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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking and thinking and
ma sed, Willyum, | had a visit from
young Mr.. Hopper today, you know,
the Hoppers oldest boy, and it seems
he is in the insurants bizniss.
Don't tell me he tried to sell you
eny, for Peet sake? pop sed, and ma
sed, Don't be silly. Willyum. the Hop
perS are very nice people and it
seems that this young Hopper is espe-
shilly intristed in axsident insurants
and he was sure you would be in
tristed in speshil new policy they've
jest put out, you pay SO mulch a
munth, | forgot how mulch, but very
little, and in case you ever meet with
an exsident you get a CRATE big sum
presented to you jest like a gift, /
forget how mulch but l think he sed
5000 dollers. or was it 10 thousand?
Perhaps it was so thousand. why
don't you take out a policy if you
ixpect to run into eny axsidents. pop
sed.
O, not me, Willyum, you, we were
tawking about you taking out pol
icy. Mr.. Hopper thinks every man
should have axsident insurants be-
sides his reguler insurants and he
was sure you would be intristed, ma
sed.
Nuthing doing, I don't wunt you
to be tempted to trip me at the top
of the stairs so Ill fall down and break
a neck or a back or something jest
for the sake of the insurants. pop sed
Now Willyum you know l wouldent
do envy sutch thing, ma sed, and pop
sed, Well l don't wunt you to even feel
like doing it. it would make me tx
tremely uncomfortable.
o Willyum. don't be redicuIiss, you
know me better than that, hope. and
I'm sure wen you heer young Mr.. Hop
per iXplain about the fine points of
the policy you'll be ony too glad to
take one out he's coming this eve
ming, he'll be heer eny minnit now,
ma sed.
Then I won't, zee gods I'm going
around to the bowling alley, pop sed
WITCH he hurry up went out and did
jest about minnit before Mr.. Hopper
rang the bell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

Mrs. c. o. B. writes: II have two
children, and I am going 10 tell you
just how they are and ask you If you
can better conditions for them. 1t
seems that since my baby has had a
cold she won't eat enough. She will
soon be months old, and weighs
1914 pounds. having weighed II pounds
at 3 months She has never been sick
except two colds she has had, but she
has always been constipated.
The doctor said not to use so much
castor oil, but 10 use mineral oil for
her. When she takes castor oil she
doeSn want TO eat. She is a good
baby, seldom cries, but sucks her
fingers as if they were food. How can
l tell how much she is getting from
me? The doctor said not to try and
tatten her, and that she looked fat
enough to him. Would teeth keep her
from gaining? She has one nearly
through.
In your list of foods for the 2-year-
old you did not mention cabbage or
turnips. Are these harmful? Should
] keep my boy of 212 years from eat
ing these"
Answer-1n the first place. figures
do not lie. When "a baby has failed
to gain for two months, neither teeth
nor cold should be blamed, but only
food In your case 1t would be better
10 nurse the baby at one interval and
bottle feed the next In this way
within a month or so the baby will he
weaned and this will be better for
her. since your breast feeding has GER
tainly proved insufficient and you say
she will not take the bottle after she
is nursed. The constipation Is I'M
doubtedly directly connected with the
poor feeding. An oVerfed baby is sell
dom Constipated-in fact. just the
other way-while a child who is prop
erly fed may be constipated One who
is malnou1shed almost always III
More food then. is the cure for this
type of constipation.
! shall be happy to send you the
leafiet which gives formulas for ba-
bies and also shows how they should
he fed from weeks on. Try tomato
Juice instead of orange juice If this
seems too acid for the baby. Canned
tomato juice strained is all right. Give
in teaspoonful amounts just at first.
Mineral oil is a good laxative.
Cabbage and turnips both cause
more gas than the average vegetables
and may cramp the child. If the boy
likes all varieties of vegetables and
they cause him no distress, / see no
harm at this age in giving them to
him
You can tell exactly how much
breast milk you are seCreting by
weighing the baby before and after
nursing The gain in ounces is the
amount the baby has just nursed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
DILL 11VAL ~ OANAAO ". BURGESS
Nv SHIRLEY RODMAN WILLIAMS

Chatterer. BY and by Chatterer lea ped
over to a tree and scampered up to
the top, Whitefoot gave a little sigh
of relief. Then, watching his chance,
he slipped into his home.
Il am so glad Chatterer didn't
come inside" muttered Whitefoot
"He might have wanted those pine
seeds"
1t wasn't two minutes later when
Chatterer's sharp face suddenly ap-
peared in the passageway. He saw
WhitefOot the very instant that
Whitefoot saw him. An angry CLEAN
came into Chatterer's eyes. What
are you doing here?" he snapped.
Il am living here replied White.
foot NO one else was living here
and so / moved here when / had to
leave my old home because of Shadow
the Weasel"
well, now you can move right
out again" said Chatterer in the
ugliest way Il suppose you thought
all those pine seeds grew here"
"No," replied Whitefoot in a
squesky little voice, mo, I didn't
think that, Chatterer. knew some
body must have gathered them and
stored them; but | also Lew that
they had been here a very 6ng time
so long that l thought they were
forgotten by whoever stored them -
Those seeds are mine" snapped
Chatterer. Il stored them in here a
year ago. So the sooner you move,
the better for you I don't propose
to have any one else living on my
hard work
Copyright. 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
By THE COUNSELOR.

The weather was hot. Ralph Hen
derson sat in his office, plodding along
with his work and bordering on how
pleasant it would he to spend the
afternoon at the seashore.
Just then the telephone rang.
How about going to the Popular
Shore Park in my carr" said Ralph s
chum, Harold Kenwood, to him.
Henderson could not resist the
temptation, and in a short time was
at the resort. He hired a bathing suit
for the prevailing charge of ST and
made use of the additional privilege
to check his watch and money with
the attendant
Two hours later, having bathed and
dressed, Henderson presented the cou-
pom to redeem his valuables, but the
attendant reported the envelope miss
ing. He Immediately filed a claim
with the resort company, but they re
fused to reimburse him for his loss,
claiming that he had paid nothing
extra for the checking privilege, and
therefore they owed him no duty to
reimburse him
Henderson's attorney thought other
wise and filed suit against the resort
company. The court decided in favor
of Henderson saying:
Where bathhouse owners invite
the patrons to place their valuables in
an envelope filed with the bathhouse
attendant, there is an obligation on
the caretaker to exercise ordinary care
in safekeeping and the return of the
patrons valuables, and they are liable
in case of loss
(Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
BEAUTY CHATS


You want, OF course. to be as pretty
as you can. There are so many ways
to achieve prettiness, and girls go so
wrong in their methods sometimes.
Why will a girl with weak chin
wear a hat that slopes off her face2
Why will pastyfaced child choose a
green sweater? Why will the pallid
girl wear pastel colors? Prettiness,
after ALL is a matter Of cumulative
detail.
That is-the effect each person
makes is the result of hundreds Of de-
tails. For instance. here's your i'm.
preston Of a new friend: hat. bad
shape and the color not quite right:
hair, pretty, but she does 1t up
wrong; skin, passa Bile; eyes. now what
was their color? Nose. rather nice.
something queer about the eyebrows:
mouth had a good smile. but she
shouldn't show that bad tooth when
she laughs; rather round shouldered.
good figure, reminds me of-hut
why go on? Without being entirely
conscious of it YOU register Ito use a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
BY JEAN NEWTON.
"The Bowery,"

The Bowery the Bowery
They say such things and they do such
things
On the Bowery. the Boweryi
I'll never go there any more
Though there is no Bowery in our
own home town, there are few of us
who are not familiar with that lifting
refrain, into whose lines are written,
as a matter of fact the history of one
of the most famous or notorious, as we
choose to put it, of the worlds streets.
The reference is, of course, TO the
Bowery in New York City, that
shady street which a generation ago
was notorious as the hang-out of con-
fidence men and other criminals,
fakirs and, as it still is, down-and-
The author of the song was Charles
II, Hoyt, a Boston dramatic critic
who wrote musical shows. His play,
"A Trip to Chinatown" opened at the
Madison Square Theater in New York
on November 10, 1891, and for few
weeks attracted little attention. Then
it's author introduced, in six verses
and a chorus. the song THE Bowery,
which told the story of the adventures
of a rustic visitor on that street of
sharp wits and nimble fingers. Sung
by Harry Conor, with clever imper-
sonatiOn of the country character, it
registered instantaneous success and
put on the map the show of which it
had become the principal attraction,
and which had run of $50 perform
ances. an enviable record even today
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

be like him to do that thing, Tlmld
as he is. Whitefoot is very active and
dearly loves TO play about. He likes
the snow, and every pleasant night
found him out and about Sometimes
he was out during the day. 1t was
always a chance he took, but he used
to excuse himself by saying: II ought
to get my living day by day If /
can and keep those supplies in the
old stump for bad weather when
cannot get about. Yes, sir, that is
what / ought to do"
Now this sounds like good common
sense. It would have been good com
mon sense had it not been that the
supplies in that storehouse were great
enough to last Whitefoot the rest
of the Winter. However, most of us
like a change of fare once in a while,
so perhaps Whitefoot was excusable
for running the risk he always did
run whenever he went hunting for
food.
One afternoon when Whitefoot re-
turned from one of these trips he dis.
covered a visitor. 1t was Chatterer
the Red Squirrel. Chatterer was sit.
ting on top of that stump White
foot saw Chatterer before Chatterer
saw him. He hid. He hid where he
could peek out and watch Chatterer.
Chatterer wasn't welcome at all. In
fact, Whitefoot was a little afraid of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

II there is any one place where
daintiness deserves to be sought il is
in the accessories of a new arrival in
the world. AS If to say, See what a
pretty place this is, and how we'll you
are received" we spare no pains for
the nursery, the wee clothes and all
the accessories that they may reflect
the miniature perfection that adults
delight in associating with babyhood.
Many of the expressions of such ex-
quisiteness are nothing short of luxu.
rlous. When 1t is a necessity to be
dealt with, everything is done to make
II as much of a luxury as possible
Such fastidiousness is a matter of
pleasure and pride both before and
long after the event
Not yet satisfied with the list of
'pretties' for the baby, those who
cater to them have added another item
TO 1t. II this crisp and colorful com
bination of silk, cardboard and ribbon
which poses as a bonnet box is not.
strictly speaking, a necessity, it is
very easy to argue oneself into think.
ing that 1t is and Immediately put
needle to silk in the process of proving
It, And who could doubt such proof
as results when the box is complete?
The Shape.
These hat boxes for infants bonnets
may be either round or square, They
are covered with pink or blue satin
with a high bow of matching satin
ribbon perched on top of the cover. A
band of the ribbon extends from the
knot diagonally across the box, being
turned up under the lower part of the
cover. Another piece of the ribbon is
so deftly Joined to the lower section
and carried down to the bottom of the
box that it appears when the cover is
on that the ribbon is continuous. You
have perhaps seen this effect in candy
boxes. It is not difficult to obtain.
Covering.
This in itself would help any plain
white box toward daintiness, but do
not for a moment imagine that it is a
plain box that receives such decora-
ton. The box itself appears to be of
pink or blue satin, and from the soft
ness of the substance beneath one
knows that already something in the
way of special preparation has even
gone before the application of the
satin.
How to Make.
If you would make the box in the
completeness of it's splendor first
cover it with sheet wadding This is
fastened in place with glue. Bring
the wadding just over the inside edges
The box is then ready for its satin
covering. The satin may also line the
box If desired. The inside edge Of the
material is finished with guimpe. A
sachet may be made to fit the bottom
Of the box as an added touch, also
giving a soft place for the bonnets to
rest.
These boxes may be large enough
eor two or three infants bonnets or
HmaH enough for Just one. They make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
Southern Ginger Bread.

Cream one-half a cupful of butter
with one.half a cupful of sugar. Add
two unbeaten eggs then beat all to-
gether. Combine one teaspoonful of
baking soda with one-half a cupful of
nola sses and add to the first mixture.
Mix together one teaspoonful each of
ginger and cinnamon, one-fourth tea
spoonful of salt and one and one-half
cupfuls of -four. then sift into the
mixture. gradually adding one cupful
of cold water. Stir in one can of
cocoanut or one cupful. Pour into
a we'll CREASED pan lined with oiled
pa per and bake in q moderate oven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
Pumpkin Mullins,

Add one cupful of milk to two
thirds cupful of cooked pumpkin or
squash. then add one-fourth cupful of
sugar and two well beaten eggs. Sift
together thoroughly two and three
fourth cuptuls of -four. one teaspoon
full of salt, a CRATE Of nutmeg and
three teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
add TO the first mixture, then add two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter and
mix gently. Divide into hot buttered
muffin or gem pans and bake for one
half an hour in a moderate oven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

Whitefoot the Woodmouse remained
undisturbed in his new home for some
time. He had quite forgotten the loss
of his old home, which he had left
through fear of Shadow the Weasel.
This new home had everything that
a comfortab BILE, up-to-date mouse home
should have. There was plenty Of
room inside that old stump for all
the exercise he needed. He really had
no occasion TO go outside. You see,
as ! have already told you he found
an ample store of pine seeds in there.
They were very sweet and nice.
Whitefoot felt that 1t was quite all
right to take them, for he knew by
their condition that they had been
there for a long time Evidently some
one had stored them up and had for.
gotten them; or else had not had
need Of them.
OF course. Whitefoot didn't stay
shut up in that old stump. 1t wouldn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
BY EDNA KENT FORBES

popular movie phrase) dozens Of i'm.
pressions like these.
Now, then, what about the effect you
make on other people? How much
criticism Is mixed with how much
praise? Detail by detail you can 20
over yourself, and I strongly advise
you to do IT. and you can check up
which details of your person are good
and which aren't. Make out a written
list If you cannot remember them all.
Then do something about It.
A good complexion is worth daily
treatments and dieting. Good hair is
worth massaging and using tonics.
Clothes are becoming or not becoming,
according to how you choose them.
and good taste, unusual taste. Ia a.
thing that can be cultivated Remecc-
her that II you are hopelessly PLAIN
YOU can at least be interesting ;"
That is entirely a matter of howr-ou
dress yourself, the styles and the col
ors YOU select. And that in some
points you can be very attractive;
hair. skin, figure, nails and facial ex-
preston, 10 list them. Be prettyl It's
quite worth working for. and the re-
wards are great, as you know.
F. O.-Try massa ging your scalp
every Gay untli you feel IL glow from
the increased circulation. You may
also experiment some by trying to
lift the scalp from the bones of the
head. To do this. grasp as much hair
as you can close to the scalp and
then pull to lift the scalp muscles,
Improving the circulation in the
scalp after 1t has frightened to the
bones is much the same process as
breaking up the soil in the Spring
and getting it ready for planting.
Most scalps need something like a.
gardening process IL the hair is dry
and brittle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
Chocolate Pudding.

Scrape very fine two ounces OF
chocolate. put it into pan. pouring
over it one quart of new milk, stirring
it until it boils and adding by degrees
four ounces of sugar. Stir until the
chocolate Is smooth and light, then
pour out to cool. Beat eight egg yolks
to froth and mix with the chocolate,
Pour into a buttered dish and bake
three-fourths Of an hour. Serve cold
with whipped cream.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

exquisite gifts for expectant mothers
or for infants up to the age of IS
months. Sometimes dainty pink and
blue flowers are painted on the box.
There should be only few. perhaps
forget menots. with little green of
the foliage, The cover may bear the
same decoration, also the sachet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Cereal with Sliced Bananas.
Cream.
Fried Cornmeal Mush.
Maple Sirup.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Baked Macaronf with Cheese.
Rolls.
Lettuce Salad.
Prune Tapioca.
DINNER.
Vegetable Soup.
Hamburg Cakes. Fried Onions.
Mashed Potatoes.
EscallOped Tomatoes
Chocolate Rice Pudding
Coffee.
FRIED C0RNMEAL MUsH.

FRIED CORNMEAL MUSH.
To four cups boiling water
slightly salted add one cup corn
meal, little at a time, until all is
used. Boil 5 minutes and cook
in double boiler 3 hours. Pour
while hot into creased bread
pan. When cold, slice and
saute in pork fat, first on one
side, then on other, or fry in
deep fat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
PRUNE TApIOCA.


Cook two tablespoons tapioCa,
one-fourth cup sugar and pinch
salt Is minutes. Add one table
spoon butter. Stir we'll and re-
move from fire. In baking dish
put layer of tapioca. then stone
and cut up cooked prunes, then
rest of tapioca. Cover top with
one-fourth cup fine bread
crumbs and dot with butter,
Bake till brown.
CHOCOLATE RICE PUDDING.
One-third cup rice, washed
and boiled in one quart sweet
milk in double boiler until soft.
Take off fire, add two beaten
eggs, one cup sugar, one-half
cup cocoa and pinch salt. Pour
into buttered earthen dish and
bake one-half hour. Serve with
sugar and cream,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

Prices realized ON swift q Company
sales of carcass beef in Washington, D. c..
for week ending Saturday January % 1927,
on shipments sold out, ranged from 1900
cents to 1900 cents per pound and averaged
Is 90 cents per pound-Advertiseme
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Whitefoot Has a Visitor.

Diplomacy will win the day
When other methods wouldn't pay.
-Whitefo0t the Woodmouse
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Lever Bros. Co. c.nh,iaas N,sa
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I The BOwery the BoWeryI
| They say such things and they do such
things.
| On the Bowery the Bowery!
/
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HOW 1T STARTED

Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

Copyright. 1897
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, April 80 tP).-With fairly
large deliveries Monday expected on
May contracts here, wheat today
turned downward after an early ad-
vance. Profit taking sales on the part
of holders of wheat became of large
volume and the market lacked sup
port, despite the fact that export buy
ing from North America totaled
100000 bushels. Wheat closed un-
settled at the same as yesterday S
finish to rs cents lower; corn II cent
off to n cent up; oats B cent down to
u cent advance, and provisions show
ing to 40 cents decline.
At first sharp upturn in Liverpool
quotations dominated the Chicago
wheat market, continued active de-
mand in Great Britain and European
continental countries being reported.
However, most of the purchasing for
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
LARGE NUMBER
OF ARIZ. COWS
SOLD RECENTLY

SAN FRANCISCO, April SO.-In-
creased activity in the sale of Cali
fornia grass cattle, resulting from
greater. supply of cattle becoming
ready for market, has been noticeable
during the past week, according to
the California Cattlemen's association.
Good steers remain steady in spite
of increased supplies, and continue to
move at $S.25 to $3.50 f. o. b. cars, de-
pending on quality and freight in
volved. Cows are moving at $3.50 to
$6,75 f. o. b, for good quality, and
heifers, at 1925 to $3.50; calves con-
tinue to bring $12 to $3.50 on the
lighter weights and the greatest de-
mand is centered on calves under 220
pounds All classes of cattle are be-
ing cleaned up as fast as offered and
the market is in good condition.
Feeder and stock cattle continue to
hold the interest of buyers and several
large strings of Arizona steers sold
during the week. Some feeders are
being sold for immediate delivery and
contracts have been made for fall de-
livery on New Mexico and Arizona
weaner calves.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
SINKING SPELL.
FOLLOWS STOCK.
MARKET OPENING
(By the Associated Press)

NEW YORK, April 80 OPl.-The stock
market opened with an outburst of
strength, experienced a sharp sinking
spell in the middle of the session and
then made an irregular recovery Final
quotations as a rule were lower with
net losses of / to 2 points rather nu-
merous, but there were a number of
conspicuous strong spots, particularly
in the railroad group.
The shifting of speculative sentiment
was not traceable to anything in the
days news developments, although a
lowering of scrap steel prices at Pitts
burgh may have influenced some SELL
ing of the steel shares. United States
Steel common dropped over 2 points to
new low on the current decline at
1867, and then rallied slightly. Repub-
lie Steel sold down about point and
most of the others yielded fractionally.
A good rally developed in the oil
shares when it became apparent that
the short interest in many issues was
becoming overcrowded, with California
prod6cers making the best showing.
Houston Oil was freely liquidated, clos
ing 23s points to another low at 116,
and General Asphalt lost %
Motors also were subjected to rather
heavy selling, but most of them offered
good resistance. General Motors closed
fractionally lower at 100 after fluc-
tuating between 1S9A and 1929.
Renewed liquidation of the Continen-
tai Baking issues sent the A stock to a
new low at 33 1h and the to a new
minimum at Az. Selling pressure also
was effective against Commercial Sol
vents B, Internal Combustion, Timken
Roller Bearing, Tobacco Products and
U. S. Cast Iron Pipe.
White Sewing Machine was run up
over points to a new top at 29M and
moderate gains We're recorded by
American Brown Boveri, Barnet Lea
ther, Dupont, General American Tank
preferred, General Outdoor Advertising
certificates, McCrory Stores and Otis
Elevator.
Rails were featured by quick run
up in the Chicago Great Western issues
to the highest level in several years
and a revival of speculation for the
advance in the Missouri Pacific
shares.
Texas and Pacific jumped nearly 5
points to 70 but lost most of its gain.
Wabash, New Haven and several others
were heavy. Foreign exchanges were
slightly easier in the usual quiet half
holiday trading. Demand sterling ruled
around $4.S59s and French francs above
3.91 cents.