Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 45

‘WOMAN’S PAGE. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES MISS ALBINA McLUSH. BY NATHANIEL aiMathaniel Parker Willis, 1806-1367, v Trany Short. stories and. sketches which are otill being read.) P I have a passion for fat women. If there is anything I hate in lie it is what dainty people call a “spirituelle.” Motion—rapid motion—a smart, quick, squirrel-like step, & pert, voluble tone—in short, a lively girl—Is n.y ex- quisite horror. I would as lief have a “diable petit” dancing his infernal hornpipe in my cerebellum as to re in the room with one. I have tried before mnow_to school myself into liking these rched peas of humanity. I have fol- lowed them with my cyes, and attended to their rattle till I was as crazy as a fiy in & drum. I have danced with them, and romped with them in the country, and periled the salvation of my white “tights” by #itting near them at supper. I swear off from this niove- ment. I do. F won't-—no—hang me if I ever show another small, spry woman a civility. _ Albina McLush is divine. She is like the description of the Persian beauty by Hafiz; “Her heart is full of passion and her eyes are full of sleep.” She is the sister of Lurly McLush, my old college chum, who, as early as his soph- omore year, was chosen president of the *“Dolce far niente” Society—no member of which was ever known to be sur- prised at anything—(the collepe law of rising before breakfast excepted). Lurly introduced me to his sister cne day as he:was lying on a heap of turnips. lean- ing on' his elbow with his head in his hand, in a green lane in the suburbs. He had driven over a stump and been tossed out of his gig, and I came up just as he was wondering how in the devil's name he got there! Albine sat quietly in the gig. and whien' I _was presented, requested me, with a delicious drawl, 10 sav nothing aboat® the adventure—it would be so troublesome to relate it to everybody! T l6ved her from that moment. Miss Mc- Lush was tall and her shape, of its kind; was perfect. It was not a fleshy one exsctly, but she was large and full. Her skin was' clear, fine-grained and transparent; her temples and forehead perfeotly rounded and palished, and her lips and chin swelling into a ripe #nd tempting pout, like the cleft of a burst- ed apricot. And then her cyes—large, liquid and sleepy—they languished be- neath their long, black fringes as if L was hor of they had no business in daylight—like | two magnificent dreams, surprised in their jet embryos by some bird-nesting cherub, Oh, it was lovely to look into them! & She sat, usually. upon & “fauteuil. with her large, full arm (mbedded in the cushion, sometimes for hours wlt!‘l— out stirring. I have seen the wind Lft the masses of dark hair from her shoul- | ders when it"seemed like the coming to life of marble Hebe—she Lad been mo- tionless so long. She was a model for a goddess of sleep as-she sat With her eyes half closed, lifting' up their superb lids slowly as you spoke to her, and dropping them "again with the. delib- erate motion of a cloud, when she had murmured out her syllable of assent Her figure in a _sitting posture, pre- sented a gentle declivity from the curve of her neck to the instep of the small round foot lying on its side upon the ottoman. T remember a fellow's br' -~ing her a plate of fruit one evening. ile was one of your lively men—a horrid mion- ster, all right angles and activity. Hav- ing never been accustomed to hold her own plate, sie had not well cxtricated her ‘whole fingers from her Eandker- | chief before he set it down on ner lap. | As it began to slide slowly toward her feet, her hand relapsed into ‘he mus-| lin fold&’ and she. fixed her eve upon | it with ‘s~ kind " of . indolent surprise, | dropping her lids gradually till. as the | fruit scattered over the ottoman, they closed entirely and a liquid jet line was alone visible through the heavy lashes. | There was an imperial indifference in 1t worthy of:Juna. 144 | Miss McLush rarely walks. When she | does, it is with the-deliierate majesty | of a Dido. Her smallyplump fcet melt to the ground like snowflakes, and her | figure sways to-the indolent. mation of her limbs with a slorious gtace and | yieldingness quite. indescribable. She was idling slowly up the Mall one eve- ning just at twilight, with a servant at & short distance behind her, who, to while away the time betweeu his steps, was employing himself in throwing stones at cows feeding on the common. A gentleman, with a aatural admiration | for her splendid person, rddressed her. | He might have done a 110re eccentric { thing. Without troubling herself to look at him, she turn2d to her servant and requested him with a yawn of des- perate ennui to knock that fellow down! John obeyed his orders and, 2s his mis- tress resumed her lounge, picked up a new handful of pebbles and, tossing one at the nearest cow, loitered lazily after, | Such supreme indolence was irresisti- ho never before to righ—I—to | whom a declaration was but a synonym for perspiration—I—who had cnly thought of love as a nervous complaint, and of women but (o pray for a good deliverance—I—+yes—I-—knocked under. Albina McLushl. .Tkou wert too ex- quisitely lazy. Human sensibilities can- ot hold out foreve | 1 found her cne morning sipping her | coffee at 12, with ha: eyes wide open. | She was just from the bath and ber complexion had a soft, dewy trans- parency, like the cheek of Venus rising | from the sea, It was the hour, Lurly had told me, when she would be at the trouble of thinking. She put away with her dimpled forefinger. as I entered. a | cluster of rich curls ‘hat had fallen | over her face, and nodded to me. like | a water lily swaying to the wind when | its cup is full of rain. lively, | PARKER WILLIS. “Lady Albina,” said I, in my softest tone, “how are you?” “Bettina,” sald she, addressing her maid in a voice as clouded and rich as the south wind on an aeolien, “how am I today?” The conversation fell into snort sen- tences. The dialcgue bucame a mono- logue. 1 entered upon ray declaration. With the assistance of Bettina, who supplied her mistress with cologne, I kept her attention alive thrcugh the in- cipient circumstances. Symptoms were soon told. I came to the avowal. Her hand lay reposing on the arm of the sofa, half buried in a murlin “fou- lard.” I took it up and pressed the cool, soft fingers to my lips—unforbid- den. I rose and looked into her eyes for confirmation. = Delicious creature. She .was asleep. I never have had rcourage to renew the subject. Miss McLush seems to have forgotten it aitogether. Upon re- flection, too, I'm convinced she would not survive the excitement of the cere- mony—unless, indeed, she should s'eep between the responses and the Lrayer. I am still devoted, however, and if there should come a war or earthquake, or if the millennium should commence, as 1s expected, or if anything happens that can keep her waking so long, I shall deliver a declaration, abbreviated for me by a scholar friend of mine, which, he warrants, may be articulated in 15 minutes—without fatigue. Home in Good Taste BY SARA RILAND. | 3 Have you an attic bedroom or odd- shaped room' on the second floor for which you wish to find an appropriate wallpaper? If so, and the walls are very irregular because of gables, re- cesses. sloping ceiling, etc., you will find that the paper. with the tiny. moss rose design similar to that shown in the illustration would be pleasing. | The beauty of this paper is that it may be used for the ceiling as well as the walls. Haven't you often found that it was difficult to find a place to | leave off when having & room of this type papered> When carried right up over the ceiling, there is the feeling | of being in a bandbox, and you im- | mediately imagine such’ furnishings as 'a spool or four-poster bed, high boy. | skirted dressing table, Windsor chajrs, | erickets, pewter and giass lamps and, of course, an old-time fashion print or wo. This paper is made in two colorings. one with a gray linen effect back- ground and the other with a buff background in two-tone which repre- sents an old calico, both having a ros and green design. (Copyright. 1929.) Tomatoes With Eggs. Shirred.—Press some tomatoes through a sieve and use half a cupful for each egg. with =& little minced onion. and pepper and salt. Cook until thick, then place a little in the bottom of each ramekin. Break an egg into each, sea- |son, then add a little more tomato. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake. Poached.—Heat some drained and seasoned tomato juice to the boiling point. Drop in eggs and poach as, usual. Serve the eggs on toast and cover with thickened juice. Scrambled —Put some drained to- mato pulp in a hot frying pan, season, add butter, then break into it as many eggs as are desired, scrambling all to- . . Mnfl/"b ?ROACH FOOD TATAL TO ROACHES for 50 years Peterman's Roach Food en roaches from their hiding places. They eat it; it sticks to the fuzz on their legs and bodies, and they carry it back to their nests, killing all the young and eggs. All Druggists Largest sice 60¢ (2 smaller sizes) | There's no salt quite like ' this salt / IN OLDEN times, good salt-was so scarce that cakes of it were used as money. No chance of thattoday! Interna- tional . Sale wonldn’? harden into cakes if: you.wanted it to! It's guaranteed against that'yery thing. And since a big box costs’ only. a nickel, you could hardly carry enough in your pock- ets ‘to_buy a news- papér! Your grocer has International— Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. September 26, 1865.—President John- son has granted 125 more amnesty par- dons, principally to persons. residing in Virginia and Georgia, it became known today. ‘The entire clerical force at the Ex- ecutive Mansion Is now engaged in making out warrants for those whom the President has decided to pardon. ‘The 1st District of Columbia Colored Regiment, which was raised here about three years ago by Col. Birney, is.on its way k to Washington from Texas, where it has been serving for some months. Although this regiment has been in numerous engagements it now has 700 men, the ranks having been re- peatedly filled up with recruits. Extensive preparations are being made by the colored citizens of Washington to give the men of this regiment a grand ovation upon their return. The Secretary of War has directed. Gen. Rucker to furnish the committee in charge of the celebration a suitakie building in which to hold the enter- tainment. ‘The number of prisoners at the Old Capitol Prison is becoming less every resent the total number there It was learned today that J. B. Jones, who was reported as having been brought here under arrest from Accomac County, Va., is here only as a witness. He is not confined in the Old Capitol Prison, but was simply held in custody the first night after his arrival. The garrison of Washington, under command of Gen. Dent, is now com- posed of the 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 15th, 18th and 24th Regiments of the Vet- eran Reserve Corps, the 295th and 214th Pennsylvania, the 195th Ohio and the 10th United States Infantry. The re- cent inspection report showed that some of the companies could not muster over 10 or 12 men fit for duty and the en- tire garrison does not number over 2,500 men. ‘The company of Cavalry known as the 243d Company of the Veteran Re- serve Corps, which is now acting as President Johnson's bodyguard, under command of Capt. Hill, has been ordered transferred to the 9th Regiment of the corps and will hereafter designated as Company A. The men of the former Company A have been transferred to Company E and are now doing duty at the Executive Mansion in place of the Bucktail Regiment, which has been mustered out. BRAIN TESTS What is wrong with the following sentences? You will find an error in | each one. It may be spelling, punc- tuation, an omission or a misstatement. Check up on ‘each one, allowing four minutes. 1. Columbia is the capital of Ohio. 2. the Atlantic Ocean is more than { 1,000 miles wide. | banished to the; 3. Napoleon was | Island of Helena. 4. A triangle is a figure with three sides. A dirigible balloon can fiy thou- | ds of miles . Los Angales is & city in California. 7. Each side has 12 players in a foot | ball game. 8. “We must leave you,” They said. Oel Japan is an island in the Pacific e; | ‘Where are you going?” he I-lkffl.! . No sentence can end with the | word % 12. Fourty is divisible by five and eight. Do not refer to the answers until you have completed the test. | | two, four, | Answers. 1. Columbia should be Columbus. 2. Capitalize “the.” 3. “St. Helen: not_““Helen: 4. Cross out ‘“‘equal 5. Put a period after the ununce.l 6. “Los Angeles” is the correct spelling. 7. Not “1 but “11.” 8. No capital in “They.” - Make it “they.” 9. Japan is i & group of islands. 10. Quotation mark [ needed before the. sentence. ,d1. The sentence does end with “a”; hence the statement is false. 12. “Fourty” is in- correct. It should be “forty.” In Europe boredom is now regarded as being as detrimental to results in i factorles and workshops as fatigue. | know you like to— andgetgood health into the bargain. Rice Flakes| OTHERS OF HEINZ OVEN-BAKED BEANS, HEINZ SPAGHETTI £ you’ve been eating cértain ce- reals because you thought you ought to—eat Heinz Rice Flakes because you HISTORIC LIARS Machiavelli Left a Name’ Synonymous With Crookedness in Statesmanship. BY J. P. Machiavelli, the Florentine political philosopher and diplomat, left behind him a name that is a synonym for perfidious policy. Four centuries after him people still say of umscrupulous politiclans and ls;,l!c&men that they are ‘“Machiavel- an.” He took as his model Prince Cesare Borgia, ruler of the Duchy of Romagna, & _man of the most ruthless cruelty, who used murder and assassination to subdue a ple completely, but ruled them wisely while they were abjectly submissive. Cesare Borgia’s character is indicated by a single incident of many out- rageous incidents of his career. His powerful enemies, the Orsinis, threat- ened his hold of Romagna. He art- (ully"glotud to make them his friends and then decoyed them into the castle of Sinigaglia, where he had them all strangled.to death. Machiavelll thought this massacer a masterpiece of art. because it enabled the prince “to_build up a great sub- structure for his future power.” In later years, when the de Medicis had overthrown the Republic of Florence, and had banished the diplomat to his small country estate, he wrote a treatise on government and sent it to Lorenzo de Medici, the new ruler, as a text book for his guidance. 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It is to be suspected, too, that a certain ulterior motive actuated him. He wished to propitiate the Medicis and be rescued from that banishment which now had lasted through almost 15 years. It was dull for a man of his intellect to be living the life of a farmer, his sole amusement to drink and game and argue with his neighbors at_the village inn. Machiavelli was not moral in private life and he is supposed to have died upon his lips. As was to be expected, after the Medicis had restored him to favor, the Flor- entines bitterly criticized him for his treatise, “the Principe.” In his later years he wrote a history of Florence which is a literary mas- terplece. It also opened & new efs in modern history writing, since it was the first history to deal with the life of a nation in its continuity. (Copyright, 1929.) 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