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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C., NOVEMBER 21, 1941 Kathleen Norris Says: j§k|iwar‘ Help Middle-Aged Women Learn to Earn (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Greenberg’s Return U ANK GREENBERG doesn’t ex- ■ ’ pect to leave army life for an other couple of weeks. I ran across the towering slugger the other day and he confessed that he had never felt better in his life. Hank will be 31 years old this impending January, and his army re lease means his re turn to a baseball career well in ad vance of the next spring training sea son. Hank looked lean Qrantland Rice and hard and about five years younger than he looked in Florida last spring. “I feel that way,” he said. “Even on my way to 31.” 1 asked Greenberg about various reports that he was to be traded or sold to the Red Sox. “I haven’t heard a word about it,” he said. “Detroit is a great base ball town and so is Boston. Walter Briggs and Tom Yawkey are both fine owners to work for. My main idea after I leave the army is to pick up where 1 left off in 1940, to keap in shape and try for a big year.” It may be recalled that in 1940 the Tiger gunner batted .340, blew himself to 41 home runs and 150 Auis driven home—one of his great est yeafs. At the age of 31 he should be close to his prime next spring. Certainly the few months he missed from baseball last summer should have no slumping effect upon his 1942 play. I doubt that the Tigers will either trade or sell him, considering the fact that Lank Hank was one of the main answers to a Tiger pennant in 1940. The Hot Stove Even the loud noises that rise from so many packed football stands can’t quite drown out early gossip around the Old Stove at the edge of the winter league. Tom Yawkey and Joe Cronin are still sighing for a few more pitch ers. Which is like sighing for a few more millions. The Red Sox were 20 games away from the top when the Yankees packed away the pennant last Sep tember, and the Yankees show no signs of caving in, skidding or div ing overboard. Only the act of tak ing another pennant for granted can slow them down, and Joe Mc Carthy isn’t the fellow to let that happen. In the meanwhile, the Red Sox are growing older, year by year. Jimmy Foxx, Cronir and others are no longer bounding rookies. There are other gaps to fill as well as the pitching, where even a million dollars might not be enough. Winter Golf Training Northern golfers are wondering about the best methods of building up a better game for next year, since hope still springs eternal in the golfing breast. One method is the indoor school. Another can be used in the home apartment, provided there is space enough to swing a club. This latter method calls for build ing up the left hand and the left arm. The idea is to keep swinging the club only with the left hand on the shaft, the right hand out of play altogether. It will be surpris ing at first to learn how weak and ineffective the left hand, left wrist and left arm feel. This form of exercise is a good way to build up and develop the weaker hand and arm that should play a big part in any correct swing. One common weakness among most golfers is the collapse of the left hand and wrist before impact, as the right hand takes control. Right-hand action is important, but there also must be a strong support ing left hand and left side to keep the club face on its proper line. This same brand of exercise also helps to increase the left side turn —that left shoulder and left hip, especially, which are usually left behind. The Florida Trek It is only a matter of a few weeks now before golf’s leading stars will be moving into Florida to open an other 10,000-mile campaign. The first big show comes off at Miami in December, with $10,000 on tap for the money finishers, and from there swings to California and back via Arizona, Texas and Louisi ana. This new campaign figures to be the most interesting of them all. » • • In the first place, there is Ben Hogan's dream of starting another long in-the-money parade, ended last fall after 56 successful tourna ments. Ben is resting from the tournament grind at this moment, but not from practice. In this re spect the slight Texan is the hardest worker of the lot. I’ve seen him play short 40 and 50-yard pitches for an hour at a time. In the second place, the pace set by Craig Wood and Sammy Snead will call for more than passing ob servation. THEY CAN BE USEFUL They can be useful and, being useful, they can be happy. They are usually more reliable than younger girls, whose minds are still on the fun they are going to have after working hours. They often make fine saleswomen, tea room managers, and one woman, who visits the patients in a large hospital, is so valuable that she has been unable to resign, al though she now has an inde pendent income. Yes, middle- aged women can work and do-it well, BUT—they must be willing to take orders from a younger woman, do a lot of things they weren't hired to do, and never complain. An elderly woman, who is now rich because of a certain pickle she put on the market, took a cook’s job at $35 a month seventeen years ago. At 43 she went humbly into a younger woman’s household and experimented in canning and pickling. By KATHLEEN NORRIS W HY doesn’t someone open a school for middle-aged women? Women who want to earn money or who are forced by circumstances to sup port themselves, and have no idea how to go about it. In any sizable city such a school probably would enroll 200 students on the first day. Classes would be in simple bookkeeping and budgeting, cooking, housekeeping, person al appearance and cleanliness, order, sewing, selling in shops, serving in tea rooms and beauty shops and dentists’ offices and a score of other lines that would help women to become useful and self-supporting — and inci dentally infinitely happier citi zens. Hard Test of Character. But women of 40 and older, essay ing real work for the first time, after 20 or more years of being their own mistresses and arranging their own hours, are not often ready to take jobs on terms equal to those girls get. Girls are brisk, smart, modern, clean. Yes, clean. A woman employer of hundreds of women told me that one great trou ble with older women is that they don’t observe personal hygiene— which in plain English, is that they don’t bathe daily. Their cloth ing isn’t fresh and dainty. Then they are apt to be sensitive, suspicious and resentful. To be or dered about, at 55, by a girl exactly half one's age, is a hard test of character. But many a woman, if she could have met that test with sweetness and amiability, would be in a good job. today. Complaining at great length of the change in her fortunes, and going over the head of the office manager with complaints to the higher boss, are only two of the things that make the employment of older wom en risky. Higher bosses haven’t time today to listen while the wid ow of some old friend, coming smil ingly into the office, proceeds to tear the entire organization of the mail order department to pieces. A Pickle Made Her Rich. One woman, who is now rich be cause of a certain pickle she put on the market, took a cook’s job at $35 a month 17 years ago. At 43 she went humbly into a younger woman’s household, experimented in canning and pickling for the bene fit of the family, sold a few jars of this and that to friends, found her market, and won success. She says that she went to work to save a devoted son and his burdened wife and small family the extra care of “Ma.” It is a satisfaction to her now to be putting the two older sons of that son through college. And there are hundreds of such women, revelling in modest suc cesses, glorying in their work, for getting that they are getting old and that the children have flown away to live their own lives. One woman developed—from one 45-cent apron— a great factory that makes hundreds of aprons every year. Scores of women have learned how to tnanage roadside eating places and have prospered because of the simple truth that we, in Amer ica, eat nearly 400,000,000 meals a day. Many of the finest saleswomen of the best shops are gray-headed; in all the big hotels dignified, elderly women are in charge of linen rooms, managing the staffs of the dining- (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) No. 1 U. S. Naval Hero rOR more than 30 years the body " of John Paul Jones has rested in a marble tomb in the crypt of the United States Naval Academy chap el at Annapolis. Recently a pre cious relic was placed in front of his sarcophagus. It is a plaster bust of America’s No. 1 naval hero, made more than 150 years ago by Jean Antoine Houdon, the famous French sculptor. This bust, one of only five of its kind known to be in existence, was presented to the Naval Academy museum by an organization known as the Friends of the United States Navy. Back of this gift is an interest ing story. In 1779 Capt. John Paul Jones was placed in conunand of the American frigate Bon Homme Rich ard. Upon his arrival in Paris, Jones, who had been a Mason since 1770, applied for affiliation with La Loge des Neuf-Souers or the Lodge of the Nine Sisters (meaning the nine Muses). This lodge, besides be ing a fraternal organization, was also a club for artists, writers and other intellectuals. Benjamin Frank lin was its worshipful master and among its members was Houdon, the sculptor. Before the lodge could act upon Jones’ application, he had sailed away to challenge the power of the |“Mistress of the Seas.” On Septem- ,ber 23, 1779, occurred his historic victory' over the stronger British man-of-war, the Serapis, during rooms and bedrooms. One woman I know was an adored and pam pered wife until she was 51. Now for 10 years she has been in a big hospital; she is the visitor who comes into your room every day, asks a question or brings you a piece of good news; she is free ev ery day at two o’clock, has a charm ing room, her meals and laundry expenses paid, and a comfortable income of $150 a month. Can’t Be Replaced. “I’ve been wanting to stop for two years. I’ve inherited a little money, and I could go out to Santa Bar bara and be near Jane and the chil dren,” this woman said to me re cently. “But they can’t find any one to take my place! I mean some one who won’t depress the patients with her own troubles, and who is willing occasionally to carry a tray or answer a telephone. “Last year,” she further confid ed,” the night cook was ill, she was off for a month. I used to get the girls something to eat about mid night—clam chowder or club sand wiches. I loved to do it, and they were so appreciative! -Sometimes 1 help them with their charts—any thing to have things work smoothly.” That is the answer to success in any job. Opening a door, filing a letter, running out for stamps, wip ing tea cups, brushing crumbs, fill ing in for the absent cook or nurse or elevator boy or telephone girl, “anything to have things run smoothly.” But that isn’t the answer that most middle-aged women find. They want to know what their duties are, and to those duties they will adhere. “I am not supposed to—I didn’t un derstand that I was expected to— when you engaged me you didn’t say anything about my doing things like that,” they say. Possibly the employer makes no protest. He knows it would be no use. But he presently says to Miss Bright, “We might get rid of that Mrs. Smith. She doesn’t seem to catch on. She just told me that she didn’t know she was expected to hang up their coats for the other young ladies, and when she wanted that window pushed up she rang for the boy to come in and open it.” Perhaps in a school for the middle- aged .the motto might be simply: “Work Is Work.” Work isn’t a chance to complain, review the hap pier past, sit idly at a desk a few hours a day and draw a pay enve lope every Saturday. Work is doing for someone else something that may be hard, boring, humiliating, tiring; something perhaps diametri cally opposed to what you want to do. But it has its compensations, its delicious rewards. And the happi est persons in the world—indeed, the ONLY happy persons in the world are those with a job. Bust of John Paul Jones by Hou don. (Photo, courtesy United States Naval Museum.) I which he uttered his immortal words of defiance—“I have not yet begun to fight!” When Jones reached Paris the next spring, all France was eager to honor him. Not only did the Lodge of the Nine Sisters welcome him and initiate him into its mem bership, but it commissioned one of its members, Houdon, to make a bust of the victor for the lodge. King Louis XVI was so delighted over the defeat of the British frigate by the Bon Homme Richard that he gave Jones the Cross of Military Merit, the first time it had ever been pre sented to a foreigner. Jones was proud of this honor and asked Houdon to depict it on the lapel of his coat when the sculptor made the original terra cotta bust of him in 1780, even though congress had not authorized him to accept a dec oration from a foreign monarch. Between 1786 and 1791 Houdon made 16 plaster copies of the bust on orders from Jones, who present ed them to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Lafayette, Rob ert Morris, John Jay and others. The one presented to Jefferson was owned by the Boston Athenaeum for many years. But some time before 1900 it mysteriously disappeared from that museum and has never been found. Today the whereabouts of only five of the plaster copies of the original terra cotta, including the one recently presented to the Naval museum, are known, but sev eral scholars are trying to find out what became of the other eleven. In 1791 Jones ordered Houdon to make a plaster replica of the bust and on it, besides the Cross of Mili tary Merit, show the Order of St. Ann, which Catherine the Great, em press of Russia, had given him in recognition of his services during the Russian war with Turkey. Soon aft erwards Jones wrote to Jefferson, then secretary of state, asking Jef ferson to obtain for him authority from congress to keep the decora tion. At this time he stated that a congressman from North Carolina, his adopted state, had asked for a bust of him and that he had directed Houdon to prepare one, showing the Cross of St. Ann, and forward it to North Carolina. The state has no record of having received it and some of its historians are trying to determine what became of it be cause of the celebration in honor of Jones which is planned for 1942. Houdon’s bust of Jones was de clared by some of his contempo raries to be a remarkably accurate likeness. President James Madison wrote to one of Jones’ first biogra phers: “His bust by Houdon is an exact likeness, portraying well the characteristic features stamped on the countenance of the original.” In criticizing a portrait which this same biographer had chosen for his book. President Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Houdon’s bust of him is an excellent likeness. Why have they not taken a side face of him from that? Such a one would be perfect.” Chicken a la King for Fifty (See Recipes Below.) Church Supper Ideas What is so gay as a grand, big get-together full pf informal fun, the hum of pleasant conversation and plenty of good food thrown into the bargain? A church supper, of course! The fun will take care of itself and the food—well, almost if you get the right amount of it, for the cook ing’s as simple as only simple can be. Chicken’s a treat any way you serve it, but very easy to pre pare and serve if you do it this time-tried, old-fash ioned, favorite way ladled out of a big kettle with plenty of cream sauce onto feathery light hot biscuits: *Chicken or Turkey a la King. (Serves 50) 4 4-pound chickens, stewed, then cut meat into pieces Or 1 18-pound turkey, stewed or roasted, meat diced 1 pound fat (chicken or turkey fat and butter mixed) 4 cups flour 2 gallons scalded milk 1 pound fresh mushrooms or 2 large cans 2 tablespoons minced onion IVi teaspoons or more salt % teaspoon white pepper 1% teaspoons paprika 2 sweet green peppers, chopped (optional) 2 pimientos, chopped (optional) % cup egg yolks (6 eggs) Melt about three-fourths of the fat, add the flour, and blend thoroughly; add scalded milk, stirring rapidly with a wire whisk to keep well mixed. Cook until starch taste is gone—about 10 minutes. Cook the mushrooms, sliced, in remaining fat, until delicately browned and add to sauce with the onion. Beat egg yolks and mix with a small amount of the hot mixture to blend and add to the sauce, stirring thoroughly. Cook 4 or 5 minutes more. Add turkey meat. Season to taste (with paprika and pepper mixed into salt). Add peppers and pimiento, if used. Serve i on hot biscuits. I The simplest way to prepare the ■ chickens is to cook them in sea- ! soned water, to which a small on ion, 2 carrots and a small bunch of celery are added. Chickens are han- 1 died best if dis- i jointed and the ! breast and back sections cut into convenient-sized pieces. Baking Powder Biscuits. (Serves 50) 4 pounds flour % cup double-acting baking powder 2 tablespoons salt 1 pound shortening (2% cups) 5 cups milk Sift the dry ingredients together, add fat and mix lightly. Make a well in the center and add the milk. THIS WEEK’S MENU *Chicken a la King •Scalloped Potatoes •Sunset Salad Bread and Butter Assorted Cakes •Coffee •Recipe given LYNN SAYS: Attractive salads pep up meals besides adding nourishment plus to menus. Salads in winter are a little hard to plan because of the scarcity of fresh fruits and vege tables, so I suggest you try these for solving your salad problem: Prunes stuffed with cream cheese and nuts, served with or ange sections and lettuce. Cooked beets and cooked car rots diced with celery, mixed with mayonnaise. Orange sections served with tiny cream cheese balls. Mari nate oranges in french dressing first. Canned pineapple and fresh or anges served in alternate sections on lettuce. Alternating orange and grapefruit sections are a good idea, too. Chunks of lettuce with crum bled hard-cooked egg and a few leftover peas, tossed together with salad oii, salt, pepper, vinegar. Mix just until the dough holds to gether. Divide dough into fourths and make % at a time. Roll on a floured board, pat to % inch thick ness, cut and place on baking sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a hot (150 degree) oven until golden brown. •Scalloped Potatoes. (Serves 50) 10 pounds (6 quarts) sliced potatoes 2 quarts hot milk Vt cup flour * 1V4 cups butter 3 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon pepper Peel potatoes before weighing. Be fore measuring, peel and slice. If large, cut in two lengthwise before slicing. Into six baking dishes put a layer of potato, then a slight layer of flour, and repeat until all potatoes are used. Dissolve salt, pepper and butter in hot milk. Pour over pota toes, cover and cook in slow oven for 1V4 hours or until done. Best idea for a salad is this one that’s made in ad vance and needs only to be sliced and placed on lettuce leaves for serving. It’s as gay and colorful as the get-togeth- er itself. •Sunset Salad. 18 ounces lemon gelatin 2V4 quarts hot water and canned pineapple juice 1% quarts grated raw carrots 1% pints canned crushed pine apple, drained 2 teaspoons salt Dissolve gelatin in hot water and pineapple juice which has been heat ed to 130 degrees F. Chill. Combine carrots, pineapple and salt. When mixture is slightly thickened, fold in carrot and pineapple mixture. Turn into individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Gar nish with mayonnaise and grated carrots. Makes 32 portions. Just in case you want to make up a church supper menu of your own, I’m listing additional recipes: Meat Loaf. 10 pounds ground round steak 2 pounds ground pork or salt pork 4 eggs Yi pound bread crumbs 2 onions 2 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons pepper 1 quart cold mashed potatoes 1 quart milk or canned tomatoes Mix thoroughly, mold into five loaves, and bake in a moderate oven 350 degrees F., until done. Makes 50 servings. •Boiled Coffee. (Serves 50) IVi pounds coffee (6*4 cups) 2 l h gallons water 2-eggs Mix shells, whole eggs and 1 addi tional cup of cold water with coffee. When the water comes to a boil, add the coffee egg mixture which has been tied in a bag, to the boil ing water, and boil for 3 to 5 min utes. Test for strength. When ready, remove bag, let coffee stand 10 to 15 minutes before serving. * • * The wife of one of our famous football coaches, Mrs. Lou Little, likes to serve a simple but hearty meal after the game. Jot this one down as an idea for an after the game supper or church supper idea: Hot mulled cider, casserole of pork and beans, buttered hot date-nut bread, celery, pickles, and chili sauce; jellied cole slaw; doughnuts and coffee. For the casserole, used canned pork and beans with tomato sauce; heat in the oven about 20 minutes. As a decoration use half slices of date-nut bread. Put them around the top of the beans for 5 minutes be fore the casserole comes out from the oven. (Released by Western Newspaper Ucioa.) 'They Got Me Covered* It Funniest Book of Year A NEW all-around champion has been crowned ... in the entertainment world. He is Bob Hope. Not satisfied with being rated tops on the radio, Number One in screen box office receipts, he is author of one of the nation’s best sellers, which just about nails down this triple crown for Bob. “They Got Me Covered,” Hope’s autobiography, has been claimed by critics and readers alike as one of the year’s funniest books. It is a hilarious story, in narrative form, of Bob Hope’s life, gener ously illustrated with photographs, in addition to having cartoons de picting scenes from his life. The book is now available at drug and department stores throughout America at 10 cents per copy with the purchase of a Pepsodent product. This low price is possible because the sale of the book has been sponsoret. by the Pepsodent Company.—Ad v. 5THES CHAFED SKIN, g* rounF »t 5< r* Influence of Church The churches are the greatest influence in this world of ours to overcome the present tendency toward greed.—President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid mature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Customs Change The customs and fashions of| men change like leaves on thei bough, some of which go and oth-! ers come.—Dante. INDIGESTION Gm may excite the Heart action At tiie first sign of distress smart men and women depend on Bell-ana Tablets to set gas free. No laxa tive bat made of the fastest-acting medicines known for symptomatic relief of gastric hyperacidity. If the FIBOT TRIAL doesn’t prove Bell-ans better, bottle to os and receive DOUBLE Money Bad First Virtue I think the first virtue is to re strain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.—Cato. Part BlamellsarHiniligai if h>'s “dead tired” when he comes from work end hates going pieces. Mental i er physical over-exertion occurs ^ } easily if appetite for necessary body- f building foods is absent. VINOl, with Vitamin B1 end Iron helps promote appetite. Druggists have VINOL. Sleep Heals The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. — Jean Paul Richter. MIDDLE-AGE WOMEN & HEED THIS ADVICEII If you’re cross, restless, nervous —suffer hot flashes, dizziness— caused by this period in a woman’s life — try Lydia Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. Made especially for women. Helps to relieve distress due to this functional disturbance. Thou sands upon thousands of women report remarkable benefits. 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