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f Page Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Surprise Party By Virgie Evans Roger In the dining nook of her apart ment Sandra Cunningham yanked open the bottom drawer of her buffet. Which table cloth to use? The answer was simultaneous with the question—her best, of course. She pulled the lacy filigree from the bottom oi stack. Would this be the night‘fdr her and Jim? Dinner for two. by candlelight, her heart sang, as she placed a tall white taper on each Side of the red roses Jim had sent. He usually brought his flowers—but the roses had arrived by messenger soon after she got home from the office. Ah, she smiled, as she brought out her hope chest two- place setting of sterling, was this his way of saying be ready? Returning to the' kitchenette she took a package from the small re frigerator and unwrapped the lus cious looking T-bone steaks. Jim’s favorite. •Beautiful,” she ex claimed under her breath, momen tarily pausing to admire them be fore preparing for the broiler^ t She lifted the lid to check, the bubbling potatoes as the telephone rang sharply. ‘’Qh} don’t let it be Jim saying he can’t come,” she prayed. •’Hi. cookie,” Jim said as she answered. ‘'Do I smell chicken?” he teased. "Just wait and see," she sang, anticipating his delight over the juicy steaks. "Mind if I spring a little sur prise on you?” he asked. "Please,” she begged. “Don’t say you can't come.” "On the contrary; Oould I bring someone along? I have a new girl friend.” His words cut like a double-edged khife. Noises hammered in her ears. She couldn't believe she had heard right. “Girl friend!” she tried to hold her voice steady. "Just a little surprise,” he an- ' swered casually. Little surprise! The bottom had fallen out of everything. "Why, Jim,” she stalled, trying to pick from her jumbled thoughts some thing to say. “If you ... if you want to,” she managed at last. If he said more Sandra didn't hear. She came to with the dial tone in her ear. She slammed the phone into its cradle, a dozen ques tions pounding in her mind. Her glance fell on the lace-cov ered table for two. Did Jim want it for three? What would Enriily Post say, she wondered ironically, about how to entertain your fiance’s new girl friend? But he wasn’t her fiance, she painfiilly admitted. And , what did the table matter now? Or the steaks? How could she face Jim? How could she face his new girl friend, she questioned, with panic. She just couldn't. She jumped when she heard a car stop in front—Jim’s car. A glance out the window gave her the answer. There was the girl. Jim was helping her from the front seat. Bundled in furs, Sandra couldn’t tell whether she was big or little—probably a petite bru nette, in contrast to her flve-foot- ten blond make-up, she thought with chagrin, as she beat it to the back door. By the time they came in she would be outside. She fumbled nervously with the door. “Darn that tricky latch!” she berated, as Jim rang the chimes and si multaneously burst into the living room. “Hello, Beautiful,” he called. "Anybody home?” She was trapped. An instant later Jim’s tall frame was coming through the archway, a five-year-old girl in his arms. “Here she is, Cookie,” he was say ing to Sandra, "this is Pam. my new little girl friend. “Oh,” Sandra said, relief envel oping her, as things began to come into focus again. “Oh, Jim. what a surprise!” Suddenly they were laughing together and everything was beautiful again. Jim quickly explained that his relatives couldn’t stay, but he had made them come by to meet her. He turned to the child as she and her mother prepared to go. “Pam, maybe she’d let you call her Aunt Sandra. Was this a preview of the all important question? Then she'd preview her answer. “Of course, Pam, dear.” Thursday, February 12, 1953 AND HOME Here're Tips On How To Drive During Darkness (By Women's Travel Authority) Night driving increases in win ter. Not only are the hours of dark ness longer, but motorists extend their driving time to get to their destination—especially when head ing South! Darkness and drowsiness are friends—but they’re not the driv er's friends. Here are some tips to help you avoid fatigue or sleepiness: 1 Eat lightly if you’re planning extended night driving. A heavy dinner or heavy eyelids go to gether. 2. Occasional coffee stops are good “picker-uppers..” 3. Keep the car well ventilated Avoid excessive "trse of -the -heater 4. Make sure the car seat is ad justed to insure maximum comfort, since poor steering posture can drain your much-needed energy. If, in spite of all your precau tions, the temptation to sleep be comes irrestible, pull off to the side of the road and take Oscar Wilde's advice. He said “The only way to overcome temptation is to gi.e in to it.” WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. It’s easy to glamorize your veg etables if you’ll follow a few sim ple cooking tricks with the com mon types that you serve often. | Give them a new place in the, menu with these treatments. Chopped, cooked spinach is a wonderful dish when you place it in a casserole, cover with cream j sauce and top with mushroom' caps. Heat in moderate oven just! long enough to heat through. Glazed onions look beajUtiful I around a roast, as a garnish ahd as a vegetable. Mix 4 tablespoons I melted butter, 3 tablespoons lemon! juice and 1-3 cup honey and cover' cooked whole onions with this, j Spoon over as you heat them j through just to glaze them. Peas will have that really dis tinctive garden flavor if you add some chopped mint or parsley or both during the last few minutes of cooking time. Several small servings of. left over vegetables can, be combined with a cheese sauce and served in hollowed-out, cooked onions for a special treat. Cooked parsnips are really di- licious when topped with melted butter, brown sugar and mustard. Bake to heat through. Any vegetable will rate attention if you brown butter carefully and add a few fine bread crumbs to it before pouring over cooked vegeta ble. Add zip to creamed green beans by blending.in a few drops of onion, juice to the cream sauce while you| make. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Spiced Tongue Slices (• Servies 8) 1 beef tongue. 2 tablespoons salt. Water to cover. 3 pieces celery. 12 whole cloves. 2 bay leaves. 12 whole peppers. 2 cups sugar. 2 cups vinegar. 2 cups water. 6 small onions, thinly sliced. Wash tongue and cover with salted water. Add celery and spices. Cook slowly until tender, about an hour per pound. Skin; and slice. Cook sugar, vinegar and 2 cups water for 10 minutes. [ Pour over tongue. Add onions. ^Store'ln cool place aricTuSe as dF= sired. •ElyU.1 London Cruthod Bond In nor Woavo Shadow Strip* 1 Roponcy SporHman Coronal MONTAG PAPERS Highlight a birthday ... a holiday •.. any occasion with the gift that's always welcome everywhere — the gift that comes bock to you— Montag's fine writing papers. Let Montag's quality and design reflect your own good taste. Available in wide variety* and large color assortment at moderate prices. Boxed and open stock. J //r/t/ut/) f rASHIOVAMU WAITING PAMAS Chronicle Pub. Co. Stationery Department Hot Horseradish Sauce (For Beef) 2 tablespoons butter. 3 tablespoons flour. 2 cups beef broth. 3-4 teaspoon sauce. 3 tablespoons horseradish soaked in 1-4 cup water. 1-4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Melt butter, add flour and stir until well blended. Add broth and salt. Add horseradish which j has been soaked for 10 minutes,; then the Worcestershire sauce. Thisj may be used over boiled beef, orj leftover roast beef, (fleef broth may be made with two bouillon cubes dissolved in two cups hot water.) Schools, Churches Plant 36,000 Pine Seedlings In S. C. Clemson, Feb. 8.—Nineteen schools! and three churches in 19 South Car olina counties have completed plant ing 36,000 pine seedlings, according to W. J. Barker, leader, Clemson Forestry Extension work. Six of these plantings, using 18,000 seed lings, were made by Negro schools. A breakdown of these plantings shows that 13 were new, six were extensions of old plantings, and three were replantings. Counties in which plantings were made this year are Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Beau fort, Calhoun, Charleston, Chester field, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Georgetown, Lancaster, Laurens, Oranglbeurg, Pickens, Sa luda, Sumter, and York. Thirty- seVen of the state’s 46 counties noW have one or more school plantings. Mr. Barker explained that the pur pose of these plantings is to give young people experience and inter-1 est in tree planting; to estaibli^i dem onstrations in forestry on land con venient to the schools; and to provide income to be used for the benefit of all students in the given school through the sale of thinnings. >-* The plantings are a copoerative project with the Clemson Extension Service and die State Commission of Forestry, working with the schools and the pulp industry. The pulpwood companies cooperating in the project are the International Paper Co., West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., and the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. Ap proximately 750 people took part in the actual plantings of the seedlings. This project was started in the fall of 1948. Since the start, 127 schools and four churches have planted a total of 235,000 seedlings. In most cases the schools obtained 20-year leases on the areas where the trees were planted. All cuttings will be made under the supervision of the cooperating agencies, and the pro ceeds from the sale of thinnings will be spent for school improvements at the respective schools. At the end of the lease period, the land and the remaining stand of trees will be re-1 turned to the original owners. We Do All Kinds • • • • • PRINTING 'Except Bad’ Office Suppl ies A COMPLETE LINE OF HANDY . EVERY-DAY NEEDS IN THE OFFICE. ! K — o Advertising What Your Customers Read and See Makes the Most 1 Anting Im pression Always. * • There is no hit-or-miss when mer chants and business firms use THE CHRONICLE to reach their potential customers in Clinton’s trade area which this newspaper completely covers. « The lifer of the weekly home paper is longer than that of any other adver tising medium. 0 — ronicie “The Paper Everybody Reads” AAA National Evaluation Rating (or Adver tising