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Pointers for Washington Women on Playing the Game of Domesticity ■ — 5 Frosty Foods Combine Dietary Features for Warm-Weather Menus Fruit Salad May Be Prepared for Use Far in Advance, Without Effort, and Suits Various Meals. BY BETSY CASWELL. WfH the determined settling down of Summer weather, our thoughts naturally turn more and more to the matter of frosty foods to cool our "inner man.” There is no more delectable dish on warm days than a well-prepared Betsy CaswtlL frozen fruit salad. It combines so many dietary features — espe cially beneficial In Summer, with a palatable cool ness, and, also, may be prepared far in advance by the housewife with no heated effort. It may serve as the main course at lunch eon, or at the informal supper; It may become a combination dessert and salad for dinner. No matter In which form It appears, it is always a welcome addition to any hot ‘ weather menu. With the modem mechanical re frigerators. the preparation of the frozen fruit salad has become simple. If, however, you still do not own an Ice box of this type, excellent re sults may be obtained by packing the salad in a mold in a mixture of salt and Ice. The Important thing In either case is to be sure that the salad is really frozen, and does not make its appearance in disappoint ingly liquid form. FROZEN PINEAPPLE AND MALLOW SALAD. \2 cup mayonnaise. 1 cup whipped cream. S34 cups canned, diced pineapple. 1 slice canned pineapple, quartered. 12 marshmallows, quartered. 1 cup coconut. Fold the mayonnaise into the cream. Combine remaining ingredi ents, except for the allce of pineapple, and after draining the diced pine apple well. Fold Into the mayonnaise mixture. Freeze in tray of automatic refrigerator until solid. Unmold on platter, garnish with crisp lettuce and the quartered pineapple allce. This will serve 8. TENEKIFFK SALAD. 1 cup mayonnaise. 1 cup whipped cream. 1 cream cheese. 1 cup shredded pineapple, drained. 3 tablespoons sugar. 1 cup maraschino cherries. Crush cherries and add them to the stiffly whipped cream. Keep the mixture as smooth as possible. Add the mayonnaise, and then fold the pineapple into the mixture. Blend the cream cheese with a Httls of the mayonnaise, and, when smooth, add to mixture. Freeze for at least three hours in mechanical refrigerator or packed in a mold in ice and sait. TOMATO CREAM SALAD. 3 cups canned tomatoes. Vi cup cream. 3 tablespoons sugar. 1 teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon onion juice. Vi tablespoon lemon juice. 4 peppercorns. 1 bay leaf. 3 cloves. Cook all but the cream together for 12 minutes. Rub through a sieve. Freese to a mush and then add the cream. Pack In salt and Ice, or in tray of refrigerator, and freese for one and one-half hours. Serve on watercress with mayonnaise or French dressing. PEAR SALAD (FROZEN). Pack one can of large pears In Ice and salt. Let freeze for four hours. Slice and serve on lettuce, sprinkled with paprika, and garnished with cherries and cream cheese balls rolled in chopped nuts. FRUIT SALAD (FROZEN). Vi cup grapefruit pulp. 1 cup mixed, canned or fresh fruit. Vi cup mayonnaise. \ cup cream. Vi cup diced celery. Vi cup sliced dates Wash, peel and drain the fruit well. Cut In small pieces and com oine with the celery and dates. Add the whipped cream to the mayonnaise, fold into first mixture and freese. If you wish advice oa your indi vidual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell, In care of The Star, Inclosing stamped, self-addressed en velope for reply. Hotel Menu Is Basis for Knowledge Dinner in Town Gives . New Inspiration to Home Study. BY FLORENCE LEE GANKE. /^LAIFE was having dinner down ^ town at one of the nicest hotels. Her cousin had come to town and wanted to take her to celebrate her • graduation. Claire felt so grown up and grand as she went in. But when she looked at the menu card - she felt like a little girl. There were so many terms on the menu with which she was not familiar, she •• was almost afraid to order. The next day she asked her mother whether it wasn’t possible to find out what the dishes listed on hotel menus really were. And right then and there she and her mother went over cook books and old hotel menus her mother had collected. She learned “Hors d’oeuvres” are •mall individual servings of cornucopias of boiled ham with shrimp salad in side, or halves of stuffed eggs, or small rounds of toast dressed up with rlced egg, anchovies, caviar. "Anchovies” are tiny fish, practically boneless or else filleted and boned and rolled and served In oil. “Caviar” is fish roe. The best Is black and glistening. “Bortsch” is a beet soup made from a Russian recipe and using sour cream. “Filet mignon” is the tenderloin part, of steak. "Truffles are a species of underground mushrooms that are black in color, firm in texture. They are usually chopped or sliced and used as a garnish. A dish labeled “espag nole” has a hot sauce with plenty of , red and green peppers in it. “Peach Melba'’ combines fresh or canned peach, raspberry sauce, French vanilla ice cream. A “bombe” is a frozen mix - ture with an Ice or sherbet on the outside and a rich cream in the inner part of the mold. A “macedoine” con sists of rather finely chopped assorted cooked fruits. “Crepes suzette” are wafer-thin pan cakes, rolled and dressed with a sauce which uses butter, orange juice and zest and a little brandy or other spirits which are ignited after the sauce is poured over the rolled pancake. Style Trend. Miss Florence Harris wears a modi * fled Cossack’s cap of white crochet ma terial with her white afternoon dresses. Color is supplied to the cos tume by two ropes of heavy red beads about her throat. The Old Gardener Says: Many housewives have formed the habit of removing their win dow garden plants from their pots when Spring comes and set ting them in the garden. This is a practice which has little to recommend it. The roots spread out too much in the course of the Summer and are damaged when crowded back into pots in the Fall. Then the plants are long in recovering from the shock. It is a better plan to sink the pots In the ground, but then there Is the danger that the owner will forget to water them in a dry season. On the whole, it is better to keep them on a veranda or porch, or to make a little Sum mer house for them, using laths set an Inch apart for the roof and one side, the side from which strong winds come. Summer is the time to prune house plants to improve their shape. (Ooorrieiit. loss.) My Neighbor Says: The best place to start seedlings is around bushes where they will get enough light and still be shaded from the strong sun. Four pounds of plums will make five pint Jars of preserves. To remove mildew stains from white linen boil in water to which two tablespoons of peroxide have been added to each quart of water. Only half the quantity of sugar will be required to sweeten stewed fruits if sugar is added after' fruit is cooked. (Oopyrlsht. 1835.) Preventing Mind Ills Is Useful Act BT JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. rPHE CARE of mental patients is costly to the community, because there are more patients in the mental hospitals than in all the other hos pitals combined. That mental patients now go into these hospitals of their own will is one of the reasons for the great in crease in the number of cases. This is helpful, as It puts mental ailments in the same class as physical aliments, instead of being something of which the individual and his family need be ashamed. Another helpful point is that the family doctor or general practitioner, who naturally sees the patient first, now recognizes the early signs or symp toms of mental in health, and treat ment Is begun before the ailment makes the headway it formerly dkl. Some of the causes or circumstances that develop or bring out mental symptoms In patients are overwork in school or college, in business or in the home; trouble or anxiety, inability to adjust themselves- to circumstances, bereavement, chronic poisoning of the system from infected teeth, tonsils, gall bladder. Intestines; acute illness, especially such illnesses as Influenza, and the changes that occure In youth and at middle age In woteen. . Dr. Dorothy M. Tudor, London, In the Prescriber, says: "The danger sig nals In mental ailments are difficulty in concentration, irritability, restless ness, loss of memory, lessening of the ability for work or achievement. De pression is an ‘early’ sign that should never be neglected, as It may lead to pronounced melancholia and tiredness of life. In these conditions, while prolonged treatment may be necessary, the prognosis or outlook is hopeful.” The greatest need in getting results is to get relaxation and repose away from home and away from the usual routine circumstances. Medical and nursing care, with careful searching after any condition of the body such as infection or physi cal defect which may be influencing the mental condition, is absolutely necessary, if results are to be achieved. This examination should Include the examination for organisms and the use of the X-ray. Certainly if this method is used in cases showing these early mental symptoms, many will not need to enter mental hospitals. (Copyright. 1835.) Beauty Hint. The other afternoon at a tea, one charming young matron appeared hatless, with her hair drawn back of her ears and held In place by two tiny bows of cherry colored ribbon, mstehing the trimming on her frock. The effect was delightfully cool and youthful. K —-■—7— -;- ; ... '? • Frozen Salads Supreme Dish for Summer Meals For coo1 and palatable additions to the menu, nothing quite tabes the {dace of the delectable frozen salad. This one is composed of fnneaftfde, marshmallows and many other tempting ingredients; it would be equally good as the main course for luncheon or a combination salad-dessert course for dinner. Eye Beauty And the Use Of Lipstick Reduction Methods Are Advised for Athletic Type. BY LOIS LEEDS. rvEAR MISS LEEDS—How can I make my eyes look attractive without using mascara and eye shadow? (2) Which foods are fattening and which are not? (3) How can I keep my lips soft and smooth after I put lipstick on them? (4) I am 14 years old, 5 feet 3 inches tall and weigh 128 pounds. I am of the athletic type. How can I reduce? BUNNY. Answer: Invest in a little eyebrow brush and brush your eyebrows with It twice a day. using a little brilliantine or vaseline on the brush. Brush the lower hairs upward and outward, and the upper hairs downward and out ward until they meet In a neat line through the center. Pluck out any straggling hairs below the eyebrows, but be careful not to take too many. Brush your lashes, too, and anoint them with vaseline at bedtime. (2) In general the sweet and starchy foods are most fattening, while the leafy vegetables and citrus fruits are not considered so. (3) The secret of keeping your Ups looking smooth is to rub a little Up salve or cold cream Into them before applying your lipstick. When apply ing the color hold your Ups rather loose. Then separate your lips and blend tne red with your Unger. At bedtime remove all make-up and apply Up salve to your Ups. (4) You are not too heavy for your type, but If you are interested in pre venting yourself from becoming heavier send a stamped (3-cent), self addressed envelope for my leaflet, "Safe and Sane Reducing.” Charles: Your weight of 143 pounds Is just about right lor a boy who is 5 feet 11 inches fall and between 14 and 15 yean of age. Thoroughly cleansing treatments at least twice a day wlU help you clear up the black heads and pimples. These blemishes are usually associated with oiUness of the skin. At bedtime wash your face with tincture of green soap which you may buy at a drug store. Lather well. Rinse. Now gently press out the black heads with a smaU Instrument called a blackhead remover which has been sterilized In alcohol. Lather your «Mn again and follow with a dozen alternate hot and cold rinses, finish ing with the cold. Do this every other night and on alternate nights treat the pimples. Swab the ripe ones with alcohol, then open with a steri Uzed needle, press out the contents and wipe with a clean piece of absorbent cotton that has been moistened In alcohol. Every morning wash your face with a good facial soap and warm water; foUow with the alternate rinses. Your skin wiU became drier but that is what is needed to check the acne. There are acne creams and lotions on the market that you may find helpful. If your skin condition does not clear up, see a doctor. Jane: The average weight for girls of IS who are S feet 2 Inches tall Is 111 pounds. With light brown hair, blue eyes and very fair skin you may wear most shades of blue, blue-gray, brown, pale gold, rust, pastel pinks, blue-violet, white, black. I doubt that you can do much toward reducing your cheeks. As you grow older they will probably become less round. You might try chewing exercises with head thrown back and Ups closed. LolUe: The average weight for girls of 19 who are 5 feet taU is 109 to 119 pounds. Send for my leaflet, "Safe and Sane Reducing," remembering to Inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request. I do not recommend Internal medicines for re firing Irene: Please write again, repeating your request and Inclosing a stamped, aelf-addressed envelope. LOIS LKKD6. 1 ■/ _ _ (Ooenitht. 1834.) 5 Holds Fashion Interest ♦ One-Piece Dress With Gathered Blouse and Cape Sleeves. BY BARBARA BELL. ODAY'8 dress is a very wearable and attractive one for the beat wave that is 810*6 to come. It’s the sort of thing that smart women will wear alt day long and look marvelously well dressed- in. Silk crepe, shantung or the new and inter esting silk linen are very good ma terials to chooee from, although you may have cotton as well. Be sure that it is of a washable material, for it is nice to know that Summer things can be tubbed. The square-cut yoke, made in one with full cape sleeves, adds fashion interest to this frock. The neckline is square, too, and the flounoelike in serts at the sides of the skirts have the ***"* line. In fact, this design might be a lesson in geometries, if it were not for the softly gathered blouse. The fullness appears in both back and front, and is as feminine as can be. We will see many of these bloused bodices in the chic frocks of the sea son, and they are a distinct relief from the plain lines of yesteryear. tjnir buttons fasten the belt and trim the front of the yoke, and you’ll ob serve that these are square also. Every one is talking of white for lAldsummer and shops and shop win dows are full of dresses like this in snowy crepe or linen. Pastels are in finitely becoming and very tempting in a wide range of colors. Lilac is first and foremost, then maize and pjnk and aqua. We say their names i over and over again, but It is impos sible to describe their loveliness. - 7 b /6<S3-£> Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1683-B is designed in sizes 14, 16, IS, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measure ments, 32, 34. 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires about 4% yards of 36-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide Which is easy to understand. Send for the Barbara Bell pattern book. Make yourself attractive, prac tical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the 104 Barbara Bell well planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult Junior age; slenderizing, well cut patterns for the mature figure, afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other pat terns for special occasions are all to be found In the Barbara Bell pattern book. Send IS cents for your copy today. Address orders to The Eve ning Star. BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1MS-B.f Sise. Name... Address . (Wrap coins securely In paper.) (OOBVllCht IBM.) ‘ A Study Your Own Ruling Inner Self Trying to Be Better Is Way to Create Worthy Picture. BY ANGELO FATBI. r\EAR BOYS AND GIRLS: What ^ sort of person are you? Do you know how to look at yourself and see? The mirror shows only the picture of your exterior, the lesser part of you. The Important part, the self that is you, does not show Itself there to any great degree. It speaks. It appears. It shows Itself accurately in your ac tions. What you do, that you arc. You. like all humanity, are a mix ture of good and not so good, with some Indifferent spots thrown in to complete the Idea. You are certain to do some good deeds daily, bound to do some that are not so good, while most of your behavior is in routine, indifferent and ordinary enough. That is how human beings behave. Nobody is perfect oftener than a frac tion of each day. Few people are bad to even that degree. But the best people—and you want to be classed among them—try to have the balance of their behavior on the perfect aide, at least good. How good are you? First, how much honest work have you done to day? Perhaps you begin to make excuses and say: “I didn’t feel so good: the teacher didn't call on me when I raised my hand, and then when I didn’t she called cm me; I didn’t think It would do any harm if I didn’t do my homework Just for this once; I couldn't help tripping Jimmie. He fell over my foot. I meant to go to church, but I had a little headache and I thought a walk would do me more good. I didn’t know I would meet those boys and girls and I thought we would be right back anyhow, so I went along, and we couldn’t get back in time.” If you have a string like that to tell, look at yourself—take a good, long look—and remember that what you do you do. Nobody on earth can move you to do a single thing with out your consent. It is you that mis behaves and makes excuses. When you do not get up on time, delay beginning your work, listen to a radio program when your lessons are waiting, go to the movie when your mother Is waiting for you to come home, slap your little brother and push him around, talk down any body who is talking when, you feel you want to talk—look at yourself. That selfish, domineering pleasure-hound is you. Do you like the picture? no body else does either. As I said, none of us Is perfect, but every one can be a little better than he was yesterday simply by trying. It we make an effort to shift some of your deeds from the Indifferent, or dinary class to the nearly perfect standard, the picture would be finer. If we cut down on the number of downright low deeds It would make considerable improvement In the pic ture. If it hurts you to think of pruning yourself In this way, just remember that picture of yourself when you last looked at It. Remember that what you saw was only a hint of what other people saw, for we are always kind to ourselves and pet them a lot. Then be a little determined about It and take yourself In hand. Speak kindly, do something that pleases mother and father; help little brother for a few minutes, stop by your grandmother’s chair and tell her a pleasant little story or a bit of school goasip; visit the sick chum; put your own things In order; do your homework con scientiously. Do the good things you have been dreaming, and before you know it they will all come true. Be gin today. A good beginning is a strong drive toward the good ending. Cordially, ANGELO PATRL (Coprrlsht, 1836.) Beauty Hint. An astringent lotion with a pow der base makes an excellent founda tion for make-up during warm weather. It may also be used to i-wm* tbs face several times during 'the day before applying powder, r Dorothy Dix Says Man Whose Wife Neither Loves Him Nor Will Divorce Him. DEAR MISS DIX—Does an early. Impetuous marriage forever bar a man from any further happiness If it turns out disastrously? I married when I was only a boy, just out of college, and (ht marriage has been a failure. Two Incompatible natures that could not adjust themselves to each other, and my wife and I have gone our different ways and sought our differ ent pleasures. She does not love me nor I her, but she will not divorce me under any circumstance*. I have found my mate, the woman of my dreams. We have told my wife of our love, but aha refuses to let me go, and for fear of scandal which would wreck everybody, for this girl Is the sole support of her family, she will not meet me any more or answer my letters. Now, shall X go on living with my wife, with love turning to hate, or shall I make a break and go to the girl? She would welcome me If I were free. Have I a right to her love, or must X bow to convntlanallty and carry on as I am? J. H. A NSWKR: But the trouble is, J. H., ‘‘"'"that you are not free and appar ently have no chance of becoming free. Your wife is adapting the dog in-the-manger attitude and, while she doesn't want you herself, she Is de termined that no other woman shall have you. That Is many a woman's revenge on her husband for having tired of her. It has been Mid that we are more bitterly punished for our mistake* than we are for our sins, and that statement applies to nothing so truly as It doM to boy-and-girl marriages. So many fine youngsters, who have in themselves such possibilities of hap piness and success, wreck their lives by marrying before they have come to themselves, before they have devel oped In character and taste, before they know what they are going to demand In their mates. They are in love with love and they tt.nk that their passing fancy is the grand pas sion. In their Inexperience they think that they can never change, and that when they are mature they will not want something more than the callow pipsqueaks and flappers they are enamored of at the moment. CO THEY marry and they grow up, and in the great majority of cases tragedy ensues. They outgrow their mates, they are bond by them, they have different tastes and desires, and the terrible punishment of their youthful folly Is that they are chained for life to dead loves. Nor is this the worst of it, for al most invariably when it is too late they fall In love with some woman or man who meets their adult needs and who gives them the understanding and sympathy and companionship for which they are starving, and for whom they have not a childish crush, but an affection that will never die. Thai, indeed, they know that the poet spoke truly when he said that the bitterest words ever uttered were “It might have been.'* VV/'HAT the man and woman caught In this cruel coll should do. no one knows. It seems a pitiful thing for them to have to pay all their lives for a youthful mistake and to be denied the love and companion ship that would not only bring them happiness but make them better men and women. But we have to pay the price of our follies, and those who have children have no right to take their good at the expense of the little ones they have brought into the world. In your case, J. H„ there is not even a chance of escape through the divorce court. Your wife has shut that door in your face and so I think that your line of conduct toward this girl that you love, but cannot marry, Is clearly marked out. She has had the courage to break with you. let her alone. Let her readjust her life and forget you If she can. It la a hard thing to do, but often It Is the duty of a man to jyotect the woman he loves against himself. DOROTHY DDL. * * * * r\XAR DOROTHY DEC—I am a girl who Is In love with a young man who has deserted me for another girl. He was cragy about me until he heard gome scandal, which wasn't true, about me. He immediately drop ped me and now has another girl he is just wild about, but his friends tell me he still talks about me a lot. What shall I do? Let things go on as they are or speak to him about this affair? Please help me, as I am quite de pressed. B. M. C. Answer: Do not humiliate yourself by making any effort to get the boy back. Evidently it would do no good as he has already consoled himself with another. He couldn't have been very seriously In love with you if he let you go so easily. TT IS easy enough to kindle the Are A of love, but when It has once gone out not any power that any woman pc— can blow It Into a flame again. If a boy la tired of you, he la tired of you. None of us knows why we like a thing one day and are bored by It the next. No one can tell why the one who thrilled us yesterday leaves us flat today. These are Just laws of nature that we have to ac cept, and If we are wise we don’t wear ourselves out vainly trying to change them. My advice to you Is to forget the boy and spend your energies In cap tivating a new date. There are Just as good fish in the sea, you know, as ever were caught. DOROTHY DIX. aw** J)EAR MISS DIX—What would you do If the man to whom you were engaged was forever calling your at tention to some woman's face or figure by fervently exclaiming, “My, what a beauty!” It doesn't matter whether it is a live woman or a picture of a woman In a magazine, or whether he knows the girl or not. This makes me extremely Jealous because I am myself a good-looker, with a splendid figure, a peaches-and-cream complexion and s face that is just as beautiful as any of these he raves about. But be rarely compliments me more than to ten me I look nice. I am afraid this Is going to break up our engagement. JEALOUS. Answer: If you are going to take your fiance’s admiration of pretty women that much to heart, I think you had better break off your engage ment because you are likely to live in a pea-green stete ever after, and that is no comfortable thing to hap pen to a wife. ar* silly not to recognise that men’s admiration of feminine pulchritude is generally Just an ab stract love of beauty, and has nothing more personal in it than their liking to look at any other admirable object in nature. You must have noticed that many men who, like your fiance, al ways turns to look at a pretty woman, and who comment most loudly on a woman’s figure, or her complexion, or her hair, themselves marry homely women whose charms were of the spirit and the mind rather than the body. It Is one tiling to admire a living picture and another to want to cwn it. And it is a matter of record that beauties do not make the best matches, or even have the greatest number of proposals. And certainly if you are in the Miss America class yourself, as you state, you have little reason to be upset by your sweetheart's admiration of other women. But any man is a fool who ever praises another woman’s good looks to his sweetheart or wife. DOROTHY DEC. (Copyrlsht. 1936.) I Cook’s Corner 11 MSS. ALEXANDEB GEOBOE. BREAKFAST. Cantaloupe. Ready-Cooked Wheat Cereal. Cream. Soft-Cooked Eggs. Buttered, Toast. Orange Marmalade. Coffee LUNCHEON. Fruit Salad. Cottage Cheese. Iced Tea. Sugar Cookies. Apricot Sauce. DINNER. Ham Stuffed Peppers. Creamed New Potatoes. Bread. Plum Jam. Chilled Fruit Juices. Strawberry Ice Box Cake. HAM STUFFED PEPPERS. 8 Itrte peppers 2 cuds chopped cooked tsra V4 cup diced celery 2 tablespoons chop ped creen peppers 1 tablespoon chopped onions v« teaspoon salt V« teaspoon Deeper ‘a cup salad dressin* 1 tables poor granu lated gelatin t tablespoons cold water Wash peppers. Remove and discard seeds and pulp. Soak gelatin In water 5 minutes. Dissolve over boiling wa ter, cool and add to rest of ingredi ents. Stuff peppers. Chill 2 hours or longer. Using sharp knife cut into 1-lnch crossway slices. Arrange, with edges overlapping, op tray. Garnish with parsley and pickle slices. CHILLED PRUIT UICBS. 4 cum Iced tea % cup lemon Juice 1 cup DineaPDle 1V4 cups eusar Juice 4 cups water 2 cuds orange Juice Boil sugar and water 3 minutes. Cool. Add rest of ingredients and add equal portions iced water. Serve In glasses one-third filled with chopped ice. STRAWBERRY ICE BOX CAKE. Aneei food cake ft cup butter 1 cup sugar 3 eggs, beaten 1 cup diced marshmallows Vt cup whipped •ream 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cup* berrlei Remove center rrom case, uream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat 2 minutes. Add rest of ingredients. Pour into angel cake case. Chill 4 hours or longer. Spread with more whipped cream and serve cut in slices. <yuj't$jb@dL -fh/tL. b, /!&& droo&s PATTERN 527*' Filet crochet—so may to do—so effective when done—can do much to make your home attractive. Use string and make this design for a buffet set—scarfs—dofllee—a chair or davenport set. The tulips at the corners are set off by the simple lattice pattern that forms the center. In pattern 6278 you will find exact Instructions and charts for making the set shown as well as for scarfs and other dollies; material require ments; Illustrations of the set and of all stitches needed. To obtain this pattern send 16 cents In stamps or aotn te fee Woman's Editor of The Evening Star. 6 < 4