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r / McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1937 *fH»5 fUHg woty-p lb <rf- Practical “Would you like to go and heal father preaching on ‘Love one an other,’ Jack, dear?” “No, darling! Let’s stay at home and practice what father’s preaching!” When some girls get soft soaped they babble over. IN REVERSE O Rich Dad—If you marry this fellow what do you expect to live on? Daughter—Live on what we ex pect! Oswald (to prospective stepfath er)—“What are you like at home- work?” Life’s See-Saw Willie—Daddy, what do they mean when they talk about the ups and downs of life? Daddy—The giving ups and the paying downs. Tommy Is Right Teacher—What does the letter “Z” stand for? Tommy—’Cos it would be letter “N” if it lay down! HOW LONG CAN A THREE-QUARTER WIFE HOLD HER HUSBAND? Y OU have to work at marriage to make a success of it. Men may be selfish, unsympathetic, but that’s the way they're made and you might as well realize it. When your back aches and your nerves scream, don’t take it out on your husband. He can't possibly know how you feeL For three generations one woman has told another how to go ‘‘smil ing through” with Lydia E. 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. 3. Ap proaching “middle age.” Don't be a three-quarter wife, take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go “Smiling Through.” Faith and Logic Faith is as much a normal func tion of the human mind as is logic.—William W. Keen. A Good Laxative The bad feelings and dullness often attending constipation take the joy out of life. Try a dose of Black-Draught at the first sign of constipation and see how much bet ter It Is to check the trouble before it gets a hold on you. Black- Draught Is purely vegetable and is so prompt and reliable. Get re freshing relief from constipation by taking purely vegetable BLACK-DRAUGHT Wasted Treasures Many a beautiful library is only looked at and pointed at by the owner. "Z-DROP” TREATMENT FOR HEAD GOLD RELIEF Just put 2 drops of Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril and get relief from the discomfort of miserable head colds and sinus congestion. Penetro Nose Drops contain ephe- drine (openlng-up action) and other “balanced medication.’’ They help to shrink swollen membranes, soothe the inflamed area, make breathing easier. 25c, 50c, $1 bottles at druggists. Convenient purse size, 10c. Demand Penetro Nose Drops. WNU—7 47—37 MAGIC CARPET It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking of buy ing—a bar-pin or a baby grand, a new suit for Junior or a set of dining-room furniture-^ the best place to start your shopping tour is in an easy-chair. with an open newspaper. The turn of a page will carry you as swiftly •s the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, from one end of the shopping district to the other. You can rely on modern advertising as a guide to good values, you can compare prices and styles,fabrics and finishes, just as though you were standing in a store. Make a habit of reading the advertisements in this paper every week. They can save you time, energy and money. ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI fi* “The Terror-Stricken Hermit" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Green eyes of a wildcat in the dark, a pitch-black road covered with snakes, a fear-struck hermit and a loaded shotgun comprise the bill-of-fare dished up today by Casper Stupin of Hoboken, N. J. Casper, an ex-Civilian Conservation corps worker who was eighteen at the time, encloses his discharge, which reads: “By this all will know Casper Stupin served his country well as a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, that magnificent army of youth and peace that puts into action the awakening of the people to the facts of conservation and recreation; and that with all honors he completed his tour of duty at Company 262, CCC Camp, Fla. SP-3, Se- bring, Florida, on March 26, 1935.” Road Full of Sleeping Snakes. On this fateful night, October 20, 1934, Casper missed the last truck back to camp, which left at 10:30 p. m. sharp. He would have wel comed a lift from a coal wagon rather than walk. Here’s why: To begin with, the camp was four and a half miles from town. Four and a half miles is a constitutional, but when you have to do it in pitch dark, alone, not so good. And that’s not all. Because the roads stay warm at night from the hot Florida son, snakes are fond of lying in them at night and sleeping. Do you begin to get the picture? Four and a half miles, in the dark, ex pecting any minute to tread on a sleeping snake. And still not all. Casper had started walking and had done his first mile in darkness so intense he could see only a few feet ahead, when behind him he heard a soft, scratching noise, “as if someone was following me,” he says. He turned to look. Nobody. He hastened his steps. Presently the sound came again. Casper stopped short, turned; thinking, perhaps, it was another CCC boy hoofing it to camp. In answer to his shout he got a soft, steady “Meow-w-w.” “That,” Casper says, “was enough. Then I really did get fright ened.” You see, they have wildcats in those parts. Wildcat Was Ready to Spring. Fearfully Casper looked in the direction the sound had come from. Sure enough, two gleaming red-and-green eyes glared straight at him. Casper’s heart just about stopped beating. Less than fifteen feet away was a wildcat, ready to spring. There was just one thing to do—run. Casper ran. In fact, he took to his heels in practically a blind panic. The nearest farmhouse was a quarter of a mile away. The road to his farmhouse was fairly infested with- snakes. That didn’t bother n: fJ WyrV'fo pflpj : V. He Raced Along a Snake-Infested Road. Casper now—he had bigger worries. For that matter, if he did step on a sleeping snake, he was traveling so fast by this time he’d be out of sight before the snake woke up enough to do anything about it. Casper did the quarter mile to the farmhouse in time Jessie Owens wouldn’t have sneered at. He had just one idea—to get away from that wildcat. Perhaps that’s why he was almost on top of the house before he gave a thought to his destination. To most people it might have seemed cheerful. To Casper it was a reminder that suddenly brought him to! The farmhouse was occupied by a queer old hermit! But—there were the gleaming eyes behind him, and Casper had no choice. A second later, panting and shouting, he was pounding madly on the shack’s door. Closer, closer came the red-and-green eyes. Casper redoubled his pounding, his frantic shouting. The door shivered, the knob rattled, the door swung back. It framed the figure of the queer old hermit. But what made Casper halt on the threshold, frozen with terror, was the shotgun in the hands of the fear-struck man. For its twin barrels, like the eyes of a death’s head, were trained on Casper’s heart. And its twin triggers were controlled, Casper knew, by fingers that took their bidding from a terror- stricken, unpredictable mind. Saved by Frightened Hermit. On came the wildcat. Light from the shack door reflected from his blazing eyes. It was this light that probably saved Casper’s life. For an instant it blinded the oncoming wildcat, slowing it up. And in this in stant the terror-struck hermit caught sight of the blazing eyes beyond, and sized up the situation. He swung the shotgun away from Casper in the nick of time, drew bead on the wildcat’s eyes and let go with the load. The roar of the shotgun was too much for Casper’s frayed nerves. The wildcat was finished, but he didn’t stop to think about that. In fact, Casper was well down the road before he realized he hadn’t even thanked the man for saving his life. With the wildcat and the shotgun and its strange owner behind him, Casper still had a mile and a quarter of snake-infested, pitch-black road ahead of him. Worse still, there was nothing to stop a second wildcat from taking up the trail. So when Casper’s overwrought nerves heard again the same scratch ing sound that had signalled the wildcat before, he didn’t waste too much time looking. He just bolted—as fast as he could, trying to put as much distance between himself and this second pair of gleaming eyes as possible. He didn’t get far. Two powerful headlamps appeared in the distance, lit up the road, came closer, and drew up. And in their welcome glow Casper saw that what he had mistaken for eyes of a wildcat were in stead the eyes of a police dog,“Trooper,” belonging to one of the CCC Lieutenants. “And,” Casper says, “was I happy!” The Lieutenant—for it was his car—drove Casper back to camp safely. ©—WNU Service. Shoe-Tossing Old Custom Shoe-tossing is older than either confetti or rice throwing. Ancient Israelites started it. When a piece of land was purchased, the buyer tossed a sandal on it. That gesture symbolized change of ownership. Later, Anglo-Saxons carried it into the marriage ceremony. The father would remove one of his daughter’s shoes and pass it to the bridegroom. The latter would touch the maiden’s forehead lightly with the shoe, in dicating authority had passed from papa to the new husband. A tap be came a toss with passing years. Parents would hurl shoes at a newly married couple to convey the infor mation they no longer were respon sible for the young lady. Practical, Practicable Practical means that which is adapted to actual conditions; that which experience has proved to be useful. While the others were won dering what to do, Jones took prac tical steps to stop the leak in the boat. Evangeline was a dreamer, Joan a practical kind of girl. Prac ticable denotes that which may be practiced, used, or followed with good results. Some solutions to ma terial problems are all right in the ory, but are not practicable in ac tual practice; in other words they cannot be carried out. To leave a room all you need do is to go out by the door—but if the door is locked on the outside that method of leav ing is impracticable. Sonja Henie I STAR ! | DUST | * M.ovie • Radio * ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ W \X7’HEN motion picture pro- ▼ V ducers wander away from their office desks, they get the most promising ideas for pic tures. For instance, it might never have occurred to the head man of the 20th Century-Fox studios to cast Shirley Temple and Sonja Henie in a film to gether if he hadn’t happened to pass the ice rink where Miss Henie practices. At first he was horror-stricken to find the company’s precious child risking her neck try ing to learn Sonja’s whirlwind capers, but when he saw that she learned them as easily, and safely, as she does tap - dancing rou tines, he decided that she must do a skating picture with her teacher. At Paramount, the big boss heard shrieks of hilarity coming from the portrait photog rapher’s studio, and on investigat ing found W. C. Fields and John Barrymore clowning around as Ro meo and Juliet. Right away he was inspired to cast them together in a loony story called “Things Begin to Happen.” —— Grown-ups may well envy the school children of today who learn their history lessons through such an exciting medium as the R. K. O. motion picture, “Victoria the Great;” Filmed in England with Anna Neagle in the role of the queen, this picture was made with the hearty eo-operation of govern ment officials, so all the glory of real castles and authentic royal set tings make it a feast for the eyes. Sixty years of her life are cov ered in this story, so it is a series of dramatic high spots. And so skillfully has the story been told, it is just the story of a woman’s heart, a woman who was willful and pathetic—with all her regal splendor. —-fc— Lanny Ross was all ready to sign a contract to make pictures for M-G-M, when it occurred to him that with Nelson Eddy and Allan Jones already signing on that lot, there wasn’t much room for another singer. So, the shrewd Lanny hus tled over to Columbia Pictures’ stu dios and arranged to make pictures for them instead. There he will be sure to get all the good singing roles. Those folks you hear on Gabriel Heatter’s “We, the People” pro gram certainly enjoy the evening of that broadcast. After the first broadcast, Heatter takes the whole troupe of visitors across the street to dinner. Afterward, they return to the studio for the repeat western broadcast. All the youngsters who were thrilled over Dick Merrill’s ocean flights will want to arrive for the first showing and stay all day when “Atlantic Flight,” starring Dick Merrill himself comes to their local theater. In the picture he is the same engaging, modest, casual young man that he was in the news reels. And the picture boasts some hair-raising stunt flying. —+— All three of the Lane sisters are now working for Warner Brothers. Priscilla, who with her. sister Rose mary, provided many bright mo ments in Waring’s “Varsity Show,” will do the same for the next “Gold Diggers” in support of Dick Powell. And Lola, who has been in pictures much longer than her sisters, will be seen in “Hollywood Hotel.” Turning down several coast-to- coast radio programs offered him, Henry Hull, the dis tinguished stage ac tor, is going to try motion pictures again. He will play a prominent role in M-G-M’s “Marie An toinette” in support of Norma Shearer. About the time that picture is ready for the screen, another Marie Antoinette Norma Shearer will be competing for attention. Dean na Durbin is going to play the role in a story written around her more tender years. —•¥■— ODDS AND ENDS—Helen Menken, long-suffering “Second Wife" of the radio serial is going to make a motion picture for Warners . . . Clark Gable, weary of being a swaggering, wise-cracking hero wants to play in a tense drama about the fight against yellmv fever in the tropics . . . Carole Lombard is wearing a black wig in "Food for Scandal" and she is not sure it is a good idea. Her best friends don’t recognize her . . . Bob Hope, radio comedian, is such a hit in his first Para mount picture that he has signed to do more. © Western Newspaper Union. OP?. SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears Ml Silk Shades Give a Soft Glow SPHERE is subtility in the light that glows through a silk shade, and many decorators are using them for the room that needs the softness of plaited folds and the mellowness obtained by placing two tones of fabric one over the other. Two tones of China silk, one to be used for a plain lining and the other for a gathered outside covering will make an attractive shade. Before you buy the ma terial it is best to experiment with samples one over the other trying them both in daylight and over an artificial light. You will also need a roll of silk binding tape matching the top color of the shade. This tape is to wrap the wire frame. And fancy braid ei ther in gold, silver or a harmoniz ing tone of silk is used to bind the top and bottom of the shade. Use cotton thread to match the out side tone of the silk. Slip the binding tape off the roll and wrap a rubber band around it as shown here at A. Working from the inside end of the tape wrap the frame as shown at B. The outside layer of silk is put on next. This is gathered both top and bottom and pinned to the wire covering as at C and D so that it is stretched quite tight. Joinings in the outside covering need not be sewed but may be hidden un der the folds. This material is sewed in place as at E. Next, cut a straight strip for the lining and fit it around the out side of the frame as shown here at F. Trim the joining allowing a seam as shown at G. Sew to the // ( f/IMU \ Uncle PhUO ^ojuA: The Old Boy Knows It When your dog rests his muzzle on your knee and looks up at you sidewise, that is one of his innum erable appeals you can’t resist. Good cooks in the home get mountains of praise—and that’s their chief recompense. Experience is profitable, but it frequently leaves scars. Don’t mention your friend’s first gray hairs unless your friend does. We do not want any more things that are a trouble to look after— and a steam yacht is one of them. Ideals Are Our Rudders “A rudder,” explained the boy who knew his boats, “is a stern necessity.” People with short tempers have to go through life “being for given.” Fond mothers scarcely ever want their sons to be President. They want them to be what they are best able to be. His Inspiration We prefer, perhaps, our imagi nary picture of our friend, rather than the real one. He, in his af fectation, tries to live up to it. “Protecting” wild animals merely to slaughter them doesn’t seem to be the ideal ideal. It doesn’t matter so much if a very young man loses his heart and his head at the same time. It is expected of him. frame at the bottom as at H. Trim quite close at the bottom. Turn lining to inside as at I. Slip stitch the joining. Turn in raw edges at top and whip around top of frame. Pin the binding around and then sew it with stitches buried in the mesh of the braid. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev ery type of room and purpose Making ^lampshades, rugs, otto mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and ad dress, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. Don’t Neglect Your Child’s Cold Don’t let chest colds or croupy coughs go untreated. Rub Children’s Musterole on child’s throat and chest at once. This milder form of regular Musterole penetrates, warms, and stimulates local circulation. Floods the bronchial tubes with its soothing, relieving vapors. Musterole brings re lief naturally because it’s a “counter- irritant”—NOT just a salve. Recom mended by many doctors and nurses. Three strengths: Regular, Children’s (mild), and Extra Strong. Anger Is Like Rain Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereupon it falls.—Seneca. Constipated? Don't Let Gas, Nerve Pressure Keep You Miserable When you are constipated two things hap pen. FIRST: Wastes swell up the bowels and press on nerves in the digestive tract. This nerve pressure causes headaches, a dull, laiy . —— 7GB ASwav'*,, W feeling, bilious spells, loss of appetite and dis- ainess. SECOND: Partly digested food starts to decay forming GAS, bringing on sour stomach (add indigestion), and neartburn, bloat i eg you up until you sometimes gasp for Then you spend many miserable days. You can’t eat. You can’t sleep. Your stomach is sour. You feel tired out, grouchy and miser- •hlo- . ... . To get the complete relief you seek you must do TWO things. 1. You must relieve ‘the GAS. 2. You must clear the bowels and GET THAT PRESSURE OFF THE NERVES. As soon as offending wastes are washed out you feel marvelously refreshed, blues vanish, the world looks bright again. There is only one product on the market that gives you the DOUBLE ACTION you need. It is ADLERIKA. This efficient car minative cathartio relieves that awful GAS at once. It often removes bowel congeetion in half an hour. No waiting for overnight relief. Adlcrika acts on the stomach and both bowels. Ordinary laxatives act on the lower bowel only. Adienka has been recommended by many doctors and druggists for 35 years. No grip ing, no after effects. Just QUICK results. Try Adienka today. You'll say you have never used such an efficient intestinal cleanser. Sit in Your Chair ^ at Home ... and Shbpo The things you want to buy •• • at the time you want to buy them •.« at the price you want to pay. You can find these right in the paper. Your newspaper advertisements make it possible to do your “looking around 99 right at home • • • and then go downtown to do your buying • • • saving you time and energy. v i "1