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Jlsk Me Another
A A General Quiz
Safety Talks
Mischievous Hands
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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*
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act i
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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
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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
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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
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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. Those who have both books
may secure leaflet for 6 cents in
postage. Address Mrs. Spears, 210
S. Desplaines St., Chicago, HI.
Watery
Head
Colds
Ralieve head cold
discomfort quickly.
Simply put 2 drops—
Penetro Nose Drops
in each nostril
Ephedrine and oth
er essential Ingredi
ents in the “balanced
formula” promptly
shrink irrl-
soothe,
tated membranes of
nose and throat, re
duce stuffy conges-
elief
bring rel
breath.
PENETRO NOSE
DROPS
Thoughtless Words
Words without thought never to
heaven go.—Shakespeare.
NERVOUS?
Do yon feel so nereom you want to sereamT
Are you eroaa and irritable? Do you acoid
those dearest to you?
If your nemo am oa edge and you feel
you need a good general system tonic, try
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