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The Washington times., 1922-02-27

e A RE all desserts harmful
~ to digestion?" asks a
housewife who 10 trying
to do what is right in the way Of
foods for her family.
OF course. every variety Of des-
sert is not harmful to digestion.
The trouble seems to be that folks
only think of rich, elaborate pas
tries and the like when they
speak of dessert. And while
these in themselves are not harm
in many cases to be q whole
meal in themselves.
Since most adults do not have
sufficient milk in the diet to sup
ply the necessary elements diets
frequently lack. II Is well for the
meal planner to work milk into
the dessert often.
The dessert containing milk,
however. should be considered a
definite part Of the meal-in place
Of meat, perhaps, or to add to the
meal II there Is very little meat.
The dessert should never be con-
sidered as something suspended
from the meal to be eaten when
one has had more than he should
eat.
Among the moro familiar des-
serts having a large proportion
of milk, one might mention such
good things as custard pudding.
t,,N 80 a ri MA
cream, and many other varieties
Of cornstarch pudding, including
the always popular chocolate
cornstarch.
But should the adults be q bit
prejudiced to the dessert appear
ing milky. try them on lemon
cream rice.
To prepare this delicious dessert
for a family Of six-pick over
and wash half a measuring cup Of
rice. Soak Il over night in cold
water. Drain and put In the
double boiler with three cups of
milk and cook, stirring occasion
ally until the rice is soft. Add one
half cup sugar. one and one-half
tablespoons, lemon Juice and the
grated rind of about two-thirds of
q lemon, three-fourths teaspoon Of
salt. and the slightly beaten yolks
of two eggs.
Cook until the mixture thickens;
turn into a muttered pudding dish
and cool. Beat the whites of the
eggs until stiff and add gradually
two tablespoons Of powdered sugar
and one-fourth teaspoon lemon ex-
tract. Cover top Of pudding With
meringue, and bake in a moderate
oven just long enough to brown
the meringue.
All measurements must be taken
Acknowledgment nearly-level, and
the standard half-pint measuring
cup 10 indicated.
Do have dessert, but try to make
It simple, appealing and q definite
part of the meal.
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
BObbie And
His Pa
By William F. Kirk.

HNE Of the kids busted me on
the noase in skool today &
~ Il made the water run out OF
ny eyes & the kid sed was bawl-
,ng q sed No. amt bawling q
the teacher sed I guess those
GERS Is crockydile teers, Bobbie.
Pa, sed wen I calm hoam to
iinnere, Pa. what Is crokydile
:eers?
Thay are fake teers. Bobbie. SGD
Pa, teers witch does not spring
rom the hart. The crockydile al
ways has such teers In his butifui
Eyes, Bobbie, sed Pa, but them
GERS do not siggi.fy greet. sed Pa:
rhay siffi-fy nothing at all, sed
Pa. Wimmen sheds such teers
much moar than what men does,
Jed Pa.
Indeed. sed Ma. were did you
Tit that noshun?
{. From many yeers of ex-peerens
With the fare sects, sed Pa.
!. 1t is not true of wimmen, sed
Ma.
.rokydile teers in yure butiful
yes, sed Pa to Ma.
= DO you RELY think my eyes are
still butiful7 sed Ma.
: The most butiful eyes that ever
rad crokydile teers in them, sed
IA.
Do you meen that at times am
not sin-seer? sed Ma.
I, No woman Is sin-seer at all
lines, sed Pa. Mater made won-
n H.. ho
,he mite hold her own aggenst
stronger & moar stupid man, sed
Pa.
: newer herd such nonsense
rom you befoar, sed Ma. I can
Tot believe my own GERS when
hay heer you admitting that men
o stupid, sed Ma, espeshuIly you.
- didn't say me, sed Pa, I am
not like most men. I sed most
men were stupider than what most
stmmen Is. But no woman shud
ruaik the mistaik Of thinking that
vi men Is stupid, sed Pa, or thay
ire lible to run aggenst q keen
ievil like what I am, sed Pa But
We are Citing off our subjeck for
his eve, sed Pa, which Is crocy-
lille teers.
think we have herd enuff OF
GERS for one mite. sed Ma. Let
10 speek Of pleasant things. saw
luvly suite down town today,
.ur trimmed, sed Ma
:: Rely, sed Pa.
Yes, sed Ma, only two HUNDRED
sed Ma, to think that suites Is
: yetting so cheap.
Vary cheep indeed, sed Ma, after
he way prices was last fall &
srly in the winter, sed Ma.
2 Bobbie, sed Pa, II you will look
close In my hansum eyes, sed Pa,
fou will see sum teers starting
I they are not crock-dile teers
,ether. Thay are the teers of a
Itrong man about to be nicked for
.wo hundred dollars, sed Pa.
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
Some Odd Scientific Questions

II WIN absorb the heat from the
bodies below.
Suppose each finally gives to the
air the whole amount OF heat that
II contains at the moment when
the experiment starts; through
how great q volume Of air would
the heat be distributed! Up to the
height of 1875 feet. excluding the
space occupied by the bodies, tnere
are about 1000. 000. 900 cubic feet
Of air. That makes about 500 CUBIC
feet for each person. Giving three
cubic feet to the average body,
we see that each person would
have to warm a volume OF air
100 times larger than himself; In
other words his bodily heat dis.
tributed through that amount Of
air would raise It's. temperatures
one degree.
So much, then the Thermometer
might rise-provided that there
was no escape Of heat into air
lying outside the space considered.
But II the air were confined the
increase in temperature would
really be greater, because each
body would continue to keep up
its heat as long as its vital machin-
cry operated and its internal sup
ply of fuel was not exausted. Ac-
cordingly there would be accumu-
lation Of heat in the ajacent air.
II II was a very still day there
would be something approaching
to the supposed confinement Of the
air. But there could be no notice
able accumulation Of heat II the
air around and above the area of
the experiment came into the play,
though even then the Thermometer
would probably show a rise, es-
of the crowd.
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an alteration OF climate, only here
II is ascribed TO some unknown,
or undiscovered and more or less
mysterious cause. or left for the
meteorologist to explain. And, go
where you will. either in this
country or abroad. you find an
almost universal tendency to be-
lieye that the climate is not the
same as 1t was in childhood, or
in the days Of the fathers and
grandfatheSs.
This is partly due to psychology
ical peculiarities, and partly to
hasty observation, or incorrect in.
ference from actual facts. At the
same time 1t will not do to affirm
that no perceptible influence is ex-
erted on the weather by wide al
terations in the distribution and
quantity OF the surface water and
vegation. These have an in
evitable influence upon the local
state of the atmosphere but, as we
shall see when we come to your
second question, such influences
must be confined in area
II we distinguish as we should
do between climate and weather
we may admit that extensive irri-
alton and cultivation may locally
affect the weather without a cor
responding effect upon the climate.
Climate, according to r. de c.
Wards definition. is the average
condition Of the atmosphere, while
weather denotes a single occur
renee or event in the series OF at.
mosphere conditions which mako
up climate"
But the meteorologists would
probably hold that even the
amount OF influence above admit
ted as possible or probable from
The Washington times., 1922-02-27

tree planting, cultivation, irriga-
ton, etc. does not really exist.
They map the atmosphere Of the
earth as II Il were made up OF
aerial mountains and valleys
r'highs' and "lows'O with great
currents flowing like vast flaid
sheets around and above and under
and over one another. and this Inn
mense system Is shown shifting
regularly northward and south
ward with the swing Of the sun,
which governs the seasons.
That variations occur they ad-
nit, as already stated, but these
variations are ascribed not to any
petty changes that little man can
produce by his interference, but to
great general causes. Of which
fluctuations in the radiation OF the
sun are the grand, common source.
Your second question in inter
esting as q curiosity. / wonder II
you have calculated how many
people standing as close as pos
sible" II would take to cover a
half section Of land. A half sec
ton Is half a square mile. In
half a square mile there are 49,
939, 200 square feet. Not to pack
our crowd quite as close as sar-
dimes, suppose that we give each
person a space of two square feet
not two feet square, but two
feet one way and one foot the
other. Then II takes $3.50 500
persons to cover the half section.
Now you hang the thermom-
eter ten rods Q65 feet above their
heads; will the mercury rise from
the heat OF the crowd below? Let
us see. The internal heat of the
human body is nearly 100 degrees
Fahrenheit and unless the air is
already equally warm or warmer.
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Dual Personality

not exist in the case Of sisters
or brothers born at different
times.
It is natural that there should
be such a link-mental and spiri-
tual. I have heard that very
often when one twin dies the
other quickly follows. II that is
so there is a possibility that 1
am still spiritually bound to Polly.
and that she still lives in my sub
conscious mind.
can think Of no other expla.
nation.
The physician who is in charge
of the case is endeavoring,
through the application of hypno-
tism, to submerge the character
of Polly and shorten the term OF
her lapses.
This matter of dual personality
Is one which has undoubtedly
been often authenticated. Robert
Louis Stevenson has given 1t clas-
sic form in his storyw OF "Dr,
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" A number
of plays have also been construct
ed upon the same theme.
All this becomes of interest to
us from the fact that every one
of us is conscious of this sort of
thing more or less within himself.
Everybody, to a certain degree,
has within him a DIR. Jekyn and
Mr.. Hyde.
Perhaps II was this principle
that gave foundation to the an
cient religion of the East, which
conceived OF the Deity not as one
but as two, Ormuzd and Ahriman
two gods, one good and the other
evil, constantly struggling.
Whatever element there is gen
orally In humanity, some time or
other finds expression in an ex.
IRENE case. Perhaps genius Ia
nothing but a sort OF morbidity or
over-development Of q capacity
common to all.
The Washington times., 1922-02-27

MANY. monsieur. One Of them
is Japonette, II I choose"
play it," he said, III you ever
want to tie me to your Obi"
you behave" observed Silvetts
TRANQUILITY. like two rather ordi-
nary young persons flirting"
TITS hot in here" he said; show
me your roof garden"
"SiIvette," she called over her
shoulder. will you come up to the
roof"
silyette nodded and continued
playing an air from "Armide;"
they waited for her q moment,
then went out into the hallway
and up to the roof.
THE garden Of q thousand de-
lights! she said with q sweep Of
her hand and q curtsey. The
Japanese fairy. Japonette. wei
comes the true prophet Of her fri
volity."
He looked around at the flowers
in pots geraniums, verbenas.
fuchsias. heliotrope-homely, old
fashioned blossoms.
ct bought them from q peddler:
I stopped his wagon in the street
and made him carry them up here.
They only cost 81. and I was eco
nomicai at the market" she ex-
planned.
He glanced up at the awning
gay with yellow and white stripes.
Worth Starving For.
I'll starve you at dinner to
night to pay for It,"
He looked at her rather queerly,
she thought.
There are things I'd starvs for
and people"
And awnings, cousinf"
Yours"
That's very nice and gallant
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well, I am twenty-seven; Sill
vette is twenty-five. Don't bother
with compliments"
Good Lord! Are you the elder7"
I'm thirty-two." he said.
"A woman at twenty-seven is
centuries older than q man at
thirty" added Diana. except, Of
course. in some things. Theoret-
ically. silvie and I are highly in
structed; practically. the man OF
thirty is more specifically intelli-
gent. which is no compliment to
the man Of thirty"
Ages Are Confessed.
Edgerton. still astonished. sat
back in his chair. considering.
do you know" he said, II
never suspected I had two such
relatives In the world, who wear
the appearance Of debutantes with
an assurance that convinces until
their wit and wisdom convict them.
Where were you educated, any.
way?"
I'm a Southern boarding school
and in a Western university. Az.
ter that Silvette studied law and
was admitted to the bar. I am
entitled to practice medicine" size
added demurely. Does that scare
your"
DO you think It has spoiled
us? asked Silvette SO naively that
he made no attempt to control his
laughter.
why on earth don't you do
those two things?" he managed to
ask at last. III you're entitled to
exercise professions. why don't
your"
I'VE only studied out Of curl.
osity." explained Diana. I'VE
never intended to follow Il up. OF
course, we expected to remain al.
ways in pleasant financial circum.
stances"
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
ert Chambers .JAPONETlE~ $s" Charles Dana GIBBS
Written in His Best Vein by One Of the Greatest Living
Masters of Fiction This Serial Has Charm of
an Unexpected Development

why did you ask to joint"
The real reason?'
She hesitated, looking at him.
yes, the real one" .-
YOU"
what exactly do you mean by
that answer"
II don't know. myself. Japon-
ette." he said laughingly: I've
tried to analyze II. too. The in
stinct Of relationship may have
counted"
IT hope It did," said she.
II hope so. God knows, and men
are selfish. And that
counted. too"
"whAt?"
"Selfishness."
ct don't believe there Is very
much in you"
That IL where your heart II
still a child's heart. Japonette."
"Oh. I'm no altruist, but there's
selfishness and selfishness. What
were we talking about? Oh! why
you desired to. join"
mo. we got past that"
"oh. yes; well. then. you say II
was because Of me. Why?"
81 told you I didn't know exactly
why, but the root of 1t all was
you. And when you told me about
some people who had come herr
that fellow who spoke about .
housekeeper-"
Jim Edgerton"
What"
IT believe-but you can't be as
nice as that! You simply can'tw
''oh. I'm not NICE" he protested,
reddening. but she interrupted:
Go Be Continued Monday
Copyright. 1917. by Robert W. Cham.
bers. Printed by arrangement with In.
tsrnationai Feature Service. Ine.)
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
JAZZ IN OUR
DAILY LIFE
BY Beatrice Fairfax


A GREAT nerve specialist has
~ Joined the chorus Of voices
lifted up against Jazz" He
says:
1T is Bolshevism in music Just
as we have Bolshevism in politics,
art and psychology, and as such Il
cannot fail to be a bad influence"
There isn't much question ths t
we're leading a life Of CLASH and
hang" today. We're q restless
world-full and we go whirling
along on the surface OF things
with too much longing for excite
ment and stimulation and too
little willingness to dig into life
and work for our enjoyments.
Long ago an English novelist
put into the mouth Of one Of his
characters a fine phrase which
we'd do well to remember. It is:
We must cultivate our
garden"
But instead Of cultivating the
garden Of our appreciations, we
want the obvious. OF course the
fine old operas aren't easy for the
average person to enjoy and I'M
eci oeohe. - tCQdhS CO tIou8ht dftu
sympathy and real musical appre-
citation to find the melody in clas-
steal music. 1t takes mental effort
to appreciate good books.
Ready made pleasures are so
easily come by that all too many
OF US won't exert ourselves to find
the inner meaning of the fine
things Of life which yield far moro
durable satisfactions than can be
had from a quick, vivid appeal to
the senses.
Some Of US can't eat food which
isn't highly seasoned.
Some Of us want all Of life
trimmed UP with condiments.
1t isn't Jazzy music which Is
threatening our national life and
our personal ideals, venture to
say. But It Is our whole lax"
scheme Of things.
Tho blare Of the dance may
overstimulate weaklings and get
them into q state Of emotional
drunkenness, which lowers ideals.
But the real harm to our stability
Ia worked by our own attitude
toward pleasure and by oud stand
ards Of enjoyment.
How many Of US find pleasure
in sitting at home and reading fine
books? How many Of us make
home tho center for simple enter
tainment7 How many OF us find a
quiet exchange of thought with
worthwhile mind stimulating?
The trouble Is that we want our
eyes appealed to by brash color.
We want minds stimulated by
melodramatic happenings. We
want to rush pell-mell into gayety.
And jazz follows our standards.
II can't lead them.
II there Ia a pagan lure to Jazz,
we needn't yield to II and dance
like barbarians at an orgy, need
we?
II there Is a spirit Of youth and
brilliancy In the music to which
we yield with an abandon un.
worthy Of our best-why not pre-
serve that7 We may listen to the
voice Of the siren-but need we
jump overheard to follow It to our
destruction7
Why can't we lift ourselves to
an appreciation OF the rythm of
jazz music and lift Jazz to the
primitive beauty many simple
things possess7
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis-
The Man Who Sells u Coo


0UR stocks are still debating,
like bubbles that have burst;
too late for hesitating, we're
headed for the worst. We're
plunged in melancholy because We
see, alas! the patch Of tickle folly
has brought us to this pass. We
think about the money we scatter
ed left and right in days when all
was sunny and prospects all were
bright: Of cash we should have
boarded within the well-known
sock; Of auto, ill-afforded, of
stacks of. watered stocks The butch
er and the baker are In the self
same boat; the lawyer and the
faker cannot produce a groat. The
iceman and the tinker, the sawyer
and the bard, the circus clown,
the thinker, alike are falling hard!
They go about repining and claim
the end Is near; but one whose face
Is shining still brings a hint of
cheer. Yes, hope seems almost
over for many a doubling soul, till,
happily, we discover the man who
sell us coal. Erstwhile, II would
annoy us to visit in his place, but
through this gloom, how Joyous to
see one smiling face! His sunny
looks remind us that earth's still
moving on. the worst 10 now be-
hind us and Joy will come with
dawn! While other folks are
weeping and telling tales Of dole,
faith rests within his keeping, the
man who sells us coal. He proves
that a1l's not over: we, too, may
land some day and dwell like
him in clover; commanding hand.
some pay. And though we're weak
and weary we struggle toward tho
goal where we can be as cherry
as he who sells US coal. .. "A
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
By Robert W.. Chambers,

py nODerC w. CNdIuDcIS
Author Of the Fighting Chance; The
e Maid ut Arms; Maids Of Paradise;
- The Dark Star and Other Sto-
ries Of international Fame.
KIN RY some tea" as the maid
q brought It; weak tea and
feeble intellect agree"
Z "Oh, I'll try tea or anything
.,lse. but II you think I'm likely to
forget the first moment I ever
Jaw you--a slender. Japanese
shadow shape against the sun!-
ethereal. vaguely tinted. ex-
luisite-"
you are a poet. JIM" said Sill
vette. admiringly. 1T read one Of
POUR rhymes in Life once. and
didn't think So"
Diana made me q poet. II
you'd seen her as she came steal
ing across the window, which was
. all glitterine like Japanese sun
BURST. you'd have become q poet,
toor' He began to laugh. II even
created a name for you. Diana; it
came to me-was already on my
Ups"
What name," she asked, look.
ing composedly at him.
"Japonette! never
before heard such a name. don't
Believe there ever was such q
aame before 1t suddenly twitched
1t my lips for utterance! Japon-
stteg'
"why didn't you utter 1t II you
we're so enchanted with your dis
covery?"
Because you seemed to be suf-
iciently scared as 1t was.
do you suppose" she said,
othat we'll ever have the slightest
personal interest in these Rivett
5eople?"
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BY The Spectator.
" HE case Of Bernice Redick,
of Cleveland, some time ago

" HE case Of Bernice Redick,
of Cleveland, some time ago
attracted considerable atten-
ton: another instance Of that
mysterious thing we call dual per-
sonality.
Although nineteen years Of age,
she had frequent relapses into
the state of consciousness of a
foursyear-old child wherein she
thought Of herself as Polly" and
was strange and wilful.
She says that she cannot be
sure that a day will pass without
her jumping from one personality
to the other.
Her affliction first became an.
parent through her playing with
children Of four or five years.
She was walking along the street
in Cleveland when suddenly she
suffered lapse of memory. When
the spell passed she was aston
ished to find herself running
about with several little children.
When she is In her true per-
sonality she is neat in appear
ance and refined in manner. But
as Polly she becomes a veritable
vixen, beyond reason or control,
loudly defiant of threats and stub
bornly immune to coaxing.
AS Bernice she delights in max.
ing articles of clothing or fancy
work. Then when she becomes
Polly she tears these articles to
pieces. Bernice loves flowers,
and Polly ruthlessly destroys
them.
Concerning herself she says:
Since they told me about Polly,
/ have thought a whole lot about
II when l have been myself. 1
don't know much about such
things, but / should think there
IL a link binding twins that does
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HINTS FOR THE
HOUSEHOLD

Dust cloths should be washed
frequently. both because a little
dirt comes out more easily and be-
cause dirty ones often leave as
much dirt as they take UP and may
scratch nightly polished surfaces.
The heavy wooden cloths used in
polishing floors may be soaked for
an hour or more In hot water and
soda or half cup liquid" soda to
a gallon Of water, and stirring the
cloths occasionally with a stick:
then they should be washed in hot
water. A little kerosene or light
lubricating oil added to this last
water will soften the cloths.
II grease is spilled on unfinished
wood cold water should be applied
at once, II possible, in order to
harden the grease and prevent its
spreading, then as much grease as
possible should be scraped off with
a knife and the spot scrubbed with
a washing soda or I've solution. II
the spot appears dark, a paste
Of fuller's earth and water should
be spread over It and allowed to
remain overnight.
When a room IL cleaned with a
vacuum cleaner 1t is first busted,
then the vacuum cleaner Ia used
on upholstery, hangings. walls
and carpets or rugs. and finally
the floor Is busted. BY this meth.
cd Of cleaning fewer articles
need TO be moved, no dust is
scattered and more dirt In actual
!y removed. A vacuum cleaner,
therefore, saves labor.
The Washington times., 1922-02-27
Degfuly Refreshing Story of Society and the Newly
Rich Wherein Love and Woman's Way with
a Man Play Big Part

'Probbaly not" said her sister.
what of it?'I wonder whether
that colonel is likely to figure as
a guest"
Diana shrugged again. Figure!
He seems to be all figure. I
thought him rather odious."
Ibid your He seemed anxious
to be agreeable. Who Ii he.
Cousin Jim?"
II don't know .. Per-
haps I may have heard of him
a militia colonel of some kind.
don't remember. He's probably a
decent sort; rather like him."
II wonder said Diana reflec-
lively. whether you are anything
of q snob?"
Edserton Redeemed. then sat still
looking at her.
Il was going to resent that" he
said after a moment. but I can't;
because what you just said set me
thinking"
Are you unaccustomed to think
ing?" she asked too innocently;
and he Redeemed again.
Something of a Snob.
We're too intelligent" said
Silvette calmly: that's the trouble
with US; and when. by degrees. we
add a little more experience to our
intelligence We'll be either exceed
insly unpopular or successfully
married"
How old are you. anyway" he
said. looking straight at her.
"Twenty.seven." she answered
calmly. Don't Jump. please"
"Whatr' he exclaimed incredu-
lousy.
IT look about nineteen, don't II"
Certainly you do-about eiRh.
teen!'