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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD New Fashion Ideas Freshen Wardrobe By Ertta Haley N EED some sparkle for the wardrobe? A slight amount of remodeling, a bit of new trimming, or a flash of color will rescue many clothes from their route to the back end of the closet Some women feel that it is sim ply not in their power to create a practically new garment from an old one, even though they sew well. It’s a matter of imagination, they say, and leave it to those who obviously have some creative tal ent True, imagination is a good thing to have when renewing the ward robe, but it’s ’ dispensable with all the aids we have on hand. You may need just a quick look at what the stores are showing, a glance at some of the new styles and a session with a pattern book. A sense of what is fitting, how ever, is essential. If you do any sewing, you understand about fit ting. Even if you always buy Change neckline with yoke . . • . clothes, you will understand fitting, so you see the matter is quite simple. Dresses and blouses should have material in good enough condition to remodel for satisfying results. You may have to invest in some new material, trimming, buttons or patterns, and it’s not budget- wise to spend either money or time on material that isn’t Worth remodeling, no matter how much you’ve liked the garment in the past. Refitting Saves Many Garments Dresses and blouses which fit well will rarely be delegated to the deep, dark corners of a closet. Doesn’t it stand to reason that clothes should fit you well so that you’ll get the most out of them? Good fit simply means that you look pleasing in your garment. This should not be too loose so that you have a sack-like effect, al though if some proportions of the body are large, it’s best to have them fit loosely enough so there is no pulling or gaping, or tight ness to show each individual fold of flesh. If you are on the slender side, the garment should not hang too loosely so it looks as though it doesn’t belong to you. You may, however, have soft gathers, full sleeves, and drap.ing which is gen erous to add fullness to the figure. Many garments may be fitted by you, or a dressmaker if you do not feel competent. This may be all the dress needs to renew it. Patio Costume i Rustling cotton taffeta with a moire finish makes its appear ance on the style horizon in a sophisticated costume for re sort wear. Carolyn Schnurer de signs a strapless bodice and a separate wrap-around skirt with fullness concentrated at the side. Over it she poses a triangular stole. The costume also bids for future honors at home in the winter evening scene as well as for summer. Change Plain Dresses With Neckline or Color Every once in a while we look at a dress and wonder how we could ever have chosen something so plain or severe. This is easily remedied. Lace yokes are being used ex tensively on the new fashions and And skirt with a drape. may be readily inserted on a plain dress which would give it the prop er background. Patterns for yokes may be pur chased either as such, or they may THE READER'S COURTROOM- Hold Temper in Court -By Will Bernard, LLBw May a Person Lose His Temper in a Courtroom? A carpenter and his neighbor had an argument about the ownership of a dog, and the dispute was finally taken to court. When the neighbor took the witness stand, he was asked whether he honestly believed the dog was his. He replied: “Posi tively yes!” Enraged, the carpen ter seized a stick and smacked bis adversary across the cheek! The victim promptly filed a damage claim against the hot-headed car penter. The latter pleaded that the neighbor’s answer "made me mad,” but the court decided that wasn’t a very good excuse. Holding the carpenter liable, the judge said that such fiery displays of temper have no place in a court of justice. • • • A widow, in poor health, liked to take occasional rests by visiting her married daughter. These visits, which would occur about once a year, usually lasted several weeks. The daughter's husband raised no objections, but quietly kept a writ ten record of the cost of each stay. When the widow died, the husband put in a special claim against her estate for '’services rendered.” However, the court rejected his claim, on the ground that such “ser vices normally are presumed to be gratU.” A wooden chest, evidently lost from a passing ship, was washed up onto the seashore property of a retired captain. A beachcomber noticed the chest, liked it, and hauled it to his cottage. When the captain found out what had oc curred, he sued the beachcomber for the value of the chest. The latter argued that neither of them really owned it—so the first finder could keep it. However, the court upheld the captain’s claim. The judge said that the owner of the seashore property has prior rights. • » • Is Shaving a "Necessity" In the Eyes of the Law? A certain town passed a “Blue Law” which prohibited all labor on Sundays except for "works of necessity.” One Saturday night, a man went to the barber shop for a shave. However, before his turn came he became ill and had to go home. The next morning, at his special request, the barber went to his shop and gave the man a shave. Someone reported the incident to the police, and the barber was arrested. He argued that, under the circumstances, the Sunday shave was a “necessity.” But the court couldn’t see it that way and found him guilty. The judge said the cus tomer wouldn’t have been any worse off if he hadn’t gotten his shave until Monday! be part of a dress or blouse pat tern which intrigues you. Use only the yoke for the old dress. These yokes may also be made in sheers or contrasting solid col ors, if you prefer them to lace. Whatever fabric is chosen, it should be in keeping or good con trast to the dress material. Plain dresses can be given the scoop necklines with little alteration, and then be worn with some of the luxurious new costume jewelry. For a softly feminine change to a plain dress, you might like to bare the neckjne more, which would be in keeping with new fash ion trends. Then add a ruffle for trimming, and use some of it on the flap pockets at hips, or on the sleeves. Another idea for adding dash to a plain dress in the classic style would be to use plaid ruffling for a plunging type neckline, with simi lar ruffling for the sleeve trim as well as the skirt ruffle, especially where extra length is needed. Many dresses can be made en tirely new looking with the addition of a bolero in a gay and contrasting shade when the original dress is dark. Be Smart! Going places via car, train or plane? Then you’ll be in terested in the growing fashion Importance of the linen duster. Sketched here is one of the new er ideas of this quaint revival, a raglan sleeve, convertible collar combination with flap pockets that repeat the line of the turn-back cuffs. It’s espe cially adapted to the heavier weave of linen because of its unusual tailoring details. You’ll want to be sure the buttons are handsome such as large smoked pearl affairs that re peat the overtones of^the pop ular natural colored linen. KATHLBEN NORRIS Avoid Boredom in Marriage A NNE AND Alan Wilson are deadly bored with their mar riage, and just about have decided to break it up. Nothing is specifi cally wrong, and everything is wrong. “Alan is a smart man,” writes Anne, “and I’m stupid; I know it. I’m a good cook, I keep my apart ment clean and comfortable, but I can’t talk politics or business; when I try to, Alan just looks at me patiently and looks back at his newspaper, without any comment. "We have two children; I know we both adore them, I know we’d both die for them. But living with a stubborn, spirited boy of 4 and a delicate girl of 6 is something else. Alan and I are both nervous people, and the children naturally are nervous, too. There is a good deal of crying and diso bedience in a sort of nursery way; not scenes and beatings and loud voices, but dif ficulties in getting them to go off to bed, or Alan asking ‘What on earth is Shirley crying about now?’ “We try to control our nerves, but we don’t seem to be talking the same language these days. Alan showers, dresses, goes off to busi ness; I don’t see him again until six o’clock and then he hardly speaks. Then it’s the newspaper, radio, dinner, and he is either ‘dead tired’ and goes to bed, or he is going ‘over to Joe’s for a min ute.’ All wives, busy with dishes, homework, mending, know that ‘minute.’ Longs for Life, Vitality "I long for life, vitality, interest, occupation,” Anne ends her letter. “I’m doing my job as well as I can, but it’s not enough for me. It’s not enough for Alan. These "... Then it’s the newspaper ...” five small rooms are as modem, as well-equipped as any in the world, I suppose; we don’t like taxes and rising prices, but we aren’t in debt. There should be a good many things for us to talk about, after nine years of marriage. But apparently there aren’t. “Now the questions I want to ask you are these; Do you often hear of a situation like this? Is it my fault or Alan’s? Would a psychoanalyst help us? I’m 30, Alan 34; we can’t go on for 40 years like this. Can you help us?” My answers to these questions are yes, I oft in hear of this situa tion, it arises in many marriages. No, I wouldn’t go to a psycho analyst. In your case that would be money thrown away. And yes, it is your fault and Alan’s both, although it isn’t an easy one to see. In the first place, Anne, you’re not stupid. No stupid woman ever wrote a letter like this. You’re simply bogged down in a rut that has involved Alan and the children, too. Five city rooms, year out and year in, aren’t too healthy an en vironment for two small children. Five city rooms doesn’t afford much scope for your imagination or activity, either. Five city rooms aren’t restful when a man gets home from eight hours in a close office. Sandersons Solved Problem I’ll tell you what the Sandersons did. They had three boys, and when a doctor told Jim, four years ago, that not one, but two of his sons was threatened with congestion of lungs, Jim and Margery moved out into the country with the speed of fire-horses. Boredom was forgotten, city luxuries were tossed aside. Jim’s rooted comtempt for com muters suffered a surprising jolt. They bought “Hideaway” for $5,000. A tumbledown white cot tage, an acre of apple trees, five great oaks and a stream. Yes, and it was at the end of a train and a bus trip, for Jim, with half a mile of country road at the end of that, and there was a wood stove in the kitchen, dangling electric lights of the 1900 period in the rooms, and the bathtub was tin. But— Well, you ought to see it now. Paint and glass and a floor furnace have done wonders. The Sandersons eat their own tomatoes and corn and fruit all summer. Winter mud for the car and summer dust—well, of course. But there are three hard, noisy, sunburned big boys on the place now, in the place of coughing little fellows from the city, and they help. There are a man and a wom an there now, discussing changes and improvements and plans, living every moment. Make a change, Anne. Give the children country freedom and their nerves and rebellions will disap pear like mist. Stars' Children Take to Stage They Seek Careers Like Their Parents HOLLYWOOD.—School is out in Hollywood and the movie stars’ sprigs are getting summer jobs. As movie stars, of course. Gloria Swanson's daughter is talking about a screen test; Charlie Chaplin’s son is starring in a play; John Barrymore’s boy is sweating over his movie debut. Even Judy Garland’s baby is a movie veteran. To old-timers in Hollywood, this looks like where they came in. Joan Bennett’s daughter is test ing for one of the biggest parts in her mother’s new picture, pro duced by her stepfather. Harold Lloyd says Harold, Jr., will be in his next comedy. “His sisters think he’s very funny,” Lloyd said. “They never laugh at me. Oh, the trials of being a father.” John Barrymore, Jr., a 17-year- old copy of the great profile, is earning $150 a week for the first acting he’s ever done. “The ham came out in me when I was 15,” young Barrymore says. “I took a walk and looked at the stars a long time. All of a sudden I knew I had to be an actor.” He’s trying to see all his famous father’s pictures now, he added. He’d previously seen only “The Invisible Woman.” Sydney Chaplin, Charlie’s 22- year-old son, is a big hit in the 'Circle Players’ “Anna Lucasta.” He’s been acting with them a cou ple of years and says he’11 do his first movie v/hen they make one. “My dad's very pround Of me,” he allowed. “He never misses a show.” Fifteen-year-old Melinda Mar- key has talked her stepfather, Walter Wanger, into testing her for the part of Rebecca in “The Ballad and The Source,” which will star her mother. Miss Ben nett. “I’ve always wanted to be an actress like my mother,” she said. She was hoping to debut on the stage this summer, she added, un til the family decided to take her to Italy where the picture will be made. Gloria Swanson’s daughter, Mich ele Bridget Farmer, 17, has been talking with producers about screen tests ever since her mother introduced her around. She hasn’t anything definite yet. > . SPEAKS T TflTjlPlirifvternatioriAl Unilorm TBwl L-Ujily .1 Sunday Skihoo! Lessons F : ffil if BB. KEHBITH ), FOKEMMt 25 p 2 C RIp TURE; Psalms 92; 103; 136:1-9, 11 DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms Thank God for God! Lesson for August 7, 1949 TI/HILE the little children are " thanking God for birds and bees and oatmeal, let us grown pebple rise and offer some adult thanksgiv ings. Reading the Psalms of praise which are this week before us, iwe get the impres sion that these poets were grateful above all not for anything God had given but for God himself. Thank God for God! sings Dr. Foreman through every line. Suppose there were no God? He is the Creator of all; without him nothing else can be. The nature of time and space, of molecule and atom and electron, the mighty power that holds all together; the emergence of life, of mind, the possibility of thought, of values, whatever is /nd whatever can be, is because he wills it so. That there is energy in the atom, light in the sun, refreshment in the rain and power in the lightning—that these things can be and that any thing can be, we thank the God. • • • No Unrighteousness in Him SUPPOSE God were not good? A vast and vicious devil, his im mense mind brimming with intel ligence and malice, could perhaps have contrived a universe more enormous than this corner of one which is known to us. A creative devil—what pangs he could have invented to torture his creatures! It may be. Indeed, that only on this earth is there rebellion against the Creator, and that elsewhere in God’s dominions all is peace. But suppose it were true that all the evil In the world was ordained by some Creative Hatred?—all the good ness in the world only an il lusion, a deception? Suppose it were the intent of some devilish maker of man fin ally to destroy all his creatures, or worse still, to make every creature long bitterly for death but find none? Let us thank God for God: the God of mercy whose loving kindness endureth forever. • • » He Knoweth Our Frame L ET us thank God for his provi dence. He did not create and then forget us, nor. give us so much freedom that we could destroy his majesty or bring to naught his mighty plan. Let us thank God for his infinite love and interest that spares and speeds us, his knowl edge of our frame, his remember ing even the hairs upon our heads. Let us thank God that being infinite be can have a care for the infini tesimal, and that not a sparrow falls to the ground without our heavenly Father. Let us thank God whose card for us is such that with out his knowledge not the least of his creatures can fall asleep. From death and disaster we and the nation and the world have been saved, time and again. Frail is the craft in which the human spirit is launched through this pathless nniverse; yet it holds, and will held, because the universe is there by his almighty decree. In spite of the chaos of men’s unruly wills, in spite of we know not what rebellions in the spirit world, he sees to it that not one good is ever wholly lost. • • • Who Redeemeth Thy Life T ET US PRAISE God for his “ promise and for his faithful ness. That he has not left us to our sins nor given us up though long we scorned him; that his divine patience outlasts the hasty heart; that he spared not his own Son but freely gave him for our sakes; that none who come to him will be cast out; that the God who creates is the God who redeems, we praise him from a heart of love. As the Psalmist of old knew himself as one of the children of the Covenant, so may every man who takes God’s promises and makes them his heart’s own. To take this God for my God —this is the beginning and the end of religion. To step out on his promises as »n js bridge that stands secure above all the floods of eternity. To trust in his faithfulness though all the race of man were liars; to look down the vista of the years without fear, knowing that the God of our fathers will be the God of each succeeding race, that his mercy is everlasting to everlasting and that his kingdom ruleth over all—this is to know him, and this is life eternal. Thank God for God! (Copyright by the International Coun cil of Religious Education on behalf of 10 Protestant denominations. Released a- WNU Features. MIRROR Of Your MIND ^ Guilt Feeling Makes Duffers By Lawrence Gould Can a sense of guilt make you miss golf shots? Answer: Yes, although you prob ably don’t realize it. After strug gling with the elusive game for forty years I am convinced that when you miss a two-foot putt, a guilty conscience is the explanation. For success at golf (or any other sport) implies you’re doing two things, both of which are “wicked” from a childish standpoint: prov ing how “good” you are, and get ting the better of someone else. The more you want to do either, the more childish memories of being told you mustn’t tend to make you flinch and punish yourself by ■‘missing.” Should happiness be the goal of education? Answer: Yes, writes Dr. Herman Noll of Goettingen University, Germany. True education does not ask how useful the pupil will be to the job for which he is being trained, but how useful the train ing will be to him in helping him become a happy human being. For in the true sense, in which happi ness means more than egotistic pleasure, “Only the happy man is good.” Educating children to serve the state rather than teach ing them to live so as to realize their own best possibilities marks the difference between Nazism and democracy. • Is it sometimes good for you to be “shocked?” Answer: Yes, write Drs. Leland Bradford and Paul Sheats of the National Education Association in the magazine. Society. Training supervisors often fail because the trainee has a “vested interest” in certain types of behavior and does not know how to deal with any others. He should be “shocked out of his complacency” and made to realize that his standards are not universally accepted. Finding someone you respect has tastes or habits you were taught to disap prove of may help you to concen trate on things that really matter. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE Kms Jour's MASHA CMRTA s* Most all of the bridges \ EUROPE USED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BV BENEDICTINE MONKS... EACH BRIDGE fMP HOUSE AND A IN IT/ Chp&tening a SHIP ISA SURVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT CUSTOM OF COMMITTING EACH SHIP TO THE PROTECTION OF GOD. . . KEEPING HEALTHY Surgery Relieves Profound Grief By Dr. James W. Barton I WRITE FREQUENTLY about the operation lobotomy or leuko tomy, used in cases of deep grief and depression. It certainly causes a great change in the individual's outlook on life and is of great com fort and relief to the family. When this operation was first re ported, all that was hoped for was the relief from the great depres sion of spirits. The fact that these patients, in losing their depression, often lost their sense of responsi bility did not seem very important. When further reports showed that some of these patients who had un dergone operation were able to re turn home and be of some use to themselves and to the household, it was more than had been expected. In “Lancet,” London, Dr. G. Garmany reports the results of leukotomy present in 59 patients, three years after operation. Leuko tomy proved successful in half of the 22 patients with depression, and also in half of the 10 patients with double personality (the Dr. Jekyll- and-Mr. Hyde type). Why was there an Improvement in some and not in others having the same symptoms and undergo ing the same operation? Dr. Garmany states that opera tion alone is not responsible for all the improvement obtained. Im provement also depends on the home environment or surround ings. In depression a naturally good personality, never affected by fears, doubts, emotional disturb ances, and of average intelligence, is absolutely necessary if good re sults are to be expected. Where the patient has always been affected with illusions, delusions, obses sions or other types of odd be havior, good results may be, but are usually not, obtained by leuko tomy. The thought here is that while leukotomy relieves grief and de pression in most cases, restoring the mind and the emotions to nor mal depends to a great extent upon the personality of the individual during his lifetime and also upon his family and community sur roundings. When symptoms point to lack of vitamins, eating enough of the pro tective foods will bring relief. The protective foods are milk, butter, cream, cheese, fruits and green vegetables. • » • Physicians suggest that all pa tients with severe sciatica and low back pain should be put to bed (or one month. Of 100 children examined with rheumatic fever, 33 per cent had mild inflamation (gingivitis) of the gums. Of 100 normal children, only four per cent had gingivitis. • • • Another reason why the diet should contain less >ugar is that it kills the desire for other foods just as necessary as sugar or other starch foods. Ain’t It So Motorists see so many “Speed Limit—20 Miles a n Hour” signs, that they pay little attention to them. An exception Is the small town in Texas where the sign at the edge of town reads “20 Miles and Honr or $19.90.” Sign on a fancy Hollywood station wagon: “No Rancho Yetto.” Milk Bottle Warmers A new wrinkle for drive-in theaters is electric milk bottle warmers for patrons who bring baby along to sleep in the back seat. 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