Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1931, Page 19

WOMAN’S PAGE. Watching Dress Left-Overs BY MARY One of the surest ways of cutting you | follow the diagram. A-B necessary or when you decide that you want to save money for something else is to| food bill economy down when find your that is watch the left-overs. ~And the best way of making s0 one of watch the left-overs. your dress allowance go as far as possible is to Most modern housewives do' watch the left-overs so MARSHALL. To make the pattern for the apron measures 24 inches, B-F measures 3 inches, B-C measures 12 inches, B-J measures 21 hes—J-A measures 3 inches. B-E is t | 7 Inches, F-G is 5. A straight line con- ‘necv_s G and E. and a deep curve | connects € and G. C-D is 6 inches. I-H | is 3 inches and H-J is 7. A curve line | connects H and K. almost _touching I. far as food is concerned, but they are | Strings are attached at K. Then 3 MHkely to be less careful so far as left- over materials are concerned. And of course unless you are going to use the pieces left after you have made a dress or a blouse or some pieces of lingerie then there is no good reason at all for saving them. But there are ali sorts of ways of making use of thesc little pieces. You may perhaps find enough material in your work box to make the apron shown in the sketch. If you haven't enough for the entire apron you will have enough colored or figured material to maks the pocket and other trimmings and for the rest you may use plain in- expensive muslin. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Dear Miss Leeds: Will you kindly let me know how to make my hands and finger nails more pres-ntable? My nails are brittle and the skin on my hands is very dry, with deep lines in them, in which dust and grime seem to collect. 1 am a housewife with five Soak fingertips in warm eil children and cannot afford a manicure with so many little ones to feed, clothe and educate. Second: Is there any home treatment that I could give my hair? It is getting very thin and falls out quite badly. I feel that you will help me with my beauty problems, as I read your answer to a tired mother a short time ago and your answer to her MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Sliced Oranges. Cereal with Cream Scrambled Eggs. Hot Johnny Cake. DINNER. ‘Tomato Bisque. Crown Roast of Pork. Browned Potatoes. Apple Rings Brussels Sprouts, Cream Sauce. Celery. Coconut-Cusiard Ple. CofTee. SUPPER. Pork and Celery Salad. Sweet Pickles. Hot Rolls. Sliced Pineapples. Sponge Drops. Hot Chocolate. SCRAMBLED EGGS. Six eggs, gill of cream, one tablespoon butter, salt and pepper. Put the butter into the chafing dish. When hot add cream and eggs. Season with salt and pepper. Stir constantly for two or three minutes. PORK ROAST. Have the pork loin prepared in the shape of a crown roast, trim rib ends and put all trim- mings through meat chopper. Place trimmings in a bowl and add one chopped onions, one cup _finely chopped parsley, one and one- half cups bread crumbs, two tea- spoons salt, one teaspoon pepper, one-half teaspoon thyme and one-half teaspoon sage. Mix well and place in the center of the crown. Then tie picces of heavy paper that have been rubbed with lard around each bone to prevent scorching. Place _the crown in roasting pan. Pare potatoes of uniform size and place around the roast. Dust meat lightly with flour and cook in hot oven about 30 minutes to the pound. Baste with boiling water. Make the usual brown gravy and serve with the pota- toes and small baked apples. Decorate the ribs with paper frills. Bacon Coffee. SPONGE DROPS. Three eggs beaten separately, three-fourths cup _sugar, one heaping cup pastry flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking pow- der, one teaspoon flavoring. Droj by teaspocn, three inches apart, and bake quickly. (Copyright, 1931.) sections like a-b-d-c—are cut—a-b on The measurements a-c, 10 |a fold of material. | | for this are: a-b. 6 inches, | inches, b-d 11 inches. | | " 'The apron may be bound around all | these sections, or hemmed. Little | pockets may be placed above the top skirt section, one at each side. hology SPROWLS. | | | | Handwriting and Vocations. | | The graphologists have gone so far | | nowadays as to say that it's possible to | | tell what you are cut out for, by merely | | examining your handwriting. No mat- | Everyday F BY DR. JESSE W. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. After supper pop was reeding the paper in the living room and ma came |in with her new hat on. being one of the new kind of ladies hats fitting away back on their heds like babies hats, and ma started to wawk around waiting for pop to notice it. Wich he dident on account of not seeing anything but the paper, and |aftcr a while ma bumped rite into it and nocked it rite out of his hands axs'dently on perpose, and he sed, Hay, blov your horn, will you? Wich just_then he noticed her new hat, saying, For Pect sake. 1’ thawt vou'd be scrprised, ma sed What do you think of it, whats your candied opinion? she sed Icky wicky hatty, pop sed. Now whats the sents of that? ma sed, and pop sed, It looks to me as if | you're dressing up for your 2nd child- so I thawt Id better try a little v’ tawk on you Now Willyum Im serious, T wunt to know just what you think of this hat, its the very latest stile, ma sed. Pitty itty liddums, coo coo, pop sed Wiliyum P. Potts, do you wunt me to get angr ma sed. and pop sed, Hatty watty momsy, peep peep. Wich just then the bell rang. being my sister Gladdis and Harvey, and they ter what vocation you follow, they think | started to come up stairs. pop saying, they can tell whether or not you have Wait till Gladdis sees you all dolled | selected the proper calling. up for the baby parade, she'll die laf- School teachers write with a formal | fing | hand—moderate capitals, rounded let-| Wich just then Gladdis came in and ters, etc. Those who are cut out to0|what did she have on but a little red teach hard subjects write a poor hand hat just like ma's ony werse, looking generally. They also exaggerate thelas if it either never had any frunt capitals. Those who teach the exact|to it or elts it had fell off, pop saying, sciences seem to show their habits of | Yee gods am I dreeming all this? accurate thinking by a tendency to| I know exackly how you feel, Harvey print instead of write. |sed, and pop sed. 1 need air, or at Court room lawyers seem to have |leest exercize, lets go” around to the what is called a “vital” hand. The vital | bowling alley till the baby show is over. hand also applies to preachers and actors. | Meening while ma and Gladdis w In other words, those who follow the s0- | looking at their new hats, and Harvey called dramatic professions tend to|sed. With plezzure and relief. make a lot of gestures. These gestures | Wich they did. . crop out in the handwriting in terms of a certain boldness which denotes energy and determination. Such writing is not | always easy to rcad. Signatures are often indecipherable. | And then thers is what might be called an “adventurous” hand. Such a hand may be almost anything. but al- ways legible. It's a mixture of neatness, accuracy and boldness. It's a refined, vital type. What about these observations? It would appear that there's just about enough truth in them to make the sub- ject interesting. Ask any one how he happened to become a lawyer, engineer, preacher, ‘or school teacher, and he is | pretty likely to say he got there by acci- dent. Ask the graphologist, and he will say that choice of vocation is a i question of some inherent temp rament. | | THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN ERVICE My Neighbor Says: A good sauce for stewed fruit is made by boiling one-half ounce of very fine sago in one pint of milk till so tender that the grains almost, disappear. To remove marks on paint which have been made with matches, rub them with lemons, then with whiting and finally wash with soap and water. Always use bread crumbs to cover articles to be fried. Cracker crumbs absorb the grease, Linoleum looks better and lasts longer if given an occasional rubbing with a flannel cloth dipped in kerosene. All dirt .or stains will be removed in this manner. Grass stains can easily be re- moved frcm linens, cottons or from white stockings by rubbing with molasses before washing. (Copyright, 1931) gave me encouragement, and so I de- cided to write to you for help. RS. M. D. S. Answer. —1 am happy to help you with your beauty problems, my dear. Soak your finger nails in warm oil for |scveral minutes at bedtime. First | cleanse them with a little oil or warm | | vaseline to remove the surface grime and dust: then wash them in warm water to which you may add one hand- ful of cornmeal or oatmeal. Scrub your | | nails thoroughly and dry well. Take a | little freshly warmed oil and massage | A modish peplum dress of flat crepe silk, gracious and lovely in every de- tail. It favors the youthful plaits across | your hands with your finger tips for sev | eral minutes and steep the finger nai |in the oil. Press your cuticle back |gently with an ‘orangewood stick wrapped with a wisp of cotton Wool |After the skin has been - thoroughly massaged with the ofl wipe off the ex- cess and slip on a pair of old, clean cotton gloves. This will prevent the oil from rubbing off on the bedding during | sleep. The skin and nails need this oily | | lubricant regularly. 1In the morning wash and dry your hands thoroughly and apply a little glycerin and rose | water lotion. Every time you have your | hands in water use a little of the lotion and press back your cuticle with the towel. I should like you to have my | leaflet on the care of the hands and | arms, as it will help you in detail with | your beauty problem. Plcase write for | it and inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope so that I may mail it. Sec- |ond: Yes, there is a home treatment | that you may give your hair and scalp | | every night for a week or two and then | less ‘frequently afterward. Brush your | {hair and massege your scalp every | | night and morning for several minutes Wash your hair at regular intervals {with a mild liquid soap shampoo. Rinse well and dry. Before your hair is quite dry, however, apply a little of the following scalp tonic and finish | drying your hair by massaging it with | the tips of your fingers: On= ounce olive oil, one ounce cologne water, five drops tincture of capsicum, 30 grains | boric acid, four ounces bay rum. Ask | |for my leaflet on the systematic care | of the hair when you write again. The, | warm-oil treatment that you may give | before the shampoo is given in detail there. LOIS LEEDS A Reader.—Please write for my leaflet on the systematic care of the hair. In- close a self-addressed, stamped envelope so that T may mail it In the meantime | give your hair and scalp a shampoo | with a mild soap liquid at regular in- | tervals. Two or three times a weck ap- ! ply the following astringent, tonic to| your scalp: Two ounces witch hazel, | one ounce cologne water; one dram | borate of soda, 30 grains boric acid, six | ounces bay rum, 15 grains salicylic acid | Dissolve the boric acid, soda and sali- | cylic acid in the witch hazel, add tie | cologne water and finally the bay rum | Shake well. LOIS LEEDS. | Artichokes With Sauce. Pull off the hard outer leaves and cut off the top about one inch down. Tie each artichoke into a compact shape | and boil for about 45 minutes in salted | water to which lemon juice has been added, about one teaspoonful to each | quart of water. Remove the artichokes |from the water, turn upside down to drain, take off the string, remove the | choke from the center and serve with sauce made as follows: Cream half a cupful of butter, beat in three egg yolks one at a time and cook and stir over hot water until the mixture thickens. Remove from the fire and add one- fourth teaspoonful each of salt and | pepper, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and half a cupful of boiling water. Sausage Rolls. | For a good luncheon dish, boil a cup- ful of rice in a quart of milk and cook | half a peck of fresh spinach, then chop | and arrange on the rice and spinach some rolls of thinly sliced large Italian sausages. Sliced cold ham or other meat may be served in the same way and the bed of rice and spinach may be either hot or cold. i | | | the front of th . They are stitched to a depth just above the knees so as to_keep the silhouette slender. The cowl drape of the bodice is soft The long sieeves are also given a soft touch through a frill below the elbow. A light navy blue flat crepe silk made the original model Style No. 3005, may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, and 42 inches bust. Printed flat crepe with the sleeve frill of plain crepe in blending tore is attractive. Creepy woolens may also be used for its_development. You will see one attractive style after anothier as you turn over the pages of our new Spring fashion book. Styles for children or the miss, the | matron, the stout—and a series of dress- making articles. It is a book that will save you money For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington_Star's New York Fashion Burcau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York Be sure to fill in the size of the pat- tern. Send stamps or coin (coin pre- ferred). Price of book, 10 cents. Oyster Curry. Melt in a hot pan onc-fourth cupful of butter and cook in it one grated onion, one chopped apple and two ta- blespoonfuls of curry powder until the onion is a golden brown. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour, stir to a_paste, add the liquid from 'a pint of solid oysters, stir until thick, add half a | cupful ‘of thin cream with salt to taste and stir until the whole boils. Add the oysters, cook until the gills separate and crinkle and pour all into a border formed by two or more cupfpls of hot boiled rice on a small platter. Garnish with cress and thin strips of sweet red pepper. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX AR DOROTHY DIX—Should a young man keep old love letters? Not E. D long ago I was in love with a girl and she with me, but we had a mis- understanding and broke off our engagement, though I love her still. I have a number of her letters and she has many of mine. I have thought of burning them, but I don't like to do that. Shall I return them to her? G. J. Answer: Return the letters to the girl by all means. It is the only hon- orable and chivalrous thing to do, and while you are about it you had just as well ask her to return yours to you and let them go into the furnace. Old love letters are just about as safe to have around the house as an unexploded bomb. In fact, if you get married and your wife comes across a lot of old love letters from girls, you will find yourself in as much of a mess as you would be if some one had put a stick of dynamite under your doorstep and then touched it off. Never, never, never will you be able to explain why Maud or Geraldine or Sally or Sue addressed you as the angel of her soul, the darling of her heart, her man of men, and so on and so fortn, or why she wrote pages upon pages about how she longed for your kisses and your arms about her, and how many ages it seemed since you said good-by last night. And though 'you talked with the tongue of men and of angels you will never convince your wife that you still haven't a lingering tenderness for the authors of these warm missives, and every time you have a quarrel she will come back with a fresh quotation from Maud or Geraldine or Sally or Sue. Of course, many men keep the love letters girls have written them to prove their prowess with the fair sex, as the headhunters preserve the skulls of their victims to show what mighty hunters they are.. But it is a caddish thing of a man to boast of his conquests among the ladies, and satisfied vanity is a poor recompense for putting yourself in that category. Besides, to keep a girl's letters is most unfair to her. Every woman when she dips her pen in'ink takes leave of prudence and writes things that she would never dream of saying to any man alive, merely because it makes her feel poetic and romantic, and she gets a kick out of thinking of herself as a great lover penning an immortal love lyric. A real gentleman never kisses and tells, and he always sends a girl's love letters back to her so that she can destroy them. ROTHY DIX. e ])EAR MISS DIX—I know a very charming and cultured young lady who also is very wealthy. As a friend I have enjoved her company immensely, but 1 am not in love with her. Lately she has told me that she is greatly in love with me, but with deepest regret I answered that I did not respond to her feeling. There is a girl with wham I am in love, but she is poor. Business condi- tions are not good with me and the first girl's money makes me think of her as an easy means to an end. Will love, or the other girl's money, make my life happier? DISTRESSED. Answer—Of course, when girls exercise their prerogative of popping the question they must expect men to say no, just as women have always done when they refused a suitor, 5o that's that. But don't marry the rich girl for her money. A man makes a poor bargain when he sells himself to a woman, no matter how much he gets, because there can be no adequate compensation for loss of self-respect and independence. So I advise you by all means to stick to your poor sweetheart. .Any hustling young man with good health and fair intelligence can make money, but it takes the gods themselves to make love. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) +|and right attitude. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. ‘Watch Your Spirit. “Take heed to your spirit."—Mal., .15, One should watch the health of his spirit just as diligently as he watches the health of his body. Neglect the body, and soon it will become clogged up with poison and cease to function properly. Neglect the spirit, and you will suffer a corresponding result in your spiritual being. You see a man who has become mo- rose, morbid and peevish, or, perhaps, cold, hard and unrelenting. He was not always so. You remember him as he was in former days, when he was bright and cheerful, warm hearted, generous and responsive. You mark the change that has come over him, and you wonder what has happencd to make him so different. ‘The trouble is that he has neglected the health of his. spirit. Likely the change has come about gradually. He may have been thrown into an un- happy environment, or he may have | suffered some unhappy _experiences. But that is no excuse. When the body | is subjected to an unusual strain, on? is apt to give all the more attention to | the maintenance of its strength and | efficiency. And likewise, when we find | oursclves in an_uncongznial environ- ment, or unusually tired of any sort of | depressing or vexing circumstances, we need to be all the more on our guard to keep our spirit in a healthy condition The trouble with your man is that he neglected to do this. Instead of mas- tering his _circumstances, he allowed them to master him. Perhaps he didn't think, and has been unaware of the | change that has been taking place in his mental attitude and disposition. | Nevertheless the charge is 50 pro- nounced that he has become a source | of amazement to his friends and associ- ates. We all need to take heed, lest some- thing like this happen to us. It is something that may happ-n to us very | easily, and before we realize it. Right now it would be well for each of us to check up on himself, and see whether he is ke-ping his mind and heart in a | healthy state. | What about the disposition you were displaying today to those around you,| in the office, in the store, in the shop, | in the home? Take a look at yourself in the,mirror. Do you sce any change | in your facial expression? Batter look out about that. If you want to keep that good disposition, better watch your spirit. NANCY PAGE | Plans for Joan's Party Go On Apace. | | BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. FEATUR The Hypocrite. In a certain office there’s & new man- ager, & woman, who in her very first week spoke to the girls like this: “Now, girls, I'm on your side. I'm with you. Now let's remember we are all working , together and I'm| ‘ with you. You just come” and tell ‘me | ;lll;l:‘kbothem you. | 3 e your part against the every time.” The faces of the girls did not light up at the cheerful remarks. Insteada | gloomy shade fell uyer t‘llllk ‘This klnd‘ Helen Woodward, 9 sounded bogus. And surely enough, before this new | office manager had been in her job a week she cut out all overtime pay and | stopped a number of special privileges. | She shows her affection by snooping continually. If she doesn’t hear all the typewriters clattering away at one time she comes in quickly to see what the| silent typist is doing, though she knows | that each girl has plenty of detail work | to do. She cannot pass a desk without | picking something up. ! 1f a girl looks tired, she says: “Well, | I guess you were out pretty late last night.” If some one comes in in a new dress, sh: says: “Very smart. I don't Back to the Long Sleep. As nature meant so let things be: For who is there as wise as she? —Parmer Brown's Boy. Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse, one | of the seven sleepers, had been awak- ened in the middle of Winter. He had | been found sound asleep in his Winter | home in a hollow stump by Farmer | Brown’s Boy, so sound asleep that it | was if he were dead. But the warmth | of Farmer Brown's kitchen had wak- ened him. Now, Mother Brown had | declared that he must be taken out of the house, and she was very firm about it. “When mother says a thing she means it,” thought Farmer Brown's Boy, “so it will be of no use to tease her to allow me to keep Nimbleheels in the house. I'll have to take him out in the barn. I wonder if he will go to sleep again out there. Perhaps it will be warm enough out there to keep him a:w;kc. Anyway, there is nothing else | lo.” | So Farmer Brown's Boy prepared a | box for Nimbleheels. In it he placed some cotton waste and pieces of paper, | enough to make a big comfortable bed. | ‘When Aunt Nancy was getting ready for Joan's party she took occasion to call the mothers of the children and tell them of her plans. “I am asking 10 guests, all about 6 vears old. The party is going to be so simple that you { may think it is nothing, but I don’t believe in over-elaborate affairs for small children. I prefer to keep scme thrills for their later years. “I am asking the children to come for the afternoon between 3 and 6. I will serve a simple supper, the kind you let your child have every night, only I will put in some plain ice cream because The top he covered with fine wire | screen, "so that, Nimbleheels couldn’t ge‘ out and no enemy could get in to‘harm him. In the box he put & | dish of water and some corn and buck- wheat. Then he took Nimbleheels out to the barn and put him in his new | home. Nimbleheels at once began to | | explore. He examined every corner of | his new home. This done, he drank, | and then settled down to make a good | | meal. “This isn’t so bad,” thought Nimble- heels. It wasn't. The barn was rather dimly lighted, for the big door was kept closed. There was the pleasant | odor of hay. | light and the smell of the hay. The | latter gave him a home feeling, for | Nimbleheels had :pent much of his life | in or on the edge of a hay field. Hav- ing finished his dinner, he inspected the bed Farmer Brown's Boy had ar- | ranged for him. . “This won't do at all,” said Nimble- | heels to himself, for lack of any one | else to talk to. “No, sir, this won't | do at all. I must get to work at once.” So he set to work to pull apart the | cotton waste and tear up the paper. The latter he tore into little pieces. It took a long time to tear up that paper. When Farmer Brown's Boy had looked in the last thing before clos- | ing the barn for the night Nimbleheels | was still at work. That night the weather turned very cold. When, in the morning, Farmer Brown's boy went out to the barn he was worried. He was fearful that Nim- bleheels might not have been warm ['enough. The first thing he did was | hard they work they frequently BEDTIME STORIES He liked both the dim | to look in the box. e could see noth- | ing of Nimbleheels, but there was a | sort of big ball of cotton and torn Plaids in Interior Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Eben if the clock did stop last night I must hab got put to bed, 'cause here I is gettin' up again. Somebody must hab telled muvver; p'obably one ob them mean ‘ittle birds. Plaids are enjoying a decided vogue in decoration at the present time. There {are plaid wall papers, plaid upholstery textiles, plaid furniture-cover fabric: plaid floorcovering designs, plaid hang- ings, plaid cushion covers, piaid blan- | kets, plaid luncheon sets and napery, | etc. While too much plaid in any one | room is confusing, it is possible to use | the motif in a number of ways in a room to make it up-to-date and re<; tain its restful decoration. Some at-| tractive ways of using the motif are; =uggested. Plaid wall paper and wall treatment are seen to good advantage in bath rooms. They are a modification of the tile, which may be suggested in the al- ternation of dark and light hues in ad- joining squares. Or, again, the plaids may consist of sharply outlined squares with disconnected lines forming smaller squares inside each larger one. Some of these papers are excellent also for kitchens. The self-toned plaids in tex- tile effects supply a plain background that is well suited to chambers and some halls, though seldom a main hall. ‘The paper must be very high grade, and ;:, lulhmlld be embossed plaids for main alls. Plaid floorcoverings may be a woven ‘The heavy linen woven rugs design al both sides can be so soft in tone that they are artis tic. Woven “hooked-rug” carpets show plaid patterns. In most instances, how- ever, plaid designs come in floor oil- cloth and are on the general order of patterns found in the wall papers, as described. These are useful for bath rooms and kitchens and back halls. Plaid upholstery material is not so much in the forefront. It is smart, but s0 modern in its trend that it has to be used with certain decorative styles 1t is not so comfortable to general dec- oration_as the wonderful historic de- signs than which there are no more handsome textiles for upholstery pur- es. pn_flrm! does not hold when it comes to furniture slipcovers. Plaids are a welcomé change from stripes. They are smart without being obtrusive, as the upholstery textiles strike one as being. We are accustomed to check hang- ings, since ginghams have been pop: ular for many years. But in these hangings for curtains, etc., the tile has been in evidence rather than the plaid, as now found. One must be careful to select plaids of soft harmonious hues that will fall in attractive folds for this use. For cushion covers anv of the plaid textiles are good. As for blan- kets, there is-a perfect craze for plaids in them. no child thinks he has been to party | unless there is ice cream. “But you won't need to have any further food for your child when he gets home.” Nancy thought she detected relief in the voices of some of the mothers and skepticism in others. But she stuck to hér guns. She believed in simple life for_children. For her menu’Nancy planned nice, mealy with creamed entire wheat bread with s tuce filling—no mayonnais plain vanilla ice cream, a simple birth- day cake and orange juice to drink. Those who wanted it hag cocoa as well. | Nancy considered cutfing the sand- | wiches with an znimal cutter. Had she cone this she would have put animal crackers upright in the s:ft frostin of the cake and had the vanilla ice cream molded in animal shapes. At each child’s place was a gayly wrapped package. Here, too. Nancy car- ried out her belief that uniformity was better than originality. Each package | was wrapped like its neighbor, so that no child had a chance to feel that he had been neglected or favored. In each | package was a sma'l book with a story | written_for a six-y:ar-oid. Then there was a little creps paper basket with a few peppermint candies m it. And the children had as good a time as they would have had if Nancy had spent 10 times as much on Joan's party. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. paper. “Probably he is in that,” muttered Our European medical colleagues handle the truth more carelessly than we do here in America. Every new drug or medicine that comes out of France or Germany is, if the introduc- tory blurb is taken at face value, a vast improvement on the older preparation it seeks to displace. Buf, the sad story is always the same—aftér a season or two of popularity the new and invari- ably more expensive thing is displaced by a stlsnewer and still more expen- sive one Paich, if you believe the blurb, has all the desirable qualities of the preceding one, yet none of its drawbacks | or untoward effects. These untoward | effects, somehow, are never mentioned while the article is in vogue with that part of the American medical profes- sion which eagerly takes up all the new things thus introduced. The harmful flects of the stuff are acknowledged only when the new improvement arrives on the market. And so it is with the medical knowl- edge emanating from Europe. Doctors and specialists over there have a naive way of “pronouncing” things thus and so, much as the great legendary con- sultants did in the earlier days of American medical history. . At least this is the impression we get on this side of the ocean. A French doctor has discovered a new disease, closed car neuritis. He describes this as cervico-brachial (neck and arm) neuritis, and he says it Is| quite common in drivers of closed cars, | but it does not occur in drivers of open cars. There it is, the dogmatic Euro- pean pronunciamento—you simply can't have cervico-brachial ‘neuritis unless you drive a closed car—with a window open beside you. What's more. the French doctor declares the trouble is invariably in the left side, never in the right—for most automobiles have left- hand drive and the driver keeps the left window open to thrust out his arm for signaling to drivers behind. You SON A SUCE OFF THE oLD HAM? D. T. M.—Carrect social practice is against introducing freely. Persons who happen to be in the same room for only a minute or two, or who stop to say a word of greeting when passing on the street, or at a restaurant table, are not introduced. Send for Polly's leaflet “What to Say and Do When Introduced.” Inclose a return envelope with your request, please! - see, we are leading up to the etiology of the disease. to wit, the draft or cur- rent of cool air entering the open win- ow strikes the driver right on the left side of his neck. Ironical, I call it, for I have just DAILY DIET RECIPE LAMB CHOPS, YARMOUTH. Thick loin or shoulder lamb chops, four; fine breadcrumbs, four tablespoons: minced onion, one tablespoon: table sauce, one teaspoon; thyme, one-sixteenth teaspoon; sage, one-sixteenth tea- spoon. SERVES FOUR PORTIONS. Sear only one side of each chop. Make a dressing by com- bi br , minced onion, table sauce, sage. Fogm a mound dressing on top of eac! the seared side. Bake about 15 20 minutes in a hot oven (450 _F.). Use oven at same ?hlm‘ other parts of the 3 i time dinn | ritis is equally hypothetical. 103“ ndon So I and the Prince of ES. The Woman Who ques Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. see how you can afford to buy such swell things o your pay.” Nice little touches which reduce the girls to tears of rage. But there is one way of getting on with her. If you report what other girls are doing you can have anything she has to give you. It is an amazing thing about hypo- crites. They don't suspect that people can see through the coat they wear. Sometimes I think they fool themselves. I really believe that a woman like this office manager can make herself think that when she is poking into the girls’ affairs she is really helping them, and when she is forcing them to work over- time she is keeping them out of mischief. A woman like this does her employers a great deal of harm. She gets r work from the girls because she kills | all enthusiasm. She destroys something in their spirit so that no matter how get less work done. Ccrtainly their work is not as good In quality. And with such an office manager girls are con- tinually leaving and new girls comine in, and everybody knows how much this cuts down results, Sometimes the boss likes an office manager of this kind. Sometim's he himself is fooled by her and does not realize what she is doing. But that's very little help to the girls working in the office. They can't report th> office manager to the boss without losing their own jobs. By Thornton W. Burgess. Farmer Brown's Boy, and to carefully open it. He half expected Nimbleheels to jump out, but Nimble- heels didn’t. At last, buried deep in the cotton and paper, he found Nimble- heels curled up tightly, his long tail wrapped around him. Gently Farmer Brown's boy touched him. How cold he felt! He didn't move. With many misgivings, Farmer Brown's Boy lifted Nimbleheels out and held- him in one cupped hand. There was no sign of life. His little body felt colder than ever. “I fear this cold weather was too much for hir1” mourned Farmer Brown's Boy. wish mother had allowed me to keep him in the kitchen. Poor little chap.” And right then Farmer Brown's Boy remembered something. He remem- bered that when he had found Nimble- heels in that old stump he had ap- “THIS ISN'T SO BAD.” THOUGHT NIMBLEHEELS. peared exactly as he did now. He had been just as cold to the touch. He had curled up in just this way. “I wonder,” exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy, “if he is alive after all and has simply gone back into his Winter sleep. I wonder if he is hibernating again.” That is a big word, but, as I told you once before, it means simply sleeping that queer kind of sleep in which cer- tain little people spend the Winter. Farmer Brown’s Boy put Nimbleheeis back in the box and did his morning chores. When he was once more frec he took Nimbleheels in his hand once more and covered him with the offer hand, so that the warmth of both hands would be felt. For a long time there were no signs of life. Then he felt a feeble stir. “He is alive!” exclaimed Farmer Brown’s Boy. “Yes, sir, he is alive. 1 guess the thing for me to do is to put him right back and cover him up as he was. Perhaps he'll sleep for the rest of the Winter and awaken in the Spring.” PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. driven 3,000 miles in . a closed ecar, through all kinds of weather from freezing to rorrid, with the left window open most of the time, and I have a pain in the neck—the right side. Many good doctors have argued bold- ly, if not rashly, with me about the theory that a current of cool air strik- ing the left side of the face of a drive: of a closed car with the left window open may account for facial neuritis This is an ancient conception, but 1 firmly believe it is not so. I believe this alleged closed car neu- If the doctor would only concede that drivers of open cars sometimes suffer from the same sort of pain and that the trouble occasionally occurs on the right side of a person who drives with the left win- dow open, one might accept the theory with more confidence. But the cock- sureness seems suspicious—I think he is trying to make a convincing case. 1 doubt the draft or cold air has any- thing to do with it. I believe the trouble is attributable to the position the driver holds the arm in while driv- ing, to strain. It is stated that diathermy, infra- red (radiant heat) and massage treat- ments give the best relief, and in this I agree with the French doctor. “It must be great to travel” Peklncea'e to Pufl. o i 'Whlthdo %:'u plan tg do w)l;;n you n_around enough?” think. Puff, “I'll go to famous, town— ‘Wales together can settle down.” .