Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1931, Page 16

woM AN’S PAGE. Ways to Make Christmas Merry BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. O really enjoy Christmas a woman must dismiss from mind all hnrs&!m&thoulhu of gifts not sent, of belated cards, of household tasks undone, and all the thousand and one things which can so easily mar the joy of the holil- = A RE R DEC ZH Toa T THERE IS MORE TO BEING READY FOR CHRISTMAS THAN HAVING OUR PACKAGES ATTRACTIVE. day. Since nothing can be done about these matters, it only makes one miser- able. and all those who catch the spirit ‘when she dwells on them. So for the sake of one’s own happiness, as well as that of the family, these disturbing contemplations should be thrust from the remembr There is plenty of time to hug th day is over, sl recall them day before Christmas it is important to realize that the holiday means something apart from the ex- change of presents. There is a deep spiritual significance back of the giving ould any one want to of gifts. This is destroyed exactly in | proportion to the annoyance felt, what- ever the cause for the bothersome thoughts. No one can be disgruntled and merry at one and the same time, and the words “Merry Christmas” are a farce unless they mean what they say. So today let us get ready for tomor- THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Flaring slecves, tightened at the wrists are interesting feature of a Jacket-like woolen dress in Spanish tile shade. The bodice is cut on slightly fitted basque lines. Brown wooden buttons give a double-breasted effect. The Tevers are of plain brown woolen. Note the snappy partial belt and the slender gored skirt, Style No. 2514 may be had in sizes 72, 13,16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches Size 16 requires 3 yards 54-inch, with 8, vard 35-inch centrasting. A very smart idea youll like that's er sporty is to make the skirt Ta ©f brown diagonal woolen and the back again after the | row, not alone in winding up the pre- | Christmas affairs to the best of our ability but by letting the wonderful spirit of Christmas get into our souls. If we will but do this, we and all who come in contact with us will feel the merrier for the happiness we radiate. Dismiss reflections of those disturbing “might have beens” which are like bad fairies in our minds. Rather let us welcome the spirit of the Christ Child, with its joyousness, kindness and its radiance typified by the lighted candles. Let every one who meets us feel some- thing of this bouyant overflow from our truly “Merry Christmas” attitude. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MKYER ELDRED, Cod Liver 0il as Treat. With the discovery many years ago that cod liver, oil was a cure for rickets, that prevalent nutritional ailment of infancy, its administration became & mother’s daily duty from the third month of baby’s life up to his second year. It is & common assumption of the uninitiated that babies will eat or drink anything. It is argued that their senses of both taste and smell are undeveloped | and likewise their powers of discrimi- nation. | But for three months of his life the | baby is fed only food of a certain con- sistency, flavor and texture, and any- thing thicker, more flavorful, or even warmer is open to suspicion and re- | fusal. In addition, baby is far from in- sensible, especially as he grows older, to that all-important psychic element. his mother’s ~attitude. ~Her slightly wrinkled nose, the coaxing tone she as- sumes as she approaches with this spoonful of strange liquid, is sufficient to put baby on the defensive. “Now what is she up to?” may be an inarticu- late but nevertheless potent query. | It remains for the mother to sternly | squelch any disposition to be “sniffy” | about _cod liver ofl. She must assume that bright, alert, expression which is so natural to her when she offers the | baby something simply marvelous. The digestion of the oil may be af- fected adversely if the mother offers | mum dose all at once. difficult and_slow of | | digestion. If baby's stomach is of- | fended and upset the first time this | fluid is offered, its future successful ad- | miinstration is doubtful. It is better to | | begin with but a few drops, adding a drop each day until the maximum | amount of two to three teaspoonfuls is | reached. Irradiated ofls have. in a measure, | superseded plain cod liver oil. This product is a bland ofl, subjected to ultra-violet rays until its vitamin D| | potency is 250 times that of plain oil. | It does not contain vitamin A as does | plain cod liver ofl, and at the present | | writing its dosages are still in a state | of flux. If the mother decides to use one of these instead of plain, cod liver | oll, she should ask the advice of her | doctor. Unlike cod liver oil, which in | large quantities might sicken the child, but otherwise would not affect him seriously, these are capable of being in- juriously overdosed. The mother has no right to attempt to figure dosages of any drug. There are more ways than one of luring the infant to swallow his irradi- ated oil, for such small doses can be | masked in fruit juice or put right with | the bottle formula. Plain cod liver oil when offered in this manner may lead | the baby, if sickened, to turn against both the oil and the essential foods in which it was served. The best results | are obtained when the mother starts | with tiny doses of the plain oil and | offers these with so glad a countenance | that her little victim is certain this is a treat. There are babies with whom these methods are so highly successful that instead of howling at the sight of the cod liver oil bottle, they howl for it. “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits School Papers. | | ( ! | From BEFORE THE AUSTRALIAN BAL- LOT THE CANDIDATES WERE ALL DIFFERENT SIZES, SHAPES AND COLORS. In the West the farming is done mostly by irritating the land. {01t the air foontaionimars, than 10 carbolic acid, it is very dangerous to health. | = | Venizelos are the members of the ’Gr(‘(‘k cabinet who resigned. A skeleton is & man or person with- out meat or skin. Capital punishment should not be used too frequently in schools. The Sirens were mermalds who in- habited the sea and tried to get sailors to come to them when they passed by in ships. They made enchanting music with sirens. (Copyright, 1931.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream. Lamb Chops. Potato Cakes. Popovers, Coffee. DINNER. Fruit Cup. ‘Tomato Soup. ‘Whipped Cream. Roast Turkey, Giblet Gravy. Stuffed Celery. Cranberry Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Baked Squash, ‘Tomato and Lettuce Salad. French Dressing. Harlequin Ice Cream. Nuts, Raisins, Bonbons. Coffee. X SUPPER. Lobster Salad. Pickles, Olives, Ice Box Rolls. ‘White Fruit Cake. Coffee. POTATO CAKES. Peel about two quarts potatoes and cook in salted water until tender. Drain and mash. Add more salt, caraway seeds and flour enough to make stiff. Flat- ten out into round calees about 1 inch thick, cut as you would pie and bake in frying pan on top of stove. Have plenty salt pork fat to cook them in. Turn every few minutes so they will not burn. They should be eaten while hot, with plenty butter. FRUIT CUP. Cut canned pineapple into small cubes, add an equal quan- tity of grapefruit pulp and place in small glass cups. Pour two tablespoonfuls of maple sirup over each serving, sprinkle with chopped nut meats and chill near the ice. WHITE FRUIT CAKE. Cream one cup sugar and one- half cup butter, add two eggs, one cup buttermilk and flour enough to make a stiff batter, sifted with one teaspoonful each soda and baking powder. Flavor ‘gdlce of Persian green woolen. Repeat e brown for the revers and sleeve fIs and trim with brown buttons. 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 Winter Fashion Magazine. It shows the best styles of the coming season. You will save $10 by spending a few THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C ONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Nope, it aren’t Santa Claus! I'se scrry, baby. It's dest daddy an’ muvver fussin’ round our stockin's. Whoo-hoo! Daddy an’ muvver! (Copyright, 1931.) NANCY PAGE Chef Salad Made by Lady Cooks, Too. BY FIORENCE LA GANKE. In planning club refreshments for the holidays Nancy and Lois used ingenuity. They said, “Guests will be surfeited with sweet things. Why do we have to serve ice creams and sweet salads with candies and rich, hot chocolate? Let's think of some menus that have! zest and ta ced out: ] ; s. hot mince- | turnovers Tee. Fried cornmeal mush w sirup, little baked apples. Welsh rarebit, picalilli, toast triangles, orange and green pepper salad. Assorted cold meat and cheese, rye bread. nuts and raisins, coffee Waffles with chicken a la king, apri- cot whip and pfeffernusse. Escalloped oysters and cornbread sticks, fruit cup and fruit cake. The chef salad was a favorite in any town where fresh vegetables could be procured in the miarket in the Winter- time. Nancy used large amounts of shred- ded lettuce, tomatoes peeled and cut into sixths iced cucumbers, sliced radishes, slivers of green peppers, wafer- sausages, coffee, thin rings of mild onion, slices of hard- | cooked eggs. She tossed these all together in the bowl and then dressed the salad with a | modified French dressing. In making | this she used oil, vinegar, salt, red pep- | per, paprika, a suspicion of sugar, an- chovy essence and tinned anchovies. The salty anchovies gave a zest to the salad that was even more popular than the tang of garlic which Nancy always used in her garlic salad, made with vegetables and dressing flavored with | garlic—just flavored, and that was all. | | LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. This ‘afternoon me and Sid Hunt started to take a wawk and the ferst thing we knew Sids kid brother Bert THURSDAY; DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—I am a bride of & few weeks, anxious to make my marriage a success, so will you p! tions for me: First, how can I avold nagging my husband and still not let him walk over me? Second, d I go to work and help earn the money for a home? My husband wishes me to. ‘Third, should I hold my tongue when there is room to fight back? Fourth, should I let my husband go out alone if he wishes to see his friends? Fifth, should I always ask-him where he has been when he ltlg 1?,‘1%]?”7 Answer—My first piece of advice to you, dear little bride, is to put your pride in your pocket and not to feel that you have to stand upon your rights or be afraid of giving in to your husband. Marriage isn't sn independence program. It is a series of concessions, and the best way you can securs jour own happiness is by trying to make your husband happy. Put his’ pleasure and convenience before your own. Do every- thing you can to please him. Put an oiive branch instead of a chip on your shoulder and so shall you make the sort of peaceful home that a man likes to come back to in the evening. 'HE way to avold nagging is simplicity itself. Just don’t do it. Make an fronbound rule and stick to it never to tell your husband & thing but once, never to remind him of his faults or any mistake he has made, and never to keep harping on an old grievance. Just forget it. Whether you should go to work outside of the home depends a together on circumstances and how much money your husband makes. That is & question you must settle for yourself, but just now, when thers are so many unmarried girls who need work, I think it is a chivalrous thing for women with husbands who are able to support them to leave the jobs for those who need them. Mos’r emphatically I urge you to hold your tongue, even when yaul cknn think of , sna comeback in a family argument. It takes two to mnk[:E ::\?:grel, aggylf you will control your inclination to fight back your domestic scraps will end without any of the wounds being dealt that take so long to heal. None of us ever regret the unkind things we didn't say to those we love. Certainly I think that every husband has the right to go out occa- sionally with his man friends and that his wife is wise if she asks no questions and waits for him to tell lller -]bou‘tnit.mzl':ien is m;h:th&;qv’vfl f keepil 5| ual to leavl loor on . of keeping a husband at home eq! g DOROTHY DIX. D= .. AR MISS DIX—What is the fool age with most peopleP Some say it is 40 for women and 50 for men. Is this true? MRS. E. Answer: Depends upon the individual. With many men and women it lasts from the cradle to the grave, but generally speaking, the time of indiscretion for both men and women seems to be around middle age. Why? Probably because both men and women suddenly realize that they are growing old and it is their last chance at a bit of romance. But cer- tainly men and women at middle age do fool things that they spend the balance of their lives repenting. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1931.) AY back in the eighteentl hey called these 4 s of lace or | fine linen do:ts” pleces and now that sy w¢ been present day ‘a.Sns the W cevived in ! simple old designation is still used. Modesty pieces or simple modesti>s ame as a natural outcome of the fash- on for deep V necklines, which are isually more becoming than shorier V-s and which give an effect of slender- aess that is not possible with a more abrupt neckline. If a modesty i is to be added to the cost »pening of the dress may I low without giving a glimpse of one’s slip or bandeau. Many of the new 1 dresses are made with these dainty additions, but ometimes a dress designed to be worn without one is improved if one is added If you are rather short and rather plump you may find that V necklines which would otherwise be much too icep may be worn with the addition 5t these lace or lingerie additions You can buy these accessories ready made or you can make them yourself But remember that they should be made >{ fine material, lace, fine linen, mu.l >r organdie. The new idea is to make ‘hem in square shapes, arranging the lace or embroidery along cne side where it will be seen at the V opening and finishing_the other side of the square ¥ith a fine rolled hem and an edging of fine lace. This of course does mot show but iv does give a sense of dainti- aess that appeals to the well dressed ¥oman. . American cars, each with a_capacity of 40 passengers, have just been in- stalled on the incline railway connect- ing the upper and lower levels of Bahia, | Brazil, and make the ascent or descent of nearly 500 feet in 45 seconds. A WASHINGTO BY HERBERT PLUMMER. Glasses in hand, with the printer's proof before him, he advanced to the well of the House the next morning to do the job. McFadden was sitting on the Demo- cratic side in the back of the chamber next to the House chaplain. He was solemn. Just a few moments before his own State delegation had rebuked {him and his charges at a called meeting. But if he had any feelings sbout that action or what was to come he concealed them completely. Beedy handled him without gloves. ‘Walking from one side to the other, at times looking McFadden straight in the eye, he demanded proof of the Pennsylvanian’s charges. For 20 minutes he spoke to a House that heard his every word. Repub- licans applauded his jibes. IN his younger days Carrol Linwood | Beedy of Maine had the reputation of being one of Yale's most brilliant and convincing de- baters. Now 51, bald and lanky, he has demonstrated that he still has his old ability as an or- ator. A man able to bring meml of Congress to | their feet cheer- ing as he did the other day must be rated pretty high. The occasion was his reply to the charges by McFadden of Pennsylvania in- volving President Hoover's mora- was following us, me saying, Ow heck, cant we ever get rid of that kid? Watch me scare him, Sid said, and | he turned around, saying, If you dont | go rite back home Im going to write to Santy Claws about you and when he | comes around Christmas eve he’ll just | act as if he never herd of you. O yeah? Bert sal Proving how much he bleeved in Santy Claws, and he kepp on following us, Sid saying to me, The trouble with kids is nowadays they think they know too much, good nite imagine us at his age saying O yeah about Santy Claws. And after a while we came to a Sali- vation Army Santy Claws ringing a bell alongside of.a wooden chimminy for peeple to drop money in, and I gave Sid a poke with my elbo o give him a ideer and he winked at me and went up to the Santy Claws saying, Hay Santy Claws, here’s a little kid says O yeah about ypu, he dont bleeve there is any such a person. What, a little boy that dont_bleeve In Santy Claws, how terrible, I reely dont think Il put anything in his stocking, just to teach him a lesson, the Santy Claws said. Being a thin Santy Claws with a artificial stummick, and he looked at Bert with a fearse expression, and Bert said, Well if youre Santy Claws whose that little fat Santy Claws in frunt of the bank? Thats me too, I can take any shape I wunt to, the Santy Claws said, and Bert said, Well whose that grate big Santy Claws with a beard and no mus- tash up on the avenue? Thats me, the Santy Claws said. Im 2 magician and I can be in 50 or a hunderd places all at the same time if T feel like it, he said. O yeah? Bert said. Proving what was a use, and we kepp on wawking and let him follow us if he wunted to. Wich he did. My Neighbor Says: If the little rings attached to the top of Christmas tree orna- ments become detached, drop a bit of hot sealing wax on top of Democrats sat silent, apparently en- joying the whole situation. They de- light in such situations. “Washing dirty Republican linen” is the way they describe it. “He becomes guilty of a crime for torium on war debts. Beedy was picked by the leaders to set things right. It was no impromptu affair—Beedy's reply. He carefully prepared his speech. DECEMBER Not in the chamber himself during Mc- Fadden’s speech, he sent a rush order to the Government printer for a proof | of the address. night. It was sent to him that He read it twice. which punishment can never atone,” | thundered Beedy in conclusion. | "It found warm reception. Repub- licans were on their feet cheering him | as he walked back to his seat. ornament and insert ring while wax is still hot. Baste turkey every 15 minutes while it is baking. The more often bird is basted, the more tender it will be. If the electric lights on your Christmas tree do not light, one of the sockets may be loose. An (‘)Ilcclrlcifin will quickly remedy thi cents for this book. So it would pay you to send for your copy now. Ad- dress Fashion Department. Price of book, 10 cents. Price of pattern, 15 x with lemon extract and lastly mix in lightly one cup chopped and seeded raisins dredged with flour. (Copyright, 1931.) Pineapple, cclored green and pink, makes a pretty decoration for your Christmas cakes, (Copyright, 1931.) N 24 NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY, Tlustrations by Mary Foley. BARK BEETLE. Scolytus Rugulosus. EEP your fruit trees healthy or the beetles will be sure to find the sick ones. If your tree branches or the trunks show small “shot-holes” it is a sure indication that these beetles are domi- ciled within, Some times sawdust will be seen at the opening of the doorway. As a rule Mrs. Bark Beetle tries to keep _ t!lll tell-tale evidence eleared vy, e tree deprived of the sap will show the yellowing and wilting leaves that she is the victim of this little rogue. Apple, peach, plum, quince and many other trees are the favorite home sites. ‘These beetles are natives of Europe, but thcg have come over to this coun- try and established large, flourishing familles. During the Winter the beetle bables are working away at tunnel making. They are a pinkish white and have very soft bodies. Their jaws are very sharp. They look a little hump shouldered. 1In the early Spring they take a rest and change into the grown beetle. Along about June and July, you can see the grown beetle emerge from his doorwgy and fly away. His wings are strong and gt him about quickly. He is dressed black with olub-tipped antennae, six strong legs and mighty jaws. He has a mustache and com- pound eyes. Shot-hole beetles are only l—ldo inch long and are blunt at either end. After flying about, the female beetle meets her mate and she begins to look about for a tired looking tree in which to bore her entrance hall. Just above a slight projection on a branch or twig the mother begins here boring. She cuts a short tunnel about two inches long and running in the same direction with the branch. On either side of her tunnel she makes niches in which to place her wee eggs. Soon the tiny white babies hatch and start their own tunnels toward the bark of the tree. They go in the opposite direc- tion from the parent tunnel. Their galleries are from two to four inches long and get wider as the baby increases in girth In removing bark from the tree you will see the many tunnels made by these little workers. Here their story is written for you to read. One baby beetle tunneled into the hall of her busy sister, and other industrious work- ers found themselves meeting their kin face to face. When this happened. the meeting was fatal. They must have disputed the right of way and could not decide the matter peaceably. ‘There are from one to three genera- tions a year in the colder climates and more in the South. There are a fev. abundant that a tree died. As a rule the tree used by these beetles is not a healthy one. |drop off should be burned, and if the move it and its inhabitants. as they are called, there are a few husbands who turn to and give a helping hand m the excavating. How- and the women of the family are the real home builders. (Copyright, 1931) Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. | HE man who wrote these lines is probably a very well liked per- son, having a host of friends. He seems to & genial per- sonality who enjoys meeting people, forming acquaintances easily. His circle of friends would seemingly grow continually larger, as he would be constantly adding new faces and seldom losing any of the more familiar ones. The distinet down curve of the t-bar is an indication of pessimism and easy discouragement. It may be that he has never had to work especially hard in order to live pleasantly. He may feel, however, that greater success should have been his, not realizing that it to him. His writing has many different slants, suggesting a certain degree of vacilla- tion in his nature, His interests per haps change frequently. It may be that he tries to keep in step with the latest fads and ideas. Every one desires to be up-to-date, yet we may waste valuable time by carrying this desire to an extreme. Apparently he is the type who is frequently very popular with women. | They would enjoy his courtesy and in him complete their parties. They might perhaps regret that he had not made more of his seemingly outstanding abilities. We might find him a speed enthusi- ast, speed boats especially interesting him. He would probably enjoy the feel- ing of the spray breaking in his face and delight in exacting the greatest Ppossible speed from his boat. Swimming also might be one of his favorite pas- times, affording him both pleasure and valuable exercise. Note—Analysis of handwriting {s not an ezact science. cccording to world in- vestipators, but all_agree it s interesting and lots of fun. The Star presents tne above feature in that spirit. o vou wish to have vour writing analyzed, send a cample to Miss Mocka- bee, care of The Star, alomo with a 2-cent stamp. It will be either inter- Dreted in this column or you will receive 4 handwriting analysis chart which you will find an interesting study. DAILY DIET RECIPE CREAMY LEMORN S8AUCE Butter, one-fourth cug. Powdered sugar, one-half cup. Lemon juice, one-half table- Grated rind of one-half lemon. SERVES 4 OR 6 PORTIONS. Cream butter, add sugar grad- uallly while beating constantly. Then add grated lemon rind, heat over hot water, beat thor- oughly until creamy. Should be served slightly warm as a liquid sauce. Add lemon juice just be- fore 3 DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes much fuel or fat mlkinp: ality in the butter and sugar. qB“umr and lemon juice furnish lime, iron, vitamins A, B and C. Useful in diet to gain weight. Can be eaten in mod- eration by children 12 years and over and by adults of normal di- gestion who are of average or ‘under weight. greater effort would probably have given | FEATURES SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPTAIN ROSCOE FAWCETT DID YOU KNOW THAT- KAY JOHNSON 1S THE DAUGHTER, OF THE DESIGNER OF TWE FAMOUS WOOLWORTH TOWER MARIE DRESSLER BECAN HER STAGE CAREER AS, CUDID IN A CHURCH PLAY 7 MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Drooping Nose. EAR Miss Leeds: My nose is long and what is known as a drooping nose, and it makes me feel very sel{-conscious and - unhappy. Do you think a nose adjuster or a nose shaper would help? I would like my nose shorter. UNHAPPY ME. Answer.—Only an operation can make a long nose short. If you are a young girl. you may be able to make your nose droop less by massaging it upward a little every night. LOIS LEEDS. Wants to Reduce Face. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 17 years old and welgh 140 pounds. I am 5 feet 8 inches tall. How can I reduce a fat face? MISS LILY C. Answer.—You are about 10 pounds overweight. Uncer the circumstances it is better for ycu to be a few pounds | instances in which these beetles were 30 | Old branches Wwhich | [ tree is badly affected, it is best to re- ’ In this family of engraver beetles, | ever, these are the exceptional cases | Pat your face with astringent pad ey overweight than one pound under- weight, because you are a young, gr ing girl and your figure will adjust i BEDTIME STORIE Call of Great World. The Great World calls that youth may heed And from dependence thus be freed Old Mother Nature, Soon or late to all the little people of the Green Meadows and the Green For- est comes the call of the Great World. Most of them hear it and heed it with- out realizing what it is or what it means. With no intention of doing so, they wander away from home and par- ents and do not come back. The Great ‘World has called them and they are answering it. but do not know it It was just this way with Unc’ Billy Possum’s big family. You remember that in the Spring he had to give up his comfcrtable home in a hollow tree to Mrs. Possum and their 12 children. ‘There hadn't been room for Unc’ Billy, too. All Summer Mrs. Possum had kept the family together and had worn her- self to skin and bones feeding those growing youngsters and keeping watch over them. Now, however, they were big enough to hunt their own food, and the Great World was beginning to call to them. ‘They didn’t all hear and answer that call at the same time. Goodness, no! The first one to heed it wasn't even ssed when he failed to return. There re 80 many of them that ol' Mrs. Possum didn't count noses, and so she didn't notice that this one did not re- urn with the rest of them to sleep the day away in their now crowded home. | Two mornings later another was miss- ing, and the next night two more wan- dered away. Then Mrs. Possum took notice. She counted noses and found only eight. “Something done happen to these missing children,” she worried. Unc’ Billy shook his head. He had | that very night run across the trail of teresting manner, being pleased to have | two of them. Don't worry,” said he. They-all have just gone out to make bl o0k Pl Vo “SOMETHING DONE HAPPEN TO THESE MISSING CHILDREN,” SHE ‘WORRIED. place to themselves in the great World, and Ah reckon the rest will be going befo’ long. Looks to me like they-all are big enough to be looking out fo' themselves and not depending on we-uns to look out fo' them. Ah reckon yo' haven’t had one 1i'l minute b‘fi yo'self since those Ii'l rascals were OF Mrs. Possum admitted that this was true and that she was about worn out. “Yo’ look it,” declared Unc’ Billy, who himself was fat and sleek. “Yo' sho'ly do look po'ly, and Ah reckon the sooner yo' get rid of family cares the better fo’ all hands. No 1i'l Possum can grow up unless yo’ let it grow up, and feeding it and watching over it -all the time isn't letting it grow up, no matter how big it gets. Yo' done raise a fine, big fam’ly, and Ah cert'nly am proud of those young Possums, but it is time now fo' them to make their own way and fo' you to have a rest and enough food to put some flesh on yo' bones.” | s€lf 88 you grow older. A plump face is a sign of youth, and you would not look well with a thin face and a beauti- ful, tall. well proportioned figure. Take 8n active interest in outdoor sports and forget your face. LOIS LEEDS. Muddy Skin. Dear Miss Leecs: What treatment is good for 8 mudds -looking skin with en- larged pores and blactheads? My face is full of tiny blackheads., which I squeeze out occasionally, but it leaves the pores larger. My skin looks coarse and shiny. and it never feels clean, even after I wash it with soap and water. MRS. B. C. M. Answer.—At bedtime, after washing vour face with soap and water, steam 1t with hct towels. Repeat the hot ap- plication three or four times, then bathe the skin for several minutes with warm boric acid solution and press out the blackheads with a comeco extractor. ly another hot tcwel or two and kin Now massage the face for scver tissue cream or an oily massage cream, Use a light pattering movement with the fingertips Remove the excess | cream and squeeze out & pad of a scrbent cotton in witch-hazel and It the face briskly for a few seconds. Dry the sl pply the following lotion and all 0 on the skin: One teaspoonful cipitated sulphur. four ounces rosi 0 ounces calcium- water. 11 before using each time. with a clean pad of ab- sorbent cotton. In the morning wach the face with soap and water. Rir well and dry with a Turkish towel, u ing a little fricticn. Apply a mild as- tringent and finish the make-up. Once a week give your face a thorough facial treatment, using a bleaching and re- fining facial pack. Watch for my taik on this particular type of facial pack for coarse skin with enlarged pores and lackheads. LOIS LEEDS. By Thornton W. Burgess. “Think,” said OI' Mrs. Possum, “of all the cangers the poor darlings will have to face with no one to tell them what to do or not to co.” She sighed dolefully. “Foolishness; all foolishness,” de- clared Unc' Billy. “No one told yo' what to do. and if yo' ask me it is high | time they-all were learning.” That very day another was E And so it went until only Runty was left, and even he was really out in the Great World, only he had chosen to live in the same part of the Green For- est that his father and mother lived. He didn't live with them, but he saw them often And 50 one by one and two by two the young Possums went out into the Great World and most of them Une' Billy and Mrs. Possum saw no more. Yet, if the truth be known, they were not even missed after a day or two. It was a relief to be free of worry and care. So it is when children heed the call of the Great World, as heed it they ;x;runmu '.hely are going to make places emselves. And who would have 1t otherwise? % ar ‘ (Copyright, 1931.) Bread Pudding. Scald two cupfuls of milk, add one , tablespoonful of butter and one cupful ‘of dry bread broken into pieces. Let this mixture cool, add one egg slightly beaten with two tablespoonfuls of honey, half a teaspoonful of salt and the gratings of an orange rind. Empty into a buttered and floured baking dish. Bake in medium heat until firm and set. Remove and cover the top with marmalade, then a layer of marshmal- low, and return to the oven to bake .‘un!fl a very light brown. Sauer Kraut and Ham. Put an inch-thick layer of sauer kraut into a buttered baking dish. Cover with pieces of lard, peeled apples quartered, and sprinkle with hashed ham. Then repeat with a last layer of sauer kraut. Add water to cover and pour a pint of sour cream over all. Bake slowly for two and one-half hours in a moderate oven. Serve potato salad | made with tomatoes or cucumbers. ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT || For Breakfast ' Luncheon or j Dinner | is always Refreshing and in Good Taste — whether served to embellish a Banquet,oras a Sreakfast Fruit, Salad or Dessert, Every Day at Home. LOOK FOR THE NAME