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WOM AN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Use of “Occasional” Furniture BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE OCCASIONAL TABLE MUST BE KEPT CLEAR The word “occasional” has entered into the parlance of interior decoration. It is as useful to the cecorator as to the amateur. It covers a multitude of things which may or may not be odd. It is a word which, in furniture, means scarcely more than does the word rheu- matism in medical terminology. Each is so inclusive that the former signifi cance and definiteness has faded away. 1de demands the qualification of rer. But, for this very reason the s are valuable because comprehen- sive “A need or exigeney” is one of the definitions of the word occasion. It is this idea which is present in the word occasional in the dictionary of the deco- rator. It does not specify use on spe- cial occasions or festivities, but an ar- ticle which fills some special need, what- ever that may be. at the time. For example the occasional table is one that is ready to be put to whatever use a person may wish at the time, It may be to hold a book, or a sewing basket. a smoking set or a tea tray, and egard of the fact that there regular tables for each. The use is as variable as the word itself. It is, therefore, consistent. The one impera- tive thing about the use of the oc- casional table is that when its present use is ended, it is left bare. Thus only is it ready for some other person’s need &nd devoid of any specialized purpose. There was a time when this word was emploved in relation to tables only. Tren it crept into floor coverings and there came to be occasional rugs. These are nothing more or less than scatter rugs, those which are small and can be, as it were, scattered over a floor wherever needed. This word, need, brings us back to occasion, and makes the term occasional rugs, the small ones usegd as, and where, needed equally ap- propriate. The term scatter rugs still holds prestige over occasional rugs, but for how long no one can say. Occasional chairs are those which do not come under any special classifica- tion as do desk chairs, dining room chairs, etc. Tcey are used to fill in needs when there seems to be a lack of places to seat people, or when, for good decoration, a chair is called for in the scheme of the room. An occasional chair may be an arm chair or a side chair. It is never part of a set. To | this extent it is an o3d chair, but this does not. prevent its being in the same style. That is it can be a Sheraton with other Sheratons. Most frequently, how- ever, it is in another style but one which | harmonizes correctly with the rest of the pleces. Just as the French generally put some | touch of black to every costume for | smart accenting, so some decorators be Meve that an occasional chair or two in a room accents the beauty of the match- | ing pieces. This is especially true of | chairs. Occasional tables are used for | their great convenience, and occasional | rugs in order to more perfectly cover a | floor or to fill in some architectural jut. (Copyright, 1931.) 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 America. Why Girl Loses Job. The fear of losing her job is the most dreadful thing that hangs over the head of the average girl who works. She may be miserable about some love affair, or because she is not as pretty as she might be, but all such troubles are wiped out in a moment by the most dreadful of all. the loss of her job. That fear explains why so many people go into Government jobs far less money than they might get in private jobs. They're sure that they'll keep the job as long as they want it. Why do girls who are so afraid of ¢ their jobs, who work so bard and their best, find themselves out of work? The reasons are not always what you think they are. Of course, there is the falling off of business, over which you have no con- trol, which hits you like a blow from the sky. But even then the first ones Jaid off are those whom the boss dis- likes, so that personal liking becomes a most important part of holding your job. The liking must be mutual. It must come from a sympathy in char- acter. For instance, if your boss is a generous and kind person, and yoj mean and cruel and stingy, he will'not like you. But if your boss is stingy MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Poars Baked Beans T*cad and Butter Pickles Frankfurters Raisin Bran Muffins Coffee Glazed Sweet Potatoes Corn_on Cob Green Bean Salad French Dressing Peach Bavarian Cream Coffee SUPPER. Lobster Newburg Toasted Crackers Pruit Salad Butterscotch Cookies Tea MUFFINS. ‘Two cups bran, one cup whole wheat flour, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon soda, one.half cup raisins, one egg, one-fourth cuj corn sirup and one and one-half cups sour milk. Mix dry ingredients add raisins, corn sirup. beaten egg and sour milk. Bake in greased muffin tins in a moderate oven. GREEN BEAN SALAD. Two cups cooked green beans, one cup diced cucumbers, one hard-cooked egg, diced, two tablespoons chopped green pep- pers, one tablespoon chopped onion, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon paprika, one- half cup salad dressing. Mix and chill ingredients. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves. Enough for six persons. LOBSTER NEWBERG. Meat of two medium sized lobsters, four tablespoons butter, one-half teaspoon salt. one-fourth teaspoon pepper. Grating of nut= meg, yolks of four eggs. one cup cream. Remove the meat from the shells and cut it in delicate slices. Put the butter in the glazer and when melted put the Iobster into it and cook four or five minutes. Add the salt, pep- per, nutmeg. Stir the cream into the beaten yolks and then stir both into the lobster mixture. Serve as soon as the eggs thicken the sauce. (Copyright, 1931.) Do Largest selling Cane Sugar “Sweeten it with Domino” | and mean, he will like the person who has the same qualities. The next important reason for losing a job is the one which most peoplo would put first. That is, poor work 1t isn't the most important. Many em- ployers put up with poor work from a girl they like. Theoretical writers about business will say that this isn't so, but every girl who has worked knows that it is true. | The last reason I want to give ych seems to contradict much of what I've said. That is, a fundamental desire on your own part to lese your job may not know that you want to lose it: you may think you want to keep it, but underneath you are sick of it. Sometimes this is conscious and you deliberately do something to get your- self fired; sometimes it is quite un- conscious and you yourself do not realize | you have the desire. We should try to understand that umderneath the con- | scious mind we have an unconscious nd which makes us do things we | think we don't want to do. So because you are sick of a job, you may cause yourself to be fired without realizing it. e | When this happens, you usually are miserable on the surface. But to your | amazement you bloom like a rose—you feel light again—until you begin to Worry about next week’s rent. (Copyright, 1831.) NANCY PAGE Breton Chicken Is Nancy's Prize Dish. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, ““You promised to give us a recipe for company chicken for cold days, Nancy. “So I did. Well, it's a good recipe, but don't blame me if you lose your girlish ‘figger,’ for it's rich, land knows. | "I use large broilers and use onlv ‘he | breast meat, cutting close to the bor | T try to keep the fillets with the lirg-r | plece of breast meat. If you ha.e | pleces that are too thin, the meat, which is rather dry anyway, gets stringy. Keep e pieces plugip. That's why I suggest .arge broilers. “Dredge the pieces with flour to which you have added some salt, pep- per and cayenne. Brown carefully and lightly in butter melted in a deep and heavy frying pan. Don't let the butter get so hot that it smokes or changes color. You lese the delicate flavor when you do that. “Take the meat out of frying pan, put in a lump of butter—let your con- sclence be your guide—let butter melt, add cne cup of cream and two table- spoons of cooking sherry. This is not the sweetened sherry. Put the breasts in this mixture. Put cover on frying p2n and set over a low fire that will let meat cook slowly unt tender. cup fresh mushrooms and one-half cup cream. Let these cook in the cream. little butter and flour made into roux, | Pour this over chicken and mushrooms | cn a hot platter. Garnish with rounds of cold eorn-meal mush which have been fried until crisp. Serva with grapefruit sal:d dressed with French dressing. And be sure to have enough of everything. There will be calls for secend helpings. Caulifiower Soup. Boil one medium sized caulifiower in enough water to cover for half an thour or until tender. Strain through a colander, saving the liquid. After the caulifiower has been mashed fine, add it to the strained liquic with one cupful of canned cream, one ¢gpful of milk, one tablespoonful of bui¥®r and seasonings to taste. Bring to the poil- ing point and gerve. - Take cut and add one-haif| Take out and thicken the gravy with a | Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. \ | i 1 | HE different slants in this writ- ing lead us to believe the writer i5 of a very changeable nature. He probably tires easily | of things and secks always for new scenes and new diversions. This secking for new things should hold him in good stead, for his writing cuggests a scientific type. 1f he pushes himself and holds steadily to his work, !it may be possible for him to reveal new discoveries to the world. It may be ih:rd for him to overcome a desire to | put things off until tomorrow instead | of doing them today. He needs, possibly, push him and force M.u.»!’\.!a\.\o.u.w- higher things. The way in which he recrosses his “t's” suggests a tendency to stubbornness. When once in- terested in a subject he carries it through to the end, but his interests tend to be so varied that he finds it difficult to choose. H> may like to travel and in this way seck adventure and romance. This will tend to enlarge his viewpoint and also encourage a spirit of friendliness in him. Many may think he holds himself aloof, but this may be due to the fact that he is hypersensitive. He tries to shicld himself and in this way ! gives & wrong impression_ of himself. If he can overcome what appears to (be a tendency to carclessness, he should become a marked success. His mentality is keen and he needs only llin:? himself to make the best use of it. some one to help him to aspire to Note—Analysis of handwriting {s mot | an eract science. according to world in- vestigators, but all aoree it is interesting ard lofs of 1 Star presents the vou vour writing analyzed send a sample to Miss Mocka- bee, care of The Star. clong with a 2-cent st 1t swill be either inter. column or you, ulll recetve no analysis chart which you will find an tnteresting studv. NATURE’S CHILDREN i* BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Hlustrations by Mary Foley., cnr MUSHROOM GROWERS. Attiini. | ROWING mushrooms is & much more profitable busine: for | ants than it is for man. In| | fact. it is their main crop. and they know more than man will | ever know about fungus growing. | | They keep the secret to themselves. | In Cuba, Central America and Texas | | you can see these little tree defoliators marching along, 10 abreast, in a forma- | tion that keeps in step, and the little | | path is a patch of moving green leaves. | | They have a well worn path from | their home city to the base of supplies. | | They are also known as the parasol or | | umbrella ants. They hoist the cut leaf over their heads and march proudly home ' | with it. Each has a tiny ridge on the | | head into which it fastens the edge of | the leaf. | Upon reaching home, each lowers the umbrelia and takes it to the mushroom grower. She, with her assistants, shr ds | the leaf and adds it to the already large bed of growing fungus. | It takes about 30 days for the first | mushrooms to appear. After that there | is a fine crop daily. | The nurses snip off the tiny “button | { mushroom.” chew it well and hand it over to the infant. She thrives on this | | diet. They do not have any other form of food | It has been said that a young prin- to wed will go to the home | mushroom bed and take a small bit of | the spawn with her. After she mates, | she goes about the business of home | construction and starts her mushroom | bed. By the time her children come along, she has their focd ready for| them. Each species of attiini ant has its own particular mushroom. They keep out all other varieties. These mushrooms hi a most delicious flavor and grow to a great size, if permitted to. The great mounds of earth to be found where this ant is known have nothing whatever to do with the great city underneath. The mound really indicates the size of the city by the vast {amount of excavation which has gone on. The dirt has been brought up grain by graip and deposited near the en- trance, The workers are said to live four to six years and the queens as many as fifteen. The life goes on for years and | vears. The age of the largest mounds is_unknown. By estimation it is not a common thing to have one city of 6.000.000 ants near | a forest which supplies them with the particular leaf they must have to grow their crop. (Copyrizht, 1531 Sandwiches. Eight slices buttered bread. four slices tomatoes, four large thin slices cheese, one-eighth teaspoonful salt, one table- spoonful chopped onions and two table- spoonfuls sflrld dressing. On half the ! slices of bread arrange tomatoes, cheese. salt, onions and dressing. Cover with remaining bread slices. Place on bak- ing pan and bake in moderate oven un- til bread has browned. Cut in halves with a sharp knife. Serve at once. SRy A deal at a whist party in Reading, England, recently resulted in each of the four players having 13 cards of one suit, | | DAILY DIET RECIPE SAVORY POTATO BALLS. Medium sixed potatoes, 6. Salt, 1!; teaspoons. { | Butter, 4 tegspoons. | | Raw eggs, 1. ! | Paprika, 14 teaspoon. Finely minced green pepper, 1 i teaspoon. | Celery salt, 1% teaspoon. Gratzd American'cheese, ¥ cup. SERVES 6 PORTIONS. the potatoes in their | | jackets until tender. Drain, peel, i | mash well. Add salt, butter, cel- ery salt, paprika, green pepper and beaten egg. Beat well and make into balls the size of cro- quettes, Arrange in greased bak- ing pan, sprinkle with cheese and bake in hot oven of 450 degrees Fahrenheit until brown—about 12 minutes. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes starch, pro- tein, a little fat. Lime, iron, vita- mins A and B present. Can be eaten by adults of normal diges- tion who are of average or under weight., . " pique, drill, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR MISS DIX—I am in my 60's and live with a married daughter, who has children of her own. She often remarks that no child owes anything to its parents, that the parents brought the child into the world without its consent, therefore, all the talk of children’s duty to parents is all bosh. Imagine how a mother feels who has this con- stantly impressed upon her! What license will my daughter’s children tewe with her with these views impressed upon their minds? A FORLORN MOTHER. Answer—As we sow, we reap, and I think your daughter will harvest with tears and bitterness the wrong ideals that she ?5 sowing in her children’s minds. ]< own mother. She will not want obligation to her, that they have no OR she will not want her children to treat her as she is treating her to feel that they have no sense of gratitude for all the sacrifices she has made for them, no appreciation of her love, “no memory of the long nights she watched by sick beds,” of the times she has sat up to all hours 80 that they might have a new frilly has spent over the cooking stove making the kind ,of pie they like, no memory of how soft mother's breast was and what & refuge her arms were to which they could flee in any mother was never too tired or sf No. only done her duty by them age. HOW can she expect this if by precept and example she is teaching them that a mother is merely an upper seryant, whose duty it is to serve them and that when they no longer need her work they are free How can she expect them te honor her when she does not henor her own mother? How can she expect them to be tender to- ward her when she has no compassion or tenderness for the woman who to discard her? bore her? No women are to be so much pitied as the mothers whose children k or bus; them or to enter into all their plans and hopes. Your daughter will ‘not want her children to feel that she has en she has given them 20 years of her life, and that when they are able to stand alone and they are free to go away and forget her. they owe her a debt that can be repaid onl; tion and by their feeling that it is a pri dress for a party, of the hours she time of trouble, no memory of how to amuse them or comfort on their own She will want them to feel that by tenderness and considera- lege to cherish her in her old are ungrateful and unappreciative and who show them that they con- sider them burdens. how much happier they would be in I often wonder that such women do not realize some old ladies' home, where they could, at least, have their own self-respect, than they are in the homes of their children, where they know themselves to be unwelcome guests. Making the New Elbow Puff BY MARY MARSHALL. Sleeves are the focus of interest in the | the new dresses. Not the only focus of in- | terest, but one that should not be over- looked. And if you want your dress to | | 100k really up to date you should avold perfectly plain straight sleeves. A reader has asked for help in making over last vear's dress and she especially wants help with the sleeves which are straight and plain. And so for the help of this reader and ohers who ma be interested in revamping last season’s DOROTHY DIX. sleeves we are giving directions for making an elbow puff. If you have matching material the puff should be made to match. Otherwise you may use material of the same color, but different | sort. That is on a cloth dress you may | make he puff of silk or on a silk crepe dress you may make the puff of geor- | gette. ~ Simply apply the puff to the| center of the sleeve and then cut out the original sleeve under the pufl To make the pattern for the inset | A g | c.: - jo puff, follow the diagram with these | measurements: | Al 7 inches. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Whoo-hoo! 'Tommy, come on ober; it's SATURDAY! You know, I'd for- got what & whale ob a day Saturday WAS! Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Geniuses. Nature seems to have plans and de- signs. The scientist who studies nature in any of rer forms is merely trying to discover nature’s ways for the purpo: of appropriating her forces. Lasting benefits have been passed on through the scientict to the masses. Psychology jn the science of human nature. One of the big searches now- adays in that domain is to find out what produces geniuses. Some scie tists imagine they can be produced more or less artificially. In other words, they assume that nature’s perfection may be anticipated. Eugenics is the name for this particular branch of the science of human nature, Science has not gone far in its que: for the Holy Grail of human superior- | ity. In the absence of exact knowledge in_a quantitative sense, we shall be content to do a certain amount of phi- osophizing about genius. What, then, s the philosopty of superiority? Nature scems to create a _genius now and then for the purpose of advancir her designs. A ‘genius is a natur: 2gent whose business is to help nature popularize her undiscovered benefits The genius comes, makes his contrib. tion and passes on. The masses appro- priate the benefits. Progress assumes a new high level. (Copyreht. “BONERS” 1931 AE—7 inches. | AC—10 inches. H BD—10 inches. | EF—I12 inches. | Connect the points as indicated. Cut with AB on a straight edge—which also brings BD and AC straight. French seam BD and AC. Gather from A to B. This is the top of the puff. Gather the curved edge from C to F to D.| This is the lower edge of the puff. Seam the two gathered edges. adjust- ing the gatherings to fit, to the edges of the old sléeve where you cut out the old tight elbow section. (Copyright, 1031.) Wash Fabrics for Young ‘ASHABLE materials should be| chosen for the clothes of the younger children at school. and. save for very cold weather, cottons are usually Lhe best choice. Among the heavier cotton materials for younger children are jean, madras, poplin, broadcloth, galatea; while for blouss the best materials are gingham, per- cale, cotton pongee and broadcloth. | Cotton tweed is a new material that is appropriate for school dresses for the younger as well as the older schoolgirl. ‘Woolen materials always demand | more attention in the laundry than | cottons, but there are several woolen materials that have advantages in this respect. Printed and plain challis, for instance, shows no bad effects from washing, though it usually shrinks a little, Good quality serge and flannel may also be washed without injury, hough, of course, it must be washed in lukewarm. not hot. water and must be carefully dried and pressed. Clothes chosen for your children may very definitely affect their health, hap- piness and progress in.school. Defec- tive posture of school children has often been traced to clothes that were either too large or too small; too heavy or otherwise unsuitable. Neckbands and collars that are too high at the back may get the child into the habit of thrusting his head forward. Tight arm- holes or sleeves that are too tight or too short may result.4n an unnatural posture of the back and shoulders. Clothes for young children especially should always be roomy enough for perfect ease and comfort. In order to give them the trim appearance you desire you may make them fairly short, only be sure that the are roomy enough through the body. For young children sleeveless dresses ' and suits have a decided advantage in warm weather. In cooler weather el- bow sleeves are usually adequate and | they have decided advantage over long- | sleeved clothes. For one thing, the| short sleeve permits freedom of move- ! ment. Besides, the short sleeve is not v outgrown ,because whether it the elbow or an inch or so above makes no difference. For another advantage, short-sleeved suits and | dresses are not so easily soiled, because the Jower part of the sleeve and cuff are often soiled before the rest of the garment. Still another advantage of the short-sleeved suit or dress lies in¥ the fact that it leaves the lower arms bare when little hands must be washed. | Alec the Great I An active curiosity Makes one's knowledge double— And also has a funny way Of getting one in trouble. Humorous Tid-Bits School Papers. From HERKIN RU AFTER PEOPLE WITH KNIFE. Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the | strongest man. How do frogs pass the Winter? They get together in groups and hop south. The cow is a domestic animal all cov- ered with leather. Her tail, which hangs at the end. has a brush in order to shoo off flies, or else they would fall in the milk. The head is in front, and has | horns growing on each side and allows The -horns are | room for the mouth used for fighting and the mouth to roar with. When the food is good she gives good milk, but when it thunders she Boes 5ot The clasMic tragedy was different from the modern drama, as all the action oc- curred off-stage. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. Two or three readers have recently written asking us for the best way of removing various stains. So we are giving a little table of stain removers which may prove helpful: Acid—Use ammonia or chloroform. Blood—Soak when fresh in cold water. = Chocolate—Soak in wash in cold water. Coffee—Treat with boiling water when fresh. Fruit—Soak fresh stains in milk or use_oxalic_acid. Grass—Rub the spots with molases and wash. Grease—Rub French chalk or fullers’ earth on spots. Ink—Use salt and lemon juice. Iron rust—Use lemon and salt or hot solution of oxalic acld. Mild Use lemon and salt or Javelle water. Mud—Soak in kerosene. Paint—Use turpentine or benzine. Perspiration—Nothing but boiling will remove. Scorch—Wet and expose to sunshine, ‘Tar—Soak in warm milk and salt. ‘Tea—Use boiling water. Wine—Put dry salt on fresh stains, warm milk on old ones. ° Cream Rolls. Roll out some short pastry one-eighth inch thick, then cut it in strips one inch wide and 10 inches long. Roll on hollow- round tins. Let stand for a while before baking. Cornucopia shapes are made by rolling the pastry on conical tin tubes. Wash with ht- ly beaten egg and bake in a medium oven. When nearly done, dust with sugar and glaze, or brush over with simple sirup while hot. Fill with whipped cream, pastry cream, or with hot meringue or’ marshmallow. kerosene and My Neighbor Says: Bave all lemon and orange peels for fuel. If your fire is low in the morning just place a few skins on the coals with one stick of wood and in five minutes you will have a fire hot enough to put fresh coal on. ‘When preparing fruit salad sprinkle bananas, peaches, pears and apples with lemon juice or marinate with French dressing as soon as they are cut. This prevents discoloration from ex- posure to air. Sandpapering baby's shoes be~ fore they are worn prevents slip- ping and saves many a fall. A weak solution of chloride of lime will remove peach stains from linen. (Copyright, 1931.) IS A NATIVE WHO A FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Itchy Scalp. Dear Miss Leeds: I have written to you before about my itchy scalp, but though I read the column every day I haven't seen my answer yet. Will you please tell me what to do? My scalp is very dry and itchy. Thank you for your daily advi am, L. Answer: T am very sorry, indeed, that you have had to wait ‘or your an- swer, but I'm sure you understand that it takes a great deal of space to get ’round to every one. Hot oil treatments are usually helpful in improving a dry, itchy scalp. Use ice, T N. prescribe suitable antiseptic treatments for you. I shall be glad to mail you my leafiets dealing with dry hair and dand- ruff if you will write for them inclosing a stamped, addressed envelope. LOIsS Correct Weight. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 20 years old, weigh 123 pounds and my height is five feet one inch. Will you please tell | me if my weight is correct for my height and age? MRS. F. P. Answer: Most tables give 115 pounds | s the average weight for one of your equal parts of mineral oil and olive oil. | A few drops of oll of tar or oil of pine may be added. arm t} b S Wi he oil and apply First, part the hair in the center, then in one-inch parts and apply the oill with absorbent cotton or a small toothbrush. Apply the oil quite hot but do not burn the scalp. Massage it thor- oughly into the scalp. Next, wring out a small Turkish towel in very hot water. Wrap it arcund the hair and repeat the hot applications several times. Allow the oil to remain on the hair from one to three hours, after which the scalp will have absorbed the nutriment from the oil; then sham- Poo the hair in the usual way. Do not have the water too hot at first. Tar soap, white castile or an olive-oil sham- g'm may be used to wash off the oil. inse thoroughly in scveral waters, The oil may be left on overnight and the shampoo given the following morn- ing when dryness is extreme. Try this treatment once a weck for a month. If you have much dandruff or any eruptions on your scalp you should. of course, see a scalp specialist who will THEY tried hard to make a “mystery an” of that affable and pkilg- sophical gentleman one sees from time to time around the executive offices of se. that | But Jim Burke— Francis to surround him with an air of po- of m: Wilson Furt! plication. Any one anx around the W ask him per and emph and Coolidge admin: re, he resents any such im- us to know his status hit> House has only to onally. He will quickly ¥ answer that he is a personal fiind and close adviser of President Hoover, And that’s all Burke has no title and no official connecticn with the Government. He {is & lawyer, who for 40 years or more | has been intere n politics. Ten of these year: re spent s a member of the House, but he quit because he | was tired of holding public office. ‘Twitchtail the G uneasy. Just why didn't know hims una Squirrel felt he ppeared ones were no more active than usual. Now that Flip the Terrier ignored him he had one less to worry about than before. Just the same he was uneasy. He soon found that Mrs. Twitchtail had much the same feeling. He would find her leaving her household cares to run to the door and peer out with an on her face. my dear?” he asked. " she replied. “I just have a feeling that something dreadful appen and I know of no re the a_feeling nodded graie - said he. I feel the same way THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE simple one.plece dress of smart sophistieation. It's a plaided linen in yellow and soft cocoa brown shade. The cutest idea about it is the subtle indication of the normal waistline, achieved through shirring at each side seam. The deep scalloped collar in plain brown linen is accented by yellow gros- grain ribbon bows. It's a splendid dress for the grow- | ing girl of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, for immediate and later for school wear. Style No. 3020 takes but 2 yards of 35-inch material with 3% yard of 30-inch contrasting for the m&s of 8 years. Other lovely ideas for this practical model are sprigged dimity, printed batiste, Jm‘ue and shantung. It is darling, too, made sleeveless. 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. A circular flounce lengthens this | height and age. But, of course, you realize that we aren't all built to cer- tain specifications so I most certainly would not consider you overweight. Ten pourids either below or above the av- erage is permissible and it is usually better for any one under 35 years of age to be just a little overweight than | one bit under. LOIS LEEDS. ! (Copyright, 1931.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT FLUMMER. | Outside of occasional games of golf, | politics is about his only form of recrea- | tion | He dabbles in politics because he |loves it. He gets a tremendous kick out of conferring with politicians. main- taining intimat- contact with the Pres- ident and discharging this and that task. ans from all sections of the ow him, call him “Jim.” talk y with him about party affairs He works quietly, and, unless you ouid be on the lookout for him, prob- you would be unaware of his presence. The nearest thing to an official title he s is general counsel of the Re- nal Committee. He has veral years. He divides his t'me between Washington and Pitts- burgh—attempts to keep no regular hours at either place. Financially independent, his friends that he hopes for no re-’ ward, that he told Mr. Hoover at the ouset there was no post at home or ad that he sought or would accept. cars in the House, from 1905 uring which he rose to the ublican whip under Speaker cle Joe” Cannon, were enough. He still remembers those days and is fond of comparing Congress then as he sees it today. “We might not have done as much work or worked even as hard as legis- lators of today,” he says, “but tne cf conceded us a By Thornton W. Burgess. Yes, sir. T do. © felt sometimes when an e has been creeping up cn_me. seen him or heard him or smelled him, yet scmehow I have fe't esence. It is just that way now. e the same feeiing. I bave had it all day. but not a single enemy has ap- peared.” il_appeared mot to be ng. atehing some men ; rougt rheat ficld and nd among the trees over on the hillsize where she used to live. They seemed to be very busy SO THE TWITCHTAILS SC. OVER TO THE HILLSIDE. about something. Presently one came | toward them. At once Twitchtail and | Mrs. Twitchtail scampered inside their | home. Later when they ventured out the man was nowhere to be seen. However, he was soon forgotten in the | discovery of something that made their eyes shine. It was a spoonful or two of barley just outside their doorway. and if there is anything better than barley the Twitchtails haven't discovered it. It was Mrs. Twitchtail who first saw it. ~Oh, see what has been left right at our; very door!” she cried, and ran toward- it. 4 She had just reached it and was about to sample it when Twitchtail roughly pushed her aside. She thought’ it was because he was greedy and | wanted all of it for himself. *“You sel- fish thing!” she began and stopped. Twitchtail wasn't eating any himself, but was smelling of it in a way that she knew meant that he suspected. something might be wrong with it. “Don't touch a grain of it,” he com- manded. “I'm not going to and don't you. It may be all right. It smells all right. Still I have that queer feeling of some unknown danger stronger than ever. That two-legged creature must have left this here. If he did, what did he do it for? I notice that he left some at the homes of some of our neighbors and it is the first time I have ever known one of those t'o-b}lefi creatures to go out of his way to fead us. Let us wait and see what happens., It isn't going to run away and if it is all right we can eat it later.” ‘This was good sound sense and Mrs, Twitchtail knew it. “All right, my dear, it shall be just as you say,” sal e, ‘ “but I do hope that there is nothing wrong with it for I do want some of it | so much.” 3 “I tell you what” saild Twitchtall, “we'll go over and call on some of our, friends on the hillside and find out if they know anything about it. If barley has been left there some one iurel_\-! have tried it and then we'll now."” & So_the Twitchtails scampered over to the hillside and when they got there the feeling that something was wrong grew stronger than ever. It was strangely quiet all about. They barked at the, doorway of a friend, but got no respo | Then they found another friend I | on his doorstep and plainly very sick. | From Squirrel home to Squi | they ran and found each nt or its owner very sick, indeed. And aro each was scattered that harmless look<' |ing barley. Then they knew it had | something to do with that dreadful sickness and hurried home to push that' grain nwa§nfmm their doorway. Noth- | ing could induce them to touch it now, which was well for them, for it had been poisoned. tail's suspicion them. 2 saved them. copyrisns. 1091