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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937 — — Tea Towels Done In Cross Stitch Better than a picnic is the fun you’ll have embroidering tea tow els with these gayer than gay mo tifs—luscious cross stitched fruits and homey everyday kitchenware. Do the dishes in outline stitch or applique as you choose. The patch is a simple one to handle and adds a splash of color. In pattern 5891 you will find a transfer pattern of six motifs averaging 5^4 by 6Vi inches; material requirements; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Please write plainly your name, address and pattern number. A True Sentiment That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, be cause we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions, and other races, and have enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the uni versal beneficence of the Creator. —Dean Stanley. ConaUptited? To keep food waste soft and moving, many doc tors recommend Nujol— ft because of its gentle, ^lubricating action. O'*- 1 * No «s INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL Your Best Do the best, the best you know— but be it all on the side of manli ness, courage and kindness. CARDUI In this modern time something wonderfully worth while can be done for practically every woman who suffers fr6m functional pains of menstruation. Certain cases can be relieved by taking Cardul. Others may need a physician’s treatment. 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LIQUID, TABLETS SALVE, NOSE DROPS checks MALARIA in three days GOLDS first day Headache, 30 minutes. ’’-World’s Best Liniment ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Storm on the North Sea’* By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Put on your oil skins, boys and girls, and come aboard. We’re off to sea in bad weather with Henry S. Cowden of Chicago, with the lee shore of adventure off to starboard, and a heavy gale blowing us right smack into it. In the spring of 1896 Hank Cowden was second mate on the four- masted bark Stanley of Liverpool, homeward bound from Calcutta, In dia, with a cargo of jute and cotton for Hamburg, Germany. It was the twenty-sixth of March, and the Stanley had passed through the English channel and the Straits of Dover and was plowing along through the North sea. It was the morning watch, and Hank was at the wheel. A heavy mist hung over the sea, and the captain was standing at Hank’s side gazing anxiously to starboard. To Hank, he said: “We must be near land, mister, even though we can’t see it in this fog. Keep a good lookout and see that the lead is used every ten minutes. If any squalls make up in the north, call me at once. I’m going down to breakfast.” The captain was gone, and Hank was alone at the wheel. .A squall did come up—but it came up so suddenly that Hank didn’t even have time to warn the captain. It caught the ship under full sail. It tore the royals and topgallants to ribbons and blew the Stanley off its course. With the change in the wind, the fog began to lift. The captain came on deck and ordered Hank aloft to look for land. Ship Ran Aground in the Breakers. Hank got as far as the fore cross trees. There he could see over the fog, and he didn’t have to go any farther. To starboard were breakers, and the ship was almost into them! Hank knew then and there that the ship was doomed. A strong wind was blowing them straight into those breakers and there was no sea room to make a getaway. By this time the wind had risen to a gale and coils of halliards and braces were being washed through the ports or over the side. At nine o’clock the ship ran aground with a shock that sounded like the re« He Was Hauled Aboard When the Boat Capsized. port of a big gun. It threw the men flat on the deck and seas began break ing over the ship, carrying away two boats, the fo’csle and galley, and everything movable on deck. Water began pouring into the hold. In an hour, the fore topmast carried away and fell aft. The Stanley was rapidly breaking to pieces. “We carried a crew of thirty-three,” says Hank, “and the captain’s wife and two-year-old son were aboard. We had two remaining boats, but there was no use trying to launch them then. No boat could live in that sea. We were grounded off Texel island, and we were all hoping that the lighthouse, located there, would sight us and send help. But personally, I did not think the ship would hold together long.” All day long the seas battered the ship. The water in the hold was making the cotton and jute bales swell and the decks were bulging. Toward night they tried to launch a boat. Hank and three other seameo were in it when the seas began washing over it. Three Drowned but Hank Was Saved. Hank caught a rope and was hauled aboard when the boat capsized. The other three men were drowned. All this time, the gale was increasing in fury. Now the chart house was gone and the seas were pouring into the cabin. The last remaining lifeboat was smashed. The crew took to the rig ging, and the captain’s wife climbed tc the cross trees like a sailor while the captain brought the baby, wrapped in a shawl. The fog had lifted, and they could see the lighthouse on Texel Island, Dut there was no sign of help in sight. “With darkness coming on,” says Hank, “I was sure our number was up. Night fell, and still we were marooned in the rigging. But at midnight, the wind abated consid erably. The first mate, Mr. Steeves, and I, went down into the place, where the cabins used to be and brought out a watertight case of dis tress rockets.” Those rockets saved the day. They set off three in rapid succession, and a few moments later they saw a great blue flare go up in the sky in the vicinity of the lighthouse—a signal that their rockets had been seen. But could help reach them? They didn’t know. Morning came. Still the sea was empty and there was no relief in sight. But at eight o’clock they sighted a sail and in half an hour a lifeboat from Texel island was hailing them. A line was thrown aboard, and sixteen people including the captain’s wife and baby, were taken aboard. Sixteen was all the boat would hold. In about an hour a ship’s boat from the steamer Hercules of Amsterdam, arrived and took off the rest of the crew, including Hank. Hank was the last man to jump off the ill-fated Stanley. The boat carried them through rough seas to the Hercules, and the Hercules landed them in Nieu Diep, Holland. There Hank learned that the Stanley had not been the only unlucky ship in that night’s storm. Five hundred fishermen had lost their lives in it. ©—WNU Service. Indian Elephant Can Do Work of Forty Coolies A description of the Indian ele phant at work says: “A log that forty coolies can scarcely move, the elephant will quietly lift upon his tusks and, holding it there with his trunk, will carry it to whatever part of the yard he may be directed by his driver. He will also, using trunk, feet and tusks, pile the huge tim bers with the utmost precision. It is surprising to see the sagacious animal select and pick out particu lar timbers from the center of a large heap at the driver’s command. The elephants are directed by spok en orders, pressure of the driver’s feet, and the goad. Sometimes an animal will break his tusks from being forced by an ignorant or brut al driver to carry an excessive load, but generally he knows his own strength and refuses to lift more than his tusks will bear. Should these break off close to the head the elephant would die; if only cracked they are bound with iron and rendered as serviceable as be fore.” Knowledge of the elephant is in creasing yearly, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. Certainly the world knows him far better than it did a few hundred years ago when Shakespeare, accepting the common belief that an elephant cannot lie down, wrote of him in “Troilus and Cressida” (act II., scene 3): “The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are for necessity, not for flexure.” Lettuce Used Through Ages Vitamins may belong to the Twen tieth century, but lettuce has been used for food through the ages. Herodotus says lettuce was eaten as a salad in 550 B. C. In Pliny’s time it was cultivated and even blanched so the Romans could have it throughout the seasons. Later history, in the form of privy-purse expenses of Henry VIII, records a reward given a certain gardener for bringing “lettuze” to the court GOOD TASTE World’s Foremost Authority on Etiquette © Emily Post. Unexpected Visitors Must Take a Chance r) EAR Mrs. Post: My husband ^ and I were planning to go with another couple to a big dance in town when the day before out of town relatives just arrived without any notice at all. We tried to per suade them to go to the dance with us but they said they did not care for dancing and also they had not come prepared with evening clothes. We even tried to supply the clothes, but no, they would not go. We felt that we should go since we had promised our friends. We explained the situation and they seemed very sincere in wanting ns to go without them. They stayed home with the radio and the dog. Next day they acted hurt and before leaving re marked that they were glad' their visit had not interfered with our pleasure. I certainly feel that they have branded me as a discourteous hostess and can’t help wondering whether I was wrong. Answer: A question like this is so hard to answer because if I say you were perfectly right in going out, the chances are that some of my readers would feel about it as your guests apparently did. And yet the real fault was that of your guests who came without asking you if it would be convenient to have them. And this is a thing which in my opinion no one should take for granted—not even a nearest relative, unless she knows there is plenty of room and also that her hostess will feel free to do just as you did. * • • ABC’s in Manners: Invitations and Greetings T S THE tissue paper left in com- 1 mencement announcements or invitations when they are mailed? And why your answer? Answer: It is correct to remove the tissue paper before mailing the announcements or invitations. But if you think the ink has not dried sufficiently to prevent the clean page from getting smudged, then this is a sensible enough reason for leaving it. • • • Use Double Sheets. F") EAR Mrs. Post: I have always ^ been under the impression that correct writing paper for a man was cut in single sheets, but recently you suggested to a reader that in his particular case the paper should be double. Has the style in men’s writing paper changed or is it that I have been under a wrong impres sion? Answer: I am sorry but I am afraid you have been under the wrong impression. Social paper, or at least that which can be used for formal occasions such as notes of invitation, answers to invitations, etc., should never be on a single fold paper. Of course when file cop ies need be made of personal let ters then they as well as long busi ness letters are necessarily written on single paper of typewriting size. * • • Junior Bridesmaid fVEAR Mrs. Post: I have a sister only eleven years old, but big tor her age. She is my only sister and at an age that seems to make it impossible to include her in my wedding party either as a flower girl or as a bridesmaid, and yet I know the poor child will be heart broken if you can’t find some place for her. Answer: Make her a junior brides maid. That means that she wears a dress as nearly as possible like those worn by the bridesmaids, but modified to suit her age. If you have a maid of honor, your sister should follow the ushers either walk ing alone or else walking with an other junior bridesmaid. If she walks immediately before you, this would make her your maid of hon or, which she can perfectly well be if you have not already invited your best friend. * • * Deaths in Business D EAR Mrs. Post: At various times our company receives notices of the death of people who are connected with business firms with which we do business. We don’t know whether we should make any acknowledgment of this announce ment or not, and if so, what. Answer: This is probably only in tended as a notification so that you will no longer address business let ters to this name, and no acknowl edgment is necessary. On the other hand, if you happen to know some one in the company whom you feel will be really upset by the loss of this associate, it would be kind to write to him. • • • Drinking Your Bouillon D EAR Mrs. Post: Is it proper to pick up the wide bouillon cups and drink from them? They seem almost too large, but my husband insists that their handles are not only intended for ornamentation. Answer: Your husband is quite right. Moreover, you use both han dles, one held in each hand. WNU Service. ! STAR ! | DUST | * M.ovie • Radio $ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ N ANNIVERSARY celebra tion that meant much to motion-picture and radio folk, took place a short time ago at Loew’s State, one of the few re maining vaudeville houses in New York. On its sixteenth birthday, players who got their start or revived their careers there sent telegrams and en couraged the manager to keep vaudeville alive. Among the many famous names who graduated from this theater are the radio pets Ed gar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Martha Raye, James Cagney, Walter Huston who played a dramatic sketch fifteen years ago, and Joe E. Brown, who was one of a team of acro bats who called themselves artists. Screen stars too numerous to men tion have played personal appear ances there, and it was during an engagement of Buddy Rogers and his band that his romance with Mary Pickford first became widely known. —*K— Tex Ritter’s musical Westerns made for Grand National are be coming so popular he is looming up as a real rival for Gene Autrey, who is currently the screen’s num ber one attraction. No drug store cowboy is Tex Ritter—he really comes from Texas, and every so often he bolts from his stage, screen, and radio successes to go back to ranching. The first time he was lured away from ranching, it was for a role in “Green Grow the Lilacs,” the Theater guild play which also launched a young actor by the name of Franchot Tone. The next time he came East to appear at the Madison Square rodeo, the radio moguls grabbed him. Gordon Miller, who threatens to become a matinee idol, reached pic tures by the hitch-hike route. He is slated for the very important role opposite Deanna Durbin in her next picture, “Mad About Music.” He hitch-hiked from his home in Flint, Michigan, to New Orleans, where he went to the Plantation night club and offered to sing for his supper. He sang himself into a steady job. Universal picture’s talent scouts heard him and signed him up. The same men who picked Tyrone Power and Don Ameche out of ob scurity and guided them to film fame think that they have a new matinee idol in the person of Dick Baldwin, whom you will see in the Ritz Brothers’ new picture, “Life Be gins at College.” Baldwin was just about to leave Hollywood, discour aged over his failure to get parts, when he was called to the Twen tieth Century-Fox studios for a test. A day later he was given a contract. Joe E. Brown Eleanor Holm Jarrott, the beau tiful swimming star, who has been thrilling the customers at the Great Lakes Exposition since early sum mer, is going to be Tarzan’s mate in motion pictures this winter. She will play opposite Glen Morris, world decathlon champion. Eleanor was v in pictures for a short time two years ago. her closest friends when she got or a boat headed foi the Panama canal and the Pacific coasl instead of one going to London where Robert Taylor is, She said she has nc idea when she and Bob will meet again, It has been raining so continuously ir England that out door scenes of his picture have beer delayed and his al- most-daily cablegrams sound pretty blue over the prospect of a long ab sence from Hollywood. She won’t go over to see him, though, partly be cause she is all signed up to make a lot of pictures in Hollywood. Barbara Stanwyck ODDS AND ENDS—May Robson, who is playing Aunt Polly in "The Adven tures of Tom Sawyer" celebrated her fifty-fourth anniversary as an ad tress re cently at the David Selznick studios . . . Red Skelton made such a knockout test for R. K. O. that he has been given the role intended for Milton Berle in "Hav ing a Wonderful Time" . . . Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was summoned back from London via telephone to play opposite Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" . . . If Hollywood moguls really want to lure Irene Rich away from radio and back to the screen, she says that they will let her play a giddy siren. She wont play any more neglected wives ... So strenuous is the dance that Eleanore Whitney will do in Paramount's "Thrill of a Lifetime," doctors have prescribed a six-week health routine that includes five meals a day and ten hours’ sleep a night as preparation. © Western Newspaper Union. ; FOOTBALL ; SEASON ATLANTA CENTENNIAL n i: or BASKET-BALL SEASON " _ : ! 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