The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 16, 1942, Image 7
THE SUN, NEWBERfiY. S. C- OCTOBER 16. 1942
X/IOTIFS for baby dominate this
transfer—in fact, the entire
transfer is devoted to baby. There
are sprays of dainty embroidery
just right for wee dresses, slips
or gertrudes and the scallop pat
terns might come in handy here
also. Ronald, the duck, rides a
Tie rac wave as bib decoration,
or perhaps he’d make a playsuit
pocket along with Whiskers, the
cat. A cute bunny rabbit is also
for appliqueing, and last but not
least is Paddlefoot, the duck,
whose mission in life is decorat
ing crib quilt blocks.
* • •
These cunning designs are all on one
transfer, Z9486, 15 cents, together with
directions and suggestions for their use.
Send your order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No
Name
Address
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Self-Poisoning
Bad temper is its own scourge.
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—Charles Buxton.
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Pride of the Uncertain
Snobbery is the pride of those
who are not sure of their position.
—Berton Braley.
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AND
"All the Traffic
Would Bear"
• There was a time in America
when there were no set prices.
Each merchant charged what
he thought “the traffic would
bear.” Advertising came to
the rescue of the consumer.
It led the way to the estab
lished prices you pay when
you buy anything today.
Kathleen Norris Says:
This Is No Time to Borrow Trouble
Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature*.
All our married life my wife has been worrying. This morning she said she could
not see how my business could continue much longer, made Elinor, our daughter put
on a sweater, and asked where we could move if we couldn't get oil for the furnace.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
MAN named Jim Davis
writes me that he has a
worrying wife. He says
she takes the greatest trouble
in the world to see that meals
are on time, and hot, and that
there are flowers on the table.
She is marvelously consider
ate about having a pencil on
the telephone table and an ex
tra comforter at the bottom of
his bed. She dresses well and
economically and goes to a
beauty parlor twice a week. He
says she entertains nicely and has
brought up their small daughter,
Elinor, carefully and lovingly. But
she worries all the time.
Elinor is nine now, and she is
beginning to droop in this atmos
phere of constant depression, just
as Jim is. Elinor looks at her
mother piteously. “Please, Mummy,
it’s not so important—it doesn’t mat
ter—it’ll be all right!” the small girl
pleads.
“Take it easy, May,” the man of
the house says cheerfully, as he
settles himself at the table. But
sooner or later both father^ and
daughter come under the dark spell
of the woman’s mood.
Worries About Money.
“All our married life she has been
worrying about money, although
with my steady job and her own
good management we never have
been in any difficulties,” Jim writes.
“The prospect of any extra expense
causes her hours of anxiety; she is
terribly afraid she will have to have
a tooth filled; she doesn’t want to
call a doctor just for a little burn—
that sort of thing.
“Her father has had a heart at
tack—he is 78, and although now
restored to good health I suppose
he may someday have another. But
every time the telephone bell rings
May whispers, ‘Papa!’ and staggers
to answer it with her he. 1 over her
own heart. Everything is a cause
for worry, and under and over it
all goes the great world worry,
which none of us can escape.
“This morning, for example,” the
letter goes on, “my wife somewhat
monopolized the breakfast conver
sation as I was supposedly reading
the paper. But I took out my pencil
and quietly noted down the variety
of things she was finding to worry
about.
“It began with the* headlines; she
actually got my old mother crying
and my daughter white-faced with
terror over a picture of what would
happen to us in the days of German
occupation of a quiet Kentucky town.
Then she went on to say that
probably the worst that would hap
pen to us would be financial ruin,
but she hated the thought of losing
her beautiful home and garden.
“Next came Elinor’s cold; it was
better, but if it got any worse my
wife would keep her in bed, in which
case she could not rehearse for the
school play and couldn’t be in it.
Elinor began nervously to cry into
her cereal.
Overlooks Nothing.
“May then said that she was
afraid Emmy, the maid, would leave
us; she was afraid the price of beef
would soon be prohibitive; she did
not see how my business could con
tinue much longer. She asked me
how athlete’s foot started, as the
sole of one of her feet felt very
tender; she begged me not to do
any business with a man named
Jackson, with whom I have not the
slightest intention of doing business;
she asked my mother twice whether
BROTHERS UNITED
Like brothers united the sum
total of our worries and fears
stands invincible, but taken sep
arately and faced squarely these
same fears crumble from sheer
weakness and unimportance. In
this year of universal strife the
petty fears of a woman like the
“May Davis” of this letter are
something to be a little ashamed
of. If each of us were to suc
cumb so easily to unnecessary
worry we woidd soon be fair
game for even the weakest ad
versary. United in courage and
unselfishness we are invincible.
she was not afraid to sit in the
cross-current of air from the porch.
“She talked for five minutes about
the sample of paint they have tried
on the garage and said she was sure
it was not what she had chosen.
Then she made Elinor put on a
sweater, asked me where we could
move if we couldn’t get oil for the
furnace this winter, asked me twice
whether I had put an air-stamp on
a letter I had mailed, asked me
for the third time whether the Bak
ers were coming to dinner on Thurs
day, said she wished she could call
it off before it was too late as she
hated to tackle a dinner for six with
no assurance of having a cook in
the kitchen.
“After that I left for the office
feeling as if I were being bitten to
death by ducks. The moment I got
there May was on the telephone;
Elinor had gone off to school with
out her rubbers, and May thought
rain was blowing up. Also, had I
seen her opera glasses? Net that
she needed them, but she’d sudden
ly thought of them and couldn’t find
them anywhere.
“This may sound funny to you,”
the letter ends, “but it’s not so funny
to your faithful reader,
“Jim Davis.”
And there’s a postscript: “But
don’t fool yourself; I love my wife.”
Amusing and Pathetic.
I’ve reprinted this letter in full
because it seems to me amusing
and pathetic and maddening all at
once. Not many women make so
thorough a job of worrying that
they worry about EVERYTHING.
Most of us have some avenues of
peaceful and contented thought to
which we can escape. Evidently
May Davis hasn’t.
Winston Churchill, who, it will be
conceded, has something over which
to worry, is quoted as saying that
he has developed a priorities sys
tem for worrying.
He takes them one at a time, and
breaks each one in turn. It’s the
old story of the father who asked
his strong young sons to break sep
arate sticks, which they did with
contemptuous ease. But when he
bound those sticks into a tight,
heavy bundle it was a different
story. His point was that brothers
united cannot be broken.
Well, the great nations of the
world are as brothers united today,
and while they hold together they
cannot be broken. The slow great
tide that is forty nations standing
shoulder to shoulder is gathering
head, and will presently flood deep
over the centers of petty hate and
spite.
And for her lesser worries May
Davis may well feel shame. This
is no time to borrow trouble from
the butcher’s bills of 1944 or to
honeycomb our still protected days
and ways with dangers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
FAMILY IN TEXAS
I left Washington one morning by
plane, after a delay of several hours
on account of the weather, and took
a rather roundabout and leisurely
trip to Fort Worth, Texas. We were
held up at different places along the
way far various reasons.
Finally, we came into Fort Worth
at about 10:30 at night. To my com
plete surprise, Ruth, Chandler and
Elliott Jr. were waiting for me at
the gate of the airport. Elliott Jr.
is six years old and I do not think
he has ever been up quite so late
before. Ruth said that while they
were waiting for us they had eaten
ice cream, pop corn and consumed
many soft drinks.
It was almost a party as we drove
out to the ranch. Elliott Jr. was
sound asleep before we got there.
Chandler, aged eight, rested her
head on the back of the seat and
looked quite ready for bed.
• • •
RANCH ON THE PRAIRIE
Their house is on a hill overlook
ing a brook, along which many trees
grow. In every direction, miles and
miles of rolling prairie stretch
away. If you arrive at night,
shadowy forms of cattle rise up
along the road as you drive in and
the lights from the house send forth
their welcome.
There is a quality of soft haziness
in the autumn atmosphere here and
a fascination in the breadth of view
on every side. Ruth and Elliott
have made it a comfortable and
homelike home. The green lawn
and flowers immediately around it
speak of infinite care and attention
during the summer months. Every
thing in the house is an expression
of their personal interests.
Books, pictures, prints, beautiful
Mexican saddles, carefully chosen
pieces of furniture and silver (which
even the children have been taught
to appreciate and enjoy) make an
environment which is part of the
family and an expression of their
growth and development. Every
where Elliott has been, even during
the war period, his heart has been
in the home he left behind, and from
each place he has managed to send
back something.
For instance, the summer spent
flying with the army in Iceland,
Greeland, and Newfoundland has
produced little white bear rugs,
which are in front of Chandler’s bed
and scattered through the house.
There are things from Africa and
from the West. In fact, wherever
individual members of the family
have gone, whether together or
apart, their roots have been here.
The homing instinct is strong in all
of them.
One morning. Chandler and El
liott Jr. showed me the new colt and
rode around on their own horses.
All of them exhibit the baby brother,
David, as the first and prize package
in which they have the greatest
pride. David’s major achievement
is to stand in his pen and shake the
sides back ;md forth.
• * •
EDUCATION BEFORE
INDUCTION
I wonder how many people realize
what it costs to teach someone
things he should have learned
in school, sifter he has come into the
army? Dr. Studebaker feels that
even now this adult education should
be done in the home communities.
There are some 240 men in Aber
deen, Md., training center, who are
going to school. Ordnance work re
quires an ability to read, because as
one officer said, if you can’t read
the marks on the ammunition boxes
and you get the wrong ammunition,
it is just the same as having none.
To be sure, a certain number of
these troops, going to school, are
colored men from the deep South,
but there are also a considerable
number of white men who are learn
ing what they should have learned in
the primary grades—how to read
and write, add and subtract.
Occasionally, the difficulty lies in
the fact that a man is a foreigner
and does not speak English, or at
least did not go to school in this coun
try. One young man with whom I
talked, was born in Pennsylvania,
another in New Jersey. The first
boy’s parents died when he was
eight, and then he went to work in
the mines and has taken care of
himself ever since, with the result
that he has had four months of
school in his life.
One man with graying hair, who
told me he was 44 years old, was
laboriously picking out letters from
a pile in front of him to spell the
word “dog.” The group of officers
teaching these men are really quite
extraordinary'. They have developed
a remarkable system of visual aids.
Many of them have had teaching ex-
perience in the past.
• • •
‘THROUGH THIS PORTAL . . .'
I liked the sign over the room
where the pilots wait for their final
orders. It reads: “Through this
portal pass the finest pilots on
earth,” which must give them all a
sense of satisfaction, for that is the
way their commanding officers feel
about them. Food is served here,
men can play games and sit and
talk. The wives, many of whom
live nearby, can come and wait with
them until the call comes to start
on a trip.
—Buy War Bonds—
Serve a Salad . . . Win Your Vitamins
(See Recipes Below.)
Vitamin Ways
Comes winter and fall when vege
tables and fruits are more scarce
than during sum
mer and fall, and
many a home
maker is apt to
fall shy on serv
ing her family
these vital body
regulating and
protective foods.
Yet, this is the time when the body
needs them most. These foods build
up the body’s resistance to disease
—and keep you, to pick a common
example, from having a cold as soon
as warm weather and sun flee.
Minerals are busy building and
repairing, replenishing body tissues'"
that get torn down and used up,
daily with every movement you
make. Vitamins help you use the
foods you eat.
Good-to-eat foods help the family
take in all these vital minerals and
vitamins. Drab, uninteresting dishes
will send them off to eating other
foods to take the edge off their hun
ger—wherever they can put their
hands on something. I need not
point out that in this way they may
really be losing out on foods neces
sary to the body.
Cooking vegetables well, and do
ing pretty things to their appear
ance will help their consumption
rating. A bit of sauce or extra sea
soning will put an ordinary vegeta
ble over and at the same time in
sure your family of what it needs
most:
*S .doped Peas and Onions.
(Serves 5 to 6)
1 pound small white onions
1 No. 2 can peas
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons finely crushed
bread crumbs
ParboU onions 25 minutes. Drain.
Drain peas ^nd reserve % cup pea
liquor. Melt 2 ta
blespoons butter,
blend in flour,
salt and pepper.
Add pea liquor
and milk and
cook until fix
ture thickens,
stirring constantly. Pour into cas
serole. Melt remaining butter, stir
in bread crumbs, sprinkle over cas
serole. Bake in a moderately hot
(375-degree) oven for about 25 min
utes.
Lynn Says:
Vital Statistics: There are
about seven inches in the Nutri
tion Yardstick which bear check
ing every day in every way so
as to keep you and your family
in the running:
The first inch includes milk: 1
pint per day for every adult and
1 quart for every child. Of
course you don’t have to drink
all this milk. Use part of it in
cooking.
Second honors go to meat, fish
or poultry, and this is not hard to
use up. For lunch or dinner,
whichever fits best for your fam
ily, one serving per person should
be counted.
At least one egg a day or at
least four to five per week marks
the third inch. Have it for break
fast or toss it in the hot bread for
dinner, or custard for lunch.
Cereal’s important, too. Serve
it in the breakfast, or a pudding
or even cookies. Bread and rolls
come under this category, also.
Fifth inch includes the vegeta
bles: two besides potatoes, one
should be a leafy vegetable—
spinach, lettuce, broccoli, ro-
maine, etc.—and the other raw.
Cabbage is perfect.
Now, the fruits. Two a day
isn’t hard to manage. Of course
you start off with breakfast, and
then include one for lunch or din
ner dessert.
The last and seventh inch in
cludes butter or some fat rich in
vitamin A. This is for fuel and
energy.
This Week’s Mena
Browned Oysters
•Scalloped Peas and Onions
•Cranberry-Pineapple Salad
Hot Biscuits
•Apple Juice Mince Pie
•Recipes Given
Vegetable Bouillon.
(Serves 2)
VS cup water
94 to 1 cup juice strained from
canned string or wax beans
1 bouillon cnbe
2 small sprigs parsley
Add water to bean juice and heat
to boiling. Dissolve bouillon cube
in boiling liquid. Serve hot gar
nished with parsley.
A one-dish meal that’s good for
fall is this one with many vegetable
favorites:
Ham Hock With Vegetables.
(Serves 5)
2VS pounds ham hock
5 medinm-sized potatoes
1 bunch carrots
5 medium-sized onions
1 medinm-sized head of cabbage
Wipe ham hock. Cover with boil
ing water, cover and simmer two
hours or until tender. Clean vege
tables, add to meat, cook, uncov
ered 20 to 30 minutes or until vege
tables are tender.
Fried Squash Cakes.
Slice squash very thin, being cer
tain to slice it across. Place the
slices in salt wa
ter, wipe them
dry, sprinkle with
salt and pepper,
dip in flour, beat
en egg and then
in cracker
crumbs. Repeat
the process twice
and then drop into hot fat for fry
ing. When they have cooked through
and are brown, drain on brown pa
per and serve.
Festive Squash.
(Serves 6)
3 small squashes
1 cup drained canned tomatoes
1 cup shredded, processed Ched
dar cheese
1 tablespoon chopped onion
2 cups soft bread crumbs
Salt, pepper
3 tablespoons melted butter
Parsley
Broiled bacon
Wash the squashes and cut them
in half, lengthwise and cook in boil
ing salted water until almost tender.
Scoop out the centers, leaving a Vi-
inch shell. Cut the pulp into small
pieces and drain thoroughly. Com
bine with tomatoes, cheese, onion,
1 cup bread crumbs and seasonings
to taste. Pile this into the squash
shells and sprinkle with remaining
crumbs mixed with the melted but
ter. Bake in a moderate (350-de
gree) oven until the crumbs are
brown. Arrange in a round platter
and serve with parsley and crisp,
broiled bacon.
A few green leaves of lettuce, ro-
maine, watercress or other salad
greens guarantee much of the im
portant, but hard-to-get vitamin D.
Perhaps, you like the greens plain,
or perhaps with a bit of color such
as:
♦Cranberry-Pineapple Salad.
Cut slices of canned cranberry
sauce and top with slices of pine
apple. Arrange in lettuce nests.
Soften cream cheese with milk and
add a few chopped nuts. Shape
into balls and place among lettuce
leaves. Serve with mayonnaise.
•Apple Juice Mince Pie.
(Makes 1 9-inch pie)
1 package orange flavored gelatin
2 cups apple juice
V4 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup mincemeat
Cream cheese
Dissolve the gelatin in apple juice
that has been heated to the boiling
point. Add lemon juice and mince
meat. Cook until thick and creamy,
then pour into a baked pie shell.
Chill until firm, then decorate top
with cream cheese put through a
pastry tube.
Lynn Chambers can give you expert
advice on your household and food prob
lems. Write her at Western Newspaper
Union, 219 South Desplaines street, Chi
cago, Illinois, flease enclose a stamped,
self-addressed envelope for your reply.
Releaied by Western Newspaper Union.
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All Off! Change Cars
For Any Other Floors!
The man was in a great hurry
as he stepped aboard the moving
staircase in the metropolis depart
ment store.
Thinking to gain time, he start
ed to walk down the escalator
when his foot slipped and he was
off with some speed toward the
bottom.
Halfway down he collided with a
rather good-sized woman, laden
with packages, and knocked her
over. Together the two continued
to the bottom.
When they arrived there, the
woman, still in a somewhat dazed
condition, continued to sit on the
man’s chest.
For a few minutes he looked up
at her with an air of resignation.
Then he said, politely, “Madam,
I’m very sorry, but this is as far
as I go.”
Public Property
When a man assumes a public
trust, he should consider himself
as public property.—Thomas Jef
ferson.
MUSCULAR
I RHEUMATIC PAIN
I far Quick
1 Kallaf—
MUSteroIE
■attar Una OM-Fa
Discussing Questions
Men are never so likely to set
tle a question rightly as when they
disc iss it freely.—T. B. Macaulay.
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
Pov’der—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 25 c. Adv.
Ain’t It?
Gob—What is a buccaneer?
Pal—A buccaneer is an awful
price to pay for corn.
^•To relieve distress of MONTHLY-v
Female Weakness
AND HELP BUILD UP RED BLOOD!
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound
TABLETS (with added iron) have
helped thousands to relieve peri
odic pain, backache, headache with
weak, nervous, cranky, blue feel
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Taken regularly—Pinkham’s Tab
lets help build up resistance against
such annoying symptoms. Also,
their iron makes them a fine hema
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Pinkham’s Tablets are made espe
cially for women. Follow label di
rections. Worth trying!
Tyranny Takes Over
Where law ends tyranny begins.
—Pitt.
COLDS
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41—42
Sentinels
of HeaLth
Don’t Neglect Them!
Nature designed the kidneys to do a
marvelous job. Their task is to keep the
flowing blood stream free of an excess of
toxic impurities. The act of living—It/e
itself—is constantly producing waste
matter the kidneys must remove from
the blood if good heath is to endure.
When the kidneys fail to function as
Nature intended, there is retention of
waste that may cause body-wide dis
tress. One may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—feel tired, nervous, all
worn out.
Frequent, scanty or burning passages
are sometimes further evidence of kid
ney or bladder disturbance.
The recognized and proper treatment
Is a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys
get rid of excess poisonous body waste.
Use Doan’s Pills. They have had more
than forty years of public approval. Are
endorsed the country over. Insist on
Doan’s. Sold at all drug stores.
Doans Pi us