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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-01-04
YOUR MONEY is SAFE AND KEPT
HERE IN CdICKASIiA.

Are you afraid to risk the Judgment of
these men whom you know are conservative
business men, having invested their money
in this home company and directing same
with the thought of placing every dollar
where it will be safe?
The officers of this company are Chickasha
business men of unquestioned integrity. Their
reputation guarantees your investment.
These men are helping to build up Chicka-
sha and at the same time keeping Chickasha
money at home.
You are making Chickasha your home. Are
you helping to make homes in Chckasha?
If you already have home you can help
others get homes by in 5siing your savings
in this home building association.
If you o not have home start savings
account Tow SO that you may be able to
build OF buy when you are ready.
The chief business of this association is to
help you build or buy home of your own.
OUR OBJECT.
First: To furnish convenient, safe and
profitable means of investing savings.
Second: To promote thrift by making saw
ings a regular habit This habit increases
self reliance and the value of person to him
self and the community and the nation.
Third: To furnish persons who wish to
borrow money on improved real estate secur-
ity, the means of doing SO at a reasonable
rate of interest together with the privilege
of repayment in small monthly installments
like paying rent. Result-final home owner
ship free from debt.
The plan of this association is a proven
success. 1t has been tried in the United
States for period of more than ninety
years. There has never been dollar of
savings lost in this state since statehood
when invested in a building and loan associa
tion organized under our laws.
OFFICE FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF
POST OFFICE
TELEPHONE NO. 1897
Glad to have you call on us or phone us.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
The Cooking of Cereals.

Pardon me-" writes Mrs. J. NJ. o..
but your way of cooking wheat
would be just like cooking beans for
dinner in five minutes. Please let
me give your readers my way. 1
have cooked wheat for years: Put
three pints of wheat in the kettle not
later than Z o'clock am. and let it
boil thirty minutes. then strain and
wash it, Repeat this three times.
for the water will be brown and
strong in favor. especially if you use
the red wheat (white wheat is bet
teri. Now push the kettle to the
back of the stove. where it will sim
mer slowly all day. but don't let it
quite stop boiling till o'clock. Now
put the wheat into gallon crock
with three teaSpoonfuls of salt. cover
and put in the oven until 10 o'clock.
then set it in the coolest place you
have For breakfast. serve about
three tablespoonfuls in three cups of
milk Prepared in this way, the
wheat will keep sweet and fresh for
a week, except in hot summer wealth
er. 1t is very palatable when served
with raisins and cinnamon at lunch V
Whole or entire wheat (the wheat
as it comes from the threshing ma
chine) cooked three hours in double
boiler, is nevertheless a very pala-
table and wholesome breakfast dish.
and withal a prophylactic against the
daily insult, the great American pill
habit. And valetudinarians who have
the bad habit of believing all they are
told by Tom. Dick and Harry about
what's good for what ails them. ought
to be intrigued by the knowledge that
this breakfast food, purchased in bulk
from the farmer, is unsurpassed in
flavor and nutritive value. especially
as regards assimilable forms of call
cium Qime), phosphorus and iron.
1av- hnf
meal is rendered more digestible If
cooked for hours. This notion is
wrong. There may be some reason
for prolonged cooking of oats in
making cruel for an infant as yet too
Young to digest starch (for the starch
disesting ferments are wanting or
weak in early infancy). There is no
good reason for prolonged cooking
of oats for persons over two years
of age. If child over that age or an
adult Graves raw oats or oatmeal, the
craving may be gratif1ed with moth
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Making the Home Attractive
BY DOROTHY ETHEL WALSH.
why Place One Design on Top Of
Another?' Asks the Decorator.

Pictures or no pictures is ques-
ton that brings confusion into the
minds of many persons. Advocates
of walls well dotted with various
decorations look aghast at the pare
ones of a modern room. $50 cold
they murmur, and return with rellef
to their own room, wherein prints,
paintings and even photographs OF
Aunt Susie at all ages look down
benevolently on the occupants.
! do not necessarily champion the
cause of no pictures. A few wen
placed may be most decorative. but
I am against the crowded walls so
. often seen. 1t is . temptation 10 MI
. each available space once the Dars
are down to pictures. They rusn IN
by the dozens and demand placings.
They are hard to manage. these nu-
merous pictures of varying sizes.
That is one reason why the pen
dulum Of popular taste has swung
far in the opposite direction. and they
are often eliminated entirely. An
other reason is that it is not consid-
cred good decoration to place one
design on top of another. yet a wall
paper of definite design is many
times almost completely covered
with pictures.
To prove my point that a room
lacking pictures may have charm l
have asked the artist to show you the
figured wall paper used in small
house. No further wall decoration,
please notice: Do you not think 1T
is more restful than If there were?
Evening star., 1922-03-20

Of walking. and getting out and
hustling with the gang.
We're always skdding off after
something new. It's much more ro-
mantle to look for the rainbowS end
than to take a job as a grocery clerk
It's infinitely more thrilling and fat
tering to have some psychic expert
piecing together your dreams to find
your suppressed sex desire and re-
venge motives and other spiritual
tapeworms than it is to give your
self a swift kick and snap out of it,.
I don't care what your creed may be
sist in simply messing around your
own emotions and problems. you
might as well be sitting on sheet
Of fly paper for all the progress
you'll make in life.
The findings of psyche analysis
I suppose they are. but there are
other natural laws which it overiooks
and the greatest Of them is this
whatsoever will save his life shall
lose it, but whosoever will lose his
life for my sake"-for the sake of the
universal good--"shall find it," That
isn't religion. That 1922 common
sense. civics and psychology.
II you have lil' urge within your
ego. for the luvva Mike let it stay
suppressed. Urges are too. blamed
expensive for the average citizen to
indulge in, anyway. Keep your dl-
gestion in order. your ears scrubbed
and your nails cut. and forget about
the rickrack edgings on your brain.
picking at them? Go out and find
your healing and growth-.in the
other fellow. Pick up your foot and
he on your way.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Smoking Your Child's Dresses.

There Is no sweeter, simpler trim
ming for q child's dress than srnoclt :
ing. It is most essential. IN smock-
ing, to. have the gathering threads
which lay the pleats perfectly
straight. The beauty of the work de-
pends upon the evenness of the
gathering.
Begin by laying a tape measure in
a STRAIGHT line across the material to
he smoked, and make dot at every
nnarter of an inch: This will make a
long dotted line. Now move the tape
measure half an inch lower, and be-
gin making another dotted line just
as YOU made the first one. Make still
another dotted line one-half inch be-
low this last SO 0o on thin Until you
yoIk Of the little dress requires.
Next. begin passing a needle and
coarse basting thread from right to
left of the material, pushing 1t in at
one dot and out between the dots. Or.
II the material is very Sheer, the
needle may go in at one dot and out
at another.
ussd nm in this way, begin to pull up
the threads (which until now have al
lowed the material to lie nat on the
tablet. Pull them up carefully and
mt TOO tightly, adjusting the gathers
evenly as YOU go. Fasten the ends of
the threads around a pin, and the ma
terial is ready to be shocked.
In shocking the worker aIWays ne-
gins at the left and works toward the
right, each pleat being taken up 0y
The outline stitch is the simplest
one. and q good one to begin On. 1t
Is similar to the outline stitch In en-
broidery. Thread your needle with
Evening star., 1922-03-20
A Career With a Capital C.
TIME March rain had ceased, but,
the raw March wind was still
blowing. SO that Merriam Lind

NIfE MdTCIl ram HdQ ceased, but
the raw March wind was still
blowing, SO that Merriam Lind
say, in a demure little plum
cclored jersey frock, wisely decided
that she would not go for a walk. but
that she would sit at her great
A thing she SO much detested doing
that she jumped with delight when
Susan Sue opened the front door to
admit young Prof Sheldon.
shelly. You dear"" she exalted
ITS ages since we've seen you! You
blessed Child. to come all the way
over from Rosedale on that awful
trolley"
Young Sheldon was rather solemn
as he patted the exuberant Ragsy.
He waited until Susan Sue had de-
parted with his hat and coat. He
cleared his throat nervOusly.
Thought I'd drop over and see-Ehat
you and John were doing with your
selves"
Nothing at ALL" Merriam was de-
hairpins into her reddish curls. "What
have you been doing?"
Marking semester exam papers"
he was as different aS a schOolboy
making his first call on his first
sweetheart. Which was not at all
SheldenS usual manner with his
friend Merriam.
Whats on your mind besides your
hair?" she asked flippantly.
You he burst forth.
She lifted her eyebrows in pretended
surprise.
"Yes?" she prompted, a trife couuet-
tishly.
Yes. you--" he folded his arms
grimly. He assumed his most school
mastery manner.
She played the culprit better than
he played the chastiser.
II think it's rotten of you to tease
John the way you're teasing him."
II don't know who has a better
right to tease John than his own law
fully welded wife" Merriams brown
eyes We're reproachful.
you've chosen A particularly
vicious way to tease, I think he
rolled a cigarette with fingers that
trembled. Mind if smoke% he
scarcely waited for her reply before
he lighted il. II dropped in to see
John at lunch time, and upon my
word the yoor lad was so wrought
up that l couldn't make out what
had happened. I finally dug it out
of him: Do you know that he is
worried sick for fear you are going
to accept this fool offer that these
motion picture people have made
you?'
"One moment, please" Merriam was
stern. May I remark that l don't
see that this is any of your business,
Philip Sheldon?"
You can remark. but that's all the
good it will do YOU" ne answered
rudcly. ITS probably going to do no
good at all for me to register my
insignificant protest. but all the same
! want to go on record beforehand
You need expect no sympathy from
me. Heavens. Merriam. thought
you were above that sort of rot. That
you were blessedly sane. Why. you've
been a little oasis in the desert to
me! And / want to tell you it hurts
to find out that you're just another
foolish wife who is petting herself
to be dazzled by the silly glitter"
Merriam applauded with a soft pat
ter of her palms.
Don't stop. Go on. yuh intrust
muh Strangely"
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Sunday Breakfast.

Sunday breakfast is in many Amer
ican households the most badly plan
ned meal in the week: A heavy late
Sunday breakfast IS often responsible
for blue Monday.
For some reason it Is tfme-hon-
ored custom in many American fam
lilies to sleep fairly late on Sunday
and then to eat breakfast about
twice as hearty as normal break /,
especially suitable for this festive oc-
casion are often the most indigest-
ible things you could think of. Pan
cakes, waffles, fried batter cakes, hot
corned bread, liver and bacon. sau-
sages. fried ham-could any wise per-
son dream that these things were
good for the fast-breaking meal OF
the day?
The custom Of going to church early
on Sunday has advantages. 1t neces-
states fairly early rising on Sunday
necessitates, too, getting outdoors
and taking exercise before the morn
churches are not having Sunday
school before morning service, apd
|. this has advantages, too.
If the housewife has to get up and
get children off to a o'clock Sun
day school session she will certainly
elaborate breakfast dishes.
Now; a very sensible thing would
he to have Sunday breakfast lighter
rather than heavier, than ordinary
breakfasts, If you are one of those
numerous Americans who ordinarily
have dinner at night, but reverse
the custom on Sunday. having the
heaviest meal at l or 2 and a light
supper at night. If you wish to in
dulee in the luxury of lying abed or
Sunday and are fortunate enough to
he able to do so. then you should
content yourself with a cup of coffee
and a slice of toast, or something nc
more hearty. The midmorning break.
fast that is to be followed within a
few hours by q hearty dinner ought
to be extremely light
In a certain household where there
10 a single maid of all-work the Gus
tom has been established of giving
the maid the first part of the day to
herself rather than the latter part
breakfast consists of coffee and some
easily prepared breakfast dish that
the housewife prepares herself
I.uncheon takes on picnic proportions
In fair weather it IS often carried
away in the family touring car. to be
eaten outdoors. The maid returns by
haif-past. 1 or S, when a dinner that
has been planned carefully on Satur.
day can be prepared easily by OF
$50.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
A Daughter ExpOsed,

My daughter drives six miles to
school each school day. She has thirty
pupils and five grades. Do you think
the exposure will cause her to de-
velop tuberculosis or rheumatis
She generally seems to have better
health in the winter time, but she
has had two spells of rheuma tism in
summer.-(Mrs. T. L. E.)
Answer-No. the drive Is rather
beneficial to your daughters health
in every respect That her attacks
Of rheumatism came in the summer
should make you doubt the influence
of exposure, SO far as that group of
diseases is concerned
Oily Scalp.
Please publish something which
will give relief from an excessive
oiliness or greasiness of the scalp
and hair.-(Miss L. A. 81
Ansyer-Resorcin, 40 grains; sali-
cylic acid, 20 grains: bay rum, 4
ounces. (Any toilet water may be
substituted for bay rum If sufficiently
alcoholic to keep the ingredients in
solution.) Rub a few drops into
scalp each night and morning, bear
ing in mind that resorcin sometimes
stains very blonde or white hair yell
lowish.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Brides Will Be Brides
By Lucille Va,, SIyke.

All right, laugh If you feel like
it. You may be laughing now, but
some day you'll remember what said
to you. l heard a man complaining
the other day that his home used to
be happy, but that now it was in
willing to let twenty-five dollars
worth of housework slide. so she
could write twenty five cent poem.
don't know what this world viii
come to if men have to see their
homes broken up by wives who let
idea of career with capital e..
All l hope is that they end in one
of those dreary travesties of homes
with capital II over the doorway.
Why. Merriam, ! can't believe that
you're the kind Of girl who would let
herself be SO deluded. You are
shattering-'
Il wonder" Merriam INTERRUPTED
meditatively. "if that word shatter
wouldn't look well on the billboards.
Would you pay quarter. Shelly, TO
See Merry Lindsay. in Shattered Soap
Il mean. Hope?"
II would not" He refused to smile.
Gee. there's one quarter less. Still.
maybe the rest of my public won't
feel that way Maybe they won't
have to close all the theaters just
because Prof. Philip Sheldon won't
go III. Even IL you So'
maybe / could hold some other man
enthralled by the sublimity OF my
great acting"
"Aw-come out of it," Sheldon
shook her shoulder. You ought to
know better than to fall for such
bunk! This guy may be very much
mistaken about your ability. l don't
believe you'd film we'll"
You don't have to-" Merry was
pleasantly dismissing the subject.
"Say. if it's not rude to ask. were
you counting on staying for dinner?
Because if you are, ] won't nave
Susan make any tea. There's choco-
late fudge cake, but we'll need it for
dessert if you are going to stay for
dinner. But on the we'll known other
hand. if YOU can't stay for dinner. ]
don't mind her cutting into 1t for
TEA" Sheldon ragged. You jolly
come all the way over here to be
made fun OF. Come now. Sit down
and 'show some signs of human in
telligence."
will l have to, Shelly" she asked.
"if | am going to be movie queen?"
He stalked haughtily out. mo-
ment later the front door banged.
A second later Merriam opened it.
"Cohee, Shell-eev' she called, sweet
ly. Come back and make up with
me-"
He came back, boyishly. lie put
both hands on her shoulders.
Il was rotten rude" he admitted.
But I'm SO darned fond of John.
And you. 1 can't help begging you
to keep out of this mess"
Just to please your she twisted a
button on his coat.
Something in her voice threw him
on guard
Not to please me. to please john"
he Iebuked her. eloquently. For
your huhbaads sake
She curtsied.
do come over every day" her eyes
danced. You are going to be great
inspiration to me. You just gave me
another idea for a title. Wouldn't t
you pay a quarter" she asked, dream
lily. ito see Merry Lindsay in the su-
perb drama. For Her Husbands S
sake'?"
Another episode Of this story in to-
morrowS Star.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPING
silk Cor with any oolored cotton) and
tie. a knot at the end. Beginning at
BY LAURA KIRKMAN.

silk Cor with any oolored cotton) and
tie a knot at the end. Beginning at
the upper left-hand corner, pass the
| needle from the under side outward
at the side of the first pleat; insert it
| from right to left on this pleat, keep
! ing the silk above the needle, and
draw the thread out to its full length
| Now take up the next pleat in exactly
the same way and SO on, always
stitch: If the gathering threads are
straight, you can follow them as YOU
smock-and thus keep the shocking
The rope stitch is the next easiest,
| and is much prettier than the simple
outline stitch. 1t is made just like the
outline stitch except that the thread
Is above the needle on one pleat and
below the needle on the next pleat.
The diamond stitch Is still more ef-
fective. To make this you must take
] taking the stitches (each on a sepa-
| rate pleat, Of course). but instead Of
taking the stitches in a straight line.
as in the simple outline stitch, you
| must take them in a slanting line up
| ward. That is, the first Of the three
stitches is taken on the basting line,
| the next one little above it and the
third one still further above it. Now
take three more outline stitches, but
line, so that the last one will be on
the basting line again. You now have
a peak-or half a diamond. Go on
making more half-diamonds all along
the basting line. right across the ma
terial.. Then begin, on the bastlng line
monds-three stitches downward, then
| three stitches upward.
Pull out the basting threads ana the
work is done. ,
Evening star., 1922-03-20
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, NJ. D.
Noted Physician and Author.

ing but benefit to health. IF the taste
is for oatmeal cooked only a few min
utes. that is the wholesome way to
cook oats for that particular taste
Then. too. there is a special advan-
tage in shorter period of cooking
oats for many digestions. for when
cooking is not too greatly prolonged
considerable starch remains uncon-
verted to dextrin by heat, and this
unconverted starch in part reaches
the colon. where it undergoes Tactic
fermentation. and Tactic fermentation
in the colon of man is a benignant
state. because it opposes putrefactive
decomposition there. A lot of plain
people. as Josh Billings called them.
are taking expensive Tactic bacillus
cultures in rather vain effort to ac-
complish precisely what a daily in
diligence in a dish of short cooked
oatmeal for breakfast more certainly
inSureS.
Evening star., 1922-03-20

THE MITTEN TRADER HAD
PULLED INSIDE TO HELP LINE
HIS BED.
tore up the floor where the woodpile
had been, Sure enough, they found
the home of Trader. 1t was a great
mass of sticks and bark and leaves.
1t looked big enough for dozen lit
tie people the size of Trader: Farmer r
Browns Boy got his f1ashlight. for
it was rather dark down there, and
presently, tucked in among the sticks
Of Traders house, he found the buckle
of his belt. Then he found the four
spoons, the knife, the fork and, last
of all, the missing mitten. The nit
ten Trader had pulled inside to help
line his bed, but the other things
had been tucked in on the outside.
"Well, well, well" exclaimed Farm
er Brown. What under the sun do
you suppose he wanted OF those
things?"
HE wanted them just to look at
likes bright things. See, here is a
piece of glass he picked up some
where. And here is a shell from the
Laughing Brook. And there are some
white pebbles. Why. this is regular
museum. l suppose he liked to col
lect these things just as 1 like to
collect postage stamps"
"WeN," said Farmer Brown, Il
think he ought to be called Robber
if anybody is"
Farmer Browns Boy shook his head.
NO" said he. "he shouldn't be called
Robber. You are all wrong. He
traded for those things that he took
from u.s.
!"What do you mean by trading?'
asked his father.
"Just what I say" replied Farmer
Browns Boy. Then he told his father
all about the chips and the pebbles
and the little hemlock cones which
Trader had left. in, exchange for the
things he had taken.
Copyright. 1922. by T. W. Bursess.)
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Tomato Canapes.

Scald and peel three small ripe to-
matoes. then chill them thoroughly.
Cut six slices of bread into rounds
about the size Of the tomatoes and
toast them until very slightly brown
ed. Spread with a mixture of equal
parts of bloater paste and softened
butter. then with a thin layer of
mayonnaise. Cut the tomatoes in
half crosswise and place a slice on
each piece of bread. Sprinkle with
salt and pepper and spread with a
thick layer of whipped cream mixed
with two tablespoons of horseradish
and one-half teaspoon Of minced
onion. Sprinkle with paprika and
serve each canape on a lettuce leaf
on small plate.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
lIITILE,S0R!ES
IrBEDTINE
THE Home of Trader the
Wood Rat.
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
My treasure. you perhaps despiSe.
While yours are worthless in my eyes.
Trader the Wood Rat

B1 TAOHNION W. bt t"NISS'
My treasures you perhaps despise.
While yours are worthless in my eyes
Trader the Wood Rat.
When Farmer Brown arrived at the
sugar house the morning after his
boy had discovered that Trader the
Wood Rat was the one who had stolen
the things which had been missed he
found his boy hard at work pulling
aside the wood piled in one corner
of the little house.
what under the sun are you up
to. SON." he asked.
I'm looking for stolen goods. re-
piled Farmer Browns Boy. You see
have found out who the thief Is
Ha. ! thought So.
He had uncovered a hole IN tne
floor right up in Il corner of the
house. Farmer Brown looked at It,
THAT looks to me like the work OF
rat said he.
at is" replied Farmer Browns
Boy. But the rat that made that
hole isn't the kind of rat you think
he is
How is that?" asked Farmer
1T isn't Robber the Rat" replied
Farmer Browns Boy.
Farmer Brown looked puzzled. 1T
seems to me he is a robber, and
there is only one kind of rat that
I know of around here?'
Did you ever see rat with white
feet and hairy tail and a white
waistcoat?" asked Farmer Browns s
Boy.
Farmer Brown shook his head.
No" said he. IT never did
Well. this fellow has all those
things" declared Farmer Browns
Boy. TT is Trader the Wood Rat.
saw him last night. I've read all
about him and I understand now why
those spoons and knife and fork were
taken. He loves bright things. That
is why he cut the brass buckle from
my belt. ! think if we pull up this
floor we will find all the lost things"
So Farmer Brown helped and they