THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAU, PORTLAND, SUNDAY HORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1V22,
t&F:i?Memm: immm rieaM. Mome
Mamd -But Happy
By Virginia - Lynch Maxwell,
A1
T seven o'clock everything
was ready. Charlotte yed
the latter of sandwiches
' approvingly and set them at a wore
tempting angle. Then she carried
them into the living room and
placed the silver plate on the table.
- "What time did you tell 'em.te
corner asked Billy from the bed-
I room. ' '". : ' ' ' " ' ';. ":'"
"I said - eight-thirty I wrote it
plainly in each note so that you
' wouldn't have to stay up Jate, dear,
I. knew how you'd bsbave if the
' party dragged into the late hours."
"Righto r chirped Billy. "Notb-
, Ing bores me more than having
, lot pf people hang around trying
" to make conversation after they've
' talked themselves out'
"Did you ret enough oranges
for the punch" Charlotte suddenly
remembered to ask. She heard
' Billy snap his fingers impatiently.
"I confess and take my punish
ment, Lottie. I've completely for
gotten, all about them."
"But I thought you said the gro
cer -would deliver them this eve-
: ainr."
That's what I planned. But,
you see, I've forgotten to tell him.
.Wait," he exclaimed. Til call
Watson on the phone and ask him
If he'll send over a boy with them
right away. Nothing to worry
about, honey. The oranges will be
here in time."
Half-dressed, with the ' string
from his bath robe trailing after
him, Billy emerged from his room
and picked up the telephone in the
foyer. In a quick, anxious tone
he called the groear's number.
There was a long wait. Then cen
tral gave her mechanical reply that
the number did not answer;
"Of course, agreed Charlotte
In an annoyed voiee, .they're not
open after six o'clock week nights.
And it's past seven now."
Billy grunted and turned a dis
tressed face to her. "What'U wo
do?"
, "We'll have to do without tho
oranges for the punch. It'll he
horribly flat. ; But if you explain
it I'm sure they'll understand."
"That," said Billy irritably, "has
all the earmarks of a sarcastic
- come-back. No reason why my
friends should .expect stupidity
from me !"
Charlotte smiled. It seemed to
move BiUy to. greater efforts, to
correct the error he had made.
'- Tve got it. Ill call up the
AT this midseason we begin to
find our individual styles. It
is the time when we look
back and take a resume of the
fashion offerings of the first few
months of Winter. And how differ
ent they are now to those first
models exploited by clever manne
jquins. 1 Women have come to the same
decision to choose only those things
which they can wear well, despite
the dictates of fashion. They take
the original models and make it
plain to designers that the ultra
drapes and eeeentrie lines of the
originals are not for the average
5 figure. "Then comes the changes in
' line and trimming with the final
offerings being shown about this
time. -'-
When the long bodiee eoat suits
were first introduced, Paris thought
' they would b"e very popular. They
cut them full and blousy and
'draped them to one side, fastening
snugly with a cabeehen buckle.
But the American woman refused
ito give up her slender silhouette,
iwiuph through long and rigid diet
he acquired, to this new mode
which eared not a whoop for the
widetline. Tho cults and wraps
were left Idly oh the shop hangers
and the model that gave full ad
vantage to the figure was selected
Instead. .. . . .
Paris took the hint. What did
; she offer in place - of her original
i creations? She simply gave the
American woman what she wanted
by fastening tbe blousy coats into
' s nug belt at bottom,; tacking
down fist the material which
i Moused above this belt and dosing
i the front into a fiat line- The
X American woman was given the op
portunity to display her slender .
' curves.-" ' V-
Few women there were who
. could wear the extreme drapes of
the afternoon gown as it was first
offered. Like a coat, this model
swung across the front and fast-
Readjusted Models
Do You Believe in Signs?
IT Is amazing how many people
make their lives miserable by
f their superstitions. Believing
la signs may be an interesting
recreation. But to permit the fan
cies of superstition to govern our
actions makes us slaves to a net
work of fables which were orig
inated by the untutored minds of
a primitive people. ' .
. : "Knock wood," the expression
so -generally used to ward off mis- -fortune,
has an interesting origin.'
- In the days when people oe
lieved in spirits, they visualized
those spirits as living in. the woods.
' grocer at horn. He lives over Ik
that apartment ton the - corner. ,
? Only the other evening he enter- .
tained rne with a long line on the
r injustices tenants suffer. Ill get
him there.", .
Once again Billy tried the tele-
j. phone.- . -t " " - -i
-Doggedly he called and recalled
central n desperate effort to get
,a connection Abuzz, a"click,then
he heard the accent of Mr. Wataoa
on the other end of the wire.
"I'm sorry to bother yon, old
. , man. But ; we're expecting some
very important guests this evening
and I've forgotten to . order or
anges. If you'll be good enough
-to help us out this time I won't
- forget you for it. Can you open
up the shop and send us over about .
. two dozen T" ;...
ft Charlotte listened anxiously. But
she could not hear what Mr. Wat
son was saying. ; She knew he had
turned dow ; the suggestion by the
expression in Billy's eyes. The
next moment Billy gave the man a
short reply and hung up , the re-
ceiver. . . .
"Won't he do it?" asked Char
lotte, half-misehievously. -
"He would, but he has no or-
apffes." : v-:r' '
Billy finished i dressing. When
Charlotte had set the dainty things
about the table and put the finish
ing touches to the Irving room she
slipped into her frock and waited.
A half -hour passed. ; An. . hour
' went by. . '
"Something's wrong, remarked
Billy. They're not coming." v
. "They're delayed. Something
may have come up just as they
were leaving.-;
Ten o'clock came and no one ap
peared. The silent stillness of the
spacious room began to pall. Billy
picked up a deck of cards and in.
dulged in a : game of solitaire.
Charlotte moved about anxiously
and impatiently.
"I'm roinir to call up Henderson
and see what's wrong', suggested
Billy as the clock struck ten-thirty.
"He wouldn't do this on a bet un
less there was something terribly
wrong." .
Billy called.' The drowsy voiee
of Hugh Henderson answered the
phone. .Charlotte caught only the
beginning of their conversation.
But it was enough. With a ter- .
rible realization she rushed from
the room and pulled open tho
drawer of her dressing table. There
ened at one hip, drawing the ma
terial snugly across the abdomen.
The slender figure found this type
of gown most attractive. But the
matrons who had taken on a little
weight, and who, by the way, seem
to constitute the majority of the
faithful followers of style, looked
upon the draped lines with scorn.
The silhouette was adjusted.
For the slender figure there is the
gown wKh its graceful abdominal
drapes. For the fuller figure the
drapes at front are omitted, and
side panels, slightly draped, are
substituted. Long, flowing panels,
. circular skirts, ribbon streamers
like the beggar maid's frock of fic
tion have - been accepted. One
needs only to study the lines of her
figure now to know which Sine is
best. : . v.-"-- ,
Blouses were not overlooked in
the readjustment. At first they
took the line of the loose box
iacket, and flaunted their flowing
bottoms to accent a narrow skirt.
Then we wearied of this line and,
instead of discarding it, it, too, was
readjusted to Araencaa taste,
- Now we find the dressy blouse
-taking the semi-Russian line. It
must come below the hips if it
would be fashionable. But it
clings closely to the figure, tying
at one hip in long streamers: or
; draping its fabric across the front
and tying snugly at back.
Colors and materials in blouses
' have taken change also. The
stenciled pongee material which
modestly boasted a color note here
. and there seemed to have found a
response. Now the stylish blouse
shows a surface of conglomerate .
color, red and blues and orange
and violet, blended into Egyptian
tones. - The white blouse for the
" school girl will always be popular
and in good taste. It changes its
collar and cuffs and front trim-.
ming every season, but peeping im- -
maculately from the eoat suit it :
- could ask no better recognition of .
Its charm. ;
There were good spirits and bad
spirits. And so it came to be the
custom to call for the good spirits
M .... . " . . . .
so come neip wnen one iouna jura
self in distress. -s- Accordingly, the
primitive folks would wander in
to the woods and when they found
a particularly attractive tree, they .
would tap its bark with their
knuckles as a summons for the
good spirits to come forth, .
The custom has been carried
down to us to-day.: And we follow,
it blindly. Most of our modern'
superstitions have interesting ori
gins and being created by the sav
age should; not be taken too seri
ously by the intelligent mind, ,
: " ...
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AMERICAN BEAUTIES Miss Margaret Stone, Debutante
Charles A. Stone, of Fifth Avenue, New
before her lay the invitations she
was to have mailed several days
ago.- That,' then, solved the riddle
why no one " had appeared. They
had not been, invited. She was the
guilty party, She had forgotten
to mail the stupid things. ,
A jjjyetizino; Menus for the Week
K055JLY
Breefc'wt
Ornre Juke,
' Wafle.
Hoaey.
Tea.
. Luncheon
CnwdBf
rWu
PMched Egg. .
Apple Seaca,
Canal Cafe,
.v Dinner
Hanberf Roast.
Tomato Saacc,
TUESDAY
Breakfa$t
Stewed Peats,
Boiled Rica,
Top Milk.
Buttered Toaet.
Cereal Cofee.
Luncheon
Spbach with
Lima
Cake,
Cocoa."
Difiaer
Veal Cauete,
Browa Gravy,
Boiled Svect
Potatoes.',
Method Potatocai
Chocolate
Peotfaf,
Tea.
Creamed Cabbage.
Puapaim ftc.
Deeai-Tauc.
Christmas
GHRISTMAS week will find
many girls back from their
boarding schools. ; There will
be teas, dances and luncheon par-'
ties to greet eld friends. And the
girl who has been away for months
will want to fuss about the kitchen,
showing mother and her friends
that she has, at least, learned how
to make candy while at school.
Where is the , school ; girl who
does not thrill at being able to
turn out a perfect pan of fudge?
The professional candy maker
has special instruments with which
aha tests the candy at various
stages of cookery. But the girt
who works ins her own kitchen
needs only experience and a few
hints to guide ; her to a perfect
. result. ' a.,;'-. :-.m j.fV:i
Fondant seems to be the most
troublesome of all candy fillings.
It must be handled gently if. it
would be successful. - A batch of
it may be made up, kept in the ice ,
box for days and used to form a
variety of sweets ranging from the
ieingcovered cookie to the filling
of a chocolate cream.
A cup of sugar is placed in a
saucepan, which must be smooth
on the inside, and enough water is
. added to dissolve the sugar with
out any surplus liquid. I As the
sugar melts it forms its own liquid.
Roll the end of a fork with a
length of gauze and hold it in
place with thread. This is fre
quently dipped into cold water and
used to wash down the sides of the
saucepan as the sugar boils. . Any -grains
that form on the sides of
the pan must be washed away with
this cavered fork or you are run
Cosnlsit. 11Z3.
5
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. .With the slim envelopes in hand
she came back to the living room
to face her husband. ? .
"Billy r" she confessed in a
wavering voice, "I'm terribly sorry,
dear I I forgot to mail them."
; "Never mind, Lottie. It's too
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Fresh Apple,
Fried Sausage,
Cora Bread.
Curramt Jelly,
Cofee.
Luncheon
' Creaa of Pea
Soup,
Crostoas. .
Cabbage Salad.
Mafias.
.. 'Tea.:
Dinner
list Stew,
DmpGags,
Baked Apple,
Cofee.
THURSDAY
Breakfatt
FRIDAY
" Breakfatt
Fiaaaa Haddie,
Batter Sauce,
Fried Sweet
Potatoes,
Dry Toast,
Cofee.
Luncheon .
Soft Boiled Eggs,
I oast,
Cocoa.
Luncheon
Vegetable Salad,
Bacon Garnish,
Apple Sauce,'
Peach Cake,
Milk "
; XMnner
BoUed Toagae,
Boiled Potatoes,
Sliced Tomatoes,
Caulifower, ;
Bread and Batter,
Raisin Pie,
Demi-Taste.
Oysters eu Gratia J
Cheese Dressing,
Striag Beaaa,
Cereal Cofee.
Dinner
CUm Chowder,
Broiled Salmoa,
Creamed PotatoesJ
Asparagus Salad,
Bread Pudding.
Tea.
Candies Made
ning the risk of having your sugar
crystallize. ;
The sugar mixture must never
be stirred while it is boiling. The
flame should be low enough to pre
vent scorching. While the sugar
boils the eggs are prepared. .Sep
arate the whites or two eggs from
the yolks and spread them on a
long platter. With a wire, whip
beat the eggs to a froth. .
Test the sugar mixture. A little
is dropped into a glass of cold
water until it spins a thread. : Not
until it hangs long in the glass is
it ready to be mixed with tho
frothy egg whites.
When the sugar mixture is ready
it is dropped a little at a time and
beaten into the - whipped egg
whites. The whites take up the
sugar and the combination forms a
The Clear Thinker
-TtHE bright school child is not -I
necessarily, the one .who ,
.. . will make the biggest sue-
cess in life. Parents seem "to glory
in the achievement of the child
who wins the 100 per cent medal. '
But statistics prove that the child '
of average mentality is the most '
successful later.
The child who is dull and the
child who is a genius are not well
' balanced. . Parents should strive
to have their children toe the mark
of the medium I course, -f i A ' sane
ness of judgment is what the
- world needs to-day. . . It is the bal
ance which a variety of study will,
give to s the -r developing mind.
Prodigies have little place in the
world, which asks only for a major
ity percentage of normal, human
minds, men who can think clearly
through a maze of viewpoints.
fey IfiUraalifiaU rssture Serrica, Inc. Great ZxIUia
? J
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) CfcaxtotU TkbchlM.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrr,
York. 7;
funny, really, - to cry . over. Wa
both forgot. So I guess we'd bet"
ter sit in ourselves and eat up tho
sandwiches and drink up the or
angeless punch all by ourselves.
Eh, what, old dear?" j
(To Be ContinuecL
SATURDAY
Breakfast
Asparagus
Omelet,
Toasted
Crackers,
Currant Jelly,
- Tea.
Luncheon
Chipped Beef
Creamed,
Rye Bread aad
Batter.
Stewed Prunes,
Milk.
Dinner
Minute Steak,
Steamed Onions,
Mexican Rica, .
Currant Jelly,"
Demi'Tasse. -
SUNDAY
Breakfast
Crapefnut. -,
Fried liver'
with Bacon. .
Biscuits,
Cofee.
. Dinner -'
. Cream of -Tomato
Soup,
Roast Lamb.
Hashed Potaloea.
Stewed Carrots,
Rice Pudding.
Demi-Taste.
Supper
Fruit Salad,
Roasted
Ckcstnuts. .
: Crackers,
Tea.
At Home
smooth white sugar fondant which '
is used as the foundation of most
candies. v- ;
The fondant may be rolled in
the hands until it forms a large,
smooth ball, placed in a bowl and
covered with a damp, cloth to be
used next day .
You may. melt a half cake of
bitter chocolate in your double
boiler, but be sure to add to it a
little paraffin. This is one of the
hints known to professionals, The
paraffin will harden the chocolate
into a delightful crust and give it
the shine we see en professionally
made eandies. The amount of
paraffin used is so slight that it
does not make your candy impure.
Do your friends care for those
luscious cream almonds? They are
simply made once you have your
fondant. Blanch ' the f shelled al
monds and ' place . them in a fry
ing pan that sizzles a small amount
of butter. . The almonds .are
blanched by ' dipping them into
boiling water for the fraction of a
second, then dipping into cold ;
water. The thin brown skin may
be pulled off without-difficulty.
The white; almonds are-slightly,
fried to brown and crispen them.
When ' cool they are molded into
the centre of a small - amount of
the fondant and allowed to harden.
- If your fondant becomes hard
- while standing, it may be softened
' up by melting again in a double
boiler. The fondant is placed in
- the top of the boiler over water
that is already at boiling point. It
does not require the flame to
soften down the sugary mass, as
the heat of the boiling water be-
. neath is usually just enough to
soften the fondant to. the right
consistency,
Biihta Xatsrrsd.
My Secrets
73y Marilynn Miller,
EROM one of my readers comes
a request to tell her some- .
thing of the foundation for
make-up.
. The foundation is the most im
portant step in applying cosmetics. -The
skin must be in good condi
tion, smooth and soft, and ready to
receive the thin outer layer of
rouge and powder which are the
artist's finishing touches. .
' Because so many women neglect
to prepare the skin for the touches
which add -that exquisite bloom to
the complexion, make-up has the
reputation of . making one appear .
coarse. - If rouge and powder Is
properly applied and the skin be
neath taken care" of in the right
way, there is no reason, why the
addition of a little rouge, and pow
der should be taboo.
Rouge, has a way of bringing ,
out the sparkle of the eyes. A lip
stick, ff selected in the correct -shade,
gives an attractive softness'
to the lips. Powder has its ad
. vantage in ; beautifying the skin,
also protecting it from the ravages
of dust and grime while one is out
doors.
But to prepare the skin for these
final touches of cosmetic is an in
dividual problem. You must de- .
termine for yourself just what lm- .
provement can be made on your
own skin. Is it dry, oily, coarse?
Are : the ' pores distended or
clogged? 'Take your mirror to the
light fUMf - carefully examine your
skin. You will be able, to decide
' for yourself which treatment you ..
will require by drawing the finger
across the cheek and looking care
fully at the pores as you do so.
The dry skin requires nourish
ment. Dryness 'signifies that the
oil glands beneath the skin are not
functioning properly. They must
- be aided in their work. And the
artificial nourishment : is supplied .
in the form of a grease cream -massaged
into the) skin and allowed
to remain on for ten minutes each
day until sufficient.' oil has been '
absorbed by the starved tiasues.
Avoid the daily use of hot water
if the skin is inclined ; to be dry.
7 Use soap only once;) a . week. -Cleanse
the skin 'with cold cream
and nourish it with massage cream.'
. If you . find that your skin is
oily, the treatment is just the op
New Year's
'I,rHE world will always have its
I quota of unhappiness . and,
' fortunately for humanity, it
will be divided. In some homes
to-day there is great suffering. For
most of: us there is a measure of
happiness. This, is the reason, no
doubt, that the - system of social
relation was established.
Misery likes company.' And the
mind that is free from the dull
ache of sorrow and the burden of
worry, for the time being, should
try to spread some of its optimism
to those whose viewpoint has be-
come distorted by circumstance.
The New ? Year will -, bring all
sorts of changes.': How the coming
months and their joys and pleas
ures may affect our lives we are
not given to know. Bat the lofty
mina will make a New Year's reso
lution to help one's fellow beings
whenever and however one can.
When life's issues are- balanced,
how. pitifully small and human
seem the petty jealousies, the cal
low revenges we indulge in when
we forget to look up and out of
our narrow spheres. That is one
of the most poignant stings after
the death of a dear friend. We
chide ourselves for having har
bored any belittling prejudices.
We condemn our narrow judgment
for not having done as much as we
may have for that person's happi
ness and comfort while be or she
was alive! And how pitifully short
sighted it seems if or us to have
overlooked this truth while the op
The Housewife Says-
lOVEB your dusty carpets with
moist sawdust before sweep
ing. The sawdust absorbs
the dust as it gathers and keeps it
from flying about.
To remove a cinder from the
eye, draw the upper lid far over
the lower and look quickly down,
then up again. This will release
the cinder and it may be removed
on the corner of a-handkerchief. "
Summer draperies should be
laundered and well rinsed of their
soap before storing for the Win- :
ter. It is well to dry them in the
open if possible. ,
' Grape juice stains may be re
moved from lineri tablecloths by
rubbing the -spot - with salt while
the stain is still fresh. -
"When having baked'.: meat for .
? dinner, plan to have . baked pota
toes and a baked vegetable, so that
- it mey all be cooked at the same
time in the oven, thus savingtfueL.
- Lemon oil is excellent for polish
of Charm
posite. Warm water and soap
lather should be part of the daily
cleansing habit. An excess of oil
may be removed by making a solu
tion of one pint of warm water in.
which is dissolved a teaspoonf wl of
baking sodh. and the skin washed
with : this. The ' suds neutralisea
the oil and -dissolves it from the ,
pores. - " ' -;'
Some weeks ago I gave in detail
the treatment for refining a coarse
skin. Space will not permit me to
give it in full again, but I will
mention that one applies the chalk
mask to. smooth the roijgh spots
from the v coarse skin. - By those
rough places I do not mean a .
chapped skin. The chapped skin
. has the same curative treatment as
that given for the dry skin.
If your pores are distended it is
"a wise plan to avoid using warm,
water daily. . Once or twice a week
is sufficient for the warm water
cleansing. : The skin must be fairly
doused with cold water at the finish
to close the .pores again. Ice
wrapped in a piece of Un and
run smoothly over the surface of
the face has a way of drawing the
pores together. This treatment
should be given after every mas
sage and particularly if the pores
are distended.
Clogged pores must be cleansed
thoroughly before any make-up is
applied. . Those tiny black spota
showing a poor circulation may be
removed with a comedon extractor.
Do not press them too severely or
you may bruise the skin.
Scrub them out, after you have
softened them with cold cream, by.
using a heavy lather of pure soap
and warm water. Only a camel's
hair .brush should be used for this
fmrpose,: as a coarser hrush is
ikely to scratch the skin. When
the , skin has been cleansed it is
given its particular treatment as
I have described each. .
The dark kin requires a bleach.
And there are a number of good
bleaches on the market to-day. One
bleach combines an astringent with
- a bleaching property and takes for
' its base a non-grease cream, mak
ing it a three-in-one produet. The
- bleaching liquid or cream, which
; ever, you may select, is used after
the massage treatment and re
mains on before applying the final
make-up.
Resolutions
portunity was being given us.
Let us, then, try to make a New
Year's resolution to do all we can
for others while they are in the
position to enjoy it. The parent .
who starves a child of the little
pleasures of life in the belief that
the indulgences must be . post
poned until the child has grown
up, may never have the opportu- "
nity to lavish these joys. -r
. The same medium would : seem"
for us to enjoy the little things of
life while they are with us. The
man who stints his family -of the
material comforts in the effort to
amass a fortune will find a sad lack
of enjoyment of that money when
it is accumulated. He will have
lost the power to enjoy, becaese it
- is one of nature's fine ways of dis
tributing her gifts or punishing in
the end for the breaking of this
fundamental law. ; -.'
Of eourse, there will always be
people who are parasites on the
optimism of others. This, too, is
an injustice. -Each one of us
should strive to be happy within
ourselves, i Unless an effort is
made to overlook the petty discom
forts we are bound to be miser
able. The man or woman who- de
pends upon the radiantenthuaiasm'
and cheerfulness of another is not
playing fair with himself or with
that person. It is a drain on one's
good will. And the cure for this
type of i happiness parasite is to
shun his company until a true ep-
Ereciation.of a cheerful companion
i reached.
ing high-gloss furniture. It clew.
uie grime aus u pou&oea, .
: A little lemon juice rubbed on
the hands daily will keep them soft
and white.
: It is a good idea to wash darning
cotton before using it on stock
ing This avoids shrinking when
the hosiery is laundered,
Picture moldings should be
painted the same color as the waS
' if the room would retain its effecs
. of height.
Go over your books' with a damp :
cloth that has been slightly oiled. ,
. The oil will preserve the bindings. J
- Give . your kitchen linoleum a '
- coat of varnish while it is still new.
The linoleum will last longer and -be
easier to clean.
Pad the floors with newspapers -:
before laying the rugs. The pa- '
pers eliminate the wearing friction s
' of the rug against the coarse floor
- yfhen it is walked on. .