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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-14

But while the prince was away get.
|. ting attendants and horses for the
beautiful fairy something terrible
happened.
A slave came to the spring and,
seeing the fairy. asked her what she
was doing there.
II am waiting for the prince TO
come and make me his bride" the
fairy answered.
Then the slave. thinking to better
who flew away in the form OF a dove.
When the prince returned, the slave
vas waiting in her place.
Il am the beautiful fairy" she said.
"A wicked witch has given me this
form. which I viii retain until you
have cast Off the charm by your love a."
This gown for the fairy should be
violet with golden bands.
tCopyrtsht. 1920
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Easy Methods Produce Efficiency
By LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

They will look fine-if you iron them
well.
When you have lamp chimneys to
wash, whether they are badly smoked
or not. try this method. Wipe any
lampblack Off with an old paper nap
kin or piece of soft paper first. Do
this over a piece of newspaper, SO
that the specks do not soil the table.
Then hold the chimney before the
spout of tea kettle Of boiling water.
so that the steam gets we'll into the
inside as we'll as over the outside OF
the glass. Dry with a clean cloth.
and the chimneys will look spotless
and shine as If washed in water. A
daily steam-wash for lamp chimneys
keeps the glass spotless and takes
very little time.
Good Use Of Paper.
Save time and work for yourself es
by putting a piece Of newspaper in
the bottom OF the garbage pail. When
the pail Is emptied the paper can be
thrown in with the rubbish. and ashes
will absorb the moisture and any
odor that it might have. Or the paper
can pc burned. Wash the pail with
Il long handled dish mop kept for the
purpose. Put a little washing soda
in the hot. soapy water used to clean
it and the task will be robbed OF its
unpieasantneSS.
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lSCN tlf. tHiSl LN e btti tAti-
AIENTS OVER a DAMP TOWEL
AND THEY WILL REQUIRE NO
SPRINKLING.
other that some honie-makers take
in the belief that their method IS
nest when doing work that really
should be extremely simple. II the
harder wa i more economical, that
may be sufficient reason for following
il. However. the easiest way j. apt
70 be as cheap as any other. Efficiency
Is often increased TO Il surprising de-
gree b. the simpler ways because time
is saved and better results gained.
Laundry Work
A case in point is connected with
laundry work. Few women like 70
sprinkle clothes. Il. after doing this.
the garments become too dry 10 iron
Satisfactorily. probably because they
could not be done as soon as expected.
- this way VI avoiding the extra
V rk Of repeat the sprinklinG.
Damper a large old Turkish towel
and lay il over the ironing board.
Iron tAe garments over this. steam
viii be generated by the heat; and
dampness combined. which Will make
the clothes moist. as ii resprinl<led.
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FOWLER Guesses.
Sometimes things happen to ~ so
Ny gain is III another's Voc.
-Yowler the Bon Cat

/ suspect that more often than not
this is so. Anyway, Yowler the Bob
Cat always has his eyes open and his
ears open and his nose working, that
be may not miss any chance Of turn
ing to his own advantage the troubles
and misfortunes of others. So it
happened that as he was sneaking
through the Green Forest early that
morning after Jack Frost had put a
hard crust over the snow he caught
a faint sound that made him pause
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DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX
Part-Tme Wife Who Refuses to Live With Her
Husband but Lives Off Hin-Is 1t Wise for
Widower to Marry His Dead Wlfe's Sister:

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mechanically GRIND money for the to spend
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upon
tons Sd s at her so post S AND mas 55H her @ The
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single kick s 2os husband engage s1ss as WITH s
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small, Oh
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1s T. m aast s ss as that EVEN @ a s a
ben gainstt
Wife, ss from Rs5 s 'a S Sss,S T., %
S be sSdf s 1 h Ry married sSpa sFs
The thing of
children
require nobility motto
jealous and revengef
previous whom
This is onopoltze the
=: I n as S sss F 7ss 4 S5:s
his children
Blu, this feeling is MinLazed when
wn n0S does sss to feel
theh ana they hardly know that
you marry your deceased wfes sister DOROTHY
DEAR / a gh 1 my own car and am often
49, driving until the course
we KISS and pei lot and have drunk
nothing TO- do % me- ne DO 6oesR s
heart What SHAH BErWE Els T P3y Si FRE 5 my
Acsr; Ioa eanno, have cake
who ad d+ purly and s in girl
called the Bible but In will
such the of land ann s
his apete pi9d nv san PANS we're his but
prospects for the future for few mouthus at the
often think that
How much how little
get talked ABOUT s ans S su e nou
you?
husband for the kind
1t doesn't
BEAUTY CHATS BY Edna KENT FORBES
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RICE CROQUETTES.

Two cups boiled rice. one ia
blespoon butter. one egg. one
hall teaspoon salt. To ho-
boiled rice add butter and well
beaten egg: spread on shallow
plate. and when cold shape IL
balls, roll in soft crumbs, dip
in egg slightly beaten. then in
crumbs again and fry in hot
fat. For sweet rice croQuettes
add two tablespoons sugar and
gratei rlnd and juice OF one
lemon.
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HOME NOTES
BY JENNY WREN.

Builders and designers of small
homes all over the country are giving
serious thought to eliminating the
dining room from the small-house
plan II is argued that this room,
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MODE MINIATURES

The secret OF enjoying Winter is
dressing the part. l discovered that
on a recent trip up North. There ,peo-
pie prepare for the cold spell system.
atically. When they step out -of-doors
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CHOCOLATE PUDDING.

CHOCOLATE PUDDING.
Melt two ounces chocolate
over hot water, beat one egg
light. add one cuD milk. Silt
three teaspoons baking powder
with two cups -four and one
quarter teaspoon salt. Add egg
and milk gradually to -four and
chocolate last. Pour into but
tered mold Ia coffee can will
do. steam one and one-half
hours. Serve with creamy
sauce.
If You haven't i stea pler, put
On Old can cover or tin plate.
inverted. in bottom Of kettle.
cover pudding tight and set on
this plate. Keep boiling water
yell mp around pudding till
done.
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STEMED PRIMES.

Wash prunes, cover them with
cold water and soak over night.
Next morning drain. boil the
water until reduced onehali.
add prunes. bring to a boil. but
be very careful not to boil a
moment. Take from fire and
cool. Sugar and long cooking
spoil prunes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-14

Satan would be unable to run his
business If men didn't furnish him
50 much free help.
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Household tasks. to be done most
efficiently, should be accomplished In
the easiest ways possible. 1t is sur
Crlstng the amount OF trouble and
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Lessons in English

Copyright. 1896
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The Yap Dollar.

THERE have been many kinds Of
dollars in the United States-siI.
yer dollars, gold dollars and mutt!
farious paper dollars Of sometimes
dubious value; and in other countries
iron platinum, brass, bone. ivory and
even wheat and cotton goods han.
done duty as money. But the odd4-t
dollar" ever seen thus far, perhar-
is that coined. or rather quarried. bv
the chiefs Of the Island of Yap. one nf
the group of Caroline Islands in the
Pacific.
These zap coins are even more
cumbersome to carry about than the
great silver daddy dollar" Of OUT own
land-vastly more cumbersome. in
apiece, and are more than > fec ~
diameter. a defaulting cashier would
certainly have difficulty i'm absconuIrlg
with many of them.
Two Of these strange pieces or
money form part of a collection OF
coins in this country. They are cir
cular disks Of coralline rock, dull
| white in color, yet apparently .S.-
talline. 90 inches in diameter, and
from to inches in thickness. AT
the center of each there is a round
hole 212 inches i'll diameter.
The Zap chief enjoys a monopolv in
| this singular sort of coinage. When
in want of money ne has but 10 send
ms slaves 70 the quarry to fashion
as many fiat dollars" as he needs
| His treasury is u number of Ions.
poles on supports in front of the royal
hut. The dollars are strung on tia
poles Like beads on a necklace.
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especially I, for about 2 in the morn
ing it was the custom of my air mat
tress to yield up it's last breath anu let
me down on Mexican soil. -,
bad fall on a mountain trail by
Mary EliZabeth's horse had made va
rious deep impressions on her, also'
and all in all we had in the first week
gained a first-hand knowledge of that
territory eoualed by few men ana no
women at all.
For we were, | believe, the first
women who had made this trip. we
had. before we had finished, slept IN
the crater of a volcano, fortunately
extinct, in a rattlesnake den, In the
corn crib of an abandoned ranch ana
in the bedroom of a house where we
made forcible entry, the owner being
away from home.
Life had settled down by that time
into a regular routine. We rode all
day, scanning the mountain peaks
for sheep: waited at noon for the cook
to bring on the lunch mule, and finally
gave him up and went on, lunchleSS;
talked of the things we would like to
have to drink if we could have any
thing to drink; and at night found
some heavenly oasis and slid gingerly
from our horses.
And then, one night, it rained. 1t
began gently, but it got down to work
soon enough, accompanied by a cold
and bowling wind. One could hear
the wind coming. 1t struck the crags
above with a scream, shrieked down
among the powders and hit us like
an incoming ocean breaker a mile
high.
Soon our boudoir was q lake with
two islands in the center. said islands
being Mary Elizabeth and myself. At
each onslaught of the gale some treas
ured article of wearing apparel took
wings and departed into the night.
We drew our rain flaps over our
heads, and pools collected in them and
poured at every movement into our
sleeping bags. At in the morning
we heard a crash and knew that the
palm leaf hut which had sheltered
our guns and cameras mad fallen.
And they call this the desert" said
Mary Elizabeth.
"Of course it's the desert" l said
bitterly. Didn't we travel endless
miles today to find Water?"
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Women Journey by Horseback Across Wilds of Lower

army and started for Calexico to buy
out the various provision stores.
But still we had no cook!
However, at that afternoon cook
appeared. AT least he said he was a
cook. He turned out later to be a
barber. He was a bald-headed man,
and, regret to say, slightly intoxicated.
"Well, here's a cook" 1 observed to
Mary Elizabeth with forced gayety.
That's fine said Mary Elizabeth.
And sighed.
1t was o'clock when we wound out
into the desert, Mary Elizabeth and
l leading TO keep out of the dust, and
a party of dogs escorting us for a mile
or so. $40 we had lost all civilization
and were embarked on an adventure.
The desert has no irresistible lure
for me, but at sunset that evening l
paused for a moment from my rapt
observation of the horse that was to
carry me through aching miles of
desert and mountain to look south
and west.
There, purple against the desert,
still shadowy from the standstorm
that had ragged all day, lay the hills
that we We're to cross. Beyond them
lay the dead sea, the Laguna Salada.
Beyond that were mountains, and then
we knew not what
We moved on, the saddle string
ahead, the pack behind. The mules
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TX Bayonet "A Story of the Marines in Critical War Struggle

winking pale-blue eyes. The boys Were
nearly all in field gray uniform cloth -
cut down. perhaps, from the CASTOR
clothes of an elder Some OF them
wore boots and round soldier caps
They carried books and lunch boxes.
knapsack fashion, on their shoulders
Look, will YOU. that Kid there ain '-
more'n q yearlin'. and they've got
him in heavy marchin' order a ready
"Yeh, they start EN- earlv-that's : how
come they're the way they are he>e
BOche."
There We're round faced little giri~
with straw Colored bra:ds, in clOake
They did not look poorly fed, like the
WaXenfaCed children the battalion T."
membcred in France. And at everT
corner there We're more of them. Tn"
battalion was impressed. say. yor
see all those kids-an those lit;Ie
squareheads. Hundreds of EN-, II
swear. Something's S got TO he done
about these people. 1 tell you, the7r
BOche are dangerous. They have t'n
many children
One more song. Long Boy"
One of the very few soldier sons
that survived the Atlantic voyage
was Long Boy 1t ran with vaIia-
tions):
Goua uy Nav, Goodbye Paw
Good by. mule, with your old hec-haw
I'll bring Won a Turk an u Kaiser too
And that's about all one fellow can do.
This file. pictured above, is cheer
ing his soul in the angle Of the bridge
at Silly-leL Long, just outside Of
COgnac Pete'S buvette. In little
while an NJ. i. with no ear for music
will run him in.
tConvrjRht 1920
THE END
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which we must go, we heard a sho;
fired. Whereupon Mary Elizabeth and
/ got out of our car, our curiosity be
ing stronger than our knees which
shook, and saw, some 200 feet away
an American sentry firing at a MeXi
can.
He was little man, the Mexican
in suit of blue overalls and carrying
a bundle tied up in a bandanna hand
kerchief. He had been turned back
for lack of a passport, and had tried
to cross the border by the simple and
primitive method of slipping behind
the customs house and walking across
| dare say the trooper fired over his
head. But our first view was of the
Mexican lying fat on the ground, and
our first feeling was one of total lack
of enthusiasm as to a Mexican ven
ture.
Now, arranged in New York, it had
all seemed simple enough. We would
ride into that part of Mexico where
rumor said the mountain sheep played
about on every crag and peak and
deer came into ones camp at night
and carried off the canned goods. Or
perhaps it was a mountain lion that
did that.
And having killed our sheep and
been photographed with him-or them
we would ride out again, becomingly
sunburned and with the heads dan
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I'VE know you amt, sergeant we
know" "Aw, belay that mean,
was glad myself, but we oughter
gone on-oughter've finished it while
we was at it. He wasn't licked
enough, an now he's goin' home like
a peacock wit seven tails
/ This was the consensus of opinion,
delivered with consideration in the
rain The requirements. especially
those who had Joined up after the
| armiStice, in Belgium, were savagely
regretful. The chaps who had come
! in after the Champagne and been
among those present at one fight
were blOodt thirSty, but to a lesser de-
gree. Only the veterans were entirely
calm.
| The rain fell, the road grew heavier.
| The battalion, soaked and miserable,
! plodded on. They passed through
many villages. all alike; all ugly and
without character The houses were
closed and shuttered. You saw few
people, but you always had the feel
| ing of eyes behind the shutters. One
| thick bodied Boche, in uniform-an ar
| tilleryman. by his leather breeches-
stood in the doorway of a house, smok-
! ing porcelain pipe that hung to his
| knee. His face was set in a cast Of
| hate. He stood and stared, and the
battalion, passing, looked him over
with respect
Understand a bird like that" "Yeh.
he's honest. Those dam Heinies in
the billet last night they made me
sick. That fellow that talked English.
| Says he was glad his American
| frien's, present by agreement in the
me, an would the Herr Soldier like
a good cup Of Coffee" Dam his re-
marks, how bout the coffee?" "Well,
| it tasted funny, but it was hot" "Old
| guy at our billet gave us same cOgnac.
| Hot stuff! He didn't let on, though.
| You know those trick certificates a
! soldiers family gets in Germany?
Colored picture like croi' guerre GER
: tificate, shows a gat, beer-drinkin'
Heinie angel standin over dead
! Boche-signed Wilhelm l. R.-you
! know.
! We'll, this bird had six of them in
! his front room, all framed on the wall.
| l gathered they was his sons. Four
! bumped off at Verdun in 1916. One
very recent-Soissons, July. Wonder
! if we met that fella? He stood there
an looked at me while 1 was readin'
! them, an he looked life a wolf. 1
don't blame him. But how come he
| gave us the cognac?" Later the bat.
i talon learned that the Boche had
orders to be hospitable.
! X X x
| TOWARD noon the clouds lifted, and
the rain slowed to a thin drizzle,
although it did not stop. The battalion
| filed between hills toward a great
valley dimly seen. The hills lowered
over them, dark, menacing. mo
wonder the ole Boche has such a mean
disposition, livin' in country like
| this The battalion came into a
town with paved streets and trolley
cars and tall factory chimneys that
| did not smoke. Platoon comma nders
said it was Remagen; those towers to
the right would be the bridge There
was Q bridge; a great steel structure
of high black arches. The battalion
! filed upon 1t. Under 1t black water
flowed swiftly. with surges and Nldies
dimpled by the rai5t High~xasE bills
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Cling from our saddles. and have them
mounted to hang in the billiard room
for casual visitors and such converse
ton as this:
Visitor-That's a fine head. Where
did it come from?
Self Observation-Disclosures,
Visitor (thrilled)-Mexico! Who shot
him?
Self without swankeI did Got
him just behind the shoulder. He was
$50 yards away across the canyon,
and going to beat the band.
And SO on, including details of re-
covering the body after several hours
climbing. Also producing photographs.
Some six days of warnings against
bandits from persons in the border
town had left us rather shaken. 1 re-
member going into Mary Elizabeth s
room one night with a newspaper in
my hand and saying:
"You know I'm willing enough to go
myself, but it's a terrible RESPONSE
pility to take you. Your mother
You are not taking me-" said Mary
Elizabeth: I'm going if you are.
That's all"
Well, wasn't going to be called like
that, SO l simply observed that, of
rourse l was going, and went to bed
and tried to sleep. But if, at any
time, Mary Elizabeth had met be half
way
X X X X
on the last day there came ray
of hope. We could not find a
cook l went on with the lists and
packing doggedly, but I observed that
going without cook was impossible.
Mary Elizabeth felt as I did.
We We're going to ride hard and
long, and we had no intention of
cooking for ourselves, a guide, two
American men zone an officer of the
border revenue Department. who had
attached themselves to our party on
the theory that we needed their pro-
lection, and seven Mexican soldiers.
For at the last moment Gov. Cantu
had added a contribution of two Mex
lean army officers, three sergeants
ard two privateS.
When we were all gathered to-
gether in front of the Quartet or
fortress, of MeXicali, ready to pack
the animals, Mary Elizabeth and I
took one look at our young Mexican
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came on a steady jog, guided by shrill
whistles. Spurs and buckles clicked.
| The setting sun shone on our rifle bar
| rels. on the dark faces of our soldier
| escort. on our Dutch oven, carefully
hacked on top of a miscellaneous as
sortment of boxes and bags. And be-
| fore stretched that strange and mys-
| terious and lovely country which is
western Mexico.
Here and now I must pay tribute
! to our Mexican escort. They were
cheerful. polite and tireless. And 1t
is time. | think, that something be said
| for the MeXicans. We have known
them only by their bandits, and Of all
bandits the Mexican renegade is surely
the worst But what of the people
themselves? The small farmers? The
poems? The peace-lOVing, gay and hos
pitable Mexican of the little towns?
There were many days, of course,
when we saw no human being outside
of our own party. But now and then
there came contacts; here would be a
man alone, jogging on his horse to-
ward US. A menacing figure, armed,
mustached. possibly ear-ringed, rein
ing in his horse in true bandit fashion.
Then, when after time he had
penetrated our disguise of breeches,
weapons, goggles and sunburn and
saw we were women, off would come
his enormous hat, his teeth would
flash and he would be off with a sort
of magnificent gestures.
Or at night we would draw up at
some lonely and poverty-stricken little
rancho to find the dogs called off and
| the establishment placed at our dis
pOsal.
X X X X
WE had ridden into the sunset OF
w our first day. Dusk came, the
desert trail broad white streak which
faded into the purple shadow of Signal
Mountain. Night came, and a full
moon. And at last there were lights
and a ranch yard and the barking Of
dogs.
We rode in. Shadowy figures moved
about, an incredible number of them.
Horses whinnied and the mountain
loomed overhead, high, black shadow
crowned with silver.
They gave us supper there that
night-fresh eggs, beans. of course;
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less individual with a loud voice sug-
gested that we rise and take up our
beds and start. The moon was still
shining. and l remembered a line In
one of my own farces: Il haven't oeen
UP this early since the last time L was
Up this late"
We travelled as miles that day at a
temperature slightly below boiling
point, through sand so deep that the
horses movements were nothing but
a series of forward lurches. When L
got off my animal that night in the
shade of a sheltering palm, l simply
fell under him and, lay there.
Some time later he left me and went
elsewhere. / did not care. | never
wanted to see him again.
X X X X
r HAVE mentioned that one of the
L by-products of the trip was to be
game.
There are mountain sheep in Lower
California. l know this, because a
man l knew came to see me before we
started to tell me that some years ago
he went far down into the peninsula
and brought out II sheep heads on
foot. This is not so ambiguous as 1t
sounds He did not drive the sheep
out like cattle to the market. He shot
them and cut off their heads, and then
packed them out 250 miles on foot, be-
cause he had been raided by hostile
Indians and all his horses and equip
ment stolen.
He had a bad cold when he came to
see me. and he told me his story in a
tragic whisper. He said we would get
mountain sheep and other things, in
Guiding tarantulas that leaped like
chamoiS.
But he was wrong; we got neither.
In some details, however, my hunter
with the husky voice was right. Prob
ably in many, of course, but he had
made his trip in the early Fall, which
is a better time for hunting than for
hunters.
There are sheep in Lower Califor-
MIA. There were. to be truthful, ex-
actly as many when we left as when
we went in.
OF the second object of the trip, see
ing new country, we had plenty. We
saw it, felt it and at times ate it.
We bore imprintS of it on our persons