashioned gardens almost in- evitably contained a bed of garden balsam, and for the life of me I can- not see why any one ever thought the fat, shapeless, loll-polled things, with their insipid colors, were worth the ground that they were grown in every Summer of grandmother’s life. But in the deep woods and along the creeks and tall grassland round the pools, in the dark, mucky earth where the midges dance in the emerald lights beneath the elms of swampy woods, there comes to flower now the wild balsam, which is better called the touch-me-not. There is not a stranger or a daintier blossom that hangs out its nectar on the sleepy, bee.winged airs of a Sum- mer day than the touch-me-not, with its blossoms of a horn-of-plenty shape, ending in a long spur, where theé nectar is stored away—the honeyed plenty in the fairy horn. We have two species only in our flora, compared with almost a hundred in India and some other tropical countries. ~ The common species is orange, thickly potted with reddish | brown, and with reddish stems. The other is a more ethereal thing, with stems pale green as a luna moth’s wing, and almost transparent, and flowers of a clear, pale yellow, slightly spotted with brownish red. Children’s fingers never weary of touching the pale green fruits of touch- me-not. For when they are plump and ripe the slightest pressure will make Such 1is the cunning device of the wild balsam flower for sending its children forth, and doubtless wind and rain will burst the pod in time. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Use for Auto Tires. One Mother Says: ‘When our little roly-poly first learned | to sit up we found that a discarded | auto tire placed flat on the floor saved her many bumps. We put a pad in the center and covered it with a soft blanket, tucking it under the outer edges of the tire. Her playthings were ‘within reach and she took keen delight in beating them against the rel surface of the tire. Vegetable Charlotte. Grate six large raw white potatoes, add two teaspoonfuls of salt and & little pepper and three eggs slightly beaten. Parboil three large diced car- rots, adding one teaspoonful of sugar to the water, drain, and reserve one cupful of carrot liquid. Mix the potato mixture with the carrots and add one- fourth cupful of flour. Place in a well greased pudding dish and let bake| slowly for about one and one-half hours, or until all is tender and a golden brown. Serve as a vegetable with stewed prunes. Oatmeal Gems. ‘Take one cupful of cooked oatmeal, one cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoon- {uls sugar, one beaten egg, half a tea- spoonful salt, half a teaspoonful of bak- ing soda and one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, or one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder instead of the baking soda and the cream of tartar, and just enough flour to hold the mixture to- gether. Bake the dough in hot gem pans in a quick oven. into the air to kill flies, mosquitoes, etc. Or into the cracks to kill roaches, ants, bedbugs, ete. Black Flag Powder gets them all—quickly! For it is the deadliest powder insect- Killer known. (Packed in glass, it keeps its strength). Remember, Black Flag Powder is particularly effec~ tiveinkillingfleason pets,or plant licein your garden. BLACK FLAG POWDER ¢ KILLS BUGS QUICKLY 15¢ and y ©1929,8.F.Co. Black Flag also comes in Liquid form. Equally deadly. Only 35¢ a half-pint. Why pay more? FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS Scanty Hair. A thinning of the hair on top of the head is a warning that should be heeded at once, because it is pretty sure to be followed by baldness. The heavy masses of hair that women used to wear on the backs of their heads have been blamed for causing this beauty problem, but the fact that some bobbed-haired women and most men complain of this thinning over the crowns of their heads seems to prove that long hair is not the principal cause of it. . The truth of the matter probably is that threatened baldness comes from lack of local care, lack of physical fit- ness and from hereditary causes. An indoor, sedentary life, combined with a nervous, worrying disposition may very well cause thinning of the hair in many cases. Besides the finding and if possible the eliminating of the in- ternal cause of the trouble, the use of ;ecrl“tt:l]. scalp treatments is often very Ip! ‘Applications of crude ofl to the scalp have been for many years to check falling hair. The good effects of the treatment cannot be denied, but fastidious women nowadays usually balk at the use of such an ill-smelling substance. To be most effective it should be.applied all over the scalp at | bedtime. The scalp should be mas- | saged, and the oll left on over night. A | bathing cap may be used to protect | one’s pillow. Next morning saturate | the hair and scalp with olive oil and | steam several times with hot towels. | Shampoo thoroughly with tincture of | green soap. This may be done once | a week. Another treatment for thinning halr | that may be preferred by those who ob- ject to the peculiar odor of crude oil | LEEDS. makes use of a sulphur salve. The powdered sulphur is mixed to a thin paste with castor or olive oil. The hair is combed and brushed well and the salve applied to the thin spot. Mas- sage for 10 minutes and leave the sal on for at least an hour, then apply warm olive oil or castor oil to loosen it before the shampoo. Steam the scalp with hot towels and wash the hair with tincture of green soap. This soap is liquid and is sold at drug stores. Repeat the treatment three times week for two weeks. Thereafter have SALVE ON THIN SPOTS « =) your salve treatment once & week ai bedtime and shampoo next morning. Both of the treatments that I have described are excellent for their pur- pose, but they must be carried out regularly. So many people begin such treatments enthusiastically, but lose in- terest because results do not appear at once. Patience and persistence are needed in beauty culture as in other fields. (Copyright, 1929.) Egg Time-Table Makes Their Serving Easier To boil eggs you should have the water bolling actively. Then lower the egg or eggs into the water and allow | it to bofl— | Three minutes for a soft-boiled egg. Four minutes for a m:dlum-coflk:d“ egg. Seven minutes for & hard-cooked | egg. ‘E(ss cooked seven minutes are hard | but tough. 1If they are cooked slowly | for 25 or 30 minutes they are much | less tough and are more wholesome. | When using the hour-glass egg time, | turn the glass as soon as the eggs are | entered in the bolling water and when‘ the sand has run through to the lower section of the glass lift them out at | | | Town Loyalty. o e =0 At home in Punktown I deplore 2 lot of things 'most every day; the citi- zens can hear me roar with ardor, as | I go my wa; I criticize the bonehead lads who run our village government, | bewail the old ways of our dads—the | new ways aren't worth a cent. I write long letters to the press denouncing | things at every chance, and pointing | out the grim distress that's caused by | town extravagance. I kick when coun- | cilmen would spend some money for a village pump, and ask, “When will | this orgy end? Is Punktown headed for the dump?” But when I go away | from home, as sometimes I am prone to go, in faroff bailiwicks to roam, T boost. old Punktown to and fro. I visit| Squashville-in-the-Hay, village that | is not so bad, and citizens come up | and say, “What think you of our gor- | geous grad? We think she has ail| rivals skinned, she's diamonds as com- | pared with glass; you'd journey to the furthest Ind and find no village in her class.” “She has her points, I must ad- mit,” I have at such a town declared, | “but she wouid never make a hit if she with Punktown were compared. I would not run your village down, I'd not depreciate her worth, but Punktown is the noblest town that ever grew on this old earth. Her councilmen are great and wise, and her officials are the besi; the place is full of happy guys who think existence there is blest. In Punk- town you will find no taint of criticism in the air; the voters never make com- | plaint or wring their hands or rend their hair.” And then to Punktown I | return, and kick around just as of old: | rank evils make my spirit burn, and I rear up and rant and scold. WALT MASON. Tced Tea. ‘Two tablespoons tea, cne quart cold water. 1. Pour cold water over tea and let stand for five hours. Chill and serve | with ice and lemon slices. This method | makes a very delicately flavored tea. | 2. Pour one and one-half quarts of | boiling water over one tablespoon tea and four mint leaves and let brew three minutes. Chill and serve with cubes of ice and fresh mint leaves or a slice of | orange. [ |or once. If you want hard-boiled eggs— but have not time to let them cook a half hour—allow the sand to run through the glass twice. Start the sand running through a third time, and after it is about halfway through, take the eggs out. There is an inexpensive egg holder | that makes it possible to boil eggs without fear of cracking the shells when putting in and simplifies the task of taking them from the ter. It is always best to start eggs cooking in actively boiling water. This is espe- clally desirable for har iled eggs it keeps the eggs from sticking to the shells. Eggs should be dipped inio cold water or cold water should be run over them as soon as they have been taken from the water. If they are to be sent to the table this should be done as otherwise they will be hot to touch. An inexpensive egg slicer is very use- ful when you want to make trim, neat slices of hard-cooked eggs for salads garnishes. The eggs should be cooked 30 minutes, plunged in cold water, cooled thoroughly and then shelled. Then place an egg in the hol- low of the cutting device and bring the hinged section down firmly cut the egg in neat, even X Coddled eggs are cooked in water kept below the boiling point. 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