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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. CU MAY 15, 1942
Kathleen Norris Says:
t Parents Should Use Common Sense
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Eleanor Roosevelt
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S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute ol Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Jean brings young people to the house, and they never refuse a second cut of beef
or pie. And the wreckage they can cause in a case of soft drinks is unbelievable.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
HE Whites live in Phila
delphia and they have a
daughter, Jean, 17, and a
son, Robert, two years younger.
Their lives have run along a fa
miliar groove until now; they
have lived exactly as have mil
lions of American families, own
ing their home and their car,
having part-time help, going
away for two weeks of summer
vacation, putting Jean and Rob
through public school with plen
ty of luxury on the side.
Now the Whites have come to a
difficult crossroads, and they can’t
agree. Father White is a man of
strong will, and he needs it at this
moment, for Mother, Jean and Rob
junior are leagued against him.
Father, flatly and simply wants
to go on as they are. That is his
entire platform. Jean and Mother,
somewhat indifferently abetted by
Rob, want to rent the house, move
to a smart apartment, go in mod
estly for entertaining, and give Jean
the chance her friends will have of
meeting the right people and going
the right places.
Doesn’t Like Their Home.
Robert White’s income is $4,000
a year. Olive, his wife, began a
budget when it was little more than
half that, and they bought the house
nine years ago. It is a square house
with trees and a front garden, a
double garage, four bedrooms and
two baths, living-room, study, din
ing-room, kitchen, two fireplaces
and a small, sunny dining-ingle off
the kitchen.
To ninety-nine women out of ev
ery hundred it would represent lux
ury. But to Jean White it is just
perfectly horrible and commonplace
and she wishes it would bum down.
The Whites pay $62.50 a month for
interest on a $5,000 mortgage, home
insurance and amortization. Rob
ert White pays $40 a month for life
insurance. The table costs an even
hundred a month, and the four-day-
a-week services of Amanda John
son, about $35 more.
Young Rob comes home ravenous
every day, and makes incredible in
roads on bread, jam and butter,
drinking exactly a quart of choco
late milk as he does so. Jean brings
nice hoarse boys to dinner, and they
never refuse a second cut of beef
or pie. The wreckage these young
persons can cause in a case of soft
bottled drinks is unbelievable; Jean
calls upstairs, “Mother, may we
open this can of ham and have
these eggs?” And what can Olive
call back but “Of course, darling,
what else are they there for?”
Costly Incidentals.
Home, food and insurance and
service therefore consume half the
income. Above and beyond these
are the incidentals that all budget
keepers abhor because they sound
so insignificantly small and add up
so brutally big. Incidentals mean
telephone and long distance calls,
tailor, laundry, cleaner, clothes,
shoes, dentist, doctor, church, mov
ies, theater, clubs, newspapers,
magazines, gasoline and cleaning of
the car, flowers, stamps—no one of
them terrifying, but the whole mass
unspeakably depressing.
The Whites owe various small
bills now, for the first time in their
lives; Jean belongs to a ski club,
and that costs money, and Rob had
to have an emergency apendectomy.
These bills fret the man of the
house; he and his wife both thought
them “somewhere around two hun
dred” until they added them up the
SPOILED CHILD
The spoiled child is a prob
lem, not only to her parents but
to herself. She has never learned
to think of others, and that is
one of the first lessons she must
learn before she can hope to
achieve the happiness she takes
for granted as her share in life.
The “Jean” whose father wrote
this letter is a spoiled child. She
wants more than her father can
provide. But he himself has
helped to create the problem he
asks Kathleen Norris to solve.
other night and found they came to
exactly $516.22. This caused a sort
of family panic, in which Jean ex
pressed her ideas.
Jean and her mother think the
time has come to borrow a good
round sum, rent the house, and move
to one of the beautiful new apart
ments just finished in the smartest
part of town. The square, all-win
dow corner of the big drawing-room
in these apartments, its white-brick
fireplace and indirect lighting more
than reconcile Jean to the fact that
she would have to take for her own
what was designed for a servant’s
room, and that none of the White’s
furniture would be suitable in the
place. Only chromium pipe, white
leather and crystal furnishings
would fit there.
The rent is $175 but Jean argues
that the old house would rent for a
hundred anyway. And she does so
want—with tears and smiles and
kisses how she wants!—to entertain
in the new place, to have that ad
dress on her writing paper, to have
“fun” with the others of her crowd
until she gets married.
Both Parents Are V.'rong.
“I’ll be darned,” writes Rob sen
ior, “if I want to go in for more ex
pense now. I want to stay where we
are and see if we can’t cut down
expenses. Just tips in the new place
would stand me in about twenty a
month; the whole thing would be
done on borrowed money, and I don’t
like it! Answer us honestly,” his
letter concludes, “which of us is
right?”
My opinion. Robert, is that nei
ther side is right. I think you and
Olive have been wrong all along,
and I think it’s your fault that at 17
Jean has such completely false
ideas. Years ago you should have
been saving a thousand a year out
of that handsome salary; years ago
Jean should have realized that that
last expensive year of private
schooling, with its inevitable friend
ships and comparisons, was not for
her. Years ago Olive should have
lifted the heaviest of your burden by
bringing that admirable budget of
hers not just within the narrowest
possible margin of income, but far
below it.
Since you have so spoiled Jean
that debt and pretense seem to her
the natural steps toward finding her
husband and place in life, you may
be very sure that when she does
step socially above you and her
mother, and needs you no longer,
no consideration may be expected
from Jean, should your old age be
dependent and helpless.
Needs to Be Awakened.
So my advice to you now is to
move, indeed, but to some small
place whose rent won’t be more than
$50. Rent your present home in
deed, but only to cover overhead
expenses there, and to invest the
rest. Beside that, put $100 into gov
ernment bonds every month before
you turn one cent over to the family.
WAR AND CHARITIES
NEW YORK CITY.—One morning
I went over to the Naval hospital
and returned in time to meet Mrs.
Myron Taylor, who came to see me
about the USO campaign. She also
spoke to me of several other chari
ties, the School for Applied Design,
the Purple Box (where crippled
workers have for many years been
doing the daintiest kind of sewing)
and the New York Association for
the Blind. These charities are ei
ther giving up in despair, or cur
tailing their programs, because it is
so difficult to raise money for any
thing but war work.
Our National Symphony orchestra
in Washington has had this same
experience. The big gifts have come
in, but it is largely supported by
small gifts, and this year these
gifts seem to be flowing into defense
bonds or war charities. I think it
is time we consider what we really
intend to do about the type of cul
tural community service rendered
by a symphony orchestra.
The School for Applied Design has
trained many women for commer
cial art. The Purple Box has trained
cripples so that they have been
able to support themselves. It is
possible that women now being
trained in the School for Applied
Design might go into munition fac
tories for the duration of the war.
Perhaps it is one of the organiza
tions which can be shut down, but
it will be hard to build up again
once disbanded.
Certainly there is no place in in
dustry for the cripples in the work
rooms of the Purple Box. There is
comparatively little opportunity for
those who are trained by the New
York Association for the Blind.
• * •
HEROIC DEEDS
WASHINGTON.—One evening, in
New York city, I sat on a panel
which inaugurated a series of forum
discussions to be carried on through
the spring for the benefit of the New
York Infirmary for Women and
Children. I was delighted to find
my cousin, Mrs. Joseph Alsop, as
well as a number of pleasant ac
quaintances, on the panel. The sub
ject was women’s work in the war
and an effort was made to cover as
many outside activities outside of
actual industrial work.
The President’s speech was heard
over the loudspeaker at the hotel
where we assembled and everyone
listened eagerly. I think his closing
stories about the heroism of some of
our men fitted in particularly well
with an appeal which one of the
speakers made f«r the USO. She
had mentioned the fact that some
people wrongly think that the serv
ices rendered outside the camps to
men of the armed forces are apt
to make them “sissies.” Somehow,
that seems to me a poor word to
apply to the average boy in our
services. If we needed corrobora
tion on her stand, the President’s
speech gave it.
These stories are illustrative
of hundreds of thousands of
equally heroic deeds which are
being performed every day in
the line of duty. Some of them
will never be reported. Others
will receive recognition in time.
One need never worry about the
heroism of the youth of Amer
ica.
Almost any day, any newspaper
can supply you with innumerable
acts in civilian life, which require
courage, initiative and quick think
ing and are the background for
heroic deeds.
• • •
CHILD CONGRESS
Miss Thompson and I took the
plane back to Washington and I was
here for my press conference at 11
o’clock. Miss Katharine Lenroot at
tended to talk about the Pan-Amer
ican Child Congress. I was par-
tieularly pleased to hear hCT say
that the advances made since this
congress firs; met were really
notable.
Now, at its eighth session, we can
fix our minds primarily on the needs
of the children in the war. We still
can feel that well-established social
legislation will carry forward the
program and improve the agencies
now set up in the different countries
on this continent, so that the chil
dren will be cared for in peace
time as well as during the war
period.
I am sure that everyone has
the same feeling that I have,
a sense of relief that we are go
ing to be told what we should do
in this war period in our homes.
It will surely reach down into
our lives. Some of us may find
adjustments difficult, but, after
all, the adjustment of the boy
who leaves his job and goes into
the a rmed services is a far more
drastic one.
* • •
WASHINGTON SPRING
WASHINGTON.—I came back to
Washington by plane one afternoon
in order to attend the party given
by the Washington Newspaper guild
for the purpose of raising money to
send delegates to the National News
paper guild convention, and for the
benefit of army and navy relief.
Washington is at its most beautiful
at this time. All the flowering
shrubs are out and the spring flow
ers are everywhere. One cannot
help but be impressed by the beauty
of this capital of a great country.
Kitchen Comfort
Spring Fever? Are the warm lazy
days working havoc with your de
sire to cook, to
work in the kitch
en? Then dispel
these lagging feel
ings with quick
ly put - together
meals that cut
down your work
to a minimum
and the use of your oven to practi
cally nothing.
This is the season to make the
most of your broiler and meats that
are at their best when broiled. Broil
er specialties are lamb chops (both
shoulder and loin), steaks, thick
ham slices, and young chickens. If
you heat your oven very hot and
also the pan in which you are broil
ing your meat before you put the
meat into the oven, you will ac
tually be cutting down the time you
have your oven on. In this way
you are way ahead on economy of
heat and also in keeping your
kitchen comfortably cool.
To cut down the time you spend
in actual cooking, select foods that
cook quickly or that can be cooked
and served together. Our menu to
day is a good example of this: the
lamb chops broil quickly and the
lima beans brought to a boil and
cooked quickly take only as much
time as the lamb chops to cook un
til tender. Serve them on the same
platter, too—they’re pretty that way
and you will have fewer serving
dishes to wash.
The Refrigerator.
Your appreciation for your refrig
erator or icebox undoubtedly zooms
upward quite fast with the first ap
pearance of warmer weather. In
deed, what could you possibly do
without refrigeration that keeps
fruits, vegetables,
leftovers, meats,
milk, butter, eggs
and countless oth
er products in
perfect condition?
In what other
place could you
possibly store
away the salad to' keep crisp and
cool and the delectable desserts that
must remain firm before serving?
Those reasons are enough to make
you keep your refrigerator in the
best of condition, but the recent lim
itation on making and selling re
frigerators will certainly give you
further reason to cherish it with
the best possible care.
Keep the refrigerator away from
the sun that comes into the kitchen.
Keep it away from the stove, too,
and give it enough space for good
circulation of air at the back and
top. Most refrigerators need a 2Vi-
inch leeway at the back and 6 to 12
inches at the top.
Temperatures are important, so
check them with a thermometer.
Safest temperature is between 40
and 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cool hot foods before putting
them into the refrigerator. Cover
foods except those having thick
skins. Moisture from uncovered
foods collects on the freezing unit
and you will have to defrost oftener.
Your refrigerator has a big job
in keeping everything cool, as every
piece of food requires just so much
energy to cool. For this reason you
should not overcrowd your refrig
erator or stuff it full with bags, car
tons and vegetable tops that also
need energy to be cooled.
Defrosting.
Once a week or oftener in the
Lynn Says:
Keep your kitchen well venti
lated and you will drive away
much of the feeling of fatigue that
comes while you cook. Warm air
usually rises so it is better to
keep the windows open from the
top to create better ventilation
and avoid drafts.
Place an electric fan right
above the stove so that it fans
the warm air right out the win
dows, or combine a fan with a
screen placed in the upper sash
of one of the windows and adjust
to fan the air in or out the room.
In some kitchens it is practica
ble to place a fan in the chimney
flue provided for that purpose.
This Week’s Menu
'Broiled Shoulder Lamb Chops
Lima Beans in Tomatoes
Hashed Brown Potatoes
•Bran Sour Cream Muffins
Butter
•Wilted Lettuce Salad
•Frozen Prune Whip
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipe Given.
summer if the weather is humid,
defrost the refrigerator. This will
help it keep the proper tempera
ture. When you defrost, wash the
inside of the box, the trays, etc.,
with a solution of 3 quarts of warm
water and 1 tablespoon of soda.
Wipe with a cloth wrung in clean,
clear water and dry thoroughly be
fore returning the food and trays
to the box. In this way you give
your refrigerator good care and pro
long its service to you.
•Broiled Shoulder Lamb Chops.
Have lamb shoulder chops boned
and rolled and cut into slices about 1
inch thick. Thor
oughly preheat
broiling oven with
regulator set for
broiling. Place
lamb chops on
rack so that there
is a distance of
about 3 inches be
tween top of chops and source of
heat. If this distance must be less,
reduce the temperature accordingly.
When one side is nicely browned,
season with salt and pepper, turn
and finish cooking. This requires
about 15 minutes. Serve with to
matoes which are stuffed with
cooked lima beans and broiled.
Here are muffins that will act as
a spring tonic with their rich-in-iron
molasses and bran cereal that peps
up even the most wilted spirits:
•Bran Sour Cream Muffins.
(Makes 18 small muffins)
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
V4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons water
1 egg, beaten
2 cups bran cereal
Sift together flour, soda and salt.
Combine cream, molasses, water
and egg. Stir into dry ingredients
and add bran cereal. Fill well-
greased muffin tins two-thirds full
and bake in a moderate oven (350
degrees) for 20 to 25 minutes.
Wilted lettuce makes a quick and
easy salad combination. It is per
fect with the broiled lamb chops be
cause of the bacon flavoring which
blends so well with them:
•Wilted Lettuce.
4 slices bacon, cut in small
pieces and fried brown
% cup vinegar
ii cup water
1 teaspoon sugar
When bacon is browned, add other
ingredients and heat to boiling point.
Pour over lettuce. Sliced hard-
cooked eggs and a little diced onion
may be added to make the salad
extra delicious.
•Frozen Prune Whip.
(Serves 6)
IVs cups cooked prunes
14 cup granulated sugar for prunes
14 teaspoon ground cloves
2 cups milk
14 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon plain gelatin
2 eggs
1 cup whipping cream
Cut prunes from pits in small
pieces. Combine prunes with 14 cup
sugar and spice and heat to dissolve
sugar. Chill. Combine 114 cups
milk, salt, and 14 cup sugar and
scald. Add flavoring and gelatin
moistened in remaining 14 cup milk
and stir to dissolve gelatin. Pour
over beaten eggs, stirring briskly.
Chill until thick. Whip cream stiff
and fold into chilled gelatin mix
ture; add prune mixture. Pour into
refrigerator tray, place in freezing
unit and freeze. Stir once or twice
during freezing process.
Have you a particular household or
cooking problem on which you would like
expert advice? Write to Miss Lynn Cham
bers at Western Newspaper Union, 210
South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois,
explaining your problem fully to her.
Please enclose a stamped, self-addreised
envelope for your reply.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for May 17
Lesson subjects and Scripture tex ^®
V»v InternaU^” 1
TUESDAY: THE DAY OF
CONFLICT
LESSON TEXT—Matthew 22:41—23:11.
GOLDEN TEXT—The stone which the
builders rejected Is beccme the head ol the
corner.—Mark 12:10.
“By what authority doest thou
these things? and who gave thee this
authority?” Such was the challenge
Christ faced when He came into the
temple on the last day that He was
to be able to teach there. The chief
priests and elders (Matt. 21:23)
asked it because they knew that
they had received their authority
with their offices, whether appoint
ive or hereditary.
Jesus held no such position, yet
He had just driven the money chang
ers out of what He called “my
house” — the temple. They chal
lenged Him, and through the long
day He answered and also asked
them questions. Here we find a rich
store of parables, illustrations, un
answerable arguments, as He met
the Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians
—all His enemies who, though they
hated each other, made common
cause against Jesus. The discus
sion concludes with His facing of
the Pharisees with
I. The Ultimate Question—“What
Think Ye of the Christ?" (22:41-46).
The crux of the entire matter was
right there for them, as it is for us,
though in a somewhat different
sense. They were looking for the
Messiah—the Christ; but their idea
of Him was that He would come as
their roy^j leader, to break the yoke
of Roman bondage and set them
free. They knew He was to be the
son of David, but they did not see
in their own Scriptures that this
one was to be David’s greater son
(Matt.l2:42); that in the line of
David was to come the one whom
David “in the spirit” called “Lord”
(Ps. 110:1). They knew about Christ,
but they did not know Him, and thus
they were like many today. They
have heard of Him; they may even
admire His character and His teach
ings, but they do not know Him.
What think you, reader, of Christ?
Christ then states
H. The Final Test—Doing, Not
Just Saying (23:1-4).
Having finally closed their mouths
(22:46) Jesus proceeded to a solemn
indictment of the scribes and Phari
sees. First of all He declared that
they failed in the final test of life, -•
which is not words but actions.
Noticfe that He recognized their
authority and their teaching, but in
severe condemnation pointed out
that they did not live what they pro
fessed. That is the criterion by
which we shall all be judged. Those
who think that because they belong
to some church, or subscribe to a
creed, or speak a smooth word of
testimony they may then live as
they please, will find themselves
standing with the scribes and Phari
sees on the judgment day. Why
keep that kind of company?
Such men are capable of
IH. The Great Hypocrisy—Pride
Posing As Piety (23:5-9).
They were, oh, so religious! In
terpreting literally and mechanical
ly God’s command that they keep
His law always near them in action
(hand) and in thought (mind) (see
Deut. 6:8; 11:18), they made showy
leather cases and wore them on
wrist and forehead as containers of
the written Word. They loved the
chief seats and the titles of distinc
tion. And all this was done in the
name of religion. What hypocrisy!
But wait — are we any better?
What about the preacher who is not
happy unless he is invited into the
pulpit? What about those who take
or accept the titles which our Lord
expressly forbids? What about those
in the pew, as much as in the pulpit
(and perhaps more), who want to
be recognized as “the masters” ol
the church? To be sure, they do not
always wish it to be so crudely put
as that, but they do expect to be
recognized as such “or else—.” This
too, under the name of Christianity.
There indeed is the great hypocrisy!
We are thankful that our lessee
does not close here. Our Lord next
revealed
IV. The Right Attitude—Servic*
Not Recognition (23:10, 11).
He that is mastered of Christ is
ready to be the servant of all. To
exalt Him is to at once do away
with self-praise and self-glory. Pride
in position, and the desire to be
praised and recognized by men, in
evitably lead a man into a pitfall
in which he is humbled. On the
other hand, the one who in humility
serves the Lord will, to his own
surprise, find that God has exalted
him. The way up is down.
“Torrey,” ssrtd a well - knowr
preacher with whom Dr. Torrey was
associated in a great conference,
“you and I are the most importanl
men in Christian work in this coun
try.” Not long afterward God sel
that man aside. Quite different was
the spirit of D. L. Moody, who a:
the height of his ministry for Goc
would say, “There are better mer
here behind me on the platform t<
speak when I am through”— and hi
really believed itl
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