~ LITTLE
BLUE
FLOWERS
(@ by D. J. Walsh.)
S MARY BALDWIN
from the dusty car ints the
cool shelter of the Hiltons’
Spanish bungalow, she felt the
relief of one who has finished a weary-
ing journey of seventy miles. Mrs.
Hilton, hospitable and charming, met
her with a kiss quite as if they were
old friends instead of chance ac-
quaintances.
“Qf course you are
hausted,” she said. “Come right to
your room. You will have an hour
and a half to rest before dinner.”
Mary, far from home and used to
hotels and rooming houses, found a
delightful refreshment in the high-
ceiled apartment with Its cool tinted
walls and draperies. Beyoud an open
door wus visible a gleaming white
bathroom which offered every luxury
for the travel-worn body. She laid
aside her hat and sank into a wicker
chair,
The entrance of her husband into
an adjoining apartment accompanied
by a Japanese servant carrying their
overnight bags helped her to realize
the measure of the hospitality offered
them. Rolf sauntered into her room
at removing wilted collar and
tie as he came,
“Some pluce Hilton's got here” he
remarked, glancing around audmiringly.
“Didn't expect anything like this, did
you?”
Mary shook her head,
“These pictures are
exclaimed as she made the discovery.
“Well, we're in luck, I'll say,” Rolf
commented. “When George Forbes iu-
troduced me that night to Hilton 1
pever dieamed he'd out
to place. He wife
real And
live in.”
“Do you know,”
ing back her black
der hand, “1 can’t Imagine why they
did ask us. But I've a notion we're
going to tind out before we leave this
house.”
Rolf did not hear this last sentence
for, whistling softly, he was entering
his own apsitment,
As she buthed and brushed her black
hair the little eastern woman tried
to find a reason for what wus per
haps the pleasantest experience of her
whole western trip. Forbes,
who was George Forbes anyway? A
passing acquaintance of Rolf’s but
otherwise unaccounted for bad intro-
duced Hilton to her husband one night
Bt Plaza hotel. Incidentally she,
too, had met Hilton, had thought him
vastly agreeable and then hud forgot
ten him. Then as they moved on to
the next town in their sight-seeing
tour a letter had caught up with them.
Hilton had invited Rolf and her out
to his place for the night {olf had
accepted even while she hesitated aud
bere they were,
After her bath, Mary slept for half
an hour, then arising put on the gown
Rolf had insisted upon hey buying for
this occasion. It was a simple, lus-
trous thing of blue and it made her
look younger, softer of heart and mind
than she was. Rolf, looking big and
pink and amiable in the suit which
had been pressed for him by the Jap-
anese servant, admired her smilingly.
“You're an infant except for your
sharp little eyes,” he suid.
Mary sighed. Her eyes were sharp,
she saw lots of things Rolf never did,
and perhaps it was well, for her hus-
band someties proved too ignorant for
a scheming world, They went out to-
gether and Mrs, Hilton wet them with
enchanting friendliness. A generous
golden, sparkling vision, she seemed
unevenly matched with her thin, bold,
suave husband,
“You love blue,
stepped
tired and ex
once,
& ull signed,” she
ask here
and
us
this his are
Ks. see the style they
Maury mused, brush-
hair with one slen-
George
the
too!” she said with
a gracious smile at Mary. “But you
ave no flowers, 1 will get you some.”
She vanished through the door that
led into the garden and was back be-
fore Mary had exchanged more than
a half-dozen sentences with her host,
In her hand she held a bunch of blue
flowers of a color that matched Mary's
gown exactly. Mary's favorite color,
too. She pinned them on her breast
with a grateful smile. There was no
time for more, The Japanese servant
was announcing another guest
“I've asked Doctor Orr to meet you
people,” Mr. Hilton, said as he in-
troduced the newcomer,
Dinner was announced and they
went in. Over her iced cocktail Mary
took a good look at Doctor Orr and
decided she did not like him. She was
pot crazy about Hilton, either, Be-
side them Rolf looked as gayly inno
cent as a big blond baby.
The fish bad arrived when she felt
a curious sensation in her breast. She
put her hand there lovoluntarily and
as.she did so she thought she saw the
Hiltons exchunge a look. Doctor Orr
had begun with some interesting de
tails to discuss the subject of some
newly opened oil wells in which he
was Interested and Rolf was listening
eagerly.
Again the uneasiness in her breast.
And now Mary could sort the various
sensations into their proper shapes
and sizes. A series of fiery nips that
soon became intolerable. A chill went
up her back. There was duck before
ger now, but she could only make a
retense of tasting it. She was suffer
ye she was in agony. Yet when she
tooked down at her bosom the blue
| flowers rested there innocently fresh
against her white skin.
An impulse to leave the table seized
ous. The mere mention of this oll
business had taken on a businesslike
form. Hilton was urging Rolf to go
in on the deal; he himself had gone
in heavily. Easiest way in the world
to make money, just having it tossed
to you so to speak. One knew the
possibilities of the game. Two yeurs
ago Orr had been a physicizn with a
wodest practice, today he was a com
ing man with a million ut his disposal,
Mrs. Hilton leaned forward.
“You don't look well, my
Wouldn't you like some fresh irs
Mary shook her head. She could
do no more under the situation assall-
ing her. But she would not leave
Rolf at what she perceived to be a
crucial moment. She caught his eyes
and shook her head slightly, She
saw his look of surprise, of protest
Would her influence hold against the
silver tongues of these men? Schemes!
Yes, she suw the whole plot now. But
Rolf did not.
With the curls of misery
up her back, she laughed.
“1 don't think wy husband is In-
terested In your development plan,
Doctor Orr. We easterners don't un-
dergtund oil. We Haven't the adven-
ture spirit. We haven't always the
woney to seize a sporting chance.”
Rolf was scarlet and uncertain, but
she tried for his benefit to settle the
full force of her sharp dark eyes upon
the other men, And something in her
glance made them waver,
“My wife,” Rolf said a little blind.
ly, “wouldn't take a chance on a pau
per of pins—or let me.”
She had won. She Hashed him a
glad look, knowing well that he
wouldn't go back iis word
that it was sald.
dea
running
on
then she retired with what
had to her own
tore olf the
grave she
room. uve
blue towers, uncov-
ered her breast, Then she saw what
bud happened. The
been covered with little nse
had congre
fon. They
her, too.
Her
us well
flowers
she
blue
Irer chif-
meal off
guted easily under
bud had quite a
hostess, it seemed, was «
us charming. The
with their
were Invented to get Mary
the tuble In order that Orr
contidants could spurious
stocks to her husband. Her sharp lit
tle eves had seen and It
had failed.
Doctor Orr was
turned to the drawing room
“So you off your
Mrs. Hilton remarked.
Mary looked at her,
“Yes, but 1 shall always keep them
as a souvenir,” she replied. .
lively inhabitants
sell oil
the scheme
gone when she re
flowers,”
tonk
Men Originators of
Mother-in-Law Jokes
Carel Capek, the famous Czech aw
thor, with whose plays “It, U. IL." and
“rhe World We Live In" America is
familiar, been writing about the
mother-in-law jokes. Capek holds that
these jokes are found in the literature
of all times—in the Hindu Veda,
Feyptian tombstones, in the Edda and
has
on
in fact, he the
jokes are such an old thing
have become
non.
Capek adds that It
the proverbial mother-in-law joke al
SAYS,
s sociological
phenome
is strange that
in-law, but never of the
to her daughter-indaw. In the same
manner the henpecked husband Is de.
ferided,
ment of a wife by her husband.
The playwright asserts that
about the mother-indaw and the hen
pecked husband were created by men,
not women.
prehistoric times. They came from 8o-
cleties of men wherein no women
were allowed under penalty of death,
men's clubs or men's gatherings. Men,
he remarks, when they are together
indeed when a woman tells a story It
is usually one of masculine origin.
America’s Lava Fields
Practically the entire states of
Washington and Idaho are covered by
great sheets of lava. These sheets
were deposited there ages ago, so long
ago that dates are entirely lacking, al
though It was probably millions of
years since the great rivers of lava
were spouted from many volcanoes,
This is known because, since the
lava overflowed almost everything,
bones and skeletons foumd in modern
times show the remains of animals
that had not lived for millions of
years,
Scientists agree that when nature
made this enormous area of lava, It
must have affected the entire world
The two immense beds of lava are
the greatest known in all the world—
Phildeiphia Inquirer,
Early Aviation Feats
According to old magazine reports,
a Frenchman by the 1pime of Pegoud
was the first aviator td loop the loop.
The plane used by Pegoud had an en.
gine of small powers and wings of
large surfaces with a speed of only
45 miles an hour. Lincoln Beachey
shortly afterward made a loop the
loop at a speed of 75 miles an hour,
carrying a greater weight, using a
small-surfaced machine. He accom:
plished this feat on Novemb:r 10,
1013, in a Curtiss machine at Los
Angeles, Calif. He was killed on
March 14, 1915, while making a flight
from the Panama-Pacific exposition
grounds at San Francisco.
Frocks and Wraps
Simple in Design
Rich Spanish Shawl Starts
Vogue; Ease, Grace Re-
quired in Costumes.
The prophecy that wraps are to ba
made with more simplicity and grace
of line is good news. The authority
for this, savs a fashion writer in the
New York Times, is a designer whose
clientele includes some of the most ex-
clusive and best-dressed women In
New York, and the prediction was
made apropos of evening wraps. These
and all of the late models In dress
wraps are the most artistic in tone
of any styles that have been brought
out in many seasons, The lavish and
almost burdensome degree with which
fur has be used on some
wraps, both the coats and the various
dolman shapes and wrap-arounds, Is
one reason for the new simplifying
trend, in which there is evidence of
the restraint that is the thought of the
day. The modern pléture of wriaps
come to
Une and of conscious purpose
point,
Women who
in every
dress smartly have
grown more exacting and taste is
reaching higher levels, as the exhibl-
tions of Parisian artists and those on
this side of the world are demonstrat-
Ing. Almost anything in dress Is ac-
cepted provided it has tone—that inde.
a garment or a costume from the com-
monplace. The Instant that the wraps
SASOnNs ago
overelinbaration
Le
“fussy” In the
styles swung to the other extreme and
a severity that jarred became the rage,
the
came
dresses to be so crude
were almost
the feminizing
has expression In
of even In coats,
ver piain In their archi
were supple and
of design,
however severely
ia wtiff Fase and
absolute requisites evident
item in a &n The
manner of beginning
fundamentals and
for stave, Is
and yield
like nn uniform, Lately
found
dress
movement
type
howe
made more
subtlety
wraps
1
tailored may be
grace are
art costume
modern tress
the lingerie
the clinging
schstitntes
the garments soft
Charming Cvening Wraps,
The P
arisian couturiers offer a sn
on of evening wraps
many styles. iHastrating
of beautiful fabrics in en.
that they
There f= not
particular style,
hey
8&0
oe
inting colors are quite
indescribable
and no
one
except the
handsomer models, In
terial is most
ing the wrap
oration. It
inence of the
these the
important, disting
without aid of
ix easy to trace the in-
Spanish shawi, with
cop. sway fringes, In the swath.
it of most of the es
those
ma
ririshy.
over.
ig movem
wraps
formed of
mous siz by
broidered in
no f
possible and the wr
weight
gdvantage
Some of are
gorgeous shawls of
which richly
all-white
really
nor
are so om
or
touch of other ornamentation is
to display its beauty to
The
i
i
:
wrought less ornate ally grace
brought 1} nate but equally grace
pt
Reversible Coat Dress Which Is Deing
Offered for Fall Wear,
ful wraps of the same general form.
Some of these are large squares of
sheer, lovely material, metal gauze,
chiffon in ‘plain color, ‘sometimes ‘em-
broldered or hand painted or bordered
with a deep fringe or band of lace.
Squares of crepe trimmed with silk
fringe, all in one beautiful shade, are
very popular and very practical, and
more suitable for evening dresses of
flowered materials than the more elab-
orate wraps. A shawl wrap of sheer
and delicate beauty is made of white
and black chantilly lace, the center of
white. with a wide border of black.
This probably is an echo of the state
ly chantilly lace shawl that was con.
sidered to be the quintessence of ele
captured the fancy of some of the
younger women among the ultra.
smart. It Is a winsome, pleturesgue
addition to a dance frock of tulle, of
floating chiffon in evening shades or
flower patterns, and seems quite to
belong with a dress of lustrous taf.
feta. With the large squares are
shown the three-cornered cape shawl,
also of chiffon, crepe or lace, and long,
wide scarfs that are shown in differ.
ent amusing ways, These are painted,
printed, embroYdered or finished at
ench end with a deep fringe or a band
of contrasting color, and answer
charmingly the need of a filmy wrap
with the lighter evening and afternoon
gowns, Plaited chiffon is used for
some full-length capes, falling In
straight lines from neck to hem, with-
out other trimming than a ruching,
rolled or ribbon band with ends in lien
of a collar.
Distinctive wraps for formal ocea-
gions have come from those designed
in the Paris studios, which present
fabrics of fine quality and very beaun-
tiful colors and patterns, of
these are opulent, yet exquisitely deli
cate, of silver lame often shimmering
and cool as summer starlight, some-
times In one color, sometimes figured
with a flowery pattern subtly
into the ound, Those
Nome
woven
backer of
are
Black DOroadcioth Trimmed
\With Fox for Carly Fall.
, and
fabrics,
The combinations of color are fascinat
ing. striking lustration is a
long, full gathered. wraparound cape
which hored at the neck with a
scarf that may be ina
fashion. with ends Hoating
material is
fest quality, and It is
chiffon
and texture of chiffc
hievement in
One
is an
wound around
practical
at the
lame
back. The silver
of the
made over a ning of violet
hiasizes
wrap with a
around the
wrap of silver tissue,
lined with
fastened
on a
at the hip
the
ostrich
the bottom line of
band of
hem. Anot
with a small self pattern, is
green ohi and i=
iffon,
buckle of
Jer
jade
with
band of green velvet ribbon
front
an antique jnde
Box Plaited Skirt
original model made of rust
crepe has a
blousing
the hips
The slecoves,
An
colored flat
skirt, with =a bodice with
forming a
line, slightly Tull,
are ended with cuffs, and a shawl col
lar of silk tapers to the waist
greater number of these coals, svhich
answer the purupose of a walking suit
worn over a crepe or chiffon dress on
cool days, are cut full length. An ex
ception in blue fallle has a novel ar
rangement of box plait laid in oblique
epds across the top of the back and
from the shoulders in front. A belt
the comt in at the
and slipped through
wide, fastening ur
about
each
the faille compiete a gmart, service
able costume,
Small coats, blazers, gilets and
walstconts are pretty and smart. Vel
vet Is a favorite material for a short
jacket made usually in black, which
adds a chic note to a frock of almost
ary Informal sort, In white or color.
This provides just enough protection
for cool days and evenings in the open,
Other little coats of this sort cut
straight and boxy, to be worn without
fastening, are made of! flannel or of
silk Jersey.
The sleeveless gilet or waistcoat Is
very popular and is to be had in a
variety/of styles, differing in the man.
ner of elaboration. The French mod
els are charming, made of bright green
and searlet and trimmed about the
edges with one or more colors of nee
dlework or narrow ribbon, © Some of
these have a motif embroidered In
wool on each corner of the coat or
on ench little patch-pocket. Nieeve
less walstcomte fitted just as 8 man's
are made are considered very smart
with sports suits and riding hasfts,
These are the occasional ftems in
wraps for informal dress, There are
game lovely coats, very colorful. cut
three-quarter length. with embroidery
of net, which is darned Into a solidly
pattern fabric. Dance capes and
conts of pallletted net. of net embroid
ered in gilt or silver, painted and
beaded. are among the novelties for
elnborate evening gowns that are made
of sheer materials,
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I think
A poem lov
A ree
prest
Apuainst the
ing Lreast
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to prays
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robbins in her halr
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain,
Poems nre made by fools like me,
But only “od can make a tree
Joyce Kilmer,
HOUSEHOLD HELPS
—
that I shall nev
ely as a tree,
whose hungry
er seo
mouth is
world's sweet flows
If a trip to the cellar or storeroom
carry a basket to save
time and strength.
Keep on your desk a
list of things to do—
calls, letters to write,
mending her house
hold tasks that one may
forget As the
task Is finished sx off
the list. This is a most
satisfactory w of
knowing what has been accomplished
during a week or month. It is
an incentive to hurry up and leave a
clean slate, This method is a good
one for the kitchen, various
things are forgotten that will, with a
list, keep things running smoothly,
A camp chair or stool which can he
slipped under the table not in
use is a in a small
Kitchen, much pos
sible when wo your legs for
or in the
Before
necessary
nnd ot
Gr sight,
ro
ay
also
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when
great convenience
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down as as
rking, save
open air,
taking disagred
of ie In the
it duills the
the cork of the gine
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able medicine,
mouth
for a
moment of taste,
sense
Grease bottle,
then it wil
wenn easily.
Keep rubbers to set on ice
+ 10 placed On
to coo
Wh
A
moved
The «ut
Anyone who has tried it knows that
usekeoping » cannot
the
by a
followed
However
assisted
system while is fall
when te or tablet hang-
ine of the
8a an oul
week's meal extra duties will
Transplar
asters, snapdragon
betwee
garden
radishes or
bloom.
A rooms
dle is & fine ] iid while
traveling an ed Its
be
listurb-
belonging
picked up
ing the be:
weather,
Kitchen i
cotton make
fo the
are «
boiling
“Dressy” bLressings.
In warm wesaih
appetizing,
stains bj
or there is no food
wholesome and at
tractive than a
good salad. Almost
edible
may be in a
salad, =0 there is
nny thing
used
no
throwing away any
of
stable
small amounts
left-over veg
or meat.
serving salad for a
be espoec
When
Con
nourishing, for the menu is usually a
Something plquant, appeal-
few to be
groen, varied by
different dressings
Thousand
The following are a
served as a simple
, the juice of one
one
teaspoonful of scraped or grated on-
fon, three teaspoonfuls of chopped
parsley, one-fourth teaspoonful
mustard, eight olives sliced, one
spoonful of worcestershire sance, one-
teaspoonful of salt and the same of
paprika. Mix the dry ingredients,
dissolve them in the fruit juices, put
all together into a fruit jar. Adjust
the rubber and top and shake until
the mixture Is smooth, Set In the lee
box to keep cold until the time comes
to serve. Another shaking and pour
over the salad, or crisp lettuce,
A good way to serve French dress.
ing, which is the simplest of all salad
dressings, is to put the ingredients in
a bottle, set in the lee chest after shak-
ing well, then shake again before
serving, The dressing is usually liked
with three parts of ofl to one of lemon
juice, a pinch of salt and sugar, cay-
enne and dry mustard if liked. One
may vary this recipe by the addition
of different seasonings, and foods,
East Indian Dressing. — Add one
fourth teaspoonful of curry powder
and one-third of a cupful of chutney
or chopped pickle to one cupful of
mayonnaise or French dressing,
Roquefort Cheese Dressing. — Grate
of crumble a twodnch square of
Roquefort choese into a cupful of
French dressing. Serve on lettuce or
endive,
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