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frlcCORimCK'MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936 what More Gay Prints! More Gay Flowers! thinks about: Chronic Influenza. P ALM SPRINGS., CALIF.— I came out here to get rid of my influenza. But as I pen these despairing words, my influenza is cuddled up to this inflamed bos om. This is not the puny, trifling influenza of the interior, but the sun-kissed, extra-special Influenza of golden California—the one outstanding product 'of this coast which our tourist bu reaus do not advertise. In the chronic form, it’s like visiting kin folks from back East, arriving in the fall and hanging on all winter. The kind I have stays long enough to make you wish you w'ere dead and not quite Irvins. Cobb J.™* enOUsh t0 ltlU After swallowing so many different remedies I am, as you might say, full of conflicting emulsions. When I sneeze my watch stops. When I cough sea lions get jealous and I seem to feel rf lot of things giving way inside of me. When I open my mouth somebody sticks in either a pill or a thermome ter and neither one helps. • * • Testing Drunken Drivers. F OR testlhg drunken drivers the Cleveland police have a device named the opthalmlc televinocular stereoscope. But why not just ask the suspect to pronounce it and abide by the results? r Old times hack home, we had our own system. We didn't follow the New York scheme of inviting the al leged inebriate to say “Sissie Fitzger ald,” because he’d probably take refuge in his constitutional rights as a south ern gentleman and refuse to bandy a lady’s name In any such place as the calaboose. Under our plan, if a citizen was ly ing in the street and his Angers didn’t move, he was intoxicated. But If even his little finger moved, be merely was resting. But we didn’t have alcoholic auto mobiles to pester us. The surplus pop ulation was reduced with firearms or cutlery, thus giving everybody a chance. • • • ", Mankind’s Real Humanity. W HAT with this and that. Just when a fellow is almost ready to decide {hat the human race should be charged off as practically a total loss, something happens. This time it happened in a little mine in Nova Scotia where the calm heroism of two men, penned with the body of their dead comrade at the bottom of a caved-in shaft, was matched by the magnificent-gallantry, the incredible endurance or volunteer rescuers, who, by day and night, un ceasingly labored on in momentary peril of death for themselves to save the lives of that trapped pair—and did save them. And a week or so before that it happened when a young girl dragged the only other survivors of an airplane crash out of the flaming wreckage and ministered to them and forgot her 1 own hurts while she waded long miles down a snow-drifted mountain to give the alarm, and, having given it, staggered back again to do what else she might. • • * Bankers Versus Politics. P OLITICS certainly makes estranged bedfellows. But a Presidential campaign or two behind us and across tire scene with thunderous tread stalked the sacred white cows of big money, their udders dripping wisdom, their gentlest bellow harkened to with eager ears by candi dates and delegates alike. Statecraft mingled with high finance was what they offered in a rich and creamy measure to one and all—the pontifical Mitchell, the omnipotent Dawes, the in fallible Insuil, the wondrous Wiggin (subsequently known as the uncovered Wiggin). <And lo, the voice of Owen D. Young was heard in the land. But now, alas, where are the Baruchs of yesteryear? Why, if this summer the average dis tinguished or, as the case may be, ex tinguished international banker tries to get into either national convention they’ll charge him admission. • • • Meandering Horsemen. A DARING soul, residing in a back corner of Brazil, decided to ride horseback to New York. After Jogging along «ome weeks ih what might be de- srrlbed as a series of general direc tions. he reached Rio Janeiro, only to discover he’d already traveled 1,200 miles out of his way. The name is given as Seqor Severlno Mnura Fonseca, but the gentleman cer tainly behaved as though he were a Congressional investigating committee. Why. he even outwandered Senator Black of Alabama, and up until the other day, when the administration threw a net over him, the senator held the world’s championship for loose wandering. It’s startling, Isn’t It, how suddenly the great < silence descends upon a statesman who gets, out of line with the top bosses? - 'w Copyright.—WNU Servlco. , Calcium Excess Causes Goiter ' Obiter has been produced in white mice by feeding them a diet contain ing an. excess of calcium. By CHERIE NICHOLAS m ' '%■ / .. iwpl ■HP p Mpp M ORE, more, more! And still fash ion keeps calling for more gay prints In the spring and summer ward robe, for more gay flowers on your hat, on your lapel, at your throat and at your waistline, for gloves that are going in strong for high color,Yor foot wear, too, that Is most daringly gay. As flamboyantly colorful a season is this, as wildest flights of imagination e’er might venture to picture. When the salesperson sho^s you the newer prints that fairly scream with/ color, do not be timid, but throw dis cretion to the winds and indulge to your heart’s content in all the Dubon net reds and the gorgeous tulip shades that are so fashionable and the lovely violet and purple tones and the radiant mimosa hues and the glamorous blues and the stunning greens plus dozens of equally captivating hues such as the color-card of fashion records. Typical of the present trend is the costume to the right in the illustra tion. A galaxy of flowers in multi-color is the theme of the lovely triple sheer of bemberg print which fashions it. The colorings are as riotous and en trancing in this triple sheer as ever glcrifled a midsummer garden scene. You cannot but look your pretty-pret tiest self in a flower print like this. Then, too, this costume is eminently practical. It is the sort that has a way of fitting into the picture any where and everywhere. With such a dress-pi us-Jacket ensemble In your wardrobe you will never be haunted with the ever-recurring question of ‘•what to wear.’’ You will know. The white pique bow and gilet treat ment sound a winsome note of fresh ness. The short pleated sleeves are distinctively chic. The little jacket Is double-breasted and belted at the back. These brief perky youthful-type jackets, some of wiiich look ilka basques, others flaunting animated peplura.are quite the rage. You ijiay, however, if you wish, go to Just the extreme opposite and have the coat made of print that tops your print dress, full-length buttoned down the front from neck to hem. Long or short, be sure your print dress has its matching coat. Jacket, or cape. If you are looking for something dis tinctively new and out of the ordinary in prints, here It is, pictured to th left. White shadow flowers on a dark background such as this is the very latest print news. Fancy, if you will, white shadow-outlined flowers against n rich Dubonnet red, or contrasting a vivid green ground, or gray or black or the color you like best. No happier choice could be made than this cool frock made of triple sheer print of bemberg. It is dark enough to he prac tical and it is light enough to look and to feel summery and sheer. Marquisette sleeves cut full and shirred at the wrist witii appliques of the flower motif cut from the print itself and a very femi nine Jabot of the marquisette, contrib ute to the charm of this gown. We couldn’t resist Including the cun ning flower-trimmed hat in this group. It fits so perfectly into the scheme of things colorful and entrancingly spring like. It is just such a headpiece as will crown any flower-print dress with glory. The shiny black of its basket- weave straw is contrasted by a spray of gay posies—yellow bachelor’s but tons and blue cornflowers. The bow is of silk taffeta in matching cornflower blue. © Western Newspaper Union. OF NOVELTY COTTON By CHERIE NICHOLAS Cottons for swank is the message from fashion headquarters. This ga^ topcoat is of checkerboard patterned cotton, woven in navy and white. The novelty cotton suitings and coatings shown this season are thrilling. A one- piece frock in white twill Is worn un der this coat. A printed silk scarf at neck and waist adds tone and gaiety. The hat is white felt embroidered in white angora. The White Ensemble One of the loveliest ensembles seen recently was white In every detail—the gown, the ermine wrap, long white gloves, two strands of pearls, diamond bracelets, a diamond hair clip and three pure-white orchids pinned to a narrow shoulder strap. NAVY BLUE POPULAR COLOR FOR SPRING Blue—especially navy—Is the pre dominating color In the fashion pa rade. It Is shown in formal and In formal costumes from morning to night —In suits, coats, frocks and even pa jamas. There’s particular emphasis on blue as an important evening fashion. Blue is present in numerous copies of Schiaparelli, Vionnet, Mninbocher, Lan vin, and Molyneux, featuring peplums, yokes, pleats, tunics, and petticoats and squared shoulders. Great stress is laid on jacket dresses, and also bright and contrasting accessories. Black costumes are next after the navy blues in importance. New Frocks Are Inspired by Fashions From Orient The stately robes of the Manchus and the distinctive apparel of the peas ants have inspired extremely smart occidental frocks. Printed Jacket dresses copy the brilliant coloring and designs of Chinese embroideries and porcelains, and feature graceful man darin sleeves. The coolie jacket be comes a tunic wdth the typical stand ing collar and slit sides, posed over a slim straight skirt. Black paper taf feta makes a delightful dinner dress with a high neckline piped with Jade green, short kimono sleeves and a Jade green sash. It Is worn with black kldskin sandals and a flat beret of black felt faced with green. For Tailored Suit The hat of the season for tailored wear Is a soft felt, much like a man’s fedora, that you can wear day In and day out. Another very popular hat is n small felt beret in black, In pale misty blue, or a queer bright shade. Color Combination Perfume green with wine red Is a combination featured in a heavy linen beach costume. The green Is used for the blouse and the red for skirt and tailored shorts TALL TALES 88 As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Blondy by a Tongue! i\\7AY back In 1892—said the Old VV turfman—I owned as beautiful a racing mare as ever was foaled. Her name was Blondy because of her color. My other possession was a farm In the Blue Grass country on which was hung a “plaster” of $15,000. Bad luck cut between me and the purses although Nigger Jim, my train er, would get her cream-colored body in the pink before every race. We taught Blondy a lot .of tricks, between losing races. One was to make a face. Nigger Jim or I would hold an apple or carrot so she had to stretch her neck and put out her tongue for It. And she got so she would do this whenever we told her “nmke a face.” We entered the mare In a claiming race at Churchill Downs the spring of ’92. It was May 15, to be exact. The mortgage on the farm was due May 16. Nigger Jim had Blondy In great form for the 1% mile race. But the bookies were laying 20 to 1 against our nag. I managed to scare up exactly one thousand berries and placed the whole roll at 20 to 1. ft was win the race or lose the farm. The horses were away evenly but 100 yards from the start Blondy stum bled and lost stride. We groaned but heartened as she winged away 1 , regain ing lost ground at every jump. Then a horse cht in front of her. It was Dixie Dude, and she had to be pulled. Down the back stretch and around the turn they came. Blondy was moving up on the outside. When they hit the stretch she and Dlxig Dude were running head and head. It looked like a certain dead heat but at the last jump or two Nigger Jim, hanging on the rail, yelled “Make a face, Yo’ Blondy! Make a face!” Thank God! Blondy heard, straight ened her neck, shot out her tongue across the finish line and won the race.’’ Man-Made Mesas A FTER Paul Bunyan finished his work logging off the Pacific North west be decided he’d become an oil- driller. First thing he did was to go down into New Mexico and begin drilling a well on top of a mountain. Paul’s well was sunk to a depth of 14,006 feet without a sign of oil. Funny thing about that mountain—it was made up of alternate layers of thin rock and dry sand. One night a windstorm came up. And how she did blow l The next morning whfen Paul woke up he looked out of the window of his shack and such a sight as met his eyes! There was bis hole, standing straight up In the air as high as he could see. The wind had blown all the sandy layers away' from it but the layers of rock were hanging around it like washers pushed around a drill stem. > Paul was pretty mad about It but he didn’t waste any time standing around cussing. He just took a sledge and climbed up to the top of the hole. When he got there, he began pound ing the hole down into the ground again. As he did so the layers of rock began to come together and In less than no time they made a mesa. That sort of thing happened time after time and that’s why New Mexico is so full of mesas. They’re perpetual monuments to Paul Bunyan’s unsus- cessfui oil-drilling operations there. The Squalling Squonk S OME cold, winter night, as you sit before a roaring fire In a hunting lodge or in the bunkhouse of a lumber camp in the North Woods, you’re cer tain to hear outside a long-drawn-out moaning. But if you think it’s the wind in the bare branches of the trees, you’re mistaken I Your lumberjack friend will tell you It’s a squonk, mourning because It has a warty, ill-fitting skin. That’s all a squonk ever does—just goes wandering among the hemlock trees, weeping and sobbing bitterly be cause Its skin doesn’t tit. When the thermometer is down to nine degrees above zero, you can follow It by the little globules of Ice it leaves behind— the squonk’s trail of frozen tears. Because it is such a shy, nocturnal animal few men have ever seen a squonk. But once a lumberjack, by imitating its cries, ured one into his cabin. The little beast seemed per fectly satisfied until he shut it up in a wicker basket. Then it began to s^b and moan. This went on for hours, then died down. The lumberjack peeked into the basket to see If the squonk had cried itself to sleep. But all be found was salt water and a few bubbles. The squonk had dissolved itself in Its own tears. “1 mighta known better,” said the lumberjack, as he added one of his own tears to the collection, “than to have shut up a squonk in a basket made from branches of the weeping willow tree.” © Western Newspaper Union. Strange Burial Custom The Toradjas, a primitive race of Celebes, have strange burial customs. The body remains In the house for two years, until the death rites have been completed, and then It is placed in a tomb, cut in the side of a moun tain, the entrance of which is forever guarded by a lifelike effigy. Inci dentally, the Toradjas are the only people whose holy men are known to dress in women's clothes.—Collier's Weekly. ! STAR | | DUST I ★ JVi.ovie • Radio J ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ J AMES MELTON, one of ra dio’s sweetest singers, has fin ished his latest radio assignment and arrived in Hollywood to work in “Cain and Mabel.” Before leaving New York he made in quiries as to his own importance In the picture—wanted to know what sort of breaks he’d get on publicity, etc. He knew that Marlon Davies, being the star, would come first*in the hearts of the publicity men for the company. A casual inquiry revealed the fact that he’d come second, which was all right with him. But for the moment neither he nor his Informant recalled that Mary Boland was also past for that picture—and Miss Boland is pretty im portant, being an excellent actress and a favorite of movie fans as well. Also—Mr. Melton Is, first of all, a singer. The script calls for a prize fighter as a hero. The question at the moment Is—if you take his singing away from Mr. Melton, will you have a prize-fighter? / — Now it’s Harold Lloyd who wants to make pictures in color. He has been making experiments on his own hook for the last two years, but is not yet quite sure + v *{1 whether or not color would add to the type of comedies that he a makes. Furthermore, h «»’ s through with making Just one picture a year; from now on ssafes.Muymyyu...:^. ma ke two a year, Harold Lloyd he thinks, or at least, two every three years. And with his latest one, “The Milky Way,” as an example, that comes un der the heading of good news. —— Those radio programs of Bing Cios- by’s are rapidly becoming one of the best of the broadcasts; he is getting really big names, (or rather, his spon sor is getting them for him), and he makes a delightful master of ceremo nies. Better add this program to the list of those you tune in on Thursday evenings. When you see “The Great Zlegfeid” (and of course you’ll see it!) you’ll hear “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” beautifully sung. Allan Jones sang It, while Stanley Morner was photo graphed as if he were singing it. Jones did not get screen credit, and Morner, who has a good singing voice, got cred it but didn’t sing. The youngsters in Hal Roach’s “Oui Gang” started on a personal appear ance tour a while ago, which has proved so successful that they will go on and on right through the summer ( Not only children, but grown people as well, arrive for the first show and then right on till closing time. As if there hadn’t been enough trou ble over Mae West’s latest, “Klondike Annie,” the Chinese government is ob jecting to it now, so Mae won’t be a welcome visitor in the Orient. Another picture that you’ll want to see is “I Married a Doctor”—which you’ll recognize as Sin clair Lewis’ great book, "Main Street.” Josephine Hutchinson and Pat O’Brien have the leads, and do ex ceedingly well by them. However, here’s a word of warning to young, unmarried doc tors; don’t take the girl you hope to mar ry to see this one, for it may make them feel that doctors don’t make very good husbands. Staging a come-back In pictures was rather a hard thing for Dolores Cos tello Barrymore to do; she was a vic tim of the early days of talkies, when she was given such insane speeches that audiences laughed at her, which cost her an opportunity she really de served. But she took voice lessons, and dic tion lessons, and did so well in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” that Paramount has j signed her up. Now It looks as if a real career is opening for her. ODDS AND ENDS . . . When people in New York asked Bette Davis if she was going to fly back to Hollywood she said, “No; I’m a sissy, I’ll take the train” . . . Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler did the same . . . But a few accidents have not frightened the general public; plane res ervations still have to be made way ahead . . . Eddie Robinson refused to be frightened; his mother was ill in New York, so he flew to see her, and flew back-. . . Anita Louise is the latest star to embark for picture-making in England . . . Eddie Cantor’s new radio contract calls for something like f15,000 a week, but he’ll have to pay his company him self . . . Ed Wynn will return to NBC soon, and have Graham McNamee with 1 him again. © Western Newspaper Unten. § ; -yrarex: a m mg - J11 Pat O'Brien >411 Aound House Soot on wall paper may be re moved with corn meal. Brush off as much of the soot as possible; vhen rub on corn meal until it becomes soil *d, and brush off. • • • Equal parts of alcohol and gly cerin applied to the windshield of your automobile ia. rainy weather will keep shield clean. * a * When making teed tea double the amount of tea leaves used. Whex ice melts it weakens tea. * • • Dilute canned soup with water in which vegetables have been boiled Instead of with pure water. 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