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\ McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1938 Tavotiie JQecijae of) the Vegetable Fondue a Pleasing Entree \TEGETABLE fondue is a deli- * cate entree and one which can be easily made and is bound to please the family. To make the preparation extra simple start with a can of mixed vegetables. It may be one canned especiaUy for salads or soup. Drain the liq uid from the vegetables, but do not throw it away as it contains good food value. Chop the vege tables rather fine, or mash, which ever seems easier to do. A little suspicion of freshly grated onion is good to add to the vegetables if the family likes the flavor, and surely they do. Vegetable Fondue, 1 cup milk 1 cup soft bread crumbs & teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon grated onion Few grains cay enne 1 No. 2 can mixed vegetables 3 eggs Scald milk in double boiler, add bread, butter, cayenne and salt. Remove from the fire and add the onion and mixed vegetables. Beat in the egg yolks and fold in the egg whites which have been beaten until stiff. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) until it is firm in the center, or about 40 minutes. When the fon due is done the mixture will not adhere to a silver knife when in serted in the center. Serves 4-6. Crisp bacon and spiced peaches would be good to serve with the fondue. The peaches come all spiced in cans, too, so they do not mean extra labor. MARJORIE H. BLACK Ask Me Another A A General Quiz 1. What is the Maelstrom, and where is it? 2. Why does a star precede the number on some United States currency? 3. Are the Niagara falls moving steadily upstream? 4. What is the average thickness of hippopotamus hide? 5. Has any woman received the Nobel prize more than once? 6. What besides chameleons change their color? 7. What is a scaramouche? ftoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI ‘While Eight Men Died" By FLOTD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: Here’s a red-hot one—right from the sixth floor of a burn ing building in mid-Manhattan. Joe Miller of New York City is the lad who sends it in, and Joe is also the hero of one of the most thrilling rescues I’ve ever heard of. It happened this way: In March, 1923, Joe and his brother were living together in a room in the rear end of a furnished apartment, on the sixth floor of a building at Eighth avenue and Fifth-seventh street. New York. If you’re a fire man in that neighborhood, maybe you remember what happened there on the night of March 26. But this yarn is more concerned about what happened to the people in the building. And here is the story: Cut Off From Stairs by Flames. It was a bitter cold night. Joe slept a few hours when he awoke suddenly. He seemed to hear faint shouts of: “Fire!— Fire!"—coming from somewhere overhead, and saw his brother leave the room, only to come back a moment later, grab a blanket and yell to Joe to do the same. Joe was only half awake. Before he could get out of the room, his brother was back, shouting that the stairs were afire—that they were cut off—and with that, he ran to the window and disappeared over the sill. Joe went to the window and looked out. Six stories below lay his brother, groaning and shouting to Joe not to try to follow. Joe turned away then—went out into the hall trying to find the door of the rear apart ment, where the fire escapes were. The smoke was so thick in the hall that he had to crawl along the floor. He found the other apartment, but the door was locked. Gasping for breath, he struggled back to his own room and once more found him self looking out of his open window. As be stared out of that window he noticed, for the first time, a brick smoke stack running up the side of the building and held to the wall by steel brackets. Those brackets were so placed that one was about two feet below each window sill on every floor. It was a four-foot jump to the nearest bracket, but Joe had to take chances. He climbed to his window sill, leaped—and made it. Two Women Burning at a Window. Then, as Joe stood hesitating on that first bracket, he saw a terrible sight in a window next to his. Two screaming women were caught in that Answers 1. A celebrated whirlpool oi violent current in the Arctic ocean near the western coast of Norway. 2. It indicates that that is a Substitute bill issued to replace one that was defective. 3. The brink of Niagara falls is receding or moving back at the average of 2% feet a year. 4. Two inches. 5. In 1903 Mme. Curie received the Nobel award in physics jointly with her husband. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. 6. Certain frogs and fishes. 7. A ne’er-do-well. Don’t Neglect a Cold Rub soothing, warming Musterole well into your chest and throat. Musterole is NOT just a salve. It's a “counter-irritant” containing good old-fashioned cold remedies— oil of mustard, menthol, camphor and other valuable ingredients. That’s why it gets such fine results —better than the old-fashioned mus tard plaster. Musterole penetrates, stimulates, warms and soothes, help ful in drawing out local congestion and pain. Used by millions for.30 years. Recommended by many doc tors and nurses. All druggists’. In three strengths: Regular Strength, Children’s (mild), and Extra Strong. Heed Not A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no heed of blows. SO PURE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE VS. PHARMACOPOEIA EXCEEDS St.Josepli GENUINE PURE ASPIRIN Hope Walks Forward Walk with hope or you walk backwards.—Devonshire Proverb. BLACKMAN Stock and Poultry Medicines —Are Reliable • Blackman’s Medicated Lick- A-Brik. • Blackman’s Stock Powder • Blackman’s Cow Tonic • Blackman’s Hog Powder • Blackman’s Poultry Tablets • Blackman’s Poultry Powder • Blackman’s Uca Powder Hlgfreat Quality—Lowa*t Price Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back BUY FROM YOUR DEALER BLACKMAN STOCK MEDICINE CO. Chattanooga, Tenn. Two Screaming Women Were in the Window. window with the flames so close to them that one’s negligee had caught fire and she was forced to take it off. Joe did some quick thinking—and some even quicker acting. He pushed back one woman who was getting ready to jump, and climbed back into his room again. There, he took the sheets from his bed, tied them together and tossed one end to the girls. Then, leaping back to the bracket again, he tied the other end of the sheets. The knotted sheets made a rope that was only about eight or ten feet long. It would do to get from one bracket to the next c>.e below it, though, and that’s just what Joe used it for. Carrying one girl in his arms, he slid down to the bracket at the fifth floor. He shouted to the other girl to follow, but she was so unnerved that she could do nothing but stand in the window and scream. So Joe went back up that rope of sheets, climbing hand over hand, to carry the second girl down as he had the first. It was a tough job, sliding down that rope with a woman in his arms. To make matters worse, the knot that held the sheets together began to slip. For one breathless moment Joe thought it was goipg to let go and hurl them both to the court five and a half stories below. But the knot finally tightened and held, and Joe deposited the second woman on the fifth floor window sill. Carried Them Down a Rope of Sheets. The fire on the fifth floor was as bad as it had been on the sixth. Joe broke in a fifth floor window, grabbed two more sheets from a bed, and went back to repeat his performance on the floor above. He car ried the two women down to the bracket at the fourth floor level—and then it was the same thing all over again. Two sheets from a fourth floor bedroom, and the long, heart-breaking struggle of carrying the women down another flight. At the third floor, Joe met the firemen coming up after him. The fire there was under control—the stairway clear to the street. The girl Joe held in his arms had fainted on the last lap down the improvised rope, and there was a struggle before the firemen could get her through the third floor window. The other girl followed the first, and at last Joe, reeling with exhaustion, clambered through the window and made his way, staggering, to the street. By this time, the whole upper part of the building was in flames. Joe went around to the rear in search of his brother, but he was gone. Firemen had picked him up and sent him to a hospital, and there Joe found him later, with both legs broken and suffering from internal injuries. Eight people were burned to death in that fire—plenty more were injured. But the casualty list would have been just three names longer if Joe hadn’t been able to use his hands and feet—and his head. Copyright.—WNU Service. Printer’s House in Antwerp Christophe Plantin was a French printer, who lived in the Sixteenth century and made Antwerp his home and print shop. In the angle of the Marche du Vendredi, it can be found around its quaint little courtyard, under the name of Musee Plantin-Moretus. It has a unique collection of old furniture, tapestries and ornaments. The old printing office, the proprietor’s office and the salesroom are preserved com plete and the house itself is a fine Renaissance example of the better burgher type. England Has Plenty of Fish Fish is the only “home-produced” food of which England has enough to export, even though the average Englishman eats 65 pounds of fish each year. English hook fishers sometimes set out a line 8 miles long, carrying over 5,000 hooks! In 1870, says the Washington Post, a group of English net fishers caught 24,000-,000 pilchards in one haul. So heavy were these fish that they spoiled before all were removed from the net, and eventually had to be sold as fertilizer. Duck Hawk Is Speedy The duck hawk is the American version of the peregrine falcon of the falcon-hunting days of old. Its speed has been developed through centuries of pursuit for food. No bird is safe from this feathered de stroyer. Sharp, cruel beak and tal ons, plus speed, make it almost cer tain death for any other bird, no matter what the size of the prey. It kills for pure love of slaughter, dropping like a plummet on a flock of smaller birds, striking again and again, then winging off without even touching its kills. Earthworms and Lightning Bugs That earthworms turn into light ning bugs or fireflies is a common myth in some sections of the United States. The belief no doubt arose from the fact that the lightning bug or firefly is a species of beetle which passes through a larva stage. Adults, larvae and eggs are all lu minous. Observation of the various species of glowworms may alsc have contributed to the popular be lief. None of these luminous crea tures is closely related to the com mon earthworm- IMPROVED 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 January 9 PREPARING FOR A LIFE OF SERVICE LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT—Prepare ye the way of the Lord.—Mark 1:3. PRIMARY TOPIC—When Jesus Was Bap tized. JUNIOR TOPIC—When Jesus Was Bap tized. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Getting Ready to Serve. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Dedicating Our Lives to Service. “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”—what an interesting expression! Did it not begin back before the foundation of the world? Yes, for the death of Christ was no mere afterthought in God’s plan. But now we have the coming into the world of the One who was the Lamb slain from before the world’s founding. Jesus Christ is about to appear to begin his ministry which was to culminate at Calvary’s cross. Before Jesus, comes the one sent to proclaim his appearing, to her ald the coming of the Servant of God. Mark begins his account with the ministry of John the Baptist and makes no reference to the birth and genealogy of Jesus. How appropri ate that is, for after all the impor tant thing about a servant is not that he came from a certain family, or was born in a particular place. The point is that he is here now and able and ready to do his work. I. The Herald of Christ (w. 1-8). The prophets had pointed forward to the coming of Christ. John the Baptist, of whom our Lord said that there was not a greater among the prophets, now appears to proclaim his presence and prepare the way for him. Of him Joseph Parker beautifully says that he “was all but a transparent veil: they could almost see the coming God through him ... If he stood aside for a mo ment there was the One who was to come.” John was a unique personality, admirably fitted to proclaim a stern message of repentance to a deca dent age. Let us not put aside or ridicule strangely clad and unusual folk who have a word for us from God. “Repent”—that was his message from the Lord. America needs that message today. The Christian doctrine of repentance has been set aside by some because they dis like its convicting power, and by others through theological readjust ment. It needs re-affirmation. John’s greatest message, howev er, was the coming of the One who was to baptize not with water but with the Holy Ghost. Like every true witness he humbles himself and points to the Saviour. We need the message, “repent,” but we need even more to recall to our preaching and our churches the Holy Ghost power of the Son of God. H. The Baptism of Christ (w. 9-11). The account in Mark is brief but it brings before us the fact that the sinless Son of God thus identified his holy self with sinful humanity which he had come to save. Let us learn the lesson that obedience to the divine will, a will ingness to humble ourselves to do the work whereunto God has sent us, are prerequisites to the filling of the Holy Spirit with power and grace for life and service. IH. The Temptation of Christ (w. 12, 13). We recall as we consider the temptation of Jesus, that he was without sin, that there was no fallen nature in him to which Satan could appeal. The temptation or testing of Jesus was therefore along Mes sianic lines, but the principles both of temptation and victory are sim ilar to those of our own experience. Consider the parallel passages in Matthew 4 and Luke 4. The Devil has only three real temptations to present, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (I John 2:16). These he used with Jesus as he tempted him to make food for his hungry body, to look at the king doms of this earth and attain them by a wrong method, and to pre sume on. God’s grace by throwing himself from the pinnacle of the temple. Victory came through the use of God’s Word. We need to learn that lesson and not attempt to defeat Satan with any man-made weapons of will-power, logic, or culture. Jesus was certain of victory. He is our victory. Learn to know him as Saviour and Lord. Study God’s Word and learn how to use it in spir itual conflict. Yield to the Holy Spirit. Victory lies that way, and nowhere else. The Countenance The countenance may be defined as the title-page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title-pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.—W. Matthews. Men of Faith The ablest men in all walks oi modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. — Bruce Barton. OP° SEW 4^— Ruth Wyeth Spears + hl0« 9-36* .T y£> co .T o ON l 10W18- IQi *-36% *101 -26 —— — t-: ^-7^ wr" Making a Chintz Bed Spread With Corded Seams. W OULD you like to make a chintz bedspread to match your curtains? Of course, such a spread must have seams in it, for most chintzes are only 36 inches wide, while the average double bed is about 54 inches wide. But seams need not detract from the beauty of the spread. Eleven and a half yards of 36- inch-wide chintz will make this spread and pillow cover for a double bed. In the diagrams at the right I have given the dimen sions for cutting these for a 54- inch-wide bed. It is best to cut the center portions first; then cut the 18-inch side sections for the pillow cover; then the 10-inch strips for pillow cover and spread. This leaves a long 26-inch-wide strip for the side ruffles of the spread. Cable cord for the corded seams may be purchased at notion coun ters. Prepared bias trimming may be used for the cord covering. Baste the covering over the cord, as shown here at A; then place the covered cord in the seam, as shown, and stitch as at B, using the cording foot of your machine. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making Keep a Gom 1 A man we knew had rounded out more than ninety years when a little bit of a windfall came to him. The first thing he did after counting the money was to say, “Now I’ll set out another or chard!” He did not flinch in the face of his years. He was ready to start right in where he started 50 years before. Time ought never to down any of our folks. Let’s not be downed by the old scamp.— Trotty Veck Messenger. 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 address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. "Ah showed yo’ mammy with #For generations, fine cooks throughout the South have preferred Jewel Shortening. A Special Blend of choice vegetable fats and other bland cooking fats, Jewel actually creams faster, makes more tender baked foods, than the costliest types of shortening. You get better results FAVORITE OF THE SOUTH I When a cold strikes • « • don 9 t take needless risks Treat Colds This PROVED Way W HY experiment? Vicks Vapo- Rub has been doubly moved for you... proved by everyday use in more homes than any other medication of its kind; further proved by the largest clinical tests ever made on colds. (See full de tails in each VapoRub package.) Only Vicks give you such proo VapoRub is the direct external ^treatment. No |‘’dosing”—no risk *of stomach upsets. Simply massage it on the throat, chest, and back (as illustrated). Relief starts almost at once. You hptrin to feel warm and comfort able as VapoRub starts working direct through the skin like a poul tice. At the same time, its medi cated vapors—released by the warmth of the body—are carried direct to the irritated air-passages with every breath. This double action loosens phlegm — relieves irritation and coughing—helps break local con gestion. Repeat treatment at bedtime. After restful sleep comes, VapoRub keeps right on working, hour after hour. Often, by morning the worst of the cold is over.