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THE TIMES DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE
Hubby Escapes From Kiss
Of "Bossy" Wifer Herein
Lies Tragedy of Personality
He'd Love Her Devotedly If She Would Only Let Him,
ut She Tangles Him in Threads, Like
tafllis' Gulliver Amid the Lilliputians
By WINIFRED BLACK.
'"W
HAT makes you feel most
like a wild, free bird of
the nlr?" said the woman
wlHi Ihn rufflnrl r1rRM nt
the tea the other day.
'woing to pea without doing my nair
vt in curlers," responded the girl In the
military nai.
"Going without rubbers when It
rftlns," said the dcllcato woman who
hu t throat" and knows It.
''Paying the bill for luncheon and not
Oddlnc It up first to sec If It's right,"
LJd the married wpman whose husband
btlpngs to the three most expensive
clubs 4n.town.
"Going down town without klsftlng my
Wife ffood-by," aald tho lone, lorn man
tthe party.
We all laughed, all but the wife. She
Smiled sadly. And I'm willing to wager
my. best new dangly ear-rings that that
njah wished ho hadn't said what he did
bfffore he got ten yards out of hearing
of the rest of us. Poor man my heart
aches, for him!
" Z wonder If wo women ever realize
Just what It Is that makes men burst
the chains we try to load upon them
SXiA disappear in a wild effort for frec
;om' every once In a while.
I never understood it myself until last
f urnrncr. Last .summer I went to a sum
nief resort for four weeks oh. sad was
tho hour and weary was the minute
and .at that summer resort, there wero
JIO men not one single, lonesome man.
Oh. Of course, there were old gentlemen,
who nottercd around in the sunshine,
lifta boys In their first white flannels,
but no real men at all. And the way
those women nagged and persecuted and
ppssfifl and managed each other was a
sight to see. , ,
One managed we for three weeks, and
if Td stayed a day longer I do believo
X would have taken her out In a row
boat and pushed her ovcrbonrd or
Jumped in myself and found a watery
erave. .
Either Bossed or Bossing.
Bhe liked me. too. or said she did. but
he didn't want me to br eatho y thout
liking her about it. and she wouldn t
fit nit move a step without golnz with
xne, and If I did escape for a wild half
Wir of freedom with a book she had
aot'lent me. or recommended, or hunted
'MB. 'I had to tell her everv step Id taken
and Just where I sat to begin the book,
and why I chose that particular tree
and' how far I read and what I thought
of It. and who went bv and what they
aald and how I felt when they said It.
And how often I had wished for her.
and didn't I think I would have en
Joyed 'lt a good deal more if she had
been there to talk it over with me?
t noon she was alwavs waltlnK on
th Tlazsa for me to ko, in to luncheon
With her where had I been and what
lBt me so long and whv had I worn
that waist she thoucht I was going to
War the blue one and she wouldn t go
tn Alone, not if I waited till the last
minute. Once I pietended I had a head
ache and she came upstairs and brought
me tea. and toast, and had a tray with
her luncheon and ate it there for com
pany! . . .
No. there was nothlnir queer about her
on about me. I thought there was at
first, but I bean to notlco tho other
women, and I saw that wo wero Just
one pair. The hotel was full of them.
The middle-ased mother with the
Three Minute
Journeys
, By TEMPLE MANNING.
THE Indians of our American
Southwest are very different
Indians from those of the
plains. While the plains In
dians have always been hunters and
predatory warriors, the Southwest
ern Indians have always been farm
er and more than half-civilized for
rrlany generations. Rain is the most
Important thing in the world to
them; therefore it is not strange to
find that raln-maklng feasts hold a
prominent place in their religious
Sites.
To most of us rain is a natural an
noyance, to be taken for granted, but
in the arid regions of Arizona and
Kew Mexico It comes as a direct
and very special favor of Providence.
To tho Southewestern Indians all
rAln is supplied by tho spirits of the
dead. Children who die young are
supposed to attain miraculous ma
turity in the spirit land, and soon
jjusume their part, too, in producing
-rain. Therefore, in the lapse of
time thero have come into spiritual
"jpower a vast number of rainmakers,
but there are not too many, as me
'.kxl8. climate certainly proves.
The Indian priests, naturally, are
foremost In the rain-making cere
tnontes, and' they fast for days be
fore tho "rain dance" to mako them
selvea worthy, and all the people
.prepare themselves, too. Then when
the great day arrives the Great
Father of the gods appears, fantas
tically disguised, preceded by a cour
ier, and attended by ten lesser gods.
In the old days the common peo-
Sle undoubtedly believed that the
ire at Father had dome down to
'earth in person, but the college ed
ucated Indian of today certainly un
derstands that the actual gods are
Impersonated by the priests, al
though they reverently take part
in the "rain dance," and bow to tho
- disguised priests as humbly' as If
they wore not simply symbolic.
I shall never forget the one "rain
dance" It was my privilege to attend
r-nor can I soon forget the speed
with which the priests ran homo
after the ceremonies. You see, those
poor fellows had fasted many days,
and they were very, very hungry.
(Copy't, 1916. by Newipaper Feature Service.)
The Lost Occasion.
Farewell, fair Jay and fading light!
Tho clay-born here, with westward
sight.
Marks the huso sun now downward
clear,
Farewell. We twain shall meet no
s more.
Farewell. I watch with bursting
. " sigh
My late contemned occasion die,
. I linger useless In my tent: ,
.Farewell, fair day, so foully spent!
Farewell, fair day. If any God
At all cpnsider this poor clod,
Tie who the fair occasion' sent.
'Prepared and placed the Impediment.
TAi, him diviner vengeance take
Olve roe to sleep, give me to wake,
, Girded and shod, and bid me play.
TTJit nero in me lominc nay:
Itobert Louis Stevenson.
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bossy daughter, the nrctty clrl with the
fussv mamma, the dauchtor-ln-law with
tho critical molhcr-in-law. and tho two
sisters we called them "Beauty and tho
Beast." Tho poor "Boast" was all right
In her way. but Bhe uas so nroud of her
sister's beauty that she talked about It
and hinted till somebody clso said some
thing: of It. She brought veils for tho
Ucautv's eves nnd sunshades for tho
Beauty's complexion nnd scarfs for tho
Bcuutv'a shoulders till tho uoor Beauty
had no morn life nud volition of her own
than a llttlo bug on the end of a pin
in a buu collector's museum.
Tho pretty girl's fusty mamma was
pretty bad. She didn't want her daughter
to drink coffee or tea or cocoa. Coffee
made her sluggish, tea made her ner
vous, and cocou was bid for the liver,
so tho fussy mamma said, and she
would Interrupt any conversation on
any topic any time to burst Into the
breakfast utmospherc and "forbid the
bans" whenever daughter thought she
was going to sl'n by and get some
thing Bhe reallv wanted for breakfast.
'Of course, It became .the end and aim
or tne wnoie company to get daughter
out somewhere and buy chocolates, for
her or coffee or tea anything so thai
It was something that the fussy mam
ma had forbidden.
The middle-aged woman didn't get a
minute of peace. Daughter boosed her
in the morning and boscd her at noon
and bossed her at night.
Mother had to walk, cat. sleep, wake
up, dress, Ho down, go In bathing, and
do fancy work not when she wonted to
do any of these things herself, but
when tho bossy daughter made Jer do
And every single woman in that hotel
was cither bossed or bossino
Like the Poor Rabbit.
"What in the world is thr matter
with us women? Why can't we let
people alone? Vt'hy must we insist on
fussing and fretting, and bothering:
and bossing every minute of out
lives? Now the man who said he felt free
ns a bird when he went downtown
without klssinu' his wife is a good
man and a good husband. He'd love
his wife devotedly if the'd let him.
V.ut she won't he just won't.
She winds him all around in a silken
fkein of "musts" and "oughts" and
"snails" and "shall not,." till the poor
man must feel like Gulliver when lie
n'voke and found himself tied hand
nnd foot by the silk threads of the
Lilliputians.
Whv e.-ul't she let him alone? Why
won't she allow him to breath?'
Once I went to a laboratory to see
rome scientific experiments, and they
had a rabbit under an air-tight glohn
ana waiteu to see how lone ho roulil
live thero In a glass case without r
particle of fresh air. I didn't wait to
sec tho end of the experiment I
couldn't. Eut somehow I'm glad I
saw the first of It. I never nee a mar
ried man struggling and lighting to
keep his own individuality and hix
cwn personality without thinking of
that rabbit in that retort.
Tf I had lived another day at that
summer resort, I'd have snatched my
boss' hat from her head and torn It
Into ribbons. I'd have caught the
book out ot her hand and thrown it
Into the lake. I'd have done some
thing so outrageous and Impossible
that no human being would ever have
spoken to me again.
As it was, I just "got a telegram"
and had to go before my boss was
up to see to my parking and advise
me about niv ticket and tell me how
to get mv trunk checked.
I wonder what poor wretch she's
"bossing' now. I doihope it Isn't her
lni.sb.ind. Poor man, no wonder he
Fends her away on leng vacations.
(Copy't 1516, by Newspaper Feature Service.!
Daily Fashion
Suggestion
B
OUDOlR CAPS are a never-
falling appeal to tho luxury
loving woman. Frlces at tne
little specialty shops are
sometimes prohibitive nnd many
women who never try their skill at
other kinds of needlework can
evolve the most bewitching of caps
ftom sciaps of lncc and silk. Oro
lecentiy seen in a shop was a Dutcn
bonnet ot net. lace, and ribbon. Tne
net forms the crown and this is
gathered Into a band of ribbon, witn
a frill of lace across the bacK. ' a
flat bow of ribbon centered with a
pink rose ornaments each side.
To a plain cap of net may Pe
added a narrow clrculur brim or
pink taffeta, with a band of plnK
ribbon about the brim and a out
terfly bow at the back. Still an
other cap Is very evidently patterned
alter a Breton peasant's coir, with
a sheer linen crown and two stiff
'wings" wired back. Two flat blue
bows rellee the severe white effect
Copy m, by Newpapr Feature Strvlcc.)
Why Not Make Change in Food
As Popular as Change in Fashions?
An Afterthought Result
' ing In a Visit to Centei
Market In Which the Dis
covery of a Remarkable
Likeness to the World of
Fashion Was Made of
Food! Advertisement
Only Is Required.
FHOM all ot the advertising and
fuss and feathers fashion at
taches to its spring appear
ance and metamorphosis, one
would think that nothing else' of im
portance happens at ths particular
period In tho year.
Ab a matter of fact, on this very
da.-, at Center Market, there is more
really Important news and beauty
than In all of the styles put together.
For this Is really the first fairly
warm day for quite a period or time,
strawberries are to be had, rabbits
arc going out, and chickens are com
ing In, and all of the stalls outside
of the market are filled with tne
most delicious vegetables Imaginable.
food and clothes may go together
in tradition, but not in actual lire.
Clothes are by far the most exten
sively advertised and most press
agentcd. A corresponding heighten
ed Interest in whatever happens to
them is noticeable, not only among
women, but among mere males. If
all of tho brains and genius which
Is put on the advertisement or
clothes was put on tho advertise
ment of the coming of different klnas
of food, the conditions In agricultur
al districts would be bettered, ana
perhaps that great back-to-the-rarm
movement, for which so many
dream, would be accomplished.
Modern Social System.
For Instance, if the young women
commpnly known as flappers would
think as much about their food as
they do about their clothes, what a
boom In foodstuffs thero would be!
Instead of spending for products
lrom which one can never count on
obtaining the full money value, they
would be in a position to state in
stantly whether or not they wanted
certain foods.
That vital fault of the modern so
cial system, the prlvllego of hoard
ing goods and moneys possible, not
only through the efforts of corpora
tions, but through private sources,
would be In part eliminated.
-All of those summer and winter
garments which lie untouched jcar
by year in the cupboards of the pri
vate homes would gradually disap
pear. The interest that had centered
about clothing would then center
nbout food, and there would be
no such thing possible as the con
glomerate aggregation of undesirable
wearing apparel, which necessitates
What
Woman Suffrage In Canada.
Canadian women are as seriously
looking forward to participation in
government as are their sisters on
this side of the border. Just before
Christmas a petition asking for en
fanchlsement in Manitoba, signed by
39,634 women of the province, was
presented to Premier Norris at Win
nipeg by a deputation from the Po
litical Eauallty League. Tho premier
assured the women that a bill pro
viding for equal suffrage has been
prepared, and added that the gov
ernment hopes for Its early passage
at the coming session of the legisla
ture. Both Alberta and Manitoba
are expected to extend tho ballot to
women by legislative nctlon not later
than next month. The measures
pending provide for votes for women
In Dominion matters as well as In
those pertaining to the respective
provinces. Milwaukee Evening Wis
consin. Spurned In Cleveland.
When the Gary plan first was sug
gested for Cleveland's schools, school
board members intimated what wan
BOOK REVIEWS
SPEAKING OF OPEnATIONS. By IrvlnS.
Cobb. New Tork: Georss 3. Poran t om-
pany. Trice, CO cents.
It must be the task of posterity to
decide which gentleman from the lit
erary oelt of Indiana be the cleverest
of them "all, but with due regard for
the rest, certainly Mr. Cobb's "re
marks" embodied In this slim little vol
umea reprint from a recent weekly
will be remembered when many an
nther eem of thought has vanished
from the minds of this generaUon. Hla
all-embracing dedication sums up his
feeling In the matter.
. We are not wishing any more ill luck
on another part of Mr. Cobb's spacious
person, but we hopo fortune may send
him other well, shall we say "symp
toms" to record.
iiAivr nniDGET in the nrvbr-nbver
LAND. By Mri. Campbell Praed. New
Tork: Brentano's. Trice, 11.35 net.
Although the title of this novel Is
seemingly reminiscent of fairies and
children, 't happens that Mrs. Camp
bell has taken the name for the Aus
tralian wilds during the earlier days
of the colony for her latest work.
The plot Is mildly conventional, hut
the setting Is unusual. Wc have never
been In that part of Australia of which
she writes, nnd because it sounds so
unnleasant have no deslro to travel
thither. But there is a strong sense of
ldellty to detail, which leads ono to
beljnve that the writer of tho hook knew
whereof she wrote.
MUSMN. By Georg Moor. New Tork:
Brentano'i. Trice. $1.13 net.
Another volume of the uniform edi
tion of- the Encllsh novelist, tleorgn
J V
Prices At Center Market
Today.
WHOLESALE.
Apples-Black Twig. 3.B0 barrel:
Ben Davis, J2.73; Waldower, $J;
Golden Gate. 13.
Oranges From J2.25 to $2.60 a box.
from 200 to 160 oranges In a box;
anv size.
Onions Sack. 100 pounds, J2.73;
three-peck basket. lltK.
Potatoes Bermuda potatoes. 150
pounds. J2.73-J3.2u. New potatoes are
very scarce, and are about JS and $9
a barrel.
Grapefruit From $2.73 to J3 a box,
to 90 In a box.
Sweet potatoes Three-peck basket,
JOc.
Turnips Three-peck basket. 6c.
Parsnips 3c to 75c. box or crate.
!ettuce Forty heads, about II. DO.
Carrots The neck basket. 75c.
ItETAIL OUTSIDE.
Fresh ham 16c pound.
Spans ribs 10c to 12c pound.
Fresh shoulder IWc.
Sausage Mixed. 1214c: all pure
pork, 16c.
Chuck roasts 12W-0 to He.
Picnlo hams 12Wc.
Steaks Tenderloin. 25c: porter
house, 25c; sirloin, 22c: round. lSc;
veal. 30c.
EgRPlant 5c to 10c apiece.
Lettuce 5c to 10c a head.
Green beans 10c box.
Cranberries 13c quai t.
Dressed chicken 20c pound.
Eggs 30c dozen.
Brussels sprouts 10c box.
Tomatoes 15c pound.
Si f
tho large closet, the moth ball, and
the rag man.
Fortunately, because of the pe
culiar constitution of food, it cannot
bo hoarded as successfully or as
easily ns clothing, especially tho
more delicious and pcrlshablo vege
tables and fruits. After a few stern
lessons in the process of decay,
women would cease to buy that
which they no longer needed, or that
for which they had no immediate
use.
One trip to Center Jlarkct would
serve to convince the most skeptical
of the possibilities of extensive and
unusual advertisement exlstant In
the realm of food.
Desire To Purchase.
After gazing for a sufficient length
of time on cauliflower, peas, beans,
egg plant, fresh meats, apples,
oranges, and everything else under
the sun, the person who can get
away without belns violently pre
possessed with the desire to buy and
eat must be terribly bad off for
an appetite.
Center Market, however, taken
all at one bite, without a com
petent guide is a dangerous place.
One can wander for hours in nnd
out among rows of poor little pig,
whose clothes arc all off, until al
most exhausted, not to say nause
ated, and shocked, or be lost in a
sea of wholesale dealers' wares
which are Interesting, but by no
means attractive.
A guide, more preferably In the
form of a large capable man. Is
quite a help, and adds greatly to
the Joy of tho first visit. The sec
ond venture Is not so dangerous a
They Say About Us
PerOnent Interests of Women As Viewed
By Editorial Writers of the Newspapers.
good for dinky little Gary, Ind
would not suffice for Cleveland.
Now, according to New Tork news
papers, William Wirt, father of the
Gary plan of class rotation, Is being
considered tar appointment as super
intendent ofiNew York schools. Of
course. Wirt will carry out his dinky
little Gary system in dinky little
New Tork. If he becomes school su
perintendent there. Cleveland Press.
Marion Harland.
Marlon Harland. who in private
life U Mrs. Mary Vinrinla Terhune.
celebrated her clghtv-fifth birthday
last week. For seventy-one years
she has been wrltinir for the Ameri
can people. Her name is known In
a million households.
Men are supposed to be workers,
but what of this woman? The books
she has slvcn to the world would fill
a respectable llbrarv. The newspa
per articles she has produced would
fill many volumes. Three of her
children Mrs. Christine Terhune
Herrick. Mrs. Virginia Terhune
able and interesting preface by Mr.
Moore. It is seldom given to a man to
criticise and so frankly and delightful
lyhis earlier work.
A pioneer in his day, tho student and
writer of present fiction owes to George
Moore more than he at first imagines.
"Muslin" contains, perhaps, the best
working plan of the mind of a certain
tvpo of woman which we are apt to get
for many years to come. Mrs. Marton
belongs to no period. She is eternal.
Mr. Moore's publishers are to be con
gratulated that thev are able to present
such an edition, with such a preface, to
tho author's students and admirers.
The Crisis.
America! thy destiny and thou
Stand face to face beneath God's
solemn stars.
Thou hast the memory of noble wars.
The palm of victory it, on they brow
Hast thou so often fought for Christ
that now
When Antichrist Is come to mime as
Mars,
Thrusting his bloody claw from out
the bars.
Thou must rhetorlcate and scrape an I
bow?
There is a rhetoric that speaks not
twice
It is the rhetoric of thy black ships.
It Is the message of a thousand
guns,
That says America shall have no
price.
That she will not surrender while
sh grips
' In her right hand the ssber of the
una! Earl Simonson.
Perhaps Popular Advertise
ment of "A Charming
Bund of Carrots Grown
In This City and Guaran
teed as the Latest Thing
for People With Muddy
Complexions" Would
Even Boom Land Values!
proceeding, although It might be
suggested that skirting around
tho outside blacks is safer than
plow hi g through tho crowds in
the Interior of the main building.
Down on the right side of Louis
iana avenue are tho wholesale
houses, whero food, if bought In
the bulk, is remarkably inexpen
sive. Everything 1b from 1 to 5
cents cheaper than it Is Just across
the street. But, of course, we real
ize that people living in apart
ments would as soon contract for
the keep of a white elephant as to
purchase too large a. supply of
vegetables.
Buying At "Wholesale.
It does seem as If there should
be one man in each apartment to
do the purchasing for the flat
dwellers nt wholesale. Better still
they could tako turns. Then In
deed would the problem of the
corner grocer be solved, and the
Christmas presents be paid for be
foro March.
For example, take apples. They
arc selllnK down en Louisiana ave
nue todnv In big barrels for from
J2.75 to J3.50 the barrel. At the gro
cers such apples arc 5 cents apiece,
or three for 10 cents. A three -peek
basket of onions may be had for
J1.2C.
One hundred and fifty pounds of
Bermuda notatocs may be had for
$2.73 or S3.23.
But what Is the use of going any
farther? The pi Ices are not the
only attractive features of Center
Market. The sight of the eatables
alone Is of much more value than
the sight of a window full of fash
Ions. The sad part nbout It Is that thero
is no wav ot telling Just where the
trouble lies. If people would beRln
and evinco a broadcast Interest In
food, or If. on the other hand, deal
ers would begin to advertise in the
samo way exactly that clothing
merchants advertise, tho revolution
would come of Itself.
And Instead of the constant bi.ylng
of clothes, the piling up of bills,
and the subsequent starvation of
our stomachs, nveryono would be
round and well fed. dispositions
uould Improve. Indication be un
known, and we would worship nt
least n more substantial sod than
fashion.
However, perhaps someone v ould
come along and find out some wav of
wasting food. Wo would be forced
to wear cauliflower corsages, and
rarry cclerv shower bouquets, nnd
wear real turnips, carrots, and pars
lev on our hats.
But even nt thst the tremendous
boom in land values would come.
Whv doesn't some one start It?
Vandcwater, and Albert Pavson Ter
hune have earned distinction as
writers.
Sho has been a culde to cooks,
for her cook books are the standard
of America. Her Action has charmed
the hearts of men and women.
EdKar Allan Poe Is but a memory,
yet this vcnerablo woman knew Poe.
Dickens has been dead many, manv
years. Marion Harland loves to tell
of her chats with the Immortal
"Boz."
Age cannot wither nor custom stale
the Infinite variety of this flno old
lady's work. Every woman should
have work she loves, sho says, to
keep her In touch with thlntrs. She
knows the toys of vcars well spent,
of ever doing and ever being con
tent. Today sho looks out upon life
with the samo cheerful vision as
when, a minister's wife, with her
children hv her side, sho spread tho
llcht of her klndlv presence among
her husband's flock. And now. as
when she had nothing else to cmolov
her busy hours, she writes. Richard
Hnlllanc. in Commerce and Finance.
Children Cry
The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne tho signa
ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, and has been made under his
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no ono
to deceive you In this. Counterfeits, Imitations nnd
" Just-as-erood" aro but experiments, and endanger tho
Health of Children Experience against Experiment.
. What is CASTOR I A
Astoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It contains neither
Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It de
stroys Worms and allays Feverishncss. For more than
thirty years it has been in constant use for tho relief of
Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Trou
bles and Diarrhoea. It regulates tho Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
fln Use For Over 30 Years
Imitation Is the Ability
To Shorten Time Needed
To Acquire Knowledge
By DR. LEONARD
I
MITATION is not "sincerest Mat
tery," but Is the ability to shorten
the tlmo of learning. When one
person imitates anotner he uses a
method whereby lie learns new habits
or Improves old habits,
Thero is no royal road to knowledge,
but there Is n sovereign pathway to
some goals Imitation. Even when
simple-minded persons, who have a tew
plain habits, perceive superiority m
others they may copy the improved
methods. Imitation is an abridgement
or tho process of learning, whereby It
Is posslblo for animals and persona
capable of learning by their own un
aided efforts readily to acqulro knowl
edge. Mimicry is not real imitation. It
lies far beneath the capacity quickly
to form new habits. It may bo nn in
stinct. Animals whoso colors mimic
their backgrounds, and thus protect
them, inherit racial kinds of mimicry,
for which they aro individually not re
sponsible. It Is often Impossible to say
whether an animal really Imitates or
actually answers to some stimulation of
its world.
Intelligent Imitation docs not appear
to occur except in human beings. True
ehough, many zoologists, animal train
ers, and psychologists claim that some
animals manifest evidence of intelligent
imitation, but a scrlotts examination or
such claims and experiments by so
noted ansnvcstlgator as Prof. John U.
watson, or Johns Hospital University,
.Shows them all in confusion ns to their
own meaning. They report that ani
mals exhibit signs of imitation In tnis
way :
A trainer or experimenter shows an
untrained animal how to do an act; al
lows a trained animal to perform before
A Few Easy Recipes
Creamed Codfish on Toast.
B
ONE and flake two pounds of cold
boiled codfish. Make a good
cream sauce, slice two hard
boiled eggs through It, add the
fish, and serve on slices of toast ar
ranged on a hot platter. Garnish with
sprays of fresh cress and toast sippets.
English Tea Cake.
Mix one cup of sugar with the beaten
yolks of two eggs, add two tablespoons
of melted butter, one-half cup of water,
one-half teaspoon of grated nutmeg,
and ono and one-half cups of flour
sifted with two teaspoons of baking
powacr. uaKe in a moderate oven.
Scalloped Shrimp.
Take two cupfuls of freshly boiled
shrimp and break them Into small I
pieces; make a highly seasoned cream
sauco; add a tablespoonful of cracker
dust to the shrimp and put them into
the cream. Fiji buttered ramekins or
baking shells with the mixture and
bake till a dellcato brown. Servo gar
nished with a slice of crisp baccn and
a spray of watercress.
Fruit Sandwiches.
Cut whole wheat bread Into thin slices.
Spread with peanut butter, sprinkle
with finely chopped dates, figs, and rais
ins nnd place slices together. This
makes a dainty, unusual sandwich to
serve nt 5 o'clock ten.
Peanut Butter Dainties.
Two tablespoons of peanut butter
rubbed to a cream, one cup of sugnr.
ono cup of flour, mix alt well together
until smooth, then add two well beaten
eggs and one-half teaspoon of baking
powder. Drop with spoon on buttered
paper half nn inch apart and bako in
moderate oven until a golden brown.
Peanut Cream Soup.
Boil together one pint of water and
ono pint of milk. Add ono tablespoon
of peanut butter dissolved in two table
spoons of warm water.
Add one-haif
e-half cup of
cup or cnonnea ccierv. one-nair eun
barley or rice, and season with pepper.
salt and a dash of paprika. Thicken
with one tablespoon each ot flour nnd
butter mixed together nnd serve with
croutons of toasted bread.
Chicken a la Papigo.
Chicken a la Papigo requires one
four and a half pound frying chicken
for three people. Joint, singe nnd wasli
carefully, place lit a deep frying pin
with a tablespoon of lard and two
tablespoons of butter, cover with col J
water, set on tho stove, and cover close-
for Fletcher's
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KEENE HIRSHBERG.
an untrained one, and finally encour
ages tho untrained animal to perform.
All of this necessarily presupposes that
tho home, dog, sea lion, or monkey has
failed To learn by Its own offorts, or
that tho animal learns at onco without
a number of lessons and trials.
The act to be "imitated" by animals
Is acquired only by perseverance. This,
is no moro a truo Imitation than Is tho
ability to dance.
Tho best dancers learn a new danco,
not by Imitation, but by practice. Mere
ly to obscrvo and watch tho movements
of soma ono clso dancing new steps Is,
as Prof. Watson empnaslzcs, not usually
sufficient to enable you correctly and
gracefully to "trip tho light fantastic,"
Consequently,- to sav that masters of
this graceful art "imitate" each other
Is an error. They practice the new steps
until they master them.
Obviously, animals nrc thus but little
different from children. You can never
bo suro that tho parrot-like repetition,
which you may consider some brilliant
flattery of sincere Imitation, Is not
something previously practiced with
perseverance. For example, in teaching
rats to do certain tricks it has been
found that toasted cheese increases the
ability to learn to such a degree that
compared with rats bribed with milk
and bread the "stunts" of tho cheese
fed rats may bo mistaken for puro imi
tation. No nnlmal lover will deny that such
things as this lead any one to think that
animals reason, or have the capacity of
"Intelligent imitation." Yet the truth
lies in tho opposite direction. Experi
ments with all sorts of animals, under a
mixture of conditions which mav cscapo
even animal lovers, show that "the sex,
food, and instinctive manifestations in
animals explain more things than theo
retical "animal Intellect'' docs.
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ly until it has. cooked twen'v to twenty-live
minutes. Remove tho cover,
iprlnkle with pepper and silt and pour
oft a cup of tho liquid, dust very light
ly with a little flour and brown, trans
ler to tho platter, then turn the liquid
into tho frying pan, adding ono onion,
cno pepper which has boen chopped
and fried delicately in buttr und three
quarters of a cup of crcan. Blend to
gether a llttlo butter and flour and
thicken tho gravy. Pour It over the
thicken, garnishing with cress and tri
angular toast sippets.
Asparagus Soup.
One-half pound asparagus, one ounce
butter, ono quart boiling water, one
tcaspoonful salt, one-half pint milk.
Trim and scrapo tho asparagus and
cut off tho heads. Cut tho rest up in
small pieces and saute in the butter for
five minutes. Add boiling water and
nan. look untu tender. Rub through
a sieve. Return to the saucepan, add
the asparagus heads, and boll for ten
minutes. Mix the flour with tho milk
and add It to the soup; cook for twenty
minutes. Add a llttlo pepper and more
salt. If necessary.
Geranium Cake.
Lino a square, shallow tin with but
tered paper and cover with rose gera
nium leaves. Cream half a cup of but
ter with one cup of sugar, add gradu
ally two-thirds of a cup of water and
two cups of flour sifted with one tea
spoon of baking powder. Fold in the
stiffly beaten whites of four eggs, turn
into the pan and bake. When the
cake- Is cool tho leaves will pull off
easily, leaving no trace and Just a faint
tasto of tho geranium leaves. Cover
with any preferred Icing.
The Flight of the Stork.
Every normal Derson Is interested
m the arrival of 'the stork. It is tho
greatest event in one's life.
.The expectant mother needs,
above everything else, comfort and
neacn of mind. This elm ; .......
nave if Mother's Friend, tho safe,
j,ivi ,,i...i :"V.r ?ale!
"v-"-""""V; " ivuiyuy, 1S usea
to sooth the network of nerves and
to enable the muscles to expand nat
urally, thus relieving undue strain.
Mother's Friend, obtained at any
drug store, is the one remedy used
and recommended by thousands of
women everywhere, who testify as
to its wonderful merit.
To Keep Skin in Fine
Condt'rion in Winter
,u..?y,oul(l be ro,,ch Vcller for the skin
ii little cream, powder or rouge wvra
used during the winter term These
th'nKS which clog the pores tend to aid
wind and weather In roughening and
coarsening tho skin. Ordinary mercol
Ir.ed wax will do more fo the complex
ion, nnd without encouraging tho skin
to chap, crack or become harsh and
leathery. It Is the Ideal application 'or
tho season, as It not only keeps ti.e
pores clean, but daily removes particles
of scarf skin which have been spoiled
by winds or temporature. By POn.
stantly keeping tho complexion ilear.
white nnd soft. It does moro toward
perpetuating a youthful counlcnanco
than any of tho arts or artifices com
monly employed. Ono ounce of -.nur-collzcd
wax. obtainable, at any dn g
store. will completely renovate thn
yv,oru cororlexlon. It Is aDplled at
night llko cold cream and washed oft
in the morning.
To keop tho skin from wrlnkl'.nr. or
to overcome such condition, there's
nothing bettor than a face bath nrdo
by dissolving 1 ounro of powdered saxo
llto in t, pint witch hazel.-Advt.
TODAY'S BEAUTY HINT
It is not necessary to shampoo quite
so frequently If your hair Is properly
cleansed each time by use of a really
good shampoo. Tho easiest to use and
quickest drying shampoo that we oan
recommend to our readers may bo pro
pal ed very cheaply by dissolving a tea
spooufui of canthrox. obtained from
your druggist, In a cup of hot water.
This rubbed Into the scalp creates a
thick lather, soothing and cooling In its
action, as well as very benetlcial to
scalp and hair. After rinsing, tho scalp
Is fresh and clean, while the hair dries
quickly and evenly, developing a bright
luster and a sot llufllncss that makes
it seem very heavy.-s-AdvU
Moore, has, come to hand, with a valu
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