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t THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. TH i FICTION CORNER KITTENS HAVE CLAWS By FAITH ELLEN SMITH “■yoiTVE got to go after them,” * Doris said. She sat on the up holstered wall seat, opened her bag, took out her vanity case and her cigaret case. “That’s the trouble with you. You’re mousy.” “I’m what?” Nan asked. She sat on the stiff, hard chair on the other side of the little table and took off her gloves. They were white gloves, rubbed shabby by repeated clean ings. “Mousy!’ said Doris. “Mousy girls never get anywhere. Remem ber what I said that first day we saw Ralph going up in the eleva tor?’’ “You said, ‘There’s the man I’m going to marry, unless he’s got a wife and ten kids’.” Doris studied her reflection in the mirror of her vanity. Her hand, long, crimson nails gleaming, patted the crisp blonde waves beneath her small hat. A large diamond on her fin ger kindled to green and orange flame under the subdued lights of the dining room. “Well, he had a wife and one kid, but I did it, didn’t I? Do you sup pose I got him by sitting still and wishing for him?” “No." Nan said. “I used my head. I found out he worked for J. B. Simpson. I made up to the Simpson crowd when I met them in the washroom and took to calling for that dumb egg of an Adams girl for lunch. I got intro duced to him ” “I remember,” Nan said. “I worked to get that man. If I hadn't. I wouldn’t have an apart ment on East Sixtieth Street and this set of summer furs that cost fifteen hundred dollars and my own car—and a house in the country next fall, when Ralph gets his promotion .... Now, about this man ?” she said. “What man?” said Nan. Color of a newly open wild rose flooded her face. Her childishly honest brown eyes were starry. “How should I know what man? I haven’t seen you since I had you to the wedding six months ago. A girl that's attractive to men and shows some initiative might be married in six months. But of course you’re the kind that will drag along wait ing for him to wake up and know you’re on earth until he marries somebody else. . . . You wouldn’t be so bad, at that, if you took a little pains with yourself and got some decent clothes.” Nan, who had started to slip off the coat of her suit, buttoned it again. The lining, she remembered, had ripped a little on the shoulder. “And you’d be a good bet for some man who wanted a sensible, economical wife that didn’t mind housework.” “Thank you,” Nan said. “You would! I never could learn to boil water; but the way you used to cook and scrub and fuss around when we lived together 1 Well, it’s lucky I had what it takes to get a fellow that can afford a servant. . . . But, of course I’m younger than you are.” “Eleven months,” Nan said softly. . . Just a baby, really. Ralph always calls me Babe. . . . Did I tell you he’s in line for the vice presidency?” “Is he?" old maid, living on a pension and loving a pet cat ” “I don't like cats,” Nan mur mured. Doris extended a toeless suede sandal and a slender, silk-clad leg. “Cats!” she said. “Look at that run.” “I see it,” Nan said. “Ralph bought me an angora kit ten for my birthday. The dam thing must have been at these stockings. “I’ll have to dash in somewhere and get another pair and put them on. You come with me, and you can have these. They’ll do for you, if you’re careful mending them.” “I can’t come with you,” Nan said. “You can’t? Why not?” “I’ve got a—a kind of a date.” “A date with that man, of course! Where?” “Oh—never mind.” “There’s the man I’m going and 10 kids now.” “Sure of it, my dear! J. B. de pends on him for everything. He and J. B. are like that. . . . Re member the fellow came up to the apartment with him the week be fore' we were married?" “Of course. Why wouldn’t I?” “Well, you moused around as if you were only half there. Hardly opened your mouth all evening. That was J. B.” “Was it?” “There you go! That’s just what I mean. You don’t take any inter est. Now if this man ” “But what makes you think there is a ” “It’s written all over you, darling. You’re in love. I never saw a worse case.” Nan’s big brown eyes lowered to her glass. She became peony-red. “Well, if you don’t see fit to con fide in your best friend, that’s your business. But you let me tell you this for your own good. If he’s worth having, don’t let some other girl beat you to it! You will, though. 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Paul. Namber SI [h A K L T A I G I H T S It L A E ~ E A s E A L E |~L~ T A R 1 M A N E i A R S 1 R J . E R D T Li T A c T 1 N 0 r~ A. i 3 _ N i R I i M C L ■ s E I N A ■ E E S s ■ D A B L A P R. A J T £ ■ 1 E LI U S G R. ■’ F ■ S E n i : A A :■ 0 S 1 R A [o s D "d 0 I T E 11 S L Y L _ £ -L W [T ,D Y Series H-M to marry—unless he’s got a wife “Don’t be silly! I’m dying to see him. I’ll drive you there.” “You needn’t bother. It isn’t far. Just back to the office.” “Oh!” Doris said. “Waiter, bring the check. We’re in a hurry. . . . Didn’t I tell you? Nobody but you would think of slaving away at the office on a lovely Saturday after noon. You ought to call your man and make him take you to the movies. You ought to keep after him. . . . Ready?” “I’m ready," Nan said. They walked out of the dim cock- 'tail lounge into the sunny freshness of the afternoon. “I guess I’ll get my stockings over there at Bryand’s,” Doris said. “We have charge accounts at all the big stores. If I buy them at some little shop I’ll have to pay for them myself, and they cost five dol lars. You don’t mind if I don’t drive you to the office, do you?” “I don’t mind at all,” Nan said, extending her hand. “Good-bye, Doris.” “I’ll give you a ring,” Doris said. “You must come up to dinner some night when I haven’t company and tell me all about your romance. I’ll be seeing you." Nan walked the two familiar blocks to the familiar building but she did not go up to the office where she worked. She took the elevator to the floor below it and stepped out into the spacious reception room of the J. B. Simpson company. She walked past the deserted informa tion desk toward the private offices and tapped lightly on one of the doors with the tips of her gloved fingers. A man’s voice called, “Come in!” She went in. The man got up from behind a big desk and came to meet her. He was tall and becomingly gray- haired. There were laughter wrin kles around his keen eyes. “You’re late. Nan,” he said. She put her arms around his shoulders and lifted her face for his kiss. “I’ve been with Mrs. Jen kins.” “Who in seventeen kingdoms is Mrs. Jenkins?" “You know. The girl I used to live with. The one that married Ralph Jenkins.” “Oh!” he said. “How is Ralph Jenkins, by the way?” “He was a good man until that designing cat got hold of him,” the man said. “Now he has alimony to pay one woman and another run ning him ragged for new cars and this and that and he’ll be lucky if he manages to keep his job. ... I hope you’re not seeing much of her. You’re not her kind, thank heaven!” “Oh, she’s all right,” Nan said tolerantly. “She did us one good turn, anyway. You know you al ways say you fell in love with me that night you came up to the apart ment because I kept quiet the en tire evening.” “My little mouse!” he said fondly. Nan winced. “But you won’t have much chance to see her after we’re mar ried anyway. When we come back from abroad we’ll be at the country house most of the time. Unless she comes out there. . . Nan smiled. “You needn’t worry, J. B. She won’t come out there,” she said with auiet certainty. THE HOmE ( Town pgpOPTEP I IN WASHINGTON WALTER SHEAD. WNU Correspondent No Drastic Upheaval W HATEVER censure or honor accrues, depend ing upon the point of view, from passage of the Taft- Hartley labor bill, must be assumed by both parties. The measure was fostered and pushed through both branches of congress by the Republican party leadership and it was vetoed by the President. But it was those same 20 southern Democratic senators who have worked in the past as a coalition with the GOP senators who were able to pass the measure In the senate over the President’s veto. Outside of strikes brought about by resentment of labor unions, there likely will be no upheaval in management - labor relations for several months to come. Many col lective bargaining agreements have months to run before expiration. When these agreements expire, then will come tests of the law, both as to its fairness, justice and con stitutionality in the courts. Employ ers instituted test suits of the Wag ner act early in 1935 and got a Su preme court opinion in 1937, two years later. It may take (longer on this law. • • * Sen. Harley Kilgore of West Virginia said the new labor law reminds him of a Rube Goldberg cartoon. "I remember one,” said Senator Kilgore, "in which a trained elephant upset a bucket of water, which in turn disturbed a bunch of bedbugs and they in turn disturbed a human being who was asleep in bed and that person upon rising put out a fire in the next house. However, all those cartoons ignored certain laws of physics and certain laws of human conduct." Amendments already are being offered in both the house and the senate to the new law. * • * Circumvent Act One objective of the congres sional reorganization act of 1946 was to curb the number of con gressional committees. It cut from 81 to 34 the number of standing committees in house and senate. A recent survey shows, however, that instead of naming special commit tees, both branches have named 146 sub-committees. So far only four special committees have been named, an improvement over the past. The story is told that Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, the guitar strumming “Hamlet” of the sen ate, refused to sign the senate payroll because he would have been required to make affidavit that he was not a member of any organization which ap proved striking against the gov ernment. The senate clerk fi nally ruled Taylor would not have to sign the affidavit. Taylor holds an A. F. of L. card. Another Dilemma When President Truman “reluc tantly” signed the rent control bill, which permits a 15 per cent in crease in rents, he was in the same box as he was in on OPA last year at the same time. On both occa sions the lav/ was scheduled to ex pire on June 30. It was a case of the President taking the law before him or none at all. • * • Almost a quarter century ago the name of Robert L. Owen rang through the halls of congress. From 1907 to 1925—a period of 18 years— he was a member of the sen ate from Oklahoma. Today, at 92, white haired, blind but spry and alert, he has per fected a global alphabet by which any language in the world can be learned within a few days. • • • Congressman Clifford Hope of Kansas told the Dairymen’s league recently that farmer cooperatives constitute the soundest approach to the solution of the farm problem. The tax equality league and some other business organizations don’t think so and are attempting to put cooperatives out of business through various curbs and restric tions. Third Party Talk Political gossip here in Washing ton is that a third party movement on a national scale next year is not a probability. Although many are taking the third party talk seri ously, the best informed believe that Henry Wallace may threaten the Democrats but that he prefers to stay within the ranks of the Dem ocratic party. It is possible that third - party movement in states where laws permit, may get under way but only in state elections. ★ ■ • ★ ★ ★ * ■* ★ ★ ★ HOUStHOlD Various Sandwiches Make Good Porch, Picnic Suppers Sandwiches such as these “egg- burgers” are the perfect answer to summertime eating. When served with salad and relishes, beverage and fruit, you have a complete meal ready in no time. It’s estimated that sandwiches are eaten at the rate of 30 million daily here in the Unit ed States, and it’s no wonder, ^ y 4 because they are KaW S one of the slm- " plest, most nour ishing foods to serve. Do you like to make suppers simple on hot, s w s Itering nights? Serve a sandwich-salad supper on the cool back porch. Do you like to whip up a picnic at a moment’s notice? Then wrap to gether a few sandwiches, fruit and beverage to take along to beach or woods. Simplest of all sandwiches is the slice of meat between two pieces of bread; but it tastes even better if you add some toothsome spread or accompaniment to it, such as: 1. Cover with a thin slice of cranberry jelly, especially ham or roast pork. 2. Cover with thinly sliced sweet or sour pickles or mus tard. 3. Spread with horseradish mixed with mayonnaise. 4. Cover with lettuce and boiled dressing or sandwich spread. 5. Cover with chili sauce or catsup. When you have leftover meat, chop it or put it through the meat grinder and serve in any of these ways: 1. Mix with mustard and sea son with chopped pimiento or green pepper. 2. Mix with equal parts of finely shredded cabbage and serve with chopped pickle or onion. 3. Season with chow-chow or pickle relish and season with enough boiled dressing or may onnaise to mix through. 4. Mix with chopped olives, green pepper and dressing. 5. Mix with chopped hard- cooked eggs, chopped green pepper and mayonnaise. 6. Mix with chopped celery and moisten with mayonnaise. When you plan to feed a bunch of hearty eaters and the weather is a bit on the crisp side, then serve hot sandwiches for a real treat. The barbecued type is ideal for the occasion. Barbecued Hamburgers. (Makes S) Vt cup milk 14 cup soft bread crumbs 14 pound ground beef 14 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 14 cup tomato catsup Combine bread crumbs and milk. Add ground meat, salt and pepper. Form meat into patties, then brown on both sides in two tablespoons of fat. Combine seasonings and vinegar with catsup and pour over meat. Cover and simmer slowly about 10 minutes, or until sauce is very thick. Serve hot between heated or toasted bun halves. The above sauce also may be used for sliced, cooked b^ef roast or for frankfurters as barbecues. LYNN SAYS: * Use These Memos In the Kitchen When ironing ruffled curtains, it’s easier to do the ruffles first and then the body of the curtain. Start at the top of the hem and iron down. Use a moveable ironing board, or lay a clean blanket on the floor, cov ered with a sheet to do the best ironing. Rub greasy containers with corn- meal if you want to clean them eaa- ily. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Assorted Sandwiches Potato Salad Cole Slaw Sliced Tomatoes Pickles / Celery Carrot Sticks Beverage Lemon Sherbet If you want to use ham or pork for barbecued sandwiches, use the following sauce: Barbecued Ham or Pork Sandwiches. 14 cup chopped onion 1 clove garlic 14 cup tomato catsup 14 cup Worcestershire sauce 14 teaspoon pepper 1 cup tomato soup 14 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons sugar Mix all ingredients together and simmer a few minutes. Use to baste meat while it is cooking. When meat is tender, slice and add to sauce in pan with 1 cup sweet pickle rel ish, and serve sauce as a relish on the sandwiches. If you are having a large crowd in either for a picnic or for a porch supper, plan to have several differ ent varieties of sandwiches on a large platter, a selection of salad, fresh fruit and cookies and bever age. The sandwiches may be made In the morning and wrapped in heavy waxed paper and chilled. Here are some suggestions: 1. Beef or tongue, sliced thin and spread with mustard-horse radish on rye or pumpernickel bread. 2. Cold pork, chopped sweet pickle, salad dressing and let tuce on white bread. 3. Sardir.es mashed with chopped hard - cooked eggs, moistened with lemon juice and boiled dressing and Worcester shire sauce. 4. Swiss cheese, tomato slices and wafer-sliced beef with let tuce and mayonnaise on rye bread. 5. Chopped hard-cooked eggs mixed with chopped stuffed olives and salad dressing with lettuce on whole wheat bread. 6. Ground, cooked chicken mixed with an equal amount of chopped cooked ham, seasoned with chopped olives and may onnaise on white bread. A creamy iced beverage and slices of a simple cake, or fruit and cookies, fittingly top off a sandwich supper. For a nourishing “burger” type of sandwich, you might like these made with eggs. De Luxe Eggburgers. (Serves 6) 6 eggs 2 tablespoons fat for frying 6 round buns 6 slices cheese 1 medium-sized onion Salt and pepper Split buns. Lay halves, split side up, on baking sheet, place cheese slices on them and toast in hot oven or under broiler until cheese begins to melt and other half is toasted. Meanwhile fry eggs medium firm, turning once; season. Place eggs on toasted halves. Top with onion rings. Serve hot, open or closed. Pass chili sauce, chopped pickle rel ish or mustard. For beverage at porch or picnic, use 1 rounded tablespoon of all pur pose grind, decaffeinated coffee to every cup of water. Make by boiler or percolator method. Freeze cof fee in ice cube tray. At serving time, heat milk but don’t let it boil. Fill glasses with coffee cubes and pour on hot milk. The result will be a smooth, creamy, iced bev erage. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Place newspapers under grass and fiber rugs so they will catch the dirt. Then on cleaning day remove the newspapers and you will have caught the dirt; replace with fresh newspapers. Shake turkish towels vigorously to raise the nap on them after wash ing. This also removes wrinkles. Before washing the bathroom floor, it’s a good idea to use a vac uum cleaner attachment to pick up dust and small particles of dirt which are annoying when cleaning. NEEDLEWORK PAHERNS 'Show Viece Doilies to Crocket Offering Youthful Peasant Blouse Blue Ribbon Doily IF YOU’RE looking for some restful pick-up work after the holidays, crochet one of these love ly doilies. The big Blue Ribbon doily measures 21 inches, the Pan sy doily has one and one-half inch pansies crocheted in shaded laven der and purple thread. It is 13% inches across. * * * To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions for the Blue Ribbon Doily (Pattern No. 5632) and the Pansy Doily (Pattern No. 5711) send 20* cents in coin for each pattern, your name, address and pattern number. Use a paper napkin with a little kerosene oil on it to clean sink and lavatory. It removes stains and grease rapidly. —•— Avoid soaking split peas, if you want to preserve their natural fla vor and color. Begin cooking in boiling water, and cook split peas only one and one-half hours at a full rolling boil. —•— Keep an old thermos bottle cork in a drawer in the kitchen. Push thumbtacks into the cork and they’ll always be handy when you need them. —•— . When you find a flattened place on the nap of the rug after chang ing furniture around, dampen a chamois, fold several times, and place over the mark. After sev eral hours, remove chamois and mark will be gone. —•— If plain cake has become dried out, wrap it in a damp cloth and set the cake in a moderate oven until the cloth is dry, —•— Decorate a lamp shade with snapshots of last summer’s vaca tion spots and then cover the shade with cellophane. —•— Torn towels may be cut down to guest size. If the towel is small, applique amusing designs for a patch. Make interesting figures such as a bar of soap or small hands. —•— When a sleeve tears at the un derarm, rip the seam a little way so that a square overcast patch can be set in. Snip the seam of the garment above the patch so the sleeve will not draw. —•— The lace curtain of long ago is back in favor for rooms with period furniture. Rooms in the severe modern style show no curtains at all, but, of course, draperies are used for a softening effect and often a large room is divided by a fabric panel instead of a partition. —•— Do not hang large rugs over a line. This bends the fibers at a sharp angle and strains them while they are forced to carry the weight of the entire rug. Puffed Sleeve Blouse A PET style for juniors is this pretty puffed sleeve blouse. It’s so easy to cut and sew, too. Colorful embroidered flowers are designed to give you a romantic look. • • • To obtain tissue pattern, finishing in structions, flower design, color chart tor embroidering the Peasant Blouse (Pat tern No. 5533) sizes 12. 14. 16 Included, send 20 cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, HI. Enclose 20 cents for Pattern. No Name Address- Dogs line Kiomi Sluggard — So lazy he won’t even get up when a lady enters. Dogs are often listless when they’re'not fed right. Gro-Pup Ribbon would give him every vitamin and mineral dogs are known to need for vigor and vitality. 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