New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 24

wvolce was thrilling with joy. “Mother Just told me what you had palnned for us. I'm so happy I'm sure I shall burst. To think of that glori. ous motor trip to the mountains all alone with her! And you planned it all, you thoughtful darling!” 1 drew her into my room and closed the door. “] mustn't take all the credit, @ear,” 1 told her soberly. “I'm plan- ning all the details, certainly, but—" She interrupted me ruthlessly, her voice abrupt, her eyes shadowed. “Do you mean that he thought of this?” she asked unconsciously stressing the pronoun, as she always does when speaking of her step- father. “He spoke of it, yes, when he told me that he was going away, s0 that you and your mother could be together, unhampered by his pres- ence for the rest of your vacation.” I could not help the fridgity in my voice, for I fancied that I saw in her eyes a distaste for the plan be- cause of her stepfather's part in it. But the next instant her arms were | around my neck and she was saying passionately: “Don't misunderstand me, Auntie Madge, although I don’t see how you can do anything else, the way T've acted about my—my-—step- father.” It was the first time I ever had heard her refer to her mother's hus- | band except with a formal “Mr. Underwood,” but I had no time to consider the significance of her wording, for she was hurrying on tempestuously. | “I'm not resenting the fact that he thought of it as well as you,” she said. “Honestly, I'm not. I think it was lovely of him, and I'm aw- | fully ashamed of myselt for the way T've acted toward him. I can’t pre- tend to love him, but I don't hate him any more. You believe me, 1 held her close and smoothed her bright hair, “Of course I believe you, darling.” I said, “and I'm very glad your feelings are changing. Don't hurry them, or force your heart in any way. Just don't be prejudiced, that's all your mother or I ask.” “I can promise that, word of honor,” she said, “I'll tell Mother that, don’t you think?" I voiced as prompt a negative as I bad given Lillian when she wished to tell Marion of Harry's thoughts fulness. I was thoroughly convinc- ed that it would be better for botk Marion and her mother if Harry Underwood’s name were not men- tioned except in the most casual fashion, while they were absent upon this trip. “Tell her nothing until you come back from the mountains,” I coun- seled. “Try to forget everything ex- cept that you and she are having the trip to which you have looked forward for so long. If I were you I would not mention my stepfather's name unless in some perfectly casual reference to him. You may be sure that your mother will be too busy and too happy in having you all to herself, to talk of anything | but the good time I'm sure you're going to have.” “There’s one thing certain, Auntie Madge,’ she said, with a flashing mile. *“Nobody ever could call you ‘Cassandra.’ You are always mak- ing joyful predictions.” She kissed me warmly and went back to her mother’s room, while I went to the telephone to find out the reason for an annoying little tinkle which had been coming from it while we-talked. As I took down the receiver, I heard Mary Harri- | son’s voice, on the downstairs phone. “Hello! Hello! Oh! yes George, I've had the old Nick's time to get you. What have you got to do this afternoon besides think deep thoughts?" (Continued Tomorrow) Copyright, 1928, Newspaper Feature don’t you?” she finished coaxingly. Why Jimmy Skunk Wasn't Caught| By Thomas W. Burgess Pray always keep yourself quite fit I body and in brain and wit. —Jimmy S8kunk. When the man who had set the | traps for Jimmy BSkunk went down to losk at them the next day he dis- covered at once that one trap was sprung. The two other traps were just as he had left them. “That's queer,” said the man. “I don't see how that 8kunk could have sprung that trap without being caught.” He picked up the trap and examined it carefully. He thought he might find some black or white hairs in it. But not a single black or white hair did he find in the trap. “That £kunk didn't trap,” the man declded. else must have sprung it.” He looked very carefully in the ®oft earth for Jimmy- Skunk's foot- prints. There were none. When he had set those traps he had sprinkled | wome fine dust over them. It would | have been impossible for Jimmy to have stepped in that fine dust and not leave a footprint. “That Skunk is still under the barn,” decided the man. “I'll just leave these traps here. I'll get him sooner or later.” 80 he reset the wicked steel trap that had been sprung, sifted more dust over it and went on his way. He ‘was sure he would have that Skunk. Now, Jimmy had been right near that opening when the man visited !the trap. He had kept quiet, but he | {hadn’t missed anything that was go- {ing on. He knew just what the man vas doing. He listened to the sofind ,of the man's footsteps dying away. /Then he sighed. “It's no use,” said | |3immy to himself, “for me to think | iof getting out this way. There isn't | .another opening I can get out. I iguess I've got to do some work. I idon't like digging, but it looks to me ‘ll it I shall have to dig this time. It's a good thing I can dig. If 1 jcouldn’t dig T would be in a peck of trouble.” ;. He went back to the other end of !the barn. He went along the edge iuntll he found a place where the jearth was fairly soft. Then he began 'to dig. He was going to dig down under the foundation. He didn't hurry about it. You know Jimmy seldom hurries. There was nothing to hurry for. So he just took his ‘time about it. He dug a while; then 'he rested a while. Then he dug a while longe: then he rested a while. It wasn't very much of a job after all. Sooner than he had ‘dared hope would be the | was under the under-pinning. T he began to dig up. Presently he poked his head right outside. Jimmy | drew a long breath. Then he shook himself and combed the dirt out of his coat and made himselt neat, for | Jimmy Skunk is a very ncat person. | What do you think Jimmy did then? He deliberately walked around | spring that | *Something Service, Inc. | He Jooked very carefully in the soft earth for Jimmy Skunk’s footprints ambled away. He ambled back te- ward Farmer Brown's. He knew there were no traps over there. He knew that on Farmer Brown's farm no traps were ever allowed. “There is nothing like being among friends,” thought Jimmy, (Copyright, 1928, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: Fright.” “Jimmy Has a RIGHTLY FROCK A cheery little frock is made of bright red taffeta, with a spring of gold flowers tn it. It has some- what tailored lincs, with a pert circular flare on the left side of fts skirt ,and a kerchief knotted on the opposite shoulder. CRI 3 AND FUR A beige wool crepe frock has the peplum of its jumper edged with| shaved beige caracul and a little | flaring jacket of the caracul com- pletes the costume. to the end of the barn where the hole was. He wanted to sce those Itraps from the outside. You see, | Jimmy has just as much curio: as | any one else. But he took great care | not to go too near them. At first | he couldn’t see them, for they a| been sprinkled with dust. It looked as if there were no traps there. But | Jimmy Knew better. There were | Bome small stones lying about. Jim- ‘my turned and with his hindfcet he kicked some of these stoncs toward the place where he thought the traps were, At first nothing happened. | Then a fairly good-sized stone rol right onto the pan of one of those | trgps. Two wicked jaws leaped into | the air and came together with a ! snap. It was so sudden that, al-| though he had expected it, Jimmy | Skunk jumped. Then he turned nnd‘ Paris, Oct. 19 (P—There are many violet versions of the evening mode for winter. Cyber uses violet moire for a crisp taffeta dress which bares the left shoulder. It has a slightly circular skirt trimmed at one side with a puff and long ends of bais material. The flower is the | same color ax the dress, and a pin of strass fe®ens the puff at the right side, Once Overs REAL STAT ; . “Officer, is it perfectly safe for us girls to go in there?” “Go right in, lady. If anybody gets fresh wit you, holler an’ I'll be thars to tell 'em they're plum cock-cyed.” % . .... /'.... 7 v/ % Hats, Hosiery in Alliance Style Decrees Link These Two Together, Paris, Oct. 16.—(M—Hats, stock- ings and gloves have struck up a style entente, They are combined against the fashionable all-black costume, as- sorted in tones of beige, approaching sunburn. The beige hats are usually justified by a beige dreas under the black coat, or in the case of a black suit by & beige silk blouse. Handbage are also included in the combine at times. French women sometimes match hat and handbag, and sometimes gloves and hose wi hats and handbags of bright shades of blue or red. It is the younger French women who are most partial to the mophisticated all black color Today's pleasing design is & foil for some mighty interesting words. None of them should cause & great deal of difficulty, however, Horizontal Springs of water issuing from the earth. In what manner. To possess. Buitable, Naked. The shaft of a coal mine. Rubber wheel pad, Custom. Showing normal mental health. One. Measure of cloth, Part of harness. Lariats. One who cures by prayer, Glass marble. Chime. Fiber from the century plant. To telephone, Age. To slash, Branch, Pertaining to grand Before. Eggs of fighes. A box for coal. Needful. Vertical Cry of warning in golf. . To be indebted. * Prickly pears. Pairs of children born to the same parents on the same day. To put up a poker stake. Not artificial. Pertaining to the backbone. Is compelled. A very short time, Coarse jute fabric. Everlasting. Black hawk. Aggregation of property left after death of a person (pl.) To relate. Nimble. Ironic essay. Defensive covering head. Peer. Concern. Bad. Hastened. Striped camel’s hair cloth. Menus of the I:amil_\ for the Four tablsapoons butter, € tu spoons flour, 1 teaspoon salt, teaspoon pepper, 2 cups milk, shrimps, 2-3 cup cooked peas, 2 blespoons chopped pimientos. Meit the butter and add the flour, salt and pepper .Blend well and ald the milk. Cook until a th.ck creamy sauce forms .Stir frequently while 1-4 ta- - ’naE oIV TN AT IE el (RIEIwESTT o [TTERVATR] — cooking. Add the rest of the ingre- dients and cook for 3 minutyh. Serve on hot buttered toast hars. RELISH SALAD, FOR SIX One cup diced cooked bheets, 1 cup diced celery, 1-4 cup chopped sweet pickles, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, 3 tablespoon chopped green peppers, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-3 cup salad dressing. Chill all the ingredients. Mix half the salad dressing with the celecy, pickles, onion, green peppers, salt. Add the beets, mixing as little as possible to:prevent them from dis- coloring the rest of the ingredients. Serve in cups of crisp lettuce leavss and top with the remaining dress- ing. Serve at once. uuooho- fmaq CsBss 1 1 cup! CHOCOLATE BROWNIES (These are a cross between cake and candy) One-quarter cup fat, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1-4 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, % teaspoon salt, 1-3 cup broken meats, 2 squares chocolate, melted, 1 cup four. Cream the fat and sugar for 2 minutes. Add the rest of th eingre- dients and beat vigorously for $ minutes. Pour into a shallow pan, which has been fitted with waxed paper. The brownie batter should be half an inch thick in the pan, so se- lect a pan accordingly. Bake in & moderaeely slow oven for 25 min- utes. Remove from the pan, cool and cover with fudge frosting. FUDGE FROSTING (This may be used on other cakes or cookies) Two cups sugar, 2-3 cup water, 2 squares chocolate, 2 tablespoons but- ter, 1 teaspoon vanil Mix the cugar, water, chocolate jand butter. Cook over a moderate fire, stirring frequently, until a soft /ball forms when portions are slowly | poured from a spoon into’ a cup of cold water. Set the frosting aside !and do not touch for 25 minutes. Add the vanilla and beat until thick and creamy. Frost the top and sides lof the brownies. When ready to serve cut in bars 1 by 3 inches. Serve flat on a serving plate. scheme. Even debutantes sometimes wear plain black ensembles if the line and material is sufficlently youthtul, The belge color scheme for hat, gloves and stockings 1s used with other colors than black, particularly hunter's green and navy blue. Reversing. the color schemes, a few ultrafashionable clients of French ‘dressmakers are wearing black hat, gloves and shoes with beige fur coats. Milliners Make Muffs Milliners seem to have taken over | the furtherance of muffs in modern | styles. Muffs are made to mateh hats trimmed with fur in some of the most exclusive millinery establish- ments of Paris. One dressmaking house, which de- | signs millinery also, suggests a new three piece ensemble scheme of mutf, hat and fur collar to match. {made entirely of fur, but combine { short haired fur and velvet or felt. Dresses in Duplicate An English musical comedy star who recently ordered 12 dresses and coats in one morning's shopping in the Rue de la Paix, sees no reason why one dresses of the same style. 8he ordered several frotks in ait- ferent colors, but the same style. 1 There were two versions of a velvet evening drcas, one in red velvet with jeweled shoulder straps and the other in dark blue velvet. S8he also had & net evening dress duplicated, one in black and the other dark blue, 1 It isn’t the cpiginal cost of & pet dog, it's the plp-keep. shouldn't have several | Modern muffs as a rule are not | 1s, alas, one that women cannot seem to keep .locked up in their closets. Nor {s it the kind of demon a wom- right hand on the left side of the throat, the other hand on the right side nu‘un dispel by pointing a finger at it Yet, it she will start all of her ten fiugers practicing a simple ex- e:rche, she can do much to ward it off. Nothing should inspire feminine determination more than a sagging chin line, No clever woman waits until the sag appears, however, If she knows her beauty she will start practicing her finger exercises while the chin line is still firm, buoyantly youthful and beautiful as a contour in marble. There are two reasons why the Ogre of the Crepey Throat is often successtul. First, the neck muscles are apt to sag with the years. S8ec- ond, the skin is apt to be drier as the years roll along. The only solution to both lies in & woman's finger tips. The follow- ing five finger exercises will help tre- mendously to rout the sug and strengthen the muscles so further sagging is out of the question for the immediate future. 8it at your mirror with your shoulders straight and your head thrown back. Dip your fingers in some reliable skin food, one of the heavier creams that has nourishment in it. Begin at the base of the throat and work up. This line of action is important. Never ~work down. Start slowly massaging the neck, up with one hand, then up with the other. Alternate hands more rapidly until finally the last dozen or so strokes are light, fleeting touches. care entirely for the right side of the throat, the right for. the left side, Both should go repeatedly over the center portion which is the real battlefield. After the throat has been mas- saged carcfully and the skin fed substantially with the cream food, & chin strap can be applied to be worn until morning. This helps con- siderably. Upon removing it in the morning, repeat the finger exercises, rub in all the skin food and sponge with witch hazel or some other astringent. Ten fingers, working night and morning, will prove a prodigous aid in keeping up one’s chin. FULL BACK A red, black and white home- spun frock has a circular back to its skirts, with a curved and point. ed bodice and skirt yoke in front. | The cut gives it excceding anima. ! tion. LACE JABOTS A black velvet afternoon frock has a collarless neck that fastens at the left side, from which point a lovely lgce jabot falls. The skirt's yoke fastens the same way and has a similar lace jabot, only longer and fuller. All Ask Divorces In Same Week Divorce courts of Lorain county, Ohio, have been called upon to solve the matrimonial woes of three gen- erations of one Elyria family. Mrs. Ida Johnson, €3; her daughter, Mrs. Mary Fernandez, 38, and her grand- daughter, Mrs. Margaret 8hook, 17. all filed suits for divorce within a week. Left to right here are Mrs. lonmmn, Mrs. ‘Fernandez and Mrs. k. The left fingers should | Margaret Hayden Rorke Is Largely Conspicaous the Most Color BY JULIA BLANSHARD New York, Oct. 19.—Thirteen years ago Margaret Hayden Rorke became foster-mother to a puny war baby. It is doubtful 1f any mother, foster or real, ever had a child grow so rapidly into a giant or take her traveling to sych far corners of the earth keeping pace with it, For the war baby in question is the Textile Color Card Assoclation of America, which started as an al- truistic war measure to standardise and interpret colors for American industries when we were first cut off from Europe, the {inspiration and creator of colors u pto that time.. Color Ensemble Was Her Idea Now the association, through fts standard and seasonal color cards, designates colors for just about everything from the paint on the sun-parlor furniture to be delicate ostrich decorations on an evening gown, It is even considering the grading of certain foods by color! Mra. Rorke was a logical choice for a group that was looking for someone to manage & precarious new color card organization with & tremendous diversity of clients, In the first place, she was an artist with a flair for color. Next, her organizing genius and her enviable gift for working with many kinds of people had received recognition in the suffrage movement, of which she was an outstanding leader, The fact that the American wo- man now wants and can get a complete color ensemble in her cos- tumes and accessories and even have her bath salts match her per- sonality bespeaks Mrs. Rork's suc- cess in building up the Color Card Associationi Government Rocognises Valwe The growth of America's color consciousness is largely due to Mrs. Rork's organizatiion. Moreover, the U. B. government recognizes its in- valuable aid by _sending color cards to all attaches abroad. That en- ables manufacturers of stiff brocades in Shanghai, flne trimmings fn Vienna, beads or other what-nots in South Africa and 80 on to have them the colors that Americans want, Twenty-sevén foreign countries have clients in the association! One glance at Mrs. Rorke shows her color appreciation. When in- terviewed she wore a svelt velour suit of soft brown with a hint of terra cotta in it. Bands of em- broidery picked out this red, add- ing to it other autumnal shades. Her little Paris hat was terra cotta, with a touch of brown on it, al- together seemingly the best foil in the world for her chestnut hair, clear skin and grey eyes. Just back from Europe, Mrs, Rorke is enthusiastic about the speed with which she visited ten countries, by plane. Other years it took twice as long to see all her clients, 8he consulted with all kinds of manufacturers’ organisa- tions on colors for next season. The results of her summer will be scen on the 1929 color card. Colors Show Evolution “The Assoclatiion never launches a color arbitrarily. Each tone has its reason and fits relation to last season and next season. Colors on the street today are an evolution,™ Mrs. Rorke explained the way the association works. “Take the off-whites stylish today. Off-white is white gone pastel! All other colors evo- luted to the soft enhancing tones. White just followed suit. Pastels are the subtle colors of a civilized world, just as gaudy tones were the colors of aborigines. America's education in the nuances of color shows in American homes and the costumes of American women. Color is important today in prac- that are i tically everything Americans eat, wear, ride in, work “with and live among. Millions of articles manu- factured have color problems. Our cards uundnrdue shades and no- Every color must have a name that means something. Mrs. Rorke insists. ‘The new Monet shade, for instance, is the same Claude Monet used in his murals. All of the 70 timn shades have equally romast Responsible for America’s Being Nation ia the World to France which is having its ones hundredth anniversary of Romm- ticism. “The return of clothes to tem- ininity coincides with the romantie trend of color this fall,” Mrs, Rorke pointed out. *“You see our color association works hand in hand with all branches of industry and with styles, too. For, being a war baby, it naturally inherited an ap- preciation of co-operation.” Health Hints BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy- gela, the Health Magasine) A report just made available ine dicates that our civilization hhs not yet progressed gufficiently so ‘that children in schools throughout the country are provided with suitable facilities for washing their hands, ‘This perhaps may play a iarge part in the prevalence of coughs, colds, measles, diphtheria, acarlet fever, and all of the common in. factious conditions to Wwhich chil- dren are more susceptible . than adults. These infections come under & heading originated some years ago by representatives of the United States Army and Public - Health Bervice, who had studied the occur- rence of such conditions among spl- diers. They describe them as “hand to mouth” infections, Objects in Mouth. t The health officer of Providence, R. I, in discussing the sources of infection, pointed out that numer- ous articles are for one reason; or another placed in the mouth and that the frequency with which the fingers are raised to the lips and nose can hardly be estimated by those who have failed to .take special account of this factor. In daily life, according to Doctor Chapin, cooks contaminate food, waltreases infect glasses and spoorf, the peddler moistens his fingers and turn the pages of hooks, conductors moisten transfers, so that everybody is engaged in the distribution of saliva. ’ ‘Washing Facilities Under the supervision of a large insurance company 404 schools were recently studied as to their hand washing facilitiels. It was found that 53 per cent had hot water, per cent soap, and 85 per cent towels. In one place chiliren were sent to wash their hands in cold water at the drinking fountain in the cor:. ridor. Soap was not available and because of the absence of towel children had to wipe their chaj hands on their clothing. Here is a matter demandfng prompt and careful consideration by every school bodrd in the country. , i Paris produces & large ecollap| made of exquisite fine threads of platinum, with diamonds set here and there instead of knots. Fashlon Plaque Very smart are these pale nomenclature. The | kid gloves with silver .nll.hqll 16 new evening shades are dedicated crusted cyffs.