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The Alaskan., 1927-09-02
DANCE HALL FANNY
A Tale of Gold Rush Days
By AHN-KUTTY

 pretty and so intelligent, as you are, can lead the life you are now lead ing. There's nothing but misery and the gutter ahead. Do you ever stop and think of tomorrow"
 This bit of conversation between the stewardess and Dance Hall Fan ny was on the City of Topeka. March, 1896, as the boat steamed up Lynn Canal. The van of the gold rush was on board, miners, prospectors, promoters and an over grown sprinkling of the parasitic underworld Fanny Belle Graham she said that was her real name, but there's a doubt about twas one of the underworld passengers and red liquor had been her food and drink from the time the lines were cast off at Tacora.
 ''Ah! cut it," said the tipsy girl. You talk as if none but the nutty plucked the primrose When I was poor-and respectable-I lived down on the Oakland mudflats with mother and three younger sisters Father was dead. He was a pay master for a big flour mill and one afternoon a stick-up guy argued dad out of weekly payroll with 3 siXshooter. I can remember when we had nothing to eat but seagulls and tule roots and clothes the con demned sacks from the mill dad had died for. Nobody knew me then, of course. Just as soon as I kicked the Oakland mud out of my toes and painted red number over my door, 1 had friends galore. AL so, I had money. Then came the Bible pushers, moralists, he and -slummers and fat dowagers and all of 'em telling me I was naughty and an awful blot on so- ciety Why didn't they come and tell me was hungry and half nak- ed when I lived in a hovel on the mudflats? And, say, nurse, this Keely cure stuff you're pouring into me is rotten. It's so rotten worms couldn't. live in it. Let's chop it off the bill of fare I'll be sober, all right, when I hit the shore I'll be out, I guess-if pickings are good-in two or three years and if your still on this old tanker, nurse, I'll buy you something that'Il cause you to remember Fanny, the jagged Let's go on deck and get a lung full of salt air before I hobnob with the snow peaks"
 So Fanny mushed in to the wild Eldorado of the North For two long years she rolled a hectic down grade-and prospered. For two long years she sheathed her heartI in ice, smothered every redeeming impulse and made talons of her hands to claw in the gold And she knew her game. Money she was after, even over the Wrecks of those around her, but she was al spender within limits. And whenl those spending times arrived, whenI Fanny thought it the proper time to advertise, what a wild half week there'd be- A mining camp would Ldh0 I6SI IOI Iu0 I0lndluu0I UL the week to recuperate She play ed no favorites in location, for all the diggings, every creek and camp knew her, swore by her and cursed her. She was in the van of every and though many of the new finds" turned out to be false alarms, she came out richer in vel ow wealth than when she went in.
 When Fanny first set foot in Bon- anza she met James (Jamesy) oe1lington, and Pellington to the yery end was Fanny's man and he ;ould see no other woman than Dance Hall Fanny. Tn the orange trOye lane of life these two would |;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

The question of what is the correct
powder base is one that perplexes
| many of my readers. Is it vanishing
cream, cold cream or some oil or skin
lotion? The answer to this problem
| is that different types of skins re-
quire different powder bases, and even
the same individual needs sometimes
TO change her powder base to suit the
changes in the condition of complex.
ion. The skin is oilier at some sea.
sons of the. year than at others and
its secretiOns are also Influenced by
ones general health. 1t is therefore
| impossible to recommend a single
preparation that will serve every one
The oily type of skin with enlarged
pores is usually the most difficult to
keep well powdered. The makeup
tends to mix with the natural oil to
form unsightly Jumps or else the
powder refuses to remain on 1t at all.
The thing to do in this case is not
to buy new brands of cosmetics, but
to correct the excessive oiliness by the
use of astringent applications. After
the pores have thus been reduced to
normal size, vanishing cream will
make a successful powder base.
For tender. dry skins that chap and
flake off easily, an oily base is most
satisfactory. Cold cream NAV be
massaged in and then the excess
wiped off before the powder is busted
on. The light film of cream on the
face will hold the powder and protect
the complexion. Cold cream for this
purpose may be bought ready pre-
pared or it may be made at home of
the following Ingredients: Two ounces
rose water, two ounces oil of sweet
almonds or olive oil, one-half ounce
spermaceti, one-half ounce white wax,
one-half dram tincture of benzoin.
Melt the wakes and oil in a double
boiler, stir in the rose water and ben
zoin and beat the mixture we'll. Pour
into jars to cool.
A liquid powder base that is suit
able for the average skin is made of
one and one-half drains of subnitrate
of bismuthask30 grains of powdered
starch, two drains glycerin and one
and one-half ounces rose water. Mix
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dinah Days Daily Talks on Diet
The Right Food Is the Best Medicine

drinks 3 quarts of water day. But
this program might not keep Jim
Brown in health.
George Bernard Shaw, past 40, has
the clear skin of baby, Is in per.
feet health and his brilliant mind still
sparkleS with unimpaired radiance.
He does not eat meat, does not smoke,
does not take any kind of alcoholic
drinks, nor tea or coffee.
Some people cannot eat green pep
perS without distress. Others cannot
eat onions. If they do like the flavor
very much, they could experiment a
few times in eating the vegetable raw.
or perhaps grated, so there will be
flavor but not bulk, or cooked simply.
II indigestion always follows, it will
be necessary to leave the vegetable
out of the diet.
Sometimes food dislikes are based on
mental reaction rather than actual in
ability of the body to digest the food.
And if the food is wholesome and
necessary to health, like milk, fruit
and vegetables, an honest effort should
be made to include such food In the
diet.
Eat what you please If 1t happens
to be the wholesome, nourishing food
necessary to good health.
r. K. O.-Are green vegetables and
raw fruits fattening? Answer-Green
vegetables are not fattening. Neither
are most raw fruits. Both are eX-
tremely valuable in every ones diet.
questions should send self-addressed. stamped
envelope to Dlnah Day care of The Star.
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Our Children BY Angelo Patri

old was the. girl who wrote that
letter."
20, should say she was 16. OF
course, yes. She was 16."
WAS she graduated from the
SCHOOL,"
How should I know? What does
that matter? Even if she wasn't she
ought to know how to spell, oughtn't
She?"
She probably spells very well for
all the chance she got to learn. You
took girl who had not completed
her elementary education and ex-
pected her to do the work of a well
trained high school graduate You
paid her on the basis of an incomplete
training and demanded expert work.
You can't get thatm Stenographers
need high school education, special
training in business methods and
letters, course in business English.
That would cost you much more than
you are evidently willing to pay /
think, Mr.. Bundle, you got the goods
you paid for"
But Mr.. Bundle doesn't agree.
Mr.. Patri will give personal attention to
inquiries from parents or school teachers
on the care and development of children
Write him IN care of this paper. nclosing
self addressed, stamped envelope for reply.
Copyright. 1927
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MARKET CONTINUES
POST-HOLIDAY CALM
Products and Prices Show Little
Change Since Yule-
tide Lull.

The same calm that has prevailed at
Center Market since the end of the
| Christmas holidays continues this
week. with practically no change in
the prices at retail stalls and without
the temperance of season-retired
vegetables. Only isolated changes are
noted.
Lima beans. which disappeared from
the stands into the clouds of high
prices several weeks ago, are to be
had at a few of the dealers stalls if
the marketer is willing to pay the
necessary So for quart of them. The
few that are on the market are com
ing in from Cuba.
Brussels sprouts. which jumped a
bit last week, were priced cents
higher again this week, the retail
price being so cents a quart.
Meats remain steady, porterhouse
steak selling at about so cents
pound, sirloin at so cents and round
at 40 cents. The various cuts of roast
beef cost anywhere from % to As
cents, depending upon whether one
buys a chuck or rib roast. Pork
chops are bringing 40 cents a pound,
while the roast of pork sells at 35
cents. Legs of lamb are priced at 40
cents, and the breasts cost 20 cents,
with the shoulder selling at 80 cents a
pound. Veal chops are so cents, the
outlets so cents and the roast pieces
25 to 80 cents pound.
Potatoes Hold Firm.
Calf liver sells for 70 cents a pound
while the older beef liver can be had
for 20 cents. The best all-pork sau:
sage sells for 35 and 40 cents, with
cheaper grades at 80 cents a pound.
Corned beef is anywhere from Is to
35 cents. depending upon the cut.
Lamb kidneys are cents apiece, veal
kidneys 20 cents and beef kidneys IS
cents.
New potatoes are 25 cents a quart
and the old variety are cents a
pound or six pounds for Is cents.
Sweet potatoes are 4 pounds for a
quarter. String beans are SO cents a
quart and tomatoes are 60 cents a
pound.
French artichokes are Is cents a
pound, two pounds for quarter, the
same price they have held for many
weeks, and the Jerusalem variety
holds it's same level of 25 cents a
quart. Spinach remains at Is cents a
pound, selling at two pounds for 25
cents.
Mushrooms are so cents a pound
this week, that price being 10 cents
higher than last week. Old cabbage
remains at cents a pound with the
new variety of two pounds for Is
cents.
Orange Prices Steady.
Celery remains at Is to % cents a
bunch, while beets hold at 10 cents
a bunch. Turnips and parsnips are
both selling at the rate of three for a
quarter. Rhubarb, which came on
the market last weeks, remains
through this week, holding the same
price of 25 cents bunch. Peas in
the hull are 40 cents a pound.
Oranges, as last week, are 60 to 80
cents a dozen, and tangerines remain
at so cents a dozen. Eating apples
are still 5, s and 10 cents each. Straw
berries from Florida jumped IS cents
on the quart this week, and they now
cost 81.
Tokay grapes are still 40 cents a
pound. Alligator pears are 60 cents
apiece.
Turkeys hold their 65-cents-a-pound
level, and chickens remain at last
weeks prices. Bakers are as cents
and stewers are 40 cents. Keats are
80 cents to 81 each. Rabbits added
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Cottage Cheese Cake.

Sift together twice two level cup
fuls Of -four, two teaspoonfuls Of bak-
ing powder, one-half a teaspoonful of
salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and
one fourth teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Work in one and onehalf tablespoons
of fat, then add one cupful of milk
Spread in a creased shallow pan and
cover the top with the following mix.
ture: Beat one egg until light, add one
fourth cupful of sugar, one.half a
pound of cottage cheese. half @ tea
spoonful of cinnamon and one-fourth
teaspoonful of cloves. Bake in a hot
oven for about half an hour.
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Mr.. Bundle.

Mr.. Bundle kept a large shop in a
middle-sized town. He paid a good bit
of the school taxes. No more than
his due share, of course. but because
that share was larger than the others.
he. believed he should have some
claim on the school. One day he
called on the principal.
i've called to see what you can
say for yourself. / like to hear what
a man has to say in extenuation of
his errors. Your school frequently
sends me young people for service in
the store. l must say that few, very
few, indeed, measure up to the stand
ard we set. VERY few.
"Now this is a fair sample. We
took in this girl last Monday. ste
nogra pher, useful clerk, little book
keeping, few telephone calls. some
typewriting. of course, usual Office
work. you understand? What do we
get AS / said. this is fair sample
Of what we are constantly getting.
See this letter.
:You notice that receive is spelled
wrong? Look at yours truly. Again
and again these beginners spell it
tTly. The letter makes no sense.
1t'was dictated as a request for some
felt mattresses and it reads, six stand
on hat boxes
Nov ! know that you cannot be
held responsible for everything these
pupils of yours do in the way of con
duct and behaviors, but some re.
sponsibility you have even there. The
people pay you for that. But surely
you are to be held responsible for
sending out such ill-prepared young
people as this work indicates. l pay
high and l got to get something
for it."
The principal listened quietly, as all
good principals do. When Mr.. Bum
BILE drew his breath and sat back to
hear what help the school could give
him, the head Of the school said. How
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Eating What You Please.

1t seems to me the news has lately
been deluged with advice from elderly
people as to the rule to be followed to
attain great age.
One counsels abstemiousnesS. One
counsels moderation. And today an
elderly, hale man of 80 says: Eat
what you please. Do what you like"
He claims he has never been sick
a day in his life; that he has always
eaten everything he wished; that he
had never had Indigestion; that his
organs today are all working per.
fectly.
This gentleman forgets that people
differ. Also it may be that he has
all his life eaten proper food-that he
liked and INDUCED in what was best
for him, and, in addition, that his
body functioned perfectly.
There is a saying that if a man
wishes to live long he should develop
a chronic disease in early youth. And
we do see examples of frail ailing
people OUTLYING robust ones. The rea-
son is that the semi-invalid knows his
limitations, eats only what agrees
with him and cOnserveS his strength.
The robust fellow goes on the theory
that nothing can hurt him. And at
about so his kidneys give out or his
heart is affected or his stomach gets
troublesome.
John D. Rockefeller, at So. attrib-
utes his ability to play nine holes of
golf every day to his abstemious eat
ing and refusal to worry. He lives on
diet of milk and gluten toast and
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Oysters With Macaroni.

Put four ounces of macaroni in hot
water and boil rapidly for about thir-
ty minutes. Drain. throw into cold
water for fifteen minutes. then drain
again. Drain fifty oysters. Put layer
of these oysters in the bottom of a
baking dish, then a layer of boiled
macaroni, another layer of oysters
and macaroni, busting a little salt and
pepper over each layer. Continue IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Banana Spread.

Cut some bananas lengthwise, sprin-
kle with lemon juice and bake until
tender Then mash and mix with dry
shredded coconut. Put in tight jar
and store in a cool place. Unless put
piping hot into jars and Immediately
covered with paraffin, this will keep
only a few DAYS.
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til the dish is filled. having the last
layer OF macaroni. Put bits of butter
over the top and dust thiclIy with
bread crumbs. Put over this four
'aniespoons OF cream and bake in a
quick oven for about twenty min
utcs
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another 5 cents to their price, and
they are being sold at IS cents.
Dairy products remain steady But
ter, eggs and cheeses have not
changed their prices, and the same
grades that were found on the stands
last week remain now.
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MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS

the first two ingredients together,
then gradually stir in the glycerin
and lastly the rose water. The lotion
may be thinned with more rose water
If desired. Moisten a clean piece of
absorbent cotton in this liquid and
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SPONGE CAKES

SPONGE CAkE5F
Beat yolks 2 eggs, add / cup
sugar, II cup cold water, one
cup pastry flour, q teaspoon
baking powder, whites of the
eggs. well beaten; flavor to
taste. Make l loaf or l dozen
patties.
Custard sauce-One pint boil
ing milk, yolks eggs, 1 tea
spoon cornstarch rubbed smooth
in little cold milk and l table
spoon sugar. Boil in double
boiler till it thickens and serve
cold.
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VEGETABLE SALAD.

VEGETABLE SALAD.
Mix together l cup of string
beans cut into small pieces,
cup peas, / cup fine cut celery
l cup boiled beets cut into dice
and u cup diced cooked carrots.
Dress with French dressing and
serve on bed crisp lettuce
leaves. Rub bottom of salad
bowl with garlic and let stand
half an hour before serving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
FOOD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME
MENU FOR A DAY.

BREAKFAST.
Preserved Peaches
Cereal with Cream
Sausage Cakes
Rye Mullins. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Vegetable Salad
Parker House Rolls
Creole Cake. Tea.
DINNER.
Baked Slice of Ham
Boiled Potatoes. Spinach
Apple and Raisin Salad
Sponge Cake and Custard Sauce
Coffee
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wipe the skin with it before applying
powder.
The regular use of powder has a
drying effect on sensitive skins that
may be counteracted by using cleans
ing cream to remove the makeup.
The cream will not make the COM
plexion too oily nor encourage the
growth of facial hair, as some of my
readers fear. if an astringent lotion is
used after the cream is wiped off.
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

Marie Michel. "a. recently celebrated
her hftieth anniversary as servant to
tho same Berlin family.
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SAUSAGE. CAKES.

SAUSAGE CAKES.
Break off bits of sausage meat
of equal size, roll them in palms
Of hands into balls and pat
them into flat cakes. Arrange
in frying pan and cook mot too
fasO in their own fat, turning
twice until they are evenly
Drowned. Time allowed for fry
ing depends on size of cakes.
If they are not large Is min
utes should be enough. Serve
on a hot dish without gravy.
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PINK SALMON ROLLS
with cup cooked rice. season.
Divide into 8 parts. Roll each part
in cabbage leaves, fasten together
with toothpicks. cook until tender In
ter in o steamer.
(106l
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) FTIo0y-FIsh D01-oT any ooy!
PINK SALMON OUTLETS
Melt 8 this. butter. 3 this. -four.
Add I cup boiling milk. / can Pink
SALMON. stir until thick. Season.
Add raw egg yolks. Cool. shape
into outlets, roll in -four. then IN
beaten eggs diluted with milk. Dip
IN bread crumbs and fry In deep fat.
Serve with tomato or cream sauce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
WINTER
BY ID. G. PEATTIE.
Kitchen Gardening.

There are gardens for the kitchen,
but just at this season gardens in the
kitchen are the thing. For of all
places to grow flowers indoors there
is no place like the kitchen. The
heat and~ the warmth are ideal, and
because of the American custom of
turning the living room to the dusty
noisy street and the kitchen toward
the back yard, where the sun and fresh
air pour in, the geraniumS or the
narciSsus in the kitchen window have
far more ideal homes than the
gloomy, heavy aspidiStraS and palms
and ferns in the "parlor." And there
is something about the jaunty charm
of the little flowers suited to the
window sill of the kitchen that APP
peals more than the ponderous
grandeur of tropical foliage plants in
the more formal part of the house
can ever do.
Everybody has his favorite pot
flowers, but as for me, give me the
Chinese narcissus, that needs only
a little water and some pebbles; the
blue hyacinth, the dear old-fashioned
primrose, treesia. crocus, chrySanthe-
mum. azalea indica and the Camelias.
Let who wants have his fancy foliage
plants, striped and blotched with in
credible colors, his ivy and cactus and
his dwarf palms. Nobody who has
ever seen a palm in the places where
palms naturally grow will ever look
twice at poor little parlor specimen.
There is the same difference between
them as between a tiger and a tabby
cat though I admit the cat makes
better household pet.
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Home Mixture as Cleansing Agent
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

work admirably. Use the same method
in applying the agent, remembering to
rub it in thoroughly and with the cir
cular motion. Never brush off the salt
until absolutely dry. If you follow di-
rections precisely no ring" will re-
main on the article. Good word, that,
is it not?
Heavy Materials.
This agent is especially for heavy
materials. One reason. for this is be-
cause the mixture cannot be dabbed
on and lightly wiped off, but applied
more actively and brushed off more
vigorously The dirt is loosened by
the application of the agent as we'll as
by its potency.
It is recommended for spots on
tapestry and other firmly woven wool
en- cotton or miXture) upholStry
fab les, as well as forsspots on mems
clothes and heavy garments of women
and children, portieres, hangings,
wooden scarfS, etc.
The mixture has two decided advan-
tages. 1t costs almost nothing, and
the ingredients. if not actually at
hand, are easily procurable.
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Pigeons.

SINCE. draw and trim four or more
pigeons. Put in a saucepan with two
ounces of butter and four ounces OF
raw ham cut in squares. Fry slight
ly brown, sprinkle with a little flour.
fry a little longer. dilute with pint
of cold broth, add a bunch of parsley
and a little white and sweet chilli pep
per. Stir, boil, cover and cook slowly.
Drain the pigeons and remove the
parsley. Skim off the fat and add two
dozen stoned and blackened Spanish
olives. Boil for a few minutes, dish
up the pigeons, pour the sauce and
garniture over, surround with heart
shaped crusts of bread fried in but
ter and serve.