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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, WOMAN'S WORLD When Cleaning Curtains Use Tested Means By Ertta Ha’sy E VER HAD CURTAINS fall apart while laundering them? Ever had them look limp, faded, and not quite clean enough? These are things that happen when we give curtains and drapes strictly amateur treatment when it comes to cleaning. On the other hand, there’s pure joy in a woman’s eyes when she surveys curtains that have been properly cleaned. Curtains like this • ( have a spanking-clean look, they ! | hang straight, and they have re- j ; tained their color. Dirt which creeps into the house via windows, as well as the sun which dries out the thread of cur tain material work havoc with the | best of window coverings. For these reasons, extra care is neces sary to keep curtains looking nice and avoiding the expensive replace ment cost which they would other wise necessitate. Too much cannot be said in favor of constant cleaning. This does not mean laundering every few weeks, but it does mean applying a vac uum attachment to them when you do your weekly cleaning to get rid of the surface dust which will other wise clog the fibers, and make them more difficult to launder. Curtains can be kept cleaner, too, when windows are cleaned weekly or bi-monthly, depending upon the dirt in different communities. Campus Cloche Launder curtains in pillowcase .... Needless to say, the curtains should be removed as the windows are being cleaned, so no soil comes off on them. It isn’t always necessary to re move the curtains from the rods when washing the windows, since most of them can easily be lifted off with their rods, thus making the return trip simple. Curtains and drapes should not be allowed to get too dirty before cleaning, since this only makes more effort necessary to wash them. Naturally, when curtains are washed long and hard, they will weaken. Make Curtain Measurements Before Doing Laundering One of the disheartening aspects of curtain laundering, frequently, is the shrinkage. An allowance should be made for this, of course, when curtains are made. You, yourself can do it, if you sew your own. Check to see that the allow ance has been made if you pur chase curtains. If you alter them, leave a hidden tuck in the curtain which may be let out after launder ing. Vivid watermelon pink vel veteen is used by Betmar for this smart new campus cloche that bugs the bead snugly to avoid going whichever way the wind blows. The hat has a deep crown and a helmet-shaped brim that are distinctly new and fashion-wise. It’s important that you measure the curtains accurately before laundering. Then, keep the meas urements so you won’t have to go through all the measuring again when you launder. If you use a curtain stretcher, wash all curtains which are the same size at the same time so you will not have to reset it for each pair. For those of you who will iron curtains, it’s a wise idea to mark the ironing board as to length and width so that you can avoid hav ing the problems of too-short or too-narrow curtains. This is an es pecially good idea for those cur tains which need frequent launder- Curtains Need Special Care When Washed Rinse curtains but do not soak them in water as a pre-washing procedure. You can get a lot of dirt out of curtains by giving them a brief cold water rinse. Soaking them, however, would tend to weak en the delicate fibers, which have frequently been sun-baked. Filmy laces and delicate sheers should not be washed without some protection. In fact, if the curtains are very fragile, they had best be washed in lukewarm water with mild soap, by hand. Simply squeeze the suds in and out of them as you would a sweater or some woolen garment. For the somewhat more durable types, but still fragile curtains, place each panel in a pillowcase and sew the top with basting stitch es. In this way the rough action of the washing machine will be buf fered by the case. If you intend using a curtain stretcher for drying the fragile curtains, place a strip of muslin at top and bottom of the curtain with pins or basting stitches so that the pins of the stretcher will not tear the curtain. Be Smart! A clever designer, who has the gift of making a blonse stunning in beantiful detail so that it virtually becomes a cos tume in itself, turns to nylon, thus adding a new permanence to the beauty she achieves. At the left is a new sueded nylon, very soft, heavy and rich look ing. At the right is a soft weave, lighter in weight but not sheer, hitherto associated only with the finest silk. It is trimmed with dainty lace insertion and tiny hand-sewn tucks. KATHLEEN NORRIS Character Precedes Logarithms Use vacuum attachment on drapes. ing: kitchen, bathroom and play room curtains. Before washing the curtains, dust them either with a vacuum attachment or shake them out be- forfe washing so that you will get none of the surface dirt into the water. In this way you can have your water for washing as clean as possible. THE READER'S COURTROOM- Grouchy Iceman Not at Fault -By Will Bernard, LL.B- May an Iceman Frighten Children Away from His Truck? An iceman was in a very grouchy mood one morning while making his rounds. As he walked out of a customer’s back yard, he noticed several children gathered around his truck — grabbing little pieces of ice. "Hey, you!” the iceman roared threateningly. One little boy was s* frightened that he ran into the street — right in front of a passing car. The child was injured, and later a lawsuit was brought on his behalf against the iceman. However, the court decided that the man wasn’t to blame for the mis hap. The judge said the iceman had a right to warn the children away from the truck — and it wasn’t, his fault that one boy ran the wrong way. • • • A man went to a barber shop to have his shoes shined. As he was getting down from the stand, he lost his balance and tumbled to the floor. When he got home and counted his bruises, the man de cided he had a damage claim against the barber. He filed suit— but the judge threw the case out of court The judge decided that a barber can’t guarantee his custom ers against any and all dangers— and, anyhow, a person ought to be able to climb down from a shoe shine stand by himself. A truck driver parked in an al ley, and got ready to unload a heavy bundle of cloth. Without looking, he lifted the package and pushed it off the truck — at the same moment shouting “Look out!” A man walking by was hit by the bundle, and suffered a bro ken arm in the mishap. Later the victim sued the trucking company for damages, and the court granted his claim. The judge ruled that the truck driver should have either looked first — or hollered sooner! • • • May a Trolley Conductor Punch A Quarrelsome Passenger? A fat man got into an argument with a street car conductor over a lost nickel. The dispute waxed hotter and hotter, and finally the man called the conductor a liar. Promptly the latter doubled his fist and punched the hefty passen- * as it must be to many mothers and grandmothers, why they teach our children what they do teach them — or try to teach them — in public high schools and in all col leges. In the past, the only men who had this higher education — no women had it—were preparing for the law, medicine, the church, or service to the state. They were destined to be the rulers, attorneys, doctors, clergymen, judges, colonels in the empire’s far-flung posts, teachers and professors. Their studies, of course, included history, higher mathematics, international law, Latin and living languages. Today we trail along on the same course, dragging with us thousands of American boys and girls who will never need Latin or logarithms. Awakened Interest Correct speech is achieved be cause it is heard, read and thought about. Such mathematics as any man or woman needs beyond gram mar school must be learned in the express and particular business to which he or she devotes himself. Any language can be mastered by a person of good intellect in the six months before he takes a post in Brazil or Russia. And similarly, enough history of any particular epoch will stay in your mind when you want it to stay there—and that desire is not apt to awaken until you have some reason to be inter ested in it. Turn to any college man you know, unless he be yesterday’s graduate, with the simplest Latin phrase, and he will look as blank ger in the stomach! Later, the man filed a damage suit for assault and battery. The conductor’s defense was that the passenger had started the argument, but the court held him liable anyhow. The judge said that the conductor of a public con veyance must always “treat his passengers with respect” — and that didn’t mean punching them in the stomach I ^ ... turn to any college man ... as he did at 15 in the schoolroom. Present any problem in machinery or electronics to the average col lege graduate, and unless he majored in that subject and intends tq follow it up, he’ll know less than the unlettered lad in the garage, who can put his shock of hair into the engine hood of your car, mum ble mysterious words, and have things righted in five minutes. We don’t teach them what they need. We don’t help them find the glory of work they like to do, be cause we give them work they hate to do. We bore them to death all through their young years, and then are amazed they don’t want to read Shakespeare or Homer. “Gosh, they gave us that stuff in school!” Modern Conception I’ve just finished reading an ar ticle on this subject by one Jack Harrison Pollack in a newspaper weekly. It describes what many modem public schools are doing along the line of “Life Adjust ment.” Many schools—not more than five per cent, it is true, but that means about ten million chil dren—are allowing older pupils credits on part-time outside work, encouraging the development of character in human relations, per sonal contacts, individual ventures. We all know that what our chil dren need is strong, fine characters. If a boy or girl has that, little else matters. He is equipped by gram mar school to go as far as he cares to go. So the question is; what col lege work can help to form strong characters, what type of training will guide young minds and souls to true self-development and self-con trol? These modem schools are work ing actual miracles in saving youngsters from the common mis takes of adolescence. They teach sexual understanding, which is a step toward sexual morality; they inspire daring, courage, initiative and, above all, self-knowledge. But the easier, righter, simpler place for characters to be formed is at home. The national tragedy is that 50 per cent of our fathers and mothers haven’t the knowledge or the strength of mind or the fineness of character themselves, to accomplish it. America would be the strongest nation in the world, if they did. She need fea'r no one then. She would be so much the envy of all other nations that no foreign pagan ideology could find root in the minds and souls of her children. A boy of 17 was given a life sentence in an eastern state years ago. He won’t serve all that, per haps, but he’s been in jail almost 20 years already—good years for more fortunate boys. In the course of several talks, his foreign-born, distracted mother showed me his smeared, rubbed, blotted school books. He had studied, or rather been expected to study, algebra, ancient history, English literature, folklore, gymnastics and music. One wonders why any of us ever imagined that these would give him sound character. Woman Elevator Operator Saves Scores During Fire PITTSBURGH.—A woman opera tor braved a $15,000 fire to carry scores of terrified persons from the upper floors of a burning office building. The elevator operator, Sally Rahn, 22, made two trips until heat forced her to take over from an other elevator. Then she made two more trips until smoke and heat caused her to abandon the car. Rarest Object Is 'Rare Book' Most 'Finds' Have No Actual Value NEW YORK.—The most valuable book printed in America is the Bay Psalm book, published in 1640. It has brought as high as $151,000 and certainly would be worth $90,000 upon the open market today. Only 11 copies are known and it is unlikely that many more will come to light. There’s always a sporting chance, however, that another may turn up. There also is a chance that copies of other extremely scarce and valu able books will materialize out of the attic or Aunt Bertha’s trunk. A lady wrote: “I recently read a news feature in. our home town paper that old books are valuable. My parents have quite a few, such as . . (here followed a list of titles). “We’d like to know who to get in touch with and all the details." Sadly, it was necessary to inform the lady that her description of the books indicated they were worth less. Stories about rare and valuable first editions have been written for many years. Every time one sees print mail is heavy with letters from persons who are sure they possess copies of the described rarities. Authors have received hundreds of such communications and yet never once did they produce a real bibliographical find. Invariably, the correspondents had only the latest and cheapest reprints of books valuable only in first edition form. The number of persons possess ing “old family Bibles” was astounding. There seems to be a universal feeling that all old Bible* just have to be valuable. MIRROR Of Your MIND I ^ ^ Every Career Demands Study By Lawrence Gould Do all careers call for special training? Answer: You cannot do any job well unless you know how to do it, and the simplest way of finding this out is to have someone who knows how teach you. But this does not mean that the only way to train yourself for any kind of work is in a school or college classroom. Many leading newspapermen never at tended schools of journalism and one of the great bacteriologists of our time began as a porter in the laboratory. If you can read and are not afraid to study, there are rela tively few careers to which you cannot aspire. V Is acne a serious problem? Answer: Very serious indeed to the adolescent who is suffering from it—all the more because his parents are so apt to feel that he is “making a fuss over nothing.” For the biggest conscious problem of the average teen-ager is “social acceptance,” and to feel he’s seri ously handicapped in winning this by a “disfigurement” may retard or block his whole adjustment to the adult world. Recommended reading for all sufferers from this difficulty is a new book, “The Skin Problems of Young Men and Wom en,” by Dr. Herbert Lawrence. Is psychotherapy “for doctors only”? Answer: Most of the best psy chotherapists are doctors, and some forms of mental illness ought not to be treated except by a physician. But since there are something like ten times as many people in need of help for emotional difficulties as there are psychiatrists to treat them, the plain fact is that much of this help must come from non physicians, and that some of these are fully competent to give it. “Psy chiatric psychologists,” says Dr. George H. Preston, “are not as sistants to an all-wise medical psy chiatrist, but therapists in their own right.” LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE Taft- chukcu of Scotland & THE ONLY CHURCH IN THE WOfPLD THAT /S 0OTH NATIONALIST ANP FR0E/ AI^. A woman in Mope isianp's 1 ethukch council has SOftlEPANO MENPEP NEAKLY 12,000 fAlft OF 20CKS FOR OVERSEAS RELIEF M . THE LAST THREE YEARS! KEEPING HEALTHY Helpingthe Aged UndergoOperation By Dr. James W. Barton r r IS NOT LONG since a physician in consultation with a surgeon often decided not to allow an elder ly patient to undergo operation un less it was a matter of life or death. Because there are now so many elderly men and women in the world and they are beginning to feel the effects of the aging process, physicians and surgeons are study ing closely the problem of surgical operation in the elderly. In “Geriatrics,” (disease of the elderly) Dr. J. Dewey Bisgard, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, states that there is greater need for team work be tween the surgeon, the internist (specialist in internal diseases), anesthetist, and other specialists, and that every detail in surgical management must be cautiously and carefully observed. These patients should be studied not by their age in years but by their age physically, as some are old at 50 and others are young at 70. One important consideration is the nourishment of the body; if the patient is undernourished, his weight should be increased. While it is admitted that lean men live longer than fat men, it is known that many elderly men and women do not eat as much as they really need to keep body strong, and to provide enough fat and other cover ings to protect the nerves and serve as a food supply in an emergency. Dr. Bisgard points out that with the loss of fat there is a loss of sugar from the sugar or glycogen depots—skin, liver—and also loss of protein (muscle tissue). He suggests, therefore, that In preparing a patient for surgical operation an all round diet should be given and the proteins—meat, eggs, fish—should be increased. If not enough proteins can be eaten by the patient, then proteins in the form of amino acids can be in jected into a vein. Another suggestion is that the elderly patient being prepared for operation should be given enough liquids to maintain the proper water balance but not enough to have too much water in the tissues. And during operation, no unneces sary bleeding should occur, as too much loss of blood might cause collapse. Psychiatrists make allowances for mental patients who would get better without shock treatment and do not put patients through shock if they can be cured by other methods. • • • Very few surgeons operate with out a thorough examination by the physician assuring the surgeon that an operation is necessary. In the electric shock treatment for mental disorder, the patient has no memory of the shock t< does not have to have injections into the veins, and is never conscious what is happening to him. • • • One reason the dental profes sion is standing high is the amount of research work being done by dentists in nutrition. SCRIPTURE.: Psalms 23: 42: 4S; 90: 121: 148. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 63:1-6. The Psalms We Sing Lesson for September 25, 1949 ■ I T WOULD be a most unusual per son who on his dying bed would turn to the 23rd chapter of I Chroni cles and not to the 23rd Psalm. If the reader will think of his own favorite passage of Scripture, and then look them up in some edition which prints the Bible in a modern format, he will discover that his favorite passages are probably all poetry. Dr. Foreman Poetry’s Power W HY the appeal of poetry? For one thing, it is vivid. It is in colors, not severe black and white. It lives and breathes, at times it shouts, and it always sings. It is true to say “The provi dential oversight of the Creator is continuous and unreiyiitting;” but it is more effective to say, “The Lord is my shepherd.” It would be true to say, “The evi dences of creative and bene ficent purpose can be seen throughout all the orders of na ture;" but how much more vivid is the 148th Psalm, call ing on hail and fire, sun and moon and stars of light, to praise the Lord! Another secret of poetry’s power is that it is the language of emo tion. Professors and theologians may be saying the same things as the poet, and maybe even saying them more completely and accu rately; but what they say is less easy to remember. So these emotional Psalms will always appeal, even to the profes sor when off duty, because they make us feel religion and not mere ly think it. • • • Pictures of God S O IT IS no wonder the Psalms have been loved and sung all over the world. We are perhaps the only religion that has made so much use of another religion’s hymn book. Different though our faiths may be, Jews and Christians can sing from the Psalter with one voice and heart. For centuries ft was the hymnal of the Christian church. Indeed, up to recent years some large denominations would allow in public worship the singing of no other songs than the Psalms. Many of our best hymns and pop ular gospel songs, as we have al ready seen, are based on Psalms. “Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” “A Shelter in the Time of Storm,” “Hiding in Thee,” — they all go back to the Psalmist’s picture of God as a Rock (Ps. 42:9). The Psalmist was not thinking of a little rock in a cornfield. He was thinking of some tall crag in the fierce hot landscape of his coun try. A rock there is a landmark. It is a shelter against the blazing sun, people could live under its over hanging height. So God is the landmark of life, he gives direction to our ways; he is the shelter on life’s weary journey, he Is our safe dwelling. So with the many other pictures of God in the Psalms—he is light, he is shade, he is the guard on duty at night watching over the sleeping city (Ps. 121); he is a shepherd, he is water for the thirst ing soul (Ps. 42.) • • o A Model Hymnal I T IS true that few Christians to day can use in worship all of the Psalms, writhout omissions or changes. It is also true that prac tically all Christian churches find that the Psalms, by themselves, are inadequate to express all there Is in Christian experience, faith and ideals. The Christian hymn, entirely in dependent of the Psalms, has long since come into its own. And yet the Psalms remain the model hym nal. For in them beauty and truth are blended. This should be the ideal of all Christian hymn and song books. Some of our modem “hymns” as well as some older ones, are bad because they are no better than jingles, —doggerel, not poetry, and often song to tones better suited to a juke box; and some are bad because they convey either nonsense or downright falsehood. But the great hymns, and the best hymnals, are those which like the Psalms of old, combine pro found truths about God and man, duty and destiny, with stately, stir ring and singable music, aglow with the beauty and power of words. 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