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short pieces of plain toothpicks.
Manipulate seeded raisins to form
pointed ears and fasten with picks.
String raisins on picks to form arms,
legs and tail. Form features and
outline body and other parts with
cream cheese or mayonnaise from a
pastry gun or paper cone. Seat the
finished Halloween cat on square
or portion of apricot gelatin salad,
also outlined for greater decorative
ness with ribboned cheese or may
onnaise. Serve on a background of
salad greens.
Orange sections and whole ripe
olives make another Halloween
salad, simple as you could ask, and
in the natural colorings of All Saints
eve decorations. Arrange whole sec
lions of large oranges, from which
all membrane has been stripped, in
an overlapping row on each gar
nished salad plate. Marinate ripe
olives in French dressing as they
chill. and scatter over the arrange
ment of orange sections. Sprinkle
with paprika. Serve with a piquant
French dressing.
Dessert might consist of orange
ice, served from a bowl wrapped in
black paper. with a coconut cake
sporting a Jack O. Lantern on top.
Or tiny pumpkin pies or mince pies
would be good-and you could make
goblin faces on top of each one with
whipped cream. A mixture OF fresh
fruits, soaked in rum or kirsch and
served in a bowl sunk into a hol-
lowed-out pumpkin, would also be
delicious and bit unusual. Little
cakes iced with orange colored icing
would go nicely with the fruit.
AS for your beverage. that. too.
should stick to the spirit of the
occasion. If you like hot drinks
try mulled cider or hot buttered
rum. For less potent brew serve
the orange Halloween punch, for
which we are giving you the recipe.
If you choose a cold fruit punch
or ginger ale punch, use orange
water ice to chill it rather than
just plain ice.
ORANGE HALLOWEEN PUNCH.
pint cider.
Il cup brown sugar.
= cup graduated sugar.
2 Pinch pieces of stick cinnamon.
whole cloves.
quart orange juice.
l cup lemon juice.
Orange and lemon slices.
Boil cider, brown and graduated
sugar, cinnamon and cloves for five
minutes. Add orange and lemon
juice, which have been heated just
to boiling point. Garnish with
orange and lemon slices. Serve in
a pottery bowl and mugs.
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ABoy of9
Is LOvable
Nuisance
Privilege to Help
Him Grow into
A Fine Man
BY ANGELO PATRI.

What can I expect from a boy
years old? I don't want to ask toe
much and I certainly don't want
to ask too little"
I expect a varied and active day
with a 9-year-old boy. First, he il
not going to wash himself to the
| family standard of cleanliness.
expect to find gray tint behind his
ears, above his wrists and all ovel
his hands. His nails will have rims
He went think of taking a bath or
of changing his clothes. He will be
untidy and noisy, selfish in the use
of family belongings. He will dislike
chores, school, church and any form
Of discipline.
He will be hungry most of the
time. From his mothers point of
view, his eating habits will be awful.
He is one-dish man and the dish
is rarely what his mother would
select. Steak. no vegetables. Dessert,
no dinner. Hot dogs with lots Of
mustard. plenty of them, and the
kraut in the waste can.
His manners will be noticeable
mainly because Of their absence.
His voice will be loud, louder. loud
est. His loyalty and affection will
be measureless once they are be-
slowed
And now it would be we'll to con-
slider what one is to do for this be-
loved nuisance. He is the promise
of fine man and it is our privilege
to help him accomplish his fulfill
ment. So we begin where he begins,
in the morning.
He washes himself, dresses, puts
his room in readiness for cleaning
and bedmaking Then he reports to
his mother for inspection. She
looks him over carefully. speaks well
of the effort he has made and indi-
Gates how he can amend it. She
inspects his room and has him make
good any oversight in the matter OF
picking up clothes, opening windows
and turning back bedclothes. She
looks to see whether or not he took
care of his soap, towel and washrag.
Then she gives him his good break
fast and serves 1t with words OF
appreciation for his good deeds-IF
possible.
He goes off to school in the best
possible humor. He returns for lunch
to find somebody, preferably his
mother waiting for him with good
word and a lunch that will not leave
him heavy and dull for the after
noon, but one that will fill him with
q comforting warmth and a feeling
of renewed strength. He is work.
ing citizen and needs food.
When he gets home in the after
noon there is another welcome, a
listening ear for his stories of trou-
BILE or joy and words of encour-
agement and admonition. A chore
awaits his attention. Then play,
free and uninterrupted, until the call
for the evening meal. Give him
enough time to wash himself and to
make presentable appearance at
the table.
After supper, father ought to take
him on for few minutes, talk to
him and listen to him talk. Then
homework in a quiet room. When
it is finished, and it should take no
more than half an hour, father or
mother ought to look it over Now a
little space for the quiet enjoyment
of home before bedtime prepare
tons. These include a bath and
thorough grooming so as to be clean
for the morning. Then prayers,
lights out and sleep.
There is no more rewarding labor
than that entailed in caring for a
little boy.
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By PATRICIA LINDSAY.

If the United States has become
the fashion center of the world. ev-
cry American woman must at once
embrace a hip-reducing. midriff-
SHINING exercise program to keep
in the fashion race.
Yes, the boyish hip contour has
become a settled note, and none
of us should be dismayed at that
news, for no one can deny that the
most beautiful line of the feminine
form is the softly curving one from
the waist down the thigh to the
knee. If that line grows bulgy, fig
ure beauty Is lost!
Sitting many hours in chairs and
cars is likely to make rear hip
muscles grow soft and spread, and
although walking does help to keep
these hip muscles firm. one has to
walk at least 3 miles each day to
get the same results that specific
calisthenics accomplish in 20 min
utes day. SO don't sit, exercise!
And do not avoid stair climbing.
Walk upstairs with spring in your
step as if the muscles of your legs
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By BARONESS PIANTONI.

Dainty handkerches are the pride Of discerning woman Our
the today will only finish fine
finishing the show pillow
Measuring u inch 1 inches
edgng quick crochet Diagram for the
included
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diagram for insertion.
Address orders the Needle
Editor Of Evening Star.
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Hip Control Important!
Exercise Is Essential to Keep
Those Slim, Boyish Contours

and thighs are willing and eager to
carry you up. Come down with poise
and don't look as if you expect to
trip on each stair and tumble down!
Remember that food control has
a great deal to do with hip control.
If you overeat you grow lethargic
and haven't the will to move about
as much as you should, so naturally
the pounds settle around your mid
riff and hips.
Dancing helps to keep thigh
muscles in trim and legs slim. Dance
whenever you can with partner
and at other times by yourself about
Kick high and dip and pretend you
are Irene Castle or Ginger Rogers.
Dancing also keeps you graceful.
When you pick up things about
the house stoop through the thighs
by bending your body over from the
waist. That is good hip-condition-
ing exercise. One famous actress
scatters pillow feathers about the
room and stoops down countless
times to pick them up.
Resolve to exercise. to walk, to
roll, to bump. You can reduce your
hips and thighs through exercise if
you are persistent. Don't expect re-
fashioning to take place in weeks
time-it will take a month or two
of diligent exercising to get your
body contoured in pleasing lines.
But how fine one feels to slip into
dress two sizes smaller and to walk
lightly instead of jerking along on
overweighted limbs!
Hip-reducing exercises are
available upon request if you ini
close a sef-addressed, stamped
(3-cenD envelope to cover post
age cost. Address Miss LINDSAY
care Of this paper.
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Halloween Refreshments Should Reflect the Spirit of the Occasion
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FROM THE MEMO PAD:

FROM THE MEMO PAD:
Complete accessories for amateur
and professional flower arrangers
are nicely packaged in a box dec
Grated with green and white floral
designs. The accessories include
such items as pincushi0n flower
holders in all shapes and sizes, wire
or stem cutting shears, chicken wire
and a spray for freshening flowers.
The holders are especially useful, as
flowers can be placed at any desired
angle, getting away from the set
look" which the old-fashioned hold
ers presented. ..
A beautiful and unusual lamp has
q metal base supporting a glass bowl
which contains a plastic flower that
is natural looking and also indie
structible in water. Placed on hall
table the lamp gives startlingly
lovely effect.
While applying makeup or comb
ing your hair wear a cape made Of
soft rubber fabric with a rubber
pocket for holding puff, hairpins
or comb. 1t comes in pastel colors
and is packed in a transparent util-
Two-tone elastic suspenders with
matching metal grips are fine for
holding up juniors snow suit or
leggings Wearing these he will con-
slider himself quite "grown-up."
Travel in queens style" with
fitted case made of black rayon
material, piped and lined in pink.
The bottles and jars are all fitted
with cloisonne tops. There is another
lovely bottle fitted kit designed as
miniature dressing table. 1t comes
in pink taffeta with blue polka dots
and its jars also have cloisonne
tops. -.
A good gift for the baby is a
quilted satin box containing lap
pad, bunny hot-water bottle, rub
in either pink or blue and is wrapped
in cellophane.
Whole grain wheat bread that
contains just enough white flour 20
hold it together comes in loaves
of all sizes and in either a sliced
or unsliced version. You might try
with this new and delicious
cocktail marmalade made with
bananas, oranges, pineapples, lemons
and fruit juices.
The next time you have fish dress
1t up" with a sauce made with
Danish fishkesennep fish mustard).
1t is an imported product that can
still be obtained.
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P1Cllty Va Aiio vi Aoh ~
back them up You may choose
all sorts of paper equipment, ap-
propriately decorated and colored;
you may use orange and black Gel
lophane to make original effects OF
Your own. Most of the big markets
are surrounded by country people
selling huge punches of gorgeous
glad to bring you some corn stalks,
too, if you give them the order in
advance. With these massed in
corners and against walls, you have
a perfect basic background to en-
bellish further as you please.
The traditional pumpkins. cut
Into grinning Jack oLanterns, are
always effective, either on the man.
tel pieces, or used as a table CEN
terpiece At one party year or
so ago, the hostess used small pump
kins, with the light shining through
their carved faces, set on each step
of the staircase leading to the rec
reation room. A huge Jack oLan-
tern was perched over the stone
ridge above the front door, lighted
by a bulb swung on cord out of
the window. If you have two mar
row glass windows on each side of
your front door, you might set
lighted pumpkins just inside of each
one, to put the guests into the
proper frame of mind as they ar
rive. Or. if you live in the coun-
try, and have gate posts at the en-
trance to your house, put pump
kin on each one of these for excel
lent effect.
Foods should be simple and carry
out the orange and black color
scheme as much as possible. One
hot dish, a salad, hot rolls, and
dessert, with a punch and plenty OF
coffee would be a good base upon
which to work out menu. II the
party is small you might choose a
cheese souffle, or cheese fondue for
the hot dish For larger group, a
big kettle of Irish stew, with plenty
Of carrots in it, to be poured over
split. hot biscuits of mammoth size
would be good. Or witches caul-
dron of frankfurters could be bub-
bling away on a disguised portable
heater, with plenty of toasted rolls
and mustard for the guests to make
their own dogs"
A clever Halloween arrangement
which should create much hilarity
among guests is one of black cats
made of ripe olives and raisins, Sit
ting astride a golden, apricot PURGE
gelatin salad. Salads should be in
dividual of whatever shape desired
large enough to support a black cat
Of ripe olive body and head with a
raisin arm raised in greeting.
Fasten together for tummy and
head two good-sized ripe olives with
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Best Cake Results

For best results, eggs and shorten
ing for a cake should be at room
temperature. Sugar stirs more cas-
lily into soft shortening. Shortening
and sugar are creamed together IN
til the mixture becomes smooth and
soft as very thick cream-an impor-
tant step in making a cake The
idea in dreaming is to dissolve the
sugar, If possible.
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Bx BARBARA BELL.

The simplicity and good lines OF
this little frock make it becoming
to all sizes of youngsters. It's be-
coming to round little 6-year -olds
In the baby class. 1t takes from
high-and-mighty eighth graders any
suggestion of lanky gawkiness.
There is truly magic in the high
cut. fitted waistline with a few
gathers above the points in 'front.'
In the f1ared skirt and the shallow
neckline. Whatever age your school,
girl daughter now is, she'll look very
cute and feel very happy In a frock
like this
A year-round style that you'll
want to repeat for every season of
the year, design No. 1858 is
charming and practical, right now,
In wool plaid, flannel, corduroy or
challis The easy pattern includes
q step-by-step sew chart.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1858
Is designed for sizes 6, s, 10, IL and
IA years. Size 8 requires IL yards
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Plan Kitchen Arrangement
To Use Minimum Space
In Efficient Manner
French Sash Curtains Designed
To Admit Light Yet Insure
The Privacy of Interior
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
have house for g. by TO- kitchen Is possible to
tell
equipment should be arranged for efficiency and Of open' What
S material for work table tops?
D. s. A.
large a kitchen these days The
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width into three panels. Can you
help me with any suggestions?
L. ]. B.
Answer:
You may make a very lovely
piece of furniture with this If
you have enough material, and even
if you run short you might combine
it with material of the plain color
Of the background. Select three large
floral sections for the three
cushions and three matching ones
for the back section. Use the small
floral design for the arms, both in
side and out, and select the border
for the boxing of the back, the Sec
ton below the seat cushions, and,
possibly, to edge the cushions. II
you plan this beforehand you will
find that the use of the formal
border to inclose the big design
will give pattern to the whole thing.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
What shall I do about a hall,
living room and dining room which
I do not wish to paper alike. out
which are visible from the front
door?
H. G.
Answer:
Select one pattern that you want
very much and then choose a PLAIN
color and a stripe to 60 with 1t.
Put the pattern on the hall with
the stripe and the plain on each
side, or the plain in the hall with
the stripe and the pattern on each
side. Garry out the woodwork in
the same tone in all three rooms
and you will get continuity with
out monotony.
Address queries on home deco
ration and similar problems to
Margaret NOVEL;, in care of The
Evening Star. For personal re-
plies, include stamped, self
addressed envelope. Other ques-
tions will be answered in the
column as quickly as space per-
mits.
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When Cooking Cabbage

Broccoli, onions and cabbage give
off an unpleasant odor while cook
ing. To prevent this, cook the vege-
tables uncovered and lay two pieces
Of bread on the water.
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for kitchen these days. The main
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M2&x;zM4/

Those stepchildren Of town wear,
the single breasted suits, are staging
slight rebellion which shows every
sign of developing into what Is
known as a comeback. Single
breasted styles, long pushed aside by
the double-breasted coats, are being
favored by the businessman, who
likes them in cheviot and in blue. E.
Three-button types are the &C
cepted ones, but those with four
buttons are considered newer and,
in many cases, better looking. &.
incidentally, the campus cowboys
are buttoning the top button now
adays-a slight variation that can
easily work itself into a full-grown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
informally Is the Keynote
Of Food and Decoration
For 'Spooky' Parties
Traditional Orange and Black
Should Dominate the Scene;
Use Pumpkins Effectively
By BETSY CASWELL,
Woman's Editor.

Halloween parties the gayest and most informal Of
the traditional black
spirits of all
the pitch of enthusiasm Another beauty about
entertaining Halloween that and MUST
full Of
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lOea Is 10 get your WoIAilS CcAcciS D
grouped together with only a few
steps between. Starting from the
back door, place along one wall the
icebox, table with cupboards above
and below, sink with window above
and cupboard below, and another
table with cupboards above and
below. On the other side near the
dining room door have a table with
bins below, followed by stove and
preparation table for cooking with
utensils below and materials above.
This brings you around to the back
door again. Food coming in the
back door is placed quickly in the
refrigerator Dishes washed in the
sink go in the cupboards on that
side. Food prepared on the left
side of the stove is cooked and
served on the right at the entrance
to dining room. This Is one Of the
simplest and best arrangements. AS
for your last question, there are
many good materials for table tops.
Among the most attractive and i'm
perishable ones are the colored
pressed-boards which stand water
and acids and are too tough to be
cut. However, there are also monel
metal, porcelain, stainless steel,
scrubbed wood, linoleum and rubber
products and innumerable others
which all have their good points.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
Can you tell me what a French
sash curtain is and how I would ar
range one from my bedroom onto an
upstairs porch?
G..
Answer-This is usually q sheer
silk net or similar material used for
a curtain and placed one-third Of
the way down on q window or
French doors. Above this may be
another similar one which drops
from the top Of the window to sew
eral inches below the first curtain,
or it may be shaped valance with
side draperies. This arrangement
is so that the top curtain may be
drawn back to let in sunlight. while
the lower one, at breast height. gives
privacy. If the valance and side
drapery are used they remain in
place and merely dress the window,
while the two-thirds curtain pre-
vents an interior view from the
street.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
Is there any difference between
cement and concrete? I hnd work.
men speak Of either one and seem
to mean the same thing.
Advertisement is one Of the in
gradients Of concrete and acts as
the binder which holds the mixture
together. Concrete made of cement,
sand and stone is called stone con-
crete. When made with cinders
rather than stone, it Is called cinder
concrete. The strength and length
of life Of the concrete depends on
the type Of aggregate and the
amount of cement and water used.
Cement is merely the binding agent
and takes up little OF the bulk.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
purchased enough of the flower
paneled material of my living room
curtains to slip-cover the sofa. but
now 1 am at loss to make them
so that they will not be hit and
miss" pattern. This material has a
large floral spot with small one
below it and then there is a formal
decorative stripe which sets of the
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of 54-inch material without nap; 13a
yards braid to trim.

Are you wishing you could sew?
Wishing you could create new and
individual dresses, that fit to per-
fection-out of the beautiful fabrics
now Haunted in the shops? You
can sew! Just try it! Send IS cents
for the New Fall and Winter
Fashion Book! Pick your patterns!
Pick up your shears and start!
La gaceta., 1940-09-21
PARA LA MUJER DEL HOQRR
.1e tcs e1.avos y en- la fundaci6n
del Estado Checoeetovaco.

5e tcs eg.avos y en- la fundaci6l
del Estado Checoee1ovaco.
La opinion politica def Pre.i
c'enaa Ranes eta inttnameu5;
ccnec5a3a a-n la de su amigo J
maestro Msssaryk. Cree profua
damsnts en- los principles hui.
m~anitarios, 1nicos sobre hos que
So puede ~construir una nueva
Europa, progresiva democratica
y dibre. En- varios libros Y TO.
1l@etoGd1a publicado sus opinio-
mes politicas. La entera vida del
DR.. Benes ha sido d:dicada no
solo al servicio de su pueblo Y de
su pals, sine tambien a organi-
Ear una Europa mejOr Y mas
estable. Las considerations e.
goistas no tjenen sitio nj lugar
en- su noble ideali1mo, ell que
ha sido dtrigido a le-
vantar la polftica a la 6ignidad
&c ciencia. La subyugaci6nl de
Checaeslovaquia bajo la tirania
hitleriana, fue para ell DIR, Be-
mes una espantosa traged.a. Por
largo tempo no parecia sine que
no s0lo Checoeslovaco5 sino la
fe en- Europa y en- la libertad te-
MIA que ser S~acrificada al Mo-
HOch del hitlerismo. En- los des-
graciados dia1 negros pDr los
que ell pals Checoeslovaco ha pa
sado, Ell DR.. BeHes permaneci6
fisl a su fe y a Sus ideales. Los
successes mundiales lie han conce-
dido la recompensa marecida.
FL deStinO Y la horrible suerte
acaecida al pueblo Checoeslova-
co y, desde entonces q otros pc
cuehos estsdos, ha probado am
plia Y conclusivamente de que
no es possible compromise algu-
no cen las ideas de Hitler y que
ia Europa entera esta destina-
da a la anarquia mas desenfre-
NADIA a menos de que vuslva a
los sanos principles por los que
q DIR, Benes luch6 siempre.
La gaceta., 1940-09-21
LOS HAN RE-
TIRADO SU UUTIMATUM

Hong Kong, sep. 21.--Los ja-
poneses han retirado su ultima
tum de 72 horas al gobierno de
la Undo China y este ha venido a
calmar un tanto la Situaci6n.
Las negociaoiones entire el almi-
rante Decoux y los nipones sc
han reanudado. Toxic pide Sc le
permitan pasar de 100000 a 800
900 hombres; pero 81 almirante
insiste Ell que Ell ejercito invasor
no pase de rs, 900.
Desean tambien los jappne-
ses, que niegan Ell punto del ulti-
matuhm, eStablecer bases haNa-
les y de aviaci6n.
SabeSe que ell general Chang
Icontipua concentrando tropas &
10 largo de las f~ronteras de Yur
nan y Kwangsi, con ordenes pa
ra cruzar a Undo China tan Tue
go los nipones comiencen a DIES
embarcar tropas.
Buques de la escuadra japo
Mesa han penetrado en- la bahi;
de Tonking, con Ell fin de au
mentar Ell presionamiento.