THE BEE: 03IAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1G, 1J13.
A Smart Dinner Gown
Described by Olivette
Beautv in the Kitchen
Miss Heme Wouldn't Talk About Beauty, but Told
All She Knew of Cooking Her Hobby
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iins very fashionable
dinner gown is made of
snturno red silk cashmere.
Over a foundation of silk
cashmere there is draped
a tunic of black tulle hung
over a short flounce. Two
othor flounces, the first
crossing the tunic and the
second edging it, nre
trimmed with narrow'
bands of skunk fur.
The bodice, which is
small, is made of whito
silk muslin, trimmed with
rich incrustations of em
broidery and beads.
A band of skunk fur
makes the strap which
crosses the shouldor over
the kimono sleeve, which
is finished at the
hem with throe nurrow
flounces of the sanio ma
terial. A largo bow, in the stylo
called the "mousuie,"
trims the back. It is
finished with a deep
fringe of beads.
The skirt ends in a short
pointesd train
-OILVETTE.
"I'm n temperamental cook."
By MAUDE MILLKIt.
"Cooking la the. lode star of my ex
igence," Bays dainty Miss Chryatil'
Heme, Wild Is "playing" In the sensational
melodrama, "At Day," at the Thirty
ninth Street theater. "I'd sooner be iv
good cook than a great beauty any tlmo.
one Keta ao much more satisfaction out
of It". ...
It Isn't very often that a girl of today
'will confess to a thing like that, particu
larly a girl who has every claim to tho
beauty she affects to despise. But If you
can Imagine the combination of .a very
pretty girl and a good coqk.Jn tho bar-'
gain too can be almost sure that Miss
Heme gets more than her share of xul-'
miration. ' '
"I am a tempernmental cook," asserts
this lady of many attractions, proudly.
"I think probably that statement will
surprise you, but I know absolutely noth
ing about the technique of cooking. I
thing It la a very good thing, too, because
a temperamental cook performs when
she fools Inclined for It, Just llko some
one will play or sing for tho fun of the
thing. And cooking Is so very much
more exciting than either pf those.
"I say that I know nothing noout the
technique of cooking. I'm afraid that Is
hardly- tme, because I do know enough
to feel Intuitively that what I cook Is
sure to bo a success, J have never had a
failure, but I never make pie or coke.
Tftey are too heavy for my temperament.
"And now you would llko somo ad
ding at your work."
vlco for tho girl of today who would like
to bo a good cook? Of courso, thero Is
no denying tho fact that cooking by
technique Is by fnr tho safer way. One
cun learn very quickly In a good do
mestlo science school. Hut tho temper
amental cook has n much better tlmo
of It any day. Just go down In the
kitchen or out to tho kitchen. Just which
ever way you hnppon to bo situated, nnd
experiment. Don't use expetislvu In
gredients until you nro quite euro of
yourself.
"After a whllo you will unconsciously
think up dainty little concoctions that
cannot possibly bo found In any cook
book. They will tasto heavenly, and you
will be lauded to the skies, right over
the head of your patient, more serious-
"Don't uo axponslvo Ingredient."
minded sister who Is afraid to boll a
potato without a recipe. Theso little
special dishes require just tho right
framo of mind, and by nnd by you will
adopt your cooking temperament us soon
as you get Into your kitchen parapher
nalia. Lot your kitchen clothes be as
attractive as possible, too.
"Thero Is nothing llko being prepared
for -work, but there is no reason why
you shouldn't look quite as attractive In
the kitchen as you do In the parlor. You
will find, too, that after you have mas
tered the essontlals of temperamental
cooking everything will bo plain sailing,
and you will bo Just as cool and matter
pf fact about your work as If you had
nothing at all on your mind.
"Thero will bo no worry Mnos on your
forehead, and sudden frantic rushing for
tho cook book to see It you havtm't
omitted something from tho recipe.
"For tho temperamental cook a lot de
pends upon her cooking environment
Tho kitchen should bo made as attrac
tive aa possible, and each dish should bo
neatly put aside for washing as soon ns
It has been used. Tho temperamental
cook would never havo any success jf
she trlod to work In a messy kitchen.
"Oh, girls, you may not all be bom
conks, but there's no reason In the world
why you can't cook, and cook well. As a
last Injunction havo plenty of fresh air
In tho room and sing at your work. Fut
your whole heart Into It If you're going
to bo a temperamental cook. And, oh,
It's really worth whllo that way."
Ella Wheeler
Wilcox
ON
Telling the Truth
Wsvsr Lis; Tbsre Za Always Soma Way to Avoid It But Tell ths Truth
With Toot and Kindness
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1913, by Tho Star Company.
"Suppose a person had been arrested
and was on trial for a crime which that
person had not committed. Suppose that
person was In grave danger of convic
tion on circumstantial evidence.
"N o W suppose
that a friend of
the person on trial
was called as a
witness, and sup
pose, that questions
were put to that
friend which, If
answered truth
fully, would be
evidence against
his friend on trial.
Would that friend
be Justified before
God In telling lied
In answer to those
questions, In order
to .' protect h 1 s
friend on trial T
"My friend says
yes says ho wouldn't be a true friend
unless ho did lie. I say no. I say he
should tell the truth n,nd trust to God
for Justice. 1 say tho friend should stand
by the person on trial and do all ho can
for- that person, no matter how matters
go with that person. I say that a person
who deliberately lies In a case like this
Is putting that friend before God, In
that ho Is trying to have that person by
his ownvpuny strongth, without trusting
to God for Justice. 1 say that the person-
would still be a true friend to the
person 6n trial it he refused to answer
questions, or answered them truthfully,
even If his answers went against, hi
friend on trial. My friend says that he
wouldn't be a true friend unless he did
all In his power by telling lies or any
thing else In order to he'p that friend.
"What do you say?"
It seems to be the delight of many
people to Imagine situations which make
lies commendable.
Such situations as the one suggested
in this letter rarely occur.
The friend could refuse absolutely to
give testimony and prove his devotion
to his comrade by going; to Jail In con
tempt of court. 1
The. writer of this artlolo has an In
tense admiration for truthfulness and
on equally Intense abhorrence of lies.
Little fibs and the white lies seem on
a par with petty lareeny.
There are people who claim they stoal
to save those they love from hunger1.
But there Is always some other way
open. Were a huma,n being to go from
door to door, saying. "One I love is
dying from starvation or Jack of care;
give mo food and money far God's
sake!" there la no street In any land on
earth where all doors would be c'.osed
and 'assistance refused.
Yet men have broken Into houses and
robbed the Inmates and killed their fel
low tbelngs hei put at bay, claiming
their actions were forced by actual
need.
It is Indeed a terrible thing to be forced
to beg. But theft Is a more Ignoble art
than begging. There Is always a way to
avoid, theft.
There Is always some way to avoid
a He, even when speaking, the truth is
to seemingly .harm a friend.
It is far more courageous to say: "I
know my friend la Innocent: an I re
fuse to Btato facts which might seem to
Incriminate him. Therefore I declare my
self guilty of contempt of court'."
Beautiful as Is the truth, silence should
sometimes take the' place of the .spoken
truth.
Peoplo who nre brutally frank on every
possible occasion and who tell every
thing they think, however unpleasant It
may bo, often prldo themselves upon
their truthfulness.
Truthfulness loses half Its -.charm
when coupled with vu'garlly and' lack
of tnct and kindliness.
Tills earth would be worse than our
conception of the lower regions, if each of
us on all occasions spoke truthfully
every thought In his mind. Silence and
tact are necessary to save, us from giving
and receiving hurts.
A very sweet woman who Is popular
In her own town was much troubled by
fond mothers who Insisted upon show
ing her their babies and demanding her
opinion of their beauty.
Finally, when all her tact and all her
principles were triod to the utmost by
being asked while gazing at an espe
cially ugly baby girl: "Did you ever see
a prettier baby?" the woman replied:
"She Is Just as pretty as she can be."
The mother was satisfied and the
woman had spoken the truth, for she
said It was Impossible for that baby to
look otherwise than she did; so she spoke
the truth. .
Surely this particular wording of a
dubious compliment was better than to
say: "She is the ugliest baby I ever
saw."
Another tactful woman who was asked
by the wife what she thought of a mu
sician who was the feature of a con
cert replied hurriedly: "I think he has
the -most beautiful hair I ever saw,'
This relieved her of saying what she
thought of his music.
Later, to the musician himself, the
womanmade criticisms which were help,
ful to him while gllvng him more or less
pain. But these same criticisms given to
the' wife would have done no good;
Absolutely truthful people "are very
rare.
It Is one of the greatest If not the
greatest of the virtues, and It Is the
most difficult to find In Its unalloyed
purity In human nature.
Imaginative people are almost always
guilty of exaggerations In relating facts,
and after telling a story with Its em
bellishments a few times they believe
they are telling It correctly.
People with an over-supply of the .sens
of humor seldom tell the truth when re
lating Incidents and happenings.
Very vain people are prone to tell
things which reflect more glory and
honor on themselves than Is their due.
Timid children with an Inordinate love
of approbation are sometimes made liars
by stern parents who believe In corporal
punishment, or who are. severe In repri
mands for small offenses.
Such children, unless their natures are
balanced by a great sense of Justice,
will He themselves out of misdemeanors
and lay the blame on others. This Is a
particularly' cowrdly'iuid-'selflsh phase . erenco for truthfulness. Teach them to
of lyfng, bi( ItyJa -Jo-be;, met with almost
every day in smeonoj .
It Is rare to find -a -grownup culprit
who, when caught In wrongdoing, will
say: "It Is my own fault. There Is no one
else to blame."'-
It Is a great -thing to teach children
from the start, a largo respect', and rovj
be exact In their statements nnd to tako
prldo In having their word reliable.
: And with this teaching Impress upon
thorn tho necessity to bo sometimes
silent when the Bpoken word would do ablo to agree
moro harm than good. j whetlier this mys-
They also servo tho God of Justice, l terlous creature
Mysteries of Science and Nature
Whether tho Pithecanthropus of Java ns n Jinn or a Monkoy, or a Being Intermediate Between Them
IJy OAUIU3TT 1 BKHVIBS.
Tho problem of tho famous ape-man of
Java, the ' "pithecanthropus croctus," Is
again under discussion by tho paleon
tologists (students of ancient life), unl
they still are un-
who know how to koep still.
Resents Roman Sculptor's Slur
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'Daintiest Feet in World Are American
; Women's,'! Says Artist
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primitive human
being or only an
extraordinary spe
cimen of tho ape
trlbo who hap
pened to be born
with a big head,
A French writer
has put tho actual
situation among
tho learned men in
a few words! 'Tor
somo tho pithecanthropus Is a man; for
others ho Is n monkey; for others still
ho Is un animal Intermediary between
man nnd monkey,"
The avorago reader may suy to him
self that ho doesn't caro what tho pithe
canthropus was. Bother the pithecan
thropus! . But that would be a very un
intelligent nttltude to assumo. We have
JffCfi
"Xono So Blind As Ifo Who Will Not Hoc,"
"An American woman, cither matron
or maid, win stands ankle ciecp In tho
snow and keeps her handy in miiff Is
as beautiful as any wjn.uu the world
over, but when the snow melts and she
withdraws one of her huje .hands, the'
ruins the picture," Is tho wi; Pr.'. 1' 12.
Triebel, sculptor and academ'cian of the
Itoyal Academy of Rome, now v!m"rK In
the United States, views ilia appearance
of the American woman of today.
That this statement does, not mrtt with
the approval or Indorsement of the artists
of New York was Geiu.roUaUi! tp'lay
when James Montgqmury l'lagg, the
famous Illustrator of gjrl rlcluim ga
lore, was seen In his working quarters In
one of the big studio butUllnxs In st
Blxty-sevenh street
He laughed heartily when his attention
was called to the professor's statement
"Why the professor must be one of those
'who see not,' for It he really were the
least observant ho could not fall to note
that American maids and matrons have
! tho best looking hands and feet In thp
i world. It Is a fact that cannot be over
looked.
"I go about New York and see more
lovely women In a day than I'd see in a
month abroad,' he continued "The
French women, with their pronouncedly
large feet, encased In drab colored spatula
shaped' shoes, and the Kngllsh women,
who are noted the world over for their
pedal generosity, can they compare with
the twinkling feet of the well shod Amer
ican girl?' Absurd!"
Mr. Flagg. who has so dexterously
caught tho eternally feminine In his drawings,-
dilated on the Importance of un
usually fine hands and feet for the pur
pose pf Illustration. "It Is the exception,
not the rule, to find an American girl
possessing angular hunds or largo feet,"
he continued with chivalrous conviction,
"You . know, the Hngllsh womun ul
ways speaks of her American counsln as
having 'neat foet,' but besides having small
ftet und hands, the American girl Is
better shod and gloved than the European
woman!
"It Is a well-known fact that Americans
art) recognized abroad as much ly tho
smallness and trlmness of their feet as
by their wonderful 'chlo' In dressing."
"Then your advice to the professor
would bo a vUlt to an eye-specialist?"
was queried. "Oh, no' was the rejoinder,
"Just a visit to Not York and a stroll
down Fifth avenue any gladsome day
would change the professor's viewpoint
forever" i
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gibbons, and superior to Its congeners
not only In stature, but also In slsa of
skull, In which it npproaohed tho lower
limit for man.
There may ,4iav bean a group of these
overgrown gibbons developed In Java,
thinks, Prof. Boule, and they may havo
teon drlvon Into extinction by virtue of
tho very fact that they were not phys
ically developed In accord with their en
vironment. Prof. Boulo himself admits that thero
aro rcsomblances to the human typo In
Saladin,
The Magnanimous
By KKV. TnOMAS B. OREGOBY.
Saladin, the Illustrious Mohammedan
sultan, died 720 years ago, December 6,
1193. Seven centuries Is a long time for
a man's name to live, but thero are yet
no signs that Bala-
illn'n name la ner-
arrived nt a period of Intellectual de-1 iing from the
tho pithecanthropus, and that Us skull
seoms to havo been Intermediate In form
botweon that of tho monkey And that of
man, but ha denies that such resem
blances and correspondences necessarily
prove a roal ancestral relationship.
But oven If this vlow of tho Paris an-
thropologlst be admitted as probably
correct It hardly at all diminishes tho
Interest of tho pithecanthropus, because
It only reveals In that creature a being
which certainly made a start toward
human evolution, though It may never
havo fairly entered upon tho path.
It serves to show how difficult was tho
work of developing man out of a lower
nnlmal typo. Nature had, apparently, to
try again and again, with that patience
and that contempt of expense which sho
always exhibits, and at last she suc
ceeded. So. whether the plthcanthropus was a
primitive man, carrying locked up In him'
all the wonderful possibilities of evolu
tion which that stnto of being would Im
ply, or whether ho was only an aspiring
apo who could not make good his hold
on a higher lovel of existence, wo must
read about him and the controversies ho
excites with equal Interest.
vclopment when what Is called pre
history has us great (If not greater)
Importance for us as history Itself.
If the pithecanthropus really belongs
In our ancestral line he Is as Interesting
a flgiiro as tho rcmoto past contains.
Wo seo him, with his big bushy head,
his crooked legs, his bent back, his long
arms, away back there closo to tho point
where the paths divided which led in one
direction to the cities of men and the
wonders of the mind, and In the othor
direction to the troplcul forests and the
haunts of climbing creatures to whom
nature gave, as In mockery, human
masks hiding only brute brains.
Ho standi there the most ancient, the
most distant, of the creatures which felt
the linpulao of awakening humanity. He
Is almost at the bottom of the long hill.
IIo is striking Into tho narrow path which
leads continually upward. Around him
arc othor beings to whom the same op
portunity came, who were led to the
beginning of the same ttralght, mounting
way, but who turned aside, leaving him
to pursue alone his pilgrimage.
It Is a curious and significant fast that
after the discovery of tho remains of the
pithecanthropus In 1S an anthropolo
gist undertook to reconstruct, upon an
atomical principles, the missing Jaw (for
nothing of the head was found oxcpt
tho top of tho skull and a few scattered
troth), and several years later thero was
discovered at Mauer, In Germany, a
human Jaw precisely corresponding with
that which the anthropologist had at
tributed to tho pithecanthropus.
To which roust bo added the (act that
tho best authorities assign to "th man
of Mauer" an antiquity corresponding
with that which has generally been as
signed to the pithecanthropus.
At tlin batno tlmo there are authorities
who deny to tho pithecanthropus a plaro
In th lino of human rirsrent Among
these Is Prof Boule of Paris, win thinks
It probable that tho pltrnvarthrcpus was
a specie of giant monkey, al'Ul to tho
memory of thu
raco
Buladln, though a
"pagan," and, from
tho viewpoint of his
Christian contem
poraries, nn "In
fidel dog," was one
of tho greatest and
most magnanimous
of tho children of
men. By tho
strength of his own
genius and will power he made for him
self a thron, upon which he sat with
all becoming dignity and honor for many
years, governing, as a rule, with wisdom
and mercy.
Brave as a lion, he was tho very soul
of honor and generosity; and in toleration
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mmm I
ERUPTION ON ANKLE
GREAT SUFFERING
Klngsvllle, Mo. "My trouble began
eighteen years ago. Nearly half of the time
there were running sores around my ankle:
sometimes it would be two years at a time
before they wore healed. There were many
nights I did not sleep because of tho great
and charity in the fundamental elements' ""flering. The sore were deep running
of true manhood and the graces of a one and so soro that I cod not bear for
Many Nights Did Not Sleep, Burned
All the Time, Wore Bandage
Night and Day. Used Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Now Well,
gentlomon, stood head and shoulder
abovo most of the monarch of his time.
Wlioro Is the Imagination that has not
been enthused over and over again with
the stories of his mighty tilts with the
mailed crusaders; and where Is the heart
anything to touch them. They would bum
all the time and sting like a lpt of bees
were
confined around tny ankle. I could not bear
to scratch it. It v4 always so sensitive- to
the touch. I could not let my clothes touch
It. Tho sldn was very red. I made what I
called a cap out of white felt, blotting paper
thnt has not been touched with the way! and soft white dqth to hold It In shape. Thl
no treaten incnara tne uon iiearteu, ( I wore night and day.
wno lay in ine royal tent ourmng up 1
with fever how he sent Into his camp the ,
camels laden with snow to assuage the
fiery disease that was consuming htm. I
'The Infidel dog" did not believe, with
old Jack Falstaff, that honor was a
"mero scutcheon." On the contrary, ho
believed that It was the greatest thing In
tho world, that it made the man, and
that without It a man was no better than
an empty shell. It was against those
who had no sense of honor, and- no regard i
for their plighted word, that Saladin un- i
sheathed the sword of his most terrible
wratn.
Such was thu great Mohammedan states
man nnd wurrlor. and therefore It la that
his name lives -and will ever live while j
heroism and good faith aro admired
among men. J
" I trlod many remedies for most of the
eighteen years with no effect. Last summer
when my ankle had been sore for pver a year
and niuch wotm than ever before I sent for
some Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It
would itch and burn, besides a great hurting
that J think tongue could never explain.
The very first time I used Outlcura Soap
and'Olntment I gained relief; they relieved
the pain right then. It was three months
from the time I commenced using Outlcura
Soap and Ointment until the sores were
entirely healed. I have not been troubled
since." (Signed) Mrs. Charles E. Brooke.
Oct. 22, 1012.
Cuticura Soap 23c, and Outlcura Ointment
60c. are sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed freo, with 32-p, Skin Book. Ad
dress post-card "Cuticura, Dept. T.Boston.
s9"Men wlio shave and shampoo with Cu
ticura Soap will find it best for iVia and Jk
