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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
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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
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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