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' ,WO MAN'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 1, 3931. FEATURES. | BEDTIME STORIES I < _ -I Wfa— - Old Mr. Toad Again. < It U not wise nor is it (air i New friends with old ones to compare. —Old Mother Nature. \ Having made the acquaintance of tfomy the Horned Lizard who. much to iinls disgust, is better known as Horned Woad, Flip the Terrier visited him often. TOs Js&d seen him go to bed in the late *»fternoon by burying himself in the warm sand and early the next morning he ran over to see if Homy was up yet. Much to his disappointment he couldn’t ffhd his odd little friend That was be- cause after Flip had left the afternoon before, Horny had buried himself com- pletely and had not yet come out. Later in the day. despite the heat, Flip ventured over to that handy place again and there was Homy, basking in the sun. "Where were you early this morning?” inquired Flip in his most po- lite manner. "Did you say early in the morning?” Inquired Horny. "Yes.” replied Flip. "I was over here while it was still cool and comfortable. Whew, but it is hot now I don’t see how vou stand it.” "Stand it!”exclaimed Horny. "Why, It is just right now. It can't be too hot to suit me. If you were here while it was still cool this morning you didn’t see me for the very good reason that I was still in bed. You don’t get me out until; it is nice and warm. The hotter it is ; and the dryer it is the better suited I j am. While it is cool I stay in the ! ground.” ¦'That is where you differ from my | friend Old Mr. Toad. He can't stand the hot sun. When the sun is out he digs in and comes out again when it becomes cool.” said Flip. "Well, as I have told you before, I'm ro Toad.” snapped Horny. “Sorry.” said Flip. ”1 forgot. You see, there is something about you that reminds me of Old Mr. Toad, although you are really very different. I guess it j must be your shape.” Horny did not reply. He began to J move forward slowly and carefully and Flip saw that his bright eyes were fas- j tened on something. Tirn Flip saw an ! insect just a few 1 inches ahead of Horny. I Slowly Homy crept forward. Then his I head was stealthily bent forward and I suddenly out shot his tongue and the j insect disappeared. There was a gleam of satisfaction in his bright little eves as he looked up at Flip. "That was good. Did you sec J me catch him? I wish another would j come along,” said he. "Yes, I saw you.” replied Flip. "That ! is just the way Old Mr. Toad catches i Insects.” "There you go again!” exclaimed Homy. "Haven't I told you that I'm i no Toad? I'm a Lizard and proud of it. j Why are you always comparing me to j a Toad? I'll thank you not to mention ! Toad again.” "I won’t,” promised Flip remorsefully. "Os course. I know you are not a Toad. \ But you do remind me of my old I friend and it slips out before I think, j I've watched some of your long-tailed cousins catch insects and they go at them with a rush. I’ve never seen one j of them catch one with his tongue the way Old—l mean the way you do. j That's a handy tongue, isn't it?” “I'll say It is.” replied Horny. "My ; cousins may rush after their food, but \ I don’t have to and I never could see j any use in doing things I don't have to. j But don't think I can't move quickly' when I want to. Can Old Mr. Toad move like this?” Horny suddenly darted away with a epeed that some of his long, slim cous- j ins might have been proud of. Then, i spying another insect, he again made a slow, careful approach and again that I tongue flashed out and the insect dis- appeared. "Excuse me if I ask a personal ques- THE STAR S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Here's a darling style for little girls Who like to imitate the grown-ups. It just pretends a bolero through applied band trim. The circular skirt, too, bands its hipline to achieve smart sophistication. The collar and cuffs supply oppor- tunity for contrast. In the illustration they are of crisp white pique. The dress is a cool looking green and white cotton broadcloth print. Style No. 3152 may be had in sizes 4, 6. 8 and 10 years. Again you can make it all in one material. For instance, a candy strip? percale in pink tones is cute. Cut the collar, cuffs and applied bands on ths j ~ N 3152 S S bias of the fabric for smart trimming effect. Dimity, gingham, shantung and linen are suitable and sturdy. Size 8 requires 2 3 r yards 35-inch with 1/2 yard 35-inch contrasting. Vacation days are here again! So nearly here, at least, that it's I time for you to be thinking about your Bummer wardrt \ For a pattern of this style, send 15 ; cents in stamps or coin to The Wash- ; ington Star’s New York Fashion Bu- ; reau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street. New York. We've prepared a book to help you plan for the most colorful fashicn period of the year. A book that offers the best selection of styles for the season for the adult, miss, stout and child, and helps the reader to econo- mize. You can save $lO by spending 10 cents for this book The edition is limbed sc we suggest that you send 10 cents in stamps or coin today for your copy to Fashion Department. Price of book, 10 cents. LIQUID edgar a. Murray's DDDM NC^ RIDDANCE-NO PAY tion,” said Flip. "Ls that tongue of yours sticky? I noticed that you seemed to touch that insect with your tongue.” “Certainly it is sticky. How else do you think I could hold onto those in- V&s-- |p|S * H C *t> » “DID YOU SAY EARLY IN THE MORNING?" INQUIRED HORNY. sects?” replied Horny. "I suppose you'll tell m? now that Old Mr. Toad's tongue is sticky, too.” "Yes.” replied Flip. "Anyway, I’ve been told that it is.” (Copyright. 1931.) I SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Signs of Summer. The pale greenery of earlv Spring gives place now to the richer, riper green of late Spring. Already, indeed, j there are signs of full Summer, when ! the foliage, both in country and in city i streets, takes on the dark blue-green lof Summer's full resplendency. Now | the last tree has leafed out. Even the i late-comers, like the oaks and lindens. I the catalpas and the princess tree, have j got under way. with their great archi- i tectural task of the year, the construc- j tion and suspension of that complex breathing organism called the leaf. On a very large tree, say a giant elm. ! there is sometimes almost an acre of : leaf surface (for we must count both ! sides of the leaf in calculating the \ area) and every bit of it, of a fine, sunny day, is hard at work. Leaves i are the lungs, liver and stomach of a | plant. They are factories that make I no smoke or noise, but. on the contrary, j give shade and rustling music, and j diminish the dust and Jiisease of their j neighborhood; and as every school j child knows (and many adults have I forgotten), they give off oxygen, the | gas that animals need, and use the | carbon gas that animals breathe out. I Every school child, too. Ls asked to ' digest the word chlorophyll, which merely means leaf-green. It is a word worth mastering, for we are chloro- phyll's dependents. The green coloring j matter in the leaf. with, a chemical for- j mula almost a foot and a half long, | hitches up, by some means mysterious, j the energy of the sun and with that i energy makes lifeless water and min- I eral salts derived from the soil by the | roots, into simple sugars and starches, j Out of these it elaborates all the other j plant products, and in them one can swiftly enumerate everything we eat, j except meat products, milk products ! and eggs; everything we wear, except ! silk, wool, fur and leather; everything | without exception that we burn for j fuel, and. beside construction lumber, a fascinating miscellany of products like tobacco, quinine, camphor, rubber, some dyes, many perfumes and alcohols, tar. pitch, turpentine, the opiates and cocaine, innumerable cordage fibers and the many oils and wines. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes. Hominy With Cream. Soft-Boiled Eggs, Bacon. Squash Biscuits, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Egg and Tomato Salad. Sliced Tomatoes. Toasted Muffins. Spice Cakes, Tea. DINNER. Tomato Juice Cocktail. Breaded Veal Cutlets. Delmonico Potatoes. Glazed Carrots. Pear and Cheese Salad. Crackers, Coffee. SQUASH BISCUITS. One egg, > 2 cup sugar, 1 heap- ing large spoon boiled squash, > 2 cup milk, >2 cup flour, 2 tea- spoons baking pewder and l 4 tea- spoon cinnamon and nutmeg. Add milk to squash, then sugar and egg. Sift flour and baking powder and salt together, then add to first mixture. (Spices may be omitted if desired.) Beat thoroughly and bake in hot but- tered gem pans about 25 minutes. SPICE CAKES. One-half cup sugar. 1 cup mo- lasses, 4 cup shortening, 1 egg. 1 teaspoon cinnamond. 'i tea- spoon each of clove, ginger, soda and salt, 3' 2 cups flour. Take a teaspoon of the dough, roll into a ball, pat it and roll in sugar; place cn tin a few inches apart. GLAZED CARROTS. Boil carrots until tender In salted water, drain, slice and fry in butter until delicately col- ored. Butter a baking pan, put in the carrots, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of butter cut in small bits, pour in about half cup of well seasoned stock and bake un- til the carrots are browned and the stock reduced to a glaze. (.Copyright, 1931.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. So many of the mother’s mistakes are made in ignorance, unconscious of the results. We have an almost uni- versal habit of setting up the "good” child in the family as a model for the others. It's so natural to say: “If you could only be like Paul. See how nicely he plays with his wagon. He isn’t hanging on mother all day, asking her to play.” “Shame, shame. I know you took that bar ana! How can you lie to me. Brother never does. I can always de- pend upon brother’s word.” "Poor Ellen! She ls so slow. Sissie is so quick. But Ellen can't concentrate, poor dear. Isn’t it queer hew two chil- dren can be so different?” There are many mothers who at this moment are guiltilyconscious that they have been doing just that. They thought It an excellent way to prod the child into more desirable behavior. As a matter cf fact, they have to ad- mit that it hasn’t been effective, but they cail't see why a child wouldn't want to be like some more admired child. Children do not, however, want to Imitate the "model.” Instead they are stifled by a sense of inferiority if a pattern is pointed out for them to fol- low. They accept the parent's estimate cf their ability. They have no Idea that it is within their power to change. Mother says she can't concentrate. Mother says he’s poky. Mother says he lies, and brother never does. Children don't choose to be that way. That is the way they are. and once having ac- cepted our judgment of them, they go on being that way forever. Children are molded by circum- stances. If they are slow, then find out why. What is causing one child to lag when others hurry? Docs he need more help, more inspiration? What use to sav some one else :s fast and he is slow? That does nothing to alter the conditions which have made him slow. It fastens the label "slow” upon him. Children do need correction. They do need setting on different paths. It should not be effected by comparing them with other children. If you want | to se up models of conduct for a child let. these be adults, whom he admires. Let. these models he public heroes or fictional ones, not children on the same level with himself. That puts him in another class. That makes him jeal- ous and bitter of the model’s accom- plishments. It doesn’t spur him on to want to be like the other child. To compare a child to his own disadvantage with his neighbor or brother or sl«ter just arouses emotions which stifle further effort. He feels them to be superior beings and he is a poor worm, unable to measure up with them. The result is decreased instead of increased effort. I NANCY PAGE I How T)oe* One Write Thank 1 ou Letters? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Sylvia was to be married on Sat- urday. Her home was full of excite- ment. Every few minutes a delivery boy left a package. Sometimes it was a special piece of linen for the trous- seau, sometimes it was a wedding gift. In a special book Sylvia was ILsting rjch gift, the store from which it came and the giver. In this way it would be simple to exchange a gift if it was a duplicate, since the store was known. When Sylvia's engagement was an- nounced. one of the leading jewelry stores had called her in and asked for i her preference in a silver pattern. They said that they could help her friends to select the gifts more intelligently if they knew' what she wanted. So after all. there were not as many duplicates as cne might think. She had her new stationery engraved and ordered it for delivery by the time she returned from her honeymoon. Then she knew she would have no ex- cuse for not acknowledging the gifts | promptly. She had tried two or three forms cf letters. The ones which suited her best conveyed her thanks, that of her husband, a special mention of the gift and an invitation to come to sec the gift in the new home. She tabooed the words “lovely,” "beautiful,” “ele- gant” and “exquisite.” These words are used so frequently that they lese most of their meaning. She looked up the signatures to use. also. “Sylvia and Jack,” or “Sylvia Hunt Paulson” was correct. She knew enough not to sign herself “Mrs. Jack Paulson.” She really knew quite a bit about letter writing etiquette. t May look the same ... Biff , Jpr ||tf but how were they made ? HpP' : w y .J Where? By whom? MMnMDMpr / - i -fii S? They naumol be. tru? P Kotex. Accept no substitute of A r ad to be l.ke Kotex, would makl , rs know nothi have to be made to the Kotex fao you know js H ita|s toty. 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A frame can be constructed from a folding clothes horse, j If the width of panels Ls more than j desired for the height of the finished screen, the rods can be sawed off and dovetailed again into the cleaned-out holes in the uprights. Stretchers for oil paintings can be hinged together and form frames. Or the man of the house (or the woman, if she is handy with tools) can have lengths of wood strips sawed to fit to- gether to form panels, and put these j together himself (or herself). Paint or : stain th? wood. Frames can be covered by shirring > cretonne over the top and bottom rods so that the textile fills in the open panel portions. This is the best way to cover clothes-horse screens. For screens so covered having heavier wooden frames, paifit or stain the frames and attach brass sash curtain rods to the uprights just far enough from the cross pieces at top and bottom for the heading of the shirred portions to fill in the narrow strip between the ; rods and the frame. Panels in frame are also covered with cotton cloth, burlap, denim, etc., tacked taut along all edges, and these panels I covered with plain wall paper pasted smoothly over each section of the tex- tile. Plain wall paper is recommended, with cut-out borders pasted on it to outline the panels. Handsome screens are made by using plain leather replica wall paper so orna- mented with cut-outs from ornamental! leather paper that the effect is of a tooled leather screen. Hammer tacks j with leather cor imitation leather) j heads close about edges. A heavy' plain textile can be tacked j |to a frame with leather-covered or :brass-headed tacks, and then have cut- j outs from a figured textile pasted onto | each panel. The screen panels should then be varnished. Tire beauty of all I these screens depends on the artistry of tfie one who makes them. The handsomest of all these screens ‘Ls made by embroidering panels. If readers would like a design to be worked in cross-stitch to form panei.s, please write and ask for such a design and it ! will be made for them. Write early, as it will take some time to have the panel designed. Direct requests to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. DAILY DIET RECIPE PICK ME UP. Orange, juice of 1. Lemon, juice of Raw egg yolk. 1. Honey, 1 teaspoonful. SERVES ONE PORTION. Combine ingredients in a shaker. Shake well until frothy. A piece of Ice could be added to help break up the egg yolk. DIET NOTE. This recipe contains a very large amount of iron, also rich in lime and vitamins A. B and C. Valuable In blood-making diet. Also good for one who wishes to gain weight. Can be taken by children 6 years and over. Can be taken by normal adults of average or under weight. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. I went downtown with ma this after- noon and pop drove us home in the Sparrow, and we was just going in the house and there was something on the vesterbule floor, ma saying. My good- ness what’s that, it looks like a tele- gram? Being what it was, and I picked it up and ma quick took it and looked at it. saying, My goodness its for me, the ideer. There arp hundreds of thousands of telegrams delivered every day, so why shouldent one of them be for you? Pop sed, and ma sed, I know, but the thawt of hiding one under the frunt door, it seems slmbolical somehow, like the handwriting on the wall. Nora must of been around at the store or somewhere when the boy came with it. I dred to open it, she sed. All rite, tear It up and forget all about it, thats one way of getting ahed of a telegram, pop sed. and ma sed, I wish I could, but it would haunt me all the rest of my life, O deer this is ter- rible. And she kepp on ternlng it around in her hands, me saying. Do you wunt me to open it for you, ma, and if there’s any bad news in it I'll make up some good news insted. Dont be silly, I wunt to know the werst; thats the werst of it, ma sed, and I sed, Well then lets think of the werst news we can think of before you open it, so then no matter how bad it is it cant be any werse than that. O deer I’ve thawt of all the bad news in the werld alreddy, ma sed, and pop sed, You 2 undertakers are giving me the creeps between you, for Peet sake give me that telegram. And he quick grabbed It. saying, Yee j gods its not for you at all, its addressed to Mrs. Willyum Potter. Being tile lady in tlv? corner house, | and ma sed, O deer, all that excite- j ment for nuthing, I declare Im almost disapopinted. Proving ladies injoy being worried as long as its nuthing serious. ' A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. RANDOM notes in A Washington Day j Book: Mildred Dilling, rated as one of the | foremost women harpists, came down to ; Washington when I the King of Siam | *was entertained at; a state dinner in the White House; at the siiecial re-1 quest of Mrs. Mrs. Hoover de- l. sired that she play efor the King and y Queen at the musi- cale following the dinner. The Queen of Siam is a harpist. Miss Dil- ling arrived and telephoned one of the White House aides immediately. j “Miss Dilling.” said the aide. “I have been instructed i ; to tell you to send your harp to the j White House. Mr. Hoover will unlock the case and set it up for you.” "But,” cried the abashed harpist. | “please don't do that. I wouldn't put i the President to all that trouble for i the world. I'll unlor.k it myself.” I “My dear lady.” viplied the aide, “it J will be no trouble for the President. ! The Hoover I refer to is 'lke' Hoover, : head usher at the White House.” There's at least one man to whom ; the appearance of the sheriff on the j scene with legal papers to serve means I nothing. He is Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. | Secretary of the Interior. | The Secretary is probably sued more than any other man in the country. At I all times the United States marshal and j his deputies are close on his heels. I Hardly a day goes by but that he is 1 served with legal papers. And on some '] days three or more deputies. each with i papers for a different suit, show up in | his office. I So familiar are some of them that they are known in the Secretary's office by their first names. The many* suits i are the result of his official position as administrator of the public domain, and for the most part relate to land claims, oil and mineral claims. Secretary Wilbur accepts service of the papers with an unfailing good humor. Capital glimpses: Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son entering St. Matthew's Church on Rhode Island avenue to attend the wed- ding of the Hungarian Minister's daugh- ter, Countess Alice Szechenyi. Brig. Gen. McKinley, nephew of the | former President and adjutant general ! of the Army, walking down Pennsyl- vania avenue en route to his office, i. . . Short and stout Senator Hast- ings of Delaware, held in Washington by the Heflin-Bankhead senatorial elec- : tion contest, walking rapidly from the Capitol to the Senate Office Building. ! . . . And Yung Kwai. counselor of the Chinese legation and the oldest | diplomat in Washington in point of service, leaving the Chinese legation on Nineteenth street in the late afternoon. j Sweetbreads. Parboil one pound of sweetbreads, re- move the pipes and membranes and ! break into large pieces. Fold a thin ! slice of bacon around each piece, fasten with wooden toothpicks and brown slowly in a frying pan until crisp. Re- j i move the toothpicks and serve hot. I MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Business Luncheons. Several mothers have written me re- cently and asked if I would make sug- I gestions for suitable luncheons for those who must lunch away from home. As one mother puts it, “I try to make my ( meals tasty and well balanced at home, but I know that daughter's luncheons | during the day usually consist of sodas and candy bars, while dad's are apt to ; be an orgy of starches topped off with apple pie.” Par be It from me to tell father that 1 he carVt have his beloved apple pie, yet ! this problem of what to select for a . well-balanced luncheon is a real one. ! ! Perhaps many of my readers will ap- i I predate a few suggestions for luncheon menus which wull contribute to both ! beauty and health. The following will ' | help one to avoid a sallow complexion. | They are nourishing and well balanced and yet are not fattening, j First. Tomato salad with lettuce and hard-boiled egg. Stewed fruit with bran \ muffins or raw fruit. Glass of butter- | milk, tea or coffee. I Second. Fish cakes or meat patties, tomato sauce, baked potato, coleslaw. 1 Raw apple or a sliced orange. Third. Tomato soup, crackers, cot- tage cheese. Baked apple with cream. Fourth. Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, spinach, raw carrot salad. Tea or cof- fee. Fruit for dessert. Fifth. Whole - wheat sandwich with cream cheese and raisin filling. Custard. Tea. Sixth. Chicken -and- celery salad, orange and grapefruit slices, graham bread, glass of milk. Raw apple. Seventh. Baked fish, buttered peas and carrots, brown bread and butter, fruit salad for dessert. Tea. Eighth. Creamed vegetable soup, such as celery or cream of tomato, toasted cheese sandwich. Half grapefruit for dessert. Ninth. Vegetable platter with poached egg. bran muffin, tea or milk. Raw apple. Tenth. Tuna fish salad with celery, hot biscuits, buttered beets, fruit gelatin and tea. Eleventh. Oyster stew with crackers, cucumber salad, tea. Raw apple. Twelfth. Vegetable soup, peanut-but- ter sandwich on whole-wheat bread, cocoa. Fruit gelatin or raw fruit. It will be noticed that raw’ fruits and vegetables, with plenty of coarse breads, play an important part in these menus. Such menus keep the digestive tract functioning properly and, without this, no one can expect to have a clear com- plexion or feel topnotch. Every one knows that a dull complexion usually accompanies a feeling of lethargy’ and a sluggish digestive tract. Household Methods BY BETSY CALI.ISTER. $6,000 Income. "I have been married for 10 years and have always looked forward to the time when I could keep a maid. My husband's income is nearly $6,000 a year. We have two children and own our own home. At present I send the laundry work out and have a woman in one day a week to clean. The laun- dry work casts $4 as a rule and the woman costs $3. That is $7 a week. It seems to me as if it would be more sensible to get a girl who could do the washing and cleaning as well as the other work, but my husband seems to think that it would be extravagant. Some people say that a maid costs a lot more than her wages, because of waste and breakage. Won't you please give me your advice?” PUZZLED. According to experts the family with an income of SG,OOO a year should spend not more than S6O a month on operat- ing expenses. 'Operating'' includes lighting expenses, fuel, telephone, clean- ing materials, supplies and replacement of equipment. In order to find out what ycu can afford to pay for help make a list including the average monthly ex- penses for these things. Get the total and then subtract it from S6O and you will see what you may fairly spend for service. Possibly there will be enough left to pay for an inexperienced house- worker, certainly not enough to pay for a well trained maid. 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' ,WO MAN'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 1, 3931. FEATURES.

| BEDTIME STORIES I< _ -IWfa— -

Old Mr. Toad Again.

< It U not wise nor is it (air

i New friends with old ones to compare.—Old Mother Nature.

\ Having made the acquaintance oftfomy the Horned Lizard who. much to

iinls disgust, is better known as HornedWoad, Flip the Terrier visited him often.

TOs Js&d seen him go to bed in the late

*»fternoon by burying himself in thewarm sand and early the next morninghe ran over to see if Homy was up yet.Much to his disappointment he couldn’tffhd his odd little friend That was be-

cause after Flip had left the afternoonbefore, Horny had buried himself com-pletely and had not yet come out.

Later in the day. despite the heat,

Flip ventured over to that handy placeagain and there was Homy, basking in

the sun. "Where were you early thismorning?” inquired Flip in his most po-lite manner.

"Did you say early in the morning?”Inquired Horny.

"Yes.” replied Flip. "I was over herewhile it was still cool and comfortable.Whew, but it is hot now I don’t seehow vou stand it.”

"Stand it!”exclaimed Horny. "Why,

It is just right now. It can't be too hotto suit me. If you were here while itwas still cool this morning you didn’t seeme for the very good reason that I wasstill in bed. You don’t get me out until;it is nice and warm. The hotter it is ;and the dryer it is the better suited I jam. While it is cool I stay in the !ground.”

¦'That is where you differ from my |friend Old Mr. Toad. He can't standthe hot sun. When the sun is out hedigs in and comes out again when itbecomes cool.” said Flip.

"Well, as I have told you before, I'mro Toad.” snapped Horny.

“Sorry.” said Flip. ”1 forgot. Yousee, there is something about you thatreminds me of Old Mr. Toad, althoughyou are really very different. I guess it jmust be your shape.”

Horny did not reply. He began to Jmove forward slowly and carefully andFlip saw that his bright eyes were fas- jtened on something. Tirn Flip saw an !insect just a few 1 inches ahead of Horny. ISlowly Homy crept forward. Then his Ihead was stealthily bent forward and Isuddenly out shot his tongue and the jinsect disappeared.

There was a gleam of satisfaction inhis bright little eves as he looked upat Flip. "That was good. Did you sec Jme catch him? I wish another would jcome along,” said he.

"Yes, I saw you.” replied Flip. "That !is just the way Old Mr. Toad catches iInsects.”

"There you go again!” exclaimedHomy. "Haven't I told you that I'm ino Toad? I'm a Lizard and proud of it. jWhy are you always comparing me to ja Toad? I'll thank you not to mention !Toad again.”

"I won’t,” promised Flip remorsefully."Os course. I know you are not a Toad. \But you do remind me of my old Ifriend and it slips out before I think, jI've watched some of your long-tailedcousins catch insects and they go atthem with a rush. I’ve never seen one jof them catch one with his tongue theway Old—l mean the way you do. jThat's a handy tongue, isn't it?”

“I'll say It is.” replied Horny. "My;cousins may rush after their food, but \I don’t have to and I never could see jany use in doing things I don't have to. jBut don't think I can't move quickly'when I want to. Can Old Mr. Toadmove like this?”

Horny suddenly darted away with aepeed that some of his long, slim cous- jins might have been proud of. Then, ispying another insect, he again made aslow, careful approach and again that Itongue flashed out and the insect dis-appeared.

"Excuse me if I ask a personal ques-

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tion,” said Flip. "Ls that tongue ofyours sticky? Inoticed that you seemedto touch that insect with your tongue.”“Certainly it is sticky. How else doyou think I could hold onto those in-

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sects?” replied Horny. "Isuppose you'lltell m? now that Old Mr. Toad's tongue

is sticky, too.”"Yes.” replied Flip. "Anyway, I’ve

been told that it is.”(Copyright. 1931.)

I SPRINGTIMEBY D. C. PEATTIE.

Signs of Summer.The pale greenery of earlv Spring

gives place now to the richer, ripergreen of late Spring. Already, indeed,

j there are signs of full Summer, when! the foliage, both in country and in city

i streets, takes on the dark blue-greenlof Summer's full resplendency. Now| the last tree has leafed out. Even thei late-comers, like the oaks and lindens.I the catalpas and the princess tree, have

j got under way. with their great archi-i tectural task of the year, the construc-j tion and suspension of that complexbreathing organism called the leaf.

On a very large tree, say a giant elm.! there is sometimes almost an acre of

: leaf surface (for we must count both! sides of the leaf in calculating the

\ area) and every bit of it, of a fine,sunny day, is hard at work. Leaves

i are the lungs, liver and stomach of a| plant. They are factories that makeI no smoke or noise, but. on the contrary,j give shade and rustling music, andj diminish the dust and Jiisease of theirj neighborhood; and as every schoolj child knows (and many adults haveI forgotten), they give off oxygen, the| gas that animals need, and use the| carbon gas that animals breathe out.I Every school child, too. Ls asked to' digest the word chlorophyll, whichmerely means leaf-green. It is a wordworth mastering, for we are chloro-phyll's dependents. The green coloring

jmatter in the leaf. with, a chemical for-jmula almost a foot and a half long,| hitches up, by some means mysterious,

j the energy of the sun and with thati energy makes lifeless water and min-I eral salts derived from the soil by the| roots, into simple sugars and starches,jOut of these it elaborates all the otherjplant products, and in them one canswiftly enumerate everything we eat,

jexcept meat products, milk products! and eggs; everything we wear, except! silk, wool, fur and leather; everything| without exception that we burn forjfuel, and. beside construction lumber,a fascinating miscellany of productslike tobacco, quinine, camphor, rubber,some dyes, many perfumes and alcohols,tar. pitch, turpentine, the opiates andcocaine, innumerable cordage fibersand the many oils and wines.

MENU FOR A DAY.BREAKFAST.

Stewed Prunes.Hominy With Cream.

Soft-Boiled Eggs, Bacon.Squash Biscuits, Coffee.

LUNCHEON.Egg and Tomato Salad.

Sliced Tomatoes.Toasted Muffins.Spice Cakes, Tea.

DINNER.Tomato Juice Cocktail.Breaded Veal Cutlets.Delmonico Potatoes.

Glazed Carrots.Pear and Cheese Salad.

Crackers, Coffee.

SQUASH BISCUITS.One egg, >

2 cup sugar, 1 heap-ing large spoon boiled squash, > 2cup milk, >2 cup flour, 2 tea-

spoons baking pewder and l 4 tea-spoon cinnamon and nutmeg.Add milk to squash, then sugarand egg. Sift flour and bakingpowder and salt together, thenadd to first mixture. (Spicesmay be omitted if desired.) Beatthoroughly and bake in hot but-tered gem pans about 25 minutes.

SPICE CAKES.One-half cup sugar. 1 cup mo-

lasses, 4 cup shortening, 1 egg.1 teaspoon cinnamond. 'i tea-

spoon each of clove, ginger, sodaand salt, 3' 2 cups flour. Take ateaspoon of the dough, roll intoa ball, pat it and roll in sugar;place cn tin a few inches apart.

GLAZED CARROTS.Boil carrots until tender In

salted water, drain, slice and fryin butter until delicately col-ored. Butter a baking pan, putin the carrots, sprinkle with 1tablespoon of butter cut in smallbits, pour in about half cup ofwell seasoned stock and bake un-til the carrots are browned andthe stock reduced to a glaze.

(.Copyright, 1931.)

Your Baby and MineBY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

So many of the mother’s mistakesare made in ignorance, unconscious ofthe results. We have an almost uni-versal habit of setting up the "good”child in the family as a model for theothers.

It's so natural to say: “Ifyou couldonly be like Paul. See how nicely heplays with his wagon. He isn’t hangingon mother all day, asking her to play.”

“Shame, shame. I know you tookthat bar ana! How can you lie to me.Brother never does. I can always de-pend upon brother’s word.”

"Poor Ellen! She ls so slow. Sissie isso quick. But Ellen can't concentrate,poor dear. Isn’t it queer hew two chil-dren can be so different?”

There are many mothers who at thismoment are guiltilyconscious that theyhave been doing just that. Theythought It an excellent way to prodthe child into more desirable behavior.As a matter cf fact, they have to ad-mit that it hasn’t been effective, butthey cail't see why a child wouldn'twant to be like some more admiredchild.

Children do not, however, want toImitate the "model.” Instead they arestifled by a sense of inferiority if apattern is pointed out for them to fol-low. They accept the parent's estimatecf their ability. They have no Ideathat it is within their power to change.

Mother says she can't concentrate.Mother says he’s poky. Mother says helies, and brother never does. Childrendon't choose to be that way. That isthe way they are. and once having ac-cepted our judgment of them, they goon being that way forever.

Children are molded by circum-stances. If they are slow, then find outwhy. What is causing one child to lag

when others hurry? Docs he need morehelp, more inspiration? What use tosav some one else :s fast and he isslow? That does nothing to alter theconditions which have made him slow.It fastens the label "slow” upon him.

Children do need correction. They

do need setting on different paths. Itshould not be effected by comparingthem with other children. If you want

| to se up models of conduct for a childlet. these be adults, whom he admires.Let. these models he public heroes orfictional ones, not children on the same

level with himself. That puts him inanother class. That makes him jeal-

ous and bitter of the model’s accom-plishments. It doesn’t spur him onto want to be like the other child. Tocompare a child to his own disadvantagewith his neighbor or brother or sl«terjust arouses emotions which stiflefurther effort. He feels them to besuperior beings and he is a poor worm,unable to measure up with them. Theresult is decreased instead of increasedeffort.

I NANCY PAGE IHow T)oe* One WriteThank 1 ou Letters?

BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

Sylvia was to be married on Sat-urday. Her home was full of excite-ment. Every few minutes a deliveryboy left a package. Sometimes it wasa special piece of linen for the trous-seau, sometimes it was a wedding gift.

In a special book Sylvia was ILsting

rjch gift, the store from which it cameand the giver. In this way it would besimple to exchange a gift if it was a

duplicate, since the store was known.When Sylvia's engagement was an-nounced. one of the leading jewelrystores had called her in and asked for

i her preference in a silver pattern. Theysaid that they could help her friendsto select the gifts more intelligently ifthey knew' what she wanted. So afterall. there were not as many duplicatesas cne might think.

She had her new stationery engravedand ordered it for delivery by the timeshe returned from her honeymoon.Then she knew she would have no ex-

cuse for not acknowledging the gifts| promptly. She had tried two or three

forms cf letters. The ones which suited

her best conveyed her thanks, that ofher husband, a special mention of thegift and an invitation to come to sec

the gift in the new home. She tabooedthe words “lovely,” "beautiful,” “ele-gant” and “exquisite.” These wordsare used so frequently that they lesemost of their meaning. She looked upthe signatures to use. also. “Sylvia andJack,” or “Sylvia Hunt Paulson” wascorrect. She knew enough not to signherself “Mrs. Jack Paulson.” Shereally knew quite a bit about letterwriting etiquette.

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Homemade, Decorated ScreensBY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER.

<a. V SL INICj EL i-1 C) L~ .

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AN ARRANGEMENT OF BORDER MOTIFS TO FORM A DECORATIVEFESTOON ON SCREEN PANELS.

Screens can be homemade as well as \bought ready-made. A frame can beconstructed from a folding clothes horse, jIf the width of panels Ls more than jdesired for the height of the finishedscreen, the rods can be sawed off anddovetailed again into the cleaned-outholes in the uprights.

Stretchers for oil paintings can behinged together and form frames. Orthe man of the house (or the woman, ifshe is handy with tools) can havelengths of wood strips sawed to fit to-gether to form panels, and put these jtogether himself (or herself). Paint or :stain th? wood.

Frames can be covered by shirring >cretonne over the top and bottom rodsso that the textile fills in the openpanel portions. This is the best wayto cover clothes-horse screens. Forscreens so covered having heavierwooden frames, paifit or stain theframes and attach brass sash curtainrods to the uprights just far enoughfrom the cross pieces at top and bottomfor the heading of the shirred portionsto fill in the narrow strip between the ;rods and the frame.

Panels in frame are also covered withcotton cloth, burlap, denim, etc., tackedtaut along all edges, and these panels Icovered with plain wall paper pastedsmoothly over each section of the tex-tile. Plain wall paper is recommended,with cut-out borders pasted on it tooutline the panels.

Handsome screens are made by usingplain leather replica wall paper so orna-mented with cut-outs from ornamental!leather paper that the effect is of atooled leather screen. Hammer tacks jwith leather cor imitation leather) jheads close about edges.

A heavy' plain textile can be tacked j

|to a frame with leather-covered or:brass-headed tacks, and then have cut-

j outs from a figured textile pasted onto| each panel. The screen panels shouldthen be varnished. Tire beauty of all

I these screens depends on the artistry oftfie one who makes them.

The handsomest of all these screens

‘Ls made by embroidering panels. Ifreaders would like a design to be workedin cross-stitch to form panei.s, pleasewrite and ask for such a design and it

! will be made for them. Write early, asit will take some time to have the paneldesigned. Direct requests to Lydia LeBaron Walker, care of this paper.

DAILY DIET RECIPEPICK ME UP.

Orange, juice of 1.Lemon, juice ofRaw egg yolk. 1.Honey, 1 teaspoonful.

SERVES ONE PORTION.Combine ingredients in a

shaker. Shake well until frothy.

A piece of Ice could be added tohelp break up the egg yolk.

DIET NOTE.This recipe contains a very

large amount of iron, also rich inlime and vitamins A. B and C.Valuable In blood-making diet.Also good for one who wishes togain weight. Can be taken bychildren 6 years and over. Canbe taken by normal adults ofaverage or under weight.

LITTLE BENNYBY LEE PAPE.

I went downtown with ma this after-noon and pop drove us home in theSparrow, and we was just going in thehouse and there was something on thevesterbule floor, ma saying. My good-ness what’s that, it looks like a tele-gram?

Being what it was, and I picked it upand ma quick took it and looked at it.saying, My goodness its for me, theideer.

There arp hundreds of thousands oftelegrams delivered every day, so whyshouldent one of them be for you? Popsed, and ma sed, I know, but the thawtof hiding one under the frunt door, itseems slmbolical somehow, like thehandwriting on the wall. Nora must ofbeen around at the store or somewherewhen the boy came with it. I dred toopen it, she sed.

All rite, tear It up and forget allabout it, thats one way of getting ahedof a telegram, pop sed. and ma sed, Iwish I could, but it would haunt me allthe rest of my life, O deer this is ter-rible.

And she kepp on ternlng it around inher hands, me saying. Do you wunt me

to open it for you, ma, and if there’sany bad news in it I'll make up somegood news insted.

Dont be silly, I wunt to know thewerst; thats the werst of it, ma sed, andI sed, Well then lets think of the werstnews we can think of before you openit, so then no matter how bad it is itcant be any werse than that.

O deer I’ve thawt of all the bad newsin the werld alreddy, ma sed, and popsed, You 2 undertakers are giving methe creeps between you, for Peet sakegive me that telegram.

And he quick grabbed It. saying, Yee jgods its not for you at all, its addressedto Mrs. Willyum Potter.

Being tile lady in tlv? corner house, |and ma sed, O deer, all that excite- jment for nuthing, I declare Im almostdisapopinted.

Proving ladies injoy being worried aslong as its nuthing serious. '

A WASHINGTON DAYBOOKBY HERBERT PLUMMER.

RANDOM notes in A Washington Day jBook:Mildred Dilling, rated as one of the |

foremost women harpists, came down to ;Washington when Ithe King of Siam |

*wasentertained

at;a state dinner inthe White House;at the siiecial re-1quest of Mrs.

Mrs. Hoover de-l. sired that she playefor the King andy Queen at the musi-

cale following thedinner. The Queenof Siam is aharpist. Miss Dil-ling arrived andtelephoned one ofthe White Houseaides immediately. j

“Miss Dilling.”said the aide. “I have been instructed i

; to tell you to send your harp to thej White House. Mr. Hoover will unlockthe case and set it up for you.”

"But,” cried the abashed harpist.| “please don't do that. I wouldn't puti the President to all that trouble fori the world. I'll unlor.k it myself.”

I “My dear lady.” viplied the aide, “itJ will be no trouble for the President.! The Hoover I refer to is 'lke' Hoover,: head usher at the White House.”

There's at least one man to whom; the appearance of the sheriff on thejscene with legal papers to serve means

I nothing. He is Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur.| Secretary of the Interior.| The Secretary is probably sued more

than any other man in the country. AtI all times the United States marshal and

j his deputies are close on his heels.I Hardly a day goes by but that he is

1 served with legal papers. And on some'] days three or more deputies. each withi papers for a different suit, show up in

| his office.I So familiar are some of them thatthey are known in the Secretary's officeby their first names. The many* suits

i are the result of his official position as

administrator of the public domain, andfor the most part relate to land claims,oil and mineral claims.

Secretary Wilbur accepts service ofthe papers with an unfailing goodhumor.

Capital glimpses: Mrs. Woodrow Wil-son entering St. Matthew's Church onRhode Island avenue to attend the wed-ding of the Hungarian Minister's daugh-ter, Countess Alice Szechenyi.Brig. Gen. McKinley, nephew of the

| former President and adjutant general! of the Army, walking down Pennsyl-

vania avenue en route to his office,i. . . Short and stout Senator Hast-

ings of Delaware, held in Washingtonby the Heflin-Bankhead senatorial elec-

: tion contest, walking rapidly from theCapitol to the Senate Office Building.

! . . . And Yung Kwai. counselor ofthe Chinese legation and the oldest |diplomat in Washington in point ofservice, leaving the Chinese legation onNineteenth street in the late afternoon. j

Sweetbreads.Parboil one pound of sweetbreads, re-

move the pipes and membranes and! break into large pieces. Fold a thin! slice of bacon around each piece, fasten

with wooden toothpicks and brownslowly in a frying pan until crisp. Re- j

i move the toothpicks and serve hot. I

MILADY BEAUTIFULBY LOIS LEEDS.

Business Luncheons.Several mothers have written me re-

cently and asked if I would make sug- Igestions for suitable luncheons for thosewho must lunch away from home. As

one mother puts it, “I try to make my (meals tasty and well balanced at home,but I know that daughter's luncheons |during the day usually consist of sodasand candy bars, while dad's are apt to ;be an orgy of starches topped off withapple pie.”

Par be It from me to tell father that 1he carVt have his beloved apple pie, yet !this problem of what to select for a .well-balanced luncheon is a real one. !

! Perhaps many of my readers will ap- iI predate a few suggestions for luncheon

menus which wull contribute to both !beauty and health. The following will '

| help one to avoid a sallow complexion.| They are nourishing and well balancedand yet are not fattening,

j First. Tomato salad with lettuce andhard-boiled egg. Stewed fruit with bran

\ muffins or raw fruit. Glass of butter-| milk, tea or coffee.I Second. Fish cakes or meat patties,

tomato sauce, baked potato, coleslaw.1 Raw apple or a sliced orange.

Third. Tomato soup, crackers, cot-tage cheese. Baked apple with cream.

Fourth. Meat loaf, mashed potatoes,spinach, raw carrot salad. Tea or cof-fee. Fruit for dessert.

Fifth. Whole - wheat sandwich withcream cheese and raisin filling. Custard.Tea.

Sixth. Chicken -and- celery salad,orange and grapefruit slices, grahambread, glass of milk. Raw apple.

Seventh. Baked fish, buttered peasand carrots, brown bread and butter,fruit salad for dessert. Tea.

Eighth. Creamed vegetable soup, suchas celery or cream of tomato, toastedcheese sandwich. Half grapefruit fordessert.

Ninth. Vegetable platter with poachedegg. bran muffin, tea or milk. Rawapple.

Tenth. Tuna fish salad with celery,hot biscuits, buttered beets, fruit gelatinand tea.

Eleventh. Oyster stew with crackers,cucumber salad, tea. Raw apple.

Twelfth. Vegetable soup, peanut-but-ter sandwich on whole-wheat bread,cocoa. Fruit gelatin or raw fruit.

It will be noticed that raw’ fruits andvegetables, with plenty of coarse breads,play an important part in these menus.Such menus keep the digestive tractfunctioning properly and, without this,no one can expect to have a clear com-plexion or feel topnotch. Every oneknows that a dull complexion usuallyaccompanies a feeling of lethargy’ and asluggish digestive tract.

Household Methods

BY BETSY CALI.ISTER.

$6,000 Income."I have been married for 10 years

and have always looked forward to thetime when I could keep a maid. My

husband's income is nearly $6,000 ayear. We have two children and ownour own home. At present I send thelaundry work out and have a womanin one day a week to clean. The laun-dry work casts $4 as a rule and thewoman costs $3. That is $7 a week. Itseems to me as if it would be moresensible to get a girl who could do thewashing and cleaning as well as theother work, but my husband seems tothink that it would be extravagant.Some people say that a maid costs a lotmore than her wages, because of wasteand breakage. Won't you please giveme your advice?” PUZZLED.

According to experts the family withan income of SG,OOO a year should spendnot more than S6O a month on operat-ing expenses. 'Operating'' includeslighting expenses, fuel, telephone, clean-ing materials, supplies and replacementof equipment. In order to find out whatycu can afford to pay for help make alist including the average monthly ex-penses for these things. Get the totaland then subtract it from S6O and youwill see what you may fairly spend forservice. Possibly there will be enoughleft to pay for an inexperienced house-worker, certainly not enough to pay fora well trained maid. Remember, too.that if you have a green maid you willhave to help a good deal with the clean-ing and you may have trouble in gettingone who is willing to do the washing.You say you own your house. If you donot have to pay interest on heavy mort-gages your shelter costs are probablylower than they would be if you hadtd pay rent. That means that your totalincome is actually more than $6,000 ayear. One good way of finding outwhether you can afford a maid wouldbe to try it for a month or more.

Use for Blotters.Several pitin white blotters kept in

the buffet drawer in the dining roomwill be useful in absorbing anythingwhich has been spilled on the table.The blotter takes up liquids morequickly than a cloth.

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