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WOMAN’S PAGE. Feminine Equipment for Ranch BY MARY MARSHALL., . “Tam mxkin! plans for a most won- derful two-week vacation, to be spent on a ranch where every one rides and ‘where no one dresses up for afternoon and evening. - Will you make some sug- | gestions as to what sort of clothes I should buy. I want things that will be right for the ranch, but not entirely useless afterward.” | You should make inquirics of the | people who run the ranch or some on: | who has visited it before to find out a little more abcut what you will need. | Obviously, riding clothes of some- sort. | 1 suggest getting olive drab breeches of & firm but not too heavy twill; also two | cotton shirts for warmer days and one or two flannel shirts for cooler days. | You can use the shirts with a separate | rts skirt for country wear at any | time, Then if you do not want.to get THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE | skirt of firm material to wear with your a special riding coat, you can use & double-breasted or single-breasted sepa- rate jacket of sucde or jersey that you can buy now and wear for sports and motoring immediately. You should also have a separate sports | r One of the new slightly faring sports skirts will be better than | one with pleats. It “should be long | enough to extend beyond the knees five | or _six inches. The- question of riding boots or shoes 1s one that should be given careful at- | tention. Be sure that they are larg enough to be perfectly comfortable. A | pair of walking oxfords should- also be included In your list of needfuls and | substantial lisle stockings for wear with the riding boots or walking shoes. Everyday Psychology il" DR. .‘:SSE ‘W. SPROWLS. Snecialization. j: | Much is said and more is surmised One of the most charming pajamas | ..o o taults and virtues of modern | that Paris has sent us is illustrated In | civilization and its spec ejzation of style No. 2523. | industry. A It is distinguished by its flattering| On the one hand it is argued that eapelet collar. specialization tends to create a ma- | be 3 chine mind, which balks and tires at The wide flaring trousers are stitched | every innovation, Specialization ad- | to a hip yoks in curved outline with mits of no experimentation, no flashes | of imagination. When the day's work is done the worker looks back, not | upon a day cof achievement, but upon just another period of routine. ~In order to offset the benumbing effect | the worker must seek some excite- | ment, which in turn is followed by a no less distinct feeling cf remorse. On the other hand, it is argued that | specialization makes for efficiency and | leisure. The one who has not learned | to employ that leisure in the pursuit | of achievement has allowed himself to become a slave to his work. | The argument centers around one point: Are you as a specialist able to | make your hobby time more valuable than your work? | Truly great creations in science and | literature have often been the products | of leisure time. The “Essays of Elia” and “Leaves of Grass” are notable ex- | amples. (Copyright. 1931.) . Miss Lucy G. Moberly, who died re-| cently in London at the ege of 70,| wrote 57 novels, the last of which was! “The Eternal Dustbi , MILADY B BY LOIS White Spots on the Lips. | Dear Miss Leeds: I was down Soulh; 10 Winters ago and since returning | | have noticed white spots on my lips. Could it_have been the change of cli- | mate? Is there anything that can be done about it? It is not painful in any way. ROSE L. " Answer—I cannot tell what these spots are without seeing them, but would suggest that you have an ex- amination by a skin specialist if they worry you. I doubt that climate would have such an effect. It is more likely that there was some physical change in get back in our own yard! THE MENU FOR A D, BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream. Egg Omelet. Sausages. Hot Corn Cake. Coffee. DINNER. Fruit_Cup. Roast Lamb, Brown Gravy. Mint Jelly. Celery. Baked Stuffed Potatoes. Asparagus, Butter Sauce. ‘Tomato and Lettuce Salad, French Dressing. Frozen Custard. CofTee, SUPPER. Lobs er Salad. Parker House Rol Orange Cream Pie. Tea. EGG OMELET. Four_ eggs, four tablespoons milk. Beat whites separately and stir in lightly the yolks, which have been beaten with the milk and a little salt. Pour into hot buttered spider and brown lightly. Place in oven long enough to stif- fen bu. brown top, Fold and serve immediately. FROZEN CUSTARD. One pint milk, one and one- half teaspoons cornstarch, one cup corn sirup. one and one-half teaspoons vanilla. Scald the milk and add the cornstarch mixed with one and one-half teaspoons cold milk. Cook the mixture over hot water 15 minutes. Add slight- ly beaten egg and cook five min- utes longer. Add corn sirup and the salt, and s ir the mixture well. Strain and cool it. Add vanilla and freeze the custard in the same way as any ice cream. ORANGE PIE. Three eggs, one cup sugar, two and one-half level tablespoons cornstarch, grated rind of two oranges, juice of one orange, one and _three-quarter cups milk. Separate whites from yolks of eggs and beat yolks with half the sugar until ligh!. Mix cornstarch smooth with one-quarter cup of the milk and scald remainder in double boiler. When almost boil- ing stir in cornstarch and ccok until thick. Add yolks of eggs, sugar, orange rind and juice. Cool slightly and pour into pre- viously baked crust. Beat whites of eggs stif, add remainder of sugar and flavor, if liked, with & little orange juice or grated rind. Pile on top of pie, put in & mod- erate oven to set and brown slightly. (Copyright, 1931.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FA ¥. CORY. Nippy, if you sees what I sees, let's (Copyright. 1031.) EAUTIFUL LEEDS. and no more seems to replace it. I weigh 101 pounds and am 5 feet 2! inches tall. Do you think my under- weight has caused this awful scalp con- dition? V. M. C. Answer—You are in poor physical condition from one cause or another, | judging from your hair troublcs and | underweight. Ask a doctor’s advice on building up radiant health. Local treatments wiil help greatly, but cannot cure the condition. Remem- ber that dandruff is infectious, so that all combs, brushes and hairpins should be sterilized daily in an antiseptic solu- ticn and dried in the sun. Change hat linings also. Begin the treatment to- night by applying to your scalp a mix- ture of four ounces of castor ofl and EVENING ny QL short plared pep cascades down Both /&mw are Worn. one STAR. WASHINGTON, C., SATURDAY, D. lace makes uunfz:z:n/.\ TER0N 2. pEeRoY DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why Do Young Men Think They Have to Make Love to a Girl to Entertain Her? EAR MISS DIX—Why do nine out of ten young men tell you that they love you even the first time they take.you out? Do they spend the whole evening telling you they love you because they think you will be thrilled or is it because they are not intelligent enough to talk about anything else? Well, they just about ruin the dance or movie for me and I know a lot of other girls who feel the same way about it. STENOGRAPHER. ANSWER-—oh. it isn’t because these high-powered lovemakers haven't intelligence enough to talk about anything else. It is because they think a girl hasn't sense enough to be interested in any other topic and that the sure way to make a hit with her is to feed her on soft talk. ‘The popular impression prevails that women are all heart and no brain and that they live only in their emotions and that the only way to amuse and divert them is to keep paying them compliments as you would shake a rattle before a baby. How men get this way goodness only knows. Certainly not from their own experience, for the majority of them have had intelligent mothers and hard-boiled sisters and they work every day with girls who are nobody's fools. A“r home and in the office no young man would dream of telling the women of his family or the girl et the desk next to him a lot of palpable lies and expect to get away with it, but when he takes a girl out in the evening he lets go all hold on veracity and thinks she will swallow down whole any sort of falsehood provided he puts a little sugar coating on it. The funny part of it is that he thinks she likes it. He thinks a girl just simply eats it up and asks for more when he tells her that she is the most beautiful creature on earth and has the most wonderful eyes and there is something different about her from every other woman, though he must know that she knows she is barely passably intelligent and that she is as much like all the other girls a5 two peas in a pod and that a man would have to be a raving maniac to think that she was any more than ordinary looking. HE expects a girl to emit whoops of joy when he tells her that he is madly, wildly in love with her, though he may not have known her half an hour, though he must know that the girl knows that this is too sudden and that there isn't a word of truth in it and that he is just talking to make conversation. ‘Whether young men learn the art of synthetic lovemaking in a school of correspondence I don't know, but there is a regular formula for the thing. When one of these near sheiks meets a girl,-inside of 10 minutes he asks where rhe has been hiding herself so that they have never met befere. If they go out to dinner, by the time they are through the soup he is telling her, with a glad light in his eye,. that he has searched through the world just looking for such a girl and that he had despaired of finding her until they met. ITH the fish he assures her that he has never loved before because never before has he met his ideal. By the time the roast arrives he has discovered that they are soul mates, predestined from all eternity for each other and that their every heart throb beats in unison. With the dessert he addresses her with, “Oh, you adorable thing! Oh, you wonderful creature.” It is a grand line of lovemaking, but it never ends in a proposal, and whether a girl enjoys it or not depends upon her sweet tooth and whether she has a sense of humor. If she has, well and good. She can got a sly chuckle out of it, but if she is a sober-minded girl who takes her lovemaking seriously, she is apt to yawn and wish that her escort would talk sbout the weather or something really interesting for a MAY 1931. LITTLE BENNY I BY LEE PAPE. 9, Persey Weever wes sitting on his funt steps looking at & big book, and me and Puds Simkins sat down alongside of him, me saying. Whats that, Persey?, This is our family alban, Persey sed, and Puds sed, Well what of it, we got a family alban too. ‘Who hasent? I sed. Everybody's got a family alban with a lot of funny old relations in it, I sed. Well if you had relations like some of mine you wouldent think they wes so funny, Persey sed. I gess youve.ged of Admiral Weever, havent yo. 3 was & grate admiral in the British navy and if it hadent been for him they mit2 not of won a lot of their wars, and here’s his picture, and he was my grate grandfather, he sed. Meening a skinny guy in a uniform | with a funny looking hat and a long mustash, and I sed, Well good nite, how about Admiral Potts? Who was he? Persey sed, and T sed, He was my grate grate gratest gran- father and he was a admiral in the Chi- nese navy and one tim® the whole navy got blown up by the British navy and Admiral Potts was the only one left in a little rowboat. and he sank the whole | British navy all by himself, and for all | I know your grate granfather sank w1g\ it. T yes, like fun, Persey sed, and Puds sed, Well how about my grate grate, dubble grate tripple grate granfather? His name was Admiral Simkins and he had charge of the whole Swics navy, and one time vour granfather got fired out of the British navy for retreeting too r;'nusch. 2nd he went and asked Ad= miral Simkins for a job, and Admiral Simkins kicked him out. Show us some | more of your relations, he sed. i No, Im going to take my alban in the | house, Persey sed. Wich he did trying to look hawty. NANCY PAGE Rhubarb Conserve May Be As Pretty as It Is Good. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. | “How on earth did you get your con- serve such a beautiful color, Nancy?” “I used strawberry rhubarb, the kind,| ! which has the red outer skin, and then added some cinnamon candies, the kind called ‘red hots’ They gave it that spicy flavor and the gorgeous | color. Want my recipe?” ! Foolish question, of course the recipe was wanted. Here it is: “Buy one and one-half pounds straw- | berry rhubarb. Do mot remove the skin. After washing the stalks cut off | | the leaf and stem end. If a few stripes | | of thin skin pull off with the rejectad | parts that will be all right. But don't | skin the whole stalk. Cut rhubarb in pieces. Wash one crange and one CONSERVE lemon. Cut in small pieces, skin and all. Reject the seeds. Add one ounce gingex root. To this mixture add one- half cupful water and one-quarter cup- ful vinegar. “Cook until pieces of orange, lemcn are tender. Now add rhubarb and three cups sugar. Put in one-eighth pound cinnamon candies, one-eighth ounce cinnamon stick, one blade of mace and two whole cloves. Put these last three in a small spice bag. One- quarter pound white raisins may be added if desired. Cook until the mix- ture is thick. Remove the spice bag and put the mixture into clean, hot jars. Pour melted paraffin over the top and stend away to cool. This FEATURES. The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in A Why Not Be a Chaufieur. Yesterday I saw driving along the treet a neat litle white truck, marked Fine Hand Laundry.” The interesting thing was that it was being driven by a girl. She was pretty and fresh and young. Just one look- at and you knew that that laundry would turn out only ex- qusite crisp work. It's amazing how few women drive cars for a living. I remember seeing two women chauf- feurs in New York. They told me the work needed physical vitality, but both of them said they enjoyed it and that they were doing well. And I know a cultivated woman of fine social - sition who acts as chauffeur and gu?:e to tourists. She's making real money. Many a girl working in an office would itke to spend her two weeks' vacation on little _driving tour. If you have a car I believe you could make up vacation parties of four girls. It would not cost any one of the four much, and you might make a hand- some sum, in the course of the Summer. ‘The way to handle this would be to get an entry into some big office and ])ul.fllhe proposition before all the girls in_it. There doesn't seem to be any reason why a girl shouldn't drive a delivery car for a high-ciass dressmaker. The packages are light. She could take messages intelligently when she de- livered the goods. Helen Woodward. BEDTIME STORIE Yellow Wing‘s Cousin. To win success he is most apt Who can nimiself to change adapt. % —Old Mother Nature. Farmer Brown's Boy was looking up n ar the top of a giant cactus. Flip the Terrier looked up too, but all he saw was a bird, and birds never did interest Flip unless they heppened to be on the ground, where he could have the fun of scaring them into sudden flight. But his master was interested. Yes, sir, his master was interested. In the first place, these great cactus plants, as big as trees, were of more than a little interest to him. Mother | Brown had a cactus plant at home and | he had seen oth:r cactus plants. All of | these were small plants with thick green I leaves covered with spines, leaves that scemed to sprout out of each other. | But here was a plant with a trunk as big around as the trunk of a large tree. From this trunk far above his head sev- eral branches grew out and turned up, and these branches were perhaps half as big as the trunk. Trunk and branches were ribbed gand were covered with spines. There were no small brancho twigs or what looked like leaves. On t! main trunk, perhaps 30 feet from the ground, was the bird. “Flip,” said PFarmer Brown's Boy, “that fellow almost fool:d me for a minute. Yes, sir, he did so. When I first saw him I almost mistook him for Yellow Wing the Flicker. I saw him fly up there and the under sides of his wings and tail are yellow. however, that he has a red mustache in stead of a black one such as Yellow | Wing back home wears. Then, too,| there isn't any red on the back of his head. So he must be one of Yellow | Wing's cousins. How, under th> sun, | cid he alight up there and avoid those | spines, and what is he going to do there? | Certainiy he cannot drum, for that cac- | tus isn’t hard like wood.” | Farmer Brown's Bov, in speaking of | | er | f0 |, If there were a bay along who could | handle the heavy boxes, & Wwoman driver would be simply ideal for a grocery or meat market. She could get | & lot of additional business because {she would know what would appeal to customers. | Why aren’t there more girl chauffeurs r private cars? Many a business woman, for instance, would like to have a girl who could do her small amouz* of housework and at the same time drive her car for her. Here's an idea for some girl. Find | some neighborhood where houses are | scattered. Pick out half a dozen good- sized houses which seem fairly well to do, but where the woman of the | house does not have time to do all | the marketing. Offer to market for these people. All this would have to be done, of course, in high-class, re- mote residential districts, almost in the country. There's a widow with a small child and a small car in Connecticut who | makes an excellent living. She picked jout a little stock of nice underwear, | selecting things in good taste that weren't too expensive. Then she drove | through the country selling it. On her first trip she didn't do so well. The | second time she dld better. She has been doing this for five years now, and has built up a prosperous trade. Of course, you have to have an orig- inal mind to do any of these thi . But some one has to start them. not you? (Copyright 1831) | Girls having problems in connection with their_ work may wrile to Miss Woodward, In ,are of this paper, for her personal advice. By Thornton W. Burgess. Brown's Boy and Flip. He just went about his job of cutting a hole in that spine-covered cactus. Presently he was joined by Mrs. Cactus Bill, who relieved him while he tried to clean himself up a little, Instead of having a hard job, such as Mr. and Mrs. Yellow Wing have when they undertake to cut out a home chip by chip, these two were having & messy job. Yes, sir, they were having a messy job. You see, instead of boring into hard X7 RS “WHEN I FIRST SAW HIM I ALMOST TOOK HIM FOR YELLOW WING ‘THE FLICKER.” wood they were cutting into soft, fleshy tissue filled with sap or juice somewhat sticky. They just couldn't help getting more or less sm-arsd with it, and Far- mer Brown's Boy suspected that half the work of home-building in such a place must be getting cleaned up afterward. “That two-legged cratur> seems to be the bird's mustache, had not meant a | tak J! | taking a Jot of interest in us and what real mustache. He had meant the two | we are doing,” sai mfi‘rl;s.lunkemolflknch side t;:( the face, | mate. =7 kSt S i which lool e a mustache. And he “What of it?” retorted she. * was quite right in thinking that this| bother us up here. I 'loflled nkilem was a cousin of Yellow Wing. It was| him try to climb up herc. I would so.” Cactus Bill the Gilded Flicker. He is| Mrs. Cactus Bill chuckled. So did Cace Isoux:;ll onl!',' in petgeuwn‘rm‘ l:‘fgég;“ o‘(‘ the ; tus Bill hims2lf. Thev were thinking of outhwest, especially in the regions, | those sharp spines wh;l’e the giant castus grow | plant. wa SR D s armcr Brown's Boy cidn't have to| “Cutting out a home her wait long to find out what Cactus Bill | messy Job;‘" continued c-nfxsbnrfit.hsx:u.t intended to do. He went to work ex- | once done we have the safest place I actly as Yellow Wing goes to work on | know of. My dear, you are getting that a tree in which he intends to make a 1 Jjuice all over your neck anfl brcast.” nest. He paid no attention to Farmer “Can’t help it,” mumbled Cactus Bill Writing Desks for Special Needs BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. relish is good with cold meats and with hot roast pork.” . R A Sermon for Today | cne tablespoonful of kerosene. Tie your | hair up in a towel overnight and the | next morning shampoo with a liquid | castile toap. Lether and rinse about | five separate times to remove all the oil. ' | Rinse well and dry in the sun. The \ | next evening apply the following dan- | druff tonic to the scalp: Two drams change. Also, she feels a bit insulted that any man would think her fool enough to believe such a pack of lies. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) OUR CHILDREN BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. deep sides that tend to give slimming line. It is most eifective with the trousers and bow tie in orange-red linen, with the tuck-in bodice in Vionnet pink linen. It comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years:; 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Sapphire blue shantung with white, geen pique with yellow dots and yel- w pique tuck-in, and red and white checked gingham used for blouse are chic. Bize 16 requires 2% yards of 35-inch material for trousers and bow, with 2'4 yards for 35-inch material for blouse. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents, in stamps or coin, directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. Our large Fashion Book shows the latest Paris has to offer in clothes for the matron, the stout, the miss and the children. Also a series of dressmaking articles. It is a book that will save you ©Our hero views the engine room, the and the brig: Inspects the holds, the booms, the state rooms—and the captain's gig. “Is everything exgctly as you'd have 1t?” asks the Bun. chair's too much in the v says Pnff, “except my deck sun,”. nge will cover the spots vou at that time. Rouge, of course, will cover the spots so that they will not be noticed. LOIS LEEDS. Perspiration—Blushing. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) Will you tell me what I can do to prevent perspiration on my upper lip? ~Will this spoil the complexion? (2) Is blushing harmful to the skin? Will it encourage the growth of hairs on the skin? READER. Answer: Ask at any drug store or shop where cosmetics are sold for a lotion to check the excessive sweating. ‘The skin that perspires frecly is cleaner than the skin that does not as a rule. It does no harm to check excessive per- spiration in small areas like the upper lip (2) Blushing is harmless and does not encourag> the growth of facial | hair, so far as I know. This growth is governed by the internal chemistry of LEEDS. clearly understood. LOIS Oily Halr. Dear Miss Leeds my hair. It is very oily and 1 have a | great deal of dandruff. It is so thin | that I'm afraid I will be bald in a few months. Whenever I brush or comb my hair great masses of it come out My Neighbor Says: ‘When boiling or stewing meat, fowl or fish, allow it to cool with- out a covering. It should then be stored in the ice box. If you have a painful corn, touch it with a little ofl of pep- permint and the soreness will be wonderfully eased. Never wash an electric bulb. A drop of water penetrating the interior of the bulb will destroy its power. Wipe bulb with & damp cloth. Alw open canned fruits an hour before serving. Frults be- come richer in flavor after they have absorbed oxygen. ‘When reheating roasts, add one- third cup of water and one-third cup of gravy. Cover tightly and bake for 15 minutes in & moder- ate oven. The meat will then be moist, (Copyright, 1931) the body in a way that is not as yet 1 am worrled about | resorcin, two drams castor ofl, six ounces bay rum. Use a medicine drop- | per to apply. Massage the scalp for 10 | minutes. Use the same tonic every day | for six days, then on the seventh have another ofl treatment thes> treatments should bring the dan- | druff under control. The tonic may | then be applied only twice a week and | the kerosene omitted from the oil treat ment, which should precede each sham- poo. LOIS LEEDS. | (Copyright, 1931.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette, | BY JOSEFH 1. FRISCH. | [ WELLKNOWN TAILOR 55 THERE 15 || VERY LITTLE CHANGE IN MENS CLOTHES THIS YEAR. MOTHER FOUND THAT OUT AR D 15, mm(m)WN NSHE o MEET t0 w7 SEARCHED MARTNE_ ) DAD'S POCKETS T | LA5T NIGHT, 1es, P. R. K.-—~When introducin two couples do not say, “Mr. and Mrs Benton, mect Mr. and Mrs. Martin." The correct form is “Mrs. Benton, Mrs. Martin. Mrs. Benton, may I introduce Mr. Martin? Mrs. Martin, may I in- troduce Mr. Benton? Mr. Bentofi, Mr. Martin.” Snow Kills Many Sheep. Unusually heavy snow claimed a heavy toll of sheep in the Highlands of Scotiand during the winier Hun- dreds are known to have been lost and the total may be much higher when the snow melts. Searching parties are ex- Two weeks of | Throw Him Out. “Throw him out,” is the easiest, sim- plest, most comfortable way cf ending the trouble an unadjusted child creates at home or in school. It would be de- lightful if it ended there. Unfortu- nately for all of us, when a child is in ancther and there is usually an in- crease of trouble for us in the new sit- uation. It is unwise to do any throw- ing out until we see where the discarded child is to arrive. It is plain to every teacher that some children cannot get along with the reasons for this vary with the child. Sometimes he is retarded mentally, or he is not fit physically. He has been trained in opposition to_all the class happens to stand for. His gifts and {talents find no expression in the set program. He is a social misfit. What (then? Just throw him out and close the door? 1t can’t be done. He walks in at an- other door, usually accompanied by a probation officer, or a policeman, or & district nurse. Soclety asks for an ac- counting. The child himself asks for our accounting. What are we to say? “You are & nuisance and we threw you out"? It won't do. It Is clear to every par- ent that so long as a child lives he has DAILY DIET RECIPE DAINTY CAKES. Shortening, two-thirds cup; flour, one and two-thirds cups; soda, one teaspoon; almond ex- tract, one teaspoon: lemon juice, one and one-half teaspoons; whites of eggs, six; powdered sugar, one and one-fourth cups. MAKES ABOUT 28 LITTLE CAKES. Cream shortening and add gradually the flour sifted with the soda. Then add the almond extract and lemon juice. Beat egg Whites stiff, add powdered ploring corners of the hills where the animals might huddle togther and be buried. One band of 65, which had succumbed, was dug up. Although sheep have lived under the snow for a month, the last cold spell was too long for the survival of any that might be buried, say the shepherds. - . Parmers of Holland have ovetcome the handicap of heavy taxes by estab- lishing an efficlent marketing system to increase their income. sugar to these whites gradually, beating constantly. Combine mixtures and bake in muffin tins in a slow oven or at 250-300 de- grees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, starch, sugar. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present. Can be eaten in mod- eration by normal adults of aver- age or under weight. thrown out of one place he turns up | class in which they are placed. The | BY ANGELO PATRI a place in the world. Now then, how to | find_the place and help him to fit into it. Build schools. Equip schcols to meet all the situations that arise in early |life. School is not a place for book lessons only. It is the place where chil- dren learn -to live better than they |knew when they first entered. Life goes |on in school. We overlook that in the hurry of manning the school, getting the course of study set for the major- ity, selecting the teachers, paying them; pacifying the taxpayer, keeping the children in order long enough to get our work dcne. So often it is our work | that goes on in gchool, while the chil- | dren have no part but’the passive one. Children are not by nature passive. ‘We are learning that they ought not | to be encouraged to be so, but rather to be alert, questioning and active. In order to meet this, we must have the active school. In close assoclation with that idea is the other: Provision for the child who stands out like the sore thumb. He ought to be removed from the class where he is creating a dis- and that of everybody else in the room. But there must be a place to put him where his time and energy can be put to his credit for growth. Most _children will fit into some sort of good school or class, provided the school or class is ready to receive them. That must be our greatest care for the next 10 years—establish schcols, classes, institutions and the like, to care for every child that needs special care. We cannot allow one of them to be “thrown out,” lest they return to ask an account- ing of us. It is not fair to ask children to do what is impossible and then throw them out into a world for which they are unsuited. (Copyright, 1931) * ‘Eggs With Cheese. Cut six hard-boiled eggs into quarters and place about one-fourth of the quan- tity in a buttered baking d'sh. Cover this layer with one cupful of white sauce into which half a cupful of cot- tage cl has been stirred, and sprinkle over it a layer of sliced sweet red or green pepper. Repeat until the dish is full.” Sprinkle ad crumbs on top, dot with butter, and brown in a hot oven. PERe A RPN SN Cleaning in Corners. Painted woodwork is often very diffi- cult to clean in awkward corners. thin plece of flannel wrapped around & skewer can be worked into places which are otherwise impossible to clean. turbance, because he is wasting his time | Voice in the Wilderness. “The voice of one crying in the wil- derness "—Matt., #ii.3. A voice crying in the wilderness! It is always crying there—the voice of hope. Other voices cry there; the voice | of doubt, fear, despair. But if we; listen to these voices, we shall never find our way out of the wilderness. If we listen only to_the minor chords of life, the world will seem nothing but a desert of gloom and darkness. There is no need of denying that this world has a wilderness aspect. It 1t would be a superficial optimism that failed to recognize this fact. In every direction we look, the facts of evil, suffering and sorrow are too_tragically impressed upon us to be blinked at. And yet, through all this wilderness of human woes, we hear a voice crying, the voice of hope. Let us not be deaf to this voice. There is much evil in the world; but good exists too, and good will overcome the evil at last, because God lives and reigns. While there are many blots and shadows on the world, it is God's world; and we have His promise that ultimatey “the wilderness shall be made to blossom as a rose.” In our individual lives we often find ourselves in wilderness-like circum- stances. Life's jurney takes us through many wildernesses—sometimes it is a reverse of fortune, sometimes it is a sore disappointment over frustrated plans, sometimes it is sickness, some- times it is “the valley of the shadow of death,” where the heart is rent with grief and sorrow. But we never come into any wilderness, be it ever so bleak and desolate, but that we hear a voice crying unto us, bidding us be of good cheer and good hope, assuring us of & brighter sun and a brighter day ahead. If only we will heed it, there is always a voice crying in the wilderness, saying, “Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.” We plead not for that foolish opti- mism that shuts its eyes to facts. Whether as to the world or our individual lives, we admit the wilderness. But beyond the wilderness lies the Canaan of prom- ise and hope. Paint life’s clouds in blackest colors, if you will, but across the blackest cloud that ever overshad- ows & human life shines the rainbow of God's love and covenant of promise. ‘Therefore, in spite of the dreary as- pects of our lives and the world about us, let us be hopeful always. - Milk Puddings. Baked milk puddings, such as tapioca, will be greatly improved if sprinkled with a thin layer of grated sponge cake and coconut. The &u.ddlnz will then and ve . . The selection cf a writing desk 1s a matter of importance. It must suit the needs of the owner, and it must fit into the general decorative scheme of the room in which it is to stand. Fortu- nately there are endless types of writing desks from which to make a selection, these styles having been developed through the ages in response to indi- vidual requirements. The three describ- ed today are historic yet suit modern needs admirably. The Gov. Winthrop desk with its many drawers, its drop leaf and flat top of medium height, is a classic in America. In this type of desk the clcse relation between a bureau and a desk is immediately recognized. Such a desk takes up the minimum space for the maximum convenience. It is admirable to use in an apartment living room which at night has to serve as a cham- ber. The drawers can serve admirably for bureau purposes without in any way lending a sleeping rocm aspect to the living room. The writing desk feature is entirely separate and complete. When the lid is dropped small drawers, pigeon ‘):\lolen, ete, in ample array are dis- - turning to favor. 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