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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
The 'Woman's EXCHANGE

put 1t up again, for didn't like l.
It's one year now, and my hair only
grew as far as my shoulder; don't
seem TO be growing any longer. dom!
curl II or do anything to II. What can
l do to let 1t grow as II was?
I am an American by birth, but ny
grammar is very poor when speaking. !
use too -Inany slang words. ! would
like to improve my English. II there y
way you could, please help me- for y
means so much to Inc. I left school ID
tho sixth Il. ANXIOUS
Yes, you can Join a gymnasium clas
at the Y. w. c. A. to get reducing e1s
cises, But a careful diet will help as
much as anything. Try eating Just Z
little less of everything, without actually
cutting out any one thing.
Get Il good hair tonic from the druf
store and put this on your hair, rubbing
It into your scalp every ether night for
while Brush your hair very thor.
oughly every night before you go to bed
and keep IL clean and shiny.
If you are really very anxious TO IN
provo your English you could study q!
home, but there are public schools which
have night classes where you could
learn the same thing moro easily. Call
Locust 0500. the Board of Education
to find out what school Is nearest
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
WHAT'S WHAT
by HELEN DECIE

Tho present 9Th OF January was De-
cember 90 In the old calendar. When
the calendar was changed two centuries
ago, January s, Twelfth Night, was
called Old Christmas or Little Christ
mas, the end of the holiday season.
From! t!me immemorial, Twelfth Night
has been tie bean feast" At a dinner
or supper party given on this night,
cake In which a large bean has been
baked Is the distinctive feature OF the
feast Each member OF tho family and
each guest In turn cuts a section OF the
cake and whoever draws the portion
containing the bean must play host or
hostess for the remainder Of the eve
ming. AS Master OF the Revels" or
King OF the Bean" the temporary host
must order games or other forms of
entertainment. and all must do his bid
ding. II he feels unequal to the task
no may present the bean 70 a more
resourceful guest ~
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Read Your Character
By DigJy Phillips
Swinging Arms

Swinging Arms
Ever notice the way people cary
their arms when they walk: Of course
you have.
But did you ever realize that they
are revealing their characters thereby
or at least, parts of their characters ?
The chance is that you never did, except
perhaps that you have been vaguely and
subconsciously influenced in your iudg-
ment of 4 person by it,
When the arms swing freely and the
walk is an energetic one, YOU have u
character Of the fearless, vigorous and
alert type. Such people are alert in
the sense that their mental processes
are keyed up, not in the sense that they
are always craftily on the alert. They're
alert, but they re not unduly suspicious
Generally you'll find them we'll poised
and sure of themselves both mentally
and physically. And for the most part
they come under the classification known
as the motive type. That is, they arc
prcdominatcly people OF action. They
are the doors and acromplishers rather
than tho planners and the "highbroWs.
They are also the people who are in
ciucd to be bit reckless. quick IL not
always careful in their decisions, and
seldom oppressed by fear OF any de.
scription.
Tomorrow - The Pumphandle Hand.
shake
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Things You'll Loue to Make
Gl&pta~

CORDED AMI INLAID ILANGTNGS
arc stunning over plain net curtains.
Usu II light-Colored silk for the upper
part Of the eide drapes. for tho cord.
Of OF silk or Velvet for the valance sns1S a2S
borders Cut out OF the borders and
valance squares about five inches on
each side Cover some cable cord with
Turn back a small edge around cacG
square, and bind with tho covered cord
lGdge tho valance and bands. top and
bottom, with the cord. Join the squares
Set square OF the lighter -colored silk
under each cut-out square. Place the
darker border over the light silk so thar
the light silk forms n lining for the
bands. Line tho valance with the
AND INLAID HANGINGS are cy.
quis!te on living room windows.
FLORA.
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as hard as she does, And vta. about
the time when the show pndsY Sbc'li
D. out Of u job; she'll have 10 look for
"orH again, and YET she uevor rr,iuhIcs
or complains"
u was a dangerous frame OF mind
ior n man TO be in. and Nick fell,
somehow indebted 70 DAISY. Hut when
IN" taXl skidded around the corner and
into the street where Daisy lived she
,llted her head suddenly and, meeting
ms look with wide, innocent blue ewes,
sue said with just the proper amount
OF embarrassment:
.,,i was 50 tired; I hope you won't
m used to doing such things,''
Don't be asburd, child" Nick re-.
Iur,leu qulcA'y; And he left her later
"'II warm little glow IN his heart.
Nhat dear little thing she was,
and what child He wondered what
she would do IL he gave her a p,ft Of
some kind. He had never sent her anv.
thing, not even flowers or candy, and in
Imagination be could see her childish
face light up and her voice pitchcJ
hlgR eIclaiming over something be
might send 10 her.
IL was rather a pleasant ,ictr,e
and he decided 10 send her a big hoy al
assorted candy the very next day. BY;
IN the meantime Daisy was seated be.
toro her dressing table, n contented In
Tie smile on her full. childish mouth.
Hes weakening all right" he,
thoughts ran gayly, but I mustn't Le
IN too much of a hurry. Wouldn't /,
be joke II ! should end BY falling IN
love with him? hope I won't be such
a fool as to do anything like that, FOR
then II anything happened 10 upset nv
plans the joke would certainly be on
TomorrOw-Ihe Serpont's Tonvue
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"J HAVE friend who thinks he

nay ~ irlend VINO thlnHs II" caii
L write" says young correspon-
dent. 'He has written several small
articles and stories, some of which
have been printed and for one Of which
he has been paid. The only knowledge
lie has. he has derived from the various
books which he has read. ] have nr.
gued with him that an author must
have actual knowledge that is, knowl-
edge derived from experience. travel,
etc, before he can write something real
10 interest people. for, according TO my
theory land I mas be wrong you can
only go certain length Of time In writ
ing stories from your mind and from
ideas from books read. before YOU have
TO start nll over again II you don't
want TO get stuck For your stories
would be purely imagination and made
up, and think there is nothing like
actual experience to make story
real
please let mo have your opinion, for
I am always willing 10 stand corrected
If 7 am wrong" Il. X.
1T1IfE best proof Of your friends ability
i to write lies in the fact that he has
his stories and articles accepted anu
paid for.
And II is true that writer can make
things that are purely imaginative so
convincing and real that they sound
Ike actual experiences. -.
Edgar Allan Poe. for example, could
not possibly have lived through all the
horrors that he describes so wildly IN
his stories.
Yet they seem so real that you shud.
der for days after you read them.
Jane Austen made no attemrt TO
write adventurous, exciting stories.
She drew upon her imagination
merely for ordinary events that might
happen to a very usual family Of her
day.
jIcr life was just as quiet and serene
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MRS. WILSON'S ANSWERS

Dear Mrs. Wilson-Will you please
give n method showing how 70
steam puddings, and what utensils
arc necessary? use o closed can
and set 1t in the ten kettle. but find
that this is not successful. Does one
run the suet through the meat
grinder! Also please name a good
oven thermometer. Mrs. S. 7. r,
Place the pudding in either nm omen
or closed mold; and then place in n
steamer. This utcnsil may be purchased
a. the house furnishing stores ouite
reasonably, and will soon pay for Itself
in time saved In cooking the puddIpcs :
also it can be used for cooking yeeo -.
tables, old chickens, etc.
Run the suet through the food chop
per, dusting it first with a little f]onr
II you will send me stamped enyeIope
/ will send you the name of a good
oven thermometer.
Dear Mrs. Wilson-Will Won nIeass
give recipe for the white dressing on
potato salad the kind that thew use
on the salad sold in the stores?
Mrs. L. Il.
This dressing is made by reducins
mayonnaise with equal parts OF vinegar
and sour cream, beating we'll to blend
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She Doesn't Think He Can Write
Because HeHas Only His lmagination
But If That Strong Enough He Should Be Ablc to Start Non
and Get His Experience as 1t Comes .''

and undisturbed, even rather dull. a!
the lives that all her heroines led.
Yet her books are still read and IN.
joyed more thdn a century after The,
were written. -
60, YOU sec, It Is possible for yo.,
- young friend to be success wbich.
ever course he follows. -
Travel and experience would helm HIM
Of course, but IL he has imaginatio,
enough he can at least start witbou,
either.
After all fiction doesn't have toth.
true. You get trifle bored reading
book that sounds like chronicle OF ILL.,
torical events.
Actual experience makes feelings Ana
memories more vivid to q writer. Nm,
II he understands human nature Vii
enough he can imagine how any ors
would feel under given circumstance
anyhow.
A slightly fanciful touch lights nm /,
story very pleasantly now and thep.
YOU see an author gets his exper. |
l. ence as he goes along in life, writ.
ing his crude attempts at first and grad.
ually learning more and more abou,
the world and life. 81
Writing is just mixture Of persona
experience and knowledge, with inar.
nation and "your own mind"
Success depends largely upon tA
ability Of the writer to mix the tive
harmoniously.
TTHERE are lots Of people 10 In
i world who think they can write. M.
cause they have had such profound
knowledge and experience--and nothing
else.
But when somebody with Imagination
but no knowledge or experience coms
along and manages 10 get his shr
without them, he Is the one who |,
going to 90 on to real success.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
Iy MRS. VI. 4. WILSON

Copirr2h'. 1929. by Nry u. 4. Wi'9or. A.!
rights ~rseTvcd
TOLD, frosty days sharpen the
~ appetite, and give the folks real
zcst for their food Aunt Hctty Wal
cote, New England housewife, says
keen weather just naturally makes the
folks eat YOU out of house and home.
Aunt Hctty is splendid cook and
takes real personal interest in this
fact; she makes many of the old time,
delectable goodies that the New England
housewife Is justly famous for.
While visiting her many Of the neigh.
bors run In for samples, or to borrow
special recipe. and here in q real home
community her recipes are of value.
sample them. You will enjoy them.
fnN
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CHAPTER VII
PLAYING The Game

OF COURSE there were times when
" Daisy's crudcneSs grated on Nick
nerves, when hC cried aloud in tho
agony Of his heart FOR Carol. lie had
not ceased TO love her, be wanted her
none the less, but he was forcing him
self TO abide by her decision he was
steeling his pride against humbling
himself before her, for he had decided
that It was all useless.
Sometimes he would dream Of Carols
caring for some one else. In his imag-
nation he would see her blue eyes warm
with emotion ), in fancy he would
imagine her In the arms of some other
man, and it would drive him nearly
mad. IL it had not been for Datsy's
friendship, Nick might have done some
thing desperate when these moods came
upon him, and gradually Daisy came
70 mean some one he could rely on
some one whose sympathy and friend
ship be needed more and more.
In all her life Daisy had never tried
10 hard 70 please any man as she tried
30 please Nick, and she had planned
sooner or later to make him ask her
10 marry him.
He was not as rich as other men
she had known, but he had enough,
end he had other qualities that she
liked. As Daisy put it, "hs was easy
TO get on with" and although she was
- more in love with him than Carol
seAthbourne had been, she had nc
scruples about marrying a sman for
,1pther reasons.
IN One night when Nick was taking her
Thome from the theatre she snuggled her
Y small hand into his in the darkness OF
s the taxicab and leaned against him con =
ndingly.
Nick booked down at the blonde head
on his shoulder with varying emotions
f-a certain affection, little pity and
some tenderness,
{ Poor little tylse." he thought. 'it
( isn't th9<teasiest thing in the world TO
kee0- b1<E aud happy whom npe vVorks
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Mrs. Wilson Gets Winter Desserts
From Aunt HeHy Up in New England
Making Cake With Graham Crackers Is Ne,o Idea Learned
From the Cosmopolitan Kitchen-Bmter Cream Icing
Is Worth Remembering

Three quarters CUP VI !hciy sliced
onions.
-Four olircS, chopped fine.
Lake in moderate oven for twenty
minutes and then sprinkle with bread
crumbs and two tablespoons OF grated
cheese. return and brown nicely.
Boston Cream Pie
Place in mixing bowl
Ihrce- quarters cup of sugar,
1olkS Of tUo eggs,
our tablespoons o. shortening,
Cream we'll and then add
400 aud onc-har cups Of -four,
One-hdU teaspoon Of salt,
-Four 'erel teaspoons o. baking
poWdcr,
One and one. quarter cups Of min
or Uater,
ono teaspoon Of fovous,0.
Beat to blend and then cut and fold
IN the stitfly beaten whites of the two
eggs and turn in two we'll CREASED md
hourcd layer cake pans. Bake in a
moderate oven for twenty five minutes,
Let the cakes cool and then place to-
g"thcr with n cream filling made as
follows:
cream filDng
Place in Il saucepan
OHc aud ono quarter cups Of m,!k,
Ohe-hoN cup Of sugar,
ScrCh tcCct ia RCSpDOns Of Hovr.
Onc' haV teaspoon Of salt.
Stir TO dissolve tho -four uud then
brlng TO a boil. Cool Slowly for ten
minutes; now add
The VoH of one cgg.
onc teaspoon Of camilla.
B"at to blend and cook for two min
uteS, cool and use as filling: placins
thc CAKES together, dust the ton with
powdered sugar.
Graham Cracker Cake
Place in mixing bowl
One and one quarter Guns Of suoor
One-hau cup Of shortening,
lolks OF ttco eggs,
Cream well and then add
Ttoo cups OF -four.
Dne-hdU teaspoon 0f ,lutnc1.
One holt teaspoon Of cinnamon
rive 'e,e' teaspoons Of bqkiHo
poudCr,
T. One cup Of milk.
Beat 10 smooth batter and then ado
Tro cup. of >crushcd and sihed
graham crdckers.
Then fold in the stifly beaten white,
OF the eggs and turn in a we'll grease
and Toured round cake pan and bake ir
moderate oven for forty minutes: thor
cool and ice with japanese butte,
cream icing.
Japanese Butter Cream icing
Place IN bowl
JhrCo lspei tablespoons Of butter.
Three tablespoons Of boiling toater.
lpo tablespoons Of mGr,hmallor
rhip. I"
One teaspoon Of ,oHiIla.
Beat TO mix and add sufhcien. sura,
to make smooth mixture and beai
hard all the time that you are adding
the sugar. Spread over the cake.
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Yesterdays Answers

I. Riding 1000 miles on motor
~ clc without stopping Is tie
marvellous feat which Mrs. jar.
son is the first English woman tc
have accomplished.
=. BY treating a sample e il viii
concentrated hydrochloric acid an
all-silk material can be tested %
prove that there is no cottcu
mixed with II; II IL is free from
this il will dissolve worry quickly.
3. For tired feet, rubbing with
camphor IS 4 soothing remedy.
4. In an interesting way candles are
painted with the same small fcw-
ers that adorn their wooden hold.
ers, and the latter also attract
attcut.on By having square base.
while the parts that ho'd the can.
dies are put on right above these.
j. 4 wcll-cut vest and Il sailor hat,
both of lenna Rlede, mate smart
finishing touches for the sports
suit.
6. The girl with bobbcd hair rau
arrange II IN a charming manner
by wearing a narrow folded band
OF crepe dc chino 70 match her
dress.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
The Question Corner
TosIay's Inquiries

/. What remarkable record in sell.
ing real estate has been made by
Mrs. Margaret E. Long, of CHI
rago?
.. with what simple action can II
picture be arranged 50 that it
will always hang straight
3. Describe a new device for peel
ing and scraping potatoes which
keeps the hands entirely free from
stain?
4. How is n good looking stand fo-
bedside candle made?
:. In what easy wav ir the very
newest Of waists for an evening
dress made?
8. What unexpected turn IS takon
BY q hat that is made on inter
cstinc Spanish lines?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04

OF course, this par
ticular cape with its
beaded fringe does
not provide the
warmth that o cape
is generally so nc-
commodating with,
but it does come
forth wifi a brand
new idea and forms
the sleeves Of the
dress of chiffon.
Tho quaint air that
it lends is carried
out still further by
a skirt that is
brought up far
enough 10 give a
short wasted effect.
AS for the sequin
trimming W hic h
brightens the frock.
call that anything
You like. but It's
certainly attractive
Central News Photos.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04

Chests made of the heartwood Of rad
cedar in good condition and thorougbiy
tight are effective In protecting fabrics
from clothes moths, It has been fonnG
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, provided proper precon. =.
tions are first taken to beat, brush and
sun all articles before thev are placed
in the chest. Experiments with cedar
chests from the time of manufacture
until they were one year old indicate
that chests which are cared for properly
will retain indefinitely their value az
protectors against meth rayages, :
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
"7he Marriage Gambler :"
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
coPOTt0ht. 1888. D. Pubic Ledger cor,oo,,,

= Carol RathJoVrre refuses Nict
Tracy ttoice because she does not lorc
hin. Nick is desperotciy IN lore
sotth her, and takes her refusal very
Adrd. Then one night he - intro
dsoed 70 Daisy CdStEeton, Of "Tho
Jolly Reveiers," and finds her verg
different from tohat he had Imagined
Q chorus girl could Be.
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Wants 70 Reduce
!, Edltor o. WON ar's Page:

To To LdFt0r ot Won an's Page:
Dear Madam-I am young girl
eighteen years OF age 7 weigh l52
pounds. my height is fvo feet two and
would like to reduce at least twenty
to twenty-five pounds Is thero any
thing that could bo done? Arc there
any places where thCy have exercising
for reducing weight?
My hair had been bobbed last year.
only had 1t down for "a while and
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Not Wise TO %

TO the Editor Of Wordr'S Page:
Dear Madam-Will you please tell me
how to prepare and use sage tea for
darkcning gray hair?
A CONSTANT READER
It ie not a good thing 70 use this to
darlicn the hair.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04

uc nCdJcu II poker
red hot and -four.
ished II at me.
"She m a d e me
nervous, declaring
there were spooks"
these are some
Of the reaso $
seriously put forth
in the divorce
courts for separa =
ton Of couples who
had sought each
Other as life part.
nvrs
Does any sane
person believe that
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- " -
town for dinner
because she was TO
spend the whole
afternoon and stay
for dinner with
MadGe Sarver over
on the other side of
town.
But Paul ueedn' I
have overdone it.
Mercy, dear.
cried Virginia, as
Paul let himself
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a REGULAR READER OF THE
pApI-E

tors was probably because they were in
only one edition, the extra. You can
get this from the Circulation Depart
ment, on the third floor of the Ledger
Building, coo Chestnut street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04

Melt oMo. quarter cup or two ounces
OF butter or good substitute in pud .
ding pan and then turn IN two cups Of
bread crumbs and rub the butter wCli
into tho crumbs. Now turn tho crumbs
from the dish.
Nov place II layer OF the brcau
crumbs in the bottom Of the dish. spread
over one pint Cwo cupsl Of t,.inly sliced
apples; scuson The apples with Il lrtlc
grated lemon peel. Il little grated nut .
meg. spread five tablespoons of brown
sugar over th" apples. now place Il S"c
ond layer OF III" bread crumbs and then
repeat, using the same amount Of ap.
pies. Season as directed, and then pour
four tablespoons of maple Sirup or
honey over the apples: sprinkle lightly
with bread crumbs and bake in GLOW
oven for thirty minutes. Serve with
thin annie sa,icC
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Missed One Paper

To The Editor o. Womor's Page:
Dear Madam--On Saturday. Novcn-
Der %. you printed in your issue of the
EvENING PUBIC LEDGER the Old Eng
lish letters y, O. =, aud have not pub
lishcd the letters j. X. L, NJ of your
previous issue, the letters I would like
TO have. have all the letters up TO
these letters and would like to have
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Woman's Life and Loue
Why Married People Fight

GLE WOULD not get up and let the
- cat in" she put mouse in my
ped and caused me mental anguish:
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opposite sensation. Sad and horrible
| indeed is this sequel to the delights and
| charms of intimacy. Perhaps the reac-
! tion is due 10 laws as yet undiscovered, d,
| but In any case 1t is useless to try TO
| hold together those who have degen-
! Grated into a nagging, squabblinG, quar- /.
reling pair. TO deliberately plan small
| tortures shows a mind so depraved that
| the public may safely guess that there
were other and more vital reasons for
| the separation than the trivial acts It
seemed best to give to the world. Our
inhumnn and vulgar necessities of pro-
claiming in open court and in the news. d.
papers the most secret horrors OF mari
ta failures, with intimate details. arc
blot on civilization and are not coun-
tenancCd in some countries.
TIlE public may laugh. ana compose
i comic songs about celebrated divorce
proceedings of wealthy couples, and the
world may express contempt for trivial
causes given. such us mice and jeering
at the husbands bald head, but any
wise and sane thinker realizes that
these are but camoutlage and thin We
uccr Of excuse 10 hide the facts in the
case. To BE- sure. tho husband did IN"
contemplate Hand nasty thing of heat
llI- Il P'h'I uuu DIiluNISllh6 ~ dDONt' "
tcrrorizc tho wife, but what caused him
10 do this: II was u vicious dlSpoSi.
ton, a secret spite or grudgc. Il desire
10 torture and inflict pain. That was
sufficient cause for a wife'S fearing
and detcsting her mate.
So that. even ii It did amusc the pub
lie and cause the moralists {" declare
that folks nowadays rushed INTO sep.
aratiou proceedings without any real
justification. there Was vital reason
under the surface which WaH not funny
at all II was human antiruthy and
dctcstatiou. Such couples wouid letter
not remain tied tosetrc". daily rU>hng
1t each others throats.
indeed when love really
II has existed once that frail and
foolish men and women will jcopardize
their life and happiness by permitting
minor discords 10 jar their tranquility.
To he o good husband or wife, one needs
g good person. rational. fair,
kindly soul. honestly endeavoring 10
deal kindly with his fellow men. The
sole reason that married pairs fight is
that human nature is frail. and we are
yet far from being civilized.