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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C WOMAN'S WORLD Tired Wardrobes Gin Be Revived Easily By Ertta Haley T HOSE CLOTHES you started wearing a month or so ago don’t look as fresh and crisp as they did when you first put them on, you say? Naturally you’ve laundered them or had them cleaned but just what has hap pened? The same thing happens about the middle of every season, be it winter, summer, spring or fall. Most of us can’t afford new clothes, and probably wouldn’t buy them for the few remaining weeks of the summer, so what should be done? Naturally this varies with each individual piece of clothing, but there are some definite tricks to revive or restore them to original freshness. No major remodeling is essential, usually, unless you’ve gained or lost weight, but some slight touch may make the dif ference between a piece of cloth ing you really want to wear and one you’d like to hide in a dark corner of the closet. True Cleanliness Revives Dresses, Suits You may have been fairly reg ular about having dresses and suits laundered or cleaned, but unless spe cial care is taken, they may take on a sort of dusty hue which de tracts from their beauty. In many instances, a special laundering or cleaning treatment may solve the problem of making Reviv* dresses with trimmings .... these items a pleasure to wear. Check over collar, cuffs, pockets and hemlines. If you find any dirt at all, concentrate on this special spot and make it immaculate. If the suit or dress does not hang just right, you may have to do some minor adjusting for per fect fit. This involves practically no time at all and renders the gar ment wearable. Sometimes a dress simply needs to have the hemline shifted or new shoulder pads, and it will pick up amazingly well. Other points to check on gar ments include the belt and its buckle. These fray easily some times and detract from the dress, coat or suit. Mending may elimi nate this problem; if not, revive the dress with a new belt or buckle. Most women used to do a lot of changing with trimmings to refresh their clothing. This is an old fash ioned habit which we would do well to revive because so often the frag ile laces on blouses need changing, as do collars and cuffs. For basic dresses, you would do well to make or buy an alternate set if you real ly want to get the most wear out of the garment. Clothes which have faded badly may simply need a bit of tinting to restore their good looks. Tinting does not mean dyeing. It can be done easily in the wash basin if Tissue Gingham This checked dress of tissue gingham is one of a group of ventilated cottons for warm weather wear designed by Ter ry Rogers. A wide collar, deep cuffs and extravagant flap pockets at the hipllne lend subtle touches of flattery to the silhouette. The row of small buttons marching to the waist line helps to fit the bodice of the dress properly. need be, since warm water is used and only a small amount of color need be dissolved in the water to restore clothing. Freshen hats with flowers. Change Trimming On Your Hats Most summer headgear needs a pick-up just about this time, and THE READER'S COURTROOM Give and Take in Divorce -By Will Bernard, LL.B.- Is it too Late to Change Your Mind—After the Divorce? A young wife divorced her hus band, but both soon decided they had made a terrible mistake. Back they went to the same judge, and asked him to cancel the divorce decree. He did so. Then, about a year later, the husband again changed his mind and asked the . Nou sac IWOtED, \ - AMP Wire. court to cancel the cancellation! He insisted that, once a divorce is granted, it is permanent—unless the couple gets married all over again. However, the court ruled that the divorce was no longer in effect and the pair were indeed husband and wife. The judge said, if a court can give a divorce, it can take it back tool • • • A man moved into a bachelor apartment, taking a one-year lease. Two months later he moved out, complaining that he couldn’t bear the foul language of the family in the adjoining apartment. When the landlord sued him for the balance of the year’s rent, the man argued that the landlord himself was to blame for allowing such uncouth language in the building. But the court ruled in favor of the landlord, saying that he was not obliged to interfere in the situation—just so b* didn’t actually encourage it. A drunken customer in a bar be gan to get boisterous, and the bar tender decided to eject him. He threw the man out so vigorously that the drunk crashed into a girl walking past the front entrance. In jured by the collision, the girl sued the bartender for damages. He pro tested that he was just exercising his right to get rid of an obnoxious customer, but the court held him responsible anyhow. The judge said that, while the bouncing was all right, it should have been done with regard for the safety of passers-by. • • • May a Landlord "Smoke Out" A Tenant Who Won't Move? A landlord served an eviction no tice on an elderly widow and she agreed to get out by a certain date. But when the day arrived, the wom an happened to be sick in bed—and so she didn’t leave. In a fury, the landlord opened the wood stove, poured some water on the embers. and "let it smoke." The harassed woman finally got out—but later filed a suit against the landlord for assault. He protested that a tenant has no right to remain on the prem ises after the eviction date. How ever, the judge said that was no excuse for such malicious tactics by the landlord and ordered him to pay damages to the widow. you don’t have to be a professional to know how to handle the rejuve nation. If you feel all thumbs about hats, then the best thing to do is to see how the trimming on the hat is put on. When you remove veiling or flowers, observe just where the stitches were to attach them. Mark them with chalk. Take off original veiling with care, so that if it’s folded or draped in a particular style, you’ll know how to adjust fresh veiling. Flowers which have become grimy on hats should be replaces with new ones of similar size and type, if at all possible. They may sometimes be changed slightly, but if you’re a novice and are afraid of drastic experimentation, safety lies in copying the original hat. Ribbons can be changed in much the same manner as veiling and flowers, either with new ribbon or the old one refreshed. Ribbons, usually, are fairly durable and can be washed if handled with care. Use mild soapsuds and shake them in a jar. Rinse carefully and hang to dry. Most ribbons, if pressed while still rather damp, will be firm and starchy, and all ready to put on. Be Smart! Short on luggage space for the week-end invitation to which you’ve been looking forward? One good answer is one of the pretty ensembles that are de signed for just such contingen cies. Take the four-piece cos tume such as the one sketched. It includes a swim suit, a two- piece sun dress, and, with the addition of a glistening white T-shirt, a spectator sports dress. One of the most popular fabrics for these ensembles is cotton poplin, but you may also choose heavy broadcloth, In dia nhead, or spun rayon in a heavy linen-like weave. Choose from the many gay colors the one most becoming to you. KATHLEEN NORRIS Tragedy of an Afflicted Mother TN A TRAGIC letter * north-Iowa town, from a Estelle Owens asks me for advice that is painful * o give. Everything about mental illness is excruci atingly painful for all con cerned, and in Estelle’s case the patient is her dearly loved mother. “I am 36, married to a fine man and with three daughters aged 14, 12 and 6,” writes Estelle. “My brother, happily married, has four very small sons. We two are the sole support of our mother, who for more than four years has been an inmate of a private asylum. The charges for her care are $300 monthly, exclusive of such extra expenses as X-rays, clothing, dental plates and other details outside the regular routine. "She shares a room with two other cases; with another 3-bed ward they have their own bath room. But naturally she is not per mitted freedom to bathe, and all doors and windows are locked at all times. “My husband and my brother’s wife are understanding and gen erous in this situation, for we all love—or did love, my mother, ’ the letter goes on. “But we are faced now by the impossibility of con tinuing this arrangement, and I write to ask you if you know of any less expensive, perhaps semi- private institution? We could pay a hundred a month. To whom should we apply for information on this point? Disposed of Savings “We have disposed of all our savings, carhed war bonds, and I am turning over every penny I make in boarding and attending small children, but it is not enough. “We have determined among our selves, and promised her, that we never will consider a public insane asylum for Mama, whose heart would break if we so much as . . . food is poor in institutions . . , hinted at it. We cannot have her in our home as she has irrational intervals when she is dangerous. But we are given hope of a cure in her case, as the injury to the brain may absorb. Often it causes delusions, but at times she is just Mama again. Please help us to solve this agonizing problem.” Estelle, my answer is that you and your brother are risking your own marital happiness by this un realistic attitude toward what is a terrible tragedy. But the sensible course for you, the most hopeful and promising one, the least expensive and the most responsible, is to place your mother in the state institution, and begin to work for her comfort, your own, your husband's and your children’s welfare, from there. Dangerous Burden You and your brother are putting a dangerous burden upon the gen erosity of your mates, and it is important to stop that at once. Worry about money, discussion of the waste of it, payment of out rageous charges and unexpected expenses creates a strain that no marriage can long endure. For every reason your mother should be moved at once to the state asylum. Terrible words, aren’t they? But so are the facts. In the public institution she will be much more intelligently handled, she will have access to modern and ex pensive methods and equipment not available in any private asylum, and — and note this carefully, — it will be to no one's financial interest to keep her there. It has been my experience, in the last two years, to make many visits to one of California’s largest in sane asylums. There are some fear ful cases there, shut away from human sight, of course. But there are also scores of borderline cases; not a week goes by but what some sobered, healthy, cured woman re turns to her home. There are sun- flooded wards containing ten or a dozen smooth beds each—oh, I’ve gone in at all hours unexpectedly and always found them so. There are long dining tables covered with white cloths, set decently with glass and china. (The food Is poor in all institu tions.) The food in the army, in boarding schools, in boarding houses, is notoriously uninterest ing. In the asylum I know, my patient complains loudly of meat loaf and fish chowder, meat loaf and fish chowder endlessly. The bread—oh, that’s good. Milk? Yes, she gets a quart a day. Jam? Oh, yes, they are putting up cherries and apricots now. Sometimes she has to wipe dishes, clear tables. Sometimes she shells peas, peels potatoes. Every bright day she is out in the open. Synthesis Used For Vitamin-A Can Now Be Made Up On Commercial Scale NEW YORK —The synthesis oi vitamin A by a new process that makes possible its production on a commercial scale was announced here by Dr. H. M. Wuest, director of research at the Warner insti tute for therapeutic research of William R. Warner company. Until now, vitamin A, necessary for the growth of children, the nor mal functioning of the eye, night vision, and other physiological needs of the body, including resist ance to infection, could be obtained only from fish liver oils. One of the drawbacks of the natural pro duct was that even the purest con centrates still had a fishy odor and taste, which made it unpalatable to a large number of users. The synthetic vitamin is prepared from a starting material named beta ionone, obtained from lemon grass oil and also found in violets. It is this substance that gives violets their characteristic pleasant odor. Although vitamim A was one of the first of the vitamins to become known, it was not until 1931 that its chemical structure was eluci dated by Dr. Paul Karrer of Zur ich, Nobel prize winner. However, all efforts to synthesize the com plicated molecule of 20 carbon atoms arranged in six “rings,” con taining five conjugated double chemical bonds, and a hydroxyl group (OH) at the end of the “chain” hooked on to the ring-struc ture, failed for years. A major reason for the failure was the instability of the molecule and its sensitivity to acids, light and the oxygen in the air. In 1936, the prominent British chemist Sir Ian Heilbron made some headway toward synthesis by building up an intermediate sub stance with eighteen carbon atoms. But even the pressure of the war, and the necessity for assuring large amounts of highly active vitamin A for the air forces (to increase or maintain their visual acuity for night flying) did not lead to a syx thesis during the wax years. SCRIPTURE: Psalms 34; 37; 46; »V 138:3. 7a; 143:8. DEVOTIONAL READING: Isalak 26:1-10. God Can Be Trusted Lesson for July 31, 1949 E VEN if you do nothing else with this lesson, it will be a good thing to learn by heart some of the Psalms of Trust which have been selected for your study this week. They are far too rich to be treated in one column. • • • Who Can Trust in God? pSALM 34:16-22.) Not every one has a right to trust in God. Those who do not believe in him, do not love him, work against him, try to break down and corrupt those who do believe in him — these need expect nothing at his hand. But there are three classes of persons who are encouraged to put their trust in God. One is the “con trite,” the repen- Dr . Foreln ‘ an tant, those who sincerely wish to be cut free from their sins—these can surely trust in God for forgiveness. One who cannot trust God for forgiveness has no right to trust him for any thing else. Then the “righteous,” as the Psalmist calls them, have a right to trust in God. If that word means only the perfectly and altogether good people, it would leave all of ns out. Bnt in the light of the Bible as a whole, the righteous are those whose dominant de sire Is to love and serve God. Their service is imperfect, their love is far from perfect, and no man is without sin. But if you can say with Peter, “Lord, thou knowi est that I love thee,” then you have a right to trust in God. Also the broken-hearted can safely trust in him. Whoever else may break your heart, God will net. He is the great Mender of hearts. For the lit tle sorrows there may be lesser comforters; but the real heart# breaks only God can cure. • • • Why Trust God? P SALM 37 gives one answer: The opposite of trust is worry, and worry never did any good at all. Worry eats into the mind, casts no light, gives no strength, solves no problems, worry makes any trouble worse. Then the writer of Psalm 34 gives another reason for trust: he had tried it. If trust in God were simply a doctrine of theology or a theory of preachers, not many peo ple would take it seriously. Trust Is really passed on by a kind of contagion from heart to heart. If there are not more people who know what trust means. It is because those who have known have kept it too much to themselves. It would be a wonderful stimulus to most churches to have a little “cell” of people who would really agree to trust God every day. • • • When to Trust in God O NE of Dicken’s famous charac ters used to make a great point of being cheerful under the most jin-cheerful circumstances. Anybody can be jolly when every thing is lovely, he said. There’s no credit in not worrying when there’s nothing to worry about. Although the writers of the Bible, one and all, trusted in God, not one had an easy life. Read Psalm 46, for example; It gives a picture of a world much like ours of today, shaken to its foundations, torn by wars, a deso late, discouraged world. If it made sense to trust only under bright skies, religion would have perished long ago. * • • For What Shall We Trust God? N O ONE PSALM puts the whole truth in one nutshell. If you read Psalm 91, for example, by it self, it would seem to prove that if you trust in God you will never die a violent death, nor an early one; but too many saints (and indeed our Lord himself) had died early and violent deaths, for us to take Psalm 91 in that way. Trusting in God does not mean he will give us long life. It means he will give us strength to match our days. It does mean he will give us all we need. It does not mean we shall be shielded from troub les. It does mean he will save us from troubles greater than we can bear. It does not mean that In this life we shall be wholly free from burdens or from pain; It does mean wc shall have strength in our souls (Ps. 138:3). Which Is the greater thing—to be a weakling wearied by a straw’s weight, or to be one of God’s ath letes, able to bear the worst the world can pile on? (Copyright by the International Coun- ;11 of Religious Education on tghalf of U) Protestant denominations. Keleasea WNU Features. MIRROR Of Your MIND ^ Bad Habit i Of Evasion T By Lawrence Gould Are there people who can’t give yon a straight answer?” Answer: Yes. You will meet people who find it almost impossi ble to make a direct statement, even about the weather. It may be because as children they were criticized or punished so severely when they tried to do things on their own initiative that they dare not take a definite stand on any thing whatever. Or they may be temperamentally “ambivalent” (facing both ways emotionally) and so obsessed by their inner contradictions that they cannot see one side of any question without being conscious that perhaps there is another. Do deaf people feel more “isolated” than blind ones? Answer: Yes, reports psycholo gist Helton McAndrew of Duke University in the Journal of Ab normal and Social Psychology. Tests showed that whereas blind children are aware of physical isolation, deaf ones feel mentally and socially isolated. In general. deaf children are less adaptable and less responsive, with a tend ency to follow rigid patterns of behavior, presumably on the basis of the need a person who is un sure of himself has to “play safe.” A comparison of deaf and blind adults might well show similar differences. Is asthma primarily an “allergy”? Answer: As a rule. No, Write two members of the staff of New York Hospital in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. In but two of 51 cases of bronchial asthma was there any positive connection between the asthmatic symptoms and the patient’s re sponse to skin tests for allergic reactions, while in 32 cases the symptoms appeared after some sort of emotional disturbance, and in several others emotional fac tors were clearly involved. Even “pollen sensitive” patients could safely inhale large quantities of pollen if their minds were at rest. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE KEEPING HEALTHY | 'Cancer' Causes Mental Agony By Dr. James W. Barton X FEW YEARS ago, if a physi- “ cian told a patient that the symptoms of which he complained were caused by heart disease, the patient believed himself doomed. Today, most of us know that even if we have heart disease, we can live for years if we follow our doc tor’s advice and "take it easy." Even in cases of high blood pressure and a vessel carrying blood to the heart muscle being clogged up or broken (coronary thrombosis),, it is know that with care and rest, diet and exercise, further attacks may not occur and that if they do occur they may not cause death. While the words “heart disease” and “coronary thrombosis” still may strike fear in our hearts, it is the word “can cer” that causes great fear and continuous worry, which really is chronic fear. In the "American Journal of Psy chiatry,” Dr. J. B. Ficarra states that the word “cancer” stirs a tempest of mental agony. Because so many cases of cancer are not discovered until too late to save life, the family and relatives ar. told of the cancer, but in most cases the patient is not told al though he may suspect the cause of his symptoms. Strange as it seems, it is known that the young patient withstands the knowledge that he has cancer better than his family and rela tives; he appears to be able to face his fate better than older patients. In elderly patients the sense of im pending death is ever present. Old people fear it and are more nerv ous about it than young adults. While some ailments cause nerv ous symptoms and the patient be lieves he has heart, kidney or other disease, the majority of patients who really have cancer do not "imagine” they have cancer. It is often the non-cancerou* patient who believes he has cancer. HEALTH NOTES One of the jobs of the liver is manufacturing bile which breaks up fats for digestion. It is an anti septic, destroying harmful organ isms and a natural purgative pre venting constipation. • • • Physicians believe that lack of rest does more harm to the body and brain than does the prescrip tion of a quieting drug. When a middle-aged man or woman passes blood in the urine, the first thought is that it is can cer. This is as it should be, be cause early treatment saves lives. • • • Many ailments such as mucous colitis require that we obtain a calm outlook on life as the most important thing. Ain’t It So Some fellows take longer to say good-night. It's just as the kiss may be. Virtually all our holidays were proclaimed by men. Per haps if women set them there’d be more women golfers and women baseball experts. Echo: The only thing that ever cheated a woman out of the last word. Sturdy Picnic Table Seats Entire Family T HERE’S nothing like having an old fashioned picnic in y o u r own backyard. Especially so when you have this sturdy table all set up ready to seat the entire family. Its construction permits leaving it out the year round. Besides saving money, wood working provides hours of com plete relaxation. 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