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1 I McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 19.^7 Striking Wild Rose Design in Cutwork Simplicity of design—simplicity of needlework combine to make these wild roses effective in cut* work. Do the flowers in applique, too — it’s very easy to combine with cutwork. Use these designs on sheets and pillow cases — on scarfs and towels — on a chair back. Dress up your own home or make them as gifts. Pattern 1337 Pattern 1337 contains a transfer pattern of a motif 6% by 20 inches, two motifs 5 by 14% inches and pattern pieces for the appUque patches; illustrations of all stitches used; material requirements; color sug gestions. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave, New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Uncla Pfiil&L Life Is Short Life appears too short to be spent in nursing animosity or reg istering wrong. Love of money is the root of all evil; but curiosity oft leads to wickedness. If you don't think you can do it, try it anyway. Then you will find out why you can’t. People who haven’t morals al ways say morals are a matter of geography. Correcting Errors Correction of error is the plain est fruit of energy and mastery. Think about it pretty often and one will daily find a gratifying op portunity of being kind. We believe in applying the mind to art, culture and literature—but not every instant. Sometimes we like to think of corned beef and cabbage. LUDEN’S Menthol Cough Drops 1. Clear your head 2. Soothe your throat 3. Help build up YOUR ALKALINE RESERVE 5? O&J^SUCCESS MEN WANTED AT ONCE to train for important work, in stallation, engineering, servicing, maintenance and trouble-shoot ing, in all branches oi Domestic, Commercial and Industrial AIR CONDITIONING Sound, practical training without interfering with present employ ment. Endorsed by leading manu facturers in this fak growing held. Men with fair education and some mechanical inclination preferred. Low cost instruction; easy terms. For Ml details writ* at once, giving agm and present employment ATLANTIC UTILITIES INSTITUTE eSO McCarter Highway • NEWARK CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT REMEDIES NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A REMEDT for Rheumatism like RUMO. Three weeks' treatment $1.00. RUMO REMEDY CO.. 11$ N. HOMAN AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. SMALL SaEyrfLFL 60c LARGE SIZE Si.20 •A recefalieW Rewedy hi Rkew««U«' tad Neerftb adferen. A perfect Bleed Verifier. Mekci (Hie Bleed Rick ead Heeltky. Beildi Strenytk end Vlyer. Alwey* Effective . . . Why iwffer? GOOD DRUG STORES I STAR ! | DUST | J JMLovie • Radio $ * ' it *★★87 VIRGINIA VALE ★★A I NFLUENCED to a great ex tent by thousands of letters from fans, Norma Shearer has definitely decided to make more pictures. From New York, where she went to visit Helen Hayes, she telephoned the studio that she would come back soon ready to begin preparatory work on “Marie Antoinette/' She chose this story in prefer ence to any other, because she had discussed every detail of its production with her hus band before his death. Actual date of production depends on Charles Laughton, because she is determined to have him in the cast and he is under con tract to make several pictures in England. It is good to know that we will be seeing Norma on the screen again. The most encouraging and sym pathetic audience any girl ever had while making a film test was Alice Mar ble’s when she tried out recently. Carole Lombard was right there on the side lines making sug gestions and cheer ing. Some people might think that Alice Marble won enough glory in ten nis tournaments for one young girl, but Carole Carole thinks it Lombard would be nicer for her to get in the big earnings that come with glory in pictures. Radio favorites are moving en masse to Hollywood. Harriet Hil liard is back at R. K. O. Milton Berle will be there soon, and very costly it will be for him too because he will have to pay all the expenses of bringing his radio tronpe west. And soon Fred Allen will move his broadcasting activities to Holly wood, so that he can make another picture for Twentieth Century-Fox. He will be in “Sally, Irene and Mary,” a new version of an old pic ture which launched Constance Ben nett and Joan Crawford on their screen careers. Those august personages at Na tional Broadcasting company’s ar tists’ service have put a new artist under contract and they are fairly swamped with mail asking about her. She is Minnie, the singing mouse, who appeared on the National Barn Dance pro- gramV and who will probably be star dm* program of her own soon. Minni^Was trained by W. W. Lichty, a* veterinary of Woodstock, 111., who noticed that when he was playing the piano, one of the mice he raises for experimental purposes tried to follow the time. Paramount is going to defy the fates and attempt to make a pic ture that has long been a jinx in their stndio. They started it last year with Marlene Dietrich, and when it was about half-finished, she walked out and declared that she would have none of it. So, Para mount engaged Margaret Sullavan to replace her, and then little Sul lavan tripped over a cable and frac tured her arm. Paramount still likes the story, once called “Hotel Imperial” and then “I Loved a Sol dier” and also they like very much a young Viennese actress named Franciszka Gaal, so they are go* ing to attempt to make it with her. —V— George Cukor, who w'll direct “Gone With the Wind,” is deter mined to cast some girl who is not very well known in pic tures in the lead. One faction at the studio wants Tallu lah Bankhead whose tests have shown her to be a brilliant actress, but too old for the early part of the story. Others want Margaret Sullavan. But by far the most promising candidate is a very young and vivid actress on the New York stage named Louise Platt. ODDS and ENDS-The M-G M studio is busily pairing off their stars, but just professionally, trying to achieve a combi nation as sure at the box-office as Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur have proved to be. They are going to try Jean Harlotv with Robert Taylor, Joan Crawford with William Powell . . . Both Warner Broth ers and Paramount are trying to get Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence to do their nine short plays, that are Broad way's biggest hits, as screen shorts. But a radio sponsor is topping their every bid. . . . Portland Hoffa always maneu vers an invitation to spend Sunday away 'rom home, because that is the day her \usband, Fred Allen, writes his radio script and he doesn’t like to be disturbed. • Western Newsps/er Union. Margaret Sullavan Time to Plan Sew-at-Home Program By CHERIE NICHOLAS Give Hogs Range When Fattening Animals Will Produce Meat of Better Quality When Not Crowded. By H. W. Taylor. Extension Swine Special* 1st, North Carolina State College. —WNU Service. Contrary to popular belief, a small, filthy, crowded pen is no place to fatten hogs. Crowded and filthy, the hogs cannot be as healthy and sanitary as they should to produce good, firm, wholesome meat. Overfat hogs do not produce the best pork. Hogs will gain well and keep clean if allowed a reasonable amount of range and given all the balanced ration they can eiit, and some exercise is needed to keep them healthy. Since it is important that pork be produced as economically as is reasonably possible, it is a good practice to turn the hogs into a field where they can glean food that has been left from various crops. Fattening hogs should have, in addition to the field gleanings, all the corn they can eat and a protein sup plement should be kept before them at all times. Fish meal or tankage, or a mix ture containing one-half cottonseed tankage is recommended as a good protein supplement. Along in the early winter, growers should begin to think about their spring farrows, and see that the necessary equipment is available. Now is a good time to build a farrowing house. A plan for such a house may be obtained from county farm agents. Finds Cost Varies in the Production of Milk W HY not start your spring sew- at-home program now and “avoid the rush?” Those who are in a position to know declare that women are turning back to the art of sewing at home with an enthu siasm such as has not been mani fest for j*ears. Make-it-y ourself clothes are not only a sure means of self expression, these enthusiasts say, but they offer the best answer to being really well dressed on a limited budget. And there’s the new soring fab rics! ’Nuff said! No further argu ment is needed. So here’s taking a look toward the new materials. Such ravishing colors, Subtle tex tures and glorified patternings as the spring prints, the cottons, the linens, the piques, the gabardines, the shantungs, the silks, the satins and so on ad infinitum are flaunt ing is enough to entice anyone into bringing home rolls of yardage, and it follows like the night the day that you will eagerly and without delay be joining the sewing-bee clan. Of course when one starts in to do spring sewing the really sensible thing is to tackle the simplest gar ments first, made of inexpensive wash materials. So let’s betake ourselves to the wash goods sec tions and see what’s doing in the way of pretty prints or “what have they.” Never were sturdy cottons so novel, so amusing and so irresis- tably likable. The best of it is, if you ask for the right kind you can get materials that are guaranteed against shrinking and that’s some thing not to be lightly considered. The new cottons and linens and other wash prints run the gamut of design from sportsy little designs for house, active sports and spec tator wear to gorgeous multicolored large florals that look handblocked, for evening dresses. There is a set of cunning classroom prints that are delightful for school and home wear. These prints are practical as well as youthful. History, geog raphy, algebra, even music print BRAIDED JACKET By CHERIE NICHOLAS supply motifs for these c level prints. What could be more be fitting to wear during study hours and easier for the amateur seam stress to begin with than a two- piece pajama outfit made of one of these interesting prints such as we are picturing to the left in the group illustration. The perky classroom print that fashions this attractive two-piece is pre-shrunk, which means that its snug neckband can not grow tight, tighter, too tight when pajamas go to wash. A house coat of cotton so fine it rustles like silk and washes without a tremor because it is sanforized shrunk, as in fact are the materials in each of the garments pictured, is shown to the right. An effective light navy blue is its color with white cord and buttons. Any girl can make herself such a garment, since it requires no close-fitting. Merely cut carefully by the right tailored pattern and take care to give a neat finish so that the mak ing will do credit to the lovely lus trous material. It is especially encouraging to home-sewing enthusiasts to know that smartly new fabrics that wash perfectly yet look formal enough for any type of wear have come into their own in a big way. The dress centered in the group can be very easily made, especially after you have mastered the making of the pajama outfit and the house coat as shown. This is a broad-shoul dered frock on the popular shirt waist dress order. It has crisp youthful lines and contrasting col or accents. Use swagger broad cloth, which is one of the shantung like new cottons now available in all wash goods sections and this frock will cost you next to nothing. The original style is developed in brown swagger broadcloth with belt, vest and neck trimmings of the same material in rust shade. Can be sent to the laundry week after week without loss of fit or style through shrinkage. <£> Western Newspaper Union. NIGHTGOWN BIB IS WELCOME PRESENT By CHERIE NICHOLAS A most original and welcome gift is something that you make your self, giving that personal touch that means so much. A charming sug gestion is a nightgown “bib” made of dainty lace. It is so easy to slip on for breakfasting or reading in bed, and is that becoming you will be wanting to make another one, after your gift is duly sent, to keep for your very own. One we have seen is made of in sertion lace gathered and joined row-and-row to form a circle meas uring not less than twelve inches across. Satin ribbons were attached at the top and tied around the neck. There is great opportunity for orig inality in making these “bibs” for you can vary their shape, having them round, square, in triangle form or whatever strikes your fan cy. You can use lace edgings, or insertions or all-over lace and dec orate it in your own way. Thus you can express yourself to your friends and know that you are selecting a gift that is sure to delight any fem inine heart. The cost of producing milk varies from month to month; it is highest in winter months and lowest in sum mer months, according to Dr. L. C. Cunningham of the department of agricultural economics at Cornell university. Based on yearly average costs, he says, January and February are the two months when costs are high est, and June and July months when they are lowest. During fall months, the cost builds up toward a winter high; during spring months it tends to taper toward the sum mer low. At the same time, the farm price of milk does not change correspond ingly. More variation occurs in the cost of producing milk than in the price received at the farm. In gen eral, he points out, the price of milk does not fall so far below the yearly average in the summer, nor rise so high in the winter months. If the yearly average cost is taken an 100 per cent, the highest pro ducing cost is represented by 123, and the lowest by 54, whereas the farm price of milk is represented by a high of 115 and a low of 84. Dr. Cunningham’s figures are based on a study of 437 dairy farms in four representative dairy sec tions of New Ycrk state. Good Storage One of the most important factors in good storage is maintaining the temperature in which each fruit and vegetable keeps best. Failure to provide this temperature shortens storage life. Proper amount of moist ure in the air of storage rooms is also essential. Other causes of spoil age may have come from storage diseases such as rots and molds. Then there are varieties of fruits and vegetables which are naturally poor keepers. For winter storage, potatoes keep best in piles small enough so that not more than three feet can be measured from the cen ter of the pile to the outside. Pota toes need air, and they should be free from loose dirt when placed in storage. Moist air helps in prevent ing potatoes from shrinking, espe cially if the air temperature is some what higher than that recommend ed. Frequent sprinkling of the walls in the storage room is beneficial. Notes of the Farm With the exception of two years in the past 25, the farm value of the United States potato crop was below average when the total yield was above average and the farm value was higher when the crop was below average in size. * • • Soy bean meal mixed with powdered skim milk has been dis covered by University of Minnesota scientists to be a good pollen sub stitute for bees. • • • The crop pest bindweed—or morn ing glory—defies drouth because its roots, that spread even as much as twenty-five to thirty feet, store up so much food for hard times. • • • According to estimates, mastitis and Bang’s disease cause an aver age annual loss of $200 to every New York state dairyman. • * • This two-piece daytime dress is of satin-back bemberg and acetate crepe, a material you will love to wear during the midseason and coming months. It is simply but very effectively styled with all-over soutache braid trim on the jacket. The ascot and breast pocket hand kerchief lend bright color accent. Redingotes for Spring Prophetic of spring is the full- length redingote with princess cut worn with the gayly printed frock. Exotic Prints The tendency is for more exotic and striking prints this season. Queen bees may be shipped by air mail. However, baby chicks are barred, since they can not stand the high altitudes. • • • Total slaughter of cattle and calves in the United States is ex pected to be smaller in 1937 than for either of the preceding two years. Foreign Words and Phrases 2 Absit omen. (L.) May this bring no evil omen. Canaille. (F.) The rabble. Dos-a-dos. (F.) Back-to-back. En effet. (F.) In effect; just so; really. Fidus Achates. (L.) Faithful Achates; i. e., a true fiiend. Hoc tempore. (L.) At this time. In perpetuum. (L.) Forever. Mauvaise quart d’heure. (F.) A bad quarter of an hour; an awkward or uncomfortable expe rience. Nee. (F.) Born so-and-so; i. e., her maiden name being so-and- so. Ora pro nobis. (L.) Pray for us. Punica fides. (L.) Carthaginian faith, treachery. Trauerspiel. (Ger.) A tragedy. Qui transtulit, sustinet. (L.) He who transplanted, still sustains. (Motto of Connecticut.) Re infecta. (L.) The business being unfinished. Life's Harmony Life’s harmeny must have its discords, but as in music, pathos is tempered into pleasure by the pervading spirit of beauty, so are all life’s sounds tempered by love.—George Henry Lewes. DoThis For a Cold Quick Relief with 2 Bayer Aspirin Tablets The modern way to ease a cold is this: Two Bayer Aspirin tablets the moment you feel a cold coming on. Repeat, if necessary, in two hours. If you also have a sore throat due to the cold, dissolve 3 Bayer tablets in H glass of water and gargle with this twice. The Bayer Aspinn you take internally will act to combat fever, aches, pains which usually accompany a cold. The gargle will provide almost instant relief from soreness and raw ness of your throat. Your doctor, ws feel sure, will approve this modem way. Ask your druggist for genuine Bayer Aspirin by its full name — not by the name “aspirin” alone. S FULL DOZEN FOR 25c Virtually 1c a Tablet DOLLARS & HEALTH The successful person is s healthy pcs* son. Don’t let yourself be handicapped by sick headaches, a sluggish condition, stomach "nerves” and other dangerous signs of over-acidity. MILNESIA FOR HEALTH Milnesia, the original milk of magnesia in wafer form, neutralizes stomach acids, gives quick, pleasant elimination. Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls milk of mag- nesia.Tasty, too. 20c,35c&60c everywhere. WNU—7 6—37 Summervi I le SouttiCarolina