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The Ideal Playroom

And doubtless children spent many
hilarious hour in those old
fashioned playrooms. But the
playroom OF today has a more def
mite place in the training Of the
child. 1t is a place where he Is
taught the principles Of order and
neatness, place where he has his
own books and pictures-in short
1t is pretty nearly what the day
nursery Is in well-regulated
English homes, only that there is
less evidence Of the nursery maid
about 1t.
Now If you were planning a six
or seven or eight-room house for
your small family that included a
child or so, where would you have
the playroom?
You would show wisdom in put
ting 1t on the ground floor OF the
house. In the first place the
ground floor Is warmer. Moreover
the housewife that has to do much
of her own work Is below stairs
three-Quarters or more Of her
waking hours, and most American
children have way Of demanding
and securing rather close prox-
unity to their mothers. They like
to be within earshot. Ii the play
room is just of the living room
or even OF the kitchen there Is the
advantage of knowing that they
can be heard but not seen. which
is often preferable to the other
arrangement OF having them seer
but not heard. You can tell by
what you hear how their play ii
progressing and yet their toys anc
other paraphernalia can be KEEP
we'll out !, of sight and out from
under foot.
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- UTTER or dripping. one
X ounce; milk or stock, one
- half pint; -four, one ounce;
pepper and salt. Melt the butter
and blend the -four with it; add
half the liquid little at a time,
stirring constantly. Mix in the
rest Of the liquid quickly; stir I'M
til 1t boils: season and add the
other ingredients. II any.
Caper Sauce.
This foundation can be made
into caper sauce by adding = des-
sertspoonful OF capers and little
of the liquid IN which they are
preserved, but the sauce will
curdle IL allowed to boil an instan,
after the capers are added. Caper
sauce is used as garnishing for
both boiled mutton and fish.
Egg Sauce.
Boil two eggs for Is minutes;
take out the yolks and rub through
wire sieve; chop the whites
finely and add both to the sauce
This is excellent with boiled fish
OF any kind except salmon, foI
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which nothing is SO good as
parsley sauce.
Parsley Sauce.
Wash the parsley and dry well
by wringing in a soft cloth. Then
pick from the stalks and hold in
a tight clump between the fingers.
Cut 1t across as closely as possible
before chopping and then chop as
finely as ever you can with sharp
knife. Parsley cannot be chopped
too finely. II should be like a
flne green dust when finished
When chopped gather it tightly in
the corner of clean cloth and
rinse in running water until the
water runs green. Then wrinl
quite dry again and mix with the
white sauce. Two heaping table
spoons of the chopped parsley
should be added to half a pint Of
sauce. This is good with boilet
mutton, salmon or chicken.
! Tomato Sauce.
Tomatoes. three or four; mace
one black; pepper and salt; onion
one-half; cloves, two; cornstarch
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vXYHlLE there is a decided OBJ
w lection to using the names
OF your friends too freely
where they may be overheard,
there is a decided objection to the
too frequent use of such terms as
"A friend of mine." "A young lady
OF my acquaintance" lone of my
men friends" other such terms
that would seem to indicate to the
persons TO whom you are talking
an unwillingness TO have them
know the names OF your associates.
Young women very frequently
use this mysterious manner when
referring TO their men friends.
They tell you they are going to the
theatre with "a gentleman friend"
Needless TO say that expression is
n the worst possible taste, but
other less Objectionable terms,
such as "a young man l know"
ought TO be avoided as much as
possible. II you don't wish to
have a friend know with whom
you are going to the theatre why
mention that you are going at all
The effect is TO make the one you
are talking to suspect you of brag-
eing or else you give the impress
sion OF delighting in mystery when
speaking of your men friends.
Another thing that is never very
considerable or polite to another
person Is to show gifts or to refer
10 them without telling the name
OF the giver. When a younp
woman makes habit OF Showing
gifts In this way before the meu
she knows ii is really in the worsi
OF taste. Yet lots Of young girl:
delight in producing lavish boxes
OF candy when men acquaintance,
call with the mystifying remark
that they are gifts from "a friend
OF theirs. The obvious conclusion
for the young man to draw is tina
the young woman expects him L
fall in lire and make present.
likewise.
Don't too often use such expires
sions as "A certain woman l know
always does this or that" Their,
would probably be no harm il
mentioning the name Of the frient
and IL there is then why mention
the incident at all, as the one L
Whom you are talking may CUES
he Identity Of that person an
say?
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il, and fry again for a few min
utes. Then carefully stir IN the
stock and seasonings. and boil
gently for ten minutes. Skim.
Add the mustard, vinegar, and
lemon-juice. Boil up once, and
serve with steak. pork chops,
liver, goose, turkey, etc.. etc.
Sauce TMtare.
To be served with cold meats.
First, make mayonnaise. Place
the yolk OF one egg in a large fiat
plate with one-half teaspoon of
ground English mustard, and stir
with wooden fork two or three
minutes. Pour In drop by drop
one-third of cup of the very best
olive oil: then add, drop by drop,
the juice of one lemon. stirring
vigorously all the time. Add salt
and tabasco sauce to taste. Add
one gherkin chopper fine. six
capers chopped very fine, one
tablespoon Of parsley chopped tine,
and one small shallot, also chop
ped very fine.
Mushroom Sauce for Filet OF Beef.
Two gills of stock. one can OF
mushrooms, half the juice OF can
of mushrooms, one heaping table
spoon OF Hour, lemon juice. one
tablespoon of butter, pepper and
salt. Skim the stock, and put it
and the mushroom juice in a
saucepan on the fire. Now put the
butter and -four in a frying pan.
and stir together over the fire un-
til we'll Drowned (roux); remove
from the fire, and stir in the boil
ing stock: add the mushrooms, a
few drops OF lernon-juice, salt.
and pepper; stew for FIVE minutes.
until the mushrooms are we'll
heated through Pour part OF
this sauce over the hlet. Serve
the rest in a sauce-boat.
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Sauces to Dress Up Meat and Fish

one-half teaspoon. water, one-haif
pint. Wipe the tomatoes and cut
them IN halves; put into an agate
saucepan together with the onion.
cloves, mace and water; simmer
until the tomatoes are soft. Ruo
through fine sieve. return to the
saucepan and bring to boil, add
the cornstarch blended smooth in
little cold water. Season and
serve.
Montpelier Butter.
Cook a loo: handful of parsley
for two or three minutes in boil
ing water; blend 1t well up with
four tablespoons of butter, the
yolk of a hard-boiled egg and a
tablespoon of anchovy paste. Then
rub through very fine sieve. II
you add one leaf of spinach to the
parsley ii makes deeper, richer
green color.
Hollandaise Sauce.
Beat the yolks of four eggs and
beat in gradually one-half cup
butter. Add one-quarter teaspoon
salt, a dash of paprika and one
half cup boiling water. Cook over
hot water, stirring constantly un-
til thick, adding gradually the
juice Of half a lemon. Chill be-
fore using. Serve with fish, or a
fish salad.
A White Sauce for Croquettes.
Amounts can be increased pro
portionately as necessary.
Ingredients: Two and half tea,
spoons butter Cor little less
Crisco) and blend with 1t the -four
Add the milk and cook slowly
stirring constantly until the mix,
ture thickens and is smooth. Fin
ish in double boiler. and serve
over or beside the croquettes.
This white sauce may be used
for other dishes. and slices Of left
over meat are made very palatabl,
with this addition. A little stocl
from whatever meat is used ma,
take the place of the milk.
: Celery Sauce.
ii Cut the celery in one-inci
! lengths: put it in saucepan
cover with boiling water. Boi
about thirty minutes, until tender
J Strain out the celery. blend thu
, water in which the celery wa
7 boiled with the -four and butte
creamed. Set it over the fire an
! stir until perfectly smooth ant
Z thick; add salt, pepper, and tn
, celery; set it over boiling waite
: and let IL stew gently until tn
: celery begins to go to pieces
3 Serve with boiled turkey. chicken
: etc.
! Sauce Robert.
Q Two ounces of butter. fou
Y tablespoons of good stock, juice o
4 half lemon, salt and pepper t.
r taste, three onions, sliced fine
a one teaspoon of made mustard
y one teaspoon Of vinegar, one tea
s spoon Of -four. Melt the butter ],
d a saucepan; when the butter !
t melted. fry the onions brown
q being careful not TO burn them
Add the flour: shake the onions /
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DERHAPS you may have heard
of far-seeing engaged people

nERHAPS you may have heard
of far-seeing engaged people
= who, when making plans for
the house that Is to be their first
home together, deliberately mark
a certain room in the house the
nursery and confer with the archi-
tect to make sure that this impor-
tant room has the right exposure
and ventilation. However, most
people who have no children never
build houses, as II such things as
children ever did come into the
world, and this is unfortunate be-
cause as a usual thing people do
not have enough money to build
houses at the same time that they
are rearing children. 1t Is often
the houses built when the children
were adults with no especial re-
gard to the demands and short
comings Of children that later
serve as the home place for the
next generation Of children. And
so it goes. Meantime the mothers
and fathers OF children usually
have rather lengthy suggestions as
to how they would build thel,
house over again.
A playroom is almost Essential
for the comfort of elders as wei
as of children. One young mother
Of several children insists that u
she had a cottage or apartment o.
but four rooms, one of those woult
be designed and furnished as {
playroom.
The oldfashioned idea of ;
playroom was that 1t should b.
some otherwise useless room, II
the attic or q wing of the hous'
where toys could be stored ant
children relegated on rainy dave
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AS to Talking
Shop

0FTEN we hear people say that
they don't talk shop" out OF
Office hours; and there are
those who declare that it is posi-
lively i'll bred for a man or woman
to talk about his business or pro-
fession when mingling with his
friends and acquaintances in
purely social way. Still shop" is
the most interesting thing that
some people have to talk about,
and sometimes we invite a clever
person to our parties just because
we want him to tell us about his
work. We would lose a lot il the
actor we knew never recounted
some Of the trials and amusing in
cidents of his work, or if the doc
tor could never mention the
human interest side of being a
doctor. If we could none of US
talk shop then good many of us
could talk about nothing but the
weather and the high cost OF living.
But there is one kind of shop
talking that Is an objectionable
intrusion. That is the kind Of talk
that is designed to aid in a bust
ness or professional transaction
during social hours. Often OF
course one meets people in social
way who prove to be helpful later
in business, but one cannot be too
tactful in setting about to make
such acquaintance useful or help
full. The tactless, stupid man il
he meets an influential man whom
he thinks might contribute to his
own business success "goes to 1t"
at once, seeks the man out as he
would seek him out In a business
Office and begins his business talk
without further delay. This Is the
kind of business talk that no one
tolerates. 1t is an objectionable
| intrusion.
| Very often, of course, a man
chooses to bring purely business
acquaintance to his home when
about to transact some business
deal, rather than to trust to the
less gracious hospitality OF hotel
or restaurant. In England rather
more than in this country mer
bring business associates home tc
luncheon rather than take them tC
a public eating place. But ther
the understanding is, of course
that at least some of the lunchin,
time may be devoted to bushes!
discussion.
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NKATING Is not especially In
- the fashion this year. That Is
- to say. 1t has reached the
stage in sports where all good
sports ought to be. We skate now
because we like to skate. because
we know how to skate.
One doesn't see quite such an
amusing assortment OF skaters and
non-skaters. men and women, old
and young, fat and thin, rs one
did three or four years ago when
the renewed vogue for skating
came in. Then every vacant lot
was flooded with water. some sort
Of, orchestra took up Its place in
one corner under shed. and the
instructors In skating made small
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Let the Children
Work
w ply shouldn't children be In
w part At least self-support-
w ingf

w part At least self-support-
w ing1
Why should their parents feel
Obliged to toll and strive for them
for the frst eighteen or twenty or
twenty-five years OF their lives
anyway?
It's q curious prejudice Of Amer
leans, however. that children OF all
classes--children Of the clerk who
earns q meager income no less
than the children OF the million
aire-should be nursed in. the lap
OF luxury out OF. all proportion to
the sort of future that awaits
them.
The other day a prominent edu-
Gator launched the suggestion that
children OF the schools might be
made self-supporting. He was
speaking about the work Of the
National Plant. Flower and Fruit
Guild and drew attention to the
fact that q single child in many
cases earns as much as 500 dur
ing the course OF one summer
through the cooperation OF this
organization. and, needless to say,
this 800 is OF great assistance to
the family OF the child.
The great difference between the
work done by these little farmers
and the child laborers of the fac
tories is that the work Of the little
school farmess is healthful, happy
work. while the factory work In
most cases is quite the reverse.
The amount OF harm done has
little relation to the amount OF
work accomplished, or even the
hours OF labor involved. Many
children work harder than grown.
ups and put more real application
in what they are doing, only this
enthusiasm and application is ap'
piled 10 recreation rather than &c
something that brings material
results.
When you come to think OF It
this idea that childhood should be
period free from gainful occups,
ton is a more or less recent one
The grandparents of most of IL.
were partly self-supporting even II
their childhood, and it is said tha
in the early days of our country.
development man counted him
self wealthy IL he had large fam
lily OF sons and daughters wht
could combine with him and thu
mother OF the family In their dali,
work. And this condition still
prevails in many OF the countrie
of Europe, where thrift and indus
try are perhaps more highly es
teemed virtues than in thi
country.
But IL really seems as IL all tn
children nowadays were all beinI
admirably educated to be million
aires and men and women O
leisure and as II We rather los
sight Of the fact In our training @
the children that a life OF work
in store for most OF US. Wouldn'
IL be good idea if we spent som
OF the time that we now spend /
contriving how to save our chi
dren from working in maxim
them love the idea OF work and c
showing them that work can b
made even more interesting tina
play7
Let the children work." say
the educator quoted above. 1T
the finest thing in the world fo
them. provided the work is COZ
genial and brings into play the
creative faculties. That is th
great trouble with child labor /
the South, not so much the har
work and the long hours. but III
deadly monotony OF the worl
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fortunes plotting non-skaters about
the ice.
Now We take our skating with
more spirit. those OF US who skate
simply because we skate II we
like to and know how, not II We
don't like to and merely think We
ought to.
Never before. certainly. were
clothes so we'll adapted to skating.
Women of any ago may wear
knickerbocker for sports without
attracting any more attention than
they desire. And heavy mufhers.
sweaters, gloves and caps are not
only so warm, but 80 good look
ing. that everyone dons them.
Lined skating shoes. wool stock
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REFINISHING A FLOOR

If a painted or vanished floor
is to be refinished, it should first
be thoroughly scrubbed. and after
it has become perfectly dry,
should be well sand-papered, and
then wiped with cloth dampened
with turpentine or gasoline In
order to remove the dust caused
by the use Of the sandpaper.
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When You Go Skating, Skate for Fun

bockcrs with dark blue tailored
coats. Tho effect II decidedly
good.
Some, Of course, forego wearing
Z jacket altogether and wear in
stead an extra heavy sweater.
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There are lovely little negligecs
made of straight strip OF pleated
georgette. held in to band that
goes across the bust, under the
arms, and across the back. Straps
go over khe shoulders. and then
there is 4 cape that is fastened to
the shoulder straps to form
sleeves.
There are other charming negli-
gees of heavy white silk crepe that
are cut and draped on purely
Grecian lines, with girdles holding
their folds in place.
A loose belt about the hips with
some sort OF hanging ends at each
side is good decorative note.
One such belt on a black frock is
faced with bright blue, and has
soft, irridescent blue crystal
beads embroidered on the ends OF
the girdle. These hold the ends
four of them, for they hand in a
pair at each side-down to the
sides of the skirt.
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ings, homespun knickers, . jacket
to match over Z hand-knit sweater.
= brushed wool mufner and heavy
angora or Scotch wool gloves
this 10, indeed. Z skating outfit to
insure comfort and good looks.
both.
Some Of those who skate at tho
resorts whore winter sports are In
dulged In wear white knicker-
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This, too, Is quite effective. The
heavy sweaters with mufiiers col
lars attached are smart for skat-
Ing. They are often made out OF
heather mixtures in yarn that are
most attractive.
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a PRONS for ladies' maids are
~ so bewitchingly pretty these
. = days that one wishes one
might act as lady's maid to some
body. There are some made OF
very heavy but good quality cot
ton net, with the hens double, and
the straps likewise double. With
them go scalloped collar and cuff
sets. also made OF the double net.
And sometimes little cap also Of
the double thickness OF net. The
mesh is big.
Hats OF velvet show flowers OF
the same material applied with
gold threads, in an irregular sort
OF one-two-three stitch.
Chamois gloves are made with
soft, wide cuffs lined with white
kid. Sometimes the edge of the
cuff is turned back on itself.
Black silk is fashioned into a
lovely negligee, voluminous and
soft. 1t is trimmed with thick
gray swansdown.
Coat Innings are fascinating this
year. Well, they usually are, for
that matter. When 1t is year of
plain silk or satin Innings. they are
fascinating because OF their very
smoothness and nice cut and tail
oring. When it is year of
brightly figured Innings they are
fascinating just because they are
so bright and gay. This year
there are various sorts of Innings.
Some are figured. Some are plain
And a good many Of the capes
have interesting trimmings on the
| lining. That is, there will be q
band OF figured ribbon marking
the juncture OF the lining with
the turned-under section of the
front and lower edge of the cape
/ This shows, of course, when the
cape is thrown back. With such
a trimming there is plain lining
naturally. Other Innings, especial,
those of evening cloaks and capes
are pulled and shirred, and som,
of them are trimmed with ostrich
Ostrich, by the way, in all color
and widths. may be bought by tn,
yard in the shops. 1t may be uset
at home for trimming boudoi
caps and negligees, even il on
does not venture to make any
thing more important.
Heavy silk net scarfs show pat
terms run with colored chenille.
Evening wraps are made entirel,
covered with irridescent sequins
overlapping each other like tsl
scales.
1 White gardenias falling fror
the hip over the skirt-in tru
dripping style, SO limp and heay
they seem--form a charming not
on a frock of rose taffeta.
Lovely lingerie of the sheeres
batiste, made all by hand and EN-
bToidered with the daintiest sor
Of patterns in the finest sort G
stitches, is always sought after b
some women, who far prefer 1t t
that of silk. 1t is, of course, white
! This year one may buy it mad
by French or Belgian workers.
! The shops are getting the rigf
( sort of brassiere TO go with th
, low-topped corset. There was
l good deal of complaint on the pal
t Of women because of the hiatl
D that appears when they .stretc
5 out, inadvertently, between tn
lower edge of the brassiere an
: the top edge of the corset. Son
v resorted to safety pins to taste
e the two irretrieyably togethe
q Some just tried TO remember NJ
i to throw their shoulders back. b
q now there are brassieres real
o made to go with these low corse
s that stay where they belong, ar
y keep a smooth line over the jun
lture of the two garments.
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Here and There In
= Fashions Byways

Little Cater
to O
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Heavy silk net scarfs show pat
terms run with colored chenille.
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Evening wraps are made entirely
covered with irridescent sequins,
overlapping each other like fish
scales.
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an Almost Much Good Cooking in These Days.
Plain Foundation Sauce.
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FASHION HINTS

The girl who danced at smart
restaurant wearing a pair of black
velvet sleeves suspended from her
shoulders by chains OF brilliants
had 10 cause 10 be wall flower.
The sleeves were cut in the shape
of gauntlets that reached slightly
above the elbows where they fiared
out 10 show their silver cloth lining.
Whatever you can do 10 the arm
coverings TO make them conspicuous
and curious. do II. That Is. II you
want to be in the first ranks Of
fashion.
The girl who dined at a restau-
rant with a silver quill stuck
through the back of her couture
would have risked arrest II she had
taken IL TO the theatre. Ii stood
out fully six inches on each side OF
the low knot of hair through which
II ran. The fashion for these orna-
mental quilts in the hair was started
( in the Paris restaurant where the
quilts were thrown at the dancers
Later the idea was used at the foot
ball games in the colors of the op-
posing teams.
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Chamois gloves are made with
soft, wide cuffs lined with white
kid. Sometimes the edge of the
cuff Is turned back on itself.