New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 28

Love’s Awakening l\omshry By Adele Garrison Mre. Ticer, at the Larches, Tells Madge She Is Worried Abont Miss Lincoln's Aged “Aunt.” *@he’s been going on like that ever since Miss Lincoin left,” Mra. Ticer said worrledly, as Noel and I heard the sobs in the adjoining room. “She kept up all right, was as brave as could be until the girl was out of sight, Then she broke down— and that old man—her husband—he just made her worse, scolding her as it she were a naughty child. I didn’t know but he was going to take tick to her. My! but wouldn't I like to be married to him for just about a halt hour. I'd show him what damage . an up- standing American wife could do with a rolling pin and a stove shovel. T wouldn't leave a whole bone in his body—the old bully.” ‘The contrast between her almost whispering tones and her vicious threats almost upset my gravity, and I think, Noel’s as well. “You say she’s been crying this way ever since Miss Lincoln left?” I asked hurriedly, hoping my easily offended neighbor would not detect the twitching of my lips. “She hasn’t stopped once, r answered, “ghe’ll make herself ill,"” T com- mented, more troubbled than I cared to let my”neighbor see. If this old servant of Princess Olina’'s were to have another heart attack such as had nearly carried her off earlier in the summer, she could not travel to her home, and thus our problem of protecting her young mistress would be greataly complicated. Madge Takes a Hand “Y know it,” Mra. Ticer said, “but ‘what's to be done? 1 tried to talk to her, but she wouldn't even look at me. If you—" she stopped and glanced obliquely at me. I squared my shoulders, for I knew that I must at least make an attempt to soothe the poor old ‘woman in the next room. “I'll do what I can,” I said, “al- though I am afraid the result will be zero. Dut let me go in alone. Noel will you find Mr.—Lincol! and keep him so engaged in talk that he will not interrupt us?" “I'll go right awa Noel said with alacrity .and Mrs. Ticer leaned toward me with a mysterious air. “Do you know, I think Mister Noel's the real reason for the old woman acting up this way,” she con- fided to me. “I don't think she has anything against him personally, but for some reason or other she's just Mrs. Tit BY, NRNT . BURGESS 2:; all is saillipnd all fs ddrie ledge may be worsé than none. —Beauty the Wood Duck. Petér Rabbit couldn’t keep away from a certain big dead tree in the Green Forest, not far trom the pond of Paddy the Beaver. He didn't tell anybody what he had seen there, for he couldn’t yet believe that he really had seen what he thought he had seen, 80 he went back every little while to sit under the hemlock tree and watch a hole quite high up in that dead tree. The hole was of < good size. Peter could remember ‘when Bobby Coon had lived in there, @ you see the hole had to be of size, At last Peter's persistence and pa- tience were rewarded. He got over there just at daybreak. He had been sitting under that little hemlock tree only & few minutets when he heard a whistle. It was unlike any other whistle, 80 Peter knew at once what made it. He knew that that whistle was made by a pair of wings—the wings of a duck. And then almost before he had timé to realize what bad made the whistling, something happened right before his eyes. A bird alighted at that hole in the tall dead tree and disapeared inside. This wasn’t altogether surprising. Peter had seen many birds do this same thing. But never in his life| before had he seen this particular kind of & bird disappear in a hole in @ tree. It wasa duck. Yes, sir, it was a duck! “That was Mrs. Wood Duck,” thought Pete “So I wasn't mis- taken in what I saw the other day. 1t must be that she is living in that hole. I wish she would come out. She didn’t eyen look out. So finally Peter started over to the pond as fast as he could go. lipperty-lip- perty-lip. As he hoped would be the case, he found Beauty the Wood . Duck, handsomest of ail the Duck family, feeding close in shore. ‘Peter burried over to right near him. “I've found it!" cried Peter. “That's nice,” replied Deauty. “What #s it?"” “What is what?" lookingg a little blank. “Your secret,” declared Peter. “Have T a secret?” Beauty asked in a tone of surprise. “You did have. but you haven't| replied Peter with a grin. “It's over in the hollow in the big dead tree.” “I suppose it must be if you say #0.” retorted Beauty. “but really I should like to know what it is."" Peter grinned. “I don't want to| know what it is. but “how many | it in” said he. “What is the use| of pretending. Bear You know that T know where Mre. Wood Duck | i« this very minute. 1 won't tell. Honestly. T wen't tell. That is T won't. 1f you tell what T want to| . know.” | “How many ezes Mrs, Wood Duck | is sitting on over in that hollow tree.” replied Peter. “I saw her go| in. 80 1t is useless for you to pre- | tend that she isn’t there, Now, how | manv eggs has she?” “Twelve,” replied Beauty prompt- Iv. “Yes. sir, there are twelve eggs. That is going to be a family to be asked Peter. jor lettuce. needed for this way of coeking and | .| front skirt making the rear of it. wild for fear her—niece—will marry him.” She shot a meaningful glance at me as she finished, and with a whim- sical memory of Kate's advice, I leaned toward her with a significant smile. “They're Servants.” “I think we may drop that pre- tense,” I said in a tone inaudibble beyond the room. “You know as well as I, that the people here are not Miss—Lincoln's uncle and aunt, but her servants.” “I didn't know it," she retorted, Stressing the verb, but I was pretty sure of it. If the old woman had been her aunt, she'd have come down on the girl harder. But as it was all she could do was to beg Miss Lincoln not to go out with«Mister Noel. I didn’t know her jargon, of course, but I could tell in a way what she was asking, and if looks could have killed, Mr, Noel would have dropped dead every time the two of them went out together. The old man used to jaw his wife about it, too, but he never dared say a word to Miss Lincoln. He sure was afraid of her. But what was eating 'em about Mr. Noel gets me. You couldn’t find a nicer young fellow in the country.” I smothered the impulse to blurt out the conviction which had come to me with her story—that I knew the recason for Anna Schmidt's ex- cessive grief. To her mind, her adored royal mistress would be far better dead than to marry a com- moner such as she considered Noel. Even if the old woman knew the secret of his left-handed relation- ship to the royal family of Trans vania it would make no difference. Indeed T judged it would intensity her horror of such an alliance. “Does she understand any Eng- lish?”" I asked. “She can speak a few words, and I think she understands if people speak very slowly to her, and don't use big words. But her husband always talks for her. He keeps her in the background, like all those dratted foreigners.” My good neighbor's contempt for aliens was mirrored in her face, and T did not a‘tempt to combat her prejudices. With a little non-com- mittal noed, T rose from my chair. “Keep everybody away.” T whis- pered, and walked softly to the door of the next room. (Continued Tomorrow) (Copyright, 1929, Newspaper Fea- ture 8ervice, Inc.) “Have T a Secret?” Reauty Asked in a’Tone of Burprise. But, for goodness sake, Peter, don't tell ‘anybody!” he added anxiously. “I won't,” replied Peter. I promise you T won't. 1 won't tell anybody. T'll keep your secret in the hollow tree. (Copyright, 1929, b T. W. Burgess) The next stor. Peter's Questions. Beauty answers Fresh peas should he put into cold water for about 15 minutes before eooking. Put a tiny pinch of soda in the water you cover the | bottom of the pan with and cover them with either their own leaves Very little water 1s delicious and the peas are very green, TASHION'S APRON Fashion puts her apron again. not for work but for chic. taffeta frock has an apron front panel outlined in wide lace. REAR RUFF A fine printed chiffon jeweled tones. has a tight and nine little S frock. in straight ruffles Fashion Paque Very new and very smart is this new strap arrangement on the clas- proud of when those eggs hltch.‘ sic opera pump. A printed | i | Iny NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929. THERE'S ART IN A WEDDING CAKE! swadrant Womas §|Once Overs “I wish, Mrs. Begistorsd T. 8. Patoat Attice Snapshooting the Millennium , /// / (LI TAA ||| AEEENS/ANNEEE 77, ARARN’; /R llil%ll,%llll 1. A scoundrel. 8. Nothing. 9. Wing prt of a seed. 10. Spherical body. Security. A cotton cleaning machine. 14. Amphibian similar to a freg. 16. Valuable property, 18. lariat, 19. Ogled To harass. Railway station. Venomous snakes A present time. 9. A general term for mast, or yard. Apertures for coins. 34. Decorous. 35. Arid and hot. 37. Hidden supplies. 38. Fatigued. 39 Rims. 40. Public roads on which fast driv- ing is permitted. Vertical To wash lightly. . 8enior. . Tatter. . Fetid. . Curse, Sum. . Uneven as if worn away. Organ of smell. " . Lowest part in the harmony of a musical composition. . A heavy substance used to give stability to a balloon. Persons whose minds paired by age. . To scatter hay. . Quantity. A haunt . To cut tall grass. Sced bag Dilatory. . Minute akin openings. . Narrow strip of lcather . Theatrical. 30, Peels. Helps. Male ancestor. . Carbonated water. 36. To color fabric. 37. To fell as trees. boom 32, are im- Menas for tla; ;"a;r;;'l) MRS ALEXANDER Suggestions for Sunday Breakfast — Grapefruit. ard maple syrup, broiled coffee. Dinner — Roast veal and browned potatoes, creamed carrots, pickles, bread. butter, orange and al- GEORGL bacon, . [cook for 1 waffles | mixed | Cottage Puddings, Scrving Six 11z cups flour. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1, cup sugar. *} teaspoon salt. 1 egs. 1 teaspoon vanilla 2-3 cup water, 3 tablespoons fat, melted. Mix the ingredients and beat for 2 minutes. Half fill well greased muffin pans and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. Cool and serve | with sauce. Strawberry Creals Sauce 1 cup washed and hulled berries. 1-3 cup powdered sugar. 1-4 teaspoon almond ecxtract. 2-3 cup stiffly whipped cream. Mix the berries and sugar. Chill. When ready to serve, combine with the remaininz ingredients ‘and serve on the baked pudding: Filling for Tarts cups diced rhubarb. 4 tablezpoons water. cup sugar. 1 tablespoon flour. 1-4 teaspoon cinnamon. is teaspoon salt. 1 egp. 1 teaspoon butter. 3 | Mix the rhubarb and water and cook in a covered pan until soft. Mix the sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt and I muffin pans. ‘Pineapple = slices hrowned small amount of fat are zood companiments for *veal chops. po roast, pork chops. under the meat. | LONG GLOVES Eight button length gloves the shortest worn by Milady are mond salad, cottage puddings, straw- berry cream sauce, coffee. Supper — S8licel veal sandwiches, 4ill pickles, rhubarg tarts, tea. evening wraps - will feature cven longer gloves, By C. D. Batchelor Wattles, I could say I've enjoyed myself, but I can’t.” COLOR 3y Alice Judson Peale By the time he has reached the age of five the average child is able to name colors correctly when he is aslked. But actual determination of colors comes much earligr than this. It begins to show in children be- tween two and three. A child who has a strong delight in colors and in making arrange- ments with them may be slow in learning their names. The ability to name colors correctly is something quite different from appreciation of color grades and values and from taking an esthetic pleasure in them. It is relatively unimportant to teach a little child to say the names of colors, but it is extremely impor- tant to give him a great deal of color experience, and to permit him to play freely with color materials. Among the best materials for this purpose are sets of one-inch color cubes in yellow. orange, red, blue, green and purple. These may be bought in large quantities from any kindergarten supply house. If we do not disturb the child and do not insist on *showing him how.” he will do all sorts of interesting things with them. He will sort one color out from the rest to play or j build with it. e will make patterns in alternating colors. Gradually he will use the cubes in increasingly complex arrangements which give evidence of a developing sense of balance and design. Crayons are another excellent means of providing color experience. The child should use those which are about a half inch in diameter. At first he will not notice the colors he is using; he will seribble for the muscular pleasure of scribbling. After a time he will choose particu- lar colors and begin' to make pic- tures, HIRT SILK The sweetly striped little frock, { made of shirt silks, will be a life- saver this summer for the woman who hews a chic line even In swel- tering weather. Some are made like old-fashioned shirtwaist suits, with tuck-in blouse. Others prefer pleated skirts, with peplum over- blouses ending in pleated flounces. i FLAPPER FANNY SAY:. L baked or fried ham. The pineapple slices are served now- adays of an evening. Many sumiier | loose three-quarters sleeves which mean add to the rhubarb and cook until ' thick. Stir constantly while cooking. Add the rest of the ingredients and minute. Pour into tarts| which have been baked in shallow | Many a belle leads a ding-dong rulcd as cmpress of the grand cor- xistence after marriage. New' York, May 3—This is rush season for Madamé Blanche, wed- ding cake architect for two genera. tions of social celebrities of two con- tinents. ; This little Frenchwoman does not bake just ordinary wedding cakes. 8he builds edible edifi from bun- salow types to sky: per designs. And so sentimental she about the importance of the wedding cake on the day of days that she makes [ everyone by hand! ¥ Many Notables Her C; Bhe made Alice Roosgvelt's wed- ding cake. - 80 beautiful did the Roosevelt family consider it that Madame Blanche has made the same design five times for 'weddings in the Roosevelt family. 8he made Fresi. denit Wilson's daughter's wedding cake, taking it to Washington in u private car. Listed among her clients are the Stuyvesant Fish ‘family, the ‘Pierpont Morgans, the Armours, the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and ambas- sadors to England and Spain. Somtimes Madame Blanche's wed- ding cakes cost $1,000. But that is when the bride happens to be a horsewoman, an aviatrix, or some- thing else special and wants her cake's decorations to be appropriate to express her interests. One of Madame Blanche's cakes had a whole hunting scene in the rotunda of the top laysr. A bas-relief of a hunt ran around the base of the cake. Another one, a low, sprawling one-story type, depicted a yachting scene on the top of it, sugar sails bending to the wind as the little boats rounded the sides. Watohes Marriage Views Change “Rrides usually want the old, tra- ditional decoration: Madame Blanche assured ue in her quaint, broken English, for she still seems very French after 40 years here. “Times change and there are many divorces, but orides still have high hopes when they marry. They want orange blossoms, Cuplds, wedding \bells, wedding rings, and other sym- hols of luck and happiness.” Madame Blanche herself has deep sentiment about her wedding cakes. Sclentific mixing of ingredients and baking are not enough, she holds. One must put a bit of her heart into a wedding cake before it is good. Madame Blanche's home is her shop. On the third floor of an old brownstone home in the 50's, she lives and works, with her daughter and a little French maid helping her. The- old-fashioned parlor, with its gians cases in every corner. Here are dozens of boxes of pictures of famous cakes she has made. Other boxes hold sanples of guest cake- boxes, and samples of decorations, She's A Busy Artist Rhe mixes 25 pounds of fruit cake daily, sometimes 50. Iivery cake bakes six hours in an old-fashioned coal range. A temple of lové or some other kind of a sky-scraper wedding cake may take a whole week for herself and her artist daughter to decorate. Most fancy wedding cales are the bridegroom's fruit cake and not the white cake for the bride. Tha{ goes in indi- vidual boxes to guestk. - Scientific care and real heart throbs must go into every success. Madame Blanche insists, whether it is creating a cake or a b\llldln[ The importance of one’'s work must be felt or she cannot do tar best. Looked to America’s Favor Madame Blanche illustrates her philosophy, perfectly. 8he brought from the old country some fine old English recipes for dark fruit cake and for bride's cake. She experl- mented, scientifically, until both the cakes suited Americans. Then shz became interested in the real signi- ficance of the wedding cake itsel?, Two years of research were put in, digging up ancient customs, trying to find the origin of wedding cake. “Wedding cakes are as old as mar- riage,” Madame Blanche ‘concluded. “In ancient Egypt, nati®:s made erude little cake patties of grounl weed meal, goat's milk and hondy baked on hot stones, for wedding guests 10 ca® The idea of a large ornamental cake came with civiliza- tion. But the tradition of wedding cakes is so deep-seated that the importance of the wedding cake is recond only to the bride and groom No care can be too great {o create a beautiful svmbol of the joining of | two families.” Rules As Beauly You'll have to agree that the judges were right when they chose Miss Catherine Carr the most popular and” most beautiful girl in a recent contest in Ogden, Utah, where she flowers, and wedding bells on it. ter was married in the famous old Madame Blauche always mixes her famons wedding cakes by hand. (Ups per, left) The low wedding cake she made for Alice Roosevelt had hearts, The cake was repeated five times for Roosevelt weddings.. (Lower) When the late Judge Elbert Gary's daugh- mansion on Fifth Aveaue, now am apartmet house, Madame Blanche made a “Temple of Love” wedding cake that had many stories and stood seven feet high. train took Madame Blanche and this weilding cake to the White House when the late President Wilson's daughter, Jessie, was married. (Right) A special YOUR HEALTH BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor Journal of the American | Mcdical Association and ofHy- | gela, the Health Magazine) Experts say that in most instances baldness is idiopathic—which means that nobody knows the reason for it. There are all sort of superstitions ‘about hair, as about every other matter in which scientific know- ledge still is lacking. Some people believe that the hair is full of sap and that the ends must be sealed by singeing or the sap will run out. The hair has no more sap than a buggy whip. In most in- stances baldness is hereditary and because of the constitutional con- dition the hair is bound to fall out. Some people think that hair grows on parts of the body that need pro- tection, at least from wind and weather. Thera may have been & tigne when hair on the chest was useful for this purpose. Nowadeys women without hair on the chest keep the chest regularly exposed and men with a heavy growth of hair on the chest wear a vest, coat, shirt, overcoat and various quan- tities of underwear to protect the chest still further. ., Another theory has it that hair remains on those portions of the body that were not reached by sun- light in that evolutionary stage when men walked on all fours. There seems to be plenty of evidence that sunligbt is both good and bad for| the hair. The evidence *secms to! depend on the dosage used and the head of the particular person con- cerned. The promoters of cures for bald- that involve use of the arti. ficial sun's ray, or ultraviolet rays, y that this method will cure bald- ness and cause a new growth of hair even on scalps shiny as a bil- liard ball. Where, however, are the actual cases to prove thejr claims? Answer: Nowhere! The experts in care of the hair recommend that the scalp be kept clean bby washing as often as neces- sary with soap and water. If the scalp is unusually dry is should be greased lightly at least once each week with vaseline or with liquid pe- trolatum. The water will not rot the living hair; water is the greatest cleansing agen! known to man, The water will remove the grease and give the hair a dry feeling. The same effect is secured by using tonics with too much alco- hol. In ancient Egypt the medi- cine men- cured baldness by a grease that was made from the fat of six different animals: the lion, hippopotamus, crocodile, cat, snake and jbbex. The idea was to get the strength and sagacity of the animals at the same time that grease was supplied. In early American days bear's grease was used for the same purpose. HIGH LOW Sport shoes in brown and white leathers favor the new high-low heel. 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