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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1941
Kathleen Norris Says:
Time Heals All Wounds
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.?
Ted’s mother came to stay with us and ran me out. We lived at an army post and I
became intimate with an army officer who was a married man. I was carried away by
his devotion to a lonely girl.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
NE of the hardest lessons
for an American woman
to learn is to leave any
thing to time. We are an impa
tient people, and whatever we
do must be accomplished in a
very fury of speed. Hundreds
of women go to Reno for di
vorces every year, only to
plunge into fresh matrimonial
experiments the moment they
are free. Decisions that should
be made only after months or
even years of planning and
praying, they reach in a few mo
ments. Having failed conspicu
ously in one attempt at wife
hood, they plunge into another,
sure that if happiness doesn’t
wait on one pathway it must on
some other.
But happiness and charac
ter and success in marriage
are things of slow growth. They
are never ready-made. It takes
months and sometimes years of
patient effort to work out even the
simplest domestic problem, and in
these days almost no marital prob
lem is simple. Impatience and
marriage never mix.
Threats of European conquest and
invasion from sea or air have never
given me a moment’s concern. But
the destruction of that all-important
thing—American marriage—through
the hasty and ill-considered action
of husbands and wives who flock to
divorce courts at the first sign of
trouble, is a real blow at the safety
of the nation.
Divorce Is an Evil.
Divorce is jnot a solution, it is an
unmitigated evil and it ought to be
used sparingly, like the poisonous
drugs that help pain, or the sur
geon’s knife that is employed only
in the last emergency.
Unless this national failing is
somewhat lessened, we are going to
be a nation without homes; and a
nation without homes is no nation at
all.
It doesn’t hurt children to grow
up in the care of a mother who is
silently enduring difficulties and in
justices. It hurts them irreparably
to be told by their mother that
Daddy is a bad man; and by Dad
dy’s mother that their own mother
is so selfish and vain that poor Dad
dy had to leave her.
In the beginning the men and
women who contemplate divorce al
ways assert eagerly that there will
not be this sort of criticism before
the children. But when those chil
dren, missing their father, shifted
uncomfortably about, trying te ac
custom themselves to a stepfather,
ask wistfully why their own Daddy
has gone away, then Mother has to
take a defensive attitude.
So she tells them how mean
Daddy was to her, wouldn’t give
her any money, and liked another
lady better than Mummy, and twist
ed her arm. And when they tell
their paternal grandmother this she
can only counter majestically,
“Well, Mummy doesn’t always say
what’s true, dear. She was very
unkind to poor Daddy. Don’t be
lieve everything Mummy says.”
The army of the children of di
vorced parents—that’s the army we
ought to fear. What possible train
ing in self-control, consideration,
patience can they derive from the
ill-disciplined man and woman they
call their parents? And how find
happiness against a background of
changes, recriminations, charges
and countercharges?
HOME DEFENSE
Far more terrifying than the
possibility of invasion by a for
eign army, says Kathleen Nor
ris, is the menace of divorce,
which is breaking up our homes.
More sinister than Hitler’s le
gions is the army of children of
divorced parents. But how are
we to prevent divorce? Patience
will help. Impatience is prob
ably our greatest national weak
ness. We leap from one mistake
to another; we plunge into ill-
considered marriage and hasty
divorce . . . Don’t fail to read
Kathleen Norris’ uncompromis
ing discussion of the part women
can play in building one of our
first lines of national defense,
happy homes.
Here is a letter from a woman
who has made a series of hasty
mistakes, and who feels that to
make a fresh series would be the
way out.
“I am 28,” writes Em-Bee, from
Indianapolis. “I was married at
19, and have two sons, seven and
four. That first marriage was a
girl’s mistake; Ted seemed to me
the epitome of everything that was
wonderful, but I was too much of
a kid really to judge a man as a
husband. We were miserable from
the start, quarreling, making it up,
quarreling again. One of my babies
was delicate and the other unman
ageable, and we had very little
money.
“Ted’s mother came to stay with
us and ran things generally. She
ran them so well that she ran me
out and I went home to my step
mother, as I cannot stand the man
my own mother married after di
vorcing my father. We lived rt an
army post and I became intimate
with an officer who was a married
man. I don’t excuse this, but I was
ca’rried away by his devotion to a
lonely, bewildered girl of 24. This
gave Ted an excuse to ask for com
plete guardianship of the boys,
which was granted him. Floyd’s
wife divorced him and we were
married.
“Ted died last December and his
mother has my boys. They come to
see me now and then, but we are
strangers. My husband does not
understand how a mother feels
about her children. We have been
married three years and as yet I
have no hope of another child.
Ted’s mother, who is well fixed,
says she is going to take the boys
to another city and place them in
school, and Floyd feels that that is
a' good thing for them. But they
are mine, mine, mine, and I will
not have them carted about as if
they had no mother.
Can’t Help Her.
“On the other hand, we have only
Floyd’s pay, not sufficient for the
many expenses connected with two
growing boys. I feel strongly that
I have made many mistakes in
handling my life, and am anxious
not to make any more.
“What do you think of my present
plan of going to Reno for a divorce,
asking an alimony that will permit
me to learn a profession that will
support my children, and suing my
mother-in-law for their custody?
Does that seem the best thing?”
Em-Bee is not speaking honestly
when she says this, nor when she
speaks of a mother’s feeling for her
children. Having broken up her own
life and Floyd’s and Ted’s and the
children’s, no advice will save her
now from crashing ahead into fur
ther mistakes.
Camp Cavalcade
CHADOWY figures in a cavalcade
^ of American history—such are
the men behind the names of the
great army cantonments scattered
all over the United States, where
young Americans are learning to be
soldiers in order to defend their
country when the need arises.
On January 23, 1861, Louisiana-
born Capt. Pierre Gustave Ton-
tant Beauregard
(1818 - 1893) was
appointed super
intendent at West
Point. He had
been graduated
there in 1838, and
served for 14
years as a lieu
tenant of engi
neers, during
which time he
had fought in the
Mexican war and
had been twice
wounded in the
capture of Mexi
co City. On Feb
ruary 20, 1861, he resigned his com
mission to Offer his services to the
new Confederate government. He
was placed in charge of the defenses
of Charleston, S. C., and so it fell
to his lot to start the Civil war when
he ordered his gunners to open fire
on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
He also was in command of the
Confederate forces at the first real
battle — Bull Run — three months
later and he served throughout the
war, taking part in many important
battles until he surrendered with
Gen. J. E. Johnston to General Sher
man in April, 1865. Camp Beaure
gard near Alexandria, La., bears his
name.
P.G.T.
Beauregard
The war which started when Gen
eral Beauregard gave the order to
fire on Fort Sum
ter in the harbor
of Charleston, S.
C., came to an
end near Appo
mattox Court
House, Va., in
1865. The last
charge there was
led by Gen. John
Brown Gordon
(1832 - 1904) who
stormed Union
breastworks and
captured some
artillery in a des
perate attempt to
break through Grant’s encircling
hosts. Georgia-born Gordon had
been in it from the beginning, start
ing as a captain of infantry and ris
ing to the rank of lieutenant-gener
al. After the war was over, he re
turned to Georgia to practice law,
was sent to the United States senate
in 1873 and remained there until
1880. Then he served as governor of
his native state from 1886 to 1890
and again served in the senate from
1891 to 1897. A camp near Chamb-
lee, Ga., perpetuates the fame of
this soldier-statesman.
John B. Gordon
Emory Upton
What Blackstone is to students of
the law, Upton is to the students
of military sci
ence. So a camp
near Yapahank
in his native state
of New York hon
ors the memory
of a great teach
er of soldiers,
Emory Upton
(1839 - 1881), fa
mous author of
“System of Infan
try Tactics” and
“Military Policy
of the United States.” Upton was
not merely a theorist—he learned
the science of war on the battle
field. Graduated from West Point
in 1861, he had his baptism of fire
as a lieutenant of artillery at Bull
Run, where he was wounded. From
that time on he was constantly in
the thick of the fighting and was
repeatedly wounded. He fought at
South Mountain, Antietam, Fred
ericksburg, Gettysburg, in the Wil
derness campaign, at Spotsylvania,
with Sheridan in the Shenandoah
and in the expeditions which cap
tured Selma, Columbus and other
cities in Alabama and Georgia. By
the end of the war he had received
all brevets from major to major-
general in the regular army but
held merely a captain’s commission.
After the war he commanded at
West Point and devoted himself to
the writing which has made his
name synonymous with “military
tactics.”
Camp Joseph T. Robinson, near
Little Rock, Ark., originally named |
Camp Pike for Brig. Gen. Zabulon
M. Pike, was renamed in 1937 in •
honor of the veteran Arkansas con
gressman and United States senator
who died that year.
A Famous Bugle
The most famous bugle in the
United States army is the property
of Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey,
veteran bugler of the Third cavalry.
Witchey blew taps on the horn when
the Unknown Soldier was buried in
Arlington cemetery and he used it
for the same purpose at the funerals
of ex-President Woodrow Wilson,
William Jennings Bryan, Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood, Lieut. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles, Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young
and many other prominent Ameri
cans.
PIE PERFECTION—A WINNER EVERY TIME
(See Recipes Below)
AMERICA’S FAVORITE DESSERT
Confess now, how often would you
turn down a tart lemon pie, a deep-
dish apple pie, or
a juicy cranberry
one with the
bright berries
peeking out of the
lattice crust? Not
often, I imagine,
or pie wouldn’t be
our country’s fa
vorite dessert. So here’s to pie, fa
vorite at dessert time or at a bakery
sale, made in big tins or as indi
vidual servings: '
‘Lemon Angel Pie.
(Makes one 8-inch pie)
4 egg yolks
% cup sugar
Vi cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Cream egg yolks and sugar to
gether. Add lemon juice and cook
in double boiler until thickened, stir
ring often. Add butter. Remove
from heat and fold in beaten egg
whites. Pour into a baked pie shell.
Top with meringue and brown in
moderate (325 degrees) oven for 15
minutes.
Meringue.
2 egg whites, beaten until frothy
4 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Add sugar gradually to egg whites
and continue beating until egg holds
up in peaks. Fold in lemon juice.
Any pie is as good as its crust,
and if you’ve mastered the art, your
pies will always
be something to
come back for. A
good crust is ten
der, short, flaky,
well flavored and
smart enough to
stand by itself. If
you make a crust
to be filled, cool the filling before it
comes in contact with the crust so
you won’t have soggy pie.
Flaky Pie Crust.
2 cups flour
% cup shortening
% teaspoon salt
About % cup ice water
Mix and sift flour with salt. Work
in shortening using pastry blender,
fork, knives, or fingertips, until mix
ture appears crumbled. Moisten with
water until dough just holds togeth
er. Roll out on floured board and
cut to fit pie tins. This makes
enough for a double crust for a 9-
inch pie tin. For a one-crust pie,
use: 1 cup flour, % cup shortening,
% teaspoon salt, and 2 Vi to 3 table
spoons water.
Delicious Rhubarb Pie.
IVi tablespoons quick-cooking
tapioca
IVb cups sugar
Yi teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 tablespoon melted butter
4 cups cut rhubarb
1 pie crust
Combine ingredients and let stand
about 15 minutes. Line a 9-inch pie
plate with pastry rolled one-eighth
inch thick, allowing pastry to extend
1 inch beyond edge. Fold edge back
to form standing rim. Fill with rhu
barb mixture. Moisten edge of pas
try with cold water; arrange lattice
LYNN SAYS:
To keep your pie crust short,
have the shortening and water ice
cold. If possible, have your bowl
cold, too, and when handling the
crust, use your fingers as little as
you can, to keep the heat from
the hands from getting into the
dough.
Avoid rolling extra flour into
the dough for this makes tough
pastry. Fold the pastry over sev
eral times while rolling to help
make flaky pastry. Never stretch
the pastry into the pan. Make it
large enough before fitting into
pan.
Pie crust should be baked
quickly on the lower shelf of the
oven to prevent sogginess. The
intense heat of the oven expands
the cold liquid in pastry into
steam, making the crust rise in
flaky layers.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
For Your Bakery Sale
Pecan Rolls
Holiday Fruit Scones
‘Lemon Angel Pie ‘Apple Pie
Devil’s Food Cake
Silver Moon Cake
Cornflake Filled Cookies
Brownies
•Recipe Given
of pastry strips across top. Flute
rim with fingers. Bake in hot oven
(450 degrees) for 15 minutes; then
decrease heat to 350 degrees and
bake 30 minutes longer.
•Apple Pie.
1 recipe flaky pie crust
2 pounds cooking apples
IV2 cups sugar *
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter
IVfe tablespoons cornstarch
Pare, core, and slice apples. Mix
with sugar, cinnamon, and corn
starch. Fill pie tin which has been
covered with crust and dot fruit with
butter. Lay on top crust which has
been pricked with a fork, and flute
edges. Bake 45 to 50 minutes in a
moderate (350-375 degrees) oven.
Tang and color are this cranberry
pie’s delectable recommendations,
so make enough
to have seconds.
You can have
your vitamins,
too, for cranber
ries are an excel
lent source of vi
tamin C, neces
sary for teeth and
bones, and also a fair source of vi
tamin A which promotes appetite,
stimulates growth, and makes for
general well-being. Make it with
a criss-cross crust and you’ll come
in with top honors:
Spicy Cranberry Pie.
(Makes one 9-inch pie)
1 recipe pie crust
4 cups cranberries
2Yz cups sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Grated rind of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Yt teaspoon ground cloves
IY2 tablespoons cornstarch
Yi cup water
Wash and pick over berries. Bring
to a boil with the water, add sugar,
boil gently, being careful not to
break berries. Boil 5 minutes, re
move from fire, cool, and add lemon
juice, rind, and spices. Fill un
baked pie crust, cover top with
strips, and bake 30 minutes in a hot
(400 degrees) oven.
There are pies in which you bake
just the crust, pies in which you
bake crust and filling, and other
pies which you don’t bake at all. In
this latter class are those pies whose
crust is placed in the icebox to cool,
then filled with filling and cooled un
til set. Here’s a pie with crust, rich
and crumbly, a filling that really
melts in your mouth:
Coconut Cu«tard Pie.
(Makes one 9-inch pie)
2 egg yolks
\Yz cups milk
Yz cup sugar
Yi teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons gelatin
Yt cup cold water
Soak gelatin in cold water. Cook
egg yolks, milk and sugar in double
boiler until thick and pour over gel
atin. Cool, add vanilla, and pour
over a crust made of:
3 cups oven-popped rice cereal,
rolled fine
% cup butter melted
Yt cup sugar
Combine cereal crumbs, sugar and
butter and press evenly around the
sides and bottom of a pie pan. Chill
before filling. Pile meringue on top
of filling. Use 2 egg whites stiffly
beaten, to which add % cup sugar
slowly, and Vi cup of coconut. Brown
lightly in broiler.
In making a successful meringue,
beat the egg whites until stiff and
glossy, then blend in sugar com
pletely to prevent beads of syrup
from forming on top of the me
ringue. Leave the pie on the top of
the oven after it is baked. Cold air
striking the meringue will cause it
to fall.
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1450-B
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“IT’S to be another jumper
year,” says every fashion
prophet who knows a thing about
school smartness. Pattern • No.
1450-B sounds a new note in jump
ers—it has a jacket, too. The
jacket is long sleeved, waist
length, collarless—of a peasant
feeling which keys it perfectly for
the youthful, wide-skirted jumper.
The latter is cut with a square
neckline, low enough in fJont and
in back to allow a great part of
pretty blouses or soft sweaters to
be clearly visible. The jacket
makes this outfit warm enough to
carry you right through the early
autumn, and the whole outfit is so
“Ma ; l call sounds as sweet as
pay call when the folks back home
send a carton of cigarettes or a
tin of tobacco.” This is the con
census among men in all branches
of the service who have ranked
tobacco first in the gift line. Actual
sales records from service stores—
in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Coast Guard—showing the fa
vorite cigarette is Camel. The
popular smoking tobacco is Prince
Albert. Local dealers have been
featuring cartons of Camels and
pound tins of Prince Albert as most
welcome gifts from the folks back
home to the boys in the service.
—Adv.
Anger’s Effect
Anger makes dull men witty,
but it keeps them poor.—Bacon.
slim you can wear it under a
winter coat easily. The jumper
closes with a placket in the side
which may be closed with snaps,
hooks and eyes, buttons or a
zipper.
Corduroy in bright vibrant col
ors is the first choice for a fabric
for this jumper and jacket. Wool
tweeds, gabardine, scotch plaids,
flannel and velveteen are other
suitable materials.
* * •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1450-B Is de
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responding bust measurements 29, 31, 33, j
35 and 37. Size 13 (31) jumper requires;
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View of Life
Life is a fragment, a moment
between two eternities, influenced
by all that has preceded, and to
influence all that follows. The only
way to illumine it is by extent of
view.—William Ellery Channing.
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Links in the Chain
The diminutive links in the chain
of habit are generally too small to
be felt, till they are too strong to
be broken.
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Choice Vice
So for a good old gentlemanly
vice I think I must take up with
avarice.—Byron.
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Rascals Alone
Men who are rascals severally
are highly worthy people in the
mass.—Montesquieu.
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IN THE SMOKE
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