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I \ •’tfxr&ji McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941 Lovely Frock for School'or Parties ILlEBE’S an unusually sweet * princess frock for junior girls that you’ll want two ways for Sun day and everyday! This, is the most becoming line in the world for petite figures. There are adroit gathers at the sides of the front panel to give a little round ness where roundness? is needed. 12696 TODAY’S HEALTH COLUMH Dr. Barton and the waist scoops in to beguil ing tininess, above the piquant flare of the skirt. In velveteen qr taffeta, with a white silk pique collar, design No. 1269-B will be the prettiest kind of party frock. In flannel, spun ' rayon or corduroy it,will be smart ( for classroom, all in one color or, i as shown in the small sketch, with a wide splash of contrast down the front. • • • Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1269-B Is de signed tor sizes U. 13, 15, 17 and 19. Cor responding bust measurements 29, 31, 33, . 35 and 37. Size 13 (31) requires AY* yards . of 39-inch material without nap; yard contrast for collar. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Ream 1334 211 W. Wacker Dr. CUeago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No..... ; .. Size.. Name Address JL Vegetable [Laxative For Headache, Biliousness, and Dizziness when caused by Constipation. 15 doses for only 10 cents: Dr. Hitchcocks LAXATIVE POWDER Past Is Gone Look -not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again!— Longfellow. [ CHOICE Of MILLIONS SWOSEPH ASPIRIN WORLD* LARQIST SILLER AT C . So Live When men speak ill of thee, so live that nobody will believe them. —Plato. VIGILANCE COMMITTEE 'MMMMMMHHMMMMMMBMMHHMMBBBNMMMMHMMMHBMMB ADVERTISING is a great vigi lance committee, established 4wd maintained in your inter est, to see that the men who aspire to sell to you will always be worthy of your trade. Operate for Gall Bladder Inflammation By DRi JAMES W- BARTON W HEN a patient has an at tack of acute gall bladder trouble with severe pain in up per right abdomen going over into the shoulder it has been the custom to wait un til all symptoms have disappeared before operating. This would appear to be wise when we think of how *‘low ,, these patients are inspirits aside from the exhausting resists of the attack. It comes then as a surprise when we learn that physicians and sur geons today are advising early oper ation in acute inflammation of the gall bladder as they believe that less damage to the patient’s general health results from operation than allowing a severe or repeated attack to affect the general health. Dr. F. Glenn, New York, in Sur gery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chicago, records the histories of the 219 patients with acute cholecystitis (in flammation of the gDfl bladder) who have been treated at the New York hos pital in the last six years. Early opera tion. is not difficult, there was not a greater number of complications, nor was the death rate higher than for ordinary or chronic gall bladder diseases. Dangers of Delay. Dr. Glenn states that as the out come of an acute inflammation of the gall bladder cannot be predict ed (even as in acute appendicitis), delay in operating may lead to dan gerous complications which greatly increase the difficulty of'operation and increase the death ra4e also. The younger the patient undergoing operation, the better the. chance of an uneventful recovery and good re sult from operation. From his observation of these 2ft cases, Dr. Glenn recommends that patients with disease of the. gall bladder and bile tubes or ducts un dergo operation as soon £s it is known that this disease is present unless the general condition of the patient is such that further medical treatment should first be given. • * « Facts Regarding High Blood Pressure 'TpHERE was a time when the first thought when a patient had a temperature was to give a drug— acetanilid, phenacetine, quinine, or other—to reduce the temperature. Today, the physician takes the tem perature and pulse as usual but searches around to find the cause of the temperature. If the tempera ture gets very high, he may give some drug to reduce it slightly but he knows that the rise in tempera ture shows that nature is putting up a fight against some invader. It would seem that the time has come for patients and physicians to take the same stand about blood pressure. A patient learns that his blood pressure is a little above nor mal add wants to take medicine or follow a diet to bring it down. Dr. Edward Weiss of Philadelphia in “Practical Talks on Kidney Dis ease,” says: “Let us take the example of a middle-aged man who has been turned down by a life insurance company because of high blood pres sure. He goes to his physician and demands to know the blood pressure figures; on each visit to the physi cian he waits with anxious concern to hear the latest reading and fre quently has ideas of ‘stroke,’ ‘heart failure,’ or Bright’s disease in the back of his mind.” Why Nature Raises Blood Pressure. Now, what about high blood pres sure? As a matter of fact, nature has raised the blood pressure be cause it was necessary to raise or increase it due to some condition present in the body. This condition may be a real or organic condition such as hardening of the arteries, or it may be some condition such as eating too much or worrying too much. It is possible that some in fection is present which is giving the body processes more work to do and the blood pressure increases accordingly. All that is necessary in many cases is smaller meals, more rest and relaxation, and not bothering to have the blood pressure taken moro than two or three times a year. QUESTION BOX Q.—Could you suggest any sort of ear plugs to keep noises from pre venting me from sleeping? I am having a great deal of trouble. A.—Rubber ear stoppers used by swimmers to keep water out of the ears can be purchased in most drug stores. Absorbent cotton helps to some extent. A special wax which yon can mold yourself to fit in ear canal likewise can be purchased in some stores. f* » lJ , i ’ * j : ‘ A CHANGE IN THE MEAT COURSE (See Recipes Below) “Meat makes the meal,” especial ly when there are husky, hard-work ing men to feed. But for those be hind the scenes in the kitchen, think ing up a different and a flavorsome meat dish for each day out of the seven is no small task. There are two ways to approach the problem. First, investigate some of the less- common cuts. You’ll find them thrifty to buy be cause the demand for them is less. Most of them fairly abound in good flavor and need only to be properly cooked to be serious rivals to more expensive cuts. If you are buying pork, ask the meat dealer to prepare you a hand some rolled sirloin roast. It’s a thrifty cut not so well known as the pork loin roast but it has decided advantages. \Two sections of the pork sirloin are boned and tied to gether into a solid roll of meat. The round, compact slices offer no ob structions to the knife, and are the answer to a carver’s prayer. The picnic shoulder of pork is another cut of exceptional flavor. Have it boned, stuff it with spinach and roast it. If it’s too soon for another leg of lamb, buy a section of lamb breast and have it rolled with a layer of sausage. Slice off the meat as you would a jelly-roll; you’ll have the neatest pinwheels imaginable. Lamb shoulder and lamb shoulder chops are two other not-so-well- known possibilities. The second way to coax some va riety into your meat dishes is to try new ways of flavoring cuts that you serve often. If much of your meat supply comes from a frozen foods locker, this is your best bet. Have pork chops cut double thick and stuff them with a tart -mix ture of sauerkraut and apple. Your family will beam approval when you serve that combination! Or make your next ham loaf like an upside-down cake so that when you turn it out, there are rows of bright- as-a-dollar apricots across the top. Try canned gooseberries as a relish with ham or beef, or canned Dam son plums with veal. Pork Chops Stuffed With Sauerkraut And Apple. (Serves 6) 6 loin pork chops (cut 1-inch thick) 1 cup sauerkraut (drained) 1 cup tart, red cooking apple (diced) (unpared) •% teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons fat % cup sauerkraut juice. Have a pocket made from the out side of each chop. Combine sauer- craut with finely diced unpeeled apple and stuff the chops with the mixture. Sea- f \ son them with / salt and pepper ^ and brown on both sides in hot fat in a heavy skillet. Add sauer kraut juice, cover, and finish the cooking in a moderate oven (350 degrees). Bake for \Vz hours, and remove the cover during the last 15 minutes of baking to brown the chops. Round Steak, Western Style. (Serves 6) 2 pounds round steak 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 2 medium onions (sliced) % lemon (sliced) 1 No. 1 can condensed tomato’soup (1% cups) 1 cup water Have round steak cut % inch thick. Spread with butter and sprin kle with salt and pepper. Arrange slices of thinly cut onion and lemon over steak. Dilute tomato soup with water and pour over steak. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 2 hours uncovered. Boneless Sirloin Pork Roast With Stuffed Apples. Have the meat retailer remove the tenderloin and bones from two sirloin sections, reverse the ends, and tie the two boneless pieces to gether in a compact rolled roast. Season with salt and pepper and place with the fat side up in an open roasting pan. Make an inci sion to the center of the roast and insert a meat thermometer so that the center of the bulb reaches the center of the fleshiest part of the meat. Place the roast in a mod erate oven (350 degrees) and roast until the thermometer registers 185 degrees Fahrenheit. Allow about 30 minutes per - pound for roasting. Serve with rice-stuffed apples. Rice-Stuffed Apples. 6 medium-sized baking apples 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 cup rice (cooked) 1 tablespoon butter Vz cup water Wash apples and cut a slice from the top of each. Remove the cores and seeds and sprinkle the cavities with brown sugar. Mix cooked rice with melted butter and stuff each apple. Arrange them in a baking pan with the water in the bottom and bake for \Vz hours, or until ten der in a moderate oven (350 de* grees). Lamb Pinwheels. (Serves 5) Boned breast of lamb (about 3Vfr pounds) f % pound bulk pork sausage 2 tablespoons fat 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper * 1 small onion (sliced) 1 cup tomatoes (canned) 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce Have the lamb breast boned, spread wit!! bulk pork sausage, rolled, and tied or skewered into shape at the mar ket. Wipe the meat with a damp cloth and dry. Then brown on all sides in hot fat. Pour off the fat in the pan, leaving 2 tablespoons only. Season the roll with salt and pepper. Add sliced onion, tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce. Cover tightly and cook very slowly until done, about IVz hours. Slice into pinwheels, using a very sharp, khife. Cushion Style Pork Shoulder With Spinach Stuffing. (Serves 10) Boned picnic shoulder (about 5 pounds) 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1% cups drained spinach (cooked or canned) 2 tablespoons onion (minced) 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 cups fine, soft bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt Va teaspoon pepper Have the picnic shoulder boned and sewed on two sides at the mar ket. This leaves one side open for inserting the stuffing. Season the surface of the pork shoulder with salt and pepper. Combine the spin ach, onion, butter, lemon juice and bread crumbs. Season with salt and pepper and use to fill the cavity of the roast. Sew or skewer the edges together. Place the shoulder, fat side up, on a rack in an open roasting pan and roast in a mod erate oven (350 degrees) until done. Allow about 40 minutes per pound for the roasting. THE JANUARY BIRTHDAY The food makes the party, es pecially for a round-eyed young ster of six or eight. If you have a January birthday coming up you will find both menu and rec ipe help in Eleanor Howe’s Cook Book “Easy Entertaining.” Party food for all ages, from the three- year-olds to the teen-age group is but one of the sections in her book. If you need new suggestions for your hostessing, send 10 cents in coin to “Easy Entertaining” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Mich igan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, for your copy. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAVI chool Lesson By fcAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for January 12 1 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. CHRIST’S VALUATION OF PERSONALITY LESSON TEXT—Luke 14:1-14. GOLDEN TEXT—Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?— Matthew 6:25. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) People, people, and more people! Have you ever said, “I’m just so tired of people. I wish I could get away from everybody”? Most of us have felt that way some time and have possibly needed and de served a rest. We must not permit that feeling to so color our thinking, however, that we lose our interest in men and women, boys and girls. Jesus had His times of prayer and quiet communion with the Father, but for the most part we find Him out among people. He loved them and consequently dealt faithfully with them, showing tenderness to those who needed it, and often be ing severely plain and' direct in dealing with those who were hypo crites. He valued human person ality highly, hence He gave Himself in sacrificial devotion to winning, guiding, controlling and, above all, saving men. The lesson presents some inter esting contrasts. I. How and How Not to Use the Sabbath (w. 1-6). Jesus was at a formal gathering with invited guests (v. 7) in one of the chief houses of the Commu nity, on the Sabbath Day. That such a gathering was held on that day was a sign of the degeneracy of the age. “The same thing is being done on Sunday by Christian people to day. They go to church (if con venient) in the morning and devote the afternoon and evening to recre ation and social” occasions. We agree with Dr. Morgan that “the whole thing is a sign of spiritual decadence.” That’s how not to spend the day of rest and worship. Another wrong thing was that they used the occasion to try to entrap Jesus. He was at the feast, not to “have a good time,” but to minister to their spiritual needs. They brought the sick man in to tempt Jesus to heal on the Sabbath Day. He used their trickery to condemn them and to silence them (vv. 4, 6). Declaring God’s truth and His love for man by worship and by work for Him—that is the right way to use the Lord’s Day. Let’s get back to its proper observance. II. What and What Not to Do for Advancement (w. 7-11). Getting ahead, even at the expense of others, seems to have been quite the thing in our Lord’s time, as it is today. Looking at that smug, self- satisfied crowd of “grabbers,” Je sus made good use of His presence at the fe^st to exppse their folly and selfishness. Again we agree with Dr. Morgan that one should not “try for the chief seat. Why not? Be cause the place of honor is for the honorable man; and a man who struggles to sit in the place of honor proves thereby that he is not an honorable man.” Think it over! The way up in spiritual things is always down. Humility, which is so despised by the world, is precious in the sight of God, and will be re warded by Him. The principle stat ed in verse 11 is and always will be true. The young man or woman who really wants to get ahead will do well to let it control both thought and deed. It is a far better rule for the New Year than any resolu tion you may have made—and prob ably forgotten by now. III. Who and Who Not to Invite for Dinner (vv. 12-14). Is the Lord interested in such a matter as that? Indeed He is! Ev erything about life concerns Him, and, as a matter of fact, this is a i very important point. Here an at titude toward life is revealed which is vital and fundamental. Hospitality is a virtue highly re garded by the Bible (see such pas sages as Rom. 12:13; I Tim. 3:2; Titus 1:8; I Pet. 4:9). To debase it by asking only those whom we ex pect will ask us in return, is really to destroy it. It is not hospitality at all to limit our invitations to those who invite us. Obviously we are not to cut them off simply be cause they do ask us. That is not the point. We are not to let that be the controlling factor. Ask those who cannot pay you back, if you really want to get a J blessing out of it. There is so much need in the world that we who fol low Christ have little time to spend merely entertaining those who have no need. God will recompense. Dr. J. W. Bradbury in The Gist of the Lesson well says, “There is a good reason not to seek recompense here; there are more enduring and valu able recompenses hereafter (Matt. 6:1-6, 16-18). When we get no rec ompense here for the good we do, we ought rather to rejoice than be sad. It assures better recompense hereafter.” He goes on to say, “The profess ing church has often followed the world’s method rather than Christ’s (James 2:1-6).” Sad—but true. What shall we do about it? HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Filling the icebox with scraps of left-over food is a waste of room and usually of food. Never allow them to accumulate. * • * Plant bulbs close to the window panes and away from the heat of the room instead of starting them in a dark room. You will get better results. A little sweet cream spread over the top crust of a pie before it is put into the oven will make the crust brown and flaky. • * • Brass knockers and doorknobs that are exposed to the weather Will stay clean and bright longer if rubbed with paraffin after they are cleaned and polished with a soft, dry cloth. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Comfort Stomach, too When constipation brings' on acid in- Higestion, Stomach upset, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and bad breath, your stomach is probably “crying the blues” because your bowels don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, combined with Syrup Pepsin to save your tduchy stomach from further dis tress. For years, many Doctors have used pepsin compounds as vehicles, or car riers to make other medicines agreeable to your stomach. So be sure your laxa tive contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pepsin. See how wonderfully the Laxative Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your intestines to bring welcome relief from constipation. And the good old Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so comfortable and easy on your stomach. Even finicky children love the taste of this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative Senna at your druggist today. Try one laxative that comforts your stomach, too. Spark, of Conscience Labor to keep alive in your, breast that little spark of celestial) fire called conscience.—^Washing ton. O King Features 8 All Riffhts I GOOD REASONS WHY 'use MUSTEROLE for CHEST COLDS Mother—Give YOUR Child This Same Expert Care! At the first sign of a chest cold the Quintuplets’ throats and chests are rubbed with Children’s MUd Musterole —a product made to promptly relieve the DISTRESS of children’s Colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Relief usually comes quickly because Musterole is MORE than an ordinary “salve.” It helps break up local con gestion. 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