Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. FICTION co/W£/? THE RUG By VIRGINIA SULLIVAN TOMLINSON 1 KNEW the Farraday family be fore it happened. I knew them first when I was nine and Ellen Farraday was eight and in my class at school. There were two other Farraday children: Skippy, the baby, who was five, and Dora, seventeen, just entering business school. Dora was engaged to marry Danny Wright, who ran the service-station in town. Mr. Farraday was branch manager of our local bank. “Such a nice, quiet man,” people said. “If only that wife of his were not such a fool.” I didn’t think Mrs. Farraday was a fool. I liked her. The sprawling old Farraday house, with its sag ging porch, was always in need of repair, the shabby living-room would be cluttered and dishes un washed, but Mrs. Farraday was never too busy to pjan games for rainy afternoons or picnics in sum mer in their rickety old car. She was little and quick and dark, with rather kittenish ways; always thinking up something new and "ex citing”—like the dress she designed for Dora that won the prize in the Easter parade. There was nothing I loved more than going over to the Farraday house whenever I had the chance. Saturday mornings they always had pancakes; Sundays they had sau sages and Boston baked beans and applesauce in a blue glass dish. And they had laughter. A great deal of laughter—except when Aunt Abbey came to call. • Aunt Abbey was Mr. Farraday’s aunt, a very rich, very unpleasant old lady who lived in an imposing granite house at the end of town. It was no secret that she disapproved bitterly of the entire Farraday fam ily. Why she visited them nobody knew, unless it was because, of all her relatives, they refused to be im pressed by her money or upset by her caustic tongue. They merely accepted her, all but Mrs. Farra day, who seemed to like having Aunt Abbey around. Curiously enough, it was of Mrs. Farraday herself that Aunt Abbey most bit terly disapproved. “My nephew’s wife isn’t fooling me,” she’d say. “Always pretend ing to be so gay. What’s she got to be happy about, I’d like to know? If my nephew had married a sensible woman, he’d have amounted to something by now.” "I declare,” my mother said, “it gives me the creeps, the way that old lady looks at Mrs. Farraday. I believe she really hates her.” “She hates them all,” my father said, “because they’ve got what she never had. The Farradays have contentment. All Aunt Abbey has is money, and when she’s gone they’ll have that, too.” Only they didn't. Because when Aunt Abbey died the year Ellen Farraday was nine, she left them no money at all. Her entire estate went to charity, with one exception. She left Mrs. Farraday a rug. It was an Oriental rug, exceptionally large and lovely; golden in color, satiny to the touch, starred with dusty pink flowers. “It’s a shame,” people said, “when those children need money so. But of course they can sell the rug. It’s valuable and Orientals are in vogue.” Then a dealer offered Mrs. Farraday $25,000 for her rug. The town rejoiced for the Farra days. This meant college for the children and money to fix up the old house. But, to the amazement of everyone, Mrs. Farraday stubborn ly refused to sell. She had always admired that rug, she said. She’d been as surprised as anyone when Aunt Abbey had left it to her. She | had always thought Aunt Abbey dis liked her; all those unkind remarks she used to make. But now she was grateful for the rug and meant to keep it. Since the narrow living room at the Farradays was too small for the rug, Mr. Farraday was persuaded to sell the home and rent a house with larger rooms. Their old stuff looked pretty shabby against the rug, so with the money from the sale of the home they bought new furniture. And after awhile, because of the friends they acquired in the new surroundings, the Farradays bought a new car, too. I saw less of Ellen now, except at school Gradually my visits to the My father was one of the men who took Skippy’s little body out of the water that night. My mother sat with Mrs. Farraday when they brought him home. Dora Farraday didn't come home at all. She sent a telegram. It arrived just as they were bringing Skippy’s body into the house. Dora had left Skippy alone by the lake to elope to New York with her new beau. Ellen continued at school; she had always been very quiet. And after awhile, Mrs. Farraday went about the town again, holding her head very high, smiling her fixed, gay smile. Only Mr. Farraday seemed changed. He aged visibly that year. Nobody was surprised when the cold he caught just before Christ mas turned into pneumonia. The doctors said that he just hadn’t the will to live. Dora came home when her father died. Mrs. Farraday sent her the money. Dora’s husband had left her and Dora had been working in New York, clerking in a store. People thought that perhaps she’d stay Farradays had ceased, partly be cause my mother disapproved of Dora Farraday’s new friends. Dora had always been a sweet, docile little thing, ambitious to get along. Now she had given up business school. She had even broken off her engagement to Danny Wright Dora had a new beau now; one she’d met through her “crowd.” Nobody liked him, but he was rich and he gave Dora a good time. He had a weak, handsome face and a loud scoffing laugh. I’d see them together as I walked home from school, dashing around town in his rakish car or going into Van’s Place for drinks. People felt sorry for Danny Wright. He’d been so crazy about Dora, and always so glad to have Skippy and Ellen around. D ORA'S new beau didn’t like chil dren. He objected to Skippy trail ing her about. Skippy was six now, very spoiled and rather a nuisance; but it seemed hardly fair to blame Dora entirely for what happened at the Elks’ picnic that year. Everyone Elks’ picnic that year. Everyone said, though, that it was Dora’s fault. She’d taken Skippy to the pic nic, hadn’t she? She should not have gone off with that beau of hers, leaving the child alone by the lake. She’d taken Skippy to the picnic, hadn’t she? She should not have gone ott with that beau of hers, leaving the child alone by the lake, home now, since her mother needed her, but nobody really expected she would. Danny Wright was married now, to one of Dora’s former class mates, a plain little girl 'with ador ing eyes. They came to Mr. Farra day’s funeral, sitting closely to gether in the church. The week after the funeral Dora went back to her job in New York, and the day after she left Mrs. Farraday came to see my father about selling her rug to pay her bills. My father did his best; but this was a depression year—and nobody had money now for Oriental rugs. The five thousand dollars he finally got from a dealer barely paid for Mr. Farraday’s funeral and for Mrs. Farraday’s debts. Mrs. Farra day got a job at the hotel. Her salary included room and board, so that Ellen could live with her, too. It was storming hard the day they moved down there. We left them alone and drove home through the snow-covered town, passing the old Farraday house on the way. No- body4ived in it now. Tears crowded behind my lids as we drove slowly by. “They were happy in that house,” my father said. “A great pity they ever moved out of it. If Aunt Abbey knew what she was doing when she made that will, then she must be laughing now in her grave.” My mother spoke suddenly. “That’s it!” she exclaimed. “She did know what she was doing. And I’m surprised that I never thought of it before." "What do you mean?” My father stared at her. Her voice had sound ed strange. “She knew exactly what she was doing!” my mother said. “And wherever she is.— she probably is laughing! Aunt Abbey knew that Mrs. Farraday would never be able to resist living up to that rug!” Cities Grant Pay Increases To Help Meet Rising Costs Scores of cities are granting pay raises to municipal employees to help them meet increased living costs. In Cleveland the mayor agreed to grant pay raises to muni cipal employees which will cost the city $2,100,000 this year. Fire and police personnel received a $240 a year increase, plus six new holi days to be added to annual fur loughs. White collar employees of Cleve land will get a $180 annual raise if they make less than $3,000 a year. Their increase will be 6.5 per cent if they make more than $3,000 an nually. Pittsburgh councilmen earmarked $1,200,000 for municipal pay raises. Biggest pay boosts went to- em ployees receiving $2,000 a year or less. Chicago’s record city budget for 1948 includes pay increases of 8.5 per cent for municipal employees earning less than $5,000 a year, plus raises averaging $300 a year for higher paid employees. In Omaha, all city employees have been given a flat $15 per month wage boost. The increase will affect approximately 1,260 workers. New York City boosted the sal aries of 42 top city officials. The action added $86,000 to this year’s payroll. ★ ★★ ★★★★★★★★★★ Have Baked Ham for a Social Supper. (See recipes below.) Feeding Fifty If your club or church is planning a community social dinner for a get-together or for the purpose of making money, you’ll appreciate these tested recipes. The recipes are bound to be tempting to most people, which is an important con sideration for dinners of this type. You’ll need to do careful planning for both purchasing and preparing, or perhaps you can have a com mittee work out the donations so there will be ,, v ^ more of a return tff on the dinner. , Have your group fcsSgS choose an able leader to insure a successful dinner. She should be thoroughly familiar with all the procedures of the menu, and should be able to divide and assign the work properly, as well as to iron out all sorts of details that come up. Tableware should be checked in advance so there will be enough to go around. The same goes for kitch en equipment. Men as well as women will like the menu for this community sup per as it is appetizing and well bal anced. Baked Ham Buttered Green Beans or Feas Candied Sweet Potatoes Cole Slaw Apple Cranberry Sauce Relish Rolls Jelly Butter Pineapple Chiffon Cheese Cake In addition to the items listed on the menu, you’ll want to provide coffee, tea and milk as beverages. Here are the recipes for this din ner. They are carefully planned to serve 50 people. Baked Ham. (Serves 50) 18 pound smoked ham 2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon prepared mustard H cup cloves Place ham (wrapped in heavy waxed paper or inside wrapper), fat side up in an uncovered roast ing pan. Bake in a slow (350 de gree) oven about 5V6 hours. About an hour before the ham is done, remove from oven, lift off remaining skin and score fat surface. Mix brown sugar and mus tard, add enough vinegar to make a paste. Spread paste over fat surface and stud with cloves. Return to oven and bake in a slow (325 de gree) oven for about 45 minutes to glaze the surface. Here are some other glazes which may be used. The amounts are suf ficient to cover the surface of one ham: ORANGE GLAZE: Mix one cup brown sugar, juice and grated rind of one orange and spread over fat surface. Garnish with orange slices when serving. HONEY OR MOLASSES GLAZE: Use one cup honey or molasses and spread over ham; stud with cloves. Finish baking. SPICE GLAZE: Use one cup brown sugar and one cup juice from spiced peaches, crabapples, ginger pears or pickled peaches. Garnish with the spiced fruit. For the vegetable, green beans, you may use two No. 10 cans, sea- LYNN SAYS: Food Tips Add Interest to Menu When you serve whitefish or hali but, you’ll find that cranberry sauce or jelly adds just the right note of tartness as well as color to the fish. Rice or noodle ring makes a nice platter when filled with leftover ham or chicken creamed with peas and pimiento. When you serve vegetable loaf, pass along a sauce made of tomato soup and grated cheese. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Roast Pork Shoulder Sage Stuffing •Candied Sweet Potatoes Relish Plate: Carrot Strips, Radishes, Pickles Bread Butter Plum Cobbler Beverage Recipe given. soned with one cup butter, salt and pepper. Heat thoroughly but be cer tain not to overcook. •Candied Sweet Potatoes. (Serves 50) 2 No. 10 cans or 8 No. 2H cans sweet potatoes 1 pound brown sugar 2 quarts bread crumbs 1 cup melted butter Place sweet potatoes in a baking pan. Combine remaining ingredients and place over sweet potatoes. Bake in a moderate (350 degree) oven until heated through. Cole Slaw. (Serves 50) 1 pint mayonnaise I pint sour cream 1 cup vinegar 1 teaspoon mustard 1 teaspoon celery seed 1 teaspoon salt H cup sugar 7 quarts (6 pounds) cabbage, shredded fine Blend the mayonnaise, sour cream and seasonings. Mix lightly with the cabbage. Apple Cranberry Sauce Relish. (Serves 50) 3 oranges 5 No. 2 cans apple sauce 3 1-pound cans cranberry sauce Grind oranges and combine with apple sauce. Chill for several hours. Cut up cran berry sauce in cubes. Just be fore serving mix cranberry cubes with the apple sauce. Pineapple Chiffon Cheese Cake. (Serves 50) 3 cups sugar 3 pints syrup from pineapple and water 12 egg yolks 2 ounces cup) plain gelatin 3 No. 2% cans crushed pineapple 4 pounds (2 quarts) sieved cottage cheese 54 cup grated lemon rind % cup lemon juice 12 egg whites 1 teaspoon salt 1 quart heavy cream for whipping 2 quarts graham cracker crumbs or zweiback 1 pound butter, melted Combine two cups sugar and two cups syrup with slightly beaten egg yolks. Cook over hot water until smooth and thickened, stirring con stantly. Soften gelatin in remaining syrup for five minutes. Add to hot mixture and stir until dissolved. Chill until the mixture starts to con geal; add pineapple, cottage cheese, lemon rind and juice. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, salt and whipped cream. Combine crumbs with re maining sugar and butter. Line a pan with this mixture, saving about a third for the top. Pour in ciieese mixture and top with remaining crumb mixture. Chill for several hours until firm. Released by WNIT Features. A nice easy dessert consists of tapioca mixed with crushed pine apple, served with soft boiled cus tard. Serve fish on a bed of watercress if you want it to look truly effective. The greens, of course, should be eaten. If the family doesn’t take kindly to liver, parboil it, chop and mix with egg, bread crumbs, chili sauce and seasonings. Make into patties and wrap in bacon. Bake in tomato sauce. SCRIPTURE: Acts 16:9. 10; Romans 10:8-15; Ephesians 3:8-12. DEVOTIONAL READING: Romans 10:8-15. World Mission of Church Lesson for February 29, 1948 Dr. Newton JOHN WESLEY said, “The world is my parish.” Many another Christian has entertained this great concept, and that is precisely what Jesus wants us to j understand con cerning the sweep and scope of his Kingdom. Sunday’s lesson brings us to con sider three great passages — Acts 16:9, 10; Romans 1C:8-15; Ephesians 3:8-12. Read these carefully, and you will feel the winds of God lifting up the flaps of the tent of your small habi tation until you will catch glimpses of the far horizon. CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD «< YE into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation,” said Jesus, Mark 16:15. There is no backykrd definition of the mission of the church in these great words of Jesus. Just as Paul was summoned to cross over into Europe with the Gospel, so are we commanded to make Christ known to all lands. He loves everybody. "Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world; Yellow, brown, or black, or white, They are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." REACHING THE WORLD J UST as Paul went from one land to another, so may every Chris tian boy and girl do. Each church can reach out hands of blessing to all the world. How? Through our gifts. Our gifts for missions, joined with the gifts of all the other members of our local church, joined with the gifts of many other churches, go out in multiplied blessing through the missionaries to make Christ known around the world. How? Through our prayers. As we pray for the redemption of the world, we fortify the mission aries — teachers, doctors, preach ers — In all the parts of the world. How? Through our sympathetic understanding of the conditions under which people live in other lands'. Just now we are giving clothes and food to help the stricken peoples of the war-ravaged lands. These gifts of material things bear their message of our Christian con cern for all who suffer. Thu's we are extending the reach of our indi vidual lives and the reach of our churches to the ends of the earth. PUBLISHING SALVATION << J JDW beautiful upon the moun- tains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publish- eth peace . . . that publisheth salva tion,” Isaiah 52:7. The world mission of the church is here pictured in the exquisite lan guage of the ancient prophet, with which words we may link the dec laration of the great apostle, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” Ro mans 8:13. Publishing salvation is the chief task of the church of the' Lord Jesus Christ, and the objects of this universal message are the souls of all men. There is univer sal need, and here is the adequate and available answer. See how this conception of the world mission of the church brings into focus the one hope for civiliza tion. The only voice that carries across the barriers of this troubled world is the voice of salvation through Jesus Christ. Let that word be sounded in any spot on this earth, and some waiting heart will be lifted up. THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES A ND what are we to say about the message we have to pub lish? Paul puts it well in Ephesians 3:8-12, when he declares: “Unto me, who am less than the least of all the saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. . . .” In another place we read about the “unspeakable gift of God,” II Corinthipns 9:15. The message, then, is one of unsearchable riches, and unspeakable gift. In this message is healing for the peoples of the earth. If the true mission of the church is under stood and voiced in all of the ways by which the Gospel may today be given to the world, we shall see the fulfillment of the dreams of the prophets, and the angels about the throne of God will shout for J°y- . As Paul changed his course m the long ago, heeding the Macedonian call, so may we today find ourselves turning about in our response to the Holy Spirit’s leading; but let us not be afraid so long as we are sin cerely seeking to publish glad tid ings to all men. * • * (Copyright by the International Council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released bj WNU Features.) NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Colorful, Gay Bluebird Bedspread Due to an unusually large demand and y more time if for a lew of thf current conditions, slightly more time if required in filling orders for most popular patterns. Send your order to Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 80, I1L Enclose 20 cents for pattern. No Name , — Address - B luebirds singing a song! All beautifully framed in a flower- border! Just wait till you see the lovely spread this design will make! So easy to embroider this bluebird spread! Pattern 734; transfer of one motif 17 by 19 in.; two 5V* by 5 3 ,i in. MINTJ, When washing windows during the winter put a small quantity of ammonia or vinegar into the water. This helps to keep the water from freezing on the glass. —•— When laundering lace collars, sew the collars on white muslin. This will help keep them in shape. —•—’ Protect your rubbers from oil and soil. Oil causes blistering, and soil will cause rubber articles to chip and crack and lose their resilient strength. Clean well after using. —•— Keep on hand: Percolator tops, electric fuses, an assortment of corks, waxed paper, paper nap kins, a box of tacks, an extra can- opener, extra light bulbs, a ball of twine, bicycle tape. —•— For a larger and fluffier omelet, add hot instead of cold water when beating the egg yolks. —•— Keep acid foods, such as toma toes, lemons and vinegar off the porcelain enamel of a range or refrigerator. They cause stains that won’t come off. —•— Thread a dozen needles with dif ferent colored threads and put them in a pin cushion hung from the wall. It is then an easy matter to repair a garment promptly in stead of placing it in the., ever growing mending bundle. 5 r. rse J'bmL Jto di&JbtsVL QoJb Editor Horace Greeley was famed for his illegible handwrit ing, which few people could de cipher. Once, after an argument with an employe, he wrote the man a letter informing him that he was fired. Several months passed. Then one day the former employe stopped by for a-chat. “You’re the fellow I fired some time ago, aren’t you?” asked Greeley. “How are you getting along?” " “Oh, just fine, thanks to you, Mr. Greeley!” laughed the other. “You remember that letter you sent me? Well, I showed it to an editor the following day and told him it was a letter of recom mendation from you. He gave me a job immediately—and for more money!” . 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