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F the myosotis became articu-
1 late. it would begin to murmur
“Forget-me-not. forget - me-
not." for the myosotis is of course
only the rather lofty name for the
little blue flower that has for ages
stood for faithfulness and ildelicr.
. The rose is always considered .to
speak especially of love. and the
( red rose especially has always up-
pealed to the sentimental as sym-
bolic of romantic love. The white
rose. too. bespeaks love. but pos-
sibly of a less passionate nature.
The humble daisy really has a
great deal to say about love, for
is it not this blossom that girls
of today like girls of yesterday
consult as an oracle in matters of
the heart? "Does he love me pag-
sionately? A little? Not at all?"
asks the English girl. while the
American follows the undoubtedly
older form—~"He loves me, he
loves me not. to desperation, a
little. not at all." The French
girl simply says. ”11 m'aime. il no
m'aime pas.” Apparently there
are no two ways about it. He
either loves her or he does not.
Many of the poets have mentioned
the daisy—associating it with
5 W e e t rusticity. Interestingly
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fin 0:3 in her famous mad scene
' Hamlet. she mentions the daisy
ut telling what message it
.. "There‘s a daisy." she
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l‘ansiee for Love
There’s pansies, that's f o r
._..ts." says the beautiful, de-
n‘er‘. Ophelia. and pansies have
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'1 associated with thoughtful-
in our minds ever since. An
r poet specified that they
w e “for lovers' thoughts." and
‘.‘.":\’ have been frequently called
"Eieat‘ts' ease.” It is not very
szrsnge that these expressive,
cs‘ z'ful flowers are chosen as es~
peciaily significant by many a man
and the maid he loves even today.
Florists bear witness to the fact
that they are often preferred to
the most beautiful roses by love-
struck young men who will accept
no other substitute even when
pansies are very rare and there—
fore very expensive.
But- the average young man
chooses the rose to carry his mes-
sage of love. One young man who
had fallen very much in love do-
cided that nothing could better
show his singleness ofh devotio:
than to send to his c armer
single exquisite rose. He left this
order with his florist. who some—
how fumbled matters and sent out
a single carnation. The young
women to whom it was sent natur-
ally thought it was a joke and
only when the young man followed
this order with two dozen of the
most expensive Americaxizbeauties
w 5 she willing to role
aAll the poets seemingly have
associated the rose With love. and
i: was especially admired by
Shakespeare and his contem‘;
poraries. Among these. Edmun
“'aller wrote the famous forge
beginning "Go lovely rose. e
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loved. Many years later Bobby
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53:5, “Oh, my luv’s like a red,
red rose.”
Spring Bulbs Poetic
Lilies have always stood for _
been
urit and much as they have
Edmits-red they would seldoni be
used as a symbol of romantic lin:e
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of flowers change quite as dis-
tinctly. if not quite so rapidly.
as the fashion in bats.
We are getting away from the
naturalistic arrangement of flow—
ers that was most esteemed eight
or ten years ago. Then the test
of being able to arrange flowers
“artistically" was in being able to
do it so that they looked as if they
hadn’t been arranged at all. It
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fashioned to make formal bouquets
and usually to combine two sorts
of blossoms in the same vase was
avoided. We demanded very long
stems on roses and other flowers
and we implored the florists to lay
the flowers we ordered in the‘box
with as little precision as possible.
We wanted them to look as if they
had been dropped there by some
careless hand of magic.
It was then that women solue-'
time arranged a single rose or
several roses in a vue and then
pulled off a petal or so, placing it
beside the vase as if it had fallen
quite accidentally. And woe be-
tided any uninitiated husband or
brother who inadvertently brushed
away such fallen petals.
Now it is considered rather
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-—-snd there is a miniature garden of tiny cactus plants and a basket
of growing try. too.
The florists' shops are full of
potted primrose; at this time of
the year. We often forget what
a much admired flower this was
among the poets who apparently
had as much to say about it as
the rose itself. .
“Soft. silken primrose, fading
timelessly,” says ilton, and
Shakespeare sighs
“Pale primroses that die unmarv
ried. ere they can behold Bright
Phoebus in his strength."
Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Beaumont and Fletcher, speak of
the “mills primrose that forsaken
dies.” Apparently they all al-
luded to the fact that the prim-
rose closes its petals in the bright
sunlight.
Heather, which can be obtained
in some florist shops, is said to be
very lucky. and white heather.
sometimes found in Scotland and
other places where heather
abounds. is a. sure omen of a happy
marriage. There is an old super-
stition that gives the ivy plant
power to attract love. and the girl
who has not found her true love
is urged to gather a leaf of the
ivy from an old wall. and prick it
with the word “love" with a pin
or needle. “’hen the wind blows
she must toss it in the air and
from the way it is blown she will
know what sort of true love to ex-
pect. If the leaf is blown high
he will be rich, if blown into water
he will be a sailor, if it fails on
the street he will be hard working.
if it is blown out of sight he will
come from afar.
Sometimes-with the Mutant
evening frock. a tiny “but:
flowers “seduce”
when“.
Do You Agree .
”If u'vo got work you like, a
(flanges: can trust and a strong
stomach, you’ll have enough to
be thankful for.”
-'—Unclo Samuel. in Hugh Wal-
pole‘s “Jeremy and Hamlet."
There are lots of men like
Mr. Wilkins in “The Enchanted
April.” It is cold of him that he
‘sneomgod thrift, arcspt‘ that
branch of it which get into his
food. He did not call that thrift,
in called it‘ bad honor-keeping.
But for the the“! which. like
moth, pouch-It? into Mrs, Wil—
king's clothes and speak them,
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Do You Look Down to Your
Husband?
HERE'S hoping you don’t so far
as mental and moral char-
acterstics are concerned.
That isn't the question. But actu-
ally is he so short or are you so
tail that when you look into his
eyes you have to look down rather
than up? For some reason or
other we present-day Americans
seem to find something rather
humorous in such a situation.
When a comic artist wants to
make a man and his wife appear
as funny as he can he shows a
short man with a woman much
taller. That in itself is supposed
to he side—splitting. And when by
chance in grand opera. a tall prima
donna has to sing. opposite to a
romantic tenor below average
height, it is all many members of
the audience can do not to litter.
And of course no movie star
would ever think of being filmed
opposite any sort of hero who was
not inches taller than she-tliat
is unless she was a comedy star.
and wanted her audience to
snisger.
This attitude toward the man
who marries “above him" does
not really seem to prevail in
Europemat least not to so great
an extent. When royal princes
consider the eligibility of royal
princesses seemingly the question
of relative size does not enter into
the question at all.
Seemingly the old notion was
that there was as much to cause
amusement when a man married
a woman very much shorter than
himself as when he married .a
woman who was taller. Thackeray
married a woman who was very
much shorter than himself—“the
merest slip of a lassie. so short
that on tiptoe she could scarcely
pat her husband‘s cheek.” Thack-
eray was not infrequently asked
why he chose so short a woman
for a wife.
~Undoubtedly many a tall girl
has remained unwed for the
simple reason that the only man
she really could have loved was
shorter than herself. and little
men have been known to hesitate
a long time before asking the tall
girl of their heart's desire to
marry. It would be interesting to
~< m the braver souls
~who diluent merely physical in-
equality of this sort and do marry
film the extra inches on the wrong
de. ever regret their decision.
Probably they do not... After all.
the ‘hardest ordeal of all mutt be
to stand at the altar with a man
who barely tops your shoulder
and afterwards walk down ,a
church aisle towering half a head
or more over the man you have
promised to "honor and obey.”
.One wbman who married-a man
several inches shorter than her—
self assures us that she never even
thinks of the discrepancy any
more. .
No one- can venture to say
whether England's Prince of Wales
will eventually marry a girl to
whom he looks down. But it has
been observed that he seems to like
very tall dancing partners. .Lady
Ursula Grosvernor and the Duchess
of Sutherland are two charming
women of about six feet with whom
the prinée is often seen dancing.
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clever to arrange flowers with
studied precision. We have gone
to the Japanese for lessons in
floral arrangement To be sure
the laps always avoid anything
like symmetry or regularity in the
arrangement but their floral ar-
rangements always show the most
painstaking care and precision.
We are not always content.
however, with the Japanese ar-
rangement. We are inclined to go
back to the methods of bouquet
making in vogue in the 1840's and
the 1860's—prim. perfectly sym-
metrical little bouquets often en-
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Often we affect these‘ precise little
bouquets in a vein of humor. They
are somehow suggestive of little
girls in lace—edged pantalettes and
smooth ringlets. “Ye seize upon
them as a means of voicing our
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All sorts of floral decorations
were much in vogue during the
Napoleonic period. Napoleon had
a fresh bouquet for himself every
day of the year. for which he paid
600 francs to Mme. Bernard. a
fashionable florist.
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Your Favorite
Color
re 11‘ BLUE?
THERE isra notion held by some
observers of color preferences
that people who are born in
May have a natural predilection
for blue. But as a matter of foot
there are probably as many ad-
mirers of this color of the heavens
who are born in February as in
May or June or any other month
of the year. In certain European
countries there is an association
between May and blue because
May is the month dedicated to the
Virgin Mary and blue is the color
of the rainbow dedicated to her.
Small children seldom show I
preference for blue. nor is it a
color much admired or noticed by
savages and primitives. It has in
fact small significance for the
primitive man. since it is not the
color of any form of food. as are
various shades of red. purple and
w orange, nor does it indicate dan-
famous cake: .
make a stiff batter.
well beaten. sugar. butter and lord and a. little more flour.
and the dough drops clean from the hands." adding more flour if necessary. Pat. the dough out into
a half-inch thickness and lay in greased shallow pans and let it rise again in a warm place. When
light make holes every two or three inches in both directions and fill each hole with a small lump
of butter and a little brown sugar. Sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar and bake in .- tan-1y
quick oven for twenty minutes or a little less. .
You Can Ma‘ke the Famous Bethlehem Sugar Cake
NY one who has ever visited the Little city of Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. sings the praises of the
A sugar cake that is baked by the good housewives of that place.
down as a matter of tradition from mother to daughter in many of the Moravian families there.
It is not the easiest thing to get a recipe. as most or these old-fashioned cooks measure ingredients
by an accurate eye and hand rather than by graded mensumg cups.
It has become a fad Roently among. many clover American hostesses to serve their guests with
real. old-time American dishes rather than the supposedly French concoctions thatwereso long con-
sidered preferable to our own/local and natonal cookery.
It calls for one pint of milk. one cup of mashed potatoes. one yeast cake dissolved in one-half
cup of tepid water. one scant tablespoon of salt. (“'0 eggs. one cup of granulated sugar. one cup of
butter and lard mixed and bread flour.
Add the dissolved yeast cake to the pint of lukewarm water. with the salt and enough lions- to
Beat well and put in a warm place to rise. until very light. Then add the eggs
““‘ork’ the sponge until blisters form
Here then is an accurate recipe for this
The recipe has been handed
TWENTY-ONE MEALS A
MONDAY
Breakfast
Grapefruit
Farina Thin cream
Poached eggs on toast
Coffee
Duncheon or Supper
Cold roast duck Saratoga chips
Brown bread and butter
sandwiches
Canned peaches
DIN NEE
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Baked ham Macaroni an mun
Spinach Dried lima beans
Cabbage salad.
Apple pudding
mar '\
W
m Thin cream
Bacon '
Rolls . Come
~ luncheon or SW
Split pea soup
Spinach salad ,. _
Apple sauce Ginger bread
DINNER
Grapefnut appetizer
Cold sliced .ham Creamed cabbage
. , stashed potatoes
Prune whip
WEBMAY
Mast
“ Stewed prunes» -
Fried bominy Maple syrup
Buttél'od toast Goflee
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Luncheon or Supper
Ham omelet
Muffins Celery salad
Tea Cookies
DINNER
Cream celery soup
Broiled lamb chops Baked potatoes
Green beans .-
Chocolate cake
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Stewed apricots
Oatmeal Thin cream
Soft boiled eggs
Toasted muffins Cote.
maroon or Supper
Baked rice and tomato
Sheet! oranges. bananas and grapes
. Crul
lers
scalloped potatoes
Canned peas' _ Lettuce salad
., Raisin pie
FRIDAY
_ Breakfast ‘
' ‘ Grapes 7,
Corn flakes . . Thin, m
dreamed eoddsh on toast
Coffee ,
.
luncheon at Supper =
Hot chocolate , Whipped cream '
DINNER
Clear tomato soup
Fried nsh illets Creamed potatoes
Buttered carrots
Pear and cream cheese salad
Wafers Coflee .-.
SATURDAY ’*
Breakfast
' , Baked apples
Griddle cakes Maple syrup
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Cones
nunchcon or Supper
Cream of carrot soup
Toasted cheese sandwiches
Date whip
DEREK
Mashed potatoes
Fried parsnips
Banana salad
Cottage puddinz
Veal loaf
. SUNDAY '
Breakfast .
Raw apples 3‘ ,
Fried potatoes '
Coffee cake . Celene”
Nut and olive mp0s
Rout beef Browned pounce;
Mashed turnips: Celery salad
‘ Hines pie
sum
Cold sliced '9‘! 1m
ger. as does the red of are or the
dark tones of storm clouds and
stormy seas. For this reason in
certain primitive languages there
is no word for blue whatever.
Men no doubt observed the color
of the sky and the forget-me—not.
but they .had nothing to say
about it.
Psychologists say that the man
or woman who prefers blue to
other colors is apt to be of an in.
tellectual. highly civilised typo.
Through the ages the color has
been the symbol of constancy.
hope. fidelity and serenity—doubt-
less becauae of its association with
the clondless sky. In Christian
art it also represents piety ad
prudence and combined with white
symbolizes chastity.
The veil of Juno—the faith“
spouse of Jupiteb—was of blue
and blue is the color used by
Christian artists when palnung
the garments of Christ. St. John
among the, disciples also wears
blue.
Recently we have heard quite
a bit concerning Egyptian blue.
and this is considered the most
fashionable of all the shades of
the color. It was the color used
by the ancient Egyptians in do-
- picting the clothes of the chief of
all their goddesses—Isie—Iwho
was the special patroneas of the
arts and of agriculture.
Apparently the bluest object in
our experience is indigo. for we
say "as blue as indigo." Ultra
marine is a pigment known to
painters bearing a name meaning
simply "across the sea." Cobalt.
another blue pigment color. is
taken from a steel blue metallic
substance.
'The precious stones of the color
are lapls lazuli—anointing simply
azure stone—which is a clear
light blue. sapphire. a deeper clear
blue, and turquoise an opaque
stone with more or less greenish
tinge.
Navy blue—bled marine in
France—ls doubtless the favorite
blue for the dress of present-day
womankind. Navy blue. however.
was probably very unusual in an-
cient Rome or in the Middle Ans.
It is essentially modern and is of
course derived from the uniform
of the sailor. Just at present we
hear much of King's blue and the
French “roi Dion." 9. rather vivid
shade. And a year or more use
we heard on every hand of peri-
winkle blue. an unmistakabl.
blue of a slightly violet cast. This.
as of course you know. was named
lued with the hue. but more than
one milliner and fashion authority
went through an entire season of
periwinkle blue with the firm con-
viction that the periwinkle was :
kind of flower. fl
Blue, like most other colors. has
its disagreeable aspect as well no
its pleasant one- Yellow my sig-
nify glory or jealousy. honor or
shame. ,Blue at its worst signifies
depression. gloom or coldness: No
one likes to be “blue". his}: is
a much more honorable state than
being really ‘Tellow". and most
moss would rather be blue than
really green. To some person.
there is always an association of
austerity. extreme ”(lateness and
the less attractive-7 attributes o:
Purltsaism about this color.
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