Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1935, Page 13

o s ] WOMEN’S FEATURES, THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1985, WOMEN’S -FEA TURES: as A I3 Pertinent Observations on the Varied Interests of Washington Women Children’s Easter Pets “Should Be Brought Up With Useful Equipment Sightseeing Tendencies and All Other Marks of Temperment Must Be Kept Under Wise Control. BY BETSY CASWELL. HREE or four Springs ago, into my life came 8am and Delilal They were two of the cu fluffiest yellow ducklings im aginable, and had been pre- sented to my two children as favors at_a friend’s birthday anniversary party. The center- piece at the party was a miniature barnyard running § the length of the table, filled with about 30 little ducks, all making a tremendous pro- test, and doing their bit to add to the general din of the occasion. Sam and Delilah were brought i home in triumph, and the imme- diate problem was to provide board and lodging for them. At first, of course, it wasn't so difficult— a large cardboard dresshox top served very nicely. But in a few days trouble developed. Sam was the jumpingest duck that ‘was ever hatched. He could have taken Beecher's Brook in the Grand National Betsy Caswell ki | spinach. ® a soothing effect, so one morning, I sleeplly filled the bathtub, dumped the ducks in and went back to bed, optimistically. * %k % 'QUIET? Peace? Sleep? Emphati- cally no, to all of these! Those ducks had a Roman holiday—they splashed, they dived they quacked, and they had the whole bath room like & swimming pool in three seconds. T dragged them out, mopped up the worst of the flood and put them back in the pen with an overdose of But, tragically enough—I had established a precedent! Those ducks yelled at me every morning from then on for their regular swim, and. unles they got it, kept on yelling all day. I'll never forget those weeks. The ducks grew into great big birds, and used to go walking with the children in the street, on red ribbon leads. They would step sedately along the sidewalk, Delilah just behind Sam, in the approved “pit pat paddle pat, | pit pat waddle pat” fashion, attract- | ing endless attention, much to the | joy of the children, who, of course, | adored them. | However, at last, Sam and Delilah | really got too much for a town house with no difficulty at all. The boX t0D | anq were presented to a friend in the was no barrier for Sam—and he country where they are still living in jumped out wifh dogged determination. | srate, surrounded by innumerable off- just as promptly as he was put back in. | spring. The children's play room, where the | * % ¥ X% Ve Vi the top | g ks e et It was no sur | (JHILDREN love any kind of living prise to the family when Sam was thing for a pet—and with proper encountered in the coal bin in the |care and personal attention, almost cellar. Stairs and slippery floors meant | any animal or bird becomes endowed nothing in his young life, and his| with a distinct character and per- desire to see the world got him into | sonality of its own. They are really strange and far places. | very little trouble, if you give a little ! * x w % ELILAH was more the stay-at- home type—but she was no sport about it, and yelled unmercifully when Sam left her to go on his travels. In fact, that was always the signal that some member of the family had to go and look for the wanderer—those shrill pipings from Delilah alone in her box top. As time went on, a pen Was con- trived for the ducklings, by fencing thought to their location in the home and to the right equipment for them— | and don't, like me, try to treat a | Pekin duck with as little ceremony as & canary in the beginning. Where I imnde my serious error with S8am and | Delilah was in not realizing that spe- | cial arrangements had to be made for their bringing up: thus they got the upper hand of me before I could pull | myself together! If your children receive pets as off a small, sunny bay window space | presents this Easter, it will save you with 12-inch wire. That stopped Sam, | a great deal of wear and tear if you momentarily, but he took his revenge | will go into the matter of their in- by eating me out of house and home, | dividual upkeep with the shop or and by waking up the family at 5 a.m. | kennels whence they came. There with his baby quackings. | they can tell you exactly what and| In spite of that, things were pretty | when to feed a rabbit, how to control peaceful for a time, until suddenly a guinea plg and how to handle the voices of both ducks changed,|ducks with sightseeing tendencies. and the gentle “peeping” turned into| The result wil make for a happier good lusty quacks that could be heard | home and healthier pets—so is well all up and down the block. Peeding those ducks at 5 am. did no good—it only kept them quiet while they bolted a pound or so of raw spinach about two minutes—then they started off again. Finally, I got the bright idea that water might have ' worth the effort! If you wish advice on your own in- | dividual household problems, write | Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed en- | wvelope for reply. A Real “Find” for Any Child o One likes baby ducks and chickens, the other one favors big and little rabbsts; 1n esther case both of these roperly —Star Staff Photo. Courtesy Edward 8. Schmid. young ladies are supremely happy. Pets give lasting pleasure to children if f Books Have High Value To Children Leisure Time May Be Spent, Assuring Fine Results. BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. IN HELPING our children to spend their leisure time profitably we | must not overlook the cheapest of | all recreational pastimes—reading. Most sports and hobbles demand | material equipment for their enjoy- ment. Reading, on the contrary, can fill one's empty hours—be they lnnl“ or short—can be enjoyed alone or | with some one, and the books are | n Easter Morning! cared for and well treated. Straight, Simple_ Lines House Dress Has Panel Treatment and Set-in Sleeves. N 'Cook Has No Way to Uncertain Adventure In Omelets Be Sure of Good Production. BY EDITH M. BARBER. LUFFY omelet, or an omelet | souffie, as it is sometimes called, | has always been an adventure with an uncertain ending for | the average cook. Have you| ever tried cooking tapioca and milk | together for a foundation? This| gives a better support for the delicate | structure of an omelet of this kind| than the white ssuce which is some- | Dorothy Dix Says Girl’s Whim to Have Man Propose on Bended Knee. EAR DOROTHY DIX: When a young man proposes, should he do it on bended knee? The girl whom I hope to marry thinks that I should, but I think it is absurd in these days of equality of the sexes. Inasmuch as she is a young business woman, I should think she would wish me to treat her more as an equal. Don't you think that when women go modern in business they should go modern in love also? YOUNG MAN. Answer—Your inquiry sounds like somethfng out of the hair trunk in the attic, I don't suppose a man has proposed to a girl on bended knees since Queen Victoria was a girl, and matic background than the average man does. In a word, give the girl something to gloat over in memory and tell to her granddaughters. | Don't, for instance, propose to a girl |in as business-like a way as if you were asking for an option on a town |lot. Don't pop the question to her | across beefsteak and onions at a restaurant table and with six waiters | in earshot. Don't tell her, as a man I once knew did to a girl he wanted |to marry, that you don't think she is pretty, but she looks healthy and | strong, and that you think you would | make 8 good working team together. | Above all, don't propose by telegraph or telephone.. No girl wants a'man to it fills me with amazement to learn that any modern flapper yearns to revive the quaint custom. BUT it just goes to show that the feminine heart is eternally the same, and that no matter how up-to- date and sophisticated and worldly wise and hard-boiled Miss 1935 is, she still has the same longing for the romantic courtship that her grand- | mother and great-grandmother had. She may be a competent business woman, as hard as nails in business hours, but when she is at home in the parlor of an evening she wants to be a clinging vine and be wooed in poetic and gallant fashion. She may outwit & man in a trade in the office, but she wants him to pick up her handkerchief in the ball room and propose to her in high-flown phrases. A man can't understand this, but every woman does. Did you ever notice that you can never get a woman to tell you what her husband | said when he popped the question to | her? That 1s a secret wild horses | couldn't drag out of her, because it | is the black disappointment of her | life. Ever since she was a little girl | she has been dreaming of having a beautiful, poetic, romantic love affair that would be climaxed by a thrilling proposal made on bended knee and couched in beautiful language, and when finally Tom, Dick or Harry asked | pop the question to her with his mouth | a thousand miles off. Of course, any | sort of proposal is better than none at all to a girl. But have a heart and give your sweetheart the one she | wants, wreathed in roses. | DOROTHY DIX. L | DEAR MISS DIX: A lot of us girls have been arguing about the worr | “sophistication.” Will you please tell | us just what it means? CUTIE. Answer—A dictionary definition of | sophistication is “Arguing cleverly bui | fallaciously about things.” 1In other words, making a thing seem true or | right that isn't true or right. But the | modern definition of the word, as you hear it used, is knowing all the answers. We apply it to a person who is worldly wise, who has been about and seen a lot and heard about all there is to tell. The sophisticated individual is one who is at home in any situation and who knows just what to do under any circumstances; who always says the right thing st the right time and in the right place; who always has on just the proper clothes for the occasion; who has poise and tact; who is always at ease him- self or herself and makes every one else feel at ease. MANY young people have a very erroneous idea of what sophisti- cation consists in. They think they for her heart in as commonplace & are being sophisti L ;ray as he would for a sack o!lp_o!awe& break nu'me l:." cn.(ugod':‘:: rg:: t dealt her a blow from which she | Many think that they are sophisticatec never recovered. IT 18 on record that most girls burst into tears when the boy friend pro- poses. He thinks she is weeping with joy over getting such a good thing, but in reality they are tears of rage because he has blundered the situa- tion, because he has rubbed all the gilt off the gingerbread, because he has trodden all of her lovely, girlish hopes into the dust.' Of course, she wants him. Of course, she is only too | glad to say “yes.” But she did want | her present all tied up witH fancy bows of pink ribbon, instead of com- ing in & brown paper container. | ‘Why, the reason women flock to the movies and make the fortunes of the | Valentinos and Navarros and Barry- | because they know head waiters by their first names, go to night clubs and use language that needs to br sent to the laundry. But these are no | real sophisticates. Young people think they are sophis ‘tlmud because they believe nothine but the only really sophisticated peopl are old people who have lived so lon and seen the impossible happen often that they believe everything. DOROTHY DIX * o w % DEAR MISS DIX: What do v consider the obligations that engaged couple owe to each other? ENGAGED. Answer—I should say politeness an mores is that they are willing to pay consideration of each other's feelinz t0 see a man propose the way it should | and such attentions as their heart: be done, even in a picture. g:omlb’:“l think an engagement should — a trying-out process in wh SO ‘THAT is why your sweetie wants tries elm:n)y :nd dncerelvlcfig !;xc:: you to go down on bended knee out everything possible about the when you ask for her heart and hand. other’s disposition, temper and tem- times used. This omelet can even be ' And while I doubt whether a modern perament, in order to see how well \\\ made before sitting down for the| young man could do that without available at the nearest city library— fruit and cereal at the breakfast even by mail—or may be borrowed they will get along together if they | feeling a fool, so that he would be are married, and what congeniality | trom one's friends or neighbors. Dance Improves Figure Suppleness of Youth May Be Achieved by This BY LOIS LEEDS, ANCING is an exercise that, in one form or another, ap- peals to practically all girls and women. There are so many different kinds of dancing, from the contortions of the rhumba to the graceful and inspiring poses of interpretive dancing, that everyone can be suited. Young girls do not usually need to be urged to-take up athletic types of dancing like those seen on the stage. There is a keen physical pleasure for supple young muscles in caperiug to music. It is the older-girls and women whose joints aren't so limber as they were who gravitate toward the less strenuous forms of dancing or give it up altogether. When wom- en realize that the tendency to avoid Means. ful. Repeat bending and lt,rewhing1 | to_right side. | | Ballet dancing can be of help in | correcting various posture defects, | lateral curvatures of the spine, sway back, bow-legs and knock-knees. This corvective exercise, however. should be taken under the supervision of a well-trained teacher. i (Copyright, 1935.) | —_— Inactivity . of Thyroid Gland Tires brisk, lively movements is a sign| of aging, there will be more de\‘nteelst‘ of dancing among the older set. | isn’t necessary. of course, to exhihit cluding myself, talk so much one’s skill or awkwardness in public in | about the overactivity of the thyrold | order to benefit by dancing. Dance| gland (goitre) that we fail to re-| BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D, BELIEVE that health writers, in- | of books. steps and poses used merely as exer- cises for developing poise, suppleness and health can be of enormous help to those who do them regularly. They are often more appealing tnan or- | member that many persons have & thyroid gland that is not active | enough. In children this condition stunts | the growth and is easily recognized, dinary setting-up exercises and so hold | but in those who have obtained full one's interest better. | growth the condition may not be rec- Here are a few exercises adapted | ognized unless the symptoms are very from aesthetic dancing for thc use | marked. of the average girl or woman whol The marked symptoms of lack of wants to keep a lithe, youthful figure. | thyroid juice, myxedema as it is Exercise 1—For making ankles. | called, are low body temperature, in- knees and waist supple. Stand erect} ability to stand the cold—Ilips, nose, with arms at sides. Step to the left | ears, fingertips turning dark on ex- with the left foot a distance of nbout} posure to cold—swelling of the skin 24 inches. Raise the right foot and|and mucous membranes—jellylike cross it behind the left. Bend both| swelling which, however, does not knees half way. Now step to right|pit on pressure. with the right foot and cross the lef!} Dr. H. D. Kitchen, Winnipeg, in the one behind it. Bend knees. This is| Journal of the American Medical called a peasant curtsy. Now com- | Association, states that it is not hard bine arm and trunk movements wflh} for the physician to overlook cases of the stepping. When you cross the myxedema, as the patient may not right foot behind the left, swing | complain of being tired or cold be- arms and trunk to the left; when|cause, as he has always been tired you cross the left foot behind the | and has felt the cold readily, he may right, swing trunk and arms the same | not think of these as symptoms. His way. Twist a little from the waist following the direction of the arms. Repeat 10 times to each side. Exercise 2.—Improves posture and helps correct sagging bust and ab- domen. Stand tall with arms au sides. Slide the left foot sideways to the left ‘on the ball of the foot slightly bending both knees while tranferring your weight to that foot. Straighten knees and at the same instant bring right foot up to the left, heels touch- ing and toes out, rising on toes. Re- peat this gliding movemen: around the room several times, raising arms up. over head when the feet come together and letting them swing down in a graceful curve during the glide. Stretch the figure well as you rise on toes with arms uplifted. Do the move- ments rhythmically and breathe deeply. .. Exercise 3.—Slenderizes the waist and helps overcome intestinai slug- ess. Stand erect with arms at shoulder level. Raise the left leg and t cbliquely forward with the toe. m bend left at the waist and sweep the left hand down, brushing the left toe with it. Carry the arm up- ward in a wide circle as you straight- en -trunk. Stretch upward, throw head back and look up into the paim of your left hand. Study | to have these circular movements of trunk and arm smooth and grace- | taken for granted and the wearing | of additional clothing (such as & sweater) in a comfortably heated room | or extra clothing outdoors, and the | use of extra bedding may have be- come so fixed a part of the routine | that the patient would not likely | speak about this to his physician | unless he were asked about it. In addition to the tendency to overweight, a slight &l mentally and the above-mentioned swelings of the skin and mucous membranes, there mey be anemia (thin blood), pains in the joints, indigestion and gripping pains in the chest. As you know, when overactivity of the thyroid gland exists the basal metabolism test shows the rate at which the body .processes are working to be much faster than normsl. In myxedema naturelly the rate is slower than normal. Dr. Kitchen thinks that too much reliance is placed on this test in myxedema and not enough on the other symptoms—tired- ness and feeling the cold so easily. The trestment in these cases should, in addition to the use of thy- roid extract, take into considerstion the patient himself. “Patients should be regarded as in- dlvldnuu:" net as stomacha, hearts, or chests. (Copyright. 1035.) ‘. inability to stand the cold may be| % Children are spared the humilia- tion of competition when they read. They may be swift or slow readers, but their ultimate enjoyment is ex- actly the same. They need not measure their pace by any one. | How then shall we encourage the playful and physically active child to read? No other stimulus is s0 pow- erful as to be born in a family of readers. To sense that one's parents, brothers and sisters consider reading to be a precious “privilege, is to es- tablish the value of the art. The second valuable incentive is to be exposed to all kinds of books and have the opportunity to exercise some choice. Children do not read books because parents insist that they should. They do not read for in- formation or for enlightenment. They read—when and if they do—purely for the pleasure and enjoyment they receive from the book. That means the book must be within their un- derstanding. Too often children find reading disagreeable and arduous only be- cause they have been the victims of the reading taste of persons with- out an understanding of their reading interest of the moment. How to develop taste and discrim- ination depends. or so I think, upon a wide experience in reading all kinds In such wide reading some trash will be devoured. But bad books are their own antidote. They are without value and so no one can possibly develop a taste for them. They serve also & useful purpose in offering a medium of comparison with good books, books which have a real value and importance in themselves—and have, because of that, something valuable to offer to the young reader. Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. DINNER SERVING THREE (Meatless) Cheese Souffe Buitered Kale Bread Currant Jam Ginger Ale Salad Nut Drop Cakes Tea CHEESE SOUFFLE tablespoons butter. % teaspoon dry tablespoons flour. | mustard, 73 teaspoon papitke. 14 qin cheete. eut 4 teaspoon celery ne. salt. 3 egg yoiks. 3 esg whites. beaten. Melt butter, add flour and seasoning. When blended add milk and cook until thick sauce forms. Stir constantly. Add cheese and yolks. Beat two min- utes. Fold in whites. Pour into buttered baking dish. Set in pan hot water and bake 30 minutes in mod- erately slow oven. Unmoid carefully or serve in dish in which baked. If ring mold is available use it and ‘bake 25 minutes in pan hot water GINGER ALE FRUIT SALAD. ¥ GEREIRY Tl 1 E8 A Ve Suice. erries. Pour water over gelatin mixture and stir until dissolved. Cool. Add rest ingredients ; 2 4 mustard. 1 lettuce and top with salad dressing. NUT DROP CAKES. % eup fat. ig gs; m. ) . 1% cups susar. Add rest N\ BY BARBARA BELL. HE accompanying sketch shows us how trim the large woman can look when her house dress is chosen with an eye to straight, simple lines and created in a fabric that is not too work-a-day in character. This model is interesting because it is so simple. The lines follow the figure to a nicety, eliminating un- necessary details. The panel treat- ment gives the desired contour to the figure, and short, set-in sleeves remove possibility of strain. The severity of tailored linés is relieved by a soft collar which ends at the center front in tie ends. The skirt i3 made with side pleats back and front. The best type of house dresses show fullness in this ‘way, and it happens to be enough like the Summer daytime frocks to make this design usable for other purposes besides housework. The new cottons are inspiringly at- They come in lovely colors Printed lawns show flower patterns, and seersuckers and ginghams are at their best in checks, stripes and muted piaids. ‘Washington Star.. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1593-B. Sise BB, s i wwassvie seeosanens (Wrap coins securely in papér.) R N\ N N table, and it will hold its own until it is served. By the way, if possible, use a heavy metal frying pan in mak- ing an omelet, as both bottom and | sides will have a smoother, more even brown, if cooked in this kind of utensil. Another problem in cooking seems to be the addition of chocolate to & cornstarch pudding. So often the re- | mark is made, “It always flakes or lumps.” Just cut the chocolate into| a few pieces, barely cover with water, and stir over the fire until it boils. By that time it will be smooth and you need have no fear of its lumping when it is added at the last moment to your pudding. as is the case when you are planning to keep part of it vanilla flavor and make the rest of the pudding chocolate. If I am pian- aing originally to make a chocolate pudding, 1 cut the chocolate into & ieces, put it into the cold milk, the time the milk is scaled the chocolate will be melted and can readily be beaten into the milk with a few turns of the egg beater. I still stirring cocoa with cold or hot water in an attempt to make a smoothe paste. This may be accomplished so easily by merely adding ocld water to the cocoa and stirring it over the fire until it boils. The milk can be added to this, and you make cocoa with one utensil. Another hazard in the fleld of cook- ing is Hollandaise sauce. It is atill & rite in some households. The butter is washed and added in several in- | more likely to say, “Don't give me the there is really between them. I do see persons stirring and| laugh.” than to murmur in impas- not think that an engaged cou as sioned tones. “Angel of my heart, be a right to enslave eacgh‘gther Orpl;ofiu mine.” 8till and all, I do think you each other. An engagement should might inject a little bit more romance be an option rather than a closed and give your proposal a more dra- | contract. DOROTHY DIX. What to Do |SullenMood WhenRoom | Banished in Turns Dulll New Spirit {Materials Which Are Nancy Page Reveals Suitable for New Cause of Susan’s Spring Polish. Peevishness. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. USAN was catching the peevish look of her brother. Nancy was | BY EMILY POST. “DEAR MRS. POST: Why is it that the Spring sun makes even the room that was so cheerful and shelt- ering from the coldest Winter even- ings. when our family gathered to- appalled when she realized how frri- | tation had been allowed to affect | gether to read and sew and play. 100k | each member of her family. as shabby as an old Winter coat on! With 8 prige ¢ | the first warm days? | N rome O S “We feel very kindly toward our|ing too fast. getting too tired. Any living room and want it always to be | one grows irritable when tired. and inviting to our children and their|that seemed to be the best explana- stallments. I find that all this cere- mony is quite unnecessary. I break my egg yolks into a small saucepan with a rounding bottom, add half the friends, and if we can afford to re-| dress it now, with a thought, téo. for | its usefulness in the warmer weather, | we'd like to. |1 tion for Susan’s irritability. The light mornings and the eve- nings which stayed twilight for a ong time made it difficult for Susan Dimities and percales feature tie-silk designs. Prints typical of the South Seas have strong colors and are con- sidered favorably for the amount of service they give between tubbings. ‘Wash silks and shantungs are liked by those who enjoy cool, light-weight clothes. . They are easy to, launder and are more or less economical after the first outlay. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1592-B is designed in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 54. Size 36 requires three and three-eighths yards of 36- inch material, three-fourths yard of contrast. z Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to follow. (Copyright. 1935.) My Neighbor Says: When laying out a garden plot never plant a tree, a rosebush or a shrub in the middle of it. Plot will be much more attractive Orange juice mixed with con- fectioner’s sugar and a little grated ora; rind makes a very soft and delicious cake frosting. If lattices for rosebushes and butter and all the lemon juice. Then (and this is the trick), I hold this| saucepan over another pan of hot or boiling water and stir vigorously until the sauce thickens. Then I add the rest of the butter, mixing it in thoroughly, and the sauce is done. Never set the pan into the water, and do not use a double boiler. Among the everyday foods, bcaon is one to which justice is not always done. I have evolved a smple, easy and successful method for cooking it. I use a very heavy frying pan, which has a tightly fitting cover. I do not even separate the slices when I put them in the pan. I cover it and let it heat over a low fire about 10 min- utes, then increase the heat for a few moments until the strips have browned in the “deep” fat which has cooked out. They will be crisp, even in color, and will not break when they are drained on soft paper. Practically every one feels that there is no trick to frying, or saute- ing—the official name for frying in & small amount of fat. There does, however, seem to be a great deal of difference even in the well-known fried potatoes when cooked by-one person or another. The same is true of French toast, fried bread or fried much. The trick, in this case, is starting with & hot pan and very little fat to begin with and adding more fat only as it is needed. There are any number of other good tricks to the trade of cookery which are so simple to the users that they do not often consider how important they are in giving that artistry and precision which lifts the practice of cooking out of the commonplace. HOLLANDAISE SAUCE. “The room is 23 by 15 and has four | to sleep the required number of hours. windows, which have the sun all day. She was best natured when she had ‘The walls are a warm cream color | and the furniture is something of a mixture of walnut and mahogany. but all of it Colonial in design. There are a large over-stuffed sofa and four upholstered chairs. as well as a few other straight ones with set-in up- holstered seats. | “All the upholstery is very worn | and the rust color that still asserts itself will soon be too warm-looking | “I know it is difficult to suggest Summer dress, when you must keep in mind that the colors may not be | spoilable and the material perishable, because this is truly a living room. And tell me, if you can with so bare a description, what can I do with| faded silk shades on both table lamps | Z p and floor lamps. and what about our | 11% hours 'sleep each night, with a floor, which now has one large taupe | nap of 1's hours in the daytime. In colored rug on it?"” Answer: There are dozens of varie« ties of cotton materials on the market both thick and thin, fine and coarse, and in both plain and fancy weaves; some in plain colors and some with colored patterns. Most of these wash and those that are not too thin and sleazy or so loosely woven as to ravel in the seams wear splendidly and wash perfectly when made into slip covers. Cretonnes are very durable, but most of the tempting designs are to be found in glazed chintzes only. Thin glazed chintzes wrinkle a ‘good deal but are surprisingly durable for all that, especially if the pattern is rather large and covering. One with a great deal of fcllage would be decorating and useful and cool. Or if you want to avoid color, & whole room in creamish sand—with s pattern made only in the weaving —is very attractive, especially if you have a picking garden, so that color 1s supplied by flowers. Old lampshades dre hard to reno- vate because the heat of the lights is apt, in time, to scorch the material stand cleaning You to be excel- | other words, 13 out of the 24 hours of the day were needed for rest and sleep. By darkening the room, by substi- tuting some heavy, dark green shades at the window for the lighter ones, Nancy found that daylight was kept out of Susan's bed room, and then she | slept better Nancy bought a very pretty, but inexpensive, mirror. She gave this to Susan and had her look into it when she was sullen or whining. Then she { told her to smile at the girl in the glass. The little girl's spirits kept pace with her facial expressions, Nancy found. It was harder for her to be cranky when she had her face all set for & smile. Nancy had been telling the children fairy stories for years. They liked the idea of drag- ons. So Nancy took that fancy and used it to advantage. Being bad- tempered was a dragon that had to be fought. Susan learned that irrita- bility could be put to flight by smiles and songs. She was learning, al- though she did not know it, .how to fight the dragons of bad temper and peevishness. Nancy has a new leaflet calied “Youns Chlll.:? and = Their Ways. a . self-addressed envol?no o 'y Page. care of this paper. for your (0‘!1!1:“. 1988.)