Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1930, Page 42

WOMAN’S PAGE. NATURE IN AUTUMN BY D. C. Days of Gray Skies. AD‘I'UHN s almost over—if by that melodious word we mean that de- lghttul mn season when there is still d in maple leaf, lingering balm the air and a last gentian or aster ng in the woods. Even Indian vanished. The desolate days are at hand—if you are one of those whose spirits sink with gray “The sedge has withered from the lake, and no birds sing"—so Koats lamented, and nobody has ever since expressed the sadness of Autumn in two lines so well. But an American Au- fumn can never be quite hopcless in its melancholy. There is too much sting and splendor in the air. We do not have the odor of box and ivy and the | wet chill of Buropean Novembers to make us pensive. Instead, there is foot ball, with the lighting of the first fireplace logs. You may drive some strange little inhabitants out of your chimney when you start your evening | fires, and perhaps master cricket will | chirp some reproachful remarks. | Indeed, on & tour around the outside | of my house, I am astonished et the | number of inscts that I find running | along the walls, huddling close to the warmth that steals through from the heated interior. Poor creatures! In vain they spin | out their brief existence—a few frosty | nights and they will be done for! | Sometimes there are even less wel- come visitors than the common garden insects. I often meet a numbed centi- and (having an intense dislike ?;’dehh tribe) I make a menacing gesture. Off he shoots with a speed that almost defies the eye to follow it. Once or twice I have encountered & small snake lying up against the | foundations where a chimney flue THE STAR® DAILY PATTERN SERVICE A tterned creepy Wwoolen with appeal closes at the back with a’filfl from neck to hipline. 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A copy should be in every home, for, of course, :!t] 'wumm‘ wants to Iogk her best thout great expense, and this book points the wa: | corn, pumpkins, mince pies and cran- | consumption: | the working materials from which the PEATTIE. passes in the walls, Hoptoads, moles, homeless cats, are among the chilled, hungry little waifs who drew near, in trembliing, to the shelter of our abodes. And now, in the cellars and attics and partitions, the mice begin to run. I hear them nibbling and scampering when I lie awake and the night wind rises, sharp and unkindly. They re- { mind me rather pathetically* of apart- | ment dwellers on moving day, rushing |to take leases, with a fine flourish | of packers and movers, and much call- |ing up and down stairs and out of windows, Alas, they do such damage, the:e soft, swift little rodents, that I shall be obliged to defend myself against them, and with cruel traps and crueler poisons (since they elude all other methods) I shall, in my tyranny, encompass their deaths. Autumn Grains. Even the Pufitan fathers, who came to this, our New World, with their minds looking back to the Old, per- ceived that there was in our American Autumn a something more sprightly than any English Autumn, a some- thing sumptuous, mellow and bright. and so they made a great feast (wasn't it 1622?) in homor of the first good harvest in the hard, new land. If my mcmory serves me rightly from my | school books, the menu of that first strain on the American digestion con- | sisted of wild turkey, squash, Indian | be sauce. The last two may have begxyknown in Old England. But the corn and the pumpkins and squash were Indian foods, and the turkey, almost identical with the barnyard bird of today, was wild in the woods. Since that first Thanksgiving feast, the poor wiid snrkey has fared far W than the Tndian who us hunt him. It is a characto American pioneer histoyr w Tesol ic wasted”in thoughtless the .urkey wis perhaps the first vietim; w. v. as a wild bird, he survives in & 1.~ tracts of the Southwest, Even so he has not suffered the fate of the passenger pigeon, which is utterly extinct. We now feed, breed and protect master gobbler. | For some reason I cannot logically | justify, I would rather eat a domestic turkey than a little wild thrush, such as lies in every European market stall, these Autumn days. It is otherwise with corn, that mar- velous golden cereal, the Red Man's greatest gift tc humanity. Fortunately for that species of vegetable called by botanists Zea Mays, it has circulated | as freely as if it had been the purest gold. Carefully man has borne seeds around the world, and far has it traveled from its ancestral home— which was probably Mexico. There i§ nothing so fascinating as the origins of our most precious plants, and the elusive fact is that, in most cases, their origins cannot be discovered, though it would seem at first glance that nothing ought to be easier. But the wild ancestor of wheat has never been found. And nobody yet has discovered the wild ancestor of the corn that you will nibble, piping hot, on Thanksgiving day. Burbank thought | he had found it—or had evolved it out of teosinte erass—but his plant was a hybrid bctween teosinte grass and | corn. Where did the Red Man find kingliest of cur Autumn harvest grains was bred, selected and evolved? Forces of Decay. The harvest is gathered—wheat and corn and apple and pear, pumpkin and squash and gourd. There have been places where the harvest was a bitter disappointment. History, alas, shows innumerable esgricultura! disasters; but in the end they all heal: better years come around, in the slowly wheeling of the cycles. Now the trees stand bare. The farmwife’s currant bushes by the driveway, too, are leafless. In the woods, the wild fruits drop their pits and seeds; the stems of the wild flowers die back to the roots; the wind will break them, the rains will rot them, and h!\‘ the end the forces of decay will take them. ‘The word decay sounds repulsive, yet the ruinous traces of the forces of de- cay are in themselves a sort of wild harvest that comes after man has plucked the fruits and threshed the grain. The tiny seeds of destruction, the spores of mold, the fungus threads that bind and suck, the fiery spots of rust, are foes if they fall too soon upon | the plants we tend. But if they come | | as they, usually do, with the punctuality of the migrating birds, we owe them a | thankful thought which is rarely be- stowed on them. Think what the surface of our earth would soon be like but for these very Liliputian sweepers, cleaners and ering needs. [VITALITY IS LOW AT FOUR 0’CLOCK AMONG WORKERS Fatigue During This Zero Hour Can be Overcome by Sugar Pinishing the day's work “dead tired” is neither wise nor necessary. Everybody knows that a fatigued/ system is readily susceptible to the | common ills. To maintain vitality during the last half of the day is| therefore essential, not only for the sake of health but efficient work. One of the simplest ways to com- drinking & beverage that contains refined sugar. Candy, ice cream, cookies and cakes are ideal in this respect. Best of all, they can be bought readily and cheaply every-| ‘where. Medical men have made many ex- | | petiments with workers and sugar | found the results most satisfactory. The sugar quickly . nourishes the body without taxing the digestive | system. When the body is nourished | in this way, fatigue disappears. Buch sweet snacks as those pre- viously mentioned can be kept in one’s desk and eaten while at work. | For a sweet bevarage, a glass of water containing sugar—the’ “ath- lete's cocktail”—is most invigorating. | Many famous athletes drink this prior to & hard game. Most foods| are more delicious with- refined sugar, The Sugar Institute.—Ad- vertisement. bat fatigue is eating a food or| foods in midafternoon and have||| THE EVENING scavengers. In a few years the world would be wading in a welter of dead vegetable and animal matter which could not be removed except by labori- ously collecting and burning it. Actu- ally these minute organisms that, as it | were, saw up, digest, decompose, remove the refuse of the year's living are all- | werful and all-necessary. They turn ack the leaves of the beech, the stem of the aster, shard of the beetle into loam, they restore the precious nitrates to the soil, as well as the phosphates, without which we cannot livé, and they release into the air, whose chemical mixture and balance must not be upset, the essential gases, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. So, when one swings the lens of a micrescope upon the seem- ingly repulsive nature of dissolution of the flowers that were, and the leaves and the fruits gone the way of all glories, {one beholds not death, but life, an in- tricate underworld, a devious wonder- world of mold and rust and bacteria. It reminds us of a classic biological prov- erb, that life changes but it does not cease. Stuffed Tomatoes. I Six large, firm tomatoes, one cup boiled rice, two tablespoonfuls finely chopped greer. peppers, two tablespoon- fuls chopped onions, half cupful cheese (cut fine). balf cupful soft bread crumbs, three tablespoonfuls butter (meited). balf t-aspoonful salt and one-quarter teaspoonful paprika. Wash tomatoes. Cut out the blossom ends and remove part of pulp and_seeds Mix rice, peppers, onions, cheesee, s, butter, salt and paprika. Stuff cs. Sprinkle with crumb mix- | ture. Set in small baking pan. Add half inch water. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Crumb Mixture.—Half cupful dried bread or cracker crumbs and three tablespoonfuls butter (melted). Mix in- | gredients and sprinkle on tomatoes. KEEPS YOU FIT! Just a well-balanced food to keep you fine and fit—carbohydrates for heat and energy, proteins for good muscle, mineral salts for bones and teeth— and all so easily digested. Eat Shred- ded Wheat with plenty of milk—hot milk is best in Winter as it brings out the delicious flavor of the crisp baked wheat—and supplies the warmth the body needs. Delicious for any meal. It’s ready-cooked, ready-to-eat. SHREDDE WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, i 30, 1930. FEATURES. forgotten by them as they admired the beauties of the edifice. Passing through 8 door, théy closed it on their pet. He was not hurt, in his feelings. He lay down to await their return. When | they did not return, he retraced his steps to the rallway station, found the |luggage of his master and mistress, | stretched himself out for @ refreshing | The piece of furniture shown in the | take care of a good supply of house- nap while waiting for them, and when 8ccompanying illustration i# designed | hold linens, as’ well as provide room they came gave them an only slightly | along the most modern lines, and is for a few books and writing materials. reproving greeting. not extreme, and because it could be | For the dining room, it might be Golaud put the Maeterlincks under a used for linens, silver and china, the great debt of gratitude. At St. Wan- space which is shown as & writing drille Abbey, Georgette Maeterlinck compartment being equipped with went_alone {o inspect a part of the | | shelves for the stacking of china. structure which no one ever entered. It If you have a colorful room this was completely deserted. A heavy door | piece would be attractive if painted. closed behind her and imprisoned her. | In a room with a scheme of copper and Her cries for help could not be heard. | blue green the exterior might be fin- Golaud, who was in the neighbor- | ished in blue green, the knobs and hood, traced her steps to the door, interlor being in the copper shade for senscd that something was wrong and interesting contrast. set out to bring Maeterlinck. He finally Black would also be effective for the succeeded in leading his master to the finish, and with this the interior might door. ; . | be Chinese red or antique yellow, the That night Golaud dined in state | knobs being finished to match. with Mme. Maeterlinck. He had saved (Copyright. 1930.) | her life. He was a hero, though cer- Bl tainly not a dashing one. (Copyright, 1930.) Thou.. L T Famous Dogs of Famous Folks A HOME IN GOOD TASTE BY SARA HILAND. Mongrel Pet Saves Life of Maeterlinck’s Wife. BY J. P. GLASS. GOLAUD FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING HIS MASTER TO THE DOOR. Maurice Maeterlinck one_ afternoon | He was always thoughtful, courteous, bought a bulldog of impure breed from 5 f of e, dealer. He did not | tactful. unobtrusive. - i 1~ animal particularly, but some- ‘But,” sald Maeterlinck, “he makes thing in its eyes pleaded to him. me uncomfortable with that profound, Tc th- oxi 15 vears this dog was | disillusioned look of his.” an honored member of Maeterlinck's| When Mme. Maeterlinck sang before .. anough a mongrel, it was dig- | Golaud, he looked at her in alarm. She nified zad proper. Its intelligence was | never did it again. She and Maeterlinck stounding. | agreed that Golaud loved them but did The animal was named Golaud. Mme. | not quite approve of them. Maeterlinck wrote of him, later: “If he | Golaud reasoned calmly and unwor- could speak, he would preach. From riedly, no matter what the problem. that pugilistic-looking' mouth of his | Once, while traveling in Normandy, they maxims would come forth, together had a long wait between trains and so wltl’;d lg:'-ul’?l l.“ ':enruome as they ‘;’:n!l'h look at a church noted for its woul appropriate.” auty. The Vi V3 Thus Golaud is described in a breath. 4 SO8_Net sloni, bub was He was one of those individuals with whom no fault can be found. Respect- ful and considerate of others, he ex- pected the same treatment for himself. Stuffed Potatoes. | Wash the potatoes, brush well with & vegetable brush and bake in & quick oven for three-fourths of an hour. Cut off a plece from each top lengthwise and scoop out all the soft parts of the potato. Put the skins where they will keep hot. Put the potatoes through & ricer, add butter and a little heavy }rmm Season with salt and pepper. Beat. well, refill the potato shells and sprinkle the top with finely minced chives or pastry. 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