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THE Sim, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939 Quickly Memorized Square Is Exclusive Pattern 1849. Use up those odd moments crocheting this square that you’ll know by heart in no time. Six inches in string, an exceUent size tor cloths and spreads, it also lends itself effectively to many small accessories in finer cotton. Pattern 1849 contains directions for making the square; illustra tions of it and of stitches; mate rials required; photograph of square. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. ACTS FAST TO BRING RELIEF FROM COLDS This Simple Way Eases Pain with Amazing Speed L To eue pain and 2. If throat Is raw discomfort and re- from cold, crnah and daea farer lake 2 diasolra 1 Baras Barer Tablets— Tablets in H (lass af drinkaglaasof water, water... gargle. Use Genuine BAYER Aspirin— the Moment Your Cold Starts The simple way pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds. Try it. Then — see your doctor. He probably will tell you to con tinue with Bayer Aspinn because it acts so fast to relieve discomforts of a cold. And to reduce fever. This simple way, backed by acientific authority, nas largely sup planted the use of strong medicines in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps the easiest, most effective way yet discovered. But make sure you get genuine BAYER Aspi ' spina. 15* Iforutablets I FULL DOZEN 25c Work Is Never Vain No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice free ly made, was ever in vain.—F. W. Robertson. » How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men Here’s good advice for a woman during her change (usually from 38 to 62), who fears she’ll lose her appeal to men, who worries about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, upset nerves and moody spells. Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and if you need a good general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound, made especially for women. It helps Nature build up physical resirlance, thus helps give more vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that often accompany change of life. WELL WORTH TRYING! WATCH the Specials You can depend on the spe cial sales the merchants oi our town announce in the columnsoi this pa per.They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their mer chandise or their prices. Old Sore Spot, Memel Makes Trouble Again Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. Recent elections in Memel, Lithuania, resulting in reported Nazi party victories, swings the busy European news spot light to another German-border sore spot. Lying along the northeast frontier of East Prussia (now cut off from the rest of Germany by the "Polish Corridor”), Memel territory is an irregular sliver of land covering an area of about 1,000 square miles. In general a farming and cattle-raising region, it has a population of about 150,000 people Map showing MemeVs strate gic position as a Baltic outlet for Lithuania, also its contiguous position to German Prussia. and includes the long-contested and vital Baltic port of Memel—“Klai peda” to the Lithuanians. Given up by Germany under the Versailles treaty, Memelland was administered by the Allied powers for several years after the World war. In 1924, following Lithuania’s action of the previous year in taking over the area, Memel territory— with certain autonomous rights— was legally ceded to that country in a League of Nations pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and Lithuania. Since then Memel has periodically rated news space as one of Europe’s problem chil dren. An International Football. Such dramatic events as it has seen since the war, however, are mild compared with the bloody past of this strip of land on the cross roads of international history. More than 700 years ago, before the town of Memil was founded, its site was a battleground between Lithuanian tribes and invading Teu tonic Knights, a military and re ligious order of German crusaders. Destroying the Lithuanian fortress which stood guard against Baltic pirates, the Knights built their own stronghold, following it with the town of "Memelburg.” As an early trade center, Memel grew and prospered, but found little peace. In the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, it was at tacked and burned time and again in a three-cornered tug-of-war be tween Lithuanians, Poles and Teu tons, the latter winning out in the Peace of Melno in 1422. For a short time in the 1600s, the Swedes called Memel theirs; later it was occupied by Russian troops. After sacking and burning the town they left it to the mercy of a deadly plague. But the stubborn city again struggled to its feet. As a thriving Prussian town, it became, until the World war, Germany’s northern most Baltic port. Lithuania’s Window on the Sea. Today Memel is the Lithuanian republic’s only good port. Modern ized by the government, with new wharves, warehouses, docking ma chinery, grain elevators, and cold storage equipment, the old city has been given a new lease on life, not only as a timber center, but as a general transit port for foreign and domestic trade. Regular shipping service links it with British, Polish and Latvian ports; rail and airplane lines connect it with Berlin and Mos cow. Much of Lithuania’s commerce flows through Memel, including im ports of textiles, coal, machinery, and cement; and exports of bacon, butter, eggs, lumber and skins. To its protected harbor, which, unlike many other Baltic ports, never freezes over, nearly 1,400 ships came in 1936. A Non-Melting Pot. Sandwiched between East Prussia and Lithuania, both the territory and town of Memel are mixtures of German and Lithuanian influence. r.ikg that other border region of Su- detenland, where German popula tion is largely centered in the cities, with the Czechs in the country, Memelland’s Teutonic concentration is urban; the Lithuanians are pre dominant in rural districts. Memelland has not only Lithu ania’s sole port but also four-fifths of its already limited seaboard with a teeming fishing industry. While Memelland is not especially fertile, particularly in the sandy regions near the shore, it holds the lower and navigable section of Lithuania’s chief river, the Nemunas, a vital economic artery of the country. Liberia, Uncle Sam’s Protege, Tightens Bonds with Sponsor Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. Another link in Uncle Sam’s bond with Africa’s only inde pendent republic was forged recently with the signing of a new treaty of friendship, com merce and navigation with the "Black Republic” of Liberia. Colonized by freed slaves of the United States some 40 years before the Civil war, Liberia has long been a “protege” of the United States. Although established as a free and independent republic in 1847, this West African country has, in its turbulent history, more than once turned to the larger re public for “aid and comfort.” Its flag, constitution, and government are patterned, with certain reserva tions, after the U. S. model, while an American receiver heads the commission in charge of customs duties. Zebra Antelope Size of Small Goat. A ragged patch of land on the under side of the great west African shoulder that bulges into the Atlan tic ocean, Liberia is about the size of Ohio, with a population estimated at more than a million and a half Christian, Moslem and pagan Ne groes. As the last stop of the con tinental curve on the sea lane be tween Europe and South Africa, this state occupies a strategic geograph ic position. Furthermore, the “Grain Coast” (so-called from its one-time trade in pepper, or “Grains of Para dise,”) not only boasts one of the more healthful climates for this part of the world, but a wealth of nat ural resources, and some of nature’s best side-show oddities. • A general view of the main street of Monrovia, capital of the African republic of Liberia, dur ing the military parade featur ing the inauguration of Presi dent Edwin Barclay, early in 1936. Found in Liberia, for example, is the zebra antelope, no bigger than a small goat and made up in prison garb of broad black stripes on a bright brown coat. Two species of Liberian shrew (a molelike creature with velvety fur) are peculiar to the country; while out of “Alice in Wonderland” itself is a local version of the dormouse, a small rodent whose habit of going torpid in cold weather may have had something to do with his sleepy characterization at Alice’s famous tea party. Untapped Economic Wealth. Liberia has been called the “Gar den Spot of West Africa,” blessed with the “good earth,” dense trop ical forests, mineral deposits—and that modern essential to a world-on- wheels, rubber. Its well-watered soil is capable of producing a lush growth of coconuts, a good grade of coffee, considerable cocoa, cotton, and rice. Its pasture land is well suited to the raising of goats, sheep and cattle. Gold and diamonds are found there, as well as copper, zinc and iron. Yet, with the exception of the vast rubber plantations worked under concession to American interests, much of this potential wealth is as sterile as buried treasure. In an area of some 43,000 square miles, there is no railway, and only about 150 miles of motor road. Household Hints By BETTY WELLS D OROTHY D. is on the verge of moving and is all at sea about what to get for the new house and how to make best use of her furni ture which is practically new itself and must be considered as the nu cleus of any plans. “The living room is long,” she writes, “and separated from the dining room by an arch. The walls and woodwork have all been done over in ivory and there’s a red brick fireplace. I can buy Venetian blinds for the eight windows in these two rooms, but doubt if I can do more than that about the windows till lat er. Will I have to plan on draperies and a valance with them? I can’t afford to spend much. There are three windows together in the living room. Should there be one big blind for them or three smaUer ones? “Our rug is brown checked with some blue in it. The furniture is brown wood with yellow tapestry seats on certain chairs. The slip covers for summer are twotone blue. An extra chair is in a rose- We’re moving. rust. What would you do with this ensemble? I’d like to pull it togeth er as smartly as possible and would greatly appreciate your help. “The kitchen is green with ivory built-in cabinets. My stove and re frigerator are black and white. What would you do here? I don’t care much for green. The house out side is stucco with apple green trim around the windows. When we paint, what color would you sug gest?” By all means have a single large Venetian blind instead of the small ones. I’d have these blinds painted the color of the walls, but I don’t think draperies and valance are ab solutely necessary. Why not just have sheer curtains—made beauti fully to hang in full abundant folds. They can be either ivory or yellow— I’d prefer to see them in yellow- then I’d add lamps with yellow pot tery bases and perhaps some odd accessories in terra cotta. In the kitchen, have the entire room done over in white and add red calico curtains and chair seats. I’d do the exterior of the house all in white when you repaint. • • • A Cape Cod Colonial House “It may look just like an ordi nary house to you,” writes Marie S., “but to us it’s a dream come true and so there’s a very special aura lingering over it. Our little Cape Cod colonial house just two and a half miles from town is on the verge of being finished—and I don’t want to make mistakes in furnishing it. Will you help me? “I enclose diagram of living room and dining room and would appre ciate ideas for colors, furnishings, curtains, floor covering, etc. Both rooms are the same size, 11 by 13 feet, and open into each other through a five-foot arch. The walls will be painted. The living room opens into the den which will be ia Oar house looks like a dream come true to ns. brown white, rust and green. Thank you for any help you can give me.” Maple wao oom for houses like that, and so I’d rather see that kind of furniture there than anything— maple with a soft old honey tone rather than a reddish cast. Both living room and dining room would be lovely in yellow, with white woodwork and white ceilings. Then wide and swooping crisply ruffled curtains in white—don’t stint on yardage as their effectiveness will depend on fullness. The rug I’d have in a warm tpbacco brown. Have a couple of wing chairs in a green homespun material and per haps the sofa in a figured chintz with a good deal of green in the design. The chair seats in the din ing room can have pads of this same chintz if you like. Get copper base lamps and odd bits of pewter for accessories and make lamp shades of the flowered chintz. Add wall brackets to hold fresh house plants that repeat your green tone. In the dining room have maple comer cupboards or else built-in corner cupboards to hold a set of green scenic plates and some of the pewter. These rooms will be more charming if you don’t try to make too much of » point of quaintness. • Bj Betty Welle.—WNU Service. Salads Needed for Health and Beauty Most Everyone Likes Them For Luncheon or Dinner By EDITH M. BARBER IT COULD have served as a model *■ for a lovely still life, that huge plate in the center of which was a quarter of a honeydew melon filled with sections of grapefruit and or ange and decorated with other fruits. Around this in cups of crisp curly lettuce were radishes, carrots and cabbage, cut so fine that it must have been a meticulous hand which had prepared them. Pomegranate seeds were used as a garnish. There was well seasonec. French dressing, guaranteed to supply few calories. There was butter of the same type for the rusk and nut bread. A hot vegetable bouillon out of the usual place in the menu came next and after this the dessert of wedges of fresh pineapple and slices of prickly pears, naturally without the prickles. With this came a large, thin, sweet wafer. Luncheons of this type are served every day at this restaurant which is merely an accessory to other aids for beauty and health. I cannot guarantee that they produce these results, but both men and women who prefer a light lunch find there what they wish in attractive form. My hostess mentioned that among the regular customers were a num ber of men, some of whom were lunching there that day. Mixed Vegetable Salad. 1 cup shredded cabbage 1 sliced cucumber 1 cup diced beets or 2 tomatoes % cup french dressing Lettuce 2 hard-boiled eggs 1 bunch radishes Mix the cabbage, cucumber and beets or tomatoes with the salad dressing and let stand in the refrig erator half an hour. Arrange let tuce in a salad bowl and on this place vegetable mixture. Garnish with the radishes and sliced hard- boiled eggs. Mayonnaise may be passed with this. Shrimp and Ripe Olive Salad. 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup boiling water 1 cup cold water % teaspoon salt % cup shrimps, cut in half, length wise Vt cup ripe olives, sliced Dissolve gelatin in boiling water; add cold water and salt. When gela tin begins to thicken, add shrimps and olives. Put in small ring mold. Chill until firm; unmold on round dish and garnish with lettuce and mayonnaise. v Mineral Mayonnaise. % teaspoon mustard 1 teaspoon salt Cayenne 1 egg yolk / Lemon juice Vinegar 1 cup mineral oil Mix the dry ingredients and add the yolk of egg. Mix well and add one-half teaspoon of vinegar. Add the oil gradually drop by drop at first, then more quickly, beating with an egg jieater. As the mix ture thickens, thin with lemon juice or vinegar, and continue adding oil. When finished, the mixtu-e should be very stiff. Keep covered in the ice box. Thonsand-lsland Dressing. % cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon tarragon vinegar % cup whipped cream 1 chopped hard-cooked egg 1 tablespoon chopped green pep per 2 tablespoons chopped cooked beet , 1 tablespoon chopped onion % teaspoon minced parsley Mix the ingredients in the order given and serve with lettuce or other salad vegetables. Cabbage and Fruit Salad. 1 small head, cabbage 4 or 5 medium-sized apples 1 cup seedless raisins Mineral oil mayonnaise Lettuce Shred cabbage very thin and let stand in cold water until crisp. Drain and dry. Arrange nest of cabbage on lettuce leaves on each salad plate. Pare apples and cut in one-half inch cubes. Mix with raisins and mayon naise. Arrange on cabbage and gar nish with cherries. Salmon Canape. Cut bread in one-fourth inch slices, remove crusts and cut in finger lengths. Saute with butter until del icately browned. Spread each piece with creamed butter mixed with minced pimiento and celery. Lay a piece of smoked salmon on each canape. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with whipped sour cream dressing. Potatoes With Cheese Meringue. 2 tablespoons butter 2 eggs Salt, pepper, paprika 3 cups mashed potatoes Hot milk % cup grated cheese Add butter, egg yolks and sea sonings to mashed potatoes. Add enough milk to make a creamy tex ture. Pile in a greased baking dish, cover with a meringue made by beating the egg whites stiff and folding in the cheese. Sprinkle light ly with paprika and bake 10 min utes in a moderate oven (375 de grees Fahrenheit) until light brown. • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. HEALTH * Full cooperation of medi cal experts needed to find rheumatism causes. By Dr. James W. Barton A FTER a physician has seen >- a great many cases of rheu matism or arthritis, that resist ed all other attempts at cure, clear up in a few weeks after the removal of infected teeth and tonsils, he is naturally go ing to first examine the tonsils and have an X-ray of the teeth before looking elsewhere for a cause of rheumatism or arthri tis. That many innocent teeth and tonsils have been re moved in an effort to cure rheumatism is likely true, but this is the case with every new discov ery or forward step in medicine; enthu siasm often carries research workers too far. That there are oth er causes for rheu matism than infec tion of teeth, tonsils, gall bladder, sinus or other part is true; food, climate, surroundings may all be factors in causing rheumatism or aggravating the symptoms. How ever, as in all problems in medicine, the commonest causes are first sought. Infection Probable Cause. Drs. E. Jarlov and O. Brinch, Co penhagen, in an extract reprinted in the Journal of the American Medi cal Association, state that infection (teeth, tonsils or other parts) is a highly probable cause of diseases of the joints. Their experiments were mostly with old or chronic cases of rheumatism of a number of joints. They believe that « considerable part of the large number of per sons with more than one joint af fected can be helped by finding and removing the infection, before the rheumatism has done severe dam age to the joint and before a sec ond infection from the first infection has been caused in the nodes or groups of cells in the lymph system. As the lymph system is part of the blood system, it can be readily seen how this “secondary” infection can start trouble in still further joixts of the body. Drs. Parlov and Brinch state that intensive co-operation is called for on the part of general practitioners, dentists, ear, nose and throat spe cialists, X-ray specialists, and lab oratory experts. Fringe for Curtains and for Slip Covers By RUTH WYETH SPEARS ‘‘DEAR MRS. SPEARS: With the help of Book 1, I have just made a slip cover for a wing chair. I never would have tried , it if your directions had not been so clear. I am now planning an other slip cover and draperies which I would like to trim in fringe. Will you please show me with a sketch how I should sew the fringe? Also should the draperies and chair match?—M. J. N.” So here we have the sketches showing how to apply fringe in the seams of slip covers and also ounitxl -FOR AN ED6E FINISH i; Dr. Barton Dyspepsia Symptom Of Heart Ailment We speak of a heart as normal or healthy as long as it is doing its work properly—pushing blood out as fast as it flows in. If there should be a leaking valve, an extra beat, some irregularity, any one of which is not normal, but still the heart con tinues to pump blood out as fast as it comes in, we speak of the heart as being “comronsated.” As long as it is compensated the leaking valve, extra beat and irregularity are not important. It can thus be seen that the main questioq about the heart is: “Can it pump the blood out as fast as it comes in?’ The first sign that the heart is not able to do its work properly is what is called dyspepsia, or breath lessness, which begins to come on earlier or sooner from doing the same amount of work or exercise. Other early symptoms are pallor 6f the face and a slight swelling of the feet. “Dyspnea, difficult breathing or breathlessness, is one of the most, if not the most, important symptom in early failure of the heart. The patient will notice that his breath lessness comes on with less work or exercise than before.” A simple illustration of this is given by Dr. Harry L. Smith in the Mayo clinic number of Medical Clinics of North America. Exercise May Be Harmful. '‘The most common exercise is walking and the degree of distress or breathlessness that this produces depends upon several factors, such as the speed with which one walks, whether the route is level or uphill, whether the walk is taken after a meal or when the stomach is empty, whether the air is still or whether it is necessary to walk against a cold wind. After a large meal, walk ing rapidly up a steep hill, on a cold day, against a strong wind, and at the same time talking, will pro duce breathlessness in most healthy individuals.” The test then is sim ply getting out of breath sooner do ing the same exercise under the same circumstances. By recognizing this breathlessness as an early sign of a failing heart, the patient, by doing less exercise or work, learns to live within the power of his heart and so lives many years. It must be remembered, however, that other conditions besides a fail ing heart can cause difficult breath ing or breathlessness such as (a) nervousness, (b) eating too much acid food—meat, eggs, fish, cereals, (c) nose being blocked, (d) chronic bronchitis, (e) overweight, etc. • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service for an edge finish. The raw edge of the material in the lower sketch is turned to the right side and fringe is stitched over it. If figured draperies are used, the best effect is obtained if not more than one slip cover in the room is of figured material. Plain slip covers may match one or more of the colors in draperies, rug or wall paper. NOTE: Now is the time to give your house a fresh start. Crisp new curtains; a bright slip cover; a new lampshade; or ottoman will do the trick. Make these things yourself. Mrs. Spears’ Book 1— SEWING, for the Home Decora tor, shows you how with step by step, easy to follow sketches. Book 2—Gifts, Novelties and Embroid ery, will give you a new interest for long winter evenings. It con tains complete directions for mak ing many useful things. Books are 25 cents each; if you order both books, Patchwork Quilt leaf let is included free; it ccntains 36 authentic stitches illustrated in de tail. Address: Mrs. Spears. .21* S. Desplaines St., Chicago. lii. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal NO lUJW XQft*33T yon have tried for ; . -—^ coml op j ' dlef now with _ be brewing and you cannot afford to take a, chance with i and i _ the inflamed mnopuB mpmhraTtftg and to loosen and expel germ- 1ad*Fi phlegm. Even If other remedies have fafled, don't be discouraged, try Creomul- sion. Your druggist Is authorised to refund your money If you are not ~ r with the bene fits obtained. 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