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m THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. ,5HOHT5f0tfy Impossible Journey By SHIRLE¥ RAI IT WAS the fifth morning in a row * so Mrs. Laughton was not sur- | prised. She slipped out of bed qui- | etly, reached for a robe, and put it Over her shoulders. Before dawn, every morning of that week, her four-year-ojd daugh- ter had wakened 3 -Minute , wit *J e® nUe . but insistent tugs Fiction to tell her about — the dream she’d just, had. Had they been night- I mares, Mrs. Laughton would have | been eager to get up to comfort a frightened child, but they were nev- | er nightmares. They were always | gay and fanciful dreams that made the little girl’s small face glow with wonder and delight. So Mrs. Laughton, as on the other mornings, took Ellen into the kitchen and poured a glass of milk for each of them. With both small hands wrapped around her glass, the little girl sat on the edge of a too large chair and with shining eyes, eagerly told her dream. ««I DREAMED I was sleeping, * Mommy, and that the North Wind stopped right outside my win dow and called my name. He said, ‘Ellen—Ellen—wake up and come to the window. Then I’ll put you on my shoulder and take you for a ride with me.’ ” Mrs. Laughton took a drink from her glass of milk. This dream was going to be very much like the oth ers. Something or someone—once a bluebird, once a fairy—she couldn’t recall what the others were—came to the window and offered to take Ellen on an impossible journey. Mrs. Laughton yawned. She would liked to have put her daughter to bed and ended the tale at once, but the thought of Mr. Laughton and his sure-to-be-bad disposition made her ask patiently, "What did the North Wind look like, dear?” Ellen was enthusiastic. "He was green," she declared im portantly. Mrs. Laughton thought to her self, "She doesn’t know one color from another." The child continued. “He had long pointy green shoes and long green hair and a long green nose.” The wide eyes and little blonde head leaned forward and the small voice became confidential. “He was all green except for the buckles on his shoes. They were silver and shaped like stars and they spar kled so bright that I had to blink “We went way up high over the houses and trees.” my eyes as we went through the air." Mrs. Laughton yawned again. El len didn’t notice. “After I climbed onto his shoul der.” she said, “we went way up high over all the houses and trees. We woke the leaves and they made shivering noises whenever we passed by. We stirred the dust from the streets so they would be clean for morning. «‘DUT soon he said that he must take me back home because there were other towns he had to visit before the night was over. So,” (she sounded genuinely dis appointed) “we came back to my window. .He lifted me down from his shoulder, said goodnight and went away—way up in the sky.” “That’s fine, dear—such a fine dream,” she said, and added hast ily, “Now let’s go back to bed.” It was morning. Mr. Laughton had left for the office a couple of hours ago, and Ellen was playing in the yard. Mrs. Laughton made Ellen’s small bed. She picked up a rag doll and set it in a chair. She put the two miniature bedroom slippers in their place in the closet. She picked up a rumpled nightie and started to hang it away. There was something in the pock et—something heavy. Mrs. Laugh ton put her hand inside and felt. It was cold and hard. She drew it out slowly and held it in her hand for a long time. It was a silver buckle in the shape of a star. Released by WNU Features. Follow Directions for Baking Success (See Recipes Below) Let's Entertain Who doesn’t like to entertain when everything runs along as smoothly as silk? The best way to learn how to do this is to prac tice a certain number of dishes until you can make them just per fectly, then learn how to put everything together and invite your friends. Many families have a standard company menu which they can pull out of a hat, so to speak. They have served the menu several times so mother knows just how to cook it to perfection, and Dad and the youngsters know how to set the table and do the other little jobs that help mother. If you’re looking for just such a menu, look over this suggestion and see if it doesn’t have the in gredients of successful entertain ing. To me, it seems to have enough “oomph” or super special things about it to make it nice for company, and yet it’s practical enough to make for easy cooking. Company Menu Consomme Princesse Leg of Lamb with Mint-Meringue Pears Browned Potatoes and Onions Green Lima Beans Asparagus Tip-Tomato Salad Roquefort Dressing Carrot-Raisin Bread Relishes Orange Sherbet Cookies Beverage Consomme Princess is made with canned or homemade con somme and then just before serv ing heated with small slivers of white meat of chicken and fresh green peas. Leg of Lamb 5 or 6-pound leg of lamb Salt and pepper 8 to 10 pear halves 2 egg whites y 2 cup mint jelly Do not have fell (thin, paper like covering) removed from the leg of lamb. Season with salt and pepper. Place skin side down on rack in an open roasting pan. In sert meat thermometer so that bulb reaches the center of the thick round of the leg, making sure the ther mometer does not rest on fat or bone. Do not add water. Do not cover. Roast in a slow oven (SOO” F.) until the meat ther mometer registers ISO” F. Allow LYNN SAYS: Break the Ice: When guests :ome over and you want to get them into a conversational frame of mind before dinner, serve a '“dunking tray”—a platter of tidbits with chilled fruit or vegetable juice before the meal begins. Dunking Tray I: Tiny cod- sh balls, whole, -cooked shrimp, oysters and tiny sausages. Serve with these sauces: cock tail sauce (seasoned catsup or chili sauce), or mustard cream sauce. Surround the tray-with pickles and olives, celery hearts, pickle fans and carrot strips. Dunking Tray II: Sliced roast beef, spread with mus tard and rolled; lettuce rolls (with mayonnaise); chicken rolls; serve with relishes. Dunking Tray III: Various cheese spreads such as pimiento cheese, seasoned cottage cheese, sliced Swiss cheese, etc. Serve banked with potato chips. With dunking trays, indi vidual service is eliminated. Let the guests help themselves. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENUS Meat Loaf with Gravy Mashed Potatoes Fried Eggplant Tossed Green Salad Rolls Preserves Open-faced Plum Pie Beverage 30-35 minutes per pound for roasting. Serve with mint-meringue pears made as follows: Beat egg whites until stiff. Add mint jelly and continue beating until well mixed. Place meringue on cut surface of each pear half and place in oven or broiler just long enough for the meringue to become lightly browned. Serve hot. Carrot-Raisin Bread 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup raw carrots, grated y 2 cup raisins 2/3 cup sugar 1 cup milk 1/3 cup shortening % teaspoon salt 3 cups flour 4% teaspoons baking powder Sift flour once, add baking pow der and salt. Sift again. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well, then add carrots. Pour in flour mixture and raisins and beat just long enough to moisten dry in gredients. Turn into a greased loaf pan and bake in a moderate (350° F.) oven for about 1 hour. This is also a lovely bread for sandwiches. If you want to vary the com pany menu occasionally, change the salad and dessert, using these as alternates: Cranberry Perfection Sa’ad (Serves 6) 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatine % cup hot water % cup cold water 2 cups cranberry juice % teaspoon salt y 2 cup finely shredded cabbage 1 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper Soften gelatine in cold water and dissolve in hot water. Pour over cranberry juice in a bowl, add salt and beqt with rotary beater until smooth. Cool. When mixture begins to thicken, add vegetables. Turn into individual molds which have been rinsed in cold water. Chill until firm. When firm, unmold on desired greens and serve with sour cream dress ing^ Orange-Banana Ice Box Cake (Serves 6) 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin y 2 cup cold water 8 bananas 1 cup orange juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 y 2 cups powdered sugar 2 teaspoons grated orange rind y 2 teaspoon salt 2 cups heavy cream or evaporated milk 1 dozen lady fingers Soften gelatin in cold water and dissolve over hot water Mash bananas, add fruit juices, sugar and grated rind. Beat dissolved gelatin into fruit mixture. Fold in whipped cream. Line sides of mold with halved lady fingers and fill half-full with fruit mixture. Cover the layer with halved lady fingers, then fill mold almost to the top with fruit mixture and cover top with lady fingers. Chill. When firm, unmold and garnish top with orange sections and sliced bananas and whipped cream. Orange sections may also be used to garnish sides of mold be fore pouring in fruit mixture, if desired. Fruit sauce may be used for serving in place of whipped cream. Esteron 44 Results In Wild Onion Curbs Wild Garlic also Found Vulnerable to Solution » Wild garlic and wild onion long have been two of the most trouble some weeds in southern lawns, pas tures and certified grass and grain seed production fields. **-. As lawn weeds, these plants give the lawn an uneven, ragged appear ance and produce a very disagree able finion odor when mowed. In pastures, dairy cattle feeding on these plants produce milk with an off flavor which is of great concern to dairymen in several states. Seed production has been limited by the presence of wild onions in many fields because of potential contam ination. During the past three years many experiments have been made with varied forms of 2, 4-D to control wild garlic and wild onion. Tests with sodium salt of 2, 4-D were un successful. Esteron 44 and the amine liquid salt formations, how ever, gave good control when used at the rate of three to four pounds of 2, 4-D acid equivalent per acre. Apparently the amount, of water used makes little difference in the results obtained. As many as 125 gallons per acre and a few as five gallons per acre were applied with equal success. For pasture work, observers agree that Esteron 44 may be some what more effective than the amine salts, but because of the possible danger from volatility of the esters of 2, 4-D, it is suggested that the amine liquid salt be used where susceptible plants grow in immedi ately adjacent areas. (Lawns, for example, with adjacent flowers and shrubs). Moisture Conservation Helps With Wheat Crop A 30-acre field that had produced little during the last few years, even with favorable moisture con ditions, produced a good wheat crop, according to the Kansas state college extension service. “A combination of things made the land productive again,” a con servation district cooperator said. “Use of sweet clover, seeded in the spring of 1946, for green manure and terracing, and contour farming for moisture conservation were im portant.” The land, he explained, was badly eroded. The soil was thin, dense and hard to work. It had not produced a decent crop in the previous six years and was practically idle land. Gullies were plowed shut after the terraces were built, so that the whole field could be contour farmed. In addition, grass waterways were developed and more terraces plan ned. New Hay Chopper This -combination hay chopper and ensilage cutter, which can be operated by one man, has been introduced by the New Holland Machine company. The new machine feeds, cuts to de sired length and blows corn, hay or other crops to mow or silo in one operation. Cutting in lengths ranging from 3-18” to 1%”, the chopper cutter can handle up to 20 tons of silage an hour. Bathtub Fairly Recent Innovation in America Although many Americans con sider the daily bath essential to good health, most of their prede cessors of a century ago never saw, much less bathed in, a bathtub in the home. For pre-Civil War Americans, bathing was a luxury indulged in a but along-side the home. The White House got its first bathtub during Lincoln’t term. The first all-iron tub was installed in New York City in 1870. By INEZ GERHARD CLAUDETTE COLBERT’S new picture “Family Honeymoon,” (Un iversal-International) is another of those gay comedies in which she specializes. Fred MacMurray is the bridegroom with whom she em barks on a honeymoon, taking her three children along. The Colbert- MacMurray combination works beautifully, as always but the real hilarity is provided by the child ren, Jimmy Hunt and Peter Miles CLAUDETTE COLBERT are exceptional: little Gigi Per- reau is enchanting. Beautiful, tal ented, completely natural, she may well develop into our next big child star. The comedy, situations in “Family Honeymoon” are not sub tle, but the cast is excellent and the picture is packed with laughs from beginning to end. Further notes on Gigi Perreau. Samuel Goldwyn has lifted the first six-month option, has her under contract for seven years. Featured in “Enchantment,” currently ap pearing in “Roseanna McCoy,” she will be starred in her next picture. Lex Barker, the new “Tar- zan,” finds that he is expected to set a good example for his friend’s children. "People like Van and Evie Johnson ask me to show their kids how I eat spinach, or cereal, or some thing else the kids don’t like,” he complains. “It’s rongh on my waistline, and besides, I don’t like some of the staff my friends ask me to popular ize.” There probably never has been a more extensive tour of Florida than the one being made by the CBS “Hint Hunt,” which began Feb. 14 and continues through April 1. Chuck Acree awards approximately $2,000 worth of prizes each day. In addition to the broadcast there is always a two-hour warm-up. "Hint Hunt” is directed by Georgene O’Donnell, one of the live women network producers. If you’re in New York and want to see Arthur Godfrey’s “Talent Scouts” crew off-stage, go to the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink. They’ve hired it for every Friday night from 11 P. M. to 1 A. M. till spring. Raymond VJalburn, who played Betty Hutton’s father some years ago in “And the Angels Sing,” has joined the cast of Paramount’s “Red, Hot and Blue.” Again he ap pears with Betty; this time, as a playboy, he has a blind date with her I “The Pride of the Yankees” will be re-released by RKO in April, to coincide with the late Lon Gehrig’s last professional appearance on the baseball dia mond. Starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright, it features many baseball giants, includ ing the late Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel and Mark Koenigh. A Samuel Goldwyn production, it was voted one of the 10 best of its year. Danny, the black ram of “So Dear to My Heart,” refused all one afternoon to obey the script and butt a careless stock judge. Then, the instant he was out of camera range, he butted anybody who turned a back to him. Ted Donaldson, John Litel and Ann Doran wjll resume their famil iar roles of son, father and mother in “Rusty’s Birthday,” eighth in Columbia’s series dealing with the adventures of a boy and his dog. Seymour Friedman will direct. ODDS AND ENDS . . . When MGM told Mario Lanza, the opera singer, that he was to portray a piano ifaover in his first picture, “Midnight Kiss,” he felt right at home—that’s what he worked at when he was discovered as a sing er .. . Sounds as if Joan Crawfor4 is serious about wanting to do a musical; she has enrolled at War ner’s for lessons in tap, adagio anfl exhibition ballroom dancing . . . Patricia Neal wears a ring set with a huge opal, for good luck, defying the old superstition. ^ InterndiVonAi' Uniform iMililFl Sunda y School I.esnons FH By 08. KLKHEIH J. FOREMAN SCRIPTURE: Mark 4: Luke 15:11-24. DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew 13:10-17. WildOatsHarvest Lesson for March 6, 1949 Dr. Foreman A LL RELIGIOUS teachers of Je sus’ time used parables. Bui the great difference between Jesus’ parables and those of his contempo raries, a s Rabbi Klausner says, is that his were re- membered and theirs were not. People will remem ber a story who cannot take in a lec ture. Jesus almost never told "wonder- tales.” His para bles are not in the least like Grimm’s fairy tales or Alice in Wonderland. Mostly they are about simple ordi nary happenings, and practically al ways about living people or things. If you said “Kingdom of God” to the average religious person of Je sus’ time, he would have replied, “Oh, yes. that wonderful time! The time when these Roman soldiers will be blasted off the earth by the terrible breath, of God, the time when every grape will yield barrels of wine and a single grain of wheat can be ground into bushels of flour —the Miracle Age!” The Kingdom of God as Jesus proclaimed it — God's Ideal World — was some thing quite different from that. Je sus illustrated it not with fanciful wild pictures, but with stories from real life, from the field or the farm house. The Kingdom of God is a king dom of law, not of happen-so or of magic wands. Jesus was fond of comparing God’s King dom to growing plants. Every plant is a miracle, it is evidence of God’s creative power; but plants do not grow overnight, they grow by the laws which the creator made in them. Wild Sowing A S WE SAW last week, the most important feature of the Ideal World, or of any world, is the qual ity of the people in it. So most of Jesus' parables were about people, one of the most famous being this one of^the “prodigal son.” (“Prod igal” of course d®es not mean wick ed or repentant, but wasteful, reck less with money or other things.) You could find many faults in that young man. One of them — the fault that nearly killed him — was that if he had a calendar he never looked at it. If you take a good look at a calendar you will always notice that there is another day af ter this one—another month, anoth er year. But the prodigal never thinks about tomorrow, only about today. He sows his wild oats be cause be has fun doing it. He can say “So what?” Ifast enough but he has never asked the question, "— and then what?” Childish, isn’t it? Some people even argue that It is a good thing to sow wild oats, on the theory that the prodigal gets it out of his sys tem and is afterwards a better man. Nonsense! Is it better for your education to spend several years learning things wrong? Is it bet ter for a garden to let it grow up in weeds for the first three weeks? Is it better for a man's health to spend his childhood years on a sick bed? That’s no more silly than to say that a man is morally better for having been immoral for a while first. • v * Prodigal Nation I T HAS EVEN been said that we have a prodigal-son civilization. Our generation is pretty busy sow ing wild oats. We waste the nat ural resources of the earth. Drink ing has become encouraged by law and made glamorous by the movies. We spend more on liquor than on schools. More money is spent on a single day’s horse-racing at a big track than a whole state or prov ince spends on education in a year. The ties of marriage have grown so weak, especially outside the Christian church, that it has not been long since one American city was boasting that its marriage rate nad “caught up with” its divorce rate! • * • Wild Harvest T HE PRODIGAL son in' Jesus’ story went home—but he had to reap his wild harvest first. The modem prodigal, whether individ ual or nation, seems to misunder stand Jesus’ meaning. If God is thought of at all, he is pictured as a benevolent Being who after all doesn’t mind our enjoying our little fiing. “He will forgive,” said Vol taire, “that’s his business.” That is a total misunderstanding of God. 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