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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936 J*** *************** | STAR '|j I DUST | 5 ^MLovie • Radio $ ★ ^ *★★»* VIRGINIA VALE R ANDOLPH SCOTT'S mar riage came as a surprise to Hollywood; rumor has had the handsome Randy about to pro pose to one motion picture star after another. So imagine the ' shock when he announced that he was married last March, w’hen he went back home. His bride is a member of the wealthy and social DuPont family— couple that with the fact that be fore he went into pictures he was an usher at a DuPont wedding, and you may get some idea of how far the romance dates back. In fact, there used to be rumors to the effect that he*was very much in love with a girl in the Sunny South but felt that he hadn’t enough money to marry her—though his father was a rich man. So—fame and fortune came by way of the movies, and now Hollywood, where bachelors are far too rare, has lost one of the most eligible ones. v —*— "The Road to Glory" is going to be one of Fredric March’s favorite pictures; he liked the role the best of any he’d had in a long time, and gave a magnificent per formance when the cameras turned. Judging from its early reception, the picture is going to be a favorite with film fans, too. The versatile March knows a "fat" part when he sees it. He demonstrated that in his portrayal of Bothwell in "Mary Queen of Scotland" in which Katharine Hepbum starred as the ill-fated monarch. Olivia de Haviland’s very beau tiful youngdr sister, Jean Fontaine, has been signed up for pictures by Jesse Lasky, the old star-maker (at the moment of this writing it’s still a secret). So remember the name and look for the face, for it’s dol lars to doughnuts th&t she will be one of the big names in pictures be fore very long. —*— Of course you’ve heard Peter Van Steeden’s band on the radio—now he declares that some day you may hear his daughter play. She is only a year and a half old, but she likes her toy piano better than any thing else, and he swears that she can play several notes of “The Mer ry Widow Waltz" on it. Fredric March Edgar Guest is known far and wide as a poet; in fact, the name of “Eddie Guest" is a household word. But—he wishes that you knew him as a musician. In the broad casting studios he gazes wistfully at the flying fingers of the pianist and banjo players who are on his program; he said recently to a friend “If I could only get out of my typewriter what those fellows get out of their instruments"—not realizing that the poems he writes are music to the ears of multitudes. I — Robert Taylor is getting more fan mail than anyone else on the Met ro lot—including Clark Gable. And that’s what makes for long-term contracts, big salaries, and espe cially selected roles. Also, he is still devoted to Barbara Stanwyck. Charles Boyer and his wife, Pat Patterson, paused a day in New York on their way to Europe; it was one of the hottest days of a very hot summer, but he wore a topcoat when they arrived, and she wore one too. They must have be lieved what Californians say about New York weather. He very dip lomatically said nothing about the making of “The Garden of Allah," his latest picture. Fred Astaire made all arrange ments for his new broadcasting se ries before he hopped off for Eu rope for a vacation, most of which will be spent with his sister and former d a n c ing partner, Lady Cavendish. He’ll begin broad casting September 8, and Jack Benny will give him a send-off, just for luck. Movie fans are wondering what the next film vehicle of the dancing king and his partner Ginger Rogers will be. —►— ODDS AND ENDS . . . They do say that one reason why Adolphe Menjou was so glad to sail off to Europe was that his caricature of John Barrymore in “Sing, Baby, Sing” is pretty harsh . . . Patricia Ellis has been entertaining three charming young people, Joe, Eugene and Marjorie O’Brien—her sister and broth ers . . . Jean Harlow loves the sun, but she stayed out in it much too long the other day, and got a serious case of sun burn that kept her in bed for a couple of days . . . William Powell and Myrna Loy are going to do “The Return of the Thin Man”—for which loud cheers! tgf Western Newspaper Union. Fred Astaire HO$7^RE Votiysm / DR. JAMES W. Talks About ^ BARTON Eating to Grow Thin F ROM time to time a new re ducing diet appears, catches popular fancy for a while, and then passes out of existence, nev er to return. Now these reducing diets if fol lowed faithfully will take the weight off and take it off in a short time, but unfortil- n a t e 1 y they re move more than fat from the sys tem. This is be cause, while remov ing weight, they fail to supply some of the needed miner als — lime, phos phorus, iron and Dr. Barton some of the need ed vitamins such as vitamin C which prevents scurvy and skin ailments, vitamin D the bone forming vitamin, vitamin A which helps to prevent colds and bronchitis, yitamin B which assists appetite and digestion. Therefore a diet that contains good nutritious foods may be too one-sided, as it were. - While the reduction of weight is being accomplished the body must be protected from loss of vital sub stances or rather these vital sub stances must be supplied by the diet while this same diet is reduc ing weight. Thus the ideal reducing diet is a “protective" diet also. Ten Diet Rules One of the simplest yet correct diets for providing a protective re ducing diet Is that outlined by Dr. Mabel E. Baldwin in her book “Diet and Like It.” There are ten rules to follow: Include in the diet daily: 1. At least one pint of milk) whole or buttermilk). The chief purpose of this rule is to provide lime (calcium). The only foods besides milk that are rich enough in lime to prevent shortage of this element are cheese and leafy vegetables. 2. About one-quarter pound of meat, fish or poultry, or about two- thirds cupful of beans or peas (measured after cooking). These foods provide protein (bodybuild er), iron, and phosphorus. Fish is only half as rich in iron as meat. 3. A small portion of butter. The chief purpose here is to provide suf ficient A, butter containing more than any other common food. Eggs, fish livers, and the yellow and green vegetables are also rich in vitamin A. 4. At least one egg. This is to provide sufficient vitamin D. Of course everybody knows that cod- liver oil is rich in vitamin D, but eggs certainly suit the palate more than cod liver oil. Eggs also con tain iron. 5. At least two servings of raw fruit. 6. At least one serving of raw vegetable. Some raw foods should be included in the diet because the vitamin C content of most foods is destroyed so rapidly during ordi nary cooking that diets consisting entirely of cooked foods do not usu ally contain enough vitamin C. Canned or stewed tomatoes are an exception as they retain the vita min C. Flair for Hand-Quilted Fashions By CHERIE NICHOLAS T TP TO comparatively a short ^ time ago handquilting was re garded as a form of needlework to be utilized and reserved for luxuri ous intimate apparel, robes, bed- jackets, negligees and such. The thought no longer holds good. The emergence of hand-quilting from boudoir environs becomes a high- style event—the dawn of a new era for thjs exquisite needle work. That faithful perennial back-to- college clothes problem is with us again. By way of a new and in teresting approach to the subject suppose we talk about the perfect ly fascinating hand-quilted sports coats and evening jackets such as are now pridefully showing in shops that make boast of being ever “first" in fashion. Tuck away one or more of these cunning and chic hand-quilted gar ments in your back-to-school ward robe. Wear ’em on the campus and to parties and proms and you will excite the admiration and envy of the whole college. If you think this is an exaggerated way of put ting it, please take one long look at the hand-quilted fashions here pictured. The argument is closed, n’est-ce pas? Hand - quilting really dates back to early history, some of the oldest pieces originating in China and India. In the general art revival of the Renaissance period Trapunto quilting came into existence, the same accomplished by quilting the design in double lines, raising the space between into a bas relief ef fect by drawing through wisps of soft wool to form a padding. Women especially in north of England and in northern Italy cre ated unusually artistic and original pieces of hand-quilting. Via the English route the art of quilting was brought over by the English settlers whose descendants, farm ers’ wives, living in the mountains of Kentucky carry on the work to day. Visioning the possibilities in this attractive handiwork, current style creators have put experts in vo- guish costume design at the service of native workers and thus is added to hand - quilted garments now showing in the shops. The new sport coats and evening jackets now featuring in the fash ion picture are made mostly of hand-blocked linens, cottons, smart satins, sheer woolens and dainty challis. There are flowery prints, geometrical designs, checks and plaids as well as plain colors in flattering combinations. The stunning swagger coat in the picture is made of hand - blocked challis in brilliant plaid. It is lined with plain linen. Just the thing for campus wear or to stroll about town on an early coolish autumn day. The good-looking model to the right at the top makes an ideal knockabout country club coat. The original was done in brown lines. The pronounced vogue for satin this fall bespeaks the appeal of a hand-quilted coat thereof fashioned in like manner. The sports cardigan “set” shown in foreground is of bright monotone fabric lined with a gay print, the complementary waistcoat being of match-color pique with silver coin buttons to add to its lure. The eve ning jacket (in panel) is in a Trap unto design on silk-finished linen with contrasting lining. Tftis model comes in exquisite Chinese color ings. A perfect accessory to com plete an autumn campus frock is shown to left above. This round about jacket is reversible and has contrasting lacing. © Western Newspaper Union. TAILORED SILK By CHERIK NICHOLAS LOOKING AHEAD TO COATS FOR WINTER 7. About one-half cupful each of three cooked vegetables. Any veg etables will do but on the days that fish is selected, one of them should be a green leafy vegetable. Vege tables provide the important miner als and also the roughage which by irritating the lining of the lower bowl prevent constipation. 8. At least one portion of whole- grain product. Whole grains pro vide protein (body builder), starch (energy giver), vitamins, minerals, and plenty of roughage. Whole wheat, for example, contains from three to five times as much iron, lime and phosphorus as white flour made from it. 9. Iodized salt. This iodized salt is to prevent any shortage in io dine. This provides all the iodine the body needs. 10. In addition to foods provided by the first nine rules, include whatever kinds of food may be desired, and arrange so that these amounts of food do not increase the weight. As we consider the above ten rules, even those of us who are not wanting to reduce weight will rec ognize what an all-round diet is pro vided. • * Salt Stops Heat Cramps So serious is the loss of water in those individuals working in hot places—foundries, furnace rooms, bakeries—that some means had to be found to prevent severe heat cramps which affected hundreds of men during the hot weather. For tunately it was found that a little tablet containing a quarter tea spoonful of ordinary table salt tak en with each glass of water was sufficient to x prevent the heat cramps and prevent too great loss of weight. ©—WNU Hcrvlc*. Emphasis is on the tailored theme for pajama costumes. The pajamas pictured is typical. This two-piece is tailored of gray silk shantung with glove stitching to give it fine finesse. This model is not only good to wear at a resort or at countryside, one may even drop in to see a friend and wear this conservatively styled pajama costume with perfect propriety. Those who prefer to ignore the heat by focusing their thoughts on the winter and fur coats will find sufficient different styles in the shops to keep them guessing for hours as to which i» the most im portant. If they’re wise they’ll choose the most becoming silhou ette and forget about the others. Outstanding in fur fashions is the flared silhouette, the width of hemline contrasted with the slen derness of the waistline. A coat of this type is obviously dressy, so the busy woman may prefer to pass it by in favor of a straightline “top coat" model which proves service able from morning until night. Fall Hosiery to Glisten in Bright Copper Tones A penny—or rather a copper—for your thoughts if you’re thinking of colors that are good in hosiery at the moment. The copper tones are important—shades that glisten with the bright bronze of a new penny, or of your burnished copper tea kettle. The copper casts will con tinue into the fall, the fashion makers tell us, because they con sort so well with the new autumn colors in fabrics and shoes. New taupes and grays are also coming into the picture. Wine Tones Are Popular in Fashions for Autumn The prominence of wine tones, grapes and vintage greens in the first fall fashions springs from the Exposition Vinecole at the Tuileries in Paris. American women have already caught this Bacchanalian note in fashion. Evidences of its presence are seen in clusters of grapes worn in the hair for evening, wine colors in the first fall hats and leaf motifs in trimming. TheTtuMoo-6' Tales and Traditions from American Political History FRANK E. HAGEN AND ELMO SCOTT WATSON BY ONE VOTE O UTHERFORD B. HAYES of Ohio, nineteenth President of the United States, can be designat ed “the man who was elected by a single vote." His contest with Samuel J. Til- den of New York, the Democratic nominee, threatened for a time in 1876 and early 1877 to bring about a resumption of the Civil war. Per haps it explains in some measure the bitterness of battles today be tween Republicans and Democrats. Hayes faced the disadvantage of running in the wake of the eight years of the Grant administrations, followed as they were by sensa tional accusations of financial frauds. There was little to choose between abilities of the candidates and when first returns were in, Tilden was acclaimed as winner. Shortly after election day, it was revealed that Tilden’s managers were uncertain as to the results their party had achieved in Flori da, South Carolina and Louisiana. Normally Democratic, these states still were in the hands of carpet bagger governments. Tilden had 184 electoral votes and the ballots of any of the three states named would have elected him. Hayes, with 166, needed all of them to have one more elec toral vote than Tilden. In Louisi ana, the canvassing board threw out 13,250 Democratic votes and gave the state to Hayes. Republi cans asserted their candidate had won in both South Carolina and Florida. But Democrats of the three states returned votes for Til den. To make the situation a typical American scene, congress was di vided, one branch being Democrat ic, the other Republican. It was decided finally to appoint five congressmen from each party and five judges of the Supreme court to make the decision as to which set of returns from the disputed states should be accepted. The election of Hayes was as sured by the vote of Justice Brad ley, whose participation gave the deliberative body a margin of eight Republicans to seven Democrats. And congress approved these mo mentous findings just in time to enable Rutherford B. Hayes to take the oath of office as President. NAMING A PARTY IRONICALLY enough, the names of the two principal political par ies once were combined as Demo- :ratic Republicans, a group of vhich the standard bearer was Thomas Jefferson, referred to per- laps oftener than any other leader vhen Democrats trace their po- itical origin. Under Jackson the party name vas shortened to Democrat, which t continues to bear. Republicans emerged as a sepa- ate party as early as 1854, al- hough its first nominating conven- ion was held two years later. Up it Ripon, Wis., in a corner of the :ampus of Ripon college, stands he Ripon Congregational church, ;cene of the first G. O. P. meeting. The Ripon meeting had been tailed by Major Alvan E. Bovay, i Whig lawyer, who generally eceives credit for suggesting the lame of the party. He had passed on his idea to lorace Greeley who later advo- :ated the name Republican at a invention in Jackson, Mich. Although Ripon had a voting list hat hardly exceeded 100 in those [ays of exclusively male suffrage, nore than half of them attended Jovay’s first gathering. The im- »ulse which brought them together /as the conviction that the slavery [uestion was coming rapidly to i head and that those who opposed nust unite in a new group, regard- ess of geographical lines. Northern states naturally proved he most fertile ground for spread- ig the new doctrine. Before the arty’s first national convention, /hich was held in Philadelphia on une 17, 1856—a firm “toehold" had een secured by senatorial repre- entation at Washington. History fails to record what part, l any, Major Bovay played in the 5 hiladelphia meeting. The dele- ates were unanimously in favor of ominating John C. Fremont and ie was selected on the first ballot. Another Republican attended, owever. He was the gangling Illi- lois rail-splitter, Abe Lincoln, and some of his colleagues had the temerity to advance his name as a candidate for vice-president. “Honest Abe" lost the nomination but four years later he was to carry the party to victory. © Western Newspaper Union. Rivers That Flow North The St. Johns River in Florida is supposedly the only river in the Unitea States which flows north ward throughout its entire course. There are others, however, which flow north for a part of their course. These include the Monongahela in Pennsylvania, the Tennessee in Ten nessee and Kentucky, the Red River of the North in Minnesota and North Dakota, Big Horn in Wyoming and Montana, Powder in Wyoming and Montana. * SEEING IS FOUND MOST IMPORTANT OF FIVE SENSES Scientific research discloses that, the eyes receive 87 per cen< of all impressions we receive. Our ears receive but 7 per cent; our sense of smell, 3.5 per cent; touch,1.5 per cent; taste, 1 per cent.' These five senses form our sole contact with the world and the people in it. All that we know comes to us through our senses. Though the eyes represent our most priceless physical asset, most of us subject our eyes to needless abuse. That this is so, is seen in the fact that 22 per cent of all children in the country have defective sight. At college age, 42 per cent have impaired vision. At age forty, the figure jumps to 60 per' cent. And after the sixtieth birthday, only 5 per cent have unimpaired eyesight. These statistics are the more ap palling when we consider that our own carelessness is largely re sponsible for these deficiencies. Yet it may not be so much of care lessness as a lack of understand ing as to what causes eyestrain. Of all the abuses to which we subject our eyes, poor lighting is said to be one of the greatest. Oddly enough, this is also the easiest cause to prevent. It is significant perhaps that de fective eyesight is common among farm families. This is thought to be due to the fact that there are still several million farm homes to whom the dvan- tages of electric lighting are not available. Yet if this is so, it again reflects a lack of under standing of the need for good light, for there are available today, types of portable lamps that pro vide daylight brilliance for every night-time task. Perhaps the most popular of these are the gasoline and kero sene pressure mantle lamps. For reading, sewing, and all the after-dark pursuits which require prolonged and close use of the eyes, abundant light is imperative to those who would protect that greatest of God-given gifts, the eyes. And this is more especially important where there are chil dren in the family. Children’s eyes are much more easily strained than those of adults. flgp&td™ REAL ^MEDICATION —/art Mete coSmettci TO HELP REFINE COARSENED IRRITATED , SKIN / CUTICURA OINTMENT FREE Sample,writ*"Cuticuro" Dept. 24, Malden, Mast. 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