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Margaret. George was aroused about 1890
O'Clock by his pompadour tickling his latissimus
dorsi. This quite relief, as either Mar
gareG or II can't remember which-was by
this time tired of romping. George got up and
changed his underwear, and we sat down to talk
about a play that will win the Pulitzer Prize
as soon as they get some brains on the COM
mittee.
A S usual, George walked back and forth pick
ing fauna off the rug and now and then
giving voice to an idea or line that would have
done credit to the master of ceremonies at a
night club. There was a slight interruption of
three hours while Peaches invited the Manhat-
tan Telephone Directory to dinner. At length
she asked me:
What are you going to do tonight?"
Nothing" I said
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for IL hours, and it was necessary to find a
couple OF bellmen capable of making the desired
observations at am. and 6 pm; and the
fourth that though was not even a neo
phyte when I entered the monastery, my long
sojourn made me a regular member and I have
been Friar from those days and nights to this,
probably because of some obscure squatters'
law. VIII say in conclusion of this intermin-
able paragraph that the function occurred in
June and had no top coat and the urge to
get home and weed the bathtub came at high
noon, and it was kind of embarrassing passing
all those policemen in dinner clothes instead of
the conventional pajamas
Now, then, we come TO the occasion / started
out to tell about, and began by visiting the
home of George S. Kaufman arrived at
O'Clock on the theory that neither George nor
Peaches would be up yet and would have a
chance to romp a while with their daughter,
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"Golly Moses!" she exclaimed "I wish were
in your place"
Along about o'clock, George said, who can
you see as the male lead?"
Well" replied, before answering that ulIas-
ton, I should like to know what the play is
about and whether the male lead is going to
be track-walker or a priest"
"One of u.s." said George. ought to spend
the evening at the Lambs Club and look over
the different fellows between 81 and 12l. And
the queer part is that am not Lamb and
Peaches always likes to have me here at a din
ner party to carve the bird"
SO the next night at 8 I ran into Dorothy
C'Spark Plug'o Parker and we went places I'M
til go tired of her and landed ct the STAGE
door of the Broadhurst, hoping I could pick
up somebody, and it Harry Rosenthal who
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second floor front had and was exhibiting one
to Mrs. Moriarty. The latter read:
BELIEVE NICKY
IN HIDING HERE.

Bill had seen that just after o'clock. In
one way it was none of his business. Yet he
had felt that he didn't want Nicky to see it.
In his Own room this April night he sat con-
sidering what she had told him. He had
hunch-possibly wild one, he admitted-that
he was going TO play it, and at once.
Because" he unused, Mrs. Moriarty will
see that headline, too-and she strikes as
Sherlock Holmes of sorts herself"
That bunch at least was correct.
ct have a mind to call the police" Mrs. Mori-
arty was saying
But there's no warrant out for her." pro-
tested the second floor front.
well there ought to be-" announced Mrs.
Moriarty. ''Ill put it up to her in the morn
ing. And if, as I suspect, she is that Nicky
Judson-"
THE program she visioned was further post
poned, however for Nicky, arising at 7
the next morning. out OF the house before
Mrs. Moriarty realized it. She bought paper
her way to breakfast and discovered that
her pursuers were back on the scent.
All that remained was to explain that to
Bill. promise to repay him and then return to
Newfield to face the music
But Bill was not IN the shop when she got
there.
HE must have been in early" explained
Sam. HE left note saying that he's gone
out Of town to inspect job. He says he hopes
to be back some time this afternoon"
Nicky felt sunk. "But-but wanted to give
notice." she protested. Twelve got to leave
at once"
'Leave?" echoed Sam, astonished. But,
good grief, you can't go without seeing the
boss! Why, he'd give fits If I let you go,
miss. Besides, know he counted on your
being here He left note for you"
Nicky turned swiftly to her desk, found the
note
Dear Miss Jones: I'm leaving you and Sam
in charge today. I know you can handle the
office end perfectly
Perhaps, in case you have not seen the
papers, I'd better warn you that they are on
your trail again. But don't worry.
Yours very truly,
BILL MONSTERS"
Nicky read it twice and then became con-
scious of Sans anxious scrutiny
IN stay until he comes back, anyway" she
promised
But she knew in her heart that she wouldn't
have left Boston without seeing Bill, note or
no note
The shop began to function, following its
daily routine. Nicky. playing her part in this,
refused steadfastIy to think of the morrow
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~ this occasion I was taking one of
my sitting-up exercises, which hardly
ever last less than AZ hours, and in
fact, hold unofficial record of
60 hours at the Friars' Club, but it
has never been allowed by the A A. u, because
it was done in dinner clothes, and the only
people that get up in such costumes are those
who are called on for speeches. I might state
four undressing facts in connection with this
Friars' Club sitting: One that five of the
best music writers in New York played their
latest stuff, and it all sounded good cat the
time); another was that I and whoever hap
pened to be with me at the moment ordered
five meals and rejected them as fast as they
were brought in; the third was that in this era
they had kind of silly traffic laws in New York
(not that that diiferentiates the era from any
other eTa). the code being that your car could
face east for IL hours and then must face west
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The Woman Who Makes Good
WOODWARD.
Of
highest paid business in

to work for nothing, begin, II you can,
in store where clothes are expensive
Such places are always taking learners
and there are several Of them In all big
cities.
There is one way better than either
OF these two, but it is impossible except
to few girls. That Is to get work in
one of the wholesale houses in New
York which design clothes and sell them
to big stores all over the country. There
are only three or four such establish
ment; so it's hard to get such a Job.
But this is the perfect method to learn
designing because these houses not only
import expensive clothes from Paris, but
they themselves design a great many.
Most dresSmaking establishments do not
design clothes: they merely make them.
You will ask then, why suggest that
you get job in good dreSsmaking
establishment. Because you cannot de-
sign clothes unless you know the details
OF making them. You may never be-
come good dressmaker yourself, but
you must know how dressmakers work
in every detail.
If you are a good dressmaker In addi-
ton to being good designer, there is a
fourth method which you may use; that
Is, to make clothes for people you
know, and SO, bit by bit. build up a bus
mess. For the girl who is both a good
designer and good dressmaker this
is easy If she has a large circle of
friends. But Observation-Disclosures way
you choose-if you work on ugly clothes
or in place where slipshod work Is
done, you will learn nothing and merely
ruin your talent.
tb Girls So having problems IN connection With
care OF this paper. for her personal advice.
Copyright. 1879
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mover the following is formula given
by the United States Government
through the State agricultural colleges:
One quart benzol, one and one half
pints fusel oil and one ard one half
pints chloroform. Apply mix re to wood
and allow to stand for a few minutes
until varnish is softened. Remove var
nish, using steel wool, or putty knife
Repeat until all varnish is removed
Use this mixture where there is no
fire and where there is good ventilation
as it Is inf1ammable and contains an
anesthetic. Note all precautions.
They must be taken.
1t is wise to do the work out of
doors. Never work in a kitchen when
the stove is going, nor in the cellar
when there is a furnace fire, nor any
place where gas is burning. Wear
gloves. Do not allow the hands to
come in contact with any paint or
varniSh remover.
If the wood is scraped, work with
the grain of the wood and be sure the
scraper has an even edge and does
not gouge as you work. Wash the
woodwork well, sandpaper any rough
places. There are sure to be some. Use
a very fine sandpaper. Wash the wood
after using it. Allow it to get per-
fectly dry before applying the liquid
oil finish or the dull varnish. After
the woodwork Is ref1nished, any neces-
sary upholstery can be done.
(Copyrtght, 1931l
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MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.

sometimes even in the early 20s) to
hnd that they are underweignt and tiny
lines are becoming etched on their faces,
their skins are losing their clearness
and freshness and their hair Is losing
its sheen. First, weigh yourself to find
out If you are underweight, then try
to build up your weight TO as near nor
NAL as possible. Have a physical ex-
animation at least once a year to find
out how you stand on the health scale.
An ounce of prevention Is always worth
many pounds of cure in the realm of
general health, as well as that Of
beauty.
Second-At night take a warm soap
and-water bath. rinse in tepid water.
Dry and massage body with toilet alco-
hol. Scrub neck. feet and body well.
Battle armpits with salt water. At bed
time, when you brush your hair, be sure
to massage your scalp thoroughly. Use
the tips of your fingers and do not
merely rub the surface of the skin, but
move the scalp itself Brush your
teeth; use a simple mouth brush. If
necessary, brush your eyebrows with
olive oil or vaseline. II your skin is
inclined to be dry after the soap-and-
water washing, apply little skin cream
or cold cream. 1t should not be neces-
sary for you to leave creams on your
face overnight unless tiny wrinkles have
made their appearance. Use soothing
skin tonic. Your skin should not need
an astringent unless you have enlarged
pores or sluggish skin inclined to
blackheads. A mild lotion, such as
witch hazel, should be sufficient.
Stronger astringentS are for the older
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mild bleach. At bedtime sponge little
of the following lotion on neck and
shoulders and allow it to dry on the
skin: One ounce glycerin, l ounce per-
oxide, ounce cologne water, ounces
rose water. You may use liquid pow
der to camouflage the freckles when you
wear a formal or low-necked dress. (2)
If your eyes arc blue, choose becoming
shade of blue, such as wedgewocd tur-
bronze, nile and almond green are also
becoming, while pale yellow, oyster
white, orchid. pale blue, pale pink, dove
gray, warm brown, fawn, light orange,
greenish brown, blue, violet and beige
are other suitable colors for your type.
LOIS LEEDS.
Mrs. F. D. PLEASE send a self-ad-
dressed, stamped envelope and ask for
copy of my leaflets on dandruff and
falling hair and various shampoos and
rinSes; they will help you in detail with
your beauty problems. I have not the
space to reprint the directions again at
this time. LOIS LEEDS.
Attention, readers. Several of my
readers have written requesting leaflets
and have forgotten to inclose the neces-
sary addressed, stamped envelope
for mailing Please try again and re-
member the above rule so that I may
mail the material that you need.
LOIS LEEDS.
E. Graves: A gentleman. seeing my
answer to your QUESTION about blond
hair, thinks you may be his long-loSt
daughter. His initials are A. E. and he
is at present in Canada, having re-
turned from Far Northern trip. He
requests that you send me your address
if you are his daught:r or send 1t to
the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg,
Canada. LOIS LEEDS.
Health and Beauty Program.
Dear Miss Leeds: have enjoyed
your health and beauty chats for the
last year and have gained much help
from them. I have never taken any
particular care of my beauty or health
because it never seemed necessary, as
am considered quite pretty, but after
reading several of your chats where you
stress the fact than an ounce of preven-
ton is worth many pounds Of cure and
urge every one to follow health and
beauty program and 50 retain and pre-
serve ones health and beauty I have
concluded that your plan is very wise
one. Will you please outline general
health and beauty program for me and
publish it in your beauty column as
soon as you can, as am anxious to
start following your advice right away.
Thanking you again for the many help
full suggestions that you have given me
previously, I am, gratefully yours.
WORKING GIRL.
Answer am so glad that you have
decided to follow a regular beauty and
health program and not neglect your
self just because you are considered
pretty. Girls are SO apt TO let things
go and then wake up in the late EOS
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FOOD PROBLEMS
BY SALLY MONROE.
Sweet Potatoes.


How do you candy sweet potatoes?"
That is question asked many times.
For many women find it very difficult
to candy sweet potatoes so that they
are really rich and candied, not just
soft and sticky.
1t is not difficult to candy them, if
you remember one or two things One
is that it takes time. Another is that
it takes plenty of butter and sugar.
There are two ways. One is to slice
the potatoes, after they have been boiled
and peeled, into a casserole, putting
plenty Of brown or white sugar and but
ter between the slices, with a sprinkling
of pepper and salt. A little hot water
should be added and the potatoes
should then be baked in the oven.
The other way is to cook the potatoes
on top of the stove in a frying pan.
This is quicker way. Put the pota-
toes, sliced, in pan in which there is
plenty of hot butter. Use brown or
white sugar. sprinkling it over the sliced
potatoes. Turn them often, and let
them brown slowly and thoroughly,
adding butter as you need to, which
may be frequently.
The potatoes must be cooked thor
oughly, SO that they are brown and rich
and crusty, as well as sugary and sweet
all the way through. You must keep
turning the heat up and down so that
the butter and sugar won't burn, and
you must use plenty of butter.
Another good way of cooking sweet
potatoes is to bake them, cut them in
half, and then remove the inSides. This
should be mashed with butter and
paprika and salt, and returned to the
potato skin, sprinkled with buttered
crumbs, and Drowned. Or else mix the
inside of the potato with minced parsley
and butter and return to the skins, but
don't brown. Just slip them in the
oven, covered with cloth, long enough
to heat through again if they nave be-
gun to cool off.
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Everyday Psychology
Play and Work.

In a restaurant the other day over
heard two men talking earnestly about
the nuts" in a certain laboratory. The
point under discussion was that the
majority Of these highly endowed men
cared nothing about the salaries they
received, that they might all receive
greater rewards If they went in for
commercial work. But these nuts"
wanted only to work by themselves for
"the play there was in it,
What is play? What is WORK? The
difference is a state of mind. If the
play attitude could be injected into our
daily work there would be no strikes,
no great labor overturns.
Herbert Spencer, the famous British
philosopher of the last century, said
that play is a release of surplus energy.
There's truth in that theory, atteSted
by the fact that the nuts" who play
at their work are the very ones who
make the big advances in their respec-
tive fields of labor. They are those
who are able to release energies that
the average worker knows nothing
about. Einstein and Edison are good
examples of men with more than aver
age energy.
According to G. Stanley Hall, one of
Americas foremost psychologists, play
is Renaissance of the past We all
tend to play at the same occupations
that our ancient ancestors worked at.
Fishing is about the oldest of occupa-
tons, hunting is a close second. While
these are matters of work for some
people, they are matters of play for
many more. When fish and game are
gone, who knows but that bricklaying
may become sport?
Copyright, 1881
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Milk Vegetable Soups.

Milk-vegetable soups are made from
cooked vegetables chopped or sliced, and
whole or skim milk slightly thickened.
The vegetables may be asparagus, peas,
beans of various kinds, celery, potatoes,
turnips, carrots, spinach, onions, corn,
cabbage, or almost any other vegetable
Some of these are good in combination,
such as potatoes and onions, potatoes
and turnips, or turnips and carrots. To
make the soup, thicken two cupfuls of
milk with one tablespoonful of flour or
less, the same as for white sauce. Add
one tablespoonful of butter, salt to
taste, and two-thirds cupful of cooked
vegetables finely chopped, mashed, or
strained. If the vegetable used is
starchy, use less flour, or thin the soup
with milk. The vegetables should be
finely chopped, mashed or strained so
that they will blend well with the
thickened milk.
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LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPE.

Sattiday morning me and pop was
eating brekflst, and saw him looking
at my hair, me thinking, Heck, I did
ent git it cut yet. And pop sed, This
is the last call. young man. When I
arrive home this evening expect you
floor mop, or elts there's going to be
war, and victory is always on the side
of the strongest army, he sed.
Meening him, and thaWt, I'm going
around and get it cut rite away, and
then it will be all did and I wont have
anything to worry about all the rest of
the day. I amt going to stop for any,
thing, I Sed.
And as soon as I finished my brek-
fist started to go around to the bar
bers, and Pubs Simkins and Sid Hunt
was standing around the lam post hav-
ing a fearse argewment about some
thing, Sid saying, Hay, Benny, come
here a minnit, we want to ask you
something, and Pubs saying, All rite,
let's leeve him be the Judge.
got to go rite around to the barber
shop, 1 Sed.
WITCH 1 kepp on doing, missing a
swell chance to be a Judge, and 2
ladies was trying to keep 2 little dogs
from biting each other down at the
corner, the ladies making more noi-e
than the dogs, and kepp rite on going
without hardly even looking around,
thinking, I've made up my mind now
and I'm going to do it.
And when 1 got pritty neer to the
avenue some men was chopping down
tree and it was going to fall any
minnit. and about 5 of the fellows was
jumping around all excited waiting for
it to go over and yelling, There she
goes, she's going now, and different
things, and I .kepp on going pass,
wawking e little slower to give the tree
a chance TO go over if it wunted to.
Wich it dident, and I got to the bar
Der shop and heer the door was locked
and there was home made sine say
ing, Closed for q few days on account
OF alterations.
Me thinking, G, herray, I proberly
wont half to get it cut till some time
next week, and I've did my duty just
a same.
Being a CRATE feeling, and I quick
ran back just in time to see the tree go
over with swell bang.
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place, I think that Polly's outfit is
smart. 1t has all the elements Of good
style now-jacket, short sleeves, blouse
Of contrasting color.
But you have made it almost impos-
sible for her ever to feel comfortable in
that outfit. Every time she sees her.
self in the glass she will say. I wonder
whether every one knows this is made
over She did a clever thing in work.
ing out this scheme and you have for
ever destroyd her pleasure in it."
Sally objected. But, Mrs. Page, you
told us always to tell the truth and
said what 1 thought" Nancy stopped
her then and there. "At our next meet
ing. girls, I am going to talk to you
about freedom of expression. You need
it. am disappointed in you, today"
(Copyright, 1919
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ing; that is, how to make a dress from
a picture without a pattern. There are
excellent schools all over the United
States which teach fashion designing.
If their graduates have talent they
usually can get a job without much
trouble. But it takes money to do this,
and it takes a little time. Many high
schools now have courses in designing
You can begin with these-and they will
show whether you really have talent
or not.
For the girl who has neither money
nor time another way is best That is
to get a job as a learner or beginner
In fine dreSsmaking establishment. 1t
won't do you much good to work in an
ordinary place You will not learn any,
thing about elegant clothes and you
will net learn the fastidious methods of
finishing which are such an important
part of fire clothes. Even if you have
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woman whose skin Is thicker and needs
stimulation.
Third-On arising. take from 10 to
20 minutes for exercises, including
stretching. Take friction bath with a
dry towel or a tepid shower and brisk
rundown. Use mouth wash. Pat toilet
water under armpits. Brush hair and
massage scalp and arrange couture.
Cleanse the face and pat witch-hazel
on face and neck. Apply thin film of
cold cream or vanishing cream and dust
with face powder. Use the merest trace
of rouge, if necessary. If you give your
face and neck few minutes massage
with ice water or piece of ice wrapped
in towel, you will need no extra color
ing unless your skin is of the sallow or
pale type. Brush your eyebrows into
place and remove face powder from
eyelaShes.
Fourth-At noontime remove make.
up from face with cleansing cream.
Pat on witch-hazel and apply fresh
face powder.
Fifth-Be sure to have sufficient sleep,
rest and recreation out of doors regu-
larly. LOIS LEEDS.
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NANCY PAGE
Good Taste Girls Are
Scolded by Nancy.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

Nancy came into the meeting Of the
Good Taste Girls Club a trife late.
She was just in time to hear Sally say
to Polly. well, any one would know
that was a made-over dress. My mother
told me / would have to wear my big
sisters dress after she had made it over
and told her nothing doing and 1
not in the market for cast-off, and I
was just as good as my older sister"
Sally had a little air of Dragging as
she repeated her impudent remark to
her mother Most of the girls nodded
in approval of Sally's speech. Nancy