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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937 GOOD TASTE £ TODAY 1 tr P-EMILY POST World's Foremost AuHioiity on Etiquette © Emily Post. Shaking Hands Is Matter of Impulse T} EAR Mrs. l*ost: Should a wom- ^ an, when taking leave ot a small family group, several of whom she met on this occasion for the first time, shake hands with ev eryone? And would the fact that she shook hands with each one an hour or so before when meeting them have any bearing on your an- r ewer? While I know that shaking hands is not so much practiced to day as it once was, I wish I knew at what times It was still the polite thing to do. Answer: The question of whether to shake hands under the circum stances you mentioned is far more a matter of impulse than of rule. If those whom you have been talk ing with are standing directly next to you, your natural impulse would be to shake hands. But if they are sitting in different parts of the room you would certainly not go from one to the other. Again, if one of them goes with you as far as the door, you would probably shake hands with her, or him, as you say good- by. ... ^ Let Members Pour at Women's Club Tea F\ EAR Mrs. Post: Our women's ^ club is giving a large tea for approximately a hundred and fifty gvests. Would you suggest that it is better at a tea of this size to let the hotel do all the serving, or do you think it more friendly to have members of the committee preside at the tea table? Answer: At a tea for as many as fifty the details of serving are more often than not taken care of by the caterers, or by the servants in a private house. However, in your case, if sufficient members of the committee take turns at pouring, it should not be too tiring for any one of them, and there is no question that club hostesses at the tea ta ble would create a more friendly atmosphere. In any case, all the other details of replacing used cups and saucers with fresh ones and re plenishing sandwiches and cakes and passing them will be taken care af by the hotel. • mm Serving Young Guests, D EAR Mrs. Post: I would like to give an evening surprise birth day party for my son, asking a dozen or So of his high school friends. Everything is to be sim ple and the evening will probably be spent in playing a variety of games, as our house does not af ford space for dancing. For re freshments, would chicken sand wiches and milk .be sufficient? I know all the young people drink milk and hardly any of them drink coffee, and I thought milk would be very easy to serve. Or can you sug gest something that you like bet ter? Answer: If you are sure they like milk better than anything else, this is an excellent reason for serving R. Otherwise, I think I would sug gest that you have cocoa for a change,. and also because a 'hot drink would taste better with cold sandwiches. • • • Break Away Gently. D EAR Mrs. Post: When I first began working in this office several of the girls invited me to go to lunch with them and tried to make things pleasant for me. But now I don't seem to be able to get away from them ever and I find that their interests are not mine. I would rather not lunch with them but seem to be getting deeper into the habit. What can yon suggest for me to do? Answer: Since you can not very well tell them you do not want to sit with them, the only thing I can think of to suggest is that you make other engagements for yourself at noon, at first occasionally and later on habitually. • . • • Ribbons and Seats. D EAR Mrs. Post: What is meant by "in front of the ribbons" and "within the ribbons" and who is seated in each place? Answer: Both mean the same thing; having a place within the en closure marked by the ribbons. The pews in front of the ribbons are always seated according to near ness of relationship, and cards bear ing the actual pew numbers are sent by the mother of the groom to each of those relatives and a few dearest friends who are to be seated on the groom’s side of the church, and by the mother of the bride to each of those who are to be seated on’the bride’s side of the church. • • • Fine Technical Point. D EAR Mrs. Post: Which is cor rect? Drink your soup or eat your soup? Answer: Eat your soup with a spoon and drink it from a cup. In other words, you eat it with a table spoon when served in a plate; you sip it from a teaspoon or drink it, when served in a cup. WNU Service. Site of America's First Oil Well. The Things That Last Are All in Pennsylvania, Said Kipling Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. A FTER having visited the six- l ty-seven counties of Penn sylvania, trod the streets of all its teeming cities, gazed on its noble mountains, sauntered through all its glorious high land valleys, motored along all its fine rivers, traveled through its dense, young forests, in spected its finest farming areas and studied its amazing indus tries, it becomes easy to under stand how Kipling, after a transcontinental trip, could write: "They are there, there with earth immortal (Citizens, I give you friendly warning); The things that truly last when men and time have passed, They are all in Pennsylvania this morning." From the heart of Market street in Philadelphia to the famous “Point" in Pittsburgh and Logs- town down the Ohio; from Easton and Bethlehem to New Castle and Sharon; from busy Chester on the Delaware to thriving Erie on the lake; from Matamoras, farthest east community, to Greene, the southwestemmost county; the his toric, the eye-delighting, and the industrial are bound together in every prospect. Where the commerce of Philadel phia throbs, William Penn lived; Benjamin Franklin wrought and philosophized; the Declaration of In dependence had its birth; and the federal Constitution was created. Where Braddock fought and was fatally wounded now lives a teem ing population, and hard by are some of the principal industrial plants of the world. The Edgar Thompson Steel mills, the Westing- house Electric, and scores of others stand on ground that was within earshot of the fateful battle; and it is stated that a heavier tonnage moves within twelve miles of Brad- dock’s field than in any other area of its size. Vast Industries Are There. The coal that comes down the Monongahela; the ore that moves from the Great Lakes; the iron and steel fabricated in the Pittsburgh district’s scores of mighty plants; all the commodities bound east and west and north and south by rail and river—all these, the most con centrated tonnage in the world, pass by or within a dozen miles of the spot where the hostile savage turned back the English forces. On the Ohio between Economy and Baden, where Dam No. 4 stretches across the river, is the vast plant of the Byers company, manufacturers of wrought iron. In front of the plant offices is a marker which proclaims the site of Logs- town, where George Washington, carrying the greatest "message to Garcia” of all our history, negotiat ed and bargained with the Half King and his confreres for an escort to Fort Le Bouef. Across the bridge, a stone’s throw down the highway, is a smaller marker proclaiming the site where Gen. Anthony Wayne had his win ter camp. In signt across the river is the factory-studded area where Queen Aliquippa had her cornfields. Here where Indian conferences created tribal agreements and wampus belts sealed bargains be tween redskins and paleface, giant furnaces and mills now mix slag and purified iron and produce more than half of the nation’s wrought- iron pipe. Almost Forgotten Romance. Everybody knows the stories of Gettysburg and Valley Forge, but how many know the story of Ole Bull and his castle in the wilds of the big woods of the Kettle creek country? Every travel folder and historical map tell of the chief points of interest in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Erie, but who hears of the birth and boy hood days of Robert E. Peary spent at Cresson, of Prince Gallitzin’s su perb work in the heart of the Al leghenies, of Horace Greeley’s Uto pia. or of the French settlement at Asylum? Likewise, everyone knows some thing of the oil romances of Titus ville and Oil City, but how few know of the rejuvenation methods in the Bradford field now in full swing! The story of Ole Bull’s hapless ad venture in the heart of the Big Woods, where the Viking virtuoso dreamed his dream of "a new Nor way, consecrated to Liberty, bap tized with Independence, and pro tected by the Union’s mighty flag," is one that stirs the heart of every admirer of the artist. During his concert tours through the South, Ole Bull had encountered many of his countrymen, whose ef forts to acclimate themselves in balmier areas than the lands of their birth had brought them priva tions, hardships, and ill health. Their appeals had touched him. Later, when touring northern Penn sylvania, he found in the heart of Potter county a large area rem iniscent of Viking land itself. He bought it and started to build there his "new Norway." Some 800 of his countrymen flocked to his haven in the heart of the mountains. Three- hundred houses, a store, and a church were built. For himself, he erected a rus tic castle of unhewn, unmortared stone on a little bluff overlooking Kettle creek End of Ole Boll's Colony. In the intervals between concert tours, the violinist would go among his people. There he would seat himself on the ramparts of his cas tle, and “reproduce the rush and roar of rapid streams, the frolic ol the winds through the rocky glens, and the tempest’s crash on the mountain top." To this day as one motors down the historic old Coudersport and Jersey Shore tumpikq, past the hamlet of Oleona, one may see the remains of the old castle and fancy he hears Kettle creek and its rocky glens echoing back the music that imitated them fourscore years ago. All went well with this new Nor way of America until one night when Ole Bull was entertaining some friends in his castle. A mes senger rode up and carried a notice from the actual owner of the prop erty. The men who had sold it to him had no title. The real owner was a Philadelphia merchant. , For five years Ole Bull fought a losing battle in the courts against those who had sold him land they did not own, earning the costs of his suit by his concerts. In the end he got small damages. But mean while the colony had perished. Prince Gallitzin’s Mission. In the heart of the Alleghenies, high above Johnstown and Altoona, there are markers, memorials, and institutions which preserve the memory of a prince who elected to become a pauper in order to serve the cause of Christ and to carry His message of benevolence and brotherly kindness to the humble mountain folk of the region. Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin was born in Holland in 1770. His father was Russian ambassador to the Netherlands and his mother the daughter of a field marshal of Fred erick the Great. At the age of seventeen he picked up a Bible in a bookstore and be gan to study it, with the result that he became a convert of the Church. Later his father sent him to Amer ica for a season of travel. Once here he decided to spend a season’s theological studies in Baltimore. Then, after ordination in 1795, he started out as a traveling mission ary. Erecting a log church on the west slope of the Alleghenies, he traveled far and wide, visiting homes where bare floors were hia bed, his saddle a pillow, and his food the coarsest mountain fare. Prin9e Gallitzin lost his all. His lather left what was to have been his patrimony to his sister. But he used the money his mother gave him for his mountain mission work, and at Loretto that work is, still carried on in the fine missions schools, and churches he founded "IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson s By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 29 GOD CONDEMNS INTEMPERANCE. LESSON TEXT—Leviticus 10:1, 2, 8-11; Proverbs 31:4, 5; Isaiah 28:1-8; Romans 14:21. GOLDEN TEXT—Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. 20:1. PRIMARY TOPIC.—What a Wise King said. JUNIOR TOPIC—When a Man Drinks. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— How Drinking Harms Others. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Why Beverage Alcohol Is a Social Foe. The use of intoxicating liquors is financially unprofitable to the na tion, scientifically unwise and de structive, socially degrading, and morally wrong. I. The Problem. The selected Old Testament scrip tures which comprise our lesson present the use ^ of intoxicants as causing four socially undesirable re sults. 1. Religious disobedience (Lev. 10:1,2; Isa. 28:7). Two things we may rightfully expect of those who serve the nation in its religious life: (1) a vision of God and obedience to that vision in life and service, and (2) the exercise of sound God- guided judgment in the affairs of the people. But note what happens when the prophet and the priest turn to wine and strong drink. "They err In vision" (Isa. 28:7). That is, they have no clear concepts of divine truth, and lead the people into error. Further, we see that "they stumble in judgment." To every true serv ant of God comes repeatedly the opportunity and the need of render ing judgment, that is, of advising and counselling those to whom he ministers. If his mind is befuddled by the use of alcohol (or, for that matter, of any other kind of worldly indulgence) he will "stumble," and cause his people to stumble. A sad incident is related in Lev. 10:1,2 of the sons of Aaron, appoint ed to the priesthood and instructed in its privileges and duties, but coming with strange fire to be of fered before the Lord. Swift and terrible was the judgment they re ceived. We are not told directly that they were intoxicated, but it is implied in the fact that there is an immediate injunction against the use of wine by the priests. Lest someone think that such a thing could not happen in our day the writer mentions word which re cently came to him that a leading seminary has professors on its staff who defend the so-called moderate use of alcoholic drink. 2. Political disorder (Prov. 1:5). While political leaders make sancti monious protestations that govern ment agencies are not influenced by the liquor interest^, it is common knowledge to even those who are slightly informed that the two are closely associated. The result of that unholy alliance is rightly de scribed in Prov. 31:5—"They for get the law, and pervert the judg ment of any of the afflicted." Much of the sad disorder in the body poli tic is traceable directly to the door of the makers and sellers of alco holic beverages. 3. National decay (Isa: 28:1-6). "Overcome with wine"—stricken down, useless in life, without true ambition, such is the picture cf the man who gives himself to drink. Poverty, with all its attendant so cial problems, follows on the heels of the sale and use of intoxicants. Some liquor dealers are beginning to sense a rising tide of opposition to their business, and are advertis ing, "We do not want bread mon ey," but the fact is that it is all too often bread money that goes for liquor, and the vile stuff is still on sale where the poor man may read ily spend his "bread money” for it. 4. Personal degradation (Isa. 28: 8). "Vomit and filthiness" are not very nice words, but they describe accurately the ultimate condition of the drinker and his surroundings. The writer knows a young man who boasts that he never gets drunk because the "booze" makes him so sick that he vomits it up. Imagine a supposedly intelligent man drink ing stuff so vile that his stomach (evidently having more sense than his head) sends it back—and then boasting of his ability to drink more! II. The Solution, a Divine Princi ple (Rom. 14:21). Thousands of Christian people have solved not only the drink prob lem, but practically every question of conduct and social life by apply ing this principle. Surely no true follower of Christ will be guilty of doing anything that will cause any brother to be offended, to stumble, or to be made weak. Foundations The foundation of domestic hap piness is faith in the virtue of wom an; the foundation of political hap piness is confidence in the integrity of man; the foundation of happi ness, temporal and eternal, is reli ance on the goodness of God.—Lan- dor. Reading Good Books Book love is your pass to the greatest and purest and the most perfect pleasures that God has pr»> pared for His creatures* S EW-YOUR-OWN wouldn’t be your weather prophet for the world, but you know. Milady, and so does S-Y-O, that it’s always fair weather when good fashions get to gether. Which brings us to today’s three sparkling new frocks—a whole crowd of style for the pretty part of any man’s family. A Fun Frock. Rain, nor gloom, nor a flat tire (either kind), can dampen the spir its of the girl who wears this buoy ant, young sports frock (above left) on her daily rounds—be they on the fairway, the campus, behind the counter, or merely from pillar to post. You can easily see why it’s a winner: a button-all-the-way front, the matched collar and gen eral shipshape styling make it just that. It’s surefire in acetate, or silk crepe. Here’s to Mothers. Sew-Your-Own loves nothing more than catering to mother’s wardrobe needs. The frock above (center) is for all mothers: old sweet ones, young darling ones, yes, even for mothers-to-be. It is easy to run up, easy to do up, and best of all, easy to look at. Smart simple lines make it a favorite of women who demand more than a passable appearance when they’re "just at home." Little Brown Girl. An all-over suntan is her forte, and many sunny days are ahead for young Miss Fortunate whose mommy chooses to interpret the fetching model at the right. A scallop-edged waist front accentu ated by frou-frou trim is right down her avenue, and a gored skirt, that’s second to none for class, fits into her scheme of things to a T. Mother, why not make one dressy version, as pictured, anoth er finished differently for school? (Perhaps with a simple braid trim) Rayon prints, gingham, or sheer wool, will do nicely as the material. The Patterns. Pattern 1249 is designed for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 re quires 4% yards of 39 inch ma terial. Pattern 1207 is designed for sizes Perfect Sincerity Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sin cerity is expected, perfect free dom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth, any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.—Tacitus. 34 to 50. Size 36 requires 4% yards of 35 inch material. With long sleeves 4% yards of 39 inch ma terial. Pattern 1366 is designed for sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 requires 2% yards of 39-inch material plus 1%. yards of machine pleating. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. CHILLS AND FEVER Fast Relief for Malaria With This Proven Treatment! Don’t go through the usual suffer ing. Stop Malaria chills and fever in quick time. Take good old Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic! This is no new-fangled or untried preparation. It’s a fa mous medicine you can depend on. Grove's Tasteless ChiU Tonic con tains tasteless quinidine and iron. It quickly stops the chills and fever. It also tends to build you up. That’s the double effect you want. The very next time you feel an attack of chills and fever coming on, go right to your drug store and get a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. Start taking the medi cine immediately and you will soon get the relief you want All drug stores sell Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic, 50c and $1. The latter size is the more economicaL Through Persuasion The child should be led to the right path, not by severity, but by persuasion.—Menander. SNOW WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY Worms expelled promptly from the homan system with Dr. Peery’s Vermifuge ‘‘Dead Shot.” One single dose does the trick. 60c. All Druggists. Dr Peer v's £ Dead Shot for WORMS^ vermifuge Wrights Pill Co.. 100 Gold Street. ige i N. Y. City I Ash For BLUE STEEL OVERALLS “Big and Strong* CHEW LONG BILL NAVY TOBACCO LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher. "How about a minstrel show now that we have two good end men."