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u H MeCORMICK MESSENGER. MeCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, Marcli 8, 1945 Sbuonalt Miss Mary Ann Cosey spent the wee* end In Augusta with rela tives. Mrs. Wistar Harmon of Green wood spent Thursday night here with Mrs. C. H. Huguley. Mrs. Jim Edwards of Greenwood was here for the week end with her parents, Dr.* and Mrs. C. H. Workman. Mr. Carl Hinfy Strom, student at the University of Ga„ Athens, spent the past week end here with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Strom. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dukes and little daughter of Savannah spent the past week end here with Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dukes. Mrs. David Wardlaw had as her guest here Thursday, her sister, Mrs. T. S. Buie, of Spartanburg. Miss Lillie Bell Rogers of Colum bia spent the past week end here with her mother, Mrs. Verna Rog ers. Mrs. Edward Laye and Mrs. W. M. Tiller of Greenville spent the past week end here with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Coleman. DR. HENRY J. 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The Buffalo Grange will meet Monday night, March 12th, at the Buffalo school house at 7:45 o' clock. Mt. Carmel News Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. J. J. White, Mrs. E. White and Mrs. hunter McKinney were shopping in Augusta Tuesday. Prof. George McCelvey of York spent the week ehd with Sen. and Mrs. L. L. Hester. Dr. L. L. Hester of Charleston spent the week end with his par ents, Sen. and Mrs. L. L. Hester. Mrs. J. M. Stone and daughter, Mrs. James Holmes and Mrs. Cal vin Norman of Greenwood were guests of Mr. D. W. Harling and Miss Monnie Harling Monday to celebrate Mr. Harling’s seventy sixth birthday. It was quite a happy and pleasant day for all, and all enjoyed the delicious din ner served by the ladies. Quite a number of the Mt. Car mel people attended the marriage of Miss Virginia Watson and Capt. T. A. Able, U. S. Army, which took place in the Main St. Methodist Church in Abbeville March 1 at Remember — You Always Save At... GALLANT-BELK COMPANY I PALMOLIVE BATH 2 For 19c SUPER SUDS Lge., 23c OCTAGON SOAP 6 For 24c OCTAGON CLEANSER 3 For 10c OCTAGON GRANULATED 2 For 15c OCTAGON TOILET SOAP 5 For 20c OCTAGON POWDER Lge., 6 For 24c OCTAGON FLAKES 3 For 25c HONEYSUCKLE SOAP 5 For 20c GALLANT-BELK COMPANY HOME OF BETTER VALUES GREENWOOD, S. C. 8:30 o'clock. Many friends wish for the happy young couple a hap py life. Miss SalliS T. Cade of Converse came home last week to attend the marriage of her niece, Miss Vir ginia Watson. Miss Carolyn Hester of Win- throp College spent a few days at home last week. X Sti v 1 Inclf JSmtmn 1 ROBERT H HARPER f j The Cost of Discipleship. Lesson for March 11: Matthew 19: !6-26, 29. Memory Verse: Matthew 16:24. Congresswoman Rankin told of a small boy who, when asked by hia Sunday school teacher which he would rather be — Dives or Lazarus, replied: *Td rather be Dives when I’m living and Lazarus when I’m dead.” Sadly enough, he expressed what seemed to be the philosophy of the. rich young man ( and of many others. Expressing a laudable desire and claiming to have kept all the com mandments, the young man went away sorrowful, indicating that he had utterly failed to live by the law of love in which Jesus summed up all the commandnaehts. ) After his departure, Jesus .spoke of the difficulty of a rich ‘tnan’s entering the kingdom. It would be impossible for a oamel to go through a needle’s eye and, if there was in Jerusalem’s wall a small gate known as the “Needle’s Eye,” as some suppose, it would have been hard enough for a camel to pass through. It is certainly hard enough for a rich man to enter the kingdom. But Jesus told the aston ished disciples that with God all things are possible. With God, a rich man can overcome the love of money/! consecrate his wealth to large service, and "be saved.” The cost of discipleship is great, but the reward is infinitely great er. The memory verse bids a man do more than practise a little “self- denial," bo as to make, for ex ample, a larger gift to missions— it bids him “deny himself," deny his right to do just as he pleases with his life and his possessions. And it calls upon him to take up his cross, consecrate his all, and follow Jesus. ^ - * — \HOME £y MARY & m&m } T HIS business of eating today is far from simple. We must base our menus on available foods, per fectly cooked and so attractively served that we create the illusion that we really are not doing with out many of our accustomed com modities. We all want to take rationing in our stride and welc n it with the realization that the food disappearing from our tables is going to feed our fighting men all over the world. Menu planning today is a challenge, a case of not getting along without but of making the most of the -Ifoods we have. In order to avoid nsing too many restricted meats, plan main meat dishes for the week, then the rest #f the mepo. Plan desserts using? a minimum of sugar, substituting honey and maple syrup whenever pos sible, but don’t neglect them. Use margerine and vegetable oils and fats for all cooking and baking, thereby saving your butter for table use only. Re member when you substitute an unsalted fat for butter to in crease the amount of salt. Learn to use-meat products with low ration value. Liver, beef and pork as well as veal, tongue .and, heart are splendid foods. Carefully; prepared and cooked they make de licious savory main dishes. These meat specials are not lack-* ing in food value. In fact they are rich sources of vitamins, with livei heading the list and kidney a close second. Liver—whether calf, beef pork or lamb—is considered om best source of the anti-anemie factor and is especially rich in vita min A and the minerals—iron anc copper. J If calf’s liver isn’t available don’t scorn the other varieties Long, slow cooking will result i: tasty, nourishing dishes. Serv braised beef liver with mashe potatoes, browned parsnips, cab bage and grapefruit salad topped off with gingerbread and custard sauce for dessert. Braised Beef Liver. One pound liver, 4 cups boiling water, % cup chopped onion, 3 ta^ blespoons fat, 1% cups tomatd juice, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 teai spoons salf, V\ teaspoon pepper, ^ teaspoon powdered sage. Have liver sliced about % of an inch thick. Pour boiling water ovei} liver and drain. Add seasonings to flour. Cut liver slices in two inc squares and dredge thoroughly wit seasoned flour. Brown in hot fa on all sides, add onion and bro lightly. Turn into casserole. Rinse spider with tomato juice and pout over liver. Cover and bake in d moderate oven for 40 minutest Remove cover, top with fluffy mashed potatoes and return to hot oven long enough to lightly brown .now to Author of r>or of t. sassB*- HOW TO GAIN SELF-CONFIDENCE ~ D R. W. W. CHARTERS, who is connected with Stephens. college, Columbia, Mo., has worked out a way by which > the girls of that school can gain self-confidence. His method • will work not only for college girls, but for anyone who ! wishes to apply it. First, he says more people are held back by lack of self- ’ confidence than by lack of ability. And that usually lack of • self-confidence comes from some youthful failure in some- ‘ thing the person has been eager to make a success of. In addition to that here are the three chief reasons for lack of self-confidence: 1. The fear of what people will think of you. • 2. Fear of what the future holds for you. 3* Fear that if you start something new you will not. make a success of it. One reason you haven’t self-confidence is that you may be a perfectionist. That is, you want to have everything done in the very best possible way; when you realize things have not come up to your 4sy expectation, then your self-esteem slips. v Dr. Charters also says that people who are lacking in • self-confidence are the most apt to succeed—once they have overcome this lack. So remember this, if you do lack self-! confidence and are willing to pay the price to overcome it. Rule 1. Compare yourself to other people. But also real-! ize that they are also probably comparing themselves to* those they consider more successful than themselves. Rule 2. Take the man you admire most, and who seems * most superior to you, and draw up a list of things which you do better than he does. You will see that, after all, he is not such a whiz. . i Rule 3. Draw up a list of the things you’ve undertaken in f the past and succeeded in doing well. You’ll be surprised * how many you’ve undertaken in the past and succeeded in i doing well. Rule 4. When you feel discouraged, and are at your low-' est ebb, then look over this list and think of the things you’ve * done well. Make that list a reminder of what you have the! possibilities of accomplishing in the future. Rule 5. Remember that self-confidence comes and goes.i That it is not a steady and unfluctuating mental reaction. In* other words you may lack self-confidence today but tomor-‘ row you may carry your head high and your chin out. AlseJ remember you are more apt to find self-confidence lacking) when you are tired—especially at night. The world will not* seem so against you in the morning as when you hit the hay 1 at night. Rule 6. Remember that each time you accomplish a thing i you are just that much stronger; that each accomplishment* is a step up the ladder. > Rule 7. Remember that most of the worthwhile things in> this world have been accomplished by persons who at some^ time or other have lacked self-confidence. J Follow these seven *ules and you’ll find your self-confi-» dence mounting, and you’ll accomplish things that once- 1 seemed impossible. _ J o Pamttiood BY MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS , Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine REACTIONS OF PROBLEM CHILDREN A DULTS sometimes forget in dealing with an unruly boy or « irl that a problem child is a child 4th a problem. If you can discov er what it is—and that isn’t easy, for often the child doesn’t know himself—and help him work it out, your own problem of unsatisfactory behavior on the child’s part will usu ally disappear. Children haven’t the experience to analyze problems, as adults should be able to do, and then solep them rationally. So they react m one of three general ways. (1) They refuse to face the situation and try only to forget their difficulties. Here we have the habitual daydreamers, the radio addicts who pass up out door play to stay at the radio hours on end, the movie gluttons who sit through a show two or three times. Occasionally these children retreat into illness, an unconscious habit which may make lifelong in valid.; of them. (2) Another misguided way in which children meet problems is to pretend they don’t exist. Mary is unhappy because her sister is prettier than she. So Mary pre tends it is silly to comb your hair nicely or put your clothes on with care and really tries to look her worst. John is bewildered because his sister, a year younger, gets bet ter grades in school than he does. So he makes fun of her studious ness and refuses to put any effort into his own schoolwork. To pun ish Mary for slovenliness and John for laziness is to begin at the wrong end, like polishing the far lenses of a field glass and leaving the eye pieces smudged. Instead, Mary should be reas sured about present day standards of beauty. Tell her that today the girl with all the breaks so *ur as natural beauty is concerned often overlooked for a less pretty^ girl who takes the trouble to ac-4 quire dash and charm. Explain to/ John that girls as a rule mature f mentally eaflier than boys, and that it isn’t unusual for a younger girl v to appear smarter than a boy school—but that when they get out ’ into the world the boy, if he has ap- f plied himself in school even though ' not brilliant, is likely to leap ahead. of her in accomplishment. * (3) Then there are children who ’ fight back at their problems. This. is the healthiest and most normal 1 response but is perhaps most often ‘ misunderstood by adults. Because', even these children who stand up ■ to their difficulties rarely have the; wisdom or experience to fight them * directly, so they strike out in all- directions. Perhaps a boy is rebel- 1 ling because he can’t play games or get along with people as well as his brother. But he finds that mis behaving brings him as much atten- . tion or more than the older boy gets, , so he kicks up a continual rumpus. Though this is better than retreat ing in meekness, or than pretending he doesn’t want to play games or be liked, it can be very uncom fortable for the rest of the family. Instead of wasting his energy in tantrums, an aggressive child needs help in finding a game or other activity for which he has a special knack, and which can be developed until he, too, has a skill to be proud of. Often it takes someone outside the family—the child’s teacher, an understanding aunt, a consulting psychologist—to put a finger on the difficulty which is making a young ster a problem child. Modern par ents seek such help as readily as they take a child to a dentist to find the eiiusa of %