Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1930, Page 20

WOMAN’S PA G All Sorts of Ornamental Buttons BY MARY Crystal buttons are among the new trimming devices that appear for In fact, all sorts f ornamental buttons have come into inence recently. the new ts and suits the buttons on the cuffs d at the front or side closing are 0sen with great care and in many of e new silk blouses rows of small crys- {#tal or mother of pearl buttons are often used to give a decorative finish. Only on the more expensive dresses and suits does one find buttons that bear close inspection. The less ex- pensive garment may be made of re- | markably fine material, but obviously WHITE CRYSTAL BUTTONS ARE A | NEW NOTE ON THIS NAVY BLUE | SILK CREPE DRESS, WORN WITH | WHITE CREPE DE CHINE COLLAR AND CUFFS. cost of production has not been muchi increased by the type of button chosen. | A clever (rick for the woman who must | count her pennies carefully is to re- | .move the cheap buttons from the less | expensive suit or dress and put in their | place buttons of a sort that would only chosen” “for the - more . expensive | product. Possibly you may find a set of but- tons in an old button box—if you pos- sess such a relic of bygone fashions, A friend of mine recently bought an in- expensive tweed suit. Realizing that the buttons were a dead give-away of | the low price she had paid she re-| placed them with a set of the best quality leather buttons she could buy. | Yol& have no idea what a differénce it made. The problem of making over last season’s dresses in your little girl's wardrobe is not always easy. qrmz week’s circular shows how you can THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Diagonal Placement. A tharming silk crepe print in Lanvin gveen coloring that is ex- tremely modish for immediate wear that may be worn all, through the Spring. r It's a dress in which you will appear charmingly slender and gracious. ‘The bodice is beautifully molded and i caught in plaits at left side which creates a swathed movement across the front, which softens its line. A bow of plain crepe is stitched over the plaits at left side indicating normal waist- line. A corresponding bow is placed at right shoulder. Style No. 365 is_designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. In the medium size four and | cobwebs from ti~ | startling tales | who has never made a flight: then the | shining knight. MARSHALL. ltmnsform a simple straightline dress | by means of a yard or slightly more of dotted swiss or muslin. If you would like a copy, please send a stamped, | self-addressed envelope to Mary Mar- shall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. | (Copyright, 1930.) ON SOLID GROUND 1 can see the airplanes flying, but 1 | do no futile sighing for a journey | through the clouds. Younger fellows, | full of daring, may do all that sort of | faring, to the rapture of the crowds. People talk to m= of soaring and I find their discourse boring, for I hear it every- | where; few there are who haven't scoot- | ed where the wiid geese lately tooted, high up in the lambent air. Every one seems glad and willing to relate a story thrilling of & journey five miles high, of sensations strange and rushing, while the airship wings were brushing divers ky. Once when few had flown and fluttered every word the airman_uttered was a golden thing to prize; by admiring throngs surrounded, | a new science he expounded, and his | talk scemed fine and wise. Now the | country's full of p2ople who have soared | above ‘the steeple and they tell their and their talk is so un- | ceasing that my sorrow is_incerasing | and my once boid spirit quails. All the | Nappers so o-ct and a cloud of | smoke is 1~ from their fiying, | chooing cars; ~ll the little boys have | traveled where the firmament is grav- | eled with a gilaxy of stars. People | stand up to be married while they are | through cloudland_carried, and they think it gorgervs fun; and they'll teil the weary story L1l their heads are bent | and hoary; Leir empty lives are | done. There is no distinction resting in | the fellow who goes questing through | the silent leagues of air; every one is | busy flying whert l# isn't busy lying in | the Timelight's lurid glare. To old Mother Earth I'm sticking, carefully my steps | I'm picking, as I walk about the tow; | and T have a premonition, strange in | Service. one of my condition, that I yet will gain | renown. Some day voices glad and mellow will proclaim me as the fellow | crowds who now assail me will assemble near and hail me as a plumed and WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1930 ) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Falling Out and In Again. Donald and Arthur are cousins. Their respective families occupy a two-family house. The two mothers, sisters, soon | found that their boys were equally de- termined to boss the common yard Every day there was a cry of complaint | from one or the other and then both. | “Bon hit me.” “Arthur took my shovel and won't give it to me." | All day long the mothers were open- ing.and closing the window that looked down on the scene of action. Then they held a conference. After all, life held | other joys than those latent in watch- | ing two fighting children all day long. | . 'We'll take turns in minding them. Ill‘hgkt a week and you take a week. | We'll'tell them that they'll have to fight | it out and get along together the best | they cali. This nagging has to stop or Il be enemies for life.” 's mother was in charge. She had explained to the two boys what was ex- pected of them and what they might expect from the mother in charge for the week. Of course, they listened byt | took no heed. Words mean very little to young children. Soon there was a wail from the yard. “Arthur hit me.” Don's mother looked at them through the closed window and went on rolling cookies. Don stood at gaze a moment or 50 and then reluctantly turned to his play, scooping sand from a pit with a rather wide stick. The sand was scat- tering over Arthur’s face and into his hair. “Stop it,” he yelled fiercely, both eyes glued on the upper window. “Mom- mer, he's sanding me.” “No answering lift of the window: no comforting, “Never mind.” Both boys seemed puzzled. Then Don went to work with a will. His stick flew up and down and the sand flew like chaff be- fore a strong wind. Arthur turned his back to the blast but it was more than human nature could endure. With a | last cry to the windows for help he bent his head and charged. Over went Don, heels up, head down. The two rolled | over and over in the sand heap, hair pulling, scratching, clutching, yelling. | 8till no answering word from the moth- ers hidden in the background. The two righted themselves, eyed each other ruefully, and sniffed. Don thoughtfully rubbed the back of his head and Arthur combed s=and out of | his thick hair. Then, as if by common consent, they rose, shook themselves and started to build & house. ‘The window opened and mother said, “How would you fellows like a fjelly sandwich?” Side by side on the bottom step they sat and munched. Prom time to time they measured bites. In the living room two mothers sat at the tea table, for the first time in months. had to have it some time or’other, might just as well be now,” said they. (Copyright, 1930.) FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. ‘There are as many ways of keeping food fresh as there are foods to be kept fresh. Here are some ways a good housekeeper has of keeping dif- ferent things in her larder in good condition. Lettuce she has washed as soon as it comes from market and then placed in a paper bag, the top is twisted tight | and the bag is placed on the ice. When it is wanted, it is crisp and cold. Cookies she keeps always in an old- fashioned stone crock, with the cover. tightly on. Crackers are kept in a big tin box with a tightly fitting cover. Eggs are kept, of course, on the ice, and when one has been inavertently broken it is put in a small cup and covered with cold water. Fresh meat is taken immediately from the paper in which it comes from the butcher, placed on a plate and put in the refrigerator. Parsley and watercress she washes thoroughly and wraps, wet, in a plece of cheesecloth, in which she places it on ice. Orange juice, she reminds us, doesn't keep at all well, as the sugar in it causes deterioration quickly Mayonnaise she keeps in a glass jar She keeps it covered ordinarily, but | if the weather is damp and hot she | Massachusetts volunteers. |1y soidierly appearance. three-fourths yards of 39-inch material | removes the cover, as it seems more with three-eighth yard of 35-inch con- trasting is sufficient to make this stun- ning dress, For dining and dancing it is just the prettiest thing imaginable in let- tuce green chiffon with the bows of self-fabric and may be made with or without the sleeves. Biack chiffon is lovely, too, and a little more conservative, and will meet many occasions smartly. Printed chiffon, beige silk crepe or chiffon in face powder pink are fasci- nating combinations. Flame-colored chiffon, black silk crepe and violet-blue silk crepe are chic. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The ‘Washington Star's New York Pashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. ‘We suggest that when you send for this pattern, you enclose 10 cents addi- tionsl for a copy of our new Spring likely to become moldy if it is covered. To Serve the Sick. The juice of an orange in the morn- ing is very acceptable to conyalescents. Buttermilk, when fresh and sweet, is | | nutritious and wholesome. | Raw oysters are easily digested and very nourishing. Apples, nicely baked, are good. Prunes, stewed with a few senna leaves, make a good lgxative. Iced grapejuice is good fur conva- lescents. Ginger ale and appollinaris water can | be taken in cases of nausea. A mustard plaster made with the | white of an egg wiil not hlister. ! A flaxseed inserted in the eye will re- | move a cinder or a particle of dust. One-third linseed ofl and tw: lime water -pfnkd to & burn is a good lcun. ‘Wrap soft linen to exclude Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. April 19, 1861—From the hour early this afternoon when the newspapers went to press, conveying intelligence of an attack' in Baltimore on tre Massachusetts troops on their way to the protection of the Federal city, until the arrival here this evening of the train bearing them, Washington 'City ' was greatly excited Graduaily, as the hour for the ar- rival of the train drew near, a.crowd formed at the railroad depot, comipletely encircling the building. The whistling of an engine about 5 o'clock this eve- ning relieved the feeling of solicitude that had begun to manifest itself, as it gave assurance that the raflroad’ track was not torn up, as had generally been apprehended Presently an engine, bearing a signal flag. rounded the bend at H street and came up to the depot. The engineer, in reply to thousands of questions, said that the train bearing the troops was coming not far behind him. In about five minutes the regular passenger train arrived and was immediately fol- lowed by the extra train bringing the One of the District companies had marched out to the H street curve, and, as the train rounded that point,’ gave three hearty cheers for the men from the Old Bay State. The troop train stopped just outside of the depot, and the soldiers, disembarking, formed in a column and marched through New Jersey avenue and thence to the Capitol, entering the rotunda by the east portico. They were followed by a great crowd, now swelled to several thousands, who cheered the soldiers as they passed along_the street. They were dressed in full Winter uniform. with knapsacks strapped to their backs over their gray overcoats, They presented a thorough- After halting for a while in the rotunda of the Capitol, the men were taken to their quarters in the new Sen- ate chamber and the adjoining rooms. They stacked their arms and laid aside their knapsacks, but no man was per- mitted to take off his overcoat. They remained in readiness for instant The men were so nearly exhausted from want of food and sleep that as soon as they filed into the Senate gal- leries they sank down on the cushioned seats and most of them were fast asleep in a moment. No arrangement had been made, ap- parently, for feeding them. Conse- quently it was a late hour tonight when they finally received food. JOLLY POLLY' A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCIL INSTEAD OF DANCE FLOORS, SOME OF THEM / . OUGHT TO BE __/ eetoisoe CALLED s (DENSE “FLOORS, ( SATURDAY, APRIL 19, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Sage Advice to the Girl Who Resents Criticism. D!:AR MISS DIX—I work with a number of girls who are always correcting e when I speak incorrectly, and that embarrasses me. What would you do about it? ¥ VIOLET. Answer: Why, I should be very grateful to them, Violet. I should feel that they were teaching' me something that I needed to know, and I should never mis- pronounce the word again to which they had called my attention. Most people resent criticism. It hurts their vanity to have their faults and mistakes commented upon, and they grow angry with those who suggest in any way that they are not absolutely perfect, but this is a great mistake because it confirms them in their blunders instead of giving them an opportunity to correct them. In reality we should welcome criticism rather than resent it because it is | the first aid to improvement, and we should seek the saciety of those Who are candid enough to tell us of our faults rather than those who flatter us for our virtues, Al of us have friends and acquaintances who have had better advantages along certain lines than we have had, who have had better educations, better social training, than we have been fortunate enough to have, or who have a peculiar talent for some one thing we lack. How much we could learn from these people if we would only accept their suggestions instead of getting miffed at them. Your friends, for instance, correct your pronunciation and your grammar, and that humiliates you, but it will be far wiser in you to be grateful to them | for what they can teach you, and to feel that they are giving you free a course F. H—At the conclusion of a dance when her partner thanks her, it is not | necessary for the lady to make a verbal | acknowledgment. A smile or a pleasant | nod of the head is considered quite sufficient. Jolly Polly will be glad to answer your questions on English and etiquette. SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Young people riowadays have almost a horror of anything so Victorian as falling in love in Spring, though it is such a natural emotion that a few more | or less do it every year between the March equinox and the June solstice. But there is another Springtide emo- tion quite as natural and far more wide- spread, since it affects children and old people as well. Lacking a_ better title, I'll call it “the wanders.” Down in the North Carolina mountains they say that you step on the wanderweed and get the passion for wandering. I cannot identify this weed in my books, but it must grow everywhere and push up as early as the Spring beauties. ‘What is it gives ypu the wanders? What thing evokes that restless, un- happy, deliciously miserable, all-for- adventure feeling? The distant whistle of a train going over the Potomac head- ing South? The roar of the first elec- tric fan some early warm day? The smell of the first honeysuckle blossom precociously opening? ~ The sight of your canoe, lying upside down, inviting you out on the old canal again? For me it is the calling of a bird down a Virginia valley that is just be- ginning to go green with the first tulip tree leaves no bigger than mouse ears. And it usually comes, this aching feel- ing that' I fear as much as I love it, about the hour of noon. And the little bird somewhere down there in the alder bushes by the rill that goes running away, and running away, says over and over: “The morning is wasted and gone! Come away, come away! You could hitch a ride; you could get to Fred- ericksburg; you could get to Frederick; you could board a trolley and ride to the Blue Ridge; you could walk to Cherrydale; you could walk to Sunny- vale; you could walk to Fairfax. There's still a long time; there's still a while till sunset. Why don’t you run away? Why don't you cut and run for it? If you can't fly, why don't you ride? Run to the Blue Ridge. Run away to- sea. That's what the brook’s doing—running away, running away, running away to sea.” And I say to the bird: “Who'll an- swer my mail? Who'll water the potted fern? Who'll feed the goldfish? Who'll feed the children? If I run away, will you write a sonnet? Will you write an article? Will you write this column?” And the voice of the little bird, chortling in the forest. comes back fainter: “Oh, well, if you want to be practical, it's time for a worm!” ith ear. I wish' fi“fifimfilm 5 in English that you have not the time or the money to take at a school. I know a man of splendid character, who has a brilliant and well-trained mind, who cannot understand why he does not get the promotion he merits in | his business, and why inferior man after man is passed over his head to higher itions. The reason of it is that this man has atrocious table manners. He iterally gargles his food and you can hear him eat soup half across the room. No one has the courage to tell him that his handicap is the boorish way in which he eats, and he is doomed to be a failure in life for lack of some honest criticism. Women are particularly thin-skinned about eriticism, especially about their | clothes and their children, yet many a woman could add 50 per cent to her looks if any one dared tell her that green makes her look sallow, or that she empha- sizes her pug nose by wearing a turned-up hat, or that she is getting so fat she is becoming a figure of fun and that she had better commence counting her‘ calories. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) Flowers in Easter Decorations BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Decorating the house for Easter is|the more sturdy ferns or leaves of one of the pleasant tasks of the home- | decorative value. maker who wishes to have the happ! ness of this great Spring festival re- fiected in beauty indoors. In the South, where flowers and foliage are abundant in gardens, thi is a simple matter, for the homemaker has but to fill her basket or her arms with the gorgeous blossoms and transplant their radiance indoors where vases and bowls are waiting to_be filled. Each room can have its share, with special attention given to living room and dining table. There can even be single blossoms at each person’s place at the table when dinner is served, thus showing indi- vidual attention. In the sections where the weather is not, so° propitious, and cold still pre- vails, decorating the house with fresh flowers is something of a circumstance, for cost becomes an item. A few blos- long‘ m‘yhha':e to do dtul either on growing plants or as cut flowers. To make the best nmw‘t:l the flowers We may well émulate the Japanese in their floral arrangements when we make a few flowers ornament to their fullest extent. It is for no such reason that the Japanese choose to separate blossoms so that each stalk has its own setting, but because this method is in accord with their special interpretation of beauty. And so there is no hint of spreading the flowers when Americans follow Japanese art 913 arrangement. It is frequently followed in homes where money is not an item of consideration. A large flat bowl or dish with up- turned rim so that it will hold water is néeded for. the container, and a per- forated flower holder of glass or metal to stand in the center of the bowl Flowers such as tulips, daffodils, -jon- quils, lilies, etc, which have stiff and staunch stems, should be selected for the flowers and the leaves or fronds of the plants, .m:gu;nh other follage can be mixed with t! 5 three or five flowers in the Arrange 1930. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News. Weather. Partly bum. SPORTING PAGE Sid Hunts big brother Fred smoked 7 cigaretts without utop,)lnl out on Sids frunt steps Sattiday afternoon, mostly through his noee. EXTER! Misterious Disappearants! Shorty Judges foot ball bounced around the corner and disapeered Wens- day afternoon, everybody saying the ony thing they had saw was a tuff looking kid with a bump under his coat. POME BY SKINNY MARTIN My Father Would Like to Know I can laff at almost nuthing, And almost anything makes me smile, And even a detecktive couldent find out ‘What often makes me giggle a while. SISSIETY PAGE Mr. Persey Weever has a new bysickel but he’s having a kind of a hard time lerning to ride it on account of so many of the fellows being so anxious to show him how to do it that somebody elts is genrelly on it, POME BY SKINNY MARTIN Look in the Mirrer Human beans descended from munkeys Billions of centuries ago, But judging by the looks of some of them It ‘was ony last year or so. NANCY PAGE Banana Snow Gives Touch to Easter Tea. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois knew that a few friends would drop in for tea on Easter Sunday. She planned a white and green tea. A dish of tuna fish au gratin, a large bowl of lettuce, cress and endive with French dressing made zestful by the addition of suspicion of garlic constituted the main course. The casserole of tuna fish was ready to be put in oven for heating and browning. The salad | | greens had been washed by Roger and put in salad bag to crisp. The dressing was mixed and waiting. Her dessert was white banana snow. With she had angel food cake. With all the left-over egg yolks she planned to make gold cake, salad dress- ing and boiled custard. To make the banana snow she used two tablespoonfuls unflavored, granu- lated gelatin. She soaked this in one- half cupful cold water. When softened | she added one cup boiling water. She | stirred mixture well, then put in one- half cup lemon juice, three-quarters cupfu] sugar, and another cupful cold water. When lemon juice was not strong enough she added more until mixture was sufficiently tart and sweet enough to have good flavor. This mix- ture was allowed to stiffen until quite firm. stifiy beaten egg whites and one banana cut thin. When the whole mass was snowy white and fluffy Lois folded in three ripe, sliced bananas. This mixture was put back in refrigerator and later served w smooth cream. Lois used Nancy's recipe for Ke. So may you if you wil . self-addressed envelope, with your request to Nancy Page. Send it care of this paper and ask for her Cake Making Leaflet. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. angel food send & One Mother Says: We had tried to get George to eat squash, but to no avail, until after a visit to grandfather’s farm, one day last Fall. Grandfather asked George to g0 to the garden with him to help harvest the squash. To the astonishment of everyone, and to the great delight of George every squash had ‘“George” printed on it. Grandfather then ex- plained that when the shells were soft and green he had printed his name on them in little letters. George was much interested in the mystery and stood about when they were peeled and cooked, and generous servings went on his plate and went down the “Little Red Lane.” (Copyright, 1930.) DAILY DIET RECIPE SOUR CREAM SPICE CAKE. Butter or substitute, one-half cupful. Brown sugar, two cupfuls: Eggs, three. Flour, two cupfuls. Salt, one-fourth teaspoonful. Ground cloves, two teaspoon- s, fuls. Ginger, two teaspoonfuls. Allspice, two teaspoonfuls. Cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls. Soda, one teaspoonful. Sour cream, one cupful. MAKES ABOUT A THREE- POUND CAKE. Cream butter, gradually add brown sugar. Mix well. Add egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Sift all dry ingredients together and add these to butter mixture alter- nately with the sour cream. Fold in stify beaten egg whites. Pour into greased loaf pan and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 45 minutes. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, fat, sugar, starch. Lime and iron present, but vitamins have been damaged by action of the baking soda. Can be eaten occasionally by normal adults who are of average or underweight. holes of the stand, made for this pur- e. Give them a setting by in- rspersing fronds and foliage with these flowers. Use the greenery with the same reserve. A single flower is often laid in the water of the container as if it were floating there. By using this exquisite and restrained method of floral arrangement a dozen blossoms can be divided into four groups, each lending beauty to a table or to whatever part of a room it graces. Then it was beaten with two! BEDTIME STORIES * Une’ Billy Didn’t Know. gome selfishness may have its use, ‘en though it seems without excuse. +—Mrs. Quack. Unc' Billy Possum was certain that pretty soon he would find the nest of Mrs, Quack the Mallard Duck. In fact, he had no doubt whatever. He had fol- lowed Mr. Quack down the Laughing Brook to the Big River. The water was shallow in the Big River for some dis- tance along the shore helow where the Laughing Brook entered. 'In this shal- low water grew ‘wild rice. It was al- ready beginning to ahow, The old stalks of last year formed brown clumps. It was a wonderful hiding place for water-loving birds. A couple of Jerry E\;Kluaknn relatives had built houses ere. Une’ Billy stood on the shore and thought to himself that here was just the hind of a place a Duck would like for nesting. He had lost sight for the moment of Mr. Quack, for Mr. Quack was slipping about among those brown clumps and it was hard to neE track of him. But presently Une’ Billy saw him again and he still appeared to have nothing in particular on his mind. He | was preening his feathers and taking a great deal of care in doing so. Then | what do you think he did? Well, he settled himself for & nap. Yes, sir, that is what he did. L Unc’ Billy Possum was disgusted. He didn’t’ want Mr. Quack to go to sleep. But there was nothing he could do about it. Perhaps after all it was a good sign. PRerhaps Mrs. Quack was close by. What would be more naturai than for Mr. Quéick to take a nap near the place where his mate was sitting on the eggs. ‘So thought Unc’ Billy and felt better for thinking it. Just back & little way on the bank was a trec. Unc’.Billy climbed the tree and crept out on a branch where he could look down on Mr. Quack. It was a splendid place to keep watch. He could look down among those old clumps of wild rice in all directions. His eyes gleamed with eagerness. He felt sure that Mrs, Quack was hidden down there some- where and he felt equally sure that the instant she moved he would see her, But time slipped by and nothing hap- pened. Mr. Quack continued to sleep. Once Une’ Billy saw a Muskrat swim- ming. Finally Mr. Quack awoke, shook BY LOIS Exercise for Thin Limbs. 1. Tam 5 feet 3 inches in height and in perfect health. I am built pretty well, with the exception that my legs from the knees down are very thin and my arms from the elbows down are also very thin, in proportion to my body. Will you therefore kindly advise me whether any exercising will help this at all? Please do not tell me that I need to gain weight all over before my arms and legs will develop, as I am very plump through the body. 2. I am quite dark skinned, but my neck is darker than the rest of my body. What can I do for this? KITTY. Answer—1. Yes, exercising will help to develop arms and legs. Remember, that it must be systematic, however; exercise every day and not just when you happen to remember it or feel like it. Walking will develop the legs and if you can go to a swimming pool once or twice a week a good, brisk swim will de- velop both arms and legs. Both the l':reuz and crawl strokes would be good | or you. Another beneficial set of exercises | which you can do right at home are | the following five positions in dancing’ (1) Heels together, toes out, arms curv- ed in a circle at chest level. (2) Slide | left foot out to side, toes pointed, arms | out at shoulder level. (3) Slide heel of | left foot to instep of right, swing arms into a circle, then extend left out in | front and swing right out backward, | (4) Point forward with left toe, swing | arms into circle, then raise left above | head with right out to the right side. | (5) Bring instep of left foot to toe of right foot at right angles, swing arms into a circle in front, fingers touching, then raise both overhead. Repeat un- til you can go through the exercises smoothly. LOIS LEEDS. | To Reduce Oil in Skin. skin and would like to know what I can do to remedy this. It looks as though it | is cracked or chapped. 2. What can I do for blackheads on my nose and chin? All year around I have small pimples on my arms and legs. 3. I bite my fingernails all the way down and I am now getting knobs on the ends of my fingers. Can you recommend something for me to put on my fingernails to stop biting them? 4. My hands are very rough. How can I have nice soft hands? D. H. Answer—I1. First see that your diet is free from greasy foods and pastries. At night give your face the following treatment: Wash with tincture of green soap and warm water. Rinse well. ‘Wring out a turkish towel in hot water and hold it over the face until it begins to cool. Dip fingers in cream and mas- sage with an upward, rotary motion, beginning at the chin and working all over the face. Remove cream from the skin and pat on some of the following lotion: Two teaspoonfuls tincture of benzoin, four ounces of rose water, two ounces of glycerin, one ounce witch hazel. 2. Give the parts affected with blackheads and pimples the.same treat- ment I have suggested for your face. Blackheads are pretty apt to appear in & too-oily skin. 3. In the cage of children some bitter drug, such as bit- ter aloes, is often painted on the nails to break the habit of biting them. But MODEST g S Dear Miss Leeds—1. I have very oily | W. BURGESS | e (| out his feathers, raised himself water and flapped his wings. " said Unc' R R ut Brer - dig no sort. He m: ito the middie of the river. You sece, ghere\was gome- thing that Unc' sillgi didn't , or he wouldn’t have been wasti watching Mr. Qi:n. He that Mr. Quack is somewhat leaves: the care of those puecio entirely to Mrs. Quack. He d that Mr. Quack self after the HE SWAM OUT INT OF THE RIVER. to their mates. Of course, there was no one for Mr. Quack to join here, so he was staying by himself, Mrs. Quack's nest was not down at the Big River or anywhere near the Big River. Unc” Billy remained up in that tree the rest of that day. Mr. Quack swam across the Big River and didn’t come back. Then Unc’ Billy began to wonder if Mrs. Quack’s nest was across the 'Big River. He couldn’t quite believe that, however, for had he not seen Mrs. Quack up in the Smiling Pool? ‘11 done go back to the Smilin’ Pool,” thought Unc' Billy, “and see if Sis’ Mallard is aroun’ there tonight. Ah reckon Ah mus’'-have made a mistake somehow. Seems lak Ah jus' must have some of those aigs.” (Copyright, 1930.) MILADY BEAUTIFUL LEEDS. surely a girl or woman who bites her nails should be able to cure herself tnrogluh her own determination to do so. If this seems impossible for you, ask your druggist fo give you somethin which you will find decidedly unpleas- ant to taste. 4. Be sure to dry them thoroughly after each time they are washed and then apply a lotion made of O THE MIDDLE ¢ 'Y equal parts of glycerin and rose water. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1630.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥. CORY. 7 I gived up tryin’ to do good. Maybe Dod dest wants 'ittle boys to hab fun. (Copyright, 1930.) i LITTLE SIST! BY RUBY HOLLAND: anta Claus an’ the Easter Bunny ren't cousins, but they mus' be some ‘lation ’‘tause they bof allus bring me presents 3 e (CBByright, 1030 MAIDENS - “QE. GARTAIN. GANT QU SRR AX.5.98 fi"__. L] ’