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frlcCORimCK'MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936
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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
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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
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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.
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★★★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.
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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. The
flavor is much better.
* • *
When large tablecloths become
worn, convert them into napkins.
* * * t
If water seeps through the wells
of your garden pool, paint with wa
terproof paint.
* • •
Soak cauliflower 15 minutes, head
down, in cold water, to which one
teaspoonful of salt has been added.
Small Insects lurking in the vegetable
will be drawn out.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Foreign Words ^
and Phrases
Apropos. (F.) Suited to time,
place or occasion; pertinent; appro
priate.
Compte rendu. (F.) Account ren
dered.
Dolce far niente. (It.) Sweet do
ing nothing; delightful idleness.
Experto crede. (L.) Believe one
who speaks from his own experi
ence.
In toto. (L.) In all; entirely.
Meum et tuum. (L.) Mine and
thine. *
Nota bene (N, B.). (L.) Note well;
take notice.
PeccavL (L.) I have sinned.
Sic itur ad astra. (L.) Thus one
may rise to the stars (i e., to im
mortal fame).
Week's Supply of Postum Free
Read the offer made by the Postum
Company in another part of this pa
per. They will send a full week’s sup
ply of health giving Postum free to
anyone who writes for it.—Adv.
Romance in Nature
If one can find romance in nature,
life need never be dull—unless one’s
work separates him from nature.
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