\ Little Talks ,by
Beatrice Fairfax
We were discussing' the widow the
other day and the amazing success
she has made of her life. We had
all been schoolmates of hers, and we
remembered her as a homely little
girl inclined to fatness and tears.
This was way back in the fourth and
fifth grades, and that picture persist
ed—a tearful little girl consoling
herself with a surreptitious pepper
mint.
Never an attractive child, she de
veloped into rather a peevish girl
who always had a woe or two on
liand that she was more than ready
to tell you about. She seemed
chronically in need of sympathy, and
she absorbed it as a blotting paper
absorbs ink.
We were surprised—in the unflat
tering way of classmates—when she
married a young Army officer and
went to live In the Philippines.
None of us ever knew what hap
pened in the islands. Perhaps one
fine morning she met a long-lost
fairy godmother who confided to her
the secret of "charm:" perhaps, like
Aladdin, she found an old lamp that
worked miracles, or maybe she just
schemed out the whole thing by her
self.
At any rate, rumors began to fly
homeward that Louise we'll call
lier that—was the most fascinating
woman in Manila. "She's got 'em all \
on the string," the reporting friend ,
confided: and by "'em" she meant
everything in a uniform, from young
and slender second lieutenants to
pompous colonels no longer slender.
And we who had been to school with
her found It hard to believe-
Then we heard she had begn left
a widow and had gone to China,
where she had a brother in the con
sular service. And the China bulle- j
tins equaled those from the Philip- i
pines—Louise carried everything be- |
fore her. She was like a racing |
yacht, full sail on a winning breeze. 1
> o Unpleasant Gonulp In Her Wnkr
The sole difference between Louise J
and other women who make "charm" |
a business was that there were no i
unpleasant stories in her wake. No j
broken home wreckage, no spectacu- j
lar gossip, nothing unpleasant. And j
the former classmate jury sat on her I
case every time it met It couldn't
understand, still remembering the fat j
little girl, eating peppermint on the
sly.
Finally she came home, and we j
nearly broke our necks In the haste i
we made to call on the "siren." Had ;
the dumpy little girl been turned into j
a daughter of the gods—divinely
tall and most divinely fair?" I
think, despite our impressions, we
went expecting to find a triumph of
the "beauty parlor." And a clever
"stage manager," too; a woman who
would understand clothes and back
ground effects and rose-colored cur
tains.
But, bless you, no; we found Louise
still rather inclined to be dumpy and
not at all good looking. And as for
"effects," the afternoon sun was
shining unmercifully on the table at
which she was pouring tea.
But she had entirely given up the
tears of childhood and the thirst for
sympathy of early youth. She was j
cheerful and she remembered the ;
most charming things of all of us. |
She remembered all our good points, !
too—which had the beautiful com- j
plexion, which the curly hair, which
played well enough to adorn the con
cert stage, and very delicately she
insinuated each had kept these gifts.
There was nothing suggestive of
trowel work about her way of say
ing gracious things. It was all as
delicate as an old pastel drawing.
We may have had our own misgiv
ings, but it was highly gratifying
and agreeable.
On Good Term* With A'ourself
There was nothing as gross as flat
tery about her methods, a fine ap
preciation more nearly conveys the
effect it produced. And the rather
hostile schoolmate Jury began to
bearfi as it realized what a success it
had made of life.
While we were there several men
called—officers she had known in the
Philippines and now on their way to
France. She didn't ha\e to ask any
one how he liked his tea—she re
membered. Again I heard her con
vey to each, when he was out of
hearing of the others, that she looked
to him, personally, to save civiliza
tion.
She hoped Colonel Smith would
have time for Just a round of golf
before he sailed—no?—too bad!—he
play.ed such a wonderful game. She
recalled Mrs. Smith's "inspired"
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bridge. She asked for, by name,
some one's children. She was remi
niscent over a poodle, in Manila,
named "Dixie," and the mistress of
the deceased dog recalled his most
beguiling tricks.
Mrs. Smith, who had played the
"inspired" bridge, begged her to
"save August" for her—she had taken
a cottage at the North Shore. Some
one else entreated her to go on a mo
toring trip, and a camp in the Adi
rondacks would be a rank failure
without her presence. The eummet
would be a very economical season
| for our old schoolmate, we decided.
My conclusion in regard to her
I was that she was life in the terms
I of a salad, and that her receipt called
| for oil, more oil, and then some more.
[ If there was any vinegar added to
I her famous dressing, no one could
! detect it. Oil, oil, oil —until all the
human ingredients that she manipu
lated at her pleasure fairly whirled
without a hint of friction. Louise
was a wonderful salad dresser; of
that there could be no doubt.
The Secret of Her Influence
We noticed that she accepted none
of the invitations for the summer,
and that her eye rested favorably on
a certain very eligible man, some
eight or ten years younger than she
was. Could it be possible that she
was going to marry him? Before
our call was over it was made plain
to us, by the happy man, that this
was so.
He has a highly important war
"job," his influence is felt by thou
sands, yet our homely little friend
turns him around her finger. On my
way out I heard some one ask a bluff
Englishman what he thought of her.
"Wonderful little woman!" he an
swered. "But her power over peo-
ple?" bis questioner persisted.
"Al\ quite easy to see," drawled the
Briton. "She puts you on such
ripping terms with yourself."
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Food Clabs
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should, be interested enough to help
form, or at least to become a mem
ber of, a food club.
In some states such clubs have
been organized in a very thorough
and systematic manner by the Fed
eral food administrators. It is the
province of these clubs to dissemin
ate food administration literature,
to act as a community exchange for
receipts, and to spread in various
ways the message of food conserva
tion.
If no such club exists in your
community, appoint yourself a com
mittee of one to interest the women
of your circle or neighborhood in
some systematic work along these
lines. Regular monthly meetings
might be held with occasional call
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Conduct receipt contests.
Exchange receipts.
Report unpatriotic acts.
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LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
If you hear these things said once,
i you hear them a dozen times: "I
(•don't know what is the matter with
jme this spring; I can't shake off
i this depression. I am not at all like
| myself. 1 never was irritable before.
! And now I'm cross and horrid all
j the time." Or, "I have just had one
I thing after another happen to me —
i illness, bad luck, everything gone
j wrong.' Or, "I don't know what it is,
j but I have never been so miserable
and unhappy before. There is some,
j thing in the air." They are right.
{There is something in the air—War.
I For:
"The grim gods of the past have
arisen,
The black swamps throb and the
mountains boom,
And the dust from their iron-san
dalled feet
Shrouds the sun in a blood-red
gloom;
Out of the northern mountain
passes
Flame the banners and glare the
swords,
The old gods march from their wild
morasses.
The old gods march with their an
cient hordes."
And no matter how occupied we
may be, or how remote the actual
scenes of battle, we are all involved
with the mighty struggle. The waves
of that sea of conflict and pain and
death are beating ceaselessly upon
our inner ear and breaking over our
hearts. We are all in It, whether we
are soldiers or nurses of Red Cross
or Y. M. C. A. workers, or sitting
here in the safe security of our
homes. It is a part of our con
sciousness, and none may escape it,
rich or poor, high or low. The war
has come home to us all. Many of
us read the other day of a conversa
tion which a nurse who had recently
returned from the front is said to
have held with a famous surgeon.
He was by nature and training an
agnostic. But he said that since he
had witnessed in the hospitals and
on the battlefield the courage, the
self-sacrifice, the indifference to dan
ger, the transcendent heroism, which
was universal and not confined to
the few, he had been convinced
against his will and beyond all per
adventure of the subliminal nature
of man and of the existence of the
great Over-Soul.
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front talk more of the splendors of
human nature than of the horrors
they have seen.
All the history we have ever read
seems tame in comparison with the
pages we are turning so fast to-day.
The ages have resounded with the
echo of great and chivalrous deeds,
,but all of them which have lived
as the theme of song and story are
the commonplaces of to-day.
While we sip our coffee we read
each morning in the newspapers
epics that will fill the books of his
torians thousands of years from now.
There are many who say that this
tremendous conflict is the travail of
a world prior to the birth of a great
new era.
I, for one, can never see the
marching ranks of our splendid boys
without believing that this new era,
predicted for ages by the dreamers,
the prophets and the seers of this
earth, is already at hand.
I venture to say that now with
our American boys fighting on the
western front, there are very few of
us who do not immediately turn to
the casualty lists in the newspapers.
Our interest in them is very per
sonal. So that we who remain be
hind are also in training and on the
battlefield. For although we "war
not with flesh and blood," we do with
grief and headache and sorrow and
despair.
Therefore, it is the hour for all
the courage and all the cheer and
all the determined putting aside of
our personal woes and disasters.
Our first duty is to keep our spir
its up and to encourage others to do
so, for our mental states will cer
tainly react upon those dear to us
who either have gone to France or
are going.
They should have from us the
bravest, brightest and most hearten
ing letters possible, not messages
filled with glooYny forebearings and
details of home worries. I am aware
that this has been said before, but
it cannot be repeated too often.
"They also serve who only stand
and wait." And our service should
be to see that no words of despair
go wailing across the sea. Neither
does it help you or any one else to
go about moping and complaining
that you are so "blue" or so indefin
ably "depressed" or so "apprehen
sive." By this you are only giving
aid and comfort to the enemy.
The things we want to send across
the ocean are men and ships and
food and stores and guns and am
munition and aeroplanes, but above
all we want to send cheer
And to send it we must foster
and conserve it at home. The thing
for every one of us to do is to
Hooverisse on gloom.
Wheatless
Meatless Meals
•
Bv this time everyone knows the
wheat substitutes pretty thoroughly.
But we must now relearn.the meat
substitutes:
Milk, cheese, peas, fish, eggs, nuts,
beans.
BREAKFAST
Fresh Strawberries
Oatmeal with Milk or Cream
Cottage Cheese Sausage
Hashed Brown Potatoes
DINNER
Broiled Fish Mashed Potatoes
Lettuce Peas
Corn Bread
Lemon Gelatine
Barley Flour Cookies
SUPPER
Omelet Potato Cakes
Wheatless Bread
Fruit Salad
Oatmeal Brown Betty
Chre*e Snusaires
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion.
2 tablespoons savory fat, 1-3 teaspoon
soda, 1 tablespoon milk, 1 cup cot
tage cheese, % cup cold cooked rice,
V 4 cup wheatless bread crumbs. >4
cup coarsely chopped peanut meats,
% teaspoon powdered sage, H tea
spoon thyme, 1 teaspoon salt, tea
spoon pepper, '4 cup peanut butter.
Cook the onion in the fat until ten
tier, but not brown. Dissolve the
soda in the milk and work into the
cheese. Mix all other dry ingredi
ents thoroughly with the bread
crumbs. Blend peanut butter and
onion with the cheese and mi* with
them the bjead crumbs. Form into
fiat cakes, dust with bread crumbs or
cornmeal and fry a delicate brown
in *a little fat in a hot frying pan.
Wheatless Bread
' 1 cup liquid, 4 tablespoons fat, 4
tablespoons syrup, 2 eggs, 6 tea
spoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon
salt, 2 cups barley flour, 1 cup ground
rolled oats.
Add to the liquid the melted fat,
syrup and egg. Combine the liquid
and well-mixed
Bake as a loaf in a moderately hot
oven for one hour or until thorough
ly baked.
Milk Soups j
The United States Food Adminls
i tration is encouraging in every way
j the use of milk. Since it is one of
the best meat substitutes and since
meat is upon the list of foods to be
conserved, let us modify our eating
habits accordingly. Try one of these
milk soups instead of serving meat:
Peanut Soap
4 cups thin white sauce, Vt cup
peanut butter, 1% teaspoons salt.
Add peanut butter to white sauce
and serve at once.
Cream of Asparagus Soup
To one cup white sauce add one
cup milk and one cup asparagus
puree, one cup of the water in which
the asparagus was cooked may be
used for part of the liquid.
Thin White Sauce
1 tablespoon fat, 1 tablespoon bar
ley or oorn flour, 1 cup milk, % tea
spoon salt, >4 teaspoon pepper.
Melt fat in saucepan, stir in the
flour, salt and pepper and cook slow
ly without browning until the mix
ture bubbles. Remove from the
high heat, add the milk gradually,
beating and stirring constantly until
the sauce thickens.
Potato Soup
2 potatoes, 4 cups milk, % onion, 2
tablespoons savory, fat, 1 tablespoon
cornstarch, salt, paprika, pepper, 1
tablespoon chopped parsley.
Cook the potatoes in boiling salted
water until soft and put through a
sieve. Scald milk with onion and
add milk to potatoes. Melt fat, add
cornstarch and seasonings and then
the potato mixture. When thorough
ly blended add chopped parsley. ,
Chofne Soup
% onion, 2 tablespoons fat, 1 table
spoon rice flour or 2 tablespoons sago
or tapioca. 1 quart milk. 1 egg or 2
p Sg yolks.- cup grated cheese, 1
teaspoon salt, paprika.
Cook the onion in the fat until i
tender, but not brown. Remove the
onion, add the flour, then the milk
gradually, saving out % cup. Cook
until smooth and add seasoning. If >
sago or tapioca is usred in place of
flour, add it to the milk and cook j
fifteen minutes or until tapioca Is:
clear. Pour the soup over the egg
beaten with V* cup of cold milk.
Add the greated cheese and serve im
mediately.
Cream of Tomato Soup
1 slice onion, 1% cups canned to
matoes, 2 tablespoons savory fat, 1
tablespoon cornstarch, % teaspoon
sugar, salt, paprika, 1 clove, bit of
bay leaf, IV4 cups milk.
Cook onion with tomatoes ten!
minutes and rub through strainer.
Make tomato sauce, using fat, corn
starch, tomato puree and seasonings.
Allow this mixture to become very
cold. When ready to use, combine
with the cold milk. Heat in a dou
ble boiler and serve. No soda is
needed if this method Is followed.
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Advice to the Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
OF COURSE IT IS "PROPER"
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Some time ago I was introduced to
a young man at a social gathering at
the home of a relative. We have
corresponded since then, and now he
has asked to take me out to my girl
friend's home. mother has met
him, but not his parents, and knows
nothing about them, and she will not
consent to my going, as she believes
it is improper for a girl ever to go
•out with a man unless she intends to
marry him. Do you agree with her?
I am seventeen and he is two years
my senior. Will you please advise
nitf whether it is proper for me to
go out with him?
M. S. C.
I am a decided believer in clean,
honest, good times for young peo
ple, and of pleasant friendships be
'tween boys and girls I will always
be an advocate. So I see no reason
why you should not be permitted to
visit your most intimate girl friend's
home with this boy. who has been
received as a guest in your home,
and with, whom you have been al
lowed to correspond. I would not
suggest your going about with just
any boy—or going just anywhere
with this boy. But to the home of
your girl chum, and with a boy you
met in the home of your kinsfolk,
and whom your mother in turn has
met, why not? It is "proper," and is
just the sort of little outing a moth
er can safely permit her daughter to
have.
WHERE THERE'S A WILL—
DKAR MISS FAIRFAX:
My fiance has gone to France to
fight for the American flag. I have
every intention of marryin- him as
I love him very dearly.
Now. Miss Fairfax, there is a man
who visits my *home, a friend of the
family, who asks me to go out with
him, just as a friend, offering auto
, mobile rides and lots of good things
similar' to same. I cannot go out
with him, as I think of my sweet
heart who is sacrificing his all.
What can I do?.
A CONSTANT READER.
Aren't you creating a little dramatic
situation for yourself out of whole
cloth?. Maybe this family friend
thinks he must offer the daughter
of the house some little courtesies and
means nothing at all serious by them.
However, 1 am only offering this as a
possible solution. If the man knows
of your engagement and tries to force
his attentions upon you, he deserves
no mercy. Tell him simply and with
emphasis that your heart and loyalty
are both all for your soldier boy. and
that you have no interest in other
men and no respect for a man who
annoys you with his unwelcome atten
tions. If he does not know of your
betrothal, tell him. A little plain, un
varnished and yet dignified English is
whiit best fists your needs.
DON'T HURT YOUR HUSBAND
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have married a man who is In
every respect a wonderful man, only
he is insanely jealous of me, even of
my women friends. Dast October he
was called and at present is in the
Army. Three months ago I met a
man and have grown to love him
dearly. Of course, no one knows of
our meetings and I have told Mm so
many times that were the world to
know of our love they would not be
lieve us innocent of wrongdoing. My
husband has made me miserable by
his jealousy, and it is in this man's
companionship alone that I find any
comfort, although I love my husband
and would not hurt him for the world.
Do you believe any woman can really
love two men at the same time?
TROUBLED.
Do you think a generous woman
who knows her husband is "Insanely
Jealous," would risk any hurt to him
when he is absent fighting in the
cause of liberty? Apart from any
question of "propriety," this seems to
me most .unworthy of womanhood or
—patriotism. Please, my dear friend,
give to your absent husband the loy
alty every decent woman must feel
for a soldier lover Over There.
HOW DEEP ARE VOI R FEELINGS f
DEAR MISS FAIHFAX:
Two years ago my sweetheart and
I had an understanding that we were
to be married as soon as certain cir
cumstances permitted. We are now
engaged and the circumstances ad
justed but he is in the draft and
doesn't know when he may be sent to
France.
Now, some say we should be mar
ried before he goes and I agree, but
he says although he would desire it, |
it would be sacrificing me, for if he
should not return he could never
think of what condition I might be
left in.
ANXIOUS.
I approve of war marriages forewo
men and men who are fine enough to
dare them. If your feelings are big
and strong and you are ready to sac
rifice and suffer for love—and true
love is always proudly prepared to
endure what it must —then marry and
may God bless you. This decision is
a matter of your basic character and
the permanence of your feelings. No
fete. Keep 'Vour Home
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one can guarantee that emotion shall
last; every one Is now under the In
fluence of a certain hysteria; but, al
lowing for all that are you intrinsic
ally loyal? Do you care deeply and
generously? Can you contemplate the
worst tragedies as the result of this
marriage and feel that they are not
too much to pay? Even if your lover
were already in camp, I would approve
of your marriage if Both of you are
made of the right stuff—and from
your desire to marry him and make
him happy and his wish to spare yo*4,
I think you both are true blue.
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WnKhington. June B. —More than a
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since the country entered the war,
says an announcement by the War
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595 are modified Enfields, 176,796
'Springfield models of 1903 and 251,-
270 Russian rifles.