Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1932, Page 31

MAGAZINE PAGE. Poverty Party and Two Games BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, EQUESTS have come in for pov- | erty party suggestions. Much fun can be despite the lu- | gubrious name which really | stresses misery, Gayety and m\'eny are not synonymous except in e guise of parties. It is the incon- gruity that tickles the f; ancy. | Gowns should be of the simplest sort. | and at the same time asks the answer to some conundrum or amusing ques- tion. This must be answered and as many more riddles as will be required to fill in the time during which the fagots flame. Each player in turn does this same thing The player who has had to ask the fewest questions may be awarded a prize, | and the one who had to ask the most may be required to pay a forfeit and redeem it by doing whatever the hostess requests. The fewest questions indi- cate that they were the best, as it took the longest time to find the answers, hence the questioner deserves the prize. It is assumed that the heat from the burning fagots helps to warm and cheer the guests, which would be the case were they poor. A good game to play at proverty party is progressive jack straws played with Teal straws or beverage as can be bought in packages. Cut the straws in half. On each table for four persons have a handful of these straws and an invisible hairpin bent straight and then curved to make a hook at one end. Each person in turn takes the straws, holds them 7 inches (approximate- ly) above the table and drops them With the improvised hook he proceeds to lift out as many as possible without jarring_any but the one being pulled out. His play ceases when another straw is moved. Each straw taken out counts one. Matching numbered straws secures partners. A bundle of beverage straws is suggested for a prize. Copyright, 1093.) BY D. C. PEATTIE. Why does Spring come sooner in the florist’s window tiian anywhere else, in field or garden? Perhaps because the first flowers of the year in the native flosa are so modest—maple and alder and elm, and in the lawns on the Mall chickweed and speedwell, dandelion, Jill-over-the-ground, and whitlow grass —that most of us don’t see them. There is a reason why pussy-willows and forsythia and jasmine burst joy- fully into flowers behind glass. Your florist simply cut the twigs, and with water and @ radiator forced them into early bloom. The price is excessive, you say? Then why not do as florist does yourself? are down near the marsh, hunting for pussy-willow, you will see Spring straws such | the | And while you | - MODE NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Nustrations by Mary Foley. F ner golden brown pupils, and he down in & most fascnating way to assure himself that you are harmes He is slender and graceful. Along the ridge of his back are five sharp spines which he manipulates at will. When resting on the surface of the sand, he looks greenish or mottled, and when | he wishes to hide, he sticks his head in the sand and whirls around and around until he has a hidicg place. His fins | |are graceful and efficient | He has a one-track mind, and when he decides to go somewhere, nothing short of a cyclone will deter ) Should he find a minnow in his way he {gives her a side-swipe which takes off | some of her scales. He does not hesi- tate to attack a fish much larger tl v himself and nips pieces from the fins.| | He shakes his wee prey as Fido does a | rat, and were he as large as a whale | there would not be many fish left in the sea. Sometimes a_ shiner or other fish will lose all sense of discretic try to swallow a stickleback tail firs 1t is the only way you can catch the swift swimmer. The sharp spines cut and rip the throat and stomach of the fish and he has in truth committed | | uicide by catching the stickleback un- | awares. As a_marine builder he exc 1 the early Spring he makes a cozy ho |of fine green algae called frog-spit This fragile material is faste | gether with cement which the | manufactures. The dainty home is fas- tened to the stems of reeds and g and while it is under construction 1 | stem platform has been known to be held in position by grains of sand. The builder fastens the filmy mass together | with & glue that is spun like threads {The glue is waterproof ar ng | enough to hold the walls together. | When completed it is a hollow sphere | | about the size of a glass marble and often has a front and back entrance. When it is completed, the young gal- lant stands before his home. He is seeking not one bride, but several, a he wishes to fill his nursery, Fat THE STICKLEBACK. OR his size he is the most ag- ressive little fish in the worlc. over an inch long, he has shiny, keen eyes, which gaze at you in a most disconcerting man- | They are like lovely gems. The | iris circles the biack | moves them up nm; as 1 sS amd. UM Robber's Shrewd Guess. “Fwo of them! Two Owls in this barn!” exclaimed Robber the Rat under his breath. *“No wonder the members of my tribe have been disappearing. One would be bad enough, but two is just twice as bad. I didn't dream that there were two. I wonder how it hap- Hin BEDTIME STORIE coming, as it really does come and not as poets imagine it young stickleback damsel swims lefsure- Already the weird hoods of skunk- |}y by'and young Mr. Stickleback rushes cabbAge have pushed back to disclose | foward her and seems to convince her ;’l’:‘e D{fi'flfia"?tflb\‘l?fifiv and in Rorse | at once that he is the right one for her ces the first sulphurous green of | He proudly leads her to the circular false hellebore leaves is showin.. i b ey is an odor of returning life rising from | hood now is his obsession. A lik pens that there are two." Robber kept perfectly still in his hiding place ana waitea and watched. Presently the moonlight began to steal through the gable window and shone full on the open side of that great box up on the rafters. He could see clearly now the form which had at first been the Joam; there is a_mist of flowering in the tops of the high marsh trees. There are high doings among the red- wing blackbirds, and, by schedule, the sora and the coot and Wilson's snij (in_case you believe in these bookish sounding birds) are supposed to begin of little Winter birds flitting before you as, poor clumsy mortal, you plod nois- ily through ‘the undercover. And ¥IN QUART MEASURE HOLDS THE though they have no joyful dress to FLOWERS AND PATCHES ARE Dut on for Spring, they let fall the ROCND On FROORS Arst bars of their Spring songs. Mov- Ing more languorously than in the cold, Those having holes and patches are cruel wenther when hunger was on to arrive. But you will see much more | s0 shadowy on the edge of that box. It leaned forward and for the first time he saw the strangest face he ever had | & seen. He knew that it was the face of | ) :; . an Owl, but what a face! It seemed to | - < be heart-shaped, made up of two great S s feathered disks in which were set two round staring eyes above a hooked bill partly hidden in feathers. He felt a cold shiver run all over him. It seemed as if those eyes were staring straight at him and must see him. For a mo- ment he actually held his breath. Then that big form leaned forward and the big head began to bob and sway from side to side in the funniest docr and seems to say. “Enter, madam.” He stands at_his front doors, keeps out intruders and will not permit his bride | to leave until she has placed all the permissible. Decorations are eliminated |them, they flirt with you. pretending | tiny pearl-like eggs in the home, He except those which indicate the simple |to walt for you, escaping you in little has no more interest in her and she | life. Flowers, if any, should be in a | flurries. The first frog's trill, the firsy | SWins away tin quart measure, & crockery pitcher |fragile but harsh shoots of Equisitum | H® courts another and escorts her of kitchenware, or they might be in a plerce the softened earth, the leaves of : to his nursery. Each time a wife leaves Ppreserve jar or even an old tin tomato the wild leek show pale green in the | he goes in and covers the eggs with a can, washed until the tomato pictured pale sunlight, falling through them. Planket of milt and goes out to court on it lends decoration to the tin. And it is Spring. again. Sometimes the place will over- | There need be no prizes, but, if de- e | flow with egys and the devoted father sired, they should be very practical. For | will push them gently back into the example, a pound of sugar may be Pressed Tongue. home. After the last egg is in the iven, small articles for kitchen or the | o o | nursery, the watchful protector fans ousehold, a package of tea. a pound of | . 0ok one beef tongue thoroughly,| the water so it will fiow over the eggs. cofice, homemade rolls, or something €N put it through a meat chopper. Should an intruder try to interfere with Which would be appreciated if poverty |ChOD fine two stalks of celery, one red | his duties he flies at him in a fury. actually existed. The packages should Pimento, and half a green pimento.| When the hundreds of baby stickie- be neatly wrapped and tied up. and two hard-boiled eggs. Dissolve backs swim from their cradle they hold Cames should be those which could |9n€ teaspoonful of gelatin in two cup-|on to the plants with their wee mouths, be played if poverty stalked, and was fuls of meat stock, and add two tea-|and scon they are able to go about not assumed. Flaming fagots is a good |SPoonfuls of lemon juice and a dash of the aquarfum one if the hostess has an open fireplace CAYenne pepper. Combine and mix! With his craving for fatherhood sat- 4n hall, living room or dining room.|thoroughly, place in a mold, and cool | isfied and his duties as a family man Each guest is given a few twigs tied to- | in the refrigerator until irm. Serve in | over, the stickleback is again gaily gether with bright string. The first slices on crisp lettuce leaves with may- | swimming hither and yon in a most en- | player throws his bundle onto the fire | onnaise. gaging manner. (Copyright, 1932) way. There was a faint noise at the window and in came another great bird with just as strange a face and alighted on the edge of that box. In his bill was a Mouse which he at once passed to the other, who disappeared with it in the great box which was like a small room. At once there were queer sounds from in there, sounds that sent more shivers over Robber. He didn't have to see into that dark box to know what they meant. They could mean but one thing. He could guess what that was. “Bables! A nest of young Owls!” he exclaimed under his breath. Yes, in- deed, it was very much under his breath. Not for the world would he have made the faintest sound. He knew how wonderful are the ears of all Owls, and there only a little way from him were two pairs capable of hearing the faintest sound, the scratch of a claw on wood or the rustle of a bit of hay carelessly moved. 8o it was that Robber saw for the first time Monkey- A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. TH:E spectacle of seeing the “Lion of Idaho" lift his cratorical paw for e strike at the “Scholar in Politics” thrills Senate galleries nowadays, but onlookers of the past robab!y would ave yawned. Senator Borah's verbal clash with Senator Fess of Ohio the other day on the question whether the Gov- ernment should appfopriate money directly for unem- ployment relief was exciting enough. But it pales beside some of the stormy scenes enacted on the fioor of the Senate In what s sometimes described as “the good old days” Senators practiced less self-restraint than they seem to do now. Then they sometimes sought sat- n with their fists for what they "a as insults. Such a thing | is @ rare occurrence. re is, for example, what is re- ferred to “on the hill” now as the Till- man McLaurin_incident. Both were Benators from South Carolina One day during debate the charge was made that President McKinle could get votes on the Democratic side | of the Senate when needed. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman in some way brought his colleague’s name into ths discussion McLaurin, absen’ from th- chamber at the time, heard of it Ruching into the Scncte, he threw the lie in Tiliman's itchfork Ben” was at him instantly. Teller of Colorado was betwzen the two, and until this day no one knows how Tillman ever got past him to McLaurin The two were separated, later ccnsured by the Senate, and given an opportu- nity to “purge” themselves publicly. Money of Mississippi and Wellington of Maryland providsd the Senate a tense moment onee in their careers. Money had the reputation of being hot-tem- pered. At a committee hearing he be- came so enraged that he hurled a big cut-glass inkwell across the room at some one who had irked him. One day Money and Wellington were debating conditions in Cuba. flew 50 fast that soon both werc at fe- ver heat. Money climaxed the situa- tion by shouting: “Come out into the hall! Come on!" But the facetious observation of an- other Senator, that it would be nece: sary for the Senate to pass a declara- tion of war before the encounter. turned the prospective fight into a laugh. No such things these days, With the death of Senator Caraway of Arkansas the Benate lost perhaps its last member who was quick to avenge when he thought he had been insulted. Cara- way was out looking for Cramton of Michigan, a member of the House, the last session, for things Cramton said about him on the House floor. However, they never met Price of KOTEX reduced OTEX prices are down. Kotex —the original, the safe, the tested sanitary protection! No question mark hovers over Kotex. No incessant doubt as to how it was made, where, under what conditions. Used by greathospitals (24,000,- 000 pads were dispensed in Amer- ican hospitals alone last year) Kotex offers the highest sandard of purity. Tested and retested ma- terials. Air-washed rooms. Scru- ers. Machine-cut, folded, packed. Kotex provides perfect comfort— downysoftness; quick, protectiveab- sorbency. Wear it on either side with equal safety. Disposable, of course, Why riskasubstitute? And,when you buy it wrapped, be quite sure that you do get genuine Kotex. Never pay more than 35¢ Words | . ~ folci! and Mrs. Monkey-face and Bamn i Wi | Grapefruit Salad. Monkey-face remained only & few Prepare sections of grapefruit, being | minutes. Then he left by the gable | careful to get the sections out whole. | window, and once more Mrs. Monkey- | Place & ball of cranberry ice in a let- | face came to the edge of the box and | tuce cup. using an ice cream scoop to | waited. It seemed almost no time at take the ice from the freezer. Arrange all before Monkey-face returned, and the grepefruit sections around the cran- | this time he carried a S8hrew. As be- berry ice so that they stand up like the | fore, he passed it to Azrs. Monkey-face, neta’s of a fiower. To make cranberry |and as before, she disappeared with it jce, cook one quart of cranberries in | and the same hungry little cries sent |two cupfuls of weter until the berries shivers all over Robber again. are soft. Mash through a fine sieve. | Monkey-face once more departed, and Add two cupfuls of sugar to the hot|this time Mrs. Monkey-face followed | cranberry pulp and stir until the sugar |him. Robber knew that this probably is meited. Add the juice of two lemons, | meant that there were several hungry chill. and freeze until firm, using three | babies to be fed. He didn't wait to see | parts of ice to one pgrt salt. the parents return. This was his OIOIU... YO U .C(Ul /1ave 1 Jmart Dmpare 1nes | » ) gn beautiful new models de- signed especially for wear with Empire gowns, ChARis shows you how to achieve the rounded, feminine silhouette of the romantic new fashions. The snugged - in waist, the swathed hip effect, the firm, ac- cented bust contour are quickly cwec_l for your figure, without any discomfort, by the CHARIs exclusive, adjustable features. Why not have a private home showing and conveniendly ex- amine these delightful new gar- ments with their wide choice of beautiful materials ? 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Those Owls will be hunting all — HE HAD SEEN ALL HE WANTED TO SEE. night long and even during the day here in the barn where it never is very light. This is bad news, bad news in- deed for the Rats and the Mice. We will have to move. There is no doubt | about it—we will have to move, though where we will move to I don't know. It is too bad, too bad, for it is so easy | to steal all we want here. We don't | have to work for a ltving at all, and working for a living is something no Robber ever wants to do.” (Copyright. 1933.) things (and stockings) after Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. in a smoothly flowing manner with no waste motion. This writer perhaps directs his life in the same way, going easily from one thing to another with little fuss or bother. Trivial incidents apparently would not interest or disturb him, as he real importance. He perhaps has a very clear-thinking mind, that comprehends readily. This should fit him for work that would en- tail rrnbexe“ulne ability. Apparently he would never be content to spend his life taking orders from another, but would want to have a leader's position himself. Seemingly he is very ambi- tious and not afraid of work, so it should be comparatively easy for him to realize his ambitions. He seems to have a magnetic person- ality that should prove a great asset to him. It should enable him to win men to his views i both business and pleas- ure. In addition. 1t would possibly make him very popular with the ladies He probably enjoys his social diversions, sarily limit his pleasure. Apparently he would enjoy vigorous | outdoor sports, such as tennis and swimming. | enthusiast, attending important games | whenever feasible. He perhaps takes | greatest plea with congenial companidhs, however. He may be a great lover of music. If he has had formal musical training, he s fortunate, for it would enable him to induige his enjoyment at any time. If not, he should avail himself of every | opportunity to hear really great musi- cians. Throughout the Winter months there are many concerts and in addi- tion the radio presents worth-while programs which should appeal to the true music lover. handwriting is mot ording to world in- gree it is interesting The Star presents the at spirit have wour writing ample to Miss Mocka- Star. o with a til be cither inter- or you will receive chart which you tucy. estig and lots of above feature in th It you wish to analyzed. send a b " The p. It preted in this colun a handwriting anal; will find an interesting s HIS sample was probably written | possibly would be absorbed in things of | though his business duties may neces- He may also be a foot ball | ures in these games when | ! 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