Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 23

Every little girl in school this Autumn wants to wear a separate blouse. It makes her feel grown up and important, but if you are a wise mother you will persuade her to wear her separate blouse with' a skirt of the suspender sort be- cause then there will be no question about keeping' the blouse from pulling up. The sketch shows one of the newer sort of suspender dresses, which may best be made from one of the new light- weight challis materials in a small- design’' which doesn't show the spots that one must expect mow and then. To make the skirt portion you ‘will need to buy two widths of the ma- terial, which should be of the proper length for the skirt plus 4 inches each for a hem. It is a good plan to make a hem as deep as this so that it may be let down another season. The skirt is simply gathered at the top and joined to the upper jon which hangs from the shoulders. No placket opening is needed. ‘To make the upper portion follow the diagram. For a child of about 8 the dimensions should be as follows: A-B and C-D—9 inches. A-C and B-D—15 inches. A-E—3 inch. B-F and A-M—S inches. A-J and B-K—7Y% inches, 1 inches. L-N—31, inches. D-G—4 inches. D-H—T inches. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Pears. Hominy with Cream. Chicken Wiggle. ‘Toasted Crackers. Pear Sauce. Brownies. Tea. ‘WAFFLES. ‘Two cupfuls flour, four tea- spoonfuls baking powder, two teaspoonfuls sugar, one-half tea- spoonful salt. Put into sifter, sift twice. Separate two eggs, add one and one- ‘well, then add four tablespoonfuls melted butter (beat), then the whites folded in lightly. Cook on hot irons greased well. Al waffles to be good must be eaten right off the iron. FRUIT S£LAD WITH GOLDEN "DRESSING. Take equal parts of peeled, seeded white grapes, sliced canned peaches and sliced pme-pg:d,smt in small bits. Arrange of lettuce leaves on the salad plates and mounds of each separate fruit upon them. Serve with the quarter cupful each of orange and pineapple juice with one-quarter cupful of lemon juice in a double pf sugar and cook in the fruit juice until the spoon is well coated. Remove to a dish of cold water, beat smooth, and when cool fold in one-half cupful of heavy cream beaten firm. BROWNIES. 1 . Cream together two eggs, one cupful sugar, one-half cupful ‘me butter and two table- uls of cocoa or one square ..0f chocolate melted and one-half :mpmml vanilla. Add one- . cupful bread flour, one-quar- fer teaspoonful baking powder ~and pinch of salt. Beat well and :hnppe:i' ‘:‘l’: uone- ':uptul uts. o ter tins to about 25 minutes, or until when depressed e Taeer. - | tissues and thus reduce the oil. fi"'i"“""'"" A PRACTICAL SORT OF SCHOOL RESS 8-YEAR-OLD WORN OVER A A-1 and 3-2—4 inches. 1-2—1 inch. ABE MARTIN SAYS So many folks seem to be gittin’ so much out o' ther unemployment that I expect they’ll be sorry when times ‘Women are about the only simpler things o’ life that still attract us. (Copyright, 1930.) ‘NATURE IN AUTUMN BY D. C. Autumn or Fall. I'l'lllcanmcnuiin(ln!nl‘lhhu. says to hear our American habit of calling the Autumn the Fall spoken of with amusement. Apparently it has a homely sound ‘to English ears, like, . " for carriage, or ‘“critter,” or “victuals.” Undoul Autumn is a word in better standing. It comes from the Latin “autumnus,” which has a grand, sonorous ring in it, like a plece of old bronze. “Fall” is also a poetic word, it seems to me. In this season it is not only Tobet Icopostot ph e tever m phenomenon; ever of Summer also falls, seeds fall, the empire of life falls and crumbles at the approach of Winter. ‘We accept the simple fact of falling leaves as the result purely of gravity. ‘The wind tears the dead leaves from the tree. But if you will go out in the woods, or even the city streets, on| a windless day you will notice that leaves are falling quietly and steadily.| I counted 30 leaves to the minute on an ash tree this year. At that rate the| ash tree might easily be denuded com- pletely in 24 héurs, though perhaps the | rate of leaf fall would not be kept up.| But the interesting thing was what made them fall. ‘The answer is not so simple as it looks. It is not sufficient to say that! the leaves were dead; for, in the first place, they were probably not quite| dead. They were still soft, moist, glow- | ing with color, and probably if tests| were applied we ghould find that they | ‘were still slightly breathing (for leaves are the Jungs of a tree). Even if they were dead, it would not explaig why they lingered, since dead| o:.g leaves often cling on all Winter. Dead pine needles sometimes stick to) the twig for years. i ‘The fact is that if we could examine the leaves under a microscope we should | find that at the base of the leaf stalk| a row of callous, fragile, cetachable cells had wedged themselves in between | the normal tissue cells, and these| brought about leaf fall. In short, the tree has deliberately cut its leaves adrift. It is part of an intentional plan | that the leaves fall, and neither wind,/ frost nor the death of the leaves| causes it. | So the deciduous trees prepare them- | selves for Winter, and by shedding| their leaves they cut down, as it were, expenses; they avoid the upkeep of a; vast and useless series of rooms. Cat-Tail Seeds. Where in the marshes all was green| Autumn at its sprightiiness, he may now suddenly is nothing but the brown ellow of decay. Few people, save the duck hunters, visit the marshes | and the in Autumn, yet they are worth a hour in a rowboat, if only for the sake of seeing the haste of the departing water birds and the strange, magical fruiting of the league on league of Cll-‘ %ail heads ranked like an army through | e et 1o el spikes urn to| Do .P: the tip. The wind| waters with a lazy power. Away blows the tip, a hundred '“;l‘.h‘go"‘ v rown s "tfkt down passes over the a thousand seeds, ten thousand, in motion, like sailboats at & has adapted of seed distribution del that evoutionary clock, has gone ek the same as the dan- ndelion, one of the newest of the earth’s plants, if we look at the back to | the streets of villages and suburbs. erd‘nflwr I should have said PEATTIE. the ancient and honorable custom of the cat-tail, which in modern text books is put down as the “lowest,” or at least most primitive, of flowering mfi- after the conifers. The aunts in its great family have evi- dently concluded that as a means of inheriting the earth seed ition by means of silky tufted salling or gliding devices cannot be improved on. If you would convince yourself of this fact, you have only to take a look at the present-day kingdom of the cat- Europe; it renges throughoot Agis, and ; it ranges is widespread in most of the ics in ackish marshes. fresh and br . There are probably no places where it could grow that it does not grow. in part, is due to the fact that, a very ancient plant, it has had time to spread about over the e-nn.! as the orchids, for instance, which are a very new family, have not. other plants, like the redwoods and the cycads, have had and have not held their own. There must be marvelous capacities for life, enduring vital force, elastic adaptations to various environments, which account for the success of the cat-tail. The most interesting plants are not the rare ones, but the common ones. Raking Leaves. Many normal human occupations have been replaced by mechanical in- ventions, and often people who are obliged to perform those manual opera- tions that a ‘hine cannot perform feel themselves highly abused. If the cord of the electric iron breaks, a washerwoman is utterly helpless. Rather than use the old-fashioned flaf irons, she will go without the day's wages. I knew a boy who, unable to cbtain the family car, could not im- agine how he was going to travel 12 oy bling preface to a_ gruml preface to my theme, which is raking Autumn leaves. I am glad ncbody has invented a gaso- line raker. It would be one more noise, one more smell, one more paralysis of the human arm. Even sweeping leaves off a sidewalk in the city is better than having no leaves to sweep. 1 love to see the brown etched patterns on the cement when wet leaves are swept away. There the acid in the decaying leaves has left an imprint like a sort of ephemeral fossil of the vanished Summer. He who has a lawn patch, be it no | bigger than a pocket handkerchief, | where, under faultless blue skies, in the | balm of Indian Summer, or.the tang of wield his old, time-silvered rake upon the rustling fallen hosts of leaves, is luckier, 1 say, than the apartment dweller for whom there is nothing left to do; luckier still than the man who, having the plot and the leaves, dares | not touch them for fear of his gardener. ‘Though leaves should be raked from lawns, may well be piled around jpecially tender rose plants. not, however, place them over bulb gardens. The moisture retained be- | neath them often rots the bulbs. If you have a large lawn, you may | find. a g.hlue for everwintering your leaves. ey make the finest garden mold conceivable when thoroughly rotted. If you hlg‘no room for a leaf just as much time |. G el NING LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. o T ~HE EVE Ma was studying the list of automo- beel questions and ansers so she could take the examination for her drivers license, saying to pop, My goodness Willyurh such a silly abserd useless set of questions to ask peeple in a free country and make them gnser before theyll give you a little printed card that they awt to just casually mail to you in the ferst place without any fuss or feathers and trust to your own con- uum.: weather you know how to drive or not. ‘They all concern the rules of the road and so forth and their all neces- serry to know in the intrists of safe driving, pop sed, and ma sed, Well then please tell me what is necesserry about this one about parking such and such a number of feet from a fire plug? Do ::y think the fire plug will blow up? sed. No, they think that in case theres a fire in that immediate vicinity a fire engine just mite axsidently happen to be in the nayberhood and the firemen mite notice the fire plug and decide it was a good time to use it, pop sed. And if your car happened to be leening againgt it at the time, it would nat- urelly irritate the firemen and they mite get in a fite amung themselves and neg- lect their duty, he sed. Well I must say thats a very far fetched objection and their just going out of their way to make the examina- tion complicated and difficult insted of simple and easy, ma sed. Let the fire- men take.another fire plug if one hap- pens to be occupied. I must say there are enough of them to pick and choose from. The last time I took Benny downtown he arrived home with his hands a perfeck site from continually touching fire plugs that had just been unnecesserrily repainted and if the ex- aminer asks me how close Im sippose | to get to a fire plug Ill cooly reply no closer than is necessary to drag my son away from the wet paint that their ‘always and forever covered with. And she kepp on reeding the ques- tions to herself on account of pop go- ing around to the bowling alley. Milady Beautiful BY LOIS LEEDS. 0ily Sin. Dear Miss Leeds—Will you please give me your advice on the following ques- tions? (1) What can I do for an cily skin? (2) Will Witch-hazel close the pores after squeezing out blackheads? MISS TROUBLED. Answer—(1) Gently massaging the face will tend to break up the 151'“:’ rst, of course, you must pay strict attention to your diet, and if you are eating pastries or fried foods, give them up altogether until your skin is in better condition. The fcllowing toilet water is especial- Iy Jfor an oily skin, particularly it “pores have a tendency to be en- | larged: One-half pint rose water, oner teaspoonful borate of soda, 20 drops tincture of quillaya, 20 drops essence of lavender, one teaspoonful tincture ben- zoin. Mix well and place in bottle. | soap and or proves too strong, dilute with more rose water. Please watch my beauty column for a future article on oily complexions,l as it will give you further help with this problem. LOIS LEEDS. (2) Yes. Curling Lotion. TriTs STAR PARIS Grmine dyed dove gray forms foresteeves and big collar of a block broadcloth coat with circular movement model. OCTOBER DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR MISS DIX: Don't you think mothers do their children a grea injustice by treating them too kindly and waiting upon them as though they were invalids? My mother has been too good to me all my life. She has spoiled me by overlooking my faults and bad habits, instead of helping me to overcome them, and ihstead of teaching me to stard on my own feet and struggle through the world myself, she has protected me from every hardship. 1 am about to be married, and as,she has always watched and directed my every move, she takes it very hard because I refuse to live with her after I am married, but I realize that my only salvation is to get away from her and try to make a woman of myself. I have a 9-year-old brother who is being spoiled as I was and I ha think of his growing up to be one of the help’l’:& men who are llw.ysuthtg TWEN' to mother’s apron strings. But what can one do? Answer: MiIss 'TY-TWO. T agree with you, Miss Twenty-Two, that the overtender mother is the greatest curse that any child can have. Terrible as it is for a child never to know any mother love at all, it is better for one to hi is to have a mother who loves it overmuch. I e e Such mothers unfit their children for life. They rear them into weaklings x;mucfln[ them from every harsh wind that blows and standing between them every hardship. They children’s thinking for them. kill every particle of initiative by doing all of their They are so afraid of their children getting hurt that they make them Use this after cleansing the face with cowards who dare not take the slightest risk. They cultivate selfishness in them with.gther people. water and also after cleansing by sacrificing , themselves for them, and they make them overbearing and g with cream. If the lotion tyrannical by spoiling and pampering them so that they can never get along Half of the men who are failures could point their fingers at their mothers and say, “You did it. I was a boy. You never made me stick at a task until I finished it when You never made me do anything I didn’t want to do, and so I formed no habits of industry or perserverance. ‘You let me loaf and idle and so I have never been able to settle down to hard work. You never taught me to do without things, and so I became extravagant and wasteful. You never taught Dear Miss Leeds—With the aid of | me to control my temper, and I have lost good job after good job because I could your good advice I have finally learned how to arrange my hair in becoming | waves without using the ircn. Put| here’s my trouble—the waves don’t stay | but a day or two, and sometimes not more than a few hours. Is there such a thing as a liquid which can be put on the hair to make them stay in? If there is, will you please tell me where I could get it? R. E. Answer—Yes, indeed, there is such a thing as a curling lotion, which, when put on the hair will induce the waves to stay in much longer. You may pro- cure it at mest any drug store or make your own of the following ingredients: One-half ounce quince seeds or flaxseed, one and one-half ounces alcohol, one and one-half ounces cologne water, 10 drops oil of cloves, 12 drops oil of lavender. Boil the quince seeds gently in a pint of water until half of the liquid has evaporated. Strain through cheesecloth and stir in the other in- If the mixture is too thick the desired consistency is obtained. Moisten the hair with this lotion before arranging the waves. LOIS LEEDS, Attention, readers—Every day I re- ceive a great many letters from my readers asking for advice or for one or more of my beauty leaflets, saying, “I am inclosing a self-addressed, stamp- ed envelope.” In numerous letters there is neither stamp, envelope nor address—just an oversight on your part. ‘Won't you please make sure that this rule is complied with when you send your requests for leaflets as well as for personal replies, and that the necessary self-addressed, stamped envelope hasn't been forgotten? LOIS LEEDS. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Have you plenty of closet accessories in your home? You may think that this means that there will be just a lot of additional “stuff” to receive atten- tion in the way of dusting and keeping them clean, but if you once learn of their value in keeping your wearing ap- parel neat and clean, you will find that you will have plenty of time to give them (the accessories) the necessary care in return for their splendid service. Now the idea is to have the acces- sories match your closet color scheme, and if you haven't a color scheme for this tiny room in your house, this will be your Fall “job"—to get one, and match everything in it. A dozen coat hangers covered in ging- ham, chintz, calico or silk will take care of as many dresses and blouses, and the little shoe trees should be covered in the same material. The two hat stands, one a carved flower and the other an ary one ;:’:'llered in satin ribbon will be a big of the dust of the shelf, and of course, for the “Sunday-go-to-meeting” hat there is nothing like a hot box covered paper and decorated with a fash- ion print, the entire box being shellacked to make it water-proof. (Copyright. 1930.) pile, you will be iged to make fires of them, and of all the Autumn odors none is so poignant as the smell of Summer’s pyre of glory drifting down in_ keeping hats straight and out | o Although India is the largest cane-|f. country in the world, nearly o{hl.n(u was import not get along with those with whom I worked. You enervated me. the very muscles of my soul flabby.” You made DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) Decorating for Winter Weather BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. It is time to be putting the house in order for the Winter season and to give the rooms new decorative touches. This may come through having rooms re- papered and painted, the furniture done over and the whole aspect changed. Usually some one room undergoes such decided renovation. In the main, how- ever, it is by slight alterations that rooms are given a changed appearance. Rugs that have been taken up during the hot season, when replaced give warmth and ornamental comfort to a room that is in accord with the cold weather necessities. The heivy hang- ings for windows which were undesirable in Summer, when rehung dress up win- dows. Choice wall hangings that have been put to one side, cleaned and re- hung lend cheer and gayety to offset the atmosphere of bleak November days soon to come. When to these regular changes from Summer to Winter deco- ration Is added the removal of the cool- looking furniture coverings, unneeded now, the rooms appear quite different and ‘actually refreshed. If one feels that this season calls for special restrictions in outlay for re- decoration, the home decorator will have to look to her own ingenuitv and skill to supply the desired added notes of decoration. If a new rug is sorely needed, she can make it as easily with her own hands as she can do other fancy work. The subject of rug-making has been taken up in this department recently, and advice has been given in e g of knit rugs in particular. Directions for making a tile rug in plain knitting will be sent any reader who incloses a self-addressed and stamped envelope. Direct the outer en- velope to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. Handsome patchwork and nppl.ltfie quilts can be made for beds, for old- ashioned rooms. Wad quilts with wool ht and warm as fi and they are ine ted blankets. Discarded frocks can be used for the quilt tops as well as for rugs. Bedsoreads can be of linen or silk ap- plll}(fl‘ad on net. Or they can be of strips of knitting or crochet used alternately with narrow widths of linen in white or natural linen tones. Entire spreads can be made ot crochet or kniting, but these take double the time to fasnion. All of these styles of quilts and spreads can be beautiful, and they would be expensive to buy, for handwork is costly. ‘Wall hangings can be made of em- broidered linen in Jacobean style. As the designs are large and can be worked chiefly in outline, these take a short time to make. Wool yarns are used for the embroidery. Cross-stitch pictures and hangings can be made from pat- terns that have appeared in this depart- ment. A smart design for a small sil- houette in cross-stitch to be worked through canvas or linen can be had by inclosing 5 cents in stamps with a re- quest sent in an envelope directed to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. The size of the design depends upon the size of the canvas through which it is worked. When completed, frame in a narrow black molding. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Hide and Seek. My children had been frightened of the dark by a nurse, and I planned a game to break them of the bad habit, for fear is a habit. We played hide and seek in the dark, and when all were hid, the child who was “It” snapped on the lights and then hunted for the others. By hiding in the dark they soon grew accustomed to it, and their fear vanished very quickly, but their fond- ness for the remained. Of course, I had not told them why we were play- ing this game. ] NI 4, 1930. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 4, 1824.—Mayor Samuel N. Smallwood's death has put the whole City of Washington in mourning. The Mayor of the National Capital ¢ied five days ago and has recently been placed in his Jast resting place, while most-of the shops of Pennsylvania avenue were closed out of respect to the deceased official of the city. Now that two days have passed since the funeral of the Mayor the citizens of Washington have had time to appraise his merits and his work for the city. In announcing his death the Daily National Intelligencer says: “He been indisposed for several weeks, but his disorder did not assume a threatening aspect until a few days before it terminated his useful lite, The deceased .was universally esteemed o5 & private citizen and justly respected as a public one; the best bonds of proof of which were his repeatedly receiving from the hands of his fellow citizens the highest honor and most important trust within their gift. This city in his death loses the services of a most effi- clent chief magistrate—to his family the loss is irreparable.” After giving a notice of the funeral October 2, the same newspaper says: “As a mark of respzct to the merits of this citizen, the shops on the Avenue were closed at 3 o'clock yesterday for the remainder of the day.” The body of “Mayor Smallwood has been placzd in the Congressional Ceme- tery, where a suitable monument to his memory will be erected. Samual Nicholls Smallwood was a an immigrant to the colony of Mary- land. His wife, too—Mrs. Martha Ann Smallwood—was a Marylander. The deceased Mayor came to the City of Washington in 1794, six years before the transfer of the Federal Government here from Philadelphia. He had super- intendence of the laborers on the Capitol and later became a merchant and wharfinger, with his wharf on the East- ern Branch betwesn Third and Fourth streets. He dealt chiefly in lumber. Mr. Smallwood was elected Mayor of the Federal City first June 6, 1820. Among the important acts of his ad- ministration have been local tax reform, an act for the preservation of the navigation of the harbor, establisnment of the Washington Asylum and the prescribing of conditions under which t | free colored persons may reside in this city. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. A feller says to me: “Does your Muvver make you stand ‘round?” “Well,” I tell him, “I should say not! I does my standin’ ‘round by myself, if I gets a chance.” (Copyright, 1930.) NANCY PAGE Learns How to Get Along With Peter, Jr. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy's son Peter was an tive, sturdy child, who had developed a sturdy will as well. Fortunately his father and mother knew that such a will was an asset properly controiled. But how to control it? That was the question. Both parents failed at times, but basically, they made progress. For instance, Peter could do more with his son than could his mother because he spoke more slowly, more emphatically and less often. When Nancy was tired her conver- sation was usually & mass of “don'ts” and because there were so many of them Peter Page, jr., paid little at- tention. Consequently Nancy went on reapeating them, working herself up to nervous pitch and finally antagoniziag the small son. But his father sald, “Peter, listen to me. You must not touch that again,” and Peter did net. Or if he did, his father punished him, right then and there. In other words, the punishment followed the disobedi- ence so quickly that the baby learned to associate the two. Because struggle to make the boy obey had not been prolonged the father was not ex- asperated and therefore did not punish the child as an escape valve for his own irritation. Take the matter of eating. If the small boy refused to drink his milk, his father said: “Drink the milk and then you may have the apple sauce” (or whatever the favored food of the mo- ment might be). If Peter, jr., refused, his father said, 1l right, then there is no apple sauce.” And he put his attention. elsewhere. When the baby learned that coaxing and fussing got him nowhere with his father, he took the milk, rather sureptitiously, it is true, but he took it. Then his father put his attention back upon his son and gave him the apple sauce. The seeniing indifference of the father won obedience, whereas Nancy's pleading and coaxing only made the child more stubborn. (Copyright, 1930 WHO REMEMBERS? AY DICK MANSFIELD, Registered U. S. Patent Office. | ‘When Grace Shannon, “Queen of the - Air,’ visw? attracted the crcwds to River- descendants of Col. James Smallwood, | by ¥ FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIE Impy Spills Load of Nuts, Danger lurks where least suspected, And oft appears when least ex: —Old Mother ted. ature. It never does to be so intent on one thing that everything else is forgotten. It is dangerous. It has cost the lives of many of the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. It caused Impy, the black Chipmunk, to lose two pockets full of sweet little beechnuts. He was lucky, very lucky, 4 STRIPED CHIPMUNK DODGED AROUND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TREE. that he did not lose his lifz as well. He might have. Yes, indeed, he ‘might e. ve. ‘You see, this was Impy’s first harvest. He was working very hard Indeed to fill the storerooms i his snug home. There were many other nut harvesters and so Impw worked fast, wholly intent on getting his share, As a matter of fact, he had his share and more, too. Now, thers were other people inter- ested in that harvest—people who them- selves did not eat beechnuts. They were not interested in th: beechnuts, but they were interested in some of the little people Who were gathering the beechnuts. One of these was Sharpshin, the Hawk. He was especially interested TF BY THORNTON W. BURGESS watched until he knew just which way they went and how they went, as t| hurried to and fro, now with thel pockets filled and again with their pockets empty. Then he bided his time. It came soon. Impy, with both cheeks stuffed with bcechnuts until he couldn’t get another one in, started for home. He was so intent on getting there that he didn’t even look around for possible danger. He forgot that there was such a thing as danger. “Look out!” shricked Striped munk suddenly. “Look out, Impy!” Impy didn't stop to look. He simply! dodged behind a tree and he was none| too soon. There was the sharp whistle| of wings as Sharpshin swooped and! barely missed him. Sharpshin turned quickly and came swooping back. Striped Chipmunk dodged around to the other side of the tree. Once again he was barcly in time. Then Impy did a thing. He emptied both pockets of th nuts they contained. He realized tha he couldn't dodge with his cheel swelled out as they were with th pockets full. Neither could he run he might have to run. He did it none too soon, for Sharpshin was joined Mrs. Sharpshin and Impy needed every bit of his spced and dodging ability. § For a few minutes it was breathless’ work. Sharpshin would swoop and Impy would dodge around the tree, only to be swooped at by Mrs. Sharpshin. began to look bad for Impy. It was just about this time that Buster Bear came along. He came shuffling along lazily, for he is given to being lazy. He was feeling extremely good natured. He had had his fill of sweet beechnuts. more he want:d. There was nof He stopped close by the tree, around which Impy was dodg-. ing. Impy saw his chance. He darted| out right under Buster Bear. Buster} was back to him at -the time and! didn't see him. Sharpshin and Mrs.; Sharpshin screamed their rage and dis-| appointment. They didn’t dare swoop| at Impy there, Buster Bear thought! they were shrieking at him, so he/ growled at them. As for Impy, he. watched his chance and presently got! safely away. As soon as he dared, he| went back to those nuts. They were' not there. You se2, Chatterer, the Red | Squirrel, had watched the whole per-} formance and he had taken those nuts: in Striped Chipmunk and Impy and little’ Mrs. Impy. Unseen by them, he ot #ha very first opportunity. (Copyright, 1930.) ‘ PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Learning to Like Food. It is now pretty well known to all who can learn, that a child is not born with | If you | an instinctive fear of snakes. give your baby a playful little snake as a pet, the baby will accept it and get along with it quite as happily as he would with any other plaything. Of course, if you let the baby see that you or others in his environment fear the snake or feel any repugnance for the t, the baby will soon learn to regard ff just as you do. That's the whole secret of the snake and many other phobias. If you, wish to give your child cod liver oil,’ or even castor ofl, the child will take it as readily as h> takes his food if you or others in the environ- ment do not teach the ‘child that the cod liver oil or the castor oil is unpleas- ant. There are more and better ways of teaching a baby things than just t-li- ing him. The baby learns to interpret your unconscious facial expression be-~ fore he learns to understand your oral or verbal expression. I have just learned to eat, if not to like particularly, caraway seeds in my cookies, buns and similar dewdads. It has taken something like 40 years to break down my repugnance for caraway in or on anything edible. Just how I got that way in the first place I am not sure, but I vaguely vecall that Mrs. Kindneighbor used to make the grandest cookles, but besides being sub- ject to eye trouble the good woman always peppered her cookies with a sprinkling of caraway seeds. ‘Mashed potatoes—well, it is compara- tively safe to serve ‘em to me that way if we're eating some place where it is not permitted to throw things. But it BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES. Beginning a Diet. As T have often said, the best way | to begin a diet is by fasting. I think this must put off & lot of the people who intend going on a diet day after | tomorrow, or week after next, or when- ever it may be. But I am not much interested in such weaklings; they can all go on getting fatter and fatter, and older and older, and uglier and uglier, and it makes no difference to me! But if woman really wants to get thinner— CGoing for a day, two days, on a liquid diet is wonderful. ‘The stomach, which has expanded to hold more and more food and which demands more and more at each meal, as a result, gets itself properly cleaned out and 1t shrinks. It shrinks and expands very readily and very rapidly, but in two days, it will really have shrunk quite a decent amount. So you can take inches in if you wear a corset. A lot of the fullness around your waist is gas, you know; and a liquid died helps get rid of that. First/ day—Coffee with hot milk and no sugar for breakfast. Mid- morning, the same. Lunch, consomme or clam broth or chicken broth. Mid- afternoon, two cups of weak hot tea with lemon. Dinner, same as lunch. Bed-time, hot water.” And I forgot to say that on waking in ‘the morning, a good half-hour before breakfast, take two glasses of hot, salty water. Also, drink as much hot or cold water during the day as you want. This flushes out your whole system, most especially the liver, but incidentally, stomach and intestjnes. And if you suspect some colonic trouble, better be- gin this fast with a two teaspoonful dose of castor oil, taken first thing on waking, in orange juice—you won't taste it then. This gives you a good house-cleaning, and when followed by two days of a liquid diet, it leaves you pretty well scrubbed out inside. Also, it makes the first day of the fast easy for it does take, away your appetite. Try it—then eat lightly for as many weeks as are necessary. Yvonne S.—The reducing lotion is made by dissolving a piece of gum camphor in alcohol or bay rum. Cam- phor cake should be about two inches square, and three-eighths of an inch thick, to a pint of the alcohol. The kind sold for bathing will do very well. The camphor dries the fatty tissues under the skin which is reason for the reduction. Since camphor is so | drying, however, this lotion, or any | other with camphor in it, should not be used on the face or thoat, neither on the bust. You are all right in using it for fat thighs and knees. Katharine B—Rub plenty of cream or ofl into the warts on your face, and trust to a gradual sloughing off in a natural way. Oysters With Spinach. Scald six large oysters in their own liquor and chop six more oysters fine. | out all water from one quart of cooked spinach and chop fine. Add to this one tablespoonful of minced gl:lign. » nnl;llt tc;f butter, a of sal e pepper and one tablespoonful of.aetm. Put this into a double boiler and keep hot. Add the chopped oysters and one beaten egg and mix well. Put one whe'e oyster in each ramekin and add the spinach mixture, then cover with half a Bfll.l of buttered crumbs. Bake in a mo: ate gven for 10 minules. BRADY, M. D. is only when they're mashed that I get peeved about the taters, somehcw. I think I associate potatoes in that de- plorable state with squash. The most memorable Thanksgiving, so called, din. ner was ruined for me because our host: insisted on serving a huge mound of squash right along with the turkey. Sguash all over the plate, no matter where you tried to spear a bit of meat or stuffin’. And so, ever since, my life has been embittered, for I can't think of Thanksgiving in terms of turkey; it spells just squash to me. For the dumb there is no moral in this. For the intelligent there should be a good lesson in child training. For: the fatter class there is nothing more: to say. For the former we had better state_the precepts: 1. Never discuss food likes or dis-- likes at table or in the child’s press ence. Provide proper food in reasom-* able variety and as attractively - pared and served as possible. Then all hands take it or leave it. 2. 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