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Evening star., 1925-12-28
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, Nj. ID.

laries, smaller veins, great vein fvena
cava), right auricle, right ventricle,
pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary
vein, left auricle and left ventricle to
the aorta again. The course seems
speedy enough. 1t varies greatly IN
different portions of the circulation.
In the larger arteries the blood
travels fastest, about a foot a sec
ond; in the fine capilIaries the veloc-
ity is slowest, about nine-tenths of
an inch in a whole minute. The cur
rent is naturally swiftest in the mar
row channel and slowest in the wider
stretches of river. The total cross
area of the Capillaries is about 500
times as great as the cross area OF
the great artery.
These are just some curious facts
l am drawing. not from my own stu
pendous intellect. but from Il text
book of physiology-an extremely un-
popular subject. But please do not be
impatient-I'm coming to the interest
ing stuff presently. May even slip In
a few symptoms-can't tell yet; de
pends on how / happen to feel at the
moment. But in order to make this
series of talks about the circulation,
heart, arteries. blood pressure, arterio-
sclerosiS, cardiovaScular degeneration
worth while, it Is necessary to lay
down. first, a foundation Of physiol-
ogy.
l said that every one who is any
body has more or less blood pressure.
If you have no blood pressure you're
quite dead.
The blood pressure is all in the world
that keeps your blood in circulation
Heart and arteries have tone. That is,
they have muscular walls which, dur
ing life, are in a state of constant con
traction. The heart and artery walls,
in health, are also elastic, so that they
can give and take. BY reason of this
Involuntary muscular coat and the
elasticity of their walls. the arteries
and the heart maintain a certain
amount of pressure upon the blood
constantly. This pressure is greatest
during the contraction of the ventricle
theart beat, which phase is called sys-
tolic blood pressure (systole being the
medical term for contraction of the
ventricle). The pressure is lowest be-
tween heart beats, when the ventricle
Is d1lating and the valve leading into
| the aorta Is closed. for then only the
elasticity and muscular tone of the ar
terles maintains the pressure upon the
blood. This phase is called diastolic
pressure, diastolic being the medical
term for relaxation or dilation Of the
ventricle after each beat.
The elasticity and muscular tone Of
the arteries carries the pressure wave
along after each heart beat and pro-
duces the pulse. The difference be-
tween the systolic and diastolic pres.
sures is called pulse pressure
There, now, children, that's all for
today. Con this physiology lesson
| over and if you have any friends who
are worried about blood pressure.
hardening of the arteries, heart fail
ure or general breakdown, invite them
TO join our health class and learn
what idiots they are.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
BEAU IL Cf1Alc BY EDNA KENT FORBES.

little expense. Two yards of chiffon
with a hole picoted out TO slip the
head through, worn like a cape over
an out-of-date evening gown, Will
make smart neglige, the chiffon hid
ing all the worn parts Of the dress. A
lace tunic from one frock can make
Il coatee to turn another frock int"
a neglige-there's no END To the com
binations Your own ingenuity can
think up.
DO You want to make some spend
Ing money: ] suggested To one read
er last year that she start business
turning old evening gowns into tea
gowns and similar things. using as
little new material as possible and
charging s. or SO for the work, aC-
cording TO its amount. She wrote re
Gently that She is making $50 a week
in her spare time and could make
more if she had the time for il.
Mario CA prominent bone at the
back Of the neck may indicate a spinal
curvature or some other misadjusr-
ment Of the spinal bones, which
throws the one a. the back of the
neck very much out Of place.
Jesse G. H.-Buffing the nails reg
ulaTly Will do much to make them
smooth and give them that pinkish
tint YOU desire. Buffing amounts To
the same thing as a massage, since ir
creates circulation under the nails.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
SUB ROSA
DY MIMI.
BY MIMI.
Don't Take It Out on Him.

II you're feeling out OF sorts--if
the weather's been rotten, and every
things gone wrong all day-why take
it out on the poor boy friend when
he calls around eight o'clock look
ing for a little cheerful companion
ship?
why is it that you girls who
struggle SO hard to make" nice
man are 50 careless about the way
you treat him when he becomes a
permanent fixture in your lives?
Three months ago. Lonely Girl
wrote to this column sobbing for her
Prince Charming-how. where and
why could she get him?
finally landed him-that he was all
hers-that they loved each other
dearly, but that he was always com.
planning because she acted rather
snappy and disagreeable on certain
evenings.
You know, Mimi" Lonely Girl
writes. Il have to work very hard
all day. Naturally, when things don't
go right at the office. I'm not in a
very pleasant mood at night. and |
can't help showing my feelings. He's
just unreasonable"
Unreasonable, indeed, If boy has
come to look upon some girl as his
greatest pal and help, he doesn't
relish an evening during which she
spends her entire time venting on him
all the accumulated wrath over a
days injuStices.
While she was yearning and sigh
ing for her mate, do you think she
would have queered her chances by
being unpleasant when Mr.. Man
showed up?
Not at all. She was all sunshine
and sympathy and sweet smiles and
honey while she was still in doubt as
to his feelings for her. But once he
confessed that he was hers for as
long as she could stand 1t, she wiped
off the smile and donned an irritated
frown.
and helpful-began to cry for help
herself, and at him when he wasn't
right there with the heavy sympathy.
You see, she figures TO herself:
Now that I've hooked him, he's
mine. That's that"
But she's all wrong. The big game
has just begun. She's got to keep
happy during a long period of en-
gagement and then about so years
of marriage.
If she fails in doing this, she'll
have an Indifferent, sometimes rude.
very often faithless husband on her
hands.
If she begins taking it out on him
too soon. she'll have q broken en-
gagement to thank herself for-and
no signs of a husband at all
Don't think that by the simple act
of becoming engaged or married to
a man you've solved the love ques.
| ton for good and all.
You want to have a good time-to
enjoy your life-even after you're
| married, don't you? Then don't start
| spelling all your chances for real
| companionship and fun by using the
poor old boy friend as a safety-valve
| for all your pentup wrath and misery.
Make sure of a happy future by
! making certain OF a happy boy
| friend.
Mimi will be glad to answer any in-
| quiries directed to this paper pro-
vided a stamped, addressed envelope
! is enclosed.
| (Copyright. 1925.)
Evening star., 1925-12-28
DorothyDix
GiUes Four
| Reasons for
| Human
! Satisfaction
he Secret
Of
Happiness
If You Want Happiness, Keep Busy; Don't Put Off
the Day of Enjoyment, but Live Hard in the
Present; Learn to Appreciate Simple Things.

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Evening star., 1925-12-28
The Tone of the Arteries.

Blood pressure, like bobbed hair,
seems to be getting more fashionable
all the time, in spite of all I can say.
Every one who is anybody today has
more or less of IT. No joking, it is a
physiological fact that people have
hiEh-toned arteries nowadays, a good
many of EN-, both people and arteries,
although there seems to be no blue
blood left in our veins-it is all more
or less red, ruby or scarlet, except in
old pictures where the blood in the
veins varies from navy to sky blue.
Only a short while ago a reader
scolded me severely for betraying my
ignorance in the assertion that blood
is always red, even in the veins, until
quite a little while after the demise
of the subject. He thought l must be
color blind: or more likely, l must be
Just a myth. All the live blood I've
ever seen, and I have seen some, was
positively and absolutely, unquali-
fiedIy and in some cases monotonously
red, perhaps a mite brighter red when
squirting from an artery one care
lessly nicked in ones explorations and
admittedly a duller red as it welled
from a vein of no particular i'm
portanCe severed as an obstacle in
the path.
l shall not argue about such q deli
cate distinction in shades. When blood
turns blue doctors sole interest is IN
the capacity of q preferred creditor.
Blue bloods may be all right for the
medical student to study and practice
on, but as patients only blooded
folk are worth while.
1t requires about 20 seconds or 25
heart beats for the blood 10 make a
complete circuit, starting in the
aorta great artery and passing
through the smaller arteries, capll-
Evening star., 1925-12-28

Once upon a time there was a
prince who had to spend his child
hood, to his twelfth year. upon q
golden couch. And this is how it hap
pened:
At his christening the noblemen of
the kingdom had loaded him with
precious gifts and the fairies with
blessings. But one old fairy was in
a bad humor and this is what she
said to the king: Your son shall
grow to manhood on one condition
only, and that is that he shall not
touch foot to the ground until he is
IL years Old
So it was that the little prince lay
waiting upon his golden couch until
his twelfth birthday
The young prince has dark hair and
is wearing a bright blue suit. The
blankets and cushions on his wheel
chair are brown.
tCopyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-12-28
Foans.

These are made from preserved
fruit, ,such as raspberry, ounce, or
peach. For each white of egg take
one tablespoonful of pulp fruit, few
drops of lemon juice, and a little
sifted powdered sugar, If necessary,
to add sweetness. Whip the white to
soft froth, add a portion of the
pulp, and beat steadily. AS the mass
swells and foams, gradually add the
remainder of the pulp. When very
light and almost as stiff as a me-
ringue. pile in small cups or stemmed
glasses. This should not stand more
than an hour and should be. served
very cold.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PaPE.

Pop was smoking 10 himself and
ma sed. Willyum, I cant understand
this letter, the T~stman delivered It
jest before dinnir and its the ferst
chance I've had 10 reed It. and must
say is a mistery to me.
Maybe It's from the black hand, pop
sed. and ma sed. It duZzent seem TO
make sents, whoever it's from, Il
starts, Deer friend, Well how have
you bin enyway? I've bin intending
to write to you and then I put It off
and put it off as more important
things came up, althO after all there's
nuthing more important than writing
to our friends. that's wat I always say.
and It's afternoon jest Utterly took
the bull by the horns and started 10
write this letter vile Simon is out
showing Nixon the sites.
Who showing who? pop sed.
Yes, issent that pickuliar? ma sed.
I don't know enybody named Simon
and I don't know enybody named
Nixon, so they cant show each other
eny sites as far as I'm concerned,
she sed.
Well whose the letter from? pop
sed.
That's another mistery. ma sed. and
pop sed, Who sines it, iZzent it sined
for Peets sake.
Certeny, it's sined Hastily your
friend Bobbera, but that duzzent cleer
up enything because I don't know
eny Bobbera, ma sed. But wait till
l reed you the rest of it. the rest is
simply battling. she sed. and pop sed,
Jest a minnit, lets have look at the
envelope.
The envelope? Waro IS It, ! don't
know wat ] did with It, I must of
thrown II in my waist haskit, III so
and sec. ma scd. Wirh She did, COM
ing back with a envelope and saying.
It's lucky thing you jest happened
to think of the envelope, Willyum.
this letter iZzent addressed to me at
all, the address is rite but the name
is Mrs. Willyum X. Potter not Potts.
If enybody asks for me I'm behind
the sporting page, pop sed.
Wich he was.
Evening star., 1925-12-28

4-dinky pleaks
b-I be not me
6-Mules fore Betty
THY asking kids
S-Eve no love rye
9-lett wire rest
1O-clay is wet
Each code resolution should be pre-
faced by the words, Il am resolved
during the New Year to-; and then
the codes, as numbered. should be
written.
Turning New Leaves.
Another amusing contest is TO see
who can turn over the most pages
of a well folded newspaper in the
shortest time and leave It in good con-
dition to be handed to the next
player to try the same stunt. The
hostess should have several folded
newspapers so when one becomes too
badly mussed to use again another
may be substituted. This is as much
fun to watch as to do, and affords
amusement for a whole roomful of
people.
Apt Prizes.
For the first contest the prize
might be a calendar having some
timely phrase or quotation on it, or
perhaps on every sheet for each day
in the year. For the second con-
test nothing could be more appropri-
ate than q diary. 1t would have
plenty of new leaves to turn during
the year.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
Tea Gowns.

What woman doesn't love tea
gowns and negliSes? No one knows
exactly what the difference is, or,
rather, no one nowadays pays much
attention TO the difference. In more
leisurely past-about 20 years back
the very smart woman was supposed
10 come home exhausted by her round
OF shopping and calls. and slip out OF
her stif1y tailored and much-laced
garments, into something soft and
loose and chiffony for tea and a chat
with an intimate friend or two before
dressing for dinner.
Nowadays tea is taken on the run:
is mostly cigarettes and dancing any
way; calls" are things of a quaint.
half-forgotten period; women are per-
haps of sterner stuff. for it takes more
than shopping to exhaust them. The
tea gown" will soon take its place
by grandmother's lace cap.
Yet there isn't a woman who doesn't
love these filmy, lacey. silly. adorable
froclls that the shops still call tea
gowns, nor a woman who doesn't want
to own one for the rare occasions
when she lounges around the house
and sees only a few friends and does
no work worth mentioning. Why pay
the large sums the shops ask? Year
before e-last's evening gowns viii make
over into negliges or tea gowns with
Evening star., 1925-12-28
WHEN CODES
TABULATED.

4 good resolution party strikes the
right note for a New Year entertain
ment 1t may be for large or small
group. The hostess should have a
list of good resolutions written out
to give her guests. but no one would
realize what they are, for they are in
cipher. They should be written On
tally cards with pencils attached and
cipherS numbered A space should he
left below each for the solution to
be written and a prize be awarded
the one deCiphering the phrases cor
rectly in the shortest time. If you
can get cablegram blanks, use them
instead of the tally cards. They are
even better.
The ciphers in code as here given
may not prove battling to readers.
If they do, please write this paper. in
closing a self-addressed and stamped
envelope, with a request for the solu-
tions. Direct TO Lydia lie Baron
Walker. New Year Code Puzzle, and
they Will be promptly forwarded. Do
not delay in sending if you would
have the solutions before New Year
eve And do not omit to write New
Year Code Puzzle" on the envelope.
Resolutions In Code.
/ am resolved during the New Year
to.
IBID ken
2-B Modesty
3-lest Lionel
Evening star., 1925-12-28

Thus. mayhap. we govern fate;
Jumper tho Hare and Mrs. Grouse
and Mr.. Grouse have been neighbcrs
so long that should anything happen
to one the others would feel the loss
very much indeed SO Jumper was
worried, because everywhere he went
he saw nothing of Mr.. and Mrs.
Grouse, and he knew that somewhere
in the Green Forest was Terror the
Goshawk, who had come down from
tho North. lie knew, too, that there
is nothing Terror is 50 fond OF as
Grouse, fond of to eat. 1 mean. SO
Jumper was filed with a great fear
that either Terror already had caught
those Grouse or would catch them.
You see, he was fearful that they
didn't know of Terrors arrival.
He knew that if Chatterer the Red
Squirrel or Happy Jack the Gray
Squirrel or WhitefDot the Wood
| Mouse should see Mr.. or Mrs. Grouse
they would give warning, but this
didn't set his mind at rest, and he
kept on looking. Finally he saw
Sammy Jay.
Hello, old Long ears" cried Sammy.
,, "Shhh," said Jumper, looking this
way and that way, every way, anX-
iously.
Sammy stared at him. Then he be
gan to make fun of him Just as
scary as ever. ] see.' he jeered at the
top of his voice.
Jumper looked all about more anX-
iously than ever. "Shhhh-h," said he
again. Terror the Goshawk is some
where about
Sammy Jay had his mouth open to
jeer at Jumper again, but he closed it
now without making a sound. You
should have seen him look this way
| and that way. Are you sure?" he
dA1anded.
Absolutely" replied Jumper. "IIe
tried to catch me-"
81 find | have an engagement over
in the Old Orchard near Farmer
Browns house" said Sammy. still
speaking very softly Then. without
another word, he disappeared toward
| the Old Orchard. and if you could have
seen him go I am sure you would
have said that he was a frightened
| bird.
Jumper watched him disappear.
| then started on TO search for Mr.. and
| Mrs. Grouse. The snow was quite
| deep and soft. Jumper had no trou-
| BILE, because OF his big feet with hair
| between the long toes. which made
| them much like SnowshOes. He was
| just about to poke his head out from
under a hemlock limb when there was
a roar Of wings just ahead of him and
| he saw two brown forms plunge down
Evening star., 1925-12-28
HOW 1T STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
"Henohman. :"

In the use of this word in modern
speech to describe a follower who in
discriminatory does as he is ordered
by his boss" we have a corruption
of a term that in its origin had a
most inoffensive significance
Though we have heard of the
"henchmen" of criminal or a gang
leader, it is with reference to those
who do the dirty work" for politi-
cal organization, the "hangers-on," ;"
who are counted as the faithful" at
the club or district organization, that
the word is most commonly used to-
day. Yet in its origin it meant sim
ply a faithful follower"
In Anglo-Saxon derivation "hench.
man meant originally squire" at
tendant," page" 1t is in this sense
that the word ''henchboy," too, is ia.
miliar in old English literature. A
good example of the use of .'hench-
man" in it's original sense is found in
Shakespeares Midsummer Night s
Dream" as follows:
II do but beg a little changeling boy
To be my henchman."
Copyright. 1925.)
A boy whose mania was stealing
perambulators was arrested in London
|IncoO&1A y
Evening star., 1925-12-28
BEDTIME STORIES
BY THORNTON
w. BURGESS

from a tree into the snow and disaD-
pear. And almost on the tail of one
was a great bird with legs stretched
and great curved claws ready to seize
that brown form. The snow few In
a cloud, quite hiding Terror the
Gosha awk. for that IS who the great
bird was. Jumper held his breath
and his heart seemed to him to stop
beating as he waited to see Terror
rise. Would he have Mr.. or Mrs
Grouse in those great claws? Would
he?
1t seemed a long time, though really
It was hardly any time at all. i.e2are
those great wings began to flap, ord
up rose Terror withholding in his
claws. He had, missed that Grouse in
The snow such q disappotnted look
Evening star., 1925-12-28
"Puzzhcks"
A certain young lady of i
PuzzIe-Linrericks.

= ~ sSAii SoNiAS
Once tried to play Mendelssohn's
"-2-"
Her knowledge was ),
She played it +
Instead of j..
/. Familiar form of the name of
the capital of Brazil.
2. Name of one of Mendelssohn's
famous compositions.
3. Limited.
4. Musical term for moving moder-
ately fast"
5. Musical term for "quick, spar
king time three wordsl.
Note" 'Puzzlick' fans who are IA
mtliar with musical terms will have
little difficulty in solving this one,"
writes e. G. H, who submitted the
"PuZZlick" above, "but others will not
find it so easy" The answer and an
other "Puzzlick" will appear tomor-
row.
Saturdays "PuZzlick''
A tiger, by taste anthropophagous,
Felt a yearning within his esophagus;
He spied a fat Brahmin
And growled, whats the harm in
A peripatetic sarcophagus?"
Copyright. 1925.)
Artificial limbs have been supplied to
nearly 10000 war pensioners In Eng.
land.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
Mixed Marmalade.

Wash and slice very thin one grape
fruit, one orange, and one lemon.
Remove the seeds. Cover with three
and onefourth quarts of cold water.
Let stand over night or "a hours. if
possible. Then cook until the rinds
are tender. Let stand another "a
hours. Add ten cupfuls of sugar and
cook until a small amount of the mix
ture when placed on a saucer jellies
as soon as it cools. Pour into ster-
uiaeA glA1sea end eeAA
Evening star., 1925-12-28
Chestnut Compote.

Peel and skin some roasted chest
nuts and put them in a saucepan with
some sugar and enough water to pre-.
vent burning. Simmer very gently
for 20 minutes, or until tender, adding
a dash of lemon juice. Before serv-
ing, little powdered sugar should be
sifted over the dish.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
Cheese Pie.

Mix four tablespoonfuls of flour and
two cupfuls of sugar together, then
add four eggs well beaten, one cupful
Of sweet milk, three-fourths cupful of
butter and favoring to suit the taste
Pour into an unbaked crust and bake
IN a moderate oven. This will make
two DisA
Evening star., 1925-12-28

insisted on wearing these high on
the forehead the result was disaS-
trous. And so the newer type of ma
irons hat finds welcome--the small
brimmed shape which tends TO break
too trying line and cast the face
becomingly in shadow. You will find
them worn by those who wisely mold
the mode to their personality, rather
than their personality to the mode.
Typical of the style I refer to is
the hat Sketched. MARGETTA.
Evening star., 1925-12-28
HOME NOTES
BY JENNY WREN.

Almost every one nowadays appre-
clates the wisdom Of buying furniture
pf real merit and distinction choosing
pieces of authentic period inspiration
rather than striving for matched eff
fects Quality folks" are quality
folks wherever they are and with
1rhnever thew nav be associated. The
Evening star., 1925-12-28

as there was in Terror's eyes. He few
to a limb just above and there ls
perched to keep watch. lie was watch
ing for some little movement under
the snow, just the smallest movement.
TO tell him where one of those Grouse
was. But there was no movement.
No. sir, there wasn't the teeniest
weeniest movement. Mr. and Mrs
Grouse had been hunted before, and
they knew enough TO let well enough
alone. They had no intention Of Civ
ing themselves away. II was almost
dark anyway. and they might just as
well spend the night there as any
where. So they didn't move.
Terror has some patience, but no.
enough to watch and wait indefinite
". He happened to think of the hon
ward Of Farmer Browns boy, and &C
cided to visit that before tho hers
should go in the henhouse for the
night. Jumper sighed with relief as
Terror disappeared over the tops Of
the trees.
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