TTT rr rT yyy ryryy yyy Try TYY CELIA HAD THE KNACK Ai A A A a a a a aa ab a a dd dd A ddd (© by D. J. Walsh.) pov wTrYTYYTwYwYS Adhd dh Ab A a A 4 FY YTYyYVyyyTyTYTYTY ELIA had reached the point In her morning's work where she had to curl up on the daven- port for forty winks. With a sigh of weariness she yielded to the soft comfort, tucked a pillow under her head and shut her eyes, In thirty minutes the chime clock would awak- en her. The Worthing's plain little living room looked almost as if its contents had been stirred up by a whirlwind. When Celia cleaned she cleaned. Presently when she had put the chairs and tables back In their places, turned down the corners of the rugs and straightened the.curtains every- thing would look as neat as a pin. The dining room was in the same state as the living room. The kitchen Was n mess. Celia expected to be still busier to- morrow, for then she had marketing and bakihg to do, the table to set, the guest room to prepare-—a hun- dred and one little last details nec. essary for the entertalning of an ex- acting visitor to be seen to. There was no doubt that Don's great aunt Mahala wns exacting—he said so himself. “The kind that pries fly. specks off the wallpaper with a pin and dresses an oyster as if it were a fowl. There's a " and Don had laughed, "that Aunt Mahala'’s mother had the boards of her kitchen floor laid down so she could turn them over and scrub both sides.” Don had nat added that of all the Forsythe Aunt Mahala had big rompus about his marrying a typist no training for homemaking wifehood. The first story, loose clan made the west young with or had ever ft e was when she pan, 322. a pot, $11, a huge saucepan, price Il superbly burnished, lift, and warranted to generations, Celia had coffee in that giant pot, but it took nine minutes to heat the thing and their three secant breakfast cups were lost in its gleaming depths, Neither did they expect ever to be able to buy a turkey big enough to fill the vast roasting pan. So she had wrapped them carefully In paper and tucked them away in the only avallable spot —under the guest room bed. Celia dreaded meeting Aunt Maha- la, who cuffed her dignified son's ears when he disagreed with her and who held Doa on her lap as she had done when he was seven years old. Yet, somehow, Don loved Aunt Mahala, and when she wrote that she was going to be in town on the following Thurs- day and was coming to spend the night with them he had telegraphed her to come without fail. Hence, all this flurry of preparation on Celia's part, Celia was determined that Aunt Mahala should be able to pick no flaw in the way she kept her house or fed her husband, Ting-a-ling! Celia started up, rub bing her eyes. Was it that chime clock? She glanced at its innocent white face and saw that she had slept barely eight minutes. It must be the doorbell then. She peeked out and saw a dark figure under an um- brella standing upon the steps. The figure carried a bag. As she opened the front door Cella looked straight Into a pair of shell- rimmed glasses, behind which was a pair of cool, measuring, old black eyes, “How do you do?" sald Aunt Mnha- ia, letting down the umbrella and set- ting it to drip. “Nasty day.” Celia, stunned, managed to falter: **Oh, I think it's a nice day b-because it—it b-brings you.” Aunt Mahala looked at the russet- haired girl In the smudgy blue pina- fore, 2 “Why don't you got cured of stam- mering?" she inquired. “My brother Elkanah was just so, He cured him- self by saying 11.000 times, ‘Polly PI- per’'s papa paints pretty purple pal aces.’ It's easy.” But the black eyes twinkled. Celia grinned. Her heart was run- ning away in her bosom. She felt suf- focated. Aunt Mahala had come a day and a half ahead of time. “Come right in," she said hospit- ably. “Take off your things." She wheeled up a chalr, emptied it of a dirty duster and a whiskbroom. “Sit down here” “Looks like you're cleaning house.” Aunt Mahala, having removed her hat and coat, let herself down into the creamy depths of Don's favorite chair, It smelled of his evening pipe and there was a tiny hole ‘burned In the tapestry covering where he had once dropped a spark. “How's Donny? “Fine, At work as usual. He doesn't come at noon, gets a bite downtown ~" Celia stopped, remembering the contents of the Icebox. Then she went on glibly: "Do you drink coffee for lunch, Aunt Mahala?" “I don't know anything about lunch. 1 always. have my hearty meal at noon. And I never drink anything but tea. But don't put yourself out for me, 1 can manage with anything.” “1 like tea, too,” Cella laughed, grateful that she did and that there wns a fresh tin of the best tea at that moment on her handy shelf. Then she fled kitchenward, There she clapped a hand despairingly against her hot forehead, Next Instant she had flung open the icebox door. It held three pink tomatoes, half a head tice she coup! sent them marked irked marked heavy to three tried to make roasting coffee price huge price-u = atl Si, all outlast of eabbage and a sizable pork roast yet to be cooked. There were, of course, bread, milk, butter and a few eggs. Once In a killing crisis Celia’s nim. ble wit had saved her employer a couple of thousand dollars and a good deal of discomfiture. That, however, fs another story, but it goes to show what she could do in a pinch, Twenty minutes later she smilingly beckoned Aunt Mahala into the dining room, The table was dainty. There was a blue platter of thin, erisp brown slices of fried pork, encircled with slices of rosy tomato, There was a boat of cream gravy, There was cole slaw, And there was Celia’s precious little electric waffle {irons smoking hot, ready for her to pour into them golden batter from a blue bowl Aunt Mahala had never eaten waf- fles made that way and she was de- lighted. She watched the fascinating operation and the deft operator, “l never ate a better. meal,” she declaréd. “You better let me pitch In and help you ready-up before Donny comes." They worked together all afternoon, they talked together, they got along better than Celia had ever dreamed they could. Aunt Mahala undertook the cooking of the remnant of the pork roast herself, “Where's that roaster 1 gave you?” she demanded. Celia meekly produced it. She stood grave as a judge while Aunt Mahala measured roaster and roast with her experienced old eyes, Again came that illuminating twinkle, Sake's alive! What could I have been thinking of?" she exclaimed. “Take it and get me some dish 1 can use.” When Den came home he found dinner ready, Cella looked tired but calm, Aunt Mahala made him her lap ruffied his curly hair, Meanwhile Don's eyes graphed mischievous messages to his wif But when room Celia He petted “Cheer away sit on dark tele and © they were alone in their cried on his big shoulder, understanding a lot, whispered. “It's a brand-new experience for her. And it will good, Nothing will upset after this” Next ig Aunt Mahala, peared 1g extremely had slept but poorly, although bed had been comfortable, After Don had gone and she was helping Celia with the breakfast dishes she suddenly burst forth: “I'm an old fool!” Celia wns so startled that she dropped the blue mixing bowl As she stooped to pick up the pleces Aunt Mahala whipped a card from her pocket. “Read that!” she com- manded. Cella read aloud. It was from Doctor Tinker, the eye specialist, making an appolutment for Thurs. day. “That's day after tomorrow,” said Celia "What's the matter, Aunt Mahala? *I thought It read Thursday when 1 wrote you 1 was coming. But Liz. zie Peters declared it was Tuesday. She stuck and hung that she could read Tinker's writing on account of having made s0 many appointments with him. Lizzie's eyes are In awful bad shape. So I gave In and came. You mind 1 telephoned to somebody last night? It was to him. His wife said he was out of town till Thursday, That's while 1 piled In on you before you were ready for me. What an old fool I am!™ “Don't you dare say that again!” cried Celia, patting Aunt Mahala's cheek with a soapy hand. Aunt Mahala took off her glasses and wiped her eyes. “lI never thought I'd see the day I wns glad Donny married you In- stead of Jennle Peters, Lizzie's girl” she said. “But I am. You've got the knack of making the best of things no matter how bad they are” Just About Describes Average Picnic Party Not all city dwellers turn vandals when they get Into the country for a day, but enough of them do their bit in disregarding the farmer's rights and disfiguring the countryside to make this exaggerated, but fundamentally real, sketch from the Farm Journal worth reprinting. Willie with his pa and ma have been picnicking, unin- vited, on a roadside farm. Ma is speaking : “Willie, what are you doing? Set- ting fire to that grass! Well, be care. ful, dear, and don’t get burned , . . now, you have the man's fence all afire! Papa, look at Willie! 1 Qe- clare I never saw so active a child— so energetic. He'll be a real power in the land, some day . . . “John, all that smoke and heat Is blowing right over the ear. We must load the things In and go on, 1 guess, Throw all the boxes and empty cans out on the grass, dear, we need the room intheea. . . , “I don't see why farmers will have wood fences that get on fire; it just spoiled our picnic . , , Don't stop to shut the gate, John, there's & car coming! It may be the man who lives here, and he might get nasty when he sees the fire burning toward the hay- stacks . . . Step on it, John! He might lay the blame on us, too! Some people are so unreasonable! And ev. erything would have been so lovely, her, up,” he do you ever you morn ap- worn, She her feet NEARBY AND YONDER + ok By T. T. MAXEY deffo “Dog Days” OG dnys 18 a pame which has heen hanoed dowy to us by the an- clents as designating that season which has the reputation of being the hottest and most yowholesome period of the yeur. ‘This condition was sup posed to be Influenced by one or the other or both of the cog stars— Sirfus, the greater, and Procyon, the lesser—Iit being the popular belle! that during this time dogs are apt to run mad, hence the term “dog” naturally fastened (tself to these duys History tells us that in early times dog dnys were estimated as forty In number—twenty before and twenty after the rising of the dog star. As a matter ot fact, the duration of this period appears to nave varied from as little as thirty to as much as tifty. four days, beginning anywhere from July 8 to August 15 The co-incl dental appearance of the dog star and these so-called dog days appears to huve been accidental, time of the riging of this star varles with the altitude. In some there are no dog days, {or that In certain altitudes not vigihlie, hence days in ancient times {1 seems appareni that the dog star rose just hefore the Its appenrs to fas the years no doubt, to the grad af consequently, In to pass ns the climates the reason dog star Is vin be 00 the there dog time of rising grow inter ual the period, repression future that the cen may come the rise during lke Bo enjoy the view . . . Looks that haystack Is burning! , . . careless of them! hurried more. They probably let it burn to get the Insurance . . . “Oh, John! What do you suppose Willie has in that box? Four little ducklings! Ain't they cute? If we only had some woven wire off the farmer's fence to build a little park to keep them In!" No. 1, Atlantic Ocean HE address of Mr that Owen 1) Young, gitting and is =» address Is tie fisherman lives juts ns fish just as unique inves te over IL tie bullt a into the salty biue Atlantic City this pler he constructed a lovely man sion and surrounded ft with and other appointments after fashion of such places bulll on land It had to have, In fact deserved = number, one. It was on pier out the ceean, there was hence and No. 1. ocean. jut, Young. obviously, now to go a-Dshing with Mr Great nels are lowered from agreed time and dumped There you medium of the sea, satisfaction of through the the health food lovers of varieties are included In delightfglly dainty nnd sen the catch —GOTIE and de variety that are not palates, This king of fAshermen of a ton of lish every fishing day All of it that because nearby is most noted of all the “shor known and frequenied by the (Osh. eating fans of the axilon. ® * * The Shrine of St. Roch {CTURE 8 tiny sbrine, laboriously bullt, stone Dy stube of a priest, in fulfillment its walls clultered with testi offerings —crutches, left by faithful been relieved of time, monial casts and what oot, visitors who have their mfferings, high bove all else a statue of the good St Hoch, his dog by his side, located In one of the older sections of that historic and ro mantic southern city of New Orleans ~and you have a vision of (he Shrine to St. Roch, the Guardian Saint of Health, to which, in perpetuation of the custom in creole «days, pligrimage from many climes The goud father, it seems. made a tunate and spared from attack hy the fearful epidemic of yellow fever which raged there in 1866, he would build an chapel and dedicate it to a saint His prayers were answered and he made good his vow, dedicating bis shrine to St. Roch, who, t Is said, wns at one time stricken with the plague and left to succumb in a lonely woodland, but his dog obtained and carried food to him, saved his life and thereafter they became inseparable companions. There Is another cherished and deeply-rooted tradition that Is Inter woven with this shrice. It is the be tlef that If a girl will go to nine churches, say a prayer and make an offering In ench and then go to Su toch and make the stations of the cross, she will have a hushand be fore tae year is out. Needless to say, many maidens mnke thelr way to the shrine of St. Roch, (D 102% Western Newspaper Union.) Rat Population Of course there is no way to take a census of the rats In the United States, hut the public health service estimates that there are probably 120, 000,000 of these animals In this coun: try. Waistline to Be Higher This Fall Older Generation Favored by New Mode—Worth Predicts Changes. The most important of the changes slated for fall is the introduction of the high waistline for all hours of the day and night, declares a fashion writer in the New York World, Al- though there have been rumblings of this innovation for some seasons, this will the first time when the ma- jority of daytime dresses reveal the natural waistline, and many are the dodges by which the designers are planning to carry their reluctant ell- ents through the period of transition. For instance, there will be many boleros, which serve to conceal the tightness of the dress at that point above the hips where women first be- gin to widen out Into a thirty-eight There will be a number of double belts, with the old familiar low waist. line still suggested, although the sil houette of the gown follows the figure, As an result of this tendency, hips will be of even greater importance than ever and will be molded ip a number of new ways, Although this silhouette is not kind to the woman whose hips are a cause for concern, she may alleviate the dif- be culty by several elementary deceits, Since some skirts will be longer and will flare pleasantly beneath the knee, the hips will smaller by trast. The smartest of the new skirts will such as cir and plain geo- seem con. use a combined cut, cular surface metrical and straight or plaits combined according fo patterns. Scarfs, Berthas Reduce Contours. The s in her judicious good was waist bertha There and richness even the deserves n firecracker celebry the part of any woman who has cele brated tin wedding. gance is always a signal for the older women to receive more attention than the of the her debutante, to say nothing with lamb and of the young thing prints, a fact whole category little and smartest ensembles will contrast In which colors brighter, lighter and will more trips to the cleaner. npatible an that will be very few There which of In. the eliminates one vey expensive dresses, will he require There will be a greater femininity, the dressmaker touches, bows, stitching, tucks. etc. and aithough this suggests a season of flottering details, It presents a seri- ous menace to the woman of uncertain The temptation to fussiness and overloading with details will be a real and are hereby reminded that the jewelry you have become ac customed to wearing with a costume of stark simplicity might do irrepar nble damage to one of the more fem. inine creations of the fall The evening gowns will show such diversity in line that any woman of reasonably good contours should be ns shown In lingerie chie, ane, you Tan Jersey Street Dress, With Higher Waistline Indicated, able to make herself look like a grad unte of Mr, Ziegfeld's glorifying es- tablishment. The bouffant robe de style, which has always been danger- ous for the girl not in the lightweight division, will be scen less than the clinging, long-limbed gown with a hemline which will know no law, If a woman's legs are not profty enough to show up well agninst a con trasting ground, she should avold the dress that is longer In the back than in the front. But with the new gowns showing length In any one of a hun. dred ways this will not limit her field of choice, There will be fewer close-fitting cloche hats than In the past few years. but this news should not greatly af- fect the woman with a short neck, who must realize that wire-brimmed hats are denied her, The same re- striction applies to the large fur col- lars which will be shown on many of the daytime coats, The woman who falls outside the swan division, how- ever, can comfort herself with a cont trimmed with one of the flat, curly er than the perennial fox. Worth Discusses Waistline, In contrast to the usual secrecy en the part of the great Paris designers Jean Charles Worth his opinion on fashions, “The sald Mr. Worth, ward only In front, still wander,” definitely up- waistline will “but line; on the contrary, houette, probably continued with loose “As the higher waistline, as Tan Kasha Ensemble for Fall, Favor. ing the Higher Waistline, skirts will outline will be longer. The new day be youthful, height and slenderness. wear it with becom the figure should be slender, possibly tall, and a good Outdated is the slouching or boyish walk. “Personal opinion,” continued Mr. Worth, “is that the drooping hemline, much indented, will slowly but surely vanish, It has been so exaggerated and deformed by ‘copyists’ that its original graceful shape is quite lost. Much popularity has killed it. “Most skirts for will have an even hemline and, as a curious contradiction as to what has been the mode, I believe that smart women are ready to accept a longer day skirt and shorter evening line. In neither case, do 1 suggest exaggera- tion; there will be a happy medium which will Interest smart women in both the longer, practical day frock and the shorter, elaborate evening dress, “As to the question of outer gar- ments, we have finished with skirt covering coats. The longer day skirt which 1 am introducing logically ealls for short and half length coats. They suggesting To ENeRs, culottes of silk and warm jersey to wear under town ensembles.” Lounging Coats, Negligees. There is something admirable in the persistence of a few designers who go right ahead in the face of the pa- Jama peril turning out sumptuous and feminine garments. They are espe- cially successful with costumes of the sort inaccurately described as negli gees, since it is probable that a larg- er area is concealed beneath their draperies than by any other garment now current. One handsome lounging coat has a pattern of gold leaf against a black background; another uses an elab- orate allover acanthus design in gold on a deep green background. services of a bevy of maids. There is less pomp connected with the wares of Emma Maloof, but her creations are completely lovely and do not treat the tendencies of the mode with the superior scorn of a Fortuny. Her fall negligees stress the princess silhouette and Indulge In the luxury of long, irregular trains, One of the handsomest of the creations is made of a flowered lame of the new supple type which is one of the sensations of the autumn collections, according Besides the lames and brocades, there will be a rally of heavy satins in this diverting branch of the fash- fon world. One very seductive affair, which should not even be priced by any woman shorter than five foot sev. en, Is alliteratively formed of char treuse satin, clings tightly to the body, has very long open sleeves and fis completed by an exaggerated fishtail train, : (The Kitchen Cabinet CE 152%, Western Newspaper Union.) There is a temple in my heart Where moth or rust can never come, A temple swept and set apart, To make my soul a home, And round about the doors of it Hang garlands that forever lant, That gathered ouce are alwa)s sweet: The roses of the past! -Bongs Trom an Italian Garden,” by A. Mary ¥. Robinson, SOMETHING TO EAT When serving children try placing 2 chocolate cream on a graham wafer and place in a warm oven, When partly melt- ed place another wafer over, forming a sand- wich, Creams go far ther this way, are eaten as part of a meal and will be chewed well be fore swallowing. Light Cake—Sift one cupful of granulated sugar, add two beaten *pg yolks and one whole egg; beat Sift two cupfuls of pas- cry flour with two teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder, add to the first mixture, Add one cupful of cream, a pinch of salt and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat well and bake in layers. Frosting.—Boll one cupful of brown sugar with five tablespoonfuls of wa- ter for four minutes, Pour over two 2gg whites beaten stiff. Add one tea- epoonful of vanilla and beat until the frosting will stand alone. Delicious Macaroni.—Cu} four slices of macaroni smal one onion and fry together until the onion ig Add one can of to- mato soup and three cupfuls of cooked macar Mix well, place in 8 bak- ing dish, cover with breadcrumbs and bake | pntil brown. Use seaso s of salt and pepper to taste, Another Chop Suey.—Cut two and one-half pounds of the loin of lamb into small pieces and fry until brown and tender. Add two medium-sized onions and a bunch of celery cut into pleces, cook until tender, add salt and Now add one can of string beans or bean sprouts and two cans of tomatoes (strained.) Take one cupful of rice, add four cupfuls of boiling water after the rice has been washed, add two tablespoonfuls Cook until the meat and into slices: mince cooked, hot oven with one pound of butter ri~e is tender, add to the simmer one-half hour, Asparagus Sandwiches. —Slice stale bread very thin and dip it into french ad dressing: sat the same time marinate stalks of cooked asparagus hetween a slice of buttered bread cut cker, well chilled. More Sweetness. slightly tl Serve The French sports writers are stil trying to account for the sensational play of Horton Smith, the twen- ty - one - year - old American golf professional, who won the French national cham. plonship this year. One of them for milk and chocolate. “How's He was his fondness asked 8 traveler friend, chocolate? He was assured Switzeriand regards the choco- “Well, I'm all then, right, a long stretch of play.” * Dr. Daniel Carson in speaking of the dieting by American women, which has been so prevalent in re- make them slender—it has wives, Physical thinness to a very great extent has been accompanied by He claims that It Is his deliberate result of dieting wives, The way to ing woman is to “say it with candy.” Husbands, the chief sufferers from the mestic harmony with a tempting box of chocolates presented with the prop- er flourish and remarks at the pro- pitious moment. It will take time to convince the food eaten, taking exercise consistent ly, walking in the open air, and eating anything which you enjoy, but not too much, will bring about the happlest of results, Buy more candy, make more in the home, eat some every day, and keep sweet, Inner Secrets. Pit dates and stuff with pineapple. Prepare and roll out finky pastry one-eighth of an Inch in thickness, cut into strips slightly wider than the date, wrap the date, pinching the edges together. Brush with egg yolk which has been dis loted with milk. Bake In a hot oven until brown, This Is a nice way to use leftover pastry. Nerd Noga
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