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WOMAN'’S PAGE. " Problems of Home Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. COMFORT 1S STRESSED IN A DECORATIVE TREATMENT OF THIS LIVING ‘The homemaker who finds one of her | rooms does not look as aftractive or cozy as she expected it would when she decorated it, can usually find the rear- | rangement of the furniture, rugs and other furnishings will be a helpful solu- tion. If the room looks too long and narrow, seek to bring the ends of the room nearer in effect. This can be done in several ways. there are scatter rugs on the floor place them so that lengths extend across the room. The lines they give increase the ®ppearance of width of floor space. Avoid arrangements of furniture which give longitudinal lines. If there is no other wall spece for a couch or sofa than agains! a lengthwise wall, break the appearance cf length by an occasional table before it, rather than using an end table. The ways of giv- ing the desired broad effect are many. ‘The homemaker has to study both the room and what she has in it to see Just what her own particular solution can be. If the room is wide for its length re- verse the suggestions just given and seek in every way to supply the appear- ance of increased le . This is easier than to give the Jook of width, although each would seem to have equal prob- lems. But it actually is not nearly so difficult to make a room appear long as it is to make it 2ppear wide. The nar- rowness of the floor spacc prevents in a measure the graceful grouping of fur- niture. When a room has neither of these difficuities of length or width, vet is not satisfying, consider the room from two angles, that of convenience and good decoration. It is poor treatment THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE ‘The dominance of the sheer woolen coat-type frock for Fall is paramount. The diagonal monotone and mixtures are especially smart. You'll like this model a lot with its slimming bodice treatment. The ver- tical line carried out by the inverted plaits at the front of the skirt, which For example, if | ni the room, and tweed | SOD! ROOM. if a room looks well and lacks the allur- ing aspect of comfort. Many rooms are so cold, although the furnishings are in good taste, that the aspect is more for- bidding than welcoming. It is a good idea for the homemaker to leave the furniture just as it is after she has entertained a group of people ‘who have enjoyed a conversational eve- or . Note the way the chairs are placed. Have the tables been pulled out or pushed back and where are the occasional tables in reference to the chairs? There is an atmosphere of comradeship which lingers afterward in the arrangement of the furniture has caught and holds it for a while. It may be impossible to keep the articles exactly as they are, but, by | studying them, the home decorator will | find she can learn something about cozy arrangements. (Copyright, 1931 Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. s aedoosd papl 0!—-—7 Aty i%ual, 12 eQvaner HIS is a unique manner of letter and word. forthation. It seems as though the writer may be seeking to give an impression of herself which does not re- veal her true personality. The delib- erate manner of dotting the “i” with a circled dot is in direct contrast to the extreme simplicity of many of the letters. In some, instances this sim- plicity appears to be indifference. This same contrast may be true in her make-up. Seemingly she is a nalve, | friendly person who attempts to be histicated and coolly detached. If she could but realize that her natural nature is by far the more charming, she would enhance her personal appeal. This affected nonchalance may attract attention, but it scarcely makes for confidence or trust. e loop in letters such as “a” and *“ is interesting. There seems to be a tenacity of purpose demonstrated here that is a favorable indication. Seemingly, once she un- dertakes a project she will carry it to completion, Obstacles, instead of dis- couraging her, will only stir her to greater endeavor. She perhaps has many friends and in- timates. She will give them much of her time and effort that might be ex- pended in other ways. Although it is delightful to have & large group of friends, we should not devote all of our time to them. ‘This writer has many abilities which should be developed. Once she deter- mines upon a career her undiminishing vigor will be an easurable asset. She may not like the business world. Her aptitudes may be for artistic en- deavors. As she seems to be able to do things with her hands, sculpture may aflord her an intriguing interest. Note—Analysis of handwriting is mot ording to, world in ree it is interesting and lot. n, Star presents the above feature in that spirit. ish to have [J . al . It will de eit) pagted in this column or Kou will receive @ handuwriting ‘analysis chart which you will find an interesting study. Potato Soup. Cook three medium-sized potatoes until soft, then rub them through a sieve. Two cupfuls of the sifted po- tatoes are needed. Scald one quart of milk with two sliced onions. Stir in and add the milk slowly to the potatoes. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and add two tablespoonfuls of flour mixed with one-fourth teaspoon- ful of celery salt, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of table salt and a pinch of pepper. Mix well, add to the hot soup, cook for a few minutes, then add one teaspoonful of ~chopped parsley, two tablespoonfuls of chopped green pepper, a little paprika and one | teaspoonful of grated horseradish. Flank Steak. is attached to the camisole bodice of light green silk, gives charming height to the figure. Black diagonal woolen made the skirt and jumper bodice. Style No. 3384 is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Size 36 requires 23 yards 54-inch, with 1 yard 35-inch for waist. Black crepe marocain with white crepe, mauvy-brown tweed mixture with pastel red and dark green diagonal ‘woolen with yellow are smart ideas, 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. Don't envy the woman who dresses well and keeps her children well dressed. Just send for your copy of our Fall and ‘Winter fashion magazine. It shows the best styles of the com- season. And you may obtain our ‘pattern at cost price of any style shown. The pattern is most economical in ma- terial requirements. It enables you to wear the new frocks at little expense— two frocks for the price of one, You will save $10 by spending 10 cents for this book. So it would pay you to send for your copy now. Address Department. Price of book, 10 eents. Price of pattern, 15 cents. Cut away the outer rim of heaviest fiber from two and one-half pounds of flank steak. If the steaks are not thoroughly cut, then Q.hzzh should be cut crosswise. Dredge with flour and saute in fat. Place in a baking dish and add one cupful of boiling water. | Bake in a slow oven for two hours. Add | one cupful of canned tomatoes, two | tablespoonfuls of chopj onjon and one teasponful of salt. Bake until tender or for about half hour. | and shut T I IE EVENING LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. cuzzin Artie stayed at my house .Ilul"me last nite, and we was laying in bed tawking and going to sleep and 1 said, Hay Artie do you wunt to buy my paper cover book telling how to hipmot! le? It cost a_dime and 11 sell it to you for 3 cents, I said. Like fun, its only a lot of imitation bunk, there aint any such thing, Artie said, and I said, All rite, I tell you What Il do, Il give you the ferst les- son free, perviding you buy the book if the ferst lesson works. The ferst lesson shows you how to put people to sleep and make them answer questions but it dont show you how to make them bleeve their munkies and things like that, I said. All rite, go ahead and show me, Ar- tie said, and I said, Well the ferst lesson is a cintch, all you haff to do is open oyr hand 3 times in frunt of somebodys face and say Ibbitty bib- bitty sobbo youre asleep, and then you can ask them whatever questions you wunt to and they haff to anser the cor- rect anser. Go ahead and try it, I said. ‘Wich he did, and I shut my eyes slow like somebody that thawt they was hip- motized, Artie seying, Are you asleep, and me saying, Yes, and him saying. Then where did you hide the rest of | your candy while I was cleening my teeth? Me thinking, Heck, what did he baft to go and ask that for? and Artie said, Are you going to anser or aint you hip- motized? and I said, Im hipmotized but thats a no fair question and it wont werk. Aw go on your a lot of belloney, Artie said, anJ I said, And youre a lot more and you cant back it up or down. Being 2 insults, and we started to wressle mad and pop came up an gave us both a smack. NANCY PAGE Lois Gives a Recipe for Raised Doughnuts. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. “Have you ever made raised dough- nuts, Lois?” The question was put to her by a bride of less than a year. Like a flash Lois' mind went back to the countless times she had put ques- tions to Nancy. She had always looked upon Nancy as a source of all knowl- edge. Scarcely ever had she failed to get a helpful answer to a question. And now, lo and behold, the same sort of questions were being put to her, Lois. Was it possible that she was gaining a reputation as a good cook, a thrifty housewife and wise counselor? She hoped so. Surely she had worked hard, kept herself always on the alert to find the newest and the most ap- proved way of doing things. All this flashed through her mind as she said, “Yes,§ made them day before yesterday. nt me to tell you how I 'did it! “I scalded one cupful milk, added two tablespoonfuls shortening, one tea- spoonful salt and three-quarters of a cupful of sugar. I crumbled one yeast cake and put it in one-quarter cupful lukewarm water. When bubbling I added it to lukewarm milk. I add2d one and one-half cupfuls flour. This sponge set in a warm place became exceedingly light. Then I added one egg, beaten slightly; one-half teaspoon- ful grated nutmeg, and about two and three-quarter cupfuls flour. The dough was softer than bread dough. I let 1t rise until light, kneeded it, roled it thre-quarters inch thick, cut with doughnut cutter and let rounds double in bulk. T dropped them, not more than two_at a time, into deep fat heated to 370 degrees and cooked them for three minutes. I put the raised side down in fat when slipping them in. I drained them on soft, crushed paper and dusted them with sugar and served thle::. ‘They are good either hot or col MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Wheat Cereal With Cream Fried Sausage Pancakes Maple Sirup Coftee DINNER. Fruit Cup Roast Chicken Brown Gravy Cranberry Sauce Stuffed Celery Mashed Potatoes, Lettuce Hearts Russian Dressing Suet Pudding Lemon Sauce Coffee SUPPER. Escalloped Oysters Parker House Rolls Preserved Peaches, Almond Cake Tea PANCAKES. Three eggs, 1 cup milk, % tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, }2 cup flour, 1, teaspoon salad ofl. Beat the yolks and whites sepa- rately and add the milk and sugar to the yolks. Pour the mixture on the flour, stirring to & smooth paste. Beat well, add the oll. Heat and butter small fiying pan and pour into it enough mixture to cover the bot- tom of the pan. When brown, turn and brown the other side. SUET PUDDING. One cup sultana rasins, % cup finely chopped suet, 1 cup gran- ulated sugar, 2 cups sweet milk, 3% cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons baking powder. Steam 3 hours in covered 3-quart tin, and have cover so as to keep out Wwater. Must boil all the while. Lemon sauce: One cup sugar, 1 pint boiling water, 3 tablespoons cornstarch. Dissolve starch in cold water, add a little butter and flavor with lemon extract. ALMOND CAKE. Cream 1 cup butter with 1 cup granulated sugar, and add the beaten yolks of 3 eges, % cup milk and 1; teaspoon al- mond extract. Sift 2 cups pastry flour with 8 teaspoons baking o) Thank , when I am My wl TS, 1 and lush, Are there to hide what otherwise Might seem to be & blush, | powder and tter a0 2dd to the bu . Turn shallow pan, sprinkle with ulated sugar and chop) monds and bake in a moderate oven, (Copyright, 1931) STAR, WASHINGTON, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Are a Widow’s Matrimonial Prospects Better Than a Young Girl’s? DEAR MISS DIX—I often hear the remark: “A woman who has been married can get married again much more quickly than a girl who has never been married because she knows just the things to do and say that will attract men.” sist? In what do these fascinations of the widow con- What are these things they do and say that men lke them? UISE. Answer: I think the saying that “a woman who has been married can get married again much more quickly than a gir! who has never been married,” applies only to women of a certain age. Not to young girls. Un- doubtedly, a widow of 35 or 40 or 45 has a better chance to marry than a woman of that age who has never been married, but, on the other hand, no widow is in the matrimonial running with a flapper. PERHAPS the reason why the widow of 45 can marry more easily than the spinster of that age is because men are more qof less like sheep in dealing with women. ‘They follow the leader. Every man likes to have some other man's O.K. on the woman he admires, and the mere fact that some other man has admired and esteemed one enough to marry her makes her desirable in his eyes, whereas the fact that she has never been married leads him to conclude that she is somehow an inferior article that no other man wanted. As to what widows do to attract men, it is mainly what they don’t do that causes them to win out over the unmarried women. You see in marriage experience counts, as in every other trade and profession, and the woman who has been married has learned from her late lamented husband how to handle men. SKE has found out, for one thing, that men like to eat and that they like comfort and that they like a home atmosphere and that they like a woman who shows some mercy on to be fussed over. So the widow isn't alwa; their pocketbook and that they like chasing a man around to some place of amusement where it costs a lot of money. When she gets her eye on a man she invites him to her own house and has everything nice and warm and cozy and a comfortable chair in which he can slump down and take it easy. And she has a good homecooked dinner that she tells him she cooked with her own hands, and it just naturally makes him think how nice it would be to have a little home of his own. HE widow is reasonable. She doesn’t make mountains out of mole hills, as the unmarried woman does, in dealing with men. ‘The one thing that lures a man to a.woman more than anything else is being easy to get along with, and it is the fact that the widow knows how to hold out that bait that enables her to slip the halter over a man’s head so easlly. She encores his stories and begs him to tell over again how he put through that deal, and after he has monologued about himself for & couple of hours she gasps and breathes how marvelous and it is all over but sending out the wedding announcement. It is techniqu dear. That is how the widow gets her man. e that does it, my THY DORO' DIX. (Copyright, 1831.) The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Whose uniquely successful career, both in business and private life, her enabj problems of the ies Handy With a Needle. “Dear Miss Woodward: I am a young mother 28 years old with three chil- dren all going to school. My problem is my husband. He never had steady employment and it has been very hard to get along, but now with my chil- dren all going to school, I have so much time to my- self that I don't like to waste. I would like to earn a little money my- self and help out, as I am handy with needle in making novelties and drapery. My one ambition is to make a connection with a department store where interior deco- ration is being done. I am interested in this line of work and I know that I will be very successful. Please give me your personal advice as to where I can appiy for such a position. Or if you think that I need school training, I would very much like to go if I knew of a school that teaches evenings. fore T was married I was employed as a stenographer, but I don't like to go back to that kind of work. “ELIZ. A" The Y. W. C. A. gives courses of lessons. These should help you. The only way to get the kind of work you want is to go around and | see the people who have it done. Take | samples of your work to the decorating section of department stores and of | the bigger furniture stores. Show them | what you can do and, if they have | work, you will be able to get it. | Take samples of your work to_the | Exchange for Women’s Work. This organization sells all kinds of things of the sort that you make. In dealing | Helen Woodward. DAILY DIET RECIPE HONEY SALAD DRESSING. Water, 3; cup. Honey, 3 cup. Mustard, 1 teaspoon. Salt, %, teaspoon. Paprika, 1, teaspoon. Vinegar, i, cup. Flour, 1 tablespoon. Egg yolks, 2. SERVES 10 OR 12 PORTIONS. Heat the honey and water in & double boiler. Mix the dry in- gredients. Blend in the vinegar and add these to the honey and water. Pour a small amount of the hot mixture over the beaten egg yolks, gradually stirring in the whole amount and return to the double boiler. Cook all to- gether until clear. Cool and use. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, fat, iron, vitamins A and B. Can be eaten by normal adults of aver- age or under weight and by chil- dien 10 years and over. to speak with complete authority on modern woman. with this institution, you will, of course, have to buy your own mate- rials and take the risk of making them up. Don't do that until you have shown them something that you have already done and they assure you ‘that they can sell it. You will see decoratorsh shops. Some of these would be more likely to give you work to be done at home than any department store. Most department stores prefer to have everything done on the place. You may not get much work at the beginning.” It’s the kind of thing that has to be built up slowly. You are a wise woman to want to learn some- thing thoroughly. People who know things half-heartedly are the first to lose their jobs. Besides,” knowing something well gives you a lot of self-confidence. A self-confident manner helps more than anything else in getting work. If I should have to give a girl two pieces of advice toward getting a job and hold- ing it, I'd say: Know some one thing well. Be sure of yourself. (Copyright, 1931.) “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. WHENEVER DAVID PLAYED TO SAUL THE LATTER KEPT A JAVE- LIN HANDY. The moon is a planit just like the earth only deader. The revolution in India is being led by Manhattan Dandy. Federal Reserve is a reserve where the Federal employes hunt wild game. The quality of mercy strains every nerve. Describe the heart. All I know about the heart is that it is shaped like a valentine. Al Capone is the Senator from Call- fornia. MODE (Copyright, 1931.) OF THE MOMENT Parls This sapphire blue velvet a/uu’flf’ ana. Wrap Byt Trene () deslpned. Wit detachalble sErE sothat & Wfi’c Worn or yrwn’ of Blue worl v Rita_. D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Saturday, an’ I don't hab to write in my di'ry! But fings ob intrust is hap- penin’ all ober the place— (Copyright, 1931.) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Hlustrations by Mary Foley. CLVIL LEOPARD MOTH. Zeuzera Pyrina Fab. POTTED just like a leopard and with children who bore right into | the heartwood of our best forest trees, this moth, another foe from Europe, has cost us many million dollars. In 1879 she was accidentally intro- duced into America and had made headway before she was discovered. The mother moth is a very portly creature and a feeble flyer. This has been the only reason more damage has not been done. fellow, with very feathery antennae, and is a swift fiyer. Both parents have white, semi-transparent wings, with many blackish spots on them. They are so tinged that the spots have a dark blue or greenish cast. The chest has six large spots with another one in the center. The win, expanse of the mother is over 1% inches. The father is much smaller than his spouse. From May until August, grown moths ready to mate will come from the trees. The mother moth inserts her oval, sal- mon-colored eggs in the rough bark of the tree. They are placed singly or in groups of three or four, until she has tucked away 800 of them. In 10 days the eggs hatch into fleshy, grub- like caterpillars, that are a pale yellow with a pinkish tint. The head, chest and plates on the tip of the body are brownish black. The entire body is sparsely covered with hairs and prominent tubercles. ‘They enter the nearby crotch or bore into the tree, burrowing until they reach the heartwood. When the twig burrow gets too snug, the occupant ambles out into the open and selects a larger branch or trunk to tunnel into. In a single tree, 6 inches in diameter, as many as six borers were found. One alone can destroy a tree, if undisturbed. When the borer is full grown, the in- fested limbs will break off. He usually girdles the branch. ‘The second May after the borer en- ters the wood he transforms into the next stage (pupa). He has sharp spikes on his head and forces his way partly out of his home. He hangs half way out of his doorway, the skin splits, and the moth pulls himself free of_his close-fitting wrapper. You may find their burrows by the accumulation of chips at the entrance gates. When the borer makes his second change, he closes the doorway to his room with a silk curtain. This is to keep away his enemies and insure privacy. When these borers work under the bark of the tree, ugly scars will be_seen the following Spring. ‘The only enemies they seem to have are the birds. The moths seem to stay close to the cities and towns. The woodpeckers have been driven to the country. ‘They are experts when it comes to going after the borers and know just where to catch the workers. Those caught in the cities are borers | Mrs. Peter artf: FEATURES. Scarfs With Evening Dresses BY MARY MARSHALL. You can wear & last season'’s evening dress without actual embarrassment. Skirt lengths have remained about the same and waistlines are still normal. But there are certain subtle changes the evening mode that give distinetion between last season’s and this season’s evening dress, Shoulder straps on some of the backs are one of the new developments. We find them often on dresses that wuum‘ be quite backless above the waistline without these crossing straps. Wide shoulder straps are also new. One of Goupy’s most interest evening dresses of red velvet has wide shoulder straps with a panel scarf attached to the left strap 50 that it hangs down at the back nearly to the knees or may be drawn up to serve as & neck scarf. Shoulder straps on some of the new ning dresses are exteb nded w‘genmde ting ar- rangement of scarfs at the back of an evening dress of French origin. Two chiffon scarfs are joined at the back with a brooch and are then drawn at shoulder straps and fall gracefully down over the arms. Sometimes a scarf is arranged so that one long end hangs down from either shoulder, veiling the arms above the elbow and hanging down to the knees, ‘There are all sorts of ways of adjust- ing scarfs this season, and if you have a last season’s evening dress that you would like to provide with a fashionable new touch, by all means consider the ibilities of scarf drapery. (Copyright, 1931.) BEDTIME STORIES °#; Thorner Mrs. Peter Meets Molly. In softest eyes and sweetest smile Alas, there oft is hidden guile. —Old Mother Nature. Little Mr. Peter Rabbit left Old Jed Thumper, the gray old Rabbit who was her father, sitting in his favorite retreat chewing on nothing at all and started out to visit some of the familiar places of the days when the Old Pasture was her home. In one after another she found signs that some one had been there recently. Somehow she resented the fact that any one else should have used these places. It was a silly feel- }'fi ;‘r‘m she knew it, but she couldn’t elp it. At last as she started to enter a familiar old bramble-tangle a warning:, thump stopped her. She hesitated a moment and then thumped a reply. It was a gentle thump, a friendly thump. It brought an equally friendly thump in reply and almost at once a pretty young Rabbit appeared. It was Molly, whom Peter had fancied himself in love with. For a full minute the two looked at each other. Then they touched noses, which is the Rabbit 3 3 she saw how pretty she was and what soft eyes she had. “Not just here, but I live in the Old " Molly politely. “I guess you are a stranger here?” Little Mrs. Peter nodded. “I am now,”_sald she, a wee bit sadly, “but once I wasn't. I was born here. “I haven't lived here very long,” re- p}led Molly, “but I like it. It is a nice place.” “Don’t you filt lonesome?” inquired ly. Molly chuckled. “I used to,” she I confessed, “but I don't any more. have a friend who comes to see me every night.” e s e ey le 3 gave no E “That’s nice,” sald she. “I used to have a friend come to see me every night when I lived here.” M chuckled again. “He thinks he is in love with me,” said she. Again the heart of little Mrs. Peter gave a funny little jump. “Well, isn't he?":’she inquired as casuall coul “I don’t know,” confessed Molly. “Are you in love with then?” asked Mrs. Peter, and held her breath for the reply. Once more Molly chuckled. “Me in love with him!” she exclaimed. “I should say not! You wouldn’t have asked that question if you ever had seen him. Why he is old enough to be Dry Skin. Dear Miss Leeds—I have been read- ing about you for a long time and like your column very much. Now I have something I would like to ask exchanging a smaller home for a larg- er one. They are out in the open and easily caught. Little gray squirrels feast upon the plump borer, and in this way this ene- my has been kept down. Rare trees may be saved by infecting bisulphid | S of carbon into the burrows and clos- ing the entrance with grafting wax. Do not inhale the fumes or smoke while executing the little borer. (Copyright, 1931.) Savory Spinach. Pick over and wash in several changes of cold salted water two pounds of spinach and put it into a saucepan with a very iittle clean, cold water and a little salt. Bring to a bofl and sim- mer until tender, or for about 10 min- ites. Strain, rinsc in cold water and press dry. Pass through a sieve or chop fine, then return to the saucepan with a teaspoonful of flour, one ounce of butter and two tablespoonfuls of cream or . Arrange in a circle on a dish for serving and fill in the center with eggs that have been boiled for four minutes. Pour a little slightly thickened brown. gravy over the eggs ;?:-af'mm with small pleces of fried Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Characterology. A great many people im: that PR i e S o e traits. There are the common beliefs, for example, that a person with a long nose is interested in the affairs of his neighbors, that a person with small ears is stingy, that a person with small eyes set close together is deceitful, and so forth. There is not a particle of truth in any of these popular assumptions. In order to understand character one needs to go beneath the surface. Char- acter is in the first place largely a mat- ter of habit. Men are very generally what they are because of where and how they have lived. And the where and how apply particularly to their early surroundings. During the first 10 or 12 years the stage is set for the essentials of what we are to become and how we are to be judged as adults. It ear] g e as follows: The key to character is habit or training. Now there are, of well meaning people who the ptTuhr ‘assumptions of facial traits de- spite anything here said to the contrary. ‘The thing for them to do is to put these the test. Let course, many will hold to After a while they probably agree with Shakespeare: “There is no art to read the minds construction in t& face.” ould with Add a pint of cold water ful of oatmeal or bran and for 30 minutes before liquid into the: bath. in an old handkerchief into the tub. After the bal th rinse and dry body well and then apply the ofl—cold cream, olive oil or some similar sub- stance. After applying the oil it must be worked well into the skin by rub- . Sim) surface of the Skin is not sufficient. As your skin is very evidently in need of stimulation® so that the oil glands will function properly, I should advise you to take a cold shower and friction bath in the morning. Rub th!l Step out of the tub and repeat the rubbing. Once a week take a rub- down with ordinary table salt before the morning bath. If the body feels dri and itchy after the morning bath rub it with a lotion of equal g:u of glycerin and rose water and n dust the skin with pure talcum or stearate of zinc powder., I hope t you will find these ns helpful. However, see a doctor before you begin local treatments. LOIS LEEDS. Red Nose. Dear Miss Leeds—I am having trou- ble with my nose. At times it gets so red, especially when it is exposed to cold air or when I get excited.” When it S!eu red it also looks larger than it Tet this y is. What is the cause of My Neighbor Says: W. Burgess. puts on! To see and hear him you would think he was the most impor- tant Rabbit in all the Great World. He is just a silly old fellow and I have great fun with him.” Little Mrs. Peter had it on the tip of her tongue to say indignantly that he wasn't a silly old fellow and he was the most important Rabbit in all the Great World, but wisely checked it. Instead she managed a chuckle her- self. “You must find him very amus- ing,” said she. “I do,” replied Molly promptly. “You should hear him boast. He certainly is old enough to know better. And I let Hiavy “DON'T YOU GET LONESOME?" INQUIRED MRS. PETER ART- FULLY. him think that I believe it all. Why, my dear, he isn't afraid o* Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote or Hooty the Owl or Shadew the Weasel. Can vou imagine any Rabbit not being afraid of those ful people?” Mrs. Peter shook her head. said she, “I am afraid I can't.” “He says he isn’t afraid of them be- cause he is too smart for them,” Molly babbled on. “Last night he started out to show me about. Just as if I didn’t already know all about the Old Pasture! He thought he was leading me, but he wasn't. I managed to lead him around to the home of Reddy Fox and he didn't realize it until we got there. You see, I knew that Reddy and Mrs. Reddy had gone off on a long hunt. My dear, I wish you could have seen him when he discovered where we were! Why he was afraid of his own shadow! I haven't enjoyed myself so much for a long time. He really is a nice old fellow, but silly. As for me being in love with him, I should say not! You I am in love with some one else.” h!” sald little Mrs. Peter a bit “No,” (Copyright, 1931.) MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. redness? Is it my skin or is there something else wrong? I hope you can help me. JANE B. Answer—First see to it that your diet is right and your digestive tract working perfectly. Constipation is a condition you . circula- t your tion is good and avoid tight clothing. Finally, use local treatments. After cleansing the face at bedtime apply the following ointment to the nose and let it remain on overnight. Mix together the [One and one-half ounces of oxide of zinc ointment, two and one-half drams powdered starch, one dram powdered sulphur, five drops oil of rose and onc and one-half ounces cold cream. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1991.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. THE HEIGHT OF SOMETHING OR OTHER 1S TELUNG A BALD-HEADED MAN A HAIR-RASING W. W. B—Picking at bones is, says an authority, “a self-indulgence not to be permitted except in seclusion or in the complacent society of a fellow sin- ner of a fond companion, with asked and ted.” We must, axes have been fa:?’mn ?:”Om mmm_g'fl. » m'?