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Plain and Striped Awning Fabrics
i BY I.YDIA LE BARON WALKER.
awnings add decoration to the outside of houses and
make the rooms more delightfully livable than those
. WITHOUT SUCH MUCH-NEEDED PROTECTION.
Awnings are not only decorative fea
tures of a house, but they add decided
comfort for the occupants of the
dwelling. They have become well
recognized assets from both angles.
Fortunately, women can make their
own awnings for the veranda that is
so sunny during most of the day that
it cannot he enjoyed as it should, as
well as for the windows that must
have shades drawn and the air thus
shut out unless awnings are used,
when the hot weather is with us.
The point of first consideration is
the kind of awning material to buy.
There are so many varieties nowadays
besides the old-time red and white
“awning stripe.” There are plain
awning cloths in white. deep
pumpkin color, green, dark tan,
blue, etc. These are often used by
exclusive decorators, who use band
ings of contrasting colors, sometimes
stitched on in straight lines, only to
form stripings near the edges and
folds of the finished awnings, and to
bind the scalloped or geometrically un
even edges of the valance portions.
Sometimes the bandings are used to
carry out corner-piece designs or sim
ple fretwork effects in borders. Or
again, the awnings are not so orna
mented, but are bound with the con
trasting color.
Novelty Awnings.
These plain awning cloths lend
themselves admirably to various
schemes which the home decorator can
copy. If she does not wish to go to
the trouble of appliqueing the strips
of cloth, she can rule straight lines to
form inch bands or those a little wider
to outline edges, spacing them far
enough above the edges to allow a
width of the awning to be between the
band and the rim. These bands can
then be painted in the contrasting ;
color. Great care must be used to
keep the painting from overlapping !
the ruled lines. Such ragged edges of
paint immediately indicate the work
as that of an amateur. Professional
work is crisp and precise.
Decorations in Paint.
This matter of painting awnings is
not left to the amateur alone. It is
often done by expert decorators who I
carry out designs with interlacing
bands that would form bulky places il' j
done in stitched bandings. Stencil cor- ;
ner-piece designs can be bought from
stores carrying such patterns. Simple i
ones similar to the Greek fret are rec
ommended for use on awnings.
Painted Stripes.
Awning cloth with stripes painted
on the plain material can be bought
at a cheaper price than that paid for
fabrics with woven color stripes. The
same grade of awning cloth comes in j
both styles. I know from actual ex- '
perience that this will wear three sea - !
sons satisfactorily. If awning stripes
get dull and dingy-looking from the
constant exposure to sun and rain to
which they are subjected, try painting
the stripes, whether they were origi
nally painted or not, to give that
fresh, spick-and-span appearance so
desirable from the decorative view
point. The paint must be used very
thin and liquid so that the fabric is
not unduly stiffened.
IN THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK
As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luthur Burbank.
Overcoming Difficulties.
“Now that we have our fences
draped with trailing vines, what else
may he done to the hack yard before
planting the flowers?” I asked.
"It all depends on the size of the
yard.” said Mr. Burbank. "But even
a very small enclosure may have a
seat built against the end wall with
perhaps a path of stepping stones
leading to it. or placed where there
is a view of the garden.
"These stepping stones may he
made of flat rocks, if possible, or cem
ent. or pieces of broken cement side
walks, or of bricks laid in groups.
"Over the seat may be a simple
arch with curved or flat' top, on
which roses or honeysuckle may tie
grown, or, a light frame work can be
built for an awning in Summer, fur
nishing shade and privacy.”
"I have read of-one small city gar
den,” I recalled, "in which was built
a little pergola, only about 8 feet
long, covered with wisteria and near
enough to the house for Summer eve
ning suppers served on a narrow
table swung from the beams over
head. Japanese lanterns lighted the
scene and the city dwellers had the
joy of out of doors, hidden at the
same time from neighboring win
dows."
"All this and much more is pos
sible,” said Mr. Burbank, “and in
planning the arbors and pergola, a
bit of water somewhere must not be
forgotten. It might be a sunken bath,
or a little homemade cement pool, or
even a little fountain, which is not as
out of reach as it sounds.
"Now we are beginning to make
our back yard really beautiful, but
what are we to do with the clothes
lines and the ashcans and the garbage
barrels?" I asked.
'•The clothes lines must be reck
oned with." agreed Mr. Burbank, "and
if they must be a part of the garden
they must be a part of the general
harmony. If they be on a revolving
post, it can be placed at the back or
behind a hedge or trellis covered with
vines, or if the lines are stretched on
posts, the posts may be painted dark
green and at the base of each, climb
ers can be planted and trained to
ascend to the top and sometimes al
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WOMAN’S PAGE.
I If you wish to recover awning
i frames with new awnings, rip up the
old awning that was on it and use it
for a pattern. There are very few
seams and the work is not at all diffi
cult, though the material is heavy. See
that the irregular curved or dental
edge is cut with precision. In striped
awning material the stripes form good
: guides. Generally the dark color Is
t lie long part of the design. Curves
I are the same shape at the top as at
j the lower portions. White tape or
one in the shade of the stripe in the
awning is used for binding.
Momemade Awnings.
Where the man of the house is
handy with tools, simple awning
frames of wood can he constructed
from strips of wood. Two extension
; pieces for the "arms” have a cross
i piece of the width of the window fas
! tened to the ends. Other strips ex
j tending from the joined ends make
the hypothenuse angle pieces. This
skeleton frame is then screwed or
' cleated to the outside of the window
| casement. The frame should come a
little below the line of the middle sash
|of the window frame. The valance
portion makes the awning appear to
jl e lower than it really is. The awn
| ing can be tacked to this frame which
should be painted the color of the
! awning strips. Such awnings protect
j rooms from too much sun as well as
j the ready-to-put-up awnings on metal
! frames. The special advantage of the
I regulation awning is that it is ad
| justable. It can be lowered when
: needed, raised when days are cloudy,
I in heavy storms or when the wind is
high.
For Porch.
A veranda or porch that has no roof
can have an awning top made that
will shield it from sun and keep off
the rain. It will he necessary to have
strips of wood form posts to support
the awning. Across the top of these
posts, not more than 6 feet apart,
another strip of wood Is fastened.
The posts are as high as the awning
should come at the rail. A strip of
wood fastened to the house should he
enough higher than the front one to
allow for a good angle to be made
when the awning is up. If this Is not
done, the rain will not drain offi
quickly. The height of the angle de
pends upon the width of the veranda.
A wide veranda needs a much higher
angle. These posts and cross-pieces
may be painted like the house or the
trim.
Well Protected Porch.
When making the awnings allow
sufficient width for the valance to fall
well over the cross-piece, either the
dental or curved edge is decorative.
Il' there are any pillars or angles that
form irregularities where the awning
comes, the material should be care
lully cut to fit. This is especially
needed when mosquito netting or wire
netting is to be secured to the floor
of the veranda and the supports for
the awning. When protected by an
awning overhead and netting at the
sides, an open porch is transformed
into a veritable outdoor room, a sleep
ing porch, a hreakfast room or a liv
ing room, as the case is, and the cost
may be little.
lowed to run along the wires a little
way!”
"Or, as you suggested for the fence
posts." I ventured, “boxes might he
nailed on top of the clothes posts and
planted with trailing ivy, geranium
or nasturtium, like little hanging
gardens.”
"You see ingenuity grows by exer
cise," said Mr. Burbank, "and the
back-yard problem is not hopeless
after all.”
"Not even the ashcans and the
garbage barrels?” I said doubtfullv.
"No, because both offenders may
be pm in a corner and cleverly con
cealed with a little trellis or a shrub
with large leaves or a clump of plants
with good foliage.”
“One more ‘suppose’,” I said. “Sup
pose the hack yard is paved with
brick or cement, what then?”
"In that case,” Mr. Burbank
answered, “the beds for vines and
flowers would have to be against the
fence, and tubs or potted plants
placed on the paved ground; or a
boxed shelf about four feet above the
ground could be built along the sides,
filled with soil and planted with
flowers. Under the shelf, pots of
ferns or other shade-loving plants
could he placed.”
“Well, I think our scene is set now
for the company of Summer flowers!”
(Copyright. 1925.)
Layer Fish Pie.
Grease a casserole. To serve four
persons, have about one pound and
a half of fresh fish, either flounder,
hake, haddock, cod, or pollock, in
slices or filets, freed of all bones and
skin, one onion cut in very thin slices
and cooked, without discoloring, in
one or two tablespoonfuls of vegetable
fat until softened, and one cupful and
a half of pared and sliced potatoes,
parboiled in boiling water for about
eight minutes and drained. Set a
layer of fish in the casserole. Add a
layer of potatoes, another layer of
fish, the onion, a few bits of butter
or a sprinkling of vegetable oil, and
the rest of the potatoes. Sprinkle on
a teaspoonful of salt and about half a
teaspoonful of black pepper. Add hot
milk just to cover the potato. Bet
bake for about one hour. Serve in
the casserole.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. CL SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925.
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST
Grapefruit
Oatmeal with Cream
Spanish Omelet
Toast
Rice Waffles, Maple Sirup
Coffee
DINNER
Roast L'lirth
Green Peas Mashed Potatoes
Asparagus on Toast
Orange Bavarian Cream
Coffee
SUPPER
Creamed Mushrooms on Toast
Olives
Lemon Sponge Tarts
Tea
SPANISH OMELET
* Four eggs, four tablespoon
fuls of cold water; pepper, salt,
two tablespoonfuls of butter.
Melt the butter in a clean frying
pan. Beat yolks of egg, add the
water. Bent white and fold into
yolks. Fry one one side until
brown, set in hot oven to brown
the top. Serve with tomato
sauce on a hot platter.
ORANGE BAVARIA CREAM
Soften half box of gelatin in
half cupful of cold water, then
place over boiling water tint 11
dissolved. Beat the yolks of two
eggs. add one cupful of sugar,
one-quarter teaspoonful of salt
and one cupful of hot milk,
and cook In a double boiler
until the custard coats the
spoon. Remove from the fire,
add the dissolved gellatln
and the prated rind of two
oranpes. let stand five minutes
and strain. Chill, add the Juice
of four oranpes and one cupful
of heavy cream beaten until
stiff. Turn into a wet mold and
place on ice untU firm.
LEMON SPONGE TARTS
Cream one-quarter cupful of
butter with three-quarters cup
ful of sugar and add the’prated
rind of half a lemon. Reat three
epp yolks, add three-quarters
cupful of sugar mixed with four
tnhlespoonfuls of flour and one
quarter teaspoonful of salt, and
heat thoroughly. Comhine the
mixtures, heat until very light,
stir in gradually one and a half
cupfuls of milk, add the one and
a half tablespoonfuls of lemon
juice, fold in the stiffly beaten
! egg whites. Turn into gem pans
| lined with paste and bake in a
moderate oven until firm in the
center.
MOTHERS
AND TIIKIR CHILDREN.
Calling Children In.
"fe —<y
.H i "
One mother says: “I had a hook
put on the porch and in this I hang
their blue-and-gold school flag when
ever I want my youngsters to come
in. Their playmates know the mean
ing of this flag, too, so that if my
children fail to see it promptly they
are sharply reminded, “Your mother
wants you.’ ”
Tittle Benny!*
Note EtooK
Me and Puds Simkins had 5 cents
between us and we was going erround
to Mommy Simminses to buy a ice
creem cone between us and I dropped
one of my cents on account of holding
it too loose and it rolled a wile and
then stopped, us seeing ware it rolled
to but not ware it stopped at, and we
started to hunt for it, and after a wile
Puds wispered, Hay, I bet that guy
has got his foot on it and he’s just
waiting for us to go so he can pick
it up.
Meening some tuff looking kid
standing there looking at us with a
red swetter on and one foot out as if
there was something under it sutch as
a cent, and I wispered to Puds, Bump
into him as if it was a axsident and
we’ll see if he is or not.
You bump into him ferst, Puds wis
pered, and I wispered back, No, your
heavier than I am.
YVich he is, and the next time he
got neer the tuff looking kid he gave
him a bump but not mutch of a one,
and the kid sed. Hay, look ware your
going or go ware your looking, either
one of the 2, cant you?
Sounding even tuffer than wat he
looked, and me and Puds kepp on
looking, Puds wispering to me. Its
your tern, give him a good hump.
YVich I started to give him a fearse
one from the back, only I changed
my mind at the last second and ony
gave him a easy one easier than wat
Puds had gave him, and the kid sed.
Hay, the next one of you 2 guys that
bumps into me Im going to give them
a bust in the jaw.
Me saying, G, I slipped, and the
kid sed, O is that so, well the next
one of you 2 kids that bumps into me
Im going to give them a bust in the
jaw, see?
Me makipg secret faces at Puds
meening it was his tern agen, and
Puds starting to look nerviss, and all
of a suddin Jest then I found the cent
sticking half ways out of a crack be
tween 2 bricks and me and Puds quick
kepp on going.
Proving if you act hasty its a good
thing to be a little carefill at the same
time.
The Cheerful Cheruh
I overlook my p-a-st
Excuse them -Knci
condone tKerr.
Or, if they hurt my
yelP* esteem,
Wfth PirYan.e ss 1
disown, them.
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DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX
How Can She Cure Husband of Reading Habit?
What Are the Intentions of a “Steady”
of Three Years’ Standing?
QEAR DOROTHY DIX: I have been married a year and my husband and I
are very happy together. He treats me with the utmost consideration. Is
very-affectionate and I am sure Is the most unselfish man in the world.
But he has one fault which irritates me very much, and that is his
fondness for reading. He gets so absorbed in a book that he doesn't even
h if ar t Vhat 1 Bay to hlm - arul when 1 speak to him sharply about it he says
that he was right In the midst of a chapter and couldn't stop. If you could
suggest away to break him of this most annoying habit it would make our
evenings very pleasant. HOPEFUL.
Answer; It might make your evening pleasant. Hopeful, to spend it In
silly chit chat about ’he neighbors, and whether the Browns could afford the
new car they have bought, or In scandalizing vour friends, but how about
your husband?
Have you anything as Interesting to say to him as he is finding in the
hooks he is reading? Can you give him as great an inspiration as some great
writer does? Can you fill his mind with knowledge as does the printed book?
If you can, then break him of the reading habit. But If you can't, then
consider how selfish you are to ask him to give up his books for mere twaddle.
It Is a great mistake for people who have such different tastes as you and
your husband have to get married, and one wonders why a man and a woman
wait until after they are married to find out that they have so little in
common and that the tilings that one likes to do bore the other to extinction.
Y ou should have married a nice, gabby chap, who loved the sound of his
own voice, and who never read anything more than the sporting ]>age and the
headlines in the daily papers. If you had,-*w>u would have had a lovely time
gossiping together and going out to the neighborhood movies in the evening.
Y our husband should have married some woman who loved to read as he does
and who would have asked nothing better than to sit across the droplight
with her own book and her own fascinating world of letters.
Since, however, you have made the mistake of getting out of your own
class, the only sensible thing to do is to effect a compromise. Let your
husband talk to you for an hour after dinner, and after that you leave him
in peace with his book. As for breaking a man of the reading habit, that is
a practical impossibility. You could just as easily break him of the
dope habit.
lie craves his favorite brand of literature as an addict does drugs. In it
he finds stimulus, dreams that lift him out of himself, a nepenthe for every
ill. His craving for reading is never satisfied. He hungers and thirsts for if
and he seizes instinctively on every printed thing and devours it as a starving
man would food.
It is so hopeless to cure your husband of the reading hahit that I would
urge you to acquire it yourself, so that you might be companionable, and he
would cease to grate on your nerves. You can learn to like to read if you
want to. And once you acquire the book habit you will find out that it has
opened up to you the greatest joys and pleasures In life. Trv it.
DOROTHY' DIX.
• • • *
TNEAR MISS DIX: I would certainly like to he able to make a hit with the
weaker sex, which is apparently too strong for me. I am a college
student who goes in for athletics, dances, am ready for a good time, can talk
fluently and I own a car. I have plenty of dates, but there is always some
fellow that the girls like better. YVhat is it that girls want and look for In a
man? RALPH.
Answer: It seems to me that your accomplishments quite fill the bill
of the requirements of the modern flapper. Especially the car, as most girls
consider that a motor car is like the mantle of charity that covers very nearly
any disability a man might have.
Y'ou speak of girls ns belonging to the weaker sex. Perhaps therein
lies the reason for your failure to win one. There is nothing that women
resent so much as being patronized, and having a man pose before them as a
superior just because he wears trousers instead of skirts.
Chivalry and reverence for womanhood is a line that never falls to make
a hit with women, and it is particularly effective in college, where girls who
have given the boys a close run for the honors don’t take very kindly to the
tin-god stuff.
Girls don’t like boys who are fresh and familiar, who are such cheap
skates that they have to l>e paid with a kiss after they take them to a
30-cent movie or who make love to them the first time they see them. That’s
too sudden, and it isn’t convincing.
Girls don’t like boys who are egotists and whose conversational repertoire
consists of a monologue about themselves and their helongings. Nor do they
like hoys who brag altout their conquests with other girls. They know that
their own scalps will be exhibit No. 526 the next time the youth parades his
victims for the entertainment of another girl.
Girls don’t like sissy boys, nor do they like boys who pretend to be bad
men. Common decency demands that those who can’t be good shall at least
keep quiet about their sins.
Girls don’t like hoys who are hard to get along with and who always
have to be flattered and Jollied to be kept In a good humor. Perhaps among
these things that girls don’t like you will find some explanation of your lack
of popularity.
Girls don’t demand much of hoys, goodness knows. If they are even
reasonably well mannered, and Intelligent, and pleasant, girls will put up
with their shortcomings for the sake of having a beau. It is a great graft
to be born of the masculine persuasion! DOROTHY.' DIX.
• • * •
TAEAR DOROTHY DIX: I have been keeping company with a young man
for three years. We have very good times together and are together
four evenings a week, yet he has never told me he loves me. What do you
think his intentions are? JUST TWENTY-FOUR.
Answer: None, my dear. Absolutely none. A man who sees a girl four
times a week for three years and never tells her he loves her is never going
to pop the question. He isn’t in love with her. She Is just a good pal.
nothing more. And some day he will come along and tell her that she has
been the best friend a fellow ever had, and so she is the very first he is
going to tell the good news to, and that is that he is going to be married to
the dearest, sweetest, most wonderful little girl In the world. And he just
knows they will be such good friends! DOROTHY" DIX.
(Copyright, 1925.)
The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle
(Copyright, 1925.)
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1. Article of apparel.
5. More attractive.
9. Tune.
10. Possessive pronoun.
12. Epoch.
13. Girl’s name.
14. Girl's name.
15. Clear of charges.
16. Greek letter.
18. Malt drink. I
20. Instrument for measuring heat.
22. Caused by itself.
28. River in Switzerland.
29. Part of a curve.
30. To deface.
32. Suffix forming adjectives of
country.
34. Water (French).
36. Falsehood.
37. Town in Southwest France.
38. The whole.
39. British officer involved with
Benedict Arnold.
40. Places where money is coined.
Cincinnati Chicken.
Split lengthwise a pork tenderloin,
leaving the halves Joined. Pound the
meat of each side until about a half
inch thick. Spread with the following
stuffing: One cupful of bread crumbs,
one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, u lit
tle pepper, a slice of onion chopped,
one teaspoonful each of chopped pars
ley, pickles, capers and lemon Juice,
and a tablespoonful of olives peeled
and chopped. Mix into this one-fourth
cupful of melted butter and one beat
en egg. Arrange the stuffing so that
it will heap in the center, and sew or
tie the edges of the meat together so
that it will resemble a plump, boned
bird. Bake with careful basting until
well browned.
Down
1. Sanctified person.
2. Concealed himself.
3. Angry.
4. Tassel.
5. The choicest part.
6. Article of belief.
7. Before.
8. One who evaluates.
11. Each (abbr.).
17. Space for combat.
19. Prying device.
21. Money brought to England by
Danes.
22. City in the Punjab, India. i
23. Provided with oars.
24. Part of the stomach of an ox.
25. Hebrew prophet.
26. Sea.
27. Angelic beings.
31. Own (Scotch).
33. Continent (abbr.).
35. Altitude (abbr.).
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My Neighbor Says:
Always soak raisins before
putting them Into breads, so
they MiiJl not absorb the water
from the bread, making It dry.
If you have trouble making
custard puddings or pies, try
this way: Heat the milk in
stead of using it cold and beat
the eggs, white and yolks, sepa
rated, the whites not beaten
stiff, and set the pudding in a
pan of hot water.
Vinegar may be made from
the parings of apples or other
fruit, the easier way being to
cover them with cold water,
boil down as for jelly, then let
it drip through a coarse strain
er. To each gallon of juice add
a cup of sugar or sirup, put it
in a crock in a warm place and
fermentation will take place.
Milk which has been burned
shoujd be poured into a Jug and
set in cold water. When cold
the burnt taste will have disap
peared.
Heads of cabbage may be
kept several days bv first wrap
ping in a wet cloth and then in
several thicknesses of newspa
pers. Do not let the cloth be
come dry.
Use a vegetable brush in
cleaning celery. It gets down
into the grooves and prevents
the dirty-looking celery which
one often sees served even on
the tables of particular house
wives.
hen baking apple pies try
inverting a pie plate over the
pie if the crust gets too brown
before the apples are done.
HOME-MOTES
feiyaL
Decorators as well as collectors have
taken a flattering interest in silhou
ettes of late. They are charmed by
the fine point and contrast that these
little black and white profiles give to
old-time decorative schemes.
There is an amusing version of how
the silhouette received its name;
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Ktiv.iiiv uv .-ii.iioueue, .Minister of Fi
nance to Louis XV. taxed the nobles
so heavily that they were forced into
all sorts of economies. Extravagance
in dress hail to be curbed and tie
simple frocks that resulted were said
to be made "a la Silhouette.” Just at
that time little profile portraits came
into vogue, so they, too, were jestingly
said to be "a la Silhouette” because
they were mere shadows of portraits.
Some silhouettes were cut from
black paper, but many of the finer
ones were painted, some even with
colors.
(Copyright. 1025.)
What Tomorrow Means to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Gemini.
Tomorrow’s planetary aspects are
not very favorable for those exercises
or recreations that are usually asso
ciated with Sunday. They betoken a
disgruntled frame of mind, a dissatis
fied mind, and ever-present tendency
to carp and criticize, which, if not
curbed, will lead to loss of temper and
bitterness of spirit. After sundown,
the conditions very quietly change,
and become benign. Good enjoyment,
especially in the family circle, will be
experienced during this period, if you
have been able, in the earlier part of
the day, to exercise restraint, and
neither do nor say anything that
leaves a “nasty taste in the mouth.”
The child born tomorrow will not
display, during infancy, that robust
ness or good health with which, in
order to inspire confidence and fend
off worry, it should be endowed.
These physical conditions and weak
nesses can all be outgrown and lived
down, if proper care be exercised and
the right sort of nutrition given. Its
disposition will, in its early days, be
very much affected by health condi
tions, and it will be trying, fretful and
peevish. As, however, its physical
status improves, so will its disposition
reveal an Improvement, and, in course
of time, it will, although serious, be
contented and non-irritating. It will
possess an unquenchable ambition,
and if allowed to prosecute a career
in strict conformity with its tastes
and bent, will achieve more than
moderate success.
If tomorrow is your birthday, you
are endowed with a very pleasing
personality, and possess charm of
manner and a remarkable intelligence.
You, however, are just as prodigal of
your abilities as of your means, and,
relying on former successes, never
attempt to make any provision for
the future. You are always willing
to reveal all you know, and hold
nothing in reserve for those occasions
when your keen mentality would be
of great avail. In the same wav you
dissipate (this word is not used'in* its
generally accepted meaning) your sub
stance, and either will not or cannot
foresee the occasion that will one day
arise when regret will be in vain.
Well known persons born on this
date - are: Morris L. Keen, inventor;
John S. Stearns, temperance reformer;
Henry W. Grady, journalist; Richard
Mansfield, actor; George O. G. Bar
nard, sculptor, and Queen Victoria of
England.
(Copyright, 1025.)
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HOW IT STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
“Pell-Mell.”
To do something pell-mell is to do it
in Indiscriminate haste and confu
sion. The expression is commonly
used in every-day speech, but the per
son is rare who understands the allu
sion with the knowledge of how it
started.
The expression comes to us from the
old English game of pall mall or pail
mail, which was introduced during the
reign of Charles I and subsequently
became very popular in England. It
was a game in which a ball was driven
with a mallet, taking Its name from
the Italian "pappa magllo,” “palla”
meaning ball and ”maglio” hammer. In
quick pronunciation pail mail became
"pell mell,” and it was from the fact
that under certain circumstances In
the game the players would rush head
long at the ball that such heedless,
activity became to be described
as "pell mell.” And though the g.-i/ne
which brought It into existence has
served its time and passed out of ;he
picture, the expression "pell mell” has
survived in modern speech.
FEATURES.
Ramble Around South America
BY RIPLEY.
~ T*e LAST View
Sixtieth Day.
TJ. S. M. S. AMERICAN LEGION,
Pan-American Line. March 26. —Once
again lam aboard .ship. It is a larße
white ship flying the American flag
and belonging to the United States
Government. It is a rare and pleas
ant feeling to find yourself aboard
an American boat. I feel at home
already.
We are passing out through the
mouth of Guanabara Bay past the
forts of Sao Cruz and Sao Joao. We
are leaving Rio de Janeiro—-the River
of January—so-called by its discov
erer, Gonsalo Coelho, who first saw
the bay on January 1, 1502, and think
ing it the estuary of a great river,
called it by the name it now bears.
Hyman and Mori, the little Japa
nese captain, called to say bon voy
age and Sayonara. The little Nippo
nese was effusive and polife and shook
my hand several times ami he bowed
low and hissed. “You no get Spanish
shawl, sir?" he inquired. “I send you
from Japan. Best Spanish shawl made
in Japan. I send you from Kobe. Do
me honorable pleasure to accept shawl,
please, sir, good-bye, please,” he said
as he clambered down the gangway.
(And I bet he keeps his word.)
I walked out on deck to wat-ch the
last of Rio. Slowly this earthly para
dise faded into nothingness—Sugar
BEDTIME STORIES ■i.’SST
Old Orchard Champion.
A champion you sridom know
Until you see him law aloe.
—Peter Rabbit.
It was Scrapper the Kingbird who
first saw King Eagle high up in the
blue, blue sky. and at once gave warn
ing. All the birds stopped their chat
ter anH silence fell in the Old Orchard.
Most gouput of sight as much
as possible. Only Scrapper the King
bird remained out in the open. He
kept his perch and watched the speck
which he knew was King Eagle grow
larger and larger.
Now. there was little for the feath
ered folk to fear from King Eagle. In
the first place, he never had been
knotyn to visit the Old Orchard, and
there was no reason to think that he
would visit it now. Then, again, none
of the feathered folk in the Old Orch
ard were big enough to tempt King
Eagle to try to catch them. He
wouldn't waste his time with such
small folks as those living in the Old
Orchard. So there was no real rea
son for this hiding and sudden stlence.
It was due to just a natural fear of
one so big and strong and with such
great claws and such a hooked bill.
You know that King Eagle has won
derful eyes. From so high up in the
sky that he can hardly be seen from
the ground he can look down and see
everything, even so small a person as
Danny Meadow Mouse. So it was
that as he was passing high above
the Old Orelftrd he looked down and
saw something that interested him.
It was Peter Rabbit. In order to see
better, Peter had come out from the
shelter of the old Stone "Wall and was
sitting with his head tipped back,
staring up at King Eagle. You see.
Peter had seldom had a chance for a
good look at King Eagle and he was
making the most of this one.
King Eagle also saw that none of
those two-legged creatures called men
were about. He knew that his two
babies in their nest up on the Big
Mountain would enjoy a Rabbit break
fast. So King Eagle began to swing
in circles, and every time he came
around he was a little lower. He was
watching Peter Rabbit, and he was
watcher Farmer Brown's house to see
that no one appeared there.
Peter was so interested in watching
King Eagle that he never once
thought of danger. It didn't enter his
head that King Eagle might come
down there in the Old Orchard. So
he was startled so that he felt as if
he had almost jumped out of his skin
when Scrapper the Kingbird suddenly
screamed, “Run, Peter! Run!” He
had just sense enough to make a fly
WHEN WE GO SHOPPING
BY MRS. HARLAXD H. ALLEN.
Chinaware.
Every home-maker these days real
izes the supreme importance of using:
only sanitary dishes on her table,, but
perhaps few know just what the word
"sanitary” includes when applied to
china or how to go about making the
selections in her buying which will
Insure this quality in her tableware.
Now, the sanitary property of a dish
Is insured only through the thorough
"vitrification” of Its body and glaze.
This, of course, can be brought nbout
only by intense heat.
You know how crazing and discol
oring can ruin the body of any dish.
If the composition and firing have not
been just right, the glaze is likely to
contrast more than the body of the
dish, and the surface will then break
into hundreds of tiny cracks running
in all directions. This Is called "craz
ing.” If you put fruit juices or any
colored liquid into such a crazed dish,
some of the color will speed into the
cracks.
This crazing must be guarded
against If you would insure having
sanitary dishes. To prevent it the
dishes must have been subjected to
such a high temperature as to bring
the clays almost to the melting point,
so that the tiny particles are all fused
ns one. In that case the body of the
dish is no longer porous, but is as
solid as glass.
Os course, the purpose of a glaze on
an article is to make it impermeable
to liquid, as well as to add to its
beauty, but in the case of high-fired
china, even though the glaze becomes
injured, it does not absorb grease or
dishwater, because of the thoroughly
vitrified body.
You can tell the difference between
a dish that has the true china body
and earthenware or semi-vitreous ar
ticles if when a chip or break occurs
you apply :i\drop of ink to the broken
surface of the dish. The ink will sink
intQ the porous earthenware, but it
Loaf, Corcovada, Tijuca, Gavea, those
artistic contortions of some primeval
cataclysm, dissolved into a silvery
mist that seemed to fall like a cur
tain over a window of heaven.
I am going home.
As I turned from the rail after gaz
ing long at the blank curtain of sky
whereupon had flickered the most
beautiful travel picture in the world,
I heard a voice—a familiar voice.
“Hello, lad!”
“I wuz athinkin',” he continued, “of
Haig and Haig and Ferguson, my
Scotch friends that I had left so ab
ruptly in Sao Paulo a week ago.
“I wuz athinkin’,” he continued,
“that you wud like to know that there
is a verra, verra, pretty lass aboard.
She is speakin’ French and ”
Madamoselle Florelle? Sure enough.
The little French girl that we met
atop the Loaf of Sugar a few days
ago!
“I think we are going to have a
bonny voyage, Hoot Mon,” I said.
He took me by the arm and led me
inside, humming a song of Lauder's
all the while, but suddenly stopped
as a sign stared us in the eyes:
“Cigars-Cigarettes-Candv-and
Soda May Be Purchased at
the Bar”
It seems as though we are home be
fore we start.
ing leap for the dear, safe old Stone
Wall, and he did so heard the
whistle of air rushing between stiff
feathers and he heard a scream of
disappointment. King Eagle had shot
down like a thunderbolt and had Just
missed Peter.
_\t the same time there was another
scream. In fact, there was a succes
sion of screams. From the safety of
the old wall Peter peeped out. There
was Scrapper the Kingbird actually
attacking King Eagle and trying to
drive him away, all the time scream
ing at at the top of his voice.
Somehow he managed to keep above
King Eagle, darting down to strike
him on the back or between the shout-
PETER WAS SO INTERESTED IN’
WATCHING KING EAGLE THAT
HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT OF
DANGER.
ders. He actually pulled one or two
brown feathers out. Peter saw them
floating down through the air.
King Eagle twisted and turned and
did his best to get rid of Scrapper, but
couldn the time they kept ris
ing highe" ® id higher, until Scrapper
was no Jm - e than a speck to his
friends ife he Old Orchard. At last
they savfliim leave King Eagle and
start dc« for his favorite perch in
the Old King Eagle kept on
his way seemed glad tb go, judg
ing by the way he hurried.
All the feathered folk in the Old
Orchard flew to meet Scrapper
W1 him how wonderful they thought
him. and Jenny Wrenn was one of
the first. But the champion of the
Old Orchard paid no attention to them.
Straight to his favorite oerch he flew
and began to catch flies, just as if
nothing at all had happened.
(Copyright. 1925, by T. W. Burgess.)
wilj not penetrate the body of the true
china.
This means merely that the body of
the earthenware inside the glaze is
porous. It is protected as long as the
glassy coating is unharmed, and there
is no chance of liquid seeping into the
product unless the glaze Is cracked or
chipped off.
Then, again, if the clays have not
been thoroughly mixed, there may re
main blister or uneven marks which
show on the surface of the dish and
furnish a harbor for dirt and danger
ous bacteria. These can be detected
by looking the china over carefully
and by passing the hand slowly over
the surface to feel any unsmonthnws.
The shape of the dish has something
to do not only with its convenience
but with the ease of cleaning. Cor
ners, fantastic knobs and handles and
over-elaborate and raised decorations
sometimes form repositories for accu
mulated dirt and grease and add to
the burden of dishwashing.
Cb/npote of Bananas.
Make a sirup of half a cupful of
sugar and half a cupful of water.
I’eel and scrape two or three bananas,
then cut In thin, even slices. Add to
the sirup and let boil all over, shaking
the pan a little to cook all the slices
evenly. A little lemon or vanilla ex
tract may be added, or thin lemon or
orange rind may be cooked in the
sirup. Skim the bananas to a plate
when soft. "When all are cooked, but
keptin whole slices, boil down the
sirup a little. When cool, add the
bananas and serve.
She Was Miscast.
Prom th« Boston Transcript.
A New York theatrical manager
who had just been divorced from his
wife was asked what had caused the
separation. His reply was character
istic. "She had no conception of rhe
part,” he said.
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