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22 Laundry Work and Spot Removing BY I ADI A LE BARON WALKER. The simple matter of temperature plays a more important part in Rood laundry work than would at first ap pear. The usual warm water for the soaking and washing, and scalding wa ter for rinsing, do very well for regula tion laundry work, hut there are special pieces that, owing to thetr sub i \% \ i ni || ~ I*! BaSy k'' -- CANDLE WAX SPOTS CAN BE RE-i ■MOVED EASILY FROM F ABRICS j IF CORRECTLY DONE. stance, require particular tempera- j fores, and others that need it because ; of stains. These spots must be taken j out and not “set" if the washing Is ! a success. It has been found that soiled clothes are easier to get clean when they are not plunged immediately into scalding water. Once the housewife who did not have plenty of boiling water in BEDTIME STORIES W. BURGESS | Funny Fishing Party. As a teacher I suggest Hunger as the very best —Old Mother Nature. It was a few days after Billy Mi-nk had successfully tried to get a King fisher dinner that the Smiling Pool saw one of the funniest fishing par ties it had seen for a long time. Peter Babbit happened to be over there at the time. Peter was sitting on the AT THAT INSTANT MBS. RAT TLES SUDDENLY CLOSED HER WINGS AND SHOT STRAIGHT DOWN HEAD FIRST INTO THE WATER. opposite bank. On the big rock in the middle of the Smiling Pool sat •lerrv Muskrat. Grandfather Frog was sitting on his favorite big green lily-pad. Spotty the Turtle was sun ning himself on the end of an old log in the water. Side by side in a row on a dead limb that hung out over the water sat six young Kingfishers. The feathers on the tops of their heads all stood up like the hair of a boy just getting up in the morning. Rattles the Kingfisher and Mrs. Rat tles were fussing about as only a cou ple of fond parents can. Suddenly Mrs. Rattles gave a sharp warning. "Look down there in the water!;’ she cried. “See those little fish!” All the young Kingfishers bent their heads and looked down into the wa le*. All of them saw the little fish. Ml of them suddenly became very hungry. But they didn’t know what to do about it. It was the first time they had ever seen fish moving. They looked st the ftsh. and they looked at each other. Then they looked at their mother. Mrs. Rattles the Kingfisher. At that very instant Mrs. Rattles suddenly closed her wings and shot straight down head first into the wa ter with a little tinkling splash. "Oil!" cried the six little Kingfishers together. And just aft they cried “Oh!" up came Mrs. Rattles Lite Kingfisher, and in her bill was a little ftsh. “Oh!” cried the six little Kingfishers to gether again, and then all fixed their eager eyes on their mother and that little fish. Each hoped that that little MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Extra Handkerchief. One mother says: I have found it an excellent plan to supply my small daughter with an extra handkerchief, to supplement the pretty one she carries, or lias pinned to her sash. She had so often com plained that site dTd dislike to get her dress up “hanky” all crumpled and mussed, so I inserted hidden pockets in all her frocks to hold the handker chief meant for use. In case of loss, t 00, it is always such a comfort to bars an extra handkerchief lo fall back upon. (Copyright 1925.) WOMAN’S PAGE. ! which to soak her clothes considered I herself very unfortunate, not that she - used it at the boiling point, but that ! she wished the water to be as hot as • her hands could stand when she put the clothes in it. But study and re i search in laundry work have proven that immersing In boiling water does not loosen dirt so well as soaking In water of a lower temperature. Boiling Water. Bolling water is best for removing grease. If there are any such spots, therefore on garments or pour boiling water on them and rub lightly with soap. Then wash the places be fore putting the pieces to soak. Most fresh fruit stains will yield to boiling water treatment, if the water is poured through them Immediately after the spot is made. Candle grease i should be taken off, as much as pos- I slble, before processing in the hot I water. If the cloth Is slightly warmed | the wax can be peeled off. except that I which has become ingrained in the I weave. Do not try to pull cold wax off. It may tear the cloth If It is fine, or pull and break stitches of embroid ery or threads in hemstitching. After warming the fabric and peeling the superfluous wax off, immerse in boil ing water until the wax is soft, then rub and wash with soap and water. Cold Water. Cold water Is best for removing i blood stains. Handkerchiefs should j he soaked in cold water and then ! washed in cold water before putting in ; with the regular laundry water. Egg ! stains will come out best in cold water. 1 Hot water stiffens and thickens the j albumen. Woolens. There is nothing that responds so to temperature as does wool. If the water is too hot it shrings the mater ial. Also if there is a decided change in temperature between wash and rinse water the fabric shrinks. When wool shrinks it also thickens and seems to acquire a hardness of texture that can never be eliminated. It is ab solutely essential, therefore, to see that the temperature is right when ! laundering woolen articles or those ! that are part woolen. Blankets that | are all wool require very careful wash | ing. No blankets are Ironed, of course. | They will'become fluffy and beautiful, almost like new, if well laundered. , They must be expected to acquire a deep cream color after a while. This I change of tone Is not the disadvantage ! some seem to consider it. It distin ! guishes all wool from cotton and wool. Some housewives choose to have blan kets that are part cotton because they do not turn so quickly. Just in pro portion to the amount of wool hi the weave does the blanket deepen its hue with time and with washin" fish was for him. You should have seen them all stretch their necks to ward Mrs. Rattles as she flew over and alighted near them. But she didn't give them the fish. She pound ed it on the branch at her feet for a moment, and then —well, what do you think she did" She swallowed that little fish herself. Yes. sir, she did so. Such a look of disappointment as swept over the faces of those little Kingfishers! Even Peter Rabbit could see It from where he sat. He laughed right out. So did Jerry Muskrat. So did Grandfather Frog. So did Spotty the Turtle. It really was funny. Just then up came Rattles the Kingfisher, and the same thing happened all over again, only this time it was Rattles who caught the fish and ate it. Several times Rattles and Mrs. Kingfisher caught fish and ate them. Then the boldest and the smartest of the six little Kingfishers, or perhaps it was the hungriest one, saw a little fish swimming close to the surface just below him. In his hurry he seemed to actually tumble off that branch. Down, he went, and he was so awkward about it that he made a great splash when he hit the water, and when he came up he had no fish. But if he had no fish, he had made his first plunge. Not two minutes later he had another chance, and this time he caught the little fish. Never was there a prouder young Kingfisher in all the Great World. He hammered it against the branch as he had seen his father and mother do, and then he turned it around and swallowed it head first. He paid no attention to his brothers and sisters, who were begging him to give it to them. “Catch your own fish.” said he. and flew over to another tree, where he could be by himself with a better chance of catching fish. ( Copyright. 1925. t Lamb, Cucumber Sauce. Have the butcher bone a breast of lamb, and with the bones and trim mings make one good pint of weak stock. Wipe the meat, cover with boiling water, simmer for 10 minutes, then drain and rinse off all scum. Put it in a clean kettle, pour over the stock, add salt, a slice of onion and a dash of pepper, cover and sim mer until tender, then drain, lay on a pan and set aside to coolt Brush thoroughly with melted butter sprinkle with a few fine crumbs, and broil over a brisk fire. In the mean time prepare the brown cucumber sauce. In a saucepan put one table spoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of chopped onion, one tablespoonfu! of chopped ham. a fourth teaspoon ful of pepper, a scant half-teaspoon ful of salt and one clove. Cook slowly until well colored, add one tablespoon ful of flour and brown again. Slowly mix in 1 cupfuls of brown stock and simmer gently for half an hour, then strain. Cut two pared cucumbers in inch dice, peel a dozen onions, mix, cover with equal parts of vinegar and water, and let stand for two hours, then drain. Place in a saucepan, cover with stock, and boil, uncovered, until almost dry. Add the strained sauce, simmer for 10 minutes, taste to see that it is well seasoned, then add a teaspoonful of lemon juice and a. little sugar. In two minutes the 6auce_ will be ready. Away with eveiy MOSQUITO! DON’T let mosquitoes A feed on you. Spray // A IMPROVED DETHOL! * A J Made by a wonderful /jLn /y new secret formula. I[A / /,' y Spray it in bedrooms. jif A/ Its deadly mist destroy s l!n/ mosquitoes. Spray the ifr/AAA~A>^' porch whenever you hear yxmjlf a buzz. Its odor drives them away outdoors. IMPROVED DETHOL JR V^W/A^Sl never fails. Simple— Safe—Sure. / \ l\ \ \ spray t ) If not satisfied with Improved Dethol, favor*us by asking for your money back. Half-pints, 50c; Pints. »sc: Quarts, $1.25; Gallons, $4.00. Combination package containing pint tan and sprayer. SI.OO. Dethol Mfg. Co., Inc., Richmond, Va. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P, C„ TUESDAY, JULY 28. 1925. fYittle f (ißennys Boost Mr went to the nioviea»thts after noon with Mrs. Hews, and wile we was eating dinnir she sed to pop, Hutch plots as they put in the movies nowadays, wy a child would know they couldent happen in reel life, I saw one this afternoon and reely it was improbable to the point of im possibility. Thats pritty improbable, who has the butter? pop sed, and ina sed. Now Im no Daniel Webster, but honestly I reely blpeve I could think up a better plot than that myself, and If I knew how to put it in the proper form I bleeve I could make some money selling it to somebody. In fact I thawt tip a perfeck plot for the movies wile I was lying in bed the other nite. 11l jest tell it to you and you can see wat you think of it. she sed. How meny reels has it it? pop sed. It hasent got to that stage yet, its jest the story of it. ma sed. Its about a man that has 3 dawters, jest like King Leer, and in fact the mans name is Mr. Leer and everybody thinks thats sutch a coincidence, and enyway a French or an Italian noble mun wants to marry the oldest dawter because he thinks he”ll get some of the fathers money, I forgot to tell you the man was a millionair and jest bersting. with money, and enyway the oldest dawter duzzent know weather she wunts to marry him or not, but the 2nd dawter is jest crazy to marry him because she wunts to be a Frentch countess, or an Italian countess, wichever it hap pens to be. but enyway this 2nd dawter pushes the oldest dawter off a high cliff one day wile they are out wawking, and she is never herd from agen. but low and behold the count starts to make up to the 3rd dawter and he has no eyes for the 2nd dawter at all, so she tries to get the 3rd dawter up on this same cliff ttut wile she is coaxing her to look over so she can give her a good push she trips and low and behold she falls over herself, and the 3rd dawter mar ries a plain young bizness man that she’s known for years, and the count goes back to France or Italy and its a happy ending. Water, water, pop sed. And he drank a hole glass full ■Without stopping. , HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. Good reproductions of the ladder back chair of Colonial times are quite comiiton in the shops today. They are both sturdy and comfortable and add a quaint touch of interest to the room furnished with other pieces of the same period. This type of chair, sometimes known also as the slatback. was adapted by Colonial cabinetmakers from an immensely strong and heavy farmhouse chair made in Yorkshire during the Georgian period. This was made both with and without arms and the -number of slats varied from two to four. The seats were almost always of plaited rushes. The ladder-back was extremely popular in America all during the eighteenth century for use in the big, cheerful living-room-kitchen that was the heart of home life in those days. ( Copyright. 1025. i MODE MINIATURES Lines do as much to enhance or de tract from your appearance as any other one thing, and so every woman who attempts to he fashionable by be ing slender now discards the old-time idea of bloomers with a petticoat, both rippling in bunches around the waist. For without the properly smooth foundation Fashion's most tempting creations lack their charm. In their place she substitutes a clever new garment which serves double duty. “Kilties," as shown, are a cross between a step-in and pet ticoat. resembling the first in appear ance. the latter in practicability, being made with shadow-proof panels. MARGETTE. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) rjCM " r U“ it Wtt 18 19 JHio BiiKi~iscar & & I mrr 28 H p l p mß p 39 Xz 3 *8 « « i 5 !±l. .l ritjcj 1 L Across. 1. Table article. 6. Domicile. 11. Desolate. 12. Cleverness. 14. At a distance. 15. Preposition. 16. Bequeathed. 17. State (abbr.l. 18. Egyptian goddess. 20. Payable. 21. Looks at. 23. Measuring device. 25. Sharpened. 27. Liabilities. 30. Merciless. 31. Resembling peat. 32. Player. 34. Funeral song. 36. Loud. 39. Piece of sculpture. 42. Dolt. 43. Freshly. 45. Preposition. 46. Lobes of the ears. 47. State (abbr.). 48. Plant. 50. Declare. 51. Roadhouses. 53. Musical study. 54. Turns toward. Our Children —By Angelo Patri Where Does He Get It ? W hen a child exhibits some annoy ing trait and you feel your it;wtienee slipping, your forbearance growing thin, hold on just long enough to ask. “Where does he get it?" Suppose your 13-year-old suddenly begins answering you impudently, with a disrespect that is startling. Your first impulse is to slap him or send him to bed or devour him with your wrath. Better wait for thought. Tell him to sit /lovrn over there until you have time to attend to him. Then think back and try to find the person and the circumstances that 'set the stage for his exhibition. You will generally find him close at home. This is but saying the saire old thing in another way. The child is monkey-like in his imitation of what goes on about him. If he hears and sees crudities of speech and manner he will exhibit them about the be ginning of adolescence if not l>efore. Ts you would avoid them keep such influences out of your home. The home influences are the stronger. We speak a great deal about the street influences. Tlwey are very strong. But if the home is steadily set toward the proper stand ard. whatever you conceive that to be. the home spirit will in the erid pre dominate. So when the child gets out of bounds, search the home for the cause first. Then go to the. street, then the school. If the child comes home with an entirely new manner of carritige and speech, something that is startlingly new to the family tradition, look to the churn. Chums are very Influen tial. Therefore they are important and to be considered. They should he made welcome to the house as an ally. They will Ire needed before the storm of adolescence subsides.! W is dom bids us cultivate the chums. Then there is school. Tho teacher is a great source of inspiration to childhood. You do not realise the enormous influence the teacher has because it is usually for good and one does not notice the righteousness of children as they notice their unright eousness. Because the teacher Ps gen erally a pillar in the temple she is overlooked. Sometimes, however, the teacher has a mannerism, a trend of mind, a temperament that brings out. some thing unpleasant in some particular child. If that happens it is best to take the child out of that claims and put him in the room of some other teacher whose temperament and gifts are better fitted to the child's. Once I knew a teacher tv ho had a lisp. She said “1” for "r." It made no difference to the children but in one instance. Joey ' heard that “1” and for some reason adopted it. His startled parents took him to the speech specialist and it was six months before, they discovered the source of Joey’s difficulty. It vas no difficulty: just an Imitation ofi some- Quick § Safe if I Relief Liijig CORNS In one minute—or lees—the pain cmfci. Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pad la the safe, sure. haling treatment for corns. At drug an J ahue a ’.ores. D£ Scholls Xino-paa's PviX ooi on • the pain iagotom f mm i Every trace of. the Castor Oil / taste GONE l jfpstor Jems Chocolate coated cream mints with pure oil so emulsified as to be absolutely — Tasteless Down. I 1. Killed i 2. Cooking dishes, j 3. Conjunction. 1 4. Single persons. 5. Game fish. 7. Instructed. | 8. Pertaining to. 9. Gentlewoman. 10. Irreeularly notched. Combined. 13. Soft woolen fabric. UI. I Cl olldUth. j 22. Mohammedan saber, j 23. Luscious fruit. | 24. Answer. ! 25. Period of time. 26. Become, j 28. Insect. 29. Pigpen, j 33. Outcries. 34. Attempt. 35. Higher. 37. Mohammedanism, j 38. Os Switzerland. 40. Compact group. 41. Supported in position. 43. Continent. 44. Sea eagle. 49. Greek letter. 52. State (abbr). thing Joey thought unusual and so interesting. If you slap children, they will slap If you shout at them in impatience they will shout so at you in the days to come. If you deceive them they will know it and deceive you. If you speak from your tongue and try to hide what is in your heart, they will hear your heart speak and disregard •the tongue. Now where did he get it? Find out and remove the cause. Then he will lose the disagreeable trait in good time, “TT’S the little things that count” is so especially true in cooking How “flat” the food tastes with out a little salt and pepper, or spices, or mustard To make mustard mean the most in magnifying flavor— in soups, sauces, saladdress ings, cooked dishes your order to the grocer should be French’s Cream Salad Mustard. No other mus tard has such flavor. Made only by The R. T. French Company Rochester, N. Y. French’s am CREAM SALAD Mustard - - # Kgep Your Finery Colorful COLOR is the most important fash ion note of summer nnery. And color is just another name for Tintex. With it your entire summer wardrobe can be kept colorful and new, despite sun and laundry. Just “tint as you rinse” —no boiling necessary. For lace-trimmed silica (tints the silk— lace remains white)—use Tintes in the Blue Bos. For tinting or dyeings// materials—(silk, cotton, mixed goods) use Tintex in the Cray Box. IV *t drug and dept, stores Tintex TINT^^rOI^INSE O (Distributors XABK &HiFORD,AS] HOW IT STARTED | BY JEAN NEWTON. “Kicking the Bucket.” Not everybody who Is dead has kicked the bucket; not everybody who has died by his own hand has kicked the bucket, though In the process some of them have kicked over other things. This is no attempt to prosely tize —it is not a revelation of the after-life. It is simply an explana tion of how it started. The term has come down to us for every method of leaving this world for the next. The particular means which popularized it, however, was introduced hundreds of years ago by one, who, having lost his reasoning, decided to commit suicide by hanging himself. In looking around for a sup port over which to throw his rope he found a beam so high over his head that it was necessary to stand on something in order to reach it. The nearest thing happened to be a bucket, which served the purpose very well. After completing the necessary operations the poor man actually and verily kicked the bucket. Chicken En Casserole. Singe and draw one good sized chicken, then truss it as for boiling. Have ready a casserole large enough to hold the bird whole, line it with one pound of sliced bacon, put in the chicken and sprinkle in some salt, pepper and one onion chopped fine. Then arrange around the chicken three skinned tomatoes, three sticks of celery, five mushrooms and two chopped pickled walnuts and one bay leaf. Add two cupfuls of stock, place the casserole in the oven and let cook gently for one and one-half hours, basting the chicken frequently. When done remove the bay leaf, brown and thicken the gravy with one tablespoon ful of arrowroot, leave all the vege tables in the gravy with the chicken and serve hot in the casserole. - • Peach Snow. Rub through a sieve enough ripe, skinned peaches to make a cupful. Add half a package of gelatin which has been soaked and dissolved, the juice and grated rind of a lemon, a pinch of salt and a few drops of vanilla. 'When cool, but not set. fold in the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream or custard. ji I jl you love your j J Tl I children.,. jj/ 1 l you hate )/j^ 1 • a // / •Z&HpsBISHI Lifebuoy is not pel fumed. Its — —— III d Jil [rtf odor is your assur — ' ”—H| i,i ’ ■ 1 ante that it protect*. THER’S PROBLEM, purity —which vanishes the instant ITow can tousled, rollicking young- it has done its health-guarding duty, sters be guarded from dirt-dangers n that get on hands and faces all the Protects health * time—so quickly passed to’nose, Marvelous for the skin mouth or food—so threatening to This new cleanness, that one feels, bruised skin? gives positive every-day protection Five million mothers know to health. The hidden dangerous dirt u iji -i is flooded out, along with the surface Have you learned how anwmgly dirt An<J think ho * d this is for Lifebuoy clejinses 3.nci punficsr Irv i i • l n ■\TTi , the complexion—every pore breath lt yourself. Why! this is a new kind • „ F , • . ,• ; Y • , , • r , „ J mg —the skin, pulsing with glorious of cleanness , you 11 exclaim. You Y ,• r . & & actually /«/ the difference Your “wh/cLdVlp liking and having skm , S «de-a-wake. It sparkles and such a S( J , the com ? angles delightfully. plete toilet soap. Use it for every- Children love it thing—hands, face, bath, shampoo. How youngsters revel in bubbling, In its wonderful new cleanness is foamy, spirited Lifebuoy lather! Lit- beauty of complexion—the joy of vi tle noses, unused to artificial per- brant health—and priceless protection. fumes, love its clean, natural odor— (tXj.l7(r healthfully pungent —the odor of . 'jhe fieOMh dw™ HEALTH SOAP ' '—■ 1 ■—.— I I. ■ I « FEATURES. IN THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Lrquhart and Edited by Luthur Burbank. Working Directions. "What are the first requisites and essentials in this experimental work, Mr. Burbank?” I asked. "Infinite patience, an open mind and common sense; to these may be added a jeweler's eyeglass and pair, of pin cers, a small, powerful microscope, a sharp knife, a w r atch crystal for hold ing pollen and a soft brush for dusting the pollen from one plant to the other. "This w'ork is just what the bee does so swiftly, so easily, and un consciously in its search for honey, and we begin to understand why the flow'ers don their gay colors and pre pare their nectar to attract them. The bees' methods mav be watched with advantage and when they be gin their day’s work the experimenter may know that the flowers are ready to be pollenlzed. "Only by crossing can the different species and varitles of plants be im proved, and nature has contrived many devices to prevent self-fertilization in flowers, such as arranging for the stamens and pistils to mature at dif ferent times, or by making little traps to hold captive certain insects needed to deposit the pollen from other flowers. "Or, again, by having the stamens and pistils on different parts of plants, like corn, and even on different plants, as in the case of hemp and others. "And all this ingenuity for one pur pose of combining two lines of hered ity. so that the next generation may be better equipped for adapting itself to new surroundings! "In the case of water plants the pollen reaches the pistil by the move ment of the w'ater; in that of the pines and nearly all other forest trees, the 1 pollen is carried by the winds; but wdth more highly developed plants the pollen, with few exceptions, is carried by bees and other Insects, or in some cases by birds. "We might> digress here a moment, to recall the fact that many plants or trees brought from other countries fail to produce seed, unless the native in sect which pollenizes the flower hap pens to be brought with it. "This has been the case with the common fig. which did not ripen satis factory fruit until its own Italian wasp was imported. "To continue with our lesson in methods: When a certain flower has been decided on, the pollen from one of two flowers is carefully gathered with a soft camel’s hair brush and placed on a watch crystal and taken to the flower to be pollenlzed. The pollen is carefully dusted on the pis til of the other flower which is ready to receive it. The little grains of poi len find their way down the tube of the pistil into the ovary below, where the tiny seeds are waiting for it to start them into life. "This pollenated flower should he marked w-ith a tag and careful)- guarded. The seeds when ripe are to be gathered and saved and are better kept in an air-tight glass jar or « paper sack until time to plant them As we already have had detailed direr tlons on seed planting and raising, w** need not repeat that part of the work "When the little seedlings appear the very important work of selecting begins. The young plants should hr studied and compared, and only the very best, the hardiest, earliest to ms ture and nearest to the ideal should be chosen, the rest being destroyed if further improvement is the object in view.” < Copy right, iO'J.T.t | Sour Stomach | / “Phillips Milk of Magnesia” \ Better than Soda Instead of soda hereafter take ■ little “Phillips Milk of Magnesia” in water any time for indigestion or sour, acid, gassy stomach and relief will come instantly. For fifty years genuine “Phillips Milk of Magnesia” has been pre scribed by physicians, because it overcomes three times as much acid in the stomach as a saturated solu tion of bicarbonate of soda, leaving the stomach sweet and free from all gases. It neutralizes acid fermenta tions in the bowels and gently urge* the souring waste from the system without purging. Besides, it is more pleasant to take than soda. Insist upon “Phillips.” Twenty-five-cent bottles, any drug store.