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V s ) l r / V % McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C M THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938 For Romantic Midsummer Nights. By CHERIE NICHOLAS ID EGUILING, yes, beguiling is the word that best describes the ro mantic formals designed for danc- [ing these lovely midsummer nights. lYards and yards around do these summer idylls of billowy tulles and nets, chiffons and laces measure and bodices are so quaintly pictur esque it would seem as if it were ladies of the past come to life, for the styling is quite like we see in prints and portrait paintings of ladies in the days when “knighthood was in flower” and the very air breathed romance. Perhaps the biggest news out of Paris at present is in regard to the high fashion of combining Chan tilly lace with other fabrics. Typ ical of the best couture trends is the charming dress of sheerest marquisette pictured in the fore ground of the accompanying illus tration. Ils deep bands and bor dering of matching Chantilly of most exquisite type are applied in latest approved manner. Most gowns have a complementary bo lero this summer and this very beautiful model is no* exception'to tiie rule. The bolero is of lace with short puffed sleeves which are ap- pliqued with lace as in the skirt. Color of this adorable creation? It is carried out in a brilliant tur quoise blue. I That pastel and bright-hued laces combined with sheers identical in color are a foremost mode there is no doubt, but there is also a tre mendous vogue for the frock of diaphanous white that is lavished with black Chantilly appliques, in sets and borderings. The white sheer frock worn with a black lace jacket or bolero is a leading fash ion. Likewise the -black chiffon or marquisette frock or sheerest-of- sheer black net is frequently topped with a white lace jacket. Charm ing also is the combination of pink lace with black lace. A high built skirt with wide corselet effect of the black lace, that has a bodice top of delicately sheer pink lace cut with extremely low decolletage over which is worn a bolero of matching pink lace, makes a most gracious gown. It is practical td provide also a black lace bolero for less formal occasions. In this season of flowing skirts and glamorous lines for evening dresses the gown shown to "the left of lace and net combined fits right into the picture. It comes in delec table shades using cable net for the full skirt and an Alencon-type lace in matching color for the semi- long bodice. Below-the-hip jacket effects on this order of lace are the rage. If you have a sleeveless chif fon dress or net and wish to give it a new look buy ready-made or have made a lace jacket to wear with it. These often button primly up the front with buttons covered with self-lace. Maybe you are an enthusiast in regard to gay prints. If you should be possessed also with an awareness of the importance of simple wash fabries for* dancing and dining, you will be simply charmed with the quaint new flowered muslins brought out this summer. They are the sort that will stay crisp and fresh after every washing—never need a bit of starch no matter how often you whisk them through soap and water. We are picturing a dress made of just such flowered muslin as described. It is a type frock that will make you look just “too sweet for words” and you do not have .to be endowed with a mil lionaire allowance to own it. A flowered muslin such as this that will not shrink, having been scien tifically pre-shrunk and guaranteed to that effect, is new. Note its charming neck and puff-sleeve styling. 9 Its fitted bodice is cut to give you that “long” look that will mark you as definitely in the mode this season. O Western Newspaper Union. SUSPENDER DRESS B, CHERIE NICHOLAS m i There’s pews for the sub-deb in. that the suspender dress is regarded as smart fashion this season. It is proving a favorite at seashore and for town wear. The print silk sus pender pleated skirt with monotone blouse is an especially outstanding type. The model pictured is of a neat print silk in gold and lighter yellowish tones. A peacock blue silk shirt is worn with the skirt shown. Note that the skirt suspenders are slit at the shoulders and the pleated skirt has a wide band. Other mod els feature suspenders that are peasant embroidered. Oddities for Summer / Pumpkin seeds and gilded snail 'shells are used for beach jewelry. DRAPED TECHNIQUE USED IN NEW GOWNS By CHERIE NICHOLAS Most significant is the sentiment expressed in employing a draped technique in fashioning the latest gowns. The material that yields most admirably to this treatment is the very smart rayon jersey. Wonderfully slenderizing are these draped effects and needless to say the fashion is making widespread appeal. Often the draping is aided and abetted with intricate shirring in clusters that tend to produce form-fitting lines. The favorite for day wear is the black sleek jersey or satin that is draped to perfection. For evening wear no more beautiful gown can be conceived than a snow white draped jersey classic. Candle-Wicked Clothes for Beach and Sports Doings Quite new this season are the play clothes fashioned of candle- wicked unbleached muslin. The op portunity for designful decoration is vast. The grand part about the new candle-wicked muslin play out fits is that they wash out so easily, need no ironing and taking it from every viewpoint are about as practical a dress as can be sug gested for beach and sports wear. \ Mesh Oxford Shoes Offer Maximum of Cool Comfort A striking summer shoe which avoids the commonplace features of open toe and heel but offers a max imum of cool comfort is a mesh oxford. The mesh effect covers the entire shoe except for a strip at the instep and a wide binding. You can get this unusual model in white, beige, black or navy but its original design isn’t to be picked up for a paltry sum. 3 IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union, Lesson for August 7 RUTH: ADVENTUROUS FAITH LESSON TEXT—Ruth 1:6-18. GOLDEN TEXT—Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.—Ruth 1:16. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Girl Named Ruth. JUNIOR TOPIC—The Story of Ruth. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Ruth’s Wise Choice. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— An Adventurous Faith. Handbags Are Larger Handbags are large and of dressmaker type. SOB Out of the dark fastnesses of an underground dungeon into the brightness and warmth of God’s sun shine—such is the transition we make when we turn from the moral and spiritual failures of Samson to con sider the lovely story of Ruth. She lived in the midst of the travails and the sorrows of life, in fact we find her at the beginning of the bock which bears her name, a wid ow who has lost all that the world would hold dear. Yet she, because of her purity of life and devotion to God rises higher and higher, while the one of whom we spoke last week, starting with every advan tage, slipped lower and lower be cause of his sin. Ruth was the great-grandmother of King David, and thus this Gen tile woman became one of the an cestors of JTesus. (See Ruth 4:22 with Luke 3:22.) Many folk are greatly concerned about their ances try—one could wish that more were concerned about living such lives and developing such characters as will make them good ancestors. Teachers and classes will do well to read and study the entire book of Ruth—only about three pages long in most Bibles—and give at tention to the full story of her life, especially the picture of the kins man-redeemer, to be later fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. We must confine our comments largely to the printed portion which reveals Ruth first as a loyal and thoughtful daughter-in-law, then as one whose love was not to be denied by sorrow or circumstance, and finally as one so bound to her mother-in-law in unity of spirit that she became one with her and her people. I. Commendable Loyalty (w. 6- 10). Tragic misfortune had visited Naomi, who with her husband and two sons had gone from Bethle hem to Moab in a time of famine. Not only had her husband died but also her two sons, who had mar ried Gentile women, leaving three widows in one family to mourn to gether. Naomi craved the fellow ship of her own people in her hour of trial and arose to return to her own land. Her departure brought out in the two daughters-in-law the expression of kindness and loyalty which should exist in every family, but which is all too often lacking. Her own testimony concerning these girls of Moab is that they had dealt “kindly” with her and with the dead. That word speaks volumes. There is so little genuine kindness in the world. Both Orpah and Ruth went with her on the way—pro testing their loyal purpose to go with her all the way. Thus far the two sisters were not differen tiated—but the next incident re veals Ruth as the one who had an II. Undeniable Love (w. 11-14). No one could for a moment ’con demn Orpah for yielding to her mother-in-law’s entreaty that she return to her own people. She af fectionately kisses Naomi and in tears turns away. “But Ruth clave unto her.” Such love cannot be denied. It is the most precious possession that a man can have, apart from his fellowship with God. The love of a devoted father or mother, of a noble helpmate, or of a little laddie or lassie, these are the things that really make life worth while, that stand out as an oasis in the desert of life, as a light in the darkness. But Ruth takes one more step. Her kindness and loyalty, her un swerving love lead on to a confes sion of her faith in the true God, and the declaration of an III. Inseparable Unity (vv. 15-18). Literature knows no more beauti ful gem than verses 16 and 17. It was the Great Commoner, Bryan, who said, “We cannot hope to con tribute to literature a sentence so exquisite and thrilling as that into which Ruth poured the full meas ure of a noble heart, but we can imitate her devotion.” The story is told of a fine young Englishman who left his betrothed sweetheart to go to California dur ing the great gold rush. He was going to make a fortune and then send for her. He sent her his first gold nugget. But alas, there were none to follow and soon he became not only poverty stricken, but ill. In noble sacrifice he decided to re lease her from her promise, and wrote to tell her so. She (and one could almost believe her name was Ruth) took the treasured nugget, had it made into a ring engraved as a gift from her to him, with the additional words “Ruth 1:16, 17.” In due time it reached the young man with its tender and inspiring message—“Intreat me not to leave thee,” and the assurance of her devotion until death. May this dizzy and bemuddled wor'.d have many more characters like Ruth. Cool, Slim-Waisted Frocks 'T'HESE last few hot weeks will A be a whole lot easier to bear if you have some fresh new dresses to wear around the house—cool, slim-waisted styles that are fin ished enough for shopping and porch wear too. We’ve picked out two that we know you’ll like, one for slim figures and one for large. Both are very, very easy to make, for of course nobody wants to undertake laborious sewing these days. And both are easy to wash and iron. A detailed sew chart comes with each pattern. Day Frock for Slim Figures. This little dress is right at the top of new fashions, with its gored skirt and shaped square neckline. Notice that the skirt seams are extended above the waistline, to give a little bosom fullness, which makes the dress more becoming. Very short kimono sleeves, just covering the shoulders, give a much prettier line than sleeveless frocks do, and they’re just as cool. The skirt has a charming flare. Make this in linen, dotted Swiss, dimity or organdie in a pretty flow er print, and you’ll love it. Day Frock for Large Figures. You’ll find this straight, well-cut dress one of the most becoming, most slenderizing, you ever put on. It has a deep v-neck and short pleated sleeves for coolness and comfort. It’s very easy and unhampering in line, so that you can work in it comfortably. Darts on the shoulders and at the waist line give it an unusually trim, slimming fit. A touch of pretti ness is added by ricrac braid and the pointed closing. This is a dia gram design that you can make in a few hours, and you’ll want sev eral dresses made just like this— in dimity, calico, percale and seersucker. 1558 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 requires 4 1 A yards of 35-inch material; 9 yards of ribbon or braid to trim* 1533 is designed for sizes 34 y 86 v 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Siza SO requires 4% yards of 35-inch ma terial. • 1% yards of ricrac braid to trim. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. l/ncle PklL The Hero of Modern Times No one seems to have thought of raising a monument to the man who rustles the pay roll these days. Will power is that which makes you do what you want to do when you don’t want to do it. Reading the history of civiliza tion helps civilization a little. LJAVE you door space going to LA waste? There is always the inside of a closet door—even in the tiniest apartment. A pocket like the one shown here gives a place for shoes, whisk broom, hat brush, shoe brush and even a dust cloth to have within easy reach when tidying up the bedroom. A large pocket at the bottom takes care of small pieces of laundry. This door pocket may be made from 2V4 yards of 35-inch-wide cot- B IAS- BINDING DOUBLE I STITCHING 2" BO) PLEAT 24.- SEW RINGS TO TOP AND BOTTOM-THEN HOOK TO DOOR ton material. All the dimensions as well as suggestions for making are given here in the diagram. There are other doors in every house where pockets of various types and sizes may be used to good advantage. The broom clos et door offers a place for cleaning brushes and bottles of furniture polish. Two large pockets on the pantry door—one for clean dish towels and one for soiled ones, have been in use in my kitchen for years. A large pocket of heavy ticking on the inside of the door leading to the basement makes a place for old newspapers that are so useful for many purposes. Pockets on the inside of a door leading to the attic often make a place to keep small cleaning equipment. And here is another thought—even a small wall space in your closet may be used for a series of pockets for individual pairs of stockings. This is much neater than keeping them in a drawer. , NOTE: Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ book, SEWING, for the Home Dec orator. Forty-eight pages of di- ASK ME ANOTHER A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects The Questions 1. What is the meaning of the Latin expression “in toto”? 2. Why was the Amazon river so named? 3. What year followed 1 B. C.? 4. In what direction does the earth rotate on its axis, from east to west, or from west to east? 5. What is the next numerical division after a “trillion”? 6. Was the title II Duce used before Mussolini came into pow er? 7. What is the record time for circling the bases in baseball? The Answers 1. “As a whole,” “entirely.” 2. It received its name from a tribe of female warriors who were fabled to live on its banks. 3. 1 A. D. 4. From west to east. 5. Quadrillion. 6. The late Gabriele d’Annunzio assumed this title in 1919 when he seized Fiume. 7. Evar Swanson, Cleveland out fielder, circled the bases in 13% seconds, September 5, 1929, in Cin cinnati. Beauty Is Mental True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features de pends more upon the moral na ture than most persons are ac customed to think. — Frederic Saunders. rectiens for making slip-covers and curtains'; dressing tables, lampshades and many other use ful articles for the home. Price 25 cents postpaid. Ask for Book 1, and address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. ISNOW-WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY ILARGE JARS SCandIO* Try a Song He who sings frightens away his ills.—Cervantes. Industrial Steel Buildings BEAMS—SHAPES—TRUSSES PRICED TO SELL! Write, Phone or Wire for Information ERMAN-HOWELL & CO., INC 332 So. 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