Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942 AIL the-"" HiMJSE by Roger S-Whitman HHjailas (© Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.) Oil Burner Success M ANY of my correspondents are planning to equip their house heaters witb-oil burners, and ask my opinion of the various makes that are offered to them. As a matter of fadt, all oil burners can give good service. The choice is not among the different makes, but among the local oil burner installers. The best oil burner made will not work well if it is not properly installed, nor will a burner continue to give sat isfaction unless it is under the super vision of a competent service man. The first step in buying an oil burn er should be to inquire among oil burning friends for their opinions of the local installers, with the idea of selecting an installer who is compe tent, skillful, likely to stay in busi ness, and will give quick and good service in times of need. A man of that type will have the agency for a reliable burner and can be de pended on to recommend the type and size of burner best adapted to the heating plant. I have often spo ken of the false economy of buying at cut prices, for it is likely to lead to poor service and dissatisfaction. This is especially true of oil burn ers; for if one is offered at a suspi ciously low price, there is reason to believe that the manufacturer may be going out of business, in which case there will be no source for spare parts. A good burner is worth paying for. Linoleum on Rough Floor Linoleum that is laid on a rough, worn and uneven floor will not last, for the roughnesses will quickly wear it through. When linoleum is to be laid on a floor in that condi tion the wood should be smoothed by scraping, or better yet, by sand ing with a heavy floor machine. An other method is to cover the floor with plywood. This can be one-half inch thick, and for convenience in laying, should be in pieces not more than four feet square, with the edges making tight joints. This forms a smooth and excellent surface, and linoleum cemented down over it should last almost indefinitely. The newly laid plywood will look so well that the home owner may well won der about covering it with linoleum. He should do so, however, for if not protected by a floor covering, the surface will quickly chafe and splin ter. Squeaky Bedspring Question: Several months ago the coil spring of a bed was soaked with rain coming through an open window. Ever since, there has been a terrible squeak. Oiling does not help. What can we do? Answer: You probably did not get the oil where it would do the most good. Using an oil can, put a drop of oil at every point where one piece of metal touches another. Then jounce the spring several times, so that the oil will work into the joint. Streaked Lampshade Question: I washed a silk lamp shade with soapy water and a sponge but when it dried the result was streaky. How can I clean it? Answer: Fill your bathtub with tepid water, with a few handfuls of soap flakes dissolved in it. Draw the lampshade through this slowly sev eral times, and then rinse with clear water. Pat with a bath towel and hang up to dry. Braid and oma* ments that may come off can b6 stuck back with glue. Kitchen Wall Finish Question: Walls of an old kitchen are uneven, being partly plastered and partly wallboard. Would plastic paint hide the roughness? Answer: Plastic paint made of gypsum will adhere to both plaster aqd wallboard, but you should give it a smooth finish. You can then enamel it, or use washable wall paper or wallcloth. Rusted Tools Question: What is the best way to remove rust from household tools? Could I use some kind of acid? Answer: Rub with emery cloth, wet with kerosene. You can also get rust-removing liquids at an automobile supply store. I do not recommend an acid. Crumbling Mortar Question: Brick mortar in house walls has been crumbling and wash ing away until part of the brickwork is bare. Why? What is the remedy? Answer: The mortar is porous, possibly because too much black coloring was used in proportion to the cement. Have it replaced by a competent mason. Finish for Stucco Question: Cement stucco over brick and stone must be repainted. What paint should we use? Answer: You can get a cement paint intended for that work. Any good paint store has it. Flour Worms Question: My kitchen cabinet has a sifter type flour bin, which tilts forward slightly to fill, and is diffi cult to reach into. I have several times found white worms in the flour. How can I get rid of them? Answer: Although the flour bin is built in, there is undoubtedly a method for releasing it and tak ing it out for cleaning. Scour well with strong soap, and give it a good sunning and airing. For surest re sults, abandon the bin and keep your flour in a tight canister. This is the real answer. Serve One-Dish Meals as Smart Budget-Stretchers (See Recipes Below) Appetite Appeal Plus Dents in the budget? Appetites fcdlted after the rich foods as a re sult of the double holidays? Well, you can smooth out those dents and at the same time perk up the , jaded appetites by smart, simple, easy - to - manage one - dish meals. Here’s a parade of palate-thrilling recipes with which you can sprint right along even with the slimmest of budgets. To stretch that food dollar, you can use leftover meats and vegeta bles that are called for in these casseroles. Yes, and what’s espe cially nice about them is that they’re tops in vitamins and min erals because they’re fortified with those perfect foods, milk and butter. As you’re pouring out the milk from the bottle, remember it’s just brim ming and bursting with health-giv ing qualities. Here’s a meal-in-a-dish which has a luscious butter and bread crumb topping to recommend it: *One-Digh-Meal. (Serves 6) 2 cups diced carrots (6 medium carrots) 1% cups diced celery 6 medium potatoes, pared and sliced 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk 1 cup meat stock or 1 bouillon cube in 1 cup hot water 1 teaspoon salt 3 to 6 tablespoons grated onion 1 cup peas (canned or fresh) 2 cups diced leftover meat Me cup sifted bread crumbs 3 tablespoons melted butter Cook carrots, celery and potatoes separately in boiling salted water until tender. Melt butter, blend in flour, add milk and meat stock. Cook over direct heat, stirring con stantly until sauce boils and thick ens. Add salt. Combine sauce with remaining ingredients, except crumbs and melted butter, and turn into a buttered casserole or baking dish. Combine crumbs and melted butter, sprinkle over surface. Bake in a moderate (350 degrees) oven 35 to 40 minutes. Cabbage, one of winter’s best vegetables, is featured in this cas serole of tuna or salmon: Scalloped Tuna and Cabbage. (Serves 8) 2 cups boiling water 2 quarts chopped cabbage 2 cups rich milk Vi pound American cheese Vi cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 can tuna or salmon, flaked 2 cups buttered bread crumbs Pour boiling water over cabbage, hpat to boiling, add 1 cup milk and cheese, cut in pieces. Cook over hot water until cheese is melted. Blend flour, salt and remaining milk and add to cabbage. Add tuna or LYNN SAYS: Can you name the one food that does most for your body’s health, most cheaply? Milk, of course! Why? Because milk does all of the following: 1. Promotes growth and main tains the body’s resistance to in fection through vitamin A. 2. Stimulates appetites and keeps the nerves in top-notch con dition through vitamin Bl; pro motes growth and keeps the skin healthy through vitamin B2(G). 3. Helps calcium and vitamin C to develop teeth and bones properly if fortified with vita min D. 4. As an excellent source of phosphorus, it also works to keep the teeth and bones in class A. 5. Milk’s proteins come to the fore in repairing wom-down tis sues and muscles and boosting growth. THIS WEEK’S MENU Cream of Mushroom Soup •One Dish Meal Green Bean Salad Bran Muffins Apple Betty wjith . Foamy Sauce Milk Tea Coffee •Recipe Given. salmon aqd put in buttered casse role. Top with crumbs and bake in moderate (350-degree) oven 20 min utes. Beef Pie. (Serves 6) 1 pound ground beef 1 onion, chopped Salt and pepper 2% cups green beans, cooked or canned 1 can tomato soup 4 large potatoes, cooked % cup warmed milk 1 beaten egg Salt and pepper Brown onion in hot fat, add meat and seasonings. Brown and add green beans and soup. Pour in greased casserole/ Mash potatoes, add egg, milk and seasonings. Scoop over meat and bake in a moderate oven. Baked potatoes and salmon are a favorite cold weather combination but have you . ever thought of / •. blending the two * ( & j together as one °v dish? No? Then you have a real & treat coming if you try: Salmon Stuffed Potatoes. (Serves 6) 6 potatoes, baked % cup hot milk 1 beaten egg Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 cups flaked salmon Vi cup minced onion, sauteed 2 tablespoons butter Buttered crumbs Split baked potatoes and scoop out. Mash the potatoes, add milk, egg, salt. Fold in salmon, lemon juice and onions. Refill shells and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven 20 minutes. Whisk away your problems with leftover chicken or turkey by serv ing the meat creamed with vege tables in the center of a rice ring, adding mushrooms, sauteed, if de sired. Serve it also cut up in cro quettes, in chicken tamale pie, cur ried with rice, scalloped with noo dles, in chop suey, or as a pie like this one here: Chicken Pie. (Serves 6 to 8) 3 cups diced, cooked chicken 1. cup diced, cooked carrots 6 cooked, small white onions 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 cup milk 1 cup chicken stock 2 tablespoons flour Salt and pepper Arrange chicken and vegetables in layers in casserole. Combine milk and chicken stock, add flour, blend ing in slowly. Cook until thick, stir ring constantly, then season. Pour over chicken and vegetables. Cover with a sweet potato crust and bake in a moderate oven 40 minutes. Sweet Potato Crust. This crust is the distinctive part of the chicken pie and a wonderful way to use up those few pota toes that are left over from the holiday dinner along with the chicken. It’s a crust de luxe, a crisp, golden brown topping well worthy of chicken pie: 1 cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ^ teaspoon salt 1 cup cold mashed sweet potato % cup fat, melted 1 beaten egg Sift dry ingredients. Work in mashed potato, milk and egg. Roll Vi inch thick, cover pie and flute edges. (Released hj '"-stern Newspaper Union.) A DD to the list of unusual Ameri- can clubs a new one that’s def initely a WOW! It’s the Wheelers of the World club and it’s made up of people named Wheeler—that is, those Wheelers who are “agin’ Burton K. and for •Fighting Joe.’ ” Its purpose, say Its sponsors, is “to revive the spirit of Fighting Joe and save the faces of all present-day Wheelers” (at least, those who don’t approve of the Montana senator’s isolationism), and its aim is “to raise enough money to buy a bomber for Britain and name it the ‘Fighting Joe’ Wheeler.” The man whom they thus pro pose to honor was one of the most colorful characters in American mil itary history. Graduated from West Point in 1859, Wheeler was appointed a lieu tenant in the United States army but resigned his commission when Georgia seceded from the Union. When he entered the Confederate army he was first made colonel of an infantry regiment and command ed a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh. ‘FIGHTING JOE’ WHEELER But the next year he was trans ferred to the cavalry and made a brigadier general. Promoted to major-general when he was only 26 years old, Wheeler was given command of the cavalry attached to the Army of Tennessee and in that position rendered invalu able service to its inept and inde cisive commander, Braxton Bragg. One of Wheeler’s political opponents later said of him that he “had never won a battle.” More important is the fact that he often saved the Army of Tennessee from defeat. For Wheeler proved that he under stood the true function of the cav alry, that of being the “eyes of the army,” and his right to fame rests upon the fact that he was an “army cavalryman,” not an “independent cavalryman.” Other Southern lead ers like Forrest, Stuart and Mor gan might perform spectacular feats as raiders, but all too often they were away on some dashing foray when they were most needed as the “eyes of the army” and it is doubtful if they were ever as valu able to their commanding generals as was “Fighting Joe.” That was the affectionate nick name his men gave him soon after he was transferred to the cavalry and he proved his right to it during the remainder of the war. By the time it was over, he had taken part in 400 engagements, been wounded three times and had 16 horses shot under him. “The gamest little banty l ever knew” was the tribute one of his friends paid him—he was only five feet five inches in height and weighed only 120 pounds. After the war he quickly adjusted himself to peace-time pursuits, studied law and was repeatedly elected to congress. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war, although 62 years old, he immediately applied for a commission and was made a ma jor-general of volunteers. Thus he became the only corps commander to wear both the gray and the blue. In Cuba the little “Georgia Gamecock” defied his commanding officer, General Shafter, who was as huge as Wheeler was small, and led 1,000 men in a wholly unauthorized but successful fight at Guasimas, the first battle of the Santiago cam paign. It was in the fury of this engagement that “Fighting Joe” is said to have forgotten that he wasn’t wearing a gray uniform and to have shouted “Come on, boys, give the Yankees hell!” He died in 1906 and was buried in Arlington. The prime mover in the organiza tion of the new club to “revive the spirit of ‘Fighting Joe’ Wheeler” is Elmer (“Sizzle”) Wheeler of Dal las, Texas, a nationally known sales consultant and author of the book “Tested Sentences That Sell.” He is also president of the Tested Selling Institute of New York, founded 12 years ago to test words and phrases for their relative value in making people buy things. He tells sales men “Don’t ask if—ask which.” It was his famous slogan “Don’t sell the steak—sell the sizzle” that gave him his nickname. an all-covering skirt and straps which stay firmly in place. A tie- on apron, pretty enough to be any one’s gift, is also included. • • • Pattern No. 8075 Is in sizes 14 to 20; 40 t 42 and 44. Size 16 pinafore apron re quires V/b yards 32-inch material, 6 yards ric rac. Tie-on apron, l\a yards, plus % yard contrast, and 3 yards binding. For these attractive patterns send your or der to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No Size Name Address Our Anger Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do common ly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually dis turb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.—Clarendon. rioji AN APRON which pleases for its efficiency as well as for its bright gay appearance, easily achieved with a few rows of ric rac, is presented here in a pat tern which is no trouble at all to follow. The picture shows you how this apron extends in back— (w (v« o- O* O- O - O* O- O* l ASK ME ? ANOTHER f l l A General Quiz B ? u The Questions 1. What is the mile-high city in the United States? 2. Why do air travelers have trouble with their fountain pens in higher altitudes? 3. What country is called Miz- raim in the Bible? 4. During the war with Spain who was commander-in-chief of our forces? 5. The core of the earth iskbe- lieved to be composed of what? 6. What is perique? 7. When did Benjamin Franklin receive his first airmail letter? The Answers 1. Denver, Colo. 2. The air in the pen (if pen is but partially full) expands, caus ing a leakage of ink. 3. Egypt. 4. William McKinley. 5. Nickel and iron. 6. A strong flavored tobacco. 7. In 1785, when in France. It was sent from England by bal loon. A. Vegetable Laxative For Headache, Biliousness, and Dizziness when caused by Consti pation. Use as directed on labeL 15 doses for only 10 cents. Dr. Hitchcock’s LAXATIVE POWDER Your Troubles Do not grieve upon your own, troubles: you would not have them, if you did not need them. Do not, grieve over the troubles of “oth ers”; there are no others.—Bolton Hall. CORNS GO VAST Pain goes quick; corns speedily removed whan yon use thin, soothing, cushioning Dr. Scholl’s Ztno-oads. Try theml D- Sc ho!Is Z' n ° ■pads Working to Forget I do not value fortune. The love of labor is my sheet anchor. • I work that I may forget, and for getting, I am happy.—Stephen GU rard. Charm of Life Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.—i Joseph Joubert. MOTHER! Give YOUR child same expert care used when nmcui « ~ ..... . _ _ .. At the first sign of a chest cold—the Dionne Quintuplets’throats and chests are rubbed with Musterole—a j>roduct made especially to promptly relieve DISTRESS of colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Musterole gives such wonderful results be cause it’s more than an MUSTEROlt helps break up local congestion. Since Musterole is used on the Quintuplets yon may be sure you’re using just about the BEST product made! IN 3 STRENGTHS Children’s Mild Mnster- ole. Also Regular and Extra Strength for grown-ups who prefer a stronger product. All Let’s go to town —at Hamel VTO TELLING what tomorrow's weather may be. It fools the best fore- IN caster. But we do want chintz for the windows. We do need a car pet sweeper, a new percolator, and a new end-table in the living-room. And we don’t want to slosh around rainy streets to hunt them. Problem: How to thwart the weatherman. Simple enoughl Let's sit down by the fireplace and read the advertisements. Here it's comfortable and snug. We'll take the newspaper page by page, compare prices, qualities, brand-names. Tomorrow, rain or shine, we'll head for the store that has what we want, and home again in a jiffy. •"Buying at Home"—through the advertising columns—gives you wide selection, more time to decide, and satisfaction when you decide. • MAKE IT ONE OF YOUR PLEASANT HABITS!