New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 4

$iadge Flares When Dicky Hints She Js Being “Catty” Toward Edith. There is no emotion, 1 Dbelieve which s0 completely robs one of common sense as does jealousy. Edith Fairfax has been long enough in my life and Dicky's for me to re- alize that my husband is not in love with her, that he never has been, and in all probability never will be. Yot though I pride myself upon not betraying my feelings, I never hear Dicky speak of her or refer to his work with her without involuntarily visioning them together in some ro- mantic surroundings. My reaction to hi to proposal take his car to New York with him | was an instance of this unreasoning jealousy on my part. My common sense and my knowledge of Dicky told me that he no doubt wanted the car with him because he detests sub- ways and street cars, and has the aversion of most good drivers to taxicabs. If he did chance to take “Edith out for a drive, my reason said that it would mean no more than if some masculine friend went with him. Dicky is a gregarious in- dividuai and Edith is good company. 1 know that he likes her, and that their parinership in the art maga- zine not only provides them with a strong mutual interest, but often makes imperative their consulta- tions outside of office hours. Dicky was speaking again and I gave him all the attention which I could manage. But my thoughts and my spoken words were running in opposite directions. “I didn’t think you'd need it,” he! | said, “and I sure do. There's a good garage right near the Kelsey, and I can chuck it in there when I'm not using it.” “To drive Edith around.” The words were so near my lips that I was panic-stricken for fear I might let them slip. But I managed to put an inocuous query. “You are going to then?" “Yes, but not to our apartment. the Kelsey, fcdon’t want The Heart Story of s Steadfast Woman in theirs. He won't be there all of the time, but as much as I can per- suade him to stay.” I felt an absurb lightening of my spirits. If he were with Harry Un- derwood, there would be but slight opportunity for him to see Edith Fairfax, first because the two men are sufficient unto themselves, and second because Harry does not like Edith, although he tries to conceal his aversion for her. “Now, my ‘thirdly’ and I am done,” Dicky said. “Ede said you asked her out here and she wants to know if this next week-end will be convenient.” The housekeeping problems in- |¥ Ived by the impending visit of the Brixtons forced a swift negative {from me. “Oh! not this week-end, nor prob- ably the next one. Any one after that.” “Why not the weck after Christ- mas or this time next year?” Dicky !demanded truculently. “You've got | crust enough for a million pies! Ask a person out and then when she ac- cepts the invitation in good faith, start to stall. Of course I can tell her you've changed your mind and her. And then women wonder why they're called cats!” Curiousiy enough there was no thought of jealousy in the quick anger which girded me for my re- 3ly. It was the age-old martial bat- tle over entertaining guests. with its opposing masculine and feminine andpoints, into which J leaped. ell her anything you please,’ I said icily, “but I think she’ll have sense enough not to believe you. I shall call her up this morning and explain about our expecting a house- ful of guests with no idea of just what day they're coming, and about Marion going off to school within the next two weeks. Being a woman, she’ll he able to understand, and will be glad to come when we can devote all our attention to her as our guest of honor and not have her crowded, uncomtfortable or neglected.” Old Harry and I are going to stay (To Be Conatinued) ‘Where'er you go land Are enemies on every hand. —Old Mother West Wind Whitefoot the Wood Mouse and Mrs. Whitefoot were so delighted with their new home in Farmer Brown's sugar house over in the Greén Forest that they had ceased to worry. They had almost forgotten Yowler the Bobcat and his family. Yes, sir, they had almost| forgotten him. For two or| three days they hardly poked | their noses outside that sugar-house. | It was wonderful to live without tear. It was wonderful not to be watching out for Hooty the Owl at night and Yowler the Bobcat and | Old Man Coyote and Reddy Fox And, of course, while the sugar- house wouldn't have seemed very big to you or me, to such little peo- ple as Whitefoot and Mrs. White- foot it was a very big place. One night, when the moonheams | came peeping in through the little windows of the sugar-house, White- fcot and Mrs. Whitefoot sat debating whether they would go outside. You see they were getting a little tired of staying inside. They wanted a change. Most people want a change now and then. In fact, most people need a change now and then. “I guess,” said Whitefoot, “the only one we shall have to look out for will be Hooty the Owl. You nev- er can tell when that fellow may | come enooping around. My, what a | relief it is not to have to worry| about Yowler the Bobcat!” | “It wouldn't be so bad," said Mrs. | Whitefoot, “if he didn't have those | kittens, It was bad enough when | there was just Yowler and Mrs. | Yowler, but growing children take a lot of food. Now that Yowler and | Mrs. Yowler have to hunt for those | babies until the latter are big| enough to hunt for themselves it is going to be very dangerous for all | the smaller people of the Green Foi- | est. T hope when they grow up (hosfll throughout the Kittens will go off on the Big Moun- tain. We don't have to worry about | Yowler while we are here, but I| won't be real casy in my mind for a | minute when we are outside.” “Huh!" exclaimed Whitefoot *Those Bobcats won't come around | here. I'm not afraid of them over | here.” | “I am.* declared little Mrs.| Whitsfoot emphatically. “They roam | over a lot of the Green Forest and | row they must have t farther than ever. You are making a take, Whitefoot, if vou think that | just becausc they can't find us Where we used to be that they wiil give up looking for us.” “Just the same, I don't believe theyll come over here,” Whitefoot insisted. “Come on, let's go outside for a little while anyway.” Harlly were the words out of Whitefoot's mouth when there was 4 soft thud on the roof of the sugar- house and two little hearts al topped beating. “What was that?" Whitefoot. Whitefoot shook his head con't know,” he whispered “Liste On the roof over their h could hear soft foorsteps. 1 that they the foo someone big. None of the little of the Green Forest could footsteps like those. Ther rattling of the old stove served as a chimney house. Did you hear pered Mrs. Whitefoot. Whiefoot nodde heard it.” he whisper could I help but hear believe you are ri Yowler or Mrs. Yowier.” Mrs. Whitefoot didn't ply. She started for the whispered Mrs. “1 back. were folks make Koy “Did you hear that?" Mrs. Whitefoot whispered the evaporator and Whitefoot was right at her heels. Into it they ran and straight into their little nest in the far corner. And there they curl- ed up close together and listened and listened for further sounds. (Copyright 1925, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: Yowler Is Disap- pointed. Fashion Plaque Groups of red, black and rondelles, scparated by round e fashion this smart and colorful necklac 1 bracelot set. Is, Seme is guilt. silence is golden. and some pearl | , By C. D. Batdlelfl “I'm familiar with practically all the summer sports,” “Then you DO know my husband!” QUESTION PUZZLE A knowledge of birds and the Bi- ble will aid in solving today's ques- tion puzzle. There are plenty of short, easy words and long enough ones to make it interesting. HORIZONTAL 1. To what genus of birds the sparrow belong? Plunging head first in the wa- ter. Small fresh-water fish, Men. Title of courtesy Rational integer. Tanner's vessel. What important cereal in low, moist land? Before Yielded To observe Becond note in scale Era Uncooked Abbreviation for Self Insane. Tatter, Father Nothing Perched Hourly Geographical drawing Measure of area State of departing place. Sun god To permit agment Biscuit Into what groups where the de- dants of the 12 sons of Jacob divided? To take away. as an authority. VERTICAL What playwriter was thor of “The Second Tanfueray ? To love excessively Withered Standard of type measurr What type of bird forms genus Corvus? To hinder. Part of verb to he What is the name of t headed goddess ot 1k does 6. “road.” from this the Boy To cry as a dove Obstruction in a stream Embryc bird Pale To devour Song of joy Not bright More uncommon Cupolas of buildings Who slew Goliath? (Bii) What is genus of the ical gulls A seasoning. At this place. Openwork tabric of thread To breathe quickly seventh note in scale To exist. Al child 1t ed, it tality 2 chil In nos two n utive, tuniti; Ty three bLelow a pic jor ti to ohjec norm: de th simil objec a bla three Th able eveni typ- | fine the | knife Th be a back the d ilar ) A Editor Medical Assoviation and of Hy- geia, the Health Magazine veloped to show A simple test i ask a hoy, a ticular time TT T T TP 7l Health Hints ; BY DR. MORRIS FISHBI Journal of the American sorts of tests have been de- is developing normally from the mental point of view. the child is to he feeblemind- is important to know this 50 that the gr can be taken of & in proper training. tests have been worked ont whether or not the men- is up to what it should be for 14 of that the Binet-Simon tests, which ndard, child of three is asked to show its mouth, and eves: it is asked to repeat numbers which are not consec- nd it is given three oppor- s 10 repeat numbers in this If he sncceeds onee out of times it onsidered as not uorm. 1 intellisence, Easy Test to show the child cture in which there are four objects of in.pc ance and it to name the important ts. A ciild of three vears, if al mentally, is usually able to is A common picture will show doz, a tréé, a car or some subject. e time the is four old it should whether a boy or girl. it should be able e successively t 13 shown to it de and a pencil, noncons:cutive nu x year old child should be tell whether or not any par- of the day is noon or should be able to de- of a fork, a chair, a or a table cight-year-old child should o count from 20 to zero the ve ar child know to ne; it use a ard in 20 seconds, and to give | he month or some sim nformation. nine-year-cld child should be te o | oped | plus water. [ boiler and | Cook until | of able to distinguish pieces of money |and to enumerate the months. Test Foundation The tests that have been devel- will seem to the adult rela- tively simple, but each of them con- stitutes for the child a certain amount of definite brain activity. These tests represent the results cf carefui observations of thou- sands of children. Certainly conspicuous fajlure in their performance should demand special attention by the parents to the question of the child’'s educa- tion. Menus of the Family BY SISTER MARY Breakfast — Peaches, cream, scrambled eggs crigp toast, milk, coffee. Luncheon—Baked stuffed toma- toes, hearts of lettuce, blackberrg snow, milk, tea. Dinner—Cream of corn soup, cold baked ham, creamed potatoes, apple and celery salad, sweet po- tato pie, milk, coffee. Blackberry Snow One-half cup pearl ‘tapioca, cup water, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-2 ctp sugar, 3 cups milk, 1 cup whiping cream, 2 cups blackber- ries. Soak tapioca in salt and water for two hours. Drain off any sur- Put in top of double add milk and sugar. tapioca is clear and a soft jelly-like consistency. Add more milk if tapioca becomes too thick. Chill for, several hours and when ready to serve fold in cream whipp2d until firm. Add berries and serve at once. Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc, cereal, with rice, 1 CLEANING UMBRELLAS A shabby umbrella can be reno- vated by brushing with a solution of ammonia and warm water. BORAX FOR BAKING DISHES Soak baking dishes that are stained from constant use in warm water and borax. Unless too deep- ly burned they can be scoured clean. Paris. Sept. 7 (P—A new shade for evening is deep wild rose pink. Jean Patou uses it in velvet even- ing dresses. One of the prettiest has a pointed skirt and crushed girdle, frimmed with an onyx and crystal buckle. The girdle crosses in back and falls below the hem of the dress in long panels. Peonies Best of Hardy Flowers Easy‘to Plant and Come Come Up Yearly. Peonies probably are the most im- portant of all the hardy plants that we may set out in the fall. Frem the firat of September until freexzing- up time is the best season of the year to plant them. The Peony will grow in all sections of the country except the extreme south, there it does not bloom well. In the last 36 years there has been a great im- provement in the peony, until today it is one of the very best of all per- ennials, Doubtless the most important thing to keep in mind in planting them is the depth to set the roets. 1t they are too deep or too shallow they never will bloom right, it at all. The eyes, or buds, should be two and one-half inches below the sur- face. And it is well to be careful that they do not settle after plant- ing and get too deep. The soil should be prepared to a depth of at least two feet. If your ground is fairly rich you do not need to add any manure, and in no case use any but thoroughly rotted ma- nure. The safest thing to use is bone meal. This may be added at plant- ing time—about two liberal hand- fuls to each root well mixed with the soil. The selection of varieties is im- portant and is best done at blooming time. I will jujst mention three that are goed but not expensive. In “Avalanche” wé have one of the best white: “Mons. Jules Elie” in the pinks is hard to beat and for a good red, “Karl Rosefield” is a win- ner. There are a great many fine varities and once you become inter- ested.you will want a lot of them. Start with a few and seon you wil see what a wonderful flower it is. As a cut flower, cut in the bud a allowed to open in the house, there is nothing that will give greater sat- isfaction. Plant a few of them this fall. Women Take Up Work For Blind Find Pleasure In Making Books of Braille System. ‘Washington, Sept. Brailling or transcribing boo! r the blind, is being taken up by women all over the country. Some are leaving the bridge ta- bles for the fascinating new pas- time which gives them the com- fortable feeling they are doing something for humanity. Braille is done by a series of per- forations. It is something like eye- let embroidery. It takes 1,000 pages of Braille to cover 250 pages of or- dinary reading ‘matter. The American Red Cross, which has charge of the work, reports that last year 1,029 persons, includ- ing many well known society wom- en and girls, were engaged in Brail- ling. There is no compensation for the work except the: satisfaction of having aided the blind. Mrs. Charles Steedman of Provi- dence, Rhode Island, a member of the republican national committee, is an ardent Braillist. Three years ago when the Red Cross first took up the work, Mrs. Larz Anderson, Washington society woman, opened her ball room for the organization of a class. The Washington chap- ter of the Junior League last year |, numbered and shellacked more than 32,000 volumes. Last year the 147 chapters of the Red Cross which devote themselves to the work prepared 1,822 volumes and presented them to libraries. There were included 150,705 hand- copied pages. The books have gone into 16 libraries, several schools and institutions for the blind, and 40 volumes were presented to the School for the Deaf and Blind in the Philippine Islands. Queen Mother Patron of Art Seventieth Birthday of Be- loved Royalty Celebrated. The Hague, Sept. 8 (f—"Mother of a queen and a queen of mothers” is the affectionate title popularly be- stowed upon Queen Emma, dowa- ger queen of the Netherlands, whose seventieth birthday anniver- sary has been celebrated by the en- tire Dutch nation. The sweet-faced queen mother has earned this homage during 50 vears of life in the land of sabots and windmills since, as the young Princess of Daldeck and Piedmont, she came to share the throne with William 11I as his second wife. For eight years after - her husband’s death she reigned as regent until her daughter, now Queen Wilhel. mina, came of age, and was one Of the most popular sovereigns in Eu- rope. At 70, Queen Emma still retains her alertness of intellect and her broad interests. She is an enthusi- astic patron of art and contributes both time and money towards prc- moting all forms of art in Holland, which she hopes will devel&f! the great traditions laid down by the old Dutch masters. Charitable work also claims much of her time, and a large part of the birthday fund subscribed and pre- sented to her by the women of Hol- land is sure to find its way to the many causes dear to her kindly heart. Queen Emma is closely related to the English royal family. Her sis- ter was the late Duchess of Albany, and her niece, Princess Alice, with the Earl of Athlone and Lady May Cambridge, often visit her. The Duke of Saxe-Weimer is among her German relatives. e G LUBRICATING EGG BEATER Use glycerine instead of oil to lu- bricate the egg beater and meat grinder Thus you avoid inparting an Says the beau- titul Rosamond Pinehot: “It takes more than beauty to make a WOmAn & success as a stump speak- er.” 8he is busy at democratic na- tional headquart. ers selecting fem- inine spell bind- ers to spread Al 8mith enthusi- asm. At the top you see two cam- era studies of her at her desk in the demo offices. Be- low, she is pic: tured in a criti. cal mood as Miss zllr[ueriu Nieto lemonstrates her ability at politi- cal oratory. Senorita Gonzalez Studying Women Lady From Panama Moves to Washington, By SUE McNAMARA (Associated Press Feature Writer) Washington, Sept. 8 —Senorita Clara Gonzalez, LL.B., small, slim, dark eyed, the only woman lawyer in Papama, has left the pink and blue roofs and sapphire sea of her native country and come to Wash- ington in the interest of all Ameri- can women. Here, too, for a similar purpose, is Elsie Rose Shields, who claims a dozen different world ports as home and speaks six languages. The mission of Senorita Gon- zalez is really three-fold. She has been sent to study government here for three years so that she may teach the subject upon her return to Panama. She also has been commissioned by her govern- ment to study the juvenile court system in this country. And, what she regards as most important of all, she is a member of the Inter- American commission of women created to study the legal status of women in the 21 American re- | publics, Like the senorita, Miss Shields is connected with the Inter-Ameri- can commission of women. She s a “find” of Doris Stevens, ardent feminist, who met her at the Pan- American conference in Havana and brought her to Washington as secretary of the commission. Miss Shields, with a soft-spoken gentle manner and her linguistic ability, will be the go-between for foreign speaking women and offi- cial Washington. She comes of a roving and tal- ented race. Her grandfather, Gil- bert Ross, a Scctchman, went to Calcutta as an accountant. He, too, was a linguist and compiled a dictionary of Indian dialects which he presented to the government. Miss Shield’s mother was born in Calcutta. She later lived in Lon- don and went to Brazil as a gov- erness. There she met and mar- ried an Englishman who died soon after Elsie was born. Mother and daughter went to Greece, where they lived for some time, then started fer Havana via Italy, Switzerland and ¥rance. Miss Shields speaks Portuguese, English. French, Spanish, German and Greek. Senorita Gonzalez who is only 27 years old, helped organize the Nationalist Feminist party in Pana- ma. It now has 500 members. Panama has great advantages for women, she says, in educational opportunities and the availability of careers. LOOK AT HEADGEAR Washington, Sept. 8 (A — In Syria the style of one's head dress often determines the price of household commodities, the Amer- jcan Home Economics Association found in trying fo help 8yrian housewives put more efficiency into their tasks. It was found difficult to aid Sy- rian housekeepers to keep a weekly budget because commodity prices varied for such apparently incon- gruous reasons. A customer who wore a hat might get something for an entirely dif- ferent price than another who had a tarboosh on his head, the traces- men taking their customer's status into consideration. Ability to argue loudly and long also is a control- ling factor. Miss Irene Teagarden, an Ameri- can teacher of home economics completed a study of home condi- tions in Syria and reported to the American Home Economics Associ- ation. The survey, she said, brought to light more problems than it solved. She said much tact must be used in any attempt to ap- ply western theories and principles | to eastern methods of household management. FROZEN APPLE SAUCE As a dessert for summer, frozen apple sauce served try with oily taste to food. /i squares of sponge cake. Turkish Harem Peep Hole Found Ladies of the Governor's Palace Could Spy a Little. Constantinople, Sept. 8 (P—AB Anerican woman, the first foreigner whom the Ottoman government pere mitted to enter the harem of Sera- glio palace, hag, just completed an exhaustive study of that mysterious labyrinth. She is Dr. Barnette Miller, head of the history department of Welles+ ley college, who returned to Stame boul this year-to complete the ine vestigations she began in 1907, Aid- ed by a youag Turkish girl, Me- brouke Hanem, a member of the staff of Constantinople College for Women, Dr. Miller is the first American to delve deeply inte the shadowy history of the vast 500- year old palace where Turkish pa dishahs and sultanas and their. hundreds and thousands of slaves lived hidden lives. Her studies have been concerned chiefly with the women of the ime perial harem, Great women some of them were, such as Kersem Sule tana, so beautiful that she was sur- named “Body of the Moon,” who when old abrogated so much power that the reigning sultan, her son, ordered ennuchs to strangle her at night with the cords of her bed. curtains. Dr. Miller has made a study, too, of the lives of the palace slaves and has discovered such picturesque de- tails of their existence as the exist- ence of a law that no slave could be whipped more than once a day with more than 40 lashes. She tound also that slaves were not al- lowed to wear coats, no matter how cold the dark draughty rooms of the palace, so that the lines of their bodies might not be hidden or dis- figured. The American investigator discove ered in her prowlings through the palace that there existed one peep hole by which the women of the harem could look upon men other than their sultanic master and their guardtan eunuchs. High in the wal of the palace mosque where the sultan and his masculine followcrs worshipped, Dr. Miller found a tiny window covered with a golden late tice and discovered that this window connected with the roem in the harem where the women gathered to pray. The purpose of the window w: to allow the voice of the priest con- ducting the men's service to pene- trate to the priestless women wor- shippers, but it is presumable that it was put to less sanctified pur- pose when sultans and slaves must have jostled each other for a chance to peek through the golden bars st the rare sight of many men. During her final investigations this year Dr. Miller was given per- mission by the new republican Turkish authorities to enter every one of the hundreds of palace rooms save one. No human except the sultans, not even the sultan-smiting, religion-defying Mustapha Kemal, fLas ever entered that sanctum san torum where the beard of the prophet reposes. Outside the heavily barrel window of that room 40 turbaned priests, in groups of feur, chant prayers from the Koran day and night, year after year, century after century. FRESH DRAINS Whenever cauliflower, cabbage or other strong vegetables are drained into the sink, the hot or cold water tap should be turned on immediate- ly for a few seconds to wash out the drain and keep it smelling fresh. HOT SODA If your sink drain smells, treat it with a hot solution of washing soda. It is a good idea to do this frequently, not to wait unti] it smells. PUTTY UNDIES New lingerie goes in strong for brown shades, as do dresses. The latest sets are of exquisite ninen, in what is known as putty brown, slightly darker than beige.