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l McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 Children’s Wardrobe Problems Made Simple by Home Sewing By CHERIE NICHOLAS J ACK’S beanstalk of fairy tale days has nothing on little girls when it comes to growing rapidly. They seem to change from day to day, once they pass the doll-like stage of babyhood. It’s a problem every mother has to face, but it is surpris ing how simple a problem it be comes if you can sew. The many needed changes don’t upset the most rigid budget if wardrobes are planned carefully. In the first place cotton fabrics are not only practical and inexpen sive but smart as well. This spring, sand-boxes and dancing school alike will see cotton frocks on all of For tune's favorite tikes. There are in numerable enchanting fabrics that cost so little you can make a six- year-old daughter a complete ward robe of spring frocks for five or six dollars. It’s smart this season, too, to make children’s clothes from the same basic pattern, varying mate rials and trimmings. This is a bless ing for a busy mother. You’ll find most children’s patterns are so sim ple this season that you can com plete a whole frock in a couple of hours’ time. The princess silhouette, as grace ful and, becoming to almost every child as its name implies, is particu larly favored right now. For play time, make it of sturdy denim or striped seersucker. Percale and gingham, crisp and trim, are favor ites for school, likewise pique, which is simply ideal for practical wear. You can get pique in the new pas tels as well as in white. As shown in the illustration, the little girl standing has on a winsome frock made princess style. To add to its charm, it has a cunning zippered front fastening. Mothers find that these gay colored zippers prove a constant source of delight to young sters. When party time calls something more dainty, novelty organdy or dot ted swiss would be a good choice, and as for dimity, it is more of a favor ite than ever. An Alice-in-Wonder land dimity frock is the pride and the joy of the little girl seated in the picture. In size four, this little dress costs but a few cents over a dollar to make, including organdy frills, tiny pearl buttons, pattern and thread. The same pattern in ging ham makes a cunning play frock. A most commendable thing about the frilled organdy panel that adds such a dainty touch to this gown is that it is made detachable so that the frills may be laundered sepa rately. One of the delights of prin cess frocks is that they also are easy to launder. No gathers, no pleats! Be sure you use boilfast thread when you are sewing, so that it won’t run or fade. Also, if you want to leave an extra two inches in the hem to take care of rapidly growing legs, boilfast thread will leave no mark when the hems are changed. The pinafore with its apron and bib, so charming for little girls, has been revived, and a very sensible fashion it is. A change-about of guimpes and skirts is a flexible wardrobe note to be remembered when active playtime makes many changes necessary. You can often use last year’s outgrown dresses to make the apron and pinafore bib. Use the extra fabric of the sleeves for little ruffles over the shoulders or for a big pocket on the skirt to hold a favorite toy. A good time to teach youngsters to sew is when you are making their clothes. With a little supervision, leftover pieces of material can be fashioned into doll clothes just like mother’s. You can’t start them too young, and doll clothes are by far the happiest medium of approach. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Twin Hankies Striking accessory notes are a fashion “must” this season. Your quest for novelty and chic should lead you to the handkerchief counter where you will be rewarded with a real “find” in the way of plaid hankies. The “trick” is to wear these plaids in pairs, as here shown. You may choose these hankies in little pin checks or big bold plaids, with background colors that match or blend with the latest colors. These hankies never fail to add that dash of spice to the always smart, simple suit. Lace Rediagotes A pretty fashion to be worn in late spring and throughout summer is the long redingote made of sturdy lace in colors, and in black or white. It is perfectly stunning when worn as a summer wrap. Pleats, Longer Jackets Mark Newest Spring Suits Precision in tailoring mars spring suits for 1941. Fashion has determined that m’lady will wear pleats in the suit skirt—knife, box or twin box pleats in back or front, but plain at the side. The fashionable length for jackets is 24 inches or wrist length. Other details to keep in mind if buying or making a suit are single link closing, neatly squared shoulders padded flush with the arm, and hip flap pockets. Take your pick of the so-called “open shirt” revers, or the elongat ed type that creates the impression of a longer waist. The fancy femi nine suit has a shorter jacket with a definitely nipped-in waist and easy fullness in the skirt. Knife pleating, grouped pleats, new soft yokes, dou ble flap pockets and chunky gold buttons are characteristics. Chenille Dots in Veils Latest Addition to Hats Ask at the veiling counter to see the new confetti veils. Chenille dots that look like huge snowflakes are closely scattered all over the fragile backgrounds. Cover your hat with this veil in billowy masses and you will achieve a true “spring” look. All veils have a most fetching way about them this season. Their sole mission is to flatter and to lend allure. Little flower hats have as their main keynote whimsical color ful veils. Wide brims are also flat teringly veiled this season. Dolman Sleeves A coat destined to be a highlight in fashion is the new shirtwaist type with dolman sleeves. Its utter sim plicity of cut and styling is its charm. ■••’■■■■| M PR OV ED 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.) S. S. Lesson for April 27 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE EARLY CHURCH MEETING HUMAN NEEDS LESSON TEXT—Acts 4:32-35; 6:1-7. GOLDEN TEXT—And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul.—Acts 4:32. Machinery without power is use less—that is why in the lesson of last Sunday the power of the Holy Spirit was recognized as being in dispensable in the church. One sometimes wonders whether we do not now have more machinery than power, and thus fail in our high calling. Power, on the other hand, Reaches its greatest usefulness through the organization of well-planned ma chinery. The church soon found that its activities, simple at the be ginning, had become more com plex, calling for suitable organiza tion, if it was to best serve the needs of its own people and of those round about it. In so organizing they did not forget this fundamental purpose of the church, nor did they forsake the true source of power. I. Sharing With the Brethren (4: 32-35). Love for one another prompted the Christian brethren to meet each other’s need by sharing, by holding all they owned for the common good. This was not (as some would have us believe) a type of commu nism. It was purely voluntary (see Acts 5:4), temporary, and local. It was practiced only in Jerusalem and only for a short time. It was an expression of Christian brother hood and liberality which is worthy of our consideration. The duty and privilege of sharing material as well as spiritual bless ings is a part of Christian fellow ship. Those in the church who have should willingly share with those who have not. Some churches have so effectively carried out this plan today that none of their members is on relief. Not every church can do that, but much more could be done if we had the considerate spirit of the early Christian church, which was indeed the spirit of Christ. 'II. Caring for the Unfortunate (6:1, 3, 5, 6). The church had come through its first real persecution (Acts 5:12-42) with real victory and assurance (5: 42), only to face an internal difficul ty. Wherever the Lord blesses, the enemy comes to destroy. Whenever a door of service opens, there are many adversaries ( I Cor. 16:9). There were two groups in the church—the Hebrew Christians, and those with a Greek background. Among the poor to whom daily dis tribution of help must be made were many widows. Suddenly the Gre cian group began to note (or think they noted, which was just as dis turbing) that their widows were be ing neglected. Notice that men of good character and spirituality were chosen to serve, and that all of them bore Greek names. The Greeks, who were doubtless in the minority in the Jerusalem church, had a complaint, so those who were appointed to serve were their own people. We might have been tempted to appoint a committee made up of half from each side (and thus to continue the dissension), but not so here where grace and wisdom from above con trolled. Do not fail to observe that there was here a well-ordered plan to care for the weak and unfortunate. No Christian church should fail in that important ministry. III. Preaching the Word (w. 2, 4, 7). Social service is necessary—the church should make intelligent pro vision for its poor and its widows— but it makes a fatal mistake when such service becomes more impor tant than the preaching and teach ing of God’s Word. Let those ap pointed to that blessed ministry find joy in sanctified social service, but never let it pre-empt the place of evangelism. Certainly such service must not become the all-absorbing task of the one who has been set by God as the messenger to the church—the spir itual shepherd of the flock. Many a preacher has lost himself in such work, and failed to study and pray so that he might be prepared to preach the Word in power and with conviction. Too many preachers are attempting to shake a sermon out of their coat sleeves on Satur day night (as Joseph Parker put it) only to find that their ministry grows leaner and leaner until, reaching the years when there should be a matured richness and sweetness in their ministry of the Word, they find their message dead, dull and dry. Such folly ill befits the Christian church of its ministers. Perhaps some minister who reads these lines should change his ways, and per chance many a church officer who reads them should realize that he has been driving his preacher into work which, while important, should be (for him, at least) secondary. First things first, in God’s own or der—that i$ the road of power and blessin**- NEW IDEAS jjQSi cttame-mcJze/iA. By Ruth Wyeth Spears PASTE PLAIN FABRIC IMSIDE AMD FIGUREDI OUTSIDE WITH STIFF PASTE CUTv CARDBOARD' TO FIT OUTSIDE HAT J CROWN f JOIN END WITH GUMMED SPREAD UBBER CEMI ON BOTH SIDES OF* EDGES AND THE BACK OF BIAS TAPE*LET DRY AND THEN PLACE TAPE OYER EDGE AND PRESS WITH A WARM IRON/ , E'EMININE headgear usually ^ holds its shape best if it rests right side up on a stand that fits inside the crown, but this is not true of^i man’s hat. Its dashing lines may be preserved by plac ing it upside down in a holder. All of which is worth remember ing when you are fixing up “his” closet or even when you are gen erously preparing to share a small corner of your own. The man’s hat box, shown here, is covered on the outside with ma roon and blue cotton print and lined with blue chambray. The lid and the front of the box are hinged with adhesive tape before the cov ering is pasted on with stiff pas|e. The stand is made of cardboard, as shown in the sketch, and is covered to match the box. The maroon bias tape edging of the stand is cemented in place in a way that you may find useful in making many other things. The secret is in spreading the cement evenly on both surfaces, letting it dry, and then vulcanizing the two together with the heat of the press ing iron. • • • NOTE: Why not put away Winter things all nicely mended? It will be grand to get them out in perfect order next Fall. Mrs. Spears’ Book 2 shows you how to do the most professional kinds of mending, as well as every day household mending. There is a simple, quickly made zipper bag for five garments in SEWING Book 6. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 20 cents for Books 2 and 6. Name Address One Action Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful -sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.—Lowell. ASK ME ANOTHER A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects The Questions 1. Which science has been called the dismal science? 2. Whose inventions made the motion picture an accomplished fact? 3. What makes a fish so slip pery? 4. What is the explanation of sun dogs? 5. In what naval battle did Cleo patra figure? 6. How far is a pitcher’s box from home plate? Proving That Doctors Don 9 t Know Everything A doctor’s telephone rang when he was trying to go to sleep. The caller was in a wild state of alarm. “My wife, doctor!” he shouted. “It’s her appendix. You’d better come round quick.” “Keep her quiet in bed,” said the doctor, “and I’ll come around tomorrow. She hasn’t got appen dicitis.” The husband became even wild er, however, insisting that the doc tor should come at once. “Look here,” said the doctor at last, “you know that I took out her appendix three years ago, and nobody has two appendixes.” “Ever heard of anybody having two wives?” asked the husband. 7. Who discovered radio waves? 8. In Oliver Wendell Holmes’ fa mous poem, how long did the won derful one horse shay run before it collapsed? 9. In ancient mythology Cerber us was what? 10. Who introduced the Fascist salute? The Answers 1. Economics. 2. Thomas A. Edison. 3. Its body is covered with a mucus, constantly secreted by special glands, which minimizes the friction between its body and the water. 4. According to the U. S. weath er bureau, this term, applied to a form of halo around the sun, is caused by the refraction of sun light by myriads of tiny six-sided ice crystals floating in the upper atmosphere. 5. Actium. 6. Sixty feet five inches. 7. Heinrich Hertz. 8. One hundred years. 9. A dog which guarded the gates of Hades. 10. The Fascist salute was intro duced by D’Annunzio, the Italian poet. 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