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The Washington times., 1919-12-03


worried about you You can afford
10 be generous and forgiving. be-
cause you are right and they are
wrong. Why don't you 20 on about
your business. calmly and without
temper,
Go to your pastor and tell him
about IL. Choose one who UNDER
stands American waya He'll 20 to
your parents and try to make them
understand.
Make friends among the etrls
where you work. You are wrong
10 be so much alone Why
shouldn't you believe in friends,
Are you so different FROM all other
human beings that you don't need
ahection and company OF your own
age?s
Bring your friends home with
you and let your parents see that
the city is full of girle with the
same ideas as yours. Good. honest.
hard-working girls who have
right TO their own lives and their
own innocent friendships
Don't quarrel with your parents
That only makes matters woree
II you can't get along with them at
all. leave home and go and live
with some respectable family that
will understand you. or in some
settlement house. A
But whatever you do. do not
drive love out OF your heart. Love
your parents love your friends,
and when the right time comes.
love the right man.
No. ! shall not blame you n yvu
ieave home. but / shall blame YOU
II you leave home in anger Of with
an unforgiving spirit. Can't you
make some excuse about wanting
10 be nearer your work or some
.hing?
Be sure, little si..cr, that fhis
state OF afeirs is not going to last
very long. II VII SON be over.
Time Is the gyeatsst medicine for
such things. And remember. N you
are III or in troute. your parents
VIII stand by you as no one else
In the world will
Love your mother and put YOU
arms around your fathers neck.
Laugh and sing with him and
make him feel that you are still
his little innocent-hearted girl By
degrees you will win them both TO
calm understanding OF the new
and TO them puzzhng way Of life.
Copyright. 1919, Newspaper Feature serv
Ice, Inc Great Britain rights reserved
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Don't FOrQet
the Babies
By Rita Stuyvesant.

A T THIS joyous season Of the
~ year when the holiday spirit
hovers over the home, please
don't forget the other less fortunate
homes. Christmas is especially for
the children. but there are many
youngsters in our big cities who do
not know the pleasures Of this holy
time.
Perhaps IT Is some poor mother
With new baby who needs little
garments to keep him warm, or
maybe 1t is an older child who onlv
emembers his cold fingers of last
winter. With so many worthy war
charities to contribute to last sea-
son, our home babies have been
somewhat neglected. and now ther
are hundreds of little war-ba bies,
born when their fathers were fight
Ing In Flanders. So, when you are
making dainty garments for your
own baby, remember that other
poor baby "just around the cor
ner."
Warm little frocks can be cut
from white fannelette and bright
ened with pink or blue cross stitch
trimming. A petticoat also of fan
nelette may be made on a small
waist dozen diapers can be
hemmed In a jiffy on the sewing
machine.
The older child will appreciate
good warm winter coat, and you
can make her one from your old
skirt or-from your husbands worn
suit coat. Choose a simple model
but finish it neatly. For extra
warmth you can interline it with
wool or flannel.
A pair of knitted gloves for
school will bring comfort to cold
fingers. Brown gray, black or navy
are colors that will not soil readily.
After a bath there is nothing so
comfy as warm robe, and for a
little baby you can make a comfy
kimono long enough to cover him
from half-yard of material. A
dainty color, such as pink or blue
should be chosen for the baby's
Christmas gift.
From the odds and ends of your
knitting bag you can knit a warm
carriage \ cover like the ones we
sent over to the Belgian babies
last winter. Let each of your chill
dren knit a square, then sew the
whole together. A lining may be
put in IL desired. A gift of this
kind can quickly be made II every
one helps. 1t doesn't make any
difference how many colors are
used, a. the effect is very quaint
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BY Virginia Terhune Van
de Water.
Author OF Many Novels and One of
the COuntry's Best known Writers
Of Short Stories.

IVI In her own room, reading
an interesting novel She
did Not look up as Ruth entered,
but finished the paragraph on which
she was intent
Ruth was accustomed to her
mothers absorption in novels. Mrs.
Courtney had a romance-loving ma
ture and reveled in light fiction.
So the girl waited now until her
parent was ready to speak. And,
as she waited, she looked thought
fully at the calm face and delicate
features Of the reader.
Mrs. Courtney had been a widow
for many years. She often said that
she had never put on colors and
never would. Soft grays and
various shades of purple were not
classed as ''colors" and were most
becoming TO the wearer-suiting
her calm face and silvery hair.
We'll. my dear" she said at last,
drawing a long breath as she look
ed up from her book, did you want
anything in particular? This,
tapping the volume, lis certainly a
would enjoy it-or. IL you would
about the same things, you know"
Yes, l know" Ruth admitted
gently. What l came up to tell
you. mother. is that Hugh Rodney
is downstairs. He wants to see
you"
Mrs. Courtney regarded her
daughter with quickened interest
He wants to see me, you say.
Ruth? Oh, my dear-is it-what
does he"
She paused, as II expecting a re-
ply to her unspoken question.
II think" Ruth suggested, that
he would rather tell you himself.
mother dear"
An eager light sprang to the
matron's eyes. She loved her chill
dren-and Doris was her darling
yet what mother does not long to
see her daughter happily married?
81 will go right down." she said.
patting her soft gray hair with both
hands and glancing hurriedly into
her mirror. Are you coming, too,
dearr'
Ruth Sits Alone.
Ruth shook her head. mo.
mother-it was you Hugh wanted
to see-not me-"
She doubted II the agitated pa
rent heard her reply. Already she
was on her way through the hall
leading to the stairs.
Left alone. Ruth stood irreso-
lutely. She picked up the book her
mother had laid down and smiled
as she saw the name OF the author
He was great favorite with Mrs.
Courtney, who declared that she
understood entirely why the sale Of
his books was phenomenal
HE writes lovely stories-so
sweet and wholesome-and yet so
very interesting!" she often said.
Ruth thought idly now that II
was well this man was Q pfolt0e
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Virginia Terhunc Van
de Waters New Serial

admit she scarcely knew herself
this evening, she had spoken the
truth when she had said that she
was glad for her sisters happiness
Then why did she have this vague
feeling of depression, as IL a bit OF
bad news had been impaired to her!
Was 1t a warning of some impend-
ing disaster?
Sitting down in the chair her
mother had just left, she tried to
analyze her own feelings. She loved
Doris. Everybody loved her, she
reflected, remembering how tender
was the tie between the mother and
her elder child. Love was Doris
right. Then, why was her sister
conscious of a sense of deprivation
on learning that one more person
had succumbed to the girls charm?
Was she SO selfish that she could
not be happy in the prospect Of her
sisters marriage to man who
would love and cherish her?
No Ruth was frank enough with
herself to know that her depression
was not caused by jealousy. or
course, II would be lonely in the
home when Doris was gone. but
hat loneliness would be harder for
the mother than for the sister.
There was a much closer intimacy
and mutual understanding between
Mrs. Courtney and Doris than be-
tween the mother and her younger
child.
A Bitter Truth.
Ruth always had stood somewhat
alone. She remembered she had
confessed this once to Hugh Rod
ney. He had seemed to comprehend,
now that his own mother was dead.
he had said that Laura was much
dearer to her father than he was,
fond as the older Rodney was Of his
son. He had added that fathers al
ways loved their daughters better
than their sons. He knew his father
was proud OF him and depended
upon him, but Laura was his dar-
ing. Yes. Hugh had understood
Ruth's loneliness.
Perhaps that was why Ruth had
been able to talk herself out so
frankly to Hugh on this subject OF
the slight barrier between her par
ent and herself. He understood so
well-indeed, he always understood
her moods.
And at the thought a swift pang
smote her. He had been such a sat-
lsractory friend to both her and
Doris. Now she, Ruth, would not
feel at liberty to confide her little
troubles TO him any more. She
would not have the right to do so.
Yet, she reminded herself. she
might talk to him as freely as in
times past. He would be her broth
er-in-law, therefore closer TO her
than ever.
But she shook her head decidedly.
81 cannot do it," she muttered.
THAT is over forever. And the
sooner / appreciate that truth the
better"
To BE Continued.
To render ME crust dakY try
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Mrs. Woodrow Writes of
Wlfe's Salary as Center
OF Argument in Family
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW.

funds into IL. which is nothing more
than fair. since II IL prospers yoa
Will expect co reap the benefit
But even 50. what reason 10 there
for not keeping your own bank ac-
count? Your cancelled checks will
be IN exact record OF the amount
you put into the business No
matter how close the relationship.
IL Is always wise when II comes 70
the disposal of money. even among
reiatives-especiaiiy among rela-
tfves-to have things on q definite
business basie
If you wish 20 help your husband
build up business and your
Judgment tells you that II 10 q
good venture, you can draw what
proportion OF your earnings you
wfsh out Of the bank and hand X
over TO him. But you should have
In return exactly the same insight
into the manner In which the ouei-
ness Is conducted and the same sc-
counting OF pronts and expenditures
that any other partner or investor
would receive and require.
That is what >you Win Be, IN In
vestor or partner. and your connec-
ton and riehts should be def
nitely established and protected
Husband Laying Up
Trouble for Future.
II seems 10 me that your husband
holds strange view OF the mat
ter. There doesn't appear to b.
any sound reason why he should
wish to absorb your earnings into
an account on which he has the
sole drawing power
II Is not a proposition which he
would make TO a man. and there is
no ostensible excuse for making ~
to a-seIf-supportine woman. mere
ly because she is hts wife. II 10
not "cricket"; and does not snow
a spirit of fair play and proper
consideration for you.
You earn money: therefore you
may spend ~ Having worked for
IL. II is to be supposed that you
are able 10 use your Intelligence IN
the way you lay II out You are
not n child. who has never had the
handling OF money and is, there
fore. not to be trusted with IT,
Your husband. IL he did but know
II. is only laying up trouble for
himself in the future. N he uses
your money 10 help establish his
business on a sound foundation
you are certainly entitled. as
8 have pointed out above TO q sbarr
Z in the returns. And II he keep
you in the dark as to the exact con
= dition Of that business. or as to the
amount OF return which, 10 Justsfi.-
bly, yours, you will always have a
ranking sense OF injustice and dis
satisfaction which win not make
: for happiness IN your married life.
j Put the matter on strict bust
ness basis and keep IL there. n il
not r. occasion for sentiment
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~ o young-and so unhappy. All
because she was born In one
~ place and her parents were
born in another. No. IL isn't a
farce, or even a comedy. II Is
tragedy, or il would be one II some
lhing didn't happen.
Here's the letter telling about IL:
DEAR MISS BLACK:
l am an Italian girl and have
a pair of old-fashioned parents.
/ work all day long and in the
evening / naturally like little
recreation. My parents strongly
object to this, because they say
that all the neighborhood is talk
ing about me.
What have they got TO say about
me? | only go to movie show or
| go to do some shopping. And
always go alone. l don't believe
in friends.~> When ] try to put this
in my parents heads they add In
suit to injury by saying that what
people say is true.
Now. if / have my own parents
agaisnt me, what shall do? When
/ argue they call me such un-
heard-of names. They simply
won't be convinced of my inno-
cence.
know you win reproach me for
what / am going to say. but can
help it. hate my parents ano VIII
ALWAYS hate them unless they
change their opinion of me-
am so miserable, I'm going
to leave home and lead peaceful
life. You won't blame me, either,
feel assured of that. But please
answer this letter first because
am willing to take your ADVICE
Excuse my writing, for I've just
had a quarrel with my parents and
I'm certainly unstrung.
CONFUSED GIRL"
Sov in the first place, little
sister, you must realize that II Is
very fine thing TO be or Italian
blood and not, as you seem TO
think, a reproach-
when we were living IN log huts
and eating with our fingers, the
italians were painting immortal
nictures and writing immortal
poems.
And. whisper christopher Colum-
hrs was an Italian. Did you ever
stop to think where we would be,
we Americans, IL il were not Tor
Columbus and his courage and de-
termination?
or course. IL is hard for you To
live YOUR own life in the American
fashion and your parents live In the
Italian fashion. Your father and
mother are absolutely wrong In the
way they treat you; but they are
old and cannot change You can
not expect them to see things as
you do.
But + think you. too. are wrong.
You are too high tempered, too
emotional and too sensitive.
A simple Solution
Your parents are worried about
Won. They don't understand. They
taal ,ust as a hen feels when she
matches out a brood OF ducklings
and sees them take to the water.
She thinks they are going 10 drown
Can YOU expect her to cackle with
delight at the idea?
Now, what il the ducklings turned
on the hen and tore her TO pieces
because she didn't want to let them
go svimming-wouldn that be
waste of time and energy, as well
as being very sad7 After all, the
hen hatched out those eggs and
took the best care she could Of the
little doXny ducklings and Il
really isn't her fault that she never
learned to swim herself.
Your mother and father love you,
and that's the reason they are 70
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qhesghful Marketing
An Essential

After your menus are planned you
nave stin the marketing and cook
ang to do. Make out a market list
Tor the week Do your marketing
yourself Find out what fresh
Rrufts and vegetables are In season
end therefore cheapest Perhaps
your city or town has a special
market day; If SO. take advantage
ef IL Don't be persuaded to buy
m extra quantity of anything Just
Pecause IL Is bargain If you
Ind something that you can put up
% advantage, and have the time to
70 IT, by all means do It: but learn
20 say No" unless you are sure
200 win use what you are buying.
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The TWO Voices

writer. for he afforded so much de-
light to a certain class Of readers.
For herself, she had tried to peruse
one of his novels, but had been
sadly bored by it. This proved, her
mother had declared, that Ruth had
no romance in her nature.
The girl recalled this structure
now with a dull wonder that a pa
rent should know her child so little.
Yet. the daughter was forced to
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Money In the Home
Little Tricks For Women
in Household Economics
By ELIZABETH LATTIMER
By ELIZABETH LATTIMER.

THREE meals a day each house
keeper must prepare. To some
q II Is a delightful task, giving
free play to Inventive and construc-
tive ability, while to others 1t has
become a dreaded and an irksome
necessity. But do IL she must, and
she does II In one of the following
three ways. Which Is yours?
1. Plans her own meals.
.. Cooks without planning.
3. Follows some one else's menus.
The woman who knows her busi-
ness of home-making does the first.
She takes a week as her basis Tor
meal planning and the necessary
marketing, and she has a definite
weekly sum with which to pay the
bills. The sum 10 be spent for
food should be in proportion to the
family income. The smaller the In
come the larger share of IL that
must be spent for food. That would
be about IS per cent to As per cent
Of the salary for incomes under $50;
so per cent of 500 to $3.50 salaries,
tand 25 per cent for 5000 and larger
salaries
Plan your meals for the week,
keeping in mind the five following
|groups of foods which were recently
outlined by the United States De-
partment OF Agriculture. Be sure
that one or more foods of each of
Ithese groups are In your menus at
least twice a day, and you will be
giving your family a well-balanced
ldiet:
Group Protein or flesh foods, such
|Rs lean meats. poultry. fish. oysters Also
milk. cheese, eggs, dried peas. beans,
peanuts, etc.
Group Cereal or starchy foods, as
Dread. rice. macaroni. tapiocA, cereals
land breakfast foods.
Group 3-The fatty foods such as but
Ptcr, cream. salad oils, bacon and othsra
Group &-Vegetsbles and fruits, as po-
.tatoes. greens. lettuce, celery. green peas
|and beans. carrots, cabbage. asparagus
(cauliflower. onions. etc, and all fresh
l1ruits
Il Group Sweets. as sugar. cakes AMI
teookies. candies. sweet chocolate ieilies
preserved fruits, jams, marmalades
EAoney,, moiasses and syrups. dried figs.
bfates, raisins. etc.
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To Reduce Your
Food Bills.

J.. Buy by the pound, quart or
peck, not by 10 or 25 cents worth.
2. Find out for yourself how each
pound or quart will serve your fam
lily.
8. Cook fewer dishes. but cook
them well.
f. Find out what your family like.
Don't force too many new things on
them
5. Learn to make soups, souffles
or desserts of any foods still not
eaten.
s. Plan varied menus.
= The number of foods in each meal
and the hours at which they are
served are still largely a matter of
custom. although they should be a
matter of family choice
Before cooking your meals think
over your menu and ask yourself
these questions:
1. Which dishes take longest to
cook?
2. Which must be served as soon
as done?
g. Which can be kept hot with
out spelling the flavor or texture?
4. What can be done ahead of
time-washing. pairing or soaking?
This will help you to do the half
a dozen things at oncep to get a
meal on the table on time.
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Of my husbands gave US an army oian
ket, which is dark gray. | was in need
of cape or coat. AS the prices are SO
high, I had the blanket dyed a oark
blue and made a cape out OF II, and
added fringe to the bottom OF IL, and
must say II looks stylish and Is very
warm, as it's pure wool.
MRS. PAULINE JULIAN,
625 street southeast
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Warm Cape
From Dyed Army Blanket.

Todays Economy Prize goes to
the following letter:
DEAR ELIZABETH LArTIMER:
Every day I read the letters of econ
omy, and must say they are very inter-
esting and surely do help a good deal
] will tell you of a little schemS that
rve found very successful A friend
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Wasted Food
Materials,

full garbage pail proves that
the nigh cost of living in your home
Is due largely to waste along one
or more of these lines:
1. You buy too much for your
family.
2 You serve too large helpines.
g. Your food Is not we'll cooked.
=. You are giving your family
dishes they do not like.
D. You do not think Of the soups,
souftles and desserts that can be
made of left-overs.
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Riisiness Basis With
Relatives Is Best

Since you ask my opinion. think
that any woman who Is financially
independent, 10 foolish not to stay
SO. And why let all the obst macy
in the family. be monopolized by
your mother and your husband?
Why not be a stubborn character
yourself. and put an end to all this
wranglinR one way or another. II
seems to me that neither your hus-
band nor your mother Is the decid-
ing factor IN this case. 1t 10 dis
Gnctly up to you
You are and have been earning
your own living. Any one who
earns money Is entitled to the dis
position of it. You have probably
made your own expenditures in the
past perhaps paying your mother
for your board. or else giving IN
some way toward the upkeep OF the
house. Your husband also earns
his living and is apparently max
ing plans for establishing a busi-
ness of his own. You may heartily
approve of this venture, and be
willing to turn some OF your own
The Washington times., 1919-12-03

To render pie crust naky, try
adding half spoonful OF vinegar
to the cold water when mixing.
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because you would
have too much fat
or Group 2.
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uo Not Serve
On One Meal

1. Beef, macaroniN
and cheese and ba-
Iked beans
2. Rice cooked inS because y
l1nflk. poashed egg( have too m
Iwith crcamed chip-l tein-or Gr
bed beef on toast
kopovers and milk
;. Pork fried po-t
1fatoes, suef pudding
yNirh hard sauce.
4 Cream Of to-f
E1ato coup, nufton\ -because y
{chops- creamed po-i have too r
kstoes. salad vfthi or Group
knayonnaise dressing
nd whipped cream
dessert
S. Sliced bananas\
f~fth cream, corn
rakes with maple I-because '
kyrup, rolls or toast have to
md cocoa starchy an
s. Curried chicken floods. Grou
with rice. mashed S. Both a
p ota essw et producing,
Potatoes. beets. bis muscle bull
sa.ts, cake and
!, Each meal should have
land variety. both as to tn
.served and the way in whi
fare served.
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because you would
have too much pro-
tein-or Group 1.
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THAT eternal problem. money

THAT eternal problem, money.
1t is always obtruding itself;
and since there IL nothing
we can get free without II except
air. we are constantly forced to its
consideration. l am sure that the
serpent in Eden was merely q sym
Dol for it
One or my correspondents nnds
herself In a perplexing situation
because OF IL. She writes that she
has been married only two months,
and already has become involved
In perpetual discussion of the
money question.
She Is earning her own living
and intends to keep on doing so:
but the question that has arisen
between her husband and herself
is whether or not she is entitled to
retain her salary for herself.
But let her state the problem In
her own way:
Now. what i want to ask you is
this" she writes. do you think
the bank account should be in nv
husbands name only, or in both
our names? My husband wants II
in his name, but my mother thinks
that Is absolutely wrong and says
that I should be independent.
MY husband says that after he
goes into business he will let me
have a bank account of my own,
but for the present thinks II best
to have q common fund. We are
stopping with my mother now and
this question creates constant dis
cussion. He positively refuses to
give in and so does my mother.
They are both very stubborn
Please tell me what you think, as
II Is causing a lot OF unnecessary
argument in our home"
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( When cutting fur, never use
scissors; use a razor or very
sharp penknife to cut through the
sAin at the back
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because you would
b a We too much
starchy and sweet
foods. Groups 2 and
s. Both are heat
producing. but not
muscle building.
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Winning Your Parents
EVEN AT FIRST THEY MIsUNsTAND
By Winifred Black
, Her the OeNofio


~ young-and you can .no
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A T THIS joyous season Of the
~ year when the holiday spirit
hovers over the home, please