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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Preserving the Broom.—Soak
ing a broom in boiled salt-water
every two weeks will help pre
serve it.
• • •
Washing Parsley. — Parsley
washed with hot water keeps its
flavor better and is easier to chop.
* • *
Jumpers Keep Their Shape.—
When drying woolen jumpers run
a curtain stick through both
sleeves and then hang up. A coat
hanger will make “pokes” on the
shoulders and spoil the shape.
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Sweet Omelet.—A tablespoon of
sugar added to the regular omelet
batter will produce a sweet ome
let that is especially popular with
youngsters. ^
2 WAY RELIEF
FOR THE MISERY OF
COLDS
Talc* 2 BAYER ASPIRIN tablets and
drink a full glam of water. Rnpnat
treatment in 2 hours.
If throat Is sere from the cold,
crash and stir 3 BAYER ASPIRIN
tablets in V3 glass of water. Gargle
twice. This eases throat rawness
and soreness almost instantly.
All it usually costs to relieve the
misery of a cold today — is 3/ to
5/ — relief for the period of your
cold 151 to 25/. Hence no family
need neglect even minor head
colds.
Here is what to do: Take two
BAYER tablets when you feel a
cold coming on — with a full glass
of water. Then repeat, if necessary,
according to directions in each
package. Relief comes rapidly.
The Bayer method of relieving
colds is the way many doctors
approve. You take Bayer Aspirin
for relief — then if you are not
improved promptly, you call the
family doctor.
2 FULL DOZDf 25c
Virtually 1 cent a tablet
All Life Is Music
All one’s life is music, if one
touches the notes rightly, and in
time. But there must be no hur
ry.—John Ruskin.
you THIN, NERVOUS?
Jackson, Miss. — Mrs.
D. M. Forbes. 1471 S.
Gallatin St., says: "I had
no appetite, was under
weight and very nervous.
I used Dr. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription and it
worked wonders for me. I
was soon eating normally,
rapidly regained my
strength, and gained sev
eral pounds. I wasn't so
nervous and enjoyed life once more.” Buy it,
liquid or tablets, at your drug store today.
Game Animals Doubled
Big game animals in the na
tional forests have more than
doubled in the last 12 years.
Let’s Go To War
On Discomforts Of
Chest Colds
Rub Penetro on your chest—
how quickly it melts—causing
warm feeling—makes blood flow
move freely in congested area—
loosens phlegm—eases tightness
—relieves local congestion—helps
stop night coughing—due to colds.
Millions in 37 Nations use
stainless Penetro. 35c jar con
tains twice 25c size. Even greater
economy in larger sizes. Get
Penetro. All dealers everywhere.
In the Feeling
Poverty consists of feeling poor.
—Emerson.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
U NCLE SAM is the producer
of “The River,” regarded
by many as the greatest of
current motion pictures, and
one of the greatest motion pic
tures of all time. Specifically,
“The River” was produced for
the Farm Security administra
tion by Pare Lorentz, a former
New York film reviewer, who
for the past two years has been
turning down big-money offers
from Hollywood in favor of
working for the government.
“This is the story of the Mis
sissippi, where it comes from, where
it goes, what it has meant to us,
and what it has cost us,” the beau
tiful voice of Thomas Chalmers in
tones as the picture starts. From
then on in magnificently photo
graphed scenes we are shown an
epic. The Mississippi rising in re
bellion is far more stirring and ma
jestic than all the actors you have
ever seen in imaginary crises.
Months ago David Selznick and
Paulette Goddard, who sometimes
answers to the name of Mrs.
Charles Chaplin, indulged in a bit
ter Argument. Friends reported that
Paulette expected to play the role
of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With
the Wind,” Mr. Selznick replied
crisply that she was not even being
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Hell Underground?’
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello, everybody:
Here’s a detective who had a hobby. And because he had
«l hobby, he caught a man. And because he caught a man, he
came mighty darned near losing his life. The way I’ve set that
down makes it sound a little like that old nursery favorite of
yours and mine. The House That Jack Built. But as a matter
of fact, it’s “The Story That Jack Told.” Fellow Adventurers,
meet Jack Shea of New York City. And listen to the yarn he’s
going to spin us.
In the spring of 1922, Jack was working for a well-known detective
agency. He told me the name, but he wants me to leave it out, because
—well—detective agencies don’t like too much publicity about the cases
they handle. This agency sent him out on a case for which he was es
pecially adapted.
Jack’s hobby is fungi—you know, mushrooms, toadstools and
the like. The job he was to do was to run down a fellow named
Fritz—last name also omitted by request—a fellow six feet two
inches tall, light complexion, military bearing and—like Jack—
interested in fungi.
Found His Man in a Michigan Mine.
Jack traced Fritz to an address in Camden, N. J., and from there
to St. Louis, Mo. From there the trail led through Chicago, Milwaukee,
Hancock, Mich., and finally ended in Calumet, Mich., where Jack was told
that Fritz was working in a copper mine called the Quincy shaft.
It was the spring of 1923, a year after he had started, when Jack
finally got to the same town his man was in. But still he didn’t know
what the man looked like. He got a job as assistant timekeeper at the
mine and began looking the miners over.
Then, one day. Jack found a bed of fungi down in the mine shaft. He
picked up a handful of them and carried them to the surface. He car*
ried them around until he saw a man who answered Fritz’s general de-
Paulette Goddard
considered for it, and Paulette was
so upset she said she wouldn’t play
it even 3 he begged her to.
Now they have patched up their
troubles, she has signed a contract
and both admit that 3 her tests
are satisfactory she’ll play the role.
—
Kate Smith had a guest star on her
program who cost her almost as
much as the sponsor. The guest
star was Hortense Odium, who took
over a failing store a few years ago
and built it into one of the greatest
sources of women’s fashions. Kate
doesn’t have much time for shop
ping, and she was so impressed
by Mrs. Odium’s talk that she gave
lavish orders for her spring ward
robe then and there.
Peter Lorre, the sinister “Mr.
Moto” of Twentieth Century-Fox
films is never the victim of prac
tical jokes in Hollywood. Folks out
there know he always strikes back.
When he was leaving London for
Ar^erica, his director had a big
drajf horse delivered to him at the
last minute as a parting gift. Mr.
Lorre sent the horse to a friend’s
farm, then arranged to have three
hundred singing canaries delivered
to the director at three in the morn
ing.
Norma Shearer has never forgot
ten the stars whose pictures thrilled
her when she was
just getting started
in pictures fifteen
years ago. She gave
the names of some
fifty players to the
casting director of
her “Marie An
toinette” and asked
that they should be
given roles. It was
hard to locate many
of them, for in re
cent years hard
luck, poverty, and
despondency had
dogged their footsteps, but now they
are all happily at work.
—M—
ODDS AND ENDS—Between scenes of
"Island in the Sky” the cast serenaded
Tohy Doolan with U Nice Work if You Can
Get It” because for two days he did noth
ing but lie still on the floor while a cinema
coroner and his assistants pronounced
Doolan dead . . . Warner Brothers are go
ing to feature Olivia de Havilland and
Anita Louise in "Studio Club” which they
hope will be as great a picture as R K O’*
"Stage Door” . . . Pick and Pat, radio
comedians, are going to make motion pic
tures for Republic . . . Although pretty
busy conducting the Magic Key and Fri
day night concert hours, Frank Black
found time to stock his one hundred and
eighteen acre Pennsylvania farm and now
he is actually making money from his
prize live stock and chickens . . . Ronald
Colman will return to the screen in "If I
Were King,” one of the grandest of old
costume melodramas . . . Reed Kennedy,
song-shop baritone, is teaching hit foui
young sons to sing for the radio.
C Western Newspaper Union
Norma
Shearer
Ready to Bring It Down on Jack’s Cranium.
scription eyeing the fungi with interest. He stopped Jack and told him
the species was poisonous and shouldn’t be eaten. Then Jack was
pretty sure he had his man spotted.
Jack stood talking to the man for a while. They got along great be
cause they had a common interest. Before they parted they made an
appointment to go down into the mine on the following Sunday to look
for fungi. They took one of the stationary engineers into their confidence
and he agreed to lower them down in a mine car.
Down 7,200 Feet Into the Earth.
That Sunday they met at the mine entrance at 10:30 a. m. The sta
tionary engineer—a fellow named Barry—was there, too. They climbed
into the car and were soon at the bottom, 7,200 feet below the earth.
“We explored the bottom of the mine for about a quarter of a
mile,” says Jack, “with carbide lamps on our hats and wearing
rubber coats. The temperature was about a hundred degrees,
since the farther you go down the warmer and more humid it
gets. When we had been there about twenty-five minutes and had
found a few specimens of fungus, we returned to the car for the
trip back.
“As we got into the car I noticed a copper ingot lying on the floor
and wondered how it got there. Those ingots weigh about forty pounds
apiece and come in a size that can be conveniently stacked along the
railroad sidings for shipment. I took the top seat, way up in the front
of the car. Fritz took the second seat from the rear end where the bells
and buttons which signalled the engineer were attached. The car started
moving and went half way up the slope, drawn by the metal cable from
above. Then it stopped suddenly. I didn’t know it then, but Fritz had
halted it with a signal.”
He Was About to Brain Jack.
When the car stopped Jack turned to look at Fritz. That
move saved his life. For there was Fritz, the copper ingot in his
hands, holding it high above his head, ready to bring it down on
Jack’s own cranium. Somehow he had found out that Jack was a
detective out to get him—and he was going to get Jack first 3
he could.
“I ducked,” says Jack, “and the ingot hit me a glancing blow on my
left shoulder. I was stunned for a minute, nevertheless. My senses left
me, but I must have fought on automatically, for when I came to again
I found myse3 ha3 out of the car gripping the edge with my fingers while
Fritz was trying to break my grip and throw me over the side.
“Usually I carried a small automatic revolver, but this time I had
orders to bring my man back alive and hence carried a different sort
of weapon. It was a .25 caliber gun loaded not with ordinary bullets
but a cartridge that carried a chemical compound instead of a bullet.
“When it heated it flowed over the flesh in a good imitation of blood.
“I got that gun out and fired it. It gave a loud report and
sprayed Fritz’s hands with the concoction. When he saw that he
said, ‘Stop—I’m shot’ and gave up the battle.”
Fritz didn’t know; he actually hadn’t been shot until he was back at
ground level again and Jack had him safely locked up in a mine store
room. Later he was taken to the local jail and, later still, extradited to
the state that wanted him for trial. “He was sentenced to jail for
twenty years at hard labor,” says Jack, “but that doesn’t ha3 make up
for the forty years’ growth he scared me out of.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
A Five-Gaited Horse
A five-gaited saddle horse must
show the walk, trot, canter and
rack; in addition, one of the follow
ing three fancy gaits—the running
walk, the slow pace or the fox trot.
The rack is a very showy gait, and
very easy on the rider, but it is
difficult for the horse since it is a
four-beat gait—that is, each foot
hits the ground independent of the
other three.
Growth of Fish
Fish culturists who have studied
the growth of fish claim that a
large-mouthed black bass one year
old averages 5-7 inches; when it is
three years old 9.9 inches; five
years, 12.8 inches; seven years, 14
inches; ten years, 16.6 and 3 it lives
to sixteen years it measures 20.5
inches.
Rabbits Are Productive
A single pair of rabbits will in
crease one hundred-fold between
spring and autumn.
Latin Mottoes on Great Seal
On the obverse of the Great Seal
of the United States is the familiar
motto, “E Pluribus Unum,” trans
lated, “One from Many.” On the
reverse are two Latin mottoes. The
one above the design is “Annuit
Coeptis,” translated as “He (God)
Prospered Our Endeavors.” The
lower one is “Novus Ordo Seclor-
um” and is translated as “A New
Order of the Ages.”
Crystal Palace Foundation Saved
The famous Crystal palace in Lon
don, which was built for the Exposi
tion of Arts and Industry of 1851,
was destroyed by fire on Novem
ber 30, 1936. The entire structure
was burned with the exception of
the crystal fountain.
Graduated From Harvard
Sir George Downing, who built
and after whom London’s famous
street is named, was Harvard col
lege’s second graduate in its first
graduating class in 1642.
DORIS DEDE'S
coLumn
( » Mere Affection
L a Good Substitute
for Love?
DEAR MISS DENE: What do you
think of affection as a substi
tute for love, as far as getting mar
ried is concerned? I want to mar
ry but can feel nothing but affection
for my future husband. Is there
any hope for happiness?—A. W.
ANSWER—Everything depends on
your age, A. W. No one can make
hard and fast rules about affec
tionate marriages in general but a
good many points must be consid
ered before undertaking such a re
lationship.
Young people should marry for
love, and no nonsense about it. For
while we’re young our hope of ro
mance is high and 3 it is denied
us, we yearn for it all our lives and
imagine ourselves cheated of fife’s
dearest g3t—even though we may
be admirably suited to the mates
we chose.
No matter how much the modern
writers attempt to analyze love into
shreds, it must still be for the
young, a vital spark, a feeling for
which there is no accounting. It is
absolutely right that young people
should ask themselves practical
questions about the mates they have
chosen, but before they begin their
se3 cross-examination they should
first have experienced something
deeper than affection, something be
yond reason.
Young people cannot afford to do with
out the vital spark. They cannot hope to
substitute for it, financial security or good
solid affection or a satisfactory compan
ionship. They must know something of
the first careless rapture before they can
decide to get along without it forever.
But men and women of riper years may
well marry for reasons other than sheer
heart-burning love. A man or a woman
who has known love, and the bitterness
of renunciation or disillusionment, may
find peace and happiness with a tolerant,
understanding, sympathetic mate.
Spinsters and bachelors who have
been lonely for years find peace and
contentment in marriage, even
though the tender passion be denied
them.
A man may marry for the second
time and be as happy with the w3e
he has chosen to keep him com
fortable as he was with hii first
w3e who gave him love. A woman
may divorce her husband, whom
she once loved passionately, and
settle down serenely with a man for
whom she has only affection.
Middle-age has learned love’s les
son and is willing to compromise
with fife and take what’s offered
for contentment’s sake. Loneliness
and middle-age can make marriage
seem a haven of refuge even though
it be a marriage of convenience
pure and simple.
EAR MISS DENE: I have quar-
Ls r eied with my mother and now
live in an apartment of my own. I
seem to be losing my friends. I do
not tell them of what has occurred,
and so have to make up reasons
why they cannot see me in my
home. I hate the feeling that every
body is whispering about me. I feel
that this quarrel may have cost me
dear in more ways than one.—X. D.
ANSWER—Cast a veil of secrecy
over your fife, shroud yourse3 in
mystery and at once you set the
whole world whispering. And the
chances are that the world being
what it is, some of the whispers will
have a distinctly unpleasant flavor.
If you are going to make a mys
tery of where you five and why, the
more conventional of our friends
will begin to shy away like fright
ened horses. Knowing nothing of
the true state of affairs, their imagi
nations run riot in the attempt to
discover why you’ve suddenly be
come secretive.
It is better always to tell the
truth—however ugly it may sound
for the truth at its worst can never
compare with the stories your
neighbors have already concocted
about you.
Since you are living a new sort of
fife, tell people about it. The min
ute you give your audience the facts
they will cease to conjecture, and
on the day the conjecturing stops,
your reputation will undergo a
change for the better.
A. L.—You have spent so much
time and energy in your detective
work that one can only congratulate
you on the fruit of your labors. A
more sympathetic soul than mine
would tell you that you had been
badly used, but it seems to me that
any girl so constantly surrounded
with suspicion was bound to get a
few wrong ideas in her head.
You have refused to trust her
from the minute you met her. You
have always accused her of the
worst. You have fought down any
impulse rising in you to believe
that she was worthwhile. Are you
surprised that after three years she
has decided to put some of your sug
gestions into practical use?
I believe this is the first time
she’s ever deceived you and I also
believe that 3 you took her back
now, you’d be doing the one thing
which would save you both from
misery. But you must make up
your mind to put away the sleuth’s
outfit when you marry her. To five
with a house-detective is enough to
put any woman into the frame of
mind where she feels impelled to
go out and do some of the things her
charming husband has suggested.
e Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Yesteryear Charm in
Crocheted Bedspread
Here’s an heirloom popcorn
bedspread that’s going to lend
richness to your bedroom—just
see how effectively that striking
popcorn mot3 is set off by thq.
lacy mesh background. It’s fas
cinating work—crocheting the in-
Pattern 5908.
dividual squares of durable string
and once you’ve learned one you
won’t want to stop until all the
squares are finished and joined
into a spread of unusual beauty.
In pattern 5908 you will find in
structions for making the square
shown; an illustration of it and
of the stitches used; material re
quirements; a photograph of the
square.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th
St., New York, N. Y.
Big Portion of World Sales
A MERICAN business spends |
more money for advertis
ing than is spent for the same *
purpose in all the remainder of
'the world. The result is that,
while American people repre
sent only one-seventh of the
world’s population, their pur
chases represent forty-seven
per cent of the world sales.
Don’t Neglect Minor
Throat Irritation
Don’t take chances. Rub on sooth
ing, warming Musterole. Relief gen
erally follows.
Musterole gets such marvelous re
sults because it’s NOT just a salve.
It’s a “counter-irritant”—easing,
warming, stimulating and penetrat
ing-helpful in drawing out local
congestion and pain.
Used by millions for 30 years.
Recommended by many doctors and
nurses. All druggists’. In three
strengths: Regular Strength, Chil
dren’s (mild), and Extra Strong.
Approved by Good Housekeeping.
Bit of Wisdom
Don’t worry about what people
are thinking about you, for they
are not thinking about you, but
wondering what you are thinking
about them.
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