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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939
Star Dust
★ Tracing Resemblances
★ For the Cause of Art
★ Indians Above Par
— By Virginia Val©
ENE MARKEY, the 20th
Century-Fox producer,
may have thought that Metro
made a mistake when it
Abandoned “I Take This Wom
an’* as Hedy LaMarr’s sec
ond American - made picture.
Certainly he liked the idea of
taking that woman, to be his
lawful wedded wife. Oddly enough,
there’s a strong resemblance be
tween the new Mrs. Markey and the
first one, Joan Bennett, as Joan ap
pears in her brunette wig in “Trade
Winds.” And there’ll probably be a
resemblance in the setting of “Trade
Winds” and the next picture in
which Hedy LaMarr stars—“Lady
of the Tropics,” in which Robert
Taylor will be her leading man.
This business of tracing resem
blances can go on and on forever.
Old timers can try to find one be
tween the glamorous Hedy and that
HEDY LA MARK
glamour girl of an earlier day, Bar
bara LaMarr (surely there couldn’t
have been a thought of Barbara in
the mind of the person who suggest
ed “LaMarr” when the lovely Vien
nese Mrs. Markey was choosing a
name for her American career!).
X
Believe it or not, Merle Oberon
bad her face washed with kerosene
the other day. The same thing hap
pened to Laurence Oliver and
David Niven, and all in the cause of
art. Not that the makeup man had
anything against them. Kerosene,
when mixed with paraffin and heat
ed slightly, provides a quick-drying
spray which dries white, so that he
who gets sprayed looks as if frost
had appeared on hair, eyebrows and
eyelashes.
—*—
With the cops and robbers cycle
waning, motion picture producers
are certainly taking to playing cow
boys and Indians in a great big way.
Paramount has three big westerns
scheduled for this spring and sum
mer—“Geronimo,” “Buffalo Bill”
and “The Lives of a Texas Ranger,”
a sequel to “Texas Ranger.”
There’s going to be a premium on
Indians in the Hollywood studios,
first thing anybody knows.
*
Muriel Wilson, formerly known as
“Mary Lou” on radio’s “Showboat”
program, recently received a gift
that moved her to tears. It is a
crocheted tablecloth depicting a
scene from “Showboat,” and was
designed and made by a blind
woman.
*—
There’s a man in California who,
if he couM be granted the wish near
est his heart, would ask that Cecil
B. DeMille decide to broadcast a
play with a good wind storm ih it.
The man is Charlie Forsyth, sound
effects expert who officiates on Mr.
DeMille’s Radio Theater, and he has
two dozen new wind records that
he wants to use. During the recent
California windstorms he worked all
night making records of the wind
whistling through cracks in his
garage and through the shrubbery
around his house. They are the first
authentic wind records Forsyth has
been able to make, and he won’t be
happy until he uses them.
Lanny Ross celebrated his tenth
anniversary on the air by giving a
luncheon to which he invited all the
other men who have been on the air
for ten years or more and suggest
ing that they form a club. Every
body was delighted with the idea,
but since then Lanny has sometimes
wished that he’d never thought up
the plan. He has been deluged with
letters of protest from women all
over the country and the only way
out was to form an auxiliary.
*—
Five years ago Shirley Ross made
her screen debut as a bit player in
a picture starring Lee Tracy.
Imagine what a thrill it was for her
when she was engaged to appear
as his leading lady on a Silver
Theater broadcast.
&
ODDS AND ENDS—After his Thurs
day evening broadcasts Felix Knight
makes a bee line for an Armenian res
taurant and a plate of shish-kebab . . .
At rehearsals Kale Smith disrupts the
men in the band by feeding them ham
burgers ... Be sure to see “Stagecoach”
—it will probably prove to be one of the
ten best pictures released this year.
® Western Newspaper Uni"".
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
A River Is Their Memorial
WAY back in 1739 Pierre and
Paul Mallet, Canadian traders,
heard of the wealth of far-away
Santa Fe where, it was said, the
Spanish senors wore silver buttons
on their clothes and the senoritas
had silver heels on their slippers.
So they enlisted six other venture
some Canadians and after a long
journey by boat and pack train, ar
rived in the New Mexican capital.
The Spanish governor was friend
ly but there was a lav? against
free trading. So the Mallets start
ed north, crossed the headwaters of
the Canadian (called the Colorado
by the Spaniards because of its red
waters) and followed up the Pur-
gatoire to its junction with the Ar
kansas. There the party split up.
Three of the men, who were home
sick, started overland for Canada
and eventually reached Montreal
safely.
The Mallets, accompanied by two
others, went down the Arkansas and
the Mississippi to New Orleans,
where they reported their explora
tions to Bienville, the governor,
whose efforts to find a route to San
ta Fe had been unsuccessful. He
engaged them to guide another ex
pedition led by Andre de la Bruyere,
a royal officer, who was to ascend
the Mississippi and Arkansas to the
mouth of the Canadian, which the
Mallets correctly guessed arose
“less than 40 leagues from Santa
Fe.”
When the Canadian dwindled
away to a mere brook in central
Oklahoma, Bruyere sat down to wait
for it to rise, instead of buying
horses from the Osages to transport
his goods, as the Mallets advised
him to do. But it was a dry year
and, after waiting six months, Bruy
ere went back to New Orleans. The
Mallets returned to Canada, where
they disappeared from history, but
today the Canadian river is a 760-
mile-long memorial to the two
brothers “whose wanderings rank
them on a par with La Salle.”
• • •
Klondike Kate
ER neighbors in Bend, Ore.,
know her as Mrs. John Matson,
or “Aunt Kate” Matson, but to old
sourdoughs who mushed over Alas
kan trails during the gold rush days
of ’98, she always has been and still
is “Klondike Kate.” The daughter of
a Seattle judge, Kate Betts spent
most of her early life in a convent.
Then a reverse in the Betts family
fortune took her from behind its
walls and started her on her career
of adventure.
She was ip Seattle when the stam
pede to Alaska started. She joined
the gold rush and finally found her
self in rip-roaring Dawson City.
There she became the belle of the
bars and a favorite of the bearded
prospectors who came to town eager
to spend money after their struggles
to gain a fortune from the frozen
soil. They showered their nuggets
upon “Klondike Kate”—she often
made as much as $150 a night by
singing and dancing for them. Once
a miner gave her $750 in “dust”
simply for the privilege of sitting
and talking to her.
But like many others, she brought
little of her money back to the
States with her when the boom days
were over. Finally in 1933 she re
ceived a letter from 70-year-old
John Matson, who had known her
in the Dawson City days and who
wanted to marry her. The marriage
took place in Vancouver, B. C.
Then she settled down in the little
Oregon city, no longer the fa
mous “Klondike Kate,” the toast of
Alaskan gold camps, but “Aunt
Kate” to the home-folks.
* • *
First Into Antarctic
HEY tell tall tales of explora
tions in the Antarctic. None of
them can compare, though, with the
trip of Nathanial B. Palmer if sheer
adventure is the standard. Away
back in 1820 he was the first voyag
er to reach the northern fringe of
the Antarctic continent.
A tall, blonde, Connecticut Yan
kee, Nat Palmer was still only in
his teens when he made the voy
age as skipper of the sloop Hero.
The ship which penetrated farther
south than any other up until that
time was only 50 feet long—half the
size of the sailboat “America,” orig
inal winner of the first America’s
Cup race in 1851.
The voyage is more remarkable,
too, when you consider that it was
made almost 100 years before the
poles were finally reached.
Palmer himself has said, “I point
ed the bow of the Ifttle craft to the
south’ard and, with her wings
spread, mainsail abeam, jib abreast
the opposite bow, she speeded on
her way to new sealing ground like a
thing of light . . . With her flowing
sheet she seemed to enter into the
spirit which possessed my ambi
tion, flew along the wave and over
billow until she brought in sight of
land not laid down on my chart . . .”
Thus this lad discovered Palmer
land, archipelago of the Antarctic
continent, and proved by his de
scription that he was as literary as
he was adventurous.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
oi Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 26
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by Interna liciuil
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
PETER INTERPRETS CHRIST’S
SUFFERINGS AND DEATH
LESSON TEXT—I Peter l:?7-23{ 2:20-25.
GOLDEN TEXT—For Clmst also hath
once suffered for sins, the just for the »n-
just, thfft he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh, but quickened by
the Spirit,—I Peter 3:18.
A witness is one who knows by
personal experience about that con
cerning which he testifies. Certain
ly no one could speak with more pro
priety or assurance concerning the
sufferings and death of Christ than
Peter. As one of the inner circle,
he, with James and John, was with
Jesus on almost every important
oecasion. He was on the Mount of
Transfiguration, and with the Lord
in the garden of Gethsemane. He
witnessed His trial and in all prob
ability His crucifixion. He was first
at the empty tomb. Furthermore,
he could speak as one who had in
a moment Qf weakness denied the
Lord and who had come by way of
doubt and despair back to his faith
in the Saviour. It is not only ap
propriate that we should study Pe
ter’s words on this subject but it is
also the greatest possible theme
with which to close our three-month
study of the life and work of Peter.
For all that he was and all that he
did, can be explained only by his
faith in a redeeming Christ.
I. Christ—the Saviour (I Pet. 1:17-
23).
It is highly important that we
meet the flood of smoothly phrased
recognition of our Christ as the Mas
ter which at the same time denies
Him as dying Redeemer. Hence
we stress
1. A redemption by blood (w. 17-
20). This is a subject that all those
who know God and “call on him as
Father” (v. 17) approach in that
reverential attitude which we call
the “fear of God,” which is not a
cringing fear but a loving reverence.
In that spirit we should proclaim
that apart from the shedding of
Christ’s blood there can be no re
mission of sin. Money and other
material things can only purchase
other material and corruptible
things. Our redemption could be
bought only by the precious blood
of the sinless, divine, and eternal
Son of God, Jesus Christ (vv. 19,
20).
2. A life of faith (w. 21-23). The
faith and hope of the Christian are
“in God.” We do not trust in the
arm of flesh. Our assurance is not
In man or his devices. The gather
ing of riches, the increase of arma
ments, the acquisition of new terri
tory by fair means or foul—let fool
ish men who know not God rejoice
In such assurances of safety, but our
faith is in God.
This life of faith is not an inactive
thing, a settling back into a com
fortable but effortless appreciation
of God’s great gift. It leads to obe
dience to the truth; fervent, un
feigned love of the brethren; purity
of life (v. 22). Being born again
means living in newness of life in
Christ.
II. Christ—the Example (I Pet.
2:20-25).
Christ is not our example in the
sense that we are to attain to eter
nal life and joy by an imitation of
His life. That would be manifestly
impossible, for we would have to be
gin where He began—He was with
out sin. But we “all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God.”
We need a Saviour, not an example,
as far as redemption is concerned.
Having been saved by faith in His
blood, we are ready to look upon
Him as our example.
1. Our suffering (w. 20, 21). One
of the serious problems of life is suf
fering, and as we suggested last
week, being a Christian does not
grant us any immunity. If we suf
fer because of our own sin, we
must expect to bear the result pa
tiently; but even above that, when
we find ourselves suffering* for well
doing, we are to glorify God by
bearing it patiently for Christ’s
sake. Nothing is a stronger testi
mony for Christ than a true Chris
tian spirit in time of trial and sor
row.
2. The suffering of Christ (w. 21-
25). Our minds turn to Isaiah 53 and
Psalm 22, as well as to the Gospel
narratives, as we think of our Lord’s
suffering. As we read the words,
“Christ . . . suffered for you,” we
join the saintly -expositor of the
Word who fell upon his face sob
bing, “For me, for me. He bore it
all for me.” How can anyone re
ject Him? How can you, unsaved
reader of these lines, any longer
turn this loving Saviour away?
These are trying days for the
souls of men. In many parts of the
world Christians are tasting the bit
ter cup of persecution. The day
may come when we must meet the
same fate, and even now we know
what it means to bear the scorn of
unbelievers. Shall we become fear
ful or embittered in our hearts? No,
“consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against him
self, lest ye be wearied and faint in
your minds. Ye have not yet re
sisted unto blood, striving against
sin” (Heb. 12:3, 4). But He did'
Wonderful Saviour 1
WHAT to EAT and WHY
C. Houston Goudiss Shows How the Right Foods Can
Help to Guard Against Springtime Debility
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
T HE gap between winter and spring has always been rec
ognized as a trying period. Work seems a burden, tem
pers are short, appetites are poor, and little enjoyment is
derived from meals.
Just as the daily tide of human vitality is at a low
ebb during the hours before dawn, so does the annual tide
of health reach a low ebb in the weeks that mark the end
of winter and the official be-<S>-
ginning of spring.
Bodily reserves have been
gradually depleted until many
children and adults suffer
from lassitude and fatigue
that cannot be dispelled mere
ly by getting a good night’s
sleep.
The Best Spring Tonic
A generation ago it was be
lieved that sulphur and molasses,
and sassafras tea
would overcome
springtime debili
ty. Homemakers
dosed their fami
lies with a variety
of so-called tonics,
in a frantic effort
to put color into
pale cheeks, to
soothe irritaoie
nerves, to over
come that tired
feeling.
We know today why their efforts
met with little success. For we
have learned what they could not
know—that the best possible tonic
is a carefully chosen diet rich in
minerals and vitamins.
In those days, the science of
nutrition was in its infancy. Vita
mins were still undiscovered, and
there was much that we had not
learned about the role of the min
eral salts in regulating body proc
esses. No wonder mothers grasped
at any mixture that promised to
put roses back into the cheeks of
their anemic-looking children.
How lucky we are today! For
science has taught us what we
should eat to help increase pep
and vitality, and build rich red
blood. And modern methods of
transportation, refrigeration, food
preservation and packaging, have
made the necessary foods easily
available. It merely remains for
the homemaker to acquaint her
self with the nutritional needs of
her family.
Enriching the Blood
The blood is frequently impov
erished by the time spring puts in
an appearance. That is not sur
prising, for in many households
the winter diet contains a prepon
derance ' of carbohydrates and
fats, with far too few of the pre
cious minerals and vitamins. It
is often deficient in iron, the min
eral that is required for the for
mation of the hemoglobin or red
pigment in the blood, and in cop
per, which is required for the
proper utilization of iron.
Inasmuch as 3 per cent of the
blood cells are destroyed daily, it
is obvious that unless adequate
amounts of iron-rich foods are
available to replace them, the
number will soon become sub
normal. Moreover, it has been
found that many minor disturb
ances of the body cause a loss of
iron, and that mild infections are
a common cause of iron loss.
Thus, individuals who have been
consuming a diet that is barely
adequate in respect to iron may
find themselves on the borderline
of iron deficiency following an in
fection.
Iron-Rich Foods
Every homemaker, therefore,
should make a determined effort
to* include plenty of iron-rich foods
in her menus. These foods in
clude liver, eggs, whole grain ce
reals, dried fruits, lean meats and
green leafy vegetables.
Green vegetables cannot be em
phasized too strongly, for they
tend somewhat to be crowded out
of the winter diet by the starchy
and fatty foods which provide
more heat and energy. And in
vestigations with children have
demonstrated that when vegeta
bles and fruits are limited, there
is a certain sluggishness of blood
formation. Green vegetables not
only supply iron in significant
amounts, but their iron has been
found to be especially well ab
sorbed from the digestive tract.
Eat More Grdens
Right now it is most important
to provide large amounts of dan
delion greens, spinach, kale,
chard, watercress, lettuce and
green cabbage. Serve a cooked
green vegetable at one meal each
day and a generous green salad
at another. -
Top the salad with fruit, if you
want to add more minerals and
vitamins . . . segments of orange
or grapefruit, slices of banana or
pineapple, or a mixture of apple
and celery.
These fruits also supply impor
tant minerals and vitamins, and
like the green vegetables, they
leave an alkaline ash following di
gestion, and therefore help to
maintain the acid-base balance of
the body.
Plenty of Bulk Required
There is still another reason
why green vegetables and fruits
should be consumed in liberal
quantities. These foods, along
with whole grain cereals, provide
an abundance of bulk or cellulose
which is necessary to help pro
mote regularity. They tend to off
set the effects of a too highly con
centrated winter diet. Very often
that feeling of lassitude, mistaken
ly called spring fever, can be over
come by adding to the diet a larg-
'TpHE smartest kind of dress for
runabout, as becoming as it is
practical, is yours if you use No.
1717 to make it. The button-down-
the-front style is extremely popu
lar. This dress, too, has lines that
make your figure look slim and
youthful. The skirt is slim over
the hips, high at the waist, and
full at the hem. The shirred bod
ice and wide-shouldered sleeves
give you a softly rounded look.
Make this dress of flat crepe, silk
print or sheer fabrics.
Three-in-One Frock. *
Here’s a clever design that
gives you three different fashions
in onel First of all, No. 1685 is
a charming little kimono-sleeved
frock with a flattering, tiny waist.
And with it comes a little bolero
(that you can wear with other
frocks, too) and a tie-around
apron-skirt, fastened with a bow
in the front. Wear it any one of
three ways—alone, with the bo
lero, or with both the bolero and
apron-skirt. For this, choose silk
print, flat crepe, taffeta, thin wool,
and combinations of two contrast
ing fabrics.
The Patterns.
No. 1717 is designed for sizes 34,
36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. With
long sleeves, size 36 requires 4%
yards of 39 inch material. With
short sleeves, 3% yards.
No. 1685 is designed for sizes 14,
16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 16 requires
3 Vs yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric
for the dress; 1% yards for the
bolero; 2Va yards for the apron-
skirt.
New Spring Pattern Book.
Send 15 cents for Barbara Bell’s
Spring Pattern Book! Make your
own smart new frocks for street,
daytime and afternoon, with these
simple, carefully planned designs!
It’s chic, it’s easy, it’s economical,
to sew your own. Each pattern
includes a step-by-step sew chart
to guide beginners.
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.
Well-Trained Mind
This is a proof of a well-trained
mind, to rejoice in what is good
and to grieve at the opposite.—
Cicero.
er proportion of these naturally
laxative foods.
It’s also desirable to take an
adequate supply of fluids to help
flush the system of waste. In addi
tion to a generous amount of wa
ter, there should be a pint of*milk
daily for every adult, a quart for .
every child, and fruit juices in
abundance. Orange juice,, grape
fruit juice, pineapple juice ajpd to
mato juice all supply vitamins A,
B and C, and their refreshing fruit
acids have a beneficial effect upon
the appetite.
Exercise and Fresh Air
Two more splendid antidotes for
the let-down feeling that comes at
this season are moderate exercise
and fresh air. The proper use of
the muscular system is important
to health and vitality, yet many
people go through the winter tak
ing far too little exercise.
In general, you will eat better,
sleep better, feel more alert and
at the same time more relaxed, if
you make a point of getting out
into the open every day.
Sleep, sunshine, fresh air and
the right food—these are Nature’s
tonics!
©—WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1939—55
The Man Was Waiting
And Did Just That
The magistrate was not exactly
clear as to what the case was all
about, so he tried to find out’by
questioning the prisoner.
“What were you doing when yo\f
were arrested?” he asked.
“Waiting, sir.”
“What for?”
“Money, sir.”
“Who was to give you th®
money?”
“The man I was waiting for.”
“What did he owe it to you for?”
“Waiting, sir.”
The magistrate made a last ef
fort to get a definite idea. “What
do you do for a living?” he de
manded.
“Waiting, sir."
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