Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-11
ESlAIk H675zaa SMN

the divine streams pour through the human
frame of soul channel. Inc su-
premest achievement of our will Is the rem
derng itself mirror of the great Will.
can do all things through Christ, winch
Strengtheneth me- In tune with the III
finite our hearts play wonder melodies.
There
Is a surprising revelation in the way &C
tresseS eat.
One spoke enthusiastically of the way
she and her husband denied themselves all
but the most nourishing food, so that they
might always be in the best condition for
their work, and it is common for at least
the greater ones to admit that they have
come to success along the same pain.
When the home woman realizes as the
actress does that the one and only gauge
for eating is it's power for bringing cut
the best that is in her she will be living
out the heart of the things mental and
moral which keep alive the discussions or
clubland.
Femininity as to eating balances one way
with those who stuff comfortably and the
other with those who don't know whether
they have had anything to eat or not.
The passionate love for her art is the eX-
cuse which one of dozen actresses makes
for the simple hygienic food that she con-
fesses to. The singer holds the same rem
over her food supply for the sake or Ger
voice. This writer and that Sticks 10 we
simple chocolate, the toast, the irult or lIe
heavier fare on which, after careIul eApeli-
ment he does his best work.
But the brain does not need to De less
keen the judgment less true or the ilea i I
less attuned to its best messages IN the
business of mothering. Far-reachlhg re-
suits of right and wrong hang on a nun
dred of the decisions which are mace IN
answer 10 the small chap VINO lmpatiehIlS
stands on one foot by his mother WIN u e-
mands that she hurry up Even the
mothers intuition, thought to be God-slVeh,
finds itself checkmated in the FEMININE
"hgh-lver," who eats for the love OF gooo
things.
look needed in the home cannot come from
the mother who is nervously underfed. IN
running a home she has at least as much
need for SustenanCe which makes for moral
and sniritusl DEVELOPMENT as the woman
who earns her living by her nina ana Gnu
tons and who finds it to her interest care
fully to choose.
Was It
BY accident that 1t was IN magazine
devoted to art in everyday living that
story dealing with the human interest only
made the setting in a room described as
having worn furniture and faded carpet,
llpon whose shabbiness lay the grace OF
daily delicate living2'
Il is going deep and far back for the
recipe for furnishing room like this, TO
ike we'll to think well, and to be given
over to refined pursuits. And yet any one
can remember that it is just these marks
that have stood out on those few rooms
that were so perfect as to stay in the MEM
DRY among the retreat places, where one
has love to go.
Tangibly such room holds the rare flick
erng fire, which tells nowadays of the i'm
portance in which are held sweet influences,
the bit of modelling begun and covered, the
picture that means something in the occu-
pants life, the group of others that nave
been brought in by travel, the evidences
of that kind of reading which the sroper
after things intellectual feels like humbly
begging to be allowed to take eagerly down
upon his list. And perhaps it is the glow
of the samovar or the chocolate pot and
cups inside low glass door. which tells of
the little comfortable ways when nerves
are tired. Eloquent again is the group of
miniatures hung low, indicating the habit
of attachment to treasures.
When it comes to the art of homemak-
| ing, shabbiness is a light offense beside dis
play, and it is in the absence of this that
! the ambition for an artistic home can take
its first tangible lesson. Get your new rug
and your new upholstery If you need 1t,
and get it oriental IL you can, but remem-
Der that ii is what you do in the environ
ment that puts the finishing touches, and
that the best decoration is the essence CT
fine living.
GRACE RILEY CLARKE.