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Pleasure in Cookery on Vacations
BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER.
Vacation pleasures are not the less
delightful because of putting a little
of one's leisure time to account and
it is for those parents whose children
are recently released from the school
term to he resourceful in finding
tasks which will adjust the balance
. between work and play pleasantly.
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SALADS ARE EASY DISHES FOR
YOUNG GIRLS TO PREPARE AS
THEY ARE EASY TO ARRANGE
AND INGREDIENTS MAY BE AT I
HAND.
There are several things which
make a vacation season a good time
to let the younger girls of the
family, those rightly termed “chil
dren,” think themselves "grown up" |
WHEN WE GO SHOPPING
BY MBS. HAKI.YND H. ALLEN.
“Shading” in Rugs.
Dear Mrs. Allen: About six months as:o I \
bought an expensive ru*. and though it has i
been u>ed such a short time. I find that
spots are appearing: on the rug: already.
These spots sometimes look as though ink
or water had been spilled on the rug:, and
come from nothin* that I can understand.
A neighbor tells me that these come from j
“grease in the yarn.” What does that mean?
Is it a defect in the material, and what i
would you advise mo to do a!>out it?—A
Housewife.
Dealers say that the illusion of dis- j
ferent colors, especially in plain rugs, i
Is a very common occurrence, and j
that usually the more expensive the I
fabric, having the higher and thick
er pile, the more the rug will show
this apparent spotting. They call it |
“shading,” and they say that the es- j
feet is less noticeable in the cheaper,
rugs having the lower pile.
It would seem that this illusion of i
colors is due to the various ways in !
which the light is reflected from the j
slant of the pile, and that it is not
due to any defect in ma.terial or
workmanship, since there is no ac
tual change in the yarn.
It is explained in this way: Where
the light is reflected from the ends
of the pile fibers the fabric appears
darker, but when the light is reflected |
BEDTIME STORIES r. BURGESS I
Peter Hears Some Talk.
Bn careful when and how you speak:
Your secrets then will "^ e Rabbit .
Peter Rabbit was sitting under his
favorite bramble bush in the dear Old
Briar Patch preparing to take a nap
after having been out all night. He
, was just dozing off when he heard
voices that made his eyes fly wide
open and his long ears stand up
straight. He knew those voices. He
knew them the very instant he Jieard
them, even though he was half asleep.
•*I WONDER IE THEY COULD BE
TALKING ABOUT DIGGER
THE BADGER.”
They were the voices of Reddy Kox
and Mrs. Reddy.
Peter peeked out. Reddy and Mrs.
Reddy were sitting back to him, just
outside the edge of the dear Old Briar
Patch, and they were looking over ,
toward the Old Pasture. “It looks as
if he means to stay," said Mrs. Reddy.
Reddy nodded. ‘‘lt does look that
way,” said he. “I don't know what
the Old Pasture is coming to. It was
bad enough to have Old Man Coyote
make his home there. With this fel
low digging around, the Old Pasture j
is simply going to be spoiled. The
hunting will be spoiled there.”
“Well, thank goodness we moved
our home from there before this hap
pened,” replied Mrs. Reddy. “I don’t
mind some people for neighbors, but
T don’t want that sand-thrower living
too near me.”
You should have seen Peter’s ears
go up at tills. “Sand-thrower,” he
muttered to himself. “Sand-thrower.
I wonder if they eouid be talking
about Digger the Badger? I would
like to ask them, hut they wouldn't
fell me if 1 did. I wonder if it could
he that Digger has moved up to the
Old Pasture. That is one place
where I haven't looked, T never feel
real comfortable over * there on ac
count of Old Man Coyote. However,
* I think I'll go over there the very
first chance I get.” Then Peter once
more strained Ids ears to overhear
what fteddy and Mrs. Reddy were
paying.
Thai fallow ought to be sent back
WOMAN’S PAGE.
i by preparing an occasional dish for
i the luncheon or supper table.
This should be put to them, not as
a duty, but as a favor —to mother —on
a warm day. Cold dishes are easiest
of preparation to the novice, which is
a secret the little girl need not be
told, as it might interfere with her
pride in accomplishment. But mother
can be well aware of the fact, and
also of another, that there are things
in the ice chest which will combine
well in some simple salad or plate
lunch.
Herein we have one reason why
the Summer vacation season is
auspicious for the uninitiated! and
youthful “cook.” It is the pleasantest
kind of introduction to the kitchen,
one which insures success and gives
satisfaction to the ones partaking of
the foods and confidence to her who
has prepared them. Thus will both
family and “cook” be encouraged to
make another venture, perhaps more
ambitious than the first.
Cold Dishes Best.
A luncheon of cold meat and potato
salad is a simple "beginner.” We
will suppose that ice chest already
contains the meat and that the pota
toes are boiled ones "left over.” Per
haps the young cook will have a feel
ing of "planning it all” if she buys
the head of lettuce herself. The only
thing that she really prepares is the
salad dressing. If homemade, it had
better be a French dressing as a start.
If a prepared mayonnaise is used, a
little of it can be mixed through the
potato, with chopped parsley. The
bowl in which it is mixed should be
rubbed with a halved onion to give
that soupcon of onion so much more
desirable in salad of this kind than
the strong flavor sometimes intro
duced.
:
Desserts for Beginner.
A fruit cup is a good dessert for
such a luncheon and a safe one for
the daughter to try. It is pretty and
appealing and popular. A few' mara
schino cherries will "dress up” a
combination of other fruits less color
ful. Strawberries, if still available,
also serve this purpose. A few of
these or other berries can be added to
a cup made of oranges, pineapple,
grapefruit, bananas, all together, or
with any two in combination. For a
later venture a fruit tapioca may be
tried, or some one of many kinds of
gelatins that are delicious with fruit.
Recipes Should Be Kept.
It may be suggested here and now
that there is no time as good or as
i much fun to begin a cook book as
j when you begin to cook for the first
i time.
Recipes should be written out and
!kept on cards, with the date of the
j first time each dish was made. The
* cards should be of uniform size and
j kept in a box where indexing cards
! may be later inserted when recipes in
I sufficient quantity have been added
Sto warrant tabulating them.
j from the sides of the fibers it will
j appear lighter.
i The reason this "shading” is not
so noticeable in figured rugs is be
cause the many colors break up the
light rays, but this is not the case
with a plain surface, so the solid-col
i ored rug may give this illusion.
As soon as the rug is put into use
and the pile fibers begin to be crush
ed from the traffic over them they
: naturally assume various slants, ac
cording to the direction that the
principal travel takes over the floor.
Some of them will lie end-on and
others sidewise, so that the user per
ceives the light and dark places and
then is liable to jump to the con
clusion —just as your neighbor did—
j that it is caused by "grease in the
1 yarn” or some other superstition.
As a matter of fact, this shading
| can be expected in any pile fabric.
It may be observed in such things as
velour portieres, upholstery and in
plush coats, particularly in the skirt
of the coat w'here it is crushed W'hen
one sits upon it. But it is most
noticeable in floor coverings. 'of
course, because they get the greatest
amount of crushing from being walk
| ed upon.
where he came from,” grumbled
Rtddy. “Just as if we didn’t have
trouble enough in getting enough to
eat without having somebody who
doesn’t belong here at all settle in
the neighborhood. I would like to
know how he got here. They tell me
that he really belongs out where
Old Man Coyote came from."
Peter hugged himself. He hadn’t
| a doubt now. It must be Digger
about whom they were talking. It
couldn't be any one else. Digger
was alive after all, and he was living
in the Old Pasture. Peter was as
sure of it as if Digger had been men
tioned by name.
“It used to be easy enough to get
all the Meadow Mice and Wood Mice
a fellow wanted before Old Man
Coyote and Digger the Badger came.
Now there are not enough Mice to go
round,” grumbled Reddy. “Some
times I feel like moving way off
somewhere.”
“That would be a silly thing to do,”
declared Mrs. Reddy. “If we are not
smart enough to get our share, we
deserve to go without. I wonder what
-Digger left the Green Meadows for
anyway. I thought he was settled
down there for life. I never did like
him, and I never will. I think he has
a mean disposition.”
"People who live by themselves are
apt to have mean dispositions,” de
dared Reddy. “I don't like him, I
never did like him, and I never will
like him, but I don’t know what I can
do about it. That fellow has sharp
teeth and stout jaws and claws to go
with Ills mean disposition. The less
I see of him the better it will suit me.”
(Copyright. 1925 by T. W. Burgess!
About Foods.
Blackberries contain considerable of
both lime and phosphorus.
Finnan haddie, like the other
smoked flsh, is chiefly used as an ap
petizer, and its flesh is not as easily
digested as fresh fish.
Artichokes, while chiefly water, con
tain more than 2 per cent of building
material and a trace of fat, with con
siderable carbohydrate.
Chard contains some lime and even
more phosphorus, making it a very
valuable body regulating food.
Escarole has lime, phosphorus and
iron, three of the most valuable min
eral salts and a large percentage of
the base-forming element, making it
a particularly valuable food for those
who have to pay special attention to
preserving alkalinity of the blood.
Beef heart und other organs used
for food are high in vitamins, but
they should not be given to children
because of the close texture of the
frneat.
Kisses and other forms of meringues
make very nutritious forms of dessert
because of the white of egg contained
therein.
(Copyright. 1925.)
Poland’s timber shipments to other
countries are declining.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925,
Tittle G ~
Ajfe. Benny’S
BooK
Me and Sid Hunt got mad at each
other yestidday, calling each other all
the names we could think of without
axuall.v swearing and pritty peer hav
ing a fist site but not quite, me start
ing to wawk away saying. Aw, all rite,
dont ever speek to me agen, thats all.
Dont worry, I wouldent speek to you
if we was on a desert island with
nuthing elts erround but fishes, Sid
sed. Id rather tawk to the fishes be
cause they could at leest look intel
ligent, he sed.
Meenlng I couldent and being a
awful insult, and I sed. Well bleeve
me. if you wait for me to tawk to you
before you tawk to me you'll wait
12 million yeers and we’ll both prob
erly be ded by then, and I wont even
tawk to you in heaven, if your lucky
enuff to get in there, wlch I doubt,
because you look about as mutch like
a angel as a can of sardeens.
Being a even werse of a insult, and
me and him dident speek to each other
all the rest of the day or this morning
either, and this afternoon I saw him
leening agenst a tree eating candy out
of a wite bag, looking like chocklit
covered earmels, and I thawt, G, we
bin mad neerly 2 days now, its almosf
about, time one of us sed something to
make up.
Sid jest taking another candy out of
the bag and eating it as if he dident
even see me, and I thawt, He aint
sutch a bad guy, G wizz wats a use
of staying mad all your life wen you
could be having fun injoying your
selfs.
And I started to wonder weather to
go rite up to him innocent and start
tawking as if I had never stopped or
elts say to him, Well Sid, wats you
say we shake hands broad minded and
make up?
Wich jest then Sid took the last
candy out of the bag and threw the
bag away, me thinking, Aw, the heck
with him, I wouldent make up with
that guy if he was drowndjng and go
ing down for the 3rd and last time.
And I wawked rite past him as if 1
dident know he was alive and as if I
wouldent of cared if I had knew.
Nutrition Nuggets.
If inclined to be "bilious” remem
ber that while you must eat simple
food your actual diet must be planned
by yourself and your physician to
gethei'. Even wholesome foods are at
times disturbing. In general the
strong diet of a bilious person is to be
found in a diet made up of acid fruits,
fresh crisp vegetables, crusty bread,
milk if possible and very plainly cook
ed lean meat.
The hostess should remember that
it is poor hospitality to force upon a
guest a second help of some dish no
matter how delicious this may be.
There are some individuals who have
learned the capacity of their own
stomachs, and they should be allowed
to stop when they know they have
held enough food.
If you sit at a desk all day do not
expect your digestive system to take
care of the same meals that will be re
quired by a muscular worker. Your
diet will be balanced with considerably
less food than will be required to bal
ance your more active brother's.
Remember that the average serving
of the average food gives about 100
calories of energy. Bear this fact in
mind and it will help in equally esti
mating the number of calories eaten
by the individual.
The time has long past when we
think of micro-organisms as being all
harmful. There are some of these
tiny organisms that are decidedly
helpful to the system. They exist in
the various foods. Flour, for exam
ple, contains some so small that they
can be seen only from a microscope.
It has been established that these or
ganisms help the flour to produce
good bread, new flour having fewer
than old.
Sour milk may be used in dough
nuts, griddle cakes, various forms of
quick breads and molasses cake. Do
not throw away milk that sours dur
ing this hot weather. The same cau
tion applies to milk that has been
"clabbered” by heat. Delicious cot
tage cheese is made from this.
To Test Olive Oil.
When it is desired to test the purity
of olive oil an interesting little ex
periment may be carried out. Take
a sample of the oil and add to it
about a tenth of the quantity of am
monia. Then shake slightly and very
soon, if the oil is pure, there will ap
pear a milky white mass of the con
sistency of soap. When other oils
have been added a more or less gran
ular appearance Is the result of the
test. Pure olive oil, if slightly heat
ed, does not smell very different from
the cold oil. On the other hand, after
it has been warmed, a change in odor
is noticed if some other oil has been
added as an adulterant.
My Neighbor Says:
If a small piece of soap is
added to the stove blacking it
will make it stick to the stove.
Glycerin applied to table
linen and let stand for three
or four hours will remove cof
fee stains.
To remove fly paper from an
article wet the article with
kerosene and let it stand 10
or 15 minutes. Wash in hot
water and pure soap.
Use magnesia to clean the
spots on a pongee skirt. Rub
the magnesia well into the
soiled places. Leave a few
days and then brush off. Re
peat if necessary.
To drive away mosquitoes
scatter oil of cltronella about.
They do not like the odor.
The best bait for a rat trap
is an oyster.
To clean white belts mix
cream of tartar and cold water
to a rather thick paste and rub
the belt well with this. Leave
for an hour, then rub with
powdered alum and fullers
earth, mixed in equal parts.
Next day brush the belt with
a clean, soft brush till all the
powder has been removed.
Rub again with some coarse
oatmeal, to which a little dry
whiting has been added.
It is not made of flour
TRISCUIT
is made of plump, perfect whole grains of
wheat, cooked in steam, shredded, compressed
into a wafer and baked crisp and brown. It is
a real whole wheat cracker, tasty and nourish
ing. Make it your bread. Delicious with butter,
soft cheese or marmalades.
The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle
(Copyright. 1925.)
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ACROSS.
1. Short poem.
4. Sailor.
6. Exist.
9. Underground workman.
10. City in Illinois.'
11. Theological degree.
12. Printer’s measure.
13. Act.
14. City in France.
10. Preposition.
18. High (music).
19. Japanese statesman.
21. Otherwise.
22. Fragrance.
23. Possesses.
25. Seed-bearing vessel.
26. Steamship (abbr.).
28. A kind of fabric.
29. Point of compass.
30. Exclamation.
32. Grandchild (Scotch).
33. Adapted for grinding.
35. Tapestry.
38. Restrainable.
DOWN.
1. Mystic Hindu ejaculation.
2. Queen of Carthage.
3. Finish.
4. Apply a special process to.
5. Straight lines from the center
of a sphere to its periphery.
6. Devoured.
7. Italian city (Latin Rome).
8. Prefix; into.
13. Attire.
Answers to Food Questions
Anf-wprs to i-eaderp' questions regarding
diet will he given by Winifred Stuart Gibbu.
food Kpeeialiet. writer anti lecturer on nutri
tion. Questions should be accompanied by
a self-addressed, stanitied envelope, as only
those of general interest will be answered
in this column: others will be answered
through the mail. Every effort will be made
to answer questions promptly. but we be
speak the indulgence of our readers for any
unavoidable delay. The number of letters
received is large and each must take its turn.
Address: Winifred Stuart Gibbs. 37 West
Thirty-ninth street, New York City.
Will you kindly give me a diet for
nervous Indigestion caused by colitis?
—Mrs. M. J.
Since colitis is the cause of your
trouble, the diet would have to be
planned for that rather than for the
"nervous Indigestion.” A diet for
colitis is as follows:
Cream soups made of equal parts
of strained vegetable pulp and white
sauce of thickened milk, fine cereal,
such as cream of wheat, wheatena
and farina. The lean part of simply
cooked beef and mutton, white of
chicken and white fleshed fish, sweet
breads and the soft part of oysters.
Among the vegetables particularly
suitable for cream soups are lima
beans, peas, stewed celery and pota
toes. Fresh green vegetables un
cooked are apt to cause the Increased
action of the bowels and must, there
fore. be avoided.
Dessert should be chosen from the
following list:
Gelatin puddings, custards and
starchy puddings, such as cornstarch,
farina and Iceland moss.
Milk may cause trouble, although
if taken in the form of koumiss many
suffering from colitis can digest it.
The diet must be made up of foods
that are not stimulating to the bow
els, those that are very easily digested,
those that are finely chopped. The
quantity of the food must be sufficient
to provide energy and to make good
the necessary body-building.
I have a boy 15 who Is badly con-
MODE MINIATURES
Looking ahead to Fourth of July
week end and Its jolly Jaunts to sea
side, mountains, lake or camp, the
problem of practical luggage looms
into view.
Lightweight and spacious It must be,
and so this Summer the new zipper
roll bag will be the comforting travel
ing companion to many. Cylindrical
in shape, surprisingly lightweight in
consideration of its size, it is also the
easiest bag to open and shut that I
know of. Yet the lock Is absolutely
secure, prevenlng even the smallest
trinkets from working their way out.
Identical miniature ones are numbered
among the newest handbag creations.
NARGETTE.
14. Double in narrow folds.
15. Seat without a back.
17. Elegantly concise.
18. Kind of tree.
20. Not even.
24. Vowed.
25. Excuses.
27. Small plumlike fruit.
29. Fur-bearing amphibian.
31. Mountain of a European range.
32. Globe.
33. Title of address.
34. French unit of area.
36. Eastern State (abbr.).
37. Point of the compass.
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stipated and has had colds and boils.
He has no kidney complications. He
eats little meat, does not drink milk
and eats many apples and green vege
tables. He is not under weight, yet
seems tired and sluggish, and he does
not do well in school. I might add
that he Is very fond of sweets. I feel
that his diet is at fault. Can you help
him? —Mrs. J. W. D.
I am very happy to do what I can
in suggesting the proper diet for your
son. He Is just at a very Important
age, and you are right in feeling that
you should pay considerable attention
to getting his diet straightened out
now, as his whole future in nutrition
may depend upon It.
Tt is too bad that he cannot drink
milk, as he should have no tea or cof
fee. Can he perhaps take cocoa or
cereal coffee with considerable milk
for the foundation? If possible, he
should have a good dish of hot por.
ridge for breakfast, and if he cannot
eat this with milk, you might try a
little fresh butter and salt, but no
sugar. A few steamed raisins or
chopped dates may make the cereal
more palatable, as it certainly will
add to its food value.
What you say of your eon eating
vegetables is fine, and, in fact, my
feeling is that if he will cut out
sweets, stick to the vegetables, add
cereals and pay very' strict attention
to intestinal cleanliness, he may find
his tired feeling disappearing. This
matter of attention to the action of
the bowels is most important, and
may very possibly be the solution of
your problem. With the cereals, fruits
and vegetables, and plenty of exercise,
but not too much for his rapidly grow
ing strength, and with bran added to
his diet, I think he will probably be
all right in a comparatively short
time.
The bowels and skin trouble may
yield to this treatment. As you may
know, yeast is frequently helpful in
cases of boils. This should be eaten
with reasonable restraint, that is, one
or two cakes of compressed yeast a
day until you have opportunity to ob
serve the effect on digestion. The im
portant vitamin existing in yeast is
probably the thing that helps to get
rid of boils. I suggest that you do
not use yeast without asking your
physician. There is nothing in it that
will harm any one, but it may not be
the right food, although indications
are that it may help.
(Copyright. 1026.)
Green Sauce.
Chop watercress, parsley with small
onions. Add prepared mustard to
taste and pound all together to make
a paste. Stir in carefully three
quarters of a cup of olive oil, added
drop by drop. Then add pepper, salt
and vinegar according to taste.
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(Continued from Yesterday’s Star.)
He looked back over his shoulder
now, where the wreck rested on the
rusty rails. The old engine! She
would travel over the road she had
traveled in the pride of youth, when
boiler-plates of Yorkshire iron were
untouched of rust, when copper tubes
were new and shining, to rest in
glory at the Brashear Station Park!
it took the chairman of the board
to put through a four-thousand-dollar
repair bill the Sabine ran up. It was
some pill to force down the throat of a
directorate already cramped for mon
ey. But it went down.
You had to hand it to Hard-boiled
Hank. When he started out to do
something, he made a good job of It.
Up past the desolate siding where
the Sabine stood, the Sky Rocket had
roared on her way west, the long line
of Pullmans singing behind 748 and
the brass rails of the observation plat
form of Henry Burlingame’s car
twinkling at the very end. In that
car w’ere the officials headed for Bra
shear to view the ceremonies when
the Sabine arrived to be installed at
her resting place in the depot park.
Through the chill air the raucous
shriek of Ed Maddox's whistle had
risen to salute the veteran, a tribute
to the locomotive that once had been
the Delta Valley's pride as the steel
steed that throbbed beneath him was
its pride today.
The whistle of the Sabine had
squealed in proud response. But the
hand that pulled the cord was not the
hand of Buck McMasters. Nor yet
of Jazzbo, his fireman. It was the
grip of old Dad Adams himself that
acknowledged that salute. The two
of the younger generation, who had
taken the Sabine from the Algiers
yards to the siding where now she
stood, were seated on the sloping em
bankment between the locomotive and
the levee, using language that it would
have been the proud privilege of the
roundhouse gang to hear.
For their engine had ground to a
stop, gun muzzles had covered them,
voices muffled by shrouding bandannas
had commanded them to climb down.
And they had climbed. Then, as the
hold-up men had taken over their
cab, one bandanna had slipped. Be
fore their astonished eyes appeared
the face of old Dad Adams.
In language they sought relief.
They needed some relief, there was
no question about that. And the re
lief of free speech seemed all that was
coming to them. For the muzzle of
Uncle Mlceky's shotgun held them un
wavering, as he squatted, unmasked
now, between cab and tender.
' Talk all ye plaze,” he told them
complacently. "Get It off you chests,
like bad little boys. But let it stop
there, me buckos. onless ye wanta be
after pickin' birdshot outa yer legs
f’r a month av Sftndays. Curse away.
Ye can't hurrt my feelln's I’ve been
cursed by experts when ye were nurs
in’ outa bottles. Talk up, childer.”
They talked up. But they likewise
let it stop at that. They knew too
much of Uncle Mickey and his past
record to think he spoke idly when
the gnarled old finger of the man who
had ' fired" on that road in its wild,
roaring construction days caressed a
blue steel trigger. He was not mur
derous, was Uncle Mickey, but he
wouldn’t in the least hesitate to pep
per their legs.
Up on the new leather seat at the
right-hand side of the cab once more.
Dad Adams ran appraising eyes over
his familiar surroundings. Lovingly
his hands strayed from throttle to re
verse. He eyed the gauges affection
ately. Even the shotgun on the seat
beside him looked natural and familiar.
Many was the time in the wild and
early days when he had made the run
with weapon in cab. Many the time
he had used it.
•Neve' mind all that wild talk them
babies is spoutin’. Mickey,” he called.
"We're set t’ roll. Jus' you' watch
’em an’ see they don’ hook on behin'.
Pepper ’em if they try. Hank says
'tain’t safe fo’ yo’ an' me t' run this
ol’ wagon, does he! Huh! We’ll show
them two babies ’tain’t safe t’ monkey
with us.”
Defiantly the Sabine’s whistle tooted
again. Her bell clanged warning once
more. Slowly, majestically, as Dad
Adams’ fingers stirred to familiar
tasks, she backed down the siding.
Kagerly Uncle Mickey leaped down
and threw' the old hand switch, shot
gun in hand. Out on the main line
rolled the ancient locomotive.. Back
clanged the switch in place. Up into
the cab creaked Uncle Mickey Riordan
Then while Buck McMasters and
Jazzbo cursed in one final, harmoni
ous burst of profanity
at the thought of the long walk or
the long wait that was their choice,
they saw the Sabine and her tiny ten
der gather speed and clatter on up
the line toward Brashear.
"Feed her, Mickey! Feed her!” or
dered Dad Adams as the rejuvenated
old wagon swung on her way to the
drive of her pumping pistons. Uncle
Mickey’s old back bent Joyously to his
task with clanging shovel as he at
tacked the four tons of coal in the tiny
tender.
"We’ve nothin’ but open track an’
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the Sky Rocket between us and Bra
shear,” grinned Dad as he opened,the
throttle to its widest. “Let’s see can
we step on Ed Maddox's tail, the
young squirt!”
Little it mattered to Dad that it was
the Sabine’s 12-inch cylinders he was
matching exultantly against the 29Vfe
inch cylinder, diameter of 48, or that
the best pressure he could raise to
Uncle Mickey’s most frantic shoveling
was 125 pounds to the 200 that was at
Ed Maddox’s command, or that the
1,760 gallons of w'ater in his boiler
was competing with the 12,000 gallons
of the big F-4. It mattered not to
him just then that the Sabine’s trac
tive power was a little less than 8,000
pounds and that he was pitting it
against the 75,000 of the giant that
roared far ahead of him. Little de
tails like that weren’t bothering Dad
in the flush of his triumph. He was
crowding to the chase, and the road
between the two racing locomotives
and Brashear was clear. What more
could anybody ask? And wasn’t the
big F-4 hauling the Sky Rocket while
the Sabine was running free? Sure!
His veins sang with the memories of
the old days when he and the Sabine
were masters of that road. The old
sense of power was upon him.
He called to Uncle Mickey, who was
laboring silently.
"A race isn’t over till she's over.
Mick,” he reminded. "Yo’ got only 91
square feet of firebox heatin' surface
t’ keep hot, boy. That feller ahead o’
yo’, he’s got 250. An’ he’s a oil-burn
in’ fool, too. But we got a real fire
man in this cab. Show ’em, Mickey!
Show ’em!”
There was the humorous quirk of
retort suppressed upon Uncle Mickey’s
lips. But he bent his knotted old back
to show ’em. If they were going
crazy, they might as well go the route,
he grinned to himself.
"Stay with her, Mickey!” Dad en
couraged him, tootling for a deserted
crossing. "They think they’ll have
time fo’ a meal an’ some sleep befo’
we hit Brashear. We’ll show ’em, the
scuts! They won’t have time t’ let
the Pullman porter brush ’em off!”
Gloriously they charged along.
Oh, but it was joy to reach for the
BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES.
Middle-Aged. Business Women, j
This is especially written to Mrs. j
B , but as Mrs. B. is a new type j
and a large one, other women will j
also be interested. Mrs. B. is the wom
an who married, ran a home, a child
or children, was widowed and com
pelled to go out and earn money to
educate and feed her family at the
age when most women are taking the
rewards of life and not the burdens.
Mrs. B. is anywhere from 28 to 40. !
and she cannot afford to look what- I
ever her age is.
What shall she do? Leisure to rest, I
to fuss over herself, is impossible: j
money to spend on fine clothes and |
expensive beauty treatments equally
impossible. Yet she must look fresh,
rested, alert, without grief, be inter
ested in others' petty problems: she
must look successful and, above all. i
young.
I think Mrs. B. is entitled to use
every possible means to achieve youth,
don’t you? If her hair is going gray,
absolute sign of middle age, I think
she is entitled to dye it If —here’s the j
problem—she can dye it successfully, |
and the dyefng will make her look '
younger. Henna is always a good dye;
it helps rather than hurts the hair: j
any one with care can use it; it makes j
the hair red, of course, and is so much J
used that we look askance at red hair
these days—but the ageing business
woman wants an effect—and hair of j
any shade but gray will give her the !
effect of youth. So I believe in letting
her dye it, and would then like her to
be quite frank about it—outside her
business circle —just as we are frank
Ice©
"SALMA"
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Is always delightfully refreshing.
The coolness of the mountain top is in
every glass. So easily made ••• Try it.
whistle once more on familiar cross
ing-s. to send the shrill call out over
sodden fields, to wave at the little
groups of country folk who had read
of the event in the papers and were
gathered here and there to watch the
Sabine's last trip.
One by one the little towns and set
tlements, strung along on an oak-dot
ted clay ridge behind the levee, dropped
behind them. Ahead of them lay the
Bienvenu trestle, and the long down
ward plunge over the end of the ridge
and along the embankment through
the Tete Noir swamp. Cautiously Dad
slowed her down and took the trestle
at haJf-speed. The water was high
about it, he noticed; the swamp was
flooded well up into the underbrush
as far as eye could reach. -
"Or Winteh rains raisin’ hell Just
'bout same’s they alius did, Mickey,"
he observed.
He settled down into his seat, still
athrill with exultation at his coup, for
the long grind through the swamp and
the desolate land beyond, till they
came to the Oros Tete River bridge
that gave entry on more settled coup
try, and to the final stretch of track
age leading into Brashear.
Pity the old Sabine wasn’t hauling
something besides just herself, this
last trip, ran his thoughts. Done a
lotta good work in her time. Might
’a’ let her pull one last job. Well,
you took what was handed you in
this life, less’n —and here he grinned
to himself —you went out and took
what you wanted, like he and Mickey
had done. This water sure was high,
doggone if it wasn't. Lappln’ up all
along the embankment through the
swamp. Almost through ol’ Tete Noir.
too. There was the open country
ahead —that siding with the string of
ol’ construction flats on it.
The Sabine snored along, the swamp
streaming out behind hey.
With thrusting bar Uncle Mickey
was leveling the glowing bed of coal
ir» the firebox, when he straightened
up to the sound of a shrill whoop in
Dad's cracked old voice.
“I'm a son-of-a-gun, Mickey. We
done caught him:'*
(Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.)
I now about lipsticks and face powder.
I' I will talk more about this business
woman type In the future.
Anxious. —There may be some slug
gishness in the action of the kidneys
or liver which would account for the
puffiness under your eyes. In such
cases It is best to have a doctor pre
scribe for you. but you can help your
self also by drinking plenty of water
to keep the system flushed. Take two
glasses of water on arising, another
j two during the morning and repeat
, the same procedure during afternoon
, and evening; this gives you eight
■ glasses evenly distributed throughout
I the day and evening.
Banditto.—Fatten your hands by
j massaging them with a nourishing oil
: and your knuckles will become less
I prominent. If you are underweight
1 you should build up all over and the
: hands will be improved as a conse
quence.
Evidently It is not natural for you
j to have these half moons on your
j nails, so you cannot attain them. Tour
! nails will grow if you keep the skin
1 from growing over them and if you
i keep the blood circulating under them
j through daily buffing.
Potato and Cress Salad.
Four cold boiled potatoes, one tea
spoonful chopped parsley, one chopped
onion, one bunch cress. Prepare a
dressing by combining two tablespoon
fuls of vinegar, one-half teaspoonful
of salt, one teaspoonful of French
mustard and a dust of pepper and
five tablespoonfuls of olive oil.
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