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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
Venetian Blinds to
Simulate Windows
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
LJAVE you ever tried placing
^ your davenport on the side of
the room where there was a single
window? You probably found that
it did not look well, because the
back was just high enough to give
the draperies an awkward cut-off
appearance, as shown in the upper
sketch. The lower sketch shows
how a friend of mine solved this
problem.
There are no windows under
those lowered blinds. A painted
box-like cornice board was made
about 2 feet longer than the dav
enport and was fastened to the
top of the frame of the one win
dow. The Venetian blinds and the
rods for the draperies were fas
tened inside this. A narrow shelf
for plants just the length of the
davenport back was fastened se
curely to the window sill.
NOTE: Sewing Book No. 1 tells
how to make this cornice board.
Also how to make curtains and
draperies for every room in the
house from child’s room to kitch
en. All about slip covers. Dress
ing tables from boxes, tables and
old mirrors. You will be delight
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HRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
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Kathleen Norris Says:
Wake Up, Mothers of Sons,
On Mother’s Day
• Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.»
Grantland
Rice
It isn*t for mothers to expect tribute from their sons, this year; there doesn't
teem to be any sense in sitting back in protty old-lady complacency and waiting for
flowers and candy and telegrams to arrive. There's something we can do for them.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
M OTHER’S DAY has had
an especial significance
this year. Because the
hearts of mothers everywhere
are torn with fears and misery,
the dignity of that relationship
has somehow been emphasized
and made important, and when
we read of English boys cheer
ing as their ship sinks in the icy
waters of the channel, and Rus
sian boys piled in windrows un
der the deep Finnish snows—
innocents all, slaughtered like
sheep at the orders of older
men, then the first thing we say
is “God help their mothers!”
A current newspaper carries the
philosophical statement that only
890 aviators have been lost to Brit
ain since the beginning of the war.
Not even a thousand yet! Avia
tors are young men, above the aver
age in intelligence, resource, cour
age, aptitude. They are no Foreign
Legion, composed of ex-convicts,
loafers, failures, adventurers. No,
they come from fine homes, they
are students, they are entrusted to
carry out the most delicate and
dangerous business of war. And 890
of them have already come down
to violent death in smoking fuselage
and tangled wreckage, and even if
not every one of them had not a
mother or wife to mourn him, hun
dreds of them had. Hundreds of
mothers have lain awake restless
and dry-eyed through the endless
nights ever since, and will not know
sleep or rest for many and many
a night to come, thinking of the
young fine body, the loving, eager
heart, the gayety and sweetness of
him, now lying so still, with all her
hopes for him buried with him under
the deep earth.
Mother’s Day in Reverse.
And that thought has put a special
value upon our own magnificent
boys, has made us feel this year
that the situation is reversed. It
isn’t for mothers to expect tribute
from their sons, this year; there
doesn’t seem to be any sense in sit
ting back in pretty old-lady com
placency and waiting for flowers
and candy and telegrams to arrive.
No, there’s something we can do for
them; something they can’t or won’t
do for themselves.
That something is to stir up con
tinual agitation over the question of
our men being sent to fight over
seas. Our young men, that is, for
the old men who send them never
go. We want to keep Washington
continually reminded that several
millions of American mothers, for
the first time in all history armed
with the vote that sent these legis
lators and representatives to Wash
ington, are uniting for the single
purpose of electing the men who will
promise that we shall be kept out
of Europe’s purposeless orgy of
bloodshed.
One of the sights they show in
Mexico is the old altar of the Mayan
civilization that once prevailed
there; a magnificent amphitheater
whose stones were once running riv
ers of young blood. Thousands of
young men were selected as religious
offerings; indulged, petted, fattened
for one year, and then led to the
sacrificial stone to have their liv
ing hearts cut out. The story is
that on one single occasion thirty
thousand boys were thus destroyed.
Horrible, isn’t it? American tour
ists, in their smart silk frocks and
broad flowered hats, have been
known to faint, contemplating the
scene, even so many years after the
Mayan religion has been swept
away.
But in what way does the slaugh
ter of innocent boys across the seas
improve upon these barbaric days?
In one way, today’s wars are even
worse. For the Mayan had at least
the feeling that this was destiny;
he was helpless and he had been
chosen for death. But our English,
German, French, Russian boys
have no such consolation. They
have no feeling against each other.
They have committed no crime.
They hate no one. And too often
they writhe into slow, agonizing, bit
terly lonely deaths with every crim
inal instinct of their natures roused
and brought to life; hate, a desire
for revenge, a complete loss of
faith in everything their mothers
taught them of goodness and for
giveness and generosity.
Their mothers! Here we are
back to their mothers again, as
Mother’s day passes by. It is no
use to watch their babyhood sick-
resses, to train them in boyhood to
goodness, only to fail them when
the first bugle blows, and send them
forth to freeze in muddy trenches,
to meet hot death in the air, to
drive their bayonets into the bodies
of boys they never saw before, just
as shrapnel or bullets pierce their
own splendid bodies, to rot unnoted
in crowded, fetid hospitals, and final
ly to lie still and unremembered—
by all except Mothers!—in foreign
soil.
Let Men Over Forty Fight.
If I could I would get a bill
through congress prohibiting the en- j
listment in army or navy of any j
man under forty years. This would
stop war so fast that soon its mem- 1
ory would blend with witch-burning, j
small-pox epidemics, slavery, and '
a hundred other insanities and !
abuses that shame the pages of his
tory. If thoughtful, established
middle-aged men, men who are ab
sorbed in offices or professions, who
love wife and home and children, and
golf and fishing and bridge games, !
had to get themselves into olive
drab and sail across seas to solve
Europe’s never-ending quarrels,
how quickly we should be reading
same other plan for the solution of
international problems!
Even if their health and strength
didn’t match those of younger men, |
what of it? If life is to be destroyed,
why not begin with the unfit? Send
them into battle sneezing and rheu
matic and taking soda mints, for
war destroys health anyway, and
all camps are full of invalids.
There was one battalion of strong
young men with flat feet, who
stayed safe in camp all through
bloody 1918, and went home happily
to draw their bonus a few years
later.
Older Men Make Wars.
It is the old men who shrewdly
consider profits and expanding mar
kets and uses for surplus products;
it is the old men who make the
wars. Is there in the long, long
history of these decisions to destroy
young life some shadow of the old
jealousy of the males? Male bulls
kill young ones, deer and elephant
and even household cats do the
same. Unexpressed and perhaps
completely unsuspected, is jealousy
at the base of the policy that sends
the finest men of each generation
to their death?
Sometimes it almost seems so.
At all events, men obviously can’l
solve this war question. They never
have and they never will.
i 'T'WO phenomenal kids, two youth-
j fill prodigies of the sporting
world got their starts along practi
cally the same type of road. They
might be called the Twins of Dawn.
I Their names are Bobby Feller and
Bobby Jones.
I They were almost exactly alike
in this vital respect—Bobby Jones
started swinging a
golf club at the age
of seven — Bobby
Feller started
throwing a baseball
at the age of six.
The main point is
that each started
building up and de
veloping the mus
cles needed for the
big act—Jones as a
golfer—Feller as a
pitcher.
Bobby Jones was
a phenomenon at
the age of 14—good
enough then to travel to the final
eight in the National Amateur where
only inexperience stopped him. At
that age he was the best golfer in
the big field.
From seven years on Bobby Jones
only developed the muscles needed
for a golf swing. There were no
contradictory or outside muscles
that might have come from base
ball, football or some other sport.
His working muscles all belonged
exclusively to golf. He never even
played checkers or dominoes.
Feller the Same
Bob Feller followed the same
route. Starting at the age of six.
Feller’s sporting ac
tivity consisted of
throwing a base
ball. Every muscu
lar development in
his right arm and
back was concen
trated on this act.
Against this we
might take up the
case of Schoolboy
Rowe, the Tiger en
try. Rowe was a
young ball player.
But he was also a
football star, a shot-
putter, a golfer, a tennis player and
a basketball luminary—extremely
good at each of these games.
He had well-developed but conflict
ing muscles to handle, and these in
time left him muscle-bound.
There can be too much muscle
for any smooth, flowing action. If
Rowe had concentrated on baseball
alone in his younger days he might
have been one of the greats of all
time.
As it was the Tiger giant was a
brilliant performer for a year or
two until too many of his muscular
habitats in the back and shoulders
began to tie him up.
Bob Feller, spoiled, fresh or swell
headed, might have been almost as
great a pitcher as he is. But he
would have missed by many meters
the height he holds today in public
favor. Especially in the favor of
his mates and his opponents.
If the kids of this country care to
pick out someone to follow in every
respect, they could make no mis
take in following the methods and
manners of this Iowa farm boy,
who, I am quite sure, will remain
unspoiled to the last ball he throws.
Bob Feller
Bobby Jones
Lasting Qualities
Bobby Jones was a star competi
tor and player from the age of 13
to 28. He had known 15 years of
tournament action when he retired
at his peak, or just as he was com
ing to his peak.
Bobby Jones could have remained
one of the great golfers today at the
age of 38 if he had
continued to train
for tournament play.
Before the attack of
bursitis laid him
low this spring he
was still shooting
hard courses from
63 to 67 on various
occasions, which is
not ragged golf.
Bobby could have
known golf great
ness for at least 25
years.
The same is true of Bob Feller.
The 21-year-old Van Meter sensa
tion is only getting under way. With
only a fair share of luck Feller has
at least 15 big years left—years dur
ing which he might easily turn out
to be the same thing to baseball
that Bobby Jones was to golf.
In many other ways the two are
alike—both were and are highly
popular with their fellow players
and their opponents. Both have
always belonged to the upper
branches of sportsmanship.
A Close-Up on Feller
I had breakfast with Bobby Feller
in Tampa the morning of the all-
star game for the Finnish fund. He
was as unspoiled as any prominent
athlete I have ever known.
I noticed another leading point.
For example, as Joe Cronin, boss
of the Boston Red Sox, came into
the dining room he came well ont
of his way to slap Feller on the back
and say, “Hello, slug.’’ As other vet
erans came by they’d all stop by
Feller’s table with "Hello, butch”—
“Howya, kid”—“Hello, Bob.”
FOR A SHOWER PARTY FOR SPRING BRIDE
(See Recipes Below)
Household Neuis
Here Comes the Bride!
And so they are married—and
after the ceremony there is to be
a wedding reception at the home of
the bride’s mother.
It takes a bit of. planning to carry
through a lovely wedding so that ev
ery detail is cor
rect. And the re
ception which fol
lows must be as
nearly perfect as
it is possible to
make it. Plan a
menu that’s sim
ple and easy to
serve, yet appe
tizing and deli
cious to eat. Set the table for buffet
service—using your loveliest linen,
silver and china. Since the prover
bial color scheme for the bride’s
table is green and white, plan to
use white flowers for the center-
piece ; if candles are used, they may
be white or green.
A party for the bride calls for
something very special in the way
of food. Here’s a menu for a wed
ding reception, with tested recipes
to enable you to use it as it is given.
Assorted Hors d’Oeuvres
Grapefruit-Lobster or
Crabmeat Salad
Buttermilk Rolls Butter
Celery Olives Radishes
Pistachio Ice Cream
Bride’s Cake Groom’s Cake
Punch Coffee
For a shower party for a spring
bride, serve simple—but very good
—refreshments like this:
Bride’s Pie
Coffee Assorted Salted Nuts
You’ll find other recipes for spe
cial party cakes and desserts in my
cook book “Better Baking.” There’s
a recipe for wedding cakes, as well.
Bride’s Pic.
(Serves 10 to 12)
6 egg whites
V\ teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1% quarts strawberry ice cream
2 baked pie shells
Beat egg whites until foamy, add
salt and continue beating until the
egg whites are
stiff. Gradually
beat in the sugar
and continue
beating until the
egg whites are
stiff and glossy.
Add vanilla. Pack
% quart of ice
cream into each
pie shell. Cover with meringue and
bake in a very hot oven (550 de
grees) until meringue is lightly
browned. Serve immediately.
Assorted Canapes.
Place chilled shrimp on a bed of
shaved ice; serve cocktail sauce
with it as an accompaniment. Stuff
celery stalks with cream cheese
which has been mixed with chopped
stuffed olives. Cut crusts from slices
of very fresh bread and cut loaf in
long lengthwise slices. Spread with
cream cheese. Roll as for jelly roll
and slice in very thin slices. Brush
with melted butter, place on broiler
and toast lightly. Serve hot.
Grapefruit Lobster or Crabmeat
Salad.
Cut grapefruit in half, remove
center with grapefruit corer. With
grapefruit knife cut around each
section and remove membrane. Cov
er edges of grapefruit with finely
chopped parsley. Fill chilled center
of grapefruit with lobster or crab
meat. Top with mayonnaise and
serve.
Buttermilk Rolls.
(Makes Vh dozen)
1 cake yeast
2 tablespoons lukewarm water
2 cups buttermilk (at room tem
perature)
6V4 cups of flour (approximately)
% cup shortening
% cup sugar
IVfe teaspoons salt
% teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
Soften yeast in lukewarm water.
Combine with buttermilk and mix
well. Add about 2 cups of flour and
beat until smooth. Cover and let
rise in a warm place until the bat
ter is light and bubbly. Cream
shortening and sugar thoroughly.
Add to raised batter and beat well.
Sift together the remaining flour,
the salt, soda and baking powder.
Add to batter in 3 or 4 portions and
mix well. Pinch off small bits of the
dough, shape into balls and place in
small, greased muffin cups. Cover
and allow to rise until the rolls are
very light. Brush with melted short
ening. Bake in a moderately hot
oven (375 degrees) for about 15 min
utes.
Groom’s Cake.
Vz cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups general purpose flour
% teaspoon soda
Vx teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
% teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
% cup sour milk
Vz cup citron, cut
1 cup raisins
1 cup nut meats, broken
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter, add sugar, and
beat thoroughly. Add eggs (well
beaten). Mix and
sift together all
dry ingredients,
reserving V\ cup
of flour. Add flour
mixture and sour
milk alternately
—beginning with
the flour mixture.
Flour, citron, rai
sins, and nuts with the Vt cup of
flour which was reserved and add
to the cake mixture. Add vanilla
extract. Place in well-greased,
small tube pan. Bake 40 to 50 min
utes in a moderate oven (350 de
grees).
Pistachio Ice Cream.
1 pint coffee cream
1 cup top milk
V4 teaspoon salt
% cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vi teaspoon almond extract
3 to 4 drops green pure food color
% cup pistachio nut meats (cut fine)
Mix all ingredients together thor
oughly. Pour mixture into freezing
container of modern ice cream
freezer. (To allow for expansion
fill not more than % full.) Assemble
and cover. Then pack mixture of
cracked ice and rock salt (use 3
parts ice to 1 part of salt by vol
ume) around the freezing container.
Turn crank steadily about 5 minutes.
When mixture becomes difficult to
turn, remove cover carefully, take
out dasher, and pack down evenly
with a spoon. Cover ice cream with
wax paper and replace cover. Draw
off water and replenish ice and salt
mixture. Cover and allow to harden
at least one hour before serving.
Twenty-Four Hour Pike’s Peak.
(Serves 6)
4 egg whites
% teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup sugar
Add cream of tartar to egg
whites and beat until the egg whites
are stiff but not dry. Gradually beat
in the sugar, and continue beating
until the mixture is stiff and glossy.
Spread in a greased pie plate. Bake
in a slow oven (275 degrees) for 20
minutes, then increase temperature
to 300 degrees and bake 40 minutes
longer.
Filling.
4 egg yolks
% cup sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons lemon rind (grated)
Beat egg yolks until thick and
lemon-colored. Add remaining in
gredients and cook in double boiler
until thick, stirring constantly. Cool.
Whip 1 cup cream and spread half
the cream on the cooled meringue.
Cover with lemon filling and top
with remaining cream. Chill.
Now is the time for each fore-
sighted homemaker to add to her
own collection of favorite reci
pes, some new and unusual ones
which are sure to please her fam
ily. Next week Eleanor Howe
will give you some of her own
tested recipes—recipes for meats,
for vegetables and for desserts—
and a choice recipe for rhubarb
conserve.
(Released by Weslern Newspapet Union.)
^Isk Me Another
0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. Which side is the left bank of
the river?
2. What is the largest city it
square miles in the United States?
3. Why do forsythia and redbud
bushes bloom so early in spring?
4. How tall is Venus de Milo?
5. Who was the first man elected
to the presidency who knew how
to drive a car?
6. What makes wood decay?
7. What is a mahout, an India*
chief, a hog caller, or an elephant
driver?
8. Do stars produce static over
the radio?
The Answers
1. The side to the left of a pe*v
son facing downstream.
2 Los Angeles.
3. They develop their blossom
buds during the previous summer.
4. Six feet three inches.
5. Warren G. Harding.
6. Bacteria and certain mia»-
scopic plants called fungi grow m
the wood and destroy its strno-
ture.
7. An elephant driver.
8. On certain wave lengths a
small amount of static comes from
interstellar space, evidently being
produced by the stars.
SPEED SUITS, ME
IN A RACING CAR-.
BUT I WANT MY
CIGARETTE SLOW-
BURNING. CAMELS
BURN SLOWER—
GIVE ME THE'EXTRAS'
IN SMOKING PLEASURE
|—AND EXTRA SMOKING
FOR MY MONEY, TOO!
BOB SWANSON
Midget Auto Racing Champion
W HETHER you smoke a lot
or a little, you’ll find several
definite "extras” in the slower-
burning cigarette...CameL Yoo’U
- find freedom from the excess heat
and drying, irritating qualities at
too-fast burning... extra mildness
and extra coolness. You’ll find a cig
arette that doesn’t tire your lasts
...for slower burning preserves the
full, rich flavor of Camel’s match-
Itss blend of costlier tobaccos. At
the same time, you’ll be getting
the equivalent of extra smoking
from each pack!
In recent laboratory tests,
CAMELS burned 25% slow
er than the average of the
15 other of the largest-sell
ing brands tested — slower
than any of them. Thnt
means, on the average, a
smoking plus equal to
£
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EXTRA COOLNESS,
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