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Evening star., 1925-07-07
Some General Rules.

The first thing to consider in beau
ttfying oneself is the weakest point
to be attacked and made over. If
ft happens to be hair or complexion
in your case, concentrate upon scalp
treatment or skin treatmen but do
not neglect other treatments as well.
In the space of Is minutes a day YOU
can get in enough physical exercise
to keep your body healthy and have
time TO look after your hair. COM
plexion and finger nails as we'll Fiji
teen minutes a day is not much to
spend on beautifying yourself.
Remember that the strictest clean
lfness is necessary, internal and ex-
ternal. Never let a day go by with
out having filed your lungs a dozen
times to their utmost capacity with
fresh air; without having done a
waistbending and an arm develop
ing exercise a dozen times to keep the
figure trim; without having removed
all dirt, powder or makeup from
your face before going to bed, and
without having given the scalp a
quick, stimulating massage. These
directions may sound dull, and car
ry1ng them out may seem duller. but
remember that these are first finger
exercises In beauty, and first finger
exercises, though valuable, are al
ways a bore.
Take a daily hot or warm bath. a
generous, soapy one. This reacts on
health and on your beauty, for If
the pores all over the body are free
TO function there is less danger that
those on the face will clog and be-
come blackheads. If you can man
age a cold rinse after the bath, do so.
You must have a generous supply
of cold cream or some oily cleansing
material Beauty does not lie in the
cold cream jar-don't think that-but
8 cleanliness not even soap and water
can achieve does. If our puritanical
friends would only realize this. they
would cease calling the use of cold
cream a silly beauty fad.
This is my formula for cold cream;
you could not buy a better one, and
Evening star., 1925-07-07

To prevent juice running
from pies. make a paste of
flour and water, and, after
putting the bottom pie crust on
the plate, spread the paste
around the edge of it, The top
crust will stick TO this and the
juice will not run.
Old catalogues are useful to
wipe ones irons on. When a
leaf gets soiled or scorched, tear
II off and you will have a nice
clean one.
Pineapple should be prepared
some hours before the meal If
it is to be served as a dessert
and plenty of the rich juice is
desired. Slice into strips. cover
each slice with finely sifted
sugar. place in glass jar or
any tightly covered receptacle
and let ii stand in the iceboX
for a few hours.
Scrubbing brushes should be
we'll rinsed after they are used
and then turned on their sides
TO dry.
If you wish to economize in
sugar when preparing rhubarb
sauce add a pinch of soda to
it while cooking and only one
half the usual amount of sugar
will be needed.
When washing lace curtains,
if no curtain stretcher is avail
able, hang them while wet on
curtain rods, pin to the casing
under the window sill and in
the cracks on the sides of the
window and they will dry per
fectly.
Evening star., 1925-07-07
Cool Games Adapted to Hot Days
BY LYDIA lie BARON WALKER.

worthwhile. There are few that are
simple and effective things which
any child can do.
Avoid Strenuous Days.
Romping play H. a thing TO be avoid
ed when the thermometer registers
high. The quiet pastimes then become
the thing. They must be, however
those which are of sufficient interest
to the child 10 hold his or her atten.
ton.
The making of scrapbooks for sick
people to enjoy may prove a source of
entertainment and pleasure to the
children from twofold cause. Most
little folk enjoy selecting and cutting
out pictures. In addition to keep
ing little hands busy, 1t cannot but
make them develop some small
amount of discretion in the combina.
ton of colors and forms which they
choose. 1t will give them a sense
of pride in their work" to make
them feel that it is also for some one
else's enjoyment. 1t may surprise
you to find what little philanthropists
children are. Neatness and accuracy
are things to be sought. but even If
they are not gained, and the books are
not considered fit to send to any hos
pital the task will have been worth
the effort If the children have been
kept quietly amused
The books, however. would have to
be very poor indeed not to be vel
coined at some one of those institu-
tons which send out pleas for any
sort of pictures and picture post cards
which are available Some of the
readers of this department m re-
call that an attempt to supply this
nnn6 with a lT1ofT a
sponse. This was called happiness
work" 1t was interesting to find
that the old post cards and colored
pictures which are a drug on the mar
ket in so many households, were so
much in demand elses here.
Homonyms.
Another good occupation for hot days
and one which 1t will surprise you to
know that children even as young as
years of age have enjoyed playing
is a game which sounds very erudite
and grown up. 1t is called HON
onyms." In case you do not know
what homonym is, let me Sutighten
you as to It's nature. homoftym is
word capable of having two or
more mea nings. Such a one is bear -
One of the children, perhaps following
suggestion from an older person,
selects WOrQ ana, without using the
word itself, has to answer questions
about 1t, asked by other members of
the youthful company. Any one of
its meanings can be referred to in the
answer. For instance, 1t might be re-
ferred to as bare" in answer to the
question What kind of clothes does
1t wear?" The answer in that case
would be Nothing"
Another question might be How
does it move?"
Sometimes on two legs,
sometimes on four
Perhaps mother can throw in a sug-
gestion in some such way as this:
"Old Mother Hubbard went to the fair.
When she came back her cupboard
was"
Here a lot of little voices will prob.
ably pipe up Bare" and general sense
of discovery will be enjoyed.
These pastimes suggested here have
other virtues. perhaps, besides. those
of mere amusement, and yet 1t is be-
cause of that primarily that they are
recommended.
Evening star., 1925-07-07
Serviceable Cretonne Negliges
BY MARY MARSHALL.

scarfs. cretonne house slippers, Gre
tonne frocks, cretonne coats and Gre
tonne negiiges. Cretonne is even to
be bought at the dress goods counters
in some of the shops. But very often
II is better to go in quest of your
cretonnes for wardrobe purposes right
in the upholstery departments. 1t is
there that you find the large. vivid
designs that are so effective in coat
frock or neglige.
There are upholstery cretonnes and
printed linens-which give the same
effect-that are said to be washproof
and sunproof. The price is a little
higher than for ordinary cretonne,
but it seems well worth ii.
A cretonne neglige is an excellent
addition 10 your wardrobe. 1t may
be made in regulation bathrobe style
and is then a very matter of fact gar
ment well suited to take the place of
the mannish flannel or terry-cloth
bathrobe that is too heavy to be com
Portable this time of year. If you like.
however, you may have your cretonne
neglige made without sleeves. It is
simply made and is a good, service
able neglige to stick in your bag or
box for short trips this Summer The
sketch shows an attractive model
made of a large-fgured cretonne in
yellow, green and pink, and bound
around the ends with solid color to
match the yellow.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-07-07
HOW TT STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
The Jews Harp. "

There is some difference of opinion
regarding the origin of the name of
the little instrument that is popu.
larly called the Jews harp"
1t has been claimed that in the
use of the word Jew there is no
reference to the Jewish race. the
term being a corruption of the French
''jeu," meaning play" as it has been
called "jeu-harpe" or 'jeutrompe, -
signifying top harp
On the other hand we have the
insistence that Jews harp" is in
allusion to the use of the harp among
the 1sraelites, as "DavidIs harp" The
musical skill of the biblical character.
David, and the fact that it was large.
ly by his achievements in minstrelsy
that he attained his favor with King
Saul, are matters of history. So it is
easily conceivable how the Tyre
shaped little instrument, which is
played with the finger. though it is
held between the teeth for breath
to be blown into it, should have been
termed Jews harp"
Evening star., 1925-07-07
This Humidity.

It is the humidity that hurts,
rather than the heat or the cold. The
comparatively large amount of moist
ure in the air makes tropical heat
hard to endure because evaporation
of sweat from the body surface is
diminished when the atmosphere is
already nearly saturated with water
vapor. The only function of sweat is
practically the cooling of the body.
The comparative dryness of the air
in elevated places makes extremely
low Winter temperatures endurable
because the heat of the body is not
so readily given off ~ conduction as
1t is where there is more water vapor
in the air. Excessive moisture, there
fore, makes hot air feel hotter and
cold air feel colder, the first because
evaporation of the sweat is hindered.
and the second because the moisture
favors conduction.
When there is high humidity in
warm weather the dissipation of heat
through evaporation of sweat is les
sened, and this is compensated by a
greater flow of blood to the skin sur
face, which elevateS the surface tenn
perature and facilitates dissipation of
heat of the body by radiation, con-
duction and convection. Probably this
surface suffusion incident to high hui
midity is the chief reason for the dis
comfort we feel from humidity.
Humidity has much to do with our
comfort, in any weather or any eli
mate. But neither humidity nor
temperature nor both of these fac
tors determine comfort, for another
factor is quite as important as hu-
-midity and temperature, and that is
the motion of the air. An instrument
called the kata-thermometer measures
all three factors. This is for scientific
studies and it requires expert techni-
cal knowlege to use the instrument.
An ingenious and practical application
of the same principle is called the
gargoyle air tester, and may be used
Evening star., 1925-07-07
Constructing New Fruits.
AS Reported by Z

1T would be interesting to know
how you begin. Mr.. Burbank. when
you are creating a new type of fruit
or flower" | said.
I'm the case of the cherry, l
realized that there was abundant
room for improvement. and that early
cherries were particularly desirable,
as a difference of one or two weeks
in the time of marketing would very
greatly increase the value of the
product.
But / realized at the same time
that it was not only necessary for
the cherry to ripen earlier, but it
must have certain other qualities,
such as large size, good color and
for careful selections to be made and
have short stems and yet not short
enough to crowd them, and that the
skins be firm and compact enough
TO stand shipping to distant points.
I'm addition to all of these traits,
the tree producing the ideal cherry
must be unusually resistant to dis
ease. insects and fungus, and be
hardy enough to endure ordinary
cold and heat
These specifications sound dis
raging"' l remarked.
NO, they were not discouraging,
but there became an ideal or mental
picture of the object / was working
for, and they were constantly borne
in mind.
THE first step was to select the
factors, one of which was a large
and beautiful cherry, but lacking in
flavor. and the other, which, although
small, was fairly early and sweet.
Not only one of these types was
taken, but a number of them and
when in blossom they were pollinated
by hand. About 500 crosses were
made. each bearing its own tag re-
cording it's history.
These first generation cherries
were apparently all of somewhat
similar appearance and flavor, but
within each seed was record of the
crossing. Results thus were obtained
in one generation that Nature would
perhaps have accomplished only in
thousand years.
so the seeds, with their new
heredities. were saved and planted
and then transplanted in nursery
rows for one season. If allowed to
grow in the usual manner these
seedlings would produce seed at the
end of five to seven years or more,
but as time is precious, short cut
was taken by grating into older
trees when the seedlings were about
six or eight inches high, and 1t so
happened that the 500 seedlings were
grated on one tree. The following
year some of the gratis bore cherries,
but several years more were required
and the process begun all over again,
the new varieties more fully tested.
First came selection and out OF
the 500 one or perhaps more among
them which came nearest to the ideal
were saved The rest were destroyed
and the process begun all over again,
crossing, grating and selecting until
the perfect product was developed.
DO the bees mix up varieties of
fruit?" | asked.
They make no distinctions be-
tween varieties, but they usually
select trees of a single species and
remain with it during the day. They
do not ordinarily pass from cherry
blossoms to plum or almond. seem
Evening star., 1925-07-07
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, NJ. d.

by anybody to determine whether the
temperature humidity air motion con-
ditions are within the comfort zone.
White clothing is really cooler than
dark clothing, because the white re.
fleets the sunlight and the dark color
absorbs some of the sunlight and con-
verts light rays into heat rays. So
white Summer attire not only looks
cool, but is cool. This has been scien-
tif1cally proved by means of the kata-
thermometer 1t does not follow that
black clothing is warmer in Winter
than ight-colored clothing. for the
amount of sunlight is insufficient in
Winter to make an appreciable diff
ference.
Relatively dry air, warm or cold.
north or south, high or low, indoors or
outdoors, is rather bracing or stimu-
lating, while relatively moist air is
depressing or sedative.
There is a neutral zone around "a
to SO degrees Fahrenheit in which hu-
midity has little effect one way or the
other, and this zone is most frequently
found in Spring or Autumn in the
temperate zone. naturally. Artificially.
the neutral zone is rarely achieved
because it is difficult to heat Winter
air or cold Summer air without great
ly altering it's humidity.
The amount of water vapor in the
atmosphere is called the absolute hu-
midity. The ratio of the absolute hu-
midity to the amount the atmosphere
could hold at the temperature in ques-
ton, If completely saturated, is called
the relative humidity. Complete satu.
ration Is 100 per cent relative humid
ity. Although no practical conclusions
can be drawn from measurement of
humidity alone Temperature and air
motion being equally important fac
tors), the average humidity in Eng
land is rs per cent; in Denver, az per
cent; in Los Angeles, 66.6 per cent
In Egypt, relative humidity decreases
from 100 per cent at dawn to % per
Evening star., 1925-07-07
BEAUTY IHAlS BY EDNA KENT FORBES.

the cost-if you make it's a quarter
of what it would be in shop. If you
cannot afford even this, use olive oil,
white mineral oil. or lard. These are
all cleasing lotions, and olive oil is
slightly building. A cream is
always pleasanter to use, however:
White wax, l ounce; spermaceti, l
ounce; white mineral oil. ounces;
rose water, liz ounces; borax, 80
grains; perfumed oil, Is drops.
This is a cleanser If you want a
flesh building massage cream, use all
olive or almond oil, or half one and
half mineral oil, in place of the five
ounces of mineral OIL
You can't go wrong in making up
this cream, if you are careful not to
get your ingredients too hot. Melt the
wax and spermaceti in the oils just
long enough to allow them to blend.
heat the other things lukewarm, take
pans from the fire, mix slowly to-
gether, beat as it cools until the mix
ture is ready to CONCEAL, pour into
jars, and that's all there is to it.
Evening star., 1925-07-07
What TomorrowMeans to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Cancer.

Tomorrow's planetary aspects are
negative. rather than positive. While
they do not encourage the launching
of any new enterprises or the making
of any radical or drastic changes,
they do portend a great deal of salts
faction with the progress made in
| tasks already initiated. 1t is not an
auspicious occasion for the making of
important resolutions, or for the exc
cution of contracts or agreements of
significance. 1t is, however, propi-
tious for the prosecution, with all
energy, of the task in hand. In the
evening there will be sensed some
exhilarating vibrations that will bring
about a happy. self-satisfied condition,
and any social entertainment will
prove successful.
While children born tomorrow. re-
gardless of sex, are destined to pos
sess similar temperaments and char
acteristics, they will enjoy very diff
ferent physical conditions. While a
boy will, during early days of his
childhood, be subject to many all
ments of more or less grave char
acter, a girl will have exceptionally
good he~lth and be robust and strong
The signs denote that they will both
attain physical normalcy. In char
acter and disposition they will be va
carefree; at other times, without any
apparent cause, 'morose, unhappy and
troubled. They will be perSevering,
but their excessive introspection will
often rob their efforts of the success
they would ordinarily secure. They
Will be very jealous, and this pro-
nounced tendency is liable to make
them morbid and cause a feeling of
being "hard-done by"
~.
alertness and activity are the won
der and sometimes the despair of all
friends and intimates. A naturally
| nervous condition keeps you continu-
ally on the go, and you are never
satisfied to rest on your oars" and
| be content. Those most directly as
sociated with you call you fidgety.
Your nimbleness of mind is forever
asserting itself. and you adapt your
self very easily to change of cir
cumstances or conditions. You are in
other words. a mental acrobat, and
an opportunist in every sense of the
word. You are a shrewd schemer
and clever manipulation, and if ma
terial success is not already YOUR
portion it is because of the fact that
--ou are unable, at times. to moderate
your shrewdness or conservatively
check your manipulations. In other
words, you overreach yourself.
Art and music make a strong appeal
to your temperament, and you might
become proficient in the latter field
if you could make up your mind to
develop the latent talent you pos
sess.
Well known persons born on this
date are: Maria White Lowell, poet.
David Turple, politician; Charles r.
Lanman, orientalist William V.
Moody. educator: John D. Rockefel-
Ter, capitalist: Frank B. Brandegee.
Senator.
tCopyright 1881
Evening star., 1925-07-07

Pop was smoking to himself with
his feet up, and I sed, Hay pop. there's
Kut Up komedy erround at the
Little Grand tomorrow afternoon and
Puds S1mkinS and Leroy Shooster are
each both going and they wunt to
know If | can go with them.
Well how does that intrist me? pop
sed.
Well, they both each have a dime
to go, and | haven't, l sed.
Dident / let you go to the movies
yestidday on the provision that you
wouldent ask me agen once more this
week, or L did l dreem it? pop sed.
/ dident ask you to leeve me go, pop,
] jest mentioned that Puds and Leroy
was wondering if | could, / sed, and
pop sed, o. that different, I'm always
intristed to know wat your little
friends are wondering.
And he went out iwth ma. more be-
cause they had a Engagement than be-
cause he wunted to, and I started to
look over the books in the bookcase
and saw one called The Reddy Letter
Writer, Volume 4, Bizniss Letters.
Giving me a ideer. and l thawt, G,
Ill rite pop biZniss letter and see
If 1t does eny good.
Wich ! did, copying parts of 1t out
of the book, the letter being. Deer Pop,
deer sir. In regard to your letter of
| recent date would say that | have
given the matter my ernest attention
and am pleased TO be able to state that
In regard to the matter il gives me
| CRATE plezzure to inform you that if
| you will be so kind as to decide to
change your mind in the above mat
| ter you can leeve a dime under my
| plate wen you go out tomorrow morn
ing in the corse of bizniss, and if so
bleeve me yours truly very gratefully
your loving son Benny Potts.
And l put the letter in a envelope
and let in on pops pillo, and this morn.
| ing wen ! herd pop go out the ferst
| thing / did was sneek down stairs in
| my pidjammers and look under my
| plate TO see if he had did it,
| Wich he had
Evening star., 1925-07-07
In THE GARDEN WITH BURBANK
Edited Luther

ing not to care to mix the nectar OF
the flowers, and in this way pollen
is seldom given to the wrong flowers
and even If it were, 1t would not be
accepted. Hand polarization, how
ever. is generally necessary in nearly
all new experiments.
THE bees are useful and highly
valued orchard helpers and without
them we should have few cherries
plums or apples and very few flower
seed. They work on. large scale
and the results of their work is
wholly Indispensable
Copyright. 1e25)
Evening star., 1925-07-07
HuckleberrY Cake.

Hot huckleberry cake is one of the
good things of the month. To make.
rub together one quart of -four, three
tablespoonfuls of butter and two
thirds of a teaspoonful OF salt Beat
three eggs well together, add cupful
of milk and stir into the dry mixture.
adding more milk If needed to make a
very thick drop batter. Stir in one
pint of huckleberries, which have been
picked over, washed and well drained.
Lastly. add. three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and pour into a shall
low, well buttered pan. Bake in a
quick oven. Split, butter and serve
hot, serving cream with it.
Evening star., 1925-07-07
Raspberry Cream.

Soak one-half a box of gelatin in
one-half of cold water and when soft
add one-half a cupful of boiling water
in which has been dissolved one cup
full of sugar. Strain, add one pint of
raspberry juice and set in a cool place
or on ice until the mixture begins to
thicken. Beat slowly with an egg
beater until frothy ad quite thick, and
stir in carefully one pint of cream
whipped to solid froth. Turn into
wet molds and set away until firm.
Evening star., 1925-07-07
WHEN WE co SHOPPING
BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN.

and germs than the deep piles. and
if the covers are made of materials
with a slick surface, like glazed Chintz,
that virtue is more pronounced.
Another point of economy comes in
the increased length of usefulness
given to old pieces which are not
worth upholstering, or for sentimental
reasons it is desired TO keep them in
their original materials.
Choosing materials for slip covers
becomes a problem of getting that
which will give the effect desired. with
good wearing qualities and something
reasonably fast to sunlight. Almost
everything which is sold in the yard
goods department has been used. with
chintZ. gingham. taffeta. linen. calico
and toweling among the most popular
A woman's idea of wrong is some
thing d man does that would be a
T19iSta Ike if she did IL herSplf
Evening star., 1925-07-07
Scalloped SQUASH.

Pare squash and remove seeds, then
boil or steam until tender. Drain and
put in a baking dish, cover with cream
sauce, sprinkle crumbs over the top
and bake. The cream sauce may be
made with little or no milk, using the
liquid from the squash, thickened with
-four and butter. A few pieces of
cooked tomato lend flavor to this dish.
Evening star., 1925-07-07

Hot weather Is not easy for children
to bear and at the same time remain
in good temper. The combination of
torrid heat and fretting Youngsters is
double strain on some parents for
which they feel little prepared. The
poisn which they wish to maintain
before their children Is threatened if
not destroyed and the situation be
comes more tense and trying if some
Evening star., 1925-07-07

Dick had often heard of wonderful
city called London. The ignorant
townspeople in the village where he
lived thought of London as a paradise
on earth. They told Dick how rich
and beautiful it was and how all the
streets were paved with gold
IF l could only get to London and
chip off little bit of the pavement" j."
thought Dick. Il should never have to
want for food again"
One day when Dick was out playing
in the street a man with cart full
of hides drove by on his way TO
London. When Dick heard that he
was bound for London he begged TO
be allowed to walk along by his side.
This is the poor, ragged coat that
Dick wore to London. Color it tan.
with stockings and cap brown.
Copyright. 1921