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The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
Daily Fashion Talk for Herald Readers
ACCESSORIES CAN
Be MADE AT HOME
And Many Dollars Saved by
Clever NepdleWOman.

Allured by the visions of daintiness In
the windows, the busy shopper a day or
two ago entered one OF those delightful
little shops where "only imported goods
are sold, and where articles that are
Cheap" are those which come within the
range of a ten-dollar bill.
On every side were spread tempting
and dainty accessories for the summer
girl of 1911, each one direct from Paris.
and as she looked the thought came how
very, very easy it would be to make most
Of them.
Becoming Little Caps.
In the first place. there was a dainty
and most becoming little cap marked
s12, which any clever girl could copy.
A broad strip Of buckram. covered with
black velvet. fitted tightly about the
head almost like a bandeau. fringed with
frill of softest lace. while a mobcap-
like top was made Of the same lace. end
ing. like the cap Of the famous pam
jandrum of the childish rhyme, with a
little round button on top.
Then there was a charming set" to
wear with a white linen dress, consisting
of a sailor collar. deep cuffs, and two
apron-like panels to go down the front
and back of the dress to lend princess
effect, and belt TO match.
All were made OF coarse linen en-
broidsred in Alice blue and very dark
blue floss, and were wonderfully lovely
and high in price. yet couple Of yards
OF linen, a transfer pattern for 10 cents,
some floss, and ten clever fingers, and
the result could be achieved and a plain
white linen shirt-waist dress be turned
into one pretty enough for an elaborate
affair
Then there was a set OF turnover COL
lar and cuffs formed OF lace daisy motifs
caught together with a chain stitch OF
embr oidery floss, and edged along the
bottom with a narrow frill OF lace, the
bottom OF which was buttonholed IN yell
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24

One cannot be too careful in selecting
good. well fitting footgear for the little
ones. a little child's foot is naturally
pretty with its slender, straight toes,
and its gently arched instep, but it is
so soft and plant that it is easily nodded.
and an i'll fitting, badly made shoe will
only too quickly deform it and twist it
out of shape.
1t is a debatable point as to whether
shoes or slippers are preferable. During
damp, muddy, or cold weather shoes are
undoubtedly preferable but they should
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home for the feeble-mirded will marry a
silly little girl Just because she Is silly,
or high-browed woman because she Is
intellectual, or a woman because she Is
living fashion plate. and then spend
his time knocking her and bemoaning his
rate because his wife isn't brilliant, or
domestic or economical
The Pretty French Doll Wife.
There's my friend Jack, who almost
broke his neck trying to get Maudie, who
was one of those pretty little French doll
girls who roll their eyes at men and ask
them fool questions. Well. Jack married
her, and Maudie still asks him fool ques-
tons, but he doesn't think It is adorable
in her any longer.
He thinks that she is an idiot, and he
doesn't take much trouble to disguise his
opinion of her from her. She bores him
stiff with her ignorance, her narrow lni-
tations, her absolute inability to under
stand him. or sympathize with him, and
he makes her miserable by his neglect
and his tmpatience with her
Yet Maudie has Just the same amount
Of brains now as she had when he was
SO frantic to get her; and the question
that poor Maudie asks herself is why
Jack married her IL she wasn't the sort
OF wife he wanted? Can you explain
1t to her?
And there's Tom. who was a Door
fellow with his way to make in the
world, and who needed a wife who would
be thrifty and Industrious and know how
to get along. But did he pick out that
kind Of wife? Oh, no. Nothing would
do him but he must marry Sadie, who,
although her father worked on a salary,
was always adorned like Solomon in all
his glory.
Tom knew. and everybody else knew,
that Sadie was one Of those dress-mad
women that must have good clothes at
no matter what sacrifice to others; but
in spite Of this knowledge he married her
Yet he considers himself a most ill-used
man because his wife isn't a model of
economy.
The Mystery of Man.
And SO 1t goes. I could name you a
hundred other instances in which a Sc
rious minded youth has married girl
because Of her levity and then quarreled
with her because she would rather go to
a dance than a prayer meeting: where
men have fallen in love with women be-
cause Of their intellectual attachments,
and then been disappointed because their
wives couldn't cook like mother did:
where men have picked out professional
women for wives and Immediately de-
manded that the women give up their
careers.
why do they do TT II a man wants
a good cook, why doesn't he pick out
a domestic wife? II he wants an intel
iectual companion. why doesn't he marry
a brainy woman instead Of the butterfly
he espouses?
It's a conundrum that thousands of
unhappy wives have grown gray trying
to answer; but none have been able to
do 1t. It still remains part Of the insolu-
BILE mystery Of man.
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Frank said, something has hap.
pened to John and he is trying to reach
home
you're foolish he answered. But
after much persuasion he consented tc
accompany me and together we started
on the search.
I'VE found him near the spot described
in my dream, almost unconscious. Upon
questioning him. we found that he had
been held up and robbed of his salary
His face and clothes were in an identical
condition to which 1 had seen them in
my dream. He would have been frozen
there, had we not come and found him
for he was very weak.
This I consider a most remarkable
happening
The Missing CandIestfck.
A dream recited by Miss Helen Evans:
Not many years ago, at the time of
my marriage, I received among my gifts
an odd. dainty candlestick of metal and
porcelain from a girl acquaintance liv-
ing in the same town.
When the time came to move into my
new home and to find suitable places for
my wedding gifts, l found that wherever
1 would place this particular candlestick
there would always be another space that
would call for the mate TO il. I often
wished that 1 could find the mate TO It,
but never made the search.
Within year after my marriage the
donor of the candlestick died, very sud-
denly, and a few nights following her
death she told me in dream of the shop
in certain street where 1 could find the
mate.
Dream Came True.
The dream impressed me at the time,
but l soon forgot 1t.
About six months after the dream.
while sightseeing with some visiting rela-
tives, we were passing through a stree I
where there are but few shops, and,
when directly in front of one, where the
show window hardly suggested what was
sold within, I stopped I felt forced TO
stop. I then recognized the shop where
l had been told in the dream that the
mate to the candlestick could be found.
Il went in and found the duplicate to
the one l had on a table near the door,
and bought it. l brought it home and put
it in the space that had been waiting for
il, and still have them both.
II mentioned the circumstances to my
visitors and to several people since and
nave always felt this to be a remarkable
dream, but have never tried to account
for it,
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DELICIOUS MENU;
HOW TOPREPAREIT
BREAKFAST.
Halved Oranges
Scotch Eggs Scenes

Halved Oranges
Scotch Eggs Scenes
Coffee
LUNCH
Bgtsch Soup
Apple Omelet Russian Rocks
Lemon Butter Tea
DINNER.
Swiss Stewed Dumplings
Scalloped Potatoes
String Beans Cabbage Salad
Prune Whip Coffee
Scotch Eggs-Divide one cup OF sau-
sage meat into four parts. Take four
hard-boiled eggs and cover with sausage:
roll in beaten egg and bread crumbs and
fry golden brown. Cut through center.
Serve on rings of toast.
Scones-Dissolve half tablespoonful Of
soda and two-thirds cupful of butter or
lard in one-half cupful of warm water
or milk. Add three-fourths cup of flour
and pinch Of salt. Roll in cake one
quarter inch thick. Bake on griddle;
split, butter, and serve hot.
Bortsch Soup-Add to strong and WELL
seasoned beef stock a half cup Of beet
juice pressed from cooked and chopped
beet. Serve with dices of beef. duck, or
chicken, and at last minute add little
cream to each plate. Russians prefer
cream signify Soured.
Lemon Butter-Three lemons grated
and seeds removed, three eggs, one pint
sugar, lump butter, one-half cup of
water. Cook fifteen minutes IN double
boiler.
Apple Omelet-Stew six large apples
Beat very smooth while hot, adding one
tablespoonful of butter, six tablespoon
fuls Of sugar, grating of nutmeg, and
one-half teaspoonful of rose extract
When entirely cold add four eggs, beaten
light, whites and yolks separately-first
yolks, then whites-put in deep buttered
dish. Bake in moderate oven until brown.
Russian Rocks-One cup brown sugar,
three-fourths cup butter, one cup raisins,
one cup chopped nuts, one cup cocoanut,
three eggs, one teaspoonful Of cinnamon,
one-half teaspoonful cloves, one tea
spoonful of soda, three cups flour. Drop
on tin and bake slowly.
Scalloped Potatoes-Brown a quart of
bread crumbs. Line buttered baking
dish with alternate layers of thin sliced
potatoes, butter, pepper, salt, and bread
crumbs; cover with milk and bake forty
five minutes.
Prune Whip-Cook one-half pound of
prunes until dry and tender; remove
stones and mash fruit; add one-half cup
sugar, one-half teaspoonful cream of
tartar, and well beaten whites of five
eggs. Bake in moderate oven twenty
minutes. Serve warm or cold with cream.
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Nothing could De more simple than this
little frock. and 1t has one great advan-
tage for warm weather in that a number
OF them may be made in a day and the
child thus have always a change at hand.
Little material and no labor of any ac-
count are involved in the making.
The small sleeve is cut in one with the
body of the dress. The yoke is cut out
in square outline, which is trimmed with
insertion. and this also marks the edge
of the closing on the left hand side in
front.
There is very little fullness in the dress
and a belt of the material or of leather
may hold this in place.
The pattern, $40, is cut in sizes 2 to s
years. Medium size requires 21-4 yards
3s-inch material, with Sis yards of in
sertion.
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending 10 cents to the Office Of this paper.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24

While It is something OF a surprise to
read of the peasant cut in a boys shirt,
none the less it is here, and It is well
suited to the garment
AS the small diagram shows, the gar
ment forms almost a perfect Maltese
cross in outline. The only seam is under
the arm and the finish OF the front repre-
sents the rest Of the sewing necessary.
The small patch pocket may be worn or
omitted, and the neck should have a band
so that different styles of collar may be
worn with 1t.
Percale, madras, cambria, calico, flannel.
&C., are all good materials for this gar
ment
The pattern. $780, Is cut in sizes 4 to 10
years. Medium size requires l 3-S yards
of 36-inch material
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending 10 cents TO the office Of this paper.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
OBTAINING NEW CoL0Rs
FROM CLEVER YELLING

The custom Of obtaining smart new
colors from adroit yelling, is still preva-
lent and basis for many delightful
tints in satin of bright citron green.
When yelled with old-blue chiffon or
marquisette this is charming.
Light pink over blue and gold over
green are other lovely combinations.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST.

Three cash prizes are offered
for the three strangest dreams
sent to me before noon Friday,
April -.
IS fs the first prize, 81 the Sec
ond, and 81 the third.
The recital of your dream must
not exceed 900 words, must be
written on one side of the paper,
and signed with your full name
and address.
where 1t Is SO requested.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
ASKED BY HERALD READERS

calling for 80 cents WORTH" take q
handful" and the like.
Mrs. N. s. A-Rubber gloves will help
the nails end hands wonderfully IL you
have to do Homework. The dirt and dust
get imbedded under the nails and Crime
into the skin, and 1t takes time and great
care to get 1t out again. OF course, you
only wear them when doing homework
that requires your hands to get in water,
and garden work. All other kinds of
Homework, such as busting, sweeping,
&C., should be done with pair of old
kid gloves a size or so too large for you
Carefully manicure your naiIs once a
week. The imperfections will be smoothed
over and all the little rough places will
be removed. 1t is these blemishes which
so annoy nervous woman and frequently
lead to nail biting.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
Kentucky Cold Cream.

MISUNDERSTANDING is the recipe you de-
sire: Rosewater. four ounces: almond oil.
four ounces; spermaceti. one ounce:
white wax, one ounce. The rosewater
should be added slowly, so that It mixes
well with the other Ingredients.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
PhiIsdeIphfa Pepperpot.

Housekeeper-Twoq quarts of veal stock
(strong). Two pounds Of tripe well boiled
and cut into dice half an inch square.
Three large potatoes cut into dice. One
onion. Bunch of soup herbs-sweet mar
5oram, parsley, and summer savory. Half
an hour before serving add small dump
ungs.
Thicker the soup with roux of flour
and butter rubbed smooth and cooked
together. It should be like cream.
This Is the best recipe I can get of this
delicious soup, which / have often eaten,
but never made. have dozen recipes
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
Hartford Sewing Machine.

Puzzled Janet-I never heard Of the
Hartford sewing machine, and as you
say It has been out Of stock for fifteen
years, I am afraid you will experience
difficulty IN finding book of instructions
Some one reading this who has such a
book may offer It Could you not demand
instruction in running the machine from
the one from whom you bought It? They
should either teach you how to run It or
take IL back.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
THINGS ABOUT MEN WOMEN
GAN NEVER UNDERSTAND
No. 2-Little Mysteries None Can Solve.

In the first article Of this series, Dorothy DIX
wrote of the things about women which could
not understand. To-day she discusses many things
about men which women fail to comprehend.-The
The Washington herald., 1911-04-24
SAILORS

that are worth while-$3
and S.. Will not sag or get
rusty. All colors, shapes, and
sizes.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12
Can You Reply to Queries Of Young
Readers7

The editor of the Children's En-
cyclopedia hit on a happy idea the
other week when he invited his young
readers to send him questions that
they would like answered. The lues-
tions sent in have proved veritable
revelation of the strange paths into
which the juvenile mind wanders.
What color was Adam?" is prob
lem that will puzzle the anthropologist;
while the Psychical Research society
may be interested in the question,
Where do our spirits go when we go
to sleep?" In the latter connection
comes the startling query, why have
dreamed the same thing every night
for two years?"
Among genuine puzzlers, which will
be read alphabetically by every wor-
ried father, we may mention: why
does time never STOP" What is the
correct age of the skies7" why don't
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12

minute Maitland was positively as
sured that their recent meeting had
been altogether an accident. From
what he had heard over the telephone,
he had believed them to be quarreling,
although at the time he had assigned
to O'Hagan the masculine side of the
dispute. But certainly there must
have arisen some difference OF opin-
ion between Anisty and the girl to
have drawn from her that frantic neg
alive Maitland had heard, to have
been responsible for the overturning
of the chair-an accident that seemed
to argue something in the nature Of a
physical struggle; the chair itself lay
upon its side, mute witness to hasty
and careless movement on somebody 8
part.
But 1t was all inexplicable. Event
ually Maitland shook his head, to sig.
nifty that he gave it up. There was
but one thing to do-to put 1t out of
mind. He would read bit, compose
himself, go to bed.
Preliminary to doing so, he would
take steps to insure the fat against
! further burglarizing, for that night at
least. The draught moving through
the hall stirred the portiere and re-
minded him that the window in the
trunkroom was still open, an invita-
ton to any enterprising sneak-thief or
second-story man. So Maitland went
to close and make it fast.
AS he shut down the window-sash
and clamped the catch he trod on
something soft and yielding. Wonder
ing, he stopped and picked it up, and
carried it back to the light. 1t proved
to be the girls handbag.
Now" admitted Maitland in tone
l OF absolute candor, Il am damned
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12
CHAPTER XIV.
T he Price.

Slowly Maitland returned to the
study and replaced the lamp upon his
desk; and stood briefly in silence, long
fingers stroking his well-shaped chin,
his face little thin and worn-look-
ing, a CLEAN of pain IN his eyes. He
sighed.
So she was gone!
He laughed a trace harshly. This
surprise was nothing more than he
might have discounted, of course; he
had been a fool to expect anything
else of her, he was enjoying only his
just deserts both for having dared to
believe that the good in human ma
ture particularly in woman's nature)
would respond to decent treatment,
theory.
So she was gone, without a word
without sign!
He sat down at the desk, sidewise
one arm extended along it's edge, fin.
gers drumming out dreary little tune
on the hard polished wood; and
thought it all over from the begin.
ming. Nor spared himself.
Why, after all, should it be other.
wise? Why should she have stayed
Why should he compliment himself
by believing that there was aught
about him visible through the veneer
acquired in score and odd years OF
purposeless existence, to attract a
young and pretty woman's heart?
He enumerated his qualities spe
officially; and condemned them all. I'm
prints, he was a conceited ass. A
fascinating young criminal had but
to toss her head at him to make him
think that she was pleased with him
to make him forget that she was what
she was and believe that, because he
was willing to stoop, she was willinf
to climb. And he had betrayed him
self so mercilessly! How she mus
have laughed in her sleeve all the
time, while he pranced and bridled ant
preened himself under her eyes
blinded to his own idiocy by the flame
of sudden infatuation-how she mus
have laughed!
Undoubtedly she had laughed; and
measuring his depth-or his shallow
ness-had determined to use him t,
her ends. Why not? 1t had been he
business, her professional duty, t,
make use of him in order to accom-
plish her piundering. And becaus,
she had not dared to ask him for tn,
jewels when he left her in the morn
Ing. she had naturally returned in tn
evening to regain them, very con
fidaut, doubtless, that even II surprise,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12

a second time, she would get on scot
free. Unfortunately for her, this fell
low Anisty had interfered. Maitland
presumed cynically that he ought to
be grateful to Anisty. The unaccount-
able scoundrel. Why had he returned ?
How the girl had contrived to es-
cape was, of course, more easy to un.
derstand. Maitland recalled that sud.
den clatter of hoofs in the street, and
he had only to make a trip to the
window to verify his suspicion that
the cab was gone. She had simply
overheard his concluding remarks to
the cabby, and taken pardonable ad-
vantage of them. Maitland had footed
the bill. She was welcome to that
however. He, Maitland, was we'll rid
of the whole damnable business. Yes
jewels and ALL
What were the jewels to him? Be-
yond their sentimental associations, he
did not hold them greatly in prize. OF
course, since they had been worn by
his mother, he would spare no ex.
pense or effort to trace and re-collect
them, for that dim sainted memory's
sake. But in this case, at least the
traditional usage of the Maitlands
would never be carried out. 1t had
been faithfully observed when, after
his mothers death, the stones had
been removed from their settings and
stored away; but now they would
never be reset, even should he con
trive to reassemble them, to adorn the
bride of the Maitland heir For he
would never marry. OF course not.
Maitland was young enough to be-
lieve, and to extract melancholy sat
ifcation from, this.
Puzzled and saddened, his mind
harked back forever to that carking
question: Why had she returned ?
What had brought her back to the
fiat? If she and Anisty were confed-
crates, as one was inclined at times to
believe-if such were the case, Anisty
had the jewels. and there was nothing
else of any particular value so per-
sistently to entice such expert and ac-
complished burglars back to his fiat.
What else had they required of him
His peace of mind was nothing that
they could turn into cash; and they
seemed to have reaved him of nothing
else.
But they had that; unquestionably
they had taken that.
And still the riddle haunted him
Why had she come back that night
And, whatever her reason, had she
come in Anisty's company, or alone
One minute it seemed patent beyond
dispute that the girl and the great
plunderer were hand-in-glove; the next
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12
YORKTOWN TO CELEBRATE.
Where Gen. Washington Took Corn
wallis Sword $50 Years Ago.

The eyes of the nation will be cen
tered upon Yorktown, Va, on October
10Th. 1t will be the 130th anniversary
of the surrender of Lord CORVALLIS to
General Washington at the siege of
Yorktown.
There will be large celebration at
Yorktown on that day, consisting of
battleships, marines, soldiers, etc.
The movement of the George Wash
ington Memorial association to have
Yorktown Day, October 10th, OBJ
served throughout the country by a
series of peace demonstrations in honor
of Washington has found many ad-
herents in twenty different states and
it expects that Yorktown Day will be
declared a half holiday throughout the
country in order to permit school chill
dren, and others, to take part in the
peace observances.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-12
Strange Marriages.

Marriages are sometimes so,ar,r-
lied In strange places. In Christ.
church, England, wedding took
place not a year ago in a church which
was already partially demolished n
make way for a new building. More
recently still, a church in which q
marriage was about to take place in
England was burned down, and the
firesnen were still pouring water upon
tho smoking ruins when a wedd,ne
party made their way over the debris
-Womaa's Lifo.