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| THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1918. W 0! Above All Things, Strive To Be Natural HE is a bit old-fashioned, with very the girls, and I think I have been spoiled young woman of the day, and often we THIS LITTLE BOBBIE IS BUILDING SHIPS THESE DAYS AS GREAT WAR Make Your Child's mieet her on the street; but she Is fn the minority. Where there are hundreds of these girls who are no credit to themseives or the period In which they live, thers are thousands of swest, pure minded, lovable ones who face life with the innocence of youth, who wear short skirts because they are sensible, who go with open neck blouses because they are cool. who use slang because it is expressive, who call men by their first names because they are friendly and know them well and It is a custom. They are noisy young creatures sometimes, because they are young and happy. But they are natural, and they are fino In spirit and healthy in body. They are the girls who are going to count largely as apséts of the natlon--girla who wilt make good wives and good mothers. The girl of fo-day meets men on an en- tirely different plane from the girl of twenty:five years ago. Those whom she knows to-day she may have gone through the public schools with, or perhape it is very probable that she works by his side In an office by too much training. When I was a little girl I was constantly reminded of my man« ners. There was nothing so Important as my deportment - i had to sit thus and walk thus and talk thus, until I was made to feel always conscious of myself. "I have naver outgrown it. I cannot be natural when with a man to save my life. I am always wondering If T am doing the correct thing, saying the right thing, mak. ing the right impression. "T long to be natural, but I cannot I have thought about myseif too much. T am not reproaching you, mother. But I am giving you the reason for the differ- ence in the girl of your day and such a girl as Anice. You were trained in an old- fashioned school, and naturally you hand. ed down the same traditions to me. Per- haps if we had not lived in a small town for so long we shaull have grown away -- -- from narrow views. "But of the two I should far rather he The Modern Maid. Anice, with her fresh outlook, her friend! "In your day, mother, these things were) £pirit, har healthy mind and body, than to not the fashion, that is all. If it were the be the self-conscious ereature that T am." custom to eall Tom, Dick and Harry byl The mother was hurt, of course. She their names of Brown, Jones and Robin-| could not understand the daughter's hot son, with the Mister attached, we should| words, which were probably repented of do it. But it is not. We know them well.| as soon as they were uttered. Why should we ba so stiff and stilted? But the daughter was right in defending "An for clothes. that is fashion, too. If} the modern girl, who Is, in the main, the trains. should come In again, or hoops, nicest kind of young person, maybe we would wear them with the same| It is true that she wears her skirts short | the core She has high standards of ser-| grace that you did. TI don't know, and appears in public with arms and neck vice and she thinks less of the trifling | "But I do know this. The girls in our bare. But, for the most part, she is a sen. | things that make for selfishness. and self-! erowd are a good lot. And as for Anice,|sible soul. Bhe uses slang and #"« has a consciousness than any girl of any period] whom you are so severe with, she i thé| certain freedom of manner and + in the world. best of the bunch. Maybe when she gets but these are the outcome of mod lie, | She is good and sweet and true. this older sha will quiet down. But I hope sha|resuiis of co-education for one t r verage girl, and the world owes her 3 won't. She is as free as a bird, and I envy|of the modern commercial life debt of gratitude that she has helped 3 | make it a better and a happier and a more charming manners, and was cxpress- Ing her views of the modern girl. Her rémarks had to do with the lack of re- "straint. the freedom of speech and the [hail-fellow-well-met agtitude of a certain Very attractive friend of her daughter, The daughter, soméwhat indignantly, took up the cudgels in the defence of her absent chum. "There 1s not a gir! in our crowd," she declared, "who Is so well liked by girls as well as by men. She 's all there" --(her mother shuddered, visibly, at the slang) "She In as fine as they make them. You don't understand us, mother. That is all You think because we call the men by their first names that we are familiar. If we wear high cut skirts and low cut walsts you think we are immodest. If we laugh above a whisper you think we are loud, and as for slang, words fail me. Vacation Interesting [HE really practical mother--she who has her children's welfare at heart-- will not permit her little ones to spend thelr long vacation period in abso- lute idleness, Instead, she Wwill- give to them certain light tasks daily and will en- tourage them to perform them. Every small citizen delights In receiv. ing a miniature set of garden tools and will use them faithfully if We is encour aged to do so, and the fact that he has a tract all his own under cultivation will make him feel quite important, and he will take a keen pride in doing his work In the garden. NEEDS CROWD UPON THE NATION girl's lot ts cast in the ranks of the toll ers she will later on, when she marries, Prove anything but such a shining light in her own home: She ia just the ; which, instead of becoming. a helpmate, Proves an actual hipdrance and a draw. back to the man who marries her. There- fore, no matter how clever or smart she is, the practical side of a growing girl's education should not be neglected, Youth, as all must admit, is a period of wonderful promise, but with the fleeting years much of its glamour fades, and the mother who would see her young sons and daughters develop Into ambitious, self-relfant .men and women must, while they are still chikiren, teach them how to work and to find contentment within themselves. fo tay Day and un! vacation Work and Play. The indolent, "T-don't-want-to-do-any- thing" type of small citizen should be taken in hand and given firmly to under- stand that he, too, must do his bit in his own small way, and this decision should obtain until, and even after, schoo! re- opens in the autumn, The small women of the household should alsg be allotted their share of the home tasks. Setling the table, dusting a room or helping 'do' the dishes will make an idle hour pass much more quickly for the Httle girl who 'doesn't know what to do.' If the mother believes in the good, old fashioned Idea of teaching girls how to properly keep house, she will find her small daughter's vacation day a good time to begin, 4 Any mother who foolishly concludes that ythe front porch or par) Is the proper In the olden days the girl looked forward to his or hi as 8 most productive rural youngster who did not kmow About, huckleberry and blackberry picking and their respective market values was hardly to be found, and many a "Sunday sult" was purchased on the 8s of the owner's berry picking during the vacation days. True to the Core. We all know that in every city there are men who are given the names of men only | through courtesy and girls who are a dis. {grace to their sex. But these men often hide their real nature undef the most | suave exterior and those girls are not the type that our young friend meant The avérage girl of the day is fine to! Valuable Vacation. With the closing of achool no child ought to be allowed absolute freedom to do or act just as he sees fit. Idleness isn't good for any one, neither for child nor for grown-up, and it invariably results in some sort of distressing situation. Se, prudent is the mother who, now that school has closed, maps out ways and means by which her little ones may be occupied for a certain period daily sees to it that there shall be no swervi from this rule, her, throws men and women together, "I ath about the most un-modern of all We hear a great deal about 1 wold n Keep Busy; Work Vital Factor in Contentment follows a line of work that we aré in ne way permitted to perform. HE really busy woman is always the more fortunate person. Even though at times Aer world seems dull and commonplace, she should bravely refuse to be influenced by those moods. On the other HA. "he WIL IF she fx wise, firmly resolve to make every minis count. Persons who have nothing to do are, without any question, engaged in a most wearisome occupation. Trying to "kill" time is the hardest kind of work and fn the majority of cases brings a lot of un. happiness to the particular man or woman fn the case. No sensible woman will envy her toll-free sister but, instead, will take a keen interest in those duties that mean her bread and butter. Keep on the Alert. Even fhe busiest person may find life a pleasant aftalr and the people around her worth while; but to achieve these splendid resulia she must learn to give and take #'e should not expect too much of her friends or co-workers, hut must remember that they too (like herself) are human, given to perhaps impatient or discontented moods, She might make it a point to sep only their commendable features and for- get all about their little peculiarities. This View of persons ia by far the befter and wiser one to entertain, and will never cause the man or woman who thinks along those lines any regrets. Each and every one of us has, or should have, a' certain work to do and this 'ask should, if we hope to get any satisfaction ot of life, he parformed to the best of our ability. If we feel that we are giving too mnek of ourselves, or that we could in same other field make better progress, then we should earnestly endeavor to fit ofirselves to well fll and be constantly on the alert for the place that appeals to us Rut it certainly will not help us one iota or further our cause In any possible way to merely drift along meanwhile bemoan- ne our "hard" lot. Many of us do indeed envy others seem- ingly more fortunate around us, yet if we but stop to think a moment we shall make the consoling discovery that all are not wh WIth (he same talents or ability How foollah then to become envious of this or that friend or acquaintance who that she is not progressing, should keep on bravely, or aptitude, and if she concludes that she in destined for better things, about the wisest course for her to follow is to give her hest attention to her present duties, trio that simply cannot be beaten, and the person thus equipped can and will make good. tolisome day, the really sensible woman w ability to push onward. even thougn that "somewhere" fs fre- quently at a rather distant point, hut the idler never got anywhere ard never will out than to rust cu of truth in this saying, w siderable period before he or she shows any signs of wear, person who sits around and watches oth. ers hustling tor their bread and butter, betrays, and at a very early stage in hiy or her éareer, unmistakable evidences of the rusting process, high achievements. meet, or, In other words, pay our honest debts and look the world square in the face. we are playing our respective rile: as well as and in all probability betger than many persons whom we at present moment keenly envy. have our own best interests at heart we will occasionally ponder over this plain, old fashioned truth, wisely forget all about the honest, brave efforts into our dally work, whatever it mav be. happy Wm another's place. only for our own Wttle world, and it re- mains with us to make that tiny sphere what it ought to be. we keep cheerful, do our best and think only wholesome thoughts. what we may eventually possess, be happy, and the qilcker we acknowledge the truth of this assertion the better it will be for ourselves and for all concerned. m T The woman who works hard, yet feels Let her study her capability A brave neart and willing hands are a of w Even though hers is a long and sl ill not lose faith In herself or in her atural place for all of us WHITE SILK VEILS. Pure silk veils (A white, rather coarse esh, come in Iarge rectangular shape, to be thrown gracefully over the brim of summer gallors; the mesh, quite open over the face and hat, grows finer at the bot- tom of the vell, and a sprawling flower design is woven. into this finer mesh. hese white silk veils give a dressy effect to the sport or semi-sport costume, and they Are very graceful, floating about, in a be one's ro@iovernight. damp over a pillow they require no iron- ing. summer breeze. Best of all, they may washed in soap and water and dried in If pinned out while REPAIRING SHOES. bees ren To repair almost discarded shoes, espe- ally children's shoes, when théy havo a orn spot in the sole, cut a plece of soft upper leathér from old shoes, paste on in- de of shoe and it will last for some time ship and from appearance he is making some one will buy him an extra bottie of dip, he will lay the keel for another. essential division, for play shoes. The worker always gets somewhere, Some one has sald, "Far better to wear and there isa world Yet & real live orker will continue on for quite a cons On the other hand the "tine killer," the Few of us are destined for any really If we can make ends ef the And If we good -fortune others enjoy and put In One's Own Sphere, Not one of us would be, if we could, We are fitted This we can do if Otherwise we simply will not. no matter J 2 or A ---------- lp 'O) racipes May be used for yeasts and quel Brenan by ving the following pro- pertions Which dre recommended by the Department of Household Science of the National War Garden Commission. rn Yeast Breads. Some wheat must be used when making yeast bread with all other flours with the exception of rye flour. At least from twenty-five to fifty per cemt of other flours ean be substituted for wheat. The wing is & typical recipe for one loaf «of in which other flours are suhst| ti aE orl of wheat flour, one cupful of 'any other flour, as barley, meal, graham, rice or buek cupful of hed potat : © Eu mas! ato. ol of Hauid, one-fourth veast 1 ful of shortening When making rye bread use two and _eupluls of rye, one-half used along, with serge. and the combina- tion makes a very interesting gown, even more 80 than one made wholly of foulard, The use of the plain surfaced material gives a gentle relief to the continuousness of the pattern. led to some lovely uses of lace with street and afternoon gowns. Little inserted vests of creamy lace peep out of otherwise sombre neck lines, and tightly fitting cuffs are livened by a touch of thie lace. ---------------- Ball of yarn wound by hand. se it will] FOULARD. lio ce sbi Foulatd, in interesting designs. is much i The vogue for the use of real lace has WIRE BASKET. en eiasicte F it : for cooling bread and cake. safer than a waiter in which to} small of It is ry small china back and | Workers for the Red Cross will find a tix the maple A wire letter basket {8 most useful in the 447 tA Kitchen. Baked potatoes arranged in it|.), ean be taken out of the oven, turned and put back with no danger of I hands. - Turned upside down, {fine rack Good Things How to Prepare Them of the frozen dessert, and there are any nimber of creams and ices which the housekeeper may concobt and not use a bit of white sugar, ther. Syrups, honey and maple sugar are ex- cellent substitutes, as these recipes will bear witneks if you test them. Frozen Maple-Nut - Pudding. 5 One quart of milk; one egg, one cupful of| maple syrup, four tablespoonfuls of corn- starch, & few grains of salt, one-quarter cupful of chopped pecans or almonds. Put 'the milk on to boll: when boiling. add the cornstarch, which has been mixed with a quarter of a cupful of cold milk dnd the well-beaten egg. Boll for ten min- utes: remove from the fire and add the nuts, which have been covered with syrup for ong hour. ice cream, Freeze the same as maple Bear in; ind that it takes more sweeten. Ing for freezing: clso that some maple syrup is sweeter than others msn Banana or Peach Ice Cream." One quart of créam, four very ripe bananas, ene cupful of milk, one cupful af white Syrup. one tablespoonful of lemon Jule, a féw grains of salt. Skin, Scrape and mash the bananas or peaches through a Srull press or Add _the milk, ich has ne strainer, been heated and In which the syrup is melted. Add the salt and cream. Pu into the freezer and. tn turn, add the lemon juice. Close and freeze as usual , just before starting Maple Mousse. Three egg volks, ome cupful of maple syrup, two cupfuls of whipping cream, one. tablespoontul of chopped nuts,' Peat the egz yolks until ight. syrup and beat for ut into fhe top of a it thickens. It A nd five pieces of walnuts cut up nd | fine. ¢ : Whip to Eat and when cold, add the loganberry and lemon Juice. Freeze the same as maple cream. lee Hominy Muffins. One cupful of cooked hominy, one tea- spoonful of salt. one and one-half table- spoonfuls of shortening, one egg, tHFee- quarters cupful of milk, two cupfuls of corn flour, four tablespoonfuls of bakihg powder. Mix together (he hominy, salt, melted shortening, beaten egg and milk. Add the flour, which has been sifted with baking powder. Beat well and bake in greased muffin tins or a shallow pan in a hot oven Hor from twenty-five to thirty minutes, Barley Scones. Twa oupfuls of barley meal, one tea- spoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuly of baking powder. two tablespoenfuls of fat, three-quarters cupful of sour milk, one- third teaspoonful of soda. 8ift together the dry ingredients and work ia the fat. Dissolve the soda In a tittle cold water and add to the milk, Com- bine all'to form a soft dough. Turn out on a well floured board, knead slightly, roll to onezhalf Inch thickness, Cut diamond shapes and bake in a hot oven. Baked Oatmeal and Nuts. Two cupiuls of cooked oatmeal, one cup- ful of crushed peanuts, one-half eupful of milk, one teaspoonful of vinegar, one quarter teaspoonful of pepper, two and one-half fuls of salt. Mix all the ingredients together and bake in a greased pan for fifteen minutes. In- stead of meat, cook this appetizing dish for your family. Buckwheat Cakes. Two cupfuls of buckwheat, one-quarter cupful of sugar, three.qusrters cupfu! of corn syrup. two tablespoonfuls of shorten- ing. one good teaspoonful of baking pow- der, one cupful of milk. Put over top be- fore baking one tablespoonful of brown x HOME MADE VINEGAR. i hn pid One quart molasses, one pint yeast and {three gallons warm water. Put all in & Inspired by the numerous laanchings of American ships, the well known choo" trains and favorite kiddie games have been abandoned by this American boy for the overalls and the hammer, Two a& month is his record so far, and all the bathtubein his neighborhood too' crowded with traffic to permit bath ing--which choo the children for more up-to-the-minute pestimes, and here "Little Robbie" is building a wooden a good job of it. Ordinary blocks and trick animals have been put in the non-essential class by and be says that as soon as milk, so that his ship can take her first are he also would put in the non SUMMER DRINKS Orange Grape Juice. Juice of one orange, one-half glass of i chipped ice, grape julee Fill glass half fall of chipped fice, add juice of one orange and fill remainder of glass with sweetened grape juice one person Serves Juice of three oranges, juice of one lemon, one cupful of pineapple juice, one pint of water, th.ee-quarters cupful of sugar, one quart of ice water, Boil one pint of water with three-quar ters cupful of sugar for Cool Add remaining Ingredients and serve very cold. Makes nine glasses. Lemon Fizz, Carbonated water, one lemon, sugar. Fill a glass half full of vichy or plain carbonated water and squeezs Into it the juice of half a lemon. Stir into it a tea spoonful of powdered sugar and serve while effervescing. Serves one person, Other very attractive drinks can be mad. from the above by floating a layer of grape juice or loganberry juice-on top and garnishing with a slice of orange or sprig of mint leaves. Ginger Ale Lemonade, Substitute Enger ale for grape julee above formula, in £1ve | minutos | Place for girls of high senoot age 1s assur | edly lacking in good judgment and com- | mon sense. The young woman who is an authority an all the new musical hits, who is famil- iar with the latest knitting stitches, or who is singled out as the most graceful fancer in her set may, without any gues. tion, be the source of keen satisfaction to avery member of "her set, but If this Pampering a youngster, "waiting upon him band and foot," as the old saying runs, and letting him have his own way hn all things will eventually result in his becoming downright selfish and ungrate- ful, and this lack of restraint may, later on in life, cause him to develop Into a bit of human driftwood, an unfortunate, uses less and unhappy member of society. VERYBODY is naturally desirous of knowing how to identify geod and . bad eggs without breaking the shell. What has come to be considered the only 'nfailing test is "candling.™ The Department of Agriculture has pre- pared a set of simple instructions for lousewives by which they may assure themselves in 4 few moments whether the SEES the grocer has sold them are fresh, ind Tt they are not they may send them back unbroken and Immediately. The process, in simple terms, is to hold an egg before a shaded light in a dark 'oom. and by noting certain character- stics ceen through the semi-transparent hell to determine its, edible qualities. Persons with only a few eggs to handle may improvise a cdndler by placing a tovepipe or closed box over a light, cut- ting a small hole 'in the pipe level with the light. The egg is held in a slanting position' at the opening. I¢ js twisted a few times to the right and left and then from end to end, so that its entire con- ents mas be visible. Care should be taken that the fingers 7 hand do not conceal small blemishes which otherwise would be disclosed by the light, The beginner should study carefully the Seneral formation of an egg, as this de- tailed knowledge is necessary for an un- lerstanding of the markings that indicate age. The yolk ranges in color from Hght vellow to orange, and occasionally is olive green. The eggs with olive green yolks are leas desirable because of this color, but ave considered edible. The sol is fonained in a delicate membrane and on its surfade is a small light colored ciroular area called the germinal disk, from which the chick develops, ph The yolk always floats in the white with the chick spot on top. Around the yolk lies a small quantity of thin white and ---- | Simple Instructions for Testing Eggs at Home then a heavy layer of thick white, Twisted cord-like cords of opaque white material called chalazae extend from the yolk through the white toward each end of the egg and hold the yolk In position, yet allow it to turn freely. Between the white and the shell are two fibrous membranes with an alr space between them. When first lald the cone tents fill the entire egg, but when the EE cools the ¢ontents shrink and these mem= branes separate, forming an air space, The size of this air space is important in determining the freshness of the A As-the egx ages the alr face Increases in size. Most bad eggs have enlarged alr spaces. A fine, thick white is found in a fresh egg, and a weak, thin white in & stale egE. As the egg becomes stale the amount of 'thin white increases and the amg SZ thick white decreases. Several opsot of bad eggs are Indicated by discolored whites, The yolk of the fresh egg when twirled before the candle is seen dimly as a dark object moving slowly in the white. The yolk of a stale egg is seen mors plainly than that of a fresh esx. SAVE JAR CAPS. Economy jar caps may be taken from the jars by placing a hot iron! on them and turning until afl the adhesive material is softened, instead of puncturing the cap 88 directed. Caps may then be used again on jars' used for jam or pickles not need- ing to be sealed. 8 -------------------- ECONOMY OF HEAT. To boil and bake with the same Heat from your oll stove, bake in the rack of your oven ald boll ih Jower part. near the fire. This not only economizes on fuel, but improves the baking quality; It also bolle faster and better 2 nan open kettle, 3 5 TEAMSHIPS running out of Tacoma, in the State of Washington, are em ploying women as oilers, Ax California sugar refinery employs women &s testers i The avéragé rate of pay paid women time workers fn England is $5.05 a week. More than L000 women are now at work on the surface and subway systema in New York city. Several | women are smploved a= draughtsmen by the Towa State Highway! Department. Miss Loulsita Wood ih, d hier of Gen ral Leonar: ond, is a long horse rider. : tha Employment of women as railway mail clerks, Only women with men folk In the service are allowed to make gas masks for the American army. The large estate In Ireland owned by the Countess of Drogheda is farmed by. her and her.young son. She does all the P! ou » § { brother was called away to Ladysmi ghing. - When her war Miss Eanice Maloney, Wie. took bis job as a I operator in a newspaper office, + i The women members of the Bjoux Indian tribe jocated in Rock vation in North Dakota have Red Cross auxiliary; Dr, Bertha 1 The are using women i well as using of departments. to tion. ter company after spending a few mo her home country. ; Bede