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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, WOMAN'S WORLD Home Decorations Should T O HAVE A HOME in the truest sense of the word means that the home should reflect those who live in it. When you walk into a home, you should be able to get a certain feeling and insight about the family who lives there, even before you know them very well. Prjperly furnished and decorated, a home will reflect your interests and hobbies. It will give some in sight into the personalities of the people living in it. Sometimes these qualities are all too transparent for a home can give the impression of carelessness, lack of interest and hobbies. The first thing to do, if that’s the case, is to change it by making the home the interest and hobby. Make Living Room Place to Live Today’s homes are quite a bit smaller than those of the past decade, and for this reason, every room must be used to the fullest advantage. Gone is the ’’parlor” which was opened for company only. You may be fortunate enough to have a den, study or library which is much used, but for most families the liv ing room is the center of most social and family activity. If you don’t use the living room enough and find yourself crowded in one of the other rooms, then do some simple remodeling or reshuf fling of furniture to make the room. For example, if yours is a social family, and you like to entertain, plan plenty of comfortable seating Decorate rooms to fit . . . . space in the living room. Group chairs and sofas into “conversa tional groups” which make sitting and chatting a pleasure. If everyone in the family reads a lot, good chairs are essential. Good lighting is a problem here too, and each comfortable chair to be used for reading needs a light that will make this interest easy. Plan Music Corner If That’s Your Interest Does the family enjoy music? If this centers around the piano, this instrument will be the main interest in the living room. Try to arrange chairs and sofas so that you can enjoy sitting around listen ing comfortably. Many families enjoy records, and if so, one of the best corners of the room should be devoted to this in terest. The radio, phonograph or combination unit, should be the center of interest with chairs ar ranged comfortably around it. Have plenty of storage space, in Chambray Fashion Two-toned chambray styles this feminine warm weather dress by Terry Rodgers. Unique appliqued cut-outs and a modified “pussy-cat” bow in contrasting chambray highlight the plunging neckline of this fashion-right casual. A skirt with fullness flaring out from the hips, gives that extra free dom which adapts itself for all- around wear. cabinets, for the records or albums or both. You may also want to have Your living plans. books and magazines on the subject in an easily accessible spot for this activity. How to Restyle Rooms In Good Taste Take a critical look at your fur nishings and see whether they meet with your approval. Do you have any pieces of furniture which are not used? Eliminate them and substi- THE READER'S COURTROOM Zealous Doc Caught on Tonsil — By Will Bernard, LLB. Do Tonsils Have a Dollar Value? A businessman went to a sur geon for a nose operation. While he was under anesthesia, the doc tor decided that the man's tonsils were in bad shape—and removed them. Later the man sued the sur geon for removing, the tonsils with out permission. The doctor argued that, even though he may have been hasty, no harm had been done because tonsils weren’t worth any thing anyhow! However, the court sustained a jury verdict of $2,000. The jury said: “The law presumes that every organ in the human body has some function to perform —even though medical science has not ascertained it" * • • Must a Trolley Conductor Help a Fat Woman Down from the Car? The conductor of a trolley was busy collecting tickets, when the car stopped at a corner. One of the passengers who wanted to get off was a 207-pound woman. Rather than wait for the conductor to come and help her, she started to dis embark. But she tripped on the edge of the step and tumbled down. Injured, she later sued the trolley company for damages. She argued helped. The court ruled otherwise. May a Careless Driver Collect Damages if Hurt in an Accident? Speeding along a country road, a motorist swung out to pass the car ahead—driven by a woman. Despite his honkirffe, the woman did not slow down at all. In a sud den rage, the man cut in sharply— and a little too soon. The two cars tangled and both of them skidded into a ditch. Despite the woman's carelessness, the court granted her claim. Are You a 'Trespasser"— If You Enter Someone's Property by Mistake? Motoring at night on a dark coun try road, a man took a wrong turn and drove out onto a dock. Think ing it was a bridge, he kept going —until he plunged off the end, right into the water. Luckily, he man aged to break a car window and swim to safety. He later brought a damage suit against the dock owner, blaming him for not putting up some kind of warning signal. However, the court rejected the motorist’s claim, on the ground that he had “trespassed” on the dock. The judge said that, although the man had driven onto the dock by mistake, he was still technically a trespasser—and thus had no kick Reflect Taste tute with something that would be of more use, either practically or decoratively or, preferably, both. Sometimes it’s wise to buy a whole matched set of furniture such as a suite of upholstered furniture. How ever. if this does not include enough of the pieces you’ll need, or, on the other hand, contains too many pieces for the space or use you have, then try selecting sectional or separate pieces that will be most valuable. One family may need only two comfortable easy chairs, while an other needs three or four or even more. These may be bought sep arately, to harmonize pleasantly, or covered to match other pieces. You no longer need to have all one kind of wood in your living room. Dark and light woods are used together, in good taste, in the same room because they compli ment each other. Perhaps you’ve found a desk in one of the light modem woods. There’s no reason why you can’t use it in a room with some dark mahogany or walnut finishes. Be Smart! Dotted Swiss is a revival of one of the soft fabrics of a gen eration ago, bnt no longer is it confined to the typical styling of the past. It is particularly popular for the pretty draped effects of the current season. Another new and equally in teresting interpretation is the dotted swiss for jumper dresses, so stunning in dark grounds combined with white or worn without a blouse when weather or occasion dictates. KATHLEEN NORRIS Recall Forebears on the Fourth C AN YOU TAKE your thoughts back, in this week cf July Fourth, to a New England farm 100 years ago? It is one of those picturesque farms that you and I see on our happy vacation trips; we stop with a queer inexplicable twist in our hearts as we look at the steep high roof, the elms sending leaf-*shad- ows across the high small-paned windows, the well-sweep, the mel lowed lines of barns and sheds stretching away toward orchard and pasture, the summer gracious ness of one of the thousands of homesteads that were the Amer ican scene in the dramatic days of America’s beginnings. If we go in there are more ex clamations of sheer admiration and delight. Oh—a spinning wheel and a loom! Oh—hand-hammered fire- irons painted like the redcoats of King George, so that any casual spitting upon them might be pleas urable as well as necessary! Oh, Revere teapots and Chippendale chairs, blue home-made and gay patch-work quilts, four-posters with faded calico valances, warm ing pans and melodeons, highboys and dressers in applewood or weathered maple! The floors are soft, almost yield ing beneath our feet; the doorways low and irregular, and between the old part of the house—circa 1800 and the new, added 40 years later, indoor irregularities are masked by cupboards, by steps up and down, by a narrow stair here and an angled passage there. Draught of Patriotism Who doesn’t know New England, or that part of the Old South that matches it in Revolutionary age, doesn’t know America. And it isn’t too late to pack some bags, climb into the car and cruise off in that direction now. As a great draught of patriotism and enthusiasm and wonder, it is a lesson we all need. Wonder—yes, that’s what we women feel as we visualize the life women led on these beautiful old farms. Men led the hard life of ... a picturesque farm . . . farmers and settlers, too; up in the dark freezing nights of winter to look to lambs and calves, swelter ing in the hot rocky pastures through the summer noons. But the women! Ah, you fore- mothers of our present easy day, how did you do it. what made it worth your while! The cemeteries tell a part of the story of these first American wom en. Stop to read the stones, when you pass an old graveyard. There you will find the Aarons, the Silases, the Johns and Joshuas and Wil liams, reaching decent ages; 68, 76, 90. Women’s Names, Too And there you'll find, too, the women’s names. Sarah, first wife of the above, aged 26. Mary Jane, 3rd wife of the above, 18. Eliza and Matilda and Abigail aged 23, 31, 19. It -cost our women something, did America. Imagine their waking in a stone- cold great house, with the snow packed outside, the November sky lowering and dark, the seventh child a fretful feverish teething burden at 11 months, the eighth child already on the way. Imagine the dark descent to the stone-cold, chatter-toothed struggle in the kitchen; ashes cold in the cold stove, snow on the low window sills, water frozen in the pail. The floors we find so satin-smooth today were subject to all the spills and stains our battleship linoleum knows, and they and the childrens’ clothes and the heaped heavy dishes knew no other cleaning agent than homemade bars of yellow soap. They gathered bedraggled baby clothes and rumpled bed linen and school children’s stockings just as you and I do, but they didn’t have flying foaming washers and swift fragrant dryers. No, they soaped and scrubbed on tin-faced wash boards, dried on kitchen lines, ironed with heavy iron pressers that cooled every few minutes and had to go back on the hungry great range that devoured firewood as a hippopotamus gulps down food. They fought on, when the spring rains kept all the children, all the measles and mumps and whoops shut indoors, when boots brought in their own weight in mud, when milk soured on the way from the springhouse to the table, and when the terrible “second-summer” meant that the current baby was always a source of burning anxiety. And they kept good, kept busy, kept rejoicing in the Lord. They preserved the niceties—washed small hands and combed unruly heads; changed linen, dragged steaming kettles to the wash tub. They fostered learning; there was a switch ready if the school marm—she boarded about amonfc the different families—reported im pudence or idleness. One Can Think Bulges Away Physiologist Cites Mental Procedure NEW YORK.—Almost any ma tron with a bridge-table spread and an aching back can restore herself to competitive shape again, if she’ll go lie down and think the bulges and pains away. Dr. Alda Kelly claims. Dr. Kelly, a cheerful, slender woman, herself, has come up with a real morale booster for girls who want to reach for a sweet and still be able to touch their toes. She’s worked out a reconditioning method through which she says you can get your girlish figure and fancies back merely by thinking you are exercising to beat the band. That’s right. You don’t have to move a single muscle—except, of course, the one between your ears. Dr. Kelly, a physiologist, calls herself a "neurosomatic recondi tioner.” That’s scientific girl talk for a person who teaches people how to get the most out of life with the-least possible amount of energy —a n d that includes banishing bulges, too. She said her system worked on 100 housewives in Cleve land, so there isn’t any reason why it shouldn’t work on a lot of others just as well. Essentially, her plan involves the idea of sending the right kind of genteel, relaxed impulse from the brain to the nervous system. The nerves cairy the good word to the muscles, which obediently become strong and supple without flexing or reflexing. “Just pretending has the same effect as real motion, and it saves a lot of energy,” Dr. Kelly has found. “A man can build up some muscles merely by thinking he’s lifting weights. It’s slow, but it works.” But Dr. Kelly specializes in prob lem girls. When a cranky, aching, overworked housewife goes to see the neurosomatic conditioner at the Shailer Emery Lawton foundation, she is put through a series of 24 treatments and gets home-work as signments of 10 minutes a day. Mrs. Harassed Heckled House wife starts out by lying down and thinking she’s a rag doll with the stuffings leaking out. SCRIPTURE: Psalms I: 33:12-18; 67 100. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 145 1-10. Songs for All Hearts Lesson for July 3, 1949 T HE greatest hymn-book in the world is to be our study for three months. Not the oldest; that honor belongs to the Vedic Hymns of ancient India. Not the largest; the hymnal of your own church may easily be twice as large. But the greatest h y m n- book in the world is the book of poems was used as the hymn-book of Psalms. This col- Dr. Foreman lection of religious the temple which was built when the Jewish exiles returned to Babylon. It was the hymn-book of Herod’s temple, and we know our Lord used and loved it. It is in deed the song-book of the Bible. It was the only hymnal which the first Christians used, for some time. Indeed the book of Psalms is probably the only hymn-book hon ored and used by three separate religions—Judaism, Mohammedan ism and Christianity. • » • How It Grew L IKE all hymnals, this book of Psalms grew by degrees. It was not written all at one time or by one person. David wrote some of the Psalms, how many we do not know. The “titles” of the Psalms were added by later He brew editors, are no part of the original Psalms, and are often in accurate. It is very likely that as much as a thousand years went by between the first of the Psalms to be written, and the last. Every modern hymnal that is any good is in part a collection of the best of the old hymnals. So our book of Psalms, as it finally took shape, came from old er collections. A glance through it in the American standard version will show that in its present form it is made up of five smaller books, ending with Psalms 41, 72, 89, 106 and 150. Each book ends with a dox- ology and book V ends with a mag nificent series of them. Sometimes the editors left in duplicates. Read ing Psalm 14 side by side with Psalm 53 will show that these two are exactly the same, only using different names for God. At least one of the Psalms is made up of “clippings” from earlier Psalms: thus Psalm 108 is made up from Psalm 57:7-11 and Psalm 60:5-12. The Psalms were cherished and preserved generation after genera tion because of their heart-appeal. Our Psalm book has gone through centuries of sifting; many were dropped out and forgotten, but the best were saved and sung; and what we have is the cream of th« best of the singers of Israel. • • • Mirror of Man J OHN CALVIN caUed the Psalms the “mirror of the soul.” All the varied moods of man—hope, des pair, triumph, envy, doubt, aspira tion, loneliness, hatred, fear, ir ritation, patriotism, joy, bitterness, weariness, amazement, anguish, rapture—almost every emotion that can be felt toward God or man breathes somewhere or other in these Psalms. Since not one of the authors of the Psalms was a Christian, of course, we should not be surprised to find, here and there, expressions (for exam ple) of hatred which are out of harmony with the spirit and teaching of Jesus. The won der is that tbere is so little of that kind of thing. For every Psalm in which the poet says something cruel or hate ful (e. g. Psalm 137:9 or 109:6-14), there are scores that breathe a spirit of gentleness and grace. For every note of despair (Psalm 88 is the only completely gloomy one in the whole collection), there are many hallelujahs of hope and glad ness. • • • Message of God I F the Psalms are so human, how can they be also God's Word? Yet they are also, truly, a message of God. For they not only cast a divine light on the state of man’s heart, but they show what the life of man is when God becomes real. For God was real to each poet who contributed to this great book. In latter weeks this summer we shall be looking at the Psalms from var ious special angles. This week it will be Helpful to sit quietly with the three typical Psalms, 1, 67 and 100, and as you ponder over each one in turn, ask yourself: What does this show me about God? What does this show about life when it turns to God? (Copyright by the International Coun> cil of Religious Education on behalf of 10 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features. HOUSftiOlO MEM OS...Jp, Insure Success With This Vegetable Canning Guide (See Directions Below) ^7^ Vegetable Canning G etting vegetables into the diet during the summer when the garden is literally burst ing with them is no problem at all. It’s much more _|» difficult during the winter to meet the quota of two vegetables a day, unless you’ve made proper pro vision for them. That’s the best reason for can ning at least a good store of them when they’re available in your own garden or those of others for they may be purchased inexpensively. Canning vegetables is one of the best ways of feeding the family economically as well as satisfying them with valuable nutrients. Chart your course now, and then sail through the season, full speed ahead. . * • Clear the Kitchen For Canning Time W OMEN who do their canning expertly organize their work on an efficiency basis such as is used in a factory. They actually prepare for the job before they start working on it. Getting ready for vegetable can ning means re-organizing the kitchen. Clear out table and shelf space that you need for jars and equipment. Make certain you have all equip ment clean and in working order before you get the vegetables into the house. What equipment? You’ll probably need sharpened paring knives for preparing the produce. Kitchen scissors that are not rusted will help In preparing some types of vegetables like green beans. Have your canning spoons, ladles or dippers all ready in place where they’re g< ing to be used, next to the range. . • • Select Quality For Canning Have you ever wondered why the com you canned is dry instead of juicy, or peas are pulpy instead of moist and sweet? The fault may lie in the kind you chose for can ning. Only the highest quality produce should find its way to the can since canning cannot improve quality. It merely preserves it. Vegetables selected for canning are usually best when just slightly under-ripe or im mature. Peas, for example should be sweet and ten der; com should spurt juice when pressed with a fingernail. Gnarled, bruised, wrinkled or otherwise im perfect vegetables are not fit to be canned. You cannot expect them to have good flavor and color. Perfect vegetables rushed from LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Salmon Loaf Baked Potatoes Buttered Cabbage Fresh Apricot-Cherry Salad Hot Biscuits Jam Beverage Coconut Cake the garden to the can in a mini mum amount of time will give thf most satisfactory results. . . • Clean Vegetables Before Preparation C LEANING the vegetables is the step after bringing them into the kitchen. This should be done be fore the skin is broken, or some of the valuable juices may escape. Dirt is not only objectionable in itself, but it may frequently con tain certain or ganisms which hold spoilage. Wash the vege tables under run ning water, o r place them in a large vessel of water and lift them out gently onto a colander. Do not pour dirty water off the vegetables, as dirt may re main in the pan and then mix witb the vegetable. I N THE CHART given above, pre cooking is recommended for the green vegetables such as peas, green beans and similar vegetables. This means immersing in boiling water for the designated amount of time to shrink or wilt them in order to pack them easily and com pactly. • • • Pressure Cooker Is Recommended T O PROCESS VEGETABLES properly, a pressure cooker is an invaluable aid. For vegetables, have the gauge read 10 pounds be fore you start counting processing time. The pressure should not be al lowed to fluctuate since this may drain liquid from the jar and give a poor looking jar. It will also over cook the vegetables, or undercook them, as the case may be. Vegetables are a non-acid food, and this means they require a high temperature to kill the bacteria which lurk in them. This is why pressure cooker processing is rec ommended for them. Fruits, which are acid, need much less proces sing time, and much lower tem perature in which to have the bac teria killed. Always follow the directions for your particular type of pressure cooker. One thing is generally true of all types, and that is to leave the petcock open for at least seven minutes during which time steam escapes from the cooker. Unless this is followed closely, the pressure may not be accurate, for all air must be exhausted before allowing the cooker to come to pressure. Another safe rule to follow is to allow the vegetables to boil 10 min utes in an open vessel before tast ing or eating after they are taken from the can. LYNN SAYS: Follow Vegetable Canning Pointers For “stripe” cookies, shape the dough into rectangles. After baking, when the cookies have cooled, pipe confectioners’ sugar icing in straight lines on top of the cookies. Wipe the edges of the jar with a clean cloth before adjusting the cap. This helps achieve a perfect seal for the food. Remove jars from the sterilizing vessel with tongs or gloves to •void burning the fingers. After filling the jar with vege tables and water, you may find some air bubbles anchored against the sides of the jar. Remove these by running a spatula between the glass and the vegetable. Jars which have been sealed with a self-sealing lid, should not be tested for sound until 24 hours after processing. It will take this length of time to cool the contents of the Jar. Six pounds of greens, such as spinach, are required to make one quart of the canned product CLASSIFIED DE PARTMENT BUSINESS Sc INVEST. OPPOB- 1000 ACRES ot woodland with lin« clear trout streams, suitable for lake sites. Located White County, Georgia south oi Federal Game Refuge. Ideal for organ ization camps and summer lodges. Also two modern homes in town of Helen* Georgia. Bos 146, Helen, Georgia. MISCELLANEOUS Preparation Required PROCESSING Vegetable Hot Water Bath Min. Pressure Cooker Mtn. Lbs. 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