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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938
Try This With Your
New Ruffled Curtains
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
.•HEAR Mrs. Spears:—I want
to thank you for the clear
diagram of how to hang draw cur
tains in your Book 1—SEWING
for the Home Decorator. This was
just what I have been- weeding as
we have casement windows and
no shades in our living room. With
a pull of the cord my new curtains
shut out the light or the outside
view. I wonder if you would help
me with another problem? I do
not want to make the curtains for
the rest of the house. Thought I
PLAIN
WAT OF
VALANCE
DOUBLE
Fishermen's Memorial Day
An annual memorial service for
fishermen who have been lost at
sea is a traditional ceremony of
Gloucester, Mass. Every year ia
August at the memorial service
the names of those who have been
drowned that year are read and
relatives of loved ones of the de
ceased throw flowers in the sea.
After the service fishermen
gather and after tossing their flow
ers on the waters repeat in uni
son: “In memory of^ffil the sea
men, who through all the years
have found a last resting place in
the waters that wash every shore,
we lovingly strew these flowers.**
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would buy ruffled net ones. Do
you think they would be too com*
monplace? J. T.’*
Answer: Here is a suggestion
for hanging ruffled curtains that
will make your windows a little
different from those of your neigh
bors and lend no end of style to
your rooms. Double curtain rods
are needed to give the crossed ef
fect and a valance board is added
to the top of the window as shown.
Here the valance is the sort that
comes with ready made curtains
and the top is folded back to make
it double. In thumbtacking it to
the valance board, do not stretch
it—just “ease it on’* so that it
hangs well. If you feel that the
windows need color, the- valance
and* tie backs may be of plain
glazed chintz that repeats the
strongest color in your room color
scheme. A contrasting valance
may be either plain or gathered.
Let Father and Young Son and
Little Sister help you make the
home a center of interest. Book
1—SEWING, for the Home Deco
rator contains many useful things
that every one may take a hand
in making. Book 2 shows you
with pictures how to make many
novelty gifts. Books are 25 cents
each. Ord^r both books today and
*«t the patchwork quilt leaflet pic
turing 36 authentic embroidery
stitches free. Address: - Mrs.
Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St.,. Chi
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Though England has not been
invaded for 1 9 000 years, modern
airplanes bring danger of bomb
ing and gas raids. So A,R.P. (Air
Raid Precautions) has been
organised to teach civilians how
to wear masks and defend them
selves against bombs. Most masks
sell for 75 cents and the govern
ment has an extra 40 million on
hand for emergency use.
This year, Britain is spending
$1,715,000,000 on rearmament,
building anti-aircraft guns
(above) and fixing out defense
troops with oilskin suits (right)
as protection against disastrous
mustard gas. Though the nation
is outwardly calm, A,R,P. has
perfected an amaxing organisa
tion of 600,000 community
“wardens” who will have charge
of A,R,P. fire brigades, first aid
units, evacuation and contamina
tion squads. Moneyed classes are
building underground bomb
proof shelters where they will re
tire to live in comparative com
fort during raids. But poorer
classes cannot afford this luxury,
indeed cannot even afford gas
masks, thereby creating a de
fense problem of major impor
tance.
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England hopes her coastal
defense measures will drive
away planes to forestall a
repetition of World War raids
which killed 1,414 people.
One phase of this defense is
the artillery, another the fan
tastic wire mesh supported by
balloons, which would sur
round London and possibly
scare off planes. A third phase
is fast transportation of troops
by planes, enabling England
to move man power to any
part of the coast in the event
of invasion. Though she hopes
for the best, Britain realises
the English channel is not so
wide as it used to be, that an
enemy can knock at her front
door within a few minutes
after leaving the continent.
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WHAT »o EAT and WHY
C. Houston Goudiss Discusses Vitamins
And Vision; Explains How and Why
You Should Feed Your Eyes
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
F OR a number of years, scientists have stressed the im
portance of a well-balanced diet as a means of maintain
ing health, promoting growth and preventing disease. Re
cently, an even more significant development has occurred.
It has been determined that a carefully chosen diet is absolutely
necessary to preserve the general health and efficiency of every
bodily function and that there is<$ - ■■ ■■■ ■
a close relationship between
good diet and good eyesight.
Your Food and Your Eyes
Many people regard their eye
sight as one of the five senses
which operate in
some mysterious
manner of their
own! If they suffer
from indigestion,
they recognize that
it is quite apt to be
due to something
they ate. If they
are troubled with
stomach, liver or
kidney complaints,
they quickly ap
preciate that pro
longed dietary indiscretions may
be at the root of the trouble. But
it never occurs to them that what
they eat may affect the eyes just
as profoundly as it affects the in
ternal organs.
It is not uncommon, during an
attack of biliousness, to suffer a
disturbance of the vision. But that
disturbance Usually disappears
with the disorder that caused it.
On the other hand, a deficient diet
may produce eye troubles that
have a far reaching effect upon
health, efficiency, and even per
sonal safety.
Post haste, British pilots see how fast they can take off.
Night Blindness Explained
For example, it has been estab
lished that there is a definite / re-
lation between your vision and the
vitamins in your diet; between
your ability to drive a car safely
at night, and the amount of vita
min A-containing foods that you
consume.
To understand this astonishing
fact, it is necessary to know that
vision under faint illumination is
accomplished by means of chemi
cal changes in the pigment at the
back of the eye. This is known as
the “visual purple” of the retina
and one of its important compo
nents is carotene, which is the ac
tive form of vitamin A.
The visual purple might be com
pared to the film in a camera.
Wh^n you are in a dim light and
the eyes are suddenly exposed to
bright light, the visual, purple is
greatly reduced or bleached. This
change results in a stimulation of
the optic nerve and enables you to
see clearly.
When an adequate supply of vi
tamin A is present in the body,
the visual purple is rapidly “re
generated. But when the supply
is inadequate, a much longer pe
riod elapses before the corrective
chemical change takes place. Dur
ing the intervening time, many
people find it difficult to see.
That is the condition known as
“night blindness.” And it accounts
for the fact that a large propor
tion of serious motor accidents oc
cur at night. Victims of this de
ficiency disease are first blinded
by approaching headlights, then
cannot quickly readjust them
selves after the oncoming car has
passed. Their ability to drive
safely is subsequently impaired
for they cannot clearly see the
road ahead, and they may miss
dangerous carves, pedestrians or
other vehicles.
A Common Complaint
Unfortunately, the prevalence of
night blindness is not generally
recognized, though it is held that
urban dwellers are more conscious
of it than those living in the rural
areas. This is borne out by the
fact that ocular disorders from vi
tamin deficiency are less common
in urban than in rural areas.
Children Often Victims
Since the discovery of the close
connection between vitamin A and
the ability to see in dim light, sci
entists have tested large numbers
of school children to determine
whether vitamin A was present in
their diet in adequate amounts.
It was revealed that from 26 to 79
per cent of the children examined
had incipient night blindness.
The same deplorable conditions
were found among adults. Mild
to moderate degrees of vitamin A
deficiency were present in from
10 to over 50 per cent of each
group tested.
Yet here is the remarkable thing
—in nearly every case, a diet rich
in vitamin A for a few weeks re
stored the vision to normal.
A Significant Experiment
An even more striking example
of the power of food to affect the
eyesight is to be found in the re
port of an experiment in which
breeding sows were given food in
abundance but lacking vitamin A
for 160 days before and for 30
days after breeding. In three lit
ters of 35 pigs, all were blind. In
another litter of 14 pigs, all were
sightless. But under normal feed
ing, the same animals produced
litters of pigs with normal eyes
and vision. This experiment justi
fies the conclusion of one of our
most noted food scientists, that
the deficiency of essential food ele
ments may so alter vital processes
that even pre-natal changes may
occur.
Cause of Other Eye Disorders,
Night blindness is not the only
eye disease caused by an improp
er diet. Xerophthalmia or con
junctivitis, characterized by ex
cessive dryness of the eyeball,
has long been known to be caused
by a vitamin A deficiency. It is
also well known that 'a liberal
amount of this vitamin will pre
vent that serious disease and will
even effect a cure where destruc
tion of the cornea has not pro
gressed too far.
This suggests the tremendous
importance of including in the diet
foods rich in vitamin A—cod- and
other fish-liver oils; milk and oth
er dairy products; green leafy and
yellow vegetables; and egg yolk.
Experiments with rats, whose
dietary requirements are similar
to those of man, show a close
connection between cataract and a
deficiency of another vitamin—vi
tamin G. This is found most abun
dantly in meat, milk, eggs, fruit
and vegetables.
Were she concerned about pro
tecting the blessing of good eye
sight alone, that would be suffi
cient reason why every homemak
er should plan meals that are rich
in vitamins. But it is not only
the eyes which are dependent
upon vitamins, for they have
many other functions to perform.
An improper diet may cause
people to drive automobiles blind
ly at night so that they are dan
gerous not only to themselves and
their passengers, but to everyone
on the streets and roads. A de
ficient diet will also send them
through life with half-efficient bod
ies, half-efficient brains, half-effi
cient senses. - -
That is why I urge you to
learn everything you can about
food, so that in planning meals
you will not only feed your eyes,
your husband’s eyes and your chil
dren's eyes, bnt will take advan
tage of the wonderful discoveries
of nutritional science to make ev
ery member of the family so effi
cient that they will enjov the best
of health each day of tneir lives.
Questions Answered
Mrs. G. C. L.—Yes, indeed, nu
tritionists do. approve of a mid
afternoon snack for most school
children. A glass of milk and a
slice of buttered bread with jam
or preserves; fruit juice and oat
meal cookies; or a chocolate milk
shake and graham crackers will
provide fresh energy for late aft
ernoon play. Without the between-
meal lunch, some children become
so fatigued that nerve strain re
sults. Take care, however, that
the snack does not destroy the
appetite for the evening meal.
O—WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1938—33.
AROUND
th« HOUSE
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Items of Interest
to the Housewife
When Cooking Greens. — If a
piece of fat about the size of a
nutmeg is added to the water in
which any kind of greens are be
ing cooked there will be no boiling
over and no stirring will be re
quired.
* • •
To Press Ribbons. — Dampen
ribbons and iron them between tis
sue paper.
• • •
Bright Clothes for Children.—
You may not like vividly colored
clothes, but they are the safest
thing to wear in traffic. It is ad
visable to dress children in such
costumes to help protect them
from accidents.
• • •
Save Salty Water.—When water
in which salt has been boiling is
poured over coal, it makes good
coal last longer and improves bad
coal.
• * *
Keeping Paint.—If a can of
paint has to be left open, stir it
thoroughly, so as to dissolve all
the oil, then fill up with water.
When it becomes necessary to use
the paint pour off the water and
you will find it as fresh as when
first opened.
We Hope They Got Home
Before Moon Came Up!
A young farmer had bought a
horse which was a wonderful
jumper, and was riding him home.
Thfey came to a gate 10 feet high.
The horse pricked up his ears,
wagged his tail and gracefully
jumped over.
A little farther on they came to
a gate 14 feet high, and again the
horse pricked up his ears, wagged
his tail and sailed over with equal
ease.
Farther on still they came to a
railway bridge. Again the horse
pricked up his ears, wagged his
tail, but the squire shouted
nervously, “Whoa, under this one,
not over.”
Salt Improves Coffee.—The fla
vor of coffee is improved if a little
salt is sprinkled on the bottom of
the pot before the coffee is put in.
* * *
Well-Fitting Hose. — Children's
stockings ought to be selected
carefully. Jshort ones cramp toes
and will eventually make them
crooked. Too long ones wrinkle
and twist, irritating toes and
heels. Also, children should be
taught to wear a fresh pair of
stockings each morning. Don’t al
low your youngsters to wear ga
loshes in the house or classroom.
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Apples for the Winter.—To keep
apples through the winter, bore
holes in the bottom and sides of
a barrel and store on a dry plat
form a foot or more from the
ground. Where only a few apples
are available for storage, a good
plan is to carefully wrap them
singly in paper, then pack them in
layers three or four deep in shal
low boxes and place them in the
coolest position in the house or
outbuilding.
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