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McCORMfCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 'NJ'EW YORK.—News of the ap- proactyng retirement of Brig. Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re minder that it was he who super- . . * vised the rais- Retirmg General i ng 0 f the bat- Could Regulate tleship Maine Flow of Afton i" Havana bar- bor- for the U. S. government in 1910 and 1911. In the service for 42 years in the engineering corps, he prob ably has won more shirt-sleeve battles against all the disasters of the Anglican litany than any other* army officer with a gift for achieving the impossible. He will be 64 years old oh August 14 and there is talk that he may be upped to the rank of major general before the bell rings on his finish fight against the elements. He is the Hackenschmidt of flood grapplers, winning one fall after an other against the Mississippi. He has been president of the Missis sippi River commission since 1932; member of the board of rivers and harbors since 1930 and is also a member'of the St. Lawrence Water way board. Back in the days of “manifest destiny,** starting in 1897, the young second lieutenant got his first practice workouts in the mud and miasma, floods and elemental and human catastro phe in the Philippines and Cuba, and with the army swampers tidying up China and providing relief after the Boxer uprising around the turn of the century. If the “destiny** involved get ting things shipshape in a hurry, he always made it a lot more manifest than it might have been otherwise. He was chief engineer of the China expe dition. He started fighting floods in Mont gomery, Ala., in 1907 and through the years commanded army engi neering works, defensive and ag gressive, at Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Pittsburgh and Norfolk, Va. In the World war, he was chief engineer of the second army corps in France. He went to West Point from his home town, Waynesville, N. C. His son is a commander in the navy. He has two daughters. FA R. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist, biologist, and student of family relations, who has given much of his interesting career to clinical studies of home life, discovers that women are ag- Women a Close Second to the N.W.Mounties gressive pro posers and that 70 out of 85 get their man. This is his finding in his survey 6f this hitherto unexplored field of statis tics. Dr. Popenoe is director of the court of family relations at Los Angeles. 1 A specialist in the daily squabbles of married life, he has been effective in settling many of them. He says it is a good idea to write down all your wife’s faults, check them against your ’own, and then burn the paper. You should keep the family budget straight, refrain from nagging, and keep yourself and everybody else around the house interested and never bored. As a geneticist, he thinks it is a fair bet that we will become a race of “super idiots,** whereas we could be super-Einsteins if we could use collectively the sense that God gave geese. He is a native of Topeka, Kan., educated at Occidental college and Topeka university. He was a news paper reporter in Pasadena and Los Angeles before he became a biolo gist and sociologist. B IG, ruddy John M. Carmody, known as “Powerhouse John,’* takes over 2,500 PWA employees un der the new arrangement by which he assumes a New FWA Boas Belittles Atlas With His Load load, compared to which Atlas would be just toting a tennis ball. Leaving the Rural Electrifica tion administration, he heads the new Federal Works agency, which takes in both the PWA and the FWA; also the bureau of public roads, the building operations of the treasury, the U. S. Housing author ity and many other Herculean en deavors. He is a rip-snorting Irishman with a booming voice, employ ing section boss technique in getting things done. He was for many years an editor of the Me- Graw Hill Publications, making his career in industrial engineer ing. In earlier years, he man aged coal companies, factories and steel mills. He has been with the New Deal six years, first with the NRA and later with the NLRB. He has a Pennsylvania farm background and attended Columbia university. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) COOLING DRINKS FOR SUMMER See Recipes Below. .2<l .kZ n A CrL A iZ. Cooling Summer Drinks Can you think of anything more cooling and refreshing than a frosty glass of ice cold beverage sprigged with mint and tinkling with ice cubes? Neither can I! There’s something about a cold, tart-tasting drink that seems to lower the tem perature several degrees. 1 like to keep a variety of chilled drinks in my refrigerator to meet the demands of sultry weather; a sparkling punch to serve during mid - afternoon when everyone is wilted and weary; old-fashionedlem- onade for thirsty youngsters and grown folks, too; or cool, refresh ing iced tea to serve with meals, or whenever the occasion warrants. Iced tea is a summer standby, and properly prepared it’s truly deli cious. Follow these simple rules for making it, if you like to serve to your family and your guests the clear, sparkling, faintly fragrant tea that’s delightfully refreshing. Iced Tea. 1. Rinse teapot with boiling water. 2. Place tea in teapot—allowing one teaspoon of tea per cup to be made. 3. Pour freshly boiling water over the tea leaves. 4. Allow tea to steep—not boil— for 3 to 5 minutes according to strength desired. 5. Cool hot tea infusion quickly by pouring it over a generous supply of chipped ice. 6. Serve at once. Lemon slices or a sprig of mint may be used as an accompaniment if desired. Ginger Julep. (Serves 4-5) Few sprigs mint 2 lemons Ya cup superfine powdered sugar 1 quart gingerale Cracked ice Place the mint leaves and the i emon rind, cut in strips, in a pitch- ir. With the back of a spoon, crush the leaves and the rind. Add lemon juice and i iw/ v sugar, and place | jj L&l in refrigerator for r about an hour to ripen. When ready to serve, add gingerale, and pour into tall glasses filled with crushed ice. Old-Fashioned Lemonade. 1 cup sugar 2 cups water Ya cup lemon rind (grated) % cup lemon juice 1 quart cold water Place the sugar, 2 cups water, and the lemon rind in a saucepan. Cov er and cook for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice and cold water. Chill thoroughly, and garnish with a sprig of mint or a marshmallow in each glass. Spiced Syrup. 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup water Pinch salt 3 teaspoons whole cloves 6 inches stick cinnamon Bring sugar, water, and salt to the boiling point and boil one min ute. Remove from fire and add spices. Cover and cool. Strain be fore using. Frosted Grape Juice Ade. (Serves 6) 4 cups grape juice Juice of 3 oranges Juice of 1 lemon 1 pint water Ya cup sugar Crushed ice Combine the fruit juices and wa ter. Add sugar. Dip the rims of tall beverage glasses in lime juice, then in confectioners’ sugar to make a frosted edge. Allow to dry. Half fill glasses with crushed ice, and pour in the beverage. Iced Coffee. Prepare hot coffee in the usual manner making it a little stronger to allow for dilution. Then pour \ over crushed ice or tea cubes in tall glasses, and serve at once. Mocha Freeze. Pour chilled coffee into tall glasses. Add a generous spoonful of vanilla ice cream to each glass and top with whipped cream. Bowling Green Punch. (Serves 8-10) 3 cups orange pekoe tea infusion Ice 1% cups spiced syrup % cup lemon juice Ya cup orange juice 1 pint gingerale Pour warm or hot tea over ice. Add lemon and orange juice and spiced syrup and mix thoroughly. Add gingerale just before serv ing. Get This New Book. Old-fashioned cakes and modern quick - to - make cakes, unusual cookies and breads and favorite pies —recipes for all these are included in this easy-to-use, inexpensive cook book. You’ll find hints on baking, too, to help you make your own spe cial recipes “turn out still better”! Send 10 cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111., and get your copy of “Better Baking” now. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Make Modern Laundry Out Of Waste Space Upstairs Waste space upstairs can easily be fashioned into a modern laundry, brightened up with paint and hung with some of those attractive low- priced curtains that are always bob bing up in such variety. If you read floor plans of modem houses you have discovered the growing trend for off-the-kitchen-laundries. Equipment designed for such roomfe includes washers that pump them selves empty. Ironing has always been an up stairs operation, possibly because it is easier to transfer ironed clothes to proper storing places without dan ger of over-mussing. Many ironers have table tops that serve a real purpose in the small kitchen, and there are washers tailored to kitch en size, too. ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson House Cleaning Is Made Easy by Use of Vacuum The days are gone forever when, to clean a rug thoroughly, it was necessary to hang it on a clothesline or lay it on the grass and beat it with a bamboo or steel wire con traption. Today, thanks to electricity and the vacuum cleaner, rug beat ing is a thing of the past in mil lions of homes. Moreover, in addi tion to eliminating much work and drudgery, the vacuum cleaner raises practically no dust and thus greatly reduces the time required for dusting. Household Refrigerator To get the best results from the household refrigerator, it is well to decide in advance which foods are to go in and which ones to be taken out instead of pondering the question while the door is open. Every time that happens the tem perature goes up and the longer the door stays open the higher up it goes. Another wise precaution is to make sure that cooked foods are well cooled before putting them into the food chest, otherwise the heat and moisture generated will also cause the temperature to rise. Yellow for Light To brighten a poorly lighted bed room, a color scheme includes walls painted daffodil yellow, a paler yel low ceiling and white woodwork with thin lines of orange color. Care of Dishcloths To save your dishcloths use a medium-sized cork dipped into scouring powder when polishing paring knives or other cutlery. Indian Painter 'T'HE early painters of American Indian life were all adventurous men, but John Mix Stanley had more than his share of perils and narrow escapes from death. Stanley first became interested in Indians in 1838 and went to. Fort Snelling, Minn., to paint them. Dur ing the next eight years he made frequent visits to picture the tribes of the Southwest. In 1846 he joined the famous march of General Kear ney and his dragoons from Santa Fe to San Diego, during which time he laid down his painter’s brush to take up a gun and fight in several engagements. The next year Stanley found more excitement awaiting him in the North. He narrowly escaped being in the Whitman massacre when that missionary, his wife and 11 others were killed by the Cayuses in east ern Washington. He had another close call when he returned to San Francisco to take ship for New York via Cape Horn, for he arrived just too late % to go aboard. That ship was lost at sea and was never heard of again. In 1853 Stanley was appointed art ist to the expedition sent to explore a route for a Pacific railroad from St. Paul to Puget Sound. After a series of adventures with that expe dition, he returned to the East, where he died in 1872. The last years of his life were saddened by the loss of more than 150 paintings of Indian life which he had spent 10 years in making and which were destroyed by a fire in the Smithsoni* an institution in 1865. * * • Aguinaldo’s Captor IN 1901 America had a new nation- * al hero—“a little man with a slight limp, with a Vandyke beard > and a sense of humor that bubbled in him like the effervescence of wine.” His name was Frederick Funston, former student at the Uni versity of Kansas, newspaper re porter and member of a filibuster ing expedition to deliver to Cuban revolutionists five Hotchkiss guns for use against the Spanish. He was made a captain of artillery and in 18 months fought in 22 engage ments. Then the Spanish put a price on his head and he barely managed to escape and return to the United States. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war Funston raised a reg iment of Kansas volunteers and was made its colonel. He was sent to the Philippines and aided in the capture of Manila. In August, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo started an insur rection against the new masters of the islands and for the next three years led 70,000 American soldiers and their native auxiliaries a mer ry chase. Finally he was located in south ern Luzon and Funston, by now a brigadier-general of volunteers, formed a daring plan to capture him. Taking two captains and two lieutenants, Funston led a party of 80 Macabebe scouts toward Agui naldo’s hiding place. They were to pass themselves off as a detach ment of insurgent Tagalogs who had captured these five Americans and were bringing them to Aguinaldo. It was a risky business for every thing depended upon the faithful ness of the Macabebes. But they played their part to per fection and the American “cap tives” were delivered to Aguinaldo. Then they revealed their identity and calmly informed Aguinaldo that he was their prisoner. • • • Confederate Mail Runner POR 10 years before the Civil war " Absalom Grimes was a Mississip pi river pilot, running between St. Louis and St. Paul. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in a company of “irregulars,” raised in Ralls county west of Hannibal, Mo., to recruit the Confederate army. One of the members of this company was a young fellow named Sam Clemens. Years later Mark Twain referred to his “short and inglorious military career” in that company which decamped hastily at the first appearance of an enemy force and soon afterwards disbanded. Grimes then volunteered for serv ice as a mail carrier between the Missouri and Kentucky troops in the Confederate army and their rel atives at home. It was an extreme ly hazardous duty for it meant go ing through the Union lines at the peril of capture and execution as a spy. During the siege of Vicksburg he ran the blockade successfully by wiring his mail in tin boxes to the bottom of an overturned skiff and floating beside it among the Union gunboats until he had passed them. Grimes was repeatedly captured by the Union forces and twice he was sentenced to death. He spent several months in the old Gratiot prison in St. Louis and was there under sentence of death at the end of the war. However, his life was saved by an unconditional pardon issued by Abraham Lincoln—among the last acts of mercy performed by the President before he was as sassinated. © Western Newspaper Union. OP° SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears ««]'') EAR MRS. SPEARS: I have both of your books and they certainly have been a help to me. I followed your directions in Book 1 for making all of my slip covers. Recently I started a wall hanging of crewel work embroid ery that required many stitches that were new to me. I found them all clearly diagramed in Book 2, and was certainly glad I had it to turn to. “I am now interested in covering seat cushions for our dinette. The children have both breakfast and their mid-day meal here. Can you suggest a material that will stand hard wear and that comes in bright colors? G. B.” Striped awning material would give good service and both you and the youngsters would enjoy the gay coloring in this much used corner. Green and orange stripes would be attractive, and this color scheme could be repeated in green curtains and orange paint for the inside of a cupboard. I Idleness Exertion, whether called labor, /ecreation, or amusement, is es sential to health; and, as the body was made for labor, work is its natural and honorable duty. An idle man or woman is a discredit to the race, and unusually liable to fall into disease, whilst an in dustrious person adds to the wealth of the country, and is more likely to be healthy and happy. have suggested islide fasteners for the cushions so that they may be removed easily for laundering. Notice about book prices: Book 1—SEWING for the Home Deco rator; and No. 2, Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries, are now 15 cents each, or both books for 25 cents. Readers who have not se cured their copies of these two books should send in their orders immediately, as no more copies will be available, when the pres ent supply is exhausted. Your choice of the QUILT LEAFLET il lustrating 36 authentic patchwork stitches or the RAG RUG LEAF LET, will be included with orders for both books for the present, but the offer may be withdrawn at any time. Leaflets are 6 cents each when ordered separately. 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