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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MAY 22, 1942
Kathleen Norris Says:
Young Marriage Is Unbalanced Business
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
When a girl of 18 marries everything is joyous tumult. Presents pour in; a
dizzying number of frocks are bought. Grandmother's veil is brought out of the linen
chest; a photographer takes pictures of little Betsey.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
OST girls like the idea of
marrying young. At 17,
a normal girl, walking
home from high school between
two girl chums, feels in her soul
that if she could have the excite
ment and glory of quietly an
nouncing that she and Peter
Baker are going to be married
on her graduation day, she
wouldn’t care much what else
happened or didn’t happen in all
the years to come!
“Betsey engaged!” gasp the
aunts. “Why, mercy on us, how old
is the child!”
“I’ll be 18 in June,” Betsey re
minds them demurely. But inside
her nothing is demure. Everything
is joyous tumult. Pride, thrill ex
pectation, love of the nice boy who
loves her so madly, all these keep
Betsey’s spirits at high level during
her last weeks as a girl.
Other things contribute. Presents
pour in; dizzying numbers of frocks
are bought; parties are given. There
is an adorable little apartment to
furnish; there is a sparkling ring;
Grandmother’s wedding veil is
brought out of the linen chest; a
photographer comes to take pictures
of little Betsey half-hid behind the
folds of it.
The Miracle of Marriage.
In all of this Peter’s image be
comes somewhat fogged in Betsey’s
mind. He is there, of course, lov
ing and happy, but he is really
much less important, in the eyes of
an 18-year-old girl, than the fit of
her wedding gown. Betsey in all
her life has never been lonely, ig
nored, doubtful, hungry for friend
ship. By no possibility can she val
ue Peter’s affection rightly, or esti
mate this miracle that is marriage
at its true worth.
No, it is all fun, for her. Betsey
has smart little calling cards with
“Mrs. Peter Arnold Baker” en
graved upon them, at 18.
But at 19, at 20, the glow begins
to pale. It isn’t that she doesn’t
love Peter and dear little ridicu-
lous Patsy, but Betsey isn’t the cen
ter of attention any more. The other
girls, who looked on impressed and
perhaps a little envious, two years
ago, are in the full swing of life’s
happiest days now.
Betsey is missing all of this; she
is married. Peter has changed from
the carefree sweetheart of a few
years ago; he has a wife and baby
to support now.
“I was married at 18,” Betsey can
still say proudly. But it doesn’t
seem to matter any more. She is
beginning dimly to perceive that the
very young wife has an obligation
that sits badly on young shoulders.
Hers Most Wait.
Janet is 36 now; she married at
18 and has two daughters of 16 and
13. Her husband had two girls by
his first marriage also; they are
now in their early twenties, going
out a good deal, and never so happy
as when their handsome father
shares their social engagements. He
gives them dances at the country
club, little downtown dinners, and
now that Emily, the oldest, is en
gaged to an army captain, the house
is in a flurry of wedding prepara
tions.
“From the moment I married
Emmet,” Janet writes aggrievedly,
“everyone seemed to regard me as
a settled old woman. I am not old,
even now, but with two great girls
at the awkward ages I am not in
cluded in any young parties. Emmet
wants Emily and Isabel to have ev
erything; I thought, when we were
OLD AT 20
You cant expect, twenty years
from now, to recapture the youth
you lost by marrying at 17 or 18.
If you try, you will probably be
come one of those pathetic mid
dle-aged women who refuse stub
bornly to grow old gracefully,
thereby losing not only the joy
of youth but the charm and
peace of the later years. Not all
such marriages turn out badly.
But more often than not, when
the novelty and glamour wears'
thin and marriage becomes the
serious business it really is, the
bride of less than 20 years be
gins to realize that she is no
longer a girl. She is, at 20, al
ready too old for her age.
married, that I would have the man
aging of his house and his children,
but from the first Emmet’s sister
who lived next door, practically ran
our house, and the girls were in
school.
“When they came Emmet was so
delighted to have two young lady
daughters to spoil that I was re
duced to a working housekeeper’s
position, and anything my own girls
wanted had to wait until their half-
sisters had had a chance at the so
cial whirl, a chance to go the right
places and meet the right men.
“Just to give you an idea: Isabel,
when she leaves the house, will call
up to me, ‘Two extra for dinner,
Janet!’ Emily borrowed a fur coat
my aunt left me, ‘just for this once’
and has been wearing it all winter.
When I spoke to Emmet about it and
said I had intended to cut it into
muffs for Jane and Diana, my own
girls, he laughed and said that long
before they were ready for muffs the
coat would be moth-eaten anyway.
Inconsiderate Demands.
“I feel as if I had thrown away
my life; no girlhood, really, no
young-ladyhood of dancing and good
times, maternal problems with the
children of a man more than twice
my age when I was only 18, and
now nothing but slavery in a family
of six, with constant problems of
company, meals, parties, late hours,
and the inconsiderate demands of
two spoiled girls. Except for occa
sional help by the hour, my girls
and 1 do all the work.
“Just now,” the letter concludes,
“Emmet is asking me to put a mort
gage on our own home so that he
can make the down payment on a
home for Emily and Martin.”
Well, little-girl marriages don’t al
ways mean total eclipse. But they
almost always present problems
that can be solved only by the sud
den and painful growing up of the
little girl. She doesn’t long hold the
proud position of a young queen,
adored by her older husband, and
hardly older, herself, than those
children she is mothering so charm
ingly. For a few months or a year
she does bustle about, identified in
the shops as that pretty girl-wife of
Doctor Brown; for a few years she
talks with precocious wisdom, like
a grave little girl playing mamma,
about what she and Harry mean to
do for Toddy and Nancy.
But very shortly she learns that
even Titania, when she marries, has
to keep a house comfortable and a
cook pacified, that Toddy is an un
pleasantly spoiled little boy who runs
to his grandmother with all his trou
bles and makes a partisan of his
father, and that Nancy doesn’t like
her and never will.
WHO’S
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NEWS
THIS
WEEK
1 By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Associated Newspapers—WNU Features.
N EW YORK.—Possibly there will
be a touch of Sweden’s “middle
way” in Paul V. McNutt’s new man
oower commission which is recruit-
ing skill and
Man-Power Board brawn for
Appointee Rose to war produc-
Heights on Pluck “I
appointment on the board is 36-year-
old Wendell Lund, Michigan-born
son of Swedish immigrants, repre
senting the Labor Production divi
sion of the WPB, succeeding Sidney
Keep on Your Toes With Enriched Bread!
(See Recipes Below)
Hillman in this capacity.
Mr. Lund emerges as a new and
powerful figure in the war-labor
lineup. Impressive in physical bulk
and with a record of achievement to
match—a record quite remarkable
for his years.
Citizens of Swedish birth or an
cestry have been cheering for their
Wendell Lund for quite a few years
and picking him as the most likely
to succeed in the domain of useful
public service. He is the son of Dr.
C. A. Lund, Lutheran minister of
Escanaba, Mich., president of the
Augustana synod of Lutheran
churches.
Wendell Land won the Michi
gan state high school oratorical
contest and was graduated at
head of his class, at the age of
16. Getting through Augustana
college, he worked as a laborer
in a flooring mill and foreman
in a railroad tie yard. On Sat
urday nights, he worked in a
store and earned $5 a week edit
ing college publications. Again
he was graduated at the top of
his class. He took his master’s
degree at Columbia university
and snatched a doctor’s degree
from Princeton in a brief two
years.
In 1934 he was co-operating with
the department of the interior in
conservation work and in reshaping
the depressed economy of the
Monongahela vaUey.
In 1935, he organized and directed
a section of the division of sub
sistence homesteads, engaged in a
wide range of similar governmental
projects and worked a night shift in
which he took a law degree from
Georgetown university, in 1937. In
January, 1941, Governor Van Wag
oner of Michigan made him secre
tary of the state administrative
board at a time when corruption
had been prevalent in the $22,000,000
state purchasing budget. He cleaned
that up nicely and was appointed
executive secretary of the Michigan
unemployment compensation com
mission. This job was a stepping
stone to his new post in which get
ting the right man in the right job
is as important as getting the right
shell in the right gun.
T HAT air power will bring some
drastic changes both in every
day living and in fighting, or pri
marily survival techniques, is the
^ theme of
Our Only Safety !• Ma j Alex-
In Better Planes, ander P. de
Seversky Believes Seversky’s
new book,
“Victory Through Air Power.” It is
a book which would stir even a
wooden Indian out of any undue
complacency about the shape of
things to come. His argument that
we will live in the future only by
bigger and better airplanes may be
refuted only by experts, considering
the major’s professional standing as
an aviation engineer, builder and in
ventor.
Flying for Czarist Russia, he
got only a wooden leg out of the
First World war and thinks we
will be lucky to come off as well
in this one, unless we wake up.
Arriving here, in 1918, he ac
quired a $5,000,000 airplane fac
tory and a beautiful wife, the
former Evelyn Oliphant of New
York.
Dog-fighting the Germans, his
ship was dropped to the Baltic. One
of his own bombs exploded. Re
gaining consciousness, clinging to a
wing, he made a tourniquet of his
trouser leg. He had swooned again
when a Russian destroyer picked
him up, his leg blown away. In
Washington, he became consulting
engineer for the United States air
service, building amphibian planes,
a master of stunt flying with a dead
motor. He has filled out an illus
trious career as a designer and
builder of planes. He is no arm
chair air strategist.
♦
A FRIEND who recently tra-
■tk versed North Africa and the
Near East told this writer he found
everywhere diligent and curious
British Intelligence officers but none
of the USA. He thought we ought to
be picking up more gossip in those
parts. Reports accumulate as to
the increasing efficiency of the Brit
ish secret service. They tag Maj.
Gen. Hastings Lionel Ismay as the
man providentially at hand to guide
and stimulate these efforts. He is
credited with much swift legerde
main in getting at enemy secrets.
Bread ’n Butter
Bread is one of our oldest and
best-liked foods. But bread, like
many of our other foods, has
changed considerably during the
last two years. You haven’t no
ticed? Well, it’s been enriched and
fortified with the B-vitamins, often
called morale builders because of
the fine things they do for your sys
tem, digestion and disposition.
Iron, the magic helper that peps
up your system by making hard
working red blood cells, has also
been added to bread along with vi
tamin B. •
But not just bread has these new,
essential elements. Flour that you
use for your own
baking has been
fortified with the
B - vitamins and
iron. There isn’t
much difference
in enriched flour
or bread and in
ordinary bread or
flour, except in some cases where
the color is slightly creamy. But
the nutritive value is so much great
er that it’s to your advantage to
use it.
Although Saturday baking and the
resultant shelves and pantries filled
with crusty, sweet-smelling loaves
of bread are becoming things of the
past, perhaps you still feel the oc
casional desire to turn out a silky
textured, moist, delicious loaf of
good bread.
Rhythmical kneading is the secret
of good bread. Rock the dough un
der the palms of the hands in three-
quarter time until it gets the satin
like sheen.
'Twisted Loaf.
(Makes 4 1-pound loaves)
2 cups milk
Ya cup sugar
4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons shortening
2 cups water
1 cake yeast
Va cup lukewarm water
12 cups sifted flour (about)
Scald milk. Add sugar, salt,
shortening and water. Cool to luke
warm. Add yeast which has been
softened in Va cup lukewarm water.
Add flour gradually, mixing it in
thoroughly. When dough is stiff,
turn out on a lightly floured board
and knead until satiny and smooth.
Shape into smooth ball and place in
a greased pan. Cover and let rise
in a warm place (80-85 degrees F.)
until doubled in bulk. When light, di
vide into four equal portions. Roll
each portion into a smooth ball. Cov
er well and let rise 10 to 15 minutes.
Mold into loaves. For a twisted
loaf, roll dough under hand to 2
rolls about 2 inches thick and longer
than the length of the pan. Twist
the 2 rolls around each other and
place in greased pans. Let rise un
til doubled in bulk. Bake in a mod
erately hot (400-425-degree) oven 40
to 45 minutes.
A nutritious coffee cake that is a
tried and true sugar skimper adds
zest to breakfasts. Made with ei
ther of the two dried fruit fillings
given here, it is delightful:
Sweet Yeast Dough.
(Makes 2 12-inch rings or 3>4
dozen rolls)
2 cakes yeast
Lynn Says:
Good things come in little pack
ages. This little saying applies
perfectly to the concentrated
foods like dried fruits—prunes,
apricots, figs, apples, pears, rai
sins and peaches.
Now more than ever before
you’ll want to use more of them
because they can solve your
sweet tooth problem, in addition
to acting as important blood
builders and keeping your body in
good working condition because
of their important vitamin and
mineral values.
You can appreciate why they
do all this for you when you real
ize that to make one pound of
the dried fruit it takes several
pounds of fresh fruit. For ex
ample, prunes require three
pounds of fresh fruit to make one
pound dried; raisins, four pounds
fresh fruit, apples, six to nine
pounds fresh fruit, pears and figs
both require three pounds of fresh
fruit, while apricots and peaches
five and one-half pounds of the
fresh to make the dried product.
This Week’s Menu
•Oven-Baked Chicken
Green Peas Parsleyed Potatoes
Grrpefruit, Orange, Strawberry
Salad
•Twisted Loaf
Strawberry Sundae
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipe Given.
14 cup lukewarm water
1 cup milk
14 cup butter or margarine
14 cup sugar
14 cup honey
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
5 cups sifted flour (about)
Soften yeast in lukewarm water.
Scald milk, add butter, sugar, honey
and salt. Cool to lukewarm. Add
flour to make a thick batter. Add
yeast and eggs; beat well. Add
enough flour to make a soft dough.
Turn out on a lightly floured board
and knead until satiny. Place in a
greased bowl, cover and let rise un
til doubled in bulk. When light,
punch down. Shape into tea ring
rolls filling with fig or apricot filling.
Bake in a moderate (375-degree)
oven 25 to 30 minutes for coffee cake,
20 to 25 minutes for rolls.
Fig Filling.
(Makes 2 cups)
1 cup chopped figs
Vi cup orange juice
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
Ya cup sugar
Vi teaspoon salt
Yt cup chopped nuts
Combine figs, orange juice and
rind, water, sugar and salt. Cook
until thick, stirring constantly. Re
move from heat and cool. Add nuts.
Apricot or Prune Filling.
(Makes 2 cups)
lYt cups stewed, chopped prunes
or apricots
2 tablespoons sugar or honey
Ya teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Combine the fruit, honey, cinna
mon and lemon juice. Mix well.
Do you have a yen for old-
fashioned, oven-baked chicken swim
ming in a thick, creamy sauce?
Well, here’s a recipe for you that
you can fix early in the morning
and put in your refrigerator until
cooking time. You may use broil
ers, frying hens, stewing hens or
roasters, but the cooking time va
ries with the age of the chicken.
Broilers take about a half an hour
to cook while stewing hens take
about two hours.
•Oven-Baked Chicken.
1 roasting chicken cut up
Milk
Flour
Salt and pepper
Yi cup butter or fat for frying
1 tablespoon onion, chopped fine
Vi pound mushrooms
2 cups hot, rich milk
Dip chicken in milk and seasoned
crumbs and flour and fry in skillet
until a golden brown. Fry mush
rooms in butter until brown (about
2 or 3 minutes). Sprinkle chopped
onion over top of chicken arranged
in casserole. Pour hot milk over
top and bake in a moderate (359-
degree) oven until chicken is tender.
Serve garnished with chopped pars
ley and a dash of paprika.
Dramatize the Salad.
Salad greens and fresh fruits oc
cupy an importart place in our diets
in the spring, and a good salad is
a distinctive part of any menu.
Our salad today features citrus
fruits and strawberries which are a
spring symphony themselves tossed
on a bed of greens—watercress, ro-
maine and leaf lettuce are perfect.
A light french dressing will bring
out the hidden flavors in the greens
and fruits:
French Dressing.
3 tablespoons catsnp
1 tablespoon vinegar
Vi cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
Va teaspoon white pepper
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup salad oil
1 onion, sliced
Vi teaspoon paprika
Combine ingredients in order giv
en and shake well in jar before
serving.
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-addressed
envelope for your reply.
(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 May 24
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religions Education; used by
permission.
THURSDAY: THE LAST DAY
WITH THE DISCIPLES
LESSON TEXT—Luke 22:14-’:-.
GOLDEN TEXT—This do in remembrance
of me.—Luke 22:19.
The last day! How quickly it
comes, and how fleeting yet mean
ingful its moments.
We do not know what our Lord
did on Wednesday of Passion Week.
In all probability He remained in
Bethany to rest in fellowship with
His friends. Surely He needed that
day of quiet, for that which had gone
before, difficult and strenuous as it
had been, was as nothing to that
which lay before Him.
Late on Thursday He and His dis
ciples came 'to the upper room
where Peter and John had already
made preparation for the observ
ance of the Passover (Luke 22:8).
This feast had (since that great and
awful night of Israel’s redemption
out of Egypt’s bondage) pointed for
ward to the Christ and to His cross
as the fulfillment of the type of re
demption by the shedding of blood.
But now the hour had coma for Him
to give Himself in that death, and so
He set aside the Passover (because
it has been fulfilled) to establish the
great Christian feast of remem
brance—the Lord’s table, which now
shows forth His death till He come.
I. The Final Passover (w. 14-18).
Our Lord looked forward with in
tense desire to the Passover which
He now observed with His disciples,
for it was the last celebration of
that fe -ist recognized by God. All
that it had foreshadowed of deliv
erance and hope was fulfilled in Him
who now sat at the table. He had
moved forward with resolute pur
pose to this day when His mission
on earth was to be accomplished,
and He was to become the Chris
tian’s Passover lamb (I Cor. 5:7).
The fact that He had looked for
ward to it with desire does not mini
mize the deep darkness of either
Gethsemane or Calvary. Remem
ber that, when in the garden He
faced that hour and thought of the
possibility of the cup being taken
from Him, He said to the Father,
“Not what I will, but what thou
wilt.” Praying concerning the same
matter (in John 12:27), He said,
“Now is my soul troubled; and what
shall I say? Father, save me from
this hour : but for this cause came I
unto this hour.”
II. The First Communion (w. 19,
20).
Taking the unleavened bread and
the unfermented wine of the Pass-
over which had just been observed,
Jesus established a new feast, the
Christian feast of remembrance,
which we call communion or the
Lord’s table.
His words are significant, “For as
often as ye eat this bread, and drink
this cup, ye do show the Lord’s
death till he come” (I Cor. 11:26).
At the Lord’s table His followers
find spiritual strength in recalling
His death for them, but they also
find joy as they remember that He
is to come again. They thus testify
to the world that they believe and
cherish these truths.
This feast is rightly called “com
munion,” for down through the ages
and until He does come the saints of
God have at His table sweet com
munion with Him and with one an
other. Let us not neglect it!
Our Lord also spoke of the cup
as “my blood of the new testa
ment.” The word “testament”
means covenant. The Lord’s table
therefore speaks of our allegiance
to Him, of our loyalty to our Lord,
and our devotion to His service.
That is why the Christian Church
speaks of communion as a sacra
ment, a word from the Latin sacra-
mentum, meaning oath, and essen
tially an oath of allegiance.
III. The Folly of the Disciples (vv.
21-30).
Someone may say, “That point
does not belong with the other two.
Both the Passover and the Lord’s
Supper are for the joyful remem
brance of deliverance and redemp
tion.” The objection is well taken
except for one thing—we are deal
ing with human beings as they are,
not as they should be and could be
by the grace of God.
Here in the inner circle of the
twelve there was one traitor. It
seems impossible, but apparently
Judas had maintained such outward
conduct as to turn no suspicion in
his direction, even though all along
he had in his heart the blackest of
treachery against his I/Ord. A sad
and soul-searching fact is here re
vealed, that it is possible for one to
make a high profession of faith in
Christ and even so to live as to give
no cause for criticism, and yet to
be unregenerate and in fact the ene
my of Christ.
What about the strife regarding
position? Shameiul as we agree that
it was, it still goes on in the church.
Not even the remembrance of our
Lord’s death and the reminder that
He is coming again is enough to
keep men from wanting to be great
est.
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Part of Ponderous Duelist
Declared Out of Bounds
'T'WO Irishmen arranged to fight
a duel with pistols. One of them
was very stout, and when he saw
his lean adversary facing him he
raised an objection.
“Bedad!” he said, “I’m twice
as big a target as he is, so I
ought to stand twice as far away
from him as he is from me.”
“Be aisy now,” replied his sec
ond. “I’ll soon put that right.”
Taking a piece of chalk from
his pocket, he drew two lines down
the stout man’s coat, leaving a
space between them.
“Now,” he said, turning to the
thin man, “fire away, ye spalpeen,;
and remember that any hits out
side the chalk lines don’t count.”
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