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W OMAN'S PAGE. Bow Arrangement for Dress BY MARY to make to $wo, s0o that you will always have a clean one on hand. In one smart little dress the tie is made of figured crepe de chine. You may prefer white or very pale pastel toned crepe de chine, or, if you like, you may use georgette or fine cotton mull. To make. the pattern cut a strip of paper about 24 inches long and 5 inches wide. Measure each strip five inches wp from one end and then draw a straight diagonal line from the oppo- site corner to this point so as to make & ally pointed end. Make @ similar diagonal slash at the other MARSHALL. end of the strip as shown in the dia- gram. You will need two pieces of material like this. Lay the the goods and cut about half from the edge of the paper and draw a light pencil mark at the edge of the pattern. If you like, you can have the material finished with picot edge. In that case you should have it run with machine hemstitching along the line marked with neil. Cut along the hemstitching, discard the outside strip and the other side will show a neat lcot edge. If you like, you may finish ?he strip with a fine rolled hem, or, if you use fine cotton mull, you may fin- ish with a very narrow lace edge. One of these strips is sewed into the left side of the neck line and another to the right side alo~g one of the diag- onal ends. The ends may be tied in a v or worn ascot fashion. (Copyright. 1931.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Fishing Game. I 4nvented a fishing game for the children which has given them many happy hours, especially on rainy days. I cut out & number of different sized fishes from cardboard, colored them as realistically as I could, and plerced each one with a phonograph needle. These I put into a large flat box, which the children call the “lake.” I made fish- ing poles from small sticks with lines on them, but instead of hooks I tied & magnet to the end of each line. My children get a real thrill when they put down their lines and pull out a fish. (Copsright. 1931.) Grapefruit Tapioca. Cook one cupful of instant tapioca | with three cupfuls of water, one cupful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of salt |until the tapioca is soft and clear, or over a direct It will take longer in a double | boiler, but will require less stirring, Remove from the fire. Add one cupful of grapefruit juice and one teaspoonful of the grated grapefruit rind. Cool, then fold in two stiffly beaten pile into tall-stemmed whites and glasses. Chill. The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her caveer as a_frightened typist and who became ome of the highest paid busin A Good Cook. Isn't it a crazy world in which a cook s considered less dignified than an errand girl? She isn't in terms of money, because a good cook makes more money than a good st°- nographer. Figure it out for yourself. A good cook gets from $85 to $150 a month, and her # room and board. But a cook who works in some cne else’s kitchen is not considered the social equal of s 2 z:ly one ;‘ho works an office or a Helen Wesdwarl. giore. And in this country most girls will sacrifice any- food, sleep, future— considered & social Yet it's silly enough because, no mat- ter how hard we try to pretend, the truth is that the girl who works in an office is not really considered the equal of the rich girl. However, that's th. way things are, and such foolish things are harder to change than more important ones. ‘The consequence of all this is that | there are people all over the country Applique and ess women in America. who are begging for good cooks and there are good ccoks by the hundred who are wasting their years making small money at a d°sk or a counter. But there are a few things that a good cook can do without bearing that dreaded title servant. She can bake fine cakes and bre and sell them either through a woman's exchange or to a list of personal customers. There really is a market for good homemade br It sells in the few shops that carry it for about 35 cents a loaf. ‘The bigger advertisers of food prod- | ucts often have a staff of ccoks to ex- periment with their foods. Certain of the bigger magazines and newspap-rs also have staffs of cooks to test recipes which they publish, Many a girl has made herself a living and several have built up fortunes by thinking up & new and delicious candy. ‘That is the easiest thing to sell. If I were in an office now and knew that one of the girls was a good cook, I'd try to organize a kitchen either on the ises or nearby and put that girl charge. ‘Then I'd have her run a co-operative kitchen for the girls, No one would make a profit and all the girls would get good lunches and per- haps good dinn’rs. Girls having problems in connection with their work may write to Miss Woodward, in | care of this paper, for her personal advice (Copyright. 1931.) Its Evolution BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. — . ~ Faohds i~in- A SMART ENSEMBLE DECORATION, FEATURING THE ROSE AND BUD APFLIQUE, FOR WINDOW AND BED DECORATION. Applique which can be used so well in interior decoration has an interest- ing history. It was first used to quicken work and is now popular for a like reason. In this era, when speed 50 affects needlecraft that what cannot be done in a short time is considered difficult, embroidery has become firmly yoked with applique. The latter gives splashing effects with the minimum of effort, while the ornamental stitchery employed with it gives the aspect of embroidery to the whole. Patchwork and applique are so closely allied in the mind today that the word is frequently used for applique. But tchwo is not identical with applique, althouzh In each pieces of textile are shaped and used ornamentally. The distinction is more clearly es tablished when patchwork is ter lecework, as was its one-time name. [t consists of sewing shaped pieces of material together to form an uninter- Tupted surface. Applique consists of sewing shaped pieces onto another tex- tile. Both patchwork and applique are intentionally decorative. ‘The modern idea of speed in the use of pleces of textile to represent stitch- ery is not itself modern. It is the original purpose. At first a founda- tion textile was colored with pigment ornament. on, in the tages of decor art, it is considered probable that patches of lcyed instead of paini to give the or iting 1 lates ‘when work o umrmmm “N‘l"u- the fineness of the decoration, that ap- plique agein camc to the fore. These bygone centuries have this in common | | with the present one, namely, time and | a minimum of labor for the maximum of effect. Recently a design was offered readers that is applicable to many usages other than the one for which is was specially made. The name, you will remember, is net applique. It is one of the smart new methods of textile decoration that harks back to past generations. The design of flowers, buds and leaves is charming when carried out in colors A bedspr:ad with a border of green foliage and gev blcssoms and buds will ress up a bed charmi There are innumerable v of using the design |in this patchwork-applique style in in- terior decoration. One of the most interesting ways is to use the design to ornament win- dow hangings. Use any plain flat color, Run the border around the bottom of the curtain. Separate the motifs to use as a side border. Place a bud turning one way below a flower and one turning the other way above it. ‘Then a flower and a bud. Use the full flower stalk and the full bud stalk as shown in the {llustraticn. If a valance is u he der as in the lower end of the curtains. Cur- jtains such as these in a room with a nd pillow covers using the nake a novel ensemble Any reader wishing the design in full size can gel it by sending a request ac- by a ns;l;»lddrei and en al cents in stamps , care of this paper, (Copyright, 1831.) | | dll Kvaaoasg Everyday Psychology BY DE. JESSE W. SPROWLS. There are two general kinds of mem- ories. You might call one kind conscious memories, and the other unconscious memories. Here's how we get them. We all have experfences which we are later able to recall consciously. We know exactly where to “place” them in our chain of experiences. And then we have all had experiences which at the time we did not know we had. These experiences become unconscious memo- ries. Whenever they pop up, we know nothing about their origin. We are totally unable to “‘place” them. We are pretty likely to refer to them as passing fancis. Ordinarily you pay no atten- tion to these passing fancies. But you may be sure that somewhere, some time, you unknowingly had an experience Which corresponds to these flighty ideas. It's a little hard to make a distinction between these two sorts of memories. That's because our experiences come to us in all degrees of clearness. Not much was known about the un- conscious memories until Freud came nlnng ‘with his theory of the unconscious mind. According to Freud, our uncon- scious memories are vastly more numer- ous than our conscious ones. Perhaps 100 times as many. That's why he con- tends thai the unconscious mind may be compared with the ocean, while the conscious mind may be compared with th> waves on its surface. One of the most interesting facts about unconscious memories is that th'y are the ones that give us trouble. Freud says that every attack of hysteria can be traced back to some combination of unconscious memories. If you can succeed in getting them straightened out consciously your trouble disappears immediately. NANCY PAGE Basement Makes Good Place for Boys. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Lawrence boys had a father who was a commercial artist. His mind wes | as full of ideas as a May basket is full of flowers. When he came home one day and heard Mrs. Lawrence scolding the children for tracking mud into the egg | 1iving room he decided that this was the time to take out an idea or two and make it work. As he went downstairs to turn on more heat, he was struck with the fact that the basement was large, fairly light, commodious, comfortable and warm. Why not make it into a pl room for the children? Why not, in- deed? He had the floor covered with a waterproof surfacing in a dark shade. The posts were covered with a white, glossy paint. Then he striped them, barber-pole fashion, with red so tha they resembled a stick of peppermint candy. He made one broad and one narrow stripe, A carpenter put together a combina- tion seat and top cupboard. It was painted a gorgeous shade of blue. The high basement window was curtained with a plece of plaid oilcloth cut with scalloped edges, and below that hung straight curtains of bright red material. While the carpenter was working on the bench, Mr. Lawrence gave him the drawing of a broad, rather low work table and a bench that stood firm and fast on the floor. The children did al- most everything on the table. They used it for painting, for building, for train tracks. Some times they roasted potatoes in the furnace and then had a picnic meal set out on the table. From the day the basement was finished there was less scolding from Mrs. Lawrence, which proved that the scoldings had come about because the children had no place of their own in which to play, and not because they were willfully dis- obedient. ——— Lemon Pudding. Combine one pint of sweet milk with one pint of bread crumbs, one cupful of sugar, the yolks of three eggs, one ta- blespoonful of butter and the rind of one lemon grated. Bake for half an hour, after which add a layer of jelly, and the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth and mixed with one cupful | of sugar and the juice of one lemon. Return to the oven and bake until brown. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST: Stewed prunes, cereal with cream, codfish balls, chili sauce, whole wheat muffins, coffee. DINNER: Stuffed celery, baked Virginia ham, brown gravy, parsley, po- tatoes, spinach au gratin, let- tuce salad, date cream ple, coffee. SUPPER: ed ham and pickle sand- . pineapple and nut salad, elmond cookies, hot chocolate STEWED PRUNES. Soap one and one-half pounds runes in warm water for an Kour. then pour boiling water on enough to cover. Cut in a little ginger root or lemon peel, just enough to flavor. After cookln‘ for one-half hour let stand unti] cold, then sugar to taste. BAKED HAM. Select a small hem and boil. 2emove the skin and ‘rim_the excess fat. Put into the ham the following mixture: one and one-fourth cups brown sugar, one teaspoon allspice, one teaspcon ginger, two teaspoons cinnamon, one teaspoon nutmeg. Lift to a baking pan and place in a hot oven. As the ham com- mences to brown, baste with one cup brown sugar, one cup mo- lasses, one cup vinegar, one cup water, Bake until nicely browned. This usually requires about one hour. SALAD. 1 pineapple on crisp head of lettuc>. On this place a_dfzh-shaved piece of ge'atin which has been previously pre= pared. Over this sprinkle finely chopped celery. Over this put & tablespoon of mayonnaise which has been mixed cream. Over all lmhm (Copyright, 1991.) Put slice STAR, WASHLNG1UN, MODE OF THE MOMENT V7 don’t'’s of married life? honeymoon wanes? form? I am planning my little flat. comfort? I want him to love his home. don’t’s of life. stances. out for yourself. ‘warm garment. strong you think he is. Don't drop the get married. Keep yourself neat and tidy. Doll his mind all day. Be cheerful and gay. Keep vour li Learn to be a good cock and a nice ho | with even a siren if she sat him down dinner. it pleasant and comfortable. Reed the new books and the papers outside of the home. Dress as well as yol not too domestic. Be amiable. against the wife who is sweet-tempered don't let any of yours live with you. mother says he should do that. personal use. Don't nag. A husband will forgive who can say a thing once and let it be you so,” or reminds him of some mistake any subject whatever. leave both parties sore at each other. Don't try to reform your husband. his grammar or his politics, don’t marry alone. does that at her peril Don't be a spoil-sport {hat and go with him and pretend that you are or not. As for how much of the housework that depends on the conditions in which and have no work to do outside of your hand when you need it. fn (Copyrighi BY LOIS Curly Eyebrows. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) My eyebrows are very curly. I have had them arched | | and have tried soap and also vaseline | | to keep them in place, but with no im- provement. _Will plain soap turn them red? (2) I have a rather dark com- plexion, ~“dirty blonde” hair and greenish blue eyes. What shades of make-up should I use? (3) I am 17 years old, 5 feet U inch tall. What should 1 weigh? ~(4) Does peroxide encourage the growth of hairs on the legs? FLODELL. Answer.—(1) At bedtime brush your eyebrows with an eyebrow brush dipped in olive ol to train them to lie flat. {In the morning use a little gum arabic in water to stick them down. The con- stant use of soap for this purpose | would probably make the skin too dry |and might gradually bleach the hairs to a reddish tint if they are now brown. (2) It may be necessary for you to mix two shades of powder to obtain the right tint. Try mixing a little ochre wder with a larger proportion of runette. Choose a medium cream | rouge with a yellpwish rather than a bluish tinge to use on cheeks and lips. (3) Between 104 and 111 pounds. | | (4) No. LOIS LEEDS. | | Cl.ausing Cream. Dear Miss Leeds—Please tell me the | name of a cleansing cream that will | not promote the growth of facial hair, . M. A. Answer —It is contrary to my policy to recommend any special brands mmu.mmmuum-mun% any of the well known brands DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DIAR MISS DIX—I am to be married soon. Can you give me the do's and ‘What should I expect of my husband after the ‘What little household duties am I to expect him to per- What will my future husband need for TWENTY-TWO. Answer—The do's and don't'’s of marriage are as endless as the do's and | They vary with every hour of the day and every turn of circum- ' Nobody can make a list of them for you. You will have to work them But among the do's that I would suggest to any young wife are these: your husband and make him feel your affection always about him like a soft, Flatter him. Tell him how handsome and wise and brave and | above all, never fail to put on a pretty, bright housedress in the morning. The | mcmre of you as you look at the breakfast table is the one that he will carry | has heard all the disagreeable things he can stand downtown during the day. | If you want your husband to stay by his own fireside, you have to make and make yourself an interesting companion. More wives lose their husbands through boring them than in any other way. Belon, No woman are so dull and stupid as those who have no in- terest outside of thelr own homes and families. A soft answer turns away wrath and prevents s quarrel. mit your mistakes and say that you are sorry for them. No vamp can prevail her husband’s faults and weaknesses instead of raising ructions over them. Among the don't's are: Don't live with any of your husband’s family and Don't always be throwing your mother in your husband's teeth and telling_him that mother says he should do this and | Don't wait to discuss the money question until | after you are married. Settle it beforenand and don't marry any man who will not agree to give you a definite allowance to keep house on and for your own ‘The only result of an argument is to stir up strife and Nobody was ever convinced by one. sides, your husband has just as much right to his opinion as you have to yours. And whatever you do, don't interfere with his personal habits. Any wife By the time a man is old enough to get married he is | settied on the plan that he likes, and knows what he likes, and nothing irritates | nim like having to have a fight over how much sugar he puts in his coffee or | being made to eat spinach instead of caviar. When your husband wants to go cut. grab your I don't think you should expect your husband to do anything, berring & picture or some small job like that. But if you are to do all the work and he is not able to hire & servant, then he should lend a 1t, however, you are one of the wives who keep on with their jobs after mar- and help earn the family income, then your husband should you on the housework. This is only fair. DOR MILADY BEAUTIFUL | mec.um _ecmplexion olldnllns“m D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY l 3 Love line that captured him as soon as you yourself up for him of an evening and, ttle worries to yourself. Your husband | usekeeper. No man would stay in love when he was hungry to an ill-cooked and magazines so as to keep up-to-date to clubs and have interests u can possibly afford. Be domestic, but Ad- | and good-natured and who laughs off any other fault in the world to a wife | done with, and who never says “I told | that he has made. Don't ever argue on Be- If you don't like the way he dresses or him. Take him as he is or leave him you are having a grand time whether you should expect your husband to do, you live, If you are a domestic woman house and are healthy and able-bodied, hanging sick and unable physicaily go fifty-fifty 'Y DIX. t, 1931) LEEDS. creams cleansing with the cream, wipe it all off and pat on a suitable skin lotion. LOIS LEEDS. Rouge on the Cheeks. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) I have a very round face. Should I place my rouge high or low? (2) I am 19 years old and 5 feet tall. What should I weigh? (3) Please recommend a tonic or salve for pimples. KY. Answer.—(1) Take some active exer- cise and then notice where the red naturally shows in your cheeks. Place the rouge where the natural color comes. To make your face seem more slender bring the rouge in toward your rose and away from the sides of your face. (2) About 110 pounds. (3) A simple salve for pimples may be made of six grains salicylic acid, one ounce of petrolatum and one ounce of benzoinated lard. This is put on at bedtime. Be sure to avoid constipation and eat plenty of fresh fruits and green vegetables. It is better not to use face powder when one has many pimples, but use an acne lotion such as the fol- lowing: One dram sulphate of zinc, one dram sulphuretted potash and four ounces of rose water. LOIS LEEDS. Becoming Colors. | Grace—(1) Your weight and meas- urements are good. (2) With light brown hair, dark brown eyes and you may wear wine, old rose, peach, salmon, dark brown, beige, cream, black with light trimming, navy, Copenhagen, grackle- head and Wedgwood blues, nile green, orchid. Try a medium geranium shade of lipstick. LOIS LEEDS. After (Copyright, 1931.) Fokedid Apple Dumplings. Sift two cupfuls of flour with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt. Work in four | tablespoonfuls of shortening, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and moisten with two-thirds cupful of milk. Rell out about half an inch thick and cut into four-inch squares. Place a pared and 24, 1931 LITTLE BENNY Pop was trying to make his cigar lighter werk and ma eed, Willyum, I bleeve Im going to start to keep a little diary. Where would you keep it? pop sed. Our back yard is pritty small, he sed,|ers Brown's farm. He was at the foot | w: and ma sed, What are you tawking about, whats that got to do with a diary? O, & diary, I thawt you sed you wunt- ed to keep & dairy, pop sed. Meening a place where you milk cows, and ma sed, I sed a diary and Im serious. P, Willis Hinkle has a very Intristing article in todays paper about keeping diaries. He says keeping a diary lengthens our life by enabling us to live our most important moments over again at some future time, in other werds to all intents and perposes we live twice insted of once. Sippose I wunted to find out just what I did last March the 22nd, for instants, so I could live those particuler moments over again. How elts could I find out exactly what I did last March the 22nd if I dident have a diary? she sed. ts easy, just ask me, Id tell you, pop. All rite, smarty, I will, ma sed. What did I do last March the 22nd? she sed, and pop sed, Wait till I go into a nts. And he shut his eyes, saying, Mumbo Jumbo spirrits and shades. "On the 22nd of last March, at brekfist, you stirred your cawfee with a spoon and a thawt- ful expression and remarked, I reely must get in the habit of putting less sugar in my cawffee, all the doctors say theres nuthing as fattening as sugar. A moment later you put an- other half a lump in your cup with an even more thawtful expression. In the afternoon’ you tawked to at leest 4 ladies on the telefone on subjecks wich had little or nuthing to do with the happiness and well being of the werld at large, and during part of that time I was trying to call up the house from my office. In the evening you patiently but unsuccessfully tried to get me to go to‘the movies with you. Being things ma does almost every day, and pop sed, And now shall I teil you what you did on May the 3rd? No, ma sed. And Im going to bu; myself a diary tomorrow, she sed. Wich she proberly will. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I wist T hadn't prayed for 'iss sick- ness, I got a cold, all right, but it comed on Saturday! (Copyright. 1031.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. “Welcome, Disappointment!” “Without counsel purposes are dis- appointed.”—FProv., xv.22. And with the best counsel we can get, purposes are often disappointed. Burns had this in mind when he wrote his e best laid schemes of going oft astray. It never yet happened to any man, nor ever will,to have all things according to his wishes and plans, or to whom fortune was never adverse. The lives of many are like a highway strewn with the wreckage of frustrated plans and disappointed hopes. = “Q world, how many hopes thou dost engulf!” And yet, no matter how many our disappointments or how sorrowful, never should we allow them to make us bitter and cynical. Nor should we, after a disappointment, give up and cease from effort to accomplish our purposes. The wise farmer plows on after a barren year. While the ashes are yet warm, the man of high resolve plans to raise a new house upon the ruins of a former., We would all do well to heed Shakespeare’s sensible ad- vice: “Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolv'd to effect.” One writes, “Mean spirits under dis- appointment, like small beer in a thun- derstorm, always turn sour.” But, as another says, “Disappointment to a no- ble soul is what cold water is to burn- ing metal; it strengthens, tempers, in- tensifies, but mever destroys.” Oftentimes disappointment is better than success. As the air often needs for its cleansing a thunderstorm, so we often meed reverses for the cleansing of our souls. Often we must be dis- appointed with the lesser things of life before we come to comprehend the full value of the greater. Indeed. it is mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes that we mount to heaven. And so it is. our disappointments prove to be God’'s appointments. I am overtaken by adverse fortune, my plans are halted. my ambition checked: I call it a cloudy day. But my disap- pointment makes me think, and through my thinking I attain a wiser discern- ment. And so, what I thought was a cloud turns out to be the shadow of the Almighty. And, with Longfellow, I say, “Welcome, Disappointment!” —_— Estimates of the Department of Com- merce place Kentucky's tobacco crop at 333,125.000 pounds this year. 24 “The slender form,” says Mrs. Heron, “now is out of style. . cored apple on each square and fill the cavity with sugar, Fold the pastry over an hour in & or nutmeg. ! m"z':-'"“h.x“ e doomed d and ‘bake for half And then they Jaugh m le de at commercial pectin, mix well, lum oven. Jjokes about quickly and seal with p Why don’t you lend me some of your nice plumpness for a while?” “I wish T ":'ould.' says Puffy, “but I fear ' | ries with two cupfuls of water, and boil i slowly for 10 miputes tightly covered " FEATURES BEDTIME STORIE Billy Follows His Nose. 0 of his talents makes good use Tl e o et o Billy Mink was far beyond that part of the Green Forest which is on Farm- | of the Great Mountain. He had nol‘ followed the Laughing Brook to its start on the Great Mountain, but had | turned off to explore along the foot of | the Great Mountain. There were two | or three farms along there which might | be worth a visit. Then, too, he had found another brook, and had stopped | to explore that. He had found a spring | which had not frozen and in it he | | bad caught a fine trout. There might | be more open water and more trout. ALL I NEED DO IS TO FOLLOW MY NOSE AND IT WILL LEAD ME TO THAT FISH. Anyway, he wanted to know all about that brook. He might like to visit it | again in the Summer. | That spring had been at the very edge of the woodland. From it the brook flowed down through a meadow. | He decided to go down that way first. | Tt was frozen over and so Billy kept to the edge of the shore, taking ad- vantage of every bit of cover, now slip- ping on a bit of brush, now darting under the edge of the bank where it overhung the ice-bound brook. Despite | his interest in hew scenes he wasn't | forgetting to be careful. There was no| knowing what enemies might suddenly | | appear, so he was always on his guard. | At last he came to a place where | there was open water. It was only a | | small opening. 'He was just going to slip into it to see if there were any ! B8Y THORNTON W BURGESS trout there when a Merry Little Breeze tickled his nose. “Ha!” exclaimed Billy under his breath. turning in the direction from which the Merry Little Breeze had come. He smelled fish There was no doubt about it. Some- where near was a fish. oan al- ays trust his nose. “Ha!” sald Billy again. “All T need do is to follow nose and it will lead me to that fish. This is what comes of having a good nose. 1If there is any one thing I can trust it is this nose of mine. Come on, nose, do your duty and lead me to that fish.” So Billy followed his nose and pres- ently came to a curious little house of sticks. There was just one doorway and it was just big enough for him to enter with comfort. His nose told him | that that fish was in the liftle house The odor was very strong now and very unu\llflnf. It made his mouth water. Yes, sir, it made his mouth water. There was that fish just inside All he “need do was to step In and take it. But Billy hesitated. That was a queer place for a fish to be. There was some- thing queer about that little house of sticks. He would examine it first So he went all around it, looking it over carefully and using his nose. He smelled of every one of the little sticks of which that little house was built They smelled all right until he came to one near the doorway. He backed away hastily and his lips lifted in a sort of silent snarl. Faintly but surely he had caught the scent of one of those two-legged creatures called man. A "Q_‘:‘x:. hand had touched that one stick. ‘That was enough for Billy. He turned his back on that little house and going straight to the hole in the ice slipped in. He would catch his fish where fish should be—in the water. It was well for Billy that he so decided. Just inside that little house of sticks a cruel steel trap with wide spread jaws was waiting for whoever should try to get that fisn. Later, farther down the brook his bright eyes discovered signs of a strug- gle and at once he went to find out what it meant Fastened to a small log by a chain he found one of those dreadful traps and held fast in it were two toes—the toes of a member of his own race. Billy had lived so long along the Laughing Brook, where trapping was not allowed, that he had almost for- gotten that there were such ul cruel things as stee] traps. “I don't like this brook,” said Billy Mink. “I think I'll go hunting instead of fishing.” Turning, he bounded back toward the woods at the ‘oot of the Great Mountain. (Copyright. 1031, MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, January 24 (N.AN.A). | —A bedraggled and at times hysterical jury which had battled for some 48 {hours in an endeavor to come to_a decision on the Clara Bow-Dalsy De Boe case brought in a verdict of guilty Jast might on one count of the 35 | against the “it” girl's secretary. | "The guilty verdict concerned a check | for $825, written two days before Miss De Boe was dismissed by her employer. | The jury recommended mercy for the defendant. Neither Clara Bow nor Rex Bell showed up in court for the verdict. Clara, reported as prostrated with a cold and the accumulated nerve strain of her court appearances, contented herself with saying she hopes the | judge will be lenient. She is not working at present, but will resume again when a rest, ordered by her doc- tor, has been effected. Daisy greeted the verdict with a frenzied outburst, but her conduct | throughout the case has been that of | the ideal fatal Only once before did she give way to tears, when her attorney pleacded for “justice tempered with mercy.” Calm and unmoved, Daisy had read magazines and novels during the dreary | waii or had frankly held the hand of her “boy friend,” Alfred Mathes, dur- ing court proceedings. Thursday, anticipating action of | some sort, she donned a very smart beige ensemble, with & tiny brown felt hat which emphasized her blond slim- | ness and undeniable chic, The day broke in a dull drizzle of rain. En route to the courthouse, one |could see the long line of umbrella- |topped ;- pothizers standing in the pewter-coiorcil streets waiting to file past Alma Rubens’ coffin and take their | Iast look at one of the most beautiful brunettes that ever brightened the sil- ver screen. At her feet lay a giant bouquet of American Beauty rcses which Ricardo Ttez had brought as his final tribute. Little Church of the Flowers, which |has seen s0 many of the famous pass |in the cortege which marked their last public appearance in a life of parade. A sea of umbrellas still bobbed about the courthouse doors. The public had largely given up hope of further sen- sationalism in Daisy De Boe's trial, but a few of the curious braved the elements in the hope that the “it" gir might appear at the last moment. And over at Paramount in the airless heat of a sound siag: another beaut', wide-eyed and luscious-lipped, a gi | with “it” galore and no misiaking i | began work opposite Gary Cooper it the picture which all this turmoil lost for Clara Bow. Sylvia Sydney bids fair to be flung up to the stars on this Hollywooc storm. The waves of adversity beat high here, and now and again they | toss up a new name into the firmament. Names are made, are written in flame, | are burned to cinder and ‘their cold ast | forgotten in the briefest lapse of time in this strange village of make-believe | It's a zestful and dangerous life whilg it lasts. (Copyright, 1931. by North American News paper Alliance.) THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Chis flower, of all the earth's blooms, seemed most ideally suited to Alma Rubens. Today she will be buried from the | | Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. You really do need a few uninter- rupted hours if you are going to make a success of painting old furniture. It's the sort of job you had better not ate tempt to do between times on & busy day. It needs uninterrupted attention or the result is not satisfactory. Then you need a good paint brush and the right sort of paint and that is | about all, save sandpaper, and possibly | turpentine and some old rags. You don’t need to know anything about painting, as the job requires no more skill than can be acquired through patience and application. - You can very much improve the ap- pearance of any bed room in your house where you have a miscellaneous collection ofsold furniture if you paint it all to match. It may not match in design or wood, but at least you can give it the same tone. In your living room you doubtless have better furni- ture and this does not need to match. But where the furniture has been col- lected at random, resultant of necessity, then uniformity of color and finish is desirab’e. | For the nursery or children's room you might paint the cream, gray, soft biue, buff or green. You should get enamel paint, as this gives a more substantial finish. Be very careful to follow the directions rinted on the can of the paint you se- lect—if there are none, ask the dealer. It the salesperson doesn’t know, then by all means go to a paint store where the salespeople do know. Before you begin any painting your pieces of furniture should be got ready. Preferably you should remove all trace of former paint or varnish, but if you are not willing to g0 to this pains, then be sure that the surface is perfectly ciean and smooth. Wash the surfacs thoroughly with & strong soap solution and hot water, then rinse and let dry thoroughly. Use pumice stone cr fine sandpaper to work down any roughness. All handles and knobs should be removed from the fur- niture and painted separately if wooden and washed and rubbed up if metal. Do not put them back until the furni- ture is thoroughly dry. An important thing to do after paint- ing is to make sure that the painted surface catches no dust. For this rea- son keep windows and doors closed in the room when' furniture is drying. Pineapple-Berry Jam. Mix one quart of fully ripe cranber- der. Add six and and_one No. | e. Bring to rd for one Remove ful | until ghe skins oTéung | one<Half cupfuls of s 2 can of crushed pineap | the boiling point and boil minute, stiring constantly the half things white, | Smart Simplicity. No wonder s0 many women are wear- ing the cowl neckline. It is the pet of Paris. It is generally becoming extremely flattering. ‘Today’s model is black canton. crepe.. . It's so utterly smari, it doesn't nced anv trinming Horizontal pin tucks nip the normal waistline at the center- front. The decorative pin tucks appear again at the wrists of the long sleeves. The hips are snugly fitted with a shaped yoke whose curved seaming con- ceals breadth. The attached skirt has gracefully flaring hem. It’s all so simple to make if. 2 Style No. 951 may be had In sizes 16, u,tzo years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches ust. The 36-inch sizé requires 31 yards of 39-inch material. Crepe maracain, flat crepe in plain or print and crepy woolens are other charming selections. s For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin’directly to The Washington sSter's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth ovenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send. for four pattern, you order of our 'ge Winter Fashion should be in every home for, of courses of |every woman wants to look her hnlt' book without great centa, points the way. *Brios ot ‘book 10