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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938
More of Lace This Summer Than Ever
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
A N UNPRECEDENT-
ED vogue for lace is
recorded this summer.
No longer is lace con
sidered from the luxury
and esthetic viewpoint
only. Lace has become
a tremendously practi
cal factor in the realm
of apparel wearable for all occa
sions. Lace has come into its own
in a big way, so much so that de
signers are thinking in terms of lace
as they never thought before.
So lace-conscious have we be
come, women of keen judgment
are acquiring entire wardrobes that
are for the most part fashioned of
lace. This is especially true with
those who travel, for, put to the
test, lace stands up under the
stress and strain of packing and
unpacking, in fact of serving for
general wear as well as any other
fabric, pf course, there are laces
and laces and it behooves the wom
an who would be well-dressed to
choose the right lace for the right
occasion.
You can get laces that you can
scarcely identify as lace, so fabric
like is their mesh. They tailor as
perfectly as cloth and carry a so
phisticated air about them. As for
service, you’ll be delighted with
their practical wearableness. Then
there are the handsome, washable
cotton and linen laces that tailor
so smartly in simple daytime
dresses you will be wanting above all
else at least one of these practical
gowns. Perhaps we would be bet
ter expressing the idea to insist that
you invest in several. They will
carry you through most any so
cial crisis.
So far we have been talking of
lace from the practical standpoint.
When it comes to reviewing the tri
umphs of lace from the esthetic
side of the question we think the
lovely evening ensemble to the right
in the illustration tells the story
more eloquently than any word-pic
ture could do. This exquisite cre
ation is of bottle green Chantilly
lace, so delicately meshed it is like
filmiest cobweb structure. A water
green foundation with bands of
crepe in rainbow colorings at the
hem and bodice top of this slip re
flect the spirit of joyous summer.
The evening veil which has become
a favorite headdress for formal oc
casion is of bottle green net with
appliqued motifs of the lace.
A lace dinner and evening dress,
such as is centered in the group, is
almost indispensable in any wom
an’s wardrobe. The short rounded
bolero of matching lace, the full
short sleeves as well as the easy
fullness of the skirt are all features
that make this dress distinctive and
correct for both dinner and danc
ing. It comes in delectable colors
in a new pattern of angel skin
lace.
You will be wanting an afternoon
dress of lace. A very apt model is
shown to the left. Pale blue Chan
tilly lace fashions it. Its styling
gives a particularly interesting in
terpretation of the draped bodice
treatment that terminates in a wide
molded corselet-girdle line. The hat
is a Toya straw.
Lace costume suits, especially in
jacket types, in navy, dusty pink,
or various blues are outselling other
.sheer media this season. The jacket
may go to extremes, varying from
bolero to full length coat, but a
jacket there must be with avery
dress for practical daytime wear.
In many instances the lace jacket
suit is enhanced with ribbon-bound
edges. Frog fastenings made of
tubular ribbon cording add a touch
of distinction.
® Western Newspaper Union.
Star Dust
★ Children of Stars
*
★ A Break for Nancy
'k Goodman 9 s Cornetist
By Virginia yale ■ —
S OME day when you young
sters are grown up, and see
by the papers that Ellen Powell
is going places with this or that
young man, you’ll know how
the old-timers feel when they
read that Sue Vidor has been
going about with Buddy Arm
strong.
You’ll probably say, “Why I re
member when that girl was bom—
way back in 1938! Her mother was
a well-known movie star, Joan Blon-
dell, and her father was a movie
star, too—Dick Powell, and a mas
ter of ceremonies on the radio, too.
But, of course, you don’t see them in
pictures now.”
And it seems like yesterday that
Sue Vidor was playing that tiny
little piano, and her handsome
young parents were standing there,
smiling at her. Her mother was a
famed movie actress — Florence
Vidor, who retired to marry Jascha
Heifetz, the violinist. Sue’s father is
King Vidor, the director.
*
And, speaking of the passing of
time, when she started work recent
ly on “Three Loves
Has Nancy,” Janet
Gaynor also started
out on her twelfth
year of making
movies. Few others
have stayed at the
top for so long.
Which reminds me
that in “Tropic Hoi-.
Way,” the new Mar
tha Raye-Bob Burns
comedy, one of
Bob’s scenes is a
burlesque of the one
in “A Star Is Born” in which
Fredric March swam out to sea
to his death. People who liked the
Gaynor-March hit picture won’t
care for that.
—*—
Having fought with Columbia and
had her contract bought off, Grace
Moore departed for Paris, where
she will start right in making pic
tures again. She’ll do both a French
and an English version of “Louise.”
And, as French pictures are rarely
up to the United States standard,
she probably won’t like the result.
—*—
4 Nancy Kelly, aged seventeen, has
been booked to play the heroine in
“Splinter Fleet,” and a lot of people
in Hollywood are asking who she is
and where she comes from and why
she should be given so important a
NANCY KELLY
role in such an expensive picture.'
But at seventeen Nancy is a veteran
who rates important assignments.
She acted in the movies made in the
East as a child, but gave it up 10
years ago because she had reached
the awkward age, and devoted her
self to radio. She was going strong
a year ago when she got the Ible
Of Gertrude Lawrence’s daughter in
“Susan and God,” a successful play
that was one of the New York thea
ters’ big hits this year. Nancy was
a hit, too, Darryl Zanuck saw her
performance and bought her run-of-
the-play contract, so now she’s back
in the movies again, without mak
ing any effort \to be. “Them as
has, gits.”
*
You can’t tell, these days, where
a swing musician will bob up. When
Benny Goodman and his band were
playing an engagement in Texas
last year everybody for miles
around who liked swing music
came to dance. During the inter
mission a young man with a cornet
in his hand came to Goodman and
asked to play for him. Goodman
took him into an adjoining room,
Jess Stacey sat down at the piano,
and the young man began to toot.
“Buddy,” said Goodman when
he had finished. “Whatever your
name is, you can join my band. By
the way, where did you learn to
put a horn through its paces?”
“I’m a member of the Salvation
Army band,” replied Henry James,
who’s been a member of Goodman’s
gang ever since.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Jack Oakie is tak
ing bows on having lost a lot of weight,
and George Raft is trying to reduce . . .
The Chinese government has offered Ann
Sheridan's husband, Edward Norris, a lot
of money to fly for them . . . Fred Allen
rushed off to Maine when his year’s
broadcasting was finished; he’s eighteen
miles from Portland (Maine, not Hoff a J
and swears that this year the radio fans
tvon’i find him . . . They did, last sum
mer, three weeks after his vacation
started . . . Remember ’’Three Smart
Girls," the Deanna Durbin picture?
There’ll be a sequel, "Three Smart Girls
Grow UPS’ with the same cast.
C western Newspaper Union.
‘ON THE SQUARE’
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Decidedly on the square is the
formula that newer bags follow, and
as to size many of them are enor
mous. Pictured is a bienen-davis
bag on the tab of which are mono
craft miniature initials. Wide, flat
handles and zipper top opening are
added features to this bag which
comes in tones of black, navy, rust,
tan and black patent leather.
Suit of Hopsacking
A suit of yellow hopsacking is a
flattering costume for a summer
day. Its jacket may be fitted and
belted or swing straight and free,
but it must be short-sleeved. Add a
blouse of white organdie or a vestee
of printed lawn.
FASHION DECLARES
FOR WHITE SUMMER
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
We grant that white is always a
summer favorite, but this summer
fashion is playing it up in a highly
dramatic manner. Costumes are
described in the fashion story as
“white as snow” or of icy whiteness
or white as fleecy summer clouds
and so on. You appreciate the
stupendous accent on white in fash
ionable gatherings where “white as |
a swan” capes and jackets; and
boleros of marabou, fur or ostrich
are the favored wraps, and where
evening gowns float about in bil
lowy masses of white net or chiffon
or that which is late style—the pen
cil-slim draped dress of snow-white
rayon jersey draped sculpture-like.
Then there are the new white taf
feta frocks, “beauties,” that they
are.
For day there are numberless
man-tailored suits of sharkskin and
other fascinating wash whites, while
the afternoon dresses of white
rayon jersey compete in endless
parade.
White lingerie has come in and
is the wanted kind at present. And
as for accessory whites, footwear,
gloves, bags and details too numer
ous to mention make their bow on
the fashion stage in pure white.
Top a Print Frock With
Silk Coat in Monotone
Well-dressed women find appeal
in the new summer costumes that
top the print frock with a silk coat
in monotone that repeats the lead
ing color of the print. For instance
wear with a brown beige and rose
print dress, either a jacket or full-
length coat of brown silk crepe.
Or a red-on-white silk print dress
adds a bolero of red silk and there
are red ribbon bow trims on the
frock.
Janet Gaynor
M en of the
ounted
by Captain
G. Elliott-Nightingale
Copyright, WNU
REDCOATS GUARDED
TRAIL OF 9 98
XTOLUMES have been written on
^ what happened here and there
during the Klondyke gold stampede,
but very little has been said about
the handful of Men of the Mounted
who brought law and order and de
cency to many an outlaw camp. The
first steps along the historically fa
mous “Trail of ’98” were taken two
years before, in 1896, when Car
mack’s discovery just about electri
fied the whole world, and when
thousands of men, and a few hun
dred women began converging upon
the Yukon from all corners of the
earth. Eighteen months after the
Carmack discovery the population
of Skagway had been increased by
more than 30,000 newcomers, gold-
seekers taking a breathing spell
there before heading north into the
Yukon goldfields.
The majority of the newcomers
were Americans, and whatever
they might have been before they
hit Skagway, they cast off all desire
for law and order. The decent law-
abiding element, being in the mi
nority, laid low, outfitted their two
or four - man expeditions, and
mushed silently away toward the
Yukon, while the outlaw element
hung around Skagway, living on
their wits.
From Skagway, the rallying point,
the stampeders, tugging and carry
ing their outfits, headed for Lake
Bennet where they built their boats
and pushed off to the north and into
the Lewes river that flowed north
through the rugged but rich Yukon
goldfields. That is, they pushed
north provided the two or three Men
of the Mounted stationed on the six
tieth line of latitude were satisfied
that the stampeders were properly
outfitted, had sufficient food, and
were not criminals or outlaws or
bad characters. During the early
days of the rush, the American
stampeders kicked up quite a row
because they were asked to pay
customs and duties at Line 60
and they demanded to know what
the Mounted were doing there, on
American territory. Although the
one hundred and forty-first parallel
had not yet been decided upon as
the dividing line between American
Alaska, and British Canada, the Yu
kon territory, nevertheless, had been
under the British or Canadian flag
and government for some time.
Most of the stampeders really
thought they were heading for their
own American Alaska, and it was
quite a startling discovery for them
to find the Northwest Mounted Po
lice on guard on what the stamped
ers thought was American territory.
When the vanguard of the ’98 hegira
were stopped by the Redcoats,
there was, of course, considerable
argument, a bit of nose punching,
and a few shots exchanged. As the
crowd grew larger, indignation
meetings were inaugurated at which
it was voted that the only way out
was to tie the Northwest Mounted
Police into a bundle and throw it
into the lake or some roaring river.
One group of foreign - speaking
Americans (?) staged a bloody riot,
then voted to gather the redcoats,
place them aboard a barge or raft,
and anchor said barge or raft in
the middle of the lake. One Yank
climbed to the top of his outfit and
called for a thousand men to help
him wipe the Mounted off the face
of the earth forever. But, he shout
ed in vain, for in that mob were
scalawags and cutthroats and crim
inals who, while they did as they
pleased in Skagway, were now will-'
ing to impress the Redcoats that
they were decent, law-abiding min
ers eminently qualified to take their
places beside law-abiding Canadi
ans. Reason was again enthroned
as these wily lawbreakers did ev
erything possible to appear to the
best advantage to the half dozen
men of the Northwest Mounted Po
lice who, during all the rumpus and
riot, had stuck to their post on the
sixtieth line just a few yards away,
watching and listening, and realiz
ing, no doubt, that the several
thousand stampeders could soon
eliminate half a dozen redcoats if
they ever set out to do it.
But, they never set out to do it.
Those who came to destroy re
mained to childishly beg the Men
of the Mounted to pass them through
into the gold-filled Yukon territory.
The human jackals and rascals that
had terrorized Skagway, now turned
into soft-spoken, well - mannered,
sensible and very obedient children
as they stood by to be examined by
the Mounted. Thus it happens that
thousands of bad characters who
claim that they were in the Klon
dyke gold rush really never took
one step past the half dozen red
coats that held the Chilcoot and
White passes. Half a dozen against
thousands. Truly the Redcoats were
the Daniels in the lions’ den in the
Klondyke gold rush of 1898.
Long Run for Fire Department
One of the longest “runs” of fire
apparatus on record occurred in
February, 1904, when the New York
fire department rushed nine engine
companies and one hook-and-ladder
company, on flatcars, to the great
fire in Baltimore, a distance of 180
miles.
WHAT TO EAT
and WHY ★ ★
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Cheese-Prince oi Proteins
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Noted Food Authority Tells Why You Should
Eat More of the Food That Is So
Rich in Protective Elements.
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th St., New York City.
F OR many years, men with an inventive turn of mind have
dreamed of creating a product that would concentrate all
the important food elements in a small tablet or capsule.
They have been inspired by a desire to simplify meal prep
aration without sacrificing nutritive values.
No one has ever succeeded*^
in making a synthetic food
that would both satisfy hun
ger and properly nourish the
body. 8ut all the while, the re
searchers have overlooked the
magnificent possibilities of cheese,
one of the most concentrated,
nourishing, satisfying and versa
tile of foods.
—★—
Cheese—The Body Builder
Cheese is the most concentrated
source of protein known. More
over, the protein is
of such high type
that if it were the
only body - building
food in the diet,
given in sufficient
quantities, it would
be adequate not
only to maintain
life, but to support
normal growth.
One-half pound of
American Cheddar
cheese will supply
all the protein required by an
adult for an entire day.
—★—
Cheese—The Energy Food
In addition to its rich store of
protein, cheese is also a fine
source of energy.
A cube of Cheddar cheese one-
and-one-eighth inches square pro
vides 100-calories or the equiva
lent in energy value of the lean
meat of one lamb chop or one
medium-sized potato. One-half
pound of Cheddar cheese furnishes
1,000 calories, about half the daily
requirement of an adult leading a
sedentary life.
Cheese for Mineral Salts
Because milk is rich in miner
als, it follows that cheese, which
is made from milk, contains these
precious substances in highly con
centrated form. It is an excellent
source of calcium, the mineral
which is responsible for building
strong bones and sound teeth, and
for keeping the heart beating
normally. A one-and-ond-fourth
inch cube of American Cheddar
cheese contains as much calcium
as an 8-ounce glass of milk.
The individual who does not
care for milk as a beverage can
easily obtain the necessary cal-
cinm from cheese. But it is prac
tically impossible to get adequate
amounts of this mineral without
either milk or cheese.
In rennet cheese, phosphorus,
as well as calcium, is present in
the same proportions as in milk,
but is much more highly concen
trated. As in milk, these min
erals are in a form that is most
nearly perfect for easy assimi
lation. Rennet-curd cheese is al
ways high in sulphur and fairly
high in iron. Furthermore, the
iron is in the most readily assimi
lated form.
, —★—
Cheese and Vitamins
Cheese is a splendid source of
vitamin A, which promotes growth
and increases resistance to dis
ease. It is especially important
for eye health and is necessary
to prevent the affliction known as
night blindness. The amount of
vitamin A varies with the type of
cheese, but both American Ched
dar and Parmesan cheese are ex
tremely rich in this substance,
and cream cheese is an outstand
ing source. Vitamins B and G
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lowntiue Diet?
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free copy of his bulletin, “Help
ful Hints on Planning a Laxa
tive Diet.’’
The bulletin gives concrete
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faulty elimination through cor
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are also found in whole milk
Ch66S6«
With this wealth of food values,
one would expect to find cheese
appearing on the menu in some
form every day. But though the
annual production of cheese in the
United States exceeds 700,000,000
pounds, it should be much greater.
The annual per capita consump
tion is only 5% pounds—a woe
fully small figure when we con
sider the wide benefits that would
result from its greater use.
The failure of American home
makers to use cheese in the
amounts that they should is, I be
lieve, due to three factors: first,)
a lack of knowledge concerning
its splendid food values; second, a
belief in the old superstition that
cheese is not easy to digest; and
third, failure to take advantage of
the many ways in which it can
be served.
Digestibility of Cheese
The foregoing outline of its
many food values should give a
new conception of its place in the
diet. As to its digestibility, stud
ies by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture have entirely
disproved the fallacy that it is not
completely digestible.
It was found that on an average
about 95 per cent of the protein
and over 95 per cent of the fat
of cheese were digested and ab
sorbed. The various kinds of
cheese tested were found to com
pare favorably in digestibility
with the food of an average mixed
diet. It was also demonstrated ex
perimentally “that there was
practically no difference between
cheese and meat with respect to
ease of digestion, at least in such
quantities as are commonly
eaten.”
There was also a notion that
because it is so high in food value,
cheese should only be eaten in
small quantities. But scientific
tests have proven that cheese may
be eaten by normal individuals in
large quantities, as the principal
source of protein, with entirely
beneficial effects upon health.
—★—
Place of Cheese in the Diet
There is a case on record of a
young man who lived for two
years on a daily diet consisting of
one-half pound of cheese, a one-
pound loaf of whole wheat bread
and two pounds of fruit. While
this limited diet might prove mo- 1
notonous to some people, it is pos
sible to utilize cheese as the easi
est method of providing important
food value, varying the diet, and
simplifying meal preparation. For
there are more than 200 distino"
tive varieties of cheese listed by
the department of agriculture,
ranging from the smooth, delicate
ly flavored cream cheese, which
may be given to very young chil
dren, to the sharp tangy cheese
which is especially popular with
men. Fortunately, almost every
type can be purchased in pack
aged form, in sizes that are con
venient for large and small fami
lies, making it possible to enjoy
a wide variety.
Cheese can be used as a main
dish; in salads or sandwiches; as
a sauce for vegetables; as a des
sert. It is desirable at the same
time to serve bulky foods, such as
fruits and vegetables. Cheese may
also be combined advantageously
with carbohydrate foods. This is
because the balanced diet requires
more carbohydrates than protein.
And cheese is essentially a pro
tein food, interchangeable with
meats and fish.
C WNU—C. Houston Ooudiss—1938—>1 |