Woman's World "The Magazine of the Middle West" (January, 1922)
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R. M Wautace : Peswociti &ditor Friendship 7 HE Ancients have stolen away most of our best ideas of Friendship. *“As to the value of other things,’’ says | Cicero, “‘most men differ, concerning Friendship—all have the same -opinion. Every man can tell how many goats and sheep he possesses but not how many friends.”’ Men and women haven’t changed very much on fundamentals during the centuries and as this sad old world is spinning out the threads of another year many of us are wondering just how many real friends we have—how many we have added to our total dur- ing the last twelve months—and how many more we can attract to ourselves during the New Year— | for we have the same opinion on Friendship as the Ancients. Friends are our most precious possession —and in the last analysis, the success or failure of | our lives will be largely determined by the number ~ and the kind of friends we have made. We are asking ourselves today what kind of a friend we have been to our friends this past year, for the flower of Friendship withers and dies if it means to us simply the collection of its dividends and the dodging of its assessments. We are reviewing, too, very seriously, the kind of parents or children we have been—the kind of neigh- bor, citizen or public servant we have made. We are checking it all up—for this is stock-taking time. So let’s all pledge ourselves to the accumulation of more and better friendships than ever in this New Year, through the thoughtful act, the kindling eye, the hearty hand-clasp and let’s breathe the broad brotherhood of mankind to a greater degree than ever. more charitable—a little more helpful than ever before—for our own sakes—and to make this fine old world a better place in which to live. We in Woman’s World with our responsibility and desire to maintain and increase our one million friends, herewith pledge ourselves to give you each month the best that is in us—hearts, heads and * hands—for 1922. ‘‘He who has a thousand friends, Has never one to spare; And he who has one enemy Will find him everywhere.” Needlework O THE thousands of our readers who ordered Needlework Patterns and Stamped Materials during the past year we offer our great regrets that we could not have given you amore prompt delivery. We have installed this distinctive service in the magazine at a great expense and while we had made what seemed an elaborate preparation for the prompt ° handling of this work, we were entirely unprepared ‘for the avalanche of orders which came from you. We are working days and nights now to expedite deliveries and we promise you an equipment and service to take care of your future requirements which will leave nothing to be desired. As every article shown is brand new and of our own creation and since each has to be made up prac- tically to your order. under our personal super- vision, we hope you may be charitable this time. Swat: Copyright, 1921, Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc. Boston Office, 6 Henrietta St., Covent Garden. Subscription Rates: remit postage. Your magazine will be receipt for subscription. Let’s be a little more sympathetic—a little WOMAN’S WORL Womans \orLD 9 CHICAGO | Watrer W. MAnnING. Publisher and &ditor THE CONTENTS Fiction Deere OY CAR A RONG 5 ee 7 _. By Epita BarNarp DELANO Wate Te ne le Se By Atma Boicrk HOLLAND ' THE CAPTIVE OF CANZARRA........ 4 Second Installment of a Serial Story of Pres- ent-day Russia ° : By MADELEINE SHARPS BUCHANAN Special Articles MAKING THE MOST OF OUR CHILDREN . 26 _A Department on Child Training Conducted By Atma L. BInzEL Needlework JANUARY BIRTHDAY FLOWER. ..... 18 The Snowdrop in a Variety of Dainty Uses - By AcNrEs HEISLER BARTON RAG RUGS FOR EVERY ROOM. ...... 2. ee Quaint Colonial Designs that Have Survived the Test of Time THE: MAKE-OVER LADY ,° 2 #4005. 88 ASG 25 Economical Ways of Making Dainty Under- wear «~~ ; ‘ By HELEN GRAN A CROCHETED BLOUSE. .... Pee Beh OA FRUIT BASKET IN APPLIQUE. iS 30 ‘MAKE AN OLD-FASHIONED HOOK RUG. . 33 Department of Domestic Science DrrEcTeD By IpA BAILEY ALLEN: QUICE HOT BREADS. 2 Pee OS Sa 12 FULL VALUE FROM POTATOES ....... 13 The Third of a Series on the A. B.-C’s of Cookery ein SOME WINTER: DESSERTS. «22.5. Sa27 2 14 YOUR FAMILY AND ORANGES. .-:... 15 - THE ART OF HOUSEWIFERY .;..... . .. 16 LET US MEET AROUND THE FIREPLACE. 17 Fashions PEERLESS PATTERNS For Children THE CRUISE OF THE RICKETY-ROBIN . . 38 A Story of Travel and Adventure for Good Little Boys and Girls Told and Illustrated By JOHNNY GRUELLE Beauty and Health THE PROPER CARE OF YOUR TEETH... 31 By IrMA FRANCES DUPRE ee ee Oe ge ae SN A Poultry and Gardening MAKING THE FLOWER GARDEN ..... 34 By M. K. Boyer SUCCESS WITH INCUBATORS. ...... 35 By BrRIANT SANDO™ Verse HEIRS TO HAPPINESS: ... 2... cae Ss 32 By VIvIAN YEISER LARAMORE WUE Tem De es ok ea cae Aas 36 By Grace C. Howes Editorials ‘‘The Magazine of the Middle West”’’ Entered as second-class matter, July 20, 1901, at Post Office, Chicago, under Act of March 3, 1879. Address all letters to Home Office, 107 S. Clinton St., Chicago, Ill. By mail in the United States, outside the city of Chicago, one year, 50 cents. In the city of Chicago, Canada and Foreign countries, yearly subscription, 75 cents. - - - ipti mptly, but cannot control postal and labor conditions. If magazine does not arrive in 40 days after ordering, write us and w We strive to fill all subscriptions prownn i For auick delivery send us the file number appearing with your name on front cover in -work—yet they were play. upon them and how much greater D of CHICAGO January ~1922 CoraF. Sanvers. Associate &ditor Separations -**Q\EPARATE the sand, and let the atoms ar- range themselves in place according to their nature—and you have the opal. Separate the clay, and it becomes a white earth, fit for the finest porce- lain; take the soot, and if properly treated it will _ give you a diamond—while water, purified and dis- tilled, will crystallize into a lovely star.’’ Thus did Ruskin extract these beautiful realities of nature—from their lowly setting. So in the building of our magazine, which is our daily labor of love, we believe that Stories that -amuse and uplift should be favored over those that excite and tear down. We believe that Recipes that are nutritious and economical to make—should be given preference over those which stimulate and poison and waste both materials and time. We believe that Needlework on durable mate-— rials—original and inexpensive—conveys more char- acter and delivers more value than flashy designs on expensive fabrics. We believe that as it is woman’s eternal privi- lege and need to make the most of herself through adornment or grooming, that. Refined Styles which artistically accentuate her own individuality and are hygienically correct should take precedence over flashy, immodest and expensive attire which invites criticism from even those who most admire. and respect womanhood. We have a splendid programme for you in the 1922 Woman’s World with our Four Fundamentals pitched to these standards. | We shall continue to construct a magazine that your daughter of fourteen may read without super- vision or expurgation. Viewpoint | g hth BAD, isn’t it, that we cannot make play of our work? What energy and enthusiasm we would put into it and how comparatively slight would be our fatigue at the close of the day. Have you ever watched a child at play—cutting paper dolls with painstaking care or rolling huge snowballs that required every ounce of its physical energy? For the child, these efforts necessitated as much mental concentration, as great an expenditure of muscular force as most of us give to our daily _ Don’t you think we as fathers and mothers in Our anxiety to impress our children with life’s responsibilities draw too sharp a line of demarcation between play and work, thus making of any kind of productive or purpose- ful employment. a bugbear from which the child-mind instinctively flees? “It’s all in the way we look at life, it’s all in the way we view things,’’ some one aptly said. And if we could get rid of the notion that our duties at home or in the office or shop are a drudgery simply because they are a necessity, how much more imagination and initiative and enthusiasm we could bring to bear would be our success! Published every month Advertising Headquarters, 107 S. Clinton St., Chicago, Ii. t Cash in advance. Single copies, 10 cents. ROLE —t
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Page 4 Woman’s World By MADELEINE SHARPS BUCHANAN A Thrilling Story of Love and Adventure in Present-day Russia rhe: Capteve.aiiGanzarra Illustrations by J. Clinton Shepherd NOTE—A synopsis of the preced- ing installment of The Captive of Canzarra is given on page 37 of this issue. O SHEILA once more the country looked forbidding and bar- ren. The Princess was just ahead of her, she reflected. The Princess had been nursing, too, out in that dreadful waste, where there was more to do than an entire coun- try could accomplish. It had never occurred to her that the little Amer- ican ““Highness”’ would not be close in her palace, swaddled in luxury, tended, watched and shielded adoringly. The Prince had sent for her to be brought back to her home! Then she had never re- ceived Varricombe’s letter and perhaps would not receive her, Sheila! Where was she to go? What do? She knew no one in this strange city she was coming to; she had funds and passports, of course, but how far was she from home and the means to get her there? Great Heavens! They were in- terning foreigners in the captured cities, towns and villages, even Americans were being held at Elis- abethpol and Baku. | Never afraid before in the midst of the dreadful things she had passed through, she had not given a thought to self while she was at work, among the suffering, but now with no goal or aim in sight, she was panic stricken. —_ That night when the boys were making a fire and pitching her little tent, for they had brought every possible comfort for her, Sheila approached the young commander of the little expedition. ““Tell me,”’ she asked timidly, *‘do you fancy the Princess Vel- deroff will receive me, give me shelter? She does not know me; she only knows a friend of mine. Since I overheard what those Americans,said today I have been afraid.’’ The young man looked up from his pipe which he was lighting at the fire. “‘Her Highness is an angel,’ he said quietly and took off his hat. ‘She has made scores of these dogs adore her country, our country. She will receive you, Miss Vare, and protect you as best she can. No one knows in these days where they stand and the highest are at times the first to fall.’’ # Sheila drew back, a little cheered, but remembering the boyish son of the grand duke who had died in her arms. Thought- fully she fingered the long slim dagger that lay in her breast. Chapter 4 @ Ronis night the third ineredible thing happened to her. She was abducted, taken silently from her tent, slipped out of the back of it while two of her escort sat playing cards by the fading camp fire not twenty paces away! Sheila knew nothing of what had happened to her, so gently and skillfully had the thing been accomplished, until she was lifted to the back of a horse, held . in firm arms that never once relaxed their hold, and then when she resisted wildly, striving to scream, another hand was laid upon her mouth and the horse darted away with the speed of an Arabian animal An old lady in black and white, a diminutive cap on her white head, | _ requested Sheila to follow her into the strange uncanny darkness of unknown spaces. Sheila never recalled that ride without shuddering violently. It seemed in- credible that mortal could live through such thoughts and fears as were hers. Yet youth and health and a good old fighting spirit ran riot in her viens and she lived. They must have ridden for over an hour and she knew that there were many in the party that had abducted her, for she heard voices and laughter and a number of horses. But she did not again attempt to scream for loathing of the hand that had once closed roughly over her soft mouth. She must surely have ridden for over an hour when the man who held her spoke to her gently, in a clear quiet voice she had never heard before ‘in her life. “Your Highness, nothing shall happen to you! Do not fear. We are taking you to Canzarra. You shall be returned very soon to your husband unharmed. If you will give me your Highness’ word that you will make no outcry I can give you a horse of your own and make you quite comfortable. “Orders were that you should, be treated with every consideration.”’ A great surge of relief swept over Sheila. They had taken her for the Princess Velderoff! She recalled the words of the Ameri- cans that afternoon. “Your parties look just alike!’’ | Peggy Velderoff, also in nurse’s cos- tume, was being taken through. to Vladi- vostok, in safety by a handful of Ameri- cans. The mistake was natural. It would, however, be all right. She would show her passports, assure them of her identity, and the Princess and she would both be safe. What object had they in stealing the little American Princess’? Did they not know in what trouble they would become involved with her glorious country. Remembering the sister of the son of the grand duke she shivered. “I will give you my word not to scream,’’ she said. Then, very quietly, ““But you have made a mistake. I am not the Princess. I am Sheila Vare, an American. I came here with the Red Cross after serving in France during the war.” The arm about her relaxed. There was not a trace of amusement in the grave voice that replied to her. ‘““Your Highness, I am sorry that we cannot possibly believe you. We are knew just when you would pass the cross-roads with your Ameri- can escort. You shall havea horse now and may ride with comfort.” Shejla flushed angrily. She turned and looked up into his bearded face with a cold sort of fury. She could have beaten him with her little impotent hands. **Don’t. you believe me?’’ she cried. “I have my passports, I am known, I can prove what I say. But whether I am just plain Sheila Vare or a Princess, and I think you must mean the Princess Velderoff, since they said she passed just ahead of me, whichever of us you do mean, we are both Americans and you had best be careful how you treat either of us.”’ The man smiled, lifted the girl’s slight body with extraordinary dexterity to the back of a horse that was led up, for the purpose, laid an exquisite furry cloak about her shoulders, said a few short words to his men and with the bridle of Sheila’s horse in his hand rode forward into the night. HEILA was furious in silence. She knew it wasuseless tobandy words further with this man who was probably only a paid tool. She would wait until her captor and she came face to face. Dimly she remembered having heard the name Canzarra, though she could not place it or connect it with anything. What fate was in store for the Princess Velderoff, whom ske was supposed to be? Did the man who had ordered this outrage know the Princess, or was this. simply a political move of some sort and would they really not believe her? If he knew the American Prin- cess, of course she, Sheila, would be instantly set free. But to go where? Geoffrey Varricombe seemed very far off now and like a sweet imagined dream. At any rate, this time he could not help her. People were readily lost, swallowed up in this great unaccountable Russia. There was no one to care about her or even inquire save, perhaps, Geoffrey. And he had possibly shed all responsi- bility with his note to the Princess. Even that had not been required of him; that was a great deal to do. They rode all night and never another word did Sheila speak, or the man who held her bridle, speak to her. And at dawn, when she was drooping with fatigue and faint and shaken with apprehension, swaddled closely in her exquisite furs, her uncovered rumpled head nodding forward, her horse was brought up with a jerk and the man spoke to her pleasantly. “‘Canzarra, Your Highness, where you shall soon have food and rest. I cannot too highly commend Your Highness’ courage.”’ Lifting her head with a start Sheila saw just ahead of her a frowning gray stone pile, set high among gigantic rocks, through which their path wound, ever climbing. The house was a splendidly impregnable, magnificent looking old chateau, more like a fortress, with high turrets at each corner and a flag waving bravely from one of them. Sheila made it out to be red. Redl Was she in the power of a kind of the Bolsheviks? Where had she heard the name of Canzarra? (Continued on page 33) very sure of your identity; we
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\ 1922 January, THINK ours is a neighborhood where stories live long, deep down in people’s hearts. Miss Ann told me this one; and Miss Ann is an old, old wo- man, who has had time enough to think and to weigh. Itisa simple story; as she told it there was no melodrama in it, nor much of the dramatic—though melodrama we have, and our full share of human vir- tues and vices, tragedies and blessings. But this, as I have said, is a simple tale, and Miss Ann told it simply. We were sitting in the afternoon quiet under the towering tree beside the house. I spoke of its majestic beauty, and Miss Ann looked up at its gaunt branches, into its dense umbrage. She smiled— that slow smile of age that remembers things long gone by, when their hardness and bitterness have passed into the shadows of the years; she said— This big tree in the yard? I like to sit here in the shade of it; IJan likes it, too. Yes, folks do call it a button- wood; but I like the other name for it best, myself—sycamore. Makes you think of things far off, not like what you have right here at home. Does me, anyway. I have to smile at myself sometimes when I remember how I used to look up at it and wonder, when I was a little girl. Queer things go through a child’s head, don’t they? Funny how children mull over things, and make up their own ideas about them, and keep them all to themselves. 3 WAS that way with me. You see, my grandmother was a great one tor reading the Bible; seemed like it was a consolation to her. She never lost her eyesight; on summer afternoons she used to bring her chair to the front hall, _and sit in the door with her Bible on her knees, while I was doing my patchwork on the step at her feet; and she would read to me. That’s what first set me thinking about the sycamore tree. You remember the story about the man who had to climb into a sycamore tree to see the Lord go by? Zaccheus, his name was, same’s my brother’s. Well, I used to look at,this big trunk, and the branches so high up, and wonder how he ever did manage to climb such a tree. I wondered whether somebody loaned him a ladder. Of course, I know now that the syca- more in that country are not like ours; but I can’t ever see this tree without thinking about Zaccheus, to this day. Not my brother—the other one. -Not but what my brother has had a syca- more tree in his life, too. I guess a good many folks have to climb them, one way or another. I think maybe it’s pain that helps some of them up; and sometimes it’s—love. Take my brother, now—he was a hard man. We have a way around here of thinking folks are bound to be a good deal like what their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were; I know that’s true of us Becks—of the men, anyway. Grasping and hard and close-fisted, they were—save a penny, earn a penny, and never let a penny go. Zaccheus was This big tree? JI like to sit in the shade of it. Folks call it a buttonwood;. but I like the other name best—sycamore By EDITH BARNARD DELANO The Sycamore Tree I llustrations by Joseph C. Chenoweth that way, too. I often wondered what it was that Amy saw in him to marry him—maybe ‘twas just because he wanted her, for he mostly did get what he wanted. She was gentle and pretty. She didn’t live long after Ralph was born; it almost seemed as if she didn’t want to. I did the best I could by Ralph—he was a good deal like his mother, even in looks. My brother was tall and dark and thin, with black eyes; a handsome man, even though he wasn’t given to smiling. In those days I believed all Zaccheus cared about was piling up money; it wasn’t any wonder that I thought that, either—I wasn’t ever allowed to make my pies as full as other folks had them, and we never killed a hog that was fat, never once. Scrimp and save, save and scrimp—it had to be that way, always, in Zaccheus’ house—and I never had any other. ND there was Ralph! While he was so little that he mostly hung around me, it wasn’t so hard. Zaccheus never seemed to notice him much. It was when he began to have a will of his,own that he and his father began to clash. For all he looked so much like his mother, Ralph was Beck enough to stand up for what he wanted. When he was little, I used to be afraid that Zaccheus would break his will, as I’d seen him break the will of the horses Page 7 he drove. I hated to see the little feller want anything, because the minute his father found it out he would be set against his having it, or doing it. As he grew older, Ralph learned to keep things to himself, as much as he could. Not that very much escaped Zacchevs, either here at home or in the neighbor- hood. That was the way he made his money—watching out for other people's troubles. . “‘He’d take money from a corpse, if he had half a claim to it,’’ people said of him. I heard it myself, and I don't doubt Ralph heard it, too. ‘‘He keeps inside the law, yes—but he makes a mighty crooked fence of it, sometimes.”’ It was true, too; I have to say it, even if he is my own brother. Some- times I’d be ashamed to look at folks; it wouldn’t have been so bad if I could have helped them without Zaccheus knowing it. But I could help Ralph; he was frank and-open with me, and I used to talk to him. That was all I could do; I never even had the egg money for myself. “What you want with money?’’ Zaccheus asked him once, when Ralph had earned a quarter somewhere. ‘‘You don’t need to spend any money. You got enough to do around here, without gallivanting over the country wasting good money. You work for me— you hear? ’ HE boy had wanted to see the circus; but Zaccheus took his quarter, and set him a task that kept him busy all day. *Twas always so; all work and no praise. I knew Ralph hated his father; I couldn’t blame him. By the time he was sixteen he was p anning ways to set himself free. They let him do jan‘tor’s work at the High School, and he brought me his money every week. I put it into my grandmother’s blue chiny teapot. I never knew how Zaccheus discovered it; but he did. Ralph was studying his lessons at the kitchen table when Zac- cheus came in with it in his hands. When he saw what his father had, he jumped up, his face ‘as white as paper. ‘‘What’s this?’’ Zaccheus asked; he looked pleased, I thought. ‘“‘Where’d this come from?”’’ “You give that to me!’’ said Ralph. ‘““That’s mine! You give it to me!”’ ‘““Where’d you get it?’’ Zaccheus asked him. “IT earned it! Its mine! You give it to me!”’ Zaccheus frowned. ‘‘Nothing you got is yours, until you're twenty-one,’’ he said. Ralph made a grab at the money, but Zaccheus was tall, and he held it out of reach. ‘‘None of that!’’ he said. I felt my hands grow cold, and Ralph’s eyes filled with tears, though I knew he was angry, not afraid. He called his father a name. “You give me my money! it, I tell you!’’ he cried out. ‘‘What you want with money? You got enough to eat and to wear!’’ Zac- cheus said; he was sort ur smiling. ‘“You want to save it?”’ Ralph quieted down a little; he seemed to be older, all of a sudden. I earned
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Page 8 “‘T am saving it,’”’ said he. ‘I’m going to save it until I have enough, and then I’m going to the Agricultural College.”’ “Are you? Well, I got other plans for you,’’ said his father, still quiet, and _ still smiling the way he always did when he had the upper hand of people. They never both got angry at once—until _the last time. Ralph stood and looked at him; then he said, Well, I hate you, too! Like the devil! That’s what you are—a devil, and a mean one, too!”’ © Zaccheus laughed. ‘“‘You think you know a lot, don’t you?’’ said he. “*I know you,”’ said Ralph, ‘‘and I’m ashamed you’re my father. I know the way you do to people to get their money. I have to hear things—I can’t even fight them when they say things, be- cause I know they’re telling the truth. You put money before everything— dirty money, made out of people’s troubles!” — *“There is no dirty money, son," said Zaccheus—and he hadn’t ever called him that’ before, as far as I know; it almost seemed as if he was pleased at the way Ralph was standing up to him. Or else—maybe—I don’t know, but maybe "twas because he knew he was going to win out over the boy, and it made him feel his power. He was like that. ““Money’s the best thing there is— you'll think so, too, when you get what I’ll leave you.’ Ralph got as red as he was white be- fore. “‘I’ll never touch a penny of yours,’”’ he said, ‘‘after you’re dead or before!’’ Zaccheus. looked at him, long; then he put Ralph’s savings into his pocket, set the blue teapot on the kitchen table, and went back to his desk in the dining- room. Ralph sat down and dropped his head on his books; he hadn’t cried that. way since he was a baby. A ee next week he set Ralph to work in the bank—to learn the value of money, he said; but I couldn’t help thinking ‘twas so the boy should not have what he had set his heart on. But Ralph still used to talk to me about it. ' “T want the- fields, Aunt Ann, and the open sky. I want to make things grow, and have animals, and all,”’ he said tome,many atime. ““T’ll have it all, too— you'll see!”’ So I knew he hadn’t really given in. But things went on until he was twenty-one, he going to the bank every day, and every week bringing home his pay and putting it down on the desk in front of his father without a word. . Seemed like he took pride in doing that. Dogged, I suppose it was; but I knew how he felt, too. It was pride that made him give his money to his father. Eventhe mon- ey for his clothes he earned somehow out- side the bank; and he scarcely went with the other young people at all. He was waiting. I knew it. As for Zaccheus—I used to see him watch- ing Ralph, and I couldn’t help knowing he was puzzled. He had gotten the better of Ralph, and yet he hadn't. Did he govern him? He had made Ralph give in to him, but had he made Ralph any more his by doing that way? A hard man he had always been; he had always loved his money, loved to put it away, know it was piling up and drawing good interest. He never was like those misers you read about, that want to have their money where they can feel of it and *“You do hate me, don’t you? He took her hand in his. quiet-like, as if she was oh, so happy and satisfied—‘‘Gran’—pa”’ look at it. He just wanted his put away safe. I used to wonder what he did want it for, when he made so little of it in his own life; I guess it made him feel pow- erful, sort of above folks. He acted that way. During those five years while Ralph plodded away at the bank, he became even harder than he had been, always on the lookout for a chance of taking advantage of people’s trouble, as Ralph said that time. I declare, some- times he made me think of one of those big birds—buzzards—that hover over anything that’s dying, waiting to pounce down. . Many’s the time I felt sick at heart. In those days I never once suspicioned that he loved Ralph; maybe I hadn’t had as much time to think, then. But now I believe he did love him, same’s he loved his money; they were both his. Some folks are that way—whatever belongs to them is better than what other people . have. It came. as a surprise to me as much as to Zaccheus, that something had a stronger hand over Ralph than even his father had. HAT next place over there had always belonged to the Belmores; it isn’t more’n a couple o’hundred yards away, as you can see by the fence. Amos Belmore’s wife and I had been girls together; I was always real fond of her. They had a hard time. Amos was one of those men that’s always going to succeed next year; he always planted more’n he could look after. Zaccheus bought the first mortgage on Amos’s farm, and then let him take out a second and a third. And he watched. But somehow Amos had managed to pay the interest right along. It kept him mighty poor; his wife and their little girl, Julie, hadn’t scarcely enough to keep them warm, some years. Ralph was over twenty when Amos died, and his wife didn’t live through that winter. Julie was teaching school by that time, and the interest on the mortgages would be due in May. I heard folks say she couldn’t ever pay it out of her salary, and live; I hadn’t the heart to talk to her about it. Ralph was over there a good deal, but he didn’t say anything to me about the mortgages. It was the week after he was twenty-one that it all happened. ‘‘I’m_ expecting the Belmore girl 7? today,’’ Zaccheus said to me at the breakfast table. ‘“‘If she comes while I’m in town, you can tell her I’ll be home tonight.”’ I looked at Ralph and he looked at me. I knew it had come—I knew Julie’d never be able to pay it, that soon. ‘‘Oh, Ralph,”’ I said, ‘“‘he’ll turn her out of doors! He’s had his eye on that place for years, Ralph! What’ll Julie do?”’’ I was almost as fond of her as I was of Ralph, I guess. “Don’t you worry, Aunt Ann,”’ said he. “It will come out all right—you'll see!’’ He had a light in his eyes I never saw before; I knew, then, how it was between them. ‘“‘You—you can’t help her, can you, Ralph? Oh, Ralph, I got twenty- three dollars and forty cents of my own —Zaccheus don’t know about it! Will that help out any, Ralph?’’ I asked him. He got up and came around the table, and he kissed me. ‘“‘God bless you, Aunt Ann!” he said. It made me want to cry. ‘“‘Julie and I would take your money in a minute, take it and use it, too! But we won’t have to, Aunt Ann! You just wait and see!”’’ I couldn’t help wondering how it was he seemed so much older, more like a man; I didn’t know what had happened the day before, until Julie told me about it. You see, Ralph had worked steady in that bank for five years; and the president of it knew Zaccheus and his ways as well as anybody did, I guess. Anyway, when Ralph went to him, all he said at first was, “Your father won’t like it, Ralph.’’ I know just how he must have watched Ralph as he said it, don’t you? ‘‘I can’t help it that I’m his son, sir,’’ Ralph told him. “His. ways are not my ways. They never will be.’’ The president said to him, “You don’t like it very well in the bank, do you?’’ “I am going to be a farmer,”’ said Ralph. “I’m my own man, now.’’ I don’t know what else they said; but that man hadn’t watched Ralph drub- bing through those five long years with- out knowing what sort he was. And I ? We saw her lips part and she said in her little sick, tired voice, guess maybe he didn’t like Zaccheus. So presently he said, ‘‘Well, I’m going to do it. lend you the bank’s money, because. there really isn’t security enough. But I’m willing to put my own money on you. ‘heard Zaccheus’ he said, ‘“‘look Woman’s World I’ll lend it to you on your own personal note; Julie can sign it, too. I won’t see her turned out of doors.’’ [*. WAS after supper when Ralph got home. Julie hadn’t been here that day, for all Zaccheus’ expecting her. He was at his desk in the dining-room, with his papers all out and ready. Ralph was looking mighty happy when he came in, and he kissed me again. Then he went to his father. *“What’s that?’’ I heard Zaccheus ask. Ralph’s voice sounded so strong when he answered, and glad, somehow. “The Belmore mortgages, and the money to pay them,’’ said Ralph. I chair scrape as he gotup. “What? What’s this?” he cried out. “I’ve told you,’’ said Ralph. *“There’s your money! You sign a re- ceipt for it and give me your copies of the mortgages.”’ I declare, it did seem like a year before Zaccheus said anything; and when he did, it sounded—awful—not like a man’s voice at all. ‘It’s likely I will! What business is this of yours?’ he shouted. ‘‘ You—you—’”’ I haven’t a doubt he was raising his hand; but if he was, I know Ralph didn’t stand back from him. ‘“‘I’ve made it my business,’’ said he. ‘‘There’s your money! You sign for it!’’ “You meddling fool! You—the girl never got this money! Where’d you get it? You steal it?” Ralph laughed. “All right, I’m a meddling fool,” said he “But I didn’t steal—one thief in a family’s enough! You sign for that money!”’ My goodness, I was all of a-tremble! I put my hands over my ears to shut out what Zaccheus was saying; but I heard. I don’t think Ralph said much; I could see him through the crack of the door, just standing there and waiting. After a while Zaccheus sat down at his desk again, and presently he said, quieter, *T’ll have your part in this out with you later! You can take that money and the papers back to the girl, and tell her to do her own work her- self.. You work for me! You tell her to bring the money over tomor- row.’ Ralph laughed, butit wasn’t a happy laugh. “Tell her to. bring them the day after the interest is due?’’ he said. “Oh, no! She oe your ways too well for that!”’’ I expected Zaccheus would jump for him; I did, indeed. But he only said, again, “What business is this of yours?”’ *T’ve made it my business,’ said Ralph. “I married her this morning.”’ I sat right down and cried. I was so happy. I heard their voices going on, both angry after a while. Then Ralph came out and * went through the kitch- en, Zaccheus following him to the door. *“Curse you! Curse you!’’. he was crying out. “You’renoson of mine! You never dark- en my doors again, you hear?’’ **T. never will, until you come begging to me,’’ said Ralph. “‘And as to that—you keep away from me and mine!”’ When Cecwiens went back to his desk I ran outside. Ralph was standing under the sycamore tree, look- ing up through the _half-budded leaves I can't at the sky. “‘Ralph,” [said tohim. ‘Oh, Ralph!’* He put his arm around me. “Look,” (Continued on page 30) \ ea rae a ee YS ee thd ne abinnh «teh bt dete ak Rae
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; : for January, 1922 By ALMA BOICE HOLLAND The FET ton Illustrations by J. Henry ND YOU’RE sure, that is the » only reason, Tora?’’ A pale Spring sun lighted up the. beg- ging misery in the man’s eyes. The girl nodded a slow af- firmative, but while. her eyes gave back a vivid reflection of the keen pain in his, her lips were drawn in that straight, set line which characterizes a lawyer propounding a positive statute or a mountaineer calling to the assistance of his sense of justice, one of those centuries old proverbs by which | the hill people order their existences. ‘“You know it as well as I do, Cleve! He who walks with the lame will instinctively learn to walk with a hitch or limp like his lame friend!’’ “But this is different, isn t it? Blair isn’t a criminal—’’ *“Not a criminal, maybe—but almost as bad, he—’”’ ** Besides, I can’t see why a little thing like that should make this difference, Toral’’ the man’s voice was husky. **But—it isn’t—a little thing!’’ the girl spoke slowly as though arguing the question. Thus, as has happened so many times before, the world came tumbling down, burying in its debris as fine a mountain lass and lad as ever trod among the heath and furze of Nickelty Twist. The day was such.as the hills some- times offer to their astonished inhabi- tants, who have not yet made up their minds to the Spring. A caressing breeze wafted out from the Ripple and hung tenderly about the mountain tops. The hard, red clay of the Twist was already changing into a yielding, crumbling substance, the color of allspice. The sun shone warmly on the ridges and slopes; and the folks in the valleys took occasion to hang out the winter’s red flannel blankets for an airing. On the topmost peak of Crane Nest a robin essayed a faint twitter-twitter, and high in the sky the clear gray was broken by patches of azure. But had all of these things been hap- pening right at Ken David’s farmhouse, none of them would have been noticed by Ken David’s daughter, Victoria, or Cleveland Thorne with whom $he talked. Andy OR four years Tora David had worn the little signet ring which had once belonged to Cleve Thorne’s mother. Her eyes had rested proudly on it while her busy fingers embroidered T’s of every possible size and color. All the moun- tain women had taken an especial pride in contributing toward the abundance of Tora David’s hope-chest and shared in the joy of the motherless girl, who was so frankly, happily preparing for mar- riage with Cleve Thorne, as soon as he was through agricultural college. The men had sniffed doubtfully at the agricultural college idea. ‘‘Had any one ever heard tell o’ goin’ t’ school t’ learn t’ be afarmer? However, Cleve’s pa an’ ma had ieft him plenty 0’ money an’ if he chose to spend it that a way—maybe it would turn out all right.’”’ Anyhow, when Jud Thomas announced that he was will- ing to devote one afternoon a month to keeping Cleve’s vacant farm “sort 0’ cleared up,’’ each one fell in line; and they do say that when Cleve came home the first vacation and found everything in shipshape, together with the jars of fruit and vegetables and freshly baked white bread, that he just sat and cried like a baby. Graduated two months ahead of the class so that his practical experience might begin with the Spring, Cleve Thorne had come home a week ago—to stay. No longer than it took to change from blue serge to the brown corduroy of his beloved hills, did he stay away. Then he sought Tora, boyish, eager, fresh; mind filled with purpose and heart filled with dreams. _ And the girl had met him, shyly, proudly, poised; sustained by the book knowledge which she had painstakingly acquired during his four years ab- sence. There was a delighted inspection of the contents of the hope-chest with a kiss for every embroidered T. There was a frank happiness and joyful confidence and a satisfying exchange of plans. And because all of the mountain folks had helped to bring it about and were allowed to share in the plans, every one was interested and glad. UT that was a week ago, and today it was all over and Tora David no longer wore the ring which had belonged to Cleve Thorne’s’ mother, for just now she had taken it off and handed it back and put misery in Cleve Thorne’s eyes and made the world come tumbling down. This phenomenon of the universe tottering, crashing, falling around end _ all about one is particularly annihilat-. ing when it comes from a clear sky, and in this instance not only a clear sky but a rosy, sun-raising sort of a sky. For the moment, one forgets that, unlike Humpty-Dumpty of story- book fame, it may be put together again. “Andy Blair,’’ the girl pronounced coldly, “‘is lazy—shiftless—no-account!’’ And the accent would have told you that she was pronouncing the mountaineer’s severest condemnation. “He saved my life, dear! Don’t that mean anything to you? I couldn’t pos- sibly have gotten out of the creek that time, if he hadn’t jumped in and tugged me ashore. At that, we nearly both drowned.”’ The words might have been a benediction, the tone was so hushed and reverent. “But you were only children. Of course it was—brave—but, Cleve, that is the only creditable thing Andy Blair ever did in his whole life. Can’t you remem- ber how folks used to say when he was just a little tad that he never would amount to anything?’’ The girl spoke impatiently. The big fellow stirred uneasily and turned over a clod with his foot. “It’s just a feeling—I have—sort of like I owed him—. I don’t know how to explain it to you, Tora; just—felt all the time—like you, you would understand.”’ . She softened. “I do understand—but you are too generous. Surely something less than a partnership with you on the farm would repay him.”’ ‘‘But I promised him then that some- day I would,’’ pleaded the man. “‘He has probably forgotten!”’ “I haven’t forgotten,’’ the pleading changed to a-quiet firmness. ‘“‘In fact, I have already talked with him and he’s moving up tomorrow.” HE girl’s eyes lifted quickly from the ring which the man still held in his hand. ‘Oh, surely not, Cleve? You can’t mean it! You must know that every man on the trail detests Andy Blair. No one would hire him. He—he’s lazy, trifling! He’ll ruin you, Cleve, just like his mother ruined his father. You remember how it was! Herman Blair found her some place—nobody ever knew where, and brought her here as his wife. You know what she did to him. There wasn’t a more prosperous farm to be found than the Blair farm before that, but straight- “J eee" of way things began to slip. caught the limp!” “*Doctor Jimson told me that Herman Blair was sick for a long time before he died.”’ interpolated the man placatingly. “I don’t believe it! Even if he was, that didn’t hinder his wife from scrubbing her kitchen floor and ironing her sheets instead of using her time to wash her face in buttermilk to keep off the tan—the Lord’s own color.”’ “They were together most of the time, weren’t they? Maybe,” the man’s voice softened, “‘maybe, she loved him, and wanted to be with him. She died shortly after he did.’’ “Yes, they were together most of the time. ~“She was a—a leech, Cleve. Kept him by her, wandering around hunting wild flowers, getting up before daylight to see the sun rise and letting their suppers get cold to see it set, until the whole place was run over with weeds. I call it a judgment, albeit a good riddance that she did die right after he did.”’ “If what you say is true, there isn’t any particular reason to lay the blame on Andy’s shoulders, is there?’’ the man was becoming impatient. “All you have to do to see the reason is to look at him; slouching, shifty-eyed, lazy! Everyone eyes him wtih scorn. Nobody on the trail pays any attention to him. He’llruin you, Cleve!’’ A com- placent hen, surrounded by twelve little bundles of yellow, distracted the girl’s attention and put a new ray of fear in her eyes. When she spoke again her voice held ultimatum. “You can’t expect any woman to cast her lot with a man who has taken an indolent nobody for a part- ner.’’ This last bitterly. “No, I reckon not—if that is the way she feels about it.”’ “Cleve! Then you won’t—you'll tell Herman Blair Page 9 “He who walks with the lame » will instinctively learn to walk with a hitch or limp” = him it can’t be—you’l! do something else for him?’’ the girl was eager, hysterical. ‘** Andy Blair is moving up to the farm tomorrow, Tora. It’s settled,’’ he slipped the little ring, which had been lying in his hand, into a coat pocket. “Under the circumstances, maybe it isn’t fair to try to persuade you. Anyhow, I don’t want a wife who cannot trust my sense of moral obligation, either as directed towards herself or towards my fellow- men!’’ And with these unbelievable words he was gone. The smooth tan of the woman’s cheeks was stained with a swift color and her eyes sparkled as she watched the strong, tall figure in corduroy start down the trail towards the Thorne acres. Then the sparkle was obscured by a.mist and the figure was lost to view. Abruptly Fora David turned away from the gate where they had been standing and re- entered her father’s house. -NLEVE Thorne walked quickly with that peculiar, long swinging gate which to the outsider spells awkwardness, but to the mountaineer reveals that lithe- ness of limb and flexibility of muscle that denotes sure-footedness. The sticky red clay, which clung heavily to his boots, hampered him not at all and when pres- ently it began to rain, a drizzly Spring rain, he scarcely felt the drops of water as they touched him. As he neared the house, which was his own, a thin spiral of smoke aroused his interest. He hoped that it was not Andy Blair already. He did not want to see him just yet. But it was—a subservient, slouching, fawning Andy Blair, who came half-groveling out to meet him. “It’s me, Mr. Thorne,’’ he whined. I di’n’t come too soon, did I?’’ his eager- ness was pathetic.
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Page 10 “Weh—no. It’s just as well you're here, Andy. Come on back in and let’s talk a bit.”’ An appetizing odor of bacon and coffee and hot corn-meal mush greeted the two men as they reentered the house. “Thought you might be hungry when you come, sir, so I fixed a little bite!”’ the newcomer spoke deprecatingly of his efforts. Ae The disappointed, hungry man slipped into the chair, which had been drawn for him. “Iam hungry.” . Andy proceeded to pour the coffee and offer it cringingly. Cleve Thorne accepted the cup-and drained it in great swallows. Then he looked at the table before him. ‘‘Where’s your plate, Andy?”’ **I—I—do you want that I should eat with you, sir?”’ “Yes. Geta plate and sit down, Boy. And to begin with, do not call me either sir or Mr. Thorne. We're partners, Andy. Do you understand? Fifty-fifty partners! If things go right, we'll suc- ceed, you and I; and if things go wrong, we'll fail, you and I.” **But—you know—I ain’t any good— sir—Mr. Thorne—what’ll I say?”’’ | **Say Cleve! Who says you’re not any —good, Andy?”’ The boy looked up, then his eyes shifted. ‘‘Everybody, everywhere!’’ “Don’t look about the room, Andy. Look at me! Why do folks say you are no good?’’ “It’s just—just that I don’t work, I guess,’ he made an intense effort and succeeded in returning the steady glance of his companion. “Well, why don’t you work?’’ “IT don’t know!’’ the tone was dull, apathetic. .The two men talked far into the night and when they lay down side by side to sleep, there was in Andy Blair’s eyes the look of a child just awakened from sleep, wondering, dazed, half-comprehending; while in the eyes of Cleve Thorne there was a reflection which might have once shone from the eyes of another Man, pity for everyone excepting Himself, the great- est Sufferer. VERYBODY agreed with Tora! Cleve Thorne must be crazy! Andy Blair of all people! The girl was petted and pitied from one end of the trail to the other; and young Thorne soon was made to see the coldness which his old neigh- bors felt for him. For instance, when the Thorne well ran dry during the scalding heat of the summer, no one had water to spare, and Gran’pap Thomas told him right out “‘to let his onery side-partner carry water — from the valley.’’ So, too, when he at- tempted to carry out his plan of changing the long idle ridge land into waving seas of wheat. Hecould not hire help. Every- one refused to work with Andy Blair. The devotion of Andy was pitiful. He did carry the water from the valley up the long, tortuous road of the Twist. In- doors, he did the cooking and the clean- ing and the many things which Thorne in his splendid strength found distasteful. Also, he mothered Cleve; that sort of mothering which spells efficiency in goose grease and sulphur and molasses. And then, when the dream of the wheat har- vest was fading, Andy suggested sheep. The mountain-folk shook their heads and predicted direct failure. It was im- possible to make a success of sheep-rais- ing because it had never been attempted before. Devoting the ridge farms to _ wheat was as old as the ridges themselves. Nevertheless, it shortly became apparent that Cleve Thorne was prospering. Every few weeks saw the size of his flocks in- creasing, and the sight of Andy herding the sheep around the mountain soon be- came a familiar one. ! Over at Ken David’s farm there was plenty of help, and if Tora David, mak- ing her way through knee-high grain, ex- perienced any remorse, there was no tangible sign of it. The reason that she was so often to be found, late at night, absorbedly studying a spelling-book or a grammar or a classic, was probably be- cause she had previously acquired an intense interest therein. There were three tales in particular which she reread many times. They concerned a certain Euryalus.and Nisus, Damon and Pyth- ias, and Crestes and Pylades. OON it was midsummer and Cleve- land Thorne was packing a grip. Andy Blair hovered near, eyes alight with pride, watching every movement of the lithe, sun-burned figure. ““You’re sure you can get along all right, Andy?’’ the tone was cheerful and not overly solicitous. **T sure can, old fellow, and find time to write a letter twice a week at that.” “Tl try to let you know the symp- toms of the hoof disease right away. That one animal acted strangely yesterday—”’ “It’s all right today, Cleve. I gave him a dose of salts last night!”’ Both men laughed heartily, and if there was a shadow under young Thorne’s eyes, it was lightened as he surveyed his companion. The brief season during which the two had been together had served. to disrupt the chrysalis. Andy Blair, with a clear, free laugh and minus the slouch which had once been habitual, with strong, square shoulders and health- ful brown skin, was a splendid specimen of young mountaineer. The two men had grown so apart from the mountain- folk that nobody knew when Cleve Thorne went back to college for a six weeks’ course on sheep and cattle raising. UMMER waxed and began to wane, and the grain ripened and harvest- time drew near. Ken David was to have the threshers first and the neighboring women sent offers of help, for it was whispered among them that Tora David was “‘lookin’ puny.’’ The stain of wild strawberry, which made her cheeks its habitat, had disappeared and the clear, smooth tan of her skin had faded to an olive whiteness. The full, round lines of breast and hip were flattening and she was perpetually too tired to visit among them any more and accept their soothing condolences. In brief, the child was **droopin’.”’ | Peter Frisbee, foreman of the harvest- ers, found her drawing water from the cistern one day, and the half-gasping effort caused that which had long been ‘Oh, Pappy, tts the tractor. It?s Andy Blair workin’ for us. hidden in his heart to come tumbling out — of his lips. Half-roughly he pushed her aside. *Tora—Tora, you—you’re workin’ too hard. You're ailin’, little woman. Surely you’re not pinin’ after that good- for-nothing Cleve Thorne, what’s took up with a lazy no-account! Marry me, girl, I've wanted you a long time, an’ ye ain’t wearin’ anybody’s ring now!’’ He reached for her. The next instant Peter Frisbee had his first shower-bath and it possessed the added luxury of being clear cistern water. That night, the five harvesters, full of moonshine, were persuaded that their wages were too low. So they quit, and old Ken David, experiencing that re- action which follows a paroxysm of rage, looked- at the broad, glistening fields of wheat, maturity-full, luring the reaper, and his chin quivered. For in five days the threshers would arrive, and there was no more help to be hired. His neighbors were all busy with wheat harvests of their own, preparing for their days with the threshers. To the uninitiated, let me say, that the threshers resemble a certain famed Op- portunity. They come your way but once, during harvest, and woe to the man not ready on the day set, for they pass him by. So you can imagine why Ken David’s chin quivered. The news brought a different sensa- tion to Tora David. Her eyes lighted and a faint reproduction of the lost strawberry tint glowed in her cheeks. She had read that love was proved by sacrifice of pride. She was exalted for the moment, filled with an exhiliration so intense that it hurt. The bowed figure of her father excited no pity. Chance had given her an opportunity to ask Cleve Thorne to help her. What more eloquent way of showing that she had been wrong and that she was sorry and wished his forgiveness. He would under- stand! Without bonnet or cape, dress flying He worked all day an’ now he’s workin’ all night” Woman’s World to the breeze, she sped out into the pur- pling maze of the twilight and down the trail toward the Thorne farm. And if her sandaled feet felt the brush of the wet grass, the effect was counteracted by a dew of the heart, called tears. HE distance was three miles and it seemed an eternity after the oil lamp from the house shone out into the night, before she arrived, panting and breathless, at the door. It was opened by Andy Blair, who glanced curiously at the bedraggled little figure without. **Cleve—I—want—to see—’’ The man led her gently within and as she sank into the great chair before the empty, black fireplace, slipped a cushion beneath her wet feet from which one sandal was missing. **Mr. Thorne is not here,’’ he told her quietly, then. “When will he come in? I must see him right away, Andy Blair. Go get him for me!”’ **He’s not in the mountains. Hewon’t be home for three or four days yet. Is there something I can do for you?”’ The girl stared, stupidly, as though unbelieving. With realization, her head dropped. What trick was Fate playing? Must she ask help from this man of all men? A quick, mental survey reminded her that he was the only man in the hills who could help them. Then, swiftly, there revived the image of her father’s bowed figure, sending aching compunc- tion to mingle with her other tangled emotions. **Andy Blair, pappy’s harvesters have gone—cleared out! Th’ threshers’ll be here in five days. Cleve’d o’ helped!’’ Unconsciously, she was lapsing into local phrase. The brief statement was enough for Andy—he was a mountaineer! ““T see!’’ With this he left the room to return a few minutes later with a cup of strong, black tea. ‘‘ Drink this, while I saddle up Pepper. You can ride him home, then he’ll be up there tomorrow when I come!”’ Tora David listened in dazed unbelief. As she slowly sipped the strengthening tea her mind was filled with awe at the thing which Cleve Thorne had evidently done. Not only had he taken the lighter of the bomb which had caused the world to come tumbling down, into his heart and home, but he had concealed from the person all knowledge of the ruin which had been wrought. HE next day dawned fair and clear and an orange-sun beat down with an intense, smouldering heat on the dry ridges of Nickelty Twist. Andy Blair arrived while old Ken David and his daughter were yet at five-o’clock break- fast. The two men had never exchanged a dozen words together. Tora David watched, fascinated, If, for the mo- ment, the older man was at a loss, he was instantly reassured by a promptly out- stretched hand and a cheery— *“Mornin’, Mr. David!’’ Andy Blair was absolute master of himself.as well as the situation. Then, to give the old man time to adjust himself, the newcomer continued, ‘“‘There won’t be any rain, that’s sure. Maybe Providence is goin’ to favor us; it won’t be such a tremen- dous job, especially with the wheat so dry!’’ He spoke easily as though he had been expecting to do this particular work for several weeks instead of but a few hours. ““What—what—have ye done with th’ sheep?’’ Ken David's voice trembled at the simple question and his hands fidgeted with each other. *“‘Corralled ’em. They'll be all right for a few days. We've just enlarged the grounds, you know!’’ This last, proudly, eagerly, possessively. “Have ye?’’ the question was apa- thetic. ‘‘Cert’nly—do—do appreciate, this, Andy Blair!’’ Habit caused the old man to say the full name. “‘That’s all right! Cleve believes in helpin’ the other fellow and whatever Cleve believes, I believe!’’ This carelessly. With quick efficiency and despite the fumbling help of the old man, Andy Blair joined up the tractor and reaper and before the sun had climbed to the top of Old Piney the three were at work in the fields. During the morning the work pro-
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for January, 1922 gressed steadily although it became in- creasingly humid and there seemed lack of sufficient air to breathe. By noon, sweat -was pouring from old Ken David's withered muscles and he was on the point of exhaustion. After the midday repast of cold corn bread and salt pork, just Andy Blair and Tora returned to the fields. Through the long, hot afternoon they toiled, not stopping for supper till too dark to see. They worked quietly, each uncommuni- cative, and if the significance of the po- sition caused the girl to suffer, she gave no sign. However, just as they turned to leave the field the brilliant crimson color, which had flamed all afternoon, went suddenly out of her face and Andy must carry her home. - T WAS midnight when Tora David again opened her eyes. It seemed that she had been hearing the rumble of a tractor for years. There was a moon and she saw the tall posts of her own bed standing sentinel at her head and feet. A coursing ache had taken possession of her. From the room across the low hall came a fretful moan. *Tory—Tory!’’ The girl sped within. Old Ken David had burrowed down into the bedclothes and held a pillow to each side of his head. “Tory, I b’lieve I’m about t’ have a stroke! There’s a rumble in my head. Worked too hard this mornin’. Wasn’t used to it! Can’t get rid of th’ noise of that infernal tractor! Been awake two hours.” | _ The girl bent above the old man, anx- iously, endeavoring as she did so to shake the grinding rumble from her own ears. Suddenly it ceased. *“You’re all right, Pappy. Just ner- vous an’ overdone.’’ She pulled the pil- ‘lows down and straightened out the bed- clothes. He sank back quietly, for a moment, then started up again. **There it is—hear it?”’ Tora David clasped her hands to her ears for an instant; then tottered weakly towards the window. Out there, in the night, she could just make out the bulky outline of the tractor, rumbling away through the darkness, laying low the - rows of ripened grain—guided by a spot on the reaper’s seat; a spot, which held a lantern between its knees. Tora David sobbed! “Oh, Pappy, it is the tractor! It’s Andy Blair workin’ for us. He worked all day an’ now he’s workin’ all night.’’ She fell crying beside the bed and old Ken David’s eyes were moist as he laid a hand on her head. And this was just the beginning! For four days and four nights Andy Blair worked, snatching only two hours sleep in the twenty-four, in a desperate attempt to get the wheat all cut before the threshers arrived. On the fourth day Cleve Thorne came home. He found Andy just after Tora David had taken out his midmorning supply of black coffee, which he drank without leaving his seat on the reaper. There was a look of fright in the girl’s eyes as they beheld the newcomer, but he was unseeing, for his own eyes had slowly closed and remained so for an instant. But when they opened, they held love; and it was interpreted to the girl by a thrilling, tender urge—and it was inter- preted to Andy Blair in a satisfying - knowledge that he had paid his debt. And Tora David drew close into the em- brace of the man’s strong arm and raised her lips. But Andy Blair smiled and as he smiled he fell off of the reaper’s seat, and they carried him home to sleep. OW, the coming of the threshers is occasion for merrymaking and a celebration in the hills of West Virginia. But not often is the celebration a wed- ding. When it was all over, it wasn’t, according to tradition, the bride and groom who slipped away out under the stars; but the bride and the best man. And Tora Thorne made a confession to Andy Blair in which she explained to him the fallacy: of one of the mountain prov-. erbs. But Andy did not agree. “You see,”’ he told her, “it just worked out backwards. They do sometimes! In- stead of the well man learning to walk with a hitch, the crippled one learned to walk straight, Mrs. Thorne. Among the readers of ““Woman’s World” there are thousands of “lonesome girls.” Yes, and just around the corner there are thousands of “Jimmys.” There’s a real and timely message here for every woman and girl who wants to know the happiness of having pretty clothes. April 12 Dear Diary: I promised to tell you everything, Dear Diary, and I’m going to keep my promise. But it’s awfully hard sometimes to write down just how I feel. For I am so discouraged. Met Edith Williams today on the car. She was going somewhere with Jimmy. And her clothes were so becoming that I envied her. Yes, I envied her clothes and I envied her sitting there with Jimmy. My hair is prettier than Edith’s, isn’t it? And my eyes—and my complexion? Then why am I always so lonesome—so much alone? Can’t you help me, Diary? Bobbie’s better today. b April 15 More trouble, Diary. Mother said today that the money she’d sa for my new dress would have to go to pay Bobbie’s doctor bill. I’m try- ing to be brave, Diary, but I’m so disappointed. I wanted to go to a dance on the 26th. Shall I go, Diary? I wonder if I can fix up that white organdie from last season? b April 18 Went to church this morning. Walked home with Alice Browning. Saw Jimmy. He’s always with Edith Williams. Oh, if I only had some pretty clothes—just a few of them! Mother tries so hard to save, but Dad never earned’a large salary. And everything I earn goes toward keeping house. But: I can still -smile, ean’t I, Diary? Maybe, some day, my ship will come in and IJ’ll live happily ever after. a ‘April 23 I’ve decided to wear my organdie to the dance. I do hope none of the girls remember it from last year. That new sash may help. Do men ever remember dresses, Diary? Jimmy will be there with Edith Williams. Always Edith Williams. Oh, if I only had some becoming clothes! SD April 27 _ I couldn’t write to you last night, Diary—I just couldn’t. I cried myself to sleep when I got home from the dance. Every girl had a new dress but me. I think Edith Williams’ was best of all. Do you think Jimmy will marry her? Do you? He hardly looked at me last night. I came home all alone—so tired and discouraged. as oor something I can do to get pretty clothes bs May 15 Met Mrs. Peters today, with her two children. Poor woman—she hasn’t had a new dress in years. She can’t afford those in the shops and she can scarcely sew at all, I wish I could sew, Diary—then I could make my own clothes. Saw Jimmy walking down the street today while I was buying a magazine but he didn’t see me, I guess he wag thinking of Edith Williams. ae May 16 , Remember that magazine I bought yesterday? Well, I sat up late last night reading it. I just couldn’t put it down. For in it I found the story of a girl just like myself. She couldn’t afford pretty clothes, either, and she-was, oh, so dis- couraged. And then she learned of a school that teaches you, right at home, to make your own clothes for a half or a third of what: you would pay in the shops. Do you think I could learn too Diary? I’m going to find out, anyway. - . _ May 18 More good news, Diary! You know Mrs. Devereaux, who has that dressmaking shop on Broad street? She is the best dressmaker in town. I asked her yesterday if she had studied in Paris. “No—not in Paris, my dear, but right in my own home. Everything I- know about dressmaking ‘and millinery I learned_from the Woman’s Institute.” Do you hear, Diary—the Woman’s Institute! Why, that’s the very school - to which I wrote the other night! bY “May 19 ‘4 Early today the postman brought me a goo thick g Sor from ha Woman’s Institute. I fairly snatched it from his hand. Guess he thought it was a love-letter. Why, Diary, do you know the Institute is the most wonderful school I ever heard of? Think of it, while I’ve been so unhappy, thousands of other girls have been learning right at home to make just the kind of pretty, becoming clothes they’ve always wanted, at oh! such wonderful savings. If they can do it, why can’t I? I can, Diary, and I’m going to! & July 16 I know I’ve forgotten you for nearly two months, Diary, but I’ve been awfully busy since I enrolled with the Woman’s Institute. Think of it, Diary, I’m learning how to-make the pretty clothes I have always wanted. I’ve finished ‘the first three lessons, and already I’ve made the prettiest blouse. Just think of being able to sew for yourself and have pretty things for just the cost of materials! by August 30 Well, it’s happened, Diary. There was another dance last night and I wore my new dress. You should have seen the girls: They were so sur- prised. They all wanted to know where I bought it. And when I told them I had made it myself they would hardly believe me. And the men! Don’t tell me- they don’t notice pretty things.. My dance card was filled in five minutes. I’ve never had such a good time in my life. Jimmy and Edith aren’t engaged yet, Diary. Jimmy’s coming to see me on Wednesday night. sy . October 15 Here it is only the middle of October and already I have more pretty Fall clothes than I ever had in my life. And altogether they have cost me no more than one really good dress or suit would have cost ready-made. -Oh, there’s a world of difference in the cost of things, Diary, when you make them yourself and pay only for the materials. Besides, I’ve made-over all my last year’s clothes—they look as pretty as the new ones and the expense of new trimmings and findings was almost nothing at all. My friends are wondering at. the change in me, but we know what did it, don’t we, Diary? bY ; November 8 Awfully busy, Diary. I’ve started to sew for other people. I made a silk dress for Mrs. Scott anda blouse for Mrs. Perry last week. Mrs, Scott paid me $10 and Mrs. Perry $3.25. Think — of it, Diary—little me, who couldn’t sew a stitch a few months ago, making clothes for other people. Mother just can’t get over it. She’s actually smiling these days. Says I’m going to earn $30 a week, soon. Do you think so, Diary? P. S. Had the nicest letter from Mrs. Picken, the Director of Instruction of the Woman’s Institute. She must be a wonderful woman, Diary. She’s so sympathetic—so kind. I think she understands women better than any one else in America. She’s taken a personal interest in me from the very start, - Jessons. Page 11 The Diary of a Lonesome Girl ; November 17 » Remember mother’s prediction that I would soon be making $30 a week as a dressmaker? Well, last week I made $35! We'd still be in the same old rut if I hadn’t sent in that coupon, Isn’t it wonderful what a difference a little thing like that makes? It hasn’t been hard, either— everything is so clearly explained in word and picture. Oh, yes, Diary—I want to whisper something in your ear. I-—I think Jimmy loves me. & November 20 The most wonderful, wonderful thing has happened, Diary. Jimmy has asked me to marry him. It’s to be in the spring just as soon as I get my trousseau ready. It’s going to be the best trousseau a girl ever had, every stitch of it worked py my own hands. Jimmy wanted to know what had caused the wonderful change in me and I told him all about the Woman’s Institute. He wouldn’t believe it until I showed him my He said they were so easy and simple that he thought he would take up Dressmaking himself. Imagine Jimmy sewing, Diary! a November 26 Gladys Graham came in to see me today. think she had been crying. Said she was dis- couraged because she didn’t have pretty clothes. Then I told her all about the Woman’s Institute. I think she’s going to find out about it. hope she does. Think where I would be, Diary, if I hadn’t seen that magazine. Goodbye, Diary Po immy’s here and I can’t neglect him even or you. W nnore es you, too, like to have prettier, more becoming clothes for yourself and your family for less than half what they now cost you? Wouldn’t you like to have two or three times as many clothes at no increased expense? You can do it by making them yourself. You can save at least $25 on a suit priced at $40 in the stores, for every item of material it contains would cost not more than $15. On a dress retailing at $20, you can save $12 or $14. Even on a blouse or a child’s frock, or a little boy’s suit costing $5, it is easily possible to save $2.50 to $3 by buying the materials and making it yourself. Are such savings as these worth while? What would it mean to you to be able to save half or two-thirds of what you spend for clothes each season? Think of the other comforts or little luxuries you could enjoy or the money you could put away. _ You can learn easily and quickly to make pretty, becoming clothes for yourself and others, and you can do it right at home, in your spare time, through the Woman’s Institute. There is not the slightest doubt about it. More than 125,000 women and girls, in city, town and country, have proved, by the clothes they have made and the dollars they have saved, the suc- cess of the Institute’s method. It makes no difference where you live, because all the instruction is carried on by mail and it is no disadvantage if you are employed during the day, or have household duties that occupy much of your time, because you can devote as much or as little of your time to the course as you desire and just when it is convenient. The Institute’s courses are practical, fascle nating and complete... 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YOTHING tastes better on a } cold Winter’s morning thana good hot bread, or as amatter of fact, at luncheon or supper as well. There are so many that may be made that it is hard to choose. There are all of the Muffins, most of which may be developed from the Muffin Recipe given on this page. There are Baking Powder Biscuits which may appear in many guises; Waffles which may be made not only plain but in combination with left-over cereal, left-over canned corn, a few stewed blueberries, etc. Then. there is Spoon Bread, which is served generally only in our Southern States, but which is well suited to any meal. Boston Brown Bread with raisins, or shredded prunes, or other fruits, or by its own delectable self, and there is French Toast which can be prepared with al- most no work at all, and will act with fruit, jam or jelly as a dessert, or may be served with bacon or broiled ham as the main part of the meal. Sometimes it seems as though the making of Quick Breads consumes too much time but if the ingredients are measured out the night before, they can be auickly put together and while they are baking the rest of the meal may be prepared. If the family is a small one, half the biscuit of muffin batter may be covered and kept over until the fol- lowing day, providing a really good Bak- ing Powder has been used. Nut Muffins 3 tablespoons sugar baking 1 egg well beaten 3 tablespoons short- ening—any kind ¥% cup chopped wal- nut meats 3 cups flour 4 teaspoons powder 1% cups milk 84 teaspoon salt Nut Muffins, piping hot, are veritable nuggets of joy IFT together the dry ingredients, add the walnut meats and then the milk and egg well beaten, also the shortening, melted. Beat well, transfer to oiled muffin pans and bake from twenty-five to thirty minutes. If de- sired, a few chopped raisins may be combined with the nuts. To make plain muffins omit the nuts. Ragged Sailors REPARE a Baking Powder Biscuit dough by sifting together two cups Boston Brown Bread is a New Eng- land _ product loved the whole world over {IDA BAILEY ALLEN Director of Domestic Science | j J AFFLES may be made at the table by means of an electric waffle iron, Nothing can be more delightful for Sunday breakfast or for dessert at luncheon. Quick Hot Breads flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one tablespoon sugar, and one-half teaspoon salt. Work in with the finger tips two tablespoons of short- ening, (Any kind), then moisten the dough with three- fourths cup of milk, or milk and water mixed, turn out on a floured board and rollinto an oblong piece about one third inch thick. Spread lightly with soft butter, then dust thickly with one-fourth cup sugar, and dot with raisins. Roll up like a jelly roll, cut in crosswise pieces, half an inch thick, and place out side down in an oiled baking dish. Bake for twenty minutes. Boston Brown Bread TIR together three-fourths cup of molasses and two cups of butter milk. Add one teaspoon baking soda dissolved in a little hot water and then beat in two cups of . cornmeal, one cup of rye meal and one tea- spoon of salt stirred to- gether. Last- ly, add a cup of raisins mixed with one cup of whole wheat or graham meal, beat mixture well, transfer it to a three pound lard pail well oiled, cover and steam for five hours. Ragged Sailors are a cheerful sight on the breakfast or luncheon table honey. ‘gredients to- Waffles IFT together one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one- half teaspoon salt and one teaspoon sugar. Add the yolks of two eggs, well beaten and mix with a cup of milk. Then fold in the two egg whites, beaten stiff. Be sure that the Waffle Iron is well heated and thoroughly oiled. Put a generous table- spoon of the mixture into each division, let down the top and bake. It will take about five minutes for the waffles to cook thru. Serve with home-made jelly, maple syrup, maple flavored corn syrup, brown sugar or diluted Marshmallow Creme or French Toast € bale bread should be at least twenty- - four hours old and should he sliced one-fourth of an inch thick. For twelve slices, allow two cups of milk, an egg shghtly beat- en, one and one half tea- spoons sugar and a few grains of salt. Mix these in- Woman’s World EX Spe =, Se a5 62 x KSA gether, dip the bread into it, then lift out at once and fry on a griddle oiled with vegetable fat, until browned on both sides. Serve very hot. Spoon Bread 2 cups corn meal 1% cups sour milk or 2 teaspoons salt buttermilk 2 eggs, well beaten 1 teaspoon soda 1% tablespoons butter Soo? the cornmeal with boiling water until it is the consistency of thick mush. Then add the butter, the sour milk and soda stirred together, and the remaining ingredients. Transfer to a well oiled pie plate or shallow pudding dish and bake for thrity-five minutes. Sally Lunn 2 cups flour ; 3 teaspoons baking 2 eggs 14 cup sugar 3 tablespoons melted powder shortening ¥% teaspoon salt 1 cup milk Beat the eggs until light, then stir in the sugar and shortening. Sift together the dry ingredients and add alternately to the mixture with:the milk. Transfer to an oiled pan, preferably of the tube type, and bake for forty minutes in a quick oven, 375 degrees F. - Cereal Muffins 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup cold cooked oat- (ophenaly meal, hominy or 1 egg, well-beaten rice : 1 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking 2 tablespoons melted powder shortening 14 teaspoon salt Sift together the dry ingredients and then rub in the cereal with the fingertips. Stir in the egg, milk and shortening, beat thoroughly and transfer to well-oiled gem pans. Bake for thirty minutes in a quick oven, 375 degrees F. Spoon Bread has a flavor all its own Sour Milk Corn Bread 2 cups corn-meal 1 cae. well-beaten _ 1 scant teaspoon soda 2 tablespoons melted 1 tablespoon sugar shortening | 1 teaspoon salt 1 pint buttermilk or sour milk Beat together the ingredients in the order given, transfer to a medium-sized, oiled dripping pan and bake for thirty minutes in a quick oven, 375 degrees F. If desired, a little chopped sweet apple may be added to this mixture before it is baked. It is then called Apple Johnny Cake and is particularly good for the children’s supper, when cold, crumbled up, and served with milk. : French Toast with Canned Peaches
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—~ for January, 1922 Winter winds robbed of their sting! matter how sharp the | winter winds, how biting the frosty air, “ Vaseline” Camphor Ice will keep your skin and lips from chapping. . It is indispensable for chil- dren and for grown-ups too when their play or work takes them out into the cold. Apply it after any exposure to wind or air and keep your skin soft and smooth. Vaseline Reg U.S.Pat.Off CAMPHOR ICE In metal boxes and tubes at all druggists. Get the genuine. 2 — SS: CHESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING co. \State Street _ (Consolidated) New York | grent Pian. Parents 1 ent to hel TO RID ‘amous ne \ y xr YS TRIAL. Select bicycle and terms ‘ — ronal bosentan. parts and eu Tires outipueatthe at half retail prices, PREE Ranger easy NO MONEY — write toda fENo ar Simp y for marvelous prices and terms. Cc ecia Mead sree seman, When Chiloren Cough Use Musterole _ When you are wakened in the dead of night by that warning, croupy cough, get up and get the jar of Musterole. Rub the clean, white oint- ment gently over the child’s throat and chest, and then go back to bed. Musterole penetrates the skin with a warming tingle and goes right to the seat of trouble. Will not blister like the old- fashioned mustard plaster and it is not messy to apply. Made from pure oil of mustard, Musterole takes the kink out of stiff necks, makes sore throats well, stops croupy coughs and colds. Sold b ists here, in j ste ed Se Dos te The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER Full Value from Potatoes NOTE—This is the third of a series of articles by Mrs. Allen on the ‘‘A, B, C’s of Cookery.”’ OTATOES are almost as generally p used in this country as bread, yet they are rarely ever properly cooked. Their predominant constituent is starch, together with minerals which lie almost entirely next the skin. The potato is also rich in vitamines. When the average housewife pares po- tatoes, she pares away not only the skin but enough of the potato substance, including most of the minerals, so that one-fourth of the potato-is lost. When potatoes are cooked there is also considerable loss of food value, due to the fact that so many housewives start them to boil in cold water, while others remove the ‘“jackets’’ before putting them on to cook. Potatoes should always be started in boiling water con- taining a teaspoon of salt to the quart. In nearly every instance they should be cooked with the ‘‘jackets’’ on, after being thoroughly scrubbed. When this is done considerably more of the food- value is retained. A better method still, however, is to steam the potatoes. To do this, scrub them well, put them in the steamer or in a cullender over a kettle of boiling water, stew, or soup, dust them with salt, cover closely and steam until tender. Medium- sized potatoes will be done in from forty-five to fifty minutes—the same length of time that should be allowed when they are boiled. HEN potatoes are baked all of the food-value is retained. They should - first be thoroughly scrubbed, then rubbed with a little fat of some kind—in order to keep the skins soft. The oven should be hot at first, 375 degrees F., then cooled off a little. The time to be al- lowed for baking is from fifty minutes to an hour. When the potatoes are done, they should be immediately pricked open with a fork to allow the steam to escape, so they will not be soggy. If to be served plain, they may be slashed—Mal- tese Cross Fashion—popped open and a piece of butter and some paprika be placed in the opening. These are Pota- toes—Rocky Mountain Style. Baked potatoes are delicious when re- heated, so when the oven is in use for other purposes it is a good plan to put some in to bake, ready for use at a suc- ceeding meal. Creamed, escalloped, in salad, as Potatoes O’Brien,-or hashed brown—baked potatoes have a wonder- ful flavor. Boiled or steamed potatoes, with the **jackets’’ removed, may be served plain, with a little melted butter poured over them, dusted with parsley and a little melted butter, with chopped hard-cooked eggs, heated in METER The average housewife pares away not only the skins but enough of the actual potato substance, including most of the minerals, so that twenty- five per cent,—or one-fourth of the potato is lost. a cream sauce—in which case they be- come Oakhill Potatoes—or with a peanut sauce, when they may act as the main dish at supper or luncheon. To make the peanut sauce—melt three tablespoons of butter and add three tablespoons of peanut butter. Cook together until thoroughly soft, add alittle paprika anda half cup of chopped roasted peanuts. Mashed Potatoes O VEGETABLE is more delicious than creamy, white mashed pota- toes. To make these, steam or boil six large potatoes, as described. Drain, and remove the skins, then put them through the potato ricer, which gives far better results than the ordinary potato masher. To a quart of potatoes thus prepared, add two tablespoons of butter or good margarine, a teaspoon of salt, a fourth teaspoon of pepper and a fourth cup of scalded milk or two tablespoons of evap- -orated milk heated with two table- spoons of water. Beat vigorously and serve at once. Mashed Potato Omelet REPARE once the-recipe for Mashed Potatoes. While they are cooling, fry a few pieces of bacon until crisp. putting them where they will keep warm, Pour off part of the bacon fat, leaving about three tablespoons in the frying pan. Into this pack the mashed potato, cook it until well-browned, fold it over— omelet fashion—and serve it with the bacon. If desired, small sausages may be pricked and fried instead of the bacon, or the mashed potato may be cooked in any kind of left-over drippings and served, surrounded with creamed dried beef. Potatoes 4 teaspoon salt l4 teaspoon pepper Creamed 1 quart diced, cold, cooked potatoes 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups milk oragood margarine 1 teaspoon grated 2 tablespoons flour onion ELT the butter, stir in the flour, the seasonings, and gradually the milk. Bring to‘boiling point, add the potatoes and onion, and let stew very slowly on the back of the range for about twenty- five minutes, so that most of the sauce will be absorbed. The potato should be diced quite fine, not cut in chunks. Variations of Creamed Potatoes Add a cup of diced American cheese to the sauce in the preceding recipe. Sprinkle the creamed potatoes gener- ously with chopped roasted peanuts. Add one tablespoon of finely-minced parsley. Stir in two chopped hard-cooked eggs and a minced pimiento. Add three-fourths cup of diced salt salmon, herring, or minced ham, or tender dried beef. When cheese, nuts, milk or eggs are added to pota- toes, the dish takes on the nature of a meat substi- tute. The potato is most useful in this way as an ex- tender of more costly foods Page 13 She Knows That Label Well R more than twenty years the Carnation label has been associated with purest milk. Hence this label is accepted everywhere as a symbol of highest quality. Con- venient, economical, pure, use it for every milk purpose. To reduce the richness of Carnation to that of ordinary milk add one part water to one part Carnation. Adda little more water if you have been using skimmed milk in your cooking. CARNATION MILK PRODUCTS Co. 131 Consumers Building, Chicago 231 Stuart Building, Seattle Carnation Milk **From Contented Cows” The label is red and white Oyster Stew — 1 pt. oysters, 3 cups water, 1 cup Carnation Milk, pepper, 4 tbsp. salt, 2 tbsp. butter. Clean and drain oysters. Add butter and season- ings to scalded milk. Bring to the boiling point, add oysters and serve. This recipe serves six people. Chicken Croquettes—Seasoning, 2 cups cold cooked chicken, 1 tsp. parsley, 1}4 cups Thick White Sauce. Grind or chop chicken fine. Lemon juice, onion juice and celery salt may be used for seasoning if desired. Add chicken to Thick White Sauce, cool and shape. Rollin bread crumbs, then in slightly beaten egg and again in crumbs and fry in deep fat. Drain and garnish with parsley. This recipe serves six people. Spice Cakes — 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, % cup water, % cup molasses, % cup Carnation Milk, % cup butter or substitute, 1 tsp. soda, 2% cups flour, % tsp. all- spice, % tsp.nutmeg, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. baking powder. Cream the butter or substitute, add sugar, well beaten eggs, molasses and milk. Mix and sift the flour, soda, baking powder, and spices. Add to mixture and bake in muffin pans ina moderately hot oven. This recipe makes sixteen cakes. The Carnation Cook Book contains morethan100 tested, economical recipes. You will find many helpful suggestions init. It will be sent free at your request. .
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JOIN US TODAY and MAKE THOSE WASTED “ODD MOMENTS” PAY. EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE Sign, Enclose and Mail Now! WOMEN GIRLS | Woman’s World Neighborhood Club NC—100 | MEN BOYS 107 S. Clinton St., Chicago Please send me, without obligation, full | ALL CAN PROFIT ! details of your PROFIT-SHARING PLAN. | , Lg fi | —Z/ fg Dee: S) 2 ey THROUGH OUR PLAN | Name JJ f 1-0... VM" tom... 52d. | puuranricuans ara | (7/0. VO MAILED UPON | ser oi... 6 | : RECEIPT OF COUPON |! City..232022- {Sn __State.. Wn. | CS ES AS SS A A SS SS cil World Woman’s The following dessert recipes are suggested by Mrs. Allen as being especially suited to this season of the year Some Winter Desserts All Measurements Are Level. Molasses Fruit Pudding 1 teaspoon soda lg teaspoon salt ¥% cup hot water 2 cups flour 1 egg 1 cup molasses 3 tablespoons vege- table oil 2 teaspoons ginger 1 teaspoon cinnamon or any other thick fruit sauce IL a baking dish and pour in the fruit sauce. Then beat the egg, add the remaining ingredients in the order given, pour this over the fruit sauce, and bake about forty minutes in an oven at 350 degrees F. Serve with plain or whipped cream, or with Honey Lemon Sauce, Rice Fruit Compote INSE with cold water one cup of brown or uncoated rice. Put it in a double-boiler top and add three cups of boiling water, one-half teaspoon of salt and one cup of grape juice, currant juice or a tumbler of any tart jelly. Bring to boiling-point, then cover and steam over hot water until the rice is tender, about forty-five minutes. A few raisins may be added, if desired. Serve half warm with cream or marshmallow cream sauce. If desired, a little butter may be stirred into rice when it is done. Prune Whip chopped 1 tablespoon pow- stewed prunes dered gelatine 1 tablespoon lemon 1 cup heavy cream, juice or evaporated milk HOP the prunes, which should be well-sweetened, and stew them till thickened, then add the gelatine which has been softened in water to cover, and, when half warm, stir in the lemon juice. When the mixture has begun to stiffen, fold in the cream or evaporated milk, whipped until stiff. Serve with or with- out more prunes, chopped and stewed down to make a sauce. To whip the evaporated milk, set a small can in cold water, bring to boiling point, chill and whip as quickly as possible. 1% cups Escalloped Canned Berries 2cups cooked hominy 2 tablespoons sugar or rice tablespoon butter 2 cups canned berries or margarine 1 cup berry juice | 1cup stale cake or 1 teaspoon cinnamon cookie crumbs IX together the fruit juice, cinna- . mon and cereal. Oil a pudding dish, put in a layer of this mixture, then one of berries and a few cake crumbs, continuing till allis used. Cover the top with the remaining cake crumbs, mixed with the butter and the sugar, and bake thirty minutes. Serve with cream or Lemon Sauce. Upside Down Fruit Pies 1 phon apples or well <A few grains salt rained cooked 1 tablespoon butter peaches or apricots Baking powder biscuit ¥% teaspoon cloves ___ crust 1 cup boiling water 2% cups apple sauce, ARE and slice the fruit. If apples are used, mix three-quarters of a cup of sugar with them. Add the cloves and transfer the mixture to oiled muffin pans. Dot over the butter, divide the boiling water among the pans, cover and, if the raw fruit is used, bake for twenty min- utes. If cooked fruit is used, this pre- liminary baking is not necessary. Roll the baking powder biscuit mixture one- half inch thick, cut it into rounds and place each round on an individual pan. Bake about twenty-five minutes. Re- move for serving and serve half warm “upside down’”’ with cream, lemon sauce or marshmallow cream sauce. Marshmallow Cream Sauce LLOW a scant tablespoon of marsh- mallow cream to each person. Di- lute it so that it will pour with a little hot water or with heated cooked fruit juice. Chocolate Tapioca 1 quart milk 1 cup water 84 cup sugar squares (ounces) chocolate, melted,,. or 4 tablespoons cocoa Bferertls the milk and water, bring to boiling point and stir in the tap- ioca. Cook over hot water for ten min- utes, then add the cocoa or chocolate mixed with the sugar and salt. Cook until the tapioca is translucent, then flavor, chill and serve with light cream, top milk or marshmallow cream sauce. ¥ teaspoon salt lg teaspoon vanilla cup quick cooking tapioca Steamed Bread Pudding 4 cups bits of stale % cup each halved bread raisins and _ shred- ded citron 4 teaspoon each cin- namon and cloves Grated rind and juice ¥ lemon OUR boiling water over the bread and let it stand for ten minutes to soften. Then squeeze out the water and add the butter, sugar, the egg, well- beaten, the fruit and flavorings. Trans- fer to a well-oiled mould and steam for two hours. Serve hot with lemon, marshmallow, chocolate, or whipped cream sauce. 2% cur sugar 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 egg Baked Indian Cocoanut Pudding 3 tablespoons corn- meal 1% tablespoons quick- cooking tapioca 3 cups ml 4 teaspoon salt 24 cup molasses 4% cup shredded co- coanut lg teaspoon vanilla CALD the milk and stir in the re- maining ingredients, well-mixed. Turn into a well-oiled pudding dish and bake—covered—for two hours. Serve half warm with cream, or foamy or raisin sauce. Peach Tapioca with a float of Marshmallow Whip and a garnish of Home-Candied Orange Peel
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for January, 1922 : : Page 15 Oranges are a delicious food and a necessary ae 2 part of every family’s diet Y PATA Your Family and Oranges T WAS not so very long ago that the which are good enough for company, orange was aneventinthetoeofthe yet simple enough to serve to the Christmas stocking. In fact, its children: ; evolution from an occasional tid-bit and Jellied Oranges reward for good behavior to an everyday A GA rain: Udi Geel GA a -ceact i mace country over is almost un- sized jelly mold which has been dipped Peovl h Se ee Chan ie in cold water, with sliced oranges, either os eople stir a i Mes juice Cote EURO Fun Bs, b bits “¢ esd i over i a canned fruit that may be in the ice-box. is fed to little babies that the children Pour over a pint of lemon jelly or a pint thrive better. There is almost a na- of prepared lemon gelatine, made ac- tional craving for oranges which comes ¢ording to the directions on the package. because the body naturally calls out for. 7 ot stand until solidified and serve with the foods which it needs. i diluted marshmallow cream, whipped If the orange is to be eaten in sections cream, or soft-cooked custard which has by means of the fingers, a pretty method heen flavored with grated orange rind. is to serve it ribbon style. Todo this, peel the orange, leaving a strip of rind Orange Custard Pudding which encircles it through the middle. Rub a quart-sized baking dish with Cut through this rind and pull out the putter and half fill it with a mixture of sections, according to the illustration, odds and ends of plain cake. Pour over and then they will all be in place, ready this a pint of soft-cooked custard which to eat. . has been thickened with corn starch, and The orange water-lily style, also the yolks of one or two eggs. When this shown in the illustration, is much appre- is cold, cover it with sections of orange, ciated by children. To prepare this, pressing them down into the custard cut down the rind in petal shape to and then fluff over it, a meringue made within an inch of the stem-end. Then of the egg whites, beaten until stiff and fold these petals inside and separate the then combined with a tablespoon of sections slightly. - sugar to each egg white. Brown in a moderate oven, 350 degrees, F. This LICED oranges are used more general- wij] take about six minutes. ly as a luncheon, supper or dinner - : a . = dessert than as a breakfast dish. They Orange Short Cake a mt D = u “ghee or pared, age Pate pester . Make up a baking powder biscuit a rec “ rom in order to remove the white outside dough using an extra tablespoon of : pias BS CATARRHAL JELLY Lim me membrane, and should then be sliced shortening and cutting the biscuits in thinly, crosswise, and a little sugar good sized rounds, about one-half inch 30 Years Doing Good : Make this sweater for $2.00 10,000 people, grateful users of END forfree sample card of yarns sprinkled over them. Sometimes, they thick. Bake in an oven at 375 degrees, cocoanut and chilled before serving; split and butter them, and put sliced good old KONDON’S, have written _and get free directions for or the sliced oranges may be combined and sweetened orange between the us about the wonderful help KON- | oe eee arta ee ohteented with stoned prunes, sliced cooked figs, jayers and on top. Serve at once, with DON’S has been to them. 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Page 16 Complexion Secrets What Scientists Know About Your Skin CLEAR, radiant, youthful complexion, what else but internal cleanliness can produce it? A clean sys- tem is the originator of charm, the handmaid to beauty, the basis of personal attractiveness. The texture of your skin, the brightness of your eyes and the sheen and lustre of your hair, all depend upon cleanliness—inter- nal cleanliness. Truly, the fastidious woman keeps clean inside. She is careful to see that her bodily organs function properly, particularly those organs that elimin- ate waste from the body. If these do not act regularly and thoroughly, poisons are formed, absorbed by the blood and carried to the great covering of the body, the skin. They poison the skin cells, causing facial blemishes, muddy skin and sallowness. These poisons are the most common cause of personal unattractiveness. 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Pee cond me a copy of “A LOVELY SKIN COMES FROM WITHIN. \ eencccncecasecesenesseseessesessansensesseserenenaenaeanneseeeseeGeseeSSeeeeee een eceeeses Name : Aididress..ecsecssssnteceesastetensssesstnsCoeusnntennsensscensnnnentenunnancnnenennnaneenntien AOE GET i alt ennesnsnnennsunenneecnovenasusnsnnucneed - Woman’s World The right kind of appliances in the most con- venient sort of place, is a good maxim for the modern housewife to adopt. ‘The Art of Housewifery UR ILLUSTRATION shows a modern commercial broom closet, but this is a little costly, and one equally useful can be made of wood by the handy man of the house, or the boy who has a knack of using tools. Possibly there is a little corner under the stairs, or a niche by the chimney which is ex- actly the right place for such a closet. Here is a good list of cleaning appli- ances— 2 corn brooms—1 for general work, and 1 (older) for rougher sweeping 1 hair broom—long handled—for oil- cloth, hardwood floors and linoleum 1 short handled hair brush for corners 1 ceiling or molding brush. 1 radiator brush 1 banister brush Upholstery brush for dusting Small round pointed brush for corners of windows Long handled dust pan Dust mop Oil or wax mop Floor mop » Vacuum Cleaner or Vacuum Sweeper 3 dustless dusters bought, or homemade Choose corn brooms with long fibre, tough and brittle, otherwise they will quickly break to pieces. Screws or nails should be fastened into the wall of the closet to hold the shoulders of the brooms, bristles upward. Broom sockets may be purchased, re but two long screws or nails put togeth- er rather closely so as just to hold the broom in place will serve the purpose. The long handled hair broom should hang with the broom part up, so that the hair is not resting on the floor. HE DIPPING of corn brooms in scalding water, every two or three weeks to stiffen the bristles will give them longer life. When the broom begins to wear out, cut the ends off evenly to lengthen the wear even more. When brooms begin to ‘“‘spread’’ bind the bristles tightly together about half way down using heavy wire or even very heavy cord. A hair broom is so much easier to work with and so much better for hard wood floors, oilcloth and linoleum, that it is worth all it costs, even if you have an old corn broom which you have been in the habit of using for the kitchen floor. If you have never used a radiator brush which is very thin and narrow, so as to enable it to get in between the bars of the radiator, just try it! You will be amazed at the amount of dust that has accumulated. : Perhaps of all the things in our list, the ceiling and molding brush is the one which might most easily be omitted, as it is always possible to put a cloth on a long handled brush and use that for the molding and tops of doors; but, the ceil- ing brush will last nearly a life time. If you live in a sure-enough house, you want a banister brush for the stairs A Model Broom Closet which cannot be properly reached by a duster. Then, why break your back bending down to the old fashioned dust pan when it is so easy to get, and to use the newer long handled style. A floor mop will often do as good work as a floor cloth, with half the labor, and the con- served strength may well be better used. HAT kind of Vacuum Cleaner is the best? Thatisa hard question to answer, because each one has its own good points and the individual house- keeper must decide for herself which most appeals to her. Catalogs and price lists can be compared and cleaners that are being demonstrated in the stores can be examined. There are certain features, though, which should always be looked for—a detachable brush for easy clean- ing; a wide, flat nozzle so as to cover a large area of surface at each movement, ‘a control button at the handle for im- mediate access, and of course a handle so adjusted, that it stands by itself in- stead of falling over and jarring the machine if the worker has to leave it for a moment. As to the care of the Vacuum Cleaner, all it needs, is, like a baby, to be kept thoroughly clean and fed regularly— Kept clean by having the dirt frequently removed from the bag, and fed with a little grease before the former lubricates or has entirely disappeared. Like the baby, it must also be kept in a reason- ably warm, dry place, and then it will be good as gold. Although the Vacuum Cleaner is rather an expensive piece of equipment, it is well worth its initial cost, can oft- en be made to pay for itself, and make money besides, by using it as a Com- munity Cleaner. The young boy of the household can earn many a dollar by “‘vacuum clean- ing’’ for neighbors. SIDE from brooms and brushes, the closet must contain a dust mop, an oil or wax floor mop, and of course ‘“‘dustless dusters,’’ for nowa- days no one uses a dry duster, or horror of horrors, a feather duster, either of which merely moves the dust from one place to another. For homemade dustless dusters, saturate squares of cheese-cloth in kerosene and hang them in the open air until dry. Never shut these or any oily cloths closely for fear of spontaneous combustion. Please do not use dust “‘rags.’’ Squares of cheese cloth or canton flannel properly hemmed and kept clean receive much more respectful handling than rags and certainly give one a more dignified feeling when using them. Aside from the tools we have discussed, the broom closet should contain all of the other cleaning appliances—pails, window chamois, bon ami, ammonia, borax, washing powder, soaps and floor oil. So when the home carpenter makes your closet ask him to put up a shelf where all of these supplies can be stored. ae a ee ee aon fhe A nail alia capil > Peakdleers Lae ads Mahe’ etna Naked ote Y ee ee ee ie ee eo. ins
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1922 for January, What can better suggest an evening of pleasant chat and wholesome fun and good things to eat, than the term—‘*Let us meet around the fireplace?”’ By IDA: BAILEY aA LLEN Page 17 Let Us Meet Around the Fireplace Illustration by Genevieve Stump NE THING above all others that > perhaps we need to emphasize in these days of rush and hurry, is the necessity for an atmosphere of rest as well as relaxation in our forms of en- tertaining, not only for the guest, but for the hostess as well. We have had so much of that which is garish and forced in entertaining, that one often hears the remark, ‘“‘ Yes, I am going out tonight, but it is such a bore!”’ Going out is sometimes a “‘bore’’ because the affair has no background of real friendliness, coziness and warmth. What is there that can suggest an evening of pleasant chat and wholesome fun and good things to eat more than the term, ‘‘Let us meet around the fireplace?” And just what does this suggest te you? Old time games, such as we all played years ago and in which the children can join us now, simple decorations of **homey’’ flowers, possibly nothing more than blooming geraniums in their own quaint pots, or your Christmas begonia in its early winter beauty, or may be a big basket of apples and oranges placed on your living room’ table. Does not it suggest refreshments as redolent of old time flavorings and spices as was the cake closet at the door of which you used to sniff when you visited your grandmother? Does not it mean the things which we really love but which, in our mad scramble to out-rival our neighbors some of us have been ashamed to share with our guests? NE LITTLE woman whom I know very well is fortunate in having a family of four youngsters; some might say that she is unfortunate in being unable to afford any help. She found that she *‘owed’’ dinner invitations to ten friends and as she is a hospitable soul, the obli- gation weighed heavily on her conscience. At first it seemed as though she must save up out of her household allowance enough to give a little dinner at the country club, but that would take months and months of pinching. Finally, she sat down to face the matter out. “Just what have I in my house,”’ she said to herself, “‘that most other people do not possess and which they would enjoy?”’’ Suddenly her eyes fell upon the big living room fireplace. ‘‘That’s it,’’ she exclaimed, “‘I will give a fireplace supper, the good old fashioned Saturday night kind.”’ She gave a fireplace supper O HER invitations went out, asking her friends to come to supper around the fireplace on Saturday night at eight. She put her house thoroughly in order during the week and on Friday prepared most of the supper, every dish of which she carefully made from a precious old manuscript book of her grandmother. She wisely chose a simple menu, easy to make and serve. For Saturday night there is nothing better than Boston Baked Beans with steaming hot brown bread full of raisins, the kind they used to make in old Marble- head. Her preserve closet furnished pickled crabapples and chowchow. Stored in the vegetable cellar were cabbage and green peppers from the garden, ready for a delicious slaw, and for dessert there was really nothing else that would “‘fit’’ but a baked Indian tapioca pudding with some apples in it and which was to be served with hard sauce. Then there was coffee, of course. SIMPLE menu, you say, but have you ever tried preparing such a meal to utmost perfection and then serving it to guests who are used to a too-large meal of elaborately cooked food? If not, you will find the experiment one that you will repeat many times. Jt is not the variety nor the quantity of the food you serve but the perfect quality of itthat counts. The room was lighted by candles. She arranged her big drop leaf living-room table buffet style, with the piles of plates and forks, the big brown pot of beans, the steaming bread on a bread-board with i.e attendant bread knife, and the slaw in a big bowl lined with lettuce leaves’ The pudding had been baked in a large old-fashioned dish, at the same time as the beans, and was brought in with the hard sauce, the necessary serving dishes and the tray with-its old fashioned silver service for the coffee. Imagine this in- formal meal eaten about the blazing fire! It took only a few moments to clear up afterwards and everyone was in the mood for jokes and stories and games, and yes, later on for apples and popcorn and cider. N PLANNING fireplace or other in- formal evening refreshments, old- fashioned ingredients must be kept in mind. Popcorn, apples or apple dishes in all forms; hickory nuts, hickory nuc cookies and cake; old time pies such as apple, pumpkin and custard; almost any dish containing maple or honey; homey vegetables in case salad is served; sand- And she brought out all her oldest china wiches, simple of nature, such as cheese or bacon; soft ginger bread or Sally Lunn in big loaves such as they make in the South; thick ginger or creamy cookies or spice drop cakes, or crullers, all fit in. If you are fortunate enough to own a chafing-dish, electric or otherwise, your friends will thoroughly enjoy a “‘rarebit”’ or ‘blushing bunny,’’ and while you are stirring up the concoction—Friend Hus- band can make the toast. Formality cannot withstand the lure of the chafing- dish, and hospitality fairly radiates from the crackling logs of the fireplace. Blest be the spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain despair, And every friend finds a ready chair; Blest be those feasts with simple plenty - crown’d, | Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food And learn the luxury of doing good. —GoOLDSMITH.
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Page 18 : Woman’s World | January Birthday Flowers The Snowdrop in a Variety of Dainty Uses Designed Exclusively for Woman’s World by AGNES HEISLER BARTON and artistic temperaments, ancient astrologers have as- signed the snowdrop, simplest and daintiest of the flowers. | | O JANUARY’S children with their highly imaginative The little star-shaped blossoms of pure white are somehow sym- bolic of the newly turned page of the year, while their quiet, unobtrusive beauty is especially adaptable to lingerie -and household linens as illustrated. drop decorations a noteworthy addition to the series of birthday | j We are confident needlework lovers will find this page of snow- | flowers now appearing in Woman’s World. The blue medallion on the table-cloth and napkin holders to the right makes a particularly effective backaround for the snowy whiteness of the flower. Basses gus anaes at H aiaa iz. i +H = Camisole Yoke in Filet Crochet Use No. 70 crochet cot- : ton. The width of pat- tern is 2 inches with / ; center front 5% inches. hE ta Begin yoke at under- ta arm, ch 36, tc in 4th st : from hook,*t c in next st, repeat across*,ch 5, turn; follow block pat- | tern to 33d row, then ch 23, t c in 4th st from hook, *t c in next st, re- Lad — Cs a sho peat from* to end of ch, mre. 4tcon4tc, follow “ 7 block pattern. On 67th ) row, omit 61 t c of pre- vious row, ch 3,turn, and continue pattern. Top is finished with plain picot edge. Kail The large scallops on the nightgown are very effective bound with net or with the same material as the gown in a contrasting color. Below are the steps for making the little silk © and lace bouquets so much used at present. Any scraps of silk can be used. The little bouquets are used in a variety of ways. Two are illustrated on the breakfast jacket and cap above. | AN GD — al ba Boudoir Pillow Use No. 70 crochet cotton, steel hook size 12, ch 48, tc in 4th st from hook,*t c in next st, repeat across*, chain 3, turn; follow block pat- tern. Filet insert will meas- ure 3 inches wide by 12 inches long. Pillow is 16 by 12 in.—lace being added if desired, af tt Tpit Lely, me i i a at , " \ " i \) 4 a. S ‘; « * AX) i la || Ri ae 2 ee uaa SeReeecnseee a SRSSESRSSRSESERREESSSS SSSSESSSERR SHSSSSSS SSSR eeseees SSSRPSRSCSSSRRERAERRSRESERERS SHCSRECSSESCRARSKEU ESSE Reeseee SRRREUES CECE ESAS SERRE SERRE RRE RRR ERERER SESE eee eee am Benson ik ° : Ny se
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Page 19 Why We Bake Beans In this New Way at Van Camp’s By a Van Camp Domestic Science Expert for January, 1922 The Beans We Use are grown on rare soil rich in nitrogen. Each lot is analyzed before ° we start to cook.) ‘ _ We have tried to create here the ideal Baked Beans. Many college-trained cooks have worked with us. The Flavory Sauce The tomato sauce is a master creation. It was developed by scientific cooks. Some four years were employed to perfect it—over 800 formulas were tested. It has taken us years to do this. The cost has been enormous. The new kitchens built ait CORTE pecs FU ERE Pucpore Gone Bey WU OY0. This sauce, above all else, distinguishes Van Camp’s. No one has ever matched it. And that sauce is baked with the pork and the beans, so it permeates every granule. First Won the Men Van Camp’s first won the men. Thousands The purpose has been to make Baked Beans more delicious, more digestible, more popular. eo BO RES Beans differ vastly. The beans we use are selected by experts. Then each lot is ana- lyzed before we start to cook. Purified Water The water used is freed from minerals, because minerals make skins tough. That’s one great Mealy, Nutty, Whole |. The baking is ‘done in steam ovens. Thus hours of high heat are applied. without, crisping or bursting * the beans. The beans come out whole and mellow, and baked so they easily digest. They are baked in sealed containers so no flavor can escape. Ever-Ready Meals Every can on the shelf means a meal ever-ready, ever-fresh. Serve hot or cold. fault in home baking. Sauce Baked In The tomato sauce was perfected by countless tests. It is baked with the beans, sO every atom shares its tang and zest. Hard water makes skins tough. So we free our water from all minerals before we start to cook. Science of Baking Beans must be baked at high heat for hours, else they are hard to digest. But or- dinary baking crisps and bursts them. So we bake by live steam under pressure. We bake in sealed containers, so flavor can’t escape or steam get to the beans. Thus we bake Van Camp’s to perfection. Yet the beans come out mellow, uncrisped and unbroken. Van Camp's of restaurants where men lunched bought them to please men patrons. Then the fame spread to the homes. Now to millions of homes Van Camp’s have brought a new conception of Baked Beans. This national dish has gained multi- plied popularity. And the old digestive troubles are forgotten. a. Sa If you don’t know them, please compare them with the beans you serve. One test will win you to them. Then you will have a hearty dinner, loved by everybody, constantly on call. PORK and BEANS In cans of three sizes— Baked with Van Camp Sauce Baked in the Van Camp kitchens at Indianapolis Other Van Camp products include: Van Camp’s Soups, Spaghetti—Italian Style, Evaporated Milk, Chile Con Carne, Catsup, Chile Sauce, Salad Dressing, Peanut Butter, Milk Chocolate Bars, Chocolate Almond Bars, Etc. a
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for January, 1922 eked hte, S %. -s-and Mince Pie with Coffee What could be better for the end of a good meal than None Such Mince Pie? The eleven good things that go into None Such are prepared for you in our spotless kitchens. None Such goes to you with nine-tenths of the work in pie-making done. All you have to do is to add the finishing touches. Pie made with None Such is delightful; it is nour- ishing and easily digested as well. Order None Such Mince Meat from your grocer or a None Such Pie from your baker. Remember that None Such Mince Meat has set the standard for over thirty-five years. Many other delightful dishes can be made with None Such Mince Meat. ete nA AD ALLOA LALLA LLL ALA ALLL ALLOA A Try this recipe NONE SUCH DRESSING FOR DUCK Make dressing in the usual way; add one package None Such Mince Meat and more apples and some celery to suit individual taste. i a I, a ne Be eae celons Merrell-Soule Sales Corporation, Syracuse, New York forms: in cans, ready for use; in packages, condensed EVERY THURSDAY IS NONE SUCH MINCE PIE DAY
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jor January, 1922 | 3 | Page 23 Rage Rugs tor Every Room Quaint Colonial Designs that Have Survived the.Test of Time Because of their sturdy American origin, their quiet dignity and quaint charm, rag rugs have again returned to their rightful place in American homes. Pret tr. Braided, hooked and crocheted are the three types now in popular favor and it is from the best of these that we have selected the patterns shown.on this page. / Possibly the rug most indic- ative of early times is the hook rug. Truly lovely de- signs can be worked out, and baskets of fruit, birds and flowers made to adorn the floor in pleasing spots of color. Small braided mats can be used in porch chairs, on canoe seats or as a conve- nient protection to clothing when one sits upon the lawn. : This hexagonal rug \ — ae eee | : is of the hook variety, ANS \ . = ie ee, | made on a founda- \ ee ck oN Se tion of burlap, the design being worked with silk drawn through with a needle from the underside— leaving loops on the right side one-half = ? ‘ inch long—all loops cS , ie the same length - clipped after the rug is completed. ananirnagrnane ere ran en {2SRAS¥RA/SLRSRBLEPWI EDD ee The old-fashioned flower hook rug is lovely with its shaded background of gray and its black border. Cut the silk in strips varying from three-quarters of an inch to an inch or more ac- cording to the weight of the silk. The silk must be good enough not to break with a little pulling and should be pulled through the burlap at intervals not more than a quarter of an inch apart. The gray background has the lightest color nearest the center and works into the darker shades until you reach the black border. Before putting in the colors, each flower group is out- lined with black. For the crocheted rug below, cut white cotton material 3{ inch wide, prepare strips in same way as for braided rug and roll into a ball. Make a ch for width desired, d c To many people this rug will bring up child- in 2d st from hook, *d c in next st, hood recollections of visits to grandmother's repeat across*; ch 1, turn, *d c in house when this economical style of rug was next st, taking up double threads of much in vogue. This particular one is made of top of st, repeat across; *ch 1, turn, old trousers, the tan row being made from a dis- continue for length desired. The carded overcoat. The scallops are sewed to a blue design is made by fastening burlap foundation, their edges being worked strip of color to wrong side and with buttonhole stitch in bright colors. The crocheting over the white strip, then central embroidery is a conventional design also drop blue and continue with white. workéd in bright hues. For a braided rug the strips should be torn from one and one-half to two inches wide. These are sewed together into one long strip, cutting the ends diagonally and fitting diagonals together. When you have sewed 3 _ lian enough pieces together, take the strip, turn in the outer edges toward the “ae Seer oe z — — center until they meet and then double the strip again. This will give bil) four layers of thickness. Baste strip its entire length to keep edges turned under and width uniform. Cut this into three lengths and arrange in three balls. Sew the ends of the three strips together, secure with thumb tack and start braiding. You bring each strip forward, folding it again toward center of braid to make it lie flat.
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Page 24 Woman’s World Americas most famous dessert ZNE of the prime merits of Jell-O is that it is always ready. With a package of Jell-O on the emergency shelf and some boiling water, there is no trouble in preparing a dessert which is sure to come out right. By the addition of fruit or cream an endless variety may be produced and the question, “What shall we — have for dessert?” is nearer solution than it possibly can be in a | household where Jell-O has no place. The recipes below, which are illustrated at the side, are typical of scores of others. Orange Jell-O Dissolve a package of Orange Jell-O in a pint of boiling water and set in a cold place to harden. Turn out on a plate and serve plain or with whipped cream. were responcaneieaeeprnsnsatit ne HOSA SANA ANS aH Imperial Salad Drain juice from half a can of pineapple, add one teaspoonful of vinegar and enough water to make a pint. Heat to boiling point and add one package of Lemon Jell-O. Just as Jell-O begins to set, add three slices of canned pineapple, cubed, one-half can Spanish pimentos, shredded, and one medium size cucumber, salted and cut fine. Mould in individual moulds or in one large mould and slice. Serve with cream salad dressing. stom. SSO hea : Cherry Jell-O Cherry Jell-O has the peculiarly pleasant cherry flavor which . is so much enjoyed by lovers of good things to eat. It is, of course, the pure fruit flavor. The plain dessert is made by dissolving a package of Cherry Jell-O in a pint of boiling water, and is served either with or without whipped cream. SRR HR Ae TNR Spa Be Seesoeseeapeeyees Mrs.Rorers Jambolaya Fill a mould or tall glasses a little more than half full of mixed sliced fruits, oranges and bananas and other fruits in season. Dis- solve one package of Orange Jell-O in one pint of boiling water. When cool pour it over the fruit in the mould or glasses. Chopped nuts may be added. Set away to harden.—Sarah Tyson Rorer. ” ) | Raspberry Bavarian Geam Wash one box of raspberries and sprinkle with four table- spoonfuls of sugar. Dissolve a package of Raspberry Jell-O in three- fourths pint of boiling water and when cold and still liquid whip to consistency of whipped cream. Then fold in the raspberries and juice. Set in acold place to harden. Serve with whipped cream and garnish with fresh berries. Use canned berries when fresh are out of season. ne fee oe. oC Seep mete NRC oO Co Our new Jell-O Book showing Jell-O as. used North, East, South and West will be sent free upon request. A special de luxe book of Jell-O menus will be sent for twenty cents in stamps. SG RHR eS HN aren eet ' 4 “Yhe Genesee Pure Food Company, LeRoy,NewYork | Canadian Factory at Bridgeburg,Ontario. _ | 921, SY THE GENESEE PURE FOOD Company
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for January, 1922 Page 25 The Make-Over Lady Economical Ways of Making Dainty Underwear By HELEN GRANT ERHAPS you are one of the busy housekeepers who loves delicate laces and furbelows on your underwear, and who has watched disconsolately the gradual wilting of these dainty things under many washings. Of course, you love pretty nightgowns and chemises but, they are often, oh! so expensive when purchased ready-made, and then too one hasn’t always the leisure to “‘do them up’”’ carefully, especially if little sons and daughters make demands upon one’s time. But it is hard to say, “‘ Well, with the . housework and the baby I’m afraid I must give up wanting these pretty things for myself.’’ You needn’t do anything of the sort. May I show you how to solve this underwear question with a limited expenditure of money and time? Let us begin with combina- Cut scallops of contrasting color to fit neck, sleeves, etc. tions and chemises. Perhaps some of your nightgowns are made in kimono style. These give out first under the arms, and usually the lower part of the garment is still good. Cut the worn top away, add a band of lace or net with shoulder-straps, and behold! a new chemise. (Figure 1.) It takes but little time to effect this transformation as the side seams and hem are already finished. I have known these garments to wear as long as new ones, and from many wash- ings while they were in the nightgown stage the material is often delightfully soft. Sew together on right side as shown, turn under, baste and finish with featherstitching. ‘Figure 5. ‘| Fold maeferial { “Twice seach 4 way and cut + so that when Opened 7 if - looks \1Ke this . Cat neck higher ivr ' back than front f. ! working, part SIM Figure, 2 °at- ie en ' Sz" \ 26.3 - 3¢°- | Gwidth of dgeds) Front back variations of above Seersucker and Jap- anese crepes are ex- cellent underwear materials as they require no ironing. Fig- ure 2 shows a chemise which is made from a yard and three-quarters of cotton crepe, now sold at from twenty-five to fifty cents ayard. Cut your materialin half, making two pieces thirty-two inches long. Make the front half twenty-seven inches wide at the top and taper the sides so that it is _ thirty-six inches wide at the bottom. The back is twenty-four inches wide at the top and also tapers to thirty-six inches at the bottom. Round out the lower edge as shown in the sketch so that it will be even. This is a good general pattern for the medium sizes and if you wish you may add such variations as are shown in the sketch. The material you have cut off the sides is used to make the shoulder-straps, two or three varieties of which are shown. They should be fourteen inches long and when sewing them on don’t forget to slant the straps in the back out toward the shoulders, for they will fit much better and won’t be forever slipping down over your arms. Featherstitching is the only trimming, so there isn’t even any lace to iron. Two rows of this at the top form the ribbon casing and it is very attractive when done in pink, blue or lavender on white crepe or in white on pink crepe. A little shoulder straps aD - "Tum under and ‘baste as shown, | ae 7 is then Teath- t et - stitch down certer or |x wide a- lace edge _ Seam to Nar roo Ffeatherstitehed shoulder - sTrap b- double fold of nef seusn to plain narrow should er sTrap nosegay of French knot flowers done in pastel shades will lend additional charm if placed in the center front or on the left. One can use the sarie idea for nightgowns. (Figure 3.) Another pretty set made of this prac- tical crepe is the combination suit and nightgown shown in Figure 4. The double material hvlps to reinforce the garments at the top where so much of the: wear comes. The nightgown requires three yards of crepe; fold it as shown in Figure 5. Begin cutting the sleeve in about nine and a half inches from the top, then gradually slope it out toward the sel- vage. If your material is thirty-six inches wide, well and good; if thirty-two inches, you must take what you have cut off underneath the arms and use it to widen the lower part. The most practical seam to use is the German fell, such as is used on men’s shirts and pajamas; a French seam is likely to rip and that means more mend- ing for the busy housewife. Have you ever used net in place of lace as a trimming for underwear? It is more durable and if one can’t afford really good lace it is in much better taste. The very fine meshed net, doubled, wears as well as the coarser variety and is very dainty in appearance. Figure 6 shows some undergarments trimmed in this way. These are made of checked dimity, a material known for its lasting qualities. If you are buying dimity or voile for underwear choose the cross-barred patterns instead of those having stripes for they wear much better. The ribbon run through the top is one of the washable kinds which may be pur- chased by the bolt, though for daily wear I prefer a well-known brand of twistless tape which doesn’t éurl up or become yellow with washing. Having supplied your every-day needs you may perhaps like a design to be used for dress-up occasions. The lower part of Figure 7 is made from a-square of forty-inch material; the top is a quarter of a yard wide and a yard and a half around. The two pieces are joined with insertion and there is a dainty edging to match sewed around the top and bottom. A yard and a half of inch- wide satin ribbon is needed for shoulder- straps. If you wish it to be more elabo- rate you may use a hand-scalloped edge instead of the lace. Finished chemise
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Page 26 Woman’s World By ALMA L. BINZEL, Director of Child Training in Woman’s World Making the Most of Our Children The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it.—Rousseau. HE C. trio is very well; our new daughter is remarkably little trouble.’’ Thus wrote a father during a hot week of the past summer. If all fathers could write so of their new children,the yelling babe and floor-walking father would disappear from the joke-smith’s column. The fact of being remarkably little trouble as a baby is not a happy acci- dent; it is the result of a careful start in one’s career upon the earth. Dorothy’s parents early faced the issue of the change in their mode of life, business, social and personal—called for by the advent of a new and helpless member into the firm. They proposed to respect the rights of that member without abrogating their own. The secret of successful reorganization of this firm was a plan based upon the im- perative necessity of regularity in meet- ing the fundamental needs of babyhood. Dorothy’s nervous system was to be stimulated every day at exactly the same hours, by exactly the same methods so that habits of eating, sleeping, bathing and dressing would be formed. These habits once established would leave the mother free to attend to other matters at other times. . ; It is going to Ve possible to say of Dorothy as she grows older, as it is now. possible to say of the little children in the nursery schools of England, ‘All the toddlers are clean and regular in their habits. All go to sleep at the right moment. They are obstinate in doing things now at the right time. If his bed is not ready at 12:45, Billie will sleep on the floor or table.”’ Is regularity too great a price to pay during the first year of a child’s life in order to insure this “‘obstinacy”’ of right things at the right time during the second? A temptation comes to break this regularity just once. If it is not resisted, a second temptation will make it still easier to break the routine. A few such variations and the child’s nervous system responds by keeping the child awake at the hour he should have fallen asleep. The mother’s problem is originally one of having the child form the habit of sleeping. Through changes in bedtime it becomes one of breaking a habit of sleeplessness and re-forming one of sleep- fulness. Re-formation is usually more costly than formation. It frequently involves irritability on the part of both child an2 varent; the latter, misunder- standing, considers the child obstinate in refusing to Jo to sleep, little realizing that this condition is no fault of the child’s. The same firm, patient, exact regular- ity that induced the first habit of sleep will build up a second one. But what of the child of two who is al- lowed, upon a very special faiuily oc- casion, to stay up a bit longer, or, who because of a necessary separation from his family must sleep in new surround- ings, or is en route upon a glittering rumbling train at bed time? | Wanted to See It Through ARKELY fortunately is sufficiently weaned from his mother, not only in regard to food, but also in regard to her presence. Hence, when it is neces- sary for him to stay for several-days at his grandmother’s, he does it without fussing and is a pleasure to himself and others. Having come in from an after-supper walk, he played with some paper. dolls— and chairs that were new to him that day. . The direct request to stop play, to un- dress, to go to bed met with protest; taking off his shoes and stockings in- creased his opposition; had the method of undressing him without his consent been persisted in, a violent case of rebellion would almost certainly have been brought on. And Markley would not have been responsible for it, for his play with the paper dolls was an unfinished thing. His ideas and his emotions with their ac- companying muscular and neural activ- ity over which he had no control, de- manded a conclusion. In this case it was very easy to make it include the sugges- tion of sleep and night. Bits of paper were quickly converted into beds and coverlids. He put the dolls in bed and covered them up; he saw them resting for the night because they were tired of play and work; he said ‘*‘Good-night”’ to them and was in a receptive mood for his own undressing. Now his cooperation was fully en- listed in the process. This took less time by the clock than a struggle would have taken to undress him forcibly. It had the additional advantage of sending him to bed with a quiet nervous system, always a condition to be desired. Many of the rebellions that are credited with coming out of cloudless skies or with being a biological inheri- QUESTION “T have two children. My boy is six and a half and my girl is almost four. Both are usually good children. But I seem to have less control of them than when they were younger. They are very affectionate and I get them to do things for me because they love me. But sometimes that fails. Then I have to resort to spanking or whipping and that seems to make them more nervous and I think in such a case is detrimental to the child’s health. I often ‘put to bed’ in daytime for punishment, but that is a slow way and does not result in quick obedience. Can you suggest a way to get them to mind when first told to do a thing?” ANSWER I wonder if your difficulties with your children grow out of these attitudes: First, that you must control them as much as when they were younger; Second, that obedience must be quick; Third, that punishment must be frequent. By four or six and a half years, normal eediciren should be controlling themselves in some respects. Parental control should be gradually supplanted by self-control:as the child approaches maturity. Ra But how are you to make the transition? Plan with the children, notice not for them, their schedule of play, meal, sleep and task times. Allow them to find ways of doing things even though the results are imperfect from your grown-up standards. The love appeal should be used sparingly for the time may come when they love someone who suggests things that are wrong. ig: : Under what conditions must obedience Questions and Answers EDITOR'S NOTE—Because of limited space it is possible to publish only a very few questions and answers each month, but all letters regarding the train- ing of your children will be answered personally by Miss Binzel provided they are accompanied with a stamped, addressed envelope, and are directed to her in care of Woman’s World, 107 S..Clinton St., Chicago. * ment of difficulties. be quick, think you? When do you jump . tance from either the paternal or mater- nal side, have just such a history of in- completeness of activity. For these the child is absolutely not to blame. Out of a Clear Sky T. WAS Frances’ mother who said, “But Miss B. what would you do with a two-and-a-half-year-old child who has frequent tantrums out of a clear sky? The other day she sat in a high chair watching the cook mash potatoes. I stepped in and said, ‘It’s time for your bath, Frances;’ and the tantrum was on.”’ . Human beings are so made that they naturally pay attention to moving ob- jects; they are also so made that they respond to rhythmically moving ones by similar movements. A command to do something else, though kindly. spoken, interrupts abruptly this attention and bodily response which have given satis- faction; an inner conflict results whose visible form is the tantrum in unde- veloped or uncontrolled persons. If you don’t believe this, ask some one, without warning, to come at once to mend stockings or wash dishes; who is deeply fascinated by a book in which the hero is about to rescue the heroine or declare his love for her. Note whether you get from the person accosted a polite “‘ Yes, thank you. called me. I’ll go instantly.’’ Tantrums were practically eliminated from Frances’ life by the observance of a second great principle in wise manage- ment of children: that of time for re- adjustment in the mechanism of be- to obey someone? When ought children to do so QUESTION My children aged five, seven and nine, respectively, are constantly quarreling among’ themselves. thew f are vigorous mentally and physically but they have this disagreeable tendency in their dispo- sitions. Can you suggest a remedy? ANSWER Quarreling may be due to a lack of in- teresting things to do and ideas to carry out or to a difference in instincts and ten- dencies because of variation in ages or to one child domineering the other or to phys- ical handicaps that show in_ irritability and cruelty, or to the habit of disagreeable instead of pleasant discussion. ; Gusrepling is one effort at social ad- justment. It should give way to peaceful discussion of issues such as goes on in the court room when the judge and jury listen to the case and then pass judgment. The world is gradually growing in that direction. Can you not show the children how terrible was the misery in the world because of nations quarreling? How they are now trying to find the way of peaceful settling of issues? Suggest to them that instead of quarreling, they ‘take their dis- agreements to court. Let each child pre- sent his side of the case and then you, with as much judicial ceremony as you are able to summon, can hand down your decision. The pretended formality will appeal to the children’s imagination and should tend to popularize peaceful discussion and adjust- I wish you would let me know just what things your children quarrel about and how the quarrels are usually settled. I’m so glad you: havior—the nervous system. Mrs. B. learned to approach her daughter with appreciation of her interest in an activity and for her need of time to change to something else, saying for instance: “Frances, I am so glad you like to watch Kate mash potatoes. Some day she will do it again; you may see her then. Ina promegt now it will be time for your ath.”’ Consider Harold’s Case AROLD was four. The children’s’ teachers were guests at an evening meal. In consequence Harold was to stay up a half hour beyond his usual bedtime. At asignal from his mother he said ‘‘ Goad night.’’ Later I passed the door of his room, saw upon asmall clotheshorse his garments hanging neatly. I turned to his mother asking who had put him to. bed. ‘‘He himself’? was her answer. *“You see,’’ she continued, ‘‘ with a house- hold of three children and three grown ups and no maid, I have had to train my children. I couldn’t take time to be a servant to them.”’ Harold knew from past experiences that the privilege of “staying up thirty minutes’’ was earned by going to bed without protest and without that series of requests by which some children post- pone the hour of sleep. y Bad Habit Nipped in the Bud IN ELLEN’S home there had developed by those easy first steps of which the mother was quite unconscious and in which every intelligent child is so adept, this habit of asking after getting into bed. When her mother realized it, she an- nounced to Ellen one night that it must cease. Whereupon Ellen threw the sheet off the bed and commanded her mother to put it on. The mother refused. For one hour Ellen plead, cried, fussed—but to no avail. Then she stopped suddenly, called her mother to her for the good- night kiss saying, ‘“‘Mother, why don’t you let me have my own way? It’s so much nicer when you do.”’ And. the next morning she added, “Mother, last night was your night; to- night is going to be my night.”’ But Ellen’s mother had had her rev- elation. The next night, and the next, and the next, and many thereafter were nights when Ellen went to bed at exactly the same time, with sufficient warning beforehand to take care of her wants and the distinct understanding that once in bed, sleep was the order of the evening. When Ellen found that her mother was as firmly kind as she was kindly firm in enforcing the law of plenty of sleep for the sake of health and happiness, she accepted the inevitable and developed an obstinate habit of going to sleep at the right time. She was no longer any trouble at bedtime. Obstinately Good or Obstinately Bad—It Rests With Us BOrearcaAL heredity gives ‘all nor- mal children a plastic nervous system with some definite neural patterns for action with which to begin life. Social heredity adds to these thousands of others in the first weeks and months of the child’s life. It rests with the parents to choose whether these shall be obstinate unto good or bad for the child and comfortable or uncomfortable for those with whom he lives.
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Send i ackage of large beautiful silk uilt desi, d F . and other remnant bargain b structions how to earn money at home by sewing. UNION S. WORKS, 225 Factory St., BOONVILLE, #.Y. POEMS Ww ANTED for publication. Cash paid for those available. Send one short poem today for free examination. IDYL PUB. CO., 189 N. Clark St., Suite 215, CHICAGO BUNDLES Guarantee of Satisfaction Westand back of every advertisement in Woman’s WorLpD We guarantee these advertisements to you because we believe advertised goods offer you the fullest protection, quality and service. We will refund your money if you are not satisfied with the value received or treatment given by any advertiser in Woman’s WorLp. atin # Jammag, Publisher . Woman's World Will Pay You 9] 00 for money, time or == lJabor-saving ideas pet PRENCE has taught every woman some way of saving time, work or money in the management of her household affairs. It may be only rejuvenating a hat, re- moving an ink stain or making father’s coat do for son—but whatever it is, send it in. What has helped you will help others also. We will pay $1.00 for each original idea or suggestion available for our use. Unavailable material will not be re- turned. unless stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. Address Household Department Woman’s World, 107 S. Clinton St., Chicago French blue sweater blouse with collar, cuffs and vestee of tan. French knots of blue used astrim- ming are illustrated below with a needle. Vaterials: 7 ozs. Shetland, main col- wr; 2 ozs. Shetland silk and wool mix- ‘ure, for vestee, col- lar and cuffs. organdy sets of lat- fer are preferred, 8 balls will be re- quied, which allows for full-length sleeves.) No. 4.am- ber hook, wool em- broidery needle. A Crocheted Blouse Is as good looking as it is comfortable IRECTIONS: Begin at bottom D of back, ch 92, t c in 4th st from hook, taking up back loop of st; *2tcin next 2 sts, taking up front loop of sts, 3 t c in next 3 sts, taking back loop; repeat across, ending with 2tcin back loop of sts, ch 3, turn. 2d Row—1 t c, taking front loop, *2 t c, taking back loop, 3 t c in front loop; re- peat across. Continue in this manner for 9 inches, keeping the pattern, pro- ducing a ribbed effect. Next Row—Sl st across 3 tc, 1 dc in next, dtc in next (keeping pattern), work across in t c to withing 5 sts of end, then work 1 dte, 1 de, 3 sl st, ch 1, turn. Next Row— Skip sl st, sl st across next 2 sts, 1 dc, 1 dtc, then follow pattern across, ending with 1 dtc, 1dc, 3 sl st. Work in pat- tern on remaining sts for 17 rows, or 6 inches. Leave off 23 sts for back of neck, and work on first 23 sts for 2 rows; in- crease 1 st at neck end every 4th row 8 times. On sleeve end increase 3 sts in last st on 18th and 19th rows (from back of neck), then work even until underarm measures same as back. Work other front to correspond, starting at neck end. -Finish front with 6 rows dc, taking both loops. Ist Row—Beginning at bottom, work to just above where shaping stops, sl st 3 sts, ch 1 and turn. 2d Row—Skip first st, sl st 6 sts, and work back. 3d Row—Work 7 (body) rows above others, in same manner. 5th Row—Work .up to within 3 body rows of first two rows of dc, and back the same; break yarn. Begin border for other front at top, and work to corre- spond. Sleeves—Ch 62 and work in pattern same as back. Beginning with 17th row increase 1 st each end every 6th row, 4 times, then every 4th row twice. Decrease for top of sleeve in same manner as for armseye, for 8 rows, and break yarn. Cuffs—With contrasting yarn make *1 t c over t c below, 1 dc over next, 1 t c over next, skip 1 st, l dc over next; repeat across, ch 2 and turn. 2d Row—Make dc over tc, and tc over d c, which constitutes the pattern; ch 2 at end of each row. Repeat 2d row to desired depth or about 3 inches. Sleeves may be sewn in before or after sewing up side seams; if before, side seams will be included with the sleeve seams. Collar —lIs same pattern; ch 25, work even for 29 inches, or as long as desired. Finish ends of collar, tops of cuffs and vestee with a row of sl sts on wrong side. When sewing collar to garment, stretch slightly -in front, and more around back of neck, or hold garment very full there, to in- sure a smooth fit; baste into position and try on before the final sewing. Vestee— Ch 33, and work same as collar, for length wished, which is 10 inches in model. Sew one side under edge of front border, and fasten other side with snaps. Belt—With body color ch 12, and work in 10 t c for 26 inches without stretching, taking up back loop 2f st, then decrease 1 st each end to a point. Sew to bottom of sweater, lapping the pointed end over other, and fasten with snaps. Trim collar, vestee, and cuffs as illustrated, in body color with French knots. Wind yarn 10 times for outside, allow to fall in half circle, make other side same, and wind 3 to 5 times for center knot. Note—This style would be effective with a sash of the mixture, finished with fringe or tassels; in this case a cloth or elastic belt could replace crocheted one. Detail of French knot. There are 3 on each side of the collar about 1 inch apart, 5 down the front of vestee and 3on "Os each cuff. — Same Shetland is used as that in body of sweater. Abbreviations Used in Crocheting Ch st, chain stitch: A series oi stitches or loops, each drawn with the hook through the stitch preceding. . SI st, slip stitch: Drop the stitch on hook, insert Fouk in work, pick up the dropped stitch and draw through. This is used as a joining stitch where very close work is wanted, or for “slipping’’ from one point to another without breaking thread. D c, double crochet: Having a stitch on needle (as will be understood in followin directions), insert hook in work, take up threa and draw through, thread over again and draw through the two stitches on needle. T ec, treble crochet: Thread over the needle, hook through work, thread over and draw through work, making three stitches on needle, over and draw through two, over and draw through remaining two. D t c, double triple crochet: Thread over twice before insertion of hook in work, then proceed as in treble crochet. P, picot: A picot is made b last four or an by working a the hook. *, star, means repeat and are used to save words. » Space: Chain 2, skip 2 sts, treble crochet in next. _ by joining the number of stitches in a ring ouble in chain, counting from > Page 27 “The Little Nurse Sor Little Ills’? OR QUICK RELIEF from stuffy head colds rub the inside and out- side of the nostrils with plenty of HEALING CREAM ‘) entholatum Always made under this signature PAL, The gentle, refreshing action of Mentholatum soon clears the head and restores free breathing. Use Mentholatum to quickly and antiseptically heal cuts, chaps and burns, and to re: lieve tired feet. Mentholatum is sold everywhere in tubes, 25c; jars, 25c, 50c, $1. The Mentholatum Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Wichita, Kans. Bridgeburg, Ont. up. 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Page 28 ; ON TEN DAYS TRIAL sae . 45 a § Am Going To Mail You a Pair of the Latest-Style, Extra. Large, Round-Eye, “‘Sight-Improving’’ Spec- tacles Absolutely Free of Charge Iwant you to take a_good look at the spectacles in the above heading. Notice their size and shape. Compare them with the glasses you or your friends may be wearing right now. : Notice the extra-large round eyes in these latest-style “‘sight-improving”’ specta- cles. The glasses are as large and as round asa silver dollar, as you can see in the above picture; and completely cover every part of the human eye so you don’t have to look over the tops of them or squint your eyes under them like you have to do when _wearing the old-style small-eye spectacles for sale at stores. These Latest-Style, Extra-Large, Round-Eye “Sight- improving’’ Spectacles Have Taken the Country by Storm Thousands of spectacle-wearers from Maine to California have quit using the old-style small-eye egg-shaped glasses and are now wearing the latest-style extra- large round-eye “‘sight-improving”’ spectacles— which have practically taken the country by storm—and I am going to send you a oe of these up-to-date glasses complete in a very neat and handsome 10 karat gold-filled spectacle frame, to try fully ten days on your own eyes in your own home without a cent in advance or even a reference. You Can Wear These Latest-Style, Extra-Large, Round-Eye ‘“‘Sight-Improving’’ Spectacles for Far or Near, for Reading or Looking Away Off in the Distance As soon as you get them, I want you to put them on your eyes no matter how weak they may be from age; sit down at your fireside these cold wintry nights and ou will be agreeably surprised to discover that you can again read the finest print in your newspaper or magazine; you will be able to thread the smallest-eyed needle and do the finest kind of embroidery and crocheting with them on and do it all night long if you like without any headaches or eye-pains and with as much ease comfort as you ever did in your life You Can Use Them When Out Hunting, Driving ‘ or To the Movies if You So Desire | If you. like to go out hunting occasionally, put on these latest-style, “‘sight- improving”’ spectacles, go out into the woods some bright sunny morning and you will be delighted to find how greatly they help you in sighting your gun and taking aim at your game. ’ R ‘ Or if you are fond of going to the movies once in a while, you can take a seat away in the back end of the theatre—to avoid the glimmer of the lights—and you will be pleased to notice that even the smallest words and pictures on the screen look just as clear and as plain to you as though you were sitting right in the front row, with the aid of these latest-style, “‘sight-improving” spectacles. : Seeing Is Believing Now I realize that it may be hard for you—or any other spectacle-wearer whose sight has become greatly weakened from age—to believe that these latest-style, “sight-improving” spectacles will again bring back to you the absolutely perfect - sight of your younger days. _. |. ee os ; But you know the old saying “Seeing is eon and I positively will not accept one single solitary penny from you until you have seen these latest-style spectacles and have found them more sight-improving to your own _eyes than any spectacles you have ever bought anywhere at any price before. That is the reason why I am only asking you to fill out and mail me the nape pm below, and I will immediately send you a handsome 10 karat gold-filled pair of the latest-style, “sight-improving” spectacles by mail, all charges prepaid to try fully 10 days on your own eyes in your own home without a cent in advance or even a reference. Cut Out this Coupon on this Line AMERICAN SPECTACLE HOUSE, Room 180, 55th & Dorchester Ave., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen:—I have read your liberal offer and want you to send me by mail all charges prepaid a handsome 10-karat gold filled pair of your latest-style, extra-large, round-eye, ‘sight-improving” spectacles complete with an up-to-date leatherette spring- back pocket-book spectacle case which you are offering on ten days absolute free trial. I am going to try them out for reading or looking away off in the distance, for far or near, indoors or outdoors and in every way you have mentioned above, and if I find them all you claim them to be after a 10 days trial, I will pay you your advertising price of $2.85 and no more. I want you, however, to distinctl d that if Ido not find them to F rae = S90R y understan be right up-to-date in every respect or if thev do not restore the absolutely perfect vision of my younger days, I will return them to you without a cent of pay as I don’t intend to _ keep them unless they are much better than any spectacles I have ever used before and even then I positively wili not pay for them unless I consider them a bargain at the ad- vertising price of $2.85 which you are asking for them and you will have to take my word as final in this matter. Be Sure and Answer the Following Questions: No. 1212. GIRLS’ ONE-PIECE DRESS Sizes 6, 8,10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 1% yards 44-inch material. No. 9442. BOYS’ BLOUSE—Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards 32-inch material. How many years have you No. 1196. GIRLS’ JUMPER DRESS— How old are you? ANnS......0..eseceeeeee used glasses (ifany) Ans......... PAA ES ae ‘ Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size’8 re- . quires 1%4 yards 36-inch material for jumper Name.....-+ eeeeesene COSSCOESCEEESEEEHEHEH FERS EHHEHHEHHOHHEEHEEHHETHHEEEE @eeeereeeoeeeseseeeeeeesese and 1% yards 36-inch for guimpe. ‘ Py *ét mig’ gtd gp Pn © erg <p biiial ae cul Oakes bninaediink bine uaa », * an years. size 4 requires yards COnnEY . Baicocsd convene paabatiilaln a atamnees Post Office ; Ee gem | 4, R.R. Secs ereeeeeseeeeeeeeee awenteat eempeeeeceeeeaee ecovccocose eT ERE Ete ELS = AAI No. 9379. GIRLS’ MIDDY DRESS— Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10,12 and 14 years. Size 8 re- quires 1% yards 36-inch material for skirt with 1% yards 36-inch for blouse. No. 1143. GIRLS’ DRESS—Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 15 $1t9%2 per yards 44-inch material with % yard 36-inch _ Contrasting material for jumper and 1% all or Spare mMe€ | yards 36-inch material for guimpe. No. 9463. GIRLS’ SACQUE APRON— Sizes 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards 32 or 36-inch material with 4 yard 36-inch contrasting. No. 1194. GIRLS’ DRESS—Sizes 6, 8, Street and No. (4S BI0F) wos 0:00. 080000 :0.000:00.000 000% 00.010 8000 2000 0:0002.0R0.0 00.0 0:0:0:0-0,nntearemguencninme- LADIE To act as local representative: for a high-grade garment manufacturer. No experience and no capital required. We make all deliveries and collections. Great oppor- tunity for extra money. Write . | Consumers Sales Co., 321 Courtland Bidg., Cleveland, 0. Pajamas keep youngsters warm and comfy these cold winter nights Woman’s World Economical New Styles and Girls Ml i 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards 36-inch material with % yard 36-inch con- trasting. No. 1216. GIRLS’ DRESS—Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 poste. Size 10 requires 1\% yards ia yards 36-inch plaid material with 1% 36-inch plain material. 4-4 ae 3 ane rps AMAS—Sizes 2, * ears. i 3 Py tees Scare s ae requires 1 & yards Se? ac y ore oT oem eee 6, 8, 10° a ears. 44-inch rin ae Pt ee Na a No. 8780. BOYS’ SUIT—Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 8 requires 1% yards 36-inch material for blouse and 1% yards 36- ‘inch for knickerbockers. i? No. 9902. CHILD’S DRESS—Sizes 2, 4, ° 6 and 8 years. Size 4 sores 1% yards 36- inch material with 4% yard 32-inch contrasting. _No. 9766. CHILD’S UNION SUIT— Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, Size 8 re- quires 15 yards 32-inch material. No. 9999. GIRLS’ ONE-PIECE DRESS —Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 re- quires 2% gree 36-inch material with % yard 36-inch contrasting.
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ee note patie mae ne TA LE ETS a MP CRE WT 2 8 ope ge Sy ERI RR NTE «te PURE en a8 CT OE MTS Sia 1922 for January, Modish Dresses and Out-Door Woman’s World Fashions are Practical, Economical and Up-to-the Minute i‘ FA inuiealt a \ ee — Pe | (me + ) =e fF Pe t/ | ZK Hie aud L SB are \ for Home Wear | &, cs ¥ || 3 i’ F e| Z F “i pertnth Dy Ae * Re fave) 4 uli ee “* rat MAXANDUAARN en TOM 4 — . yas, fy . 7 3 Sewer ner) a me ram -) 11) bee = OU Lergperatt “ Tre, <e\ ess INU Sido warmtin ' 4 a toh Susu) CAPELLI ~ estat! .] Description of Designs Shown on This Page No. 1205. LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS— Sizes 36, 40 and 44 bust. Size 36 requires 1%% yards 32-inch white material with 3 yards 32. inch figured. No. 1251. LADIES’ AND. MISSES’ SLIP —Sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 bust. ome te requires 254 "yards 36 or 40-inch ma- ria No. 1223. LADIES’ AND MISSES’ COS- TUME BLOUSE-—Sizes 16 years, 36, 40 and 44 bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards 32, 40 or 44-inch material. No. 9642. LADIES’ AND MISSES’ DRESS—Sizes ar 18 years, 36 and 38 bust. Size 36 requires 334 yards 36-inch material with 15% yards 36-inc contrasting. No. 9600. LADIES’ APRON—Sizes 36, 40 and 44 bust. Size 36 requires 2% yards 32-inch material. No. 1202. LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS— Sizes 36, 40, 44 and 48 bust. Size 36 requires 6 yards 27-inch material. No. 9000. LADIES’ DRESS—Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 bust. Size 36 requires 4 yards 36- inch material with Ysyard 36-inch contrasting, No. 9633. LADIES’ DRESS—Sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42 bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards 36-inch material with 34 yard 36-inch con- trasting. No. 1101. LADIES’ APRON—Sizes 36, 40 and 44 bust. Size 40 requires 33% yards 32-inch material. No. 1131. LADIES’ APRON—Sizes 36, 40 and 44 bust. Size 36 requires 3 34 yards 32-inch material. No. 1048. LADIES’ ONE-PIECE DRESS—Sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42 bust. Size 36 requires 4 yards 36-inch material. RESINOL | ESS ; = rs klet : Clothe: Women’ s College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. 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Page 30 * up there, Aunt Ann! I never seemed to see the stars, before!”’ ELL, it was two years later that little Nan was born—they named her after me. They had had a hard time of it, Ralph and Ju ie. The farm was run down; they needed fertilizers and cattle,and they had all the interest to pay. But they were happy. Julie used to take her sewing and sit out under the apple tree—you can see it right beside the fence over there—while Ralph was at work; sometimes he’d come to stand beside her in the shade; leaning against the tree and looking down at her. I think Zaccheus must have seen them many a time; his room is on that side of the house. After the baby came, Julie would spread a blanket on the grass and let her roll around; she learned to creep out there. Julie and Ralph are both light-complexioned; I wish I could make you see the baby the way she was. A little slim brown thing, with dark hair that curled all over her head; her eyes were black as coals. “She'll never grow up to those big eyes of ners,’’ folks said; and everybody said how much she looked like her grandfather. Ralph didn’t like it when they said that; but it was true. Even her little hands were like his, long and slim, with fingers that curled over things. She was quiet, too; and quaint in her talk and her: ways, as children mostly are when they have only grown folks for companions. A little witch, she was. I went over to see them every day, while Zaccheus was out; and after a time little Nan used to toddle.over to see me when Ralph didn’t know it. He had said she shouldn’t come, though Julie didn’t mind; but—land!—you can’t keep a child in sight all the time! OR ALL I know, Zaccheus never saw her face to face; and he never said a word about her coming, and all. I mean when she was born. He never seemed to know she was in the world, until the time he was sick. Rheumatic fever, it was; and I had _my hands full with him. He hadn’t ever been sick before, and it went hard _ with him. He was upstairs in bed, and I took a good deal of comfort in having little Nan running in and out of the kitchen. Then one day when I was up there with him, I almost dropped what I was holding. Sometimes when little Nan was here, and I was real busy and couldn’t stop to talk to her, she’d get in the big rocking chair in the kitchen and hug her rag- doll, Betsy, that I had made her, and rock and sing. I had taught her my grandmother’s favorite hymn, and she was fond of it, and knew all the words. You know how sweet and shrill a little child’s voice is? Well, that was the sound that came up to us, as I was right there by Zaccheus’ bed; I could hear the thump of the old rocker on the kitchen floor. *“Flee—eee as a bir-rrd to the foun—— tain, Where ——you may wash and be cle-eee-ean!”’ I looked at Zaccheus; he was frowning. *““What’s that?’ he asked. I ran out of the room; I just didn’t know what to tell him. But the next day when she came in with a raggedy bunch of wild flowers in one hand and Betsy hugged up against her with the other, I drew her to me and I said, “Oh, such pretty flowers! Little Nan, you remember the time you were sick? You didn’t like to be sick, did ou?’’ **T’m not sick now,” said she. ‘‘Smell those flowers ”’ *““M-m-m! Sosweet! But listen, little- Nan! You'd be sorry for anybody sick, wouldn’t you? Oh, so-o-o sorry!”’ “TI want to put ’em in water,’’ said she; she was never a young one you could switch off the track, when she was headed one way; that was Zaccheus in her. Just the same, I knew she was listening to me. So I said, *““Baby-girl, there’s a poor sick man upstairs! Don’t you want to take your pretty flowers to the poor sick man?” She looked at me; I have to laugh now when I remember it. “‘Did he eat stwawbewwies, too?’’ she asked me. girl. The Sycamore Tree (Continued from page 8) “Well, anyway, he’s sick,’’ I told her. **Poor sick man!”’ **T guess I'll go see him,”’ said she, oan started off up the stairs. I heard her little pattering feet pause in his doorway, then I heard them cross the floor. Oh,,- yes; I was out in the hall, listening! *“T brought you my flowers!’’ I heard her say. ‘‘Poo-o-or sick man!”’ Zaccheus didn’t say a word; but I knew he must be looking at her, the brown little black-haired, black-eyed thing, so like himself. I’ve often wished I could have seen them that first time. Little Nan wasn’t ever timid; she’d look you straight in the eyes, solemn, search- ing you clear through. And you know how strange it is, that look between old again, she said, ‘“‘I don’t like Sick Man very much!’’ And that was what she always called him; you couldn’t get her to call him anything else. It was just **Sick Man °’ Zaccheus didn’t say a word about her when I went up; he just lay there looking out of the window. But the first day he was downstairs, when I had fixed him in a rocking chair out under the sycamore -tree, I noticed he kept looking down the road towards Ralph’s house; I was in the kitchen, but I saw her when she came along, swinging Betsey by one arm. She was in a pink dress that she had ‘’most outgrown. Julie always kept her hair short until she was a big girl; as I’ve said, it was dark, and A Special Offering Fruit Basket in Applique AN BASKET. containing | purple grapes with green leaves and oranges and canta- loupes in natural colors. 1-22-11. Buffet Scarf 18x45 — in. Stamped on white linene . with ad $s of basket for each end of scarf 60c. ‘Transfer Patterns 20c.> 1-22-12. Tray Cloth 18x1lin. § on white linene with applique &% | eae 30c. Transfer Pattern c > 1-22-13. Lunch Cloth 44x44 ans on white linene with ap- Sas basket for each corner Transfer Fatverns 30c. . people and little children. I don’t know what it is; I’ve often thought about it. It’s hard to look into a child’s eyes that way, with anything on. your mind. Or your conscience. You see the future there; and maybe the child sees more’n you’d suspect of what’s past and gone—anyway what marks it has left on you. I don’t know. Some- times I think it’s like the way the roots must look up from the dark ground, look up at their flowers, and wonder about the seed-time that’s coming. I know there’s something in the blood of folks that calls to the blood in those that are their own; I’ve heard a_ wind-harp answer, whisper and sing and call, to the wind. And there’s the way the leaf turns itself up to the sun, when it’s warm. Maybe that’s just an old wom- an’s notion; but I’ve thought about it a good déal. HAVEN'T a doubt there was some- thing like all that in the way those two looked at each other, the first time, though I wasn’t there tosee. I wish I had been. My brother’s eyes, so black—and little Nan's. just ‘like them; >.> .°:: she was his; child of his child, flesh of his flesh. I haven’t a doubt that some- thing was born in his heart then, some- thing that hadn’t ever been in it before, not even for Ralph when he was a baby. I well remember the first time he looked at Lis son; he was satisfied. Took it as no more than right that the baby was what he had wanted. But little Nan— oh, she was: more his than Ralph had ever been, his in build and-color; and. though he didn't know it then, like him *‘n strencsth of will, too. And a girl; little and soft and just a baby—and a You know how most men do feel towards little girls, ‘specially when they’re their own! “Did you eat stwawbewwies, too?’’ I heard her ask. He still didn’t say a. word. ““You can have my flowers,”’ said she. “I got to go now!”’ When she came down to the kitchen And ’ No, thank you, I say!’ said she. curly all over. But it always looked as if the sunlight loved to stay in it. She came into the yard and went to stand in front of Zaccheus; the next time I looked out they were talking away like good ones—nobody, not even Zaccheus, could keep from answering her questions very long. Land, but she was a per- sistent little thing when she got started! TOLD Julie about their meeting; it didn’t seem right not to. ‘“‘Let them alone,” Julie said. ‘‘Nothing Ralph can do or think can keep her from be- longing to his father; she’s his own grand- child. Itisn’t right for those two to hate each other the way they do, no matter what’s happened; it’s bad for Ralph. I don’t want their hard feelings to affect the baby.’”’ And as that was partly the way I felt about it myself, I did as she said. It was a strange time for me, the weeks and years that followed. Sometimes I’d go into a room and laugh, and some- times I felt like crying. And other times I—I felt as if I was looking into a deep spring, where the clouds and the sky are reflected—but looking more—more glori- fied than what they really are. You do feel that way, when you see into people’s souls. *“Zaccheus can’t seem to get through a day without seeing her,’’ I told Julie. **And as for little Nan—you’'d think she was a grown girl, and him courting her, the way she does act! I never did see such a child! Seems. like she’s pulling away from him all the time, and drawing him. on, too! Just when he thinks she likes him, she turns her back on him in one. way or another; and when she’s made him a long sight more miserable than I ever thought Zaccheus Beck could be, she smiles at him, or lets him hold Betsey—and you’d think he was in heaven! I never did see the like!’’ "Twas so, too. .I-remember one day she was standing in front of him, and he was trying to coax her up ‘to his knee. ee don’t want to!”’ Woman’s World Zaccheus sat back and looked at her. Presently he said, ‘“‘Looky here, now!. You know who I am, eh? Tell me, do you know who I am?”’ She nodded till her black curls bobbed. **You’re Sick Man,’’ said she. He chuckled; 'twas strange to hear him laugh so often, when he’s scarcely ever smiled before. “‘I’m not a sick man now,” said he. ‘‘You come here, right close to me, and. I’ll tell you who Iam!” But he didn’t get her to go to him that way! She just backed off a little. ““No! You tell me from here!’’ she said. “I’m your grandpa,’’ he had to tell her. “‘That’s who I am! Your grandpa!” She gave him one of those long looks of hers, so serious. Then she just turned away, as if it didn’t make a: mite of difference to her whether he was her grandpa or not. “I got to go, now!”’ said she. And Zaccheus’ face was a study. Another day he gave her a bright new penny. For some tricksey reason of her own, she wouldn’t ever take any- thing from him; I always did believe "twas just to torment him, because she must have wanted the things, many a time. She looked at the penny in her little hand, and looked at him. “There, now!’’ said he. ‘‘See what you got! That’s money, that is!’’ She gave it baek to him. ‘You can have it,” she said to him. *“Not enough for you, eh? Regular woman!’? He took out a big silver dollar and gave her that. ‘‘How’s that for you?”’ “It’s pretty,” she said. Zaccheus put back his head and laughed out loud. ‘‘Pretty! Course it is! Prettiest thing there is—except something I know! And you can have it, you hear? I give it to you because I am. your grandpa!”’ He thought he had her, that time; but a look of mischief came into her eyes. “I guess you better keep it for yourself,” she said, as if she was an old woman. “I guess you need it for your- self, Sick Man!”’’ And off she tripped, as pleased as could be, while Zaccheus just stared after her. Oh, she was a witch. ND SO it went on. You'd. have thought the sun rose and set in her. He was always trying to do something to please her; but she was so tricksey with him that after a while he’d just leave things where she could come on to them, fearing she wouldn’t take them if he offered them to her. Some- times out of pity I’d tell him how she loved them all the time, and was just tormenting him. Because that’s what it was; she knew she could rule him, and she loved to be a little tyrant over him. I believe that was just the reason she wouldn’t call him anything but Sick Man; she knew he wanted her to call him grandpa, so she never would. I remember a day when she let him hold Betsey; he sat there looking like a cat with cream. Oh, yes, ’twas comical— but there was something in it all that made your heart feel like it was pulling itself out of you, too. *“You’re not holding her the way she likes it,’’ said she; and Zaccheus would let her show him, glad if he could rest his hand on her hair for a minute. It was after that day that he brought her the fine new doll from the village; but do you think she would play with it, for all her eyes did gleam when she saw it? Not she! She left it on the kitchen table. “I wouldn’t like to make Betsey feel bad,”’ was all.she’d say about it; but I saw her kiss it when she thought I wasn’t looking. When she was six, she began to go to school, and Zaccheus would be restless and roaming all morning, until she'd run over after dinner. Of course, Ralph had found out about her coming, long” before that; but Julie had her way with him, though he didn’t like it. And you couldn’t have kept little Nan away from Zaccheus, no matter what you.had done;. for all her tyrannizing over him, they were such friends. as neyer were.. I’ve known her to cry, or be cross and cranky, if he had to be away when she was here. Then as soon as (Continued on page 32)
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1922 for January, cose ‘te “Tf she has good teeth,’’ says Rousseau, “no woman can be ugly.” through neglect of the teeth is a task so disheartening, so difficult and so expensive as to be a bitter lesson to the woman approaching middle age and re- gretting the carelessness or indifference of her younger days towards the proper care of this most precious of possessions. That inherent dread of the dentist’s chair (even more pronounced in men than in women, the honest dentist will admit) should in this day and age of superior scientific methods in tooth treatment, be a fallacy unheeded by the sensible person. There is now no more excuse for brutality in the doctoring of sick teeth than in the doctoring of sick bodies. A visit to the dentist every six months will reveal the presence of any unsus- pected cavities or other tooth weaknesses, or assure that there is a condition of per- fect mouth health with every reason for a resulting jubilation of spirits. Lee REPARATION of lost beauty T IS a grave mistake to have teeth pulled that can be filled, while, on the other hand, it is sheer risk of life to neglect the removal of teeth too far decayed to be redeemed through artificial rebuilding. Such teeth are loaded with dangerous poisons that, once drawn into the system, can irreparably undermine the health. There is continual controversy, it appears, between doctors and dentists over the degree to which teeth can be responsible for rheumatism and other ills that come with the accumulating years. There is now a tendency among medical men to ascribe any number of ills to the condition of the teeth and to order their examination and the extraction of them all, should they show signs of ill health. Dentists protest against this rather promiscuously employed practice, con- doning it only for extreme cases. Good- ness knows, it is an operation put through | with speed and alacrity this wholesale harvesting of one’s only teeth—but a hopeless, helpless, regretful state of affairs results when the rheumatic pains persist after the sacrifice has been made and another means of treatment is ad- vised! Just be wholly certain, that’s all, that the giving up of the teeth is the last possible measure to be taken at such a time, consulting both reliable medical and dental authorities. Complete and continual tooth cleanli- ness is essential to tooth preservation— that goes without saying. Teeth are.won- The Book of Good Looks Pines Care of Your Teeth i derfully rugged—healthful teeth—and come in for much abuse. They beauti- fully bear up under the thread-biting for which every woman carelessly employs them at times; but they are sensitive, too. They are sensitive to the shock of water too hot or too cold, so both should be spared them. In the frequent scrub- bings that they demand, it is criminal to subject them to sudden changes in water temperature, submerging them in quick alternation between hot and cold water. This cracks their enamel beyond repair, and because enamel is the protective covering of the teeth, exposes their ex- tremely sensitive inner composition to the agents that hasten decay. Tepid water is always the best for tooth cleans- ing. The brush should be manipulated with a vertical, rather than a horizontal, movement, brushing the upper teeth downward and the lower teeth upward. ITH improved dental methods have come tooth-brushes built upon the approved scientific lines. There are a number of these on the market. Avoid the use of a brush with bristles too stiff or too soft. Keép the brush scrupulously clean, occasionally soaking it in salt water or in a boric acid solution. The great variety of tooth pastes now on the market offers unlimited choice of a dentifrice. 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I’ve said she didn’t like him to hold her; she never was one for kisses, unless it was bedtime, when she wanted to stay up longer. Well, one day she came in after school, and stood looking at Zaccheus without speaking. And’ then all of a sudden she ran up to him and climbed up on his lap, and put her arms around his neck and began to cry. Zaccheus looked scared. He had never seen her cry before, I guess, not even when she had hurt herself. “Why, why, why! What’s all this?”’ he said, holding her up tight to him. “TI don’t believe it! It ain’t a word of it true! I don’t believe it! You’re my Sick Man! I don’t believe it, and they're naughty bad story-tellers!’’ she sobbed out. ‘““Why, baby, what’s the matter? What they been telling you stories about? You'tell’me, baby! Tell Sick Man—he won’t let anything hurt you!’’ said Zaccheus. She sat back and looked at him, her little face all smudged up with tears, and her lips trembling. “‘The girls said you are a wicked man! They said you ground out widows and orphans! I don’t believe it! What are widows and orphans?”’ said she. My goodness! I wish you could have seen Zaccheus! I never in my life did see a man’s face get so gray-white. He didn’t say anything for a minute. He stared into little Nan’s quivering face; then he looked off over her head, and he said, *““My God!”’ Just like that. Hehadn’t ever been a religious man, but he said it as if he had been. He put her off his lap and went out of the room; and he didn’t come down to supper that night. . . I tried to comfort her, and tell her how little girls oughtn’t to talk about things they didn’t under- stand; but she was dreadful quiet, and pretty soon she went home without asking for Zaccheus again. Many’s the evening after that he just sat still with his chin on his breast, not working at his figures or any- thing. . . . There’s the shadow of the day of judgment in a little child’s eyes, sometimes. It wasn’t so long after that day when I heard he’d given the mortgage back to one of the neighbors when her husband died— just given it back to her, interest and all, and asked if there was anything he could do. ELL, that was the way it went on. And when she was most eight, came the year of the influenza. I don’t know’s you recall how it was, those days, with folks sick and dying everywhere. The doctors worked day and night, and every- body that knew anything about taking care.of sick folks did what they could. Nobody knew where ’twas going to strike; it seemed to take its own way. People talked to each other across the road, instead of standing close; the mothers kept their children at home, and even the churches were closed. Like a curse on the land, it was. When Julie fell ill, I told Zaecheus I had to go right over and stay there; he didn’t say a word, but his face was set. I didn’t have to. be told he was thinking about little Nan. I was, too. I had as much as I could do; Julie was mighty sick, right from the beginning. Either Ralph or I had to be with her every minute. I don’t know how the days passed, or the nights. I was just waiting—and watching Ralph and little Nan. It was bad for me, but ‘twas worse for Ralph. He had to run into debt at the store; and there would be the doctor’s bill, and all. Sickness is bed enough, any time; but when you’re poor. 4 ees HEN one day came a knocking on the door. I couldn’t leave Julie, and Nan was in the upstairs room with the windows open, where we kept her. I heard Ralph go to the door, heard Zaccheus speak. I didn’t hear what he said, but I couldn’t help hearing Ralph’s words. Stern—and bitter; but of course he was so worried about Julie, and: all. When he came in, I asked him, **What did he want, Ralph? What did he say?”’ The Sycamore Tree (Continued from page 30) “I’m not taking anything from him,”’ said Ralph. “And he wanted to see Nan. He can keep away from here.”’ Well, I thought I knew what Julie would have done; so the next time I ran over, I told Zaccheus he could maybe see Nan at the upstairs window; and next day I heard her laughing and calling out to him. It was the last. time she laughed for a good while. .. We put her little bed in Julie’s room, so we could take care of both of them. Pneumonia, the doctor said it was; ’twas often so, with influenza. He didn’t give us any hope; but we didn’t ask him. Ralph and I took turns to sit in the room and watch them, and do for them; so it happened that I went to the door when Zaccheus came agai. His hands were shaking; he looked older. “*She—Nan?’’ he asked me; and I nodded. He took hold of the side of the door. It was just then the doctor came, too, and Zaccheus turned on him, sharp, the way he used to do with folks he wanted to bear down with his will and get the better of. “It’s my grandchild’s down with it,’’ said he. ‘‘You get her well, you hear? You get her well!’’ The doctor looked at him, squinting up his eyes. ‘“‘Do you suppose I’m not doing what I can?’’ he asked, with a grim sort of smile. “You do more, then!’’ said Zaccheus; his face changed. “I'll give you a thousand dollars if you get her well!”’ “IT don’t want money of yours, Zaccheus Beck,’’ said the doctor. ‘‘And I do my best to treat people all the same, whether they’re rich or live in the poor- house. I can't do any more than I am doing.”’ Zaccheus seemed si cieatall for a minute, but he still set his money pretty high. “I'll give you ten thousand!”’’ said he; his voice was hoarse. The doctor eyed him for a minute. Then he said, “‘“You can’t buy God Almighty’s will with money, man! Not all the money you possess can weigh in the scales with a little child’s life, either one way or the other.”’ He was going into the house, but Zaccheus took hold of his arm. ‘‘But there are things money can do!’’ he cried out. ‘‘I’ll pay, I tell you, I'll pay! The child—you get her a nurse, you hear? One of those trained ones— you get her two of them! I'll pay!”’ Heirs to Happiness By VIvIAN YEISER LARAMORE. They who walk with hearts uplifted In the dawning of the year Shall find Happiness beside them And the Peace of progress near. They shall need no resolutions, They shall seek that they may share, And prosperity shall find them; For unselfed desire is prayer. The doctor shook his head. “Every nurse in this whole country has more than she can do at this minute,” said he. _ “You can’t bribe a nurse away from one patient to go to another. I tell you, your money isn’t worth a last year’s bird’s nest, Zaccheus Beck—not here and now, it isn’t!’’ FOLLOWED him into the room where they were; Ralph was looking at Julie’s face—I don’t believe he so much as heard the voices outside. The doctor looked at little Nan, and then at Julie. He put that thermometer thing into Julie’s mouth, and went to the window to see what it said. When he turned, he and Ralph just looked at each other; there wasn’t a word said between them . You don’t know how you ‘ieee through times like that, except that there’s always something waiting to be done that you’ve got to attend to. The doctor came again, twice, that day; it was ’most eight o'clock before I got supper ready for Ralph and me. I went into the room to call him, and Woman’s World when I had followed him out to the kitchen I saw somebody had come in. I could make out Zaccheus’ tall figure, though he was back in the shadow. Ralph stood still; it seemed like a long time before he spoke. ‘‘I suppose you're glad of this!’’ he said, then. “I _ Suppose you’ve come to gloat over this, the way you’ve watched over other people’s troubles.”’ You see, he was all worn out with it, Ralph was; he didn’t really know what he was saying, maybe! Zaccheus didn’t sound like himself when he spoke. **Ralph,”’ he said, ‘‘Ralph—let me see her! Just let me see her, Ralph! Nan. : But Ralph raised his hand, though ‘twas shaking. ‘‘You get out o’herel’’ he cried out. ‘‘ You get out o’my housel Don’t you ever darken my doors again!”’ “Oh, Ralph!’’ I said; but he and Zaccheus just looked at each other as if I hadn’t spoken. Then Zaccheus’ head dropped, as if he couldn’t meet Ralph's eyes, and he turned and went away. ELL, the next day Julie was better, a good deal; what the doctor called the crisis was past. She could see Nan’s little bed from where she lay; it seemed like she made up her mind to get well quick, as soon as she knew Nan was sick, too, so’s to help. But as for little Nan. ‘ Oh, dear 1 me, ‘T can’t hardly bear to think of that time, even yet! I thought it had been bad enough, when we be- lieved Julie was going; but during those days they both had lain there quiet. A few days after Julie began to mend, little Nan began to talk, all the time, all the time, day and night. Did you ever hear a little child go on like that, when it was sick? It—it’s—awful. You’re worried enough, anyhow. But the little sick voice, sometimes sweet, sometimes shrill with the pain sounding through, sometimes sobbing as they build up fancies in their poor little minds. . “‘Her brain,’’ the doctor said. ‘“‘If we could just get her to sleep! The lungs are clearing—it’s the brain."’ And day and night we had to listen to her, except the few times she was so worn out that she lay there quiet, only to begin again. Julie would lie with the tears on her face, and Ralph would walk up and down in the kitchen, up and down, up and down. But little Nan’s voice reached even there. What she did think of! Or, anyway, talk of! Seemed like everything that she’d seen and heard of and done in all her life went through her poor little mind. Her dollies—’specially Betsey; and her days at school; little things nobody’d ever noticed, and little games and fairy- tales she must have made up for herself; even my grandmother’s old hymn. But over and above everything else, there was the talk about Sick Man. Some- times she’d seem to think they were playing together; sometimes she’d be kind to him, sometimes tormenting, same as she was when she was well; sometimes she’d repeat things she must have heard the children say about him, and she’d sob out that it wasn’t true— he was her Sick Man, and he wasn’t bad, he was good. She loved him. He was good, he wouldn’t let anything hurt little Nan. Then she'd be playing again, and scolding him. It was a regular picture of what they were to each other, that she babbled there for Ralph to hear. He would listen, sometimes sunk down in the chair by Julie’s bed with his arms on his knees and his face in his hands while Julie smoothed his hair; but he had to listen, he had to hear it all. ND then—oh, dear me!—then came the night when her voice was so weak we couldn’t scarcely hear it; all we could get was “Sick Man, Sick Man, my Sick Man,”’ over and over, here and there. The doctor came at five o’clock, and he said he wouldn’t come again before morning; he had been coming every night, so when he said that we knew what he thought. So we—waited. After a while Ralph couldn’t stand it any longer. He got up and went into the kitchen. We could hear him walking—up and down, back and forth, up and down. I do not know what time it was when we heard his footsteps stop; and in a minute I heard (Continued on page 33)
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F922 It must come back to her. Some- where in her memory it jeered at her, tauntingly. At any rate, the place looked like a prison, and if she could not make them believe she was not the Princess it was likely to be hers for all time. No one, she was positive, could ever rescue her from that pile of forbidding looking stone, set up so high among the huge rocks. | As their horses walked slowly up the winding path between the great rocks, Sheila turned to the man at her bridle. *“Who is Canzarra?’’ she asked. She was favored with a pitying glance and a shake of the head and no more. Evidently the Princess Velderoff was supposed to know Canzarra well. If so, then Canzarra knew the Princess. There might be hope for her. *Several men in the most gorgeous livery Sheila had ever seen met them at the door and she was lifted from her | horse, and, scarcely able to walk, led into the castle with the greatest kind of deference. The little American girl from the small town of Wedgely, looked about her and gasped. Hailed asa Princess she was received with the most flattering ser- vility into a palace of the most fantas- tic Arabian nights! And riding the day before with her American boys for January, about her, trotting through the barren — country, she had asked with bubbling mirth what could happen to her next! She would never ask thatagain. Any- thing could happen to Sheila Vare. She was bewitched. The floor of the great entrance hall “was of black and white marble, strewn thickly with magnificent skins. Enor- mous bronze and _ vari-colored globes hung from the vaulted ceiling, and in the center of the halla fountain splashed, falling from the uplifted urn of a marble goddess into a pool of green and black marble. Tall palms stood in every corner and at the extreme back a wide branching staircase wound upward. -«e Two Russian wolfhounds came for- ward and thrust their cold noses into. her shrinking hands. And this magnificence, in the midst of a Russian desert! An oasis, indeed! But WHO was Canzarra? - Chapter 5 N OLD lady in black and white, a diminutive cap on her white head, requested Sheila to follow her, and glanc- ing behind her at the men grouped about the doorway, the girl obeyed with a faint shrug. She could see nothing to be gained by foolishly resisting when she must before long see this Canzarra person who would know instantly she was not the Princess. And she ached in every joint. © as the grand old staircase the tiny Zaccheus speaking—though it scarcely sounded like his voice. **Ralph,”’ he said, ‘‘let me see her, Ralph! For God's sake and His mercy, let me see her, Ralph—just once!’’ I saw Julie’s eyes open, and I know we both held our breath. It seemed to me Ralph wasn’t ever going to answer. Then they both stood there in the door. Raiph’s hand was on his father’s shoulder; his eyes were full of tears. Zaccheus looked—broken. He didn’t seem to see anything in the room but Nan, on her little bed, babbling, bab- bling, her head with its black curls moving ever so little, side to side. He went over and bent. down. **"Nan! Little Nant’’ he said. ‘“‘Nan! ’ urious! The Captive of Canzarra (Continued from page 4) lady led Sheila and along a corridor whose windows looked out upon exqui- site glassed-in gardens. More and more the wonder of it all impressed the girl. She knew well the dreadful condition of Russia, the starving, unclean, disease- ridden state of even the once glorious Petrograd; and here was a fairy-land of all that was most beautiful and rare and lux- Here in the midst of the desert! ' The wickedness-of it smote Sheila with a sort of fear, as she entered the exqui- sitely lovely suite of apartments her ancient guide indicated. Make an Old-Fashioned Hook Rug They are as fascinating to make as they are quaint and attractive in appear- ance—and now is a good time to start, during these shut-in days of winter. The necessary items for this handwork are: i. A burlap pattern. Old pieces of cotton or silk (if you haven’t enough of the right shade dye old light-colored silk). 2. 3. A large hook with wooden handle. 4. A wooden frame that can be easily made at home with strips of wood. Burlap pattern of old-fashioned flower rug, ilkustrated Size 45x28 Price 85c. Burlap pattern of hexagonal rug, Size 36x31 Price 75c. Detailed instructions are sent with burlap patterns for making Price of large steel hook ea with wooden handle, 40c. : Bedroom, dressing-room and bath with a sitting-room beyond, one entire end of which was a glassed-in bay of flowers and palms and singing birds, it was a suite worthy of the greatest princess uponearth! And she, the little American from Wedgely, entered fearful, glancing about as though she expected to face her captor, — the mysterious Canzarra, at any moment. But the.rooms were empty of all save the birds and a snow-white kitten, tangled up in a luxurious dressing gown which lay upon the foot of the bed. “How beautiful!’’ said Sheila invol- untarily. The old lady bowed again. ‘Your Highness is pleased?’’ she murmured. “It is the loveliest suite at Canzarra.”’ Sheila woke from her trance and turned about swiftly “‘T am not the Princess,’’ she said dis- tinctly. “I told the men last night who I was but they would not believe me. The Princess traveled just ahead of me. I am Sheila Vare, an American Red Cross Nurse.”’ The old lady continued to bow. Her face looked vacant. Sheila stamped her foot angrily. *‘Did you hear me?’’ she flashed. *“Oh, yes, Your Highness!’’ was the perfectly calm reply and the old lady retreated to the door. “I shall send a tray up to Your Highness immediately and your maid will attend you. The Prince will not reach Canzarra until this - afternoon quite late.”’ The Sycamore Tree (Continued from page 32) Baby! Here’s your Sick Man! Little Nan! Don’t you know your Sick Man?’’ Her voice stopped, and she looked up at his face—her eyes were so big! *“That’s right!. Nan—little Nan! You know your Sick Man, don’t you, Nan? Sick Man won’t let anything hurt you!’’ He took her hand in his. Ralph was standing on the other side of the bed. We saw her lips part. It was awful weak and faint, but it was the roguish smile she always had for her Sick Man— a faint, far-off shadow of it. I know I felt my heart stand still. And what do you think she said? She said, in her little sick, tired voice, quiet-like, as if she was oh, so happy and satisfied, “The Prince? Whai Prince?’’ asked Sheila eagerly. * Prince Viadimir of Canzarra, Your Highness,”’ smiled the little old lady and | noiselessly withdrew. Sheila flew at the closed door and tried it furiously. It was locked. The old lady looked a deal meeker than she was. So it was a Prince who had abducted a Princess! Like a fairy-tale! But it was coming back to her now, who this Canzarra person was and as the knowledge grew upon her Sheila began to tremble. For Canzarra was a nam to conjure with. ; Once a tremendous power in Russia, related to the royal family, one of the most picturesque titled dandies and one of the gayest and handsomest, rumor said, this young Prince Vladimir of Canzarra, possessed of millions, had flung almost all his wealth into the cause of the Bolsheviks and had become one of their most powerful lead- ers. It wassaid that at his door lay most of thedreadful deeds daily being perpe- trated, and that his power was bound- less, also that Can- zarra was all that he had left of his. tre- a wooden frame and for hooking _iendousestatesand >, tne material. castles. Yes, Sheila had heard all about this Prince. He had seemed like a dream to her and the young officers and nurses who had told her of him, a dream too fantastic to be real. And here was she, Sheila Vare, im- prisoned in the fabled castle of Canzarra, in the heart of the Siberian desert, in a fairy-land blooming like a rose in the bare sands and scraggly brush. And now as Sheila walked to the long pier glass, swung between two bronze figures which held candelabra in their uplifted hands, she noted the dainty lithe grace of her little figure in its soiled, crumpled white dress. The witchery of the small rumpled red-brown head, the dusky beauty of the wide eyes, the sweet arch of the little mouth, soft yet peculiarly strong in its pink lines and curves, all this Sheila saw, and wondered with a dreadful fear at her heart if the Prince would let her go when he saw that she was not the Princess Because, for the first time in her twenty-five years, Sheila Vare saw that she was lovely. Was the Princess, also, lovely? She could not recall her pictured face. But she must be, for Geoffrey Varricombe had admired her and she had won a Russian Prince. HEN the grave-faced man in the gorgeous livery brought her lunch- eon she sprang up from the pillow-filled couch by the windows where she had been resting, and watched him dully as he arranged her dainty repast. Long before she flung her weary little body upon the couch, Sheila had made sure there was (Continued on page 36) ‘*Gran’—pa!”’ And her eyelids closed, and she just went off to sleep. It was the first time in all her life she had ever called him that. Oh, how scared we were! We thought it was—that. But when we knew what it really was, Ralph went back to Julie and knelt down, and put his head on her pillow. When the dawn came in the windows, little Nan was still asleep, and breathing quietly; Zaccheus loosened his hand from hers, and went over to Julie’s bed. She smiled up at him. He laid his hand on Ralph’s head. as “Don’t you worry any more, son,’’ he said. Then he went back to little Nan, so’s she could see him there when she woke up. | look youthfull * Page 33 “Danderine’’ Grows Thick, Heavy Hair 35-cent Bottle Ends all Dandruff, Stops Hair Coming Out Ten minutes after using Danderine you can not find a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not itch, but what will please you most will be after a few weeks’ use, when you ‘see new hair, fine and downy. at first—yes— but really new hair— growing all over the scalp. 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Woman’s World Making the Flower Garden T IS not every piece of ground that is composed of the very best soil for growing flowers, and many a person becomes almost discouraged at the meagre results produced after a great deal of labor and care in sowing, water- ing, hoeing, shading, etc. In nine cases out of ten these results are attributable to the unsuitableness of the soil. Strong, clayey loam, or thin, loose gravel are equally unfit. Where there is such soil the cheapest way is to remove a foot or more of the top soil at once, and replace with fresh loam. If the soil isa good fair loam or sand, and only needs to be dug deeply and enriched, it is a matter easily done by having a heap of ‘soil in some by-corner, over which each day empty the soap-suds, chamber lye, etc., from the house. Dig over the heap occasionally, or say once a week, leaving it so that as the liquids are poured over it none will waste away. 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They should be set in well-worked soil and covered with mulch. They want a rich clay soil and plenty of sunshine. Roses are gross feeders and will assimilate anything rich, whether liquid or solid. One of the secrets of success in growing roses is to make the beds deep enough; that is, to loosen the soil to a depth suffi- cient to allow the roots to penetrate far enough to obtain the required food and moisture. Too much soil can hardly be provided for roses, for the plant demands rich food, and its strength and its blos- soming are dependent upon the richness of thesoil. Natural soil that is inclined to be very heavy and has considerable clay in it is the best, but it should be well broken up and made fine and loose. An- other secret in growing roses is constant cutting back to induce new growth on which the blossoms are produced, and incessant sprinkling of the foliage. HODODENDRONS and azaleas of both native and foreign sorts like a partially shaded place, moist soil of a light nature, and a mulching of leaves above their roots. They do best in a sandy light loam and should have shade in the afternoon. To insure chrysanthemum blossoms of great beauty, start plants early, give very strong, rich soil, shift as needful to insure plenty of root room, give plenty of water, and add iiquid manure once a week. A chrysanthemum must have all the water it wants in order to do well. Du the summer it should be thorough watered every day. The fuchia loves shade and moisture and must have both to do well. It in- sists on plenty of water atitsroots. Ifat any time it is allowed to get dry it is liable to drop both leaves and buds sud- denly. Large fuchias will blossom more freely and make better shaped plants if they are put down cellar in the fall and allowed to dry almost entirely off. In March or April bring them up, cut back well, and see them grow. Shrubs growing in a poor soil seldom. produce high-colored flowers. ings and scales collected about a black- smith’s anvil have a tendency to inten- sify the color of many plants if dug into the soil aLout their roots. Poppies require almost no work. Pull ont the weeds and let the poppies get plenty of sunshine and they will bloom in dazzling beauty. —M. K. Boyer. | Iron fil-.«‘
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Ene |} . > Incubator cellar where fifty 400-egg machines are operated Success With Incubators awake citizen of the state of Ohio, “TI have done pretty well with incubators and brooders, but so have thousands of other folks. Shucks! There’s nothing mysterious about arti- ficial methods nowadays—all my leading neighbors are using machines, too, and they wouldn’t know how to get along without them any more.”’ “All right, Henry,’’ I replied. “I'll grant you that there’s no longer room for reasonable doubt in anyone’s mind re- garding the successful use of incubators and brooders. They’re in the same class as time and labor savers with the gaso- line engine, telephone and automobile. Everybody who raises more than one- hundred chicks a yéar could benefit by the use of machines. But there are many different makes—some are surely better than others—and there are many differ- ent methods of operation commonly recommended. Which is best? What are your own methods? Won’t you tell me for the benefit of our many readers some of the ‘brass tacks’ ideas and plans you have so successfully worked out in your own practice?’’ “Sure thing,’”’ said Henry as he mo- tioned me to a seat on his front porch where we could look across the road to dozens of little coops or “Colony houses,”’ all filled with growing, hustling chicks of various ages. Neaee said Henry Thomson, a wide- ” PULLED my chair up close to Henry and put a long point on my pencil, for I knew that much valuable information was coming and I didn’t want to miss a bit of it. ‘*The first thing is to make sure you are getting a good, reliable make of machine. Most of the machines on the market are standard, but there are some that are produced cheaply to sell at a low price and it is seldom economy to buy these. While it does not necessarily follow that the more money you pay for an incu- bator the better results you will get from it, yet the probabilities are in favor of the better-grade machine. This point is much more important than whether to get the hot-air or hot-water type. The latter point is mainly a matter of pref- erence. “The very best advice I could possibly give to a person who knew nothing about it himself, would be to select the make of incubator in most successful use by other folks in his own neighborhood or on his state experiment station farm. You can be quite sure of the worth of machines used in the various state and government Stations.” “Do you have any pet theories in re- gard to operating your incubators?’’ I asked. “*No, except that experience always develops certain ideas for every operator. But it is best (especially for the beginner) to follow very carefully. the manufac- turer’s directions—the man who built your machine knows better than anyone else how to operate it. The book of in- structions that accompanies every in- cubator deserves the most careful study; then if anything does not seem to be quite right you can take it up with your manufacturer, rather than with outside parties. “Of course, there are certain standard practices which are universal with all makes of machines and which can scarcely be emphasized too much. Among these I might mention that every incubator should set absolutely level to insure an even distribution of heat, and it should be located in a room where the tempera- ture does not vary between day and night. A special incubator room or cellar is not necessary (except on large poultry farms), but any ordinary room in the house will do if it is quiet and well ventilated. It is important to trim the wick and fill the lamp regularly—and to turn the eggs morning and evening from the third to the eighteenth days of incu- bation. There is nothing difficult or irk- some about this, and my wife and I never let our machines interfere with our sleep at night or prevent us from going visiting on Sundays. , *“One of the most important things in insuring a good hatch is to fill the ma- chine with nothing but good eggs. When one is picking out a handful of eggs to put under a hen it is easy to make sure every one is of high standard, but when the number is increased to. several hundred it is a temptation to slight some of them. Yet, every egg should be from proper parentage, of good size and color, end perfectly fresh. Eggs as old as two or three weeks will hatch fairly well, but the fresher the better as a rule.” “What do you consider an average good hatch?’’ I asked. ’ “Same percentage as under hens,”’’ was the quick response. ‘“There’s really no. difference between the two methods of hatching, except that machines’ will turn out hundreds of chicks as easily as hens will hatch dozens. The old hen is simply too slow for the present age—she is more profitable when kept entirely at her main job of producing the eggs.’’. AVE you ever made one of those famous hatches where every egg turned into a chicken?’’ I asked. *“Most of ’em are bunk,”’ said Henry. “Frequently I have hatched every fertile egg in an incubator, and there is nothing particularly startling about this. But when you can take a couple of hundred eggs—just as they run—and get a chick from every egg, that is going some. “Of course I know you will point out that hens frequently hatch fifteen chicks from fifteen eggs—but when you increase the size of the hatch to one hundred or two hundred (as in the case of the in- cubator) it becomes increasingly difficult to make a perfect score. “It is the average that really counts, anyway, rather than ‘the unusual per- formance. hens is about ten chicks from fifteen eggs, and by the same token the average incubator hatch is about one hundred chicks from one hundred fifty eggs. Such an average, hatch after hatch, ought to satisfy anybody, for there is money in it on that basis. — Gata c= BE eet —Brrant SAnpo. 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She arose and did full justice to the delicious meal placed on the little table in the window. She ate but she did not drink. Some- where she had heard that ladies carried off in this manner never drank anything in their prisons. With a little move, she set aside the water, coffee and wine, though she was parched for a drink. When the tray was removed a delight- ful little maid in black and white with two heavy golden braids hanging down her back, came demurely in and sug- gested to “‘Her Highness’’ that she take a bath. Sheila was only too glad and even fol- lowed her new attendant into the bath- room which was green and black marble and where the water fell through the mouths of dragons in the wall into a sunken tub. Sheila had never seen any- thing like the bathroom. It was a joy and she lay sleepily in the perfumed water, relaxing all her aching, weary, . worn little body. How grateful that bath was after months of doing without even the most ordinary comforts. When it was over, the maid meee A Sheila’s hair and showed her a dainty white-lace gow which Sheila firmly re- fused. With many a regretful sigh the petite servitor put her into an exquisite dressing gown and took the offered dress away. Sheila’s soiled uniform she sent to some mysterious region to be washed and ironed. Sheila insisting that she would wear nothing else. IG-EYED, the little American sat be- fore the dressing table and looked at herself in its three mirrors, holding the satin robe de chambre at her breast while the maid deftly brushed her masses of tangled hair. How lovely she was, dressed like that! Sheila’s lips parted with a moment’s happy breath, her eyes shone. She had discovered that she was a beauty! “What is your name?’’ she asked the maid presently. “Tamara, Your Highness.” “You live here all the time?’’ “Yes, Highness, my mother and father worked for the Prince before they died. Canzarra is very big, but. not so big as those other places the Prince has lost i in the war.’ “Listen, Tamara,’’ Sheila twisted about in the tufted chair and caught the small hands that held the long-handled ivory brush. ‘“‘I am not the Princess Velderoff. I am just an American girl.”’ And very simply, watching the wide childlike eyes that grew wider and gradu- ally credulous, Sheila told her story, told all of it, the flight from Amikosk, the strange wedding in the brush, the arrival at Kaminski, the start for Vladivostok and her capture when so near it. “But, Your Highness!’” stammered little Tamara, “‘you are not a Princess at all, then?’’ “Not a bit of it, Tamara!’’ smiled Sheila. “‘Now can you tell me what your Prince expects to do with me?”’ - Tamara lifted her eyes to the painted ceiling. “His Highness, the Prince, does as he wishes with all things,” she breathed. “He is great and powerful and lord over us all. I cannot think what he intends to do with you, madam.”’ “Well, he is notlord over me,” said Sheila drily. “I am not the woman he thinks I am; I am married to another man, and Iam an American. So I don’t see what your Prince will dare to do with me unless he just bundles me on a horse and sends me back.’’ AMARA smiled wisely. She lifted a rope of the ed-brown hair and laid it about the small head. “He will never do that after he sees you,’’ she whispered. ‘‘Our Prince loves beauty in all things.” “Cannot you get me out, Tamara?’’ asked Sheila with sudden helpless panic. “Cannot you arrange to—’”’ She paused. The sounds of a waver- ing horn cut the absolute stillness outside and Tamara ran to the window. _ “Come, see, my lady—His Highness is here!’’ she cried and Sheila ran, too, and stared over the shoulder of the little maid, down, down, into the rocky road The Captive of Canzarra (Continued from page 33) that climbed slowly to the castle, ever winding. Trotting up it now came a gay caval- cade. Sheila, looking, caught her breath and fancied she had stepped back hun- dreds of years or else had been trans- planted to the pages of a story-book. The young Prince rode at the head of eight men, a gay and gorgeous figure, upright and slimly audacious even at a distance, upon a snow-white horse. His uniform was red and gold and white and an im- mense black plume lay across the top of his crimson hat, The men who followed Winter Dawn By Grace,C. Howss Sweep of valley white and still, Pine-tree spires against the hill, Mountain minarets that rise Snow-pearled, towering toward the skies, Where from silvered mosque of air Morning calls the world to prayer. Sunrise fires on peaks of snow, Village window-panes a-glow, Throb of trains that pass the hill, The factory whistle high and shrill— Hearken, morning’s drum and fife Call the world to work and life! were dressed the same, but none of them had the daring, imperious, rakish air of the Prince. Sheila could not see his face, but she would have picked him out instantly. Her heart sank as she drew back from the window and her hand went to the jeweled dagger of the little princecling which she had thrust into her breast under the satin negligee. “Tamara, if you were but half a woman and not all little heathen, you would help me get free of Canzarra!’’ she sighed sadly. ~“ Mayhap you will not wish to get free after you have seen the Prince, High- ness,’’ said —Tamara, wisely, and Sheila stared at her in horror, realizing also that Tamara had not believed her story. Did she look so much a Princess? How Wedgely town would have creaked its rockers on its front porches and laughed! Sheila Vare, in the palace of a Prince! Chapter 6 HEILA had on her Red Cross uniform and was sitting quietly by the window when, just before the dinner hour Ta- mara had indicated, the grave butler an- nounced that His Highness, the Prince, requested that Her Highness, the Prin- cess, receive him. Sheila looked coldly at the man but made no reply, and after a moment he bowed and withdrew. And presently the door opened and closed quietly and her captor stood before her, still in his gor- geous uniform, a slimly perfect figure, bowing low in a fashion that might have graced the most exclusive court. Sheila looked at him fixedly, gasped and sprang to her feet. _ Handsomely and immaculately dressed as he was, smooth-shaven now, also, the young Prince standing before her was without a doubt the Vladimir of the brush,. the leader of the band of drunken Bolsheviks who had so gaily had her married to Geoffrey Varricombe! “You! It is you!’’ she cried. ‘You know me! You must remember mel! You had me married to the young Ameri- can who was taking me through to Ka- minski that night! I am Sheila Vare, the the Red Cross nurse! You know now that I am no Princess!’’ He did know. The wildest amaze- 'ment showed plainly upon his handsome, rather dissipated, face. He stared, took a step forward, stared again, and sank down upon the nearest chair in helpless laughter. *“‘Heavens and earth, we have the wrong dove in the trap!’’ he said grimly after a moment, while Sheila stood trem- bling with anger before him. “I shall flog Woman’s World some one for this. Tomorrow I shall be furiously angry. Of course, I know you. Mrs. Varricombe, isn’t it? I ought to know you since I manaed your wedding! But a wedding is a small matter these days. In Russia we simply take what we wish. “It is delightful and saves all sorts of bother. If I could have seen you that night in the brush, believe me, the Ameri- can’ would not have been the groom! I would have married you myself and hung him to the nearest tree! Have you any idea why I wished to abduct the Princess Velderoff?’’ “IT have no ideas upon such subjects, naturally,’’ said Sheila hotly, though she was cold within her at his words and the way he looked at her. “The Princess has millions behind her. I wished her to sign a few checks for me and mayhap her husband, whom they say is devoted, would have signed a few more to get his pretty wife back in safety. I did: not wish this money for myself but for my cause. I have given and lost very nearly all my own fortune. **I knew the Princess was passing along the Varn road to Vladivostok at exactly that time and made my arrangements accordingly. That you, in uniform with an escort, chanced to be passing also, is really a marvelous coincidence.” “1 was going to the Princess,” Sheila quietly. “Ah! And I fancy there is no one to offer a huge ransom, the fortuné of a king, for you, my fair American?”’ *“No one at all,’’ said Sheila sadly. “You may let me go at once, please. I can do you no good in any way. Iama person of no account whatever.” “Such elfin loveliness as yours can never belong to a person of no account,” said the Prince with a distant little bow, and yet Sheila felt furiously as though he had kissed her. *“You will, of course, let me go?’’ she asked coldly. “What! And have all my trouble for nothing?’’ Again the little panicky feeling crept over Sheila, but she met his eyes quietly. “What earthly good can I do you?”’ she asked. “‘ And, besides, I spoke untruly when I said no one would care about me. There is my country. I aman American, Prince. I cannot be treated as one of the Tartars.”’ said “Poe Prince flushed slightly, yet the little fine smile remained upon his lips. “At Canzarra we recognize no country and no law but our own,”’ he bowed. ‘“‘It pleases me to keep yet another rose blooming in my desert.”’ “You mean you intend to imprison me here? *’ Sheila’s very soul reeled in horror. “Perhaps, until you love me, who can tell?’’ “IT must prepare to end. my days at Canzarra then,”’ said Sheila. The young Prince laughed. It was a boyish laugh. ‘‘Ah, we shall get on! What a relief to hear something besides eternal adoration from a pair of lovely lips! I know love in every language but yours, and IJ feel my education has been incomplete.’’ ** What of the Princess?’’ asked Sheila, striving to hold fast to her self-control. *““Her case we shall consider later,’ said Canzarra. “‘At present I am not inclined to flog the men who brought you here, little desert rose, but rather to shower honors upon them! The Princess Velderoff, ridiculously in love with her husband, might have meant much money to us, but would have been deadly dull. While you, my Sheila—’’ **T also am in love with my husband,”’ said Sheila bravely, ‘‘and he will be searching for me very soon. There is no place upon the earth where America may be safely insulted like this, Prince! I may die here at Canzarra, but surely you will pay for it!”’ *Diel’’ the Prince shook his head re- proachfully. “‘Not for a century yet, pretty one. You’ve only just begun to bloom. I am diningina half hour. Will you join me?”’ Sheila disdained to reply. The Prince swept her a slightly mocking bow. “As you wish. I see you intend to make it very worth my while to win you. Any resistance, let me tell you, merely spurs me on. I’ve met with many ob- stacles in my day but not a one have I
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1922 not overcome. If the notion takes me I may even make you my Princess, little American! But a word of advice. It is best to permit all here to think you are the Princess Velderoff. You will be safer and more respected.”’ With another little bow, infinitely graceful and captivating, the Prince, looking like a star in a musical comedy, left Sheila alone. Chaos descended upon her. The worst was realized. Could this monstrous thing happen to her? Had she really ever been Sheila Vare of Wedgely town, in the state of New York? At home were they still going to card parties, clubs, sewing circles, church? Was there any- thing in this chaotic, barbarous world so prosaic and comfortable and deliciously safe, as that blessed little home town? In a book there was always a way out for the unhappy heroine. But for her, what? Going into her bedroom she stepped out of one of its long windows onto the small balcony that jutted out high above the rocks. There she seemed very near the stars, just beginning to appear, and she lifted her face to the evening skies in a sudden choking desire for air. F&What safety and comfort she had felt when she was in Geoffrey Varricombe’s care! Would she ever know that feeling again? What was he thinking? Had the Princess received his letter? What had the Americans done when they found her gone from her tent? Surely, surely there would be some attempt by some one to rescue her! But then she recalled the brute strength of the Bolsheviks, recalled this daring, princely outlaw who was one of their most powerful leaders, looked down with a shudder at the great rocks that clus. tered about the foot of Canzarra, and felt sick and faint. Was it not only in books and plays that people were rescued from such places? for January, slight sound beneath her caused hex to glance down with astart. A young man was standing in the rocky path look- ing up at her. He was one of those who had come riding gaily up the incline that afternoon with the Prince. He wore the brilliant dashing uniform of Canzarra and smoked a cigaret. As Sheila stared shrinkingly down at him he swept off his hat, glancing about him in a peculiar manner she could not help but note. “Miss Vare!’’ his voice just reached her where she stood far above him on her little half-moon of balcony, “do you re- member me?”’ Sheila started with a wild thrill of hope, but as she bent low, scanning the up- turned face, she shook her head slowly. “There was a Russian boy left for dying at Amikosk,”’ he said slowly. ‘“You nursed him a day. The doctors and nurses fled when the Bolsheviks took the village. You and this poor devil were left. You did not desert him, but the Russian was not so badly off as you thought. He was a spy. He carries a useless arm still, but he lived that he might stand before you today.” Sheila gasped. She knew him now, though he was so changed. She could not speak for amazement. “J am sorry you are a guest at Can- zarra,”’ he went on slowly and distinctly. “I am Prince Vladimir’s brother, Dimi- “ Oh," cried Sheila a little wildly, “for what I would have done for you, cannot you help me?”’ The boy bent his head gravely. A slight noise behind Sheila warned her. The butler had brought her dinner. With a quick sign to the boy below in the path, she entered her room and sat down to the delicious meal with a lighter heart. She had a friend here, within the gates of this dreadful place. What the boy could possibly do for her, and how it could be done, troubled her not at all. She had a friend now, one who would help her. The kitten crept into her lap and she lifted it to her: cheek caressingly. Chapter 7 OR days after he reached his little company Geoffrey Varricombe mused with a kind of contempt upon the ad- venture that had befallen him from out the drab skies of his heaven-forsaken wilderness. He was married. That was established. No one knew better than he how difficult the untangling of any Russian law or red tape might be. It worried him a bit for Sheila’s sake, he himself did not matter particularly. He had no great desire to marry at all and he had never met the One Woman up to the present date. So the little Sheila might remain his wife for all he cared—until he did! He would feela great deal better, how- ever, when the girl was safe with the Velderoffs, as safe as amyone could be in Vladivostok just then. He felt that she would get safely out of the country and that she would follow his wishes. Odd that he had never noticed that Sheila was so pretty at home! All that she needed to lift her into the class of the beautiful was a few good clothes. He waited with a strange sort of 1m- patience for a word from Peggy Velder- off. It did not come and its advent was so postponed that when at last the small white-crested note was put into his hands he felt himself trembling with eagerness. What under heavens had happened to him! Sheila would be safe, of course, but he did feel so darned responsible! A moment later his lips set grimly as he read the few lines from the Princess. “Dear Geoffrey: “T am greatly upset at the non- appearance of your wife. The boys who were sent out from Kaminski to bring her to me have just left me. They are the most excited lot of youngsters you ever saw, and with cause! Mrs. Varricombe was taken out of her tent right under their noses three nights ago. “They were a long time getting in to Vladivostok to me since there was a slight uprising here and I was sent temporarily up into the hills. They could not find me. This explains this delay. I believe the entire affair has been properly reported by this time and of course will be investi- gated. What will you do, Geoffrey? What can Ivan and I do to help? We are greatly upset. Please com- mand us. Your friend, “Peggy Velderoff.”’ The note from Her Highness had been four days getting to him. Sheila had been gone a week! this limitless lawless space! That some one had stolen her Varri- combe did not for a moment doubt; that she had been stolen in mistake for the Princess, the girl to whom she was fleeing for protection, never occurred to him. Lost in For a few minutes he scarcely knew what to do, and he realized only too fully in those few moments that the impossible, ridiculous thing had happened to him. He had come to Siberia to fall in love with the girl who had lived all her simple quiet life next door to him at home! Hows and whys seldom troubled Geof- frey. The big thing was that she was his wife and that he loved her. The other thing, of course, was that she was a woman and alone in a place where the most horri- ble things in the world were occurring every moment. A week had been wasted. Varricombe groaned and sought his superior officer. OUNG Teddy Ransom, his feet upon a table, his pipein his surly young lips, sat in the mess-room of the barracks at Kaminski and cursed his fate. He had led the little expedition which had started forth merrily to deliver Sheila Vare to the Princess Velderoff. He considered that he was about dis- graced and that his career was at an end, or ought to be. That little American girl! A regular peach she was, too! Great Heavens, what was happening to her? All their investigations seemed to come to naught and every string that was possible to be pulled in those troublous times was being worked to locate Sheila. He recalled her as she had come to him that last night and asked wistfully if he thought the Princess would receive her. He could see the camp fire yet making ‘a nimbus of the red-brown hair that erowned the little head, held so bravely high. Young Ransom got up and walked about nervously. This was no place for girls. They ought all to be kept at home. ND as he reached this very sensible conclusion, the door opened with a bang, closed with a slam, and Geoffrey Varricombe, dusty, white-faced, with dark circles under his eyes, burst in upon him. *‘Got anything to tell me, Ransom?’’ he snapped before the humiliated boy could speak. “‘I know all about that— forget it. None of us blame you. Just pitch in and help if you can. “Good Lord, Teddy, she’s my wife— MY WIFE! I’ve got leave to hunt for her until I find her. Permission to take an escort. Four of my own boys are with me out there. Percy says I can have a “ew more from here. If we get an idea where to look I shan’t need any! I feel like murdering this whole damn country! Can you give me any kind of a hint, Ted?’’ The young officer grasped Varri- combe’s hand and wrung it. ‘*You’re a white man, Lieutenant!’’ he choked. ‘‘ Only let me go with you! They promised me that! The thing is too big for words. Only let me show you, sir, how sorry lam! I haven’ta hint to give you. Can’t imagine what on earth hap- pened to her.”’ “Tell me about it,’”’ said Geoffrey, quietly. Looking at him, young Ransom mar- veled at his stern composure when he knew what the man must be enduring. Both of them realized only too well what might then be happening to Sheila. Geoffrey recalled the jeweled dagger of the little princeling which lay in Sheila’s breast. And almost he could hope she had used it. (To Be ContTINuED) Synopsis of Preceding Installment of Captive of Canzarra VEN before the United States entered the World War, Geoffrey Varricombe —wealthy, socially prominent and a bit bored—jumped into the conflict because of the prospect of adventure which it offered. At the close of the war, Varricombe, First Lieutenant and possessor of a D. S. C., attached himself to the Russian A. E. F. and then on one never-to-be-forgotten night, while engaged in repelling a Bol- shevik attack on a near-by town, discov- ered romance as well as adventure. For there in a rudely constructed little hospital, bending over the cot of a wound- ed Bolshevik, Varricombe found Sheila Vare, Red Cross Nurse and childhood playmate of former days. F” Somehow he got her out safely from the thick of the fighting and started with her toward another town. Midway in their journey they were captured by drunken Bolsheviks and Sheila was given the al- ternative of marrying Varricombe or Vladimir, the leader of their band. A Russian priest was produced and the marriage to Varricombe immediately fol- lowed. When Sheila finally recovered from the fatigue of her journey, safe in the hospital at Kaminsky, she learned that Varricombe had returned. to his company and had arranged for her to be taken to his friend the Princess Vel- deroff. The Princess Velderoff, Sheila recalled, was an American girl who had married a Russian nobleman and who, according to subsequent reports, had achieved the happiness so seldom attained through such marriages. 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head out from the kitchen door and Page 38 . Woman’s World The Cruise of the Rickety-Robin A Story of Travel and Adventure for Good Little Boys and Giris TOLD AND TULUSTRALTE D BY. TOMIS IN. mete Uae oy ie ie . ELL, there’s one thing sure,’’ said the little Pi- rate as he passed out a glass of ice cream soda to each of the children and settled back comfortably in his chair to enjoy the soda he kept for himself, ‘“‘and that is—we must find out just where we are!”’ Hannah, the parrot, poked her cried in a shrill voice, ‘“‘I’ll tell you where we are, we are right above some queer-shaped houses and the people down there are all running» after us as hard as they can run!’’ ‘‘Have you any idea who they are?’’ the Pirate asked as he left the cabin and went upon deck. ‘* Well, did you ever?’’ he added as he looked over the rail. ‘‘What do you suppose they are?”’ Ann asked. The Rickety-Robin sailed above the heads of the people and swooping up over an inclosure finally came to rest upon the ground. _ All around the Rickety-Robin were grand stands, similar to those we see at base-ball parks, and from posts hung flags and pennants. “We're in Spain!’’ Andy ex- claimed. ‘‘See the Spanish flags!’’ This was, indeed, true as our little party soon found out when the people who had followed the flying boat began swarming into the grand- stand seats and out into the arena. “You can’t stay here!’’ one man said to the little Pirate. ‘“‘We are going to have a Bull Fight!”’ ‘*But we have never seen a Bull Fight!’ the little Pirate replied. ““We would like to stay and watch it!”’ **' Then you will have to get up into the grand stand!”’ the man reasoned. “If you stay here, the bull may crash into your little boat and break it all to pieces! You’d better hurry. See, the bull is coming out now!”’ He pointed over towards a gate and our friends saw alittle bull being driven out into the arena. As the men behind it poked it with long sticks, the bull shook his head and lowed at them. **He seems quite angry!’’ Hannah, the parrot, said. **Well, who wouldn’t be?’’ the little Pirate answered: ‘‘You would not like to be poked with sticks, either!’’ bel- HEN the bull reached a certain point, five or six men dressed in gay clothing ran towards it and hit it with little darts covered with long ribbons. The little darts remained sticking in the little bull’s shoulders and bobbed this way and that as he charged at the men. The men kept teasing the little bull _until he chased them all about the arena while the people in the grand stands yelled at the top of their voices. “I do not think it is right to make him so angry!’’ Ann said. **Neither do I!’’ the kind-hearted little Pirate agreed. ‘‘I wish the bull would come over near the Rickety-Robin.”’ hen the little bull, catching one of. the = The little Pirate had hardly said this men unaware, sent him sailing through the air, then with a loud bellow he came charging right at the little flying boat. The little Pirate stood watching the angry bull come towards his little boat quite undisturbed, but the children drew back. The Rickety-Robin seemed so small, they thought the angry bull might easily jump over the rail onto the deck; but when the bull got near the side of the Rickety-Robin, the little Pirate held up his hand like a Traffic Policeman and the bull braced his front feet and in a cloud of dust slid to the side of the boat. “Come up close and I'll pick those himself. things off your shoulders!’’ said the little Pirate. The bull came right up to the side of the Rickety-Robin and the little Pirate picked the darts from the bull and threw them upon the ground. **Thanks!’’ the little bull said. ‘“‘They didn’t hurt much, but they make me very nervous and angry, then when I get so angry I can scarcely see, other men come in on horses and tease me more and make me still angrier, and finally one man will stick me with a sword! It isn’t a bit of fun!’’ “TI should say not!’’ the little Pirate agreed. “‘What are they all yelling about now?”’ **It’s because you picked the darts out of my shoulders!”’ the little bull replied. *“‘Here come some policemen to arrest you!’’ HREE Spanish policemen came up to the side of the Rickety-Robin and one, catching the little Pirate’s arm, pulled him right over the rail, so that he fell upon the ground. : “Here! You stop that!’’ Ann cried. ““‘We are Americans and you can’t do that to Americans!”’’ At this, one of the policemen caught Ann by the arm intending to pull her over the rail. All the people who had been sitting in the grand stands now jumped over the fence and came swarm- ing around the little boat to get a view of what was going on. When the policeman caught hold of Ann’s arm, Hannah, the parrot, with a shrill screech, flew at his face and gave his nose a bite and the little bull who had stood as if bewildered, now He was a funny sight and everyone had a.good laugh lowered his head: and charged at the nearest policeman. At this the crowd scattered in all directions, while the angry little bull ran this way and that, butting those he caught before they had had a chance to scramble over the fence. The policeman who had held the little Pirate had long ago scaled the fence and from this safe retreat blew upon a whistle to call other policemen. Ann and Andy, the little Pirate and Hannah, jumped up and down in their excitement and cheered the little bull. Then when he had cleared the arena, the little bull, all out of breath, came back to the Rickety-Robin. “T tried not to hurt them!’’ he panted. “But maybe I did bump some of them harder than I should have!”’ GREAT cry went up from the grand stand near the gate and Hannah, flying there and back, said, ‘‘It looks like a small army of soldiers and police com- - ing to get us!”’ Sure enough, the gates flew open and marching towards them came fifty or sixty soldiers. “Oh, dear! wondered. “Can you jump over the rail here?’’ the little Pirate asked the bull. “I believe I can!’’ the bull answered; What shall we do?’’ Ann -and, running a short distance, he sprang into the air and easily jumped into the little boat. All the people seeing the ‘bull jump into the little boat thought that he was charging and a great cry went up. ““Whoopee!”’ they cried. see some fun! Whee!”’ “Now we'll The Pirate brought out clothes and the little bull was shown how to dress ‘ But after sliding across the deck and hitting the opposite rail, the little bull came to a stop and sat down quietly to see what would hap- pen next. The little Pirate lost no time after the little bull was aboard and just as the soldiers and police marched up to them, he sent the Rickety-Robin into the air just high enough that they could not reach it. ““Hey!’’ cried the soldiers and police, “you come down here with our bull or we'll arrest youl He's the only bull we’ve got left.”’ The little Pirate leaned his elbows upon the rail and replied, “‘ Well, go get a ladder and come up and arrest us!”’ “Yes, we must have a ladder!”’ cried the soldiers. So one ran out the gates and finally came back with a ladder. This they leaned against the Rickety-Robin and start- ed climbing. When three of the policemen were almost up to the top of the ladder, the little Pirate moved his little boat about six feet and the ladder with the policemen. went tumbling down to the ground. HEN, waving his hand to the rest of the people, the little Pirate sent the Rickety-Robin sailing high into the air and away from the place. An angry howl went up from all the people, but the Rickety-Robin, sailing smoothly along, soon was out of hearing. *‘I never thought of riding on a boat before!’’ the little bull said. ‘But it’s great fun, isn’t it?’’ “You bet it is!’’ Andy replied. ‘“We’ve had lots of fun and we've been almost everywhere! Yesterday we were in Holland and it was very cold!”’ “We never get to travel much unless. we are made into corned beef!’’ laughed the little bull. ** Well, we will take you with us!’’ the little Pirate said. ‘‘ But first you must take a good bath and put on some clothes!”’ ‘*“There’s a nice looking stream down there!’’ Andy pointed to a silvery thread of water far below them. ‘*‘Let’s go down and give the bull a bath!”’ When the Rickety-Robin touched the earth, it was upon the bank of a pretty little stream and with scrubbing brush and soap, Andy and the Pirate soon had all the dust off the little bull. Then again on board the little boat, the Pirate brought out clothes and the little bull was shown how to dress himself. He was a funny sight and every one had a good laugh at his strange appearance. OW that we are all settled comfort- ably and sailing through the air, I be- lieve it is time we had something to eat.”’ **T thought of that!’’ Hannah, the par- rot, answered as she gave the dinner bell a tinkle. ‘‘Everybody come to dinner!”’ ' “What shall we call you?’’ the little Pirate asked as he fixed a chair at the table for the bull. **I don’t know!”’ the creature replied with his mouth full of invisible shredded- wheat biscuits. “We will let Ann name you then,” said the little Pirate. “IT can’t think of anything nice for a name!’’ Ann laughed. **Let’s call him Bill, then!’’ suggested Andy. “That’s an easy name to re- member. “That suits me all right!’’ the little bull laughed. ‘‘ Call me Bill!”’ **Have some nice cream puffs, Bill?’’ Hannah asked as she brought a large plate to the table. “No, thank you!’’ Bill replied. ‘‘ This bucket of corn flakes tastes very good to me!”’
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