McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 12, 1937, Image 6
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937
Malaga, Spain, before shot and shell marred its beauty.
Civil War Makes World Conscious
of Modem Changes Felt in Spain
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WtfU Serrice.
GOOD TASTE
World's Foremost Authority
on Etiquette
© Emily Post.
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Wear Small Sleeves
in Wedding Party
D EAR Mrs. Post: My sister
would like to know what fea
tures make the women attendants*
dresses different at an evening wed
ding, since you have said that it
is not proper for women to wear
eut-out low necks and sleeveless
evening dresses to church.
Answer: The only requirement for
evening dresses worn by the wed
ding party in church is that they
have at least very small sleeves
end that backs be cut moderately,
or else have matching jackets
which can be worn in church. The
evening effect is also helped by the
richness of the materials. This last
ie not infallible since *materials of
all varieties are worn at daytime
and evening weddings.
• • •
Do the Natural Thing;
You’ll Likely Be Right
'PIEAR Mrs. Post: The other after-
noon two gentlemen called on
me in regard to a business transac-
tion. After greeting them I sat
down, assuming that they would do
likewise. But instead they continned
le talk, remaining standing. Feeling
somewhat embarrassed, I got up
again and we finished our conversa
tion all standing until they left fif
teen minutes later. Should I have
asked them to be seated? I sup
posed when a lady sat down a gen
tleman seated himself without any
farther gesture on her part.
Answer: I think in this case it
would have been natural to ask
them to sit down. It is true that
ordinarily people sit down unless
they are staying for only a moment
of time.
• • •
The Double Celebration.
D EAR Mrs. Post: I have two sis
ters, both married on the same
day almost 25 years ago. One sis
ter's husband is still living and the
otter one’s husband died several
years ago. We would like to do
something in honor of the doable
anniversary, bat do yon think it
will be cruel to the widowed sister?
Answer: Certainly it would be im
possible to think of the anniversary
us a double celebration. Button
the other hand, I see no reason why
you should deprive the happy sis
ter of her share. However, the
least you say about the anniversary
of the widowed sister the less diffi
cult you are likely to make the day
for her. And if she is not to be
present at the party, it would be
nice if you sent her a few fldwers
with your love but with no reference
to the day.
• • •
College Dancing Age.
EAR Mrs. Post: Do you con
sider it incorrect for a girl of
fifteen to go to a college dance?
1 have a very good friend who is
four years older and he has asked
me to come to a dance at his col
lege. His mother would go with me
and we would stay together at
school. Mother is debating about
letting me go because she is afraid
1 will be the youngest girl at the
dance and perhaps she will be crit
icized for having let me go.
Answer: The only possible objec
tion to your going is the not too
certain one that people .seeing you
at this dance will perhaps cdter-
wards imagine that you are two or
three years older than you really
are. I see no impropriety in your
going since a college dance is after
all not very far removed from a
school dance, and the girls who
go to it are not necessarily grown.
• • •
Use Old Cut Glass.
D EAR Mrs. Post: Will you ex
plain the present-day status of
deeply cut glass? I don't believe
people are buying it today, and
perhaps it is no longer being sold,
hot I sm an older housekeeper who
has some really beautiful pineapple
cut pieces, and I wonder whether I
shall be stamped old-fashioned if I
bring them out of the back corners
•f the cupboards and use them?
Answer: Although certain designs
in glass cutting are seen less often
than they used to be, this does not
mean that they are any less valued
by those who possess them. They
would go in every type of house ex
cept one that is strictly modernistic.
Use yours by all means, especially
if they look well with your china
and silver. /
• • •
Friend Was Right.
D EAR Mrs. Post: Who is right?
I gave a friend s subscription
to a magazine and after she had
received several numbers, the pub
lishing company discontinued the
magazine and sent her a check to
cover the balance of the time. She
in turn sent this check to me and I
think she should have kept it. How
ever, she insists that the money is
mine.
Answer: I agree with your friend,
since you gave her a subscription,
and not money. Perhaps, if you
feel like it, you might put this re-
turaed amount into another maga
zine.
WNU Service.
C IVIL War in Spain signal
izes the startling changes
which have swept that ancient
land in recent years.
In the swift rush of daily
news, more is said of military
leaders and their campaigns, of
statesmen and changing gov
ernments, than of the deep so
cial and economic transforma
tions behind the news, or the
character of this land and its
people.
Long before King Alfonso fled,
these changes were of course under
way, and because of them his mon
archy failed.
These transitions have gathered
momentum, until to-day this once
romantic land of duennas, monas
teries, bullfights and leisurely pas
toral life has written a new and
dramatic chapter in its long history.
Where centuries-old country lanes
and mountain trails used to wind,
fine new concrete roads now streak
over the hills. To a large degree,
men have exchanged their saddle
mules for flivvers, and the high
wheeled, clumsy oxcart yields to
the whizzing motor truck.
Senoritss Bob Their Hsir.
From the Bay of Biscay down to
the blue Mediterranean, traditional
peasant costumes are being dis
carded and men are dressing in
plain blue overalls. Black-eyed sen-
oritas today lay away the time-hon
ored mantilla, get their hair bobbed
and hunt city jobs as typists, tele
phone girls and shop clerks, as do
their sisters in many lands.
a New thinking, as well as new
machines, changes the way of Span
ish life. Bullfighting still goes on,
but now the intrepid toreadors be
long to a labor unionl You may still
find guitars and fandangos, for Span
iards are ever a music-loving peo
ple, and possibly you may find
here and there a lovesick couple
mooning at each other through an
old iron-barred window. More and
more, however, the radio super
sedes the guitar and the girl has
come out from behind the historic
grillwork and gone to the movies
with her sweetheart—or to the street
barricades to fight with him!
One fact to grasp, in understand
ing the social muddle here, is that
Spain is divided into 50 provinces;
and not so many years ago it was
commonly said that it also had 50
different national dances and cos
tumes, together with almost as
many dialects.
Comparatively sudden advent of
new high-speed roads, faster vehi
cles, speeches and news broadcast
by air, and the breakdown of church
influence, all combine now to dis
sipate this old conservative provin
cial spirit. Thus has Spain been
turned into a milling, restless land.
For the first time country and town
life are freely blended, and the
peasant can hear the exciting talk
of city radicals and revolutionaries
that yesteryear came only as a
remote murmur.
Spain is now becoming so mod
ernized that busses of every kind
and color race along from village
to village, from town to city. Till
a few years ago, many country
people never journeyed more than
20 miles from home in their lives.
Now by cheap, or even free, rides in
war times, they travel all over the
country!
Political Parties Are Many.
With the rise of the republic
came, of course, more liberty of
speech and action; but, born of the
50 provinces and their 50 different
ways of thinking, came also wide
division of opinion and action.
Political parties of all shades
sprang up in great variety and num
ber. Certain factions held that prog
ress should be attained gradually
through education of the masses—
masses as yet untrained in the art
of government. This is obviously a
slow process and one would suppose
that in a romantic “land of manana"
a slow process would be accept
able.
But the manana idea is another
of those old Spanish customs so
rapidly disappearing; many now de
mand a quicker approach, a faster
progress.
Thus a peek at Spain of today
reveals a startling modernity of
thought, civilization and up-to-the-
minute comforts and contrivances,
zuoerimposed upon the stubborn
survival of many local ways and
prejudices that bend or break but
slowly.
Irrestibly, however, the cities
put on a more modern dress and
quicken their pace. Consider, hasti
ly, some of the cities and towns
that have figured in recent war
news.
The New York of Spain.
Take a look at Barcelona, the
New York of Spain. It is the largest
city in the country, the most im
portant financial and industrial cen
ter and by far the busiest seaport.
The sun shines in air crisp and
exhilarating as you stroll down the
Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona’s most
important thoroughfare and indeed
one of the most interesting and
modernistic streets in the world.
Fine motorcars (no trucks allowed
on this wide avenue) stop and go
at modern American traffic signals.
At the foot of the Paseo is the
very heart of Barcelona—the Plaza
de Cataluna—a large open space
filled with statues, fountains, flow-*
er beds, paved paths, and benches.
Always animated, human streams
flow in and out of its subway en
trances. The Plaza, too, is the cen
ter of fierce turmoil in every politic
cal upheaval. It is surrounded by
large, ornate structures—banks, ho
tels, and new telephone office build
ing with copper-green tower, a Yan
kee skyscraper indeed in a Spanish
metropolis!
Flying at another corner is a wel
come sight for American eyes—the
Stars and Stripes—indicating the
splendid offices of the United States
consulate general.
Use American Cash Registers.
Big signs advertise American au
tomobiles. Indeed, three-fourths of
all cars in the Plaza are of familiar
make. There is a large American
bank a few doors up the street; in
bookstores are displays of America^
fountain pens, and in the tobacco
shops even chewing gum!
All these business houses use
American adding machines and
cash registers, and the offices hum
with American typewriters. Many
of the fine new apartment buildings
are equipped with American doors
and electric refrigerators. Here
“foreign trade” is a pulsing thing
far removed from the dry statistics
of our commerce.
“Rambla” really means a dry
ravine, but in Barcelona the word
is used to designate a wider street
or boulevard. The original fascinat-
ing Rambla of Barcelona is like no
other thoroughfare in the world! It
is a long, straight avenue with a
wide promenade for pedestrians in
the center and is lined with tall
plane trees.
Busy stores flank the Rambla
from end to end, interspersed with
theaters, cinemas, an ancient
church or two and a large numbe^
of cafes. Under bright, wide awn
ings that canopy the sidewalks and
shade the little tables, idlers sit and
watch the lifeblood of the metrop
olis stream up and down its main
artery—streaming at a much quick
tempo since recent shooting started!
Like the Paris. boulevards, each
section of the Rambla bears a dif
ferent name. First come ornamental
kiosks displaying an amazing va
riety of newspapers and magazines
in every European language. Then
comes the bird market. Arranged in
cages of all sizes along the prom
enade is a bewildering show of yel
low and brown canaries, gray par
rots from western Africa, green
ones from Brazil, tiny parakeets,
all setting up a lively chatter.
New World Gives Way.
The next section is the brightest
of all—the Rambla de las Flores.
Here open-air flower stalls, bossed
by black-haired peasant women, of-
er flowers of every color and shade.
Love of flowers is one point at least
upon which all divergent political
parties can agree!
Following the flower stalls come
more kiosks where one may pro
cure ice cream or soft drinks. Build
ings begin to look older now—the
New World gives way to the Old—
and finally we come out into the
wide water front, with its ornate
customshouse, the tall statue to Co
lumbus, and the palm-lined Paseo
de Colon. To the right, in the shadow
of the huge, somber stone barracks,
is a long double line of bookstalls.
Sloping up on the right of the har
bor is the high hill of Montjuich,
with a sinister old fort upon its crest.
In turbulent days of riots and
strikes, executions of ringleaders
take place here.
........ IMPftovED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for August 15
GOD GIVES LAWS TO A
NATION.
LESSON TEXT—Exodus 20:1-17.
GOLDEN TEXT—Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
•11 thy soul, and with all thy mind . . ^
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
Matt. 22:37, 39.
PRIMARY TOPIC—God's Good Laws.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Before the Mount of
God.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Why a Nation Needs Laws.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Basic Laws for a Nation’s Life.
Basic laws have been laid down
by God for the orderly administra
tion of his universe. Men see them
clearly in the physical universe, al
though at times they do not recog
nize the One who created all things.
Physical laws are of great im
portance, but of even deeper signi
ficance are the moral and spiritual
laws which control the human life.
There is in the world a moral law—
a distinction between right and
wrong—which man may ignore only
to his own sorrow, and which he
cannot abrogate or destroy. All laws
of men which are true and right are
founded on this underlying moral
law, and are in reality simply a
development and interpretation of
“God’s Code of Morals”—the Ten
Commandments.
These commandments given to
Israel at Mt. Sinai are worthy of
careful study on the part of every
reader. They may be grouped
under two divisions.
I. A True View of God (w. 1-11)..
The first and most important
question to be asked regarding any
law is, “By whom was it estab
lished?’* Legislation by an un
authorized person or organization
has no power over others. Who gave
the ten commandments? Verse 1
tells us “God spake all these
words.”
Men sneer at theology as being
out - moded, but the fact is that
Christian doctrine is the only safe
foundation for Christian character.
Unless my view of God is right, my
life will be wrong. Until I know him
I will not appreciate the authority
of his law.
1. Whom to worship (w. 2-5).
There can be but one true God, and
he alone is to be worshiped. He is
a personal being, ready to enter
into communion with each one of
us. No image can take his place.
2. How to worship (w. 6, 7). Wa
are to love him and keep his com
mandments. There is to be no sham
about this, for no matter how sweet
and pious may be the praise and
prayer of a man, he has taken the
Lord’s name in vain unless he keeps
the Lord’s commandments by holy
living.
3. When to worship (w. 8-11).
God has ordained that man should
not incessantly bear the burden of
toil. He is to have a day of rest
and a time for worhip, undisturbed
by the duties and responsibilities
of daily labor. America needs a
mighty stirring up about the des
ecration of the Lord’s day.
II. A Right Relationship to Man
(w. 12-17).
To be right with God means that
we will also be right with our fel
low man.
1. Family life (v. 12). The fifth
commandment has to do with the
relation between child and parent.
There is a plain and direct com
mand that father and mother should
be honored. Only in respect and
obedience to parents can the child
possibly find true and proper de
velopment.
2. Physical life (w. 13, 14). God
Is interested in our bodies. Already
we have noted his provision for a
day of rest each week. Now we
are reminded of the sanctity of hu
man life. “Thou shalt not kill,” and
remember there are many other
ways to kill a man than by shoot
ing him. Dr. Wilbur M. Smith
makes a telling point by reminding
us that we may kill others by sell
ing them tainted food, intoxicat
ing liquors, or “dope;” by neglect
of duty, by careless driving, by
failing to provide employees with
sanitary and healthful surroundings.
There is another way that the
body may be destroyed—by its mis
use in adulterous living.
3. Social life (w. 15-17). “Thou
shalt not steal” — and remembjer
any dishonest appropriation of what
does not belong to you is stealing—
call it what you will. And “false
witness”—how it has honeycombed
our very civilization. Not a little
of it is found within the church,
more shame upon us! Lastly, we
come to “covetousness’—which has
been called one of “the respectable
sins of nice people.” It is subtle and
often hidden. Let us root it out of
our own lives by God’s grace.
Enthusiasm in Work
Enthusiasm is the element of
success in everything. It is the light
that leads and the strength that
lifts men on and up in the great
struggles of scientific pursuits and
of professional labor. It robs en
durance of difficulty, and makes
a pleasure of duty.—Bishop Doans.
A Translation
Let us learn what death is. It is
simply a translation; not a state,
but an act; not a condition, but a
passage.
Intimate With Chic
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/ T'HE lovely flower may have
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We Only Heard.
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You won’t go wrong on gingham,
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So here’s hoping, Little Sis.
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The Patterns.
Pattern 1341 is designed for
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14 requires 4% yards of 39 inch
material plus 2% yards of ma
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Pattern 1828 is designed for
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material plus Vi yard contrasting.
Pattern 1349 is designed for
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14 requires 4% yards of 39 inch
material; with long ileeves 4%
yards. To trim as pictured, 13
yards of ribbon are required to
gether with 1% yards for the bow.
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Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
C BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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