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s I McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939 Tot’s Shyness May Result in Backwardness • WISE HANDLING NEC- essary to eliminate handicap of constant embarrassment. Parents should assist young sters to rise above ever-pres ent timidity and to enjoy social life with friends. By MARGARET CONN RHOADS E ALL realize that the child “ “ who is shy and constantly em barrassed by bashfulness has a handicap that needs very wise han dling. Many times a parent can help a child to rise above this timid ity and become happily sociable, delighting in personal contacts. “June started out to be one of those little children who hide be- ind their mother’s skirts at the ap proach of a stranger; her lips quiv ered if she were singled out for at tention and she evaded the mailman and the milkman when they came on their daily rounds,” related a mother before a group of parent students. “I determined that she should never hear any of the family comment on her shyness. I also made up my mind to think of ways of helping the baby to overcome this handicap. I knew I should have to go very carefully along the ^way or I might make matters w’orse, but today June is such an unusually re sponsive child and meets people so easily that I feel my carefully laid plans were well worth while. “I began with the mailman as he came each day. I allowed June to stick the stamp on my letter. This seemed such a big thing to her! Then, with the letter in her hand to gjve the mailman, she forgot her fear and ran out to meet him. He helped me by not getting too friendly with her all at once. And in much this same simple way I acquainted June with the milkman and the grocery boy. I let her put the tick ets in the milk bottles and let her set the bottles out. That gave her an interest in the man who de livered the milk. , I would empty the grocery boy’s basket and hand her the empty container to give to him. Get Acquainted Gradually. “When guests came to the house I would ask her to open the door! She soon learned to ask them to be seat ed especially if their manner when they greeted her was not too famil iar. Most little boys and girls like to get acquainted with a strange per son gradually, but many older peo ple are apt to gush over children, the moment they meet them. When June started for nursery school she was somewhat afraid of the experi ence. But each morning I let her take some small gift to the teacher and her joy in carrying the flower or the red apple or the cutout she had made lessened her conscious ness of self and the problem was solved happily. “Shyness or backwardness is often regarded by parents as a trait the child will outgrow and so they feel it need not be given special concern. I like to think that in our home we are always helping the children to develop the traits that will benefit them. They should be able to meet people happily, be sufficiently self- possessed to enter into child activi ties and reap the joy of personal contacts. They should have the as- surance within themselves that they are capable of joining in a conversa tion with a group of their age or of playing games with as much vim as the other children. “Shyness induces an inferiority complex in Jhe child that later makes the grownup cheat himself of much advancement and many pleas ures that are rightly his. Today June at five can meet the guests in our home pleasantly, totally uncon scious of herself. What picture would she have presented had we ignored her baby tendency or con stantly commented on it? She would have been timid still, and little by little would have become more cer tain that she would always be a shy person.” National Kindergarten Association (WNU Service.) Indian Clan The sachem was a functionary of an Indian clan—a common division of the Indian tribe. The clan had two distinct kinds of leaders, a sachem and a chief. The sachem was judge and administrator of an cient customs and his functions were those of peace time. He was chosen by the adult members of the clan and his election usually depended upon the influence of his immediate family in the clan group. The chief, on the contrary, won his title by individual prowess. He was chosen because of some special deed or because of some outstand ing trait. The chief was the war time leader. In current thought the term sachem applies to the prin cipal dignitaries of Tammany Hall —the New York political organiza tion. The Society of St. Tammany, the name under which Tammany Hall was incorporated, takes its name from the Indian who is patron saint of the organization. Span of Time Probably the greatest time span between two important cities is thal between New York and Hongkong. At 12 noon in New York it is 37 minutes past midnight in Hong kong. HOME-CANNED FOODS ALWAYS WELCOME (See Recipes Below) Sugar and Spice I’ve long believed that one reason the art of canning and preserving has been neglected is that many of us have forgotten just how good some of the home canned foods can be. We’ve forgotten the teasing tang of pickling spices, the mellow aroma of rich fruit butters that used to make the air fragrant at canning time. Maybe we need only to be reminded of all this to restore a lost art to favor! What pride of accomplishment row upon row of jewel-colored jams, jellies and mar malades can cre ate! And how simple it is to make them in the modern manner! You’ll find these tested recipes from my own kitchen as practical as they are de licious. Detailed instructions are in cluded in each recipe; you’ll find these general suggestions helpful, too. For Success in Canning and Preserving. 1. Make only a small amount of the product at one time. 2. Follow the recipe exactly. 3. Be sure that jelly glasses, jars, and covers are sterilized. 4. When they are to be filled with hot food, place the hot glasses or jars on a clean towel wrung out of hot water. 5. Use a small, inexpensive teapot for melting paraffin and pouring it. It eliminates dripping wax all over the glasses and your work table. 6. Store jams, jellies and pre serves in a cool, dry place. Apple Chutney. 2 pounds sour apples Vz pound onions (chopped) 1 pound tomatoes (chopped) Juice 1 lemon (strained) 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon garlic salt l 1 /^ tablespoons ginger ^4 teaspoon red pepper 2 pounds raisins 2 cups vinegar 1'cup brown sugar Pare, core and chop the apples. To them add the remaining ingredi ents. Simmer gently until tender, then rub through a fine sieve. Seal in sterilized jars. Peach Conserve. 3 pounds of peaches (peeled) 2 oranges (cut in small pieces) 1 pound seedless raisins 3 pounds sugar 1 pound chopped walnuts Scald peaches, remove skins, cut into small pieces; discard pits. Place in a sauce pan with small pieces of orange pulp and peel, raisins and sug ar. Stir until sug ar is dissolved. Set over a slow flame and cook un til thick, stirring occasionally. Add the chopped walnut meats, pour con serve at once into hot sterilized glass jars or glasses. Amber Jam. (Makes 8 glasses). 3 oranges 2 lemons 4 apples v 2 cups crushed pineapple Sugar Grate rind of one orange and one lemon. Then peel the remaining 2 oranges and the lemon, being care ful to remove all of the white pari of the skin. Peel and core the ap ples. Put all of these fruits through the food chopper and then add the grated orange and lemon rind, and the pineapple. Measure this fruit and to it add an equal amount of sugar. Bring slowly to the boiling point and cook, stirring frequently, for % hour. Pour into sterilized jelly glasses and top with paraffin. Note: Amber Jam is delicious when used as a cake filling or as a topping for ice cream. Lindbergh Relish. 2 medium heads cabbage 8 large carrots 8 green peppers (or 4 red and 4 green) 12 medium sized onions 1 bunch celery 1 cup grated horseradish Put all through food chopper. Add Vz cup salt and let stand two hours. Drain and mix 3 pints vinegar, 6 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon mustard seed, 1 tablespoon celery seed. Do not cook. Pour into sterilized jars. Whether your cookie jar is an old-fashioned earthen crock, or a brightly painted tin on the pantry shelf, it needs to be kept filled to satisfy a hungry family. In this column, next week, Eleanor Howe will give you some of her fa vorite cookie recipes—“Grand mother’s Sugar Cookies,” and “Butterscotch Brownies” are just two of the delightful recipes you’ll find here. Blackberry Jam. Wash and drain berries; then pick over and remove the hulls. Take 4 cups of berries and 2 cups of sugar; let come to a boil, and boil 5 minutes. Add 1 more cup sugar and boil 5 min utes longer. Then add 1 more cup sugar and boil approximately 5 minutes more, or until the jelly stage is reached. Then place in ster ilized jelly glasses and seal when cold. Makes 4 small or 3 large tumblers. Pickled Peaches. 1 peck small peaches 4 tablespoons whole cloves 2 quarts vinegar * 6 pounds brown sugar 4 teaspoons mace 1 tablespoon stick cinnamon (broken in small pieces) Peel the peaches and stud with whole cloves. Make a syrup of vin egar, sugar, mace and cinnamon. Add the peaches and boil until ten der. Pack in hot sterilized jars; cov er with syrup and seal. Easy to Find Answers in This Book. How to fry fish without spattering of fat, how to cut grapefruit or or anges into skinless sections, a quick method of peeling tomatoes, how to restore over-whipped cream—sug gestions for all of these are found in Eleanor Howe’s book “Household Hints.” To get your copy now, send 10 cents in coin to “Household Hints,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool (Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for August 27 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by Internationtd Council of Religious Education; used by permission. UZZIAH: A KING WHO FORGOT GOD LESSON TEXT—H Chronicles 26:3-5, 18- 21. GOLDEN TEXT—Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that hum- bleth himself shall be exalted.—Luke 18:14. “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov. 16:18). A man’s life may begin with every promise of greatness and he may prosper in everything for years as he honors God, and then by pre sumptuous disobedience he may bring it all to sudden destruction, living the closing years of his life in disgrace and going down to his grave in sorrow. That fact is writ ten so large on the pages of history that one marvels that “wayfaring men though fools” need to “err therein” (Isa. 35:8). Pride makes a man blind to his own weakness and so presumptuous that he walks right into trouble. The story of Uz- ziah points a moral both obvious and needed by all of us. I. Prosperity (w. 3-5). “As long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper” (v. 5). With a heart right toward God, the background of a, rearing by God fearing parents (how much that » means!) and the counsel of a man who was an “expert” in his under standing of the ways and the will of God, Uzziah prospered greatly. Chapters 25 to 27 of II Chronicles reveal him as a man of affairs, a successful warrior, a capable agri culturist, an able gvernment ad ministrator, and a king whose fame was known far and wide. For one who took over the government of a nation at the tender age of 16, fol lowing the tragic death of his fa ther, Uzziah made a remarkable and commendable record. II. Presumption (v. 16). “When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction” (v. 16). What sad words! Pros perity ruined a man who had made a name for himself in times of ad versity. In presumptuous pride he attempted to take the place of the priest ordained of God, in effect de claring that the State was over the Church, as we would put it in our day. “There is no greater danger at taching to the life of Christian serv ice than the danger of presumptu ous pride. I mean the pride which manifests itself in an independence of the ordinary means of grace, of prayer, and ft the Word of God. I am convinced that that is the cause of much of-the failure in many lives here. It is a pride which says: T can dispense with the Word of God’; which persists in living on a mini mum of prayer and communion with God, and in yet going about the work of God as of old; a pride which, like Uzziah’s, seeks carnal prominence in spiritual things. For that was his sin. He sought a car nal prominence in service which God had ordained was to be of an entirely spiritual order” (J. Stuart Holden). III. Punishment (w. 17-21). “The king was a leper . . . and . . . was cut off from the house of the Lord” (v. 21). The priests of God had holy boldness in rebuking the king, a quality which one could hope would never be missing in the testimony of God’s servants. The king, however, resented their wise words of counsel, and punishment from Grod, both swift and terrible, came upon him. If the judgment upon Uzziah seems too drastic, let us remember that the king was presuming to set aside an order established by God. It was a question of whether God was to rule or the king. We should also bear in mind that what looks like a single outward bit of pre sumption was really the expression of a heart that had long since gone far from God. When men in high position either in the State or in the Church fall into sin, it is not very often the result of a yielding to a sudden temptation, but rather the inevitable showing forth of what has long been true in the inner life. The leprosy of Uzziah’s heart now showed forth in his face, and he had to be shut off from his people and from his royal position. God Sees the Heart Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.—Hebrews 4:13. Spiritual Contradictions He that was called in the Lord being a servant, is the Lord’s free man: likewise he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.—I Cor. 7:22. Patience That Endureth It is in length of patience, en durance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.—Arthur Helps. Power of God Religion wields the greatest power In the universe, the power of God. HCW-iq SEW /y— Ruth Wyeth Spears / f I 'HERE is logic in the idea that rrl o o c ao i ri pans should have their own tow els. Here is a simple way to make that logic work. Write across the corner of each towel with a soft pencil the purpose for which it is j to be used. Use a soft pencil and ! your best script with the tall let- | ters at least two inches high. If you want to trace the words from paper, blacken the back of the paper with your pencil, place it black side down on the material, then draw the outline. Work over the hand writing with heavy, bright colored embroidery thread. Chain stitch, as shown here at the upper right, gives a good strong outline and may be done quickly. Use a different color for each kind of toweL Colored Intelligence Classified facings of prepared bias binding used flat as shown at the lower left make a practical edge finish. If you use flour and sugar sacks for dish towels, these suggestions for adding color will be especially useful. GOOD NEWS is here for every homemaker. SEWING BOOK No. 3 is now ready for mailing. It contains 32 useful homemaking ideas, with all directions clearly illustrated. You will be delighted with it. The price of this new book is only 10 cents postpaid. En close coin with name and address to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. Try THIS for Malaria! When Malaria hits you or your family this year, get a bottle of Wintersmith’s Tonic the first thing, Wintersmith’s has been proven by over 70 years of use. It has helped thousands upon thousands of peo ple. Ask for Wintersmith’s by name. If your dealer doesn’t stock it, he can get it for you. Ask him! WINTERSMITH'S TONIC Honest Labor Honor lies in honest toil.—Grov^ er Cleveland. A classification of the popula tion of the United States according to varying degrees of intelligence divides the population into the fol lowing groups: Class A, 3 per cent, capable of professional training; class B, 20 per cent, capable of col lege training; class C, 54 per cent, capable of high school training; class D, 20 per cent, high and a few low grade morons; class E, 3 per cent, hopelessly feeble-mind ed and lower morons. A GREAT BARGAIN VESPER TEA PURE ORANGE PEKOE 50 Cups for lO Cents Ask Your Grocer Ye Greatest Want He that wants hope is the poor est man alive. Judge Not Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.—Shakespeare. Father of Pleasure Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.—South. Use Acid-Free Quaker State Motor Oil regularly. Your car will run farther before you need to add a quart... you save on repair bills. These results are assured be cause every drop of Quaker State is acid- free. 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