The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 11

American ‘Ugly Ducklings” Know How to Turn Into ‘Swans’ They Know the Coquettish Role Is Not for Them, Therefore They Just Try to Please and Be Good Listeners, and Gain Real Charm Bleventh Article in @ Series on American Girls and Women Through the Byes of the Brilliant English Authoress. By May Christie ‘ (Copyright, 1922, by May Christie.) T first I thought there were no homely girls in America, genus didn't exist in the United States, And then I met one, en desliabille, as 't were, and unprepared for the daily battle. (No—battle’s not the word—I should say “victory.”) She was staying in the same house-party for the week-end and I strayed into her room in search of some- thing and found er with her head tied up in a towel and her face all smeared with a weird concoction known as tissue-builder, after what I think she called a ‘mud facial,” though I den't know what that is. She laughed. m as homely as a mud fence, don't you think?" said she, staring at her little pug nose in the glass. That was a roser. I've been so accustomed to good- looking girls since landing in this country that the sight of a plain face startled me! And my wits deserted mo, so I said nothing. “Watel, bow T do it,’’ she proceeded, chattily. ‘Well, I'm uot here to give away any beauty secrets, though I'll say she was extremely clever and when she'd fromed ber, face over with fco and done a few little tricks Like that, she looked considerably better. But, even so, how was it that T Yadn't thought of her as homely, heretofore? 2 That day I watched her. And 1 Jearned exactly why it is that the homely girl Isn't homely tn America (hough she generally is, In other countries!) and why the men of the party all liked the pug-nosed girl, and the most eligible of the crowd attached himself to her! So I'll divulge the news. Virst of all, she'd done her best with her appearanec, and then forgotten It. (Oh, what an art!) No brandishings of the powder-puff and Np-stick be- fore the men! No stenting with one ear to his prosy tale of business deals end two eyes on the nearest mirror to actly how she looked! (Men listraite’ girl.) in life [ thin: she'd learned ahat it not her the pert, coquettish role of her prettier sisters. She must never be airy, flippant, coy, or ‘‘difficile."” She must always, always strive to please. To say the nice thing, the right thing at the right moment, evince the proper amount of sympathy ood intelligent interest, To flatter skil- while avold- The pathetic observe ¢ hate a Early was for fully and continuously, ing fulsome shoals. ‘Her will to please, T gathered, was terrifically strong—and tn proportion to her homelines: She bad forced herself to be unselfish. She was sympathetic to nth degree. She Was an excellent listener. She had yead a lot, and—though sbe didn't brandish ber knowledge in the faces of the men—could meet any of them Copyright on a higher mental plane than could Brows Publishing Compii the other girl 8 A RULE lamp shades are rather And always she was nice. Nica A difficult to make, but any manners, nice expression, nice ways ot doing unobtrusive little tyings. who is handy with a needle car “I think Miss Blank's awfully Very easily make a shade like the ont fascinating," sald a man to me. shown in the smaller of the two “I think she's charming,” I replied photographs above. It is m and meant it. And I knew he'd never, never know porcelain blue transparent tafte she'd ever been the ugly duckling that >, lined with rose colored ribbon hud turned into a swan! is trimmed with row rose colored ribbon to mateh the lining Ribbon wide enough to cover t K d th B widest space between the 2 di eed the Brute | vincns teteaurea bing the win F frame with rose colored silk to form a Savor i, foundation to which the rest of avorite Recipes material can be sewn. ‘Then sew tl blue and rose colored ribbon togethe 5 so that the wrong side of one will be Lemon Pie facing the wrong side of the othe and attach it to the frame By WILL DEMING, Editor. y covering " one a time. ribbon HR PLANS, Th Bs SUptUL ayo ia Ge agen on lenethwice Hegia of sugar mix thoroughly @ ning at bottom and working up heaping tablespoonful and until the top d, Then cut a he@ of flour, Grate the skin of off and do to each panel = until the rely covered La Jemon: and s@¢..t Pesce iene Each panel i outlined with narrow dd the yolks of two eggs and @ CUP yosc colored satin ribbon which i of water, also a pinch of salt. Stir’ pleated. This not forms trim this thoroughly, al! together, Put into ming but covers 8 An oval @ double boiler and let it cook until des of the pleated ribbon is it is thick and smooth, Then pour placed in the centre lower p it into the cdoked pte crust. Add a of each panel and ts caught at the teuspoonful of water to the whites of bottom by a small flower. This shade the eggs and a pinch of salt. Then is particularly effective when a light beat until stiff, Cover your ple with is placed under it as the rose color \his mixture and then sprinkle gran- showing through the blue ts very ulated sugar on top of the meringue. pretty and throws a soft cheery ray Don't mix the sugar and the me- over the room ringuc, Put under the broiler to The other interesting article fea brown. tured can be mare to © two pur THE CRUST: Mix two good sized poses, It can be made to cover an fablespoonfuls of lard with one and Uusly telephone or it can be us a co malf cups of flour, Mix this with shade for a night light ex your fingers thoroughly until it fecls tremely simple to make us there is no jike corn meal, although much larger, limit to the number of ways it can be Add icv water until the mixture holds designed © Ono pictured 18 ‘de toget en roll on a floured board, signed fo er, In ma In baking the crust for a lemon pie, ing it the do is to tak two pieces of ribbon wide ough to go over each shoulder and of a doll especially made for articles of this kind and by zs them te, down in the front and bach they SSS walk cxoes each ober and fasten thei itt puncture the crust all over with a fork or bake {t on the outside ¢ tin ef your This from ¢ pie veping. will keep it Lampshade and Phone Cover You Can Make for Xmas Fables for the Fair Anywife’s Letter to Santa Claus By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening, World) Press Publishing Company. MORAL: Better a Red Rose Where Lovels, Than a Christmas Check and Indifference Therewith. EAR SANTA CLAUS: Please whisper in the ear of that I know you have a lot of things iets of yours who fs my hus- i amas and, on your mind at this time of gna tent him what ‘to give me for Christmas— And what NOT to give me! Virst of all, Santa, tell him to buy something for ME— ‘Not something that is advertised as “what every woman wants’! He ought to know me well enough by this time To know that I don't wear breakfast coats and boudoir caps, T have, myself! (1 simply must remember not to send back to Sally the little china boud- oir clock she gave me last year, And which was a nice present, Bxcept that I haven't any boudoir, And the clock stopped after running two hours. Because I think they're sloppy! But I've kept it wrapped in tissue “Byery woman’ may want them— paper: I DON'T! T hope, too, that he won't try to make my Christmas morry By giving me something useful and domestic, Such as new chairs for the dining- And it will be all right @ send to one of the girls— Only not to Sally.) Probably, too, the childre are driv- ing you mad, Santa— i whee Aes aA ey N— at ever so many marrie (They are me!): persons Since all the ten-year-old girls want inlaid enamel dressing tables And all the boys want automobiles! on ie oN like Seite ones mae Hen ; . at is the sort of thing they like! Aeverthcless) Cat soing o/ola the 5.) whan t ani remembered In auch « throng of your petitioners fashion, Santa, ~ And ask you a great favor—this is it: I feel as defrauded as the child whose sensible parents Pin Christmas tags on shoes, or on a new coat, and let {t go at that! Nevertheless, Sunta, thére's some- thing worse my husband can do— He can say It with a check! Don’t let him, this yeart When a man gives his wife a check for Christmas, It means that he's forgotten to buy her anything until too late; Or that he hasn't enough power of imagination, combined with power of obese: jon, To choose a gift for her; Or that he doesn't care any longer, And is paying his Christmas tax j ag be pays all his other taxes, In the easiest and quickest way. What I really want my husband to give me Christmas morning Is @ lover's gift! It needn't cost a lot, unless he can perfectly well afford it, but— It must be something just for me—not for any one else in the household; Something I'd never buy for myself, Something he’s heard me wish for, Something I didn't expect— Oh, Santa Claus, you know—ana he ought to know! And whatever {t be, he must with a kiss— ic teal it THE kiss that means ‘TT love your’ Vor Anywife's present from her hus- band Is about as tender and affectionate and merry a tribute as ALIMONY Without that Christmas Seal! “First Exchange house gifts on the twenty- fifth of December; fopsright, 1922 ¢ w York Session Jackson and Peter Man sear of high school. wet ty d ‘Soon to enter the this to-di Hons to thwarts? * Seep love, FIRST LOVE FLICKERS. OUSIN BILL fairly took Jessie's C breath away, When Peter in- troduced him after school ono bright, snappy winter day Josule passed through all the stages of “love at first sight." First love is usually a Paul and Virginia affair, beginning with ehildren and lasting through tire adult stage, but love at first sight is something which simply takes you off your feet. It 19 moro refreshing than a breath of ocean air or a coo! shower t the walstline, Then gather the ribbon at the back and front to the stline to form the skirt, leaving twelve inches loose at each side for ops, which are made by tacking on a sultry day in August. the centre of the loose ribbon to the F side of the doll. Ribbon wire ean then When Jessie Jackson came out of le placed In the centre and on the School after a long, hard examination wrong side of the loups to make them consisting mainly of conjugations of stand out. The skirt 1s loft open in Latin verbs, and looked into the face the front so that the flaps can be of a keen, shrewd, strapping fellow of drawn back when the telephone is in twenty-five who was young enough to us ‘ow pale pink ribbon which have a boyish, clean-cut complexion js pleated is used to trim all the and old enough to say just the right thing, the whole world took on a dif- Kitchenette Kinks From Evening World Readers. Cay (New York Evening World) Prevs Publishing Compa SOAP SUDS MIXER. brush {s easily washed and quickly HT an empty evaporated milk “tes: Mi d.M G can, remove the top and make KILLS INSECTS. & handle of cord, punch about Whether because the arartment el building is new or whatever It was, insects were drawn to the so it got to be a nuisance. I nated them by painting all my cloxets with cedar oll. ‘That costs a little at but pays in the long run, G. A REAL ECONOMY. ht holes in bottom of can. Put in cake of soap, hang on hot water fuucet and, by letting the water run through the can, you get plenty of suddy water for your dishes or wash- ing without handling soap, G, L, WATCH 'EM COOK, T use the glass covers from my ,, After striking a match 1 always put iding it astde until I have enough to start heat re pudding dishes instead f or i a tire, which answers tho name pur- of tin or enamel pot covers when 4 one ean ep tert ore boiling pe or anything that POs? as wood, get a i tory result. Ly DISHES WON'T SLIP ON ICE. needs watching. I can easily see through the glass cover what progress the cookery is making without lifting If you want to stand something on up the cover and letting the steam the ice and not have it slip off, put @ escape B. EB. BE. few rubber rings from jars on the PAINT BRUSH FOR CAKES, !ce- 8 When my kitchen fire and I 1 keep a small paint brush in my want to bake potatoes, I always open kitehen for the purpose of applying the lid neur the flrebo: v the of ¢ milk or melted butter potatoes in and they bak so time, 40 breag, div crust of dessexia, The BR Li te SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, By Caroline Crawford. You Can Begin Reading This Story ‘To-Day. 7 wr HY srosnenrte from chile abosd ral their last in iat nt a. Others come Into thelr lives and many Instances ative which might have parted then. tesin begun In childhood days. can mursive tempta- mee Fork Wesnane Werte ‘The Press Pub. Os. Can You Beat It! ‘Trade Mark Reg. 0. 6. Pat. Oft. LETS GOIN HERE JOHN AND GET A PARLOR SET FOR MOTHER. FOR X MAS LET S GO IN HERE TOHN AND C7ET A FUR C FOR. AUNTIE =. LET S Go In HERE TOHN AND GET A ~ SILWER PLATTER FOR GRAND MA 5 Love” EAR DEPRESSED ONE: D So long as the spirit of giving is in the air, why ents you receive and perhaps you will have more next Christ- “Then please telephone about furs, and stop off at th ferent hue ivertises white kid glove First love flickered down By Maurice Ketten LET'S GO IN HERE JOHN AND GET A CAR FoR LETS Go IN HERE POR Sou Fons The Jarr Family By Roy L. ver sald ‘ not give thanks? You are, at Conyriaht, 1928 (Now York vent least, alive and should be grate- $ $6f WONDER if you will tx ful for that busy to-day? asked Mrs, Jurr f "Oh, about o usual ankf iT re . Be thankful for all the pres areata to a tiny flame while lov fret $ Mas, Be sure to remember that Advactiabal We ied elven is sieht docket tothe aes the spirit of giving should,last all oe NOY ome 4 ; “Peter has written me scores ot $ the year around — every day % Fowl wit i they die, ore & pall times about J. nev sie Jackson but letters describe people should be Christmas, Going Down! the way they just for to-day, und even if t do g d the you 4 “ Faithfully, a chanee to go downtown T have so are,"* smiled ‘ youne Hee, “i am ; TURE things ts attendee that avon? an Ohio man, but thie is not my firs ALFALFA SMITH. in ablo to go to this store, and I sur trip to New York. If 1 had known just what type of girl Jessie Jackson @ res pose it will be Just crowded with was Iam quite certain T should havo been more dutiful in visiting my rela- tives while in the city.’ ° The trio turned into the park. Jes- 1 a § sie noticed that Prter realized 1 et ata weit By Sophie Lrene Loeb preasion as he trudged ling crowd.” ; sell Tin il aboUl ou raNG ambae H Tal trong—the {dol of his mother’s heart, you want and what you ate i going to do. 1 Hill as he took her 1 pride ' farnil arm and ted to a bench whieh And he 1 Ip but know ef hfs charming manner, was poreened by ow bs That brought him tor und sweet smile Squirrels frisked by t an, With many @ 4rvut rowa perched on the nearby bench and tn the We t red 1 4 rendezvous und many an escapade of t sun was slowly sinising anid art lower; Hut » fond parents cried, I'm going 4 § soon as J He he ts sowing hig wild oat Ret ont of Dos * 8 told him ‘ eagerly. “I have been ta a Teg if n alon lar stenog t along ie the day when they were upon I wish 3 yaure ih ‘ om dire distress and e'en d bai asa sabi ma heart . But surely you de ntend to be a con stenographer al) your Ss ‘No, only I think every rl of i 1 the at he present age fecls that she mu un and a of ablo to earn her own living. We n \nd again they paid ' and longer Ite to depend upon our father tree ¥ or the men we marry More 1 Then he told her what he was gr Experier h , Ing to do, He had never had an ey And ¢ nely bel portunity to go through high sel Phen ¢ ature {nto lite Fils father died when he was four \ trust took} « teen and he. had been thrown on wu ear his own resources and oblige ‘ support a pwed moth 1 had studied and 1 phe wt ¢ twice as much ¢ head buyer teamed store in Ohio and wagered he gt ! the w vault twice as much salary us the average \ t ¢ man of his o The sun was disappearing, Even \ t mo doa the sparrows had lef ‘ they I und 1 know too her to the station ust ast And t ’ el t eaped wh t train was about to pull ‘tain And ¢ v tt n, look from Jessie made Bill © That bits, continu " train and ¥ 1 to Pet Un broken, Monday—Jossio’s Father and Bill, Aud vsyer Lring weede of Wom N ING 12. te &h McCardell. ss Publishing Company. stmas shopping women, Why do they always turn out when a thing udvertised and jam around the spe- cial es Ull a person can't get neat *t Mrs. Kittingly you'd s tickets for her,’ ingly. “She om for to-night but they told” that they were all sold out f weeks and she just won't pay speculators’ prices.'* “Well, Mrs, Kittingly can afford to wait,” replied Mr. Jarr. ‘Besides, when I told you that 1 would be busy to-day, as usual, [ meant by that T would be very busy. IT certainly will not have time to run the gantlet at iny Lersain counter and order you home any gloves. And T certainty won't and cannot get any theatre theke Mrs. Kittingly at box offtee pri when they are all sold out ead for weeks, By jeorge! Women a nery She hasn't a single but to run around, and the expects me to go get theatre tiek- 1 did try to get m)*? 1 Mrs. Jarr, ‘and she will pulnted if you do not get because I told her you T can't!" snapped Mr. Jerr.’ on't Intend to try, and I sup- | he wore about it! uess not!" sald Mrs, Sarr, t forgot about ft, She if out to do any- so why should we put for her? And you out the gloves, either, 1 can be fitted, and per- n't exchange those bar- ephone about your furs, i | Mr, Jarr, surprised that s not being reproached for re- to do things for his wife and and friends. you needn't mind about th “said Mrs. Jare amtably, "2 n't think we'll have very eald ther for a‘while yet and, anyway, promised to tix them up right 1 them to me; telephom: } uidn't make them hurry an they are.’ r went down the street amut- himself. Was he g to azy or Was there something wi with Mrs, Jarr? Should he bave > see a specialist; was there any< ng wrong? But--and then Mr. Jar rinned to himself and remembered that it was drawing near to the pleas ant, present Christmas-tide, and that the tactful wives at this season of the year belleve kind words are ag bian@ mpun the walter, _ el! ba