Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1930, Page 16

w OMAN’S PAGE. __ Splash of Color for E_vening BY MARY Some women can wear a severely simple untrimmed evening dress and ~Jook like queens or goddesses or duches- ses or whatever it is that they like to look like when they feel entirely satis- fied with their own appearance. But to most of us, the starkly simple eve- ning dress is a trifle trying. It needs some pieck of brilliant jewelry—a gor- géous or shouider pin—or a m-.sh color achieved by a shoulder quet to make it really becoming. 4) Todag's sketch shows a new sort of rtifi troubl dn copying. It may be made from any thin silk material, but is easi- st to manage from chiffon or silk net. On a dress of pale pastel tone it should be made of a bright shade of the same color—bright blue on pale blue, rich rose on pink, emerald green on Nile green, or orange on pale yellow. To make the flower about 6!5 inches | across you should cut your material in pleces about 6 inches square, allowing one for each petal of the flower. Then | you will need a piece of canvas or other | stout material to use as a backing for the flower. This should be in the shape | of a disc about 115 inches in diameter. To cover the peials where they are| gewed to this foundation you will nced | a little round pad, which is made from | a circle of silk about 137 inches in| diameter. Run a gathering string along the egfie of this pad, draw it up slightly and fill with soft cotton; then draw up to form a rather flat pad, and after the | petals have been made and mounted sew it securely into position. The pad may be made from silk to match the THE STAR’S AILY PATTERN ' SERVICE 878 | “flower that you will have no | MARSHALL. chiffon or net, or of the dress material. ‘To make the petals fold your squares into triangles from corner to corner. Now take one of these double triangles with the straight folded edge away from |you and fold down the side of the |right and then the side at the left, 50 | that they overlap a little at the corner | toward you. Now fold over the folded |side at the right as shown in the sketch, and then the side at_ the left, and 5o on until you have the long nar- |row petal arrangement. Fasten the lower end sccurely and sew in position on the canvas foundation. After you have mounted all the petals | needed and have sewed the pad in posi- tion, finish the orhament with ends and | lcops of narrow ribbon or with artificial LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Ma was looking at the paper, saying, Heers more about the Young Plan. My goodness every paper you pick up has | omething to say about the Young What is the Young Plan any- Wiliyum? she sed. Well, its international and compli- ed, and it would ony give you a hed ake to try to follow me if I attempted to explain its twistings and ternings, | d. and see, ma sed. I dont bleeve | w what it is yourself, and pop | R t an ideer, every student of | hight politics and international eco- | | nomics knows what the Young Plan is. Then start at the beginning and ex- | plain it to me, ma sed, and pop sed, | | Cheerfully, but'I warned you, its com- | plicated. Well, in the ferst place its ' | broad genrel principals are based on | the fiscal propportion of credits to deb- its and debits to credits, with the rate | of exchange as an auxiliary factor and | | counterballents. In other werds if the | debits exceed the credits over any given | fiscal period, with par as normal, the payments must correspond to the in- | verse ratio of the rate of exchange over | and above the national assets per | capita in toto. Do I make myself clear thus far? he sed. No you dont and ferthermore you dident even mention that it has some- thing to do with Germany, and I know | NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930. BY D C. PEATTIE. ‘Whether your Winter walks are only on city streets or you can get abrdad into the country, you will find that the charm of Winter trees is never absent— not in a city as beautifully planted as ours. Against the gray skies, where the nimbus clouds hang with a threat ‘of snow, the fine tracery of trees is etched like the lines of a Japanese print, and when a flight of crows bursts from the treetops at your approach and goes streaming and screaming away, then you realize that, though leafless and lifeless, tress in Winter are the abodes of living things. On a_moonlight night, even on city lawns, you may catch 'a glimpse of Master Owl, who also makes his abode in trees right within the city limits. And the trees of Washington are alive with squirrels—never #ave I seen such a squirrelsome city. I recall that it was the fact about Washington that most impressed a French visitor—the fearless freedom of squirrels in the branches of our city trees. It is really far easier to tell the trees apart in Winter than most people sup- pose. As a matter of fact, if you have any desire to know our common wood- land or street species, it is almost easier now than in Midsummer, since the vari- ous leaf shapes are merely confusing and bewildering to the beginner. But if you once have pointed out to you the smooth, elegant, light gray bark of a beech tree and its exceeding fine tracery of twigs, you will never forget it. The same applies to the characteristic branches of maples and hickories and magnolias, the bark of the shagbark hickory, the glutinous buds of the pop- lar, the bright-colored switcheg of willow and dogwood and sassafras. It would be harder to know the oaks apart in Winter, though even that is not out of the question. even in the case of their bark. In general, the white and chestnut oaks have light, flaky bark, while the black and red oaks have black and deeply furrowed bark. Still more satisfactory is the fat and handsome acorn. Into how many designs and pat- terns, wood carving, devices of noble families, is the acorn worked! In Europe the peasants do not neglect the acorn, though esteeming it beneath the splen- did Old World chestnut; but in America we not only have no peasant class, but we have none of the spirit, thrifty and wise in the bounty of earth, that would send us forth on the soul-calming er- rand of collecting even our finest nuts, Jike hickory, butternut, walnut and hazel. Nut-gathering has been almost that much myself, so I bleeve your just | tawking, ma sod. Wich he proberly was. BY J. P. Persons admitted to the cabinet of | Cardinal Richelien neatly always saw kittens playing about. ‘The great Minister of Louis XIV got much pleasure from the companionship of kittens. He always kept & number of them in his cabinet. When wearied by problems of the state he would relax in his chair and watch them play. Their antics amused and rested him. Cats, however, he had no use for. At the age of 3 months the kittens were removed and another lot of younger ones brought in. His chamberlain was mzd busy seeing that a supply was on| Colbert, another celebrated statesman of Prance, placed his patronage of cats | on exactly the same basis as Riche- | lieu. These two men apparently were incapable of affection for their erst- while pets. Another great character in history was quite different. This was Mahomet, the founder of the Mohammedan re- ligion. He was a real lover of cats, as he was of all animals, and he taught kindness and consideration. The story of Mahomet and his cat, Meuz: still is told to children of the| East. by their nurses and mothers. It |15 said that while Mahomet was engaged | in working out his system Meuzza, whom Mohammedans call “The Father of | Cats,” lay curled up on his sleeve, which | was spread out on a table on which the prophet rested his elbow. Meuzza purred, and this was excel- lent; for does not the purring of a cat | MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Figs. Cereal with Cream. Griddle Cakes. Maple Sirup. Coffee. DINNER. Oyster Cocktail. Roast Duck. Apple Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Onions. Baked Squash. Celery. Waldorf Salad. Plum Pudding. Hard Sauce. CofTee. Salted Nuts. SUPPER, Duck Sandwiches. Fruit Salad, Whipped Cream Dressing. reoles. C Crackers. Cocoa. GRIDDLE CAKES. Scald one pint milk, pour it over one and one-half cupfuls bread crumbs and one tablespoon- ful of butter and let stand until cool. Add one cupful flour, & pinch of salt, two tablespoonfuls baking powder and two egg yolks, and lastly the stiffiy-beaten whites of two eggs. Fry on hot griddle. These are more digesti- Cheese, extinct among us since the days of quilt- ing parties and log-rollings. Noted Cats and Cat-Lovers The Animal for Which Mahomet Sacrificed His Sleeve. GLASS, MAHOMET TOOK THE SCISSORS AND CUT OFF HIS SLEEVE WITHOUT DISTURBING HIS PET. assist thought? As Champs-Fleury says, “It makes an excellent basis to meditation.” Mahomet sat motionless, lost in thought. After a time Meuzza grew drowsy, ceased to sing, and went to sleep. Time passed. Mahomet emerged from his abstractions. He had other duties to perform. It was necessary for him to go eleewhere. Then he saw that Meuzza was sleep- ing peacefully upon one sleeve. What should he do? At first he decided to awaken him. Then he perceived, near at hand, a pair of scissors. Ah, it was not necessary to disturb the creature. Mahomet took the scissors and pro- ceeding with silent caution cut off his sleeve withcut disturbing his pet. Then he tiptoed nofselessly from the room. It was an example of kindness to animals which good Mohammedans still follow. (Copyright. NANCY PAGE German Kuchen in Christ- mas Breakfast. 1930.) BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Not only did Nancy remember the Christmas cookies which she had had in Germany when she was a child studying abroad, but she recalled the special kuchen which was always served on Christmas morning. This kuchen was a large affair, twisted like a pretzel, topped with sugar and cinna- mon, raisins and almonds. ‘The whole kuchen ‘was an immense affair baked in a pan at least 20 by 30 inches. But Nancy found that smaller amounts could be baked just as well. She used a rich yeast dough which was allowed to rise once, kneaded, put to rise again, kneaded and then shaped and twisted like a glorified pretzel. Then the topping was put on and the kuchen rose until light. 1t was then put into the oven and baked, just like any yeast mixture, Here is her recipe: Nancy crumbled one yeast cake and ODES OF THE MOMENT PARIE VWNareel Rockas Versiorn g/’ whals wear Jts dark green with a white \ s s Srs ~—" NN W WSHS 7777000 > /7, S8 /4 777 SN SO M W N >\// % s Woman’s Place in the Home? Would Discard Outmoded Tenets DorothyDix| ONE of the curious things in this progressive age is that so many mtn are still bound by the traditions of the past about what constitutes a good wife. They blindly accept great-great-grandfather’s specifications of what a wif duties and oblizations should be and the general line of conduct she should follow, which is just about as sensible a thing to do as it would be for them to follow great-great-grandmother’s recipe for making taHow candles instead of snapping on the electricity. Great-great-grandpa may have known a thing or two about wives in his time, but the modern woman is a branch of the human species that had not then been a snappy driver of a one-horse shay, but what he would do to an eighty horespower Scat if he undertook to run it & block would give the traffic police and the hospitals & busy day. Times have changed and human relation- ships with them, and however good a domestic theory was fifty or a hundred years ago, it is fit only for the scrap heap now. 7 3 his home. Consider the virtues that men most extol in women. Ingrowing domeatlclt_\:, Excessive wifely and motherly devotion. In reality, the individual man isn't particularly crazy about these qualities in a woman. Oftener than not they weary him to extinction, but he demands them in his wife because he is a slave to a superstition that has been handed down from generation to generation that a good wife should be like a snail—always carry her house on her back—and that she should never have a thought except about her family. L Consider also the faults that men most complain of in their wives. Gddding about. Belonging to clubs. Clothes. Desire for amusements. Not devoting all of their time to their families. Now, as a matter of fact, very few men, when pressed to the wall, can give any valid reason why they deprecate their wives doing any of these things in moderation. vonally, but thei{ have to make the gesture and raise a ruction about it because they are still clinging to grandpa’s point of view about women. It is a great pity that men refuse to be up-to-date on this subject, because we now know that the very virtues that grandpa so admired in wives are the things that are the undoing of marriage. Take, for instance, the old idea that & woman should never'go home and that her every interest in life should be bounded by the four walls of her house. That one theory has sent more husbands philandering than any other one thing on earth. For its logical working out was to make the wife dull and stupid and narrowminded, with a conversational repertoire that ran from the nursery to the kitchen and back again and made her such heavy company that a man of any intelligence was bound to flee from her. If a man knows what is good for him, he doesn’t try to chain his wife to the kitchen range or lock the front door on her. to get out of the house and go and see how other people live because that is the best remedy yet devised for keeping a woman satisfled with her lot. He en- courages her to doll herself up so that she is easy on his eyes and he rouses her companion instead of a tedious one. ‘Then there is the matter of wives belflngl\'lg to clubs. Those of us who are middle-aged can remember when it was prophesied that the women’s clubs would break up the home, and there are a lot of bnighted men who still refuse to let their wives join the clubs because grandpa didn't let grandma. But instead of women’s clubs breaking up the home they are the bulwark of it, be- cause when wifey comes in from her Current Events Society or her bridge club, she is so bright and chatty and running over with entertaining gossip that she makes the dinner table like a party instead of a meal that is eaten in sullen silence because everybody has been talked out and has nothing to say. * And there is recreation, whieh grandpa considered frivolous for a married woman to indulge in and which a great many other husbands still think is ggzu‘-fas'inrynbefi\uie grandpa d‘dt :gd whok)‘mld thdnz a ;flh and mother should lesire_any livelier amusement than cookin; i walking thé baby with the colic. e e SR pia If men would only discard this outmoded opinion, what they could save themselves from! What peace and joy might be theirs! How they could make wives eat out of their hands! Because it is the boredom ‘of doing the same monotonous tasks over day after day and year after year that makes women peevish, DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) BEDTIME STORIE Jumper Finds Footprint. A footprint made is out of mind, Yet we a record leave behind. —Little Joe Otter. [} BY THORNTON W. BURGESS pond, but kept to the brush around it. He crossed Paddy's dam and presently was in a thicket of young willows. How good that bark and the buds and tender t tasted! In the enjoyment of that feast he almost forgot to keep watch for danger. He hopped about, eating some bark here, standing up to bite off a tender twig there, and feeling well satisfied with life in general and with Jumper the Hare travels about con- siderably in the Green Forest. He has to in Winter in order to get enough to eat. That is one reason Old Mother Nature has given him snowshoes. Of course, they are not real snowshoes, but they answer the pux})ose of snowshoes and make it possible for Jumper to move about on soft snow in which little people much smaller and lighter than he would flounder about. What Old Mother Nature has done for him is to give him very big feet with long toes and cover these in Winter with a heavy coat of hair. This makes broad pads of the feet, and Jumper does not sink in the snow as others do. It was a moonlight night. Jumper likes the moonlight. He likes to travel about then. This night he had followed the Laughing Brook deep in the Green Forest. He wanted some willow bark and young willow twigs, and he remem- bered that there were some young wil- lows growing around the pond of Paddy the Beaver. Jumper is fond of willow, land having thought of it he couldn't lget it out of his mind. I guess you | {know how that it. So now he was on {his way up the Laughing Brook. He| No modern man would take the advice of the anclents about how to con- | duct his business or how to perform an operation or even preach a sermen, but, | amazingly enough, he turns to the patriarchs for precedent about how to run | Actually they don't object per- | out of her | On the contrary, he urges her ! interest in as many subjects as possible so that he may have an entertaining l Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Parents of Ability. While statistics are at best probabill- ties and at their worst absolute falsi- ties, they are always interesting. Cer- tain kinds of statistics are actually en- lightening. Some interesting statistics have been !callec'ed on family probabilities. Does the youngest child of a family turn out to have the greatest ability? And why? According to one line of reasoning, the youngest of a family finds some- thing to live up to, to strive after. Toddling about among his older sisters and brothers, he begins early to find ways of competing with them. The habit carries over and he becomes an adult with ability. Another theory has it that the ex- perience and maturity which parents acquire is passed on by way of the im- mortal germ plasm to their children. On that theory the older the parents the greater is the ability inherited by their offspring. It seems that some- thing may be said for both theories. Perhaps they work together. The average age of the fathers of 10 jof the world's greatest men from 10 different countries at the time of their births was 55 years. Among these men with old parents were Bacon, Aristotle, Confucius, Franklin. Statistics seem to show that parents between 30 and 40 ability to their children. * Bach, Beeth- oven, Goethe, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Rembrandt, Goldsmith and Macaulay were children of fathers in the fourth decade of life. \ Parents between 40 and 50 seem to beget statesmen. In this group we find the fathers of Bismarck, Cromwell, Gladstone, Peter the Great and Danlel Webster. (Copyright. 1930.) Emergency Gifts for Christmas BY LYDIA LE BARON Be prepared with a few gifts in case of emergencies. Should you have for- gotten anyone—and at one time or an- other most persons do this—you will be ready. These will save many an embarrassing moment. As the purse does mnot aliow for undue expenditure with anyone, it is well to see what can be done about these emergency gifts. 12 ~2R~1930 A box of homemade candy, or a small one of candied grapefruit or orange peel is just the thing for some people. The contents will not go begging if not given away. The family will be glad to help you dispcse of such goodies in the event of any such box being a left- over. The preserve closet can come to your aid also. A glass of homemade jelly, a small jar of pickles or preserves, will be more welcome than almost anything €lse you could give to the woman who ic in business and has no time to make such delicncies, Perhaps you, as & homemaker, feel that homemade jellies, preserves and home-canned fruits and vegetables are among the necessities of the table and so find it hard to appre- ciate that they are actual delicacies to business women. It means no extra outlay to wrap up a glass or a jar and have it in readiness. ‘There are in every household some books not specially cherished, yet which “look like new,” or some fancy articles, ornaments, etc., that can be disposed of at Christmas time in the emergency catalogue. By doing them up, after be- pass_on mrtistic| FEATURES., Who started her career . the highest New Manners for Men. I don't like men's manners. I don't like it when a man interrupts anything he is saying or I am saying in order to light my cigarette. I don't like it when a woman walks into a room F where everybody is comfortably seated and all the men rise and conversa- | tion breaks up. I don’t like it when perfect strangers take off their hats in an elevator because I § happen to enter. It doesn't do ME Helen Woodward any good for them to catch cold. They don't know. me, and I don’'t know them. I don't like to be helped on with my coat in a theater. It is awkward and delays everyl| in the aisle. I don't like it when in an office con- ference all the men get up*and move around uneasily in order to set a chair for me. The conference practically has to stop just because a woman comes into the room and she has to be made especially comfortable. These are the manners of the Vic- torian Age, and they really don't help a woman at all in getting on in the business world. They hinder her in- stead. No man places & chair for another man whom he looks upon as his equal. He only does it for old men whom he pities. I don’t want men to treat me | as though they pitied me; as though I were an old man. Of course, a man doeen't deliberately and consclously think this, but it is the WALKER. ing assured they are in perfect condi- tion and n.ct\:flllyg&.z good as new, they become possible_gifts. ‘Some women provide themselves with a few trifling articles from bazaars, fairs, or shops and keep them for times | like this. Bexes of stationery are splen- cid emergency gifts. They mean no extra outlay in the long run, should they not be ncedeu. They will merely cave the homemaker from buying her- self stationery when more is needed. It will be seen that in all these things no extra mm.{h no extravagance has been indulged in. One thing of vital importance is to have each article in Christmas wrappings and put in the living room witk the gifts to be presented. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Cod Liver Oil Four-year-old Betty did not have a very good appetite and was rather sus- ceptible to coids, and I felt sure that she needed to take cod liver oil. We had stopped giving it to her about a year before, and any time I had subsequently tried to give it to her there was an awful fuss and we just couldnt get it down. One day during the holidays we went shopping at a big store where there was a Santa Claus. Betty was, of course, very much thrilled, and when Santa Claus asked ‘her if she was a good girl and took her cod liver oil every day she truthfully said that she didn’t but would do so if he wanted her to. Since that time we have had no trouble getting her to take it regu- larly. Of course, I had tipped him off The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. as a frightened typist and who became one of paid dusiness women in America. motive which makes him place 's and light cigarettes and jump up and down and stand bareheaded in the cold. It is the same thing which makes him take your elbow when crossing the street, which to me is an especially frri- tating custom. All of it reminds me of the old laws long before the days of woman suffrage, which used always to make exceptio: for women, children and lunatics. These . were supposed to be helpless. It may seem awfully nice to feel lke a queen in a drawing room, but it doesn’t help a bit when it comes to ing money, which I suppose you are in business for. To me it seems that real politeness on the part of a man consists in want- ing to hear what I have to say. If he does that, then it Indicates that he has a regard for my judgment, my thoughts, my ideas. He should be <o absorbed in listening to what I say that he will for- get to light my cigarette or to jump up and down, or to hold my elbow while crossing the street. ‘When a man listens carefully to all you say and acts on it, then he regards you as his equal—or maybe even his superior. This may sound as though I were 6 feet tall and very broad and muscular. But no, I'm rather small and don't weigh much and have little physical strength. So that all X say here has all tne more meaning. Still, perhaps I have a chip on my shoulder and am overindependent, like all small people. Maybe if I were tall- er and stronger I wouldn't mind so much being treated as if I were helpless. Girls having problems in connection with thelr work may write to Miss Woodward, in care of this paper, for her personal advice (Copyright, 1930.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Most folding tables of the type show: in the illustration cannot be called any: thing but useful, but this one is really different, for it is beautiful and yet just as serviceable as its homely cousin. ‘The legs are turned in the old-time bamboo design, which gives the base an air of distinction, and there is a very beautifully grained top, the corners be- ing cut in graceful design. When you consider that the top is 19 by 14 inches and that the table stands 22 inches high, you can readily see how practical it would be. Perhaps you wish to serve a luncheon on a bridge table. Well, can’t you sez how nice it would be to have this little | table beside it to hold the coffee pot, cream pitcher, sugar bowl and plates of cakes and sahdwiches? When not in use the table may be very eastly folded and put away in a closet, but if one had room for it out in plain sight it would prove a decorative addition to any room because of its to ask her that in a moment when she was not noticing. “IT matters not wot e'er ‘e was fore, Or what 'is parents fancied for ’is nyme; ‘When ’e’'s pocketed 'is shilling and ’is uniform ‘e’s filling, 'Is nyme is Tommy Atkins just the syme.” ! Thus did Kipling make immortal the lot of the British soldier. And| similarly is the‘ lot of the Ameri-| can soldier de-‘ scribed in the words of the fa- old bugle in the Army now; You're not behind the plow. ‘There are doubt- less two or three of these new United States Sen- ators who can ap- preciate the status of Tommy Atkins and the American soldier. p For they are learning and learning fast that “You're in the Senate now” has a real mean- ing—that it is just as significant to them as Kipling's words are to Tommy Atkins or the bugle call to the Ameri- can soldier. 2 ‘There’s Dwight Morrow, for example. He has attained marked success in| three distinct fields—banking, diplomacy | and naval affairs. As a former mem- | ber of the house of Morgan it would | appear he could render important serv- ice as a member of the Senate Bank- ing and Currency Committee. Since he also was successful as an Ambassador and as a delegate to the London Naval Conference there is no reason why as a member of the For- eign Relations Committee or the Com- mittee on Naval Affairs he could not have been just as valuable. ‘True he preferred not being placed My Neighbor Says: One-fourth teaspoonful of bak- ing powder added to mashed po- tatoes while you are beating them lovely surface. (Copyright. 1930.) A WASHINGTON DAYBCOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. on the banking committee. But he didn’t object to the others. And what did he get—this banker, this diplomat, this expert on naval affairs? Education and Labor, Military Af- fairs, Post Offices and Post Roads, Printing and Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, look at James J. Davis—Presi-} dent Hoover's Secretary of Labor. ‘Was he assigned to committees where He could best utilize the special knowl- edge he has? Well, he was given berths on the Committees on Banking and Currency, Civil Service, Interoceanic t_c::l:ls. Manufactures and Naval Af- ‘Then, too, it will be remembered that a man named Bulkley from Ohio came to the Senate outspoken for repeal of the eighteenth amnedment. ‘What chance will he have for this cause on the committees to which he hys been assigned—Banking and Currency, Man- ufactures and Privileges and ctions? “You're in the Senate no ‘Which merely means what it says: A newcomer must go through the mill—take what's given him. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I putt it In one-quarter cup luke warm |Was keeping a sharp watch for danger, will make them light and flufy. Cowl Neckline. ble than cakes made entirely of Here's a stunning matron. It's make and ea: to wear The cowl 3 neckl s0_flattering, effect to the It offers theme for contrast ‘The butcher sleeve cufls are another new chic interesting fashicn detail, The hips are smoothly fitted. The attached circular tapers into flut- tering fullness at the hem. The original model is a. in black canton crepe w quoise blue crepe contrast. The e s a novelty crepe in turquoise blue and black. Style No. 878 comes in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. The 36-inch size requires 33z yards of 39-inch material with 5 yard of 39-inch contrasting and 3 yard of 27-inch lace. Crepe maroeain, transparent velvet and crepy woblens are other charming ideas for this model. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The ‘Washington 's New York Fashion Fifth avenue and Twenty- street, New York. | We suggest that when you send for | r pattern you order a copy cf our | rge Winter Fashion Magazine., It should be in every home, for of couue‘ every woman wants to look her best 'flb\"‘u t great expense, and this book ent Xmas suggestions. 10 cents. s {llustrated t the way. It also contains excel- Price of book, flour. Serve with maple sirup. ROAST DUCK. Wash duck thoroughly. Wash giblets and boil on top cf range until tender, Make a stuffing of six water crackers, one slice bread, two onions, one teaspoon- ful salt, two teaspoonfuls poultry dre: Add enough hot water to soak up crackers. Then stuff duck and place in pan with breast down in a hot oven-for nearly an hour. Then turn duck and sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and a little flour, put two or three cupfuls of water in pan and slice in an onion and continue cooking. When duck is tender, remove from oven, thicken water in pan, and pour off fat. add the giblets, eut up fine. Roast a six-pound duck from two to three hours. CREOLES. Beat three eggs well; add grad- ually one cupful soft brown sugar; mix _and sift three-fourths cup- ful flour, pinch of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful ginger; add mixture; beat well; add oneanda half cupful chopped nuts, one tea- spoonful baking powder; fill small cup cake tins one-fourth full and water. When bubbling she added it to three-quarters cup milk which had been scalded and cooled to luke warm tem- perature. While the milk was hot she added one-quarter cup butter, one t spoon salt and one-quarter cup sug: After the yeast was in she added ‘one egg, three cups bread flour. This mix- ture was stirred and kneaded until smooth and set in warm place to rise. When doubled in bulk she kneaded it, added one-quarter cup each sliced candied citron and orange peel, one- half cup raisins; and, following German tradition, one-half teaspoon lemon ex- tract. This mixture was allowed to double in bulk, it was then kneaded, shaped llke pretzel and covered with mixture and chopped baked. e et 10 Tise and | knowing full well that on a night like | this there would be hungry folks abroad ! —Hooty the Great Horned Owl, Yowler the Bob Cat, Old Man Coyote, Reddy Fo: Billy Mink and Shadow the ,Weasel. Any or all of these might be hunting in this part of the Green For- est. Particularly did he watch for signs of Yowler the Bob Cat, who is very fond of Hare. Also he was all the time looking for a moving shadow which might be Hooty the Owl. He reached the pond of Paddy the Beaver without mishap. Once as he peeped out from beneath an overhang- ing, snow-covered hemlock branch he saw a swiftly moving shadow, but heard no sound. “That was made by Hooty the Owl,"” said he to himself. “Hooty was flying Just over the tops of the trees and made | that shadow on the snow. I'll stay right here for a while to give him a chance {to go to another part of Green | Forest.” ! Some time later from far away toward the edge of the Green Forest there came | the sountl he had been hoping to hear. It was the hunting call of Hooty the Ow!. At once Jumper then hopped out and starter! on his way again. You see, jhe knew now where Hooty was and | that there was nothing to fear from him {at present. So at, last Jumper reached the pond of Paddy the' Beaver. Like |the Smiling Pool, it was frozen over and the ice was covered with snow. He could see Paddy’s big house, & big white mound, s the ice. Jumper on the tanding above did not venture out JUST IN FRONT OF HIS HIDING g)l;ngz WAS A FOOTPRINT IN THE his present occupation in particular. At last he had satisfied his appetite and decided to rest and perhaps take a little nap. He hopped over to one end of Paddy's dam and squatted under a little hemlock tree, a little to one side where he could look out across Paddy's pond, but where he would not be likely to be seen by any who might come along that way. Hardly had he settled himself comfortably when his glance fell on something that caused his eves to fly wide open. He sat up abruptly. Just in front of his hiding place was a footprint in the snow. It was of good and it was very odd. Looking to left and right, he saw more such prints. It was plain to see that the maker of those prints had passed that way not long before. Jumper stared at that print right in front of him. It was a queer print. It was not unlike such & print as Honker the Goose might have made had he been there; that is to say, it was a print that shdwed toenails but hardly any signs of toes, the kind of a print that would be made by a foot the toes of which were joined by a web. “So,” sald Jumper to himself, “Little Joe Otter has returned and is to be looked out for.” (Copyright. 1930.) — Fourteen boys and 582 land married at the age in Eng- 16 last year. Says Pufly: neighing and a moo, And put in lots of grunts and squeals, then add a bark or two, | And you will havashe Christmas carol that barnyard creatures sing. To me it is a classic that is fit for any “Mix a cackle with some Marks cn painted walls whith have been caused by carelessly striking matches on them will disappear if rubbed first with the cut surface of a lemon, then with a clean cloth dipped in whiting. Afterward wash the surface with warm water and soap, and then quickly wipe with a clean cloth wrung out of clear water. To clean patent leather shoes rub over them with a little furniture polish. When polishing stoves add a teaspoonful of powdered alum to the polish. The stoves will keep bright twice as long. (@ouyright. 1930.) ATWOOD GRAPEFRUII Well, baby, here it mas Eve! Just to fink—if Santy got ober his bone in his leg,-he is p'ob’ly hitchin’ up his reindeers right ‘iss minute! HEA! . Dr. Royal S. R Copeland The Health Authority Weekly Diet Tips Question Box MUSICAL PROGRAM 10 o’clock a.m.—Thursda WRC <3 and Statiors Afiliated with the N. B. C- COURTESY THE MILLERS OF