The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 8

We offer nothing for snobs, hypocrites or para- sites. We do not specialize in sob stuff, sex stuff, new isms or ologies, exotic customs or manners, or the latest creeds and fads of the neurasthenics. We believe that the popular tasté is infinitely _ better than the shut-in eclectics and common scolds dream of, and we intend to prove our con- {ception by giving our vast family of readers the very best and most wholesome in literature and | art and all-round helpful suggestions.,. <* [A husband who will do the famlty washing and _ ‘call it a lark is a pretty good sort—particularly if he makes a good job of it. Millions of husbands know how to wash babies, though they rarely boast of it. Dishwashing is an all-family job in most homes where there is pull-together har- mony. All of which puts us pretty solidly on a self-help basis as a nation./” The editorial program of The Journal is self- help one hundred per cent., lr la > Carre, wan 2 Aiaallirn Tree, Johnny Funny-Bunny and the Tadpole Baby ‘By Harrison Cady, “There's a cute baby down on Tinkham's Mill Pond,” said Li'l’ Timmy Meadow Mouse, “that's been under water for nigh onto three days.”,— Both of Johnny Funny-Bunny’s pink ears twitched with surprise. _. Hegathered together his wife and children and they all rushed down to the pond to see the new baby with no hands or feet. 4 Harrison Cady tells the whole story for the kiddies in the Febru- ary Home Journat, and, best ofall, he has painted pictures in full color which can be cut out and stood up. « + « « Children of all ages love the Cady Cut-Outs.y ATen-Cent Bowl May be Made Beautiful Luster china {s expensive when you buy it in the stores. Yet you needn't be an artist to do this sort of painting— Dorothea Warren O’Harra, whose painted china and glass are models of the art, tells every step in luster painting. Dresses Rich With Embroidery Paris has furnished the ideas for a score of lovely Sarrejeree Lf touches that are shown in the February Laptes’ HOME JOURNAL —such needlework as will make your summer clothes the envy of all our friends. There are ll directions for every stitch of the needle. THE SEATTLE STAR A Color Print. of the Church Where Washington Worshiped _ Jules Guerin has painted for the’ February Home Journat a full- page picture of the historic old Christ Church at Alexandria, Vir- ginia, where George Washington worshiped and was a vestryman, It is reproduced in full color—a print that you'll want to cut out and frame. Later it will be sold for one dollar. You get it now as one of more than two score features in Tue Home Journat for twenty cents! Recipes from France and the Old South "Did you ever hear of Crame de Pommes? Can you make beaten biscuits, or a real chicken Bruns- wick stew? The February Journal has a French cook's own favorite recipes for cooking apples—and a Richmond woman's recipes for some of the good things that Vir- ginians ate “befo’ qe wah." 7 housands of Ome Half a Hill By Eleanor Hallowell Abbott ‘Take three letters sent into the past; three unexpected answers, a week-end in the country, a garrulous stage driver and a violinist who played only in the dark, and you have the makings of this absorbing mystery. <Seoap Ladies’ Home Journal stories are setting a high mark for interest and entertainment. And they are here in quantity as well as in quality. Besides the others mentioned on this page you'll find in the Feb- ruary issue { ‘ Out of the Fog" | By Grace Sartwell Mason The Silver Sixpence By Ruth Sawyer Little Deeds of Kindness By Byers Fletcher Don't Get Left Thousands of women missed the January issue of THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL be- cause they didn’t buy it on January L Don’t wait this month until the newsdealer says: Women yournal y FRIDAY, FEBRUARY | 4, 1927. ~ Have You Heard of the Homes at $4700 to $9000 Building costs, we're told, will take a tumble this spring, and very likely it will be possible for you to put up that house you have been dreaming about. One thing is sure—the small house, planned for economy in construction and in housekeeping, is the “Sorry —sold out!” The way to be sure of getting the beautiful big February issue is to Buy It Today . Going to Give a Party on Valentine’s Day? © Everyone had a good time at the party Claire Wallis de- ecribes in the February Home Jovrnat, and you'll make a hit with all your friends if you follow the suggestions in A Valentine Party in Five Reels. It’s movie stufl—and heaps of fun. The Tanger Hetworhy Hall To my cousin Allan Banna- tyne,” the eccentric millionaire’s will read, “that he may learn the thoughts and emotions of his fel- low creatures by human experi- ence, I bequeath a summer at the New Clothes Dictator in Paris? @ “Her name ison every fip and her gowns on almost every fashionable woman in Paris,” writes Mary Brush Williams in the March issue of Toe Lapres’ Home Jour- NAL. “She caters only to the rich and exclusive, but, in spite of herself, she is setting the spring fashions. You can tell one of her creations by its rigid plainness and the skill ” But there, there, you will want to read this entertaining and enlightening article for yourself. ' In addition to a lively account of this new star in the fashion world, the article contains the fullest kind of infor- mation about the new spring and summer fabrics. Rodier has disclosed his most cherished secrets, and the newest models from Callot, Doeuillet, Drecoll, Molyneux, Berthe Hermance, Poiret, Bulloz, Chéruit, Leon,| Beer, Agnés and others are shown in both sketches and photographs. If you are planning to make some clothes for your self the fashions with patterns in this issue will make a strong appeal to you. They are smart and wearable © and anyone can make them) Presenting Charlotte Walker in her newest picture— How to Dress Your Hair -7AWrre MarGo Att Darwith _ out getting the house cleaned up, if she is in good humor; but if she is mad at her husband she can give — the place a thorough cleaning ia an hour.” in his record of the doings of Bum bleton Folks. Household Linens That Will . ~~ Make a Woman Proud * thing for 1921. + « « Ladies’ Home Journal architecture has long been a model—there are whole towns of Ladies’ Home Journal houses. In the February issue there are pictures and plans of _Five Small Houses - that will offer valuable suggestions to the 1921 home builder. The costs are reasonable—{rom $4700 to $9000. It’sNotTooEarly to Think of the Rose Garden « “You buy a pound of candy fora dollar, and in an evening it’s gone. If you should put that candy dol- lar into a rose plant you would have several years of enjoyment as the plant came to bud and blossom, to beautify your garden and your home. - J. Horace MacFarland, who knows roses of all kinds better than almost any other man in Am- erica, has written for the February Home Journaan article about his favorite flower that tells the whole story of the roses—how to prepare the soil, when to plant, how to care for the bushesand the varieties that have been found best for your particular part of the country. 4 Saving Fifty Million Dollars by; Thrift ‘The feflow who wrote that old saw about taking care of the pen- . mies must have come from Lancas- ter County, Pennsylvania. That's the home of Thrift. The farm people in that county piled up $50,000,000 last year. Basketeer- ing was one way they saved. If you need more money you may find a suggestion in this article. Ole in the Februiry Ladies The Seven Conundrums 5 (By E. Phillips Oppenheim. “| St will fall to your lot,” she told ber suitor, “to kill the only man I have ever really cared for.” Strange indeed was the courtship of Naida Modeschka, of the Rus sian ballet—Yor it was a courtship of death itself—death directed by Mephistopheles. In The Seven Conundrums, of which this story is one, Tae Laptes’ Home JournaL has obtained the best work/Mr. Oppenheim has ever done, fashionable summer resort of Sea- ward.” The young psychologist took the gift, though he didn’t want it, and he became The Target in this unusually clever story by an unusually clever writer. Read it, in the February Lapies’ Homa Joumnat.’ The New Senator’s Wife Made 650 Calls; Spent $50 on Visiting Cards, and More for Taxicabs Than for Food ‘The new Administration will bring to Washington new Cabi- net officers, new Senators, new Representatives—hundreds of them, all told, to whom the cus- toms of official society in the Capital City are utterly un- known. . . . Many a new senator's wife is going to wish that her husband had never ¢ into politics when she learns the routine of z calls that she must make, the social ranks that she (7m; must observe, the difficulties of diving properly and entertaining f in the/right way. The Primary School of Politics for Women F The new woman voter's first ballot was cast for President, but now she is going to the bottom of this political busi- ness and learn it from the fround up. In an article in the February JOURNAL Elizabeth Jordan tells where the start should be made. Read Educa- cation for Citizenship. gon Keyes, wife of Senator Keyes, of New Hampshire, has written from her own experience as a new senator's wife, and the pictures she gives of society in the Cabinet and Senatorial cir- cles of Washington's official sea- son are vividly entertaining and amusing. Withanew gress coming in soon you'll be interested in learning what Mrs. Senator from your state will find in store for her, Mrs. Keyes’ article inthe February Lapigs’ Home © Journat is full of -— personalities and Ving, anccdotes. -~ F Every woman who sews will welcome the page in the Febru- ary Journal of Artistic Italian Hemstitching on Household Linens, with full directions for making the tea cloths, table cloths, tray covers and runners. Why Your Child Should Eat Spinach ‘It's good for him,” you say: Yes, but why? And why milk? Why butter? Why strin: beans? Why eggs? i con- tain vitamines, the newly di ered mysterious force that controls and life. Read Maki riends With Vitamines, an regulate your children’s diet so they'll be strong boys and girls, Dainty Things for Baby “Apretty new sweater; some new handmade dresses from Belgium— easy to copy; a muff for the baby- carriage handle; a nursery screen with handy pockets; a bib that is different; a pillow cover. These things, pretty for the baby and a joy to the mother, are shown ina splendidly helpful page in the Feb- ruary Home Journau. / You can easily duplicate” ‘the beautiful pieces you see in the big specialty shops, for the price of the plain linen cloth, a few spools of thread and a little time. « e » Don't f picturts old ull direntognall ; The February Edition Is More Than Two Million Copies * The February tssue of Tas Laprgs’ Home Journat is a book of 172 pages, containing 44 sepa- rate and distinct features—short stories; installments of novels that later will sell for $1.75 to $2 in book form; inspiring spe- cial articles on a great variety of interesting subjects; and helpful departments of fashion news and 172 Pages _ 20 Cents: Eo ra ois eee = * patterns, housekeeping Ideas, needlework, entertainment, gare dening and architecture; besides poetry and colored pictures me able for framing. More than two million pe will be printed, but unlesi post buy today you may be disappointed, as thousands of women were dis appointed last month, There bone Jo are-only two ways to buy Tmt Laptzs’ Home JournaL—bysube scription at $2 a year (address ‘The Curtis Publishing Co., Phila- delphia, Pa.) or from a newsboy ¢ newe-stand at 20 cents a copy 2.50 a or 25 cents a copy in Canada). The February edi- tion is sure to be exhausted quickly— Buy Your Copy Today} So says Claude Callan © A OER BENS