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Our Children By Angelo Patri

all the places because once week
the teacher raped sternly against the
wall and said Man practice" Then
began responsive reading The
teacher said. This is a ?" and the
class chanted This is a volcano. We
know that a volcano Is a burning
mountain
Indeed. / knew far more about II
than that. I knew the secret places
where the COLLINS who kept the fires
lighted lived. / knew why they lit the
fire and why they chased the man
and the woman and the boy and the
dog down the hill And why the
black smoke came all on one side. the
side where the fiercest Of all COLLINS
lived and worked. 1 knew, too,
Where the place." asked the teacher.
But 1 wouldn't tell. Not I.
A lady brought a map into my
office today. Not as good as my map.
that could never be, but perhaps It
would be as good for you as mine
was for me? They're a little older
than. mine was. Mine was six years.
These are ten and up. Way up. Lit.
erature and history and adventure.
The book stores sell them. Look at
them and see II you like them. They
are as good as a book; better. You
can make your own story-a new
one each day. You won't have to lose
the place to read yours, which will be
an advantage.
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EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dinah Days Daily Talks on Diet
The Right Food Is the Best Medicine

disease was only arrested. But IL a
patient keeps well indefinitely, he can
be called cured"
Even though test of the sputum OK
person who once had tuberculosis
showed negative. and other symptoms
of the disease had disappeared, so that
such person. was an arrested" case
and was permitted to live his ordinary
normal life, lie would still have to ak
ercise due care to keep his health In
prime condition. He would have to
keep his bodily resistance above par.
In. addition to plenty of fresh air
and sufficient rest. he would have to
he sure his diet contained lots of nour
ishing food. Plenty of mlk-about a
quart a day-one or two eggs In add
ton to three good meals, would he
valuable in bringing the weight to nor
NAL. Any one who is building up
strength and weight must exercise
care not to be gorged with food so
that stomach or intestinal troubles re-
suit. However, habit in food can be
cultivated. Though the appetite may
not prompt the eating of the nourish-
ing food required. the person who
needs such meal should be a good
sport and eat properly
An arrested" tubercular patient
must be especially careful to follow
the rules of health and to keep his
body nourished with proper food.
questions should send self addressed. stamped
envelope to Dinah Day, care OF The Star
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DILL 1IlL ~ O1011LO ". BURGESS

down into the water tunnel which
opened from the floor of their bed
room, swim along this out into the
pond, go across to their food pile
which was quite near, get stick OF
poplar, and return to their house to
eat it at leisure. OF course, you know
they ate only the bark. The bare stick
was then taken outside to be used in
patching the dam or the house.
Yes, the days were very much like
each other as they passed There was
nothing exciting. No enemy was to be
watched out for. If storms howled
and ragged and made other little peo-
pie shake and shiver, Paddy and Mrs.
Paddy knew nothing about it. Down
there beneath the ice the water was al.
ways one temperature, and in their
fur coats, this temperature was very
comfortable 1t was neither too hot
nor too cold.
Reddy Fox and Yowler theSBobcat
and Puma the Panther and Old Man
Coyote might feel the pinch of hun.
ger. and often did, but Paddy and
Mrs Paddy knew nothing of it. They
did not suffer from hunger themselves
nor did they know anything about the
hunger of other people. It was al.
ways very peaceful and restful But
despite this peacefulness and restful.
ness. Paddy the Beaver never was
careless. Being so safe never led him
TO forget that all this safety and peace
fulness depended on one thing-his
dam. Paddy never forgot this. Every
once In a while he would swim over
TO the dam and carefully examine II
from one end to the other. He was
looking for leaks. Yes, sir, he was
looking for leaks. He knew that q
little leak can grow very fast and car
become a big leak; so he meant tc
md every little leak that might an
pear in that dam.
1T happened one afternoon that Pad
dy became very uneasy. That morn
Ing he had heard family the sound OF
choping. He had thought little abou,
1t at the time. After a while that
sound had stopped. 1t was a little
later that he began to grow uneasy
lie had a feeling that all vas not well
After while Mrs. Paddy shared in
that feeling. Finally Paddy coulC
stand 1t no longer. my dear" SAID
he, I'm going outside for a few min
utes."
In almost no time at all, Paddy was
back. He thrust his head up into the
room and spoke quickly. There's g
leak in the dam, my dear. / could fee
little current just as soon as | GO
| outside. Wen have to attend to thai
at once. Follow me-"
Mrs Paddy, like the true mate tina,
she is. asked no questions. She fol
lowed Paddy. Beneath the ice, straight
over to the dam. Paddy led the way
lie swan fast. He didn't have to hun
for that leak. He had only to follow
the current which that leak in the
dam was making. His worst fears wer.
realized. There was a hole in thai
| dam, and the water was pouring ON
through it.
copyright. 1920
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Beauty Chats
Ice.

Ice.
One Of the best and most refreshing
| face treatments you can give yourself
| is a thorough rubbing with ice over
| the face and the neck, and IL you want
| to over the shoulders, too. At first you
may not like the extreme cold of the
| ice, but II is good for the skin, and, Ii
| used on the neck, not only helps iron
out the wrinkles. but also makes. the
| neck less sensitive to draughtT and
yourself less liable to catch cold.
In the sumner time when the skin
| Is relaxed and the pores naturally a
little open from the heat. ice is a mar
velous astringent and can be used
over the face and neck Immediately
after washing with water and soap.
But in the Winter when cold, damp
winds take a certain amount of oil
from the skin anyway, ice should be
used following an oil rub or a cold
cream massage. Otherwise, the skin
may chap.
The best daily treatment, prefer
ably in the morning, is TO rub the skin
quickly with little cleansing cream.
mild soap CASTLE or cold cream soap
IL you can get either) and then rub
with ice. The drying effect of the Ice
Is balanced by the oiliness of the
cream and by the fattiness of the
soap, which will not take natural oils
from the complexion as stronger
soap would. Another freshening up
treatment, which can be given in the
evening If you want to make your
skin look fine and pretty and IL you
haven't a great deal of time, is to
cleanse the skin quickly with cleansing
cream, wash this off with cloth
wrung from hot water, dry with a
towel this takes all the dirt trom way
down in the pores and Is itself very
refreshing) and then rub on a little
vanishing cream. Rub with ice, over
the vanishing cream. 1t will take Off
some of the cream, but that does not
matter. The combination of the van
ishing cream and Ice Is a very good
one, 1t makes the skin soft and clear
and fresh, and II will keep on powder
all evening.
Patsy M.-If you can go away for
a time to some healthful place to rest
and recuperate, 1t would be the best
thing for you: but If this is not pos
sible, try changing your habits some
| what, or even your occupation II you
do not lose through doing this. Sleep,
fresh air and plain, nourishing food
will do much to build you up.
Georgette.-You can effect an APP
parent increase in your height II you
wear long, loose lines to your clothes
and pile the hair as high. above the
head as you find becoming to your
face,
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A Map.
In my early school days 1 dwelt
for a brief time In the infant class.
understood no word of what went
on in the classroom. Regularly
lost my place" in the reader, and un-
failingly the teacher sent me down
the ranks to sit where she could
keep an eye on me-" on the front
bench, the one minus a desk.
Once there she promptly forgot me.
I was very still little boy right
under her eye, and she looked over
my head at the more active chaps
two and three seats back. | enjoyed
my front seat immensely. Even had
been able to keep the place."
should have lost 1t for the joy Of that
front seat.
Hanging directly IN front Of me
with no bobbing heads between to cut
off my view, was a delightful map.
Until recently I have never seen one
at all like it. 1t was a map of a
fancied land, and 1t was intended to
teach the geographical facts to eager
childhood 1t taught me many OF
them, but it taught me far more than
| can ever put into words.
Through this delectable land mean
dered a river. II had the most aston
ishing curves and quirks, and within
the shelter Of each bend sat some
lovely thing that invited visit and
entertaining speculation. The river
had no name. 1t was plainly, unmis
takably labeled River in big letters
Beside it sat a great stone castle with
naughty guard. Close by was a
high hill. on whose summit fioated a
pirate flag. Il supplied the pirate
part. Farther on was volcano from
which smoke and flame was pouring.
Down it's steep sides raced one man
and one woman and one child and
one dog. They were headed for the
valley, where nestled the school and
the church and the farm. The school
had a row of good children in front OF
its door, and on the farm was one
COW and one horse, and one pig and
one cock. -.
When / had travelled through the
land always travelling dangerously.
hetook me to the shore. a crinkled
trown shore on which the wrinkled
blue waves Tapped high. Ships sailed
on the blue sea and fisher boats stood
In the bay, while fishers wives waved
farewell from the cape, whose sharp
point cleft the waters between the
gulf and the bay.
But my tryst was with fairy who
lived in the enchanted forest and
with whom | roved the magic regions
IF my man / lea rfled the names of
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are mere castle In the air or pipe
dreams, whichever we prefer to call
them. These plans may not mature
as we desire, either from our own voli-
ton, because we abandon them for
better ones; because we do not press
forward with sufficient diligence to
make them succeed; or for any of
thousand other reasons by which they
are frustrated.
But do we abandon laying plans for
these causes? And do we deliberately
refrain from making beginnings the
first of the year just because 1t is the
first of a new year? Are we not
consciously or unconsciously consider
ing the 1st of this month as a propi-
tious starting point for plans rather
than a detrimental one? And are we
not absolutely right in believing that
new ideas and new plans and higher
ideals for the home as well as our
selves have a certain stimulus when
they are put into action at the start
of a new historic era? We certainly
appreciate that events are tabulated
according to eras, and that years are
divisional periods for calculations in
world affairs. Why not make them
marking points in our little worlds or
microscosms? There Is certainly moth
ing disadvantageous about such plans.
Past Experience.
1t is when we permit ourselves to
be so discouraged by failures to keep
faith with ourselves in New Years
resolutions, so that we deliberately
determine never to make any such
resolutions, that we fall into error.
It is not the plans that are poor. It
Is not that the resolutions are at fault.
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Certainly
aanced paralysis
observe have always been female
dainty cultured marrying
op haae"r oP Boy
s'S sssS :s sS;ss f:
rest of u.s. great '"''' ana 'e''ee''0" Il" ~
saw almost % q wens a for s what %h
Ana we % s ss p H % as p on" for
attraction and
by any matter the hea
sfs mot n the @ % @ n h
does not quicken his pulse send thrill through his
defect s Has n love ~ m me y with h p n m" sy @
blindness love that does not require PERFECTION of It's object
thinks picture
like a feather ' he'd "or aein e e to her mns
and intelligence that the public does mot see and that
but he loves her the
find r., most you'd ny list
do not love people for their perons but their faults
THE pads
perceive faults 0v' 0'"ef 'p'' OF
There probably alive think children
perceive 0 'f ''SD"s are only
the surely
Ten TnP nsn an asfs "s
intelligence displayed a human face
Who has not suffered from listening the
baby
You could that they
them wit and that never developed " ~ ~
far.
is part Of the
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other people had snapped up all the
bargains.
| will say for Joan that when she
makes up her mind to do thing 1t
is usually done, even though she
sometimes leaves few details, like
paving the bill. for me TO attend to
afterward. and always says she
should think l would he willing to
do something after she has looked
after everything else, so ] got my hat
and coat and we went out, leaving
Hilda with the baby.
Joan wanted to see about thous-
and cars that were advertised, and
after we had walked about million
miles, l said, ANY one would think
you were walking me almost to death
SO ! would be willing to buy an auto
mobile" and Joan said. You know
perfectly we'll that IL l bought one
without your seeing it, ! would never
hear the end of it, and besides, walk
| ing is good exercise" and | said,
why buy car, them" and she said,
you can hardly make an 11-weeks-
old baby go walking whenever he
| needs fresh air, and you know per-
| fectly we'll that we are buying the
car primarily to get him out in the
OPEN" and I didn't bother pointing
out that we already had baby buggy
for him, because | had pointed II out
once before and Joan said Ger
tainly couldn't expect her to consider
that any argument.
Anyway, / learned something about
automobiles. There are no second
hand cars. Some companies sell re-
built cars and others have used cars,
but we didn't hear of a second hand
one anywhere in town.
Joan is going to make our choice
between two cars we saw. We are
going riding In them both tomorrow
and l suppose we will buy the one
that Is Dragged about by the better
looking salesman.
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New Year Resolutions Studied
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

It is not that the time is unpropitious
What then is the outstanding feature
Of New Year resolutions that causes
the derision against them to have
widespread popularity?
Harsh Judgment.
Chief and foremost among the. rea.
sons for hesitating tn make New Year
resolutions is the fact that we are
particularly hard in our judgment
against ourselves in this one connec-
ton. If in no other. We are on the
crest of wave of good determina-
tons. From this height we see our
selves as we wish others to see us.
We are filled with enthusiasm to do
and tn become what we realize Is not
above our capabilities, but which we
have hitherto failed to accomplish or
to live up to. We fail to notice the
trough of the sea. where we must
descend in our struggle to rise again
to the next crest. And so when the
first glow of our ambitions dims as
we enter the struggle. and when we
miss a stroke in our efforts to swim
quickly. as we fail to live up to our
high ideas. we cease to swim. But is
it not better to refuse TO be dOWned
by our failures land each of us is sure
to fail many timesl and to strike out
again. than to give up entirely, and
he merely tossed about on the sea of
mediocrity?
Time for a New Start.
Do we not lack a certain stamina
when we deliberately refuse to look
out over a new year with high ideals
before us, and fine plans or resolutions
to buoy us up for the coming weeks
and months? January has but just
come in. Shall we not begin anew
to make our homes and our lives
finer?
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Chestnut Dessert.

Heat one pound of chestnuts In the
oven until you can remove the skins
easily, put the prepared chestnuts In
q saucepan with four tablespoonfuls OF
milk, one tablespoonful of sugar, and
little essence of vanilla. Cook slow
ly until quite tender, then pass
through a wire sicve. Have ready
one.half pint of thick whipped cream.
and when the chestnuts are quite cold
pile in pyramid and entirely cover
with the cream.
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Cream Pie.

Heat one pint of milk in a double
boiler. Mix two tablespoonfuls of
-four with two egg yolks and one half
a cupful Of white sugar and dissolve
In part of the milk. sAdd to the boil.
ing milk Stir until the consistency
of thick cream. favoring with vanilla.
Line a pie tin with crust and bake.
When cool. add the cream. Whisk the
whites of the two eggs with two table
spoonfuls of sugar, and put on top
Of the pie. Set in moderate oven
until the meringue il nicely Drowned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
Apple and Egg 0melet.

Pare four or five apples, core them,
and slice them. Fry them In butter
until they are done. then remove them
from the frying pan. Beat four eggs
together, season them with salt. and
place half the mixture In the same
pan In which you cooked the apples.
Add the sliced apples. then add the
rest Of the egg. Cook the dish as you
would cook an ordinary omelet. Be
fore serving 1t, sprinkle powdered
sugar on top.
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might happen. The food pile was
plenty big enough TO carry them
through to spring. Their house had
been freshly plastered with mud and
there was no worry that anything
would or could happen to 1t. Their
dam had been strengthened and put in
perfect condition. All this was done
before the coming OF Jack Frost to
make ice. When at last Jack Frost
did cover their ponds with ice, Paddy
and Mrs. Paddy retired TO their house
prepared to enjoy the long rest which
they felt they had fairly earned.
The days were very much alike
down there under the ice. Inside their
house was a big bedroom, which was
dry, warm and in every way very COM
Portable for beavers. There they spent
a great deal of time sleeping. When
they were hungry they would dive
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more than floor covering-they are
real personalities.
Shown here is a particularly hand
some antique Kuba Oriental. Its col
orings are soft red, blue and tan. A
rug of this sort, measuring about s by
feet, may cost between two and
three hundred dollars, but it Is a
sound investment. It's value increases
with age, 1t is lasting Joy to its
possessor, and it can be used with
furniture Of almost any period very
successfully.
Because Orientals have been so
much used In Europe and America
for so many centuries, they are
equally at home with the massive
furniture Of Italy or Spain, the ele-
gancies of Georgian England, or the
sturdy. graceful pieces Of colonial or
early America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03

The first week of the first month Of
q new year has started. 1t presents
possibilities that are intriguing, even
to those who, with studied nonchal-
ance, brush aside the idea of New
Year resolutions as absurd and so far
out-of-date al to be back numbers
Tor any New Year program. 1t is i'm.
possible. however, to disa ssociate the
beginning Of a new year with the be-
ginnings of other things. and just as
soon as we plah any sort of work.
campaign or schedule. we are, in 4
way, making New Year resolutions.
We cannot lay plans without reSolv-
ing to carry them out. Otherwise they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
Lessons in English
BY W. L. GORDON.

Words often misused: Don't say. ST
was mad" unless you mean insane.
Say angry"
often mispronounced: "Indent."
(yerb). Accent last syllable.
often misspelled: Sensible; "ible. -"
synonyms. Add, attach, annex, af-
fax, join, unite.
Word study: Use a word three
times and it is yours" Let us increase
our vocabulary by mastering one word
each day. Today's word, Intuition"
instructive knowledge or feeling, i'm
mediate perception. Her intuition led
her to the conclusion that the plan
would fail"
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Stuffed Herrings.
copyright 1929

Choose behring's with soft roes.
Split the fish, take out the roes, and
remove the bones. Chop the roes
with powdered parsley and bread
crumbs, and mix with a little butter
and a beaten egg over a low heat, sea-
soned well. Stuff the behring's, coat
in -four or oatmeal, and bake in a
dish with plenty of butter.
Herrinss are also good served with
mustard sauce or filleted and fried or
grilled and then surmounted by a
piece Of parsley, butter and couple
of slices Of lemon, or heneA. rolled,
and baked with herbs and q little
water. r
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Southern Cabbage.

Chop or slice one medium cabbage
fine. Put 1t in a stew pan and cover
with water. Boil hard for Is minutes,
pour off all the water, then add the
dressing made as follows: One-half
a cupful of vinegar, two tablespoon
fuls of sugar. one tablespoonful of
salt. one teaspoonful of pepper and
one half teaspoon of mustard. Mix
this dressing with the cabbage and
when boiling add one cupfui Of cream
and one egg which have been beaten
together. Serve way hot.
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"PuzzTcks"
-Puzzle.Lintericks.

There was q young man at the i
Where brain was an absolute 3;
Each warning s.
Went in at one d
And out ut the opposite 81
!. Another name for the War De-
partment two words).
2. Place where things are kept; last
word of first line two words).
3. Emphatic.
4. Practically every ono has two.
s. Opening.
(Note.-You've met a number of peo-
pie of this sort-and they wonder why
they don't get further alonng in the
world. Complete the limerick and
you'll see why. Or. II you can't com.
plete it, look for the answer and an
other "Puzzlick'' here tomorrcw)
Saturdays "Puzzlick."
No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll And a smile more or less
healing.
It grows In q wreath
All around the front teeth
Thus preventing the face from
congealing.
Downright. 1879
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HOME NOTES

tCopyriEht 1927

Some one has said: Were a man
to live to be as old as Methuselah he
would never cease to find fresh
beauties In a Persian carpet"
How true that is only a connois-
seur Of Oriental rugs can realize. He
knows that he becomes as fond of
favorite rugs as he would of a puppy
or a kitten about the house. They are
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Drowned Sweet Potatoes.

Boil six medium sized sweet pota-
toes until nearly done. Peel and
slice them the long way into pieces
about one-half an inch thick. FIJI a
baking dish with layers of the
slices. thickly covered with dark
brown sugar and bits of butter. Pour
on one-half a cupful of boiling water
and cook in a hot oven for about
thirty minutes. This will fill a quart
and a half baking dish.
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Popcorn.

When popping corn in a frying pan
or omelet pan. put portion of but.
ter with each popperful and have the
pan and butter hot before the corn 10
put in. Salt each painful as II is
popped This method not only but
tiers every kernel but also buffers 1t
on the outside when popped.
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of plain-colored material. This can be
thumb.tacked to the wall in a child
room. From time to time the pictures
may be exchanged for fresh ones. Try
to teach the child something Of the
elements of color, form and sentiment
that make a picture really lovely and
have him keep on his panel only what
is most beautiful. Comics and other
pictures of interest can be kept else
where.
copyright 1927