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I THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1941 Kathleen Norris Says: Life Is Too Short for Jealousy (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) ~~/<y JJtfetet '■ It never occurred to Sally that in every town there are women who make a business of entertaining celebrities. If she had stopped to think she would have realized that these stars could have no interest in Martha. By KATHLEEN NORRIS F OR the 17 best years of her life Sally Davis was envi ous of Martha Stevenson. Then Martha was injured in a motor accident and died of a lingering disease. Sally made ao secret of her sense of personal satisfaction and triumph. Which was worse for her—the long years of jealousy or the cruel pleasure in another woman’s tragedy — it would be hard to say. None of it hurt Martha, but it destroyed Sally. From 17 to 34 she felt her life shadowed, twisted, spoiled by Martha’s perfections, and after seventeen years of feeling like that no woman can ever get back to normal. Sally will be petty, jealous, unhappy for the rest of her days. Once jealous always jealous is not just an old saying; it is a simple psychological truth. Not that there was anything re markable about Martha. A hundred other women were prettier, smarter and more fortunate. But Martha was one of those maddening girls who make other women think that everything they have is somehow mysteriously better than anything anyone else has. Martha had a way, even in high school, of dress ing up her trips and possessions and friends and plans that made them seem all-important. And she would comment upon what the other girls had to relate in a sympa thetic, amused manner that seemed to put them into a different class. Took Martha Seriously. Sally always took Martha serious ly; it seemed to be her fate. She watched Martha as a cat watches— or used to watch in less hygienic days—a mousehole. She reported upon Martha’s doings in so obvious a mood of trembling jealousy that they really began to seem as envi able as Martha tried to make them. The school girls scattered, went their happy, absorbed ways. But it was Sally’s destiny always to be within sight of Martha, and to marry the man whose boss Martha mar ried. Martha had a smart city apartment; Sally lived out with Joe’s mother in the country. Martha had one tidy little lifeless girl, and she somehow made it seem amusing and pitiable in Sally to have four chil dren. Martha attracted clever persons to her Sunday lunches, managed a sort of studio atmosphere, dressed in oriental silks. Sally came in from the farm to some of these lunches; Joe not liking it much, but feeling he must keep in with the ooss, the children protesting, the car in none too good shape, Sally’s clothes not quite right, and Sally in purgatory. To witness Martha’s suc cess and to hear her praised almost rilled Sally, but she seemed drawn into it as a moth to a flame. Envy aad its terrible way with her, and aer very soul was corroded by it. When she heard that a singer or a lecturer was coming to town she would say, “I suppose Martha is going to entertain him?” And when she was answered that indeed Mar- iha was, she writhed mentally. It aever occurred to her that great singers and movie actors and lec turers all have dull wives and rela tives and secretaries, and that these supposedly desirable guests can eat ip food and drink up wine in a way that sends bills skyrocketing and WHICH IS BETTER? Which is better—to make the most of what you have, or to make yourself miserable because you can’t have what someone else has? You can, says Kathleen Nor ris, turn your assets to such ad vantage that you make what you have seem good, whether or not it is exactly what you think you want. The story of Sally and Martha is the old, old story of the girl who has everything and the girl who thinks she has nothing worth having. Be sure to read Kathleen Norris’ advice to the Sallies of this world—those who don’t have, or don’t use, the good sense to make the most of them selves. weary a hostess almost to tears. A Dull Business. It never occurred to her that in every town and village there are a few women who make a business of following up celebrities and enter taining them. If Sally had stopped for a moment to think she would have realized that these glittering stars could have no possible interest in Martha. They went to Martha’s house because it was cheaper and more comfortable than the hotel. Concert tours and personal appear ances are a dull business in strange towns, and any amusement is wel come. Sally never thought of what she might have made of the farm. Of the outdoor meals, the simple hos pitality, the four delightful children in sandals and sun-suits, the up building of a family life that might have made Martha’s tinsel achieve ments seem small indeed. She might have had Martha’s tepid lit-, tie girl out for visits, and have had Martha feeling a little twinge of jealousy in turn because Thelma pre ferred Aunt Sally’s farm to her own home. She might have had thou sands of hours of gardening, hun dreds of picnics, years of cloudless happiness. Instead she nurtured a bitter sense of wrong; nothing that Joe could do compared with what Martha’s husband gave her. Sally got so that when she could buy a new coat she must manage that Martha saw it; she must ask Martha casually what she thought of it. And when Martha said gently, “I’m waiting until Braumann’s new coats are here; they tell me they’re going to be much plainer,” Sally promptly hated her coat and felt like a martyr because she had to wear it. “My children are terrible little wild Indians!” she said to Martha, even though in her heart she knew they were perfect. And it stung her soul for days when Martha said pleasantly. “Well, truly, I think any woman is heroic to try to bring up four children without a nurse. I don’t think one can do any one of them justice.” Letter upon letter comes to me from women who have everything in the world to make them happy, who would be considered fortunate by 99 out of every 100 women in the world, and yet who are eating their hearts out because of the imagined or real superiorities of some old friend. Lose Youth and Beauty. They lose their sense of propor tion; they lose youth and beauty; they wrong everyone to whom they owe service and affection by the con stant fresh miseries of watching what that other luckier woman is doing. We make our own heavens on this earth, and our own hells. NEW WAYS FOB YOUR BAKING DAYS (See Recipes Below) HOT BREADS—QUICKLY made in a jiffy. Crisp, hot rolls? Cinnamon filled and twisted full of nuts, sugar and raisins? Muffins golden and plump standing high in peaks? Scones spread with jam or jelly? Why, of course, they’re yummy, and what’s better, they can all be With the cooler weather setting in, you homemak ers can return the hot breads and their baking into your schedules. Or is there a bake sale or a ba zaar included in the fall and winter schedule of your church or club ac tivities? Nothing will fill the bill quite so nicely as a few trays of freshly baked biscuits, rolls, and bread. Although cakes and pies can be baked at home by individual mem bers, these hot breads can be made, oh, so quickly right in the church kitchen because they need only a few supplies and a few minutes to bake. They’ll give your display a more complete array of baked goods and will also be a good substantial contrast to the fancier displays. To make things easy, serve them in pans (if you can spare them) to save time in making displays. If you’re planning a sale of bakery goods, have one section of a table set aside for selling individual pieces of cakes, pie, cookies, or a roll. When people realize how delicious a mouthful is, they can hardly resist buying a bagful. As a good starter, consider the possibilities of the humble baking- powder biscuit. Baking Powder Biscuits. (Makes 12 biscuits) 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons double-acting bak ing powder Yz teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter or shorten ing Milk to mix Sift the flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, then cut in shortening. Add milk and mix just enough to hold together in large flakes. Pat to Vi of an inch thick ness on a floured board and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees) 12 to 15 minutes. *Butterscotch Rolls. Make baking-powder biscuits as given in the recipe above and pat on floured board. Brush with melt ed butter, sprin kle generously with brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll as for jelly roll and cut in 16- inch pieces. Put % teaspoon of but ter and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar in each muffin pan and lay the pieces of rolled dough on top of them. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in a hot oven (400 degrees.) LYNN SAYS: Quick breads require less at tention than yeast breads, but there are a few pointers about them you ought to bear in mind. Beware of overmixing the bat ter or dough. For the baking powder variety work the fat into the flour or mixed dry ingredi ents only until mixed. Then stop, quickly. Mix in the milk with a few whirls, but do not overstir unless you want tough, leathery biscuits. The secret of good muffins is to mix the batter only until blend ed. Even the egg should be only slightly beaten. If you want the muffins high in peaks, add a tablespoonful or two of extra flour to the recipe. Honey, jam and jelly are indicated for muffins as grand pick-ups for meals. Always measure ingredients un less you have the extraordinary quality of guessing accurately. There is such a thing, but it is rare, so remember to use stand ard measuring cups and spoons. Measurements are level unless otherwise stated. Ovens for most quick breads are hotter than for the yeast vari eties. Set the meter correctly when heating and do not put bat ter or dough in until the oven has reached the desired temperature. THIS WEEK’S MENU Baked Pork Chops Apple Sauce Scalloped Potatoes Baked Squash •Butterscotch Rolls Beverage Waldorf Salad •Oranges in Syrup •Recipe Given Pecan Rolls. Make as for butterscotch rolls, ex cept add chopped pecans before roll ing as jelly roll. Place broken pe can nutmeats in muffin tins with butter and sugar before putting in rolled dough. Bake in a hot oven about 20 minutes. Plain Muffins. (Makes I dozen) 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt Vi cup sugar 1 egg, beaten % cup milk 4 tablespoons melted shortening Mix the dry ingredients. Add the milk to the egg and mix with the dry ingredients. To this add the shortening. Stir till just mixed. Fill greased muf fin tins quickly with two table spoonfuls to each pan. Bake in a hot oven (425 de grees) for 25 minutes. The muffin recipe may also be baked in a square pan and topped with the following: 2 tablespoons sugar rubbed with 1 teaspoon cinna mon, 2 tablespoons flour and 2 ta blespoons butter. Rub until cium- bled in appearance and sprinkle over the top of batter before baking. Do your meals need toning up or do you want to make your bakery goods sale a smash hit? Either way, these scones will do the trick: Holiday Fruit Scones. (Makes 2 dozen scones) 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons double-acting bak ing powder Yz teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 4 tablespoons butter or shorten ing 1% teaspoons grated orange rind Yz cup finely cut, seedless raisins 2 eggs Yz cup light cream. Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder, salt, sugar, and sift again. Cut in shortening, add or ange rind and raisins. Reserve about Yz of one egg white for glaze. Beat remaining eggs well, add cream, and then add to flour mix ture. Stir the whole mixture vig orously until it forms a soft dough and follows the spoon around the bowl. Turn out immediately on a floured board and knead 30 seconds. Roll Yz inch thick and cut in small triangles. Place on ungreased bak ing sheet. Brush tops lightly with reserved egg white, slightly beat en, sprinkle with additional sugar. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees) 10 minutes or until browned. Serve with jam or jelly. This bread was inspired by com on the cob, and pleasantly simulates that favorite vegetable because of the use of cornmeal in the recipe: Corn Sticks or Muffins. (Makes 12) 1% cups sifted flour 214 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar % cup cornmeal 2 eggs, well beaten 1 cup milk 4 tablespoons melted butter or shortening Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and sift. Add corn meal and mix well. Combine eggs, milk, short ening; add to flour mixture, beating only enough to dampen all flour. Bake in greased muffin pans or corn- shaped pans in hot oven (425 de grees) 25 minutes. •Oranges in Syrup. (For 6 people) Peel 6 oranges, remove all skin and membrane with knife, but leave orange whole. Make a syrup by boiling the following ingredients 10 minutes: 1 cup orange juice, Yz cup pineapple juice, Yz cup lemon juice, 1 cup sugar. Place oranges in this, boil for 1 minute. Remove to serv ing dish. Chill thoroughly, sprinkle with coconut before serving. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) wAr< A BETTER. WIN TO MAKE FIXE WAS ACHIEVE!? fJV PR. CHAftlES SAOKSA WHO INVENTEP THE FIRST PHOSPHOROUS MATCH,;;,. THE BETTER WAV TO TREAT COHSTKWIOW POE TO LACK OP PROPER “BULK" IN THE PIET B TO CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE WITH A PEUCIOUS CEREAL, KELLOGG'S ALL-0RAH... EAT | IT EVERY cay ARP PRINK PLENTY OF WATER. IMM Improper Act One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many good ones; and one base deed after years of noble service, will cover them all with shame.—Aughey. ★★★★ STAR HIT FOR PENETROK Proof of Belief Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.—Shenstone. GET THIS BIBLE FREE! 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Today, actual sales records show Camels not only are the fa vorite with men in the Army, but with men in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard as well. With men in the service giving cigarettes first place in the gift line-up, it’s natural that local to bacco dealers aro featuring “Send a Carton of Camels” as the ideal gift for the service men from the folks back home.—Adv. Literary Freedom Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. —Johnson. WOMEN’S WEAR SPECIAL! Silk dresses, slightly used. Sizes up to 38, 10 for 90c. Sizes, 38 up- 10 for $2.00. House dresses, 25c.Handbags, 35c. Send small deposit with order. Money back guarantee. Free catalog. HADSHIAN CLOTHING CO. 82 Rutgers Slip New York City. No Affront A moral, sensible and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can.—Cowper. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, with Ease for Stomach, too When constipation brings on acid in digestion, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and bad breath, your stomach is probably “crying the blues” because your bowels don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect ease to your stomach in taking. For years, many Doctors have given pepsin prepa rations in their prescriptions to make medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom ach. So be sure your laxative contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your intestines to bring welcome relief from constipation. And the good old Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so com fortable and easy on your stomach. Even finicky children love the taste of this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald well’s Laxative Senna at your druggist today. Try one laxative combined with Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too. Secret Faults We easily forget our faults when they are only known to ourselves. Harmful Curiosity Idle curiosity needs to be de flated. e£ Relief. RHEUMATISMKago WNU—7 40—41 By Our Habits Habits make the day pass easier. If you bake at home, use FLEISCHMANN’S FRESH YEAST Full or Empty I tues; and the blockhead resembles The wise man is like a drug- the warrior’s drum, noisy but gist’s chest, silent but full of vir- | empty.—Sadi the Persian. THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS 28% LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested — less than any of them—ac cording to independent scien tific tests of the smoke itself! Actual sales records show the largest-tdl- fog cigarette in Army and Marine Corps Post Exchanges, and in Navy Canteens and Ship’s Service Stores is Camel.