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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937 S Home Heating llllltc ^ John Barclay Hill lid Heating Expert Simple Way to Avoid Dust When Shafting Grates and Taking Ashes From Pit T HERE is an easy way to keep dust from sifting through the cracks of the ashpit door when shaking furnace grates. Quite a few readers have asked me how it can be done, and I’m sure many more of you will be interested. Here’s how: Have a spray made of small pipe, connected with the cold wa ter system installed in the ashpit ftftfft \ of the furnace. Only a short length of pipe will be needed. In it have small holes drilled and cap the free end. Just before shaking the. grates, turn on the spray. It will throw a fine mist over the whole ashpit, wetting down the ashes as they drop through the grate openings and settling the dust immediately. Then remove the ashes from the ashpit. They will be sufficiently wet to prevent the dust from ris ing and settling in the cellar. The cost and installation of such a spray will be but little, and it certainly will save you consider able work in dusting off things on which the dust would otherwise settle. The Lowly Peanut Some 300 useful products have been made from or with peanuts, it is claimed, including butter, cheese, candies, coffee, pickles, oils, dyes, lard, shaving lotions, flour, .soap, breakfast food, lino leum, ink and eve naxle grease. Paper is made from peanut shells. The peanut crop in the United States is worth about $60,000,000 annually. HEADACHE REMEDY STARTS IN SECONDS THE REASON BAYER ASHRIN WORKS SO FAST Drop • Bayer Aspirin tab let into a tumbler of water. By the time it hits the battom of the glass it Is diafaUefrating. This speed of disinte gration enables gennine BAYEB Aspirin tablets to start ••taking hold” of headache and similar pain a few minutes alter All people who suffer occasionally from headaches ought to know this way to quick relief. At the first sign of such pain, take two Bayer Aspirin tablets with a half glass of water. Some times if the pain is unusually severe, one more tablet is neces sary later, according to directions. If headaches keep coming back we advise you to see your own physician. He will look for the cause in order to correct it. virtually A cent a tablet To Its Capacity A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.—Chinese proverb. HOW Lj)NG CAN A THREE-QUARTER WIFE HOLD HER HUSBAND? Y OU havs to work at marriage to make a •ucceas of it. Men may be eelflah. unsympathetic, but that’s the way they're made and you might as well realise it. When your back aches and your nerres scream, don’t take It out on your husband. He can't possibly know how you feet For three generations one woman told another how to go "smil ing through” with Lydia B. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre paring for motherhood. 8. Ap proaching "middle age." Don’t be a three-quarter wife, take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go "Smiling Through." ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI 66 Suicide for Three" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Ever get stuck with a rubber check? Well, sir, that is an adventure in itself—and not a very pleasant one, either. But here’s a case where a bad check led from one thing to another, and finally wound up with that blood-curdling experience that H. Eugene Percifield of Sea Cliff, N. Y., had with a vicious criminal on the Halifax river at Daytona, Fla. Gene Percifleld’s dad ran an automobile agency in Lake Worth, Fla., back in 1928, and it was there that the curious chain of events started that was to lead to the most terrifying ten minutes of George’s life. A stranger came to the agency one day, bought a new car, and paid for it with a check. Before the man drove away, Gene saw him transfer two pis tols from his pockets to the pockets of the newly purchased car, but he thought nothing of it at the moment. It was only when the stranger’s check was returned marked “No Funds’’* that Gene realized what sort of a man his dad had been dealing with. The crook was gone—and so was the car. Gene’s dad notified the police and let it go at that. Gene never expected to see the bird again, but a couple of days after the check was returned, he ran across him—in a manner that makes him shiver every time he thinks of it. Gene and two other young lads his own age had gone to Jackson ville to drive three new cars down for his dad. They were on their way back, about twenty-five miles north of Daytona, when Gene spied a new sedan parked at a filling station, and saw a man standing beside it who looked like the crook who had passed the bad check on his dad. Gene Captured the Crook. Gene stopped the other two cars—told the lads who were driving them what he had seen. They drove their buses back to the filling sta tion, parked them, one in back, one in front and one alongside of the crook’s car, completely hemming him in. Gene climbed out of his car and started for the crook. It was then— and only then—that he remembered THE GUNS—the two pistols the man Through the Bridge Railing Into the River. had been carrying when he bought the car from his dad a few days before. Gene’s eye cast wildly about in search of some sort of weap on. There wasn’t a thing in sight. Then, his knees shaking, his tongue dry against the roof of his month, he thrust his hand inside his eoat, pretending he had a gun there, and faced the crook. The crook took it quietly enough. He didn’t even make any pro test when Gene told him he was going to take him in to Daytona and turn him over to the police. There was a woman with the crook and Gene got in the back seat with her. The crook sat up front, driving the car according to Gene’s directions. It was about nine o’clock of a cool, balmy night. The car bowled along at a fast clip, and was rapidly nearing Daytona. The crook had taken his capture so meekly—was following so obediently that Gene was lulled into a false sense of security. He was beginning to think that things weren’t going to be so bad after all. But later—just a few moments later—he was going to change his mind about that. Drove Right Into the River. They were coming into Daytona when things began to happen. There the crook failed for the first time to follow directions and turned onto a bridge that led over the Halifax. Gene told him to stop or he’d knock his block off, but he might as well have been talking to a post. The man stepped on the gas and drove on. They were about the middle of the bridge now. The woman, in the back seat with Gene, began to get panicky. She called to the crook to stop or she’d jump out of the car. The crook said, “Oh, you will, eh?’’ AND DROVE THE CAR THROUGH THE BRIDGE RAILING INTO THE RIVER. The car turned turtle as it hit the river, and sank in five feet of water. Gene landed in a stooped position, his feet on the inverted top of the car. The . water rose to his knees—his chest—HIS NECK. And still it was coming up. He cursed—prayed—tried to break a window. Then he took one last deep breath as the water covered him over. A seat cushion was on his back, pushing him down. He thrust it aside and managed to get his nose above water in a narrow space be tween the water and the up-ended floor of the car. Then he felt some thing kick him under water—the woman—struggling in her death throes at the bottom of the car. Gene grabbed her and tried to pull her head up into that narrow pocket of air at the top of the car. She slipped out of his arms and sank down again. Gene went down after her and found an opening—a broken window beneath the surface of the water. He dived—felt someone grab him from outside, and was pulled out, a piece of broken glass cutting a deep gash in his back as he went. As he came up, he saw a straw hat floating on the surface of the water. A crowd of people lined the bridge rail. Two men who were fishing nearby had jumped in to help the occupants of the wrecked car. They pulled out the woman—extricated the crook, who was standing on his head in the water, trying to drown himself. They turned him over to police on the bridge, and Gene went back to find his two pals and the three cars they were driving down from Jacksonville. ©—WNU Service. Table Manners Manners vary considerably in dif ferent parts of the world—especially table manners. What we would con sider terribly rude in this country is regarded as excellent form in In dia, says London Tit-Bits Magazine. If you dine with an Indian in his country you are expected to lick the platter clean—to leave anything on your plate is an insult to his food. Be sure to call for a second helping of everything in a loud voice, and a third, if possible. Always praise the items and give the impression that the food is delicious. You are expected to desist when you cannot eat more, not when you have had sufficient. Patting your stomach as proof is one sign. Indians are great eaters, and “strong’’ and “fat” are synonymous, especially among the “bannia” (shopkeeper) class. Among them it is common practice to tie a length of cotton round their waists and eat until their stomachs swell and the cotton snaps. Then Vhey cease immediately. Areas of the States In the following list the figures represent the square miles of the states: Texas, 265,896; California, 158,297; Montana, 146,997; New Mexico, 122,634; Arizona, 113,956; Nevada, 110,690; Colorado, 103,948; Wyoming, 97,914; Oregon, 96,699; Utah, 84,990; Minnesota, 84,682; Ida ho, 83,888; Kansas, 82,158; South Da kota, 77,615; Nebraska, 77,520; North Dakota, 70,837; Oklahoma, 70,057; Missouri, 69,420; Washing ton, 69,127; Georgia, 59,265; Florida, 58,666; Michigan, 57,980; Illinois, 56,665; Iowa, 56,147; Wisconsin, 56,- 066; Arkansas, 53,335; North Caro lina, 52,426; Alabama, 51,998; New York, 49,204; Louisiana, 48,506; Mis sissippi, 46,865; Pennsylvania, 45,- 126; Virginia, 42,627; Tennessee, 42,- 022; Ohio, 41,040; Kentucky, 40,598; Indiana, 36,354; Maine, 33,040; South Carolina, 30,989; West Virginia, 24,- 170; Maryland, 12,327; Vermont, 9,- 564; New Hampshire, 9,341; Massa chusetts, 8,266; New Jersey, 8,224; Connecticut, 4,965; Delaware, 2,370; Rhode Island, 1,248. Luxuriously Furred Costumes By CHERIE NICHOLAS 'X'HE big news about fall and winter fash ions is that they bespeak a new high in elegance. When fashion goes op ulent, goes sumptuous, goes luxurious, then what inevitably happens? Well for one thing it follows as the night the day that designers turn to handsome furs and fur trimmings as one way of conveying the message of elegance in the mode. Which accounts for the fact that the new coats, suits and ensembles show an enrichment of fur that em phatically declares an era of luxuri ous dress. In consequence, women who are fashion-alert have taken their cue and are making it their chief concern to acquire a complete ensemble costume styled of high- grade material ranging from rugged colorful tweeds to refined duvetyns, broadcloths or velvets that are graced with precious fur—the sort that bespeaks a “lady of quality.” The models pictured have been carefully selected from among a collection shown at a preview given by the Style Creators of Chicago in the wholesale district. These furred costumes were designed by mem bers of their group to meet the de mands of women that class as among the best dressed. Perfect for crisp autumn days is the outfit to the left in the picture. The dress is of sheer black alpaca weave. Its novel metal chain and clasp closing showing between the fur on the coat gives it a military bearing. The free-swinging corona tion red wool coat is a fascinating garment, and its tuxedo bands of marten fur make it more so. Which reminds us the revival of marten fur this season is a most significant event. It has been a long time since we have been see ing much marten in the style pic ture. Its return will be welcomed for it is not only as handsome as can be, but for dependable wear it has no superior. When the smartly dressed wom an steps out in a gorgeously furred costume as centered in the picture, she wilFbe the cynosure of admiring eyes. This sheer wool model com bines a tuxedo-front coat trimmed in a huge cross fox with a one- piece dress that is simply charming. Note the decorative quilted flowers outlined in gold thread at the neck line. The gold kid belt adds the finishing touch. There is really no limit to the in genuity displayed in the placement of fur. It is used for separate sleeves in cloth coats so much so that the fashion has become quite outstanding this season. The coat with a bolero top is ever so smart, too. The newest wrinkle is the bo lero type that has the lower cloth part zipped on so that it can be removed at will thus providing a jaunty little fur jacket or full length coat. Among countless other fur arrangements novelties are to be seen such as a panel of fur extend ing down the back of the coat from neck to hemline as if it were a watteau pleat. Frequently double borderings of fur occur about hem lines. © Western Newspaper Union. SUEDE FOURSOME By CHERIE NICHOLAS Suede from head to foot is the next move, says fashion. Here is shown a suede foursome that an swers to the call. The hat is a harvest rust off-the-face suede mod el with a right up-flung brim. It fits low in the back. The shoes are multi-toned open throat suede ox fords with bindings of coffee brown and Araby green on harvest rust. The bag is a large suede design in harvest rust with gold metal trim. JEWELRY DESIGNERS GO ROMANTIC ALSO By CHERIE NICHOLAS With romanticism gaining such a headway in fashions for fall, small wonder that jewelry manufacturers have recognized it and are all set for a hey-dey. Jewelry, my good woman, is not only getting biggei and better, but practically all of it has been inspired. Some of the in spirations are modern, but most of them have been drawn from an era when romance was at its height and glamour stalked the world in high places. Such romantic figures as Empress Carlotta, glamorous wife of the ill- fated Emperor Maximilian who reigned for such a short time, (1864- 1867) over Mexico; Joan of Arc; grand duchesses whose jewels were of such splendor as to have been remembered; these, and lovely ladies of the gay nineties and the naughty naughts, are being immor talized, more or less, in smart pieces of costume jewelry designed by Alberta, one of America’s lead ing costume jewelry designers. The “Empress Carlotta” jewelry has been copied from some of her pieces of jewels found in a museum in Mexico. For evening it is the most elegant, for it is made of Kim berley gems which are cut and set like fine diamonds in 24 karat gold washed metal. “Joan of Arc” jewelry is part of an all-metal group which Alberta believes will be a big success for fall. This line is made of a silvery metal studded like the doors of a medieval castle. Costume Jewelry The dog collar and the feather tiara are two revivals of the Gay Nineties period which are important this season. Hats, Handbag Match Knitted hats and handbags are designed to match hand-knit frocks and suits in dark, rich colors for winter wear. A Happy Family 0 f Bluebirds for Linens Take the Bluebird family “un der your wing” and embroide; their five plump images on wha». ever household linens you’d liktf to make colorful. In eight to th% inch cross stitch, enhanced with L bit of lazy-daisy and outline stitch. Pattern 1524 contains a transfef pattern of two motifs 6% by 15>4 inches; four motifs 6 by 7 inches and six motifs 2Y4 by 2V4 inches; color zuggestions; illustrations of all stitches used; material require ments. 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. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phtom. Even if other remedies have failed, 'don’t be discouraged, try Creomul sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion Is one word—not two, and it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion, and you’ll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (AdvJ Today’s Happenings Not what has happened to my self today, but what has happened to others through me—should be my thought.—F. D. Blake. GOOD RELIEF of constipation by a GOOD LAXATIVE Many folks get such refreshing relief by taking Black-Draught for constipation that they prefer it to other laxatives and urge their friends to try it. Black-Draught is made of the leaves and roots of plants. It does not disturb digestion but stimu lates the lower bowel so that con stipation is relieved. BUCK-DRAUGHT purely vegetable laxative Place of Peace Whatever brawls disturb the street, there should be peace at home.—Isaac Watts. 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