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^ . . "-W-' Jlsk Me Another A A General Quiz Safety Talks Mischievous Hands L a wmi*™*BURNS rgrx MOROLINEk? SNOW-WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY ^ "J Change of Mind No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.—Cicero. Condition* Du* to Slugalah Bowel* If you think all laxatives act i _ alike. Just try this S adi vM«tabl« laxative. Jo mild, thorough, re- >ependable rellei from ■■tired fading when Without Risk EE If not delighted, return the box to oa. We will refand the purchase ALWAYS CARRY . QUICK RELIEF FOR ACID I INDIGESTION Up to You! Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine! —Bacon. RHEUMATISM lumbago —kLASSIFIEPH 0 ADVERTISING Hare yon anything around the house you would like to trade or seU?Try a das- Oa(siftad sified ad. The cost is only a a few cents and there are .* pro bably a lot of folks lock- _ N” lag for fust whatever it is ■(•■lilts you no longer have use Ear. The Questions 1. Which cabinet member was bom in a log cabin? 2. What is the smallest repub lic in the world? 3. How long is the San Fran- cisco-Oakland bay bridge? 4. How long following her mar riage does custom allow a wife to be called a bride? 5. Who was the author of the following aphorism: ‘‘Laws do not make reforms; reforms make laws”? 6. How long is the world’s long est chain? 7. What casualties did the Unit ed States forces suffer in the Span ish-American war? 8. In what European countries do the most Americans live? 9. What does it cost the govern ment to educate a student at West Point? The Answers 1. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. 2. It is San Marino in northern Italy, with an area of 38 square miles. 3. The total length is 8% miles and the length over water is 4% miles. 4. One year. 5. Calvin Coolidge. 6. The world’s longest chain is a 4,200-foot chain made of 12,500 nickel steel links, used in planting ocean cables. 7. Killed in action, 498; died of wounds, 202; died of disease, 6,423; died of accidents, etc., 349; total deaths, 6,472. 8. On May 13, 1938, Italy liad more Americans living there thar any other European country. There were 25,616 at that time. Great Britain and Northern Ire land ranked second with 12,447, and France third with 12,384. 9. The adjutant general’s office says that the cost to the federal government of sending a student through the entire course at the United States Military academy is $9,715.45. • Rapid heart beat is often found in healthy individuals of all ages. —By Dr. James W. Barton ; Dr. Barton A/f AYBE he picked up the habit about the time he couldn’t resist pulling the pig-tails of the girl who sat ahead of him in gram mar school. But even though they were more chivalrous in their school days, adult man (and wom an) has a lot of trouble keeping his hands and fingers out of mis chief. The National Safety council re ports that of all accidents suffered during 1937 by persons who were at work, 33 per cent were hand and finger cases. Legs and feet were injured in 24 per cent of the occupational accident cases. The human trunk was injured in 19 per cent, or the third largest, number of cases. Other parts of the body and the frequency with which they were injured: arms, 11 per cent; head (other than eyes), 6 per cent; eyes, 2 per cent. The council said general accidents accounted for 5 per cent of the cases. Excess Tissue Water <<nP HE term paroxysmal 1 1 May Cause Epilepsy It is sometimes difficult to tell whether a patient is hysterical or having an epileptic attack or “fit.” However, in epilepsy the patient is always unconscious and may do harm to himself—biting his tongue or others if not protected. In hys teria the patient is not unconscious and is aware of all that he is doing and all that is going on about him. He is usually, but not always, trying to be the center of attention. This is called a defensive mechanism. While the cause of epilepsy is still unknown, investigators have found that food is a factor in caus ing attacks, as a group of 11 epilep tics, having one or more attacks a day, were kept entirely free of at tacks by being starved for 10 days. Other investigators then found that if liquids were reduced the epilep tic attacks stopped, occurred less often or were not so severe. Fronj this finding—excess water in the tis sues causes epilepsy—a test for epi lepsy has been discovered. Epilepsy Test Pcyfecteci. Drs. McQuarrie and Peeler, in Journal of Clinical Investigation, tell of their study of the effects of using extract of the pituitary glanu in cases of suspected epilepsy. This extract—pitressin—has the effect of preventing the escape of water from the tissues by way of the kidney*. The patients were forced to drink water and were then given the pitr ressin. In cases of true epilepsy this forced drinking of water an*i the keeping of it in the body by means of the pitressin brought on epileptic attacks. A series of other individuals who were forced to drink large quantities of water and were also given pitressin did not have any attacks. The point then is that before giv ing the regular treatment for epi lepsy to patients it should first be learned, by this method, that the case is really epilepsy. The present successful treatment: 1. Cutting down by one-half on all starch foods—bread, sugar, pota toes, pastries. 2. Cutting down by one-half on all liquids—water, tea, coffee, milk, co coa, soft or hard drinks. 3. Increasing the fat foods—but ter, cream, fat meats. 4. A daily dose of phenobarbital as prescribed by a physician. Copyright.—WNU Scrvic* THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1939 China Fashions J li Z* £ r New Province In Center Asia Mysterious Borderland Har bors ‘Tea Road’ to Inner Tibet tacchycardia is when the heart rate suddenly be comes rapid and after a vari able time — a few seconds, hours or days—just as sud denly goes back to its normal rate.” During an attack the heart rate may go as high as 250 beats to the minute and then drop to a rate of 72 to 76. The cause of this very rapid beating of the heart is un known but something—shock, wor ry, disappointment—interferes with the “starter” of the heart beats and the beat gets out of its regnlar rhythm or regularity. Fortunately the great majority of cases occur in the two heart chambers — the auricles — which receive the blood, not the two chambers — ventri cles — from which the blood is pumped to lungs, and to all the other parts of the body. This auricle type is not dangerous. Dr. W. Ford Connell in Canadian Medical Association Journal states: "Paroxysmal auricular tacchy cardia is fovnd in healthy adults of all ages. Heart disease may or may not be present. This very rap id beating may be just for a few beats or it may go on for as long as six days. Attacks lasting a few minutes are much the commonest. Neither exercise nor drugs makes any change in the rate whereas in a normal heart or a diseased heart, drugs and exercise affect the rate.” Attacks Stop Suddenly. Most persons feel discomfort dur ing an attack—a fluttering in the chest or pounding in the neck. Usually no treatment is neces sary as the attacks stop suddenly without treatment. Many of these individuals have learned some method of preventing or shortening an attack by stimulating the large nerves supplying heart, lungs, and digestive apparatus. Thus holding the breath or pressing with the fin gers on first one eyeball and then the other, or pressing firmly on the large blood vessel in front of neck which can be seen to bulge if watched closely, or the drinking of ice water, or by bringing on a vom iting spell, often stops an attack. The drug that has been found most useful is quinidine (not quinine) and it can be given by mouth, five grains every hour for 10 hours. As this very rapid heart beat nat urally alarms the individual, Dr. Connell suggests that its lack of danger be explained. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Waahlngton. D. C.—WNU Service. With Japanese armies pushing Into China’s territory in the east, Chinese governmental machinery is expanding in the west. Recently a full-fledged twenty-eighth province —Sikang—was set up when for the first time a governor was installed over the wild and crpggy border land state between China and Tibet. Sikang should not be confused with Sinkiang, westernmost extremity of China north of Tibet The newly organized province places a million people and some 372,000 square miles of mystery un der the organized authority of the Chinese Republic. Although cara vans from Lhassa, forbidden sacred city of Tibet, and Peking, once the forbidden imperial city of China, have toiled back and forth across Sikang for centuries, the region is no better known than a building through which one walks down a corridor without looking into any rooms. The ancient tea road to Tibet trav ersed Sikang by cutting across 13 river gorges and climbing the snow- clad mountain ranges between them, clearing ridges through passes 15,000 feet high. The titanic white hulk of Minya Konka, one of the highest peaks man has ever scaled, soars to an elevation of 24,- 891 feet on the eastern border of the new province. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek, whose government is be ing driven back into China by the invading Japanese, and who was responsible for formation of the new Sikang province. Panda Originates Here. Mountain fastnesses shelter that rare bearlike raccoon, the giant panda, and the amber-haired little musk deer whose “musk pod” is precious caravan freight bound for Chinese and French perfumers. Green and tawny pheasants trail their yard-long tails through moun tainside woods, including the 40-inch white-eared pheasant, called “horse chicken” by Chinese. In the new Chinese province, perched upon the eaves of high Tibet, only 34 per cent of the sparse population is Chinese. Carrying the silk costumes and the Confucian classics and the lacquer rice bowls of the cultured East, they have set tled at the trading posts along car avan route.?. Their neighbors are mainly tall Tibetans—high-booted fleece-coated followers of Lamaism, with their prayer wheels and Bud dha images and butter lamps in gilt-roofed lamaseries. In June, 1914, a treaty between China and Tibet (with Great Britain participating because of India to the south) divided the Tibetan “roof of the world” into “Front” Tibet (fac ing China, of course) and “Rear” Tibet. The former submitted to Chi nese rule, while the latter remained a dependency with almost complete self rule. In 1928, Front (or Near er) Tibet was further divided into two special districts, Sikang in the smith and Chinghai in the north. Now Sikang’s provisional govern ment has been replaced by a regu larly appointed governor. Boundaries of the new province gather into a knot, like a draw string, the frontier regions of Szech wan, Yunnan, and Tibet. Sikang reaches from the Tung river in the east into the “Land of Deep Cor rosions” to the west, where three famous rivers, in a rugged tract not 50 miles wide, run through paral lel gorges for over 125 miles before fanning out across all of southeast Asia. The Mekong goes to French Indo-China, and the Salween pours through Burma past “the old Moul- mein pagoda.” Mightiest of all, the Yangtze winds through the entire breadth of China to empty at Shang hai. Italy Builds Model Community For New Coal Mining Industry Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. Italy has a new coal bin from which to draw energy for her devel oping industrial life, according to reports of extensive coal fields re cently inaugurated by Premier Mus solini at Carbonia, Sardinia. Across the Tyrrhenian sea from the Italian “boot,” shaped roughly in the form of a giant parallelogram more than 9,000 square miles in ex tent, the island province of Sar dinia is one of Italy’s chief mining centers. Ic addition to lead, zinc, copper, silver, and other mineral areas, are the new coal districts along the southwest coast of the island. First industrial town to appear in the wake of “black gold” is Carbonia (“Coal City”), whose surrounding mines are already employing an average of 6,500 workers producing coal at the rate of 60,000 tons a month. Part of the crowd of Black Shirts and miners who listened to the speech of Premier Musso lini dedicating Carbonia, south ern Sardinia? s model mining community. Town ‘Made-to-Order.’ Linked by narrow-gauge railway with the nearby port of Sant’ An- tioco, also being expanded as a re sult of increased shipping demands, Carbonia is at present a town of some 12,000 inhabitants. Made-to- order were its city hall, school, hos pital, theater, and nearly 400 build ings to house workers, technicians, and administrative officials. Mineral deposits of iron, copper, and silver—plus the fertile soil of its western plains—attracted Phoe nician colonists to this island long before the birth of Christ. Later the Romans came, and made Sar dinia one of the Mediterranean great granaries that fed the em pire’s armies and its citizenry. Its geographic location along the path of Mediterranean exploration and conquest gave Sardinia an in evitable role in the continuous drama of war and exploitation that followed. After the Romans, the Goths, Byzantines, Vandals, and Arabs overran Sardinia in succes sive waves of conquest. English Came in 1708. Pisans and Genoese drove out the Saracens and then disputed be tween themselves for the prize. Spain took over around the end of the Thirteenth century and kept the island until, in 1708, the Engii.^ fleet captured the port of Cagliari, and turned Sardinia over to Austria. Later, in return for Sicily, Sar dinia was ceded to the dukes of Savoy, who adopted the title of king of Sardinia, eventually exchanged (1861) for king of Italy. Today, the strategic location of Sardinia brings it more and more into the spotlight of European af fairs. About 125 miles west of the nearest point of Italy, it is one of the stepping-stones between Africa and Europd. It is only seven and a half miles south of Corsica, and not much more than a hundred miles north of Tunisia, both of which French possessions have been lately in news headlines as Italian objectives. All of Our Fruits Are Health-Giving Citrus Varieties Have High Vitamin C Content By EDITH M. BARBER H UMAN nature is so contrary that most of us dislike to be told what’s good for us. When it comes to fruits, however, we are glad of another excuse besides the fact that we like them, to use them often. The most important contribution which fruits make to general nutri tion is through their vitamin C con tent. In the absence of an ade quate amount of this vitamin, scur vy develops. For this reason and long before the word vitamin had been coined a supply of fresh food was included on long sailing voy ages and exploring expeditions. In a book, “HeU on Ice," which de picts the experiences of a polar ex pedition of the eighties, note is made of the barrel of lime juice which was saved from the sinking ship by one of the crew, who dove into the icy water to recover it. While acute cases of scurvy are practically unknown in this country today, certain ailments which are often considered unimportant and sometimes designated as a “run down condition” may result when vitamin C is not used liberally. Per haps the “growing pains” which were so common among children a few decades ago resulted from sub-acute scurvy. Citrus fruits and tomato juice are first on the list of vitamin C con tributors, but most fr tilts supply more or less liberally. Fruit Bread Pudding. 6 or 7 slices bread 3 or 4 tablespoons butter 1 can shredded pineapple Butter bread on loaf and cut in slices V* inch thick and remove crusts. Select a bowl, 5 or 6 inches in diameter with a rounding bottom, and grease with butter. Line with bread, cutting one piece to fill spaces between slices. Pour in the pineapple and cover with sliced bread. Select plate to fit just inside of bowl and weight it down into pudding. Put in refrigerator for 24 hours. Turn out of mold and serve with whipped or plain cream. In stead of tha pineapple, canned ber ries may be used. Lemon Meringue Pie. % cup flour 1 cup sugar 1V4 cups boiling water 2 eggs 1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons lemon juice Grated rind of one lemon 4 tablespoons sugar Mix flour and sugar and stir in boiling water slowly. When well blended boil over flame for five minutes, stirring constantly. Cook 15 minutes over boiling water, stir ring occasionally. Beat egg yolks and add a little of the hot mixture to them and then pour baijk into rest of hot mixture. Add butter, lemon juice and rind and cook over hot water until the mixture is thick. Cool and pour mixture into a baked pie crust. Beat egg whites until stiff, beaten in 4 tablespoons of sug ar and spread meringue over filling. Bake in a moderately slow oven, 325 degrees Fahrenheit until me ringue is brown. Mince and Cranberry Pie. 1% cups mince meat 1% cups cooked cranberries % cup sugar Pie crust Mix mince meat prepared as for cranberries and sugar. Place in a pie tin lined with pastry. Place one-half inch strips of pastry over top to form lattice work. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit) about 15 minutes, then lower tem perature to 350 degrees and bake 20 minutes. Fruit Meringue Cream. % cup sugar , % cup flour % teaspoon salt 3 egg yolks 3 egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla or Vt teaspoon lemon extract 3 cups scalded milk Vt cup powdered sugar Vs cup toasted coconut 3 cups sliced oranges and bananas Mix the dry ingredients, add the egg yolks slightly beaten, and pour in gradually the scalded milk. Cook 15 minutes in a double boiler, stir ring constantly until thickened, aft erwards occasionally. Flavor and pour over the fruit in the serving bowl. Beat the egg whites and fold in the powdered sugar. Cover with coconut and bake 10 minutes in a slow oven (320 degrees Fahrenheit). Apple Pandowdy. Pastry 1 quart sliced tart apples % cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Vt teaspoon nutmeg V* teaspoon salt 1 cup molasses 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons water Line deep baking dish with pas try. Fill with apples, mixed with sugar, spices and salt. Add two- thirds of the molasses, the butter and water. Cover with pastry and bake in a moderate oven (350 de grees Fahrenheit) for one hour. Re move from oven and cut pastry with a knife and fork and mix thoroughly with the apples. Add remaining mo lasses, return to slow oven (325 de grees Fahrenheit) and cook anoth er hour. • BeU Syndicate.—WNU Scrvic*. Household Hints By BETTY WELLS TT’S inventory time, darlings. Time * to ring your own front door-bell and take a stranger's view of the old home place. Have you given up your decorating ambitions because you have to keep on using the same old furniture? Tut, tut ... all the more reason why you should have a clearage of scenery. A new background will make your old things seem like new. Helen A. got quite hard boiled about her living room recently. Tried to take off her rose colored glasses of affection for old familiar things and size up her situation. Here’s what she concluded: Dingy tan walls, droopy scrim curtains, badly fitting drab cretonne slip covers, walnut furniture that wasn’t bad, not bad at all, taupe broadloom rug that would take on the character of the room. That was a challenge. She wasn’t doing right by the dearly beloved furniture that had seen her through thick and thin. She and her husband did a re papering job—choosing a plain-isb It’s time to ring your own doorbell. pinkish-apricot wall paper that did wonders right off the bat. New white organdie curtains very full and with seven-inch ruffles Helen made herself—also slip-covered the old sofa in a new floral sateen with a dark red ground. The same material went on a pair of easy chairs. Helen did an ingenious thing with the old lamps. They were nonde script—some of the bottle variety, some of pottery, some with metal bases; none distinguished at all. So she just up and painted them all in a flat surface turquoise blue. Then made ruffled petticoat shades in white organdie, added accesso ries in turquoise, and now is at work on two needlepoint footstool tops with white flowers and tur quoise backgrounds. If you don’t think that was a transformation worth making, and would rather go right on getting more frayed and dowdy in a down at the heels room, don’t let me in terfere ! Combining Furniture Periods How long since your living-room had a good doing-over? Yet you’re probably already calling that 1936 car “the old bus” and the family is looking speculatively at the newer model automobiles. But we ask you —which matters most to the family background—the house or the car? And you wouldn’t be seen dead in a 1930 coat . . . now would you? (If you’re not sure, refer to your kodak album). But curtains go out of style too, and lampshades get dated. A little dissatisfaction with the house wouldn't be out of place. For most of us are content to rock along with homes that aren’t up to the standards we maintain in dress, transportation, clubs, education. So look around and see if your place isn’t due for a bit of perking up. From the big winter furniture market in Chicago, where manufac turers show their new offerings and furniture dealers select the things they’ll present in their stores dur- Marriages are back to the 1929 level. ing the coming months, we’ve gleaned several tidbits of interest to a lady with a house: This year of 1939 is expected to be a big replacement year. Be cause most of us actually do re furnish about every 10 years and the last peak year was 1929. The low ebb year in home furnishing buying was 1932. Another' white hope for furniture buying this year is the fact that marriages are back to the 1929 lev el after a drop, also lowest in 1932. As for styles, here is a bird’s eye view—Swedish modern will lead in the contemporary group for the simple reason that it is graceful and light with all its clean current lines. There will be a revival of the gay and jaunty peasant types of furniture. And early American furniture is due for a new lease on life what with many new and inter esting colonial accessories turning up to refresh familiar colonial rooms. • By Betty Wall*.—WNU Scrvic*. Needle Weaving for , Blue Luncheon Set By RUTH WYETH SPEARS “ J^EAR MRS. SPEARS: I had been wanting some really handsome velvet roses to pep up an evening dress. I was thrilled to find in your Book 2, instruc tions for making them from ma terials I already had. I would also like to thank you for tha knitted rag rug in Book 1. My Mother spent many happy hours making it last winter.” "I thought you might be inter ested in a luncheon set I have just finished. It was planned to go with a set of blue dishes. Thera are four mats and a long runner in medium blue linen with bands of old fashioned needle weaving in darker blue across the ends. Just two edges of the napkins are banded with the weaving.” We can imagine how attractive the table must be set with these mats and the blue dishes. Some of you who have pink dishes might like to try the same idea in tones of rose. Use a rather coarse lin en. Prepare the work for the weaving by drawing out the fabric threads as for hemstitching. Each step is shown here in the diagram. Either linen or mercerized em broidery threu* may be used. Sewing Book No. 2, Gifts, Nov elties and Embroideries, contains 48 pages of step-by-step directions which have helped thousands of women. If your l^ome is your hobby you will also want Book 1— SEWING, for the Home Decora tor. Order by number, enclosing 25 cents for each book. If you order both books, copy of the new Rag Rug Leaflet will be included free. 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