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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MARCH 6, 1942
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don’t Marry Army Beau in Haste
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
A man, who is almost a stran/ier to the girl, returns home. Perhaps he has been
wounded in mind or body. In the years of adjustment that must follow this war he
may not be fortunate in finding his place, for a while anyway.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
HE problem of whether a
girl shall marry her sol
dier before he goes away,
or promise to wait for him and
marry him when he gets home
is a very serious one. And, as is
usual in marital questions, it is
a matter about which one can’t
generalize; everything depends
upon the girl’s character, and
the man’s, and how long they
have known each other.
In 1917 a young woman of my
acquaintance was deeply in love
with a certain gallant swain, and
they were to be married before he
went to France. Her father and
mother persuaded her to make it
a rock-bound engagement instead,
and that was the understanding
when Bill went away.
Both being persons of honor they
met when he came back in Decem
ber more than a year later, with
the engagement still valid between
them.
But after a few days they mutual
ly confessed to changed feelings,
and Betty, with infinite relief, found
herself free to marry an older
man whose friendship had come to
mean everything in the world to
her in the 18 months of separation.
Bob shortly followed suit by marry
ing a demure little French girl for
whom he sent immediately. And
both marriages have proved emi
nently successful, with friendship
maintained all ’round.
This wouldn’t have been the case
if Betty had insisted on the week of
thrill and marriage and farewells
that was all she could have had in
the war year.
Shifting Affections.
There were many tragic cases of
shifting young affections in those
years; the girls who had only a
few days or weeks of wifehood to
remember discovered that theirs
weren’t real marriages, no adjust
ing and growing to know each other
was included, and consequently it
was hard to regard them as bind
ing.
So my answer to scores of girls
who are asking me now whether
to marry their army beaux is,
“Wait.” Of course there are ex
ceptions ; girls and men sure of their
own feelings, anxious only to have
their little hour of happiness before
the war clouds thicken. For these,
marriage under any circumstances
is safe. But sometimes what actu
ates the girl is the glamour of the
new man and his new uniform, and
the determination to seize this hour
of life anyway, no matter what to
morrow may bring.
Tomorrow comes. A man, who is
almost a stranger, returns home.
Perhaps he has been wounded in soul
or mind or body. In the years of
adjustment that must follow this
war he may not be fortunate in find
ing his place, for a while anyway.
Or perhaps he has seen somewhere
the other woman, the woman he
really loves.
On the other hand, what does a
girl lose by waiting? She gets to
work, as all girls must nowadays;
she writes her soldier letters full of
cheerful nonsense; she sends him
boxes of the things he needs. And
if by chance some other man comes
along, and her maturer affection
goes to him, at least she is much
better off, in writing an honest letter
to her man in the army, than if
she were his wife.
“Dorinda” is an undeveloped,
shallow, fickle little creature of only
COUNT THE COST
Are you sure that you will
love him as much a few months,
or a few years, from now? Are
you sure that if he comes home
weary and discouraged you will
be able to help him find his
place in a changed world? Are
you sure that if he comes home
sick or wounded you will be will
ing to nurse him back to health
or cheerfully face the fact that
he will always be an invalid? If
you are, then by all means marry
him now and seize those few mo
ments of happiness to which you
feel you are entitled. If not—
WAIT.
18; she married a navy man in Octo
ber, had just three days of honey
moon. She wrote me this letter in
December, and it has made me
somewhat thoughtful.
Regrets Hasty Marriage.
“Mother and Dad think I am very
bad to want to have dates and go
dancing,” her letter says. “But I
am too young to sit knitting socks
with all the old women! Nat told
me to have a good time and not
mope, when I was crying my eyes
out saying good-by, and I am sure
if he thought that way other people
ought to let me alone!
“But here is the thing: I met an
Englishman last month who is my
ideal of a here. He is in the R.A.F.,
was wounded and cannot fly again,
but he is going back to England
after a six months’ rest to go into
the ground service.
“Life with such a man would be
one long thrill. There is not a girl
here who is not crazy about him.
From the beginning, however, he
seemed to pick me out as his
especial friend, and he is at the
house quite often. He is 17 years
older than I am, but my father and
mother heartily like him, too.
“My father was born in England,
in the same place Sidney comes
from. Sidney is divorced and has a
little boy of 12; his former wife lives
in Hollywood and he went there to
see her; apparently they are still
friends. But I am sure that if I
was free he would want me for his
wife, and while I hope I am too
sensible to ask poor Nat for a di
vorce, I hardly know how to handle
the situation, for Nat may be at sea
for months, and I would like to say
something definite to Sidney before
he returns to England.
An Extreme Case.
“My feeling for Nat was that of
a child, pity and affection and ex
citement and the thought of being
married on my eighteenth birthday,
which I had always planned. But
what I feel for Sidney is the deepest
and truest emotion of my life.”
Although I devoutly trust that
there are few American girls capa
ble of writing such a letter, it does
present an extreme case of the dif
ficulties that attend a sudden, war
parting wedding, and girls who are
wise enough to look forward more
than a few weeks might learn some
thing from it.
In Europe engagements always
have been longer than they are with
us; one meets over there wives who
cheerfully admit waiting three
years, five years. One happy Eng
lish wife, engaged in 1913, did not
hear wedding bells until 1919, but
when she did hear them they
were real wedding bells, and her
dignity and courage and patience
have brought her a rich reward.
This Golden, Fluffy Omelet Captures Interest
(See Recipes Below)
Lenten Meals
Eggs, cheese, fish and vegetables
—these are the foods that will be
popular with the
market basket
during the next
few weeks. If
you are going
to form the bases
for your menu
from these dishes
cook them just as
carefully as you do the meat that
you use year ’round, for you can’t
take chances and let mealtime be
come dull or unattractive.
Point up fish and vegetables with
lemon or other attractive sauces and
flavorings. Serve your egg and mac
aroni dishes in attractive settings,
with some carefully thought out gar
nish. Play up fruit and dessert num
bers to lend interest to meals. If
you heed these simple rules, I’m
sure they’ll make Lent especially
attractive for you and your family.
Now, for some concrete help, I’ve
chosen foods to fit the season.
They’re vitamin, mineral and inter
est-laden.
Macaroni Cheese Custard.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 package macaroni, cooked
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups grated cheese
2 tablespoons onion, chopped
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
1 pimiento, chopped
Salt and pepper
2 cups evaporated milk
Combine ingredients and pour into
a buttered baking dish. Set in a
pan of hot water and bake in a mod
erate (375-degree) oven for 45 min
utes.
An appetite - satisfying omelet?
You can’t believe it? Well, this one
is, because it’s
made with a
cream cheese and
chive mixture
that makes the
omelet heartier,
and also keeps
it from shrinking
discouragingly
the moment it comes from the oven.
A slow oven is essential to a fluffy,
orange-gold omelet:
•Cream Cheese Omelet.
(Serves 6)
54 pound cream cheese with chives
3 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
Salt and pepper
Soften the chive cream cheese,
blend in egg yolks one at a time.
Add milk and seasonings. Fold in
stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into
a well-buttered, heavy frying pan
and cook over low heat until bottom
begins to brown. Then place in a
moderate (325-degree) oven until the
top is dry and the mixture firm. Fold
and serve.
The name is goldenrod because the
dish bears a close resemblance to a
flower of that name. Just combine
the goldenrod eggs with a tempting
green spinach ring and you have a
real Lenten treat:
Spinach Ring With Goldenrod Eggs.
(Serves 8)
4 pounds spinach
Yi cup salad oil
Lynn Says:
Sauces that accent the best fla
vor in foods include these:
Lemon Butter: 2 parts butter
to 1 part lemon juice. This is
good on the leafy vegetables, cab
bage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brus
sels sprouts and artichokes.
Vinegar Butter: Melt % cup
butter, add 2 tablespoons vinegar
and heat thoroughly. This is good
on green beans.
Mustard Butter: Add just a bit
of dry mustard to melted butter
before pouring on vegetables.
With this, onions, greens or broc
coli are indicated.
Parsley Butter: Chop 3 to 4
tablespoons parsley fine, add to
Vz cup melted butter.
Tart Sauce: (also good on fish)
Put in double boiler 2 egg yolks.
Vs cup cream, M> teaspoon salt, 3
tablespoons lemon juice, flick of
nutmeg. Cook until thick and
creamy, stirring constantly about
2 minutes. Be careful not to over
cook. Stir in slowly, 2 tablespoons
butter and serve at once.
This Week’s Menu:
Cream of Asparagus Soup
•Cream Cheese Omelet
Green Peas
Baked Potatoes
•Carrot, Pineapple and Raisin
Salad
Popovers Butter
Fruit Cup Cookies
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipes Given.
1 tablespoon salt
Vs enp lemon juice
Wash and pick over spinach care
fully. Place in kettle without add
ing water. Pour oil over spinach
and mix thoroughly. Add salt and
cook 8 to 10 minutes. Stir occasion
ally- Drain and chop. Add lemon
juice and pack into an oiled 9-inch
ring mold. Unmold on serving plat
ter and fill with:
Goldenrod Eggs.
>4 cup melted butter
Vs cup flour
Yi teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
2 cups milk
4 hard-cooked eggs
Blend butter and flour, salt and
pepper. Heat mixture and add milk
gradually. Stir after each addition
of milk to make a smooth sauce.
Separate egg yolks and whites. Slice
whites and add to prepared sauce.
Pour sauce into unmolded spinach
ring. Press yolks through a sieve
to top sauce. Garnish with paprika,
parsley and lemon quarters.
•Carrot, Pineapple, Raisin Salad.
Wash, scrape, and grate carrots
finely, allow 2 carrots per person.
Add cut pineapple, and either white
or muscatel raisins and enough
mayonnaise to hold mixture to
gether.
A souffle is a properly dramatic
Lenten dish, but one which must be
baked carefully if
it is to come to
the dining room
at the pehk of
goodness. Select
a cheese that will
cook readily and
smoothly, a dish
that is in good
proportion to the souffle, and cook
the mixture at a very low tempera
ture so it can rise to its height
slowly.
Cheese Souffle.
(Serves 6)
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons fiour
IVi cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
Dash of cayenne
Vi pound processed Cheddar cheese
6 eggs
Make a sauce of the butter, flour,
milk and seasonings. When thick
and smooth, remove from fire and
add sliced cheese. Stir until cheese j
is melted. Add beaten egg yolks
and mix well. Cool mixture, fold in '
stiffly beaten whites. Pour into a
2-quart casserole, bake 1V4 hours in
a slow (300-degree) oven. Serve at
once.
Cookies spell cheer to menus,
especially if there’s fruit to go with
them. Made in two layers, thes^ are
a delightful variation of drop and
“cut-in-squares” cookies:
Cornflake Dream Bars.
(Makes 40 bars)
First part:
14 cup butter
Vi cup brown sugar
1 cup flour
Second part:
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vi teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup cornflakes
1 cup chopped nutmeats
Blend butter and sugar thorough
ly. Add flour and blend with fork or I
dough blender. Press mixture even
ly and firmly into bottom of a shal
low pan (9 by 13-inch pan). Bake in
a moderate (350-degree) oven about
15 minutes or until delicately
browned.
Beat eggs well, add sugar gradu
ally and beat until light and fluffy.
Add remaining ingredients and mix j
well. Drop by spoonfuls on top of
previously baked crust and spread
evenly. Bake in a moderate (350- |
degree) oven about 25 minutes. Cut
into squares while still warm.
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r^OESN’T this picture of our two
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One pattern, No. 1538-B gives
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1. How many mints does the
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coins?
2. Fleet street in London is fa
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3. What proportion of Ameri
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4. The bouquet of a wine refers
to what?
5. What was the greatest attrac
tion of the World’s fair of 1893?
6. Who knighted Francis Drake
for sailing around the world?
7. What is made from flax—
sweater yarn, linen or rayon?
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1. Three (Philadelphia, Denver
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2. Its newspaper offices.
3. For every 100 Americans who
have blue eyes, 70 have gray eyes,
49 have hazel eyes, 46 have brown
eyes.
4. Its aroma.
5. The Ferris wheel.
6. Queen Elizabeth.
7. Linen.
is generously cut to give your
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You’ll certainly want several
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They can be so decorative in
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• * *
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Corresponding bust measurements 32, 34,
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Sailor Discovers That
Appearances Deceive
The naval recruit was getting on
very well with the blue-eyed and
sweetly fragile damsel at the
dance. Naturally he suggested
having a bite to eat. She readily
accepted, and they strolled into
the dining room.
Presently, the sailor noticed that
one waiter was staring at his part
ner rather too intently. At last
he tackled the man.
“Don’t you know it’s very rude
to stare at ladies?” he snapped.
“Sorry, sir,” was the meek re
ply, “but it ain’t rudeness—it’s ad
miration, sir. This is the sixth
time she’s been down to supper to
night!”
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POOR TEXTURE. TASTE
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Supersonic “sound” waves, or
those which vibrate more than 20,-
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fore, inaudible to the human ear,
can do such odd tricks as vaporize
heavy oil, set fire to chips of wood,
cook eggs without heating them
and crumble glass Into fine pow
der
POOR GRANDMA
Her children growu op; (he has time to en
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work. Old folks often have finicky appetitoa
and may notgettlieVitamin Bland Iron they
need; Pleasant-tcrting VINOL, the modern
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ingredients. Yoar druggist has VINOL.
Marrying an Angel
Theme song in an Armenian
wedding might easily be “I Mar
ried an Angel”^ part of the bride’s
wedding costume is a pair of card
board wings covered with feathers
which she wears fastened to her
head.
lady; if you bake at
/home, remember,the
ONLY YEAST WITH ALL
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All of these vitamins go right into your bread; they are not sj
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Alien Needles
The ordinary steel sewing nee
dle, used in every American home
for generations, has never yet
been manufactured in the .United
States.
MOTHER!
Give YOUR child same expert care used when
QUINTUPLETS CATCH CUID
At the first sign of a chest cold—the
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are rubbed with Musterole—a product
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Musterole gives such
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helps break up local congestion. Slnco
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you may bo sure you’re using just
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IN 3 STRENGTHS
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grown-ups who prefer a
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Poet Exchanges
and Canteens
show Camels
are the favorite
with men in
the Army, Navy,
Marines, and
Coast Guard.
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—according
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