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Evening star., 1924-10-08

artists.
1t is easy to understand why one
must pay a substantial price for such
a perfect specimen. If you get a
piece in which the angles are just
right, so that the whole glows with
life and fire" the chances are that
you are getting your moneys s
worth" A dull, lifeless piece, how
ever, even when you are sure that
the article is genuinely cut" is gen.
orally made up of unhappy combina-
tions of angles, SO that the article is
not worth the price you must gener-
ally pay for cut glass.
Finally, you can tell inferior glass
ware, whether cut or merely nodded.
by unevenness, minor defects and an
absence of finish in the cut surfaces
which careful examination invariably
reveals.
The true handmade cut glass de-
sign Is likely to be more individual.
moro artistic, than Is possible in
those pieces which are fashioned in
large quantities by the pressing pro-
cess. The pattern will be sharply cut
in the genuinely cut" piece, whereas
the edges are likely to be round and
rather blunt if the piece is of pressed
glass A simple method for detect
ing nodded glassware that claims to
be the genuine "cut" variety is to
pass the fingers over the inner side
of the piece where the cutting is
deepest. A slight bulge or swelling
will be palpable to the touch. If,
when the piece is struck sharply with
a lead pencil, it gives back clear,
resonant, belllike ring, you may
safely conclude that it is genuine cut
glass. A piece that clouds readily
with moisture is probably pressed
ware.
Evening star., 1924-10-08
EEnTTME G1nPTEC BY THORNTON
DAO A1V11 ~ OxVxLO ". BURGESS

no boy or man can get into that melon
patch without being seem
SO Farmer Browns Boy took the rake
and carefully raked over all his own
footprints. He made sure that there
wasn't human footprint anywhere in
the melon patch. Right after supper he
posted himself at a window in the upper
part Of the house from which he could
see the melon patch. The moon came up
early. and he could see all over the gar
den Until way into the night he sat
there watching. Farmer Brown offered
to take his place and watch for him, but
this he wouldn't allow. He wanted to
catch that thief himself
He watched until nearly midnight, but
he saw no one. Then his father told him
to go to bed. NO one will come as
late as this said Farmer Brown. Who
ever stole that big melon Of yours prob
ably thinks that We will be watching to-
night. Perhaps we will have better luck
tomorrow night
So Farmer Browns Boy went to bed
and dreamed of waternelons and
thieves. AS soon as he was up the next
morning he hurried down to the melon
patch There lay the remains Of another
melon that had been broken open and
eaten But nowhere in that melon patch
was there a human footprint Farmer
Brown came down and looked Such a
funny expression as his face wore !
Son" said he, this Is a real mystery.
Some ono must be mighty smart How
any one could get In here and leave no
footprints is more than I can under
stand Another thing that I cannot un-
derstand is why the thief didn't carry
the melon away instead of eating it here.
This is a real mystery. I'm as anxious
as you are to find out who that thief is. /"
That night Farmer Brown and Farmer
Browns Boy took turns watching the
melon patch until late in the night.
They saw no one The next morning
they found that no one had visited the
melon patch. No melons had been dis
turbed. The mystery was as much a
mystery as ever. Again that night they
kept watch and saw nothing But when
in the morning they visited the melon
patch they found that a third melon
had been eaten. If ever there were two
puzzled people In all the great world
those two were Farmer Browns Boy
and Farmer Brown.
Copyright, 1924. by T. ". Bursess.)
Evening star., 1924-10-08
WHEN WE co SHOPPING
BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN.

Cut glass is something that 1t pays
to look into" before you buy! By so
doing you can be sure that you'll be
able to answer in the negative the
question, Did you pay too much for
your cut glass;"
Now, some women have the IDEA
that the phrase "cut glass is a magi-
cal one which insures quality; and.
having determined that the article is
really cut" they do not concern
themselves about the basic material
of which the piece is made. But even
genuine cut glass may be made
from varying grades of material.
Those at all familiar with glassware
know there is a wide divergence OF
quality in the pieces placed upon the
market
The simplest way to tell whether
or not the glass itself is of good
quality Is to note its color. Low-grade
glass will show a decided tint of yell
low, green or brown. But the best
pieces of cut glass will be pure,
sparkling, almost colorless-a bril-
1iantly transparent, just family ting
ed II tinged at all, with a steel blue.
Then, by scintillation, as we'll as
color, you can know the best in cut
crystal ware. Once you become ac-
customed to observing this quality Of
first-rate giass-the exquisite way in
which 1t refracts the light-it be-
comes almost unmistakable. This
sparkle" of fine cut glass depends
upon the angles at which the glass is
cut The process is all carried out by
hand, and the workmen who cut the
glass with such painstaking care-so
that each angle of each cut will re-
fleet or refract the light from some
other angle on the same piece-are
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Distorp of Dour Same
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN.
GRUNDY

RACIAL oRiGIN-German and Eng
fish.
SOURCE-A given name.
In most cases the family name of
Grundy comes to US either as an
English or German development
But there is really a much larger
number Of possible sources. for the
family name comes from given
name, various forms of which are TO
be found in Danish, German. Flemish.
Dutch, French, Norman-French and
Angio-Saxon.
Tho more likely sources are the
given names of "Gruntvig." "Grunt-
wig" "Grundin," "Grundey" and
"Grundig."
The less likely are DE Gundres.'
"Gundraed" and "Gondry." All OF
the given names in the first group are
outgrowth of old Teutonic words
meaning "well-grounded." DE Gun
dres." of course, would be a surname
indicating place of residence; and the
given names of "Gundraed" and
"Gondry,'' the former Anglo-Saxon
and the latter French and Flemish
meant war counselor"
Evening star., 1924-10-08
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Evening star., 1924-10-08
What TodayMeans to You
Libra.
BY MARY BLAKE.

Libra.
Today's planetary aspects are mega
tive. rather than positive. If you con-
template any radical change in your
methods-social or commercial-it
would be advisable, II possible. to de-
fer action until some more propitious
opportunity, and today's signs coun-
sci attention only to work of rou-
tine character. They also indicate
that if Quarrels and differences are
to be avoided, especially in the home
circle, you must exercise Self-resraint
and call on your reserve of self-con-
troll. Use every effort to maintain an
even keel and not to lose your tenn
per!
A child born today will, while en-
joying excellent health during the
period of infancy, suffer from sick
ness at the time Of adolescence, which
will cause worry and anxiety. Its
character will be volatile, its disposi-
ton cheerful, its mentality keen, but
superficial. This child will at no time
take life very seriously: success will
neither unduly elate it nor failure de-
press it; everything will be taken in
light and an airy way, both study
and work 1t is not destined to
achieve greatness, but it will radiate
destroy others hopes as negligible.
If today Is your birthday you do
not apply yourself with sufficient seri-
business Of mind to the tasks intrust-
ed to you, either in the home or in
your profession or career. You are
too f1ippant and too superficial to
achieve that success to which. when
you think at all. you feel entitled.
In your work your only idea Is to
a. vi, III,
as possible, and the result is that it is
accomplished in a slap-dash way that
reflects very little credit on you.
Your mental outlook on life is one
of irresponsibility. You just live in
the present and take no heed of the
future. You have never yet learned
the lesson that if a thing is worth do
ing it is worth doing well.
No great success has been or will
be achieved by you. as you fan to
realize responsibility. or the urge to
task at hand This characteristic ap-
plies not only to your business or do
mestic efforts, but to all your recrea-
tions and pastimes as well You lack
perseverance and persistency; yet you
derive a great deal of happiness and
are surrounded with numberless
friends who are attracted to you by
those very weaknesses that keep you
at the bottom of life's ladder.
Well known persons born on this
day are: John Clarke, one of the
founders Of Rhode Island; Joseph
Hawley, patriot; George Abernethy
first Governor of Oregon; John H.
Reagan, Senator, Postmaster General
of the Confederacy: John Hay. author
and statesman; John Siddall, editor
American Magazine.
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Avoiding the Manicure.

II you are at all like 1 am you will
grudge the time spent in the beauty
shop having your nails manicured !
prefer to attend to all beauty treat
ments myself and spend the time and
the money I save in other ways. Be-
sides, having my nails done by some
ono else makes me nervous.
Tho niger nails groy so rapidly that
once a week they must be filed back
with a steel file, and about twice dur
ing the week the edges where the
nails grow into the finger must be
reshaped with bit of emery board
But the real bother of the nails is the
cuticle that grows all around the
edges. If this is not kept short and
smooth and free. from stains neither
the nails nor the hands will look at
tractive. Two days after a thorough
manicure this cuticle is beginning to
look badly, and on the third day II
looks bad enough to demand another
Evening star., 1924-10-08

Il just love the country" exclaimed
Betty Cut-out, as Dorothy Anne's
big brother helped them out of the
automobile and Betty saw the pretty
white farmhouse with green shutters.
Il think the place you live in is so
pretty. I don't blame you for liking
to live in the country. not one bit"
ITS too bad we don't happen to
have a good school near here" sighed
Dorothy Anne. But then IL I'd never
gone to school in town 1 wouldn't
have known you. Now como in and
I'll show you the rest of my family
and my very own dog"
The two girls took hands and went
skipping up the long walk that led to
the house.
Dorothy Anne. when she comes
home, changes into tan dress and
tan socks. Then she wears an apron
colored pale blue.
Copyright, 1924-)
Evening star., 1924-10-08

Sundey afternoon pop was looking
at the part of the paper with the
iadyS fashions in and ma was looking
at the funny part without laffinS and
/ was wondering il eny of the tel-
lows was out, and ladies came to
see ma, being Mrs. Hews and Mrs.
Peters. and pop stopped looking at
the paper to seem more polite and
Mrs. Peters started to tawk about
how wonderful her little gerl was,
saying, Betty certeny is a brite child
altho perhaps I shouldn't be the one
to say so because everybody says she
looks like me, hee, hee. If l was to
tell you some of the things that
child says you'd think it was impos-
sible. Ill tell you some. For in
stantS the other morning the mail
man rang the bell and Betty looked
up at him with her big innocent blue
eyes and sed. Have you got a little
gerl like me? Imagine sutch imag
ination, Mrs. Peters sed.
Well you cant beet my little grand
son WILDER wen it comes to brite
sayings, 1 must admit, Mrs. Hews sed.
How he ever thinks OF the things he
thinks of / cant think. Only this
afternoon wen I was 1eeving the
house he looked up at me with his
little cerly he'd and he sed, Don't be
long, SranmOtner. tnaWt 10 ole
laffing. Mrs. Hews sed.
Pop looking as If he wasent even
thinking of lafhng. and ma sed, How
cute, and Mrs. Peters said, Thats
nuthing to wat my Betty sed to the
milkman this morning. bless her big
innocent blue eyes. You know our
milkmaH is quite fat, or rather OF
corse you don't know. but enyway he
is. and my Betty looked up at him
with her big innocent blue eyes and
sed, How did you get so fat. MIR.
Jones? That's his name. Jones, izZent
that perfeck Mrs. Peters sed-
That reminds me of wat my grand
son WILDER sed to the baker. Mrs.
Hewes sed. He looked up at him
with his little cerly he'd and sed rite
out loud, Patty cake patty cake baker
man. I thawt it was one OF the
cleverest things he ever sed, Mrs.
Hewes sed.
Excuse me, ladies, I think Ill haff
to leeve you, pop sed. Being the way
felt, and l went out to see II eny
of the fellows was out insted OF jest
wondering if they was, and 1 don't
know ware pop went
Evening star., 1924-10-08

must stay tight. What happens to
the ends after that doesn't seem to
matter much-both may hang down
the back, both may hang in front, or
one may hang in front and one in
back.
Thus does fashion seem to be lead
ing US by the noses up to a revival
of high collars. For the neck tightly
and closely swathed with a scarf is
just as truly collared as ever neck
was in the days when women
wore neck ribbons, drawn around the
neck and then tied in bows under
their chins
There is quite a trick in adjusting
the scarf at the present time, and
from France we have learned how to
use large double-headed pin devices
made specially for this purpose. One
advantage that we have now, that
women did not have when n~they wore
Evening star., 1924-10-08
HOW TT STARTED
"Roly.Poly." :"
BY JEAN NEWTON.

For the first time this Summer, in
a country hotel, I ate the delicious
old confection called raspberry rolly-
poly and learned the origin of this
term applied by amiable tormentors
to people who may be described as
plump or fat
The original roly-poly is a cake or
pudding, which is spread with fruit.
rolled into the well known form Of
Jelly roll" and so baked. or steam
ed, IL it is Of pudding consistency.
Literally the word means a little
fine flour (poly being a derivative of
the Latin pollen" from which we
have our pollen" or dust" of fiow-
ers), which is rolled into little
cake.
1t should be said that we intend
nothing unedifying to the fat boy
but the truth must be told.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-10-08
NV Neighbor Says:

Instead of heating jars to be
filled or putting silver knife
into them, just stand them on
about four thicknesseS of a
towel wrung out of tepid water
mot too dry) and fill with boil
ing fruit
Every one should drink milk
because of the mineral elements
it contains.
Coffee stains on a cloth or on
any material are most difficult
to eradicate unless treated i'm
mediately. Boiling water will
remove them if the fiber Of the
material has not had time thor
oughly to absorb the coffee.
But if the stain is of long
standing, equal parts of yolk
of egg and glycerine applied to
the spot and allowed to dry on
it offer practically the only
method of removing them.
If an article has been scorched
in ironing, wet it in cold water
and lay where the bright sun
shine will fall directly on it.
This will take the mark en-
tirely out
You will find complete salts
faction in using kerosene to
clean an enamel sink. Using
gritty substances like powdered
pumice removes the fine finish
Of enamel and as a consequence
grease and dirt adhere and will
increase your trouble. Don't use
kerosene lavishly and send 1t
down the drain unnecessarily.
Use a cloth.
If a chicken is well rubbed
inside and out with cut lemon
before being cooked, 1t will
make the meat white, juicy and
tender.
Evening star., 1924-10-08
OAAO NllA - BY EDNA KENT. FORBES
manicure. unless you know how I

manicure. unless you know how to
avoid it
1 manage to keep the cuticle down
by keeping an orangewood stick on
the bathroom shelf, and by using 1t
twice day. More fortunate people
may need to use it only once a day,
where the cuticle does not grow 50
rapidly. In the morning when / wash
my hands with soap and warm water
dry them on soft towel, and then,
the skin being still warm and slightly
moist, l go around each nail with the
end OF an orangewood stick pushing
the cuticle back. In the afternoon aft
er bath, the same process is repeat
ed. This keeps the cuticle always
pushed back so that only once a week
and sometimes not as often as that, is
it in need of cuticle scissors or cuticIe
removers.
In the bathroom, too I keep a small
bottle Of pure lemon juice II the
nails and the skin are stained / twist
d wisp of absorbent cotton around
the end Of the stick and use this az
bleach and astringent
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Curried Onions.

These are delicious served in po-
tato or rice cases. To make the
onion curry, cook one cupful of
chopped onions in slightly salted
water for 10 minutes, drain, then
add half a cupful of cream or rich
milk. II milk is used, add two tea
spoonfuls Of butter. half teaspoon
full OF curry powder. a pinch of mace
and 4 tablespoonful of mushroom
catsup, or tomato catsup If preferred.
and one-fourth cupful of bread
crumbs and salt and paprika to
taste. Pour the mixture into potato
or rice lined cases and bake. Gar
nish with parsley.
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Melon Patch Mystery.
Dark deeds can never stand the light,
And so they're products OF the night.

All day long Farmer Browns Boy
thought of nothing but the loss Of his
prize watermelon. and the mystery of
how any boy or man could have gone
into the melon patch and left no foot
prints in the soft earth there. Two or
three times during the day he hunted
and hunted for telltale footprints. But
he hunted in vain. He even examined
his own footprints to see If some one
had carefully stepped in these so as to
leave no prints of their own.
Il tell you what it is, son." said
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Preparing Way for High h Collars
Z by MARY MARSHALL.

The neck scarf is becoming longer
and sometimes narrower. 1t Is no
longer a large oblong of material
which we throw around our shoulders.
letting it settle as it will into grace
full and caressing folds. Nor should
ones scarf be hung about the neck
with ends hanging forward. No, the
scarf of today must be drawn about
the neck as tight and close as
q cold compress for the croup-and it
Evening star., 1924-10-08

neck ribbons about their necks, is
that those ribbons were adjusted over
a collar band, whereas the scarf of
today is adjusted over bare neck
with inches of bare neck below it in
front.
1t, seems to be taken quite for
granted now that after one has ad-
justed a neck scarf about the neck
there should be a little window of
bare skin below. If you try to spread
out the scarf to cover this bit of skin
you will find your task difficult. This
fashion for the neck scarf, that seems
to continue in spite of its already
long run, ought to be regarded as a
blessing by the woman who must
dress on a very limited income. For
with number of well-selected neck
scarfs she may manage quite we'll
enough without furs.
Almost any sort of attractive silk
may be used for a scarf. Wide ribbon
answers the purpose. For cooler days
a length of wide black velvet ribbon
may be chosen.
Copyright. 1924)
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Fauorite Recipes of
Prominent Women
BY EDNA NJ. COLMAy.
Corn Pudding.
MRS. MINNIE F. CUNNINGHAM,
S>nonA Nin> p.>aia~-4 ~ A.

SUAu uVUlUS.
MRS. MINNIE F. CUNNINGHAM,
Second Vice President OF the League
OF Woman Voters.
"The woman who put Texas on the
map in the suffrage battle" is now
the second vice president OF the
League of Woman Voters. She is
Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham,
Texas born, and one Of the first wom-
en- to be graduated from the school Of
pharmacy at the University of Texas.
positions in the women's clubs of her
State and rendered notable service
during the war on the various Lib
erty loan committees and also as a
member of the Texas Military We'll
fare Commission to which she was
appointed by the governor
Mrs. Cunningham wants all women
to ally themselves with political par
ties, to think and act Independently
after informing themselves upon the
issues at stake.
Her home expresses the genuine
Southern hospitality, and among the
typica1ly Southern dishes which she
likes to offer to her friends is Texas
corn pudding?
One pint scraped corn pulp, one
cup milk, one teaspoonful sugar, one
tablespoonful melted butter. two
eggs, one and one-half tablespoonfuls
flour, half teaspoonful salt, dash of
pepper. Beat the egg yolks until
creamy and light, add the corn, milk
and the dry ingredients; then mix in
the well-beatenl whites. Turn into a
buttered dish and bake 80 minutes in
moderate oven or until the center
sets.
Copyright, 19e4.)
Evening star., 1924-10-08

Farmer Brown, there are other ripe
melons there, and the thief is likely to
come again. He may not come tonight,
but he is pretty sure to come again be-
fore those melons are all gone. You
take a rake and rake over all your own
footprints. Tonight we'll watch that
melon patch. 1t will be moonlight, and
Evening star., 1924-10-08
MOTHERS
AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Playing Bootblack.

One mother says:
1t had always been a task to get
my boys to blacken their shoes, un-
til one day they stopped to watch
busy shoe-shining shop downtown
and came home with an idea. They
proceeded to rig up a shop Of their
Evening star., 1924-10-08

Nine. de Witt Schlumberger. presi-
dent of the French Union for Woman
Suffrage, is the mother of six chill
dren, to the education of whom she
consecrated her entire time before
entering public life
Evening star., 1924-10-08
Menu for a Day.
BREAKFAST.
Sliced Bananas.
Cooked Cereal with Cream.
Crisp Bacon.
flashed Brown Potatoes.
Graham PopoVers. Coffee.

Crisp Bacon.
flashed Brown Potatoes.
Graham Popovers. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Creamed Shrimp with Peppers
on Toast.
Bread and Butter Sandwiches.
Devil Cake. Tea
DINNER
Potato Soup.
Broiled Steak.
Baked Potatoes.
Stewed Tomatoes.
Fruit Salad
Crackers, Cheese. Coffee.
GRAHAM POPOvERS.
Two-thirds cup of entire
wheat -four, q cup of milk, y
cup of -four, Il teaspoon of salt,
i egg, Y teaspoon of melted
, butter. Prepare and bake same
as pop overs.
SHRIMPS AND PEPPERS.
Cut sweet green peppers in
halves lengthwiSe, remove the
seeds and partitions, boil five
minutes, drain and Shred Cook
tablespoons of flour in table
spoons of bubbling hot butter,
add 1 pint of milk slowly, sea-
son with 1-3 teaspoon of salt,
place over boiling water and
cook 10 minutes. Add 1 pint of
shrimps and the prepared pep
pers, heat thoroughly and serve
on toast
FRUIT SALAD.
.One-half large grapefruit, 1
orange shredded and 1 apple
chopped. Mix with fruit dress
ing, place on lettuce leaves and
serve.
Evening star., 1924-10-08
[ Copyright, 19o4.)

A German telegraph operator died
several years ago from asphyxia
after swallowing stones. grass leaves,
wood and scrapiron, on bet
Evening star., 1924-10-08
AUNT HET
BY ROBERT CULLEN.

"rve forgive pa for everything ex-
cent the time I fiirted with a man
after We was married and he didn't
git mad"
Copyright. 1se4)
Evening star., 1924-10-08

THE SMARTEST WAY TO WEAR
THE SCARF is THIS-WRAPPED
AS TIGHTLY AS A COMPRESS
ABOUT THE THROAT.
Evening star., 1924-10-08

to a
"A Well 1t doesn't matter what
IN mmer
flaming