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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940 Kathleen Norris Says: The Husband Who Was Too Obedient (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) RARELY SEEN A priso.i scene in which the in mates are not working in a shoe fac tory. • * • A cowboy picture in which none of the characters are named Tex, Buck or Gomez. • » • TEN CENTS AN ‘ARTICLE* A half dozen railroads have an nounced that porters will now charge 10 cents per “bag or arti cle” at railroad terminals, turn ing over this money to the rail roads and being placed on regular wages. Well, the rate is screwy and unfair to every body. On the New Haven road, where it is being tried, we saw a woman give a brief case, a small cape and a demi-tasse bundle to a porter. She thought she was being generous when she handed him 20 cents. And you should have heard her when the por ter demanded 30! (P. S. — During the argument a man who had giv en a porter a bass viol to tote hand ed him a dime, which was strictly regulation.) • • • The 10 cents per article rate is just going to make travelers hesi tate to hand to a porter anything smaller than a concert grand, in iron stove or a parlor rug. * • * Mile. Eve Curie has a word for it. She says the Atlantic may be Amer ica’s Maginot ocean. * • • If Gibraltar falls a certain insur ance company is going to have to change that calendar. * * * AND HOW! “The new French constitution will give France an ultra modern version of democracy.”—Marshal Petain. Wanna bet? • • • Hitler and Stalin may think they have their troubles, but look at Mussolini; he’s written a play! • • • HOME NEWS It was a funny noise that woke him— He thought at first ’twas rain, But found his wife was dusting With a piece of “Cellophane.” —T. H. Miles. • • • Elmer Twitchell is a nervous wreck. The doctors can’t make out whether it’s liquor or seeing Charles Laughton as the Hunchback of No tre Dame. • • • Elmer Twitchell saw a sign over a store “To Lease for 99 Years” the other day and remarked, “I wouldn’t touch it. Just about the time I got to making it pay, I’d have to give it up.” • • • Do you remember away back when all we had to worry about was whether the Chinese war would last very long? • • • Quantity production of airplanes will be all right, provided they don’t forget to tighten the left wing or fasten on the propeller. • • * THE LAST RETREAT The thinning ranks that fought alone, They gave their very latest breath Like Alan Seegar of our own, They kept their rendezvous with death. Now reveille shall wake no more, Nor enemy shall ever route These victors over modern war Forever in their last redoubt. —Harcourt Strange. • • • ASSISTS Simile: As jittery as a European travel folder in a foreign investment broker’s mail. • • • My pet peeve: the announcers who make a cereal story out of a baseball game. —Sam Michael Gevins. • • • One of the most trying mo ments in the life of any radio addict comes when the broad caster announces he will now give the news of the momentous naval engagement and then takes time out to describe a chocolate bar! * • • There are so many nations trying to get into this world war that it may be necessary to ?n- nounce a waiting list. • • * AND THEN THERE’S THE FAN WHO IS SO DISGUSTED WITH THE YANKEES THAT HE THINKS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN MUST BE COACHING ’EM. » • • IT WAS THE FIFTH SCOTCH As I was driving, free from care, I hit a car that wasn’t there; It wasn’t there again today, They come and towed that car away. —L. M. Prescott • * • James Fitzgerald wonders If Hitler keeps a scrap book. STEPPARENTS Stepmothers and stepfathers always find themselves in a difficult situation. This usually arises from the inability of the child and stepparent to adapt themselves to one another. An anxious mother of a 17-year-old girl here confronts Kathleen Norris with a prob lem that is just the opposite: her sec ond husband is too affectionate to his pretty stepdaughter. Miss Norris says that time offers the best cure for this problem. Jack loves to take her places, to his golf club, to movies, to lunch downtown, end she flatters him by referring everything to “Daddy.’' I feel neglected and lonely. By KATHLEEN NORRIS A STEPMOTHER almost al ways has a trying time - of it, and in these days of easy divorces the world is full of stepmothers. What makes the situation es pecially trying for them is that in the beginning everything sounds so pleasant and simple. Sam has two darling children, and Sally adores them already. The little girl is shy, and natu rally talks a good deal about her mother, but the boy is a per fect darling. After Sam and Sally are married she means to make much of Sam’s children. Anyway, says Sally, joyously flustered with wedding plans, they’ll be with their mother a lot of the time. Sam feels at the moment that Sally is such a wonderful girl that she can’t help winning the children’s hearts. They’ll adore her. So Sam gets his divorce, and it is settled that Bruce and Betsey are to stay with their mother 10 months of a year, spending two months with Dad and the new stepmother. That being legally arranged, and finan cially arranged, what more is there to worry about? Trifles Threaten Later. Well, nothing, at the moment. But Within a few months the worries arise, and these trifles that seemed so unimportant on the wedding day, arise later to threaten the safety of many a second marriage. For one thing, the mother of Bruce and Betsey has eve-.- reason in the world for making trouble, if she can. She makes i* hard for the children to pay those promised visits to their father’s house. She talks of him slightingly, or perhaps with bitter scorn, before his child'en, and leads them to believe that Sally is the adventuress Who came into a happy home and robbed them of their father. Possibly it wasn’t a happy home at all. Possibly Alma was the one who wrecked it, who wanted the di vorce, who made no effort to hold Sam or Sam’s affection. But a !1 that is forgotten once Sam has started off upon a fresh marital hazard with Sally. Children Sense Trouble. The children feel the trouble in the air, and they are not natural nor reasonable with their stepmoth er. Sally, on her side, is young, she has had no experience with chil dren, and very shortly she comes to see that it is wiser to leave them most of the time with their mother. This makes Sam restless. He loves his boy and his small girl, and wants them to enjoy his new home and his new felicity with him. He becomes unnatural, too, so there are four of them; all uncomfortable; all placed in a false position. A man cannot divorce their moth er, marry another woman, and re main toward his children in the same position that he had when he was a part of their home and their background; the person they took for granted as Dad, who wanted them to be on time for breakfast and gave them movie money. A woman cannot take her children away from their father, and put an other man in that father’s place, and combine with her new bridal happiness and her absorption in her new mate her motherly attitude as well. There Are Exceptions. These things simply don’t mix, and the woman who tries to recon cile them merely wrecks her own nerves and those of everyone around her. Of course there are exceptions. There are wise, simple, self-effacing IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool L-esson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for September 8 Household News Lessen subjects and Scripture texts se- | lected and copyrighted by International ; Council of Religious Education; used by permission. INVITING OTHERS TO WORSHIP GOD LESSON TEXT—Psalm 96. GOLDEN TEXT—O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name to gether.—Psalm 34:3. women who see to it that the chil dren and the new husband are brought to know and understand and like each other. Beatrice, for example, is a case in point. Nine years ago she di vorced her husband, and gave a smaU girl of eight a new father. For a while there was nothing they could do with little Alice. She hated everything about the change, and wept continuously for her own Dad dy, and her own house, and the old school and the old friends. Even a baby brother didn’t com fort Alice, and for a while Jack, the stepfather, detested the child, and was glad when she went off to visit her own father and her grand mother. But today the situation is differ ent. Beatrice, the mother, has two smaU boys to keep her busy. She has no maid, and for some seven years, she writes, she has never slept through a night undisturbed, or been in bed later than six o’clock in the morning. Stepfather’s Attitude Changes. Alice, the once unmanageable little daughter, is now a lovely sev enteen; her stepfather adores her, and she idolizes him. The mother writes anxiously that she is idle, out of school, and mad for dances and evening parties, and that Jack in dulges her ridiculously. Beatrice uses the rickety family car, when Jack doesn’t need it, but Alice has been promised a new car on her eighteenth birthday. Jack loves to take her places, to his golf club, to movies, to lunch downtown, and she flatters him by referring everything to “Daddy.” He says no man is good enough for his girl, and Alice says she never will find a man as perfect as Daddy. “I ought to be glad, I suppose,” writes Beatrice. “But I feel neglect ed and lonely much of the time, sweet as my little boys’ company is. The actual situation is that my husband is taking a younger and prettier woman about, and although both Alice and Jack are conscien tious people, far above any suspi cion, it makes me feel as if my life somehow were unbalanced. If I suggest that Alice stay with the boys and Jack take me to a movie, he will do it amiably, but always with an effort, always with an air of marking time. And often, when we are alone together, he is thinking of Alice, I know, for he will break out with some reference to her, or some quotation from her, as if she were the most amusing and lovable crea ture in the world. Stepmother Neglected Now. “Well, she IS amusing and beau tiful and lovable, too, there is not a mean bone in her body. But after all, it wasn’t Alice with whom Jack fell so desperately in love, 10 years ago; it wasn’t for Alice’s sake that I divorced her father and was per suaded into a second marriage. No body cquld have been morv pas sionately in love than Jack was then.” Well, in answer to Beatrice, I can only say that this seems to me one of those problems that time inev itably solves. With a girl as at tractive and sweet as Alice, mar riage will come along in a year or two, and Jack, who has made such a conspicuous success as a stepfa ther, can try being a step-grandfa ther. Worship is not only Acting, but al together natural to the soul aglow i with the love of God. Yet it is a sacred privilege to which we may call ourselves and others and in the doing of which we may be helped by an intelligent understanding of its nature and preparation for its prac tice. What is worship? How does it dif fer from prayer, or from praise (which we studied last week)? While prayer, praise and worship belong together and often merge in one blessed art of devotion, we may pos sibly distinguish between them by saying that in prayer we are con cerned with our needs; in praise, with our blessings; and in worship, with God Himself. I. The Call to Worship (vv. 1-3). This psalm has to do with collec tive rather than individual worship. It is not enough that man should worship God in his own soul, there is an added blessing which comes to us only as we worship with oth ers. So we need to be called to gether for worship. True worship centers in “a new song” that is the song of a regener ated heart. Worship is only a for mality without life until there is a new song in the heart, and then it becomes life’s greatest joy and sat isfaction. Real worship is a “day to day” matter (v. 2), not just something we put on like our “Sunday-go-to- meeting” clothes. Every day we are to worship, and as we do, we shall “declare his glory among the heathen”; among those nearest to us, but ultimately to all the na tions of the earth. Worship leads out in a desire that its blessing may be shared with all the people of the earth. II. The Reason for Worship (vv. 4-6). Why should we worship God? He is “great” and is a God so good and gracious that He is “greatly to be praised.” He made the heav ens. “Honor and majesty” stand before Him like sentinels; “strength and beauty” fill the holy place which is “his sanctuary.” The very words bespeak that glorious majesty and gracious loving-kindness which im pel the heart to worship. They en courage us who need and seek strength and beauty of life to seek communion with Him who dwells eternally in such an atmosphere. III. The Manner of Worship (vv. 7-10). We have suggested that fellowship with God prompts us to worship. Some would feel that nothing more is needed, but experience tells us that, while we may worship any where, we are helped to do so by proper surroundings and circum stances. We are told to “come into his courts” (v. 8) and to worship “in the beauty of holiness” (v. 9), or, as the Revised Version puts it, “in holy array.” John Ruskin wisely said: “It can not be questioned at all, that, if once familiarized with a beautiful form and color, we shall desire to see this also in the house of prayer; its absence will disturb instead of assisting devotion; and we shall feel it as vain to ask whether, with our own house full of good craftsman ship, we shall worship God in a house destitute of it, as to ask whether a pilgrim, whose day’s jour ney led him through fair woods and by sweet waters, „ must at eve ning turn aside into some barren place to pray.” We are to give or ascribe unto the Lord praise and glory among our “kindred” (v. 7); that is, our own family, as well as in “his courts,” His sanctuary. Note that one of the outstanding ways of wor shiping is to “bring an offering” (v. 8), which means more than casually slipping a small coin in the “collec tion.” If our “offerings” are liberal and regular the church will be able to send the news that “the Lord reigneth” to the whole world (v. 10). IV. The Universality of Worship (vv. 11-13). A world which has felt the blow of man’s sin (Rom. 8:22) and has suffered from his wickedness and destructive violence will so rejoice in the righteousness of God’s judg ment that even the realm of nature will break into joyous worship. What a beautiful picture we see in these verses, how God’s creation will lift itself up in praise, the sea in tu multuous joy, when “the hills shall break forth before you into sing ing, and all the trees shall clap their hands” (Isa. 55:12). Can man then hold his peace? Must not “mortal tongues awake” and “all that breathe partake” in wholehearted worship of God? Who then will want to stand among “them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (II Thess. 1:7, 8), and with whom God can deal only in judgment of flaming fire? DESSERTS FOB THE BEGINNER (Reciras Below) With fall fast creeping upon us, you brides of the past few months are eagerly looking forward to the end of the vacation season. Then you can proudly show to your friends and newly acquired relatives that you are becoming not only a pro ficient hostess and homemaker, but also a first-rate cook. Perhaps you’ll decide upon a tea for your friends, serving dainty sand wiches, small cookies or tiny frosted cakes. But the families usually an ticipate a family dinner which tends to make the bride feel that they will arrive with an extremely healthy appetite and a critical eye. When you plan your first family dinner, select a menu that is not only simple to prepare and easy to serve, but one that will require only a few minutes in the kitchen. Start the meal off with a bang! Create a favorable impression right at the beginning of the meal. An appetizer that is fairly highly sea soned, small in amount, piping hot or well chilled, and one that whets the appetite instead of retarding it, will insure a successful meal. The guests’ natural curiosity will be ap peased, and they will settle back in their chairs satisfied that the “new cook” is a good one. The bride who can make a per fect floating island need not dread the problem of company dessert. There is nothing more delicious or generally welcome than the old fa vorite, especially when it is made with orange juice and combined with slices or segments of the fresh fruit. It is not the only “easy-to-make” beginner’s recipe, but you will find that the others will help you in se lecting your company d eserts. Many of them are suitable when you entertain at a dessert luncheon, or after an evening of cards. Orange Floating Island. (Serves 6) 3 eggs (slightly beaten) % teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar IVs cups milk (scalded) % cup orange juice 2 egg whites (beaten stiff) Ye cup confectioner’s sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Orange segments or slices Combine egg yolks, salt and sug ar; gradually stir in hot milk and or ange juice. Cook over boiling wa ter 5 minutes or until mixture will coat metal spoon, stirring constant ly. Cool quickly in large serving dish or sherbet glasses or sauce dishes. To make the “islands”: beat egg whites until stiff; gradually beat in the confectioner’s sugar and add the vanilla extract. Drop by spoon fuls onto custard. Chill. Garnish with wafer-thin slices of the whole, unpeeled orange or with orange seg ments. Frozen Rice Pudding. (Serves 6) Vt cup rice 1 quart milk % cup sugar % teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon nutmeg 3 eggs (beaten) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Ye teaspoon almond extract 1 cup cream (whipped) Wash and cook rice in boiling wa ter for 5 minutes. Drain. Put rice, milk, sugar, salt, and nutmeg in the top of a double boiler and cook 45 minutes. Stir in slowly the beat en eggs and continue cooking 5 min utes more. Add flavorings, chill and then fold in the whipped cream. Pour into freezing tray of automat ic refrigerator. Set cold control to lowest degree and freeze. Chocolate Marshmallow Cake. (Serves 6-8) IVs squares unsweetened chocolate (1% ounces) 2 tablespoons sugar % cup water Yi teaspoon vanilla 1 cup cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder Y* teaspoon salt Ys cup shortening % cup sugar 2 eggs (beaten) Ye cup milk Cook chocolate, 2 tablespoons sug ar and water together until thick (about 3 minutes), stirring constant ly. Cool thoroughly, and add va nilla. Sift together the flour, bak ing powder and salt. Cream short ening, add % cup sugar, gradually, and continue beating until the mix ture is very light and fluffy. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Pour batter into well-greased deep layer-cake r^n. Cover with topping. Topping — 1 egg white Ys cup sugar 8 marshmallows (cut in small pieces) Yi square unsweetened chocolate (Yi ounce) Beat egg white until foamy; add sugar gradually and continue beat ing until the egg white is very stiff. Fold in the cut marshmallows. Spread ever cake batter; grate choc olate and sprinkle over the me ringue. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) about 45 minutes. Apple Seventh Heaven. (Serves 5-6) 6 apples % cup golden com syrup % cup butter Ye teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon salt % cup nut meats (cut fine) Pare and core the apples, and cut in eighths. Arrange in rows in a shallow, well-but tered baking pan. Heat syrup, but ter, cinnamon and salt to the boiling point, and pour over the apples. Sprinkle with nut meats. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees) for about 30 minutes. Serve warm or cold with top milk or cream. Peach Cobbler. (Serves 6) 2 cups bread flour 4 teaspoons baking powder Yt teaspoon salt Ye cup lard 1 yolk (slightly beaten) Yi cup milk 0 peach halves (canned or fresh) 12 blanched almonds (cut in pieces) Yx cup sugar Ye teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in lard. Combine beaten egg yolk, with milk, and add to lard mixture, forming a soft dough. Roll dough into two squares, about Ye inch thick, and place on square in a greased square baking dish. Arrange peach halves on dough and add almonds, sugar, and cinnamon. Dot with butter and cov er with second square of dough. Prick with fork and bake in a hot oven (400 degrees) for approximate ly 30 minutes. Cut in squares and serve with whipped cream. Bavarian Cream With Jelly Garnish, (Serves 6) 1 tablespoon unfiavored gelatin y 4 cup cold water 1 cup boiling water % cup granulated sugar % teaspoon lemon extract 3 tablespoons lemon juice Vs teaspoon salt lYs cups whipping cream 1 glass currant jelly. Soak gelatin in Ye cup cold water for 5 minutes. Make a syrup of the boiling water f and sugar and pour over the gel atin. Add lemon extract, lemon juice and salt and mix thoroughly. Chill until mix ture just begins to stiffen. Then whip and fold in Yx cup of whipping cream. Poui into ring mold and chill thorough ly. When ready to serve fill center of ring mold with whipped cream and garnish with dots of currant jelly. Mothers have been busy dur ing the summer vacation keep ing the youngsters from getting bored and providing pleasing and refreshing meals for them. Fa ther may have been pushed into the background so far as his per sonal interest in the meals is con cerned. Why not secure a copy of Eleanor Howe’s cook book, “Feeding Father,” and select the menus and recipes he will enjoy? Send your 10 cents, in coin, to Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michi- gan avenue, Chicago, Illinois, for your copy. Here’s Laundry Ba? That’s Streamlined By RUTH WYETH SPEARS DEHOLD this modern version of an old-time laundry bag. It is made of sturdy ticking in crisp red and white stripes. It hangs flat against the wall with ivory: rings over brass hooks. It closes neatly with a zipper and may be opened with one hand. The zip per is applied in a curve to make 1 an ample opening, and the bag is! held in shape with a board in the! bottom. Surely you will want one! of these and will want to make* 5 APPLY irZIPPER IN A" CURVED OPENING FIRST, THEN STITCH SEAMS«TURN RIGHT SIDE OUT THROUGH OfENINC VSE A & 1 INSIDE TO FIT BOTTOM llfeYARDS OF $2" TICKING REQUIRED BACK,BOTTOM /\ND RONT ONE PIECE 54X2* / M one or more for gifts. Christmas is not so far away, and here is something for a man, woman or child. Everything you nee£ to know to make this bag is given in the sketch. These directions are not) in any of the booklets, so be sure' to clip them. There is also an in-' teresting laundry and shoe door' pocket in Book 4. An easy-to- make garment bag illustrated in 1 Book 1, and twin pockets for an pantry door in Book 3, solve the. problem of what to do with clean, and soiled tea towels. All thesej closet accessories make grand gift and bazaar items. NOTE: These homemaking booklets are a service to our readers and No. S just, published contains a description of tha> other numbers, as well as 32 pages ot clever Ideas fully Illustrated. They arai 10 cents each to cover cost and mailing. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer U Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name Address Service to Humanity Public office is a public trust. The discharge of duty to one’s fellow-men, the work of resisting violence and maintaining order and righting the wrongs of the op pressed, is higher and holier than the following of visions. 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