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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JULY 24, 1942 \NEW IDEAS oHa*ne-mcJie^i^ By RUTH WYETH SPEARS /"^IVE an old wicker chair a smart cover of gay chintz and it will be ready to start a new life, i’he chintz for this chair has a quaint pattern of strawberries with green leaves and the skirt with its trim box pleated cor ners is plain green. The cover is removable with a zipper open ing down the center back and long stitches with heavy thread through the cover and the wicker are used here and there to hold it neatly in place. The padding for the inside of the back lends both style and com fort. The cotton batting is fitted and cut on the chair. It is then used for a pattern to cut a slightly larger muslin foundation and the chintz, as shown at the upper left. These three layers are then basted and stitched together to make the puffed ridges for this part of the cover. Plain seams are used to stitch the pieces of the cover together. * * * NOTE: Mrs. Spears* booklet No. 7 gives complete directions for making the ottoman shown in this sketch. Also more than 30 other fascinating homemaking projects, each with working drawings. If you have never made slip covers you will want Book 1, as it shows the beginner exactly how to cut, fit and sew them. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name Address Double-Purpose Laxative Gives More Satisfaction Don’t be satisfied Just to relieve your present constipated condition. Meet this problem more thoroughly by toning up your Intestinal system. For this Double-Purpose, use Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative Powder—an Intestinal Tonic Laxa tive. It not only acts gently and thoroughly, but tones lazy bowel muscles—giving more satisfaction. Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder helps relieve Dizzy Spells, Sour Stomach, Gas, Headache, and that dull sluggish feeling commonly re ferred to as Biliousness, when caused by Constipation. Use only as di rected. 15 doses for only 10c. Large family size 25c. Adv. Power of Few Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minori ties and of minorities of one.— Emerson. Soothe and cool away heat rash and help prevent it— dust all over with Mexican Heat Powder — use after your bath. Costs little. The Book There is but one book; bring me the Bible.—Walter Scott. FOR QUICK RELIEF CARBOIL. A Soothing Q A I %/K? ANTISEPTIC ICTsed by thousands with satisfactory fe* suits for 40 years—six valuable ingredi ents. Get Carboil at drug stores or write Spttrlock-Neal Co., Nashville, Tenn. Youthful Soul The soul never grows old— Longfellow. RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO MCNEIL'S MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS BLESSED RELIEF Lars* Botflal! MM|*1»-Smal Size 60c IIIU MID DIM STDIES H IT Mil II Iiciilt It irlci McNEIL DRUG CO. Inc. 530 Broad Streat—JackaonvIMa, Florid. = YOUR The manuiacturer or merchant who adver tises, makes public the fact that he wants your good will. And he real izes that the only way that he can keep it is by giving good values and services. Kathleen Norris Says: Change of Environment Works Hardship Jleli Syndicate—WNU Features. Kit had cried because nobody at the new school knew it ivas her birthday. Then a girl called and took Kit to a club where she found a heap of gifts and twelve girls singing a birthday song. By KATHLEEN NORRIS C E many another woman Isabel Moore has been torn from her moorings this year, and finds herself in a strange environment. Her hus band was transferred to Phila delphia, a city which she had never even visited before; his working hours on a defense job are erratic. He may be home for dinner three nights in suc cession, then away five, then home again long enough to make the family feel that things are settling down to normal, and then suddenly off to Mon treal or Atlanta at a moment’s notice. The Moores have two daughters, 19 and 16, and a son, 11. The son isn’t much of a problem because he has slipped comfortably enough into a routine of school. Scouts, movies, and seems not to have noticed the change. But with Jean and Ann it is a different story. “Perhaps it won’t seem a tragedy to you, in this year of war trage dies,” writes Isabel, “but it is a very real blow to my girls. I realize now that they are just the wrong age to transplant. Older girls would be more resourceful; young children would adapt themselves more easi ly, as Junior has. “But the girls are desperately homesick; they miss their old friends, the crowd that used to have so much fun, the dances, theatricals, picnics, week-ends, and they beg Tom and me to send them back to their aunt in Austin and let them board there. Feel Uprooted. “Jean has graduated from high school and had planned a college career; Ann is still in school, but is the shy, quiet member of my three, and is afraid she will never feel at home in these eastern schools. We will not send them away, but Jean could go to college right here if she wanted to, but she doesn’t. She says not knowing any of the girls and boys, would make it an agony to her. “Both girls are pretty, and have always been popular,” the letter goes on, “and I can’t blame them for feeling uprooted. For myself I feel something of the same forelorn- ness. Tom is always busy and ab sorbed, and I have had too much to do getting settled to look about for club interests or neighbors. We have a nice apartment in a four- apartment house with a strip of garden, and we plan little expedi tions of a week or ten days when the weather gets hot. “But we all want friends; tell me how you think we might go about getting hold of them? Tom will be here for the duration, and I won’t leave Tom. Neither will I permit girls of these ages to leave home, even to stay with an aunt. Don’t tell me that I am weak to call this a problem when there are so many more serious ones just now, but tell me what to do.” I don’t think it’s at all a trifling matter, Isabel, nor will I classify you as weak for finding it a very anxious question. But the cure, for tunately, is one that comes inevita bly, and it will come to you sur prisingly fast. Two attractive girls with an attractive mother and a nice home never go begging long for companionship; it is for yon only to be somewhat selective in the making of new friends. A Trying Time. We’ve all had these agonies, per haps the most poignant the human heart can suffer. Loss by death it- FRIENDSH1P? It’s not easy for children to adjust themselves immediately when a major change occurs in their lives. But youngsters are certain to find friends if they are the friendly type. Parents should offer them guidance (but very discreetly) when they are forced to find new friends. Make your home as attractive as possible—not with huge finan cial outlays, but with the spirit of true friendship. Children will recognize it! self is only an acute form of home sickness; a bitter longing for the old faces, the old voices, the dear old ways. It seems to Jean and Ann today that they never will re place the lost associations; but they will, and a year from now they will be innocently wondering how they could ever have feared that life would never be satisfying again. When you do leave for short holi days, go where nice young people go. This is one infallible way of making acquaintances. Boys will dance with Jean, girls will shyly make overtures of friendship to Ann, and before you know it you will be meeting mothers, discussing school ing, and sharing plans for the au tumn. When you get this far, your next step is a hard one, but I think it is perhaps the most important duty that falls to a father and mother. I mean the duty of drawing a little circle of associates about your girls, knowing something about every one of the young men, and sacrificing not only your own time and com fort, but your own pride, in a sense, until you get things started. By pride I mean that you must take the hurts that youth quite un consciously will inflict upon you and your plans. “Mother, his own house, is just palatial!” Jean will say, when you speak of asking the nice Robin son boy over to spend an evening with you. “Mother, all my friends go to the movies and they all ex pect to go to the movies!” Ann will wail, at the suggestion of chocolate shakes, cookies and games at home. Suggests Games. But persevere. Ask a few young sters to come in to celebrate—oh, anything! Jean’s birthday, Admis sion day. Fourth of July. Have pen cils, scratch pads and suggestions ready. No matter how awkward they are in starting, games will break the ice, and when jfou slip away to see to the refreshments, they will be carrying on at a great rate, on their own. Make up your mind that at the first attempt you probably will draw seven girls and two boys; that at the last moment the boy Jean espe cially likes will telephone that he has a cold and that his mother doesn’t want him to come, and re sign yourself to the fact that (a) Jean won’t want Ann anywhere in sight, (b) Ann will be raging, and (c) not until a successful party is over will you get the slightest co operation or enthusiasm from Jean. This is part of a mother’s job. If you can get only three friends to come in, get three. Next time there will be nine, and the time after that the youngsters will form a hiking dramatic and dance club and Jean's social start will be fairly launched. With Ann it should be easier, for she is young enough to want girl rather than boy friends, and the friends she makes in school surely are going to dancing classes on Fri day nights, and in no time at all she will have all the dates she can keen. Post-War Period In U. S. to Be an Amazing New Age After-War Years Will See Astonishing Changes in Ways of Living. Mr. and Mrs. Average Ameri can of the post-war era probably will find themselves living in a world full of comforts, conveni ences and gadgets that at a pres ent day view have a decidedly Jules Verne flavor. They may own a home that was erected from the ground up within eight hours and is just as stable as one which before the war required six months to build. The homei will have conveniences undreamed of even for comfort-loving Ameri cans. They probably will drive a modestly priced automobile that runs 35 miles on a gallon of gaso line and will negotiate terrain and hills formerly suitable only for the time-honored mountain goat. If they live on a farm they proba bly will have an amazing vehicle that can be used to plough, harrow, milk and round np the cows. When vacation time comes around they may fly over to Cairo or down to Buenos Aires for the week-end. KDr they may even make an around- the-world trip during the head of the family’s traditional “two weeks off with pay.” These are not fancies conjured from a Lewis Carroll (who authored “Alice In Wonderland”) imagina tion. They are practical potentiali ties which industrial experts already are forecasting as the logical peace time application of armament de velopments. War is a forceful spur to the prog ress of industrial science and in vention. Under its duress there is no time for the cautiously slow ex periments which mark the recep tion accorded new inventions and discoveries in years of peace. New methods, new materials are accept ed overnight and are tested in the acid furnaces of combat. The trag edy of modern warfare is an anach ronism of progress. Distance Ar.u'hilated. There is no better illustration of this than the advancement made by aviation as a result of World War I. The airplane represented new po tentialities of speed and destruction and as such was seized upon as a weapon of offense-by the Allies and their enemies alike. In the short pe riod of four years aviation made an advance that would have required a quarter of a century in normal times. Today, the same situation magni fied ten times over obtains. Only recently, Glenn Martin, the noted aircraft designer, announced plans for a 125-ton behemoth of the air capable of transporting 50,000 pounds of equipment at speeds of 200 to 230 miles an hour to be built after the war. This plane, said Mr. Martin, will be “as big as a 30-room house.” Meanwhile, another compa ny is reported to have already com pleted the wooden dummy of a ship that will dwarf the Martin monster —a 160-ton model which could move whole battalions across the conti nent overnight. Already in use are new methods of construction which lighten air craft by hundreds of pounds and so tremendously increase their passen ger and freight carrying ability. Nat urally, these planes are at present only in military form. When Peace Conies. However, when peace comes these Goliaths of the clouds will be in terpreted in terms of pleasure and convenience for a travel-loving na tion. The almost unbelievable speed which has been developed for mill- ditiBt&S'-. This new design of Glenn L. Martin company’s proposed 250,000- pound flying ship is a “preview” of what all will be seeing as it roars across the skies after the war is won. Such planes as these today could haul regiments from coast to coast in a day’s time. tary planes—some of which fly in excess of 500 miles an hour—will place far-flung continents and their cities within a comparatively few days or few hours flying distance of the United States. Flying freight trains probably will become the or der of the skies. The increasing public interest in aviation, the training of thou sands of young men as expert pilots and the strides made by safety in aviation also presage a new era of private flying. Ten years, even five years from now, plane-rental and fly-it-yourself services probably will be too commonplace to be news. When priorities are no longer neces sary, stall - proof, spin - proof planes such as the “Ercoupe” and “Skyfarere” (notable for folding Tiring features) probably will travel side by side with au tomobiles along the highways as they shuttle from air field to garage. As C. R. Smith, former president of American Airlines, recently de clared, “In the post-war period, non- Toward a New Era Even as the nation devotes the full energies of its industrial power and scientific genius to vic tory, its citizens can still lift their eyes above and beyond the holocaust of world war to an era that will bring with it a new pat tern of living at once finer and more dramatic in its benefits than anything civilization has known before. stop operation over the ocean will be prosaic.with most of the cross ing to Europe done at high altitude speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour.” ' Miracle Car Forecast for Farm Use. As in aviation so in the world of automotive progress the develop ments of war will become integrated into America’s peacetime pattern of life a few years hence. In recent tests conducted by the United States department of agri culture and Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., makers and manufacturers of the standard design Jeep, at Auburn, Ala., and Toledo, Ohio, the vehicle gave promise of performing vvith the same versatility on the farm as it presently is doing on the battle fields of Europe and the Far East. During these tests the car did ev erything from cultipacking and har rowing a field in one operation, us ing 2.12 gallons of gas per acre, to hauling almost a ton and a half of farm produce a distance of 13 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Already" known as the “army’s miracle car,” the Jeep is the de scendant of a motor driven platform on wheels known as the “belly-flop- per,” which was first demonstrat ed at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1940. At the request of army officials Joseph W. Frazer, president of the Willys- Overland company, and other auto motive experts undertook the design of a car which would not exceed 1,400 pounds in weight and should This is a modern version of beating swords into ploughshares: con verting the army’s miracle car, the "Jeep,” into an agricultural vehicle of many uses. Who knows, but that some future day Old Bossy, down in the south pasture, will be herded by means of such a jeep? be capable of carrying a 625 pound load. That a peacetime version of this vehicle which can climb grades that balk a tank and negotiate rough ter rain at 40 miles an hour should be developed is, of course, logical and the American farmer will tmxs in herit one of the nation’s most valu able pieces of military equipment. These automotive principles of high-powered engines which con sume a minimum of fuel also will be applied to pleasure vehicles, au tomobile designers predict, forecast ing a light yet powerful car which will require only about one gallon of gasoline every 35 or 40 miles. On the Sea, Too. On the sea also the war effort is providing amazing new inventions applicable to the country’s peace time pattern of living. The United States has experimented with an all aluminum destroyer which they be lieve will cut through the water at 52 knots an hour. Seacraft designers declare that the use of aluminum in boat construc tion may well be the forerunner of high speed passenger transport ships faster than anything previously dreamed of. Row and sail boats so light that a half-grown boy can car ry one across country, and fleet pleasure craft that will rival in wa ter the speed of their automotive cousins on land, undoubtedly will make their appearance in the post war era dt prices within reach of the American in the smaller income bracket. Describing the post-war house which Americans may be occu pying ten years from now, Nor man Bel Geddes, who designed the Futurama at the New York World’s Fair, pictures a prefab ricated house which a crew of six men could erect in one eight-hour day. With such a bouse a family might well eat dinner in a home that had been no more than a pile of materi als the same morning. “We have all the techniques and facilities to build houses such as I have described,” says Mr. Bel Ged des. “Today, we have an oppor tunity to change over from old-fash ioned and costly methods to the modern mass production way of building better homes at lower cost.” He estimates that at least 2,500,000 new housing units will be required after the war. Still another noted American ar chitect, Walter Dorwin Teague, de clares that we have only to apply to home-building the* same tech niques of design, manufacture and selling that have provided one mo tor car for every four people in the United States to produce a type of home which will be within reach of the man in the very low income bracket. Mr. Teague has designed a house to sell for $1,000 to $2,000 which can be rearranged, even when occupied, as to size and floor plan almost as easily as one changes the furniture in a room. The Teague hotse not only can be enlarged or reduced in size at the owner’s will but also can be moved from one building site to another. Such a factory-fabricated house, he says, will'compare with present day houses as a modem automobile compares with an old-fashioned bug gy. If the owner of such a house discovers that his job necessitates a move across the continent he will simply take the house down, call a truck and have the house transport ed to his new place of residence. If after six or eight years he wants a new house he will trade in his old one just as he does his automobile. Still another architect who has been studying post-war housing prob lems, William Hamby, urges that “For better living the post-war home must be improved for the one who has the most to do—the woman.” In a house planned “to take the drudgery out of housekeeping,” Mr. Hamby abolishes the usual kitchen and substitutes a streamlined and beautified unit so planned that while the homemaker gets dinner she can also participate in the family’s ac tivities. New Heights of Health for U. S. Citizens After War From out of the many efforts to improve conditions in the nation’s great manufacturing plants as a war measure has emerged a cure for one of the most dreaded of all diseases—silicosis. Science has discovered that aluminum dust has an affinity for silica and that blown into the air it coats the microscopic par- ticl;s of silica so that when the latter is inhaled into the lungs Us poisonous effects are elimi nated and it becomes harmless. However, above and beyond dis coveries of this type there is the even broader aspect of a new high level of health which post-war gen erations undoubtedly will enjoy be cause of the far-flung program of education in nutrition now under way as a part of the War effort. Probably for the first time in the history of any nation, Americans will reach new heights of health and well-being because of this newly ac quired knowledge of how and what to eat. In the light of these new benefits and luxuries which await only the end of the world struggle to become realities it is logical to look also into the economic horizons of the post war period to discover what likeli hood there is that the average Amer ican family will be economically able to enjoy this new pattern of life already looming on peacetime horizons. TM TO HAKE UARMONIOUS beauty for bed- room linens is offered in these new designs. Graceful baskets of brown filled with colorful flow ers are for pillow slips, dresser scarf and vanity set. Outline, lazy daisy, blanket stitch and French knots are the simple stitches required for the motifs. Pattern No. Z9463, 15 cents, brings a usable-several-times transfer which In cludes all of the motifs shown, together with directions. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 16C-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address Fly Is Paralysis Carrier Discovery that common flies carry the virus of infantile paral ysis has been made by Drs. John L. Paul and James D. Trask at Yale university medical school. It is now evident that poliomye litis (infantile paralysis), which cripples 10,000 persons and kills from 500 to 1,000 every year, is a disease of the intestinal tract as well as the spinal cord, and that flies may carry the virus from sewage. The discovery of Drs. Paul and Trask makes the common house fly more than ever an enemy to health and even to life itself, especially among children. FOR BETTER GROOMED HAIR MOROLINE Always Cheerful The highest wisdom is cofitinual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.—Montaigne. i— Add Indigestion What many Doctor* do for it When excess stomach add cause;i gas, sour stomach or heartburn, doctors prescribe lie fastest-acting medicines known for symtomatie relief—medicines like those in Bell-ans Tablets. No laxative. If your very first trial doesn't prove Bell-ans better, return bottle to us and get double your money back* 26e. In Step We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.—Choate. AWAY GO CORNS Pain goes quick* corns speedily removed when you use thin* ooothing, cushioning Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads. Try them! D- r Scholls Zino pads As We Think There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. We Cm All Be EXPERT BUYERS # In bringing us buying Information, a* to prices that arc being asked for what wo Intend to buy, and as to the quality wo can expect, the advertising columns of this newspaper perform a worth while service which saves us many dollars a year. # It Is a good habit to form, the habit of consulting the advertisements every time wo make a purchase, though wo have already decided fust what wo want and whore wo are going to buy H. It gives us the most priceless fooling In the worldi the fooling of being adequately prepared. # When we go Into a store, prepared beforehand with knowledge of what Is offored and at what price, wo go as an expert buyer, filled with self-confi dence. It Is a pleasant fooling to have, the fooling of adequacy. Most of the unhappiness In the world can be traced to a lack of this fooling. 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