Adding sweets only increases the evil. Even skimmed milk, which,, contains a large amount of protein, is better than a stick of candy for a starch fed child. Lenten Menu For One Day. BREAKFAST Baked prunes" oat meal and milk or cream, buttered toast and coffee. LUNCHEON Potato chowder and fried bread, orange and lettuce salad, tea. DINNER Turkish pilaff, hashed turnips, bean croquettes with cheese sauce, jellied apples. Potato Chowder. Put iy cup sliced potatoes to boil in 1 pint "of boiling water and add 1 sliced onion. When tender, rub y2 of the potatoes through a colander, then mix with the other half. Add 2 cups of milk and- season with salt, -o- pepper and butter. This should make 1 quart of chowder. Codfish, salt pork and crackers may be added for a more nutritious meal. Turkish Pilaff To 1 cup of soup stock add 1 cup boiled rice and cup of strained to matoes. Stir in 3 tablespoons but ter and simmer 10 minutes. Hashed Turnips Chop boiled turnips, but do not let them get mushy. To 3 cups of tur nips, add 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 table spoon of butter and 4 tablespoons of water or meat gravy, and season with pepper. Cook until the turnips have absorbed all of the seasonings. . o o At the time Columbus made his discovery, the North American con tinent had only one domesticated animal, the dog. o- 'HOSETTES" MAY SHOCK CENSORS, BUT THEY ARE TO BE WORN ON STREET Half a stocking may be shocking or not according to the observer. Some may think half a stocking considerably better than a whole one. For the censors, there's quite a lot of shock waiting, according to early shop showings. ''Half hose" remains, however, the trade name fJr the masculine variety. The feminine form is called -ho-settes." They are to be worn with street suits as well as beach cos tumes. There is a cunning little garter in the overturned tops, so that they may not become "quarter" hose, i Quite as revealing is the stocking with the open front. This is design ed to wear with pumps. The edges of the oval are held together by a tracery of gauze ribbon bowknots and flowers, to be lined only with nature's flesh tints. The Latest in Plaids. I Even conservative hosiery is so