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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.
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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.
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! your best script with the tall let-
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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
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facings of prepared bias binding
used flat as shown at the lower left
make a practical edge finish. If
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dish towels, these suggestions for
adding color will be especially
useful.
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Judge Not
Forbear to judge, for we are
sinners all.—Shakespeare.
Father of Pleasure
Novelty is the great parent of
pleasure.—South.
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