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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MARCH 20, 1942 Kathleen Norris Says: School Love Affairs Can Be Dangerous (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) GltamLesU Matt was quite changed when he returned. He gripped my hands and said to me, “1 could kill you now. There’s no moment when l couldn't kill you. But l believe you’ll come back to me.” By KATHLEEN NORRIS T HIS is the story of Angela, who is now 23, and wants to be married this spring to the man who has won her heart—and not only her heart, but her mind and soul. He is nine years older than she, an army doctor stationed at one of our midwestern posts. It would be a fine marriage for Angela, for he could give her a great deal in comfort and position that her earlier life has not had But there’s a cloud. The cloud is an old friend named Matt, who was Angela’s boy friend when she was in high school. “When I was 17 and Matt two years older I thought there was no body like him,” her letter says. “We were really crazy about each other. Matt is a big powerful fellow who seemed much older than he was, and there was not a girl in school who would not have been thrilled to have him in love with her. "He talked then about getting married, but my mother told me that at our ages no affair could be serious. Went to Matt’s Cottage. “Matt and his brother had a little two-room cottage on the college grounds, and when his brother was away I used to go there sometimes, we would buy provisions at the ‘Cash-and-Carry,’ cook ourselves lit tle dinners and have great fun. I was living part of the time at home in a town seven miles away and part of the time with my aunt in town, so that I could manage a good deal of spare time without being ques tioned. “Eventually, on perhaps six or seven occasions I stayed overnight there; I was never happy about this. I knew it was not right, and I was always afraid his brother would re turn unexpectedly and lose his re spect for me. “That June Matt left college in his junior year and went to a lumber miff ‘to make enough money to get married.’ “Our correspondence languished; Matt was sent to Central America; years went by. I got my teacher’s degree and enjoyed my work, and then last year I met Jack. We have all our plans made for a spring wed ding. I love Jack romantically, idi otically, but I hope sensibly, too; I can.imagine no life more gloriously satisfying than that of being my Captain’s wife. “But the problem is that Matt has returned to town, and whether his feeling for me died out or not it is at the blazing point now. He insists that I am promised to him, and that we never ended that en gagement and that I cannot in honor marry Jack. ' A Violent Type. “This would be merely silly if it were not that he is an angry and violent type. His brother told me once that their father killed himself and Matt’s mother in a jealous rage. 1 sent for Matt and we had a ter rible interview. He threatened to disclose everything to Jack, who has returned to his post. I could tell him truly that Jack knew of it, and had said that my foolishness as a little girl would not affect his love and respect for me today. “Then Matt swore that 1 would never live to be Jack’s wife, that I had given myself to him, and be longed to him body and soul, and that if he could not have me here he would have me in eternity. A REAL PROBLEM It is sometimes considered old- fashioned to talk of protecting a woman’s "honor" but the fact remains that the woman who sacrifices her honor, or whatever you choose to call it, will sooner or later be faced with a problem she cannot so easily dismiss. For instance, there is Angela, a girl of 23, who wants to marry a doc tor in his early thirties. Angela is going ahead with her plans for a spring wedding, but she is afraid—of a man who has re turned to claim her. They were high school sweethearts. Now Matt feels that Angela has no right to marry anyone else. What should she do? “My father is dead and 1 dare not frighten my mother with this, but I am sick with terror for fear he will keep his word. What can I do? I am going ahead with wed ding plans and bridesmaids’ dresses, but I am in a cold sweat when I wake up at night, and any little sound makes my heart stop. Do you think he will dare do it? I cannot warn the police because then there would be publicity; and if he knew he was being watched, or was warned, he might grow desperate. “He :s quite changed from what he was, or not so much changed as worse than he was; angrier and harder. He gripped my hands and said to me, ‘X would kill you now. There’s no moment when I couldn’t kill you. But I believe you’ll come back to me, and I’ll wait until I’m sure you are double-crossing me.’ ” The letter ends with a wild ap peal: shall she run away? Shall she hide? Shall she tell Jack of her danger? What shall she do? Advised to Move. My answer went to her by airmail days ago, and today she writes me gratefully that she is following my advice and that she hears that Matt has left town. I advised her to move, with her mother, to the aunt’s home where her mother was going to move any way, after the wedding, and by ail means to notify the police. The chances are that Matt’s threats were only threats, only the last despairing gesture of a man who sees his girl won by a better man. But even so it is just as well not to risk anything. The aunt’s family consists, be side herself, of two bachelor sons; a much harder group to scare than are two lone women. And more than that the police instantly checked on Matt and temporarily placed a guard inconspicuously in the neigh borhood of the apartment house. So the probability is that Angela in a few weeks will feel herself safe in her new home with a husband to protect her. But when it has involved intima cies, the exchanging of passionate notes signed “your adoring hus band,” “your crazy little loving wife,” the buying of groceries and cooking them in a tiny cabin, and especially when the girl has given the man the supreme proof of her love and trust, then there is a bond that isn’t easily broken. We hear a good deal in these days, about the unimportance of a wom an’s honor. “She doesn’t harm any one but herself,” the girls argue, “and it’s nobody’s business but her A Birthday Cake With Candles—Goody! (See Recipes Below) Happy Returns Birthdays the children have are the ones which they usually cherish most even though they may have bigger cakes and more candles in later years. So with this in mind, I’m including a few suggestions. Cake ’n’ ice cream are tops, and a bit of candy to sweeten the tooth dictate the party. The cake can be simple, decorated with a ten-cent pastry tube. If you don’t want to take the time to spell out the let ters, you can buy these for a nominal sum, and have a professional looking cake right out of your own kitchen. Have the children send out their own invitations, even make them up if they like—this will be grand fun for them. Twirling crepe paper for decorations and getting the chairs in place will please them no end, for these, though smaU, will give them a wonderful sense of "do ing something.” For the cake I’ve chosen an in expensive but fascinatingly red Devil’s Food Cake. (Makes 2 8-inch layers) IVi cups sugar Vi cup shortening 1 egg, beaten 4 tablespoons cocoa 1 teaspoon red food coloring 2 tablespoons strong, hot coffee 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening and sugar until light. Blend in egg which has been beaten until foamy. Mix cocoa, col oring and hot coffee into a smooth paste, stir into mixture. Sift flour, measure, then sift again with soda and salt. Add to mixture alternate ly with buttermilk, folding and beat ing after each addition. Add vanilla. Turn into two greased, waxed pa per lined tins and bake in a moder ate (350-degree) oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Ice with the following: Magic Party Frosting. 2!4 cups sifted powdered sugar Ys cup sweetened, condensed milk 214 teaspoons vanilla Dash of salt Stir powdered sugar gradually into the sweetened, condensed milk. Add vanilla and salt. Beat until smooth and creamy. Spread on cold cakes. A clown’s face to glamorize the cake, as shown in the picture, can be made with melted chocolate us ing a water-color paint brush. Candy, not too rich, but honeyed and fruity, spell glamour for the children’s party. Try substituting fruit and honey in candy to make it nutritious, but still goodl Fruit Candy. V\ cup dried prunes Ya cup dried apricots Va cup dried figs 14 cup dates 14 cup raisins 14 cup honey Let dried prunes and apricots stand in boiling water 5 minutes. Run all fruit through a food chop per, fine knife. Add honey. Butter hands and shape candy into balls. Roll in chopped nuts, coconut or coat with confectioners’ chocolate. Honeyed Orange Peel. Remove peel in quarters from 6 oranges. Cover with water and boil Lynn Says: A birthday party’s a real party with birthday games to play. Let the children play their favorite ones, and if they run out of ideas, try some of these: Take the words. Greeting and Birthday, and give each of the guests paper and pencil. Ask players to fill in as many words as possible between each of the two letters. First words begin with B and end with G. Second words begin with R and end with I. Third words begin with R and end with E, and so forth. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for the game, and give prizes to those with longest lists. Have children sit in a circle to play this game called Birthday Gifts. First player starts with letter A, and makes a sentence giving the name of the place he is going and the gift he is bring ing. For example, he might say, “I am going to Appleton to get him an Anchovy, or to Bermuda to get him a Bon Bon,” and so forth down the alphabet. No words should be repeated. Guests can also make a scrap book together, cutting out maga zines and papers to make an au tobiography for the guest of hon or. Include place of birth, pic tures of mother and dad, school, vacation trips, etc. This Week’s Menu: Tomato Juice •Perch Fillets with Lemon Slice •Cabbage Creole Julienne Green Beans Frozen Fruit Salad Nut Bread Butter Apricot Upside Down Cake Coffee Tea Milk •Recipe Given. Yz hour. Drain. Cover again with water. Boil Yz hour longer or until tender. Drain. Cut peel in strips with scissors. Cover with honey (2 to 3 cups). Simmer gently until peel is clear, about 45 minutes. Spread on waxed paper to dry for several days. Roll in granulated sugar if desired. Dress up the party with these gay, good-to-eat pop corn balls. The chil dren will enjoy making them, too; Fop Corn Balls. (Makes 24 balls) 3 cups sugar 1 cup corn syrup 1 cup water 5 quarts pop corn l$i tablespoons butter Cook sugar, syrup, and water un til the syrup reaches 242 degrees, or makes a soft ball when tried in cold water. Add butter and stir through the syrup. Pour cooked syrup over salted pop com which has been placed in a buttered bowl and mix well. Shape balls with hands, using only enough pressure to make them stick together. The fresh tempting and distinctive flavor of perch makes this a nice fish for dinner. Plus that, it fries in no time at all and spares you of any disagreeable odors in the making: •Perch Fillets. Dip fish fillets in slightly beaten egg, then into bread crumbs to which have been added salt and pep per. Fry in shallow hot fat until just a golden brown, and serve im mediately. The whole process takes less than 15 minutes. As new, fresh and lovely as spring itself is this cabbage dish done to a turn with its food affinities, on ions and toma toes. Be clever with cabbage this way and your ta ble will be gay and bright in glo rious red and green, and your family surely will be pleased: •Cabbage Creole. (Serves 6) 3 pounds shredded cabbage 3 teaspoons salt 1 cup thinly sliced onions Vi minced green pepper 2 cups canned tomatoes 3 tablespoons salad oil 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon sugar Dash of cloves Cook cabbage in a small amount of boiling, salted water about 7 min utes. Drain well. While cabbage is cooking, saute onions in hot fat un til light brown, then add tomatoes, pepper, bay leaf, sugar and cloves. Simmer 18 minutes. Remove bay leaves, toss sauce over cabbage. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for March 22 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS THE MESSIAH FORETELLS HIS DEATH LESSON TEXT—Mark 8:Z7-37. GOLDEN TEXT—For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save It.—Mark 8:35. Jesus came into the world as the Redeemer of men—and that means He came to die. The prophets who wrote centuries before His coming presented Him as both the suffering and the reigning Messiah. However, to the minds of the Jewish people only the idea of His glory and king- ship was acceptable, not of His suf fering and death. Apparently His own disciples had this same impression and it there fore became necessary for Jesus as He came to the last months of His earthly ministry to speak plainly to them about these matters. I. Recognition of Christ by Faith (vv. 27-30). As a foundation for right thinking on any spiritual question there must be recognition of Christ’s deity. He drew forth such a confession from the disciples by asking who men said that He was. Notice that while there was difference of opinion, all had a high opinion of Him, calling Him John the Baptist, Elijah, or one of the prophets. They knew that a great man was in their midst, and had to admit it, even though they hated and opposed Him. But it is not enough to accept Christ as a great man, as a teacher, a prophet, or an example. Nor is it enough to tell what others think of Him. The question quickly becomes: “Whom say ye that I am?” Have you answered that question? What will you do with Jesus Christ? Peter relponded with a straight forward, heaven-bom confession of Christ as the Son of the living God (cf. Matt. 16:16-18) upon which Christ established His church. II. Rejection and Crucifixion Prophesied (vv. 31, 32). The foundation of faith in Him having been laid, Christ plainly laid before the disciples the fact of His coming rejection and death. Notice the word "must” in verse 31. "There was an imperative necessity for these things. But why must He die? This question is fully answered elsewhere in the Bible (John 3:14; Heb. 9:22; Isa. 53:4-6; II Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13; I Pet. 2:24). There could have been no salvation for any sin ner if He had not died (Gal. 3:10, 13; II Cor. 5:21; Rom. 3:20-26)” (John W. Bradbury). Note also that He “must rise again” (v. 31). He died for our sins, but “was raised again for our justification” (Rom. 4:25). III. Rebuke of Unbelief (vv. 32, 33). Peter, quick to accept Jesus as the Son of God, permitted Satan to blind his mind to the necessity of the cross, and thus became a stum bling block of unbelief, calling forth a severe rebuke from Jesus. It is a striking and humbling thought that the very one who a moment before spoke such accept able words cf recognition of Christ’s deity could by unbelief so quickly become the tool of Satan. “My soul, be on thy guard” lest such tempta tion overtake thee! May we also learn from this inci dent that we do well to weigh the words of even good men lest in a moment of weakness or unbelief they say that which may lead us astray. God’s Word alone is sure! IV. Requirements of Discipleship (vv. 34-37). Following the Christ of Calvary calls for a willingness to say “no” to self (literally, to deny any con nection with self-life) and to follow through with Him on the path of shame and crucifixion. No self-will and no compromise are permissible to Christ’s disciples. Foolishly to attempt to hold one’s life for self is to lose it. That pain ful loss has left brokenhearted, wrecked lives all along the path of man’s history. But why should any one do it? Equally foolish is the one who supposes that this world has anything to satisfy the human soul. Assuming the possibility of the im-- possible—that is, attaining the whole world as one’s own possession—to do so at the cost of one’s soul would be an indescribably poor bargain. What then shall we say of those who barter their eternal souls for a mess of pottage, a moment of sensu al satisfaction, or for a few paltry dollars? “What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” It is the unanswerable question. T ITTLE chubbies, little “slim- ‘— J jims” look well in this simple frock which may be adjusted to each figure by the side sashes which tie in back. The bodice, softly gathered has an engaging ‘sweetheart” neckline, the skirt is full and flaring. If you prefer you may finish this dress with a sim ple round white collar as shown in the small sketch. Excellent for wool crepes (as a party frock), chambray, gingham or percale for every day. Don’t run lamp cords under the rug. They wear out more quickly from being walked on, and pre sent a fire hazard. • • • Silver should always be polished following the shape of the object —flatware lengthwise and hollow- ware with a large circular motion. • • • If you wish to serve your guests individual cakes, bake your cake in a loaf. When baked, cut it in squares, frost them on four sides and decorate the tops with wal nuts. • • • Spiced beet slices or pickled carrots make piquant garnishes for the cold-meat platter. A few of each will do, along with a few sprigs of parsley. • • • Avoid handling electrical appa ratus with wet hands. Always turn off the main switch before trying to repair outlets or lights. 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