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Most of the Taboos or Criticism of Conduct Have Their Origin in Jealousy

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iting a greet deal of smoke, which improved my mum. But to my an- moy I have bean told by a woman that it is hllhly improved for a woman o1 my on to ride a bicycle and that nobody would think that one who did so was “nlce." Please tell me 1f this is true, for while I enjoy my bicy e .1 try to use common sense and good tug, n QWYyihl-ng I do and do not wish to be cen-

sured by right-thinking people. _ I. MAO E.

Answer: _

Don't listen to the woman who enticing; you for riding a bicycle at 53. He; remarks were most likely inspired by envy because ‘ she ls too fat or stifl to mount one herself. As you go along through life

you find that most of the taboos have their origin in Jealousy, Th; things that people cannot do themselves they consider Just Perfectly awful for other people to do, and try to stop them.

. ' MWWBY. l W011i“ 01' 53 (ii-ll d0 8113191918 that is decent that she has ' the strength and the health and the inclination to do. Many women gven - older than you take up sports, go to college, go into '- ' n; bwom globe-trotters, and instead oi lifting their eyebrows at them, all intelli - ent people give them the glad hand. For it is a fine thing for a wom to have initiative enough to find something interesting and enjoyable to . do that will make the latter part of her life perhaps the better- part o1 it, instead of sitting down in the corner at home in dull despair waiting for death to come and get her.

The greatest modern improvement is that we have abolished age and- havo thrown into the junk pile the hampering superstitions abouflwhat an old person should wear and what an old person should do and how old people should conduct themselves. It simply puts people in their forties in a strait-jacket and after they were 50 they mlflrt just as well have been in $0 grave for all the liberty they had and all the pleasure they got out of

-~ e. : In those terrible old times a woman with grown children was looked M aslcance and thought to be frivolous if she didn't wear black silk and sit on the sidelines at parties. Then a respectable middle-aged woman

church instead oi playing golf or riding a bicycle or driving a car. The chimney corner was wished on Grandma while she was still hale and hearty and she was expected to enjoy herself by preparing for the end.

But look at it now. - Grandma and Granddaughter buy glad raiment at the same specialty shops, they so to the same parties, and nobody cares whether Grandma. is 20 or 100 as long es she is gay and amusing. Grandma isn't in the chimney corner, she is on a. world cruise. And she isn't medi- tating on her latter end, she is asking what is trumps in a snappy game of contract. '

. " So next time your critical friend tells you that women of 53 are not l mding bicycles, you tell her that they are doing it and whatever else they like, and‘ that if she doesn't know it she is just behind the times.

T And here is a final tip: Don't let what people say about you worry . you so long as your conscience-is clear. You will never be happy until Q you acquire the trick of letting your friends' and. your neighbors’ critic- i isms go in one ear and come out of the other without leaving even a memory or a resentment behind-

, Because people are going to talk about you and discuss your affairs and find fault with your taste whatever you do even as you do theirs. No matter what you do or leave undone they are going to find fault with i}. and s0 as you cannot pouribly please the public why not please _. and do as you like, providing, of course, you keep within the bounds of proper conduct? l

. I I I O I I Dear Miss Dix-I em n years old and have been married nve months. Before I married, I joined a. woman's lodge, attended several meetings and card parties, all of which I enjoyed very much. Now my husband refuses l to let me go to meetings or to attend any social activitim. I have no out- ? side interests and I feel as if I should have something to do to occupy a _ ' little of my time after my housework is done. Do you think I ain wrong ' h asking for this little bit of freedom? - T. H. S.

l- Answer: ' I certainly do not, and I think that your husband does not understand bow cruelly tyrannical he is or else he would not withhold this bit of pol’- l sonal liberty from you. Just ask him how he would like it if the tables f: were turned and you refused to let him belong to any club or to spend an hour qr two every week or so with a group of men. Just ask him how he would like to be shut up in a. house all day with only his own thoughts tor company and nobody to swap a. bit of gossip with. It ls because men spend their days m crowds, coins visors and soolns -., things and meeting other people and when they come home they are Iii-d to be away from it all and quiet, that they can't undermine! ‘Why 71°11!“ over went to step out and are not content just in stay within the four rwalls. of their houses. They dqdtprealise that women need n change 1mm the monotony oi housework. and that filly “"9 fill Wfy illlilfl 0! which the men are tired. _ ' A husband makes no greater mistake than when he refuses to let his wife have any outside interests, because it narrows her down into be- » coming nothing but a drudga and a man wants something more than that . in his wife. It mikes a woman nervous and peevish and fretful never to 1 ‘have any diversion. It makes her narrow and tiresome and stupid to I have he; whole life bounded by the four walls oi her home, and it develops 1 nagging in a. woman to have nothing to think about but her husband's ult n we. s. . n ‘Iéh: glse Yuan encourages his wife in belongllll i0 clubs llld in 801118 places and having as many interests outside oi the home as possible This keeps her young and. broad-minded and entertainllls. 511a is a ll!‘ 111°" agreeable companion of an Iveniiry when she opens up the little budget of gossip she has gathered during the day than is the woman who has nothing m our about but the blah price of lputohoro‘ moot and how bl! the gas bill was, and how troublesome the children are, and the 110w 081' the smiths have and why can't he make money like other men. Bo for his own sake as well as his wife's I warn every bridollwlll against marking a doormat of his wife. She will always be there, but he will get so tired of her after mine. DOROrHY DIX-

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"Inwd, chile, yo‘ all tell me what fix and I does it."

Sugar felt the thin little ribs and knew he hadn't had the prop- er nourishment. Mrs. Ire ‘Masters had left him to the servants and they hadn't known any better than to feed him the wrong things and let him play with his food. She was thankful Mother Riddle had let ler take can of the little ones at the orphanage. She knew ex- actly what a two-year-old child should eat, and what its daily routine should be.

Eurasia went back to the kitch- en, a big broad smile’ on her friendly black face. In the hall she met Liney, the laundrosa, and stopped long enough to whisper, “Skeeter new nuss purty as a angel, an’ de sweetes’ chile evah breaved dc breaf life."

Llrrey went upstairs and tried to peek in the ‘nursery door without being seen. But the door was closed, and all she could hear was Skeeters delighted Indian yells of

oy. The child didn't even notice that Sugar. was scrubbing him within an inch of his life, with soap and a big washcloth. For he was fish- ing for a great'big whale. In his thin little hand he held a string with a. dull bent pin on the end of it, and the whale was his rub- ber frog, spinning through the water.

Life had begun for Sugar in the big house.

Sugar was a little discouraged at her failure to interest Skeeter in his cereal and fruit at supper time. In the morning she knew he was tarnished and made up her mind he must eat.

In the corner of the nursery was a child's table and cliiir. The chair was e. big Mickey Mouse carved out oi wood. The table was painted with the cat and the fiddle nursery rhyme. A’ little dog laughed, the cow jumped over the moon, and a dish ran away with the spoon in gay colors.

"We're going to lave a party," importantly,

ecomfuliy from his orange juice and oatmeal with thick cream.

She took the table, spread it with a cloth, handed Skeeter a napkin with a little Scottie dog on it and sat him down. Then she took an empty dish and spoon and pretended to be eating.

"Um-mn-m," mrgar made a happy face and smacked her lips.

"Don' lmow how to feed Skeet- er," the boy pushed his chair back- "Don' like oats meal." _

"But this is e. party. All little boys and girls feed themselves when they have e party. I'm eat- ing ice croam. Aren't you?"

Skoetcr oyod Sugar suspiciously for a moment, then slowly took a spoonful of the cereal and put t into his mouth. It was sprinkled with a tiny bit oi shredded cocoa.- nut and he looked sllfpflbdd. Dillie ‘had been too impatient to teach the child to eat,_and too lazy to let him get his clothes soiled try- ing to learn.

When he took a second bite and spilled a little on his rompers sugar pretended she was brushing something from her own dress. Then she closed her eyes and opened her mouth.

"Open my mouth, shut my eyes and I'll give rne something to make me ‘sprisedf’ she recited in a pretty sing song.

"Sprise my rnouf'," Skeeter mimicked with shrieks of joy and kept wit. up until his dish was emp .

Then they drank "tea" and Skeeter was so excited with tho new game he failed to notice that his omuge juice was flavored with cod liver oil. sugar sighed with re- lief when his breakfast was gone and very little of it spilled on the outside. It was e. swificr victory than she bad expected» If also new games to kgp him interested without spoil g him, everything would be all right.

It was eight o'clock of a lovely arid-June morning and Susar was eager to get her little charge out in_the warm sunshine. She found

e. girl about her own age. “And who are you," the new- comer eyed Sugar curiously. ‘Am the new nurse?" "I came

Sugars neck. "Dis uus - gar."

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"Heis trying to any Sugar. That's my name. I'm Sugar die."

‘That's not your- l name, of oounmJuet whet you d Skeeter weevil-you."

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anything about. What's no funny," .

The slrl give a little embarr- assed giggle.

“I-Pm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your ‘feelings. I-I just thought the name was odd, that's all. Sugar doesn't sound like a real name-and Priddle is a funny name too-J’

Sugar felt that her visitor was sincerely sorry for her rudeness, and forced a smile of forgiveness.

"That's all right. I don't mind, really. Mother Friddle at the or- phanage named me, and it's the only name I've ever been called."

As suddenly as the girl had laughed her entire manner

changed.

“Oh," her blue eyes grew round with understanding. "You're en I-I might have known from your dress."

Sugar nodded, a\d looked down at her heayy black oxfords anu lisle stockings. ,

"Ye-es. I didn't have anything but these things, and. Mother Friddie let me keep them. She's very kind."

“I-I’d like to mar a dress like that if _I could look as beautiful as you," the stranger said in a hurt syn-pathetic little voice, and Sugar promptl, forgave her for laughing.

"I-rd even like being an orphan, if I could be a. beautiful one," she edged, still trying to square her- se .

"You're spoofing me." Sugar completely forgave her. "You're much more beautifuithan I am. Why, you've got red hair tool And I bet we're just about the same height."

The girl stood up and they measured back to back.

“You're just a little shorter than I," the visitor decided. "Our hair is nearly the some color. Only rnine's old straight stuff. I have s. permanent. If I had curly hair and brown eyes like yours-I'd be so thrilled. Honest. I think you're really beautiful!"

"Well," Sugar changed the sub- ject, "you haven't told me who you are"

"I'm Zanie Lou Langworthy, Mrs. Le Masters’ sister. I'm seven- teen and I live here. Anything else you'd llketo know?" She grinned, showing sharp little white teeth.

“Nope! But I think your dress is ‘stunning!’ Sugar stood back and

the maize tennis frock. "I've never had a real dress in my life. Just uniforms."

Zanie Inn's cyes grew misty. “Really! I'll bet you'll be the pmttlest girl in this town when you earn some money and fix yourself up. Just you wait! The boys will be crazy about you."

Sugar laughed; but Zanie Iou persisted. You'll be a knockout! Have you ever had a. boy friend?"

“Sort oi," Sugar evaded. "But I've never tired a real date. We're not allowed to go places in the or- phanage, you know. 0r to be alone with a boy!’

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URGENT QUESTION Bobbie asked so many questions that finally he wore out his moth- er's patience and was packed of! to

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BABY'S

_ Ohm a boy "hero-worship" an older brother. 0r be may imitate more aggres- Iivo boy: at school. pm 1a this habit grow. Encourage his own initiative, and dlvdilllmmt of his personal talents.

Children who are not strong and sturdy are apt to be lees independent. Health ‘.13’; “"°'.‘;'i’ "' “rifts” as:

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Cream butter well, add sugar and cream together. Gradually add flour nndmixwelLklaceon a baking board and knead for 20 minutes. ‘Ilhe secret oi good shortbread lies in the kneltding of it. Shape either in round cakes or in linger lengths and bake in a slow oven, 2'15 de- grees for the first half hour and 300 degrees for the last half hour. The total time for cooking is approxi- mately one hour.

> ORANGKADE Allow twelve Juicy oranges to 1 lb. of sugar. Peel three oranges and boil this peel with. the sugar in a ping of water. Squeeze the juice from the rest of the oranges, than mix all together with the ' water. Measure up to two quarts, add water to make up this quantity. Stir well. When serving add crushed ice.

QUICK ALMOND PUDDING Two ounces of sugar, two ounces of ground almonds, two ounces of butter, two ounces of breadcrumbs. two eggs and two o of chopped candied peel, one gill of milk.

Beat butter and sugar to a cream. add the almorum, crumbs and warm- ed milk. Stir well, add the peel, and then the beaten eggs. Pour into a well greased pie dish and bake from ten to fifteen minutes until firm to the much.

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In field or forest, at the dds! 0|- loom,

In roaring market-place or tre.n. quil room; Ietmebutflnditinmyheartto

58y. When vagrant wishes beckon m; i astray: "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; 0f all who live, I am the one by whom This work can but be done in the- right way."

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TOWN TWIEDS Tweed has at last been accepted as smart town wear by Imrdonere. It is seen everywhere. in smart ‘ ‘. in offices. and mt the

' cinema. It is no longer only made

up into heavy suits and overooets, but it is amalgamated with for fur, satins. and other recognised "town" materials.

IDWARDIAN FURNITURE

Edwardian fumiturie is now wide- ly despised. yet it hfl its points as I newspaper writer now points out. m the 1000 house, you met a hat and umbrella stand in the hall. It is no longer there-yet hatsand coats, as the writer insists, are still discarded in the hall, and umbnl- las still drip. ~

"Lax-g, dressing-tables with "duchesee sets," "trinket sets," and hand mirrors have gone. In the hours of ordinary young married people it is now impossible to see the back 0i onds head. And what hes become of the "hair tidy",

A WHITE CARPET

An unusual London drl-wingmom isinprocessofbeingarrangedby Indy Victoria Hornby. She has a white pile carpet; to match her white walls and ceiling. White en- gel-skin has been used for the pel- mete to the lime green 8nd white patterned-silk curtains to give a sculptured effect.

White satin, jade green ' velvet, and lime green have all been used to cover sofas and chairs. Flowers a. placed in white earthenware

NOVII. SALAD with the new season's dates mak- salad

To add to the realistic effect, in. "N? filly sprigs of parsley at the top of each.

Place each o1 these carrots in a delicate green lettuce leaf, ‘ ‘ with a date stuffed with walnut, add a few sprigs of oress, then serve with a. French dressing.

NEW HAIR. BAND The latest addition to the aven- ing toilette, a new head-dross, will lDPofll greatly to the smart wo- man. It originated from the fact that it is irritating and upsetting Bet one's hair dlsarranged, as often hI-llpons on a gusty night. The headdress consists of n band that goes round the head in the man- ner of a. halo, and of a bouquet of some kind that is worn to one side ill iiont- The bends are artistically twisted to fit the head, nnd an in velvets, limes, beading, leaves, u. quills, and in many other unusual materials. For the bouquet too, m. lotions rouse from the startling to the neat and simple, including flowers, ‘ ‘r , be“, ' leaves and birds. Most striking of all are two long sprays of pnmdigg feathers knotted to s black velvet band. brig ly-plurned bird,