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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

Catherine the Great of Russia arose
at 6 o'clock each morning and started
of the day neatly by drinking five cups
of coffee. A whole pound of the berry
was consumed in their making.
In the Little Hermitage, where she
received her intimates, she was likely
to end the day playing at blind-mans-
buff.
She would laugh until her sides ached
and tears rolled down her cheeks when
one of her long line OF favorites,
Gregory Potiomkin, performed yentril-
oquist tricks.
In her prime she dotted on converse
ton and She would talk to Grimm, the
German philosopher, and Diderot, the
French savant, for seven hours at
stretch.
In her old age, although she was fat.
couldn't use her legs, and had lost all
of her teeth and half of her eyeSight
she tried to brazen an appearance OF
youth with young lovers on her arm
She spoiled them necessarily for fear
she would lose them.
She had to be taken about in wheel
chair, but her love of society was SO
strong that she acted as though she
had no infirmitieS.
In this period, it was generally de-
clared that her relationship with young
and handsome Plato ZuD0D was purely
platonic. This nettled Catherine. She
wished to be thought as young as ever
and did her best to make people think
she was scandalous in her conduct.
All her life she wrote a great deal
The hours for literary labor began with
her o'clock rising. She stopped at 8
In addition to drinking the five cups OF
coffee, she helped to clear her head by
bathing her face and cars with ice.
Utterly immoral herself, Catherine
sought so strenuously to protect the in.
nocence of her grandchildren that she
stopped their study of botany for prud-
ish reasons But it pleased her to think
that history would consider her
| feminine Don Juan.
An empress, she allowed her servants
| to sleep late while she waited on her
self and built her own fire. She lovec
| laughter and mourned Voltaire aftel
| his death, not for, his wisdom, but To-
| his wit
She used vast quantities of snuff ant
her clothes reeked of it.
She rouged a lot, and wore tint
clothes, but cared nothing for gooe
food. Her cooks were terrible. Wher
| they burned her food, she only laughed
She left an inscription for her grave
stone which said in part:
when she assembled the throne o
Russia, she wished to do good anc
tried to bring happiness, freedom anS
prosperity to her subjects.
"She forgave easily and hated no one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Qualities and Defects.

That's a French saying that a man
has the drawbacks. or weak points that
represent the cost of his strong ones.
It's universally true and important. As
it bears on mental fitness, 1t means
that the same factors that when well
composed make for the highest type OF
fitness, in their failure may involve
mental unfitness. It isn't merely that
the tightly stretched bow is the one that
SENDS the arrow farthest, but also the
one most likely to snap under the strain,
but that the finer mechanism is neces-
sary for the finer product, and when 1t
doesn't work just right, works quite dis
turbingly wrong.
Here is a statement of 1t by DR..
Austen Riggs, who has lifetime eXpe-
rience with nervously and mentally dis
turbed patients: TT is a curious fact
that the very characteristics which are
obviously the most precious assets of
the greatest lives we know constitute in
themselves the liability to neurotic mall
adaptation. We could hardly imagine
a Christ or a Lincoln without eXquisi-
tive Sensitiveness as well as high order
of intelligence. Yet these very quail
ties wien wrongly valued, misunder-
stood, badly managed or wrongly COM
bined are to blame for the vast ma
tority of failures in adaptation to civil
liked life"
My only comment is that 1t Is less
curious than natural. The simpler
mechanisms, whether of natures or of
mans devising, are less likely to get
out of order, and If they do they keep
going fairly well despite slight damage.
DR.. Riggs continues: The common form
of breakdown is "the typical response
of very normal person, of one, fur
thermore, who possesses to high de-
gree those very qualities of sensitive
ness and intelligence which are in
themselves so valuable when rightly
used in the difficult problems and de-
mands of civilization. The people of
this world who are most apt to mall
adapt are potentially and often actually
its most valuable citizens. They are
really the checked and INSTRUCTED fell
lows of the great and heroic"
Now, that doesn't mean that there
are not many varieties of mental unfit
ness of very different type. nor that
every one who becomes nervous wreck
can take comfort in the reflection that
he is an unusually fine fellow who has
gone wrong. It simply expresses the
fact that a tendency to break down is
in some cases the defect of the quail
ties of superiority. When the sensitive
ness isn't balanced by intelligence, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Playing Favorites With CoIors
BY MARY MARSHALL.

maker shows how to make over a last
seasons felt hat to conform to the new
fashions. The circular gives a sketch
of one of the new off he-forehead hats
that fits closely at the back, with dia-
gram showing how the old hat should
be cut. pressed and fitted into shape:
II you would like a copy, please send
a stamped. addressed envelope to
Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and
1t will be forwarded to you.
(Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Lessons in English
BY w. L. GORDON.

Often mispronounced: Bleat. Pro.
nounce the ca as in meat"
Often misspelled: Throw Ito hurl),
throe (extreme PAIN.
Synonyms Dishonorable, worthless,
ignoble, infamous, base, degraded, vile,
mean.
Word study: use a word three times
and it is yours" Let us increase our
vocabulary by mastering one word each
day. Todays word: Profound: marked
by intensity; deeply felt. "I have q
profound pity for him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Delicious Coffee Cake.

Cream one cupful of butter with one
cupful Of sugar, one egg, and one cup
full of molasses. Sift one grated nutmeg
and one teaspoonful of cinnamon with
four cupfuls of flour. Dissolve one tea
spoonful of baking soda in one cupful
of strong coffee, and add the coffee and
flour alternately to the sugar and mo-
lasses. Add at last one cupful of seed
ped citron, and half a cupful of well
cleaned dried currants. Bake in a slow
oven
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
MOTHERS
AND THEIR CHILDREN.
When Company Comes.
One mother saws /.

One mother says:
Often an otherwise good child will,
when company comes, embarraSs his
parents and annoy the guests simply
because he has been ignored by them.
Children crave attention, as do adults,
and it is only fair that they should be
shown some consideration by both par
entS and visitors. When we have guests,
1 have the children appear for few
minutes to greet them and then suggest
that they run along and play until
call them in to help me. At serving
time, each one helps in some little way,
which puts them at ease before guests.
After they have gone. I always have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Quick Pie Crust,

Use any good pie crust recipe, but in
stead of cutting in the shortening as
you usually do, first pour enough boil
ing water over it to melt 1t, then beat
it slowly into the flour. This is an
easy, quick method and makes de-
liciouS crust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
Cody Doings of Historic Persons
Catherine the Great Drank Essence of Pound of
Coffee for Breakfast.
j. p. GLASS.
BY J. P. GLASS.

"She was good-natured, easy-going
was of a cheerful temperament, re-
publican sentiments, and kind heart
"She had friends.
Work came easy to her; she loved
sociability and the arts"
The inscription was never carved. She
had been-an able sovereign, but Russia
was filled with stories of her i'm
moralities. People were more willing
to remember her bad than her good
qualities.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08
BRAIN TESTS


In the following table the names
| of inhabitants of various countries are
| given; after each one appears blank
| space. Insert the name of the correct
| place in each space.
| Example: NORWEGIAN ............
The answer is NORWAY.
Time limit, minutes.
Cd PORTUGUESE ............
90 AFGHAN ..........
go HINDU ............
"a MOOR .........
go MALTESE .........
60 HIBERNIAN ............
Cd CYPRIOTE .........
(8) DANE .....
(9) SINGHALESE .........
Q0). CALIFORNIAN .........
I'D MALAGASY ........
(12) BULGAR .....
Simply supply the name of a coun-
try or district in eacy empty space.
Complete as much of the list as
possible.
Answer.
The courbries are: ID Portugal, (2)
AfghanistaIl, go India, a. Morocco,
(5) Malta, 90 Ireland, Cd Cyprus, 80
Denmark, 90 Ceylon, 10) Scotland,
CID Madagascar, Q2) Bulgaria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08


nent-not one or two green's, but green's
generally. But purple tones are seldom
in favor in a general way. Fashion
never gives blanket order for puppies.
But almost always there is some one or
possibly two tones from the top of the
rainbow that carry with them the
cachet of smart fashion.
This season there are two such tones,
dahlia and wood violet OF the two,
the former is especially favored by
French dressmakers. It is tone that
is best reserved for the more formal
type of afternoon dress. Wood violet.
with less red in its makeup than
dahlia. has been appropriated for more
general wear and appears in jersey as
well as tweed, side by side with sturdy
browns, wearable green's and practical
black-and-gray combinations.
st am planning to wear black pul1-on
gloves and black shoes with an oxford
gray suit. Should the gloves be worn
over or under the cuffs? What sort of
gloves would you suggest to wear with
q golden brown crepe afternoon dress?"
The gloves may be worn either way.
With the brown dress would suggest
washable suede pull-on gloves of light
beige tone.
This weeks help for the home dress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

Fashion has way of playing favor
ties with puppies. In a season like the
present browns in general are in favor
wood brown, nut brown, golden brown.
dark brown and light brown. Last
Summer greens were especially promi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

some little word of praise for the way
in which they helped me, and they feel
that they have really been part of
things, without having been in the least
obnoxious with their presence.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

This weeks help for the home dress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

ways those you can buy yourself.
Exactly what they are, we show in
box above at rightly
Now for cost. You'll be amazed
to discover that by buying this cake
you save half The cost Of baking it at
home. In view of the rich ingredients
used, this may seem almost incredible.
until you learn how we reduce the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

BY ALICE ADAMS PROCTOR
: TEiEluscious-lookingcake
4 above, Madam, is be-
coming a real sensation
among. particular hostesses
here.
Women who try it say
mo more baking for mel"
More than ten thousand
housewives have written in
to praise it. And domestic
science experts regard it as
a masterpiece.
We bake it for you to a
recipe widely used in Colo
Mai days. Our ingredients
are the finest that money can
procure, surprising in most
H. L.... .
Evening star., 1929-12-02

she'd have stopped there. Not being
one, she felt that the explanation
sounded rather bare and added to IL.
st don't know how he found out where
I lived? Did you tell him? Because;
of course, you did find out from Babe. ="
Shed noted that this observation of
hers didn't sting him at all. 1t seemed
almost as If it had given him an idea.
He came now and sat down in the
chair that she had sat in during the
talk with Forster.
mo" he said, IT didn't tell him,
but happened to know how he found
out"
He didn't offer to tell how he knew,
and Rhoda refrained from asking She
merely waited.
II guess I'm beginning to catch on
to some things, too he went on, still
eyeing her intently. She's quite some
girl, that Babe Jennings. How long
have YOU known her?"
quite a while" Rhoda told him. :
Got sort of an idea she's a friend
of yours?"
NO" Rhoda answered, II know she
is"
He gave a short laugh. did you
know" he asked, that she left for
New York this afternoon?"
She shook her head
well" he asserted, IT saw her of
on that train myself"
It was obvious, now, what he was
getting at, but the lie was SO childish
that she almost laughed as she said
That's very interesting"
Don't you believe it?"
mo"
He stared at her thoughtfully a few
seconds and then said, We'll, maybe
I've got you all wrong. I thought
you and she were teamed up in this
business. Now I've got notion that
she's burned you just like she did me-
Only you don't know it yet"
How did she burn you?" Rhoda
asked.
Never mind about that. That's my
end of it. Say. what kind of a trunk
was it you lost? Because she took
trunk with her. helped her check
it."
What sort of trunk was it that
you checked" Rhoda asked him. II
didn't seem possible that even he
would be fool enough to fall into that
tran
He did give his answer little un-
easily. why, 1 didn't notice it es-
pecially," he said. 1T was sort of a
square leather trunk"
She sat for while in puzzled si-
lence. How could he have hoped she
would believe a story like that? Why
hadn't ne seemed more disappointed
that she didn't believe it? Was it pos
sible that he really thought Babe had
taken train to New York.
when did all this hapneno" she
Evening star., 1929-12-02

, asked at last. what time did the
"Five-thirty, from the Union sta
tion. I've just come from there"
what did she do? Call you up and
ask you to see her OFF,"
mo, I Just happened to run across
here there"
80 you helped her buy her ticket
and check her trunk and then you
saw her of on the train. And now
you've heard my trunk has been stolen
you think that must be the one you
checked?"
"Well, 1t seems queer, her going of
like that, without letting you know
anything about 1t. You said you'd lost
some money, didn't you? She's got that.
too, il you ask me. She talked as II she
had plenty. Said she'd been saving up
for this bust for two years"
Involuntarily Rhoda started at that.
Babe had been talking about that sort of
vacation ever since she and Rhoda had
begun living together She'd used that
very phrase. Max couldn't have made
1t up. He had met Babe at the station
then and she had made him think she
was going to New York.
Why? Why had she gone to the sta
ton? Why, for that matter, had Max
gone there himself? Had he meant to
go to New York on that train? With her
$500 and her trunk?
Well, how about Claire? Where did
she come in? Or didn't she come in?
Had he ditched Claire, or tried TOP
Whatever Max had tried to do he d.
failed. Rhoda remembered how he'd
looked when he came into the room. At
Evening star., 1929-12-02
RHODA
A Red-Headed Girl
By Henry Kitchell Webster
cOpyrGht Alliance and
Afehop

glowering down upon her, lis to wiring
| your neck
She loathed him. His bulk oppressed
her and some perfumery that there was
about him made her feel a little sick
That hand that he had pressed over her
mouth had been washed with heavily
scented soap. The least repulsive thing
about him was the obviously genuine
rage he was in. And yet. formidable
as she perceived him to be, she wasn't
really afraid of him.
It came to her that down inside he
himself was frightened. bewildered
When he released her, she scrubbed
her lips vigorously with her handker-
chief before she spoke.
Il wish you'd sit down where I can
see you" she said. land tell me why
I haven't done you any harm that ]
know Of
He didn't sit down, nor did he an
swer her question, but at least angrily
and uncertainty he walked away a few
PAGES before he turned again to glare
at her.
she repeated her question in sim
pier form. What harm do you think
I've done you?"
What did you come here for2" he
asked.
supposed he meant. She looked at him
thoughtfully and decided to chance
planting another dart in him. You
mean." she said. you're afraid I've
come to tell your uncle that / think
you stole my $500 and my trunk"
His face turned crimson and he low
cred his head. 1t needed all the reso-
lutions she had to keep sitting quietly
in her chair, but she managed it.
He was almost inarticulate with fury,
but finally he managed to stutter: II
don't know what you're talking about.
Neither do you. But that's one thing
you've done. You've talked too much
already"
Again, after a moments thought. she
saw what he meant and planted another
dart in him. you've talked with Claire.
then" she declared, since I saw her
this afternoon"
This time he was completely speech
less. He was visibly trying to see how
she had arrived at that. but his poor
logged mind wasn't equal to it.
IF you didn't take my trunk" she
added. I'm sorry I told her I thought
you did"
Never mind about that" he said.
What did you come here for?"
She decided to evade that. "Your
uncle sent for me-" she told him.
If she'd been a practiced deceiver,
Evening star., 1929-12-02

ment she did 1t TO you. or you wouldn't
have been so nice to her-seeing her
on on the train, and ALL"
Get OF It'll" he shouted. 'It's no
buSinss Of yours. You've got enough to
worry about with what she did to you"
"I don't think" she told him cheer
fully, that I've anything to worry about
at all. think she's got my trunk back
You see was talking to her on the
telephone just now, when you came in
here"
This proved one dart too many and
he came for her; not blindly, either. She
perceived before he spoke that he knew
what he meant to do with her. He
seized her arm with wrench that made
her want to cry out.
Get out of here!" he said. "I'll make
Evening star., 1929-12-02
EIGHTEENTH INSTALLMENT.

r. OR a long time Rhoda sat brood
l. ing over her fathers story. re-
calling lost memories, piecing
i the strange fabric together.
But at last, with start, she
sat erect. What should she do when
Forster came back to question her fur
ther? Stick to the truth, which she
wouldn't be able to make him believe? If
he we're honestly convinced that she
was an impostor and a confederate of
the Cleveland woman, she was in for
O pretty bad time when he came back
If only she'd thought of telephoning to
Martin before coming up here.
A glance at her wrist watch changed
TO an incredulouS stare. 1t couldn't be
half past 6. could it? That disposed of
any possibility of finding him at the
paper. Babe Jennings. her house mate,
would be at home, though, by now, and
she might be- able to get word to him.
That was the thing to try. anyhow.
She picked up the telephone and,
speaking as softly as she could, asked
for an outside line and gave the studio
number. Babes voice answered almost
instantly. She asked if Babe knew
relief on being told that he was right
there in the studio. But why was he so
long about coming? Why didn't he
hurry?
From where she sat in Forster's chair
she faced the principal door. the one
she had come in by. She was still watt
ing for Martins voice to come over the
phone when she saw this door being
quietly pushed open. The man who
came in wasn't Conley, as she eX-
pected it to be, but Max Lewis His
1eek of astonishment when he saw her
sitting in his uncles chair would have
been ludicrous If it had not been fol-
lowed so quickly by glare of anger.
You're here. are you?" he said.
huskily. He added, Put up that
phone!" and, snatching the door shut
behind him, he bore furiously down
upon her to enforce his command.
She didn't obey him. She chung to
the instrument and tried to say, in the
hope that Martin was near enough to
hear, I'm at Forster's, at the Worces-
ter Hotel" But before her tight throat
could utter the words Max had got the
telephone away from her and one of his
hands was over her mouth, his thumb
and forefinger pinching her nostrils to-
gether, so that she couldn't breathe
at all.
He held her SO until he had placed
the telephone on the desk. Then he re-
leased her, saying as he Gid so, you
can yell, If you like, but it won't do
you any good in this ROOM" He was
still standing over her, so that she
couldn't get up out of the heavy chair.
what ought to do" he concluded.
Evening star., 1929-12-02

that moment he had attributed his fail
ure to her as well as to Babe. He'd been
wrong about her. But had he been right
about Babe? Had Babe really outwitted
him and upset his plan?
Max must have seen that he'd startled
her and set her thinking. But he to-
tally misjudged the direction of her
thoughts. Beginning to believe me
now, are you?" he said. Well, it's about
time"
II wish you'd tell me-" she said, look
ing at him in a child-like manner as
she could manage. what the terrible
thing was that Babe did to you"
Never mind about that!" he growled
at her.
But I can't help it," she persisted.
1T must have been at the very last mo-
Evening star., 1929-12-02

reversed. and now she Is running to the
drug store 10 secure q stain which win
give her the sun-tan effect. :
AS with most things that suddenly
become al the rage. sun baths can be,
and frequently are, overdone. A badly
-blistered skin may, and frequently
does, result from q too-prolonged ex-
posure to the sun before the cuticle has
had q chance to acquire the protective
coating OF tan. When the sun exposure
q very dangerous condition, may re.
suit
Evening star., 1929-12-02
The Danger of OVERRIDING.

For untold generations the Summer
girl has been struggling during the
e-rly Winter months in an endeavor to
get rid of the tan coating which her
skin took on when exposed to the Sum-
mer sun. With the suddenness Of the
lightning fash the situation has been
Evening star., 1929-12-02
SYNOPSIS


After the death of her father. whose last
years were clouded BY poverty and dis
grace, Rhoda Mcfarland calls herself Rhoda
White. An ad in the papers asking for in
formation as to the whereabouts of a Rhoda
MCFARLAND catches the eye of Martin
Forbes, reporter and friend OF Rhoda
she tells him part of her story. He says
that a man named Max Lewis is also trying
70 hnd her. Later a stranger' Claire Cleve-
lana, comes. to Rhoda: claiming to have
known her father at the time of his mis-
fortune. She adds that he had certain
rapers belonging to her and asks to have
them returned. Rhoda says that ell her
tather,s papers are in q sealed trunk in
she accuses Claire. who makes a denial.
Forbes retrieves the trunk. but before he
can tell Rhoda of this she goes to see
nan named Forster who; according to
Claire, had been Mr. McFsrlands enemy
and the person responsible for the ad. She
tells him about the theft of the trunk and
shout her meeting with Claire. He is frantic
with fear and anger. He denounces Claire
as q blackmsiler says she was discharged
trem hie employ and was the cause of Mr..
MeFerlands trouble and disgrace. He even
goes SO far as to say that he does not b.
neve Rhoda's statement that she is Rhoda
MCFARLAND. Then he goes away, leaving
Rhoda to wonder what it is all about.
Evening star., 1929-12-02

it worth your while to talk to me some
other time, II you get out now before
my uncle finds you here
| Continued In Tomorrow's starr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-07
Exposition of Peasant
Craft, Art, Coming to
Grand Central Palace

A million dollar exposition of
Russian peasant handicrafts and
fine arts is in preparation at the
Grand Central Palace, and viii open
February /, according to Mathew
Gordon, director. 1t will continue
until March l.
The exposition will include 700
important modern paintings and
sculptured pieces and valuable an
tiques dating from the sixteenth
century.
The twelfth floor of the Grand
Central Palace has been transformed
into a miniature of the great Rus
sian fairs. The fine arts exhibits
were selected in Russia by a COM
mittee of the Academy of Arts. The
American showing is sponsored by
the Amtorg Trading Corporation.
The peasant handicrafts division
will contain linens, toys, ivory cerv-
ing, lacquer work, embroideries,
leather inlay, oriental rugs, and
other local products.