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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
TODAY'S HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
BY MARY LEE.

is nothing specially to be bought. the
sum could furnish the cost OF niue
outing or the table for luncheon
party, providing little luxuries which
otherwise might have seemed extrav-
agant.
Wasting Energy.
II stopped in to see Mrs. Fret this
morning on my way to market and
found her in a state of mind" said
Mrs Happy Homemaker. ''She looked
actually pale and thin. What do you
suppose it was all about? She enter
tains our little social club next week,
there are only eight of us, and she
has been living through the details of
that simple function. making mental
lists of all the things she will have to
do. until she is nearly crazy, and the
event is seven days off yet.
II told her the story of the woma n
who sat down Monday morning and
walled: Here it is Monday morning
and all the washing to do, tomorrow
| will be Tuesday and no ironing done,
Wednesday and no baking done: good
ness, half the week gone and nothing
done YETI
The thinking of and dreading any
| future task produces more hurried,
| worried. WEAKNESS than hours of calm,
steady work.
! And why do we women so often fall
into this habit? Because we forget the
Y -
unto the day and fail to concentrate
on the work in hand.
! when we are making the beds, we
| think OF something in The kitchen and
| dash down and do that. then we re-
member that the big table in the liv-
| ing room has not been busted, or the
canary bird fed. and here, there and
| everywhere we run, finishing nothing
! carrying always the burden of uncom-
! pleted work on our shoulders. Is II
i any wonder we get worn out mentally
| and physically?
| as ii any wonder that we add our
names to the list of discouraged
| housewives who testify that house
, work is the hardest occupation a wo-
man can engage in because it is ar
| emergency vocation"
! "But if we stop to think for an in
| slant we realize that the best ordered
! business in the world could be upset
| If emergency methods were employed
! in its conduct, if nobody concentrate ed
I on the business in hand. or finished
: what he had begun.
/ How do I manage, you ask?
! We'll. one of my pet notices is
! plan, but don't worry, ahead
| suppose | am having that luncheon
| for eight Thursday. Wednesday | do
! my main ordering, prepare my soup
! stock. look over the linen, dishes and
/ silver that | plan to use Bright
and early Thursday morning I am out
! finishing my marketing; ] come home
| and make my salad dressing, help with
| the dessert or make the cake-it de
! Ponds on what | have
! That brings me up to II o'clock say:
| / then set the table and go over the
| house to give the final touches which
| every woman loves to bestow before
| company comes; this takes about an
| hour, so l have an hour free in which
l to rest and dress"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
A Worth While Frock.

The newest frock by Jenny, who has
risen to such heights of success recent
". is sketched today. 1t may not be
repeated in the later styles, and again
il may, for there is no law about these
things, but it is very worth while and
significant in two ways; it shows that
metal braid is coming in strong and
that the moderately narrow skirt with
a full tunic will be retained by this
house.
These two features in fashion have
been upheld by Jenny straight through
the wild call for the swirling Russian
skirt. Callot has also chung to the
narrow skirt. except for the frocks
she made especially for American buy
ers last February.
What are we to do in this conflicting
Ikriod? Are we to face a division or
opinion and not know which way to
start out on the seasons clothes? Woe:
Woe
This new frocif- by Jenny is; of satin,
A material thai has been so deter
minedly replaced Ey taffeta for year
that it is surprising to see it's sudden
return. if only temporarily. The col
or of this frock is blue. and the use OF
gold braid is exceedingly interesting.
because we were assured that metal
trimmings would be used.
Copyright, 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Gowns for Fishes.

7
! No house knew whether it would ever
/ receive the merchandise shipped to it,
| co.. sh;,n;no ,t oil Kinds WIS off sched
49,, :..;
| uie anu uhce' 'aii,' quay INC 81 20
| is different ana the hazafdS are dlher-
| ent. Shipping is easy, but the gowns
NAV go to the fishes instead of to 5th
anro
,,,ll ..o>. ,ao b,. CON.
mere 1S n W. a., a.ee ~ s,ou tho Win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

with hand nhroidery, braid or but
tons. There is quite a vogue for
trimming with buttons, was evil
denced by a smart black satin gown
on woman just over from Paris
bottom, over the seams under the
arms, and on sleeves and bodice with
large white bone buttons. This fad
is not to be recommended. The use
of bone buttons as a trimming is n
big risk, for the result is more apt to
be hdeous than smart.
Buttons. however. are to be extensively
used as trimmings during the autumn
and winter, and if you make this dress
edges of the panels, then use buttons.
They are .prettier when braid loops are
attached, and all monner of buttons
and loop trimmings are for sale now.
Use similar loops braid on the
cuffs. collar and pocket. or make
of a plaid silk. The use of plaid silk
trimmings with wool suits will in
crease toward autumn, and many hand
some plaids are to be seen. The dress
striped silk sleeves, vest and pocket
and worn with a white collar instead
of the plaid one.
This type of bib dress is only suit
able for young people. Older women
wear bibs half way up the front of
or they have a bib effect with low
cut bodice worn over a bodice of an
other material with a high neck.
To obtain this pattern mail 10 cents
in stamps or coin to Lucille Gordon,
care of The Star. Be sure to state
number and size wanted, and give your
name and address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Economy in the Home.

Economy in the household lies in
watching the small expenditures rather
than the larger OUTLAWS. This the
young housekeeper seldom realizes I'M
til she learns the lesson by experience.
Because she hesitates before spending
large sums she believes she is eco
nomical and that cents here and a
dime there mean little or nothing at
all. They do. however, make quite a
difference to the income or outgo, as
she has spent wisely or not. AS dollars
will take care of themselves if the
cents are looked after. so large pur-
chaSeS are almost sure to he wisely
made if the small ones are well con-
Sidered.
The temptation to spend these trif-
ling sums is greatest when things are
marked extremely cheap. Their small
cost is apt to be considered instead of
the actual necessity for buying. AS an
instance. / know woman who had no
idea of buying Il soda until she saw a
sign proclaiming two ice cream soda S
for the price of one-10 cents-and con-
sequently bought the two tickets. An
other spent GO cents for things she did
not need, but because handkerchie ifs
could be had for cents instead of / , y.
cents each, neckwear for % cents in
stead of IS cents. and fancy pins were
reduced to 20 cents from 80 cents, and
much money. 1t is fact that trilline
sums spent for needless things will IN
week amount to n sum total that
will furnish wholesome meal for the
family.
1t may be said that the things bought
cheaply can be used, but it is also true
that they could be done without in
many cases. OF course, if such things
are needed and can be bought at a bar
gain, needless to say it will be an
economy to secure them.
A good plan to break ones self from
the habit of spending nickels and dimes
needlessly is to put the sum aside ono
is tempted TO spend and watch ii mount
up. In this way one has n fund to
draw upon when things really needed
are to be got at a bargain and the
money will never be missed. Also
there will probably be sum worth
while, SO that one can lay in stock
of the needed article instead of .pur-
chasing one or two with the small
available sum. There is an economy
in buying a stock. For instance. two
pairs of stockings will not last nearly
third the time six pairs will wear
and the same with lingerie, household
linens and footwear. The service is
number of these.
II the young hOUsekeeper will try
this plan of saving the pennies l am
sure she will never break the habit
1t will be such a pleasure to know
there is a little nest egg that can be
spent without being missed. If there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

LOOKS TO ME LIKE NOTHING But
AN OLD WOODPECKER HOLE
SAID HE.
middle of the night when you were fast
asleep.
With frightened little shrek Tim
my started to scramble out of>his snug
little bed, but there was nowhere to
scramble to. You see, when the tree
fell the little round doorway was
closed, because the tree had fallen with
that side on the ground. SO there was
Jimmy a prisoner in his own house
and not knowing at all what had hap
pened. His heart went pitapat. pitapat,
as if it would burst. What was it?
What has happened?' he kept saying
over and over to himself. OF course, as
soon as he had had time to really think
had fallen. at must have been a ter
rible storm that did this thought he.
1T must be that great wind blew my
house over. And that is queer, too. for
when went to sleep early this morn
ing I didn't notice any signs of a
Storm
Then he listened for sounds Of rain
or branches rubbing together as they
do in high wind. But there wasn't a
sound. 1t was as still as still could be.
That's queer" thought Jimmy again.
But minute later he heard a sound
that put all thought of a storm out of
his head. 1t was-guess what! 1t was
the sound made by somebody shifting.
Yes, sir. that is just what it was. Lit
tie cold shivers ran all over Jimmy.
Any one big enough to sniff like that
was to be feared. Sniff! sniff, sniff! It
was right at the point where Timmy's
doorway was closed by the ground
There it was again. sniff! sniff. sniff
Then there followed whine. 1t was
an eager whine. Then more shifting
and another whine"
Hello! What have you found. Bow
ser?" cried a voice. You act as if
der there"
"Bow-wow!" exclaimed a great voice
that would have frightened Jimmy still
more if that had been possible, which
it wasn't. He was already as frightened
as he could be. Then Jimmy heard
claws begin to dig in the earth close
by his doorway.
OF course, you know, if Jimmy didn't
just what had happened. Bowser the
Hound had smelled Jimmy and was
telling his master in the only way he
could.
Wait a minute, old fellow, and I'll
roll that tree over and well see what
you are making all this fuss about"
exclaimed Farmer Browns Boy.
A minute later Jimmy felt the old
dead tree being lifted. Then it was
rolled over so that his doorway was
free once more. He was just getting
ready to spring out and jump for his
life when there was another of those
dreadful shifts. this time right in his
doorway. Then Bowser parked as if
greatly excited. Farmer Browns Boy
walked up and tried to peek in the
hole. but he could see nothing because
it was dark inside
Looks to me like nothing but an old
woodpecker's hole" said he. But I
never knew you to make a mistake.
Perhaps there is a mouse in there. Now,
you stand back and I'll rap on the tree
with a stick"
So Bowser obediently stood back,
though he didn't want to, and Farmer
Browns Boy raped on the old dead
tree with stick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
AMERICAN FASHIONS.

Dame fashion has HE'D to the nurs-
cry for one of the most youthful and
fetching of the styles of today. the bib
dress There are, in consequence, as
many kinds Of bibs to put on dresses as
there are frocks to be finished with
bibs.
The gown in the pattern is intended
for a young girl and is an excellent
model for a school dress for girls
going to high school or college. 1t
is built of serge, and may be also
made OF heavy pongee, taffeta, faille
silk any suitable wool material
The skirt flares quite full at the bot
tom and the panel may be trimmed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Peanut Fruit Cookies.

To make peanut fruit cookies one re-
quires one-half of cup of butter, one
cup of light brown sugar, two eggs,
two teaspoonfuls of baking POWDER one
teaSroonful of cinnamon, one-half of a
teaspoonful of nutmeg and cloves. a
pinch of salt, one-half cup of raisins
chopped. and a cup of chopped peanuts.
First cream the butter. add the sugar
and eggs, then add the flour, baking
powder and spices sifted together.
Lastly add the raisins and the nuts.
Chill. roll, cut and bake In brisk oven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Potato Pufs.

Prepare lightly beaten mashed pota-
toes and while hot shape into balls the
size of an egg. Have a tin sheet we'll
buttered and place the balls on it. AS
soon as all are done brush over with
beaten egg. Brown in the oven. When
done slip knife under them and slide
them upon a hot platter. Garnish with
parsley and serve Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
BY ANNE RITTENHoUsE.
, CORRESPONDENCE of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star
NEW YORK, August 16.-The open
ings are lin full swing in Paris, al
though most of the new gowns ana
wraps have been thoroughly gone over
by the American buyers, and copies of
them are being rushed by the houses IN
order that they may be here the mid
die of September.
There will be difficulties in transpor-
tation this summer. but they VIII not
be as serious or as confusing as they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

OF course it didn't happen to Jimmy
the Flying Squirrel in the night. but
to him it was just the same as it would
be to you or me in the night. You see,
like several of the other Little People.
Hooty the Owl and Bobby Coon and
Unc' Billy Postum, Jimmy sleeps in the
daytime, and so he was fast asleep and
dreaming when Farmer Browns Boy
pushed over the old dead tree in a hol-
low of which he made his home. 1t
would have been bad enough if he had
been awake and had known what was
going on. But he wasn't, and SO when
that old dead tree fell with a crash it
was just the same to Jimmy as it
would be to you if your house should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

were last season. Unless something
new and startling happens in the in
tervening weeks which will throw out
the plans of those who are prepared to
ship all the French output to the
states the method is easy and the path
is straight
Last August everything and every
body. was in a state of chaos. The
few buyers who got to Paris were not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Are You a Good Cook?

DO you do your own cooking? Are
you good cook?
But what difference does it make how
one puts it, for the real question is
this: DO you realize the remendous
importance of food to your health
looks, happiness and worldly success?
SO whether you yourself charm the
grocer's and butchers supplies into
good or bad dishes. or whether you
pay somebody by the month to do
| either for You. it is all the same.
The question has to do with what
you get out of food.
Somebody has said that Americans
are the worst cooks in the world, and
it is doubtless true. as few other ma
items tale kindly to cur cooking re-
CipeS. We pride ourselves on what we
call plain living. which is only another
phrase for dyspepsia and mental bore
dom.
Pleasure is absolutely required for
the proper digestion of food. that
thrilling telephone message to palate
and stomach which the sight and smell
of good things bring about. This de-
licious anticipation starts the gastric
juices flowing, liberates the secretions
of saliva in the mouth and so prepares
the way for speedier digestion and as
similation than would come without it.
When the mental pleasantness is alb
sent. iii fact, one can never be sure of
the stomach's acceptance of food. The
nausea one so often feels after eating
is sure indication, among Others
that the stomach and palate have had
little interest in the diet. Hence the
tremendous Importance of good cook
ing. since the finer qualities OF the
senses are needed to charm away the
Indigestion forever lurking in food
stuifs The sense of smell. the saliva,
the gastric juices are the bond serv-
ants of the mind, and so the mind itself
must be pleased
If we could live without eating we
surely would, but since we cannot
there is nothing to do but get all the
The natural waste of the body is one
twenty-fourth of its weight daily, and
consequently we have to supply like
materials. These elements of the body,
chemically speaking, are heterogeneous
and non heterogeneous. The heterogeneous
foodstuHS are both animal and vege-
table, and are taken into the body in
the form of proteids. which are subdi-
Vided INTO numerous other essences
necessary for life and health.
All of these essences are constructive,
the builders of energy, mental and ply
steal They stimulate the changes nat
ural to the body and generate it's heat
When food is badly cooked the power of
the unseen helpers is lost weakened,
and ma nutriton. if not actual ILL
makes our blood, bones and flesh, so
if we want these good we should have
the food good. That mysterious thing
called the soul is also in bondage to the
f1neness or coarseness of our eating,
all of the substances appropriated by
the veins and lymphatics seeming to
change it to some degree for better or
worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
BLUE SATIN AND GOLD BRAID.

sure they could get out, to say moth
ing of their frocks, and wild adventures
resulted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
THE DAILY MENU.

BREAKFAST
Peaches. Cereal
Poached Eggs on Toast
Buns. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Cream of Lettuce Soup.
Potato Puffs. Sliced Tomatoes.
Fruit. Cake. Tea.
DINNER
Chicken Broth with Rice.
Fried Chicken. Brown Gravy.
Ma shed Potatoes. Drowned Sweet
Potatoes.
Apple Sauce. Sponge Cake.
Coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

! The use of mint sauce is not confined
| to serving with spring lamb. 1t is the
| favorite sauce with many for all
! meats. Strange to say, numerous up
to-date chefs prefer the bottled mint
| sauce, with its true. fresh, exhlarating
| flavor, to the old-style sauce filled with
| leaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

Transparent sleeves promise to be
fashionable in the fall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
Little Storle,
10 Bedtime
Jimmy Doesn't Know What
Has Happened.
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1915. by ]. G. Lloyd

To wake in the night in terrible fright
l. 7 terrible thing. you'll agree.
i hope and | pray that nothing that way
May happen to You or to me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17
~ TEE
KITCHEN
| PANTRY

After sleeping. or trying to sleep,
through a hot night. breakfast needs
must be a particularly tempting re-
past to coax an appetite.
heralded as Il breakfast appetizer -
Ready to serve. although a little but
ter enriches. With the addition of crisr
hot rolls and delicious coffee-there
leaves but little to the ina gination
Something else to whet the appetite
is orange marmalade-a truly midsum-
mer preserve. One never tires of it's
slightly bitter flavor.
The esthetic touch, Maraschino cher
ries-not only of pleasing flavor, but
adding greatly to the appearance and
taste of lemonade (people actually
climb away down to tall glass to get
one), sherbets, ices, fruit salads and
lots of other desserts.
Picnics to the right of us. picnics to
the left of us-ard does anything ever
taste quite SO good as sardnes for the
picnic luncheon? You'll be sure to
want olives, too. Stuffed with their
own meat, pimentos, celery or nuts.
Then baked beans with tomato sauce
are equally good, cold or hot. Thin,
tempting slices of dried beef will ma Ike
nice sandwiches. Peanut butter to top
crisp crackers, and don't forget grape
juice for grape lemonade.
The use of mint sauce is not confined
to serving with spring lamb. 1t is the
favorite sauce with many for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-17

Charming in the extreme are the new
lingerie frockS of crisp organdy in
white or pale rose. or daintily barred
with color. cut in lines demurely plain
and not an atom of lace in their COM
position.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-03-18
DELTA and SUNSHINE

A. G. Wright and son re Jpn
we're Lynden visitors one day last
week.
A number from here attended the
debate in Glendale Friday evenlhs.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Ericsson enter
tanned the following guests on sun
day: P. Axling, Mr.. and Mrs. \. r.
Axlund. Reuben Axlund, and MISS
Edna Blomquist.
Mrs. Melvin Johnson was on the
sick list a few days last week.
Delta school defeated North Pra'-
RE school in a spelling match Aeio
at Delta school on Friday.
E. Anderson is hauling poles VIII!
which he intends to build an addl-
ton to his barn.
Rev. Anderson held services lIl
Delta church on Tuesday night.
Arthur Pearson expects To leave
soon for Kendall. where he IS to
work in a lumber mill.
Henry Wander Yacht and Joe
Helgath each took a big load OF p'-
tatoes to LINDEN one day last week
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Barkstrom We're
in LINDEN last Friday.
Fred Lash has been hauling al
falfa from Lynden the past week.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-03-18
PLEASANT CORNERS

Mrs. E. o. Green and children Of
Seattle dined at the Hall home on
Thursday.
The Laugh-A-Lot Literary met
IT Cooley's Wednesday evening. An
ENJOYABLE time was pesnt.
VIII Bliss has been on the sich
list this week.
Miss Minnie Dykes of Sunrise
visited at the Hall home Wednes-
day and Thursday.
VII! Bliss and daughter Henrle'-
ia dined at the Smith home Sunds y
The Laugh-A-Lot Embroidery clut
met at the home of Mrs. VIII kel-
lev. Those present Were: Eta and
Allie O'Neal, May and Laura Crab
tree. G. E. Hall and daughter LII
lie. Mrs. Alvah Kelley, Henrietta
Bliss. Mrs. c. c. Smith and mother.
After an enjoyable time light re-
freshments were served.
Miss Lille Hall has been on the
sick list thist week.
Mr.. VanPatton and son Whitney
have been painting tn heouse on the
Beckes & Stuart place west of Lyn-
den.
Miss Orel Handy, who is teaching
at Hopewell, came home Saturday