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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938 Quality Silk Weaves Lead Styles By CHERIE NICHOLAS UINE silks make fine ladies, or * rather we should say fine ladies jure wearing fine silks—finer and more of the quality type than for many seasons past. The enthusi asm expressed for handsome silks is no doubt due to the fact that ■current fashion declares in favor of greater elegancfe in the mode, and when the “dress-up” mood is on, as it so unquestionably is this season, the logical answer that has stood the test of centuries is—silk! The significant thing about the present silkward movement is that the fine silks fine ladies are wearing are fine indeed. They are pure silk and no camouflage about it. Then, too, the quest for the better silks has revealed so many \ew and novel types brought out this season that the silk vogue now on is contributing a most exciting and fascinating chapter in the 1938 story ot fabrics. A note' of elegance runs through the patrician silk costumes pic tured. These modes convey an idea of how the “dress-up” spirit is interpreted by women of discrimi nating taste. ^ Speaking of silk weaves that ajre new this season, the dress to the right is made of a rustic-weave In dian silk that is a joy to wear, since it is quite crush resistant and goodlooking and its slightly rough surface adds charm to the tex ture. It is smartly styled in peasant type with long sleeves and striped silk girdle in vivid gypsy colors that contrast the neutral tone of the silk most dramatically. It is topped by a full length sleeveless coat of matching silk. The sombrero of natural straw adds a picturesque touch. Dusty rose pink silk crepe fash ions the coat-dress to the left. It is a charming costume for the young matron, its slim draped lines and slightly li bloused back being par ticularly flattering to the slender fig ure. Shirring at the neckline, shoulders and down the center front places emphasis on the style mes sage that declares shirred effects to be a leading trimming feature this season. The hat faced with black organdie and trimmed with dusty rose grosgrain ribbon is ex tremely effective with this charm ing costume. A smart ensemble for mother or daughter centers the group. The straight, printed crinkled silk crepe coat with quilting spaced between the large white flowers is new on several counts. Note that the silk print is crinkled, and crinkled fab rics are the rage this season. In cottons crinkled seersuckers and crinkled flowered organdies lead in chic, while in the silk realm the accent is on richly colorful crinkled prints, preferably crepes, together with a versatile showing of crinkled pilk sheers. The idea of the long silk coat is going big this season, prints, if prints be yoiur choice, or dressmaker separate coats made of choice navy or black failles, crepes, bengalines and other silks of sim ilar type. The dress worn Uhder this crin kled and quilted flower-print coat is at black silk Canton crepe with sleeves continuing the quilted theme. The scalloped Milan hat is something to talk about in that it confirms the report from Paris that designers are “scalloping ev erything” this season. Among the newer silks that are making a definite impression the sheer crepe that is ribbed in raised relief should be mentioned. There are also many interesting novelty crepes, outstanding among which are those having honeycomb pat- temings, while still others are of etamine construction. In the sports class the new Chinese silk damask crepes in clear pastel shades are greatly admired. As a parting word—don’t forget the importance of taffeta. C Western Newspaper Union. BABY TRIMS GIVE THAT CHARM TOUCH By CHERIE NICHOLAS This season’s frocks and lingerie blouses are taking on the charm of childhood days when leisure mo ments were taken up with running ribbons through beading, or hand running numberless pintucks or with “whipping on” dainty lace edgings, plus cotintless other en hancements that contribute that something called “charm.” The trend toward ultra feminin ity in dress that marks current styles accounts for the revival of the dainty “baby trims” that are so much in evidence in summer fash ions. As a consequence, in select ing your wardrobe you can indulge to your heart’s content in the fancies and foibles that give the “pretty” look to summery clothes. So look up the dress and the blouse collections in your favorite shops and departments and be gladdened at the refreshing sight of fascinat ing touches that designers are lav ishing on even the most inexpensive washable as well as upon the de lectable “dressup” fashions for more formal wear. Simplicity for Day New day and afternoon dresses are straight and simple, with plaits for morning wear but draped for afternoon. Hips tightly modeled, rather far down, are plain in con trast to tucked and shirred waists. Versatile Silk Jersey Silk jersey is being used with equal success in the sports, after noon or evening wardrobe. It may be combined with other materials, and’ is particularly effective when it forms the blouse to a wool suit. ♦ HOT-WEATHERWEAR By CHERIE NICHOLAS The lovely cool fabric which fash ions this frock is ideal for hot- weather wear. It is a new shadow- and-substance weave of rayon that is lacy, lightweight, washable, high ly crease-resistant and comes in the most delectable colors fancy can picture. You’ll love it in dusty rose and other choice pastels as well as white. Be sure to take note of the touch of peasant Swedish embroid ery that embellishes this charming frock. Watch the embroidery vogue! M en of the ounted by Captain G. Elliott - Nightingale Copyright, WNU ADVENTURES OF A HERO AND A LUNATIC A LL the outfit he had was the clothes he wore. In his right hand, held high, he carried a Bible. Just where he came from no one knew, for he very suddenly ap peared on the Saskatchewan plains calling upon all to “Repent, and seek Eternal Life.” Now and then he changed his text and warned us that the Day of Judgment was at hand. After we staked him to some food, and a warmer coat donated by the most notorious blasphemer in the group, he was on his way again shouting his warnings. The poor chap was obviously a “bit cracked,” but as long as he kept to the prairie he was not in much danger^ But, the poor mis guided prophet kept heading due northwest, and just when the terrific man-killing sub-Arctic winter took a good grip on the Athabaska lake country, he came to grief. He was found badly frozen, and dying of starvation, on a trail that might see a human being once during the win ter. In spite of his serious physical condition he was still shouting texts and singing hymns, but the half- breed who found him knew but few words of English anyway, so the warnings and texts fell on deaf edfs. At any rate, the “breed” soon had the demented white preacher in a warm bunk, and warm food inside of him. As the days passed, though, the roving missionary developed into a raving maniac, and the half- breed benefactor left for safer sur roundings. He did not actually de sert the unfortunate white, but he did get a report to the Fort Chip- pewyan post of the Mounted Police. When Constable Pedley, certainly one of the most courageous trailers and trackers ever to wear the scar let and gold, arrived at the tiny log hut he found an extremely violent lunatic in charge. Moreover, in spite of frostbite and emaciation, the lunatic possessed prodigious strength and the six-foot constable had a tough time to get the prisoner under control. Wise in the tricks and wrinkles of the northern trails, Pedley wrapped the lunatic in two great big sleeping bags. Then he tied him onto the sled, and shoved off on a 500-mile mush to the near est hospital, at Fort Saskatchewan. Even to this day all the details of that nerve-wracking trip have never been told. The big, strapping constable had his hands more than full while the mercury stuck at 40 and 50 below all the time. It was out of the question, of course, for the constable to keep the lunatic strapped up and tied down all the time, so every time he released the prisoner he had to get into a free-for- all fight whether he wanted to or not. Apart from this, there was great trouble feeding the crazy man. The constable took extreme meas ures in this, however, for he real ized that his patient would soon die of exposure and starvation unless he was fed. Mile after frozen mile they mushed, day after day, with the lunatic centering his hatred and vituperation on the constable, and the latter centering his attention on the trail and the dogs and doing all possible to get the patient to shelter and warmth and medical attention. To add to all this terrific mental and physical punishment. Constable Pedley’s dog-train was often beset by packs of flat-bellied, starving timber wolves. Pedley’s integrity is beyond reproach, and he stated that he didn’t stop to light fires un til it was absolutely inevitable that the wolf pack would jump the train in another minute or so, so ravenous were these fiat-bellied wolves. Finally Constable Pedley and his tragic load mushed into Fort Sas katchewan, and the demented preacher was soon in good hands. After a few days of rest for him self and dogs, Pedley started off on the 500-mile return trip to his post on Lake Athabaska. All alone, mushing through that ever-lonesome land, God only knows what thoughts were Pedley’s as he moved across the snowy wastes thinking over the events of the past weeks. At any rate, halfway down the Athabaska river his own mind snapped, and he wandered for days in the bitter cold until found by some Cree In dians who, strange to relate, tied him to a dog sled and mushed him back to Fort Saskatchewan, where lay the demented preacher. The preacher was as right as rain, mentally and physically, in side of two months, but almost a year passed before Constable Ped ley came back to the world to which he belonged. The force gave him a fairly decent job at headquarters. As the war left its mark on those who saw real front-line service, so did that trip through the Arctic wastes, with a lunatic for company, leave its mark on Mounted Consta ble Pedley, a real hero if there ever was one. Words Frequently Mispronounced According to a compilation of the United States office of education, the twelve words most often mispro nounced are: On, again, toward, in teresting, accept, address, prefer able, drowned, perform, automo bile, attacked and forehead. Winners in Cake Recipe Contest Some of the Prize-Winning Cakes Baked in the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory of C. Houston Goudiss. 'T'HE home economists on the staff of the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory, maintained in New York city by C. Houston Goudiss, who conducts our “WHAT TO EAT AND WHY” se ries, have reached their decision concerning the prize winners in the recent Cake Recipe Contest. Winners have already been noti fied and have received their checks. The first prize of $25.00 went to Mrs. D. F. Kelly, 1004 Charles St., Whitewater, Wis. Second Prize Winners. The five second prizes were awarded to Mrs. H. Harshbargen of 2427 Fifth Ave., Altoona, Pa.; R. A. Williams, 12075 Rosemary Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. C. A. Burns, Box 788, Oakland, Miss.; Miss Sadie Cunningham, Avon- more, Pa.; and Mrs. Laura Meyer, 107 Pleasant St., Plymouth, Wis. Third Prize Winners. Mrs. T. H. Fjone, Flaxville, Mont.; Mrs. Lester Ralston, 127 South Judd St., Sioux City, Iowa; Mrs. Harry A. Kramer, 16 Marin Road, Manor, Calif.; Mrs. F. D. McDonald, Route 1, Amherst, Tex as; Vera Tygar, Commodore, Pa.; Mrs. George^Ahlborn, R. D. No. 1, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.; Mrs; B. A. Robinson, Box 578, Emmett, Ida ho; Jean Guthrie, 4712 Campbell St., Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Wal ter Richter, Bonduel, Wis.; Mrs. P. C. Blakely, Alden, Mich. Honorable Mention. Emogene Williams, Damon, Texas; Mrs. Simon Moen, Norma, N. D.; Mrs. Dick Collins, Mason- ville, Iowa; Mrs. B. F. Herman, Box 1118, Crosby, Miss.; Mrs. Paul Lorenz, P. O. Box 225, Strathmore, Calif.; Mrs. S. S. Ar- entz, Simpson, Nev.; Mrs. Vida Hilger, Box 257, Rockland, Mich.; Mrs. Grace H. Peterson, Box 335, Amherst, Wis.; Mrs. Cecil Skin ner, Bedford, Wyo.; Mrs. Joe Fur nace, 317 West Twentieth St., South Sioux City, Neb. Magnificent Cakes Entered. The judges report that they have never seen a finer collection of cakes assembled at one time. Be cause almost all the cakes were so exceptionally good, it was ex tremely difficult to choose the win ners. But a most careful scoring system was used, and the cakes were checked for general appear ance, including shape, size and crust, both color and character; flavor, including odor and taste; lightness; crumb, including tex ture, rated as to its fineness, ten derness, moistness and elasticity, color and grain. C. Houston Goudiss has said that he regrets that every woman who entered the contest could not win a prize. He offers his con gratulations to the winners and his thanks to the many other homemakers who helped to make this Cake Contest such a splendid success. l/ncle PhilOi That's Rehabilitation Young men who are bad are usually so because they want to be bad. You’ve got to change their point of view. You may admire those who are brilliantly sarcastic, but you can’t love them. You can accomplish more by your own efforts than anybody can help you to accomplish. Never hesitate to praise good work, no matter where, or by whom it is done. Praise is often the only reward that good work gets. Try It on Crackpots From the first, laughter has shattered thrones and dema gogues. Whether stones are thrown or not, a man makes a mistake in living in a glass house. Sofhehow the remark that “you can do more with five minutes now than you can do with a thou sand years after you are dead” doesn’t inspire us. We intend to leave a thing or two for people to do after we are dead. wwwvwvwvwwwwww - Jlsk Me .Another 0 A General Quiz V The Questions 1. What state in the Union is bounded by only one other state? 2. Why is Great Salt lake salty? 3. Who laid out the city of Wash ington? 4. What is a legal holiday? 5. The lower house of the legis lature of Maine always includes the representatives of what race? 6. Are there any women mail carriers? The Answers 1. Maine. 2. Because it has no outlet, los ing water only through evapora tion, while the mineral content re mains behind. 3. Pierre Charles L’Enfant, a French engineer. 4. A day designated by law as exempt from judicial proceedings, services of process, demand and protest of commercial paper, etc. 5. The Indians. One from the Penobscot and one from the Pas- samaquoddy tribes. 6. There are 250 rural woman mail carriers in sparsely settled regions of the United States. 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IS THERE ENOUGH FOR SECOND HELPS? -^ALWAYS THERE SURE PLENTY WHEN YOU USE JELL-0 ICE CREAM POWDER/... .•cause ONE package OF JELLrO ICE CREAM POWDER MAKES A . WHOLE QUART AND A HALF STRAWBERRY-VANILLA -CHOCOLAT* LEMON - MAPLE - UNELAVOREO 4 FOR HAND FR6SZER OR AUTOMATIC 1 RenaesRATOR "There’s the Doorbell Again" S UPPOSE daily to your door came the butcher, the grocer, the clothier, the furrier, the furniture man, and every other merchant with whom you deal? What a tedium of doorbell answering that would mean! • It would be even more impractical for you to visit daily all these stores to find out what they have to offer and the price. And yet you need those merchants' service quite as much as they need your patronage. Contact between seller and consumer is essential in the supplying of human needs. Before a sale can be closed the goods must be offered. Every week, through the advertising columns of this newspaper, the mer chants of this city come to your home with their choicest wares. Easily, quickly, you get the news of all that is worth while in the market-places of the world. I • They are not strangers at the door, but merchants you know and trust. You are surer of high quality and fair price when you buy an article advertised by a reputable firm.