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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938
Teen-Age Girl Outfitted
In Garb of Modish Wools
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
A FTER Yuletide holidays, so
carefree and so joyous, then
-what? Ask the teen-age and the
sub-deb, they know. It’s back to
school for them with an outfitting of
new clothes. A 'dress, a coat and a
suit as pictured give the correct
answer. Starred for youthful sim
plicity and gay young charm, this
season's smart wool costumes for
the teen-age are ready to go places
and do things with utmost chic and
charm.
Fine, soft-textured woolens, nice
ty adaptable to any occasion, and
sturdy enough to take plenty of
wear and tear, make gay little
frocks, for classroom, sports and
after-school wear as well as versa
tile action-built jacket-and-skirt cos
tumes, nonchalant sports coats and
formal fur-trimmed coats.
The lightweight wool frock for all
day wear is appearing this season in
any number of attractive versions.
Sheer wool crepe, fine wool flannel
in its lovely glowing colors, soft
rabbit-and-wool mixtures, intriguing
novel weaves and the ever-popular
wool knits are distinctively tailored
in chic little frocks that are as flat
tering as they are correct.
The plaid dress with all-round
pleated skirt is a school-girl favor
ite. The appropriately youthful
gayety of bright plaid is reflected in
the winsome frock in the accom
panying illustration. This youthful
version of the classic shirtwaist type
is of lightweight wool in a gaily col
orful plaid, accenting a bold red
with navy and white. The smart
buttons and belt are navy leather.
Short sleeves are fulled on for flat
tering shoulder effect.
Important in the teen-age ward
robe are the wool jacket-and-skirt
suits designed for all-occasion wear.
Correct for traveling, country, cam
pus or town wear, they are distin
guished by smart simplicity of line
with accent on fabric. and color.
Fine wool tweeds in subdued or
bright shades, smooth wool fiannete,
tailor-minded twills and worsteds
are all favored for these versatile
costumes which are designed to be
worn with little silk blouses for
dress or with sporting high-neck
wool sweaters for casual wear.
Pleats share honors with stitched
gored constructions in built-for ac
tion skirts. For the college-minded
jacket-suit pictured a nubbly wool
tweed in soft rose-beige is used,
with brown buttons and brown leath
er belt for smart contrast. The
double pointed pockets are clever
and decorative. •
Costumes that contrast jacket to
skirt have made a tremendous
“hit." Suits are selling with two
jackets, one matching the ski^t, the
other in a vivid plaid or stripe wool
that picks up the color of the skirt.
Color is important in the soft wool
fleeces and sturdy tweeds are used
for tailored all-purpose coats for the
younger set. Luscious wine shades
and rich greens vie for popularity
with the traditional neutral shades.
Deep browns are good and navy is
still popular. Styles vary from the
comfortable and correct polo coat
type single breasted and belted, to
the boxy swagger or the high-but
toned semi-fitted reefer type. The
fleecy coat pictured has a high-
rolled wolf collar worn well up to
show the squared shoulder line of
the sleeves. A leather belt and the
large buttons are in dark brown to
contrast the deep green of the coat.
The teen-age girl’s wardrobe will
not be complete unless it includes
a jaunty tip-tilted feathered hat to
gether with a youthful plaid flannel
dress as pictured in the inset be
low. The blouse is enlivened with
shining starlike buttons by La Mode
and a pert sharkskin Peter Pan col
lar and cuff set.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Crochet Ensemble
Winter fun for a young lady will
be just so much more exhilarating if
she is dressed for her sports in
this sipart playtime outfit. This
perky Knitted and crocheted hat-
scarf-glove ensemble is warm to
wear and eye-appealing to behold.
This set is worked in white german-
town wool with a dashing trim in
two contrasting colors. The gloves
are done in a bold vertical ribbing ef
fect.
Brown Takes Lead
In Late Fashions
Brown, despite annual predictions
to the contrary, this year made a
sweeping campaign in the fashion
collection and, if the forecast holds
good, a large part of feminine ward
robes this winter will be made up of
dresses, coats and suits in some
shade of brown.
The darker color range includes,
first of all, those rather indefinable
brown tones which remind one of
wine dregs or deep mahogany tones.
Quite different are the deep brown
costumes which, if made in velvet
or downy wool fabrics, can hardly
be distinguished from black.
Bolero Theme in
New Silhouette
A new departure in the bolero
theme is the very short dress top
that pulls on over the head like a
sweater. It is, as a matter of fact,
of bolero inspiration except that it
is closed up the front instead of left
open jacket fashion. The beauty of
this new fashion is that it has a
tendency to slenderize the waistline
below, giving width at the top of the
figure and extending out at bustline.
Some of these new pull-on boleros
are prettily braided and embroid
ered.
Lingerie Note
There is a definite trend towaro
high necklines and short sleeves in
lingerie.
Stai* Dust
* Repeated Mistakes
* Doug. Sr. in Again
^ A Moral-less Tale
By Virginia Vale
T HERE’S a good reason for
one of the mistakes that
Hollywood makes about every
so often; the only trouble is
that after it’s been made the
studios forget about it, and
make it all over again later.
You read about beautiful
models who’ve been signed
for pictures—girls who pose
for magazine covers and ad
vertisements, girls whose faces are
familiar to you, although you prob
ably have never known their names
until you read about their going to
Hollywood. Then, in all likelihood,
you never hear of them again. They
stay in California until their con
tracts run out, and then head back
to New York, sadder and wiser.
One of those models talked to me
the other day. She’d been urged—
by phone, telegraph and letter—to
take advantage of the movies. She’d
WHAT to EAT and WHY
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ANITA COUNIHAN
been offered a screen test. She'd
dodged all interviews, just saying
that she wasn’t interested.
“Of course I take beautiful photo
graphs," she said. “That's because
I know how to use make-up. I’m
nothing unusual to look at in real
life. But the men who make mov
ies, even thohgh they •know what
make-up can do for their stars, don’t
seem to realize that a model’s beau
ty may be all artificial. They sign
us up, and then comes the awful
shock! We’re not beautiful, except
when our faces are re-done and are
in repose. And then they lose in
terest in us."
Well, that hasn’t been the diffi
culty where some of the famous
models were concerned. Anita
Counihan is an example. She went
to Hollywood, got started in bits—
and went back east again. But for
one like her there have been others
by the dozen, girls whose beauty in
photographs captivated the movie
men, when it didn’t exist in real
life.
C. Houston Goudiss Offers New Year's Resolutions
Concerning Foods and Nutrition. Suggests How to
Help Make Your Family Healthier and Happier
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
I T HAS been customary for a long time to mark the begin
ning of a new year with the ringing of bells, with merry
making, and with the hope expressed to one’s friends that
they will enjoy greater health, happiness and prosperity in
the forthcoming twelve months.
Though greetings are usually exchanged in a spirit of
gayety, the occasion frequently does, as indeed it should,
have an undercurrent of so-<$ — —
lemnity. For it is quite fitting
that we should view the close
of one year and the beginning
of another as both an Ending
and a Beginning, even though we
recognize that life goes along in an
unbroken stream.
The magic hour of
midnight may well
mark the end of
certain of our mis
takes, and the be
ginning of greater
wisdom in acting,
thinking, and liv
ing.
It seems to me
that the week in
which we celebrate
- New Year’s is a
particularly appropriate time for
mothers to resolve to take stock
of the program of daily living that
they have outlined for their fami
lies; and if necessary, to alter it
so that every member may gain a
more generous share of well-being
and contentment.
Remember Mary Konunan, who
used to be the sweetheart of the
“Our Gang" comedy shorts? She’s
an attractive young woman now,
and you’ll see her in “It’s Spring
Again," with Oliver Hardy and Har
ry Langdon.
*
The Hall Johnson Negro choir,
which you’ve often heard on the air,
has been signed for that same pic
ture, incidentally; in it they’ll fea
ture “In the Evening by the Moon
light."
*
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. just
couldn’t stay out of the picture busi
ness any longer. His new company
is all set, financed by American,
British and Swiss capital. The seni-
ior Fairbanks will just produce—
at least, at present he thinks he
won’t act, but you never can tell—
and he has planned three pictures
for 1939. They are “The Californi
ans," “The Tenth Woman," based
on the life of Lord Byron, and “The
Three Musketeers."
*
Questions for a Homemaker
I believe that every homemaker
owes it to her family to pause for
a few moments at this season to
look backwards along the road
that she and her family have trav
eled in recent months.
Have you taken advantage of
the knowledge offered by modern
nutritional science? Can you con
scientiously say with conviction
that you have given your husband
and children all the different food
elements that are necessary for
buoyant, radiant health?
If you have grown as you should
In the past year . . . and no
homemaker who is doing a really
first class job ever remains static;
she moves with the times ; . .
then it is inevitable that there has
been a gradual change in the char
acter of the food that you have
put on your table three times a
day. But can you feel confident
those meals have been right in
every respect? Have they included
the necessary protein, fats, carbo
hydrates? Have they included at
least 12 minerals; the six known
vitamins; and sufficient bulk or
cellulose to help maintain regular
health habits?
Here are a couple of success sto
ries of the air for you. Eugene
Conley was a shipping clerk in Lynn,
Mass., until not so very long ago.
He took time off whenever he could
to sing with three of his friends. A
radio executive heard the boys, one
time when Conley was playing hook
ey from his job in order to sing—
and now Conley has three programs
a week, and has had an offer from
the Chicago Opera company!
John Laing didn’t play hookey
from his job, because he was a
page boy, and soon after that he
was a guide (N. B. C. has a lot
of them, you know, to guide tourists
through its studios). After that he
did an audition as an announcer,
and an announcer he was, for four
years. Now he’s been signed up for
movies.
So one won out by not sticking to
his job, and the other succeeded by
sticking to it.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Dolores Costello
has the feminine lead opposite Adolphe
Menjou in ‘‘King of the Turf’—and Bing
Crosby, the horse, not the crooner, is also
in the cast . . . That corn-flake company
that wanted Rudy Vallee for its radio
programs took Carole Lombard and Cary
Grant instead.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Time to Take Inventory
Do not be too discouraged if you
cannot answer yes to all of these
questions, because the chances
are that many other homemakers
may also find it necessary to give
a partially negative answer. Moth
ers especially are busy people,
and many of them feel that it is
difficult to keep pace, as they
would like to do, with the fast-
moving science of nutrition.
Now, during this week which
brings us the beginning of a new
year, now is a time—after taking
inventory of what you have or
have not done—to look forward, to
survey the road that lies ahead.
Before every wife and mother
hangs the curtain of the future
that will be slowly drawn aside,
revealing the destiny of herself,
her husband and her children, as
the future becomes the present,
as tomorrow becomes today.
And as your loved ones travel
the road of life, it is you who have
it in your power to help them at
tain strong vigorous bodies; alert,
efficiently working minds.
Now is the time for you to de
termine to make the power of food
their power, so that they shall not
flag in their travels along the high
way, but draw new strength for
each day’s journey every time
they sit down at your table, sit
down, as I have said before, to
Life!
The Tremendous Power of Food
What they are going to be to
morrow is indeed influenced by
what they eat today, for there
never was a truer statement than
that man is what he eats. And
that does not mean that physical
prowess and mental superiority
may result only when the table
is set with luxuries! On the con
trary, malnutrition, which means
not necessarily under-nutrition but
improper nutrition, is found in the
homes of the wealthy as well as
in the homes of the underprivi
leged. The power of food is de
termined, not so much by what
you spend, as by what you choose.
One need not spend a great deal
for food to provide the milk and
other dairy products, fruits and
vegetables that should be con
sumed in abundance. There is al
ways evaporated milk for those
who do not care to buy bottled
milk, or who prefer to use it as a
supplement to bottled milk. And
since large numbers of fruits and
vegetables are now in season prac-
tioally throughout the year, it is
almost always possible to choose
varieties of these mineral- and
vitamin-bearing foods that are in.
expensively priced.
Be It Resolved:
I should, therefore, like to urge
every homemaker to make aft
least one New Year’s resolution:
to resolve that she will build her
family diet in 1939 first of all
around the protective foods, milk,
eggs, fruits and vegetables.
It will be my privilege each
week to help interpret for you the
amazing discoveries of nutritional
science; and to show how you can
utilize the newer knowledge of nu
trition to help increase the mental
and physical efficiency of your
family.
Together then, let us resolve to
travel along the highroad of well,
being in 1939.
Mrs. K. Mc.N.—You should in
clude at least two rich sources of
each of the vitamins in your
menus every day. It is also im
portant to serve some raw food,
as for example, a salad, in plan
ning the diet of persons in normal
health. Use fruits liberally and
provide a pint of milk for each
adult, a quart for every child,
either as a beverage or in
cooked dishes.
©—WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1939—43.
AROUND
the HOUSE
*1
They're New and Different!
every one of them is charming!
You can make it as shown in
the large sketch, with high neck
line and sash. Also, as shown in
the little sketches, either with a
round collar or with turnback rev-
ers, with shawl collar and wrap
around sash—or with high neck
line, and beltless. The basic lin©
is lovely. It has shrugged-shoul-
der sleeves, a softly gathered bod
ice, a doll-waistline cut high in
the front, and a slim-hipped skirt.
Silk crepe, velvet, thin wool or
print are pretty materials for this.
- Four-in-One Closet Set.
A laundry bag, combing cape,
hanger cover and a pair of pretty
slippers comprise this gay closet
set that you’ll like as well for its
looks as its usefulness. If you
know any girls who are going back
to college or boarding school,
they’ll love to have the set, or
any one of the four pieces. Make
them of chintz, cretonne, sateen
or calico, in the gayest colors and
prettiest patterns you can find.
Tbe Patterns.
No. 1597 is designed for sizes 12,
14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. With short
sleeves, dress without collar or
belt requires 3% yards of 39-inch
material. With long sleeves, 4%
yards. Specific requirements for
collars, revers and belts appear on
your pattern.
No. 1644 comes in one size—me
dium. Cape requires 1% yards of
36-inch material; 4% yards of
binding; 1Y* yards ribbon for
bows. Hanger requires % yard of
36-inch material, with 2% yards
binding. Bag requires 1 yard, with
4% yards binding. Slippers re
quire % yard, and % yard mor©
to line. Purchase the soles and
pompoms.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, I1L
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
U'ACH of these new designs is a
*- J treasure trove of clever ideas.
You’ll enjoy making them, during
long winter evenings to come, not
only because they’re so attractive
when finished but because they’re
no trouble at all to do. Each pat
tern includes a detailed sew chart
for the guidance of beginners, so
you don’t need experience. Just
follow the easy, explicit directions,
and see how quickly you’ll have
them finished.
Five-in-One-Dress Fashion.
Just look at the different person
alities this smart dress has—and
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
Sift the Sugar.—Always sift sug
ar before using. To get all grains
alike. You will then have a cake
of finer texture.
• • •
Storing Steel Articles.—Put a
lump of freshly burned lime in
the drawer or box when storing
away steel articles and it will pre-
ivent them from rusting.
• • •
A Dyeing Help.—The household
washer is ideal for dyeing cur
tains, draperies and other articles
made of fabrics that can be col
ored with tints that do not re
quire boiling. You can let the
washer run until the articles are
sufficiently and evenly colored.
• • •
Safeguarding the Baby.—Inspect
baby’s toys before putting them
in his crib or pen to be sure there
are no loose fragments, such as
eyes, buttons, bits of wood, etc.,
that might be pulled off and swal
lowed.
• • •
Cleaning Burnt Pans. — Burnt
saucepans can be made bright
again without scouring. Sprinkle
the burn with salt, leaving it for
some hours and then wash, rub
bing the burn gently. Unless the
bum has actually eaten into the
surface of the pan it will come
away with the salt.
Drying Fur Garments.—Damp
fur garments should be dried in a
cool current of air, never near a
radiator or other source of heat.
* • •
Color for Foods.—Grated raw
carrots give cabbage salad added
color and flavor. Minced green
peppers or pimentos will do the
same for creamed potatoes, tur
nips, cauliflower, lima beans or
com.
• • •
/
Fire Hazard.—The basement is
one of the chief danger places in
the house from the fire stand
point. It should be kept free from
accumulations of inflammable ma
terials such as paper, old boxes,
oily and paint-soaked rags, and
trash.
Changing Dances
From 1776 to 1911, American so
cial dancing was virtually con
fined to six dances: the polka,
reel, square dance, minuet, waltz
and two-step, reports Collier’s.
From 1911 to 1938, more than 25
new dances have been introduced,
among them being the turkey trot,
grizzly bear, Texas tommy, bunny
hug, hesitation, tango, maxixe,
one-step, Castle walk, fox trot,
Charleston, black bottom, Lindy
hop, rumba and the big apple.
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