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THE TROUBLE MAKER.
NO one expeots one business wom
an to spend her time or so to
any trouble to adjust the affairs
of another or to work herself
■lck over her companions’ difficulties
and trials. If ahe manages her own
Job well, attends to all her own af
fohs». and settles le problems that
bother her, the t- verage woman ir the
business world will have all she can do.
But while she may not have the time
nor the inclination to be a positive
benefactor to her- business associates,
she l can help at least in a negative
manner by refraining from adding 10
her companion’s troubles. For It
sometimes happens, as in the follow
ing" Case, that one business woman
may be the chief cause of worry and
trouble to her fellow worker.
If the business girl cannot add to
the happiness of those* about her she
can and should avoid making the time
spent in the office a burden to her fel
low workers. Two tvv>e*-’ of business
girls are clearly drawn in the follow
ing letter, the one who helps and the
one jvvho hinders her associates.
“ Dear Miss King: It has been my
good fortune to have helped one girl
out of an intolerable situation, and I
thought maybe my telling of that ex
perience might be of use to others.
“ The department where I am em
ployed is a sort of clearing house for
girl employes for the rest of the house.
When a girl is hired she is usually
placed in our department, and from
there, if she proves to have any ability,
she is sent to x better position some
place else in the house. lam in charge
of the girls in this department, and as
part of my duty is to weed out the
girls who show no sign of business
sense or adaptability I observe the
work of the closely, and have
grown to be a good judge of a girl’s
working ability and character.
" About six month ; ago a young girl
came to work in the department, who,
although she had no previous business
experience, was rather above the aver
age in intelligence. She learned the
routine of the department quickly, and
did every task assigned to her. I never
had to instruct her twice in anything.
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THE iYPSY'S PROPHECY.
AUNT NANCY was a great favor
ite with all the family and her
two weeks’ vacation which the
bank gave her every summer
was usually spent in our home on the
farm We always looked forward with
much pleasure to the time when she
Would come, and this summer es
pecially, as she had written that she
had “great news” to tell us.
After Aunt Nancy had completely
rested from the hot, tiresome trip from
the big city, we all gathered around
her to listen to her thrilling experi
ence with a Gypsy fortune telier. And
this is the story she told:
“I was standing in my cage at the
bank counting money when a middle
aged woman walked up. Her reddish
brown skin, sparkling black eyes, and
g tudy costume proclaimed her a mem
ber of the wandering tribe. My heart
vent pit-a-pat, for, like most young
Women, I wondered if she wouldn’t tell
my fortune.
" Around the Gypsy's throat was a
string of foreign coins. Pointing to
this she asked, ‘Any gold? Me want
coins, give you paper money for
coins.’
“I shook my head and directed her
to the cashier’s window She lingered
a moment, and then asked, ' Want your
fortune told? Me read your hand.
Plenty good luck for you.’
“This was a temptation I couldn’t
IF your birthday fulls during the
weekbeginning today you arc un
der the Influence of the sign Taro*
(April 20 May 20). This is the head
lign of the earth triune arid its chief
Sharueteristlcs are a strong will and
nucli natural sympathy. Its tribe Is
Asher, meaning happlnes It Is the
istural home of Venus, which gives a
lendeney to early marriages.
You sometimes make sudden and
ipexpecteil changes. You drop one
tin ploy men t and vault into another
elthout any interlude and generally
uceeed In the new one. You are re
nnrkubly cvrn tempered and generous,
inless crosse 1. Hut when you are
hrown Into a rage, you resemble noth
ne so much us your prototype, the
rail, with no regard for entreaties,
h eats, and still 1<- s for the furniture.
You are. or can he. very secretive,
eierved. and quiet about your affairs.
Although devoted, for it time, to friends
ill 1 acquaintances, you nre apt to make
fce circle small and circumscribed,
feu can stand a certain amount of
Iftttery and consideration for your feel,
ire but you may not render as much
a you like to receive.
There Is some pessimism In your
tature. which, although It sees the
rightness under the cloud, still Is con
clous of the cloud being overhead,
'ou have the faculty of being Intense
t sarcastic In your arraignment of
’rung actions and evildoers. Under
torn or lass provocation you can In
-igs In sasns bitterness of speech.
" She was with me not quite three
months, when I was called on to sup
ply a girl for a fairly good job In an
other part of the house, and X recom
mended her for .he job in preferwice to
others who had been with us longer.
“ I saw very little of her at the of
fice, as we were In different parts of
the house and both too busy to visit.
bu s I met hel- occasionally on the car.
On these ocacsions I noticed she was
very subdued and seemed anxious to
avoid talking about her new position,
even when I questioned her about it.
The other day I met one of the girls
from the same department and asked
her how my little friend was getting
along. Greatly to my Astonishment
she remarked, *.l don’t see why you
sent her to our department. She’s one
of the most stupid girls I ever knew.’
“ I rode home with the younger girl
that night, and insisted that she tell
me the story of her experience in the
new position.
" When she took the position the
girl who was supposed to instruct her
in the work didn’t make any attempt
to help her, and when she asked for
information the other snapped at her
and made remarks to the office in gen
eral about the ‘stupidity of some peo
ple.* If she made a slight error or
did anything out of the routine, the
other girl would call the attention of
the office force to the fact. She made
her life miserable by sarcastic re
marks and .unkindness, so that the
younger girl, whose work in my de
partment had been so promising, be
came nervous over her work and made
a number o. mistakes, and instc .. of
improving she was getting worse every
day.
“The next r. irning X had a talk
with the manager of that department,
and before a week had passed the older
girl was transferred to another part of
the house and the younger girl was
given her work to do. Every one else
in the office is agreeable to her, and
sire is getting along splendidly, r
shows promise of being one of the
most successful girls in the house.
"R. A. M.”
resist, and so I extended my palm.
She then asked for a piece of silver
to rub away the bad luck, she said.
She then wanted paper money, which
she instructed me to hold tight in
both palms, changing from one to an
other as she talked. * Lots of good
luck for you,’ she told, as the money
was passed from one hand to another.
‘Plenty friends. Tall smooth faced
man who will be very, very good to
you.’
" Then it was she must have hypno
tized me, for in some unaccountable
manner to me she stole a *IOO bill.
“ There was only one -in the money
drawer and in the excitement of the
moment I must have picked it up and
the wily old Gypsy had extracted it
from me. A policeman was called and
the woman arrested. After a thor
ough search it wfs found in her shoe.
“Of course, I had to appear as a
witness, and it was while I was at
the courthouse that I met the district
attorney, who wants to be the tali
smooth faced young fellow the Gypsy
declared would be to good to me. I’ve
promised him a chance to prove the
fortune teller's prophecy, and do you
know, after all. I’m really glad she
stole the money, otherwise I wouldn't
have met my fortune."
Aunt Nancy then blushingly extend
ed hei left hand for us to examine the
hoop of diamonds she was wearing on
her third linger. s. V.
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If you were born Ibis week you are
You are sort of a puzzle In a way, In
this, that no one can tell exactly bow
a suggestion will strike you or a piece
of work will suit you. You may be
easy to please or nothing will suit you.
Yon are sympathetic ami kind, and
can show yourself capable of great
sacrifice. You love reading nnd may
be an earnest, effective talker, always
with a lingo of dogmatism. Your In
tuitions may amount almost to Insplra
tion, and you are apt to have religious
inclinations and denominational affilia
tions which are strong and Intense
while' they last. In some things you
are apt to go to extremes. Learn to
avoid extremes. You love ease and
comfort and hate hard work, hut you
will buckle down to It as though you
liked It
Being the head sign of the earth, you
will he congenial with those born In
Capricorn. Dec. lan. 20. should you
marry a Libra person, Sept. 24 Oct. 2*.
there will he congeniality on a more
Intellectual basis. Scorpio. Oct. 24-
Nov. 22. being the exact opposite In
the zodiac, would also make a happy
union. But In any of these unions
the chances of a Taurus person’s hap
piness depend greatly upon himself
Your most fortunate times In the
year to undertake new enterprises are
the two weeks beginning Sept. S and
Jan. 11. Your eolors are azure, red.
and lemon yellow; birth stones, moss
agate and emerald.
Sympathetic.
U&e Girls
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i OF TOD AY.
Chic little chits uho yesterday
If ere giggling in their girlish way
Are now sophisticated vamps
With sinful, soulful, sea-green lamps;
They've, lived and suffered, O! so
much!
And life is a dead sea fruit they
touch.
Ah, no; these children look blase
'Cause Theda Kara looks that way;
And life evokes a weary smile
Because just now it is the style;
They all mean well, the little dears,
But some one ought to pull llieir
ears.
J. V. McEvoy .
THIS is a tale or two sisters, drmgli
ters of two nice parents, even as
yours and mine. Beatrice (pro
nounced Beatryeeshe), and Jane,
've will call them, Beatryeeshe being
the older by a little bit In years but
by much in the air of sophistry, but
not in experience.
It is strange how in one family where
the same doctrinal upbringing is ad
ministered to all the children there is
sometimes a marked difference in the
result of the experience. Beatryeeshe
was tlie difference in this perfectly nice
family. Leastways she believed firmly
she was. That's why when she got
through celebrating her sixtlenth
birthday she decided to do all her think
ing for herself and not to let mother’s
and father’s old fashioned admonish
ments influence her. So, when father
and mother advised Beatryeeshe that
youth was the loveliest thing in the
world she smiled inwardly and pro
ceeded on her business of showing them
they knew very, very little abo.it it. be
cause naturally they must be old fash
ioned, being nigh a generation behind
her in their way of looking nt things.
So she proceeded to pluck out her eye
brows and touch up her lips with a
carmine stick.
And the parents not being so old
fashioned as Beatryeeshe would be
lieve them Just bowed their heads and
said: “Dear, what shall we do with
her?" If they had been of the older
brand of parentage they would have
laid her across one of their respective
knees and administered to her most
disrespectfully.
Kmboldened. Beatryeeshe bought a
bottle of white lacquer for her face
and n pair of hoop-la earrings and ap
plied them where they would suedeed
best in adding experience and maturity
to what might other wise have passed
for a nice girlish expression.
Her new party frock was of her own
designing and it was designed out of
the ignorance of her youth unham
pered by any worldly experience what
soever. Consequently it was a reve
lation in what not a young girl may
wear and still be listed among the best
families. O, yes. very very low cut!
And very, very tight about the skirt.
Naturally, the young man and those
a little older, not realising the actual
state of Innocence of her young h»nrt,
said things to her. and dancing with
her —well, didn’t behave just as they
would have insisted on a fraternity
brother, for Instance, acting toward
their own sisters.
But that, wasn’t Just the point of my
story! Only incidental! By the time
Beatryeexhe had arrived close to an
eighteenth birthday, J&ne blossomed
forth. But Jane blossomed differently.
Her mother’s* advice was listened to
and her father’s approval wus courted.
And she was a lovely tiling. A com
plexion clear as a lily with a pea* h
tone surmotinting her rounded out
cheeks. She was an outdoor girl, full
of fun, and with a wholesome sense of
the fitness of things. While Beatry
eeshe walked the avenoo, lacquered
and rouged, and wearing that unut
terable look of boredom which is no
ticeable on many of our young* faces,
but darting a sly glance to be sure
her efforts to attract attention were not
futile, which they were not, June was
taking a hike, or playing tennis, or on
her way to a swimming tank, or at
home helping mother on the raveled
ends left by the maid, or reading sonic
healthy book, or rippling off a Mendels
sohn Song Without Words or a Bus
tle of Spring, or some such!
That was the kind of a girl Jane was!
While Beatryeeshe, looking by now as
if she had paid and lost and wus pay
ing the cost, was frequenting an alley
known in more or less polite circles as
having some connection with a vain
bird, Mr. Peacock.
Well, It came to pass the mother
of Beatryeeshe and Jane received a
letter one day from an old school friend
of hers, whose name for a decade back
had become a household word as a na
tional beauty. She was an actress.
Therefore, the household was antici
pating the promised early visit with
more than tlie usual excitement.
Added to the excitement was the com
ing of the young aviator son of thu
actress —just returned from overseas
and decorated becomingly for valor.
Ah, a conquest for Beatryeeshe!
She bought some open work lace stock
ings, a new bottle of lacquer, some new
ami ornate earrings, and a "star
patch " for her upper right cheekbone,
and spent hours visualizing herself
parading him around, the envy of her
sorority sisters and her blood sister,
Jane.
The guests arrived. Beatryeeshe
was dressed for the reception. And
things were looking bright for her un
til Jane arrived on the scene, breeling
in from a snappy walk with the color
of peaches in her cheeks and ripe
strawberries on her lips, and the light
Doris Blake's Answers to Inquiries
Deadly in Love.
"Dear Miss Blake: I am a girl of
Id. I am deadly in love with a young
man two years my senior. He escort
ed me to a purty one night and on'
the way home we sat down on a bench
in a park. Hu put Ills arms around
me and kissed me and I kissed him.
We talked of things in general and
then went home. Kver since then he
klsn-s me wiien we meet. Is tills
wrong? Our parents know nothing of
this. The other night lie asked me to
become his wife, I accepted, but told
my parents nothing What shall I do?
How shall 1 break the news to them?
Also, Is It right to accept a ring from
him? Kvgi.rx."
The fact that you did not tell your
parents anything would Indicate a
cense of guilt of some degree. Ho
you think that's a fair way to treat
a mother who for sixteen years has
watched over you and cared for you
»s no one else In the world would but
a mother? Tell her. Evelyn, and tell
Ter about the kissing episode and lls
ten reasonably to what she has to
say. Hhe undoubtedly will advise you
to wait a few years bafore you talk of
of Joyous youth In her eyes. And a
laugh on her lips that won! Her hair
caught back in a delightfully girlish
way at the back of her neck, and a
simple dress not too simple but a
youthful thing it was. No rouge, no
lip stick - no bored or world worry look
about her.
Which was why the young aviator,
who had seen a hit of the world in
spite of his only 20 years, found her
a joy to behold. Well, to make a long
story short, Beatryeeshe wasn’t asked
if she would write him when he
went away. Nor did she receive the
candy and the flowers, nor did she get
the chance to talk books with the
young hero. He had his preference
and he showed it.
And that wasn’t the only thing
that set Beatryeeshe to thinking. She
was buried in a chair in the living
room “mooning" her nails and shin
ing them to un ultra-flvrislt wlien there
i ime floating through the dining room
her name and that of Jane. She came
up with a Jerk, when her mother's
friend said to her mother: " It would
make me wonderfully happy, Mary, If
Bob and Jane should marry. She is
tin* most beautiful girl and the most
adorable one I’ve seen in all my years
of experience. She's a real girl. You
find so few of them these days, and,
after all, Mary, they’re * the kind a
mother wants to hoc her son marry.
No makeup, no bored and sated air
about her, is there? Just sheer, un
trammeled Joy of youth, with thf look
of it in her eyes and on her laughing
lip #
“ I wish Beatryoesh# were differ
ent," said she mother pathetically. “ I
don’t know where she gets her foolish
ideas, because at heart she Is as sweet
and lovable as she can be, but I can
not make her see ”
Beatryeeshe didn’t wait tj bear any
more. Sho was afraid her sobs might
give her away.
She Isn't wearing sophisticated airs,
nor sophisticated clothes, nor sophisti
cated glances any more! And what
do you think -she, too, bus a hero
a worshiping! He met her after she
gave up her *' worldly airs and graces,"
and he told her she was different from
other girls and that was why he liked
her!
marriage or accept the ring, and have
more, perhaps, to say on Kitting on
park benches late at night.
♦
Not at All Private.
" Hear Miss Blake: I am Interested
,ln your columns and hope to receive an
answer to my tale. 1 am u young girl
Ik years of age and going to college.
A classmate of mine fell In love with
me and we are engaged. Our (parents
approve. When we meet he kisses and
hugs, me In the open, and we are not
at all private about our embraces. Are
we wrong or right to do this? Is It
wrong to wear low evening dresses
when out with a rrmn? I wear them In
the evening very often. Hgi.gx."
Just because you are engaged you
must not feel yourselves privileged to
n vulgar display of your affection.
There Is a delicacy expected of en
gaged folk In their attitude toward
each other, so please do not bn guilty
of flaunting your kisses and embraces
In the eyes of a critical public. If It
Is an occasion for formal evening dress,
the low cut gown Is thv accepted cor
rect dress. On Informal occasions,
however, It U not good fortn.
Rj Learn a little and save a little every day-.!. '
‘fly Elizabeth Q. Hiller J
Omelet Ciboulette.
Mix three eggs, two tablespoons of
Hour, one-fourth cup of finely chopped
chives, ono tablespoon of finely
chopped green or red pepper, season
with salt, pepper, and a few grains of
nutmeg. Add one-fourth cup of thin
cream (top milk) and beat live minutes
with an egg beater. Melt two table
spoons of butter in an iron (No. 8) fry
ing pan, turn in egg mixture, and cook
over a slow tiro until delicately
browned underneath. Loosen the edges
with a spatula, fold, and turn on a
hot serving plutter. Garnish with pars
ley and serve for luncheon or supper.
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Shale Steak Creole.
This Is indeed a “ cheap skate ” steak
and the making of an ideal Lenten
dinner. Broil one side of a skate steak,
cut one and one-half to two Inches
thick, until healed through, turn and
spread the other side with a paste
mude by creamtnft three tablespoons
of butter with two tablespoons of
flour, then add one fourth cup of line
ly chopped onion, cover paste with
peeled and sliced .tomatoes, sprinkle
with salt and pepper, and cover with
a thin layer of buttered crumbs. Bake
in a hot oven until cooked through
und crumbs are brown, about twenty
minutes. Remove to serving platter
and pour around steak Sauce Galli,
made as followsf
Cook one slice of onion, one small
clove of garlic finely chopped, three
cloves, ami a small piece of bay leaf
with one and one half cups of thick
tomato pulp, until tomato is somewhat
reduced. Then rub through a sieve.
There should be one cup of pulp.
Brown one-fourth cup of butter richly,
being careful not to burn it. add toma
to pulp, one tablespoon of Worcester
shire sauce, one-half tablespoon of
lemon juice, two tablespoons of finely
chopped green pepper (previously par
boiled ten minutes, drained, and
chopped), salt and cayenne to season.
The recipe for this sauco was given
to mo many years ago by the late Mine.
Galli. It has been reduced by careful
experiments to serve six people, it
will bo found a. most pleasing accom
paniment with fried fish, fish cro
quettes, cutlets, baked or boiled fish,
etc.
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Smoked While Fish.
Cover smoked white fish with boiling
water. Let stand ten lnintk* a. Drain,
skin, and broil in a well greased double
broiler under a gas flame or over glow
ing coals five minutes on each side,
or bake fifteen minutes in the oven.
Spread with maitre d’hotol butter and
serve with baked potatoes.
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Maitre d’Hotel Under.
Cream one-fourth cup of butter, add
one-luwlf teaspoon of salt, one-eighth
teaspoon of pepper, a few grains of
cayenne, one-half tablespoon of finely
chopped parsley, mix thoroughly, then
add slowly one half tablespoon of lemon
juice while stirring constantly. Use as
directed.
Cauliflower Mail re d’l Intel.
Remove the leaves and cut off the
stalk of a choice head of cauliflower.
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BY CORINNK LOWE.
NEW YORK.—fSpecial Correspond
encej This Is the day of the mega
phone blouse. Although tardy In our
acceptance of the gay colored over
the skirt blouse, we ure at least taking
It up enthusiastically.
These boisterous bits of costume
come In various fabrics, among the
loveliest being the Hat Ik ones, which
certain young artists down (Ircenwich
VlSuge way have taken to designing
and disposing of ut such prices as
|7I, and SHO.
The recommendation of the emock
Let soak, head down, in cold salt
water two or three hours. Cook in
boiling salted water to cover until
just tender. Drain, remove to hot
serving dish, and spread Maitre d’ilo
tel butter over top of cauliflower. Ar
range thin slices of lemon sprinkled
with paprika or finely chopped pars
ley around cauliflower. A slice of
lemon accompanies each portion.
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Baked Fggs Jn Nests of Spinach.
Drain cooked spinach thoroughly,
finely chop and season with salt, pep
per, melted butter, and a little lemon
juice or vinegar. Mix well and heat
through, then lino small buttered in
dividual casseroles with the mixture.
Carefully break into each nest a fresh
egg, sprinkle with salt and paprika,
und bake in a moderate oven until the
eggs are firm. Serve in the casseroles
for luncheon, or supper.
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New Carrot Timbales.
Wash, scrape, and thinly slice
lengthwise small new carrots. There
should be one quart packed solidly.
Cook slices in two tablespoons of but
ter ten minutes, stirring constantly.
Then cover with boiling water or
chicken stuck and cook until soft.
Drain and rub through a. puiAe strain
er. To the puli) add two whole eggs
und one egg yolk slightly beaten. Sea
son with a few gratings of onion, salt,
and pepper. Garnish buttered fluted
molds with small green peas and fill
three fourths full of the mixture. Set
molds in a pan of hot water, cover
with a buttered paper and bake in a
moderate oven until firm (about fifteen
minutes). Unmold und serve with
roast leg of lamb or broiled lamb
chops.
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Leeks tin Toast.
Leeks are a species of onion which
does not form a bulk but Is used for
its mild and delicious root, stem, or
neck. Leeks are of unusual merit and
not half appreciated by the American
people, while held in high esteem by
many of our foreign population. To
those who are fortunate to have a
garden, I would suggest that y: u plant
some this year.
Wash and trim leeks and freshen
tin in in cold water. Drain and cook
until soft in boiling salted water.
Drain again und arrange on hot toast.
Four over butter melted In a table
spoonful or two of cream, sprinkle
with paprika, and servo with roast
Veal, pork, goose, Hr.
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Quick Baked Lima Brans.
Wash one quart of lima beans, pick
over, drain, and cover with cold water.
Cover und let soak over night.. Cook
until soft In the water in which they
soaked, adding more water as needed
lo keep the beans covered. Season with
salt and pepper and stir in two table
spoons each of butter und flour
creamed together. Bring to the boil
ing poll. turn into a well greased
baking dish, cover with a layer of
buttered cracker crumbs, and bake in
u hot oven until crumbs are brown.
Dried lima beans may bo cooked as
Boston baked beaus.
or oveilflouae Is that we can create so
many different costumes from one
skirt. It really makes the suit-case
summer a realised thing.
The skirt worn with these blouses
Is. of collide, plain In color. In the
drawing today, for Instance, a plaited
skirt of soft black satin Introduces
this unusual long blouse of black
satin embroidered In Jeweled orlentu!
colors and completed by cuffs, coliur,
and s ish of Chinese blue repented In
the hem. The hut of black Satin linn
upturned brim of the same Chinese
blue and the flowers on the crop-n
•oho those embroidered on the Ijlouse