The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1920, Page 9

“PERFECTLY ORDINARY” GIRL } TAKES EXCEPTION TO PRETTY Dear Miss Grey: I have never written you before and I do not know that I have any perieu need for doing so now, except that a perusal of “L. M. M.'s” letter in last evening’s paper led to my desire to make a Ss remarks. I, too, am an office girl, and yet, after a careful perusal of “L. M. M.'s” let- ter I cannot see that she has really given any of us much food for thought. To my mind she has destroyed the object for which she be- | oe the letter, by the laudation of her own charms. If true it “she is one of the prettiest girls in town” then it is en- tirely out of keeping for her to say so in a letter such as hers) and expatiate upon the enmity she arouses among others in| the office in which she works, for the truths that she could | THE SEATTLE STAR ’ Seattle Style Style \I’M JEALOUS WHEN M “You trust Deborah Burns never to mpeak to any one about tonight's unfortunate seene with Augustus Hest, but you imply that Katherine Miller will surely gonsip rather than upon my face, “Jane, why are you always so unjust to | Katherine?" ” I protested in “Can't you | “TE am not unje my most decided tona ”“ waid my | husband, with his eyes on the moon | a No. 158—The Star's snapshots of attractively- ° Ranch: 4 STENOGRAPHER’S LETTER s—The Star's snapshots of attr | o_o eae Sa THE BOOK OF ANN Y HUSBAND GIVES ME A RIGHT TO BE how Jim met his wife's futher for the first time!" “Katherine iin’t as bad as all th | Bob spoke conclusively. “Come— will you go back to the dance with me Hefore I could reply, the sound of a woman's step on the graveled walk made us turn, Mra. Best was hurrying toward us. "Bob!" she exclaimed, putting her Leads India’s Women Into \Modern Ways Every Flower Has a Story |All Its Own | That significance ts attached to It im the language of flowers. According to @ reliable authority, there are over 12,000 varieties, One #pecies which blooms in Antrim is called man orchid, because ft Te sembles very clokely the form of @ man wearing a large hat Other species exist which resemble a Heard, a bee, and a butteffly, | In Mexico, East Indies and South ‘America, where the most Important species are found, they grow from the branches and trunks of trees, and in the crevices of rocks, because the seeds are so minute that the ny seem to be in her idea of impressing all concerned with | pol {trembling bende on his shoulders, cin blows thane discist sey ae er differences. I wtopped muddenty, Of course Rob t Ton mo—tt tent true” ‘Aa much as $10,500 has been paid “L. M. M.” is not fair, it seems to me, for if it is her hard Jcouldn't nee that Katherine Miller | 4,)%ou mee, 1 was right! ent 4 for a rare specimen and, it is report> — fate to be so pretty that she is the admiration of all the men | would have her revense, and that as a trinmgbent “Teltvoues” Gets ta ed, even Welne saben have been and the envy of all the women, she should realize that it is out) lim the adtair St hee tanaten tranaea (my voues re eee pre the bounds of human nature for her co-workers to feel the | Merely by chance I had come upon {To Be Continued.) orchid are used as A sedative aod came toward her as they would were she more in a class with | | her and my husband in the moonlight | employed in curing nervous and hy themselves. |—Bob standing close to her with an terical disorders, epilepsy and trem Tam a perfectly ortinary person! arm caught in the windblown web - ors. Myself, @either very homely nor jof her hair! Merely by accident 1) The vanilla of commerce is ob stunningly attractive, and I should HAT do YOU [had heard my husband refer to the | aii tained from the seed of one variety feel put out if a girl whose unusual think? W: it strands of “living gold!” | of orchid which sometimes grows to © charms were such as she deseribes ; ‘ rite “What right had a wife to break | a height of 20 and 30 feet. Were a member of our office force, || thia Grey, care of The |up such a romantic situation?” I The name is of Greek origin, especially if it were true, as she sys. || Seattle Star. asked myself bitterly, And the! Orchis was the son of Pantellus, & that “some of the wealthiest young . thought put me in quite the wrong | f@ e satyr who presided over bacchanal- of the city” are her constant ad- mont to hear my husband's next re) jan feasts. He behaved so badly at mirers. the people and the churches that if puns: Quests | one of these that the bacchanals ‘Then, too, “IL. M. M." does not they ae not quit drifting Riwig Hed “Jane, you're jealous! And it's un-|| ,,aimivet, $f the, Salen | seized him and literally tore him te forego taking a fling at the girls* they would drift | worthy @f you! And of me: |] Information Department, U. & Pul pieces. The only concession J dresses. After all, a pretty girl can «so Mok «swell in most anything, but a + homely one needs the “fixin's" sonfe. times, and one so favored should not Sibe at the efforts of us who are, like Myself, merely “ordinary,” to find favor in the eyes of mankind Personally I do not see anything the letter of an egotistical, prudish Young miss who has had her head turned by a few pieces of flattery, until she has conceived the idea that her attempts at being successful In the business world are being thwart by jealousy from those of her own and anger on the part of those Men above her in positions whose at- tentions she has spurned. If you will Pardon my saying so, I think that is ‘ali bunk. And as for all the rest of the attempt to tell the young giris fn business how to behave, dress, ete, it would be received with more grace, I dare say, if given by one less conscious of her inate super _ @rity. ery little for this girl, if it has only taught her the fact that she is one | ef the prettiest and most sought-| Bfter girls in the city, and has not} taught her the deeper iessons of tact, s eee. tolerance and humility of I know of many beautiful! orig in business and in social life be- | Some particular “jewel” 3 to him was the most beautiful | in all the world. And altho one | oes see waliflowers at any gather-| fing, such are usually the result of | | the A university education has done |“ plain word of God, into dress of today Js but a straw to show | which way the wind blows ‘ heathendom. And woman's A modest, pure soul does certainty | recoil at the horrible fashions that will cause a Woman to undreas her: | self In pablic, so low at the neck that when she stoops at the desk in an little innocent children at the public schools as she stoops to show them their lessons, Some of them come home and tell mother how immodest it was. A woman ora nation of women are surely lost to all Christian mod esty when they will expase their per. | sons in such a shameful manner to every passer-by. The professed Christian women of the age, too, dres—or about the same way. Some of them | do not go quite so far, do not wear! their collars quite so low, or sleeves or skirts quite so short, but they ape “daughters of fashion” near! enough to give their sanction, and when religion wanes, the morals of the people wane.” Licentiousness is eating the heart | out of the nation, and when woman| clothes herself in the robes of a har-| lot she becomes an easy prey to ev-| lery beast or devil that passes her way. When woman learns that her body Cynthia’s Answers to Short Questions M. W.--To apply fresh lemon juice the gar the washing. Blue taffeta is used in the dress pictured here. undress_|i8 moderately full and is made in the short-waisted fashion. Silk embroidery and geor; colored tricotine coat, wi WHY NOT WASH ON TUESDAY? nt and shows much less. Many articles that have tiny holes! have their holes made bigger in \CUSTARD BREAD If these holes are te are used to trim it. a shaw! collar of dark blue velour and a belt of the same is worn over-the dress, and a hat with an upturned brim is made of georgette, beads. If the lady pictured here will call at The Star's editorial rooms she will reeeive two tickets to “Linger Longer Letty” at the Metropolitan theatre. Thursday's feahion picture was of Mra. Come Parker, Ls —Photo by Cress-Dale. joted Clark. |LADY BALTIMORE CAKE made of the egg yolks. DDING The skirt A cream- ribbon and bugle “I am jealous,” I admitted calmly.| | He Menith Service, Washington, D. C. “You used to like me to be Jealous |You know you did, when we were| first In Jove. And tf I am—still—and | if you know it—why can't you re: | pect my feelings a little bit? And! not do things to make me more jeal-| ous?” “Re am unreasonable as you Ifke! PREVENTING ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS Here are some of the things that are easily avoidable if you want to take care of your arteries Lead polsoning in one of the com- Unaffected or matter-of-fact about) office, the man in front of her can mon causes of arterio-rclerosis, Per- . i Think what you please! said my , 7 of the distinctions t Mrs. | yen tt Te ion te talon * oe sities | | s the distinctions that mark Mrs. this girl's letter > my mind It ts/see to her waist line, also teaching | lil husband obstinately. “Watch me—|%* handling lead (painters are fre |, “ones - > edamame | quent victims) should be very careful to have clean hands when they eat, and they should avoid all ways of getting any of the lead or paint in thelr food and drink. They should brush their teeth after each meal Alcohol may not be a direct cause of arterio.sclerowis, but is surely very often an indirect cause. Thus the person who drinks liquor is more eas- if you want to™ Watch yout" I repeated slowty, for I did not graxp the possible mean ing of hin words immediately. “Watch you? I see! You mean— you think—I was following you—was *pying upon you and Miss Miller to: night! Absurd! Have you forgotten the kind of a woman I am?” “Now you're getting hysterical, Janet But if you want to hurt your: | welf with that silly notion—stick to it} by all means | never touches it. “Why shouldn't I be hurt when 1!" mind that recall what I heard? ‘Living gold!’ | *Mect on the Why should you value the gold of that | ducing gastritis and cirrhosis, In girl's bair too much to break a few | thie way the food is not properly db gested. Part of it is turned into pot strands of itt I was having all I could do th keep | son when it gets into the intestine, from erying, but I knew that if 1|4N4 this poison enters the bicod and shed a single tear, or screwed up my | causes damage to the arteries, This features to register woe, my husband would seize the opportunity to leave me Bob did, in fact, rim and pace the terrace, As I watched him, I knew perfectly well that he tn one of the It must be borne hol has a damaging powerful one, The safest plan ts to leave alcohol entirety alone There are two other causes of ar terio-nclerosis, but the above are the most important avoldable causes, and fides, but never yet have I known belongs to her, but her soul is her| Did you ever consider the advise 1 cup butter Saeet of eneataenertne j boon roldable that|1 teaspoon chopped onion. Cook un- H jenn, whom it/ it in ume they are avoidable that Raga ew was such ere bee oh she will not bew to every | ability of making Tuesday the wash:| gy be, cond comes to a discussion of his interest | we particularly discuss them. til tender, then add 3 tablespoons 2 Party for everyone else be-|fashion plate that comes along. She| day instead of Monday? | 1 Boye! i in another woman, be simply refuses ae ee capenn Gir aut tao talaeee Ga) ccept “California” syrup of Figs - eause of atten- ons: - SG decease: crnat ts net: posal. |enew that woeld deaea to tent a Alig ts. pace? pe Pag ut | 3% teanpoons baking powder! tak tome sin sebns'ht cay ee soe woe bun teh. aad 8 eape. nk, owt, Famnae 2 te Gs sue pA bate: pme © J ards 4 .d Ble outside of story books, where the | body to the eye of every lecherous| i" loses nome of ite hardship, ion vanilla observations of his sex, and to ac-| frequency electric currents for epi-|strring continually until sauce boils. /on the package, then you are = heroines always do that way, for the|man along her pathway. esac | cE (whites) count him different from the aver-|icpsy. Kindly inform me, if you|4dd % bay leaf and let it stand until/ your child is having the best ‘writer's purposes, for the simple rea-| This is speaking plainly, but how | Prem sane one could 4o the) Creem butter. Add sugar stowty./age—and better! I am to aasume,| have the information, as to.whetber ready to serve. most harmless physic for the little gon that siene raps pd = pose beng painful and shameful are| | maings” A ake that has to be| MIX and sift our and baking pow-| always, that my husband never soos | it haa been used for this or other | late tewsa" ek typ gore tg: 3 stomach, liver and bowels. Children D Mamally just > %. end hat ha > r 4 i atrect member of teen or vont ag any bach mpiten, pe ployer Ean every |"at” on @ freshly ironed garment! der. Add alternately with milk and|®"Y Nadeem ythaun pape rey gg pao nnyrg peer Into hot sauce. y ein rang cn fott. Fea Bie: “Cale function, and I have absolutely never |day. Yours for a Ref TY | musses the garment and means, Vanilla to first mixture. Beat whites| “If you run away—and refuse to/any danger in using this upo on toast, and garnish with parse ” ~ , a ony po obo vga es yet malarial en xtra work in pressing. If the|Of exgs till stiff and dry and fold|‘##cus* this, you'll simply give me |brain or spinal column, or any prob- 4 Sey. See id attract ¥ « el ot ems . y Bumbers of men, for each one had} sete patch is put on on Monday it is| into mixture. Bake in 3 layers and) Dore. pee i Ny om avi perp “7 eae an T have been able to who, in most then washed and ironed as one with | Put together with chocolate icing! i¢ yoy actually believe that 1 am|learn, high frequency currents have |capable of following you—-when you/ not yielded favorable results in epl- | walk in the moonlight with the love-|lepsy; in fact, when it Is considered lest and the most fascinating and| that the basis of rational treatment | the most unprincipled girl you! of this disorder includes the removal poeaible | ity polsoned by lead than the one who} ymach and liver, pro- | canne of arterionchieroxis ts a very | would make to his father’s plea mercy was that his torn body be changed into flowers, each piece ber coming @ different shape and color, SAN FRANCISCO—(By Mail)— ‘The leading feminist among the mil- |ions of women of India, the first | Hindoo “co-ed,” first Indian woman | | to drive an auto, to fly an aeroplane, jor to ride a bicycle—these are some able woman of her native land. Mra. Singh, whose husband 1 known as “the Rockefeller of India, |and whose father, Sir T, N. Palit, endowed the University of Calcutta with his fortune of $2,000,000, be- lieves in education for the women of her land, and is on her way home | after a tour of the world, to arronge | for endowing a number of scholar. | ships in American colleges for young Hindoo gizis. “The women of India are eager for | knowledge,” she says. “There are only two Hindoo women students in| | America, and they are at Columbia. | We hope to send over 100 young men |and women at once, and we ask the co-operation of American women in | helping our youth to get American education.” “California Syrup of Figs Child’s Best Laxative | REALE oe |FISH A LA KING Melt 3 tablespoons butter and add to It % teaspoon chopped green pepper, 1 teaspoon chopped red pepper, and know?” jof all peripheral irritation, it would | In a characteristic way, Bob turned appear that high frequency currents the subject: would be contraindicated. So far as “I'm going back to the green,” he | our present knowledge goes, the mont announced abruptly. |favorable results in the treatment of “I see! To dance with Katherine. epilepsy are to be obtained by remu-| What might be called a Ick of per-| aaiiy In the bert wae Teen Jilee| mended before there is any risk| 2 “ sonality rather than a lack of mere| remove tam - ‘ow Of (©) of catching them and tearing them, | Physical beauty. |many stitches may be saved. butter and Jelly each alice, and Now that I've said my “say,” 'm! ye a ye Dorothy Phinips played | | lay flat in the pudding dish, jelly side feady to quit. Whether or not m¥/ine jeading role in the film drue | Peat 3 exes well and add 4 cups | drama, views are worth recording I don't) «ttearts of Humanity.” She was ax LE EFT- OV ER FISH lof milk, sugar to taste, pinch of salt, 5 slices of bread, “cream loaf know, but anyway, I've had the sat- fafaction of expressing ‘em. | =A. R. eee Two Stenographers Also “Roast” Her * Dear Miss Grey: I just read “T,. M. M.'s” letter over and then I got handkerchief to wipe my eyes so I @ould read it over azain to sce if I as really right. I thought at first 3 was dreaming. To think that any | }@ommon stenographer should be so| feonceited of herself as to write such '@ thing as that. | Bay, we are both stenographers Ad we don't need to be called the manager's private office to be ad. Mired. We're both considered good Jooking and we certainly don't need} fo worry about not having good} @ancers or to have to go places alone. ‘We are well respected by all of our Boy associates. Many girl has that “I'm good look img” expression printed all over her face, what can she expect but evew Tom, Dick and Harry Spelibound. 1 can’t figure out how a Person would know she is so hand and that every one was admir. her !f she wasn't watching every- lone she passed to see if they were Padmiring her. phers, TWO STENOGRAPHERS., eee F Will Woman's Immodesty Undo Nation? Dear Miss Grey: Iam glad at last |“ mings that bps remedy | there is to be a discussion on “wom.|™made from roots and herbs, goes to F\ : . ee ovens rogh tg» ae a 2 bs PB ny an jhe hite kid, Nubuck the avenues for free speech on that | © jes pan CaaS J . . * *) : Pine are opened up in your columns, |headaches, nervousness and irrita-| and reignskin, with mil- Dam shocked, mortified and horr bility, they would be healthier, hap-| BS io tnrnodecl tasticne ae tng |pler and stronger. “If you sufter tary or French heels; $8.00 to $12.00 oO pO ‘ema 2. | y. It looks as tho this country |from any form of female ills why values, and all good styles. Sizes to was fast drifting into uncultured | don't you try it? It will pay you to/ og ea = . heatheniam or cannibalism, and we|do s0—Advertisement. | Cor OF b THE PoUNY 4 only—$3.00 pair. Will soon wear no clothes 1 | God sent a man from > h fo this country ten years ago ‘to warn 122 1221 Third Ave COR UNIVERSITY ta| ‘The town of Digny, France, was Yours for more sensible stenog- | sisted by William Stowell, who lost| ™*lt his life recently in a train accident in Africa. M. J—Apply kerosene dally to your warts and you ‘will discover! that they will fall off in the course of several weeks and leave no scars. Do not attempt to remove birth marks. Consult @ reliable surgeon if you feel that they MUST be re- moved. | Very Anxious.—-This state has no widow's pension law. Perhaps you have reference to the mother’s r sion law. You may learn about this law by consulting the juvenile court, 200 Broadway, Seattle. xpoon oftee, 1. A. MI know of no way you} may strengthen your ankles and} make them amaller except to wear high topped shoes, laced firmly, it| you do not care to wear ankle braces. | | reduced in population from 10,000 to| 1,500 by a plague in 1629. | The library of Dijon, France, Ras |more than 80,000 volumes and 900 | Manuscripts. WOMEN MAY BE STRONG and enjoy life whether in the hom or business world if they can keep} at bay those ailments pecullar to| |their sex. If every woman realized} how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable| | | lo | constantly fish with jsalt and pepper. Add of cold water paper “Oh, give me some mo ~Adv. Jim Boldt!" cup of ANISH Shopping fatigue with a etd You'll want to take a pourid os home with you. FJ tablespoons butter, add %/ cup stale bread crumbs and % cup } milk and cook until smooth, stirring 1 cup cold flaked 1 tablespoon lemon juice Add 1 egg Well beaten with \% table won with Fil buttered indi. vidual molds % full of mixture and set into a pan of hot water. with buttered minutes in a Cover and bake 320 moderate oven. re of “th at my method of teaching you t variations of the popular da nae oF awkwardness m he @ failure &@ specialty of Indy beginners. MISS BRIGHT Pine. 1004 4th, Main 6272 % teaspoon vanilla, Pour thi the ustard, it is delicious is on slices of bread and bake like a Well, tell her, to mention the fact that Augustus diet and the use of @ moderate Rext tried to steal thone rings—nor ' amount of bromide, —when “‘delicious and re~ freshing’’ mean the most. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY + ATLANTA, GA, 8 Ladvised before, not |lar methods of living, well-balanced | There is a style and size to fit you in this lot of brown hid, black kid, black suede or patent, in military or French heels. All were this season’s models and worth $8.00 to $11.00 a pair. Now, MAIL ORDERS FILLED Cash mane * or Exchanges at Your mvenience WHITE SHOES $3 White Pumps and Oxfords, mili- tary and French heels. Sizes 24 to 8— $3.80 (BASEMENT STORE) WN-W ON 122 AV 0-22 SECOND