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nasty and II makes her nervous.
No wonder she's awkward
sometimes"
"Sometimes!" Mrs. Harper re-
peated scornfully. She added
suddenly, "See here. young wo-
man, are you suggesting that I'm
White Queen, nothing but an
old card? You'll find I'm real
enough, your head will come off
fast enough If complain about
you to DR.. Patterson"
81 doubt it," Candace said
calmly. "I'm a good nurse, l
have q good reputation in this
hospital. And you" She laugh
ed a little. The wicked old wo-
man really amused her. "You've
worn out about-a dozen specials
in two weeks. I think DR.. Pat
terson would know which of US
was at fault"
Mrs. Harper sighed. "I'm
afraid you're right" she admit
ted. Then she frightened. "As
a matter of fact I'm thinking of
letting my other specials 60 and
taking you on for full-time
duty"
Candace threw up her hands
in genuine horror. Human flesh
couldn't stand it," she said with
feeling.
The wrinkled old face looked
hurt. "See here, I'm not really
as bad as that. There are people
who are very fond of me. Take
my grandson Duffy for in
stance"
Candace groaned inwardly.
Dufresne Carter Harper was in
her opinion the worst plague
ever visited on manor rather,
woman. But the old lady ador-
ed him, and there was no point
in actually hurting her. She said,
Mrs. Harper, / should have told
you before. I am asking to be
taken off your case"
"What?" she exclaimed aghast.
"Why?"
well, there's a gall bladder
case that I've been on from time
to time" Candace explained, ly-
ing easily; they're going to OPP
crate finally. I'd like to be with
the case then. It's interesting to
be able to follow one through
like that"
Mrs. Harper said Indignantly,
my case isn't interesting, / sup
poser"
Candace grinned. "There are
people going out working every
day with things lot worse than
an already healed wound on a
finger where a benign tumor's
been cut out" she said good ma
turedly. "You could be out and
around If you wanted to be-"
Mrs. Harper demanded, out
ragged, why would I stay here
in this hole If could be out of
it,"
II don't know" Candace said,
unless you like the attention
being thought sick earns you.
Unless you like being fused
over"
well, l never" Mrs. Harper
said. Then she smiled too, weak
ly. "You win. You're right part
ly at least. It's Duffy" she ad-
mitted. "He races around SO, that
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MRS. HARPER
CHAPTER Xxx

In her almost two years OF
private duty she had nursed
some testy patients, Candace re.
Elected. but there had been none
quite the equal Of this termagant
of a little old woman, Mrs. Har.
per.
She was at the moment clean
ing up the mess Mrs. Harper had
made by throwing q glass OF
orange juice at the floor nurse,
Miss Finch. She had just cleaned
up Finch, too-as far as possible,
that is, without the complete
bath that was the only thing that
really would do it.
Finch had orange juice all the
way from her cap and hair down
to her white brogans. Candace
had felt sorry for her, she was
50 upset and 50 terrified, but
though she had carefully con.
trolled the impulse she had felt
strongly like laughing, too.
Mrs. Harper demanded testify
from her bed, "Just why are
you smiling? Just what are you
thinking that's 80 funny?"
Candace Strengthened and ia
vored the furious old lady with
a most winning smile of candor
"Why, was just thinking that
the thing I really like about pri-
vate duty is that one meets
such nice people," she said.
Meaning me, /, suppose
Meaning I'm not nice. Young
woman, you're Impairment"
Candace opened her eyes
wide. But you would have
thought me impertinent if I'd
refused to answer" she pointed
out innocently.
Mrs. Harper snorted. "You
couldn't have told polite lie, ]
suppose?"
THAT never occurred to me, "
Candace said.
Mrs. Harper snorted again,
but more mildly. "You are i'm
pertinent. But it's all right, you
amuse me. like people with q
bit of gumption. That other lit
tie thing" she said contemp-
tuously, that comes practically
crawling on her belly in her
anxiety to please every time ]
ring"
Finch hasn't been nursing as
long as I have" Candace said.
"She hasn't yet learned, like
Alice, that lot of the White
Queens who 60 around yelling,
off with their heads!' are moth
ing but old cards anyway. She's
afraid Of you. And you just rang
for her to be unpleasant.
Certainly I'm entitled to have
20 minutes, in peace, for my
dinner? You had just had your
own dinner; you didn't need or
ange juice, you could certainly
have waited until got back
Finch Is busy enough without
you plaguing her with unneces-
sary things when you have your
own special to do them for you,
She knows you just do it to be
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CAREFUL sPENDER

GREAT FALLS, MOnt. = EX-
penses are soaring? Detective
Lieut.. Clarke Grady votes for
the negative.
A month ago he picked up q
long time-no-bath transient. He
had $225 in cash and checks.
After q free bath and shave, he
was turned loose.
Ten days later he was back.
This time he had $224.9O. Ora
dy talked him out Of Sill for
clean clothing, and sent him on.
Yesterday the master econo-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16

mist turned up again. unshaven
and unwashed. An inventory
revealed in three weeks he had
spent $3.50.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16

nasty and II makes her nervous.
No wonder she's awkward
sometimes"
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Rv Pepev Roberts

By Peggy Roberts
this runner is 10 inches wide and increases
panel equally suitable
forbe o living
envelope contains diagram
full directions. n
The washington IT, Station D. New York NJ
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Speciality Store Has
Its Gala Opening

Just for a moment we thought
there would be no report today on
the opening of a suburban store,
offspring Of one of Washington S
largest speciality shops. So great
were the crowds pouring into the
attractive new Bethesda branch yes
terday that fashion writer's almost
missed their chance to report on
the suave pastel interior, the fiat
tering indirect lighting and blond
wood furnishings.
1t would have been the fashion
writer's loss, too, had they been de-
prived OF the opportunity to COM
ment on the outstanding fall fashion
show competently directed and an
nounced by Mrs. Lillian Jay. The
show, which had the careful atten-
ton of several hundred feminine
spectators, included a wealth of new
college togs modelled by pert young
ladies who made them really believ-
able. There we're clothes for the
career girl, for the matron and for
the group whose present interest is
in maternity fashions. Smart cloth
coats in bright tones featured inter-
esting fur treatment; draped skirts
and number of the new peg tops"
appeared on smooth afternoon
frocks, many of them In a rich,
wearable new shade of purple, a
color, incidentally, to watch this
season.
The fashion show, one of the first
OF the season, indicated that clothes
will be suitable as we'll as becoming
and the modern surroundings in
which they were shown enhanced
their up-to-the-minute feeling.
"
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Manners
of the
Moment

1t is much more difficult to avoid
unWelcome visitors in a house than
1t is in an apartment. In an apart
ment, all you have to do is let the
bell ring. And if you have blackout
curtains, your visitor can't even see
whether you are at home or not.
But in a house there are other
things besides lights and doorbells
that give you away. Your arriving
visitor can see whether or not your
car is in the garage. OF course. now
you always have the excuse that you
chose to walk in order to save tires,
If you want to pretend you were out
when you weren't. But, also, your
presence is likely to be visible
through some window.
One of my friends has a ducking
signal. When she spots some one
coming up the walk whom she would
rather not see, she taps three times
on the radiator and falls fiat on
the floor. The tapping is supposed
to warn the rest of the family that
she Is ducking. They all are sup
posed to duck, too and to keep
absolutely quiet untlf the visitor has
gone. JEAN.
Evening star., 1942-08-05
More Use Should
Be Made Of
Cucumbers
May Be Cooked
As Well as
Eaten Rae
Rv Edith NJ. Barber

Cucumbers are so good and so
cheap at the moment that they de-
serve to be used. They may be the
ingredient Of a green salad or may
be treated by themselves with
French dressing and little onion, or
by the Pennsylvania Dutch method
of treating them with sour cream.
Philadelphians used to promote
the thesis that dressing of this sort
made cucumbers digestible to every
one. My Austrian friends like Gu
cumbers cut as thin as paper and
then mixed with vinegar, salt. sugar
and perhaps few other seasonings
and allowed to stand long enough
so that they will actually wilt.
Speaking of whiting, If you like
to put your cucumbers in salt water,
don't let them stay there longer
than half an hour, or they will lose
their crispness. Once we thought it
necessary to do this in order to make
the cucumbers crisp.
II you have never tried cooking
cucumbers you will have an expe-
rience If you serve them with Hol-
landaise, cheese or rich cream
sauce to which a few chives have
been added. Cucumbers may also
be baked and stuffed with mixed
bread crumbs and meat and they are
good scalloped.
STUFFED BAKED CUCUMBERs.
medium-siz cucumbers.
tablespoons butter or bacon fat.
tablespoon minced onion.
tablespoon minced green pepper
| l cup soft bread crumbs.
"a cup minced cooked ham or
other meat.
Salt, pepper
Wash cucumbers, cut In halves
lengthWise and boil in salted water
about 10 minutes, until flesh be-
gins to become tender. Melt butter
or bacon fat, add onion or green
pepper and cook minutes over low
heat. Add bread crumbs and ham
and season to taste with salt and
pepper. When cucumbers are al
most tender, drain and remove seeds.
Stuff with bread crumb mixture. dot
with butter or with minced bacon
and bake in moderately hot oven
400 degrees F., IS to 20 minutes
Yield: Six servings.
SCALLOPED CUCUMBERS,
4 to cucumbers.
cups well-seasoned cream sauce
tablespoons minced parsley.
tablespoons minced onions OF
chives.
p cup grated cheese.
Pare and cut cucumbers into quar-
ters. Cook in salted water until
tender. Drain and remove seeds
Dice and combine with cream sauce
Add parsley and onion or chives
Place In a creased baking dish
sprinkle with grated cheese and bake
In moderately hot oven 400 degree.
F. 10 to Is minutes until cheese
melts. Yield: Six servings.
Evening star., 1942-08-05
How to Remove
Excess Pads
From Knee
Can Be Banished
With Proper
Exercising
By Patricia Lindsay

AS a girl natures she NAV be
conscious of lump of flesh form
ing on the inner side of her knee.
This is natural. but it can be ban
lshed through proper exercising and
Kept to the minimum. Every woman
desires to have nice looking legs for
brief sports clothes, such as culottes
shorts and bathing suits, do expose
them several months of the year.
One Of the best movements is
the old-fashioned cycling In mid
air. One lies on the back on the
floor and brings legs high into the
air and holding them there (by
supporting hips with hands, a rapid
pedaling movement is practical. The
more rapid the movement and the
further you stretch your legs in the
air the more benefit is derived.
Exercise III.
Walk about the room every day
first on the outside OF the feet
(without shoes, then on the inside
OF the feet. II you do this before
long mirror you will see your knees
Strengthening miraculously. Botr
exercises are difficult to do but
they are corrective for knee fat
bowlegs and knockknees.
Exercise III.
For at least five minutes each
day do this: Stand, holding on thu
back Of a straight chair. Pull
abdomen in and up, push heat
back so 1t is nicely balanced or
the spine. Then kick out righ
leg forcefully. IF you can heal
your knee crack-so much tn,
better. Without resting your foo
on the floor continue to kick you
leg out and bend the knee to rela,
it. When right leg is tired kicl
left leg.
Once q day scrub your knees with
brush and hot water in which /
dissolved EPSON salts. You coult
do this Immediately after takinf
your bath while you are still II
the tub. This helps to reduce fatt,
knees. "a
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Biscuits

Biscuits
To have biscuits with nice brown
crust. brush them with q pastry
brush which has been dipped in
milk.
Evening star., 1942-08-05

'Fads' and Extravaganza
Taboo in Fashion Today
Fur Stacks, for Example, Are
A Very Recent 'Brainstorm';
Other Modes Make Sense
By Helen Vosf

When the
thing
remember the
all
incomplete.
Although both important
the more obvious manifestations Of the wars influence
clothes What really interesting
little touches which tie directly
the recently introduced styles publicity
being activities Some
OF the styles born of others
Among the latter for the
acks Muttering something
Evening star., 1942-08-05
|WhyGrow
| Old?
By Josephine Lowman

Here's another marathon letter to
encourage you to drop fatigue, over
weight, that matronly figure and
lackluster. These letters are on file
in my office and are reprinted here
exactly as they were written to me.
Dear Mrs. Lowman: I want to
tell you what I am doing. I began
your diet and exercises eight weeks
ago today. I weighed 256 pounds,
Now, in just eight weeks time, I
weigh 233 pounds. I lost % pounds
in eight weeks and never felt better
in my life.
Il have lost four inches off of
the bust, seven inches off of the
hips and two off of the calf of the
leg. sure have received lots of
praise on my improved looks. I
am going to keep 1t up until I lose
100 pounds all together. I want to
thank you for your interest"
Doesn't that make lots of you who
have only 10 to Is pounds to lose
feel like pikers? The above writer
lost just slightly over two pounds a
week, which is ideal She exercised
as we'll as dieted so that the hip
measurement came down quickly. I
think she will keep 1t up until she
Is her ideal weight and I wish her
luck.
Sometimes when you have
great deal Of weight to lose, you may
find that you come to a point when
you suddenly stop losing and seem
to be at a standstill. Don't let this
discourage you. 1t is entirely usual
and understandable. Keep your
routine up and you will soon begin
losing again.
If you wish to have my Gen
eral Reducing Routine" which
this writer used, send q Scent
stamped, elf-addreased envelope
with your request for II to Jose
phine LowlaAn In cars Of this
NA9Nns>ne
Evening star., 1942-08-05

SIlOuluil WOllenv wear IuT tIOu-
sers?" some of the manufacturers
have come out with them, accord
ing to reports In the trade paper
To be perfectly frank. this strikes
us as the sort of thing to guard
against. Foolish extravaganza Ger
tainly has no place in our lives to-
day and we can't think of anything
less practical than trousers of fur!
OF course, the originators declare
that It's going to be necessary to
dress warmly this winter, what with
a fuel situation threatening, but it
seems to us that fur slacks aren't
necessary unless you're planning to
make q cozy little home in an
igloo. We do approve of warm
clothes for "at home" wear. but
we'll take quilted jackets and trou-
sers, woolen hostess robes and
slacks If 1t ever gets cold again.
In the same vein. more or less. are
fur bicycle suits designed for pedal
Ing to cocktail parties and lunch
cons, no less! These. made In Gu
lotte form, may be slightly more
logical, but furs should be an in
vestment. and culotte suit made
OF fur hardly seems practical way
to spend ones money. We can see
a little more sense to street suits
and matching hats made of such
furs as Persian lamb, but we do
maintain that an afraid warden
can keep warm In something more
completely wearable-no matter
what the fashionists say!
But these are the high styles, the
show pieces" which have very little
place in the lives of such as you
and I. To keep warm and look
"hostessy," we'll be likely to return
to skirts and evening sweaters.
charming, "dressy" and comfortable
in chilly households. Well buy
good, wearable fur coats for our
AFRAID patrol duties, or we may
invest In fur-lined coat which,
now that lapin has returned to
favor, is not beyond the reach of
the budget. Our war influence will
be reflected. too, in our acceptance
Of silver jewelry, now that precious
metals are gone, and in such things
as well-made shoes with lightweight
wooden soles. Well approve over
the-shoulder bags, roomy enough to
hold f1ashlight and first aid kit
and convenient to handle while
steering a bike.
Wartime fashions, to most of us,
will mean dresses simmer than
ever. but still comfortable and
smart-looking. 1t will mean suits
made without patch pockets and
turned back cuffs, hats that are
gayer and madder and higher than
ever to give interest to dresses and
suits made on more simple lines.
Wartime fashions will mean better
taste, more careful buying and
more intelligent planning of ward
robes to carry us through. It will
mean an emphasis on quality in
stead of quantity, on making the
most of everything. And finally. it
will mean that women will look
their prettiest and neatest-pretty
because it's important to their men
in uniform to have them look fem
mime, neat because that man in
uniform has become a positive f1end
about neatness.
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Back to the Simple Life
For Household Linens
Frills and Delicate Trimming
Replaced by Fresh.Looking
Items That Can Take It
By Marearef No,peU

You are gong be having though
invite friends
as time
grandmother
which Will mean the will
hold linen will
that laundry deliveries
double the family pillow to keep
ahead of the game"
These facts make the August
this
still possible
ST
chden
Evening star., 1942-08-05

There's no need to let q reduced
clothes budget tear down your stand
ards OF smartness. Here Is q frock
you can make for very little. but,
by its simplicity Of line and the
clever detailing Of the white collar
and cuffs, 1t will make all who see
1t believe it cost a lot! Try it for fall
in the stunning new rayon crepes.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1653-B
is designed for sizes 80, "a, SO, 80,
40, ~, A and 46. Size "a, with
short sleeves, requires 3h yards
39-inch material.
All ages and all sizes will ind
interesting new patterns in the
Fall Fashion Book, newly published.
Send Is cents for your copy today.
Order 1t with 15-cent pattern for
Is cents, plus l cent for postage.
For this attractive pattern send
Is cents, plus ! cent for postage, in
coins, with your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to Bar
bara Bell, Washington Star, Post
Once Box IS, Station O, New York.
N. Y
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Get Child Ready
For His School
In Summer
Health and Mental
Condition Must
Be Correct
Br AnpeIo P0fyf

BY Angelo Pafri
Have you child who is going to
school for the first time this Sep
tember? Get him ready now. Don't
wait until opening day to ready him
physically and mentally.
Has he been vaccinated against
small pox, tested and immunized
against diphtheria and whooping
cough? Are his teeth clean and
whole? His tonsils healthy, his nose
and throat free of obstruction? Is
he up to weight for his age and con-
dition? Vision and hearing perfect7
Every one of these points is es-
sential to the happiness and pro-
gross Of a child in school, A healthy
child starts off right the first day;
but the ailing one founders. loses
his standing and his courage, and
that means trouble for years after
ward.
Get the beginner in as good physi-
cal condition as possible before
opening time. Don't wait one more
day, because every hour of health
means that much gained.
Prepare him mentally. Many chill
dren are timid about school, It is
a new world to them and they may
have heard stories about it that
worry them. Some foolish people
frighten children by threatening
them with the teacher who will
make them mind at the end of q
big stick Some big brothers and
sisters like to tell tales to awe the
younger ones, making themselves
out to be heroes in the telling. One
never knows what effects such tales
have on children. They have been
known to cause a deal of trouble.
The alert teacher makes ar
rangements for the coming new pu-
pills to have preview of their
school life. They set aside a day or
so at the end of the term in which
to welcome mothers bringing new
pupils. There is entertainment by
the older ones, a chance to look
about the yards; find the way to
the toilets and drinking fountains;
make friends with the teacher and
the school generally. That takes
the edge off the first day.
When registration day comes
around in fall the teacher who is
to have the child ought to register
him, If possible, in the room where
he is to be. That makes a new pu-
pills entrance much easier on the
dreaded first day. 1t no longer Is
the first day, and the teacher is no
longer a stranger, and the other
children are not all strangers.
This is the time, right now, to
collect the birth certificates, the
physicians certificates, all neces-
sary papers, in one envelope, ready
/ for use on the day of registration.
| 1t is great disappointment to a
child-a setback from which he
! slowly recovers-to be sent home to
| be vaccinated, to hunt up a birth
certificate. or transfer card.
When the child's mother hands
over his papers, when the teacher
smiles and says, Fine, that is just
what We need; thank you every
body is happy and the child is proud
Of his mothers ability to meet the
situation. Off to good start,
school appears to be good place to
be for the next few years.
Evening star., 1942-08-05
Dorothy Dix Says >->
War Will Give Children a Chance
To Know Their Own Parents

Out of evil good not nfrequeny
OF will
with
fore
What with Nom and stepping themselves
and the youngsters being off
Evening star., 1942-08-05

In teaching your children to
mind, be guided by the helpful,
sympathetic advice in Angelo Pa
tri's booklet, obedience" Send
for it, inclosing 10 cents in coin.
Address Angelo Patri, in care Of
The Evening Star,
Evening star., 1942-03-07
ReaI Estate Board
Group Offers 10 Aid
New Housing Agency
War Services Committee
Of National Association
Meets Here March 10

Summoning members of its spe-
cial committee on war services to a
meeting here March 10 the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
offers its services to the new Ma
tional Housing Agency in speeding
the war effort and will review action
over the whole real estate field that
can be helpful to this end.
David B. Simpson, president Of
the association, will preside at ses-
sions of the war service committee,
which will be held at Washington
Offices of the association at 1877 K
street NV. The committee will be
concerned with speeding up pro-
duction Of war housing by private
industry, procedure for the con-
tinued maintenance of equitable
rental balance" aiding the indus
trial building utilization section of
the w. P. B. in finding existing fac
tories and warehouses for war pro-
duction and the maintenance Of
sound appraisal procedure in land
Acquisitions
II through needed F.. II. A. and
other changes private industry is
given the green light it should be
able to supply practically all of the
housing now needed that should be
retained after the conclusion of the
war, President Simpson points out
Meeting in connection with the
committee will be the Home Builders
Emergency Committee and the ex-
ecutive committee of the Institute
of Real Estate Management. The
institute at its meeting March IL
will plan work for the coming year.
Expected to take part in the
March 10 conference are William
MacRossie, Greenwich, Conn, and
New York City, president of the
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers; Robert C. Nordblom.
Boston, president of the Institute of
Real Estate Management; Frank C
Owens, Atlanta, president of the
National Institute of Real Estate
Brokers, and Robert B. Whitaker,
Kenosha. Wis, representing that in
stitute; E. Grain, Houston, presi-
dent of the Home Builders Institute
of America; Walter S. Schmidt,
Cincinnati, president of the Society
of Industrial Realtors.