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A Page for Women
is? 1 Through the
.& Glad Eyes of
a Woman
By am no.
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BEWARE oi: LOVE-
LETTERS!
“I ill“: asked my former loverlyou may want to say so. and no
return my
Tisha.
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." another man. what am
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miss, it depends on the
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sort were they? Just the
;. lrct'oeon two good friends?
.\, -‘;‘ment-n1nkin.g notes? Notes
. “ ' lurks for small gifts. affection-
' Inrtlml?
vs case you have nothing‘
,~~. m \Vflf‘f‘y about. Everyone
' « intirru of this kind. They?
in nothing, ?
. ».: ..Ippj.‘ girl. were they unfor-F
letters written under the in-'
of an emotion which you3
wk for genuine passion. Did
j,.‘i]'..'ing by ordinary letter-
:z standards, say horribly in-
c: things? Have you in them
all sorts of rash promises.
I too many endearing names.
z. I penned vows )‘0u how blush~
if“
1.71:.
5 rho there is such an unmistak‘
a ‘ n:.tated air throughout the
r »' or the letter quoted above. 1
f .- they must be of the latter kind.
'~. this case then there is nothing
t . 0 cute, except keep silent about
3 an. 1!, however. you have any
n“ m-n to doubt the good intentions
.7 ”-1 man who has them. you had
‘.r"cr make a. clean breast of it to
. .x- iotrntiicd. if he is a good
rt-r: he will understand and forgive.
l I '1‘: suppose there are many men
l
(
,n: u ho haven‘t at one time or
-‘-.:r written letters themselves
“7 vii they devoutly wished after-
u'irls had never been posted.
.‘ni herein all this lies a sober
v if‘ilif‘pg to those girls whose pensl
rm- rii-t to runaway with their good!
.r we when it'comcs to sitting down i
a: 1 writing to 50‘Jng men. ’
No matter haw mm‘h you may:
i anyone. and how very badly}
:ters KO astray.
letters. but he , matter how sure yOu are that your
1 am shortly gettingiromance
is going to end up in the
orthodox way. never let this influ-
ence you in writing the sort of letter
.that. a few months hence. you will
squirm to think of.
You can never be sure about any-
. little friendly notes which'thlng—least of all the promise of
wedding rings. The man to whom
vou are writing ardent letters today
may. a short while hence. be flatly
refusing to return them to you.
In any case, however much you
may adore a man and adore to write
to him, there is really‘ no occasion
to let yourself go to such an extent
in your epistles.
Cheer;-'. affectionate ones—that is
all that is necessary.
And the most gushing of’ love-
letters are not always the most sin-
cere—neither are they the ones
most dearly cherished,
“’e say to ourselves when we :et
one of this kind: "This reads too
Rood to be true." And later we
generally have cause to find how
correct our estimate of their worth
was.
Another thing.
Do you ever write a letter and
add the warning "Burn this" at the
end? Do you ever write anything
you'd hate like poison to have read
aloud. or fall into the wrong hands?
Well, don’t ever do it again. Let-
Recipients are not
always honorable and like to pass
these things on to their friends.
And what's once written can
never be unwritten. It's there for
everyone to see. And. as old Omar
says, not all your tears can wash
out one word of it.
“'rita every letter. no matter Who
for. just as if you knew it was to
be read aloud from the house tons.
There are few things so terrible
as love-letters when the love that
inspired them is as dead as a. door-
nail.
Something to
By P. A.
OUR weak human hearts are:
prone to beat out of tune at:
the flash of an eye or the snarlx
of an unexpected angry word.
“'hcn our moods and tenses are‘
wrong we lack the divine pOWer to;
Fake music for ourselves andi
('hcrs. perhaps those who are very
nrvvr and dear to us. I
\\‘~ fail to strike the responsive|
rm.“ that. till life with beauty and
l’ ‘. :im reason being that we are!
H ”t .- nt of these exalted things our-
!‘*.‘.'63.
W» cannot hope to find grapes on
luv rry trees, yet we are often
wars in teaming the basic princi-
this little fact which has so
to do with our destiny. and
thou we do not quite under-
iv . i 1'. until we have been rudely
an. M. from our stubborn opinions!
En. in the scales torn from our
d eyes.
it frequently happens that the;
Euro i-- irned we imagine we are. the;
Til -- «Linc-nit. do we find time toi
t.~,.-. \‘p our lute and play ourselves
ir: ‘ xii-1.1 humor, and if by chance
W0 pay when the days are sultry:
uni We are filled with care. we
r. i'uril'iy into producing disquietinp
two: to the annoyances of our inti-I
The Why oi
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Tuneless . Lives
Think About
WALKER—————.
“‘e cannot make ourselves agree-
able. We sally forth with a chip
upon our shoulder and dare any one
to knock it off.
When we find that no one inclines
to accept our challenge, we become
so thoroughly abasherl that we pack
up our lute. if by this time we have
one, and seek the solacing solitude
of the hills.
It is in this new atmosphere that
we sometimes find we are not so
mean and despicable as our enemies
have painted us.
This newly found opinion tones up
our moral and spiritual fiber.
So we call up our courage. and
With the experience we have had in
a. very small field we start off again
in pursuit of the sweetness in the
world we have so long overlooked.
And when we get it we shall pass
it out with liberal hand to all we
I meet.
mm the birth of this resolution
our horizon widens and brightens.
for have we not reached out and be.
come a part of the sphere?
We have put forth our hands to
the sky and caught some grand
all 3 pea—0d! of music intended for man's
comfort and content. of which he
takes too small account for his own
good and the good of his fireside.
Superstitions
a, H. invmo Kmo.
cRoss-EYED PEOPLE. _
c‘fc does not flourish among
naive-born Americans in the.
-'~"' 'n \vhish if is knoWn in other
rs and among the foreign-
izi this country. there is. how-
‘1‘: :1 widespread superstition
8.1”.th us which is an oflshoot-—or s
41' ”mutant. as it were—of the evil-
“"‘ superstition. It is the superstl‘;
\Vlfh rcgard to people athlete
:tn strabismus—cross-eyed poop:-
Li'iim- inquiries among your frien .
r' «hone them closely. and you
v21! y... surprised to and how many
z...» rziuctant to do business with a
8‘ LTHO‘L'GH a belief in the evil,
t m
t ,i
r' "r-erycd person or at"
(f a. vague feeling that. meeting“:
afflicted with strshism
“'atcb a man
._ the chancel a
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" his thumb '0
:or heid downmtf
. , palm while
it-Te ringer are extended. thus
flag a counter-cum ID m'tro-Od”
ill-luck 0113'”de by a.
We
pod
e7es. if he does
Col—he furnishes conclndvo‘ of
that the cross-cred Id“ 1' ‘ 0"”
the evil-eye superstition. F‘Of.
ls us~
Hv Down to him-9"- 3‘
fir:i::kn l which In- it.“
used a- a. Mom. W m "u
ryefromthodflmdwwmoon.
of the crescent. of
the symbol of “’0 mm “I‘M
E-lathor. and of many ‘
m. A.- with W. :3 mt
moon degemm h
and satin. In” 3 “If a I” '
charm or amulet against the evil
eye. no matter what its form. is
called "an orno"—a. born. The
man with his hands behind his back
talking to the cross-eyed man is
making the sign of Hathor. of Isis.
and others—"1m corno." His first
and little fingers are the "horns."
To-Day’s
Lucky
Jewel
Color
flower
.7 MILDRED MARSHALL
BERYL.
on those who fear that the love
of husband or wife has waned.
today's talismanic stone. the
beryl. is especially potent. Accord-
ing to Arnoldus Base. it has tho
power to mwsken love, and will re-
store harmony and peace to tho
od.-"l natal stone is the aqua-
? the most beautiful 0!
said
ancients believed that
won an aquamarine
m never need to worry-
Tali” co:or a dark blue. which
h min: of constancy and serene
W However, it is sold to
am “my in love when worn
mu.
"fir. flower is tbgl purple cos-
“ I! a symbol of domestic
use ls said to bring peace
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DOUGLAS
THE PEAKS or LIFE:
“‘ho has not seen some crimson
flow'r
Whose heart was red as embers?
“‘ho has not kin-m some mighty
hour
One evermore remembers?
Among the trees upon the crest
One tree stands higher than the rest,
One not in all night's madrigals
The heart especially recalls,
“'e live in moments such as these.
Our hours of joy or sorrow;
For Who his yesterdays of ease
“'ili recollect tomorrow?
Some love we won. some love we lost.
Some mountain. not some plain we
crossed.
“’e shall remember, joy and strife—
‘Ve live upon the peaks of life.
In hours of pain we learn to cling
To something worth believing.
And Joy perhaps we learn to sing
The better after grieving.
A heart that never knew a pain
ls like a land without a rain.
Is like a. land that never knows
A springtime flood. or summer rose.
80 let us thank our God for this.
Our Maytlme, our December.
The first embrace, the parting kiss.
The things that we remember.
The day with neither rain nor sun
Brought never fiow'rs to anyone-—
Thank God for Joy, and grief. and
strife:
“'e live upon the peaks of life.
THE SPENDTHRIFTS.
The fools are not the ones who hast.
To spend what they possess.
The foo‘s alone the ones who wast. .
Their hours in idleness.
These are the spendthrifts: they who
throw '
Away some wealth that now they
know,
Some golden wealth they might re-
thin,
Some wealth they never can regain.
These are the spendthrlfts: they who
spend
The riches doubly dear.
The good opinion of a friend,
The love of someone near.
A spotless life. an honored name.
Exchanged for folly. sold for shame-—
These are the fools, Who throw away
The simple things of every day.
Oh, better less the gold you own
Than loss the hearts you hold;
The wealth for which s. man is
known
1- not his wealth of gold.
It is the wealth you need not lose,
To keep forever. if you choose.
Thefaith of friend. the love of wife,
An honored name. a. spotless life.
THE W LADY 103088 THE WAY
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SENTINEIJ .-
C ’ ildren and t e
The Ostrich nuts. Hangs From the
Side of Smart New Hats.
HE idea that queens and prin-
l ceases have at various times
made and unmade women's
fashions is one that appeals to the
Donnie: fancy.
We speak of the mode of Marie
Antoinette. the Empress Eugenie
neckline. the Medici collar. the
Eifsabsthian ruff. the Marie Stuart
bonnet. Yet any one really familiar
with court memoirs and contem-
porary comments dealing with the
life at Versailles during and Just
preceding the reign of Louis XVI
knows that Marie Antoinette had. a
very small finger in the pie of fash~
Ion-making at the time. And there
are good authorities who very much
discount the personal influence of
Empress Eugenie in the matter of
fashion. Certainly she did not
originate any of the fashions that
have come to hear her name. All
she did was to stamp certain fash-
ions with the imperial approval and
this ir'eased their vogue. Queens
and empresses and princesses very
seldom have time or aptitude for
the origination of any fashion. It
is far more likely to be Diana of
Poitiers than Catherine de Medici
who starts a fashion.
A good many fashions have been
laid at the door of the new Duchess
of York in England. Young women
are wearing bangs in the fond be-
lief that the charming Elizabeth in-
vented the mode. They are wear-
ing crays and blues and sand colors
-—and think they do so because they
are favorites with the duchess—
though the duchess no doubt wore
them first. because they were in line
with the season's fashions. And
new all sorts of dangles and loops
and streamers from hats are spoken
of in England as being "a la Duchess
of York." just because among the
hats that young woman
for her trousseau there were sev-
eral of that description. Of course
she didn't invent the fashion or even
revive it. B'ery French milliner
had made hats with some sort of
pendant trimming this spring—in
fact they have done so for at least‘
two years. ,
I'sually the pendant trimming is
over the right shoulder. It is some‘
times of black lace. Newer are the
pendants of roses that hang of! the
tOp of the brim or are attached to
Ham-s straw with named ostrich
fmthcr. The ends are gathered on
a fine thy-cad, which makes it fall
like rune.
selected ‘
the under side. Ono but shows the
tap of the brim at the right side
laden down with fruit and. beneath.
a group of long stemmed roses
fastened to the under side of the
brim and extending well over the
right shoulder. ‘
Ribbon danglers are fiemurk—too
demure for any one past twenty-
four. The dangler of ostrich is less
trying. A fine thread may be strung
through the ends of innumerable
ostrich fines to make a decoration
of great pliancy. The sketch shows
a. mauve straw hat trimmed with an
ostrich feather ruffle of this sort.
.:_—_-_’ THE =
HOUSEHOLD
“It“ by ANN! BITTENNOUSB
WAYS 0F SERVING NAVY
BEANS.
AVY beans may be used as the
mainstay of many a meal. and
as they make a' substantial
dish without meat as well as with
it they may be used frequently in
summer at meatless meals.
of course. regular baked beans
are always good—if they are well
baked. These make an admirable
mainstay for dinner, with a good
vegetable salad and a. dessert of
fruit to follow them
They are also an admirable
foundation for substantial soups.
Here are recipes for two kinds:
Bean and Tomato Soup.
Three cups boiled beans; one cup
tomatoes; two cups water; tnree
itablespoons dripplngs; one small
gnnion; one tablespoon mixed pars-
'ley: two tablespons flour. Mince
onion and parsley, add to melted
drippings and cook. Stir in the flour.
add water and boil. Add beans
mashed fine and tomatoes. salt and
pepper to taste. Split peas. kidney
beans. lentils. string beans. green
.peaa. corn, potatoes or potatoes
mixed with parsnips may be used
instead of beans.
Cream of Navy Sean Soup.
Two cups cooked navy beans:
one and one-half cups milk; one
and one-half cups water; threg
tablespoons drippmgs; three table-
spoons flour; one tablespoon minced
onion; minced celery.- et'c.. as de-
jsircd for flavoring. tir the flour.
lonlon and ther flavorings in hot
drippings til they are browned.
Add water and boil. Mash the beans
fine or put through a sieve or colano
der. Add salt and pepper to taste.
When hot it is ready to serve.
And here is a recipe for cooking
navy beans with meat into an ap-
petizing dish:
Beans Boiled, With Meat.
Three cups nauy beans; two
pounds shank salt pork. Pick over
and wash the bean..; wash meat
carefully and remove skin and part
of fat. (This fat can be fried out
2.}— cutting up and heating in a dish
in the oven and used for drippings.)
iAdd meat to the beans. cover well
with boiling water. cook slowly
four or five hours. adding more
water if necessary until both meat
and beans are tender. This may be
done in a tireless cooker. There will
be enough beans left from this
amount for lunch on the following
day.
3
TABLE DECORATIONS.
To some women it is as im-
portant to consider the decora-
tion on the dinner table as to
consider the making of the dessert
for dinner; perhaps even more im-
portant. because one can do with—
0ut dessert if one has a toothsome
salad. but one must. have some sort
of decoration—something to remind
one that dining is not merely a
matter of filling the stomach or tall--
in; caloric into one‘s. system.
The aim of fashionable women
lately has been to get as far as pos-
sible away from the obvious in table
decorations. To have a. profusion
of flowers selected by the florist and
arranged by the florist was not
enough. Flowers must be used
sparingly. They must be used with
some charming little art object. and
women have spent days and days
scouring antique shops in the effort
to secure some piece of alabaster or
crystal diflerent from what all the
shops were showing. This then
would be the center of the table
decoration.
It is not considered smart to have
one’s table decorations set on a
round of glass as was formerly the
custom. However. be wise and hang
on to the center mirror if you have
one.’ The fashion for using them
will doubtless' be revived before
long. Besidu. not one guest in a
hundred at your table would prob-
ably know that they were no longer
considered smart.
Meadow flowers are much in flavor
for table decorations. and one host-
ess worth millions amused and
pleased her guests recently by mak-
ing use of field daisies In her dinner
centerpiece. though she had the
flowers from a- well kept garden at
her disposal. Lemons in a black
bowl have enloyed considerable
favor as a table decoration. The
bowl is oz black onyx or marble and
the loam are—usually not really
lemons. but wax imitations. A
clovertrfckfstouoonorenllemon
which can be replaced quits fre-
quently. bang used as it shows
umdmandafreshons
placodlnthobowltotalte Its place.
One woman. who dislikes the idea
_ more elegant. than‘ the furniture.
in taxicabs
His is the way the fairies ride.
with wings.
In among the garden flowers,
Sailing 'round in rings, ‘
And everyone so happy that
Each cab and driver sings.
Find no other lama [cit side down. slug ribbon. lower left than do". sh.
ms
SHORTSTQEX
a, CLARA o
. Taking the Course
ELAFIELD.
Copyright, 1923, by The McClure Newspaper Sundfcafa.
ORACE BRIGGS came into the}
H small but elegantly furnished=
office and glanced cautiously
about him. Nobody was there but
Miss Bascom—for business purposes.
Madame Clara Lagruyere.
It was an elegant little office—the
part of it that was visibie. It is
true that behind the inner door.
where Horace had his sanctum. Was
a shabby room with a second-hand
desk. 3. cuspidor. and calendars upon
the walls. But that was Horacc's
sanctum. The outer office was ele—
gant. The walls were papered in
French gray. the furniture was one
of the French Louis', the rug was
imitation Persian, the stationery
was the latest word in bond. Every
one knows the meaning of bond.
But Marjory Bascom was still
Miss Bascom Was a. little younger
than she was made up to be. But
oh. the elegance of that coiffure!
Oh. those shoes with French heels!
Oh, that dainty hosiery! Oh. those
manicured. slender hands! And oh,
that atmosphere of gentility that ra-
diated from Miss Bucom!
“Nobody been in?" queried Horace.
"Nothin' doing as yet." responded
Bascom, twirling a wad of gum ,
from one dainty cheek to the other.
“Betcha it will be a frost. How
d'you know all that. dope was the
real thing?"
“Sure it was the real thing'. And
frost nothing. If you wasn't such a
roughneck. Horach" ' ,
“Aw, fergit it!" sneered Horace.
flinging his hat. down on Miss Bas-
com‘s desk.
“Say. that ain’t no way to treat a
lady! Suppose somebody was to
come in!"
“I'd like to see ‘em coming. I tell
you that instalment course of ours
is the worst frost I've struck. No-
body answering our letters."
“\Vs gotta advertise more.”
"I'm carrying all the advertising I
can hold."
‘W’e'll get 'em when they sees this
oflice." said bliss Bascom. "You run
along to your den. Horace. my lad.
nod dream of the mazuma.”
"Swell chance!" muttered Horace.
But at that moment the sight of
some one approaching the office door
caused Horace to beat a precipitous
rental. .
It was a. lady. In his den Horace
beat. a nervous tattoo with his fin-
gers on his desk. reflecting. He had]
sunk his whole capital—five thou-i
sand dollars—in this correspondence}
course. If it was a fnost he and his
side-kick. Marjory, would have to
seek pastures new.
They had had only three answer.
as yet to their advertisement.
Presently the door opened and
Marjory peeped in.
"Got her!" she exclaimed tflc
umphantly.
"“‘ho was she?"
"An old dame who's come into I
lot of money, and—say, don't. yo-
know it ain't good manners to loll
in your chair that way when a lady's
talking to you ?" demanded Marjory.
masticating busily.
“Aw. say. fergit that stuff, Mar-
Jory. A man's gotta take a flaw
minutes of! now and then."
"The well-bred man." said MI:-
Jory, "never forgets his manners
They are so inherently a pas-1’0! hi-
training that they have become sec-
ond nature to him. It is wholly im-
possible for him to—"
“Aw. can it. I tell you. can it!-
shouted Horace. "“‘hat you. think
you giving me? Come on, busineu
is over till after lunch. Did sh.
come across for the full amount?"
"Like a bird," answered Marjory.
"“‘hoopeei" yelled Horace. and.
seizing Marjory around the waist. he
executed a. giddy dance with her all
round the office.
“Come on!" he shouted. and. clap-
ping his hat on his head. he pushed
through into the larger office. letting
the door sfam in his partner's face.
Marjory. who appeared to be used to
this treatment, opened it without re-
monstrance and followed Horace to
her desk in the elegant room.
“Say. them lessons sure looks the
stuff!" he said. picking up somo
sheets from Marjory"s desk. “I
guess you was right about that ad-
vertising. old gel. “'e'll rope 'sm in
all right. It's sink or swim now. and
l'u sink my last. thousand in an ad
in each of the ladies' magazines next
month. That's the dope you gd
He picked up the top sheet and
read:
j there. Ma rjory.‘
"THE MANUAL or GOOD '1»
BREEDIXG I
"Madame Lagruyere's famous in-
ternational correspondence omit-so.
designed and compiled by this fun-
ous fashionable leader, with the aid
of numerous experts. is positively
designed to make any persdn a well-
bred lady or gentlemanln only twelve
lessons."
A Corner i
n Cookery
WITH WATERMELON.
HE usual way of serving water-
melon is quits a simple matter.
The melon is out. in half and
chilled tn the ice box. It is then
oer-vet! on an enormous platter. and
every one receives a soot of pie-
shaped plead Bonn persons add a.
bit at salt. some others like sugar.
and the" are those. it is said. who
like vinegar.
Now there really are other good
ways of using this luscious melon.
If you have a French potato-ban
cutter, make his balls of the water-
melon and drain these. and chili
than 1m before being served.
Usually watermelon is used as s.
depeufordlmcr. Tryltassnsp.
pulses. For this you should have
non: small Mind it would be
niaservedtnthiswayonavarm
day. Watermelon lends itself to
salads, too. Use lettuce or other
green leaves for s fanndstlon. Th0.
mwuormeionornrmmm’
lntocnbes. AddaFr-ench
Parbolied green pepper-smash."
been thoroughlychnlodmnloolf
cutupinstripsandurvodbeddss
thepieossotmelonons-lsdbsl.
Watermelonmaksssnlc-toundnp
tionforafreshfnxitshorbtt. Put.
few pieces of chilled watermelon In
the bottom of a sherbit man! than
plieupwithraspberrym.
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”attendants-hunts”
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goesverywell'ithm-hl.
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